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January 19, 194S
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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. SATURDAY, JANUARY It. 1MB
In The
Daysta
By FRANK JENKINS
AS the production picture
duikcns, duo to mounting
labor troubles, the stock mnrkul
Jn I turn.
It liud been climbing prulty
steadily since V-J Day.
y rpHE ulock market In always In
i torostlng nil nn Indication of
what people un thinking. To
duy'ii drop, which follows failure
to find a settlement of the
threatened steel xtrlko, I ml leu ten
that they nro thinking somewhat
less hopefully.
When people nre optimistic,
their Inclination Is to buy. When
they nre pessimistic, their In
clination la to sell,
THE thing to watch, over the
long pull, Is. the COMPARA
TIVE rise of wage and prices.
If wages rise REASONABLY
moro thun prices, the outlook
will bo HOPEFUL, for workers
will huvo moro money with
which to buy the products of
Industry which. In Its turn,
should tend to increase volume
and so reduce costs.
If prices rise MORE than
wages, people will have LESS
loft with which to buy tha pro
ducts of Industry In which
event markets will shrink and
production will slump.
If prices rise as much as
wages, wo will GET NOWHERE
and all our grief and trouble
will have been for nothing.
wages rlsa UNREASON
ABLY MORE than prices, ex-
panslon of Industry will ba stop-
ted and tha numoer oi jobs win
DECLINE for no one Is going
to start a new business or ex
pand an existing ona without
liope of a profit.
' ALL Ibis sounds like preaching
and preaching Is NEVER
popular. But there are hard
. cconomlo facts that wo can't get
away from. They are like the
weather. We havo to tnko them
os they come, whether we like
them or not.
THE real measure of money is
what you con BUY with It.
The rent measure or your stand
ard of living Is what you can
get In THINGS for a day s wont
TITTER news Is still abundant
j today.
Iran appeals to the United
Nations security council to In'
vcstlguto Its dispute with Rus-
iiln which seems to nave arisen
out of Russian desire to tuko a
BITE out of Iran's territory.
rnn Is little. Russia Is big.
(The thought of what Russia
MIGHT do If she gets mod ai'
woys gives us the Jitters.)
THERE are riots In Seoul, cap-
Itnl of Korea. The Koreans
don't like the Idea of being
governed by nn ulllcd trustee
ship. They wont to bo FREE
like all the rest of us. Security
and freedom nro among the most
persistent of human Ideals.
THERE is still trouble in China
In spite of the stop-shooting
truco. "Truco commissioners"
there conccdo today that zones
of conflict" exist In at least
EIGHT areas of northern China,
Boiled down, that means that
the shooting hnsn't been stopped
yet.
WARS, you sco, are cosy to get
into, b u t EXTREMELY
HARD to got out of.
TN the face of this not too hope.
fill (at least at the moment)
picture, there is so much that
our congress could he doing.
It could be working on a CON.
STRUCTIVE solution of our do
mestic problems.
It could bo working out a mil'
ilary program thnt would insure
respect for the ideals and the
purposes of American foreign
policy.
And so on.
ABOUT all it can seem to FIND
TO DO is to stage a filibuster
on the Fair Employment Prac
tices Committee, which is a
relatively minor matter,
THERE is so much NEED for
statesmanship, and so little
inclination to practice It to the
exclusion of petty politics. ,
Thnt is perhaps tho gloomiest
part of tho picture.
Tommy's Bliss
Lasts 5 Weeks
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. ()
After, a mnrringo of five weeks,
Thomas F, "Tommy" Mnnvlllo
Jr., 51; nnd his eighth wife, tho
i'ormor Gcorglnn Campbell, 27,
will seek a Nevadn divorce, Ir
win Mlncss, attorney for Man
villo, sold today,
Tho attorney said Mrs. Man
villo left 'tho couple's home in
nearby New Rochello today for
an unannounced destination.
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Police Use Tear Gas To Break Up Picket Line
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tha strlkars and place many under arrest. The pickets ara wear ing white helmets. The picket line was broken up by police
while carrying out a court restraining order against mass picket ing. (AP wirepboto). :
Pullman Ban
To Be Lifted
PORTLAND, Jan. 19 (VP)
Northwest travelers, as well as
Southern and Union Pacific
passenger agents, were Joyful
today aftor the ODT announced
the sleeping car ban would be
lifted by March 15.
James A. Ormandy of South
ern Pacific snid the first step
February. 15, affecting runs of
351-450' miles, ' would return
Pullman service between
Grants Pass and Son' Francisco.
Sleepers also will be restored
from Portland to Spokane, said
James C, dimming of Union
Pacific.
. Pullmans will be put back
on runs from Portland to south
ern Oregon, March 1, when
runs of 251-350 miles ore af
fected, Ormandy reported. Lift
ing of the entire ban March 15
will restore service on the Port
land to Marshficld and Port-land-Tacoma-Seattle
runs.
Pelican Bay OK's
2.5 Cents Raise
Pelican Boy Lumber company
has agreed to the additional 21
cents an hour raise for Its em
ployes In accordance with recent
CIO settlements of Klamath
basin pine wage questions with
management, it was reported to
day at tho CIO-1WA office here.
Other CIO operations were
signed for the 21 cents through
the PIRC, but Pelican Bay does
not deal through PIRC. The
Pelican Bay arrangement was
approved by both management
and the union today. The settle
ments have lifted CIO wages 15
cents from the 874 cents mini
mum last fall tho same boost
recently granted AFL unionists
In this area.
Hope Expressed That Post
i May Be Put To Worthy Use
" Yesterday's1' disclosure "' that
tho Marine Barracks will be
closed as a marine post about
March 1 brought numorous ex
pressions from Klamath people
today in the hope that the $8,
000,000 Installation on the hill
can be made a veterans adminis
tration facility or put to some
other important use.
President L. Orth Sisemore of
KPCA Meeting
Draws Crowd
Five hundred farmers,, their
wives and ex-servicemen inter
ested in sericulture, gathered at
the Marino Barracks at noon to
day to attend the annual session
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01 me iiiamnw jrrouuuwuii Lieu
it association.
McMullcn announced that the
members now own 63.8 per cent
of the stock in the association
and the government owns 30.2
per cent. In 30 days, the gov
ernment will withdraw stock
down to $50,000. At that time,
members will then own 74.5 per
cent of the association's-stock:
In 1937. the membership held
29 per cent, and. the government
71 per cent of the stock.
The membership has now gone
up to 38B farmers ana siocumen
in this area. The association
loaned $2,894,000 in 1945, and
hns now paid down to $660,000,
McMullcn advised. ' Since the
organization of KPCA in 1934,
loans have totaled $24,865,000 to
residents of Klamath, Lnke coun
ties in Oregon, Siskiyou nnd
northern Modoc in California.
Farmers have now Invested in
the association $145,765 in stock
and during the time since the
organization of ' KPCA, have
built up a reserve of $201,606.
Police Seek Man Last Seen
With Brutally Slain Woman
SEATTLE. Jan. 19 (P) De
tectives today sought a man in
armv uniform as the last known
companion of Mrs. Mnrjorie
Johnson. 30. whose nude body
was found, strangled and stab
bed, in tho living room of her
West Seattle nome, cany tonny.
Detectlvo Capt. Htchard Ma-
honey said "it was probably a
sex crime."
He said there was a henvy
cord around her neck and the
body bore evidences of having
been hacked and stabbed with a
larg'o kitchen fork, found in the
kitchen, its two tines bent into
a loop,
Mnhonev Identified the victim
as the wife of Philip Johnson, a
saw company clerk. He said the
body was found about 7 a. m
by n neighbor, Jnmcs Smith.
A man nnd woman whose iden
tity was withheld, were held as
material ' witnesses. Mahoney
said the man said Mrs. Johnson
telephoned him nbout 1 a, m
frantically pleading "for God's
sake, please come up here and
help me!"
The detective said the man
reported he went to Mrs. : John
son's home and heard f her
screaming but was denied ad
mittance. He then returned
home and, apparently about 3
n. m., telephoned Smith's home.
Smith's landlady refused to
nwnken him and it was not un
til he arose that Smith learned
of the call, visited the house and
summoned police. He said the
witnesses snid they had seen Mrs.
Johnson with a man in army
uniform in a tavern earlier last
night.
The captain said Mrs. John
son's body lay on the living
room floor beside a davenport,
and was clad in the shreds of a
tan rayon Jacket, -bobby socks
and moccasm-type slippers. He
said the room gave evidences of
a terrific struggle and the fur
niture was moved around. The
kitchen door .was open. ,
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the chamber of corhme'ree pre
pared a telegram to Senator Guy
Cordon and other congressional
delegates informing them of the
development here and pointing
to - the availability of the in
stallation for other purposes.
The veterans administration
has announced it will construct
a hospital at Klamath Falls. Use
of the Marine Barracks as a vet
erans' set-up has been suggested
locally, and to the veterans' ad
ministration. '
Capt. Lowell T. Coggeshall,
ranking medical officer of the
Marine Barracks,' said today he
is leaving for Washington to
night on business relating to
conclusion of the malaria con
trol program which was a part
of the original mission of the
local post.
At a meeting of the Klamath
Production Credit association
members at the Marine Barracks
today, Capt. Coggeshall spoke
feelingly about community sup
port given the barracks : pro
gram and the forthcoming clos
ure of the post.
The big post is generally' re
ported in . excellent condition.
Maintenance has been kept at a
nigh level, in contrast with run
down conditions that frequently
develop at installations not fully
occupied.
Tin Pan Alley
Tune smith Dies
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19 (JP)
Another name that of Lew
Pollack was erased by death
today from Tin Pan alley.
The 52-year-old musician,
who entered show business in
1918 and, after a tour of vaude
ville, became a song writer for
the movies, succumbed to a
heart attack yesterday.
Among his better known
musical hits were "Two Cigar
ettes in the Dark." "Char-
maine" and "Diane."
Monkey Business
Transacted Here
The city of Klamath Falls
and the Marine Barracks
transacted a little monkey
business today.
Capt. Lowell T. Coggeshall
of the barracks offered five
monkeys to the city's Moore
park too.' and the offer was
Eromptly accepted. The mon
eys have been kent In the
barracks animal house for use
in connection with laboratory
research.
City Engineer E. A. Thomas
and Bert Stott, Moore park
caretaker, arranged a special
heated apartment for the new
comers in the Moore park ani
mal house. It will be a few
days before they are moved
from the barracks.
These are the first monkeys
to join the Moore park animal
family.
Iran Appeals
For UNO Probe
; LONDON, Jan. 19 (P) Iran
appealed to the United Nations
security council today to inves
tigate its dispute with the Sov
iet Union.,
Iranian Delegate Nasrullah
Entezam said his delegation had
submitted a letter asking an in
vestigation of what the Iranian
delegation contends is "Soviet
interference with the internal
affairs of Iran."
Entezam said he expected the
letter to go immediately to , the
president of the security coun
cil, J. N. O. Makin of Australia,
who probably will call a meet
ing to consider the issue
The appeal to the 11-member
council was decided upon, Ente
zam declared, after the Iranian
government failed in direct ne
gotiations with Russia.
. Russia Is one of the five per
manent members on the securi
ty council and as such could
exercise a veto power on any
final action taken.
This is the first international
dispute to come before the se
curity council.
Accidents Put
2 In Hospital
Automobile - pedestrian acci
dents last night and this morning
put two youngsters in the hos
pital "with painful injuries and
the driver of one vehicle, Ernest
MacBeth, 905 Owens, paid fines
totaling $15 in municipal court
today as a result of one mishap.
MncBcth's car struck 14-year
old Lari Carter, 3030 Crosby, at
7th and Main shortly before
6 o'clock last night, knocking her
to the pavement. She was
rushed to Klamath Valley hos
pital in the Merchants Police
nmbulance and treated for
bruises and abrasions.
The girl was released from the
hospital after treatment. Mac-
Beth was cited to appear in
police court and was fined $5
each for having faulty brakes,
running a red light and having
no operator's license.
Police said Macuetn s car hit
the girl when he was unable to
stop at a traffic ..signal at 7th
end Main.
This morning little Buddy
Miller, 5-year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Miller, route 2, was
struck by a truck driven by
Benjamin Murphy,, also of route
z, and injured, ine . accident
happened on the county road a
quarter-mile from the Henley
store.
Buddy was admitted to Klam
ath Valley hospital at noon
where he was found to have a
fractured leg. The leg was set
and he was taken home.
Murphy told state ponce he
was driving his truck east on
the road when the youngster,
playing alongside the road,
crossed over directly in front
of the truck. Murphy swerved
to avoid hitting the child but
struck him a slanting blow with
the rear end of the truck. ;
Morse Asks
Use Of Cots
For Catnaps
Dixie Democrats Line
Up Solid Block
Against FEPC
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (Pj
Republican senators agreed to
day to attempt to hold the sen
ate in session at least until 6
p. m. daily in an effort to break
the southern filibuster against
the FEPC bill.
The 39 republican members
of the chamber reached that de
cision in a formal conference.
The plan was considerably less
drastic than that advanced by
Senator Morse (R-Ore.) who de
manded continuous sessions, 24
hours a day, with cots set up in
the cloakrooms for sleepy law
makers. Sen. White (R-Me.) said he
would "respectfully suggest" the
extended sessions to Majority
Leader Barkley (Ky.) He said he
did not anticipate the all-night
sessions demanded by Morse
would be required immediately,
but acknowledged that "it might
come to that."
Senator Morse (R-Ore.) came
up with the idea of provisions
for quickie naps after Senator
Chavez (D-N. M.) disclosed that
supporters of the fair employ
ment practice bill will seek to
hold the chamber in continuous
meetings.
Their DrODo;a1: nm in Via
face of a claim by Dixie demo
crats inat they have, lined.. up
more than enough votes to block
any attempt to shut off the pro
longed debate which began
Thursday and which shows no
signs of coming to an end.
Against Cloture
Senator Eastland (D-Miss.)
told a reporter that "40-odd sen
ators' are firmly aligned against
cloture, a parliamentary device
rarely used to limit talk in the
senate.
Morse would not concede that
his side lacks the necessary two
thirds vote (64 of the 96 mem
bers if all were present) to in
voke cloture. But he did say
this in an interview:
"The issue is whether the lee.
islative program is to be deter
mined by majority vote rule or
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Workers
etf Hike ff
18.5 Cents
By HAROLD W. WARD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (IP) Henry J. Kaiser, west eoait
steel operator, today accepted President Truman's proposed com.
promise in the steel wage dispute and signed contract with the
CIO steelworkers.
Kaiser made the announcement of the contract, giving em
ployes of his west coast steel plant an 18 H -cent hourly increase,
after a White House conference with Mr. Truman and CIO Fresl
dent Philip Murray.
This development came as CIO steelworkers began walking
out of the nation's mills in advance of the scheduled genual
strike re-set for Sunday midnight after U. S. Steel corporation
rejected President Truman's compromise plan. -.
Kaiser, in the presence of Murray, said ho had accepted tha
president's proposal because "it is not only time to sing America
but it's time to live and love it."
"Shall we support the president of the United States?" ha
asked in a formal statement. "The people's answer will be yet
it can be no other way. Too much is at stake not to support him."
Murray and Kaiser saw the president at 10 a. m., and left
about 20 minutes later. Asked f
who suggested the conference,
Murray said "it was a Joint re
quest in the interest of the gov
ernment and the president.'
Kaiser had already signed
with the CIO automobile work
ers covering employes of the
new Kaiser-Fraser automobile
plant at Willow Run. This
agreement calls for wage in
creases and bonuses for work
ers. When U. S. Steel turned
down the president's 18 '4 -cent
proposal, the CIO accepted it.
Kaiser said his contract was
signed before he came to the
White House today.
"I have signed this agree
ment," he said, "because I am
confident that only by integrity
and fair play on the part of
both labor and management can
we ride the perilous seas ahead
and achieve industrial harmony
and security for our people."
inconceivable
He added that he could riot
"conceive that a sum of 314
cents (the difference between
the U. S. Steel's offer and the
president's 18 Vt cents proposal)
should be permitted to retard
or destroy the possibility of
real peace and prosperity for
the nation."
The agreement signed today.
Kaiser said, covers "the opera
tion of the largest steel plant
on the Pacific coast." His; Fort-
tana. Calif., operations employ
approximately 3000 to 4000, he
said.
The contract covers employes
at the Fontana works, the only
steel plant operated by Kaiser.
Thus, as a paralyzing stnKe
hits the nation's steel mills
Monday, ' Kaiser's plants will
continue turning out steel.
Murray has said that any
steel company which signed a
contract for an 18-cent in
crease before the strike dead
line would not experience a
walkout on Monday. Besides
the Kaiser contract, Murray
disclosed that negotiations are
under way .with two firms in
the Harnsburg and Reading,
Pa., areas.
Mac Sets Up
Machinery
To Try Tojo
By RUSSELL BRINES
TOKYO, Jan. 19 (F) Gen.
eral MacArthur today set up in
ternational machinery for tha
trials of Hideki Tojo, his Pearl
Harbor cabinet and his militar
ists, charged with "crimes
against peace and crimes 'against
humanity."
The supreme commander an
nounced a charter giving de
tailed procedures for insuring
"fair trial for the accused."
Outstanding points of proced
ure listed included: ...
1. A majority of the members
of the international tribunal
present shall be sufficient to
convict and impose the death
sentence subject to review by
MacArthur.
2. The nine man tribunal "will
not be bound by technical rulea
of evidence,", and even docu
ments without proof of signa
ture may be accepted. .
- 3. A plea that he acted undef
orders shall not of itself be suf
ficient to free a defendant. :
The charter provided that tha
first trial would be held' in
Tokyo. It has been scheduled
tentatively for early March, i ,
"A sentence will be carried
out in accordance with the order
of the supreme commander for
the allied powers, who may at
anv time rprinco nr nthnnulw al
ter the sentence," except that ha
may not increase its severity, tha
charter noted.
The tribunal membershirj will
be appointed by MacArthur
from names submitted bv tha
allied nations.
Rootin' Tootin' Pep Peppers Started
18 Years Ago At Klamath High School
Pep Pepper President
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Displaying the fiery red pepper, the emblem of the club of
which she is president. Sally Mueller models the familiar red and
white uniform of the Pep Peppers of Klamath Union high school.
By EDNA KILLMEYER
Eighteen years ago, a group
of five Klamath Union high
school girls formed a club which
they named the Scotch club.
From this unpretentious begin
ning emerged the organization
now known as the Pep Peppers.
- The original members of the
club were Kathleen "Pat" Liv
ingston, Henrietta Wright, Ger
trude Lindley, Maryellen Brad
ford and Helen Cofer. A square
of Scotch plaid pinned to their
clothing with a horse blanket
pin served as their emblem.
Realizing the possibilities of the
club if it were advised by a fac
ulty member and under school
direction, Paul T. Jackson,
principal of KUHS at that
time, encouraged the girls to
enlarge and systematize their
organization. They adopted the
name "Pep Peppers" and. de
voted their efforts to creating
spirit and pep among the
school's students.
Membership i ,
Today the membership t is
limited to 50 junior and senior
Klamath Union high school
girls whose records show that
they are outstanding in scholar
ship as well as social activities.
They are voted into the organ
ization, by the outgoing senior
members. :
Their identical trim red
skirts and white pull-over
sweaters have become familiar
to every sports enthusiast wh6
attends athletic events at the
high school where the girls
brave all kinds of weather to
march and present drill forma
tions at halftlme in football and
basketball games.
In addition to their original
purpose of bringing pep and
spirit to their school, the Pep
Peppers sell season football and
basketball tickets and perform
any service which they think
will better KUHS or their community.-:
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Each year a cup is awarded
to the outstanding Pep Pepper,
the girl who has contributed
the most time and effort in the
. (Conlinatd on Pie 3, -Cam )