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THE KLAMATH NEWS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931 agk five: L. J. RUST TELLS WHAT gasmeis Comfort and Convenience Shown By Represent live in Charge Here iiy i.ot iN j. nor Wal ItvprtwittHtiv, N'ntunU ( I 'itriHimfiun of ftricun. All th coniforti and convent nra of dhhWh gut rvli- will ninan io much In ihli cuturo un ity, that all roiltUnta nr uri1 In ink rly attvaiiuxo of this PW fUfll. M J. Ill HT And no mattrr vhtliar tt ba for rooking, fur boat tax your hum, building, offlr or rburcli, heating watnr. rIrlgfmtloQ or any o( tha manr other uaea, you will find tha perfect ful. KIHMiMIl Ah I I KI, And hm-atu It la aronnmlral. It will add both to tha comfort and fnnvpnlfnm of your home. It will do away with Uut, dirt and aha, and tit atit'tidnnt Utxir alwnva iita '.wintry to the U nf otht-r furl. Natural kh Ir all hrnt ihi-ro ! no watte, it U rfllnblt. drliv ftrl ihrourh umlrricrnund nmin protect from thn rlruiMiIii. It In rnr to nntrnl and will drliv.r rctly the amount of heul callid l-r. It iItpi hAt wlthotil waltliiK, and ilnia anlmnAtlrnlly work which formerly iierdcd human r: fort. u iMivniM mvk"- Todti y n i-ook iifd not wait for th fir to grt hot aim may itit hrr raka In the oven, at the r-K iila lor at thn dtwlrcd degree and know hn U not dapi'iident mi link for ruli. Inmilnti-d iv'ni, rlnNfd tupi, rounded ror ttera, vltreoua enamela and heal reaiilatora all rontrlhuta to the aaf Inflict Inn nf better rooking. Inatnntaneana and automatic heated water la tho hlghaat tvpa nf niodern hot water supply known, and rompnred in tho con enlancn and Jojr It glvea with th.it of other Artlrli. ta cost 1" vry reannnable. Once ft man. woman or child baa triad tho Iremandoua ronvenlenco nf In I aiant hot water, they will never be without tl. IMT II I-: AT NYHTEM (iua ht-at ti on in an Inntunt and off Juat aa quickly. Hlnk'le rorma may ha heatod by a now mi it ayntem. Thla eff-N-U fub ainntlal economlea. Thera are jiinny ktndaof ffaa beating equip tnent which may hrat au entire boma or a am nil "pace. Gat heut la o controllable that ynti ran pet a thermnoint and depend nn gas to do tho rent. This pimple derlco will turn tile heat on SO mlnutea before the alarm ring". Getting up and finding a warm homo In a rml Joy. And mora than thla, gaa wilt ho of material aid In the future development of thin romm unity, both from a commercial and home - owning standpoint thorn contemplating coming here to lire will consider economical gat ecrvlco in making their derlaion. and tho biiRlneM man will be glad to ronntder gas In his work as well. Carries Opium In Father's Skull On Piety Journey PKIPINfl. China, Jan. (UP) l:ning flliiil piety as a rune, Wang Pa-Kong has been rnuRht transporting opium In hla father's akull. The elder Wang, who waa a minor mllltnry official, died three years ago and wns hurled In dis tant Kuiinu province. His non re rontty undertook the Journey to Kniixil, In tho far west, OHtennlhly to bring his father's body back for burial In the family plot. Mowpvor, It waa discovered that ho also pneked a quantity nf opium In the skeleton and sold the drug as he traveled. The opium suppression bureau has requested pennlssloti to search foreign ships on tho Yangtze river, asserting that theso venue 1 rarry opium cargoes itml thai, aa they are exempt from ordinary government search, they make It Difficult to suppress traffic In tho I rug. Find Body of Publisher Lost In Bis: Plains ironnrif Tin aft (HP) VVonl that a pomin bad round tha bod of L. H. Quion, 32, publisher of the Lubbock Avntuncho-JournRl, mlHslnn iiince Similar, waa received hero to night. Hharlff Waller Mnremiin anid Qulnn evidently had died from cold and expoanro. Qulnn wai walklnic acroaa the aparneljr aattled plains country In arnrcb of help for Charles A. fliiv and hla brlda. stranded when their automobile stuck In tho sand. Tha Guys wore found Niharmad earlier la the day. . T Wickersham Commission Makes Prohibition Law Report After 18 Months DV R.tYMONK CXAITKK I'nltrd I'm Htaff CorrMpoudral WABIIINOTON, Jan. 10. (UP) Tha Wlrkereham commUslon made a formal report today aaalnit repeal 6t tha Ittb amendment but a majority of the jnembors Individually favor ed either abolition of tha amend ment or revision looking to con trolled aale of liquor In atatee delrlm to permit It. Kour member endorsed a plan put forward by Henry W. Ander son or Virginia, a dry republi can, for adoption nf a modified form of the Hvedlib sale plsn to be utilised under strict supervi sion In states wishing to adopt It. Two other members favored It rondliloually In event the pres ent regime, after further trial, proved unsuccessful. HKii:i nv in or it The commission held thera Is not yet any adequate observance or enforcement but that condi tion are Improving. Tha commission's formal re port, signed by 10 nf the II members but subject to numer ous dissenting reservations, rec ommended In pert: 1. Atslnst authorising light wine aud beer by modification of lite Volstead a-1. t. Against restoration nf the saloon. S. Against fedoral or atate governments, as such, going Into the Itqunr business. AnK I IIMillKHM t ONTTlOt, 4. Kor placing a definite al coholic limit on ciders and fruit Juices msde In the home, now unrestricted eicept that they must be non-lnioslrstlng In fact. e. Attain. t allowing more lat itude In federal search and aels ures. U. In event the 1Mb amend ment Is to be revl.ed. Hint It should rend substantially a fol lows: "The congress shall have power to regulate or le prohibit Hie manufacture, traffic In or transportation of Intoxicating lliiuora within, the Importation thereof Into and the exportation Ibereof from the I'nlted States and all territory subject to tho Jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes." llltllADKNH I'OM'KIl This would permit congress to "regulate or prohibit." aa It chose. 11 would also omit the provision of the present amend ment for concurrent Jurisdiction of the states, tho commission holding that thla had been Inef fective, that It rould not be forced and that If It came It must be voluntarily. Ily using the phase, "traffic In on trans portation of" Intoxicating li quors, the proposed revision would broaden the powers of congress to Include purchase which la now omftted under the lath amendment and would al low congresa latitude In determ ining how far It should go In applying the principle of prohi bition. The object la to do away with tha rigidity of the proent amendment. Indications that tha commis sion nilsht have, at one stage In Its deliberations, definitely fa vored revision of the amendment were aoen by some In the lan guage of several Individual atate- I merits Including tboea by Newton u. natter, fau J. McCormlrk and William 8. Kenyon referring ; to the revision as one "augment- ' ea ny (lio commission, and by Chairman George V. Wicker. shatn as havlna been "rocoro- mended by the commission. President Hoover transmitted ' thn report and tha Individual recommendations to congress to dsy. They composed i a volume of 2 n pages, some go.OOfl words about hslt of which waa devoted to the Individual opinions. The j commission's report, as disclosed by the eoparalo atatemenla. waa dissented from by so many com-, mmsionera that Its force as a rec- ontendatlon to congreas la ex-1 perted to bo weakened. Indl-' ml Inns are that the protracted ; tlebato will' result and that both sides In any fight to rcwrlto the lsth amendment will find sup port In tho commission's docu ment. Mont M. l.eninnn of Louisiana refused to slcn the gcnernl re port because he believed the en-1 tire prohibition experiment was1 without the support of public opinion and that there was no alternative except repeal of the anicndiuont. Ponding that, how ever, he Is for Increased appro priations to continue tho effort to mnko enforcement aa atrong ns possible I Klt I I ItTIIKIt TRIAL All other membera of the com mission alsncd the report re-' gardlcsa of the extent to which they were out of harmony with some of Its basic recommenda tions. For fnrthor trial: Goorgo W, Wlckershnm. William 8. Kenyon, , Paul J. McCormlck, William I. Clrubb. Kor unconditional repeol: New-; ton D. linker, Monto M. Lemann. For revision of tha lath I amendment: Henry W. Ander son, Prank J. Loesch, Kenneth Mackintosh, Itnscoe Pound, Ada L. Comstock, Baker (aa alterna tive to outright repeal If neces sary), Kenyon nnd McCormlck favor revision conditionally aftor further trial of present system. For the Anderson nlan nf con trolled liquor aale: Anderson,' Loesch, Mackintosh, Pound,, Ken yan and McCormlck favor It If furtlmr trial of tho present order 18 unsttccessTui. WILLING FOB TEST Wlckoreham, Kenyon aud Mc Cormlck, though against repeal, I were willing to teat It out on submission to the country. Though torn by dltferencoa which could not be completely roconcllcd even aftor nearly two yoars of consideration, the com mission agreed that whatever the ultimata solution may be, some formal federal control which would prevent revival of the legalised saloon la Imperative "In our Judgment," tha com mission report aald, "It la Impos sible to recede wholly from the lath amendment In view of I lie ecouomte unification of tha coun try, the development of trana portallon, tha Industrial condi tions of tha time, and the gener al use nf machinery In every Hue of activity," KIM) DIMItEOARD The commission found gener al disregard In many aectlona for prohibition, professed skepticism aa to many beneflta claimed on Ita behalf, and voiced concern over public Indifference while at tha aama time finding difficulty In auggrsllng remedies which It felt would be conclusive unless supported by greater enthusiasm on the part of the public. "It la evident." the commis sion aald, "that taking the coun try as a whole, people of wealth, businessmen and professional men, and their families, and per hapa tha higher paid working men and their families, are drinking to large numbers In quite frank disregard of the de clared policy of the national pro hibition act." I'HoroNKM PLAX The liquor control plan pro posed by Anderson, a promluent dry republican, assumed Impor tance because he won three of his colleaguee over to It and two other approved tt conditionally although they desired a further trial of the preeent prohibition structure. Those approving It besides Anderson were Loesch. Chicago vice prosecutor. Dean Pound of the Harvard law school and Kenneth Mackintosh, former chief Justice of the Washington stale supreme court. Federal Judsr William K. Kenyon uf Iowa and Paul J. McCormlck of California, both drys, approved It conditionally. Concluding that prohibition cannot be enforced. Anderson In his separate oplniou proposed adoption by the I'nlted mate of a system of liquor sale under Kovernment control alijillar to that now effective In Sweden. Kill COMMISSION He recommended establishment of a ht-partlsan national commla slon of liquor control. Soln right to control manufacture. Importa tion and transportation llquora In Interstate commerce would be vested In this body and exercised through a liquor corporation the stock of which should be pri vately owned, but lta earnings limited to 6 or 7 per cent. Kx eesslve profits would go to the federal and atata governmenta for use In educating the public In the evils of exceaa drinking. The plan contemplatea crea tion of state Uqnor corporations which would purchase supplies from tha national corporation and dispense them to the public under supervision of atate con trol commissions. Anderson compares his proposed national commission to the federal reserve board and the Interstate com We Are Partners With You in Community Welfare The service of gas to the City of Klamath Falls which begins Thursday, Jan. 22, marks a turning point in the already rapid development of this section of Oregon With GAS, another of the modern conveniences has been put at tha disposal of the people of Klnmath Falls, and gives to them a cheap, efficient, clean "and intensely hot fuel on the same basis that people in metropolitan centers have been able to have GAS in the past. GAS is strangely economical when you use a great deal of it. The more GAS consumer uses, the cheaper becomes the cost per cubic foot used. Therefore, if you use gas for cooking only, it is economical, but it becomes cheaper still if you will use it for heating water and it becomes still cheaper if you use it for househeating as well. UNLIKE OTHER FUELS, the CONSUMER PAYS FOR ONLY WHAT HE USES. When you turn the jet on your gas appliance, your costs cease. NATURAL GAS CORPORATION OF OREGON has come to Klamath Falls to be a part of the community to grow and develop with you. Your problems have bttome our problems we are partners in com munity welfare. Natural Gas Corporation of Oregon is YOUR GAS COMPANY. Its purpose is to render you a vital service to your daily and community life the furnishing of a more economical and satisfactory means of heat than has heretofore teen known. We urge you to bring your fuel problems, no matter how small they may be, to the office of the company, which has been established in Klamath Falls. TELEPHONE OUR OFFICE and a representative will be glad h call on you. You are invited to visit our showrooms, where modern and approved. .Gas Appliances are on display. Natural merce commission In their con trol over their respective fields. I. IV! OR LICEXHK8 Price charged for liquor would be kept aa low aa possible to uiliilmlxe temptation for boot logglug. Hales would be made only to persons holding license books. The amount aold any In dividual would be limited. Kach buyer would agree to account for hla purchases on demand. He vocation or tho license book would be the penalty for drunk enness or violation of regula tions. Slates desiring to retain prohi bition could do so end the fed eral government would provide protection against shipment of llquora from without the elate, Anderson aald. Each stale would have to enforce) Ita own law. In such aveut, llquora shipped through such a state would be under bond. IIIT1I UOOTLKUC.ING Anderson declared hla plan would strike at the heart of thai bootlegging business by remov ing the opportunity for profit. Revision of the amendment would be a nereMKary prelimi nary prior to Anderson's plan. Apparently referring to the Anderson plan. Chairman Wick ersham aald In hi separata re port he bad "great doubts" tt any mollification of the Swedish plan would work In America. "I think the pressure to obtain books authorising purchase of liquor would be so Irreelstlblo that all beneflta of the system would be lost: or else, the In trigues of orgsnlzed liquor Inter ests would exert su-h Influence In congress that the distinctive characteristics of the system would be destroyed and an abun dance of liquor soon flow for all who wished It." IlKNOI'NCK H.H.OON Denouncing the aaloon, Wick ersham added: It la because I see no escape from lta return In any of too praetl-al alternatives to prohibi tion that I nnlte with my col leagues In sgreemcnt thai me lath amendment must not be re pealed, aud, differing with some of them, I havo been forced to conclude that a further trial should be madoof the cnforcabll Ity of the lath amendment under the present organisation, with the help of the recommended Im provements." The commission was critical of that provision of the Volstead act which permtta "non-intoxicating fruit Julcea" In the homea, declaring it to be an "in vitation to hypocrisy and evaa lon." This provision under which the California grape grow, era have engaged In a wide spread rampalKti to market grape Julro which will turn to wine If exposed to air, was de- striucd as an anomalou provl ion wnicn in eftot "removes wine making from the field ot practicable enforcement." ni(iTltlST KXKUtt'KMEXT Tiio commission was also crit Gas Corporation of Oregon ical of the condlltoae nndar which tha prohibition experiment waa Inaugurated. "It could not be expected that legislation aeeklng to make a whole people at one stroke en forced total abatalnara" would escape the difficulties ot forcing settled habita and social customs to yield to "legislative flats," the commission aald. Tha commission held that cor ruption to connection with liquor traffic Is operating on a large scale, sometimes "Involving the pillce, prosecuting aud adminis trative organlsatlona of whole communities. U a war ranted search and aelsuree, and the char acter and appearance of prohibi tion agenta reault In distrust of prohibition enforcement by many United Btalea attorneys and Judgea, HVV. DIFFICTLTIEM The commission found many other points contributing to en forcement difficulties, including resentment of military forces who were abecnt from the coun try when the amendment waa adopted. Failure to appreciate the mag nitude of the enforcement task. Lack of federal experience In use of poltca power. The attempt to enforca prohi bition "aa something on another plane from the law generally. 1 "High-banded methods, shoot ings and killings." Political Influence. Conatan ehangea In lawa and Ln enforcement officiate. Abandonment of educational aetlTltlee against use of Intoxl canta. "We expect legislation to eon form to public opinion, sot pub lic opinion to yield to leglala tlon." the report aald. I.XCREAHED PRODl'CTIOX As to the benefits of federal prohibition, tha commission held mere bad been Induatrla! bene flta such as Increased production and efficiency and elimination of blue Mondays, Indicating "a real and significant gain." The com mission found nothing clearly estaniisned to snow tbe connec tion between prohibition and a decrease ln Industrial accidents. an Increase ln savlnga deposits and a decrease in demanda upon ciiarltlea and social agencies. "Looked at over the decade of prohibition," the report com In ued. "the most that may be aald with assurance Is that there has Leen a real and far-reaching im provement ln the efficiency of lub.r. especially in mechanical Industries.' IIItfNKINO F,TTE.SIVE Flagrunt disregard of tbe pro- hloltlon law In homes, clubs, ho tels and other aoclal centers and by persona in all walka ot life was described. Drinking by women and by youths waa aaid extensive. Changing standards or individual conduct were held partly responsible for Increased drinking. Discussing alternative to the present system, the commission held that unconditional repeal of the amendment would lead to condltlona "quite a bad aa those we are seeking to escape." AliAlNST REPEAL Repeal ot the Volstead act, tt was held, "would amount to nul lification ot a Constitutional pro vision." The commission declared con greas in fixing the legal alcohol ic content for Uqnor went "much beyond the fact" but that to in crease this to J 75 per cent would Increaae enforcement dif- Skyscraper Nears Completion -r ' 1 ' It, I r m 5 -i estrflsiHSiiW; ir immm. a i llsi i fflii? MniriSHTHfiis i il nswn i fi sisssaV Taller than anything else ever Bute building la seen here In comnlotion In mid-town New quarters of a mile above famous Fifth avenue, a mooring naat for dirigibles at lta peai; gives the building the equivalent of 101 stories. A sightseers' gallery is being built at tha top of the mast. The giant structure has been built to house a city of 10.000 flcnltlea even though "beer of thla content may reasonably be pronounced not intoxicating." Propoaala for atate option, or for allowing beverage liquor un der the exemption ot medicinal liquor would constitute nullifi cation, it was held. TO PROTECT WHALES WASHINGTON he wholesale slaughter of whalea for commer cial purposes which la killing oft thla bugo animal will ceaae It a bill presented to tbe league of nstions Is passed, according to a report from tbe U. 8. department of state. It is hoped that by In stituting a partially "closed" sea son on whales, similar to that In stituted by the United 8tates on seals, the number of the former will greatly Increase In the next few years. sO X Reasonable Prices Easy Terms Low Down Payment See Complete Display At Our Store or Ask Any Employee for Further Details Natural Gas Corporation of Oregon built by man, the new tmplre a striking view aa u nears Tork. Soaring nearly three- office workers. Star Policeman Taken for Ride In Little Cicero CHICAGO. Jan. 2 (UP The body ot one ot Chicago's star athlete policemen waa found to day In Cicero, with aH the Indi cation that the officer had been ''taken for a ride." Physicians said the victim, Rngb Kennedy, had been beaten to death with a club and bla body toaaed from an automobile. Yesterday waa hla day off. He had left home during the after noon for a meeting ot the Po licemen's Benevolent associa tion, Mrs. Kennedy aald. Kennedy waa one of the beat Gas Brings You ooking Convenience That Will Last mm "lsT"M3Tsfffai?S & i J3fir' i-iKrj "STOVTOP'GAS RANGE STOCKS RALLY AT GOOD NEWS General Substantial Trent! Upward Seen; Gains Largest in Days NEW TORK, Jan. 10. UP)-e) Report of Increaaed operations In the ateel Industry as generally oversold condition to tha market Iteelf and resumption ot poti aa llvltlea In a number ot lower- priced stocks war contributing factora In a substantial rally lu stock today. Galna In the stock list war tbe largeat seen In days, some of, tbe more volatile abarea like Au burn. New York CaLtral, East, man Kodak, Coca-Cola and Co lumbia Carbon, scoring advance of S to mora titan t points. Galna In other sections war somewhat smaller, with moat ot the recent leader ahowlng ad vances of 1 to 1 points. Consid erable activity developed la lower priced Issues like Warner Brothers, Continental Baking is sue. Radio and Servel, all mak ing substantial gain. The advance waa fairly uni form throughout tha session, with closing price around th beat levels ot th day. Th rally. In the last hoar showed con siderable vigor, presumably oa report that th Steel Corpora tion had atepped op activity ) per cent to 48 per cent ot can paclty. I Credit condltlona allowed tors ther ease, time money again falling and bankers' acceptance breaking to th lowest level la local financial history. Ease h credit stimulated further de mand In th bond market wher aubstantlal gain wr mad by higher-grade Issues. Aside from th moderate losg In corn, grain price ahowed) comparatively little Chang, while cotton broke out ot it re cent narrow rang with a salgj of to 11 point. SEVEN-TON GIFT WEST CHESTER, Pa. Wil liam II. Lam born waa good toj hla employee, and they decided to bay him a gift. Lam born waa going to construct a driveway to thought they wonld have thla driveway laid, without him know ing It, aa a present. It too seven tons of aton and corneal to complete th Job. liked membera ot th tore. H starred at the annual poliea field meet at Soldier Field, was never known to associate with any) hoodlums and so far aa hi frlenda knew had no enemtes. ' p
