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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.
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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. . -:'
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