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President Delivers
Shortest Inaugural
Speech in History
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (JP)
The text of probably the short-
ot tmititfiirnl nriHrpss in history!
Mr. ChioC Justice, Mr. Vice
President my friends:
You will understand and, I
believe, agree with my wish
that the form of this inaugura
tion be simple and its words
brief.
We Americans of today, to
gether with our allies, are pass
ing through a period of supreme
RECORD BILLS
FACE LAWMEN
IN Mill
SACRAMENTO. Jan. 20 (IF)
Two weeks of legislative ses
sion has brought into concrete
form much of Governor War
ren's program, but the 55th reg
ular legislature which is in
weekend recess today faces the
prospect of gruelling nighttime
meetings to achieve adjourn
ment by January 26, the date
tentatively set by the senate.
In the two weeks since the
opening on January 8, 721 bills
have been introduced in the
two houses, a number ahead of
the last session but only a frac
tion of the three or four thou
sand measures expected.
In addition to the 429 bills
sent across the assembly desk
and 292 in the senate, scores
of resolutions are on file.
Eight of Warren's major rec
ommendations have been intro
duced in bill form and a ninth
compulsory health insurance
has been outlined in almost
completed form at news confer
ences. Remaining to be introduced
are the administration measure-
setting up a division of mental
health for the prevention and
control of mental disorders; a
bill licensing state hospitals, one
incorporating the governor s
ideas on reorganization of the
state department of industrial
relations and his proposal for
state regulation of insurance
companies and fixing of insur
ance rates. ' .
Administration measures pre
sented to date include establish
ment of a training course in la
bor relations at the University
of California, extending for two
years the reduced income, bank
and corporation franchise taxes
and the sales tax, establishment
of medical centers, continuing
the $50 a month old age assist
ance ' payments, establishment
of intermediate-security correc
tional schools, broadening un
employment insurance coverage,
to- include employes . of firms
having less than four employes.
slum clearance, expansion of
the veterans welfare administra
tion to care for World war II
veterans and use of $12,000,000
of the state's surplus to retire
old bonds. : w
- Be Good To Wife
Yes, be good to the wife and
kiddies also be. kind ; to the
neighbor who is in hard luck
and be sure to boost every good
work.
That is your religion. Now
turn about for God has some
thing real for you.
ONE In Christ, God died to
clear you, for God was in Christ
changing mankind over to him
.. self. .
, TWO When your heart says
True it is. Christ stepped in
to my shoes and became the
;sinncr and took the count for
me and I go free. Then, and
there, feelings or no feelings,
God takes up in your heart. He
makes himself your Father; you
are born from above, born
again. '
THREE Let God prove it.
Forward march wherever and
into whatever duty your Bible
. tells you. Look to Christ to see
you through and He that hath
begun in you a good work will
go on completing it. BIBLE.
Be cleared of sin. Look utter
ly to Christ and live to the glory
of God by Power From On
High.
May God, the Giver of Hope,
fill you with joy and peace be
cause you trust in him. See
Romans 15:13.
This space paid for. by . ani
Oregon businessman.,
test. It is a test of our courage
of our resolve of our wis
dom of our essenlinl decency.
If we meet that test success
fully and honorably we shall
perform a service of historic
importance w h i c h men and
women and children will honor
throughout all time.
As I stand here today, having
taken the solemn oath of office
in the presence of my fellow
countrymen in the presence of
our God I know that it is
America's purpose that we shall
not fail.
In the days and the years
that are to come we shall work
for a just and durable peace as
today we work and fight for to
tal victory in war.
We can and we will achieve
such a peace.
We shall strive for perfection.
We shall not achieve it immedi
ately but we still shall strive.
We may make mistakes but
they must never be mistakes
which result from faintness of
heart or abandonment of moral
principle.
I remember that my old
schoolmaster said, in days that
seemed to be secure and un
troubled: "Things in life will
not always run smoothly. Some
times we will be rising toward
the heights then all will seem
to reverse itself and start down
ward. The great fact to remem
ber is mat tne irena or civiliza
tion itself is forever upward;
that a line drawn through the
middle of the peaks and valleys
of the centuries always has an
upward trend."
Our constitution of 1787 was
not a perfect instrument; it is
not perfect yet. But it provided
a firm base on which all man
ner of men. of all races and col
ors and creeds, could build our
solid structure of democracy.
Today in this year of war,
1945, we have learned lessons
at a frightful cost and we
shall profit by them.
We have learned that we can
not live alone, at peace. That
our own well-being is dependent
on the well-being of other na
tions ' far away. We have
learned that we must live as
men, not as ostriches, nor as
dogs in the manger.
We have learned to be citi
zens of the world, members of
the human community.
We have learned the simple
truth as Emerson said, that "The
only way to have a friend is to
be one."
We can gain no lasting peace
as we approach it with suspi
cion and distrust and with
fear, We can gain it only if we
proceed with the understanding
and confidence and courage
which flow from conviction.
The Almighty God has blessed
our land in many ways. He has
given our people stout hearts
and strong arms with which to
strike mighty blows for freedom
and truth. He has given to our
country a faith which has be
come the hope of all peoples in
an anguished world.
We pray now to Him for the
vision to see our way clearly
to see the way that leads to a
better life for ourselves and for
all our fellowmen to the
achievement of His will to
peace on earth.
Five-Ton Truck Found
Abandoned On Street
The five-ton truck stolen from
Big Basin Lumber company
some time Thursday night, was
found late Friday abandoned on
Huron street, city police report
ed today.
Lack of water in the big red
and white truck prevented the
driver from taking the machine
on a longer ride, officers ob
served. WEATHER
Max. Mfn. PrciD.
Eugene 43 .10 Trace
Klamath Falls 32 20
Sacramento . 54 - 28 .XI
Mcdford ; 35 30
Reno 34 15 .nn
San Francisco - 55 - 34
Seattle 42 M
Oregon Few mow flurries cast of
Cascades today: otherwise clear today.
tonight and Sunday with Increasing
cloudiness In northwest portion Sunday.
Cooler tonight east of Cascades.
Trulove's
Cutting and
Curing Plant
We cut and wrap moat for
your lockers and smoke
your hams and bacons
Phone 4282 919 E. Main
DANCELAND
SIS Klamath Ave.
DANCE
Muilc By
PAPPY GORDON'S OREGON HILL BILLIES
SATURDAY NITE
Auiplcei V.F.W.
A former Klamath Falls
youth, as homesick as a kid
can be in the South Pacific,
clicked his heels with joy
when he sighted a tanker car
rying the name "Klamath
Falls" on its bow.
The boy, Wlllard Constans
Jr., United States navy, wrote
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Willard Constans, . now of
Pasadena, that he was on a
South Sea island when the
ship hove in sight. He said he
w a s particularly homesick
that day and kept his eyes on
the ship, wishlully thinking
how good it would be to go
home.
As the ship plowed through
the blue water, Constans could
hardly believe his eyes when
he saw the mime of his homo
town.
Willard Constans Sr., for
merly w 1 1 h Weyerhaeuser
here and now manager of the
Anglo-California Lumber com
pany of Los Angeles, told the
story to E, P. Ivory, in Los An
geles this week on business.
The tanker, "Klamath Falls"
was christened October 10,
1943, at the Swan Island shipyards.
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VOTING
FIGURES
SHOWN
TABU
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By D. HAROLD OLIVER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (PI
Final official tabulation of the
November election returns today
showed:
48,025,684 voted for president.
45,103,023 voted for repre
sentative. 34,973,613 voted for senator.
The figures are contained in
a 54-page pamphlet made public
by the clerk of the house. They
were compiled from official re
ports of secretaries of state.
The total popular vote for
president added slightly to the
previous unofficial aggregate of
47,971,156. The difference is
made up entirely of additions
to minor party totals.
President Roosevelt had a
plurality of 3,596,227 over Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey. His official
vote was 25,602,505. Dewey
polled 22,006,278.
The rest of the popular vote
was divided this way: Norman
Thomas, socialist, 80,518; Claude
A. Watson, prohibition, 74,758;
Edward A. Teichert, socialist
labor, 45,336; others, 216,289.
Making up most of the "other"
vote was Texas' 135,689, of
which 135,439 were polled by
the anti-Roosevelt "Texas reg
ulars" and 250 for Gerald L. K.
Smith's America First ticket.
Smith also polled 1530 votes in
his home state of Michigan.
One of the biggest surprises
to political historians was the
aggregate vote of 45,103,023
shown for all candidates for the
house.
WINS ART PRIZE
MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan.
20 (JP) Joshua Smith won the
S25.000 Archibald art prize to
day. Last year a portrait of
Smith, painted by William Do
bell, won the prize.
If it's a "frozen" article yo-.i
need, advertise for a used one
in the classified.
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JDEFOSS
FEATURED AT
ROTARY MEET
Teamwork, "Just like foot
ball," is the most important ele
ment in air combat, was the
word of MaJ. Joe Foss In answer
to a question when ho appeared
before the Rotary club Friday
noon at the Willard hotel.
Col. George Van Orden, hon
orary member of the Klamath
Falls Rotary club, introduced
Major Foss, stationed at the Ma
rine Barracks, who asked for
questions from the group.
When asked whether being a
good pilot or a good marksman
was most important in combat,
he said that teamwork between
members pf the flight group was
the most ' important, and made
the comparison with a football
team.
. "You know that if the best
quarterback has a weak line the
other team will camp in his
backficld all afternoon . . . only
in our game they only need to
camp there once," Foss said.
The Grumman Wildcat, the
best American combat plane in
the early Guadalcanal days, beat
the Zeros because of its superior
durability. And the Vroght Cor
sair later gave more speed with
the same durability, he said.
'With our best planes today
it's no easy setup, Foss went
on, "because the Japs have been
turning out better models as fast
as we have."
He paid high compliment to
the tinsmiths and others of the
repair crews in keeping Amer
ican planes in the air during
the battle for Guadalcanal. Be
cause it was the general rule
for 15 to 18 American planes to
take on 50 Zeros, our planes al
ways came back full of holes,
he said.
Alyce Wells and Bud Selby
sang three duets, accompanied
by Barbara Zinn. The three high
school students were introduced
by Andrew Loncy.
Annual Red Cross
Meeting Scheduled
The annual meeting of Klam
ath county chapter of the Amer
ican Keel uross will be held
Tuesday, February 6, at 6:30
p. m. at the Pelican cafe.
Edwin u. Kounds, manager or
Multnomah county chapter, will
speak on Red Cross Services to
the veteran. Kounds was Red
Cross field director at the Vet
erans administration In Port
land for several yi-".
There will be election of of
ficers and board members.
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COMING!
America's Famous
Conductor-Composer
Ted Fiorito
His Piano
And His
Orchestra
ARMORY
WED., JAN. 31
HELPING TO
FINISH THE JOB
Thousands upon thousands of vital
war calls go over the Long Distance
wires every day and night. Sometimes
there's a rush on certain lines.
When your call is on a crowded
circuit, you will help Long Distance
keep things moving if you'll co-operate
when she says, "Please limit your
call to 5 minutes."
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Hvlp Spued Vlciory-Bun More War Bonds
THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
120 North 8th Street TelephonQ 3101
MONTGOMERY WARD'S
TELEGRAM
TO THE PRESIDENT
January 17, 1945.
The President of the United States
White House
Washington, D. C.
Mr. President-
At your personal direction, the army seized Ward's stores on De
cember 28, 1944.
On the same day, you directed that a suit be filed in the federal
court to decide whether you had any right to order this seizure.
The constitution makes it the supreme law of the land that "no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due pro
cess of law." The supreme court has said that an order which is be
fore the courts should not be executed before the judges have de
clared its legality.
n defiance of this safeguard of liberty, you have ordered the
army to place in immediate effect the arbitrary and illegal orders of
the war labor board without awaiting the decision of the court.
You have ordered these war labor board directives placed in
immediate effect despite the fact that the courts have held them to
be legally unenforceable, and despite the fact that in issuing them
the board refused to give Wards the hearings required by the war
labor disputes act.
You have ordered the army to place in effect a wage directive
at Portland, Oregon, which a representative of the war labor board
admitted on January 9, 1945, was unworkable.
You have ordered the army to place in effect wage directives at
St. Paul, Minnesota, which unfairly discriminate against sixty per cent
of the employees. When several hundred walked off their jobs in pro
test against your command, the army forced them to return by threats
of criminal prosecution.
You have ordered the army at Denver, Colorado, and Jamaica,
New York, to increase wage rates which the war labor board admit
ted were already higher than those paid by Ward's competitors. No
increases have been ordered againsi' these competitors.
Finally, and most importantly, you have ordered the army to im
pose that form of the closed shop called maintenance of membership.
Obedience to your order will require the discharge of all employees
who have chosen not to maintain their union membership, and deny
to them the liberty to choose whether or not they wish to remain un
ion members.
Wards, in opposing the closed shop in all of its forms, has not
been prompted by any feeling of anti-unionism. Wards has fully recog
nized the freedom of all of its employees to join or not to join a union,
as they wished, and has assured all employees that their opportunity
with the company will be the same whether they are union members or
not. Ward's refusal to accept the closed shop arises solely from a de
termination that its employees be secure in their individual liberty
to join a union or hot free of the fear of physical injury, damage to
their property or loss of their jobs.
Wards, in opposing the closed shop, has not acted against the
wishes even of its unionized employees. In the seized store at Chicago
on December 15, 1944, ninety per cent of the employees through a
signed petition declared against the maintenance of membership rer
quirement. Spokesmen for the unionized employees in the four seized
stores at Detroit have openly stated that they do not desire m6inte
nance of membership.
Wards has been singled out f
has been used to enforce orders of
giving the courts an opportunity
methods of dictatorship.
The legality of your order com
properties is now before the courts
calls upon you to order the armv
which would deprive Ward's emplo
its customers of their property un
courts as required by the constitu
or unequal treatment. The army
questioned legality without first
to make a decision. These are the
manding the seizure of 'Ward't
for decision. Wards resoectfully
1- .
to withhold the taking of action
yees of their liberty and Wards and
til the case has been decided in the
tion.
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.
3EWELL AVERY,
i Chilrmin.