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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1937)
THE NEWS AND THE HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON October i COUNT! TAX Salem cltliens, "for your own When the Governor Visited the Southend postofflce rank on of the oldest In this lection of th C IT t I country, having been established urly November 8, 1849, BURDEN CUT rlth J. B. McClane ai th first i.rnnill 4v kill 111 . poatmaatar." "I douht If anywhere In the hlatery of the country postal aerrir took a more conspicuous MAI IKI TrT-sl P0T1T0 GROWERS part In the development and e panalon of a given area than It DITCH XSM did In tha old Oregon territory." FOR P 'At - PAGE SIX I 000 (Continued from Fag One) 1J7 . i Fair board 19S8, I5.J11; - 1S7. IIS. 000. County library 1938, $11.- tti: 1937. 811.600. County schools 1938. (324 2(3.30: 1937, 1209. H 48. Elementary school tax 1938. 875.000 : 1937. $9,71.17. State tax 1938. ; 1937, , 140.279.11. Estimated. . Tha budget committee and county court aettled aome tick lish problems that aroae during their meetings and let others ride for a while. Juvenile Question Hoc One fairly hot question had to do with the county juvenile department. The committee dis cussed at length the question whether Helen McCarter, the Juvenile officer, should have a salary of 8200 a month. Miss McCarter was appointed by Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst. Her 8200 salary was favored by a group of women which appeared before the com mlttee. but the grange submitted a vigorous protest, claiming the aalary Is out of line with what is paid for Juvenile services in other counties. Tha commute and county court, it waa understood, asked Judge Ashurst to confer with them on the juvenile budget. Judge Ashurst sent J. H. Napier, attorney, in .to represent him, and Miss McCarter appeared be fore the committee for two or three aessions. These developed a fairly lively exchange of views on Juvenile matters and the justification of Miss McCarter s salary. Pointed Remarks At one time Connty Commis sioner William F. B. Chas said that every time ths educational lnstitutiona of the atats develop soma new theory as to how cer tain problems should be bandied, they try them out on Klamath county. County Judge Griule also made pointed remarks. The committee finally decided to lump the juvenile budget at 13000 and let Miss McCarter divide it up as she considers best. The question of how to divide the county advertising funds be tween the Shasta-Cascade Won derland association and the Klamath county chamber of commerce waa left unsettled. ine I33UU budgeted carried a note that Its division will be decided at the final budget hear ing. Assessment Plan Approved The committee aet aside 34500 for establishment of a 10-year - continuous assessment roll plan, as requested by County Assessor Charles Mack and the sheriffs office. After an outline of the plan appeared in the press, numerous taxpayers called Mack and told him they were atrongly In favor of Installing the modern system and abandoning the old one-year roll. The cost will be saved in two or three years. Mack said by the greater efficiency of the coniinuoua rolL The sum of $3000 waa budget ea tor tax foreclosures. It is planned to foreclose on 1928 de linquencies, as much further as tne tund win permit. Social Aid Costa Rise general renel costs were budgeted at (24,500 against $14,000 last year. Old age assistance costs go up to $21 000 from $17,500. Small salary raises for county office personnel ran through mosi oi toe ouaget. in budget as drawn will be prepared for publication next week and the final budget hear ing set. Chairman Alfred Collier of the ouaget ooard at the close of the sessions spoke in appreciation of tne wont the office of County Clerk Mae K. Short had done In preparing Information In advance ior tne use oi the committee. MINE BLAST IN ALABAMA KILLS 32JMIE0 (Continued from Pag One) . Bessemer. Ala. hospital and could not be questioned about the explosion. R. M. Marshall. Woodward vice president, ssld bodies of the victims were located about four miles from the shaft mouth by th rescue crews, which sent hsck word that many were buried in fallen rock and coal. The victims were about equally divided be tween negroes and whites, he id. Only One Wins The mine, he added, normally employe about 500 men. Only one wing was damaged. This was near the shaft s deepest extremity, a fact which kept the death list from mounting to staggering pro portions, it wss said. First of the bodies were trund led out of the shsft on coal cara at 8:45 a. m.. approximately five hours after the explosion. More than 500 persons, friends and relatives and sightseers, looked on. The work of bringing th bodies from th mine was handicapped by presence of coal gas and by lack of oxygen. A crew from the United States bureau of mines. equipped with mssks. led ' the rescue workers to the seen of the tragedy. Coal from Mulga Is used in the blast furnacea of the Woodward company, a principal merchant Iron producer in the southeast. JAPANESE CUIM (Continued from Pag One) fumes. Coughing reporters re treated while the spokesman re cited dates and, places where the gas allegedly was used. He then exhibited the Inflamed and bleeding lungs of a guinea pig, which he said bad been ex posed to the captured gas. In response to a query, h said no foreign military experts were In vited to test the gas because "we thought our word was good enough." Despite the charges and count er-charges of gas being used by each side, foreign military ob servers doubted that such war fare bad been employed to any extent. They believed that the charges possibly may be prelim inary to an imminent use of pois on gas. FARLEY PRAISES NEW DEAL WORK IN OREGON TALKS (Continued from Pag On) a "peac loving president sits In tne Whit House." There has not been a "hint ' ougisesiiun or grail or ex travagance'- in all the billions spent on WPA projects, he as serted in reviewing administra tion achievements. He predicted congress would continue th CCC. Discussing in pudiic worns. he described Bonneville and Grand Coulee as major achievements. The pro gram has meant much to th na tion, Be said, but "nowhere mora than to Oregon and Washington." SALEM, Oct. 18 (AP) James A. Farley, postmaster general and chairman of the national democratic committee, listed Ore gon as "foremost in the fight for a new deal and a square deal" today In his dedication address at Salem's new federal building. The progressive and forward looking policies in this section' or the northwest, Be said, are characteristic. Knowledge of Oregon History The postmaster general dis played a keen knowledge of Ore gon territorial history and the records of his own federal de partment as he delved Into the past for the topic of his address. "You have a civic heritage of which to be proud," h td WASHINGTON. Oct. 18 (AP) Th United States formally ac cepted today an invitation to par ticipate in the nine-power treaty conference over the Far Eastern crisis at Brussels on October 30 and designated Norman H. Davis to head this government s dele gation. Secretary Hull, In announcing the acceptance a few minutes af ter the Belgian ambassador had delivered the formal invitation told his press conference the dele gation probably will sail th mid die of next week. Other members of th Ameri can delegation were announced by Hull as follows: Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, special political advisor to the secretary of state on Far Eastern affairs J. Pierepont Moffet, chief of the state department's European division. Robert T. Pell, an attache of the European division, and Charles E. Bohlen, also attached to the European division. Hornbeck and Moffet will act as advisors to Davis In the confer ence proceedings. Pell will accom pany the delegation as press offi cer and Bohlen will act as secre tary. EVANGELIST KILLS WIFE, "OTHER MAN," SUMMONS POLICE (Continued from Page One) pending filing of charges by Dis trict Attorney . Edwin C. Moon. Thomas himself summoned au thorities from the nearby home of his father-in-law. He telephoned Justice of the Peace E. L. Davis, and said! 'Come out right away and bring a couple of men. I may need you. Police reported that the mm Ister fired upon Hodge as he and Mrs. Thomas entered the house. Then Thomas broke the shotgun stock over the head of his wife, Mary Thomas, 44. Mrs. Thomas was brought to a hospital her from Maysvllle where the killings occurred. She died shortly after being received at th hospital. The Rev. Thomas refused to discuss the case as he sat deject edly in his cell. He muttered over and over: ''What cannot be prevented must be endured " -i ' ! I - ,. P-- ash fc.-fe FAhSd :Mi , "f . .... 7 ; zli TV---. ZTj-i 'i b ' aV' V- F,.7. .- Ar,: SvaAvrt J - . -4. l i Y ry ' iz. a 7: . n tx YOUTH KILLS TWO TOURS WITH BODIES DOWN EAST COAST (Continued from Pag One) youth suggested they look In a trunk In the tonneau of the car. There they found the body of the physician, the chief said. He quoted Dwyer as saying he called the physician to his home to examine him for a social dis ease. hen the old man made a crack about my girl frfend." Shlppee quoted the youth, he knocked the physician against a radiator. Picked lp .Mrs. MttlrfU-ld 'I thought I killed him so I choken and beat him with a ham mer." the police chief said the youth told him. Shlppee said the morbid con fession continued as follows: Dwyer placed the doctor's body la the trunk, put it in the car, drove to the doctor's bouse and told Mrs. Littlefield: "The doctor has just killed two people and is on his way to Bos ton. He said to get all the money you have and meet him at the railroad station."' Mrs. Littlefield got $197 and accompanied the youth to the sta tion, without knowledge her slain husband's body was In the very car in which she rode. .Stuffed Body in Ri-ar When Dr. Littlefield did not ap pear at the South Paris railroad station, the chief continued, Dwyer suggested he had "gone on to Boston" and proceeded to start southward. When the elderly wo man became "suspicious" as the car neared Portland Me., Dwyer choked and beat her fatally with a hammer, b said. Robbing the woman, he stuffed the (197 into his pockets and hit! her body In the rear of the sedan, the chief said the alleged confes sion related. Dwyer drove steadily southward and was stopped by police at the New York entrance to the Holland tunnel last night. The authori ties did not examine the car close ly and let bim pass. After driving for many hours, Dwyer finally halted the machine in a vacant lot at the Intersection of Union ave nue and Richmond Road, North Arlington, where police fouutl him. Weighing about 130 poundx. Dwyer is five feet nine Inches tall. wore a brown sweater and brown pants and sport shoes. CHATTER, STITCH CLUB OF BLY HOLDS SOCIAL MEETING I II u urn. Tl'I.KI.AKK I'olalo growers, fi-nrlnK a freme following the --M'lil wi-t hII. sent crews Into 11,-ldn Sut ui ilny In Mills of lnir lii 1 1 1 tit linwvrs. ,No railiniiie Is avnllabl hem n( tin' ai-n-ssn of tulinrs not yut hui'vi-atuil but Hi soason was just wi-ll aiiiried wlmn crews wcrx iiiIikiI oul. I. ii Inn era In iiiuiiy liistiinci-s are parkins In liitiitliiK and iniivltig on mill tli I'sinliia muy rosult lu a lulmr shiiriKMi' Ik'iv with lh rt-t ui n of good wi-uihnr. Living nitidltliiiis In most of tin- iiiniliig "li-KS of .Mil II li. Tllln liiko unil Mi-rrlll, wher workeis ln-io lor tli hurvest cnugrfgalv am di pliimlilo during the rainy iiithi'i. Ki w nf those coming Into the valli-y fr th fall u siiii huvu adi-iiil prulwtliin. .Mi-n i-iitiip In lh oifii along ditch . sli-i-p on Ix-ds or tules, cuoh nvi-r simlli'rltig. rsln dient-licd Urea and i'al soggy food. Kiitln rumllii's art) cftiupud In Urn uiiii, many f them with no shi'liur ri-il a fuw sodden, ran-K-d iiillis. mid si-iis of canvas Hint whip with i-vnry gnat of wind. I'lillilrin, final lisbli-e to Ihoi.r who ahuiilil b In si lionl run bare Hint Ihrmiiili ilrlppliig grass and miliiKh In puilille. A (i-w enjoy tents or trailers hut Ihey are not iiiiiiierniis. Msny sli-i p hi or ii nilcr cars or luy In Ihn 1,-ewiiy of an open shed. Old sloven, tin cuiiinlners and op-n Hies lurululi heat when II doesn't ruin tun hurd. Few i-ntiiiiUIn but Hie lot of the Inuinlwit polato help whep it rains la not one to be envied. ITALY ACCEPTS J' Those pictures were made last Saturday when (lovernor Charles H. Martin of Oregon inadn his first trip through tho south-end agricultural territory. Lpper Governor Murtln Inspects potatoes In a digger in the M. M. Staxtny field near Malin. hdwln Ktastny on the digger. Center left M. M. Stastny shows tho visitor a big spud. Center right M. M. Stastny, (lovernor Martin and Repre sentative Henry Semon In a "candid" shot. Lower At Mnlin, the governor was presented with a huge Klamath cheese by Mayor A Kalina, right. On tho governor s other slue Is Juhn Iteber, manager of the Malln cooperative. as some of the old members were leaving. Mrs. (lene Uetrlck con denied to bo librarian for the winter. The next meeting will be at tho home of Mrs. Frank Obeu rhaln. Sr., Wednesday afternoon. October 27. Refreshments were served by the hostess, Mrs. Jack llunnan, and her daughter, Mrs. Laurena Stevens, to the following: - Mrs. L. A. Tibbets, Mrs. Ken neth Good, Mrs. James Dixon, Mis. Karl Foster, Mrs. OHcar Her Ingen, Mrs. Frank Olienchain, Sr., Mrs. K. E. Kllpatrlck, Mrs. Orvlll Ktihlmiin, Mrs. Earnest I'atlilock Mrs. tins Hchallhorn, Mrs. Aug ust Tlkhancn, Mrs. Dave Lam ti liell, Mrs. J. A. Johansen, Mrs. (iene Detrick, Mrs. Charles Stump. Mrs. Alf Myers, and the hoHtemi, .Mrs. Laurena Stevens and Mm. Jack Hannan. BLY The Chatter and Stitch club met at the home of Mrs. Jack Hannaa Wednesday atlor- noon with 18 present. The afternoon was spent visit ing and sewing with a short busi ness meeting called by the presi dent of the club, Mrs. Krncst Paddock. It was decided the club could take In five members l OLENE OLENE Mr. and Mrs. Charley Adams were visitors In Olene last Wednesday. Mrs. Ivan Kggers and -daughter Charlone have returned from an extended visit bark east. Mr. and Mrs. flay Overson and son Raymond of Wcycrhaeusbr were dinner guests at the C. M. Kelly home last Thursday. Mrs. Lorle Marie Savage- hns been quite ill the past week. Mrs, ('antrell from Klamath Falls hits been substituting for her. People of Olene were awakened early lust Sunday morning when a car turned over several times on the curves at Oleno. No one was Injured lint the car waa dam aged silently. J. O, Otloin mado a business trip to Klamath Falls last Sal-unlay. Joe Can troll has returned to Olene alter an extended visit. Ho Is staying at tho Oliver Kinney ranch. Mrs. II. J. Tlcknnr of Cniter Lake was a visitor at the W. II. Wlgant homo last Wednesday af ternoon. Airs. Mary (Icrbhart spent lat Friday visiting with Mrs. Ada Adorn. Mr. and Mrs. Howo Kinney and daughter were shoppers In Kluni nlh Fulls Inst Tuesday. Mrs. George Anderson, Mrs. Fred Helling and Chnrlnne Eggers motored to Spraguo Rlvor lust Tuesday afternoon. Mis. J. C. Sweeney made) a business trip to Klamath Falls last Tuesday. . Sunflower seeds are good for rat traps. halt (Continued from Pag One) son brothers and Chester Hamil ton but lie died about a half hour Inter, before J)r. Nerselh of Chiloquln arrived. lir. Ner selh suld that outwardly there was no sign of Injury but that a broken rib had punctured Duhle s heart. As Joe Ilto-h, Duble had lived at the H. F. Dixon ranch here fur the past eight years, lln was un married and had no relatives in this country. 700 HOMELESS BABIES BORN IN SHANGHAI DAILY (Continued from Page One) tually become what are called "wolf children," who Infest dark Innes and gutters. Many of theso "wolf wair" eventually find their way to a children's homo conducted by 70-year-old Maud Truxton Hender son of Richmond, Va., who, al though unmarried, has an unof ficial family of 250 children res cued from the streets. When I visited this homo which Is on the very edge of the war lone sheila were falling all around, but this gallant southern woman, who has dedicated her life to China's poor, refused to leavo. (l Vents In ( bins "If any of theso helpless tots die from Japanese bombs," she Bald, "I must die with them." Miss Henderson, who has spent 30 years In China without revisit ing Vlrglnln, Is the daughter of San Francisco's first postmaster. Her uncle was (tcnernl Archie Henderson, a founder of tho Unit ed States marines, who was with Commodore Perry when he went to Jnpan, her Kroat-grandruther was made a squire nf Virginia by King George III at tho same time thnt George Washington was made a justice. CAMP BLY SIGNS NEW ENROLLEES I1LY Twenty C. C. C. ei. rnllecs arrived here Friday eve ning from Camp Gunter, near Kugeno. Thirteen of the 19 enrnllees sent nut from Klamath Falls filled the qualification and wero kept here. This brings the en rollment up lo 165 nt lite pres ent time. tain l lily plans lo have a full quota soon which will bo around 170 cnrolloes. A very Interesting educational and rec reational program Is being work ed out for theso boys and will be released lator when It Is completed. (Continued from !' One) of v.irlniis nationalities fighting for the Spanish government. "In l'n,Mirtlon' Thus, any withdrawal "In equal number," as Count Grsndl proposed, would leave most of the Hiillsns mill righting for Insur gent (ienerallisslino Francisco Franco, these dlplolnsts said. They said this waa why the French demanded the withdrawal from both sides be In proportion to the number of volunteers which each side hus. In orreriug cooperstlon. Count Grandl. however, spectrird that withdrawals must be "In equal quantities from both sides." This, he said, was lo be re garded as "a substantial begin ning nf the application'' of the llritlsh plan for evacuation of for eign volunteers from Spain. SM-iMly Action t rued The llrltluh and French apokeV men again pressed all members lo urge speedy action on their governments. The next meeting was fixed for Tuesday, October 19. Count Granilu suggested both Spanish faetlona be approached tor their vlens concerning with drawal. The Italian took a dig at Eden for his strong speech al Llandud no, Wales, last night. In which the llrltluh foreign aecretary warned of gravo consequences If quick ac tion on tho volunteers Quesllou was nol forthcoming. In an obvious reference to Eden's statement British patience was "well nigh exhausted" by "proclaimed Intervention" In Spain evidently referring to Ital ian support of the Insurgents Count lirundl said: Abuses Protested "I am wondering whether state ments which I have just read in the morning papers, ss far as I hey appenr to reflect the foreign policy of Great Krltaln, are actually likely, to help the work of our committee and above all the cause of I he non-intervention policy." The Italian also . protested against "tho Intolerable alius" of neutral flags ' by vessels carrying prohibited war material to the Spnnlsh Reds (government) and even by ships belonging to the Spnnlsli Reds." U 1 I 111 I "'liy r,.r irr,,' t lawn. ,q .."" iJ laled Incoin, , J"' , Decision , , ', method or .," uslloi, h... . ..'""hi ei., .. . :.'ou former ,v.i, ...""'J . nl til, nati-d lliuu ma i Tn 4 tr win , :,1!jyj' ed. each resldeai'.,,."-! ly and i(.i,h,.i. : !' .led. ,,u day evetii,,,. ,-on.iJC j of the cltv f, but no n H been mad. , 0 thai rllv '. o ' --K-iiuiiun,, TulelakeBrirJ . TL'I.KI.AKK Pear l ljile II,,,, flr.t mama. " Klamalh Fall, coobi. - . when Imrottus & tamo in onae or Jo); - "'ii ari. jt, ninne IIH-ir bom, ll Fall.. " Wini-iiu dub an . roums Thurialsy it, Mrs. I)n U' Keels Taylor ss lioiteu. (J in unijn oi ins am, . reported a total el n tieaiuiy aim UIDrr Bsuj in minis tor club ictn dl.ruui-,1 Tenutli, J ciu up nr mitnlloii: parly snd put luck uyri nem si s data ytt to h upon for liuibandi u lite uiriithers. Mrs. Turner, Kurt mother or Mrs. ftm j was a Kuei. The next meeting i toil noon will be at tot boo. Wlllard Smith itb li Nentuli a. eo-tiiftfaa. Mr. and Mrs. Kim It J returned from a two i lion and Mr. and Mm i baby. Vrek. who kin Tulelske during that to returned to thrlr boa. substituted lor Hiom of the I o r s I UlUoml Power company olllci, Mrs. Ward MrHnllt of honor s( a cbirmlEiJi ed shower this ml u of Mrs. Jensen skn guests arrived vltk Kills. BLY GRANGE M HALLOWEEN PAT AS BOOSTER IMI&i BLY The Rlj ind have a boonter m'i Thursday. Dctolirr 11. im In the school bnaldiM Seeley Is chalrmis v. James Ulion si susx they have planned nln slileh riimes ssdff - of an old fashioned h4 narlV Mrs. Seeley hat "rJ, quested that eacl mi, dressed In their oldeet Hlriilnua looking bat ui Old time Halloween v planned for ths "'' member Is privileged guest for till!" PSf'T- r TOO LAlts TO CLASS1FJ TOR SALE llesoty at: . tiiiA .111 rqilipi'eii. .v- Lillllh M. Csroi : TitAll.KIt HOUSE, h ned. $75. 2im Dm' FOR SALE ComPl'M set, chesp. pnoas uini AM tnt)K, H wishes ranch or ami References. Pbons . , t, nTstiB' r lilt BAW. - ; balled, first and a" ting. Cnlvln nncb.l south of Sixth itrwrc sign. Attention Machinists The general organizer from San Fran cisco will hold a meeting at the LabC Temple Monday night at 8:00 o'clock, for the purpose of organizing the ma chinists in Klamath Falls.