March 1, 1048
IS
BOTENS
PASSES AFTER
Mury Jiihllno Uotuua, 41), wife
of Lowli Uotons of tlio l'luvnu
district, dlad Suturdiiy niht ut
Klumutli Vnlluy hospital. Mm.
Ilotons hint been III for (jultu
oino tlmu unci hur punshiK wuii
not unexpected,
Mrs, Boluns, wlfu of Ilia mus
ter of tlio t'omonu grange und
member of Klumutli County
School dlnlrlct board, win born
Mury Justine Aleshlro, In Colt,
W. Vii July 0, 1HU3. She was
married to Lewis Botitna In
1012 In Blunco, Colo., and three
years Inter tlio fumlly moved to
Kluiiiiilli county. Tho Uutens
nettled flrxt on the II. II. Vim
Valkciiborg ruiich on the Kono
roud. They lived there for 1U
yean und Mr. Boluns then pur
chased Ills present huldlnga hi
.tho Plcviiu district.
,&; Rite. Wednesday
. 'Mrs. -tfotona wua uetlvu In af
fairs of the Mldlund grange und
nerved a muilciun In thut or
ganization. She held tho office
of Flora In tho I'omonu grunge.
The beloved matron wua iri-
iniirlly Interested hi her home
und her dutleii us mother to
her fumlly. Sho wu a member
of tho Uuutlal church.
Final rllea will bo hold
Wednesday ut 1:31) p. m. from
thu Kiirl Whltlock runorul chup-
el with thu Hov. Arthur Churiea
Butea officiating-. Interment will
taka pluco In Llnkvtlle come
torv.
in addition to her husband,
Lowla iiolcns, Mra. liotena la
survived by three daughters,
Mra. Muriunnu Kerr of llurlong
Calif., Marjorio and Kflio Ho-
tena of tnia city, thrco aona,
Lewis Jr., John t'runklm und
Kichord Kdwln, Klamath runs,
hur niotnor, Mra. Kffie Aleslure,
this city, and four grandchild
dren.
,25,
Word waa received here today
of the death of Elslo Margaret
Lcniiors, 23, at the Stanford Lano
hoanltul In San Francisco on
Sunday. "She had been 111 for
over a month.
Born Juno 20, 1018, In Merrill,
Mrs. Lcnacrs had mndo her
home in Merrill and Klamath
Falls during moat of her life
She wna graduated from KUHS
and was employed with the
Klamath Abstract company be
fore her marriage four years ago.
Sho ia survived by her hus
bnnd, William E. Lcnacrs of
Spraguo River; her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Cooper of Klam
ath Falls; a brother, Arnold, of
Turlock, Calif.; a sister, Bculah
and a gfundmothcr, Sarah Bur-
ham of Klamath Falls.
Whltlock's Is In chargo of fu
neral arrangements,
"Mr. Too Drunk"
Is Name Given 20
In Portland Jail
PORTLAND, Mnrch 1 (P)
Jailors at Portland's city bastille
say they wish thoy could hang
out a "no vacancy" sign each
Saturday night.
Ninety-two drunks wore Jailed
Saturday, presenting such a
housing problem that 31 of tho
more sober ones wcro released
early Sunday to mako room for
newly arriving "guests."
Twenty of tho 02 wcro tempor
arily booked as "Mr. Too Drunk"
becauso of Inability to identify
themselves.
Defense Councils
Should Aid OPA in
Rationing System
DEFENSE COUNCILS 314
SALEM, March 1 (ll County
defenso councils should assist the
office of prico administration in
starting its point rationing pro
gram, Stato Defense Coordina
tor Jorrold Owen said odny.
Owen urged tho councils to
train block leaders to carry on
educational work to assure cor
rect tiso of war ration book No.
2.
Spud Growers
Assured Plenty
Of Fertilizer
WASHINGTON, March 1 (P)
Senator McNary was assured by
the food production division of
tho department of agriculturo to
day that a sufficient supply of
tho proper fertilizer will bo
mnclo available to Oregon potato
grqwors.
. .Tho senator had said that un
less this was dona immediately,
many acres now planted to po
tatoes would be planted to less
important crops. )5
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Always read tho classified add.
LONG ILLNESS
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Down in sunny Florida the Army Is ninldnR working WAACS out of Hie women of Amcricn nt llie Daylona Beach
IniiniiiH ccnlcr. Kilmer enlistees bundle their hutf'Hc in past row of tents nnd before long ore marching buck in their
suinrl WAAC iinil'oriim. The ir aoldicra police their ciiniitiiiy slrecls wilh rnke nnd shovel, lonrn 1o wnsli and service
Army trucks and (lun'l mind u bit of grease on their hands. As in the mule Army, the bugle call is ever present, but
' it's blown by painted lips.
Relatives Wait While
Rescuers Battle Toward
Trapped Montana Men
By LIEF ERICKSON
BEARCREEK, Mont., March
1 WJ Numbed, silent relatives
of 00 miners Imprisoned In the
Smith coal mlno since on explo
sion Saturday waited today while
rescuers combotted deadly gases
with an emergency air blower
set deep In tho hillsido mine.
At least five miners were
known dead from tlio blast.
Their bodies wero recovered.
Seven other bodies, a source
who refused to bo quoted said
last night, havo been located but
could not Immediately be
brought out because of condi
tions in tlio tunnels.
Weary rescuo workers coming
out of the mlno this morning
said that it might bo 24 hours
before the gas could bo cleared
from tho shafts. Rescue opera
tions wcro hindered by tho lack
of an electric light system in
tho depths of tho mine and the
distance, about thrco miles, from
tho cntrnnco to tho farthest
reaches of the tunnels.
Tho relief rescue crew enter
ed the mlno at 8 a. m.
Wives, mothers and sisters
waited, stoically In tho fSco of
rapidly vanishing hopes that the
entombed men could still be
alive. Tho miners hod been with
out food sinco about 10 a. m.
Saturday,
It was theorized somo of them
might havo reached remote
pockets of the mlno frco from
gas.
"There's a long, possible
chance that they may havo sur
vived, but It s almost beyond
hope," said Bill Romek, assistant
general manager of tho mine.
Tho cause of tlio blast remain
ed unknown.
Two of tho fivo known dead
wcro identified as Dewey Hardy,
48, of Red 'Lodge; and Ignaco
P
TO BE BOOSTED
SALEM, March 1 (P) Ore
gon's averngo old ago pension
will bo raised to $38 a month
by Juno, 1045, If liquor sales
continue at a brisk pace.
The joint legislative ways and
means committee voted 8 to 4
in favor of Governor Earl Snell's
recommendation that tho pension
budget for tho next two years be
increased from $10,080,000 to
$20,000,000, to mako oH38 pen
slon possible. Tho cost to tho
state would bo only $1,500,000,
since tho federal government
would contribute an equal
amount.
Tho commllteo said tlio in
creased pension would bo pos
sible even it liquor sales drop
z per cent,
However, should tlio federal
government dccldo to ration
dwindling liquor stocks, tho in
crease would bo out of tho ques
tion. P E L E S
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED
NO PAIN - NO HOSPITALIZATION
. No Lose of Time
Permanent aeiutlil
DR. E. M. MARSHA
Chlronraotlfl Phyelolin
119 No. 7th - Eiqulre Theatre Dlrt.
Phonr IOCS
THESE ARE THE WAACS, MR. JONES
ft'i. ...
Marinclick, 55, of Bcarcrcck,
killed in No. 2 vein. The names
of the other three, located in the
lower No. 3 vein, wero withheld
to prevent possible panic among
relatives.
Thrco men wero Injured In the
upper vein. They wcro Alex
Hawthorne, 55, of Bcarcrcck; Ell
Iloutcncn, 45, and Willard Rcid.
Pay Increase
Probable for
Stare Police
SALEM, March 1 (P) State
police wero virtually assured of
substantial pay increases today,
tho Joint legislative ways and
means committee approving a
request by Stato Police Supt.
Charles P. Pray that tho wages
bo increased so that his men
won't leave for higher paying
war Jobs.
Salary Increases would be:
privates $100 to $200 a month,
sergeants $185 to $225, lieuten
ants $200 to $235; and captains
from $250 to $300. The salary
of tho deputy superintendent
would bo boosted from $3000 to
$4000 a year.
CITY BRIEFS
Vacation Students from tho
University of Oregon are ex
pected homo Tuotday of this
coming week to spend spring
vacation with tlielr parents.
Named Gordon Lcdlngham,
son of Dr. and Mrs. Gordon
Lcdingham, has been elected
secretary of Pht Kappa Psl fra
ternity at tho University of Ore
gon, bugeno.
Bike Stolen Donald Farris,
Lakcshoro, reported to city po
lice tho theft of his Hawthorno
bicyclo carrying licence plato
XMO. 340.
Missing Kenneth Larson, 533
Kldorndo, reported tho theft of
his Hawthorno bicyclo from
i'luhrcr s bakery this weekend.
Rod Cross Mrs. Frank Carey,
Merrill, was In town Monday
wrapping bandages for tlio Red
Cross.
Businosa Mr, and Mrs. Pierce
Hodges wero in town from Mer
rill Monday on business.
.A change in tlio method of
crating propellers permit a load
of 154 per cent moro three-way
propellers to be put in a standard-sized
freight car.
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Oreonmlslon rellovos promptly bo
cnuso it goes right to the sent of tho
troublo to help loosen and cxpol
perm laden phlegm, and aid nature
to sootho and heal raw, tender, In
llnmcd bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Crcoimrtslon with tho un
derstanding you must llko the way It
quickly allays tho cough or you are
to hnvo your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
1A LiiI:LJ
Banfield Succeeds
Cabell on State
Road Commission
SALEM, March 1 (P) T. H.
Banfield, Portland manufacturer,
became a member cf the state
highway commission today, suc
ceeding Henry F. Cabell, Port
land, commission chairman.
Cabell, recognized throughout
the nation as one of the out
standing highway experts, re
signed to enter the army. He Is
a former president of the Ameri
can Association of State High
way officials, and had served
eight years on the Oregon com
mission.
Banfield, born and educated in
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Portland, Is president of the Iron
Fireman Manufacturing Co. He
was a member of the Capitol Re
construction commission.
Books Gone City police were
deluged with requests from
Klamath citizens to find their
sugar-coffee-shoe books, "A"
cards, "C" cards and other re
quired government books.
Shopping Blllle Hodges and
Virginia Sharp, both from Mer
rill, were in town Friday shop
ping with Miss Hodges' sister,
Mrs. Irene Welsh, 516 Pine
street.
If if a "frozen" article vou
Woman Confesses Breaking
Arms of 9-Monihs-Old Girl
SEATTLE, March 1 (IP)
Detective Capt. Marshall Scraf
ford said Mrs. Ardis Farrlngton,
23, formerly Mrs. John N. Par
mentcr of Roundup, Mont, con
fessed today she broke both arma
of 0-months-old Mary Jean Clalr
mont. Tho baby died In a hos
pital of injuries received while
In Mrs. Farrlngton's care last
week, he added.
Scrafford said Mrs. Farrlng
ton confessed to Policewoman
Helen Elliott, after long ques
tioning by Scrafford and Deputy
Coroner John P. Brill. The baby
and a 3-year-old brotherchil
dren of Mr, and Mrs. Wallace J
Clairmont, war workers former
ly of Garfield, Wash., were left
with the Farringtons while the
Clairmonts sought to find quar
ters other than their present
hotel room.
Scrafford and Brill said Mrs
Farrington told them two of her
own children had died while un
der her own care one with a
broken arm and that a third
had been taken from her and
placed under state care at Hel
ena, Mont.
"My grandmother told me I
was careless with my baby," Mrs.
Farrington said in a signed state
ment.
She stated her first child, a
girl, died in Roundup, Mont.,
when three months old, as the
result of a fall from bed and an
ear infection. The second, a boy
born November 19, 1040 when
she was married to Parmenter,
was taken from her on her
mother-in-law's complaint. It
TAKES OPA POST
Archie Vaughan, North Bend
business man, has moved to
Klamath Falls to take a position
as a price specialist in the OPA
district office.
Vaughan was long In the re
tail lumbering business In North
Bend. He is a lieutenant gover
nor of Kiwanis International,
and is well known among civic
club members here.
Mrs. Vaughan and their two
children will move to Klamath
Falls as soon as Vaughan can
locate a house.
had a broken arm, she slated.
A boy, born to her and An
drew Farrington, 45, died here
last December 14, Brill said, and
an autopsy at that time disclosed
tho right arm fractured above
the elbow; a burn on the same
elbow, an Injury to the right ear
and "an old cauliflower" left
SALEM, March 1 (P) Gover
nor Earl Snell resumed his war
on the three members of the
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Phone 4103
PAGE THREE
state tax commission today, ask?
ing the house committee on ad- m
ministration and reorganisation ,
to report out his Dill to aoousn
the commission and substitute a
single tax commissioner,
The bill has been burled In'
the committee. - It was rccom-
mended In Snell's opening mcs
sage to the legislature.
The three-man commission la
appointed by the state board of
control. The single commission
er would be named by the gov
ernor. The governor's request that
the bill be sent to the house 0
floor was made In a letter to
Rep. A. Rennle, chairman of the 1
committee.
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