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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1946)
H .i I! H II q 0 ir T 'TTTfl ' 7 ." r-.;n r oil Br FRANK JENKINS THERE li an Interesting de velopment on the Industrial governmental front today. Civilian Production Admin istrator John D. Small holds a news conference In Woshlngton and tella the aaaumblcd reporter that "MAYBE prlcoa are being held o firmly a to HAMPER RECONVERSION AND CON TRIBUTE TO INDUSTRIAL STRIFE." YWHAT he meana la this: " Wo've got ' ouraelvea anarlod up In a men. Lot's get out of It by giving the workers HIGHER WAGES and then lotting the bosses chnrgo HIGHER PRICES. TjrE aaya to the ncwapapor men: "I favor uneaulvocably the continuance of. price controla to wlthaland 'aevere Inflationary prcnuros,' but auch controla ahould be uaed to bring about the moat rapid increase In pro duction. (Which is another way of. say- Ing that a LITTLE inflation will bo mighty good lor ua especial ly In thla Jam we'vo got our selvea Into.) IE adda: nllnif Ihrnnillmi, ihn lniintrv that price increases would be aooui me worn wing inn cuum happen to ua. To my mind, LACK OF PRODUCTION ia the worst thing." THAT ia to soy, if you want It but CAN'T GET IT what dif ference doea the Drlce make? Thla newspaper s photographic department, for example, ia out of flash bulbs. It would rather pay more for them than to go on doing without them. (When you want butter, but can't get it, you may or may not reel me aamo way.j IF CPA Boat Small ware Juat another Washington bureau, crmt talkliut to the reoorter. what he has to aay might not be algnwcani. una suspects, now avar. that thla Isn't the case. It has been fairly obvious all along that the EASY way out of our strike troublea would be to permit Industry to increase nrices enough to offset wage In cresses. Politicians, like (he . rest of ua.Oike the- oasy way -out. They seldom take the HA1 It Is a fair guess that instead of merely going oft at half-cock Civilian Production Boas Small waa PUT UP TO IT by the higher-ups, who are on a very hot sdoI Indeed aa a result of a strike situation that has got badly out of hand. -,' They've not themselves into a position where permitting prices to rise enough to offset the cost of rising wages la aooui tne oniy way to get oit tins not spot wiin out being badly burned. - If this guest is accurato, we ahall see OPA receding, slowly into the background, muttering angrily Into its beard aa It re tires. 1 WHATEVER we do, left not kid ourselves about thla new policy (if it la to be THE new nollcv.) What it meant ia that we are shifting to a new level in which the lucky ones will have MORE dollars that will BUY LESS. (The unlucky ones are another storv. Unfortunately forthem, they are scattered and unorgan ized and their I'ltcssuitt power ia small,) ;'' THE stock market reacU promptly to what looka like tho newgovornment wago-prlce act-up. Trading la to heavy this morning that the - ticker - la swamped again, although the price ups are not so sharp as yesterday, when the vague out lines of this new policy began to emerge dimly from the mists. - It Is the business of smart stock market traders to see these things coming and act quickly, They acted quickly yesterday. Crew Taken Off Grounded Ship SEATTLE, Jan. 20 (Pj All officers and the crew have been taken off tho 5 100-ton refriger ator snip urown Reefer, agrouna in neavy winter seas on Amchltka island In the Aleutians, by a navy rescue tug, the navy operating base at AuuK'- rauioeu mo lain naval district- today. The vessel's engine room was flooded, with water within two - feet of the top of the engines, and the double bottom was ap parently torn open, a message said. The Crown Reefer, which aailed from here January 1 with a cargo of perishables for iioaiaK island and other Aleu tian bases, ran aground Sunday nigHt In a heavy storm: WEATHER (January 29) Max. (Jan. 28) ... 30 Min 18 Precipitation last 24 hours .... -Trace Stream year to date 9.00 Normal ...,i,42 Last year ....4.94 ' Forecast! Scattered showers. OPA Price Row Brought Into Open Realistic And Flexible Policy Asked By CPA Chief By MARVIN L. ARROWBMITH WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (IP) A government official's plea for a "realistic and flexible" prlco policy brought Into tho open today a long-smouldering row betweon OPA and other federal agencies. The nub of the debate that has been hauled from behind closed doors Is whether prices are being held so firmly as to hamper reconversion and con tribute to Industrial strife. Civilian Production Adminis trator John D. Small made tho plea for what, he called rcullsm and flexibility. Ho said at a news conference yesterday: Little Meaning "The maintenance of a firm price line means little if goods are not available for purchase at that level." - Small said ho favors un equlvocubly the contlnuanco of price controls to withstand "se vere inflationary pressures." But ho added that such con trols should bo used "to bring about the most rapid Increase m production." 'There has been a growing feeling throughout the coun try," Small declared, "that price Increases would bo about the worst thing that could hap pen. To my mind, lack of pro duction is the worst thing." Small said he discussed this matter several times with OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, adding that while Bowles Is "worried about lack of produc tion" he fools at the same time that the price line should bo held. Two Held In Degnan Crime CHICAGO. Jan. 20 W) Chief of Detectives Walter Storms said today that two young men were held without charge for questioning about telephdnercallstn a d o to the home of Suzanne Degnan after the 6-yenr-old girl was kid naped, killed and dismembered on January 7. Storms identified the youths as Theodore Campbell, 22, and Vincent Coatello, 18, - and said they -told him that they tele- S honed the home after 0 a. m anuary 7. Suzanne'a father, James E. Degnan, discovered her missing at 7:30 a, m. that day. Storms emphasized, however, that the young men had not made any statements connect ing them with tho kidnaping or killing. Storms said Costcllo had been on parole from the Illinois training school for boys near St. Charles, 111. After stating that a third youth was sought, he later said this was not cor rect. . , 72 Jap Holdout Soldiers Kilted MANILA, Jan. 20 (P) Seventy-two Japanese holdout sol diers were killed three days ago in the southern Luzon prov ince, Camarlnes Norte, in com- Dat witn a iiiipmo oattauon which had tried for six weeks tcpersuade them to surrender. - There were no Filipino cas ualties, western Pacific army headquarters said in reporting the action today. Intelligence officers of the 80th division, charged with po licing the area, estimated 48 Japanese escaped into rugged hills ISO miles south of Manila. Dies iff ; W Harry L. ' Hopkins, (above) formar special assistant to the lata President Roosevelt, diad today at Memorial hospital in Nsw York. Death Claims Harry Hopkins NEW YORK, Jan. 20 (IP) Hnrry L. Hopkins, 88, former special assistant to the late President Roosevelt, died at 8:38 ii. m. (PST) today at Memorial hospital.- Hopkins entered the hospital last November. He hod been In ill health for several years and resigned his White House post last July 3, saying "I must take a rest." A hospital attache said the na ture of Hopkins' illness had not been determined. .He had been reported In ser ious "but not critical" condition early today. Since leaving Washington. Hopkins had been Impartial chairman of New York City'a cloak and suit Industry. He suc ceeded former Mayor James J. Walker to the post. Hla salary was reported to be about $28,000 yearly. Born in Sioux City, Iowa, he became federal relief adminis trator during the depression years of the 1930s and later be came President Roosevelt's clos est confidant. Court Upholds Davis Ruling r SALEM, Jan. 29 (P) The state supreme court today upheld a Klamath county circuit court Judgment awarding $10,000 dam ages to Dale Davis, IS, Klamath Falls, who lost a leg when his bicycle collided April 19, 1944. with a car driven by Michael Lavenlk. . Tho accident occurred on Mon Claire street In Klamath Falls. The boy, through his father, Al len ii. Davis,: suea iavenw, charging negligence. Lavenik's appeal was based on a charge thnt the bov also was negligent. The opinion, by Chief Justice Harry n. uen, upnoia uircuu Judge Dnvm it. vanacnDerg. Officers Check Cine Movements PORTLAND, Jan. 29 (ZD Four Sim Francisco law officers were searching today for places Alfred Leonard Cllne, charged In San Francisco with forgery In the estates of two wives, may have stayed overnight last No vember 22 and 23. Tho officers conferred here vesterdav with District Attorney T. B. Handley and city detectives into activities of unne wnen ne was here. Cllne directed crema tion here of the body of a wom an he snid was his wife and list ed as Mrs, Eva Dclora Krebs Cllne, one of the wives whose estates ne is charged with mis handling) Handley reported. The officers planned to check hotels en route - south to San Francisco. Nurse Asks Annulment Of Marriage To '1-Man Army' MANILA, Jan. 29 (P) A Ba taan civilian nurse today asked annulment of a marriage sho said she hod contracted December 7, 1941, with Maj. Arthur Wer muth, famed "one-man army," in ignorance of tho fact he had pre viously married In the United States. (In Traverse City, Mich., Wer muth said the alleged marriage in Manila "Is news to- me. I don't know a thing about it. I want- to flatly deny it, right now.") The annulment petition, filed In the Manila courts, was signed Mrs. Olivia Josephine Oswald Wcrmuth. (Wermuth, who re cently . announced he probably would seek a U. S. senate seat when he leaves tho army, sold he didn't even know her. Wer muth married Jean Wilklns of Chicago on Juno 1, 1938.) Miss Oswald, who has been using her maiden name- since she learned of Wermuth's mar-, riage, said In her petition that she married him after a whirl, wind courtship, on the roof gar den of tho Great Eastern hotel in a twilight ceremony the day be fore the Japanese bombed Man ila. ., . - .- . An army chaplain whom she named as li. Stalnback per formed the ceremony, she said. and her honeymoon was spent in tne tragic setting of Bataan where Wermuth earned world renown 'as the slayer of at least 116 Japanese before he was cap tured. - . Wermuth had been ordered back to his regiment within 24 hours after her wedding, her pe tition continued, and the tall, at tractive brunette, now 25, joined him on Bataan, acting as civilian nurse. After the surrender, she followed tne deatn marchers to Camp Odonncll hoping to aid mm. Her deep red-brown hair glint lnM in tu . , 1 1 11J i inn iii Buiuifsiib, aim iuiu in terviewers today that she first learned. Wermuth hod a wife In the United States when she sow pictures of the hero's return home in Manila papers late In October. At least two included pictures of Wermuth's American wife - - - -r Telephone Mill PRICE FIVE CENTS A. - KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29. r : : : 194. Number 10711 GiHon Girl On Stand ft Witness' Character Trial Issue All-Man Jury To Hear Sensational Case In Court Here Virginia Rose Gibson, the state's chief witness against Earl Heuvel, took' the stand at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the sod omy case against the former Klamath Falls chief of police. Both the prosecution and de fense completed their opening statement to the jury at 1:48 p. m. Rex Kimmel, assistant attor ney general from Salem and here to direct the Drosecution. outlined the state's case, the tes timony ne intended to use from the time Miss Gibson first came to Klamath Falls late In October, 1944. through the period the al leged attack occurred on Novem ber 10, 1944. No Eye Witness Kimmel said ne would bring every available witness into court to corroborate all details of the charge but that It would be impossible to present an eye witness ' to the alleged tot a such witnesses are never avail able In cases of this kind. The prosecutor requested that all witnesses be ordered to leave the courtroom before testimony was given from the stand. Earl Bernard of Portland, co-laborating- with Herbert. Welch of Lakevlew in defense of the former chief, opened his state ment to the turv bv ad vlslne the volremn.ihey.- Wiould kep in mina in onense was allegedly committed in a room in the city hall visited by the jurors this morning and - observed that it was a "very busy office where people are going and coming all the time." " The defense attorney' recalled the first time Virginia Rose Gib son became Known to the Klam ath Falls police in January of 1944, when the . police . were searching for a man believed to be her husband, a James Bailey, wanted on a bank robbery charae. The woman was nicked up at that time, Bernard said, and released. Bernard said he would also put into evidence past records of Miss Gibson and Bernice Evelyn Huff, a second witness. A similar charge of sodomy on the person of Miss Huff, was tried in court a month ago, when a jury found Heuvel not guilty of the act. While making hit statement to the jury, Bernard observed that if such an act aa the state said Heuvel committed against Miss Gibson, had been accom plished, it was not done under coercion. Bernard said Heuvel would deny he had immoral deal ings with the Uibson girl at any time. . -. . : Tour Office ( Immediately after the trial jury was sworn in this morning Judge Arlie G. Walker took the 12 men on a tour of the offices in the city hall where the al leged act of sodomy against Vir ginia Rose Gibson took place when Heuvel was chief of po nce, wovemoer 10, 1844. -The Gibson woman and Ber nice Evelyn Huff were prisoners at the city jail at the time. Judge Walker instructed the jurors to get a clear picture of the physi cal aspects of the police chief's office in order to be able to fol- (uonii&nca a rasa s, mini s) PFC Irwin Smith Kilted In Action - '' BPP M. Smith -nr.. Lorena Craln of- Beatty, was killed October 30, 1948. in Mar seille, France, as the result of gunshot wounds according to in formation sup pi 1 e d Mrs. Craln by the war depart-ment. Mrs. Craln was not ad vised as to the details of her son's d e a t n. Young Craln ,ni-u,il With the corps of pFC. SMITH military police overseas, i ! Irwin Smith is the second member of the Klamath Indian tribe to lose his life while in serv ice. The first was PFC Raymond Enouf for whom Rayenouf field at Klamath Agency is named. He was killed in action on Iwo Jlma with the United States ma rine corps. lv 1 Not One But Four Pile Up! Hp"" ' " "i' ' ' ' ' ' ' '' Ml Traffic was hald up, for a considerable length of time Saturday afternoon when four cart (elMcopad on the s. Btn- street viaduct during tn Heavy moving Hour, l ntre wera no injuries. Investigating police said. It all started when a tz nek, not pictured, was forced to alow, suddenly and tne trailing cara amacked one-into anotnar. . ' Icy Pavements Cause fnjurles " Several Injuries resulted from ley pavement according to TQam-' ath Valley hospital reports this morning. Pat Cannon, 69, 321 Oak, was admitted to the hospi tal at noon from the Klamath county health unit where he had been moved at 8:30 last night when pedestrians saw him fall on the sidewalk at 4th and Main. Cannon was found to have a fractured right hip. He was transferred by Merchants Police ambulance to the health unit where Dr. Peter H. Rozendal treated him. Later Cannon was treated at Klamath Valley. He has lived In this area for many years.. : ' Mrs. Vida Nichols, 510 N..7th, at one time employed in the hos pital dispensary, was . admitted this morning for treatment of a fractured right-' arm,, suffered when she fell Saturday on the pavement near her .home. Five Dead In Chilean Riot SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 29 P) The Chilean cabinet ' was re shuffled today as the govern ment prepared for a showdown with labor by imposing strict censorship and a 60-day state of siege following a bloody riot yes terday afternoon between police and labor demonstrators in which five persons were killed and 77 injured. Mounted troops patrolled San tiago streets early this morning and the government ordered all soldiers on leave to report to their barracks and hold them selves ready for duty. Two changes were made in the cabinet, giving military men new posts of authority, and some quarters predicted other appoint ments would be forthcoming. Grasps. Microphone During the rioting, which took place in the heart of this' city, Bernardo Ibanez, 'general secre tary of the Chilean Workers Fed eration, grasped a . microphone and announced that a general na tionwide strike would be called Immediately to protect the ac-. tion of the police. . ' 1 One of those killed was a wom an. Six women and five police men were known to be among those wounded. The -condition. of 25 of the wounded was re ported as serious. After the fighting' the demon strators, members of the Work ers Federation,: paraded through the streets with banners dipped in blood. ' Arriving In j " United States By Associated Preta William J. Felton, PFC, Klamath Falls arrived on Refuge due in Seattle. Janu ary 29. ' ' Yoman Dies After Mishap '' Mrs. Roderick (Mary) Frain, 53, - member, of a well-known Klamath county family, died at 8:30 p. m. Monday: in Klamath Valley hospital where she had been receiving treatment for In juries suffered January 22 when she was struck by a car said driven by. James Herbert Mc Culloch, 20-year-old soldier. Mrs. Frain was en route to her home, 1522 Martin, when she was injured. Police said the Mc culloch machine struck Mrs. train at 8. eth and Martin as she was crossing the street. The woman was carried about 48 feet before she was dropped to the pavement. Her injuries, at the time, were declared serious, but later the hospital reported her concuaon improved. " Autopsy At the request of the district attorney, an autopsy will be con ducted by Dr. George H. Adler. Klamath county coroner, prob ably late this afternoon. The time for ah inquest is tentative ly set for Thursday. The body is at ward's. xoung Mcculloch, who re sides on route 3, was arrested by city police at the scene of the accident, charged with reckless driving and released on his own recognizance. Later, McCulloch posted $50 bail in police court on the reckless driving charge. He was home on leave at the time of the accident. Mary Doneison Frain was born October 19. 1892. in Du- quesne, Pa. She had resided for the past 34 years in Jackson and Klamath counties. At the time of her death she was employed in tne Jtuamatn county tax col lector's office. She taught school in the Klamath schools at one tune. In" addition to her husband Roderick, who has a ranch at Copco, Calif., just over the Oregon-line, Mrs. Frain is' survived by one son, Hardman. a KUHS student, two sisters, Mrs. Sadie Chilcote and Mrs. Pete Silani, and two brothers, Merwin M. rinnnleAn nnet . nfflna Amnlnva and Charles G. Doneison, all of Klamath Falls. Mediator Hopes For Quick Pact Definite Move By End Of Week Predicted By James Dewey; - By The Associated Ptms . Definite action before the anal of the week in the 70-day Gen eral Motors' strike was predicted inAv Kv T.m.a T1a...a. appointed special federal media tor Detween the CIO United AUto Workers and the corporation. A veteran at settling Detroit labor disputes, Dewey, a former member of the labor depart ment's conciliation service, told reporters "I am hoping for suc cess and will stay here (In De troit) until this matter ia ironed out." i . Dewey said he had been given a free hand by Secretary of La bor Schwellenbach in the wag dispute which has made Idle) more than 200,000 workers. nope man Hope ran high for an earlv settlement aa both the union and General Motors agreed to accept mediation. The other two of the big three in the auto industry Ford and Chrysler . previously came to term with the UAW on wage demands. Ford with a boost of 18 cents an hour and Chrysler with 181 cents. .. ' A fact finding board recom mended 19t cents In tha Oil wage dispute, a figure which tho union said it would accept but which was turned down by com pany officials.. ... Meanwhile the giant steal strike threatened if Drolonaed to make idle an additional 1,- vuu.uuu worxers in allied indus tries within a month. . Hopes of a settlement within a week of tha steel dismit alu have been voiced by a high, of ficial of the U. S. labor depart ment who declined to permit ute) ui nia name. Giri Sentenced . To 2 Years For Aiding Escapees 1 MEDFORD, Jan. 29 VP) Doris' Burtis, 28,' who admitted smuggling hacksaw blades Into county jail to help her brother and three other prisoners escape, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary today. ; - She pleaded. guilty in circuit court here. Calvin Burtis, who broke out of jail Jan. 5 with Bobby J. Nel son, Roger Chapman and Wil liam Mackey, was arrested later with hit sister in Susanville, Calif., on an armed robbery charge. ' Chapman and - Mackey were apprehended ' soon - after their escape, but Nelson still is at large. Local Yoman Hurt In Fall Mrs. A. C. Backes, prominent Klamath business woman - and chairman of the March of Dimes campaign in the infantile paraly sis fund, slipped on the ice covered pavement at Pine and Esplanade at 9:30 this morning and suffered a fracture of the right leg below the. knee. Mrs. Backes was moved to Hillside hospital by Merchants Police ambulance. , A number of falls occurred in the business area this morning as a light snow covered the icy pavenient and sidewalks. While Mrs. Backes waited for the ar rival of the ambulance, three other women passing by slipped on the ice although none was injured. -- . - ; Bulletin WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (fP Overriding a request by Presi dent " Truman," the -house today psued a bill returning tha U. S. employment service to state con trol not later' than June 30. 217 Nebraska Farmers Vote To Strike Against Strikes EDGAR, Neb'., Jan. 29 (P) A group of 217 Clay county farmers who . said they need "farm tools and machinery, bathtubs and refrigerators last night voted a - strike against strikes ' In a resolution proposed by V." Hubert Johnson, the group de cided to withhold their farm pro duce from market until the na tion's' industrial workers return to 'their-- jobs.1 Johnson - was named head of a ' committee which will fix the date of the proposed strike. This decision followed a simi- lar step taken Saturday nljjht at Chickasaw, Okla., where farm ers voted. to continue producing but not to market anything un til all strikes are settled. "No goods for us, no food for you," the Oklahomans . said in ..their resolution. ; :l The Edgar resolution asserted that farmers here are hot "tak ing sides in the industrial bat tles," but added, "we will sup ply no one but ourselves." Johnson said that "when we shut off sources of food, strikers will work or starve." -. ' Church Site Issue i A -"recent bid for the purchase of two lota in the vicinity of Commercial and vWalnut -by J Mrt. C. M. Timnu, ' pastor of the ' Union Mission church for colored people,- was protested : by. property owners- In the area at Monday night's council, ses sion. . ." In :her application Mrs. Tlnunt stated that "part of the property would be used for tho building of a church with the remainder in the " interests of' the mission." The -council, post poned action last-week until Mrs. Timms could be present to clarify her intentions. Sha : said last night that in addition to the church, she planned to erect, living quarters because -there are few places for colored people to rent. ( : Will Ball ; K. I. Douglas and 2. A. Smith, representing the prop--erty holders in that district, asked the council to give an' im mediate decision, stating that if the decision was in favor of Mrs. Timms It was their inten tion to sell their property a they- considered . the ' value, would' go down. They added that they had no discrimination ' against- the church but felt that erection of the building and of living quarters would force them out of the area. 'The council referred the mat ter to the property committee to investigate and report at the next meeting when a final de cision will be handed down, ., Bodies Hunted . In Hangar Blaze OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 39 (JP)- Workers continued search ing for bodies today in the twist ed wreckage Of Tinker field' -principal hangar, gutted by a fire which took the lives of at least 10 persons and Injured 43 others at the huge army air force supply depot. -. r ' Seven bodies all ' civilian workers of Oklahoma City had, been identified, last night of the 10 found in the wake of the gaso line fed flames which witnesses said swept the 15-acre steel struc ture like a tornado. Col, Ralph O. Brownfleld, deputy command er, estimated damage at $750, 000. He named a board of sen ior officers to - investigate the cause of the fire, still undeter mined.. . . - Atom Bomb Test Invitation OK'd WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (JP) Secretary of State Byrnes said today President Truman has ap--proved his proposal to Invite the United Nations atomic energy commission to. witness the teste of the atom bomb against naval ships. Byrnes emphasized that even with the president's approval, however, his proposal should not yet be construed as the final gov ernment policy on the subject.
