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nJCIte Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS THERE la an interesting de- volopmont today In whut might bo termed tho "CI gripe" news. It In cuntiiiiiccl In a dls- patch from Munllu, which nays: "An urmv officer exorcised BUI'EHVISOUY JUDO M12NT (censorship) todny over mutcriai curried In the urmy riewspupcr, Dully Piiclflenn. including its IKipnlar Mull Ung culiunn in WHICH soldier nir ineir views. A MONO tho subjects to bo banned horctiftor from the Mull Bng am ruca relutlons, re u on und officer privileges vs diluted men's privileges. Thu officer cluing llie censor ing (Col. W. I!. Waters, heading the Information-education sec lion of Army Forres In tho Went rn Puelflc) explain that tho new POLICY hns for its uhn build Inu ud rather than under- , (.milling the. army. Ho adds: 'Nothing can bo done at thin rommuna icvui auuut nm-n uu lems, und 1t-des no good to pro voko til feeling." t TO get a reasonable under Ktiiiidlnii of this "urine" nrob- lm, you must put yourself in tint nlai e of Die American GI. lie Isn't professional soldier. Ho Is n CITIZEN soldier, re moved from his status as a cit izen and inducted Into the urmy to defend his country against its enemies. Hu recognizes this oo llgutlon and ACCEPTS it. Tho record of our armed services Is proof enough that ho DOES HIS jou In a wiioic-nouriea una workmanlike manner. ! Uut ho remains a CITIZEN soldier nt heart, and as such ho is burned to tho coro by the re strictions and the regimentations of army life. ("Browned off" is thu army term lor u.i no en dures theno restriction and regimentations (Including a casto system that reduces tho enlisted man to the humiliating position of a member of an inferior class) nartlv because ho has to but chiefly because lie realizes that dlsclpllna Is neccssury In han dllnit vast bodies of men In war fare and so contributes to tho winning of the war and tho de fense of his country's Ideals. So he puts up with the system, nd relieves ins iccungs oy grip ing just us we do on the home front, THE telllng-the-edltor column carried by tho army news papers under various headings v ueh as "Mull Bug," "B Bug," etc. i' hns provided for tho browned off GI an outlot for his pent-up discontent Hint hns been simply invaluable. Up to now, the urmy policy toward these publications has been liberal and Intelligent, based unon tolerant understand ing Hint getting It off our chests docs us Americans a tremendous amount of good and enables us to get our troubles under our feet wncro wo can nnnmc mem. Now comes this new and ut terly senseless policy of censor- shin that takes from tho citizen Soulier what he rcgnrds as his traditional American right to air his necves. It looks llko typical caso of brass hat bung ling. MOTHING Is more undersland- oblo than the GI's desire to f(ct homo. So fur us ho enn see, lis job Is done. It is up to him now to make his place In the world to get going on his per sonal job of reconversion. He knows that tho longer he Is kept away from home tho senrcer the good jobs und the promising openings will be when ho gets back. Ho hears vaguely about the responsibilities his country hns been committed to, but ho Isn't told what these commitments are. It isn't surprising If In his frame or mind nil this nazy taiK of commitments appears to him to be a lot of bushwah. It would bo far better If In stead of censoring his gripes out of print, thus compelling him to uottio them up- m-nis system whero they will be pretty sure to foster, the GI were told frankly and lullv all about theso commit ments that prevent him from getting home and getting back to work. There Is a lot of room for more frankness In our govern mental system. Nl JVL Nl (BET fo) GM Turns Down Wage Proposal By The Associated Press Another mnjor development along the inbor front today was tho flat rejection by Goncrnl Motors of Mr. Truman's fact finding board's recommendation of a 171 per cent wage increase lor Its some 200,000 striking em ployes. The GM strikers comprise nearly one half of the 416,000 workers idle throughout the country because of labor dis putes. In Detroit today, officials of tho CIO United Auto Workers union who culled the strike Inst November 21 In support of de mands for a 30 per cent wage rate hike, met to study tho re port, ucnorui Motors termed , as "unacceptable In wholo or in port" the bonrd's proposnl for a 101 cents an hour wnge increase and reinstatement of the union contract. Oil Board Proposes Pay Raise Fact Panel In Favor Of 18 Per Cent Increase WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 Ml A presidential fact-finding panel toduy proposed a general HI per cont wage Increase for CIO oil workers Involved in a three-month-long pay dispute with a major portion of tho Industry, Settlements have already been reached between the union und severul Individual compunles on that bunis. The proposed Increase would boost tho uvernge hourly pny of the 25,000 workers involved from $1.20 per hour to $1.40 per hour. Tho nnvy, which took over 53 refineries und pipelines on Octo ber 4 when government concili ation efforts fulled, still Is in control of 30 plants and pipe Hues of 23 companies. Settlements were reached In canes affecting the other facili ties. Secretary of Labor Schwcllcn buch, to whom the thrcc-mnn fi a n e I reported imdf who re cused the findings, described the report and recommenda tions us "sound und fair." "The recommendations pro posed by the panel provido a basis for the speedy conclusion of collective bargaining be tween tho parties so that the plants and facilities may be re leased promptly to their own ers by tho navy," Schwcllcn bach said. The CIO oil workers hod de manded a 30 per cent wnge boost. The oil board wus the first fact-finding panol appointed by Mr. Truman to investigate a major postwar dispute. Subse quently President Truman ap pointed similar bourds for tho General Motors strlko and tho CIO steel workers dispute with the U, S. Steel corporation. Klamath Firm Changes Hands Sale or the Wilson Title and Abstract company, pioneer busi ness concern of Klamath Falls, to Commonwealth Inc., of Port land was announced todny by Arthur B. and Roxana P. Wil son. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson came to Klnmath Falls 35 years ago in February of this year, from Pueblo, Colo. They engaged in tho abstract business under tho nnmo of City and County Ab stract company. Their first 13 years were spent at 517 Main street. In 1029, the Wilsons in corporated under the name of Wilson Title and Abstract com pany. The business continued to ox pund and It became necessary for tho company to seek larger quarters. In 1023, the firm built the present building at 311 Main street across from tho court house Wilson announced that the title plant only was sold to Com monwealth and he and Mrs. Wil son will retain the building and management of tho title plant for an indefinite period. They expressed appreciation to the community in a statement made today. The present staff includes Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Thor Newman, Mrs. Stanley Hojicck, Mndnlinc Schrclncr and Haurby Bcchcn. o i nut v '.Yjni PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OBEGr 'ffikpAY. JANUARY 12. 1948 Knmbtr 10717 II. PHONE ftftp Sill Local Service Assured In New York When Union Members Pass Pickets NEW YORK, Jan, 12 (A1) Paralysis gripped the nation's long distance telephone system today, but in New York a continuation of local phone service was assured whan members of two unions crossed picket lines to return to their jobs. The New York Telephone company reported at mid-morning that all operations for the clty exchanges reported for work despite picket lines thrown around 30 of the 38 exchanges by striking installation workers of the Western Electric company. The strikers had asked telephone workers not to cross the lines and in many sections of the nation the request was obeyed. Long distance operators at the American Telephone and Telegraph building at 32 Ave- Six Nations Voted Seats On Council By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Jon. 12 VP) Overriding Russian efforts to postpone the balloting, the United Nations assembly today elected six nations to non-permanent seats in the important security council along with a five-power permanent bloc. Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Mex ico, The Netherlands and Po land were chosen to non-permanent membership on the coun cil, which will control the pro posed world police force. The United States, Britain, Russia, China1 and Franco are the per manent members of tho 11-nn- tion body. The election was completed after Canada and Australia went through two indecisive ballots in a run-off between the two members of the British commonwealth. Ruled Out . Canada then proposed that Australia bo chosen by accla mation. That procedure was ruled out of order but, Canada having In effect withdrawn, Australia received 46 votes on tho final tally. The other five non-permanent members were elected on the first ballot. All ballots were se cret. The five countries elected on the first ballot were Brazil (47 votes), Egypt (45), Mexico (45), Poland (30) and The Nether lands (37). The five elected states and Canada were on a slate which lind been circulat ed by tho United States delega tion. WEATHER (January 12) Max. (Jan. 11) ... 31 Min. 8. Procipitation last 24 hours 00; Stream year to date 8.38. Normal ....5.38. Last year ....4.50. Forocast: Clear Sunday. GI Heat Keeps Capitol Hill Uncomfortably Warm WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (JP) ui nom Kept uupitot nut un comfortably warm todny, de spite the promise of n speedy airing ol the wholo demobiliza tion situation. Announcement that Gen Dwight D. Elsenhower and Adm. Chester W. Nlmitz would discuss the thorny problem be fore a joint congressional ses sion next Tuesday brought no Immediate halt In the flow of angry cables and radiograms irom overseas personnel, "When tho blazes is a tuba player considered cssontlal for a fighting army?" one GI cabled a senator. Messaged another from Gunm: "Don't let tho Pentagon become me center of American life. And from Munich:-"We want home quick with none of the damned excuses." Tho war and navy depart ments are so desirous of talking buck that- they rcaucstcd the joint house-senate session bo ar- rnnged to henr Eisenhower and Nimltz. This Information enmo from a congressional leader who would not bo quoted by name. The session is tentatively set for Tuesday morning (7 a. m., PST) in the auditorium of tho congressional library. Meanwhile, the nrmv cut tho training period for new recruits In order to step up tho flow of replacements to relievo long service men overseas. The train ing period was reduced from 17 weeks to 13. Eisenhower also was reported to have cautioned all commands against giving veteran troops any retakes in basic or other elemental training just to keep them busy. There have been loud GI gripes about such a made-work routine. A cross section of other GI demobilization gripes was made public by Senator Johnson (D Colo.), chairman of the senate military sub-committee assigned Thursday to investigate the en tire demobilization tempest. From a foot-high stack of cables on his desk, he produced such samples as: Dogs, horses, Hitler's silver ware and GI brides get rides homo but high point men wait for weeks and months A sold ier in Germany. "For God's soke get eligible high pointers home for discharge" A Wac in France. "We smoll brass want out too." A homesick second lieu tenant. , Johnson said most of the scores of cables protest the army is welching on promises to re lease men at the end of two years' service. Others complain because fathers are being re leased; because low-point men in tho United States have been freed, because men who have not been overseas are being re leased. ' I nuo of the Americas nerve center of all long line opera tions continued to observe picket lines and supervisors and emergency employes were try ing to handle urgent .calls. The two independent unions, representing 13,700 local tele phone operators and 2500 com mercial and headquarters work ers of the New York Telephone company, voted last night not to honor the picket lines. Union officials declined to estimate how many returned to work this morning. The unions are the Traffic Employes association, - repre senting the operators, and the Union of Telephone Workers, representing employes in New York City, Long Island, West chester and Rockland counties and Greenwich, Conn. Change Plans Several hours after the oper ators went through the picket lines, officials of the Associa tion of Communications Equip ment Wdrke'rf (Ind.) which set up the lines, said pickets would be withdrawn from the local exchanges and concentrated on the Avenue of Americas build ing and the main office of the company at 140 West street. The latter office houses three local exchanges, in addition to executive offices. Mexican Freed Of Rape Rap It took a circuit court jury less than 30 minutes delibera tion yesterday afternoon to find Felipe Olalde not guilty of sta tutory rape and this morning a similar case involving the same Mexican girl against Pedro Palato was dismissed. The jury's verdict in Olalde's case was unanimous. He had denied, speaking Spanish and testifying through, an interpre ter, that he had ever been in timate with the 14-year-old girl who was the complaining wit ness. Palato was brought into court yesterday to testify for Olalde but he was not put on the stand. This morning Deputy District Attorney J. Hawkins Napier entered a motion before Judge David R. Vandcnberg that the case against Palato be dis missed, saying that there was even less evidence1 corroborat ing the girl's charges against him than there was in Olalde's case and that he believed it would be a waste of time to try him. Olalde's trial took three days in court. Judge Vandenberg granted the motion and Palato was released from custody. Also this morning the case against William Daniel Rich ards, alius Bill Murphey, was continued until January 19. Richards has waived indictment ana picauca guilty 10 giving Merrill Billiards a $50 bad check and was to be sentenced this morning. The district attorney's office has not received all the wanted information concerning Rich ards past activities, so his sent ence was postponed. This One Got Away! 0 i A heavy Beacon truck crashed Into the- residence of Mrs. Beryl Houston. 526 N. 12th, at 11 o'clock this morning when brakes failed to hold. Carl F. Sandell, 1219 Lincoln, operator of the truck, was unloading heavy timbers across the street when the machine got away. Mrs. Houston was uiing the vacuum cleaner in the living room when the truck hit the side of the house, showering the interior with glass. No one was injured. Seattle City Of Aching Arches, Curtailed Phone Service, No Newspapers SEATTLE, Jan. 12 VP) Se- mobile was called Into service attle today was a city of aching arches, no newspapers and cur tailed telephone service as a strike of bus drivers set many afoot, a strike of printers went into its 56th day and picketing by Western Electric installers kept may telephone company workers off the job. It was one immense traffic jam through most of the day time working hours yesterday and a strangely silent place at night as every available auto- Arriving In United States V By Associated Press Walter P. Sexton, MSgt., Weed, arrived on Marine Shark due in Seattle January 12. James D. Alger, PFC, Klamath Falls arrived on Ma rine Shark due In Seattle Jan uary 12. Ira O. Wilkerson, PFC, Tulelnke, arrived on Thomas Denton due in New York January 12. Vera Crisler Will Probated Distribution of the estate of Vera L. Crisler, who died here suddenly November 20, 1945, is provided by a will and two -codicils filed at. Sacramento, Calif. Three houses in Klamath Falls are bequeathed to John L. Stew art Jr., Klamath Falls, and one at 45 Pine to Dola N. Clemens of the Ewauna Box company. The residue of the estate is set up in trust for Mrs. Lena King Nelson, an. aunt, of Ashland. Its net income goes to Mrs. Nelson, sister of the late Mrs. C. B. Cris ler, Klamath pioneer. When Mrs. Nelson dies the net income will be equally di vided between E. G. Funk, Sac ramento lawyer, Dola N. Clem ens of Klamath Falls, and Rollin P. Rodolph, San Francisco, ac countant for tlie late Miss Cris ler. Rodolph is named trustee. On the death of Mrs. Nelson, the entire estate is to be Distrib uted among the above three heirs. Terms Of Will Under terms of a will dated February 1, 1940, Charles W. Rose, husband of the deceased, was to have received $10,000 in cash and Vera Crisler's half in terest in the Rose apartments in Sacramento. Promissory notes held against Rose were to .have been cancelled. However,' the first codicil, dated March 9, 1944, revoked this provision and shifted the cash and apartment house interest to the residue of the estate. ' Hollls K. Trask and Alfred "Al" Ned Brotherton, given houses in the original will, were cut off by the codicils. Trask, a cousin, died in Ashland in De cember, 1945. Brotherton is a Klamath Falls resident. The value of the personal property and the annual net in come of the estate are estimated at $80,000. I to haul folks to stores and of fices and left at home in the evening. A University of Washington Western Washington college basketball game in the Wash ington pavilion, which seats 10,000, drew 2500 customers last night. Gone from the city was the flash of the hurrying trolley and the stench of scorched diesel oil from the stuttering motor coaches. Still a fourth strike was in the offing. Officers of the Unit ed Steelworkers of . America (CIO) said 750 employes of two Seattle steel plants planned to leave their jobs Monday in line with a nation-wide dispute. . Mayor William Devin called to his office at midday the Se attle transit commission, which operates the city-owned bus lines, and representatives of the striking bus drivers. At dinner time he left with the request that they remain until a basis for settlement could be estab lished. At. 3 o'clock this morning, the mayor called the Associated Press and said in a very tired voice that "progress has been made but the meeting has re cessed until 1 o'clock this after noon, when I hope further prog ress will be made." Increase To HqucaD A FL level A 1V cents an hour raise for CIO lumber employes of this area appeared a certainty today after negotiators for management and unionists agreed on the boost which puts Ci'O wages on o level with the recently negotiated AFL scale. The pay hike will affect about 6500 employes from Prineville in central Oregon well into the California pint belt to the south of here. The agreed effective date Is Janu ary 1, making the boost retrooctive. Negotiations were signed by Chet Irving for the Pine Industrial Relations committee, representing 20 companies with CIO affiliations. The some agreement will no doubt b , extended to several other CIO operations not represented by PIRC, and some have already put the boost into effect by independent action. Both Irving and Vernon Chase, CIO official, said today mey expect xavoraoie action on the agreement by management and union locals. It reads: "To close all outstanding general wage issues between the parties, the two commit tees recommend to the local unions and individual employ ers that, by mutual agreement, i 2K cent per hour wage increase be made effective January I. Whether or not this increase shall be con verted to a contract rate for employes paid on a piece rate basis, and if so the method of conversion, shall b decided by each company and its local union." AFL Strikes Early in the fall, the saw mill wage minimum for both CIO and AFL operations was 87 A cents in the pine belt. AFL went on strike for $1.10. CIO negotiated a boost to $1 on November 1, continuing to work. The AFL finally got a raise to $1.02 H and has just returned to work. Today's an nouncement brings CIO up to the $1.02 level. This figure sustains the 2H cents differ ential between pine and fir op erations. !- The company operations for which the new CIO increase was recommended today in clude: Big Lakes Box company woods, of Klamath Falls, Brooks-Scanlon Lumber com pany of Bend, Burney Lumber Logging company of Klamath? unuoqum tiox ana Lumber com pany, Deschutes Lumber com pany of Anderson, Calif., Ewauna Box company of Klam ath Falls, Graeagle Lumber cor-, poration of Graeagle, Calif., Kesterson Lumber corporation of Klamath Falls, Kesterson Box company of Klamath Falls, McCloud River Lumber com pany, Medford corporation woods - operation of Medford, Meadow Valley Lumber com pany of Quincy, Calif., Ochoco Lumber company of Prineville, Sacramento Box and Lumber company of Woodleaf, Calif., Shevlin - Hixon company of Bend, Setzer Box company of Greenville, Calif., Sugar Pine Lumber company of Ashland, Tite-Knot Pinemill at Redmond, Weyerhaeuser Timber company of Klamath Falls. Pelican Bay Lumber com pany is a major Klamath mill with CIO affiliation but not represented by PIRC. Chase said today he would recom mend to the local that it seek the same settlement with Peli can Bay that has been made with the others. Two CIO plants not connect ed with PIRC, the Rogue River Box company and the Pacific Wood Products company at Grants Pass, have effected the raise. ion. onmnonv nf Plll T31ul UUlOn Dt timhi'milm. f triamnKtd- the """company's "TiaFayette. RELEASE SILK TOKYO, Jan. 12 (IP) Allied headquarters directed the Jap anese government today to re lease 15,000 bolts of silk for sale to occupation forces through post exchanges. The army will select weights, colors and widths. Negro Handyman Seized In Degnan Kidnap Case CHICAGO, Jan. 12 VP) Chief of Detectives Walter Storms an nounced today a negro handy man who worked at an apart ment building near the home of Suzanne Degnan, 6, kidnap killing victim, was seized for questioning about the fiendish crime. The man was seized in the of fice of a doctor in suburban Wilmette. Police Capt. John L. Sullivan ed the handyman had been the said the Wilmette police report- subject of complaints by women for annoying them and children. The handyman worked at least part time at an apartment build ing near the Degnan home. He was reported to have been miss ing from his usual haunts for several days. The new angle to the many phased search for the killer came as the police had settled into painstaking analysis of all information they have assembled since the crime occurred, Mon day. WICHITA, Kas Jan. 12 VP) A 44-year-old man held in Sedg wick county jail as a mental case, was found dead hanging by his belt from the cross bar in his cell yesterday and Detective Capt. R. B. Price said he was contacting Chicago police to "de termine if there was any con nection" between his death and the kidnap-murder of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan in Chicago. Dr. Lang F. Bowman, county coroner, identified the man as Victor Emanuel Malstrom of Chi cago and listed his death as sui cide. He said Malstrom, arrest ed Wednesday night at the bus depot on a peace disturbance charge, had been held on the order of Probate Judge Clyde M. Hudson as a mental case. The coroner said the man left a note which Bowman said was in the form of a "confession." The note was not clear, Bowman said, but mentioned being in trouble with police in Chicago. In Chicago, Police Sgt. James Berglund said that there was no record ef Malstrom at the cen tral detective bureau and that no one by that name had been sought in connection with the Degnan crime. Three Steel Plants Hit By Strikes PITTSBURGH, Jan. 12 (&) Three steel plants were hit by strikes today, with thousands ot employes idle, while the indus try awaited outcome of a last minute effort by President Tru man to avert a nationwide walk out of 800,000 steelworkers at 12:01 a. m. Monday. Thousands left their jobs at the Bethlehem Steel company mill at Lackawanna, N. Y.. and quickly - formed picket lines closed the entire plant at 7 p. m., a union official said. A CIO United Steelworkers spokesman said the strike was authorized after Bethlehem officials refused a union offer to assist in plan ning maintenance service during the national walkout. The mifl ' employs 11,000. ; , ' 4500 Quit Some 4500 walked out ' at Aluminum Company of America plants at New Kensington and Arnold. Pa., where workers al so are members of the CIO un- ine dispute was local, the. protesting shipment of die Ind., plant. National USW head quarters, which had cautioned against premature work' stop- ; pages, said the strike was un authorized. About 2000 workers at the All quippa. Pa., works of Jones and Laughlin Steel corporation wer on strike for the third day. Steel mills throughout the country began banking blast fur naces and otherwise slowing down operations in preparation for the expected strike. Spokes men for the three largest mills in Youngstown, O. Youngstown Sheet and Tube company. Carne gie Illinois and Republic Steel corporations said the first iron and steel furnace units would be down by noon today and that : most of them would be out of operation by midnight. ' , " Steel industry representatives said these were precautionary measures that must be taken to protect equipment. . v Norblad Wins Seat In House SALEM, Ore., Jan. 12 (JP) . Walter A. Norblad, Astoria at torney, assured of a 2 to 1 vic tory over Bruce M. Spaulding, Salem democrat, prepared today to don the republican shoes of the late Rep. James W. Mott. - Nearly complete unofficial re turns from yesterday's snecial election for representative from me nrst congressional district gave the republican nominee the same heavv lead he showed in first reports. wnn 418 of BOO precincts re porting, Norblad tallied 18,655 votes to Spaulding's 9114. Spaulding conceded the election, congratulating his opponent on "your fine vote. The 37-year-old former state legislator and son of a former Oregon governor was carrying all of the district's 10 counties. Norblad, a recently dis charged air corps captain, will fill the unexpired term of the late Rep. James W. Mott. He must run for reelection in this year's primary in order to re main in congress after next Jan uary. - , At Astoria, Norblad was warm- "' ly appreciative of support. "I want to thank all who voted for me," he said. "I promise that I will serve the first district voters and the state conscienti ously.". The first congressional dis trict, true to its tradition of never sending a democrat to con gress, gave Norblad a strong lead in the first returns from yester day's special election. BULLETIN SEATTLE, Jan. 12 (IP) . George Donlan, printers' strike committee spokesman, said the union voted late today to ac cept the wage increase agree ment worked out with the pub lishers of the three Seattle dailies, strikebound since No vemboT 18.
