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PAGE EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON July 1, 1948 NAZI MAT KILL DROPS DURING JUN E By The Associated Press The Berlin radio testified to day to a marked reduction in the eficiency of German sub marine warfare last month, broadcasting a DNB dispatch which listed the U-boat toll of al lied shipping in June at 20 ships totalling 107,000 tons, but im plied this was only a temporary setback. The broadcast was recorded by The Associated Press. The en emy claim represented less than one-seventh of the reported sink ings in March 149 ships. It was presented 24 hours after Prime Minister Churchill told the house of commons that, as a result of the massacre of U-boats in May, "we have had in June the best month we have ever known in the whole 46 months of the war." The tonnage claimed for June was less than one-third of the May figure, which was the low est previous total this year. Previous monthly claims of tonnages sunk were: January, 849,000; March. 851,000; and April 415,000. . ... Man Tells Police Of Picking Up Slain Girl Near Dallas DALLAS, Ore., July 1 (P) Clem Lute. 31. Dallas shipyard worker, told Sheriff T. B. Hook er today-he had -given Ruth Hildebrand of Dallas a ride from Dallas to Rickreal June 7, the date she disappeared. The girl's nude body was re covered from the Willamette river a week ago and an investi gation by state police indicated ahe had been assaulted and thrown in the river. Lute told the sheriff the girl Informed him when he left her at Rickreal that she was going V Camp Adair. State and county authorities are investigating the death. Stepfather Stabbed With Scissors in Family Quarrel McMlNNVILLE..July 1 P James R. Richards, 45, was in a critical condition today from stab wounds which State Police Sgt. Ralph Grenfell said were in flicted by Richards' 17-year-old stepson, Ralph Nickell. ; The youth stabbed his step father with a scissors in a quar rel, the officer said. Richards suffered a punctured lung and shoulder and back wounds. Nickell was jailed on a charge of assault with a - dangerous weapon. Case of Mistaken Identity Pvt. Fred Steinhauser, who said he hltch-hmed irom a Texas Army camp to Los Angeles "to do right by" Actress Joan Barry. acts a light from Investigator Pauline Parker, whom Steinhauser identified as his "be loved" Joan when Mtss Parker was first presented to him. The real Joan Barry contends that Comedian Charlie ChapUn, not the Army private, is the real father of her unborn child Highest Parachute Jump Described by Coone WASHINGTON, July 1 (AV Lieut. Col. William Randolph Lovelace II, described at a press conference yesterday how he parachute-jumped from an army bomber near Ephrata, Wash., at an altitude of 40,200 feet. The jump is the highest on record in this country and Love lace said he made it to convince himself that the emergency oxy gen equipment furnished - to army airmen is all that labora tory tests indicated. It was the first jump for the colonel, a surgeon and air forces expert on high altitude equip ment. The equipment, incidentally, Lovelace found to be excellent. His only injury was the freez ing of his .left hand. The jerk of his opening 'chute flipped off his heavy glove in 50-degree below weather. He landed in a wheat field and was taken immediately to the Ephrata air base hospital for treatment for the frozen member. "It's going to be all right, he said. It took him 23 minutes and 51 seconds to float down, he said,, adding with a grin that this time "was almost exactly what laboratory calculations said it would be. Memory Reiurns to Lyle Smith After 13 Good Years ; THE LOVE PATROL DENVER, UP) Police Chief August Hanbuth (cq), cleared his throat and pronounced his ver dict. : " Too many complaints of too much love-making" on the State Capitol grounds, a nearby park, and around civic center. . Patrolmen, accompanied by military police, will tour such romantic spots nightly. LOS ANGELES, June 30 For 13 years Louis R. Slocum lived without benefit of a past. The 42-year-old aircraft worker told Superior Judge Jo seph W. Vickers yesterday that after an automobile accident in 1919 he lost his memory and couldn't even determine his name or that of his parents. Forced to adopt a name, he decided on Lyle Howard Smith. Under this name, he testified, he accumulated considerable property, was married and di vorced. ' The amnesia victim, said that after he was treated for a head injury in St. Louis in 1932 he began to recover his memory. He related that he then re turned to Los Angeles to find out what he did here after he rode a bicycle to this city from his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1918. Tracing his former life, he lo cated an old employer and then PILES SUCCESSFULLY TREATED I FOURTH CAN FOR SEABEES July 4th has been deslRimtcd by the navy department ns "Can Do" day in honor of tho naval construction battalions, accord ing to First Class Specialist Dan Schreibor, head of the local navy recruiting station. "Can Do" is the slogan of the Seabees, and will be used on the Fourth to honor their accom plishments and to inaugurate tho launching of a concentrated cam paign to obtain 100,000 skilled tradesmen for. the construction battalions. Mechanics, carpenters, mach inists, draftsmen, electricians. riggers, etc., are nceoea to re place battalions in the field and to build new bases on islands and territory yet to be taken from the enemy. Petty officer ratings up to chief are available to persons qualified. Schreigcr emphasized the fact the 17-ycar-oicis ana those in the 38-501 age brackets can volunteer at any time, but men in the draft bracket can vol unteer for induction into the Sea bees only if they have not re ceived their induction notice. Bomber Spare My Islands! CAIRO, July 1 W) Briefing a bombing mission over Greek targets before his fellow airmen of a U, S. Lib erator squadron, Lieut. Georgo Ponty of Los Ange les pointed to two small is lands on tho map end cau tioned: "Hold on to your bombs when you are over t h o s o chunks of real csttitu they belong to me." Polity's grandfather, a native-born Greek, willed tho two islands to his American grandson. On a recent mission against Grecian targets, Ponty was one of a trio of pilots who paid a novel visit to their an cestral homeland. The other two were Lieut. Homer Dra kaulas, of Boston, Mass., and Capt. Nick J. Cladukis of New York City. OPERATION OF SWIMPQQLTQ BE DISCUSSED MI one of five brothers, and found that his mother and father had died during the period of his memory lapse. Judge Vickers granted his re quest yesterday to continue the legal use of his adopted name. Smith. Clark County's Nomination for "Meanest Man" VANCOUVER, Wash.. July 1 UP) Clark County Sheriff R. E. Brady today nominated for the 'meanest" man," the thief who took the A and C gasoline ration books from Henry Walmer's au tomobile a few minutes after an accident in which Walmer was killed. The widow today reported theft of the books from the car's glove' compartment. She pre sumes they, were removed dur ing the confusion immediately after the accident. Hood Extradition Authorized by Snell Word was received here today that Governor Earl Snell had authorized the extradition of Harvey Hood, who was under ar rest here this week charged wun being a fugitive from justice from Minnesota. When he appeared in justice court here, Hood took time and was placed in the county jail un der $1500 cash bail. He is want ed in St. Paul as a parole vio lator. , ABSENTEE LOS ANGELES. W Miss Nancy Ward, described by police as a bit elusive was captured again last night. The 22-year-old war worker first appeared last Saturday to furnish bail on a traffic charge. The clerk found nine such charges against her. Miss Ward vanished, pausing not for bail. Monday Culver City officers halted a speeding car but when they reached it afoot the driver Miss Ward again,, they said had vanished. ' . Taken to court yesterday, she vanished again. We are looking forward to Russia's taking a more resolute step than the dissolution of the Comintern a declaration of war against Japan which would make the grand united front of the allies complete. Chow Lu, Chi nese government official. If you want to sell it phone The Herald and News "want ads," ?124 Plans for ppcratlon of the new ly acquired swimming pool which voters okayed at Monday's election, will be discussed ThurS' day night at a meeting of the city recrcotion committee and members of both boards of odu cation to be held in the high school library, it was announced by A. L. Gralnpp, superintendent. The name of the pool, now known as Butler's, will also be discussed. There is a possibility that the plunge will be named "Modoc." as the football field is now called. The pool Is now closed and will not be opened until the new policy is determined. Gralapp said. Wilson Wiley, school board attorney, is out of town. How ever the transaction will be con plctcd at an early date. Chamber Opposes Return of Japs PORTLAND, July 1 (IP) Re turn of Japanese even loyal ones to the Pacific coast be fore the war is over has been opposed by 121 of 123 organiza tions polled by the Portland chamber of commerce. The group Included other chambers and veterans organizations. T TIGHT CURB ON GAS USE WASHINGTON, July 1 W') Secretary Ickos nld today the midwest was closed to tighter gasoline consumption curbs than ever and declared the Pacific coast probably would be restrict ed more severely, too, before the end of the year. Ickes told a press conference that opening of the big Inch pipe line's eastward extension within the next two weeks would bring tho midwest still nearer to sharp er restrictions without easing the drastic curbs now on eastern motorists. He added that declining crude oil production in California, plus heavy military demands on that state's output, will almost cer tainly lead to a deficiency of oil on the west coast before the end of the year that "could, and probably would, mean more se vere rationing there." Arguments Heard On Non-Suit Move In Libel Suit SPOKANE, July 1 (P) Argu ments on the defendants' motion for a non-suit will be heard this morning in Judge Lowls Schwcl lenbach's federal court In the $2.10.000 libel action of Ashley E. Holden against the American News company and C. A. Hawks- ley, its Spokane agent. Tho non-suit motion came f trr the plaintiff's case had been rested. The action is over an article In "Pic" magazine which listed Hol den as one of the originators of the 'Bundles for Congress" cam paign. Agreement Near in Bonneville-Coulee Construction Fight PORTLAND, Ore.. July 1 UP) Bonneville Power Administrator Paul Raver believes agreement is nearer on the construction of storage dams in Idaho' and Mon tana to increase Grand Coulee and Bonneville power output At the conclusion of a confer ence on the controversial pro jects by army engineers, Idaho and Montana representatives and Bonneville authorities. 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Just before closing wo sang a few songs whilo Mrs. Ann Wil son played the piano. Joan Looslcy, news reporter. budunl had nt lln H,uwUj. 01)0,000 for wnr purposes. Q The reconstruction fliiansr corporation nFC), commodity credit corporation (CCC) and other governmental corporation operated at Inns (difference be. tween expenses and revenues) or about fi. 100.000.000, accordlnK to the treasury books, compared In nn expected lo provided for in the budget of $5,041,000,000. ( Other governmental costs, In cluding Interest on the debt, ex penses of Hie regular govern ment deportments and non-wa Items, wore running close to tha $0,400,000,000 estimate ) Thus the total expenditures ap poured to bo about ,000,000.i 000 less than the administration figured when the budget wa drawn. ' VICTORY GARDEN CLUB Our meeting was held at the homo of our louder, Mrs. Miller, June 22, 1043. After tho meet ing was called to order by the president, wo discussed taking up the Oregon Green Guard. Vij! sang songs and our meet ing was adjourned. Wo also went around to each member's homo and Inspected their gar-! dens. Wo have somo very nico looking gardens. News reporter, Jean Thonuis. 4th of July DANCE Sunday Evening ' July 4th Broadway Hall MAUN Music by Boldv'i Bond IM OMII . M- Till! Hd MUTING Id CAN! KILL SPARKLE IN DRINKS MADE WITH CANADA DRY WATER nt "PIN-POINT CAeiONATION" UUTS 10NOM1 P. 8. Itf iptcUl formula makM any drink una battar. pa ft la T 1 ' unit Closing E-Houtrs For Food Stores in Klamath Falls O Beginning Tuesday, July 6th, the food stores listed below will Open 8 A. M. Daily Close 6 P. M. Daily Saturdays Inclusive o Safeway Stores " Emil's Food Stores Piggly Wiggly Carter's Fine Foods Quality Food Store & Quality Market Jurgensen Groceteria
