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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
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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.
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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
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- - 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.