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v ; mr AW II IS M n iw r UUl Bl v..''.q..,- . ; " - , By FRANK JENKINS ANEW wrinkle In itrlkei bobi Into the ncwi. Duck In Nebraska and Okln homo (Kunsiis seems to have Ijouii akippud no fur) liirmum are holding meetings nnd InlkliiK about Tioldlnif thnlr product) off the market until lubor trouble) In Industry are settled nnd the flow of production start) again. A speaker In n meeting in Nebraska ituyit: "Farmer) have thulr Irish up because they cun't get farm tool, machinery, bath tubs, refrlgorntor) or even over all all of which they wont nnd need." Mo add that it mlKht lie a tiood Idea for the fnrmora to "to on atrlke nKlniit atrlkca." IT wouldn't be, of coune. Taking product) OFF the mar ket) at a time when our great nerd I) to net more product) ONTO the nmrket) could work nothing but HARM. But till) tempent In the teapot in Nebraaka and Oklahoma does illustrate Interestingly how eny It I) for unsound thinking to get started. THE trouble with thin Nc bruaka - Okluhomu propoaul (which probably doesn't amount to much) l thut It la primarily DESTRUCTIVE. All it could hope to accompllah would be to niuko an already bad altuntlon worm), What wo need I) a CON STRUCTIVE aolutlon of our pro ducllon troubloa. ANEW atrlke control bill makes Its appenrunce in con grcai today, and ia tnld to have rather heavy backing. It gen eral effect, If enacted Into law, would bo to take away from labor aomo of the legal privilege) labor now posscssea. It doca, however, contain one provision that scorns to tills writer to be an Intelligent ap proach to the problem of making collective bargaining workable. It would provide CIVIL LIABIL ' 1TY for union) or employer) who VIOLATE contract. That is to aay, if the employer violated the contract, ha could be SUED FOR DAMAOES by the union. If the union violated the contract, It could be sued for damages by the employer, -,"f A FTER all, collective bargain. 'Ing contracts are' -nothing more than simple business agrec ' iiicnts, )cttlng forth what each party agree) to do in return for certain benefits Just like a lease, or a bill of sale, or a partnership agreement. It la generally conceded that the stability of business rots largely upon the. sanctity of con tracts. Upon the security repre sented by sound, workablo con trocta with RESPONSIBLE part ies, who In the event of viola tion or dl.iputo can be sued with the reasonable proapect that the local civil courts will award damages, business men can and regularly do go to banks and other londcrs and borrow money with which to carry on the operations outlined In the con tracts. In the present status of col lective bargaining agreements no such thing is even remotely possible. A borrower who of fered a collective bargaining agreement as security for a loan wouldn't get far. . ""THAT Isn't a sound stale of af- fairs, and it doesn't promote the hculthy growth of collective bargaining. Collective bargaining can't become wholly successful until collective bargaining contracts command tho same respect and confidence as other business agreements. Civil liability for failure to live up to their terms is a step in that direction, WEATHER (January 30) . Max. (Jan. 29) ... 2B Min 0 Precipitation last 24 hours 03 Stream year to date 9.03 Normal ... 6.48. Laat year ....4.64 Forecast! Claar Thursday. Strike Curb Bill Sent To House Debate Scheduled To Start Tomorrow On Measure WASHINGTON, Jon. 30 (IP) A far-reaching slrlko control hill was sent to tho house floor today by tho rules committee. Debate is scheduled to start tomorrow on tho measure, pro posed as a substitute for a watered down version of fact finding legislation approved by the house labor committee. The committee voted 8 to 3 to clear the bill for consideration as a sub)tltute. Two days of debate wera or dered. The rules group's recommen dation controlling procedure for consideration of the legislation is suujoct to house approval. Chairman Sabath (D-III.), one of those who voted ugaint it, snld he would nk tho house to reject the committee's action. Tho bill cleared was Intro duced yesterday by Rep. Case (R-S.D.) Midlatlon Board Containing several restrictive provisions und calling for a na tional labor management media tion board, tho bill was Intro duced by Rop. Case (R-S.D.) with backing from influential mem bers of both parties. Republican spokesmen told re porters nearly all their members will support the plan. And southern democratic leaders said In interviews Hint members from their section will back it nearly 190 per cent Most opposition came from those usually considorcd close frionds of organized labor. Rep. Marcantonlo (AL-N.Y.) termed the measure "a republican fili buster against 1 a b o r." He acknowledged, however, that it liad wide-spread backing. Among restrictive sections of the Case bill aro ones which would: 1. Provide civil liability for unions or employers violating contracts. 2. Deny collective bargaining or' reemployment rights to in dividuals or unions using vi olence In picketing or-"organized boycotts to force management to come to terms. 3. Give no status to unions of supervisory employes, such as foremen; and 4. Repeal mony of the present anti-injunction laws, by permit ting Issuance of injunctions In certain cases of labor unrest. Crane Plant At Bly Sold Sale of the Crane Mills, Inc., lumbering operations at Bly in eastern Klamath county to the Spongier Lumber company, a new name In tho Industry here, was announced today. New owners of the mill are Wllllnm Rnnnfflnr and Loren Palmerton, well known local lumbermen, and Don woiaior, Chicago. These men aro also in terested In the Palmerton Lum ber company and Other opera tions hero. They purchased the mill, pinn er and a block of timber in the Bly country, and intend to oper ate the plant at Bly as long as timber is available. The mill, a six-foot single band semi-portable plant, was established in June, 1931. Harold Crane, the head of Crane Mills, Inc., Is understood to have shifted his Interests to a northern California lumber op eration, but was not here to day for an Interview. Crane established both tho Bly mill and another on the north fork of the Sprague near Bly In 1931. The north fork plant was sold to Ivory Pine company.. - ' mu ami Rait in fk we? "7 V Telephone Slit MATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 194S Number 10732 .a lra,v .mand In Dispute Britain Charges Reds Conducted War Of Nerves LONDON, Jan. 30 (p) For eign Secretary Erneat Bcvln of Britain charged today that Rus ala had conducted what ap peared. to be a "war of nerves" in Iran and ho Indorsed the Iranian demand, opposed by Russia, for the security coun cil to take control of tho Soviet Iranian dispute. Edward R. Stctllnlus Jr., American member of the coun cil, supported tho British view as expressed by Bcvin. Stettin lus said lie believed the council should keep the Iranian case on its agenda and retain juris diction over it. "Cannot the council agree to admit the two parties to volun tary negotiations aitd (to have Iran and Russia) keep the coun cil Informed until a mutually satisfactory solution is found in accordance with justice?" Stet tinius asked. Previously, S. H. Taqizadch, tho Iranian delegate, had de clared willingness to go Into direct negotiations with Russia provided the security council made such a recommendation. i but said the matter must not "go out of the hands of the council," Denies Control Speaking for the Soviet Union, Andrei Vishlnsky told the council there was no objec tion to direct negotiations but "I emphatically deny that the Soviet- government ' should be under control of tho security council," - Bcvln's "war of nerves" as sertion came after tho stocky British foreign secretary had recalled a Russian allegation, in a document filed with the council several days ago, that conditions in Iran threatened Russian Azerbaijan and the Baku oil fields region, "I cannot imagine an Iranian army as a danger of the Baku fields," Bcvin said, "I really cannot. This looked to us like a war of nerves. It looks like Lltvlnoff's, (Maxim Litvlnoff, former Soviet foreign commis sar) definition of what consti tuted aggression." Smiihsonian Scientists Proud Of New Dodo Bird WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (W) ' A nowly-constructcd dodo roosts In the Smithsonian institution to day. . And Smithsonian scientists, every bit as proud as Mama Dodo must have been when she laid tho egg moro than two cen turies ago, say they reckon it's the most complete dodo speci men in America, It's half real dodo (bones, that Is) and half Imagination helped along by careful research Into descriptions written by early ex plorers. ' The bird was put together onco before, some years ago,-but the scientists found later that that wasn't what the dodo really looked like, at all. So they tore tho specimen down and began all over again. They think they've got it right this time. Dr. H. Frlcdmonn, of the In stitution's bird division, told a reporter today he doesn't know why man hns paid so much heed to tho luckless dodo. Why, in America alone, more than 100 birds have become ex tinct in modern times. Yet docs anyone say "as dead as a passen ger plgoon?" The awkward dodo, which looked like a pigeon and was as largo as a husky duck, had for gotten how to fly. And it was too heavy to run. Slnco the dodos were easy to kill, they were considered stupid. A sailor with a club could col lect enough meat for a ship. The dodos lived on Mauritius and neighboring islands in the Indian ocean, and first were de scribed by Adm. Jacob Van Neck In 1508. Frlcdmann thinks tho dodo might have retained its health if it hadn't been for the pigs and monkeys brought in by (he early settlors, i The pigs rooted out and ate the dodo's eggs. When the pigs missed some eggs, the monkeys waited until they hatched and gobbled the young. Pretty soon, no dodo, Thore hasn't been a live one for more than 200 years. Army Training Period Sliced WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (IP) The army today reduced the period of training to eight weeks for soldiers destined to be sent overseas as replacements. The war department said the action followed consultation with overseas theater commanders on tho "critical situation" regarding troops for occupation duty. The training period previously had been reduced from 17 to 13 weeks by order by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of staff. Overseas commanders were asked then, the war department said, whether a further cut would be possible, with training overseas supplementing the drills In the United States. The. theater commanders con curred. The eight-week training period will be exclusive of timo spent in the induction process. The period will be devoted to schooling the recruit in military fundamentals. Klamath Man Wins Bond Auto "Jimmlny Christmas!" That was all iHugh F. Tolley, engineer at the U. S. bureau of reclamation, could say for a few minutes after he was notified by L. L, Lombard that he was the winner of the 1946 Dodge car In the 7th Victory bond drive drawing for Oregon. . Direct word of the winner was received by Lombard, local Dodge distributor, at about noon today nnd. it was nearly two hours before Tolley, who was out on the project, could be notified. "I never won anything before in my life and didn't think it could be possible," said Tolley who lives with his wife and 12-ycar-old son Bill at 821 Mt. Whitney, when he was able to do more than stammer his sur prise. i'- , He forgot to inquire when he could expect delivery on the new car. . . ! WITNESS TELLS STOW Mother Stands By Daughter l WKMi II II 1 ..JlWWW-Wi'jlWIIIWI) IJi)lllllitllll.W III l.lllll II :, r, r - fh lb Y m ' ' " i - As Virginia Rose Gibson, star witness against Earl Heuval. walked up the courthouse steps, her mother, Mrs. Rose Hoffman of The Dalles, (right), walked arm la arm with her toward the courtroom door. Enrollment Survey In City Schools Explodes Theory Thai KF Is Transient Town . A. comprehensive enrollment survey in the city schools, pre- Enred by Superintendent Arnold . Gralapp, has exploded the theory that Klamath 'Falls is a transient town. . . . Of the 1877 students In the city system, grades one to seven, 1129 boys and girls have been in Klamath Falls schools since entering the first grade. Only 748 students have transferred here from other schools. In this category, the border states of California and Wash ington lead an transfers. Califor nia has. sent .160 students into the local schools, Washington, 42.- In third place Is Oklahoma; fourth, Idaho; fifth, Arkansas. A number of pre-California stu dents are said to have come from the Oklahoma-Arkansas area prior to entering that state's schools. - In addition to transfers from other states, the Klamath county schools sent 166 students to town; 180 came in from other parts of the state of Oregon, the academy transfer was 20 stu dents, and one came from the Adventist school. There were no children listed from the following states: Dela ware, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tex as, Vermont or West Virginia. Alaska sent one child. Kansas, Texas and Arizona each sent 11. Present enrollment In the seven elementary schools is as follows, including the transfers as of January 1, 1946: Conger, 143; Fairview, - 244; Fremont, 187; Mills, 572; Pelican, 218; Riv erside, 170; Roosevelt, 343. Total, 1877. .' . : : The above figures do not in clude Fremont junior high school. Enrollment at that school is 262 students, bringing the overall figure up to 2139. This is an increase of 107 over this time last year when Gralapp's office reported an attendance of 2032.. . . Plea To Mother Will Be Aired; SEATTLE, Jan. 30 W) The 18-months-old baby boy aban doned in a hotel restroom here last Friday will be on the radio tomorrow afternoon in a public appeal for his mother to return to him. . ' Superior Judge William J. Long of the juvenile court and Miss Florence Ball, the court's adoption case . supervisor, will also speak over station KOMO from 4:45 p. m. to 5 p. hi. , "We hope his mother will be listening in," Ross McConnell, the station's news director, said today, announcing the program. Gibson Girl Points Out Earl Heuvel 19-Year-Old Brunette Gives Way To Tears Once On Stand The state rested its case this afternoon in the trial of former Police Chief Earl Heuvel on sodomy charges. Final direct evidence was swiftly presented by the prose cution following the key testi mony given by Virginia Rose Gibson, the complaining witness, wnose sensational story of her experiences as a city prisoner In November, 1944, was told yes terday afternoon. A major bit of evidence today came from Policeman Odell Ol son, who identified as the voice of Earl Heuvel a call which he received from Fresno, Calif., in February, 1945, asking him "what was cooking" in Klamath Falls. That was after Heuvel had left the city and authorities were looking for him. ; Ulson said he told Heuvel on the telephone that "plenty" was "cooking" and related the charges against him. The complaining witness, Miss Gibson, was the first person called to the stand by the orose- cution yesterday afternoon. The tan, Blender 18-year-old brunette told her story in a straieht-for- ward, matter-of-fact way, giving way to tears only once. , . . At the outset of her testimony, H pom ion Hj.:neuvenaerruiy- ing him as the man she knew as I'luu oi luuiuui r aiis police in November, 1944. Heuvel sat aione against the courtroom rail- ing which divided the gallery irom ine oar. ine spectators gallery was filled to capacity. ncicea up t - Miss Gibson related how she and Bernice Huff were picked up Dy a police ouicer at tne Met ropolitan hotel about 8:30 p. m. November 8, and taken to the station, where they were told they had been in town "over 11 days without lookine for work." were brought in as vagrants and mat tne sentence for vagrancy was $100 and 30 days. Virginia Rose Gibson said that they were denied the use of the telephone and that Heuvel told them he didn t want their money. After further conversation she and Bernice Huff were booked and locked up for the night. Next morning, she said, both girls were taken back up to Heu vel's office where he told them they would "get off easier if they pleaded guilty" to vagrancy before the judge, in court. They did and Heuvel requested they be taken to the medical clinic for examination before sentence be passed. Paid Bill After the examination, Miss Gibson's testimony continued, they were driven back to the ho tel where she paid their hotel bill and got their clothes. Under cross-examination later she said that Heuvel paid the hotel bill and they paid back the money to mm. Back at the city hall, she re lated, she stayed in the cell un til about 8:30 that night. Then both she and Bernice were taken back to the chief's office." Both again offered to get money to pay their fines and, she declares, were told by Heuvel that he didn t want their money. v He asked them, she said, if (uaniinuea en rge s, Cllimn ) KF Thermometers Sink To I New Seasonal Low Of Zero Old Man Winter stalked the state of Oregon today, sending the mercury in Klamath Falls to a seasonal low of zero, and at Lap ine dropped the lowest tem perature of all. It was 18 de grees below zero in that com munity and 12 b&low at Sun mountain on The Dalles-California highway. The state highway patrol on Greensprings mountain also re ported a below zero reading with a minus one degree. At8:30 this morning CAA ad vised a zero reading, lowest of tho year It was 10 below on Quartz mountain leading to Lnkevlew. Snow foil . fitfully over the mountain road areas and chains were advised on all highways which were said by the highway department to be hazardous. j At Odell lake the. skies were clear, the thermometer read five degrees above zero, and sanding crews were operating on ' the Willamette pass. The total snow at the summit was 141 .Inches, with 12 inches in a new fall. One-way traffic was in effect be tween Oakridge and the summit. Although no serious accidents were reported to state or city Eolice, there were plenty of umped fenders .; and , smashed grills as cars slid into each other. There were no personal injuries in traffic accidents, the morning report showed. Merchant Seaman Held For Forgery A 19-year-old merchant ma rine, who told police he ran out of money when he reached Klamath Falls, was lodged in the county jail on a charge of forgery when he allegedly at tempted to pass a $31 cneck at the Safeway store, 12th and Main, last Saturday. . - The youth, Thomas Gail Lund, en route from his home at Salt Lake City, to Washing ton where he hoped to ship out, waived preliminary hear ing in justice court and was placed in jail in lieu of $500 cash bail set by Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney. Lund had attempted to pass the check to Roy Lee, the name of Ben L. Sheppard of Brooklyn -avenue, Klamath Falls, signed to the check. Lee, Safeway mana ger, called city police who ar rested the man. The complaint was signed by Police Officer V. L. Wagner. Corocilicrtoir Strives To Und SfriEce By The Associated Press Ceneral Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers ogrted to resume their long suspended woge negotiations this after noon and in Washington the house rules committee sent 9 far-reaching strike control bill to the floor. Special Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey, after morn ing conferences with management and labor executives in the Cenerol Motors wage dispute at Detroit, announced the parties had agreed to sit down across the table. Dewey is seeking settlement of the strike which has kept 175,000 production workers idle more than 10 weeks. R. J. Thomas, UAW president, emerged from the conference room with Dewey in an extremely affable mood, but made n statement. Meanwhile, the rules committee labor bill, which con tains several restrictive Drovi-T- sions, will reach the debate stage in the house tomorrow. The measure, proposed as a substitute for 'a watered down version of fact-finding legisla tion approved by the house la bor committee, was reported out 8 to 3. In the senate, Chairman Mur ray (D-Mont.) of the labor com mittee, expressed hope the com mittee would act on fact-finding legislation by the middle of next week. He said he would attempt to speed hearings, pos sibly holding beth morning and afternoon sessions early next week. - An advance of approximate ly $4 per ton has been reported to be the maximum the admin istration will approve but the U. S. Steel corporation has said a boost of much more would be necessary even to approximate its workers' demand for wage increases. The CIO United Steelworkers has accepted President Truman's recommen dation of an 18Vi-cent-an-hour wage hike, while the U. S. Steel's top offer is a pay boost of 15 cents an hour. Beating Lands - -..- r - -, ? :i Frank Elvinis Bryant, 44, for whom law enforcement officers have been searching since . a complaint charging assault and battery was signed October 20, 1945, by the. late Tom Thomp son of Bonanza, was in the county jail today serving a six months' sentence for disorderly conduct. . . Thompson, at the time lie signed the complaint, told Just ice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney he had been struck by Bryant at his ranch house. Thompson entered- Klamath Valley hospi tal on that day and died No vember 10, 1945. The cause of death was given as lobar pneu monia. Thompson was 70 years of age. Arrested On Saturday, state police were notified that a man was "beating up a woman at Wor den." On investigation, .officers arrested Bryant at the home of Mrs. Bertha Viola CahlU on the original assault warrant. Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney gave Bryant $50 or 25 days in jail on this charge and when Mrs. Cahill signed the disorder ly conduct charge, the court meted out the maximum of six months in jail. .' ' Justice Mahoney. said Mrs.. Cahill showed evidence of the beating when she appeared in court against Bryant. IMMIGRATION OK'D JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 (JP) The British government an nounced tonight in a special communique that Jewish immi gration into Palestine would be allowed at the rate of 1500 monthly. Ban Favored To Shroud A- Bomb Test WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 VP The house naval committee to day approved a legal baa against a disclosure to foreign governments of technical data Obtained in tht nlannoH TJonifiA ocean atom bomb tests. The proviso written by the navy department and approved intact by the committee, how- ever, includes a clause giving the secretaries of war and navy some leeway in disclosing data to foreign pnvpmmont. Rep. Cole (R-N.Y.) objected to the provision stipulating that the secretaries may disclose to foreign governments that part of the test results which "they may determine'to be not preju dicial to the best interests ol the United States." The committee approved the navy version, however,- after Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) said members could strengthen it by amendment on the house floor. ijfe&i 8eew Iwitf rtaaafcagya. -joe secrecy requirement was included in a bill authorizing the navy 'to use approximately 100 American and captured enemy warships in the Pacific tests beginning next May, but requiring "consent" of the con gressional naval committees- to be obtained for the selected vessels. Vice Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, in - charge of the forthcoming tests, told the committee he ex pected a directive from the joint chiefs of staff imposing strict security regulations. "We've got to" trust some body, I suppose," commented Rep. Robert A. Grant (R-Ind.) "But I just hope we don't wake up some morning and find out there was another meeting like Yalta and the whole atom story has been told."' Chess Champ To Meet All Comers I. A. Horowitz, Internatidnal chess champion, will visit the Marine Barracks Thursday to meet all comers in simultaneous T -1.4k. 1 Ittimm, .4 79ft p. m. Members of. the local chess club, as well as several chess addicts at the Barracks, will play against Horowitz. It is expected the champion will have at least 30 opponents at one time. Interested persons are wel come to attend. Horowitz is editor of the mag azine, "Chess Review," and has played in many leading matches. In a contest with Russians, who are regarded as the best chess players in the world, he won one game and drew one. Bilbo Bills Himself For World Premiere Filibuster . By FRANCIS J. KELLY WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (VP) Senator Theodore G. Bilbo billed himself for his world premiere matinee filibuster against the FEPC bill today.. , Some of his southern col leagues were a little disappoint ed they had hoped to save him as a night attraction. '" It was all one to Thfe Man. He can begin at high noon and talk right through to morning chore time as easy as eating grits and spotted gravy. There was only one chance that Bilbo might be displaced temporarily. Senator Russell (D Ga.) claimed so many southern ers want to speak against the bill to establish a permanent fair employment practice commission that it may be necessary to draw lots for the privilege.. Bilbo,' a Mississippi democrat, still proposes to talk 30 days against the bill, but he's going to give his address in installments like a movie serial.1 ' "Look where that got Pearl White," he told a reporter. His first Installment will be a double feature. First, he intend to trace the development, theory and technique of filibustering from Its first appearance in 1769 to the present day. Then he plans to discuss the activities of the southern conference on human welfare, an organization which favors the FEPC. "I am going to work on them from top .to bottom," Bilbo said. "I will take up in detail their board of directors, vice presi dents and other officers. That will cover them all because everybody in it has a title." From Natchez to Gulfport, from the southern suburbs of Memphis to Meridian, Bilbo said the negroes of his state are op posed to the FEPC. . .. '"They know it would Just aiir up race trouble," he asserted. The bill would set up a' perma nent commission to police indus try, labor unions and govern ment against discrimination be cause of race, color, creed or an cestry.' v ,
