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Newspaper Page TextCIO Okays Pay Increase At Conference Held Here The following announcement wu mid at the clou el CIO-1WA negotiations with Klamath district lumbar operators here todiyi The Employers Negotiating Committee and the Inter national Negotiating Committee, Jointly recommend to the partial for whom the two committee! have the authority to nogotlate, tho following) 1. A wage Incrooie of MVt centi per hour shall be come offoctivo for all employe! ai of November 1, 1945. I 2. Thli increase may bo converted to a contract rat for omployoi paid on a plect rate bails, and If to the method of converilon, ihall be decided by each company and each local union bargaining agent. Slgnod ot Klamath Falls, Ore., Thli 7th day of No vember, 1945. Pine Induitrlol Relation! Committee, Inc., By C. L. Irving. International Woodworkers of America, IWA, By Virgil Burt a. VwWWWVWWWNrVrrrArAXAA In The- Pill! , By FRANK JENKINS J tYE woro practically unaware " o( tt In Oregon, but yostor- Joy wiiii tho XI rut Tuesday after '.no iirst Monday in November, ind no rated 4in on oloctlon dulc. , l'ho election! woro chiefly In :hn East, and woro confined largely to miiyora with here and '.Here an oil-year congressman. IN Now York City O'Dwyor, Democratic American Labor Party nomlnro, ran away with tho mnyornlty election, jicttliis! more votcj tliun his two op ponents comblnucl, Hunnogun, Democratic New Dual political chief of staff. In tcrprcts till) u a sign that Tru uinii'a goose in hanging high and there's nothing to worry about. MAYUE go. Thl writer has a pious notion tlmt O'Dwyor wus ouisuinuingiy tno Dew man ot the lot. and won for thut reason ' TT luemi to this writer of Into that Truman I SLIPPING Thut he Isn't quite the biff mini he SEEMED to be. Maybe he will bo able to bounce back. But io far he ii showing no iltns of GREAT leadership aoiuty. (In his DOMESTIC policies, thut Is. His foreign policy has not yet proceeded far enough to be judged by the all-important measuring stick of RESULTS.) AS for tho Republican party, It still has NO .PROGRAM. Until It gets one, it won't amount to much, so far, it is Just the opposition. t , TN Detroit, Incumbent Mayor Jeffries wins a fourth term ovor CIO Leader Richard Frank enstein, who had the all-out backing of the dreaded CIO . Political Action. Committee. Hint might be a trend. At this distance It looks as if a lot of voters in Detroit may have bcon afraid or TOO MUCH PAC, CHURCHILL gets back Into the As leader of the opposition In narllamcnt. he says he's pretty sure Russia wouldn't sharo the atom bomb secret if SHE ALONE possessed it. He adds: "If the circumstances were re versed and we or the Amorlcnns asked for similar access to Rus slnn arsenals our request would NUT Do granted." UE explains to parliament that the advantage possessed by tho United States in connection with tho atom bomb consists In tho "know-how" gained from tho practical production methods "developed at enormous ox Dense and on a gigantic scale.' Because of this, we are ONE JUMP ahead of the rest of the world at tho present moment. Ho says Britain should help tho U. S. guard tho atom bomb "as a sacred trust for tho main tcnancc of peace," and intimates that the United States should meanwhile provide Britain with a SUPPLY of the bombs which wo alone, at the moment, KNOW JtlUW TU MAlUi. That sounds like tho estab lished Churchill brand of HARD COMMON SENSE. , nUSSIA Is tho big mystery na tlon of the world, and at this particular Instant Stalin Is the big mystery mon. '. WHERE Is he? HOW is he? COrt gomo reason, ho didn't take tho spotlight at the big Mos cow celebration of the 28th an niversary of the bolshevik revo lution. MOLOTOV appeared In stead. Thcro ore two possible ex planations: e ' 1. Stalin Is SICK. 2. Ho is NOT IN RUSSIA. -; .-. ; ; TJIS health Is supposed to have been bad (he recently took a month's vacation) and may still bo so, i ! ALSO there ore rumors (which may bo all moonshino) that ho Is now or has been In tho U. S. There nro other rumors that Chiang Kai-shek has been here, Thut could mean that a BIG DEAL Is on regarding the Chi ncso civil war. ' . ; pEMEMBER that we are never TOLD those things the ages old theory being that diplomatic negotiations' must be conducted (Continued on Page Two) THIS GUY'S PERSISTENT! PORTLAND, Nov. 7 (P) Jesse E. Klrkland, 24, broke jail in Poducah, Ky and fled to Oregon. ; , Arrested and jailed at Heppncr, he broke jail there, Yesterday a deputy marshal went to Klrkland'a detention coll More, found him picking the lock with metal coat hanger hook. 1 , ... Klrkland and Earl Demery,' 1A, who were arrested at Baker after tliolr Hoppner escape, wore removed to county jail to await removal to Paducoh, . . . arrrr CIO TO REFER PAY OFFER TO PORTLAND. Ore., Nov. 7 UP) There were indications today any CIO lumber workers' accept ance of the compromise 121 cent hourly pay boost would create a new stalemate In negotiating be tween sinking At L, union men and northwest operators. Agents for 18,000 CIO ply wood workers voted last night to refer to tho membership a 12a cent offer which the AFL com mittee rejected a few hours earlier from the same operator group. After the CIO action, the Ply wood Employers association committee issued a statement in which it declared an AFL coun ter proposal to the operators' of fer had been rejected. - The operators asserted their 40 mills were almost evenly di vided as to union affiliation and It would be "impossible in a highly competitive industry to have one wage, rate for one un ion group and a different one for the other union." . . AFL Committeeman Frank Chapman said earlier the ply wood group's of for would estab lish a 1 .02a cent rate. - The un ion struck six weeks ago over demands for - $1.10 minimum. About 1000 of the AFL's 61,000 workers are now working at the higher pay. Counter Proposal The plywood group stated after the CIO action that the AFL counter proposal called for a IS cent boost over the present minimum B0 cent -rate and an additional S cents January 1. Meanwhile other- operator groups of strike-bound mills were scheduled to meet this week'witli district AFL councils In the four states. Similar 121 cent offers by some have al- , (Continued on Page Two) Truman Plans Atomic Talks WASHINGTON. Nov. 7 (PI President Truman will begin his atomic energy discussions with tnc British and Canadian prime ministers on Saturday. The-White House, disclosing this today, said the three-power talks will start at the White House and continue on the presi dential yacht, Potomac, on Sun day. ' Prime Ministers Attlee of Great Britain and MacKentlc King of Canada will accompany tho president to Arlington cem etery at 11 a. m. (EST) Sunday when he lays a wreath on the tomb of America's unknown soldier. After the Armistice Day cere mony there, the party will go. to tnc grave of sir John Dill, for mer British representative on the combined chiefs of staff, where Mr. Attlee will lay another wreath. Ebcn Aycrs, assistant press secretary, also disclosed that there will be a state dinner at the White House Saturday night in honor of . the distinguished visitors. MEMBERSHIP Reds Claim Victory Over Foe Along ' By SPENCER MOOS A CHUNGKING, Nov. 7 '(P) Chinese communists claimed s victory today over 70,000 Na tionalist troops In fighting along the Peiping-Hankow railroad as the Kuomlngtang official news agency reported intensified bat tling throughout the provinces oi snansi and suiyuan. The communists also said thev rtad recaptured tne liopch prov ince ran junction of Tzchalen Oct. 29. The already strained re lations between Ycnnn and Chungking' were further endan gered by the communist claims under tne veteran .Gen, Ho Lung, the communists are tight ening a ring of steol . around Kwolsul, Suiyuan capital, .while other red columns move from tho west, preparatory to assault ing tho important city of Paotow, ,. $ .6 . . A; TV y PRICE FIVE CENTS . A? A Lewis Crosses h IP) I I. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, Is forced to pass through a picket line in order to attend the labor-management conference opening at the labor department in Wash ington, D. C. Pickets are members of independent unions who charge that they were given "brush off" In their attempts to participate in conference. AFL TRANSIT WALKOUT ENDS Br The Associated Press AFL bus and trolley opera tors who struck yesterday for higher wages voted almost unanimously to resume work in Washington today. Tho end of the strike that had tied up the capital's transporta tion system came as 273,000 other .workers were off the job E Veterans of World War II, both mon and women, a r re quested to report in uniform to Memorial hall on S. 4th street, at 10 o clock Monday morning for the American Legion parade. United Slates marines win lead the. "Welcome. Home Com rades" parade which will start at 2nd and Main, at 11 o'clock the - morning of NovemDer iz. World War II veterans will form In line at 4th just south of Main, and follow the marines. American Legionnaires will follow the veterans, then the American Lesion auxiliary, the Klamath Union high school band, Veterans of Foreign wars ana Spanish American war veterans. The Sheriffs Posse will rldo at the end of the parade. The parade will proceed to Modoc field where Lynn Roy croft will address tho crowd, fol lowed by a short speech' from Col. Charles T. Brooks, com manding officer of the Marine Barracks. , After the program at the field everyone is welcome to at- (Continued on rage iwoj WEATHER (November 7) Max. (Nov. 6) 31 Mln 24 Precipitation last 24 hours Trace Stream year to date' 1.11 Normal ....1.34 Last year.... 2.03 Forecast) Snow tonight, warm er Thursday. Thursday snooting Hours Klamath-Tulelake Open 6:32 a. m. Close 4:48 p. m. Vital Railroad also on the Pclping-Suiyuan rail road. Large communist reinforce ments are pouring Into the prov ince, the nationalist dispatches said. Meanwhile, the Ycnan forces continued their attacks against the beleaguered rail junction of Tatung in northern Shansi. In the south of the province, com munists wero attacking different points along the Tatung-Puchow railroad, Including Hohicn. Loss of several towns -west of the railroad was acknowledged by the central government, but it contended that Kuomintang forces boat off more than 30 at tacks against Chaocing in four days. A semi-official dispatch report ed tho rods head broached tho Yellow river dyko near tho Im portant highway center oi rai vnntt In eastern Honan. Inundat ing hundreds of square miles of territory and flooding many towns and villages. The flood threatened to engulf Talyang. 1 Further communist destruc tion to railroads north of the Yangtze also was charged. Forces over which tho com munists claimed "victory" In the Hopeh fighting Included eight divisions, three "equipped with American arms and noted tor their combat powers." ' TH FALLS, OREGON, cket Line To Attend in scores of labor disputes over the nation. The newest major walkout involved 10,000 rubber industry workers in Akron, O. An agreement In the Wash ington strike was accepted at a mass meeting of the 4000 union members involved. The plan was proposed after a concilia tion conference. Back On Job Under it, workers will go bock to their jobs with the Cap ital Transit company at once and negotiations over increased pay will begin tomorrow. Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-W.Va.), chairman of the house District of Columbia committee, said the agreement guaranteed no dis- ;r'A Agness Winters Enters Contest The first candidate to enter the Klamath Victory Queen con test is 21-year-old Agness Win ters. Miss Winters is being spon sored by the Northwestern Thea tres. ' Miss Winters is unmarried and lives with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Howells, 5628 S. 6th. She is employed as an usherette at the Esquire theatre where she has worked for approximately six months. She is a native of Butte, Montana, and has lived in Klamath Falls for the last year and a half. Marvin Hixon, chairman of the contest committee, urges all girls interested in entering the contest to do so as soon as pos sible so that bond buyers may cast their votes for their chosen favorite candidate. First r i . - Sf. 3i2 -iLJnJ' Agness Winters, sponsored by the Northwestern Theatres, Is the lirst nominee to enter the Klamath Victory Queen contest extending from November 8 to December 8. Kenncll-Ellis nn JL Telephone BUM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 145 Conference ciplinary action against the strikers. Randolph also said he had been assured taxi cab drivers would not take a threatened "holiday." Busy even in -normal times, the cabbies were hard pressed during the transit tieup that deprived 1,500,000 daily (Continued on Page Two) IN ADMITS GUILT Charges of assault and rob- bory while armed with dan gerous weapon nave oeen mea in the district attorney's office against Raymond Crumpacker, 37. and Robert Thill. 26. in. con nection with holding up Dominic Frazer at his market on S. 6th Monday night. Crumpacker has admitted the robbery, District Attorney Clar ence A. Humble, said today, but claims that lie was alone. The robbery netted about $85, Frazer reported. He and three employes were in the store when an unmasked man entered. brandished a revolver and grab bed the paper money from one cash register. When Crumpacker and Thill were picked up several hours later by state police near Mid land on highway 97, Crumpacker had a 32-2U (Jolt revolver in his overcoat pocket, and $74 on his person, $60 of that amount wad ded in a tight ball and concealed in his shoe. Police are also checking the (Continued on Page Two) Entry r Number 10S84 0! OF By The Associated Press Democrat William O'Dwyer swamped two major opponents and won election as mayor of new xorK my yesterday. ' His vote far exceeded the ag gregate of his opposition. It prompted democratic leaders to see good things ahead lor the party in tne state and national ly. They saw in it a decline in the political fortunes of Gov. Thomas E. - Dewey. Republicans withheld com ment for the time being. In the second municipal scrap that captured more than local attention in yesterday's first postwar voting. Mayor Edward J. - Jeuriei was elected to a fourth term in Detroit's hot non partisan mayoralty race against Richard T. Franken- steen, CIO union leader. Frankensteen had the backing of the CIO's political action committee: Other Elections Democrats elected these may ors elsewhere: David L. Law rence, national committeeman for Pennsylvania,, in Pittsburgh; incumbent Thomas A. Burke at Cleveland, and Rep. James M Curley for a fourth term, not consecutive, at Boston. The Cur ley victory was in a non-parti san race involving, six registered democrats. A democrat, E. Leland Tay lor, was leading the race for mayor ot Louisville. 1 Republicans, after 14 ' years on the outside, swept into con trol of the- city government 'of New Haven,-Conn., electing Wil liam G, Gelantano . ag - mayor. Cornelius A. Moylan. a repub lican, was chosen" asTmayor-of xiaruora, out waiemury picked a democrat, jonn s. Monagan. Bridgeport kept its socialist mayor, Jasper McLevy, elected lor nis seventh consecutive term. To offset the democratic vic tory registered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania republicans reelected- two superior court 1 (Continued on Page Two) Klamath Spuds Remove Taste Of Maine Tubers BOISE, Ida., Nov. 7 ffl Klamath county, Oregon, pre sented Governor Gossett to day with 100 pounds of Klam ath Netted Gem potatoes in an attempt, its representatives said, to get the taste of Maine tubers out of the governor's mouth. . Charles R. Stark, manager of the Klamath County cham ber of commerce, and A. M. Collier, Klamath Falls busi nessman, made the presenta tion. "We saw an Associated Press picture from Washing ton, D. C, of the governor being fed a Maine potato by the governor of Maine," Stark explained. 'The evident dis taste with which he attacked that plate of Maine potatoes prompted us to bring him some real Oregon potatoes," he added. Stark formerly was ' secretary-manager of the Nampa, Ida., chamber of commerce. DUTCH VOTED ill nil Old Man Winter Rides Into Klamath On Flurry Of Snow Winter rode Into the Klamath basin on a flurry of snow, coat ing the highways with ice and dropping the mercury to a new low of 23 degrees. The weatherman held out lit tle hope for a let-up In the chill, winds and Intermittent - snow storms and forecast snow in the high altitudes for the next 24 hours. Accidents were reported fre- auently in the rtiountaln areas and the Sun Mountain stretch of The Dalles-California highway was anathema to a number of motorists, several of whom wound up In Klamath Falls hos pitals when their cars left the road. Other accident reports told of damages to cars which piled up Tuesday on the highways. , Motorists crossing mountain asses must use chains, the state ighway commission said today. although snow conditions are not bad and highways are now in that state known as winter driving condition. Light snow fell in all mountains and snow equipment was operating. There was a total of 13 inches ui Union Demands That Delegates Talk Pay Hikes WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (P) Unions put ailde thelt bltte wrangling over key posts In the national labor-management con. ference today for a showdown on the CIO demand that delegates discuss wages. The issue may pop up at the first session of the executive committee, key conference group empowered to lift all buslnese for formal consideisilon. - CIO President Philip Murray has contended that wages and a decent standard of living for the worker" cause all labo troubles end that mere creation of machinery for settling dis putes will not solve the pay issue. . . . . So 'if U """J5"" ' delegates seem disinclined to tackle wages, iney point to president 1 iruman s can to tne group to work out better methods of col lective bargaining. AFL Presi dent William Green told them the conference would be doomed to failure if It started talking pay rates. . - R. J: Thomas, president of the CIO auto workers, told the conference yesterday no amount of dispute - settling machinery could prevent strikes. "You can't make democracy live," Thomas said, "by writing a few formulas down on a piece of paper.", Lewis Wins Fight ' The whole problem will be threshed out in the executive committee. It was because of this, partly, that John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Work ers, waged his successful fight yesterday for a seat on the com mittee. He won with the help cf Green's AFL delegates Lewis has been talking of a pos sible return to the AFL-fold and over the opposition of the CIO. Instead of an eight-man exec utive commute as had been pro posed, with labor's four votes divided between the AFL and CIO, the conference agreed to a 16-man committee with labor's eight votes divided three each for CIO and AFL, and one each for.i,ewis' UMW and the rail road brotherhoods. Elsewhere In the capital there were these developments on the wage issue: NLRB Ponders : The national labor relations board pondered whether it may conduct a strike' vote by the CIO United Steelworkers of Re public Steel corporation while the-union has a,.nq-strike con tract.. :.V."V J.?' ," The steel workers " asked for the., vote after the corporation rejected their requests for 2 a - (Continued on rage twoj Senator Asks Draft Repeal WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 () Senator Revercomb (D-W. Va.) said today that unless the army and navy quit araiung men "this week" congress should pro ceed Immediately to, end selec tive service itself. Revercomb. a member of the senate military-committee, told a reporter fieures show that the draft which took millions of men into service--can now roll to a dead stop without impairing occupation forces. . This comment was in amplifi cation of a senate speech . in which he said the voluntary en listment program is getting an the men the army and navy need. Revercomb added on the floor that unless the services act aromptly,- "there will be legis atlon offered." "You recall that President Truman fixed the. number of draft calls per month at 50,000 In order not to delay the return of soldiers who have served over seas," he said in the interview. ' "Now, It is 'very patent that volunteers are far exceeding the selective service number. It is a matter of reasoning, a matter of logical deduction." ' Revercomb also plugged hard for the release of men with de pendents. He said the country's ?ieacetime needs make it impera Iv for these men to take up their lives in the civilian economy. - at Santiam junction, five Inches of it having fallen In the past 24 hours. There was a total of 14 Inches on the Willamette high way, six inches ot it being new snow. Diamond lake and Crater lake roads were closed by the snow, the state police reported this morning. Coldest of the season was re ported Tuesday morning when thermometers here sank to' 23 degrees. It was 24 this morning in Klamath Falls. NOT A PEEP FROM CHARLIE HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 7 (A1) Charlie McCarthy squawks lot about his treatment at the hands of Edgar Bergen but at least the little wooden stooge didn't let out a peep that his boss has been) married secretly for more than four months. Ventriloquist Bergen, 40, informed Hollywood friends yester. day that he and Frances Westerman, 22, beauteous former Powers model whom he met five years ago, were married June 23 at Ensenada, Mexico. She is known professionally as Frances West, cott. It was the first marriage for each. . The Bergens left Chicago last night for Oklahoma City where they will be the guests of Governor Robert Kerr. Bergen said they plan to arrive In Hollywood Monday and establish theis home in Beverly Hills. PAPER PLANTS Iff CLOSED f AFL UNIONS PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 7 (IT) Two AFL unions threatened a possible tie-up in the Pacific coast pulp and paper industry today in the wake of a war labof board decision which the unions considered unsatisfactory. ' , ; John Sherman, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, - Sulphite and Papef Mill Workers, and Russell Drum, mond, vice-president- of the In ternational Brotherhood of Pa. per Makers, announced that theil bargaining committee was meet ing here today to consider the decision. . ; "If the members reject tha, only offer contained in the WLB decision, namely, a slight .raise in night pay," they said, "we expect the industry to be tied up, unless the association employer! ' meanwhile seek negotiations." " ' First Dispute It was the first dispute in a decade of successful collective bargaining between the unions and the Pacific coast associatlqq of pulp and. paper manufactur. ers. -,- ; A tie-up would affect 32 mills in - Oregon, ' Washington, and,1 California, -and from 11,576 to 20,000 workers. The lower estU mate was, made by the WLB, the) higher one by the unions. The 12th regional war labor' board recommended only one union demand: Increase of the 21 cent hourlv night different . tlal to 4 cents for the second shift - and 6 cents for the third. r . The- board recommended -de nlal of the 20 per cent wage in. crease asked to offset reduction . of the work week from 48 to 40) . hours. It advised, however, that the contract allow renegotiation on the increase when the work week is actually cut. Union re- (ConUnued on Page Two) Two Klamath Men Hurt In Wreck Harry I. Wayne, general agent for the Great Northern, and, Mt, V. Schoonover, traveling freight agent for the line, suffered In. juries late Tuesday morning; when their car overturned on the Icy roadbed of Highway 97 north of Algoma. Schoonover, driver of the car, is In Hillside hospital with a so. vere back injury. Wayne re.'" ceived severe body bruises but was able to be at his desk for a short time today The two were en route to Bend on busi- ness when their car struck, an icy stretch, skidded and over turned on the road. The " ma chine, a total wreck, came to rest on its side In a ditch. The two men were brought back to Klamath Falls by pass. ine - motorists. Scnoonover, 33, was recently appointed traveling freight agent for . the Great Northern replacing Pete Les. : meister who has left for Brook. Ings to raise bulbs. His home. was in Oakland, cam. . , Arriving In United States By The Associated Press Virgil T. Johnson. SSgt., Klamath Falls, arrived on E. B. Alexander due In Boston November 6. Wilbur E. Muma, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on E. B. Alexander due in Bos ton November 6. . George R. Bellah, . PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on E. B. Alexander due in Bos ton November 6.