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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1945)
TEN HERALD AMD NEWS Wednesday. May PLATE GLASS FIRM FACES mill ui i Tn uniLiinuL iu SLshesof ATLANTIC MAY ! TRUST SUIT WASHINGTON. May 2S tl The justice department filed an anti-trust suit today to strip the Pittsburgh Plate Glass company of its 106 warehouses and re tail stores. . The department said its civu suit, filed in Toledo. O, charges Pittsburgh Plate Glass. Pitts burg. Pa- Libbey-Owens, Ford Glass company of Toledo, seven other glass manufacturers, 116 company officers and a trade association with conspiring to monopolize the production, pro cessing, distribution and sale of flat glass. This includes plate, safety, window, tempered and iheet glass. The complaint, the announce ment said, alleges that in 1928 Pittsburgh and Libbey-Owens-Ford - embarked on a program which has resulted in the "com plete elimination of competition in the flat glass industry in the United States'" through mergers, the purchasing of competing firms, institution of price wars, industrial agreements, control of patents, fixing prices, limit ing production and by dividing tales territories. Other measures were taken, the department said, to elim inate foreign competition. The complaint asked, in addi tion to Pittsburgh's divestiture of its warehouses and stores: That Pittsburgh, I. i b b e y-Owens-Ford and the American Glass company be limited to one ilat glass plant each. -. That Fourco Glass company of Clarksburg, W. Va., described as a selling agent for a number if tVia defendant romnanies. ahd the National Glass Distributors association of Chicago oe dis solved. That all allegedly restrictive sm-Mmnle hptwepn the Ameri can 'and foreign companies be cancelled. That all existing patents, of the defendants be made avail able on a royalty-free basis and that all .patents acquired in the future, including improvements 6h ' existing patents, be made available on a "reasonable roy alty oasis. Youths Given Two Years' Probation Dewey R. Pollard and War ren- F.. "Pritchard, 18-year-old Klamath Falls residents charged witlr burglary not in a dwelling, appeared before Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg Monday afternoon and were given two years' probation. . The youths were charged with theft . of -, tires,' gas coupons and money from the Beacon Service station,' 1201 E. Main, v GLAD TO GO WITH THE AMERICAN DI VISION. CEBU. Philippines. May 23 (.-P) When PFC Eugene Weidman, Brooklyn, N. Y., opened a letter recently he found enciosea a summons ui report for jury duty in Brook lyn or pay a S250 fine. But the specified date had already passed and anyhow the army had other plans for Weidman. "Well, at least sending a sum mons to GI s overseas is one way to make jury duty attrac tive, fie lAiiittiicmm. A PLUS rjlT riST.n Ida. Mav 23 (JV-The order was to simu late fK-inp under "hazardous and unusual conditions." Conditions got almost too un usual for Lt. Albert P. Garret I cVm.h falif uthen 4he 1'OT. tical stabilizer and left rudder ot me rs-z aroppeo. imo( space. out IjI. uuiei ijtfstacu ma icsi, brincint? the shiD in for a per fect landing. AROUND THE COUNTER ANCHORAGE. Alaska, May 23 (iP) Mrs. May George, after calling many times at a local store as shopper for Alaska Air lines, bouent we store ana now waits on her airlines successor, Mrs. Lavada Holman. So busy is Mrs. Holman with her job of shopping for interior residents that she has drafted as her assistant, Mrs. Theodore Law of Tulsa, Okla., wife of the line s president. LONE BUSINESS CHICAGO, May 23 P) The young man who entered the Re liable Credit company was greeted by Manager John F. lhomisek, nanaea an applica tion form. "I won't need it," said the man Thomisek believed was a prospective customer as he drew a gun. He tied the manager with a cord, took $300 from a cash box and fled. A LOT OF SMITHS SPRINGFIELD. Ore.. May 23 (P) R. C. Bigelow is about con vinced all the Smiths have moved into Lane county. First he sold- his house trailer to a man named Smith. Another Smith rented his ranch. An op tion on some land was taken by a third Smith. Now Bigelow sold some personal belongings, The buyer yup, another Smith. Murder-Suicide ' " Takes Two Victims SEATTLE, May 23 .(VP) Mrs. Jean - Anderson, SO.- -apartment house manager, - and- ' Elmer Cool, - SO, one of her tenants, died -last night following what police described as a murder: suicide. - Another tenant found the two persons near death In the man ager's apartment after hearing two' shots, police said. Large Shipment - of the famous Stetson Stockman Shapes, Grades From No. 1 to 5X Clear Beaver Qualities 850t0 35 .Since lilt. LDItEW'SJ MANSTORE 111 Main St, Headquarter for Stations For 26 Years ADO STORAGE PORTLAND, May 23 (VP) Crowded wheat storage facili ties can be emptied for an ex pected 1945 bumper crop only by a long distance rail haul to the Atlantic coast and the Euro pean market,' Mayor Herbert G. West of Walla Walla said to day. West, executive vice president of Mhe 'Inland Empire Water ways association, said there is little hope of snipmcm irom Pacific northwest docks because all vessels in the Pacific appear tied up by the Japanese war. He appeared cneerea Dy me Interstate commerce commission ruling that lowered the trans continental rate 11 cents per 100 pounds to help the Pacific northwest move its accumulat ed 1943-44 stocks to Atlantic docks. West observed this was ti. wbv, thic itnrt of the country could become competi tive tn the European inaritei. "We are not competitive in ih tmnitcllr, mui-lcet hernuse too much midwestern grain lies between us ana wihi mwi m.-i, West snid. "The Oriental market nr eturce i nut until after V-J Day. That leaves only Europe and tiuis tar mere uppci be no intention of the govern- n.ent In oivrt lie lihilVt for tllC direct ocean haul to Europe." SLIPPERY ELM CHICAGO. May 23 W') To a group of neighborhood young sters who were taking turns showing their ability in trco climbing, William Johnson, 44, a chauffeur, offered to demon strate I ho correct tcchniaue. Johnson is in the Illinois Cen tral hospital with a fractured icg. Yes, he fell from the tree. iSAILOR FALLS BO FEET, HURT LITTLE SEATTLE, May 23 (PI Wil bur V. Ray, 21, a sailor, ca tapulted through the nlr over the railing ( a viaduct ami landed 60 feet below on the top of a moving automobile m a. traffic accident here Inst night and escaped with a cut on his chin and minor bruises. Rny was n passenger In a truck with four otlu-r sailors and two girls. The truck, nr vim bv one of the girls, collided with another cur and over turned, pinning four of the sailors underneath ana Know ing Ray over the railing. The impact of his full onto the niov- Chock ch(c' Miiwtlni; ting ml Kelt ol minor FAMILY r AUnRITP akin inniMee mul rulira ,nfvi-,- wiihMmaiM.ilii'Moih F0R 40 YEARS " amlicatnl IHioilw. ..... ...und lii the rout and sniii.lied the windshield. Traffic liivesugHioi" two girls left ttitf scene before affirm-, arrived. Hy's four com panions suffered minor Injuries. Doughnuts tndnv are (hive times ns popular .with the Anicr trim public as they wore 1 years ago. 47 PLANS AUTHORIZED PORTLAND. May 23 Portland dork commission lint Instructed Chief Engineer A. O. Merrill to prcpuro detailed plans for modernization and extension of pier 11, Municipal terminal fw York , ' JJ from 18-lnth "uims, 'n THIS IS SUriMN, tbe nw anal gesic (pain relief) tahlet wimn gives quicker and greater relief (com pain-wlth safety. Now l your druggln'1, J" lM Ak for 4'jrirf. Tk it y would plain aspirin. fOPS FOR QUALTfy JVnri-CoIa Company Ims land Ciln. 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