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The KlamaothNews upTervice WEATHER NEWS lull Fair . High (le); Low M At Midnight 24 hours lo A p. m. .................... H lo dale ........... Iet year lo data Normal precipitation . 'r.i- v ........ w it h ' it hur. .OO ....l.M .01 .88 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND fa-1" ""fi...-n machine. silk ' KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1937 (Every Morning Except Monday) n I m pi-ipp rive Cents 4 No. ' ' Where 19 Died in Crash of Airliner f-f W ' W r . Airs U i aV5 19 Identification Difficult as Dead Brought Out Of Utah Wilderness Area ii Dicturr runheil to Klamath Palls by plana and special mrsaenger, shows tha seen of tha crssh of the airliner 80 miles east Like City, resulting In 1 deaths. aitorials On the ay' N , HlA.Ml Ji.NklNS about the (nut open jrtr, in motion, looks like llilon to tba Gobi desert. In three trucks (the truck i.mi inul favorltu for isit, a ndin and i coupe. :d-llmera who flrat rode Id look back from wher- iv are and lee this outfit. obably swap many a cyu crsrk sbout the softness dtteendanla. ir. there ought to be k! room for beans and id ends at a rattle out known aa Itock Spring. Hoe stream of water flows i under a towering rlni. I Into a series of troiiKha, b stock water, and suoth- kirrles clean water down imp. imp Is a line rider's aha, k seat and well-stocked. r, of course la unlocked. and petty chlaelers don't this climate. The shack f' county. The spring, a inued on Page Seven) ews Stock Market Rallies After Heaviest Selling in Years; Congressman Charges 'Plot' ' HYDE PARK, N. Y.. Oct. 19 I (AP) rreldnl Rooaevelt. offi cial aourcea asld today, has no intention of exerclalng hla auth ority to close the New York Stock exchange. Tha president himself refused lo discuss the falling market at a preaa conference. Hut It was learned authoritatively he is giv ing no thought to Invoking that section of the Exchange Regula tion act empowering him to or der the securities and exchange commission to suspend trading. ER DIRECTS RNEYS AS JURY fRIAL CHOSEN METHTOWN, N. Y.. Oct. ' jonn Montague, the Uvea and two names. """. not courtroom to- 11 Bnhuttnnn.t nn.l ..I. .I.... """ he tried lo win - vi,aIK(- inni ne WHS ? man seven years ago !" "His of home. Bit him nn Irl.l I. .. ourthouse. alleging that C " mystery man -- "mu one of tie !" golfers he was plain -. no rnao up to "" road ... 'iln In i a .in ...j ..... nllu MU. f Place of 18(1(1. lawyers J ft them w, jHme, " Albany who hns a for Putatliin , cu.l In r"P. Hilt n m .L-.. rnl Ul I nORC -"ii tney looked d .Montnguo's curly. , 2 mov the afflrma 1 noiaiKo ii. . It i. . . ' was n J 'o the hut and he r, i;;ry ln,n neipmg 18 "Ith Ihft .... I"g s Jury. " ,B"I WW. ti.rfl . . 1o won. ai r(.r,Mert unl, the h' r1"8 ""'X (,tin- enrpenter, a t' tVT wnnmn m L . ' K'tlosio.l aa to no. fT"...0n ,,,e ."' i l.,:r,r:" '"-'net ai. ern .'utionald chal- ;r)UIt reene...! was . . . lnB "'strict h dirt i k """ c,"- gh nv"u"e ,hare lore ?, h."vl nccommo lor mixed Jury. NEW YORK, Oct. 19 ( AP) In a valiant recovery after hours of Ihe heaviest selling in years, the stock market regained some of Its equilibrium today and leading shares wiped out a por (Continued on Tsge Seven) DEVIL'S ISLAND FUGITIVES PAUSE AT VIRGIN ISLANDS RT. THOMAS, V. I , Oct. 19 (UP) Denied permission to re main In the Virgin Islands after a hazardous 77-day voyage from (he French Guiana coast, four aea-weary fugitives from Devil's Island left here today In an open boat to resume their odyssey In search of a haven. Provided with clothing and a supply of food and drinking water. Raymond Vaude. Paul Renu and Kranrola Kreau. all Frenchmen and (iiovannl Hattlstotl, an Ital ian, paddled their canoe out of the harbor while hundreds cheered them from Ihe dork. The men had arrived here Saturday, unkempt and virtually naked, after a voy age which begnn Aug. 1 when th-y escaped from the notorious con vict settlement. The last seen of (hem they were headed In the direction of the Mexican coast, 1000 miles across the Caribbean. PRETTY OHIO GIRL ASSAULTED, SLAIN MARSHAL!,, Mich, Wednes day, Ocl.UO (I'D Sheriff Pcnrl Tellny announced todny that John Campbell, Iff, had confessed Ihe slaying Monday of loulne Hornlierk In (irafton, O. Campbell wan arrested on the complaint nf a IH-year-nld girl who anid ho molested her. GRAFTON. O., Oct. 1 (AP) Protty Louise Hornbeck, 19, was found alaln in a vacant lot near her home in this Lorain county villnge today. Sheriff William (trail said she waa criminally assaulted. The girl was killed aa she was returning last night from the of fice of Dr. .Karl Maple, dentist, where she wns employed. Hor father, Earl Hornhock. railroad maintenance foreman, and a neighbor. Willis Under. followed a trail of clothing the girl's coat, slippers, umbrella and hat to the body in the weed-grown lot. COI.UMBU8. O.. Oct. ID (AP) Donald White, 29-year-old thrice paroled convict, pleaded guilty In police court today to a chargo of raping Hetty Jane Rush, 10. The Hide schoolgirl was held captive in a vacant house for six hours the night of Oct. 9. Police physicians said she had been assaulted repeatedly. CHICAGO. Oct. II (IP) Rep. A. J. Sabath (1)111.) in a tele gram to President Roosevelt charged the stock market slump was directly traceable to a "Wall street conspiracy." He urged that "strong meas ures must be taken against (hem Immediately to save the nation from a recurrence of the 1929 debacle." His lelegram continued, "I have Just btwn informed the bank ers and brokers are advising peo ple to sell their securities before It Is too late and 1 again urge firm steps be taken immediately to frustrate this disbollcal plan. "Short sales have to a great measure aided the downward trend of Ihe market and they should be restrained by increas ing the margins of short sales to 90 per cent and reducing mar gins on long transactions to 25 per cent. "Even Inflation should be re sorted lo in order to frustrate (Continued on Page Seven) HOLY LAND BOMB TOSSER INJURED BY 'OWN MISSILE JERUSALEM, Oct. 19 (VP) Police used bloodhounds tonight to pursue a man who was wound ed by premature explosion of a bomb he was trying to throw ai a bus load of British pollre. The man's srms were believed to have been blown off. The police, riding to camp at Mount Scopus near Jerusalem, es caped Injury. The curfew Imposed after out break of widespread disorders throughout Palestine was lifted In Jerusalem tonight. Authorities maintained strict patrol, however. A 110.000 collective fine war imposed on desert Hedouln tribes men for damage resulting from raids In the vicinity of Dahrcth. The first Instalment of Ihe fine is payable In kind with either sheep or goats. France, Britain Planning Independent Moves for Spanish War Showdown Hy RICHARD I. M'.MII.I.AV I'nllcd Press Klaff Correspondent LONDON. Oct. 19 (UP) Great Drltain and France tonight dis cussed a course of "independent action" in the Spanish crisis after virtual collapse of the non-intervention committee's efforts to find a basis for withdrawal of Italian and other foreign volun teers from Spain. The Franco-Britiah discussions, crammed with possibilities of opcn conflict, conformed with warn ings from London and Paris that unless a speedy solution was found for Ihe "volunteers" problem they would take matters in their own bands and bring about a European show-down. Few Hours to Live A spokesman said (he whole non-intervention structure, built on tho "hands off Spain" pledges of 27 nations, has "only a few hours to live." Behind these warnings, openly voiced by British Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden, lay threats to re-open the Franco-Spanish frontier, permit unrestricted arn.s shipments from Britain and per haps even stage a naval occupa tion of the Spanish Balearic is land of Minorca to prevent Italy from taking It over. KusNia Disagree French and British diplomats admitted tonight (hat there was virtually no hopo of agreement of the volunteers withdrawal as a result of today's three-hour ses sion of the non-intervention sub committee In which Soviet Russia found herself alongside Europe's fascist bloc Germany, Italy, Por tugal in flatly rejecting a French compromise plan. Russia, turning against France (Continued on Page Seven) EVANSTO.V, Wyo., Oct. 19 (UP) Trucks arrived here to night with (be bodies of (he 19 victims of the wreck of a giant United Air Lines transport plane, which crashed high In the winter locked Uinta mountains of north eastern Utah Sunday night. Accompanied by mountain men, air line officials and federal rep resentatives, the trucka brought the bodies to an undertaker's es tablishment, where they will be Identified If possible. Some of them were said to be mangled. No Hlgiiof Fire The bodies were brought down the mountainside In a pack train each body on a separate horse Five miles from the wreckage they were placed In the trucks for the remainder of the trip here, a distance of about 32 mile. Identification of some of the bodies apparently was proving difficult. Coroner Hopkins and morticians worked hour after hour behind locked doors. It was be lieved with the Intention of iden tifying all 19 before making any announcement. Persons who examined the plane wreckage carefully toJay said there was no trace of fire and that none of the bodies was charred. The nose of the transport was split open as If it had been blown outward, but there waa no evi dence to Indicate that there had been an explosion. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 19 (AP) Exhausted workmen started today the task of bring' ing back to civilization the bodies of the 19 victims of the nation's most terrible airplane tragedy. The bodies, strewn about the (Continued oat Pag Seven) $50,000 Ransom Paid Chicago Kidnapers, Ross Still Held; Wife Gives G-Men Full Rein CHICAOO, Oct. 19 OP) Fed eral agents announced today a 160,000 ransom had been paid for the release of kidnaped Char less Ross, but the abductors fail ed to free their aged victim. The announcement waa made after the deadline set for his re turn g o'clock this morning brought no word of the retired manufacturer's whereabout!. Huge Hunt On A corps of government agents and state's attorney'! police swung Into an Intensive hunt for the snatch gang. Failure to free Ross after 24 days of captivity confirm:"? theo ries the family had been double crossed and increased fears he bad died In the hands of bis cap tors. Rome federal officials theorised the Ross ease might prove similar to the tragle kidnaping of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's Infant son, with the victim deed before the ransom was collected. They said there was a chance he might hare succumbed to a chronic heart aliment or might have been killed to prevent Identification of the snatchera. They pointed out also that he still might be held until the abductors plan their flight. Currency Mat Out D. M. Ladd. chief of the Chi cago bureau of the Justice depart ment's bureau of Investigation, said the 150.000 ransom consist ed of bills of 5, 10 and $20 de nominations. The list of currency, sent to banks, police stations and govern ( Continued on Page Seven) LANDQN CALLS FOR FIGHT TO SAVE REPUBLIC Roosevelt Seen "Feeding On Power" by Head of GOP; Violations Seen Night Wire Flashes FOB ARMS ROME, Oct. J (CP) The Italian cabinet today Imposed an extraordinary tax of 10 per cent on the capital atock of all corporations to carry on vast rearmament program, finance the Spanish insurgents and de velop Ethiopia. SUICIDE ATTEMPT RAN DIKftO, Cal., Oct. 19 (UP) Frank Hteblnger, 85, vice president of the Inman I'oulsen Lumber company, of Portland, Ore., was In criti cal condition here tonight after an unsuccessful attempt to com mit suicide by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors, police reported. DOCTOR HELD SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 1 (UP) Dr. Douglas W. Owen, 80-ycar-old psychiatrist with "hobby for crime," tonight waa questtonel concerning the slay ing of 16-year-old Melba Moore on a lonely road near here last Tuesday night. PLANT CLOSKD DETROIT, Oct. 19 (UP) Permanent abandonment of the Ford Motor company'e Kansas City assembly plant because of labor troubles waa announced tonight by H. C. Doss, recalled manager of the factory. Drive in for Service '. i.v , ; ..' - ". ' ' " V.."V i .' . ,..a - . . - - - Service station attendants had Just locked Up and left the Francis and Lange service station in Lakcvlew when this csr driven by Clarence J. Sundet of Lakevlew, missed a turn on the Klam ath Falls-Lakevlew highway, leaving Lakevlew, and crashed Into the station. 'Although the ma chine broke off an Iron floodlight poln and demolished a concrete-set highway sign before striking tha building, the driver received only a minor scratch on his Hp. ...... Government Enters Fight Against Drug WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UP) W. G. Campbell, chief of the fed eral food and drug administra tion, tonight ordered federal agents to aeiie all quantitiea of au elixir of sulfanilamide which is believed to have caused the deaths of nine persons at Tulsa, Okla., and five at East St. Louis. 111. Canadian officials were advised to to take similar steps. Campbell said the action would be taken on the technical grounds of "misbranding" because there is no other provision under the food and drug laws which applies. Solvent Blamed Campbell said that while labor atory tests to date did not ex plain fully Just why the victims died, it was believed the solvent in which the sulfanilamide . was dissolved waa responsible. Campbell said the fatalities re emphaslied the need for "ade quate and compulsory" food and drug regulation. The Roosevelt administration haa requested that present legislation- be revised .to meet new problems but congress has not acted. The food and drug chief said "dlnltrophenol" was placed on the market 'recklessly" some years (Continued on Pag Two) ; JAPS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE ON ALL SHANGHAI FRONTS - SHANGHAI, Oct. 19 (P) Ja panese troops launched another major offensive on all Shanghai fronts tonight, in an apparent ef fort to drive out Chinese forces before the Brussels nine power conference convenes t the end of the month t seek an end to the far eastern conflict. Chinese said the heaviest at tack centered in the Tatang sec tor now the most Important salient on the Shanghai front. Led by a fleet of tanks, the Ja panese reached a point less than two mile from Tatang. Chinese asserted Japanese troops had killed 3000 male civil ians at Yangkaohsien, 20 miles north of Tatung on the Pelplng Suiyuan railway in the north. WILKINS SENTENCED IN DRIVING CASE MEDFORD, Oct. 19 (P) M O. Wilklns, for more than 0 years a practising attorney of Oregon, was sentenced to serve three months in the county jail, and pay a lne of 9150, and costs, when he en tered a plea of guilty in circuit court, to a grand Jury Information charging driving an auto while under the Influence of intoxicat ing liquor. The court denied a plea of len iency, that was unopposed by the district attorney. Wilklns formerly practised law in Multnomah and Klamath coun ties. FOREIGN CAPITAL LURED BY ITALIANS ROME. Oct. 19 (AP) The government today invited foreign capital to invest In Italy by of fering exemption from inher itance taxes and freedom from expropriation in the event of war. To receive such exemptions capital must be Invested before Dec. 31; 1939. The freedom from inheritance taxes lasts twenty years and the non-exproprlatlon arrangement provides that. In case real estate should be taken by the government In the event of war, full recompensation would be made. Complete freedom in transfer of such Investments would be accorded. WRECKER CALLED The Southern Pacific wrecker was called to Yamaay at midnight Tuesday night when the dining car on a passenger train burned out a wheel bearing. The train left the diner behind tor repairs. DAVIS TO GO President Denies Envoy Committed to Any Pol icy for 9-Power Parley HYDE PARK, N. Y., Oct. 19 (UP) President Roosevelt Issued a formal statement tonight as serting Norman H. Davis, Ameri can delegate to the nine-power treaty session on the Sino-Japa-nese situation, "will enter the conference without any commit ments on the part of this govern ment to other governments." Mr. Roosevelt's announcement made after a long discussion with Davis, was interpreted as an an swer to the declaration today by Senator Hiram W. Johnson, R.. Calif., that "Mr. Davis would not be going to Brussels unless in advance a program bad been agreed on between England and this country." . The president declined- to -comment on Johnson's statement earlier in the day but tonight he ' (Continued on Page Seven) Win ner j- SW3' - 4 e.5 " - TOPEKA, Kans., Oct. 19 (UP) Frormer Gov. Alt M. Landon, In ferential comparing President RooseveU to a modern Julius Caesar "reeding on power," to night called on the .17,000,000 republican voters who supported him last November to Join in "tba fight to preserve the republic." The 1939 republican standard bearer In an address to a "radio mass meeting" he himself called. charged the president with vio lating "the letter and spirit of the constitution." "Wasted Session" He demanded that the president be deprived of some of his broad powers so that the chief executive be compelled to take the advice of "experienced and practical men." With a vehemence suggestive of a campaign speech. Landon criti cized the president for hla su preme court enlargement pro posal, asserting that he "wasted practically the entire session uf congress of 1937 fighting to get more power for himself." Prevented Hearings! He charged that the administra tion "used all Its mighty power" to prevent public hearings on the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, in disre gard of the constitution. He struck at Mr. Roosevelt for letting "college sophomores" draft legislation auch as the national recovery act, the social aecurlty law and tax statutes and criticised hla relief and labor policies. In contrast he praised Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, whom ha (Continued on Pag Seven) TWO PARTIES TO GO BY TRAIN TO. HOMECOMING GAME Sufficient reservations have been made with the Southern Pacific railroad to assure trans portation for two special parties to Eugene for the annual home coming game tbia weekend. The first special party will leave Klamath Falls on No. 29 at 10:55 Friday morning, arriv ing in Eugene at 4:35 p. m. Those who plan to attend the Paul Whlteman dance are to take this train. The second train will leave Klamath Falls at :40 a. m. Sat urday, arriving in Eugene at noon. Time limit for both these specials is seven days. The graduate manager haa ex tended time for football ticket purchase until 5 p. m. Wednes day. A few tickets are still avail able, it was snnounced By the S. P. ticket office Tuesday. Those desiring to make reservations may do so by calling the ticket office. The price of tickets ia 11.65. and the Klamath Falls parties, with groups from Lake view, Merrill and Chiloquin. will be seated In one block. Ticket start at the 45-yard line. Kennell-Ellis Helen Hough, above, Klamath Union high school senior, was announced as winner of the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland de scription contest at the Wonder land convention in Susanville Tuesdsy. She described the Wonderland thus: "Lofty moun tains, cool streams, gigantic for ests and siure blue lakes a land of infinite beauty." This inscription was placed on a bronte plaque dedicated by Gov ernor Merriara of California. CONTEMPT CASES UPHELD BY COURT SALEM, Oct. 19 (AP) The state supreme court upheld today contempt convictions of four Portland men who refused to testify in connection with the bloody riot in 1934, in front of the Columbia Rivermen's associa tion hiring hall at 14th and Al berta streets, Portland. The men were witnesses at a trial of 33 men who were In dicted by the Multnomah grand jury on Nov. 28, 1934, for riot ing. They sued Sheriff Martin T. Pratt and District Attorney James R. Bain on a writ of habeaa corpus in an attempt to be freed from Jail after being convicted for contempt. TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST IOCAIi Helen Hough. KUHS senior, wins Shasta-Cascade description contest. Picture on Page 1. Hearing of Lakeshor Gardens drainage district versus Califor nia Oregon Power company re opened in circuit court Monday with Judge Arthur D. Hay of Lakevlew presiding. Page 6. Two special parties assured for trip to Eugene tor annual home coming game. One leaving Fri day morning, one Saturday morn ing. A few football game tickets still available. Page 1. GENERAL Former Governor Landon re asserts leadership of republican party by calling tor battle against Roosevelt' "greed for power." Black appointment, court plan at tacked. Pag 1. Stocks mak valiant rise after enormous selling wave hits early trading. President saya he will not close market. Page 1. Crews reach wrecked airliner in Utah, begin difficult task of moving 19 bodies. Page 1. Illinois congressman professes to see "diabolical" plot In market slump, nrges president to take "strong measures." Page 1. Charles Rosa not freed by ab ductora, despite payment of $50, 000 ransom. G-men list bills in hope of trapping snatch gang. Pag 1. France, Britain plan Independ ent action after failure of plans for removal of volunteer from Spain. Page 1. U. 8. to take part In nine-power conference without commitments, president declares. Pag 1.