THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.
March 13, 1941
The Klamath News
KLAMATH NEWS PUBLISHING CO, Publisher!
Spring Skepticism
SIDE GLANCES
FRANK JENKINS , Editor
MALCOLM EPLEY , ,, Managing Editor
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Legislatures Cause Concern
AHAT to do -bout legislatures seems to be a question
T T that bother the people of more than one state.
We have heard, for instance, arguments in favor of a
split or .bifurcated session for the Oregon legislature
"because California has it" Under this plan, California
legislators meet for introduction of bills, go home for a
while, and then return for action.
It has always sounded like a pretty good plan to us,
but apparently not everybody likes it. The Sacramento
Bee,. in a current editorial, says the "bifurcated or divided
session . . . has served to delay and befuddle legislative
action." The Bee favors a constitutional amendment to
eliminate the split sessions and have the legislature meet
annually lor not more than 60 days, instead of biannually.
Now that the Oregon legislature is approachine- the
end of another long-drawn-out session that went well be
yond the 40 days for which, legislators are paid, there
will probably be talk about doing something to change
the Oregon legislative system or sessions. Discussed here
some weeks ago was the scheme for pre-session organiza
tion oi tne legislature, so that presiding officers could
be named a month ahead and the ways and means com
mittees appointed for immediate work. A "legislative
committee" device has been suggested again by the Salem
Statesman for between-sessions operations to speed up
action once the legislators get into session.
Probably some changes could be made for the good
of the state. The present method of running over the
40 days for which the legislators are paid, and then end
ing up in rush and confusion, is not satisfactory and is
not fair to the legislators or the state. Some constructive
thought is needed on improvements.
Second Biggest Gold Pile
THE vast treasure in gold buried at Fort Knox, Ky.,
naturally occupies the thoughts of all who are gold-
a unuea, na most men nave Deen for at least 2000 years.
"9 iqrgei mat tne second largest gold pile in the
world is also in the Western Hemisphere, buried under a
uiuuuuim in waiuwque, picturesque -anunean island
.where Napoleon's Josephine was born.
The Caribbean has seen dramas before on 'the theme
of gold, when English naval raiders and free-lance pirates
i- guiuen Bireara inai passed through the
Panama bottleneck on the WAV frftTtl Am AVIS a Cnein
The French, jt now appears, got a billion dollars' worth
of gold aboard a cruiser in 1940 just ahead of the in-
y.uiug nnn, ana alter some thrilling adventures,
landed it at Fort Saint Louis de Saix and Fort de France
b.. iuarunique, wnere it is now buried.
We knew that the United States had most of the
worlds gold. But this story makes it plain that the
.Western Hemisphere has practically all of it
An Army Travels On-
MAPOLEON achieved quite a reputation as a wit by
sagely commenting that an army travels on its stom
ach. Not today. In 1941 an army travels on wheels.
Only two years ago the total number of quartermaster
motor vehicles in the army was about 14,000. Today,
75,000. By the end of April, 140,000. By next fall, 286,
000, which is the number needed for an army of 1 400 -000
men.
Incidentally, in an army of that size today, nearly a
third, or around 400,000 men. will be either drivers or
mechanics driving or servicing trucks, tanks, passenger
cars, or motorcycles.
To "git thar fustest with the mostest" today, you have
to roll.
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DEFENSE IRK
March IB, a significant date
for federal income taxpayers,
Is also the deadline for first
quarterly payments of 1941 real
estate taxes In Klamath county,
it was pointed out Wednesday
by: Allen Sloan, deputy sheriff
in charge of tax collection.
Taxpayers who pay -their
whole year's taxes on the first
quarterly payment date will re
ceive a deduction, while those
who do not pay at all-on that
date will be charged Interest,
Sloan pointed out
No interest will be charged If
first . quarterly payments are
made on March 15, and other
quarterly payments are met on
time, he added.
AMATEUR
Barney Oldfleld. famous race
driver, never drove an automo
bile until a few hours before his
first race, yet he beat the world's
champion by half a mile.
Vou can learn to do anything
If you're willing to do anything
to learn. - - -
Clues Found in
Girl Slaying
KANSAS CITY, March 12 UP)
Police Chief L. B. Reed said to
day that the butcher slaying of
Leila Adele Welsh, 24, was near
ing a solution.
"After two o'clock this morn
ing," he said, "the police depart
ment received some definite and
positive information that seems
very encouraging in this case.
Of the maze of clues and tips
given us so far, this seems to be
the best yet."
Reed said special investigators
were working on the slaying of
the girl, who was hammered and
slashed to death in her bed dur
ing the dark hours of Sunday
morning.
FARM MEMBERS
CORVALLIS, March 12 VP)
The appointment of two addi
tional farmer members to the
state land use planning commit
tee was announced here today
by William A. Schoenfeld, dean
and director of agriculture at
Oregon State college and chair
man of the state committee. The
two appointees, both of whom
have accepted, are Ralph Laird.
Eugene, representing the upper
wuiamette valley, and C. W.
Wendt, Medford, representing
southern Oregon.
Registration of the American
Legion auxiliary's half million
women for voluntary emergency
service will be conducted on
March 15, Mrs. Konnie. presi
dent of the auxiliary unit here,
has announced. "
Auxiliary women will fill out
questionnaires similar to those
answered by members of the
American Legion on February
22. The questionnaire forms
are being sent out from national
headquarters to the 9100 units
throughout the country and
when answered will provide the
auxiliary with a complete list
ing of the capabilities of its
members for service to their
communities and the nation.
On the questionnaires, auxil
lary members will list their
availability for service in many
fields, including automobile
driving, nursing and first aid,
canteen work, entertainment,
social service, office, household
and administrative work, sew
ing, knitting and mending. Jun
ior members will be listed for
messenger and guide service.
One copy of the form will be
retained by the local unit, while
the other will go to state head
quarters. Each unit will be ex
pected to organize a corps of
volunteers workers, prepared to
meet any calls for emergency
service which come to it. The
individual members will be as
signed to the type of duty for
which they are best qualified.
This corps will work in clcse
cooperation with the voluntary
service organization of the Le
gion and with the Red Cross.
It will undertake services simi
lar to those being carried out
by women of England should
the necessity arise.
The program is being directed
nationally by a new national
committee, headed by Mrs. T.
Louis Chess, of San Mateo,
Calif. Similar committees are
being organized in each state.
On Buying Trip Keith Moon
of the Town shop, is in San
Francisco on a spring buying
trip. He will return Friday
from the south.
Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg has received his first
appointment from the supreme
court to sit on a case outside his
Judicial district.
The judge has been assigned
to the case of New York Life In
surance company versus Menke
maler, to be tried in Lake coun
ty.
Attorneys Sit
In on Kalplne
Strike Parley
Negotiations In the nine-day
old Kalpine Plywood strike con
tinued Wednesday with John B.
Ebinger sitting In as counsel for
the company and Ben Anderson
of Portland, attorney firm of
Anderson and O'Brien, acting
for the union negotiating com
mittee. The parties were in confer
ence throughout Wednesday
morning and met again at 2:30
in the afternoon for further
parley.
Previously counsel for both
sides in the labor squabble had
been withdrawn, leaving the
issue solely up to the company
and the union.
Anderson said union recogni
tion was the only question In
volved in negotiations and claim
ed the CIO union has designa
tions in excess of 75 per cent
IVelson Sentenced
To Pay $100 Fine '
Hector Nelson, Indian convict
ed of drunken driving, was sen
tenced by Justice Joseph Ma
honey Wednesday to pay a $100
fine and $35.35 costs.
Justice Mahoney departed
from his usual policy of jail
sentences for drunken drivers in
deference to a request by the
jury In the Nelson case which
asked leniency for the defend
ant. The Jury In a note append
ed to its verdict said its recom
mendation was based on testi
mony as to alleged brutality by
Officer Jack Hope in the Nelson
case.
PUBLIC POWER
GROUP EXTENDS
As near as we can figure It
spring Is about three tons away.
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COMPANION FEATURE
WARNER BAXTER
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Joel
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CROWD'
ACTIVITY HERE
The Klamath County Bonne
ville power committee has been
expanding Its organization and
activities in the past two weeks,
according to A. M. Thomas, sec
retary of the committee. Organ
ization of sub-committees In com
munities over the county is un
der way. and will be followed
with more organization work in
Klamath Falls.
Within a month, Thomas said.
It is planned to have a mass
meeting In downtown Klamath
Falls.
The Immediate objective, he
explained, is an educational cam
paign to acquaint the public with
the Bonneville power program
and its potentialities for this dis
trict. Arrangements, he stated, are
being made with the county
school superintendent's office for
showing of a short version of
the film, "Hydro," in the schools.
At a recent meeting at Shasta
school, more than 300 attended
for a discussion of Bonneville.
BurreD Short Is chairman of
the committee, and Ned Smith is
vice-chairman.
617 Bicycle Tags
Sold to Date
Six hundred and seventeen
bicycle licenses have been Issued
to date, according to informa
tion received from the office of
David Bridge, city recreational
officer. This is an increase over
last year when 436 licenses were
issued up to this date.
Number 600 went to Elbert
Stiles who purchased five license
plates for machines which he
operates.
From Merrill Mrs. E. E. Kll
patrlck was shopping in the city
Wednesday from her home in
Merrill.
Falrview PTA The Falrvlew
PTA will have a rummage sale
April 4 and 5, the place to be
announced later.
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WASHINGTON, March 12
What frequently happens to
strong new senators who come
to Washington with a determin
ation to do thlnits for the public
weal Is Illustrated by the de
cline and full of the famous El
lender amendment. The cir
cumstances surrounding Its eva
poration into thin air ran now
be told on unquestionable auth
ority. Senator Allen Ellender of
Houma. Louisiana, was deter
mined to nail down the presi
dent's British aid policy with a
firm ban on the use of American
soldiers abroad. He had a lot of
encouraging mail and worked
hard among the senators to gain
support for his way of making
the lend-lease bill acceptable.
So successful were his labors
that he counted 56 votes sure, a
majority of at least 8. a few days
before the vote. Then State
Secretary Hull got busy among
friends in the senate. Next day
Mr. Ellender had 52. The third
day he had 48. But he still
thought he could win as there
were sure to bo some absentees
Then he was approached by
forelitn relations chairman, Wal
ter George, in charge of the ad
ministration forces. One of
Senator George's election cam
paign speeches saying he would
cut off his right arm before he
would vte to send boys to Eu
rope again, had been brought up
in the debate. But George held
with the administration that the
Japanese would interpret as
sign of weakness any effort to
impose Ellender a policy on the
president. He sought a com
promise which would not tie the
president's hands against defense
of our far eastern possessions
Administra ion Leaders Bark
ley. Byr.ies and Harrison worked
on Mr. Ellender for certain mod
living language. Ellender con
sulted the legislative counsel
who indicated the new language
would not emasculate his pur
pose. A friend. Senator Over
ton, also said this. So he took
the compromise.
But instead of changing the
amendment so it would not ap
ply to the fur east, the com
promise said the lease-lend bill
did not change existing law ex
cept in the ways it changed ex
isting law. Most senators and
outside observers agreed It was
meaningless. '
TAX OUTLOOK
Speaker Sam Rayourn was
not fooling when he said this
congress would wring SI. 500,
000 more out of you in taxes for
next year than you are paying
now. A check of the house ways
and means committee shows the
authors there know fairly well
what they intend to write. About
half the increase. $750,000,000.
will be squeezed out of mid-
bracket Incomes of 15000 to
$50,000. Where $35,000 now
pays about one quarter of Its
income, it may pay nearly half
The other $750,000,000 will
come out of corporations through
increase In the present 24 per
cent normal tax and In addition
al excess profits taxes.
tor good measure all those
nuisance taxes which were
abandoned a few years ago, will
be revived and hiked, (levies as
on checks, etc.)
RUSSIAN MYSTERY
Mr. Roosevelt's European
watchmen have not been able to
make out clearly what Russia is
up to either. Of one thing they
are positive. The anti-Hitler turn
indicated in Stalin's note to Bul
garia was a phoney. By telling
Bulgaria, after she let the nazis
in, that she should not have
done It, the tricky reds accom
plished two objectives: (A) The
strong Bulgarian communist ele
ment was kept in line with Mos
cow for the future, (B) the so
viet escaped their pledges to
the Bulgarians by blaming it all
on them.
FAR EAST
Matsuoka's trip
to Berlin Is
Dill
"Vou feel sorry for everyone who slops here to aril you
oructhiog now all we Imve to ilo is tlnd u sales in un to
- iict rid of this junk I"
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Public Power nt
Municipal Poll
SPOKANE, March 12 D A
proposal for a public power dis
tribution system met defeat for
the second time In five months
at the Spokane polls yesterday.
Voters registered overwhelm
ing disapproval of the plan tor
the city to purchase Grand Cou
lee power and distribute It
wholesale, either In competition
or through the purchase of the
system of the Washington Water
Power company. The vote was:
yes, 17,279; no, 26 609.
WASHINGTON, March 12 UP)
Threat that Grand Coulee power
would not be sold to the Wash
ington Water Power company
of Spokane, unless It binds Itself
to distribute It "at the yard stick
rate prescribed by the adminis
tration" was made today by Rep.
Rankin (D-Mlss.).
Rankin said In a statement he
had been Informed that the pri
vate power company had carried
an election In Spokane on mun
icipal distribution of power,
which he said meant that the
majority, by the vote, had said It
did not want "the benefits of
cheap electricity from Grand
Coulee."
This power will be distrib
uted at Bonneville yard stick
rates to people in surrounding
territory but not one kilowatt
hour of It will be turned over to
private power companies to rob
the people of Spokane or any
other community with exorbitant
overcharges In their retail rates,"
Rankin said.
"Unless this vote is reversed
It undoubtedly will be the great
est setback the city of Spokane
has ever received. We do not
propose to have Grand Coulee 1
power handled by any agency
that does not bind Itself to dis
tribute It at yard stick rates
prescribed by the administra
tion."
JUDGE DENIES
KIRK III
FOR RE-TRIAL
Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg Wednesday over-ruled
a motion for a new trial In the
case of Luther Joe Kirk, convict
ed of the second degree murder
of Leonard John.
Defense Attorney J. C. O'Neill
had asked a new trial on 16
grounds. Including a challenge
to the state court's Jurisdiction
In a case Involving two Indium.
Kirk will be taken to the state
penitentiary at Salem Thursday
to begin a life sentence. His at
torney may file an appeal to the
state supreme court.
Deputy Sheriff Dale Mnttoon.
who will take Kirk to Salem,
will also take Robert Wilcox
Rhodes to the penitentiary to be
gin a two-year sentence for lifr
voluntary manslaughter.'
Lady Eagles The Lady
Eagles club will meet Friday,
March 14. at FOE hall (or a I
o'clock potluck luncheon and
business meeting with Maude
Larson as hostess. All members
arc urged to attend.
Police Court Five drunks,
one drunk and vag. and six traf
fic tickets made up the Wednes
day morning police court report.
being advertised as a fraternity
get-together of two old axis pie
uiiers. Actually ne was summoned.
It is known at the ton here
that Hitler Is trying to Induce
his far eastern Mortimer Snurd
to create a diversion against the
United States In the Southern
Pacific. But Mautuoka will not
move until he gets an anti-aggression
pact with Russia, and
the red price Is high. Stalin
wants the Chinese Eastern rail
way and the Sakhalin lilanrii
oil sources. Hitler might buy a
pact from Russia with a niece of
Turkey but he has not much
else to sell.
Betting here Is running even
money that Matsuoka is wasting
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