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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1946)
A M jv MA 1 1 Day's lews Bv FRANK JENKINS 'ODAY'8 woli'doat nowa la the my'a announcement that It TOD or has established radar contact WITH THE MOON. It only wo had some lurm ot electronic con tact Willi tho astral regions, we thould start paging Juloa Verne, Ho would bo Interested, THE nowa thut a radar echo lins bean bounced bnck from tho moon opuna up endless possi bilities. It there nro people on the moon, wo could TALK WITH T1I10M If they Knew our toch nltjiica unci our hinuago, ONE of tho expurlmcntera pro diets rocket trlpa to the moon ( In TKN Y15AKS. KiniliiHlh'? ' Of course until et propulsion ((he rocket principle) cmno along. I Thut provided n possible vehicle. 1 All I luil would ho needud (the- orellciilly) would bo n rocket i capable of carrying fuel enough to i(ct thero IK Ha navlgutors .' could find their wuy llirougn flnllru. Kiidnr contnet could make It possible, to fhuMhe road. THERE are loss pleasing possl bllltlvi. Tho dispatch from Wushlii((. ton announcing tho new dl- covory say It "MIGHT usher In radio control for nupor-rimtfe Jet or rocket projectiles which could be kept hovering uminuuol, above tho earth In tho atrato siihere." (Loaded, ucrhana. with atom bombs nnd kept crulsinK around . until tho strategy of an atomic warfare hko dictated the point nl which tiiey should be directed to earth and exploded.) Then WHOOSH. ' A LL this la terrifying BE' CAUSE our techniques of , personal relationship that la to say, finding the way to enable to net alonu amicably with each other oro not keep lns pace with our materlul scientific techniques, AT this moment, In our blun dorlng JUNGLE thinking atomic energy la a monster potentially more horrible than any ever conjured up by a dis ordered mind. We aco In It death and total destruction. In reality, atomic energy con , talna tho elements of a way of life fuller and moro satisfying Mhan any wo nave ever oarcu iu ( THINK about. It holds the promise of cheap and universally usable power power to do all tho drudgery hitherto done by human bucks and arms power to mako posslblo production ao endless and so great as to insure standards of living far beyond anything wo havo hitherto been nb In to imuii tic, in order to realize these rosy rwnllillitii. within a reasonable snaco of time, human beings neco only to learn how to get along with each other peacefully and co-opcratlvcly. MANY of our modern scientific miracles (such as man-made rubber and other synthetics) are made posslblo by catalyzers. Catalyzers, In rough, layman language, aro substances that muko things come together and jell. , , Nearly 20 centuries ago a catalyzer of tho Intangibles in volved in human relationships was discovered and announced by Jesus. It Is known as the Golden Itulo "Do yo unto othcra aa yo would that others shall do unto you." This catalyzer of human rc latlonshlpa MAKES DECENT HUMAN ASPIRATIONS JELL. IT Is a tragic pity that human beings havo been unable, or ' UNWILLING, to employ the Golden Rule as efficiently as they employed matorlal cat j alyzers. f Its possibilities for the ad J , vancemont of mankind are al- most limitless. Police Open Fire On Mobs BOMBAY, Jnn. 25 IP) Police turned rifles and tear gas guns , on rioting mobs today as antl ; English nnll-nuthorlty demon strations which havo brought 1 death to 18 persons and injuries to more man ouu continued tor the third day. Police officials, just about ready to call for troops to quell . tho bloody strife, ordered a cur few Into effect for tonight, from 9 p. m. to 6 a. m., in an effort to halt the looting, arson and ston ing which has mado the Hindu section of the center ot Bombay a battleground. American correspondents were warned to stay out of tho trouble area. UNO Agrees To Discuss Iran Issue Group Disregards Red Request To Shelve Hot Dispute LONDON. Jan. 25 (IP) The United Nations security council formuuy agreed louuy to uiscuss tho tenao military-political situa tion in Iran, Greece and Indo nesia at its next meeting. The council thus disregarded a request from Sovlot Russia that 11 decline to luxe up me aispuic over Iran. Tho next meeting will bo held Monday, Tho action came on the motion of the American delegate, Ed ward R. Slettlnlus Jr., after Brit- Isli foreign secretary Ernest lievln had declared he was "so tired of these charges by the Soviet Union in private" (against Britain) that he was anxious for a full discussion at tho earliest posslblo moment. Steps Taken The 11-mombcr council, pro. ccedlng to put tho new world peace organization in worKiuu order, took steps to get Its mill' tury staff committee functioning Tho . council ordered military representatives of the principal powers to hold their first meet ing hero by February 1 when work will bo sturted on the spe cial agreements by which na tions arc to pledge land, sea and air forces to enforce security council orders when nccessury. The action to take up the situ ations in Iran, Greece and Indo nesia came two hours after Rus sia had registered categoric op position to discussion of the Iran complaint thut the red army has been Interfering In Iran's Inter nal affairs. Tho chief Soviet delegate, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vlshinsky, filed a letter with the council president, N. J. O. Makin of Australia, set ting forth a five-point reply to tho Iranian charge. He declared Iran's complaints wcro ground less and that the channels of di rect negotiation between the countries were open. Jemi mm 3teto$ Telephone Mill PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 25. 194. Humber 10728 GIN PLflMBftSTS PRICE POLICY Law Officers Shot To Death SPEAR FISH, S. D Jon. 25 (IP) Two South Dakota law enforce' ment officers were shot to death on a highway last night, the pos sible victims of a convicted Min nesota killer fleeing after a jail' break. The officers were Tom Mat thews, special agent for the at torncy general's law enforce ment division, and Dave Mal colm, sheriff of Butte county. They were shot while appar ently attempting to trap George S. Sltts, 32, who escaped from the Hennepin (Minneapolis) county jail last Sunday. Sltts had been confined In Jail while awaiting transfer to the Minne sota state prison to serve a life term for the holdun killing of a Minneapolis liquor storo clerk last December 12. On the strength of reports that filling station operators at Brookings and Belle Fourche had Identified a transient motor ist as Sltts, officers of five states began a patrol of neighboring highways. MEET CANCELLED Due to the absence of Mayor Ed Oslcndorf and the president of the council, Councilman Paul O. Landry, both of whom ore out of the city, there will be no meeting of the city council to night, Friday. The next session will be on the regular meeting night Monday, January 28. A-bomb Test On Warships Seen Costly Half Billion Dollars Worth Of Ships To Be Blown Up WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 (IP) Tho test of the A-bomb versus tho modern warship stacked up today as a proposition that will cost close to a hulf billion dol lars. If not more. The exuet amount was Impos sible to calculate, but navy fig ures supplied an indication of what would be involved in the forthcoming atomic experiment in mo Racine. This is what they show: It cost $2:10,000.000 alone for the hulls and engines of the 47 U. S. combat units assigned to the guinea pig fleet. It cost more than $100,000,000 more for Ibe navy transports which make up about half of the 47 non-combat types which also will be targets. Moreover, navy men have es timated unofficially that the operating expenses involved In staging tho experiment next spring will run approximately $100,000,000. The pay of per sonnel and cost of supplies would boost that . total.- ' No estimates are avnJItdjltnn the one Germart'arieTwlcPjapa ncse warships that will be used in the test, but all arc of the most costly types. . . The hull-ond-englne costs arc but o port of the total outlay for tho U. S. warships, but no fig ures could be obtained on the ex pense of armament and fittings that boost the final cost total. On the other hand, tho ships will be stripped of much of their guns and fittings for the tests. The figures do not take Into account subsequent expenditures tor modernization, which in the case of the battleship Nevada ran more than $7,000,000, ; ex ceeding her original hull-and-engine cost. , Byrnes Pleased I At UNO Progress WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (IP) Secretary of State Byrnes re turned from London today and said he was "greatly gratified" at tho progress) made by tho United Nations organizations during the last two weeks. President Truman's four engined transport plane, the "Sacred Cow," bringing Byrnes and his party, landed at Nation al airport. Byrnes told newsmen who met him nt the plane that he Intended to confer with President Tru man at the White House as soon as possible. Slain? Army Claims Contact Wiih Moon In Jules Verne Feai WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (IP The army today claimed the world's first scientific contact with tho moon in a Jules Verno feat which spanned 238,000 miles of outer spaco by radar. Government astronomers sold the achievement might lead to tho answer of tho ago-old ques tion whether any form of life exists on the moon. Another possibility was that It might usher in radio control for super-range Jet or rocket projec tiles which could be kept hover ing ominously above the earth In tho stratosphere, The war department reported that , tho results of tho experi ment promise "valuable peace time as well- as wartime applica tions." Far-roving space ships were listed as one of the "less likely" applications. NO ANSWER TO THIS ONE! , VANCOUVER, B. C Jan.. 25 (P) When n husband promises to get a divorce anu men ctocs notning aoout it, can tne wire sue I him for breach of promise? - V , That was tho question a distraught woman asked when she I visited city police headquarters here. With tears' streaming down v'iier face, sho said she had been married 18 years and. never got along with her husband. '.' 1 ' S- Tho husband had promised to divorce her but hadn't done anything nbout It, Could ho bo sued for broach ot promise? The sergeant on. 'duty told her he hadn't heard the answer, to tat;one . . -v . - . j .' The first radar contact with the moon was made January 10, it was disclosed, and the feat has been successfully repeated several times since. .; The experiment has been car ried out bv signal corns scion. tists, working at tho Evans signal laboratory at Belmar on the New Jersey coastline. The armv re leased the first details ot it last night. -r. It took only two and a naif seconds, the report revealed, for a radar echo to bounce back from the moon, normally about zjh.hdy nines distant irom ; tne earth. Mai. Gen. Harrv C. Inele. signal corps chief, said the imme diate significance was that scien tists know for the first time with certainty that a very high fre quency radio , wave , from the earth can penetrate tho electrl cally charged- ionosphere which cnyelops, both earth and strato sphere. . The multi-layered iono sphere starts about 39 miles above the earth's surface and ex tends to nn altitude of approxi mately 250 mile's higher. Looking to the future, the war department said It may be pos sible with the. aid. of radar data to construct detailed topographi cal maps of distant planets,' and also to determine the composi tion, and atmospheric character istics of thosR.Colcstial bodies rrvj 1 mi 1 1 11 ..jlj J. 1" ' PI VifO A - nude, haadUsa, handleia body found In a mountain can yon near Ban sarnaroino, Calif., on January 2 has rirtu ally baen identified aa that of Dorothy Lea Eggera, ahown above. Her husband, Arthur R. Eggers, 55, baa been booked by poltca on auapicion 01 muiaw. (NEA t.lephoto). In Spud Field ' A single-motored army plane made a forced landing in a flood ed potato field on the Jerry Short ranch near Wocus north of Klamath Falls about 11 a. m. todav. s , - . The civilian pilot, Ed Mercy, who was ferrying the plane north from Red Bluff, Calif., was uninjured in the landing .and walked out of the field on the Ice , to the road, where he was picked up by Hubert Vanderhoff of Wocus and taken into town. .. Mercy, bound for Yakima, put down at the Klamath naval air station yesterday and left this morning. Soon after taking off the plane . developed motor trouble, and Mercy Chose -the farm field on the east side of Upper Klamath lake, between highway No. 97 and the dike, for the landing. Mercy reported the accident to the (jaa office at tne airport, and CAA officials will help him work out a way to get the plane out of the wet field. Ice on. the field isn't heavy enough to hold the weight of the plane and It broke through, sinking into 10 inches of water and mud. The plane Is a BT-13, a two- place single-motored reconnais sance job. Railroads Agree To Arbitrate CHICAGO, Jan. 25 V) A railway labor official who -de clined use of 'his name said 18 brotherhoods and the nation's major carriers would agree to day to arbitrate wage demands, Action on proposed 'rule changes will bo deferred until later, the source said. The agreement, he added, will be signed by representa- 1 1 v e s of the carriers and of three onerpina and 14 non-op erating brotherhoods of railroad labor. , v - V: . Non-signers, the source said, will be representatives of the Brotherhood ,of Railroad Train' men anS the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers -whose leaders announced in Cleveland arrangements tor . polling . the union's rank and file on, the question of a strike. These two brothers are unions 01 operat ing personnel. ' . Wilson Says Costs Must Be Matched Auto Plant President Opposes Truman Fact Plan WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 UFl President C. E. Wilson of Gen eral Motors testified today that "If you want higher wages paid you are going to have to have higher prices." Wilson, whose vast General Motors plant has been strike- bo u n d for two months, ap peared before the senate labor committee. He opposed fact finding, compulsory arbitration, or extension of the wartime powers for government seizure and operation of industry dur ing strikes. At one point Wilson said that if the country was going to "hold the line on prices then we'll have to worry along with strikes and all take a big loss." He added: - I think we're going to have some awful bad strikes before the men go back to work at the wages at which the men were working before." t .a . unairman Murray (u-Mont.i 1 j 1, - . imnrppnanip siriinrinn ' r-iaraiica 1 - - Arriving In United States V By Associated Praia Harlen L. Dyari, TSgi Klamath" Falls arrived"' on Nicholas Gll'man due in New York January 22. ' V Ray L, Hunsaker Jr., Sgt Klamath Falls, arrived on Wheaton Victory duo in New York January. 24. . Felix Gouin Falix Gouin, chairman of French constituent aasembly. apeaka to Paria, France, listan- ra after he accepted bid of French communista and social ist! to succeed Gen. Charles de Gaulle aa provincial president of French republic. Gouin had previoualy declined tne Honor. Photo radioed from Paria to New York. (NEA telephoto). during the strike period it could recover excess profits taxes to offset losses. No Money Back "That had nothing to do with our case," Wilson replied. "You may think it funny but I did not figure on getting any money back." ' Murray said that the corpora tion could recover taxes even if the strike lasted a year. . "I don't think the strike is going to last a year," Wilson said. "What bothers me is plans for plant modernization. We have not enough money in Gen eral Motors to carry out those plans." j ; After one long series bf ques tions, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) told Wilson, "I am unable to find out what you want congress to do." ... Senator Ellender (D-La.) said he "did not want to accuse you (Wilson) of being evasive to questions but let's have a yes or no answer and then any ex planations." 'I realize I am on the spot," Wilson said as a crowd ot spec tators and senators joined in laughter. Longshoremen To Take Vote SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25 UP) More than 30,000 longshoremen in California, Oregon and Wash ington will vote next week on a recommendation made yesterday by,, the CIO International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen s negotiating committee to strike on or before April 1. - The strike recommendation climaxed a day of rapid fire de velopments in the six-months-old negotiations between the union and waterfront employes over the 1946 contract. ;- Harry Bridges, ILWU presi dent, made the following moves: 1. ADDealed to President Tru man to intervene to avoid what he called an "inevitable" west coast shipping tie-up. 2. Accused the Waterfront Employers association of break ing off negotiations in an effort to nullify tne wage-hour law. Heavy Rainfall Swells Rivers t ' PORTLAND, Jan. 25 M) An other - rise in the Willamette river and its tributaries, swollen' by heavy rams, was reported to day, but the weather bureau saw no immediate danger ahead. 1 : , The Willamette was expected to reach 1.5 feet above the 13.5 foot -flood stage at Harrisburg; the Santiam at Jefferson, three feet above the ' 13-foot flood stage. Only anticipated damage is soil erosion, officials said. Gouin Wants U.S. Loan PARIS, Jan. 25 (JP) President Felix Gouin was reported to have told his. socialist party to day that only a. $2,500,000,000 loaa - rom-; the -United ' States 0). I? ire si den? For Actio ra CHICACO, Jan. 25 (AP) Tho CIO United Porfcinrt House Workers union accused President Truman of engaging "in a strike-breaking action" and decided today not to return to work when the government takes control of strikebound meat packing plants tomorrow at 12:01 a. m. Lewis J. Clark, union president, announced the national wage policy committee voted "unanimously" to that effect. In this statement he asserted the government seizure order was "a complete double cross" and that the government was "giving the workers a raw deal." He called on the entire trade union movement and citi zens for support. .. . The CIO United Packinghouse Workers is the larger of two unions whose strike of more than a week has cut heavily into the union's supplies. The CIO group has 193,000 mem bers. The AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, with 55,000 members on strike, has ordered iti membership to go back. The CIO union'3 notional wage policy committee took iti action as government officials" gathered in Chicago to draft three-party approval of a drastic financial program before forming his new ?;overnment, the president asked he socialists to adhere to the plans of Finance Minister Pierre Mendes. Party members who' reported the loan figure said Gouin spoke of France's financial and food situations in the blackest - terms and told the socialists that either the three leading parties must accept tne program or he .would resign. - . Prospects for a auick forma tion of a new cabinet brightened' when ail three parties announced general favor for the financial rogram. The communists, owever. sought an amendment in the proposed freezing of gov ernment employes' salaries for a year. . , Son Of Klamath Woman Said Dead PFC. James W. Burns, United States army, son of Mrs. Lela Burns of this city, has been offi cially listed as killed in action in the Pacific theater of war, ac cording to information , given The Herald and News today by the army man's family.' Mrs. Burns said that her son was first 1 reported missing . in action. The family has held hopes for finding young Burns until the official word reached here this week. plans for seizing the meat plants, under presidential or der. - Clark's announcement read: "The president of the United States, in directing the seizure of the plants has engaged in a strike-breaking action, the sole effect of which can be to play into the hands of the packers. "The government seizure or der is a complete double-cross" because prior to the announce ment of the seizure this union had received from high govern mental officials assurances that the order would contain provi sions for making effective in creases (in wages) that - the (fact-finding) panel might rec ommend. Sympathetic "Under this order of seizure, the department of agriculture, notoriously sympathetic to the packing interests, will operate the plants. "This union calls on the en tire trade union movement and on groups of citizens every where to join with them in as suring that the action suggest ed here will be made effective. "The United Packinghouse Workers of America desire tol cooperate win xneif, govern ment, nut unaer an ine circum stances they can only believe that the government is helping the cause of the meat packers and giving the workers a raw deal. v - "We are prepared to return to work at such time as we are assured that the equities of our case' will be -given consideration and that ST substantial wage in crease will be put in effect. ; When a newspaperman asked whether picketing would be continued, Clark! declared at a news conference: ." '"If you go' out to the stock yards with your camera tomor row, I assume you will find the pickets there." . Moon Note Lasted Half A Second NEW, YORK, Jan. 25 (P) The sound that the moon sent back to the earth- lasted half a second and took the form of , a 180-cycle note, or somewhat higher in pitch than the hum heard on a home radio when a station is not tuned in, army officers who conducted the tests related. The echo also was recorded visually on an oscilloscope, where it appeared as a series of jagged, saw-tooth lines. - " An oscilloscope is an in strument for showing visually the changes in varying cur rent. f Body Re-Buried In Manila Thought To Be Colin Kelly By WALTER MASON ' MANILA, Jan. 25 A body re-buried recently in a Manila cemetery was tentative ly identified by western Pacific army headquarters today as that of Capt. Colin Kelly, America's first widely publicized air hero ot World War II. Headquarters said positive identification hinges on a check of dental work and a compari son of data, including a crudely drawn map marking the spot of first interment at Fort Stotzen berg, long since leyeled by Jap anese bombs. 1 Officers said a Filipino told them, that in December, 1941, he saw the sergeant of a field crash truck point to one of two bodies recovered in the crash of a bomber and say: "Why, that's Captain Kelly.". Kelly first was reported to have (died December 10, 1941, in diving ort the Japanese bat tleship Haruna, in . Lingayen gulf for which he posthumous ly 1 was- awarded the Congres sional medal. r : i Subsequently, h 0 w. e v e r, it was determined that he flew his flak-riddled plane one of the 19th"bombardment group back to within four- miles, of ,Clark field after ordering the crew 'to bail out,: One crew member parachuted, but another uni dentified here chose to remain with - Kelly and died when the plane crashed. y The two bodies mentioned by the Filipino, were buried at the post cemetery in Fort Stotzen Ijerg December 11, 1941. A map was made of the burial loca tion, but dog tags were re moved from both bodies - by Filipinos at the crash scene, headquarters said. John Lewis Reunites With AFL By HAROLD W. WARD MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 25 UP) . ' AFL President William Green today announced the reaffllia tion of John L. Lewis and his 500,000 United Mine Workers with the American Federation of Labor. , Lewis immediately was elect ed to the vacancy on the execu- ' tive council created by the with, drawal of Harvey W. Brown, president of the Machinists, whose 700,000 dropped out ot ' the Federation in October, 1943. Green said Lewis would at tend next week's sessions of th. council, expected to be merely routine. Green said the return of th. miners was "significant" be cause of the emphasis "upon th. need for unity and solidarity.'.'-' "i interpret this step taken by , the Mjne Workers as evidence : ' of their determination to wipe out the division of labor and to establish unity," Green told a news conference. Profound Effect . - "It might be interpreted as a move designed ; to place the house of labor in order. It will have a profound effect upon the ' expansion and development of a united labor movement." Green said Lewis had renewed ' the application which he Wi. drew in 1943 and that the Mine Workers had submitted a check (Continued aa Pio I, Column 1) Stockman Hits British Loan WASHINGTON. Jan. 25 MP) Asserting the American people -would be left "holding the sack" if the government made the pro- Sosed 1 $3,750,000,000 loan (to Ireat Britain, Rep. Stockman (R-Ore.) said today it would be the. opening wedge for- requests for loans from other nations. - "We played Santa Claus to the world once before after the first World war," Stockman said in a speech prepared for house delivery. "We ought . to have learned a little from experience, . I contend that we will have enough to do to pay off our own debts without also advancing some four and one-half billion dollars to finance British imper ialism abroad." . He said if the British "get their feet inside the door of the ". United States treasury we'll have plenty of other customers right behind them, all expecting handouts." Russia hopes to get six billion dollars, he said, while France, Italy, Belgium, Poland and other countries are once : again "looking to good old Uncle Sam to bail them out of their economic difficulties . at the ex pense of the American .taxpay ers." .,...;:;-..;.. ' WEATHER ' January 25, 1946 ; ..' Precipitation last 24 houra ... .23 Stream year to date ............8.94 Normal . 6.16. Laat year . 4.84 Forecaal: Clear and colder.! ' TRUMAN MINUS $ 1 ,650,000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (JP) President Truman found himself minus exactly $1,650,000 today. ' . v That was the money he had for the much-discussed addition to the White House, which would be complete, with the theatre boasting a disappearing stage,, a, cafeteria, , more office space, plus a lot of other improvements. ' ' . ' Excavations already have started for the addition, which has kicked up a local fuss among architectually-minded groups who contend it will: mar. the classic appearance of the executive man - Mr. Truman's: predicament! is that the $1,650,000 voted by congress a year . ago for the work :was ordered turned back ;to the treasury yesterday by the i house.'. " ' ' ' ; ' - A rcpubUcan-backed - "economy" motion was responsible for' snatching back the money (at least temporarily) and making th. lawmakers look like-Indian givers.. .
