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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1945)
(7 M TO ANT WW m P mm PRICE FIVE CENTS In .The By FRANK JENKINS ISyTEW YORK The long and 1 ' tiresome routine of debarku lion In (Innlly completed. Immi gration and security control lire antlnflrd. Wo got buiwnuo ot the pier which doesn't toko long. After nil, you enn't buy much in Kuropo (hone days, for tho simple reason tlmt thcro Isn't much left to buy. Clnuronce Inbnla are quickly fixed to tho bogs, ond we're FREE, fUT through the pier shod to tho street, whoro a fnlrlsh SWARM of tn x Is la waiting. You think of England, where cob nrc oiways few iind far be tween and usually occupied al ready, and of the continent, whoro there nro none. (Thl wrltor'a destination la up in the lillili Eighties, and tho furo is $1.50. There win a time when . it would have teemed tevp, but now your mind goes back to Paris, whoro you dick ered in bad French with the pro. prlctor of an ancient and rickety enrriogo drawn by an even more Ancient and rickety nag for the transport of yourself and lug gogo - for a distance of eight blocks and the bent offer you could get wan 400 francs, which tots up to $8.) THESE streotsl They're wide and roomy and STRAIGHT. Where did you ever got the Idea that the streets of American cities are deplorably narrow? And these cars! The LEGIONS of them, pouring along bumper to bumper in a stream that ti ENDLESS. Whence came your quaint notion of a few months ago that automobiles in America are getting scarce? And the cars thomsolvesl They're sleek ond shiny for the most part. They have no huge '. and oliimny bags on top for the ' storage of charcoal gas or cum brous Iron cylinder, looking like ttin boiler of a donkey en gine, mounted on the side for the continuous manufacture of charcoal gas. Thev seem to be running on GASOLINEI . AND the people. Their SMART NESS! Their general air of good grooming. The newness of their clothes. All this fairly shrieks of an economy of ABUNDANCE even at the end of tho greatest war sinco the world bcgunl AND tho shop windows. Even from tho cub, through the streams of traffic, you can see that they aro well filled with merchandise. Things you'd LIKE to own. Things that aro DESIRABLE IN THEMSELVES. Not Just any THING for which to exchange the doubtful money In your pocket becauso you have no confidence In it and want to get rid of it as quickly as possi ble In return for some THING ANY thing that might con ceivably retain soma permanent value. OLOWLY you readjust your " self. Grndunlly It comes bock to you that this Is America ond that America ALWAYS has been different. And better. That always pcoplo havo wonted to get here to share In the goodness Navy Releasing Shotgun Shells WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (P) Unllmber those shotguns boys. Tho navy Is releasing 14,000,. 000 rounds of shotgun shells, llcp. itobcriRon (U-va.) was in formed today. This with tho 6,- 000,000 tho nrmy rocontly told Robertson wcro being released will be a rcnl start toward a peacetime, hunting season, the Virginian said. Navy said tho ammunition was being declared surplus as a result of examination of stock levels on 12-gntigo ammunition used lor training purposes. Astoria Jail OK Say Customers PORTLAND, Oct. 11 (VP) A dispatch from tho Oregon Journal's Astoria correspon dent took Issuo today with tho federal bureau of prisons' disapproval of Astoria jails. "Regular customers of tho clly Jail appear satisfied," wrote tho correspondent. "One man, who declined to bo quoted, said ho had beon in Astoria jails, new and old, more than 75 times during a 15-yeor period mid is 'satisfied with accommodations,' Re cently a prisoner wont out of his way to say what a nice place the county jail is.". Daplei Kaiser Inter? .ed In Steel Industry On Pacific Coast .By JOHN F. CHESTER Associated Press Business Editor OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 11 (A') Henry Kuiscr, a hcadlino figure among tho nation's Industrialists, said today ho was defi nitely interested In taking over a heavy portion of the steel pro duction on tho west coast and running it ns on Integrated in dustry. This would Involvo purchaso of tho government owned Geneva plant ot Provo, Utah, and tho Colorado Fuel and Iron corpora tion installations, in addition to tho Fontona, Calif., plant he now cwns and operates under an RFC mortgage. Ho told an Associated Press reporter in an interview that his plans depended on a number of E ILL BE HELD E SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (IV Pacific Greyhound Bus company equipment continued idle today throughout seven westorn and southwestern states as the strike of 2700 drivers and station employes entered Its seventh day. Hope that tho deadlock may be solved In the near future was seen in the fact that union and company representatives held their first joint meeting yesterday with U. S. Labor Con ciliation Commissioner Omar Hoskins, and are scheduled to contlnuo conferences this morn ing. No Announcement - No announcement was made on results of yesterday's , ses sions, ;.but Hoskins said' the meet na was "friendly." R. E. Hassolman, chairman of tho Joint council lor the AFL Amalgamated Association of Street Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of Am erica, Issued a bulletin for union members last night In which he said "the unity of the membership remains strong." "The union is not asking any thing unreasonable or anything which Pacific Greyhound lines cannot meet. Conservative gov ernment estimates indicate that tho cost of living increased 31.1 per cont between January 1, 1941 and July, 1945. According to tho union's facts presented to the war labor board, the aver age hourly earnings of drivers and station employes increased only 2.13 per cent from Jan (Continued on Pago Two) Community Fund Drive Continues The treasury of the Klamath Community fund, which should swell to $78,000 before tho drive Is over, held soma $23,507.26 late Wednesday night, according to W. E. Lamm, chairman of the campaign. Workers continued to make contacts ' In their designated fields and it was hoped that the half-way mark would be passed by the end of this week. Persons on whom tho workers make their calls, aro urged to hove their donations ready as those participating in the drive are busy and second calls are diffi cult to make. Universal Studio Picketed As Movie Strike Spreads HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 11 (P) A second movie studio, Univer sal, was mass picketed today by sovcral hundred strikers at the same timo that a nrcdlctcd co lossol show of striker strength foiled to materialize at tho War ner studio. Pickets began gathering early today .at Universal, which is about two miles from Warners, and at B a. m. an unofficial nose count put tho number at 600. Union officials said yesterday (hat ot least 5000 and probably 20,000 Lockheed workers would join the Warner pickets at 0 a. m, todoy. Fifty carloads of Lock heed workers arrived at tho scerio whoro rioting, bloodshed and arrests have occurred since last Friday, Beatings and Bloodshed About 400 Lockheed people joined the 400 movlo pickets In orderly picket lines, marching four abreast. More than 200 sher iff's deputies, who arrested 326 pickets at the Warner gatos yes terday on charges of rioting and refusing to disperse, wore on hand. All those arrested were re TtfifinliiMi .PQ KLAMATR-' ,q OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1945 Its. Chief among them was how far the government would go in absorbing the war costs Involved in tho emergency erec tion of the Fontana and Geneva plants. Predicts Boom Kolscr predicted a heavy busi ness boom for the west; instead of business frontiers being closed, as some people say, the frontiers havo Just begun to ap pear. Among oilier things, he said: Thut as socn as Willow Run, the huge plant near Detroit once owned by Ford and now used for the production of the new Kuiscr-Fruzer automobiles, approaches full production we certainly will look to the west coast for the production of more automobiles; That he Is now interested in 25 industries and Is looking for more; That he wants to buy an un determined number of Liberty ships which ore generally tag ged as of little postwar use to transport gypsum and - other materials for one of tho lowest cost gypsum and. plaster board plants in the country, owned by Kaiser; . . ' ' That 'decentralization of In dustry, spreading it around the country, is necessary if we are to have a united States. FEEL TULELAKE Families of two Tulclake high school teachers ore today feeling the pinch of the housing shortage and with the imminence of the duck and goose hunting season, rain or no rain, arc wondering where they can find a room to sleep in. The predicament is a combina tion of the housting shortage, which earlier in the school year threotcned the opening or l Tulclake hieh school, and t higher rental rotes that will be asked of visiting sportsmen who arc willing to pay $5 per night lor accommodations lor wnicn teachers paid $45 per month, No Living Quarters Prior to opening of the school term, boards of tho local schools were faced with cancellation of teacher contracts when oddII- cants learned that no living quar ters were available this year. To alleviate the housing short age, the Siskiyou union high school board entered Into an agreement with a local contrac tor for the building of o housing unit to be occud cd only by mem' bcrs of school faculties. Work on the apartments has been de layed by shortages in taoor ana material, ana tne earnest prom (Continued on Page Two) leased on bail on their own rea osnizance. The union sound truck at Wer ners announced that Lockheed's tooling plant had closed down and that operations in a mocun cation Dlant were seriously ham pered because oh insufficient number of workers appeared. Lockheed said that absentee ism today was twice tho normol rato of 7 to 8 per cent that about 1000 men more than usual were absent, Operations In tho tooling plant were seriously slowed down, Lockheed said, but in the modification plant work was go ing ahead although at a slightly slowor rato than usual, Tho Warner lino dropped to less than 500 after an hour' as pickets loft to mass at Universal. David Garbcr. Universal stu dio manager, said seven pictures ore in production ot his studio "and it looks like wo won't work today." i A Universal studio policeman took one ot the pickets Into the studio and said lie told him: "If you guys want trouble you arc going to get It." Then he released tho picket.1 'Winged Victory", Division Units Come Home i t ax. ' '1 v n ' 14 ' ' S ' ft tv i r i ii i j I ,it Members of the 169th and 172nd infantry regiments of the line the rail of the army transport General Pope as the vessel Its way to its pier. The troops came directly from Japan. The follow. (AP wlrephoto). Mac Arthur Orders Sweeping Political And Social Reforms For Jap Homeland TOKYO, Oct, 1 1 UP) Gen - eral MacArthur gave orders for sweeping social and political re forms in Japan today antt an nounced plans for sending home 1,250,000 American soldiers from the Pacific theater in the next six months. The Americans will return to the United States at the rate of approximately a quarter of . a million a month, leaving by the end of March only $0U,000 oc cupation and garrison troops in the entire far flung Pacific the ater. ' The announcement further reduced the number of troops which the allied commander ex pects to keep in Japan. Pre viously he estimated 200,000 troops would be sufficient but today's announcement disclosed that 200,000 would do the job both for Japan and Korea. The total would include four com bat divisions on Japan and two on Korea. The balance would be air service and occupation force specialists. : MacArthur met Premier Shideiiara for an hour late to day, telling the new Japanese government head thot the five mojor reforms needed in Japan would necessitate revision of the constitution and that: "I expect you to institute them as rapidly as they can be assimilated." MacArthur likewise put it HELP NEEDED IN POTATO HARVEST Anyone who can so arc the time is urged by the Klamath Po tato Growers association to help in harvesting the 1945 potato crop. Need for harvesters Is greatest In Upper Klamath basin, around Henley, Poe valley. Bonanza and Langcll valley. The work is pret ty well taken care of in the low er basin by Mexican nationals and prisoners of war. i Those who can help should see growers or contact the farm la- Knr nfflen 11H S tith nnw uhilp the need is critical. Growers ore' on hand nearly every morning at, the form lobor office to pick up help If help is obtained now, an other week should see the cru cial period ovor, . growers be lieve. . Tho KPGA Is running adver tisements for harvest help in sev eral Oregon papers, and some re sponse Is reported. This Is an emergency. County Agent C. A. Henderson stated. Anyone, including men, women ana cnuarcn con ncip. Bulletin WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (P) A $5,350,000,000 tax cut for in dividuals and business in 1946 was approved overwhelmingly by the house today, The bill, first tax cutting measure to pass the house since 1929, was sent to the senate lor action there. House action came amid Joint demands by democrats and re publicans for slashing In fed eral spending. The vote was 343 to 10. October 11, 1945 Mix. (Oct. 10) 78 Min SI Precipitation last 24 houn 12 Strum yeer to data 04 Nozmtl 32 Last year (T) Forecasti Scattered ihoweri. 1 squarely up to Shidehara : to take prompt and - "vigorous action to see that the Japanese people are clothed, fed and housed during the coming win ter The meeting, at MacArthur's headquarters and initiated by Shidehara shortly after he had completed his cabinet . and called on the emperor, came shortly after the allied supreme commander had -directed the Japanese government to report within 90 days all foreign ex change assets, including .private holdings and foreign properties of the- imperial household. Allied headquarters also an- An argument for a new city county jail in Klamath Falls was based on the report of the fed eral bureau of prisons which rated the Klamath county jail 43 out of a possible 100 points and placed it in the "condemned" column. The local bastile was listed under "jails restricted" and ac cording to the ruling, prisoners held for federal court cannot be kept in the jail over a period to exceed 48 hours. The federal bureau of prisons, headed by James V. Bennett, in spects local jails--to determine whether they meet minimum federal jail standards' and are satisfactory institutions for the housing of federal prisoners un der contract with the local gov ornment. Sheriff Lloyd L. Low said Thursday he had not seen any of the federal inspectors for a cou ple of years and did not know where they got their recent in formation. Jails with ratings of under 50 per cent are "condemned" by the FBP. as unfit for federal prisoners. ' Patton Boomed For Congress LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 (F) Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., re- cently relieved o: his commana ul " ,u "'. y "7s ".cc" suggested by republican leaders as o possible condidate for con gress. "The general would be a real candidate and it would be won derful if he could qualify and would be willing to run," Leo Anderson, chairman - of the re publican state central commit tee, told a reporter. English Girl Is Stowaway BOSTON, Oct. 11 () A pretty red-haired, blue-eyed Eng lish girl, wife of a discharged GI, embarked from the S. S.' Irvln MacDowell today to lond in the hands of immigration au thorities as a stowaway. The young woman, Mrs. Don hesse Nancy Kuhn, 20, of Ath erstone, Warwickshire, said she hod remained hidden in the bunk of her husband, Robert Kuhn, of Rochester, N. Y for the first- four days and nights of tho MocDowell's journey across the Atlantic. Number 10641 43rd (Winged Victory) division, steams up San Francisco bay on remainder of the division is to nounced revocation of permission-to the Japanese to operate an air courier and liaison trans port service. The job will be taken over by American air men. Cost of the war to Japan from July, 1937, to its end was indicated by the commercial daily paper, Nippon Dangyo, which said the Japanese funded borrowings at the end of July, 1945,. amounted to 114,289,000,- 000 yen ($6,619,266,660). - 1 The - reforms which Mac Arthur told Shidehara must be made in carrying out surrender terms included votes for women, labor unionization, liberaliza tion of education, abolition of all secret governmental police and revision of industrial mon opolies. The order for the report on foreign exchange assets was the sixth step the allied command has taken in bringing about tight control of Nipponese fi nances. Obviously allied investigators are on the search for war loot and for the tieups of Japan's big industrialists with the mil itary and imperialism. Today's announcement said the Japanese government . has been ordered to report all foreign exchange assets, includ ing private holdings and for eign holdings in the imperial household, within 90 days. LAGUARDf A FLAYS WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (IP) Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia said today that W. Stuart Sym ington is not "competent or suit able" to administer the surplus property disposal law. "I don't think Mr. Symington likes the cities," the New York mayor told a senate war investi gating subcommittee. "He may be a sharp business man, but I don't think he'll do to administer this law." President Truman appointed Symington, a St. Louis business man, surplus property adminis trator to succeed the original three-man' board which was en charged with supervising dispos al of surplus government war material. Congress created the one-man administration at the president's request. LaGuardia contended that "the board, its successor and the disposing agencies hove deliber ately and wilfully and with in- (Continued on Page Two) Hunters Flock To Klamath For Bird Season Opening Duck hunters are on their mark getting ready for the exo dus to the hunting areas before 6:40 a. m. Saturday morning when the duck hunting season officially opens. Hotels in town will be crowd ed to capacity according to the lists of reservations and hunters ore praying for ideal duck weather, a cold wind and per haps a little rain. Out-of-town sportsmen from all over the country will be here for the opening day. Best spots for ducks will probably be found along the Uppor Klamath lake, Workers Push Through AFL j Picket Line SEATTLE, Oct. 11 (P) Formed In solid tanks, a phalanx ot about 160 determined CIO plywood workers today shoved their way past some 100 AFL pickets to reopen the big United State Plywood corporation only major lumber industry plant here employing CIO unionists. There was no violence, but several arguments between Indi viduals. In most cases, the pickets, representing the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union, moved back a step or two, hands in their pockets, as the workers, including a doxen women, re entered the plant's four entrances. Five policemen stood by. Breaking the picket line, established a week ago last Monday, was the aftermath of a delay in court proceedings instituted by the CIO union seeking an order prohibiting the picket line. An estimated 480 lumber mills have been closed by a strike VL iiie acl uiuunisis asKing t nigner wages. Tne diu workers, also negotiating wage increases, are not on strike. The AFL union leaders said that every carload of lumber produced at the mill would be noted and its routing followed. Any truck loading from it would be stopped by AFL teamsters; AFL sailors would refuse ' to work any ships loading the lum-i ber, and AFL carpenters would refuse to handle any of the lum ber shipped by rail, they added. CIO leaders and operators re opened negotiations at Portland today and leaders here said they believed a settlement was immi nent. The CIO is asking $1.15 an hour wage minimum; the AFL asks $1.10 an hour mini mum on an industry-wide basis. The basic wage is 90 cents. Mills Reopeuad The CIO reported that its mills at Westport and Wauna, Ore., picketed yesterday by the AFL, reopened today with no pickets in sight. CIO workers had told the pickets not to re turn. The CIO International Wood workers of America resumed ne gotiations today at . Portland with the lumbermen's industrial relations committee and the U. S. conciliation service, seeking a 25-cent-hourly wage increase. The CIO mills at North Bend and Coos Bay, Ore., remained closed by pickets while CIO workers called a mid-afternoon meeting to decide what action to take. AFL strike,. 'jeadquar ters at Portland reported still a third CIO mill closed today in the Coos Bay ' region Port Orford Cedar company., FOR DEATH PENALTY SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11 (JP) Wilbur L. Martin, navy warrant officer, implied today that he would press for the death penalty for the socially prominent Mrs. Annie Mans feldt, 45, charged with the slay ing of Martin's wife, Vada, 36-year-old nurse. Mrs. Mansfeldt was charged with shooting Mrs. Martin to death after accusing the nurse of engaging in intimacies with Dr. John H. Mansfeldt, 58. Ap prised of the tragedy. Dr. Mans feldt then killed himself with poison. Martin returned yesterday from 22 months' service in the Pacific. Today he was closeted with District Attorney Edmund Brown. A reporter asked him if he thought the prosecution should demand the death penalty. "What would be your situa tion if someone killed your wife?" the navy man replied. The newsman considered, and said "I would ask for the death penalty." Martin nodded. "That is the way I feel about it," he said. Tonight he is to leave with Mrs. Martin's body for their former home in Baltimore. Then he will return for Mrs. Mans feldt's trial. Martin was in the Admiralty Islands when he heard a broad cast about the slaying. He was given leave immediately. . Thanksgiving To Be November 22 SALEM, Oct. 11 (VP) Oregon will observe Thanksgiving Doy November 22, the fourth Thurs day of the month, Governor Earl Snell announced today. That is the date observed by most states, and is the date fixed by congressional resolution. on the banks of Lost river and Klamath river, near the bird ref uge line and in Poe and Langell valleys. The ammunition situation Is "not so good" this year, accord ing to sporting goods store men. There are even fewer shells than last year, although many hunt ers hove probably been saving up for the big day. Although the big bird move ment through the Klomath coun try is expected some time in No vember, many birds are feeding in this area now, observers reported. SPUD FESTIVAL TO BEGIN FRIDAY MERRILL Opening gong of the ninth annual Merrill potato . festival will sound Friday at vioon when potato, commercial, 4-H, FFA and other agricultural exhibits will be thrown open to the public in the high school gymnasium. . Potatoes and other farm produce will be judged by ; representatives of the division 01 plant industry, Oregon State college. Sports and games are sched-' uled during the afternoon. ; : Main Feature . Main feature of the first day of the two-day fete, is the crown. ing of the new ruler of the potato kingdom. Queen JoAnne Kandra of Merrill, who will receive her crown from Nell Morfitt, Astori ," ia, commander of the American r Legion, state of Oregon, just prior to the banquet, at 6:30 ' p. m., in the grade school gym nasium; ' Commander Morfitt, guest speaker at the banquet, will be introduced by Dr. David J. Fer guson, pastor of the Merrill: Presbyterian church. John Hous-: ton, Klamath Falls, will act os toastmaster. . Father James O'Connor - of. St. ... Auguxtlnfc church of Merrill will offer the invocation. . - Following the banquet, Queen JoAnne and her court of four princesses, Shirley Main, Mary Jane Hornbeak, Billie Harris and Jean George will again be pre sented to the public at a dance to be held in the community hall. A full day of events planned .(Continued on Page Two) The Associated Press story of demolishing 48 dwelling units "in Klamath Falls," which ap peared in Wednesday's paper caused some confusion here as it failed to state clearly the units to be demolished are in Vancouver, Wash., according to Harry Gamble, FPHA project engineer. v Contracts had previously been let to demolish the project in Washington, transfer the ma".. terlals to Klamath Falls and re construct the housing units here. Contracts were cancelled with -the end ot the war, and the units were not moved from Washington as scheduled. They are to be demolished there now, and materials disposed of to builders. ; No instructions have been re ceived as yet as to disposition of government property in this area, and none is expected at the present. All contracts on FPHA construction were for the duration of the emergency and six months, for civilian housing which was constructed on leased property. This clause does not apply to military housing which has been constructed on government property. Columbus Day To Be Observed Columbus Day, October 12, will be observed with special programs in assembly rooms at Klamath Falls schools Friday. Local banks will observe the day by closing, as will tho Klamath county courthouse, city hall and the Oregon state liquor store. - Business will be carried on as usuol by Klamath merchants. Li braries will stay open as well as the post office and offices in the Federal building. ; ' Arriving In United States By The Associated Press Rex W. Carson, 1316 Look out, Klamath Falls. Arrlvei on MIT Victory due at Boston October 12. SCHEDULED
