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JUDGE LEAVITT CALMLY PASSES TUESDAY NIGHT Prominent Pioneer Klamath Lawyer Dies From Illness While Asleep Early Linkville History Recalled With Death of Popular Official Alfred Lewis Leavitt, 75, one of Klamath county's best-known and best-loved pioneers, and for almost half a century identified with life in this city and county, in his sleep some public. time Tuesday night at the home of his daughter, Mra. Howard Barnhisel, on Lakeshore drive. In active service attorney the time of his death. Judge Leavitt had held many public offices in the city and county.

He was the first mayor of Linkville, one of the authors of the first city charter, and served at various times lice judge, county clerk and circult judge. Health Fails for Year For approximately A year, Judge Leavitt had been suffering from recurrent Illness. After each attack, however, he showed a surprising recovery of strength and spirit, and as fate AR the day before his death was at his office in the First National bank building. That however, a his strength failed him, but he refused to admit the end was near. He went to the home of his daughter, and slipped into oblivion as he sat quietly in his chair, dying as had always been his wish, "with his shoes on." His son-in-law, Howard el, found him there early Wednesday.

The funeral services will be held at the Earl Whitlock funeral home on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Other arrange ments are tentative, and will be announced later. Born in California Judge Leavitt was a true westerner, with A great love for Klamath Falls and Klamath county, He was born in the west, but his parents were Bostonians, His father came around the horn in the late "titties and joined in the exciting lite of California in those times. elder Leavitt sent for his wife and small daughter, and they joined him in San Francisco, Inter moving to Virginia City. Judge Leavitt WAR born in Tuolomne (Continued on Page Three) Merrill Legion Auxiliary Gets 3 State Honors MERRILL, and Mrs.

F. Merritt and Mrs. L. E. Brown returned on the Klamath special Sunday evening after attending the American Legion and Auxiliary convention at Astoria.

They were delegates from post No. 80, and Merrill AuxIliary unit No. 80. The Merrill Auxiliary was particularly fortunate at the conclave, having won three honors for 'outstanding work. It recelved a national citation for membership and department trophy for fulfilling all requirements, eight vital points, for the year, the Catherine Belcher bell gavel, for community service and unit activities was also received.

This is a much coveted prize that all units work for during the entire year. It is a traveling trophy' but Merrill members are already making plans for new activities to keep the bell." The small unit of only 24 members, has finished a very active year and is looking forward to a busy winter. Post Will Seek Altitude Record CHICAGO, Aug. 29. (UP) Wiley Post announced today he soon would attempt a stratosphere flight in his famed globecircling Winnie Mae in an effort to break the existing airplane altitude record.

After inspecting his ship at the Curtiss- airport, the aviator announced he expected to take off in two or three days. Bombs Explode Airplane of "Rain Maker" THE RICHBERG SAYS FARMERS SAVED IN 2ND REPORT Survey on Results of Recovery Program Cites Farm Relief Agencies rued Curtailment on 0 40 Dis Recommended by NRA Council Secretary KLAMATH KLAMATH FALLS, THURSDAY, AUGUST Greatest Labor Strike Under New Deal Opens Today Royal Romance Of King Carol Reaches Close VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 29. (UP)-A definite break in the royal romance of King Carol of Roumania and his titan haired mistress, Mme. Maga Lupesco.

was reported by the boulevard newspaper "Das Echo," today. The paper reported on allegedly good authority that she had quit Roumania for good, and added that the Bucharest chief of police accompanied her as far as Vienna. He was alleged to have turned over to her here "a large sum of money," after which the woman continued to "an unknown destiThe paper added that with Mme. Lupeseu -for be once renounced the Roumanian throne when crown prince- at the determined insistence of his ministers and other high government advisors. NRA CIRCLE IN NEW FLARE-UP Trouble With Administration Centers Upon Johnson's Secretary WASHINGTON, Aug.

29. (UP) Trouble in NRA high command flared anew today, focusing on Miss Frances Robinson, secretary and chief factotum for her blustery boss, General Hugh S. Johnson. Details were obscure but these are the salient facts. A few days ago when Johnson and former NRA Chief Counsel Donald Richberg were leaping at each other's throats over NRA's administrative future, Miss Robinson, who wields a stick In NRA high couneils, stepped into the picture.

Split Temporarily Soothed "Quit--and quit now," she was said to have urged Johnson, her theory being that he if made a sudden, dramatic exit business would raise a row and put an automatic quietus on Richberg. It was about this time that Johnson angrily stamped to the White House and was reported to have tendered his resignation. He 'charged Richberg with disloyalty, asserting Richberg, detached from NRA for service the president's executive council, was proposing an NRA reorganization that would force Johnson out on the street. Under President Roosevelt's soothing hand Johnson and Richberg called a truce. Johnson, his wife and Miss Robinson went to the seashore for two weeks, Richberg withdrew to the seclusion of the executive council and President Roosevelt went to Hyde Park where 10 days hence he will referee the reorganization battle.

Johnson and Richberg differ as to whether business, under NRA codification, should govern itself or be subject to anti-trust regulations such As the federal commission enforces. Richberg favors the in contrast to Johnson's insistence that business is capable of running its own affairs. Game Supervisor Awaits Further Bird Information PORTLAND, Aug. 19. (UP)State Game Supervisor Frank Wire tonight was awaiting word from Washington, D.

as to how applicants may receive permits to shoot ducks on baited lakes. According to yesterday's announced regulations the blanks may be from the chief of the bureau of biological survey at the nation's capital. Wire has asked blanks be mailed him for distribution from his office. In commenting on the regulations Wire pointed out the open season on ducks this year will start at sunrise, as differing from last year when the first day's shooting began at hoon. said every other shooting date will be from sunrise until sundown except on baited lakes, where the shooting hours last from sunrise to 3 p.

m. Communists to Get Oregon Relief Help PORTLAND, Aug. 29. (UP) Elmer E. Goudy, state relief administrator for Oregon tonight told the United Press political or religious beliefs had nothing to do with admission to relief rolls.

"Our instructions from Washington," Goudy said, "specifically state that we are to administer relief to anyone in actual needIrrespective of political belief." The statement was made in answer to a question regarding whether communists were to be denied or admitted to relief rolls. NEWS U. S. SECRETLY STARTS BIGGEST GOLD MOVEMENT 2 Billion Dollars Worth of Yellow Metal Will Be Shipped to Denver Army of Police Agents Guard Greatest Transfer in Modern History 30, 1934 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.

(UP)-Under the guns of 300 policemen, federal agents and picked troops from the San Francisco presidio the United States government tonight started moving $2,000,000,000 in gold from the San Francisco to the Denver, mint. Two hundred machine guns readiness to repulse any attempted raid by gangsters. None was permitted to approach the gray stone building, soon to be replaced by new structure. Largest in History The shipment was the largest gold movement in modern history -probably since the Spanish galleons carried vast stores from the Inca hordes of Peru across the sea. Washington treasury officials recently admitted the gold was being removed to the inland mint, recently strengthened, because the fear of loss -through an earthquake.

Superintendent Peter Haggerty of the mint here scoffed at assertion. He said the old mint was to be razed and there would be no room for the horde of gold until the new structure was completed. Reports that the governwished to remove the treasury from the coast, where it might be in danger of seizure in a foreign invasion, were not confirmed by official sources. Route Kept Secret Armed men secretly mustered guarded the route from the mint, on Fifth street at Mission, to the Third and Townsend station of the Southern, Pacific railroad. the gold from the mint, to trucks and into a special train was expected to require four hours or longer.

Efforts were made to keep time of the shipment secret, but necessity of heavy guarding prevented success. The mint here is 60 years old, a great gray pile that stood through the 1906 earthquake. Federal officials admitted that due to the risks of transporting huge shipment of precious metal. the gold might not be brought back here when the new mint is built. Ship Operators Blamed for "Red" Charges in Strike PORTLAND, Aug.

29. (UP)Ownership of the "red herring" dragged so often across the troubled trails of the recent waterfront strike was laid to ship operators by Paddy Morris, Tacoma I. L. A. organizer, who spoke before the Oregon state labor convention today.

"Communists had nothing to do with the longshoremen's Morris declared, adding the strike was called and ed by the waterfront workers themselves. Steamship operators were challenged to put their finger on a communist within the I. L. A. ranks but failed to do so, he said.

Recognition of the I. L. A. signaled the biggest single labor victory in the last 20 years, according to Morris. He urged the Federation of Labor to go to the front for accused Portland I.

L. A. members charged with first degree murder of James Conner in a waterfront riot. last were week. "framed" He charged and said the much of the trouble since the men returned to work under the arbitration agreement could be traced to underground working of employers' agents.

Former Cabinet Member Opposes Liberty League WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (UP) The American Liberty League is financed by the same group that led "the smear-Hoover campaign, and 1. have never joined smear gang." Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war in the Hoover administration, said today.

He was the first prominent republican to come out in opposition to the organization which many persons believe was formed to combat the new deal. Hurley did not identify the "smear Hoover" leaders to whom he referred, but he said: "I deeply regret seeing such splendid statesmen as Representative James W. Wadsworth, Alfred E. Smith and John W. Davis taken in by the old smear brigade." Smith, Davis and Wadsworth are among the league's founders.

Jouett Shouse, who will be president of the Liberty league, was executive head of the cratic national committee during the Hoover administration. Hurley said his statement was issued in reply to friends' questions of how he stood on the league. NEWS COVERAGE The Klamath News la serviced by Associate ed United Press, News Enterprise Association and McNaught Feature Byndk cate. County coverage by staff writers and correspondenta. (Every Morning Except Monday) Es pee Agent Nominated Siskiyou Vote YREKA, Aug.

29. (Special to News-Herald) William G. Chandler and Stuart Taylor were nominated for sheriff at the August primaries in Siskiyou county. Chandler is S. P.

special agent at Dunsmuir and 18 well at Klamath Falls where he had a part in the Jordan murder case. Nominees for district attorney are Charles E. Johnson and James Davis. supervisor in the third district, Fred C. Burton and M.

E. Buckner were nominated. Charles Farington, Incumbent, and Paul were supervisor in the fifth district. W. J.

Nellon, Incumbent, and Walter Smith will make the race for county clerk. Henry McGuiness claimed both the republican and democratic nominations for state senator. Among his opponents was Charles Ling, general manager of the Sisklyou News. Tax coliector nominees are F. J.

Mathews and George Isaacs. Ray Berry and Irving L. Eddy are nominees for county treasurer. For county offices, Californians vote non-partisan at the primaries, thee two highest running it off in fall general election. RADIO BALLOON TEST SUCCESS Stratosphere Instrument Gives Automatic Report Up Nine Miles CHICAGO, Aug.

29. (UP)steady click of radio signals from a skyward bound radio instrument tonight rewarded a year's work to perfect a "baby" stratosphere balloon. The signals came from a gondola suspended under a 15-foot, hydrogen inflated bag, developed under Prof. Arthur H. Compton, Nobel prize sclentist and University of Chicago physicist, in the hope of giving the world new data on the mysterious cosmte ray.

It took off from the Ryerson laboratory roof its maiden flight, the first comprehensive test of the balloon-laboratory. The balloon stopped signalling at a height of miles, after it had been ascending 32 minutes. It was explained that a magnet in the ballon was so constructed as to cut off the radio communication at approximately that height. Watched through telescopes, the balloon was seen to burst at an estimated height of miles 40 miles southeast of the city. The record for free balloon ascension is Compton some 10 said miles the higher.

experiment was a complete success. Tom Mooney Happy Over Sinclair's Promised Pardon SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. -Tom Mooney was i the most pleased men in northern California today over the democratic nomination for governor of Upton Sinclair. The socialist author in campaign addresses promised to pardon Mooney if he is elected governor.

Mooney, serving life imprisonment for the 1916 Preparedness day parade bombing in San Francisco, sought pardons from five governors and was refused. Anna Mooney, sister of the San Quentin convict, went to San Quentin to tell Mooney about the primary result. Mrs. Mary 0 00 0 Mooney, his aged mother, who for 17 years has fought for his freedom, spent last night in Sinclair headquarters, scanning returns. Sinclair visited Mooney in his cell a few months ago.

He promised that if elected governor he not only would pardon him but would offer the apologies of the people of California for his imprisonment. Mooney and his defense league long have contended he was innocent. SINCLAIR SEES CHANGE COMING IN GOVERNMENT WAXAHACHIE. Texas, Aug. 29.

(UP)--An attempt to blast rain out of clouds ended almost disastrously tonight for James A. Boze, Waxahachie "rain and three others" in the accidentai explosion of three bombs in the cabin of their soaring plane. Boze, Miss Gertrude Jettries, and Pilot Lou Foote were burned and the aide of the plane was blown out. Foote brought the flaming plane down to an emergency landing. A newsreel tographer In the jured.

The ace mop was about nis cloud bombardme-. Showers followed previous bombardments. Bozo lighted the fuse of his first bomb while the others In the plane trowded about. Before be could drop the explosive to cloud formations thousands of feet below, a spark from the sput -tering fuse ignited three other bombs. Boze fought to reach the bombs and extinguish them as the others lurched away.

Pilot Foote fought to control his plane. The blast within a few seconds. "Boze and Miss Jeffries were burned, and torn in dazed. the A side of gaping the plane and flames spread. Pilot Foote took the plane down in A slant.

Twice the flames seared his tace and (Continued on Page Five) MILK PRICE TO BE RAISED HERE State Board Members Allow Increase for Producers Over Klamath Producers will receive an increase in price for their milk, by milk board In the the amount. to be decided upon near future, according to a decision made at a meeting of producers and distributors held at chamber of commerce Wednesday. Approximately 25 dairymen and milk producers were In attendance at the meeting. as were E. G.

Harlan, Portland, and Burge Mason, Klamath Falls, members of the state milk control board. The Increase in the price of milk to be paid to the producer was decided upon in view of the increase in feed costs. There will be no increase in the price of milk consumer for the present, according to members of the board. It production costs continue to advance, however, a rise in price will be the result, the distributor will not be able to absorb any additional costs, it was stated. The state board will consider matter of a fair increase to announce when it efproducers, set the amount, and fect in the near future, according to Harlan.

A meeting of the same group will be held within the next 60 days, according to present plans, and the local situation will again be checked. All present at Wednesday's (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Lindbergh Writes of Trip Across Europe WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (UP) To most women Charles A.

Lindbergh is a Galahad of the clouds who never makes a mistake while piloting an airplane, but to his wife he is a guy who gets lost in a fog and spends five hours flying 40 miles. And another thing--he takes her to places where her feet get 80 cold that she has to sit on 'em, Most of the time when they are starting out on such junkets she puts on "woolles" and three pairs of socks. Anne Morrow Lindbergh told all today in the National Geographic magazine about their famous junket of last year when they flew ACrOSS the Atlantic twice and over most of Europe. Lindbergh supplies foreword which he writes that transAtlantic airlines are certain to be established and that only question now is to select the most efficient route, Editorials on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS H. PRUITT, who lives at 830 East Main, yesterday brought to this office some of the handsomest gladioli this writer has ever seen, They included practically all the standard colors for this attractive flower, and several new and distinctively different colors.

(THIS WRITER Is an ordinary male 'citizen, with average male tastes and limitations, and 80 will not attempt to describe these new colors. What an average, ordinary male citizen WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (UP) Negotiations to avert a nationwide strike of 600,000 textile workers on September 1 collapsed tonight. Union leaders said the strike will be called at noon tomorrow, after a meeting of the executive council.

It is expected to be etfective at midnight tomorrow. The last hope of maintaining peace in the industry--the first to come under -was torpedoed in New York when George Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile Institute, announced the mill operators had rejected an invitation to attend a round table conference here in an attempt to solve problems involved. Zero Hour Conference Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the special strike committee, immediately thereafter said the presence of union representatives at the zero-hour conference called by Chairman Lloyd, Garrison of the national labor relations board, would be useless in view of Sloan's announcement. "Now the air is clear," said Gorman.

"The cotton textile mill owners have definitely refused to meet in conference with us. There seemingly are no more subterfuges to which the employers can resort and so they stand at last out in the open, unwilling to enter into a conference that might result in negotiations in which they would be Strike leaders making last minute arrangements for the greatest labor disturbance under the "new -deal" the record immediately clear." moved to "keep They notified Garrison they were not striking against the government but against the industry. Orders Issued The strike call is expected to be sent out tomorrow noon following a meeting the executive council of the United Textile Workers. The effective date was not disclosed. However.

under an order by the workers' convention in New York recently it cannot be fixed beyond September 1. The workers were asked by the strike committee today to remain at their posts until they had been advised of the exact hour to stop. "Let us give a magnificent demonstration of united, concerted action," a from Gorman said. "In unity we will be invincible." WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (AP)Calling the refusal of the cotton textile institute to take part in a conference with the labor relations board an indication "they more interested in exploitation than recovery," Francis J.

Gorman, chairman strike committee of the Textile Union, arranged late today to set the hour and day for commencement of the textile strike before noon tomorrow. Others May Join Gorman said that inasmuch 88 the mill owners had refused to attend tomorrow's peace conference before the labor board there seemed little use of attendance by union leaders. "There seemingly are no more subterfuges to which employers can resort," Gorman said, "and so they stand at last out in the open, unwilling to enter into conference that might result in negotiations in which they would be defenseless. For the cotton textile mill owners simply cannot stand up against our charges and they know it." Gorman said the executive council would decide tomorrow whether silk and woolen workers would be called out along with the cotton employes. Klamath Visited By Cool Weather After Rain Spell A rising barometer.

and generally fair, cool weather greeted Klamathites Wednesday, and the weatherman issued a forecast for continued pleasant weather conditions for the next 24 hours. The mercury rose only to 77 degrees for the day's maximum heat mark, and dropped to allow point of 47 early Wednesday morning. Monday evening's showers, which netted .08 of an inch in Klamath Falls, were much heavler in other localities, with Gerber dam receiving 2.03. Heavy rains were reported from the Tule lake area east of the mation Number drain, according to reports from the U. S.

weather bureau. The state weather bureau torecast for Wednesday was for generally cloudy weather tonight and Thursday, thunderstorms in the mountains of the east tion and moderate. temperatures prevailing. Heather Angel and Ralph Forbes Wed YUMA, Aug. 29.

(UP) Heather Angel, diminutive British film actress, and Ralph Forbes, actor and former husband of Ruth Chatterton, eloped here from Hollywood today and were married by Judge E. A. Freeman. The wedding climaxed a whirlwind courtship of four weeks. After the ceremony the honeymooners left on a motor trip down the west coast of Mexico, planning to return in a week, Governor Candidate Forecasts End to Capitalistic System in U.

S. Principle of Self Help Program Believed Way Out for State, Nation WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (UP) The depression-hit farmer has been saved from economic destruction by "new deal" farm relie! agencies, Donald Richberg. secretary of the national executive council, President Roosevelt today.

Submitting the second of a sories of factual reports on achievements of the new deal Richberg told the chief executive farm income is on the upgrade, crop surpluses are shrinking and that millions of dollars have been diverted to the farms to tide them through their economic crisis. Urges Continued Control He said the nation's farmers $311,000,000 in rental receivero, benefit payments from August, 1933, to June, 1934, and 000 had available to that an additionad. them through administration loan and relief projects. Throughout the report Richberg, apparently speaking for the agriculture adjustment administration, pointed out that the drought had done much to curtail surpluses but he cautioned that all forms of control should be continued. Rising prices, plus short crops occasioned by the drought, will inspire farmers to replant again next year, raising the danger of greater surpluses than ever.

he said. He cited that 40,000,000 fertile acres escaped the ravages of the drought and that this vast acreage was sufficient to flood the market with surpluses. Farm Factors Noted The brought out 11 tac-1 tors farm relief proreport, gram, as follows: 1. From August, 1933. to June, 1934, farm income including rental and benefit payments was 32 per cent above the corresponding previous period.

2. Farm income is still far below pre-depression levels but this year will exceed 1933 by 19 per cent. 3. Present, basic farm surpluses have reduced by drought and control programs to nearly normal. 4.

Farm income for the crop year 1933-34 was $5,083,000,000. increasing the farmers' income over 1932-33 by $1,202,000,000. 5. Federal land banks and the land bank commissioner now hold one-fourth of the nation's farm debt. 6.

Industrial revival and extensive reemployment are essential to agriculture restoration. Price Increase -Noted 7. Farmers have scaled down their debts and reduced interest charges with federal loans. Increases in prices of what farmers buy have exceeded increases in prices of what the farmers sell. 9.

Commodity prices, plus benefit payments, have brought farm prices to 116 per cent of pre-war ligures. 10. Prices of things farmers buy are estimated 122 per cent of pre-war levels. 11. Since March, 1933, actual farm prices of seven basic commodities have risen from 51 per cent to 95 per cent of the prewar level.

Richberg said the relet agricultural distress has been along two lines; through increasing the farmers' purchasing power and through providing a co-ordinated, agricultural credit system. Denver Jewel Thieves Take $25,000 Trunk DENVER, Aug. 29. (UP) An organized gang of jewel thieves was sought tonight as police investigated the mysterious disappearance of gem laden trunk. The trunk was owned by Leo Cahn of New York City, salesman for A wholesale jewelry firm.

Although Cahn would not state the value of the missing jewels it was estimated the trunk contained diamonds and other precious stones of a value of more than $25,000. Cahn had his trunk removed from his room on the fourth floor of a downtown hotel late yesterday afternoon. In the of the hotel he opened the trunk and placed A black leather brief case init. He then locked the trunk and turned it over to a luggage transfer company. W.

O. Root, driver of the truck Into which the trunk was loaded, said he made two stops to pick up other trunks on the way to the station. He told police there were three trunks on his truck When he arrived at the baggage room. When Cahn went to the station to check his baggage the trunk was missing and all search for it has been fruitless. LOS ANGELES, Aug.

28. (UP) Upton Sinclair, author, former socialist and now democratic nominee for the governorship of California, tonight described his victory at Tuesday's primaries as the "birth of a new system of government." Reviewing the trend of world politics, and stressing the growth of dictatorships in Europe, Sinclair forecast the doom of capitalism as "the collapse of an institution which is worldwide and age-old." Points to Self Help The principle of self-help epitomized by his "epic" planend poverty in California--was pointed to by Sinclair as the way out of depression for both the state and the nation. He urged against a "fear of "Our opponents have told yor that all this is socialism and communism," "We are not the least we have cheered to notice that the federal government has refused to be frightened by labels, but has applied the principles of our plan in the District of Columbia. "Eighty thousand unemployed are to have access to the land to grow their own food, and to the factories to produce their OWn goods, and they are to barter these among themselves with the help of the federal government. Seeks to Guide States "The government tells the business men that they need not worry about this, because the goods will not come into conflict with them in the markets if the democratic party of Callfornia adopts the epic plan it will mean hope, courage and guidance to the unemployed of all our 48 states.

"All my life I have believed in the people. All my life I hare insisted that democracy could be made to work. "Our opponents say we cannot this plan through. Let me just answer this: If you should give me a chance to end poverty in California, and if I should tail to do it, lite would mean nothing to me thereafter. All that I have taught all through the years would be without meaning.

Attacks Hitler "Believe me, I shall not fail! We shall give a job to every man and woman in the state who is able and willing to work, and it will be a job with modern machinery and modern technique, whereby those who work produce wealth in great quantities." In describing world conditions, Sinclair cited Germany, where "an obscene demagog has seized power: A great civilized nation fallen into the hands of gangsters." "I have defined fascism as capitalism plus murder," Sinclair i continued. "We have seen it in (Continued on Page Five) Fog, Smoke Turn Seaplanes Back Near Portland SEATTLE. Aug. 29. (UP) Four navy patrol boats, flying from Vancouver, B.

to Portland, were forced to turn back at Olympia, late today, when they encountered tog and dense smoke from forest fires. The four ships landed at Sandpoint naval base field here. Eight other planes in the squadron which is returning in leisurely stages after a flight to Alaska from California also had returned here and will remain over night. Weather permitting, the 12 ships, newest type of naval patrol boats, will resume their flight to Portland tomorrow. Two mother ships, the U.

S. S. Swan and the U. S. S.

Avocet, were already in Portland harbor, awaiting the squadron. Congressman Pierce Studies Effects of California Vote doesn't know about delicate color shades would fill a large book.) from Grants Pass, where his brother has a 19-acre bulb garden. It was his idea to experiment in a modest way with growing gladioli on a commercial scale in this climate. He has been at it three years and has learned some interesting things. He feels reasonably sure that bulb growing is a commercial (Continued on Page Four) MR.

PRUITT got his bulbs By MALCOLM EPLEY Congressman Walter M. Pierce, in Klamath Falls on a campaign visit, saw in the California election returns further evidence that a re-alignment of political parties is underway this country. congressman was keenly interested in the fact that SenJohnson was nominated by both democrats and republicans. That Johnson, a "progressive republican," and Upton Sinclair, a socialist, should be nominated on the same ticketthe democratic was noted by the visitor as Indication of the tendency to build the line of political cleavage between liberalshe didn't call them radicalsand conservatives. Not Here to Campaign.

Pierce discussed the American Liberty league in the same light. The congressman, who is uled for a number talks in the county in the next feta days, insisted Thursday that he was here "just on a visit" and that he would return later on "with his war paint on" to give real battle to Jay Upton, the republican congressional nominee. This explanation, of course, didn't fool anybody. Piloted by A. F.

Graham, democrate county chairman, Pierce and J. W. hardt, democratic candidate for superintendent of public instruction, were making the rounds of the city in rapid style Wednesday, making scores of contacts. They will make plenty more before leaving the county at the end of the week, and Pierce will make several speeches. The Pierce-Upton contest promises to be one of the most interesting features of the fall cam(Continued on Page Five).