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T Afo) em (Ml UUM mm Telephone Mil 0V$V ' ...,, - " "irrr - PRICE riVE CENTS KLAMATH FAILS, OHEPOW, TMUrjV WEATHER NEWS January 24. 1948 Max. (Jan. 23) 40 Mln. 35 Precipitation lait 24 hours 01 Straam year to data 8.58 Normal 8.09 Lait yaar 4.84 Foracasts Cool and cloudy. fPWHVKm 24. 1S4B Hum bar 10727 By FRANK JENKINS plUiSIDENT TRUMAN soya at lila press conforonee tills morning tliut current labor dls- iHitits urc a "struggle for power ctwocg management nnd labor.'1 Ho adds Unit DOTH now liavo TOO MUCH power nnd nays It la necessary for tho government to nnxi-rl Itself In order to oiiiiort the 1'OWEH OF THE PEOPLE. WHAT liu wiyi Is Interesting " and undoubtedly contain a lot of buslc truth, but It rubies thin question: WHO ARE THE PEOPLE? R1ANAGKHS are people. Or- AT Kiinlzvd union worker Kiimzvd union workers are people. Investor are people, Farmer oro people. White col lar workers tire people. Widows and children living on FIXED incomes from Inheritances, In Mironco policies, etc., arc people. Those living on pensions ara people. We ore nil neonle. We nre nil Interested In what a dollar WILL BUY. DERIIAPS it might have been V,1 nenrer tho WHOLE truth If I'resKieni irumnn nna saia that current labor disputes are a atruKSlo for power between DIG management and DIG labor,) THE President tella the report era at his conference that the public lntcre.it demands settle ment of the strel strike on the basis of his 18tc wage Increase proposal Ha doesn't add anything about PRICE INCREASES which are generally said to have been tentatively promised to the steel industry, After all, that's whera the rub comes. What a dollar WILL BUY la ' the primary concern of all of us, f"ON'T overlook price Increases as the probable "solution" of our current labor troubles. Raising prices to offset wage Increases Is the easy way out of the mesit. Politicians seldom take tho hard way. So, since the solution Is largely up to the government (which is composed of politician!) it Is fairly snfe to assume tnnt permuting price in creases Is the wny tho current disputes will finally be ended. Today's dispatches Inform us thul OI'A uoKt Uoylcs is putting up a hard fight ngulnst a lift In price ceilings, but It is a safe bet that he will lose his battle. It Is worth repenting thnt politicians seldom take tho hard way out of a mess nAISING prices will be quite all right for those who can ralso their Incomes correspond' ingly. It will be tough on the considerable number of people Who CAIN 1. THERE is a stnrtling story In tho news todny. Beginning some time In Mny, the U. S. navy Is planning to test tho destructive power of the atom bomb against a "guinea pig licet of rougmy 100 war. shins ranging nil the way from battleships nnd aircraft carriers clown to transports, submarines nnu landing snips. Some of the test ships will como from the fleets of our de feated enemies. Others will be older ships of our own navy, The test is expected to take place In the northern waters of the Marshall Islands. OUR Instinctive Impulse Is to " scringe at tho waste In volved, which at first thought shocks us, tint captured foreign ships nro hard for us to use, and our own obsolescent ships will be of little value to us in the future. If precious lessons about the effectiveness of atomic warfnre can bo learned IN ADVANCE OF WAR wo stand to benefit greatly, IN almost every way, war Is WASTEFUL beyond the ImngL native power of us ordinary peo- rile to conceive. Every commun ty that has had a war Instal lation of any kind is now begin, nlng to rcallzo that fact. This Is mora or less the cold truth: About the only way to avoid the staggering waste of war is to KEEP OUT OF WAR. Bulletin WASHINGTON. Jan. 24 (IP) Prasldent Truman today formal ly ordered government selsura and operation of 134 strike bound meat packing plants of 17 companies, effective at 12:01 a. m, Saturday. Truman Says Industrial War Contest For Power Between Labor-Industry WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (!) President Truman said today much current Industrial strlfo was a contest for power between management and labor both of which, he said, have too much power. The public interest, he added, demands settlement of the steel strike on tho basis of his lBV4-ccnt wago increase proposal. Mr. Truman suld, however, thut he did not Intend to seize the steel Industry at this time although he did not rulo out that future possibility. It was necessary for the government, Mr. Truman said, to assert the power of the people In preventing strikes against the public Interest. The president disclosed that consideration Is being given to 1 federal operation of a govern- ment-bulll steel plant In Utah. Mac Ends Sale Of Jap Girls Into Slavery TOKYO, Jan. 24 (P) General MacArthur today ended a centuries old custom under which Japanese families sold their daughters into the slavery of prostitution. MacArthur ordered the Jap anese government to obey that section of the Potsdam declara tion which guarantees "respect for the fundamental human rights." Under it Japan must annul all Inwa authorizing li censed prostitution nnd nullify all contracts committing any woman to prostitution. The Japanese government re cently halted licensing of houses but not the law permitting the sale of girls. In 1040 the gov ernment had made a radical change which permitted the sale of girls, only by blood relatives, eliminating snl by husbands and sweethearts. Girls Released Two weeks ago the Tokyo Brothel Keepers association de cided to release tho girls from slavery status contracts and per mit them "the democratic right" of going into business independ ently. Col. Crawford Sams, chief of allied headquarters public health and welfare service, said the Japanese girls were sold to pro prietors of openly maintained houses for loans of 500 to 1000 yen ($33 to $67) to the parents frequently against tho girls' wishes. Great Northern Switchman Hurt H. G. Lyke, about 45, cm ployed for many years as Great Northern switchman, suffered severe injuries at 10 o'clock last night while switching cars at Malin. Lyke apparently lost his balance nnd fell off the switch engine. He received a compound fracture of the left leg and a crushed left foot. Lyke, whose home Is at 3242 Shasta way, was rushed to Mer rill where Dr. F. E. Trotman splinted his leg and called the Merchants Police, ambulance which moved the railroad man to Hillside hospital. His condition was reported fair today but Lyke Is suffering from shock. FLYING AWARD PORTLAND, Jan. 24 (Pi Portland army air base won the quarterly flying safety award of tho fourth air force, Col. E. B. Baylcy, acting commander, sold today. Tho award is based on the ratio of accidents to flying hours at 24 fields. The government built a plant at Geneva, Utah. Mr. Truman' views were ex pressed at a news conference. Asked about a proposal by Benjumln F. Kairlcss, president of U. S. Steel, thut he call an all-inanugoment conference on wages, the president said he was always ready to talk to business leaders. However, he added, the best thing Fulrless can do is send word that he accepts the White House proposul fur settling the steel strike. Mr. Truman said he thought It was not practical to seize the steel industry at the present time. He would not say the in dustry would not be seized eventually if the strike Is pro longed, however. He also said that the striking meat workers will go back to work at their old places when the government seizes the meat plants Saturday, If steel is eventually seized, the president added, the steel workers too,, will have to go back at current wages. Asserting that both manage ment and labor have too much power, the president declared much of today's Industrial strife is merely a try-oul for power and added it was necessary for the government to assert Itself, to assert the power of the peo ple. Riots Break Out In Bombay BOMBAY, Jan. 24 IP) Bom bay faced another night of dis orders tonight after a riotous day in which police repeatedly fired on bands of demonstra tors in futile efforts to restore order. First outbreaks of violence today occurred when police fired three times upon huge, stone-throwing crowds follow ing the funeral procession of a Hindu victim of yesterday's bloody riots. By nightfall, ten sion was growing, and the toll of dead and Injured mounted. A police bulletin said 25 per sons were wounded by gunfire during the day, bringing the number of wounded in two days of disorders to nearly 50Q. Filibusters Hit By Senate Leader WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (IP) Senate Majority Leader Barklcy condemned filibusters today as "unjustifiable and indefensible" and declared ho would sign a petition to shut off the current sustained debate on the con troversial fair employment prac tice bill. He made the statement In the face of a poll conducted by ad ministration aides which showed that advocates of the bill could not muster tho two-thirds major ity they would need to end the debate. Nazis Accused Of Slaying - 29,000 Innocent Hostages NUERNBERG, Jan. 24 (IT) France chaVged today that the nazls executed at least 29,000 Innocent hostages In their occu pation of the fallen republic. Charles Dubost, the French prosecutor, made tho accusation before the International military tribunal and attributed prime responsibility to Field Marshal Wilhclm Keitcl and former Rclchsmarshal Hermann Goer Ing. They are two of the leading 22 nazis on trial as war crimin als. Another defendant, Baron Constantln von Nourath, former foreign minister and "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia, was called Hitler's "handiest tool" In German plans for conquest. Tho British demanded his con viction as a war criminal. Dubost said Keitcl, who was head of the German high com mand, levied harsh measures against the resistance move ments which the marshal termed "communist activity." He said Keital negated foreign office efforts to obtain clemency and quoted this letter: "Henceforth, the most severe measures ought to be taken in occupied territories. In the fu ture, the death penally should in general be carried out." Dubost accused Keitcl of or dering 50 to 100 French com munists to be shot for each Ger man killed in France, and said similar instructions to seize and execute hostages were sent to commmnders in Belgium, Nor way, Holland, Denmark, tho Ukraine, Sorbin nnd Greece, The condition of Julius Stretcher, who suffered a heart attack yesterday, was reported improved today. MEAT WORKERS WILL RETURN AT OL D PAY Klamath's Snow Blooming Jasmine W; M Lorely branches of yellow Jasmine were picked from the Alfred D. Collier garden, 1401 Pacific Terrace, eren as snow fell throughout the day. Naomi Klmse?, attractive member of The Herald and Nowi staff, arranged the branches so that vis itora to the newspaper office could share in their beauty. Enrollment In . Suburban Schools Rises Gradually Klamath's wartime boom and the rapid Increase In population In the past four years has not had noticeable effect on the en rollment of the various subur ban schools although there are about twice as many students enrolled in the schools as there were 10 years ago, a survey of the county board's figures re veal. The growth has been gradual and steady over the 10 years, rather than booming In the war years. In 1936 at Shasta, Summers and Altanvont junior high, 755 students were enrolled ' and at the end of last school term 1532 were attending Shasta, Alta mont elementary and Altamont junior high. Summers school was closed in 1943 and the students sent to Altamont. The Altamont ele mentary building opened in 1938. A total of 1509 was enrolled in all four schools m 1941 but the next year, the first of the war years, the enrollment drop ped to 1397. Next year the fig ure was 1499 and the increase Spaatz Chief Of Air Forces WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (IP) President Truman today an nounced Gen. Carl A. Spaatz's appointment to be chief of the army air forces, succeeding Gen. Henry H. (Hap) Arnold. The president told his news conference that General Arnold will retire upon his return from his current South American tour and that Spaatz will take over his assignment. Arnold wanted to retire some time between February 1 and February 15, the president said, but he added that ho did not know the exact effective date at this time. A war department source said yesterday the change would probably be made February 15. Driver Released On Bail Of $50 Charged with reckless driving after the accident which sent Mrs. Mary Donelson Frain, 54, 1522 Martin, to Klamath Valley hospital with serious internal in juries Tuesday night, James Her bert McCulloch, 20, of route 3, has been released by city police on $50 bail and Is to appear in court this afternoon. The hospital today reported that Mrs. Frnln's condition is bet ter. She was given blood trans fusions yesterday, McCulloch, a soldier on leave, was the driver of the car which struck Mrs. Frain as she was crossing S. 6th at Martin late Tuesday night. for last year was. only 33 sta dpntx. t Final enrollment figures for this vear are exDected to be only slightly higher than last, show ing a normal growtn. At the close of the 1944-45 school year Altamont junior high had 679 pupils, Altamont elementary had 454 and Shasta, 399. The 1945 fall census listed 6992 persons between the ages of four and 19 living in Klam ath county elementary school districts, exclusive of district one, Klamath Falls, and a small area outside the city limits. Tax levies for the county schools are based on that figure. Three Issues Faced By UNO By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER LONDON, Jan. 24 (IP) The United Nations today ordered the creation of a special commis sion to devise controls for atomic energy and moved swiftly to ward action on three critical po litical issues involving Iran, Greece and Indonesia. A few hours after the general assembly had voted unanimous ly to set up the atomic commis sion under the security council. Secretary of State James - F. Byrnes left for Washington in President Truman's plane, the "Sacred Cow." . ' In a leave-taking with report ers Byrnes announced that the United States favored the quick est possible public hearings by the security council on charges filed by Russia against the British in Greece and Indonesia, and by Iran against Russia. The security council ordered a meeting of its 11 members to morrow to take up the three cases, and American officials strongly expected that the coun cil would decide to hold public hearings on the tnree controver sial cases next week. In his opinion, Byrnes said, the quicker the three cases are given full hearings the better it would be. (bee also page 3.) Wife's Kisses Cost 5 Smackers LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24 (IP) His wife s kisses cost him $5 each. Sidney Raskin, bakery executive, charged in domestic relations court. His wife, Actress Dorlene Welch, confirmed it. "I did it to discourage him," she told reporters as she left the courtroom, "He was always buzzing and pecking around. It was annoying. "If he didiVt have $5 with him, I'd take what he had on ac count." Their contested divorce suit Is set for trial next summer. Mean while, Judge Kurtz Kauffman denied her request for alimony. Conciliator States AFL Will Work Leaders Of 193,000 CIO Strikers Call Strategy Meet By The Associated Press President Truman said today that meat workers would return at their old wages when the government seizes the meat pack ing inaustry Saturday out whether any of the 263,000 strikers would work for the government still was up in the air. Edgar L. Warren, chief of the federal conciliation service, told reporters in Washington Tues day he had been assured by T. M. Lloyd, an official of the AFL Meat Cutters and Butchers un ion, that the 70,000 AFL strik ers would return for the government. However, the union tele graphed all its locals today within an hour after the presi dent's statement, to "stand by tor instructions from our gen eral onice. Leaders of "the 193,000 strik ing Liu Meat Workers union have- called a strategy meeting for tomorrow to decide whether to return to work. AFL Telegram The AFL telegram to its lo cals, signed by Earl Jimerson union president, and other in ternational officers, told them "not to be misled" by reports of the action of the Amalgamated regarding returning to work." It added, our organization has the pledge of high govern ment officials that the govern ment will put into effect any wage increase determined by the meat fact-finding commis sion retroactive from the date of government seizure. Up to the present time we have not re ceived the official seizure order; therefore stand by for further instructions." Lewis J. Clark, president of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers union, said the union's rank and file would decide "whether" to return to work under a federal boss and "the conditions under which they will go back to work." Clark's statement, also issued after President Truman's re marks that the strikers would re turn at their old wages, said "the decision before the Packinghouse worKers is a amicult one in the absence of any assurance by the govenment that their wage aemanas win De met." Statehood For Hawaii Favored WASHINGTON. Jan. 24 UP) A house territories subcommit tee recommended today that the full committee "give imme diate consideration to legisla tion to admit Hawaii to state hood. The unanimous report said "the people of the territory of Hawaii have demonstrated be yond question not only their loyalty and patriotism, but also their desire to assume the re sponsibility of statehood." Short Seavs fries off Hquiipmemn? By J. W. DAVIS WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (AP) MaJ. Cen. Walter C.' Short charged today that the war department delayed setting up radar in Hawaii in 1941 while it completed installations in New York City, Seattle and San Francisco. Short's charge was bolstered when he read to the Pearl Harbor investigating committee a telegram he said he had received yesterday from Waterloo, la., signed by Maj. Ceorge D. Leosk of the army signal corps. ' Leask said that when he was transferred to San Francisco on December 10, 1941, he found three radar towers "lying on an open pier" there. It was not until several weeks later that he received instructions from Washington to ship them to Honolulu immediately, the telegram said. Short told the committee the army had hired experts from the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica to help install radar equip ment on the mainlnd. "When it came to Hawaii," he said, "it was just a question of the officers digging out what information they could and put ting it together. It looked like the war department was more interested in developing radar on the mainland than in Ha waii." The witness said none of the permanent radar stations on Oahu was in operation at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A movable sta tion, . being operated for prac tice, picked up the Jap planes but the information was not correctly interpreted. Short said he had not recom mended any disciplinary action against Lt. Col. (then Lt.) Ker mit A. Tyler, who dismissed the radar report of approaching planes as unimportant, because he knew Tyler was inexperi enced. Rep. Murphy (D-Pa.) broke In to say he couldn't see how Ty ler had any responsibility any how because Murphy assumed the lieutenant knew nothing of war warning messages and other developments. The general also told the committee that Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines had much more secret informa tion about Japanese intentions late in 1941 than he himself had in Hawaii. " ' Suit Follows Fatal Wreck Willard D. Miller, Klamath Falls contractor, is the defendant in a lawsuit for amounts totalling $6901.29 and case costs filed in the county clerk's office by Doc Minford Daugherty, the suit arising from the automobile ac cident last October 23 in which Mrs. Anna Hansen received fatal injuries. The wreck happened just at dusk October 23 at Shasta way and Summers : lane. Miller's Lincoln-Zephyr sedan was struck in the side by Daugherty's heavy International truck at the inter section. Mrs. Hansen -was a passenger in Miller's car. Her daughter, Gertrude, and Miller's son, Wil lard D., Jr., were also injured. Daugherty's suit charges that the contractor carelessly, neg ligently and heedlessly drove his car intf the path of the truck, and the specific allegations are that Miller was driving at a dangerous rate of speed, failed to yield the right of way, failed to stop on Summers lane at the Shasta way intersection and neglected to have his automobile headlights burning. The accident, Daugherty states, damaged his truck to the extent of $401.29 and put it out of commission for 60 days. He used the truck in his business of buying and selling cattle and the period the truck was riot in operation damaged his business $5000. He also asks $1500 other damages, and costs of the suit. U. S. Balentine is attorney for Daugherty. In an inquest held the day after the accident a coroner's jury found that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of any of the parties in volved in the death of Mrs. Han sen. - Suspect Shows No Emotion While Viewing Nude Body SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Jan. 24 (IP) Arthur L. Eggers, 52-year-old suspect, said only "that looks pretty good, sheriff," when he was confronted Wednes day with the nude, headless, handless body of a woman, found in a mountain canyon, Jan uary 2. Eggers, booked for investiga tion of murder, was taken to the morgue by Sheriff Emmett L. Shay, who said the body virtu ally has been identified as that of Eggers' wife, Dorothy, 42, whom he reported as missing on the same day the body was found. As Eggers entered the morgue In the company of deputies and newsmen, he peered intently at the body for a moment, then turned to Shay to make his com ment quietly and without emo tion. He did not elaborate, and the officers did not immediately question him. Then he inquired whether an incision down the torso had been made by ' the slayer and Shay replied: "No, that was made by the autopsy surgeon." Shay then asked newsmen to leave the room, as he wanted to question Eggers in the presence of the body before taking him to the mountain canyon where it was found by a motorist. '. Eggers, a mild-mannered clerk In the Los Angeles county sheriff's substation in nearby Temple City since 1929, has been booked on suspicion of murder. He steadfastly has maintained his Innocence. Showdown Brewing On Price Issue By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (IP) An administration showdown ap pears to be brewing over wheth er ;. government price policies should be eased because of mounting industrial strife. "This whole price control question is building up to a ter rific issue," one government offi cial familiar with the backstage controversy that has been going on for some time asserted today. This official, who asked to remain anonymous, said OPA Administrator Chester Bowlea has been encountering increas- ' tag pressure from some govern ment agencies for a more liberal interpretation of existing price) policies. The greatest pressure haa come, the official said, from Secretary of Agriculture Ander son who publicly has advocated, higher retail prices lor meat aud butter. Add Preuure To a lesser extent, the official added, pressure had been exert ed by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder and Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small. Bowles already has held sefc eral conferences with Snyder. Officials said that if the price chief does not win his point with the reconversion director, hia only alternative will be to pre sent the matter to President Tru man. Bowles has argued that the only way to prevent inflation is to allow no price increases other than those presently authorized. Against this stand, those re portedly in favor of relaxation are said to be convinced there should be more "give" in the price policy so the government would have more 1 e e w a y in wage disputes. ' Arriving In United States By Associated Pxeia Herbert V. Carroll. PFC. Lakeview, arrived on Exche quer due in New York Janu ary 22. Donald E. Graham. Sat., Dunsmuir, arrived on Exche quer due in New York Janu ary 22. v Hubert A. Swisher, TS. Klamath Falls, arrived on Selinur due in San Francisco January 22. Orbie Coplin, Pvt., Klam ath Falls, arrived on Selinur due in San Francisco Janu ary 22. . r Robert C. Cox, Sgt., Klam ath Falls, arrived on USS George Elliott due in Tacoma January 18. ; Harvey R. Bunyard, Cpl., Klamath Falls, arrived on USS George Elliott due in Ta coma January 18. Roy A. Rightmler, T4, Klamath Falls, arrived on George Washington due in New York January 18. Jonathon A. Jackson. Pvt., Chiloquin, arrived on George Washington due in New York January 18. Earl L. Daviea, SSgt Chiloquin, arrived on George Washington due in New York January 18. William S. Hart, Sgt., Shas ta, arrived on John Ericsson due in New York January 16. Peter J. Morris, PFC, Klam ath Falls, arrived on John Ericsson due in New York January 16. ' John Spears Jr., PFC, Chil oquin, arrived on John Erics son due in New York January 16. .- ' : Emery Parker, Sgt., Beatty, arrived on John Ericsson due in New York January 16. , Robert E. Rath Jr., TS, Weed, arrived on Shelby due In Tacoma January 23. . -:' I I
