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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1946)
r r Mm mm Ifeialft amp PRICE FIVE CENTS By THANK JENKINS 'AS theiio words are wrlttan (In Host-burg) tlio President has just delivered a 29,000-word 111UHH0K0 to congress. Mix worcli lira fair. Ills scutl mimls n ro pious. But Tlio dispatch from Washlng . ton mimniiirlKliig his- mossage In , followed immediately on the wires by nnotliar ana from Now York minting Unit for tlio sec ond duy In a row ths stock mar ket linn slipped materially In tlio fuco of bearish sentiment result liiK In n wave of selling. WE mustn't gauge our llvci by " the stock niurkct. Still, It IS Interesting, and morn or less dependable, as an Indication of what people are thinking. They are obviously thinking Unit it might be better right now to ell man to buy. For months, the general run of people have been more eager to buy than to soil. TF this curronl of (lightly pessl- mlsllc thinking rum un- .1. ...... -J ....til T.T.... the results of the election that will then occur will bs unploos ing to Mr. Truman. When people are In an opti mistic frame of mind, they are Inclined to vote for the IN s, on the theory that when everything looks rosy WHY change? When the public's thinking turm to the pessimistic side, look outl The theory then Is that a change could do no harm and might do soma good. WE have been taught for years to look to Washington for evervthlnu. So. you ace. when ever Washington lalls to produce our natural thought Is that chang o faces In Washington , . might be a good Idea, ( You may be quite wire that Mr. Truman and his advisers ore -watching anxiously this possible chancn in the nubiic's thinking that may bo signaled by these two duys of falling prices In the stock market. Everybody was happy with Mr. Hoover until the stock mar. ket stubbed its toe in 1920. . 'CO far as this writer Is con- " cerncd, there are two slightly sour notes in Mr. Truman's message. Ho tolls us that by drawing on tho treasury's CASH BALANCE the national debt can actually be reduced for tho FIRST TIME In 17 years from an expected 275 billion dollars next July to 271 billion dollars a year Inter. Thnt Is true enough. Still, It nrcsents tho picture in a some what rosier light than tho facts warrant. Tho treasury's cash balanco simply represents money already appropriated (for war nurnosos) but not vet SDont (bo- cause of tho ending of the war.) What his statement really means Is that we had previously OVERESTIMATED the national debt. Whnt It IMPLIES la that wo are already starting tho pro cesses of economy by which the national debt will novo to be nald off. This Is no time to paint the financial picture in terms roslor than tho facts justify. - ... 7V THE other sour note Is Ills re- auest to congress to retain food subsidies as ono means of combatting Inflation. Food subsidies have been costlne us about ono and three- quarters billions a year. What they amount to Is paying sellers out of tlio treasury to keep prices down In other words, charging the dlffcrcnco to the government nnd adding it to the national debt. That Isn't a very sound way to keep inflation down. Warm Rains Hit Klamath Area Warm rnlns, which lent an al most spring like feel to the at mosphere, washed away the greater portion of the snow which covered the Klamath area nnd there was little evidence of winter in town today. The city street department was flushing the winter debris from the business section but pedes trians opined that a few washed sidewalks would not be amiss. Out at Moore park, whero (cores of constors have used the winding roads for sleedlng pur poses, tlio rains had cleared most of the pavement tho enretnker reported today, Forecnst for tlio next 24 hours was "overcast" with a pos sibility of moro vain. Tho maxi mum was 41, minimum, 34, the U, S, weatherman reported. Telephone MIJt, WEATHER NEWS January 23. 194C Max. (Jan. 22) 41 Min -...34 Precipitation last 24 hours OS Stream year to data 8.54 Normal 6.03 Last year 4.84 Forecast! Overcast. ESDAY. JANUARY 23, 1048 Number 10728 Kest&lon Interests Sold Midwinter Building Boom On In Klamath IM2 Xxri.h. Imjm These random construction shots Indicate the extensive building program under way In Klamath Falls In this midwinter sea son. 1. House going up at 2110 Orchard, for Cecil Wilbur. 2. Anderson Auto Service company constructs1 automobile showrooms and additional service quarters on Walnut near Sixth. 3. Rtckys jewelery goes into extensive remodeling program at 7th and Main. 4. Dick B. Millar Is constructing a large truck service center at 11th and Klamath. 5. Sears Roebuck and company is extensively remodeling its big store at 8lh and Klamath. 8. Wes t-Hltchcock corporation Is making rapid progress on its big con tractors, logging and farm equipment plant, plus truck service, at 677 S. 7th. These are only a few of the current building projects. Trainmen Call Strike Vote CLEVELAND, Jan. 23 fP) A atriko voto will be taken Im mediately, among lh-215,000 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President A. F. Whitney said today, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has called a commit tee mooting for Feb. 1 at which time a similar voto may be au thorized among the engineers. Alvantcy Johfton, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said brotherhood chairmen from each railroad would moot here Feb, 1, "and it is a distinct possibility that they will authorize a strike vote among our 78,000 mem bers." Whitney said the membership strike voto would bo taken on tho question of two issues u demand for a general wage In crease of 25 per cent, and num erous changes in operating regu lations to lmprovoworklng con ditions. Ho ostlmatcd that about three weeks would be required to dis tribute, collect and count the ballots. "Then wo will serve notice on tho railroads and If wo got no offer we will go into action," Whitney said. Cloture Sought To End Debate WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (!') Senator Magnuson (D-Wash.), said today ho would support a cloture rule, which limits de bate, to end tho filibuster in the Semite against the fair employ ment practices committee bill. "I would vole for cloture to morrow if we could get it up," Magnuson said. "This debate Is not going to change a vote and I do not think there is any chanco of reaching any agree ment with the opponents of the measure to set a time to vote up on It." Magnuson, who voted for the measure when he was In the house said he saw no way of im mediately breaking the filibuster. Lions Propose Making Post Veterans' Training School A proposal that the Marine Barrucks plant be converted into a veterans' training school was advanced today by the Klamath rails Lions club. -4- Appearing before chamber of commerce directors, Lions spokesmen declared their opin ion that the handsome, well equipped plant on the hill would lend itself admirably as an edu cational plant for veterans of west coast states. They pointed to a serious lack of educational foclllties through out the country for returning GI's, and proposed that the vet erans administration and the Oregon slate department of edu cation cooperate in administer ing a program at tho Marino Bar racks that would train veterans In specific trades and offer edu cation on a two-year; college level. "The Marine Barracks as Is, from a physical standpoint, is Shipyard Pay Demand Sliced WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 W) Tho CIO today sharply reduced its wago demands on the ship building Industry and proposed an increase of 20 cents an hour for the nation's 650,000 ship building workers. Previously, the CIO had asked 36 cents. Yesterday, gov ernment procurement agencies proposed a flat 15 per cent raise in shipbuilding wages which would add 18 cents to the stand ard mechanics wage rate of $1.20 per hour, J. R. Redslrom, spokesman for the working committee of the shipbuilding wage stabilization conference, said the committee would probably vote on both proposals later today. ELECTED PRESIDENT NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (fP) The French radio and an NBC broadcast from Paris said Felix Gouin, socialist leader, was elect ed interim president of France late today to succeed Gen. De Gaulle, who resigned. Deputy Sheriff Booked In Ghastly Slaying Of Woman SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Jan. 23 (!') Deputy Sheriff Ar thur L. Eggors of Temple City, 52-ycar-old son of a former San Francisco sheriff, was booked for investigation of murder to day after hours of grilling about the mutilation slaying of a wom an whoso headless, mindless body was found in a niountuin canyon near hero January 2. Undersherlff Arthur Jewell of Los Angeles said tho body had been tentatively identified as that of Mrs. Dorothy Eggers, 42, renortcd misslnc bv her husband on the day tho gruesome discov ery was made. Euuers. a mild-mannered cleric in a Los Angeles coiintv sheriff's substation, stoutly denied his guilt, declaring: "I wouldn't hurt a hair on her head. I wouldn't kill her. ' I wanted her there to raise the children." The couple, married 18 years, had two adopted children, Marie, 19, and Lorraine, 11. , Jewell said the tentative iden tification had been made by a scar on the ankle and certain foot peculiarities. Capt. Gordon Bowers, chief of tho Los Angeles sheriff's bureau of investigation, asserted that both daughters had. identified a blanket found near the body as one from the Eggors homo. Ho said their statements were made in Eggors' presence, and that he accused them of lying. quite adequate," said Harold Shidler in presenting the Lions' proposals. "A few changes of a .minor nature would make it Im mediately nisableV'- He pointed out that the gym nasium, swimming pool, dispen sary, post exchange, hostess house, laundry and officers' club could be used virtually as they stand for various purposes in the training school program. Trie mess hall, while probably- too large for mess purposes for the school, could be converted into large workshops. The barracks could be used lor dormitories for single men and some of them could bo converted into apart ment quarters for married veter ans. Others could be used for classrooms. Equipment Available The Lions spokesman said that a large amount of equipment for training would be available from the recently discontinued war production training program. Due to the four-year war pe riod, it was pointed out,, one complete generation of possible college men has been denied training. This has doubled the load in the country's educational institutions, and unbearable crowding is expected next fall "The Marine Barracks- is going institution and with minor changes could be put to a use that would save the taxpayers millions of dollars as well as per form an outstanding service to World War II veterans," Shidler said. The Linns offered the oninion that the barracks would lend it self more suitably to such a pro gram than as a site for the veter ans administration hospital to be built In Klamath alls, probably on another site. This suggestion from the Lions club followed the recent disclosure that the marine corps plans to relinquish the post around March 1. President L. Orth Slsemore of the chamber referred the matter to the veter ans' committee for study. Pickets Halt Army Trucks WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (IP) Chairman May (D-Ky.) today ordered an immediate house military committee investiga tion of charges that army truck drivers in the third service com mand have been ordered not to cross meat strikers' picket lines without union approval. May said he had instructed H. Ralph Burton, -committee counsel, to obtain all army data on the charge and have it ready for committee study Friday morning. "We are going to the bottom of this," May told a reporter. Tho charge was made in the house by Rep. Howard Smith (D-Va.), who read a telegram from the commanding general (Ma). Gen. Manton S. Eddy) at Baltimore directing that "until further orders army trucks un der your command will not be permitted to cross picket lines established by striking meat packing unions without agree ment .with local labor represen tatives concerned." Woman Struck By Automobile Mrs. Mary Donelson Fraln: 54, 1522 Martin,' is in the Klamath Vallev hosoital seriously ' in jured today Hftefshe' was hit by a car driven by James Herbert McCulloch. 20. route 3. on S. 6th at Martin late last night. Mc Culloch, a soldier home on leave, was arrested for reckless driv ing by city police and released on recognizance to appear in court this afternoon. Hospital authorities said this afternoon that Mrs. Frain, who is an employe of the county tax collector's office, is suffering from multiple injuries and is bleeding internally. Mrs. Frain has been given blood transfusions and the hos pital is calling for blood donors this afternoon. She was struck as she was crossing S. 6th on her way home about 10 o'clock last night. In vestigating police said that the car driven by McCulloch was coming north on 6th at about 40 miles an hour. Mrs. Frain was carried on the front of the "car about 48 feet before she dropped off onto the pavement and the (Contlnntd n Pas Z Column 3) Curb Sought For Petrillo WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 W) Legislation which Chairman Lea (D-Calif.) said was designed to restrain powers of James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians, today was approved by a 14-5 vote of the house interstate commerce committee. Lea is author of the bill which, according to its title, is aimed "to prohibit certain coercive practice affecting radio broad casting." Lea told newsmen the bill grew out of demands made upon broadcasters by Petrillo. Lea said he considered the demands "not within the legitimate rights of any organization" and added that "a self-respecting government cannot afford to per mit" them. The legislation would prohibit the use of threats or force to "coerce, compel or constrain" a radio station "to pay or agree to pay" tribute for the privilege of producing or using records, transcriptions or mechanical, chemical or electrical reproduc tions. A maximum penalty of a year's imprisonment and a $1000 fine is provided for violations. AFL Butchers To Return To Work PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 23 ffl Striking AFL butchers will re turn to work at the Swift and Armour company packing plants here Saturday, J. D. McDonald, union secretary, said today. Local action is in compliance with orders from national un ion officials, he said, which were issued after the government an nounced it was seizing the slants on Saturday. 1 Long-Time Operation Said Sure Plant Will Be Active Productive Unit For 10 Years The Kesterson mill on Klam ath river below town, one of the large lumber plants of this area, will continue in operation for at least several years, it was as sured today with the announce ment by Irving Kesterson that Kesterson Lumber corporation has sold i ts lumber interests here to the Klamath Basin Pine Mills, Inc. The new owners of this opera tion now have timber and are negotiating for other timber which they expect will maintain the Kesterson plant as an active productive unit in this commun ity for about 10 years. H. J. O'Donnell, M. A. Wyman and L. McLellan of the Puget Sound area are the owners of the Klamath Basin Pine Mills, Inc., a Washington corporation. Some time ago, these men took over the box operations at the big Kesterson plant, and have con ducted this business under the name of Kesterson Box com pany. Ivan Kesterson will be resi dent manager for the new own ers and there will be no change in key personnel, it was an nounced. . , Lease Transferred ; ' The deal announced today in cludes transfer from the Kester son corporation to the Klamath Basin Pine Mills of the lease on the Klamath river plant, owned Dy a suDsiaiary oi tne ureat Northern railroad. . Irving E. Kesterson, who has headed the Kesterson operations here and has long been a leader in. the lumber industry in this area, said today that while he is retiring from operating activity here he will retain his interest in the welfare of the Klamath industry and hopes to serve it in many ways. He will serve the industry in an advisory canacitv and is a member of important in dustry committees. He plans a trip to Washington soon in the interest of the industry. Irving Kesterson has acquired substantial interests in Califor nia and makes his home at Red wood City. The Kesterson family entered the lumbering field here in 1917, operating at that time a small mill known as the Burkhart mill. at Ivan, two or three miles north of the Oregon-California line near Worden. They then moved to a mill at Topsy on Klamath river canyon. In 1923, they be gan operations at a large plant at Dorris, sawing Klamath county timber. In 1929 they completed construction of the Kesterson plant on Klamath river near Klamath Falls, and have oper ated it since that time. They came here from Grants Pass. Present officers of the Kesterson corporation are G. H. Kesterson, Grants Pass, president; Irving Kesterson, vice president, and Ivan Kesterson, treasurer. Dan Farris is acting secretary. AFL Ordere Workers Y Urad Stroke WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) The White House on nounced today the department of agriculture will seize and operate strikebound meat packing plants on Saturday. Meanwhile, the striking AFL union of , meat workers or dered its men back to work in struck plants Saturday, th day set for government seizure of strikebound properties. Earl Jimerson, president, and Patrick E. Gorman, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America, issued a statement saying as "loyal Americans" they had ordered their members in struck plants of Armour. Swift, Cudohy, Wilson Kingan and Morrell com panies back to work effective Saturday. : : Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the agriculture de partment will have the aid of the war department "if neces sary" and that the agriculture department will conduct the operations. Ross declined to answer questions concerning his terse announcement, made to a hurriedly called news conference. Ross made the following oral statement: "The government will seize the closed meat packing pianis on Saturday, January 20. "The necessary order for the seizure is now being prepared by the secretary of labor. The seizure will be made by the department of agriculture, with the aid of the war depart ment if necessary. The plants will be operated by the depart ment of agriculture. "That's the whole of it at this time." . A few minutes earlier a gov ernment official, who declined to be quoted directly, had in dicated the seizure would be made Saturday to allow fur ther time to persuade striking CIO workers to return to their jobs under government opera tion. Labor department officials have said that striking AFL workers had agreed to return if the government took over, r No Plans The administration still has no immediate plans for further action on the steel, strike, Ross said. Asked whether there were any plans for Henry Kaiser to be brought into the picture to help settle the steel dispute, Ross replied: . . . "I know of no such plans." Last week Kaiser signed a contract with the CIO United Steel Workei,nipiVrlotH.h California steel plant.- r . t Chester Bowles, OPA admin istrator, was scheduled to talk with President Truman shortly after noon and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach had an appoint ment later. Seizure of the meat packing plants was the first such action in a major labor dispute since the current wave of big strikes started. Mac Orders 48 Japs Arrested TOKYO, Jan. 23 (ff) General MacArthur today ordered the arrest of 48 more Japanese war criminal suspects and, in a re newed drive against the Nip ponese military, included uiree lieutenant generals, Ordered to report at Sugamo prison "at the earliest practi cable date" were Lt. Gen. Yui chiro Nagano, commander of the Osamu army groups in Batavia in June ana July, ivia; LmI. uen, Fusataro Teshina. who com manded the second army, and Lt. Gen. Seichi Yamada, com mander of the fifth division, The remainder of the suspects were military of lesser rank and civilians, including a number of guards at prisoner of war camps. Also named were a number of naval personnel who were sta tioned at Infanta, Luzon, includ ing Capt. Takesu Furuse and two junior grade lieutenants, Nightmare Of Atomic War Conjured Up By Analyst By EDWARD E. BOMAR WASHINGTON, Jan 23 () The nightmare of an atomic war of annihilation exploding acci dentally from a defective bomb fuse or a maniac's thumb jab bing a fatal button was conjured up today by Maj. Gen. J. F. C. Fuller. The British military analyst likened the atomic weapon to a sword of Damocles suspended over the world's head. The slender thread holding that sword might be cut "wil fully" in event of another war, he said, "but on account of the tension in which all nations will live, it is far more likely to be severed accidentally." Then he mentioned bad fuses on atomic rockets and maniacs who might gain access to control panels as instruments of such disaster. Writing in the service maga zine, Army Ordnance, Fuller gave his conception of the out break of an atomic war: "Instead of cities being walled in as in the Viking age, we can picture whole countries girth about by radar sets, ceaselessly "listening in" for the first note of the broadcast of annihilation. "In the vicinity of these in struments will bo hidden away two tactical organizations of atom - charged and propelled rockets the one offensive and the other defensive. The first will be ranged on every great foreign city in the world, be cause before war is launched (to declare it would be sheer mad ness), no single nation will know who among the rest is its true enemy. "The second organization will be directed by tne raoar sets. and as soon as they signal a flight of offensive rockets speed ing toward them, the defensive rockets will automatically be re leased by radar to speed into tne heavens and explode in what ever cubic space in the strato sphere radar decides the enemy's offensive rockets .wm enter at a calculated time. "Then miles above the sur face of the earth, noiseless bat tles will be fought between blast and counterblast. Now and again an invader will get through, and ud will go London Paris, or New York in a 40,000-foot-high mushroom of smoke and dust; and as nobody will know what is happening above or beyond or be certain who is fighting whom let alone what for the .war will go on in a kind of bellicose perpetual motion un til the last laboratory blows up." Strike Curb Legislation Takes Shape By CLAIR JOHNSON WASHINGTON. Jan. 23 JP A strong drive took shaoe in the house today to rewrite into broad new strike control legislation the watered down version at President Truman's fact-findlnsr bill. ', ' . Leaders of a ctoud cOmnosed largely of republicans and south ern democrats told newsmen they will try to attach several amendments to the measure ap- E roved yesterday by the house ibor committee. . Just how broad' these pro posals will be has not yet been agreed upon, and much , of the decision may be fought out' on the house floor. The battle prob ably will begin next week, after the rules committee acts, pn the fact-finding bill. .. . . ' Wide Backing ' Regardless of the details, the coalition leaders claimed and their opponents acknowledged widespread backing for some type- of stringent legislation aimed at curbing ' industrial strife. - ... Foee of such action told re porters privately their chief hope lies in possible settlement of some of the major labor dispute before a vote is taken. "We are Just making a last ditch stand, otherwise, one of them said. "The house is raring to go. Most members believe they have to push through some thing to end the strikes." The first test will come before the rules committee, probably Friday. Tire Production Seen Suspended AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 23 () A survey of executives in the major tire producing firms here drew predictions today that tire manufacture would be suspend ed within a few weeks for lack of steel wire used in tire beads. Nationally, tire production now is at the rate of 180,000 to 200,000 casings a day. Akron plants produce about 60,800 cas ings a day, the majority of them for passenger Cars. . , Congress Plan Would Hike Pay By EUGENE B. DODSON WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 WP) Congress heard from its ranks today how it should streamline itself, and the program includes pay raises, pensions and extra as sistants. From a parliamentary view point, one of the key recommen dations is that congress break the tight control which the house rules committee now can exercise over pending legisla tion. .. - '.' :"": .'.1 The program for modernizing the nation s top law-making ma chinery was reported by a senate-house sub-committee which has been making an extensive study of congressional reorgani zation. ,( , Arriving In United States By Associated Press Duans B. Mathis, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Waterbury Victory d u e in New York January 21. - James H. Hsrgir, TS, Klamath Falls, arrived ' on Kemp Battle due In New York January 21. - Robert E. Cirr, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Henry Connor due in New York January 20. :-; '
