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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1945)
TWO HERALD AMD HIWS RAY RUGER TO HEAD KLAMATH ELKS LODGE Ray Ruger, for many years an active woriser in wt ciks ioukc, was elected exalted ruler lor the coming year at the annual lodge balloting Thursday night. Ruger, ticket agent for the Southern Pacific, hat occupied most of the elective and ap pointive chairs in the lodge. Other officers elected at the meeting were: Charles E. Seav ey, leading knight; Vernon Moore, loyal knight; E. Mullis, lecturing knight; G. W. Hous ton, secretary; E. B. Hall, trus tee and alternate delegate to the grand lodge; Lester Offield, treasurer; Lawrence Hansen, tiler. Retiring exalted ruler is Jack Llnman. The new officers will take over at the first meeting in April. It was announced that the BPOE grand lodge meeting, screduled for New York City in July, has been cancelled to com ply with a request of the office of defense transportation. FILED 1 COURT ' Two suits to recover damages I totaling $15,500, were filed in I circuit court late Thursday ' against Crane mills, a corpor- ation, and Ralph E. McCumber, ; an employe. i . Plaintiffs are Bessie - Opal !' Reeves, and Hazel M. Todd. Both women are represented by W. Lamar Townsend of Klamath i Falls and W. P. Lord and Ben ; Anderson of Portland. ; Hazel Todd charged that on the night of September 13, 1944, ! at about 9:30 o'clock, she was : driving south on Highway 66 ; about two miles southeast of Bly, when her car struck a ; parked truck owned by Crane i mills and operated by Ralph E. : McCumber. ;. The truck, the plaintiff : charged, was on the road and ; .McCumber was loading the ma ( chine with water from an ' adjacent creek. It was after ' dark, the charge continued, and j no flares were in evidence as : a warning but a spotlight was ; turned toward the rear of the ; truck which caused the machine ! to appear at or near the middle of the roaa. : - As a result of the crash, Hazel ; M. Todd declared she suiferea ' chest injuries, bruises, mental I and physical shock. She seeks : $5000 damages on this count and : in a second cause of action, seeks ' $500 damages to her car. '. . Bessie Opal Reeves, passenger : in the Todd car, is seeking $10,- 000 damages for personal in- i juries including a fractured left arm, "ugly cut on tne enm, : shock and excruciating pain, facial disfizuration and the function of the arm is perman- : ently. impaired. Board Deliberates , On Dunsmuir Shooting Members of a board which conducted an investigation into : the shooting of FFC Charles C, Smith of the Marine Barracks at Dunsmuir the night of Satur- day, March 10, were still de- liberating today and a report : will probably be delivered to Colonel Ceorge C. Van Orden early next week. - The board was made up of . Major Kooert Barrett, capt Clement Stadler. Cant. J. T, Goodman, and Lt.-Comdr. R. J. Parsons of the Barracks medical staff. PFC Smith was reported to day to be improved at the Bar racks dispensary. According to information from . xreka, (Jam., no charge had been placed against Frank Dixon, Southern Pacific brake- man, whom Dunsmuir police said fired the shot which wound ed young Smith, as the marine stood on the porch of his home. PINE THE! Continuous Daily Open 12:30 JolphrAORGAN J .WOMEN". I In "uh 1 $ to "ACES marvel HojL. ComU H ninB ASOH SEED Friday. Much H, lt4l E. R. Slaw n,inr. letftfl Axaltad ruler of the Elks lodge for 1945 46. ERICA HEARS OF iPMELERS (Continued From Page One) He said he did not know what was holding it up and was glad to be reminded about it Originally, the United States was to occupy a southern zone; Russia, the eastern section, and Britain, the north and west. Then it was decided to deal France in,, probably necessitat ing changes in the proposed American and British areas. - Italian Armistice Still answering Questions. Mr. Roosevelt suggested that the state department be asked what is holding up Duplication or terms of the Italian armistice. 'They refer us to the war department and the war depart ment refers us to the White House," a reporter told him. The chief executive interrupt ed a query about whether the present Romanian government was representative of the peo ple, saying it was so catlhy that the state department should be asked about that also. Winter Tightens Hold On Klamath Basin According to the calendar. March is the first spring month, but winter's chill embrace seems to be tightening its hold in this area. The warmest temperature reached yesterday was just three degrees above freezing point. Minimum temperature to day was nine degrees below freezing and weather forecasts do not hold out any promise of it warming up. Showers and snow flurries are predicted for tomorrow with little change in temperature. Girl Injured Here In Fall From Horse Margaret Corr, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Corr, 815 N. 9th, suffered injuries when she was thrown from her horse while riding last Sunday. Miss Corr, accompanied by her mother, left last night for Port land by train to receive further treatment. Hans Norland Auto Insurance. Phone 6060. "BLAZING BARRIERS" r'- -10 -NEXT ATTRACTION- SATURDAY ONLY Every Good Turn Leads To.. .Trouble! Vo rVI K3 2jsr,lNi CNLCSSMTII . JOHN UTIt ff'C tun tMun . mn mima i if. ";ue2 LEATHERNECKS BREAK THROUGH JAP DEFENSES (Continued From Pago One) fueling, saving about 330 men from crash landings in the sea. Thousands Dis They were returning from the incendiary attacks on Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya which Japan's propaganda spokesman admitted today burned thousands of Jap anese to death, injured other thousands and left thousands more homeless. Spokesman Sadao Iguchl said the Superfort raids were intend ed to "terrorize and weaken the morale of the Japanese peoples, Apparently they were successful, for Tokyo reports told of tho filght of thousands from the bombed cities. The Philippines breakthrough was accomplished by the 43rd di vision, which drove a two mile wedge into the southern end of the Shimbu line on central Luzon island and seized the enemy's only escape roads. General Diet On the northern end of the line a Japanese machine gun killed Maj. Gen. Edwin D. Pat rick as he inspected advancing front lines of his 6th division. Low-flying f 1 g h t e r-bombcrs paced the advance, skipping bombs into the mouths of Jap anese caves. Fields of electrically operated land mines slowed the 41st di vision's northward advance from Zamboanga in the southern Philippines. The 41st spread east and west, capturing 15 more villages and extending its control to 28 miles of Mindanao island's southern coastline. YREKA Franklin Bradford Sames. Keno resident charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Albert Howard Vanderhoff, Los Angeles truck driver, the night of December 9, 1944, was found not guilty by a jury which deliberated for five hours Thursday. Sames had been at liberty un der $1000 bond. He is an em ploye of the Associated Lumber and Box company, Dorris. Vanderhoff was killed as he worked on his stalled truck two miles north of Dorris. Sames, on the stand, told the court he came around a curve and on a group of lights. He said his wind shield was clouded and the lights confused him. He believed the whole road blocked and turned from the right side of the road to the left to avoid hurting any one. Sames said he felt an impact and then his car went over the grade at the left of the road. He testified that at no time did he see the truck driver which the state contended he struck and killed. Logerwell to Become Preacher In Church C. E. Logerwell, musical di rector of Immanuel Baptist church here, will receive a li cense to preach at the Sunday evening service of that church. Logerwell has had several years of evangelistic work and has written over 300 hymns. ' BOX OFFICE OPENS : A Mystery-Riddled Scandal! rithTOMCONWAV AUDREY LONG HENRY AlDrtlCI ''jiiii mmwwt taT w lv BILLY THE KID WANTED" We l X 1 ' ' I F K 3 p-Cr .ii i i. irw- .... .7-.;- Green apprentices In amphibious warfare in the days of Guadalcanal and bloody Tarawa, Uncle Sam's Pacific fighters now have their master's degw but they got it the hard way Their "grad uation thesis" was the winning of almost-impregnable Iwo Jlma. Illustrated ibova are steps In the. Invasion pattern that has now become classic: enemy air power grounded and planes knocked out by weeks of aerial bombardment; the foe driven from beachheads and under cover by pound ing of shells and rockets from warships, which s'so alms to knock out shore batteries: the actunl landing, under covering Are; the battle to "secure" the objective. Soabcei. on heals of Invasion forces, repair airfields for our use, bring In tons of supplies, set up mechanical and engineering equipment; finally, the mopping up of last-ditch survivors Henley Woman Dies In Portland Word was received here today of the death of Mrs. Marlon Neill McComb, 68, in Portland, a resident of the Henley district for 28 years. Mrs. McComb passed away Tuesday, March 13, in Prov idence hospital in Portland after a lengthly Illness. She is sur vived by a son, David N. Mc Comb of Klamath Falls, two grandchildren, David and Susan McComb, one sister in Scotland, Mrs. Jane Kirkwood. one brother in Canada, John Neill, and a step daughter, Mary McComb of Klamath Falls. Services were held yesterday at Little Chapel of the Chimes in Portland and interment was also made there. Salinas C of C Head Arrives In Klamath C. M. Patterson, .president of the chamber of commerce at Salinas, Calif., arrived in Klam ath Falls Monday morning on business for the Coca Cola com pany. nay Lamb of the local Coca Cola Bottling company, is a partner of Mr. Patterson at Salinas. Patterson expects to be in this city for two weeks. Classified Ads Bring Results. TOUR FAVORITE HILLBILLY HEPCATS in a corn-fad comedy, bursting with 5 ROY ACUFF and his SMOKV MOUNTAIN BOYS LULUBEUEsndSCOTTY HARRY "Pappy" CHESHIRE BRAD TAYLOR RUTH TERRY ''J Hove the 'Know How sr. IT 12 1 1 EDITORIALS ON NEWS (Continued From Pag One) to the theatre and wind up In a night club afterward. The particular merit of this Idea, irom the metropolitan stand point, is that If you follow it faithfully you're bound to leave quite a little outside money floating around by the time you wind up somewhere in the small hours. v You - may feel that the. few dollars you shed as yoit go along arc too small potatoes to be counted In the plans of the na tion's greatest city, but if you'll multiply yourself by the 100,000 or so who pour into New York every day you will be Inclined to revise your figures. Anyway, this Byrnes idea of shutting down the works at mid night gums things up badly, and New York doesn't like it at all. Even Fiorclla, tho "little flower," who is the city's shrinking violet mayor, has been muttering into his beard about it ever since the curfew order was issued. New York Just doesn't go for it and If you study the situation closely you can understand why. The pulpy fruit pod of the cacao tree holds from 30 to 30 almond shaped seeds, or cacao beans. ALSO "GANGSTERS or cdautieiiii 7 J I M m ill 1 iii 1 the rnwniicn Now 1,1 uT" C Eugene, Vernonia Capture Tournament Consolation Games Eugene romped away with the first consolation game of the stato basketball tournament to day by bouncing Nowbcrg 47 to 31. Halftlme scorn was 23 to 19 with the Axemen leading all the way. Vernonia roared 110 at the fin- Ish to defeat Hillsboro. 38 to 3S. In the morning's other consola tion tilt. Vernonia, trailing from tho start and lagging 20 to 17 at tho hair, spurted ahead in the Inst minutes of the third canto. The lead changed hands until the Inst four minutes of the final frame, when Vernonia Jumped ahead at 35 to 33 and hold the lead. Children Asphyxiate In Ballard Home SEATTLE. March 18 P) Two small children. Wllllom Al frcd Deems, IS months, and his brother, Waller Allen Deems. 2, were asphyxiated early this morning in a Ballard homo. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. G A. Deems, told detective Lts. R. B. Zcldenrust and R. H. Froese they had left the houso about 11:30 p. m. to have a Chinese oinner nt a unuara restaurant Box Office Osena 1i30-6i45 mm . RODDY McDOWALL mi m RITA fOS ER-JOHNSON Comlnf Directed by DlrMttdby fro4iKitv LOUIS KINfi-IOBEII BASSLE "Tonight and Every Night' 1 tS! 1 Bl m 1 n,w' ,lnfl,n X" t""n" APPROPRIATION FDR TEEN UKED (Continued From Pago Ono) too. Recreation committee mem bers Informally protested, assort ing that llio tcon-ayori should have a final answer Monday night. Favor Qrant Four members out of six were present at tho meeting Thurs day. They were Dr. Cusscl, Fred Robinson, who mndo tho motion, Epley ami Ivan Farris. All favored tho appropriation. Mayor Oslenriorf Indicated lie opposes an outright grant, stat ing that the toon-ngers and their advisors had said they did not want tho recreation committee to control the club. He snid ha quostlonrd whnthar such a club is "public recreation" and therefore deserving of &M from tax funds. Recreation committeemen dis agreed with him on this point, and also said they felt that hav ing two members on tho ad visory board would be sufficient relationship betweon the com mlttoo and tho club. (Continued From Pago One) Lamnnrt. Nitivhrv. nnnl cir. er and Wheoler. The retirement system for public employes would be com pulsory tor employes of tho state and school districts, but counties and cities could elect not to come under it. The employes' contribution, Whlrh Wn.llrl hA rlnUrmlnajl V... a c 1 11 r I a 1 tablos, would bo matcnod by the employing Kumy. niicr ju years service, an employ would retire on half Weyerhaeuser Camp Goes Over Top Weyerhneusor camp 4, holds tho distinction of bolng tho first of the rural communities to go over the quota set in the Red Cross war fund, according to a report made today by Mrs. Doris Cooper, teacher of tho camp school. Fred Peterson, chairman of rural districts, was advised that the quota of $200 was exceeded and on March S a total of $370 had been raised. Because of the fact that telephone line were down from the camp to Klamath Falls, the report was delayed, Mrs. Cooper said. MAP ODDITY The Aleutian Islands, extend ing out from tho Alaskan coast, reach farther west of Seattle, Wash., than tho easternmost point of Maine reaches east of Seattle. , TTvl riJ The most exciting i B&S SUBURB GONSfDERS siifisj (Continued Yr The next ! Fred Peterson iJi'S'Pt"' ", county hSlOHiS goolv. count, ,.: ffi of sanltnii,,,, ,!Voromii3 teps to organs ,,?,:. " rd read a 'hinil,dl,w. 6 Improvement d. Mtl4 TULELAKE B Klamath ' "ffSnaJ? 3 flii!rin",1",mw on tho J property T 'S1 tl Senator Ah'A '. 4 pany -yivyZrS 7 A second property B!i I recorded in the clerk's ollla 3 WAttlr Mima th. ... l. "ri . - - ..id inmnilt of I acres east of Merrill br rJ L. Fugnte and sen, Jack luj wife, nby Klund. R(VJ stamps Indicated 1 M!iUdi3 of 3 3 nnn v.,h Wildlife M.n Visit In Klamath Falls Glenn Mltchel, In chirn wildlife mantftment lor i forest service rtsionil oKlsl Portland, sccomptnltd bt ts dall McKaln. wildlife spttu or rremont nsuonsi lorl In Klamath Falls Frldsr. The wildlife men aims' matters pertslnlni to u activity with members of I Izaac Walton league ind KM ath sportsmen. Thev left Friday eveninl Tulelako and vicinity whm laf plan to make obHrvitlom U inter-state deer herd In Modoc area and will mm to Lakevlew on other nm matters. If It's a "troien" srtitu ff need, advertlso for t usto a In the clasilflaa. iiiiiiiiiinpa k NOWSSS r
