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1 1 Ik? Kffi Day's News Trjwinnr-.r-rn-r- 1 -- By FRANK JENKINS THIS United Nations assembly In shaping up In London, Its first bin Job will bo control of atomic energyfor HUMAN WKl.rAHK Instead 01 HUMAN DKSTKUCTION ond pledging of liind, sea mid ulr forces to a WOULD POLIOS KOHCE. US. Stuto Secretory Byrnes ted Id tho ussombly (which is meeting In London): "Great stale n well as small lutes coma to view their power s n sacred trust lo bo exorcised not for selfish purposes but for the good of nil peoples." Ho pledges full co-oporatlon of tho United Stales In tho new world organization. THE rub will come on the world pollen force. We're nil for Internntlonnl , control of nlomle energy, which wr four terribly mid DON 1 UNDERSTAND. Wo both fear and understand a world police force which, wo rcullzo, In volves ulvliiK up somo mcusure of national sovercliinty to nn In ternntlonnl organization. That scares us, But common sense tells us that without a world polleo force thero can bo llttlo hope of ef fective Interniillonnl control of atomic enemy, llumiin nnlure Isn't yet fnr enough advanced for that. THERE aro truco troubles In China. Tho shootlnn was supposed to stop Inst midnight, but both sides claim It still GOES ON. Don't loso hop. It took quite while to Ret the shooting stop- Untli In t-i,rm, nnrl In Jlinnn. partly becouse II commanders dldn I gel me wnro. iramcuiuj. but ultimately It was stopped. Let's hopo It may bo the samo in China. THERE Is a LOCKOUT In Tho MILITARY government Orders WOgo incrciincn nnu. jrr, innmi. trtr workers, and business lenders order a 72-hour shutdown In protest. They soy tno snuiaown win uo i-ahiiula. if no BKreement Is reached by Wrdnesdav. Opponents of Colonel Juan foron, cniuiioiue ior (iic.-uuein in Arffilnn' eleetlon next month, ny tho government ducree Is cnieny ior io uvittm " . - '.open bid lor inoor voics ior nun,. is. . . W7E'RE fully Justified in being i" auspicious ot ANY kind of labor legislation that is dictated .wholly by politics. -rpHERE Is a fuzzy slant In this l-- Argentine news. GAMBLERS ore said to havo abandoned t h o government operated cuslno nt Mar del Plata lr such numbers that tho place closed down. Tho gamblers then formed nn "L" for LIBERTY. ! Whereupon tho police dispersed them with tenr gas. After that, there was considerable shooting . and a number of people were hurt. It sounds llko lousy reporting, but wo must remember that cen sorship In Argentina is rigid. Wherever thero is rigid censor ship, tho news will bo un- reliable , , , ON the homo front, congress Is assembling for an election year session which happens every oven-numbered yenr. ALL , representatives and a third of the ' senators are up for re-election 1 In November, A cautious AP reporter says ' this morning: "Hence political considerations will dictnle ' MANY congressional actions." That's putting It conserv atively. Tho unwholesome truth Is that political considerations will dic 4nto ALL of tho actions of this congress, WE might as well add, if wo aro to bo completely candid In our thinking. Hint political considerations will likewise dlc-'- Into all of President Truman's - actions In this highly political year, . yHAT Is the way democracy " worKS. It is proDuDiy me way It should work. One can't help thinking, however, that it . would be nice If we could have ', a sort of sabbntlcal year in 'which statesmanship rather than - politics would bo tho controlling ' principle, Padlock Lodges Un Boy's Tummy '.' Four-year-old John Lee ' Slnub of Bly lay on his back Saturday, tossing a smnll pod ' lock up In tho air and catch ing It. By accident, he caught it In his mouth, choked, swallowed and the padlock went down. V The child's mother, Mrs. , Doris Slnub, rushed the young m ster to the Hillside hospital whero a doctor was called In anticipation of surgery. After an X-ray examination tho padlock was shown to be rest- ' lug comfortably In John's stomach and the doctor de cided to let nature take its course. John went home to Bly Sunday. Herald mm Telephone Mill PRICE FIVE CENTS Disposal Of Surplus Hit By Sergeant Sharp Verbal Clashes Between Solon, Gl Mark Session u By HAL BOYLE BATANGAS, Philippines. Jan. 14 (I1) Sliurp verbal clashes be tween an army sergeant and a United slates senator marked a two-hour hearing today by a sen ate subcommittee investigating charges that army surplus dis posal troopstwere miming dom ing in good condition. Angry exchanges took nlnce between Senator Tunnell, elder ly ueinware democrat, and Slit. Kin 1 1 Mazey, Detroit, Mich., who asserted tho scnutorlnl commit tee had given him insufficient time lo assemble witnesses to prove his contention that troops were "burning and destroying shoes, blnnkcts, field Jackets, latigue suits and other clothing. Mazey, chairman of the sub bnso "R" demobilization commit tee. Is tho former lender of tho United Auto Workers union lo cal 212. Bitter Talk At one point recriminations became so bitter that Tunnell, who had objected- during the hearing to Mazey 's speaking di rectly to his own witnesses, turned to a group of high-ranking officers and asked: "Colonel, don't you have any control over this man?" The colonel stepped toward Mazey and said: "Sergeant, I have requested you to remain silent." Tunnell nnd Senator Know land (R-Calif.) conducted the hearing In sub-baso "R" head- auarters in tho presence of MnJ: en. Ewart Plank, Washington D. C, commander of baso ''X ' in Manila, of which base "R" Is a subdivision. Col. R. B. Oxrelder. Granville, Ohio, is commander of dbjo iv . Seven of eight witnesses hur- rledly named by Mazey failed to corroborate his charges. They lesiinea tney nod no personal knowledge of wanton destruc tion of army property. Long Distance Calls Possible It was possible today to mako a long distance telephone call from Klamath Falls to virtually any point in tho United States, following restoration of service in distant points where long distance operations had been disrupted by picket lines. Local servico was not affect ed at any time In the lnbor dispute, which sprang from a striko called by equipment worKers. no equipment workers were located In tills area and there were no picket lines here. However, Klamath people late last week could not out through calls to Seattle, San Francisco and other places where the equipment men had thrown up picket lines. As equipment men withdrew their lines to day, that service was restored. It wns learned today that pro testing calls to local telephone operators, based on apparent misunderstanding, stopped en tirely last week after a state ment was published In tills newspaper explaining the Klam ath operation had not violated any picket line or other labor principles. Wonted M j v Jean Peters (above), 19. Is aboard a train en rout to her home in Columbus, O., but a movie studio wants her to turn around. She went to Hollywood for a screen test after win ning a beauty contest sponsored by several Columbus newspa pers and when she heard no more about it, figured she had failed. But 20th Century-Fox of ficials who finally saw the test, now want to give her a contract and are trying to locate her. (AP wlrephoto). Transit Men Vote On Offer SEATTLE, Jon. 14 W) A full membership . meeting of the striking Street Car Men's union will consider and vote on a netv wage scale offer at 1:30 p. m. to day. :- The offer, announoed by Scat tic's Mayor William Devin. was arrived at after a gruelling 23- hour session or negotiations in tho mayor's office. After a two-hour meeting this forenoon, Mayor Devin said he was "glad to announce that an agreement lias been reached which the union committee in forms mo will be submitted with their unanimous recommenda tion to the entire membership this afternoon. I hope that this agreement will be accepted and that coaches will be in operation tonight." . Urging all members to attend today's meeting, Allen A. Noel, union business agent said, "the commission has made what ap pears to be it's final offer." Com mission members nad no com ment. Vanpori Firebug Strikes Again PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14 (TP) Vanport's firebug is at it again. An ' incendiary fire at the housing project's school No. 1 was extinguished yesterday be fore the building was damaged. A window had been broken, paper stuffed into the hole and set afire, the fire investigator reported. . Tho school is near another which lost ono wing to a set fire on January 6. Damage of more than $200,000 has been caused by half a score of in cendiary fires at Vanport since mid-December. Truce Violations Charged By Both Chinese Factions By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, Jan. 14 (P) Tho Chinese nationalist govern ment and tho communists each charged the other today with violations of tho truce In their undeclared civil war, which was supposed to have ended at last midnight. A spokesman for the central government national military council asserted that despite the "cease fire" deadline at Sunday midnight, the communists today Increased rather than ceased their military operations.' Tho Yonan red forces were charged with burning villages all along the eastern section of the Lunghni railway, which cuts through northern Klangsu prov ince to tho Yellow sea and with attacking nationalist-held An yang on the Peiping-Hankow railroad in northern Honan. There wore hopes, however, that tho situation was not as ser ious as it appeared. Continued operations beyond tho Sunday midnight deadline cease fire or ders In time, and a desire to de rive the maximum possible ad vantage before the deadline. Both government and com munist authorities had given as surances that all military opera tions would cease as agreed in Thursday s truce. Meanwhile, communists in Chungking were reported ac tively interested in the govern ment proposal to enlarge the state, council, making it an all party and nonpartisan body and investing It with supreme policy making and directive authority. It was reported that the com munists intended that such a proposed reorganized state coun cil should be divided into three equal groups, one representing the Kuomfntang, another the communist party, and the third the other parties and nonparti sans. At Yenan, Chinese Communist unairman Mao xse-iung de clared that China has "entered upon a new stage of peace and democracy." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. HOND . UAHY 14. 194B MfnPM A -' ' . iii m . , Strike Call Postponed For 30 Days WEATHER NEWS January 14 1948 Max. (Jan. 13) 34 Mln 12 Precipitation last 24 hours ... . 00 Stream year to date .8. 38 Normal 5.44 Last year .4.58 Forecast Increasing cloudiness. Number 10718 .V 4? ' mzi mum mm in Byrnes Asks For Control Of A-Bomb World Police Force Called For By Secretary By JOHN M. HICHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 14 (H) Sec retary Byrnes called upon the United Nations assembly today to "approve promptly" the cre ation of a special commission control of atomic energy and to plcdgo land, sea and air forces to a world police force. Shortly before Byrnes mount ed the blue and gold rostrum, tho assembly agreed it should take up the proposal at this meeting. ... Russia was reported seeking to delay selection of a secretary general of the United Nations organization, a choice scheduled to be made this week. The five permanent members of the se curity council the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China but agree on a choice. So far there was no evidence of unanimity among them. Opening the first general policy debate in the assembly, -the secretary of state pledged full cooperation of the United States in the new world or ganization. He spoke after the assembly broke a deadlock over the 18th and final seat on its important economic and social council. Urging tho assembly to ap prove the formula for the atomic commission drafted at tho Moscow foreign ministers conference, Byrnes declared: Must Not Fail "We must not fail to devise the safeguards necessary to in sure that this great discovery is used for human welfare and not for more deadly human warfare. "We should begin upon this task immediately. The establish ment of a commission to deal with, the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy is inseparably linked with the problem of security. "It is a matter of primary concern to all nations." ' The resolution to create the commission is Jointly sponsored by the United States, Britain, Russia, Canada, France and China. In effect it would turn the atomic problem over to the security council for solution. Canada, which narrowly missed election to the council Friday, would sit in with the council on all atomic discussions be cause she worked with Britain and the United States in the development of the atomic bomb. Poss Will Speak Before Eagles Edward F. Poss of Toledo, O., grand worthy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, will speak before the Klamath Falls aerie at 8 p. m., Tuesday, at the FOE lodge hall. Poss will speak on Eagles' programs and postwar objec tives of the organization in the fields of help for returning vet erans, juvenile delinquency, so cial security , and tun employ ment. The Eagles official is a . veter an of World War I, and has served .in various capacities in the lodge including worthy presi dent of the Bcllevue aerie, sec retary of the Toledo aerie, presi dent of the Ohio state aerie, and a former member of the board of grand trustees. He was elected grand worthy president in Aug ust, 1945. 26 Auroisrs Nabbed In Traffic Check Twenty-six motor vehicle op erators ran into the law Satur day when they were stopped at a traffic check held on. S. 6th and Altamont drive. Although many more were checked, only 26 received cita tions the major number for no, 1946 license plates. No opera tars licenses ran the no-plate holders close second. i Special Service For Workers r tl - - EaattleW3ihdepartnent stores used their delivery truck to bring employee to work wnen city bus drivers went on strike). These girls are being delivered at a. store. . (AF wirepnoto). Clear - Cut Policy On Army Discharges Demanded From Patterson By 1000 Yanks SHANGHAI, Jan. 14 (P) A thousand American soldiers met U. S. Secretary of War Patterson as he stepped from his airplane here today and demanded from him a clear-cut policy on army discharges. PFC David M. Miller, Gulf port, Miss., school teacher, who has 28 discharge points to his credit, presented the GI petition to Patterson immediately after the secretary had been greeted by Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, commander of U. S. forces . in China; Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemcyer, Vice Adm. Charles M. Cooke Jr., commander of the seventh fleet, and Chinese offi cials, including Mayor Chien Ta chun. There were ' indications that Patterson would confer with the soldier committee at an open meeting, sometime tomorrow, at the request of General Wede meyer.. Patterson arrived from Korea. He plans to remain only a couple of days before continuing to Manila, where other soldier dem onstrations against the demobili zation slowdown have been held. Wedemeyer this morning promised a GI delegation he would assist them in obtaining a hearing with Patterson and helped them frame the questions they wish to submit to the secre tary. 1 The China theater commander arrived at the Kiangwan air drome more than an hour before Patterson's plane arrived. He mingled freely with the soldiers, discussing their "gripes" with them and assured them over a public address system that he was not worried about any pos sible disorderliness. "I know you will conduct yourselves in an orderly man ner," he said. "The eyes of vari ous other nations the Russians, British and French are watch ing what we are doing here in China." Cpl.- Marshall Stover of Man- Eleanor Plans To Visit Russia , LONDON, Jan.. 14 W) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said today she intended to visit Russia some time after the United Na tions assembly adjourns, but de clared she was undecided as to the exoct time of her departure. Her duties as a delegate to the assembly are expected to keep her in London for at least six more weeks. , . hattan, Kas., said he would sum up the general feeling this way: "We want a definite policy on discharge. Most of us have more than three years of service and understand that guys with much less time are being released at borne. Discharge is Patterson's DaDy. tie s tne man we nave to see because he formulates poli cies on discharge. The GI's feel that he can do us the most good and we want him to hear our gripes.". ... , . . Concert Slated Tuesday Night The second of a series of concerts sponsored by the Klam ath Community Concert associa tion, will be presented Tues day at 8 p. m. at the Pelican theatre-when Rosario and An tonio and their company are to appear. Admission is by membership card only and no seats are sold at the door. There is no re served section. Lumbermen Protest To CPA Agency West Coast Area Hit Hard Within Past Sixty Days WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (IP) An industry protest that cur rent price ceilings for lumber are causing macK marKets ana divertine outnut from home con struction was reported today by the civilian production administration. The agency said also that John C. Collet, stabilization ad ministrator, had told a meeting of industry representatives that his office is considering propo sals for price changes in some lumber regions. The price complaints were made by industry advisory com mittees which OPA said had en dorsed "in rjrinciple" the gov ernment's new program aimed at spring construction of homes to sell at $10,000 or less. Activity Rises - Committee - members, OPA said, reported that black market activity has risen to substantial proportions in the west coast area within the last 60 days and Is believed to be taking between 70 and 80 per cent of production of some types of lumber in the southern area. The agency added that the committees expressed a unani mous opinion that unless price adjustments are -made for lum ber and mill work production cannot be increased. Industry representatives said that during the war the normal balance of prices in the industry had been altered by the govern ment to make production of war required items more attractive. Redwood Men Call Walkout EUREKA, Calif., Jan. 14 (JP) The AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers' union, seeking a $1.05 per hour minimum wage, called a strike today against Redwood Lumber companies in Humboldt and Mendocino counties in northern California. Union officials said negotia tions on wage increases bad failed. 1 They said the strike affected 95 per cent of "several thous and" Redwood lumber workers in the two counties and the following companies: Hammond Lumber, Pacific L,umber, Area ta Redwood, Northern Redwood, Dolber-Carson, Holmes-Eureka, all of Humboldt county, and Casper, Rockport Redwood and union, ot Mendocino county. Men Miraculously Escape Death In Barge Explosion MANILA, Jan. 14 (P) A spec tacular series of explosions of li quid oxygen and pyrotechnic equipment aboard the giant sea going army barge BCL 2569 shook Manila harbor tonight but the barge's 12-man crew escaped almost miraculously with minor burns. r First reports to the harbor master from crash boats said a tanker had exploded, but the tanker, moored near the barge, apparently was not damaged. The barge, which was of con crete and with a cargo capacity of a Liberty ship, was anchored inside the jam-packed Manila breakwater, 2000 yards from the downtown waterfront district. The first of the series of explo sions occurred at 9:45 p. m. Lts. W. J. Cashman of Norfolk, Va., and W. A. Davis of 9415 North Polk, Portland, Ore., who were on duty at nearby pier 15 as , harbor - military police, said the first warning of the unex plained blast was a huge burst of flame which lit the waterfront "like high noon." The light was visible a dis tance or more than 30 miles as a series of explosions followed at brief intervals. In addition to li quid oxygen and fireworks,, tho barge carried Red Cross supplies and other dry cargo. Davis and Cashman said they saw the crew leaping overboard from their quarters aft. Rescue boats quickly picked them up. Capt. Joseph Needles of Belle ville, 111., port medical officer, said they suffered only minor burns, but he regarded it as miraculous that any escaped alive. Dozens of army ambulances rushed to the waterfront but found no business requiring them, said Col. R. D. Meyers, commandant of the second major port area of Manila harbor. The explosions had compara tively little shock force and waterfront installations were re ported undamaged. The glare and resulting four hour fire, however, created a light which Sgt. Ralph Barger of Muskogee, Okla., said he saw from the fifth replacement depot 30 miles from the scene. One weird effect was the re lease of parachutes from the barge's cargo. They billowed out over the water and collapsed. At least one harbor police boat was disabled when its propellers became fouled in the 'chutes as it sought to reach the burning vessel.. . . Picket Lines Called Off By Striking Unionists By The Associated Press The nation's dismnteH tl- phone service returned to nor. mal in most places today after striking equipment workers called off their picket lines and the National Federation of Telephone Workers postDoncd me can ior a nationwide strike for 30 days. The federation, an indepen dent organization, yesterday or. . dered a nationwide telephone strike for today but quickly postponed it for 30 days to per mit members to vote on tho . question under provisions of the Smith-Connally act. At the same time the federa tion requested its striking af filiate, the Association of Com munications Equipment Work ers, to call off its strike, with draw picket lines which tele phone operators had refused to cross in many cities, and turn the dispute over to the parent organization. Service Restored The equipment workers com plied this morning and tele phone operators returned to their jobs in most places, re storing normal long distance and local service, where disrup tions had occurred. " 1: A government fact-finding committee's basis for settlement of the General Motors strike, once rejected by the corpora- 1 1 o n, was accepted Dy uiu United Auto Workers represen tatives : 2. Steel mill operations were returning to normal after the CIO delayed its planned walk out until next Sunday midnight while wage negotiations . con tinue. 3. A spokesman for the CIO Electrical Workers union said a strike tomorrow of 200,000 employes of Westinghouse, Gen. eral Electric and General Mo tors will not be postponed. 4. A government conciliator expressed hope a meat Industry strike set for - Wednesday, could - 5.-In -Washington, strong con gressional . sentiment was re ported developing for. stiff union-control legislation. President Joseph A. Belrna of the telephone federation said he hoped wage conflicts in tho industry could be settled with out a communications tieup. . fitvilr Hlpi. Besides postponing a walk out of a major part of the na tion's telephone workers, the federation's executive board or dered the union's 48 member locals to file individual striko notices under the Smith-Connally law, and asked striking in stallation workers, employed by the Western Electric company, to go back to their jobs and withdraw pickets from tele phone exchanges. Picketing had kept thousands of operators from their switch boards. In some cities pickets already had been withdrawn, early today. But in other, spaces officials of the Association of C o m m u n i cations Equipment Workers union, awaited results of a national poll of ACEW lo cals on the federation request. The UAW-CIO gave General Motors corporation until Janu ary 21 to reconsider its rejec tion of the fact-finders' recom mendation. In announcing it would accept the recommended . 18 hi per cent raise, the union's General Motors council de clared it would revert to its or iginal 30 per cent demand un less GM changed its mind with in the time limit. A spokesman for the corpora tion said an unqualified rejec tion of the government propos al still stands. The corporation has offered a 12 per cent in-; crease. KILLED BROOKS, Jan. 14 (IP) Ait automobile collision one mils west of here yesterday took the life of Leland Westling, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Westling of Brooks. ' Arriving In United States - By Associated Press Richard M. McKlnley, PFC. Klamath Falls, arrived on Richard Gatling due in New York January 10. Robert E. Gaschler, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Pamina due in San Francis co January 10. - A. Dunn, Sgt., Freida ave nue, Klamath Falls, arrived on - Yorktown due in San Francisco January 13. George- H. Cox. PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Yorktown due in San Fran cisco January 13, Ulys Goodman, T4, Dor ris, arrived jn President Pierce due in San Francisco January 11. Darrell H. Alexander, T4, Klamath Falls, arrived on Cody Victory due in New York January 13.
