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mm mi mm W MIS ft By FRANK JENKINS HENllY FOHD 11, who ii ovl dontly a chip off tho old block) goes on record tudiiy with h demand Hint government ru movo ni'leii conlrolH to "clear the path tor tho kind of operation (luil Aiiiorlcuns Ilka boat find ing a way to mnko money by HEATING COMPETITION TO THE MARKET WITH HOME THING D1STTEH AND CHEAP EM." TIl vlowa are oxpreascd In a telegram to government bureaucrat John W, Snyder, di rector of the Office of Wnr Mobilization unci Reconversion, Pointing nut thut Ford hua act tlod Ita disputes with Ita work era, ho WAHNS thut unlean hla compnny can GET STEEL PROMPTLY it will huvo to ahut down completely aome time tills week. Ha Bays It will coat $400,000 0 day Jiwt to MAINTAIN IDLE ASSEMULY LINES and adda thnt "nt current OPA price cell inHH wo are currently LOSING $3(10 on every car wo make." Ho Koca on: "Tlino and again we have been forced to shut down oiKTalions bocauae supplier could not get tin pur la and materials for our cars and trucks. Some of them havo stopped making our parts because they lost money at their celling prices." HE concludes: "Nobody wants RUNAWAY inflation, but If we continue to stifle America's ability to PRO DUCE that is exactly, In my opinion, what wo are headed for." Traalc experience in Europe. where pcoplo are starving with ineir pocKcu inn oi money db. cause of LACK OF PRODUC TION OK THINGS, confirms the grim truth of his statement. 'T'HESE months since V-J Day have been discouraging: and disillusioning months in Amer ica. They have been discourag ing and disillusioning because AGAIN, as in 1033, wo have found ourselves WANDERING BEFUDDLED IN THE FOG, not knowing whnt to do next. So far as Americans are con cerned. NOTHING can bo more DANGEROUS than that. We can muko mistakes and still sur vive and prosper IF wo have tho native hurso senso to nroflt by our mistake and the grit and tho guts to TRY AGAIN along new and better lines. But If wo cover up our heads nnd sit and moan helplessly be cause we don't know whut to do next. WE HE GONERS. That's about all we've been doing in rccont months. N one sldo the economic pic- v-' hire, wo'vo been scared Into duck fits by tho prophets of gloom who howl that if WAGES rise i'Kiut.5 win also riso ana WHO-O-O-O-SHI here wo go again Into the old vicious In flationary snlral. Into our other car has been dinned tho doctrine of doom that unless wo RAISE WAGES and at the sumo timo HOLD DOWN PRICES starvation will be upon us tearing our vitals with Its sharp claws and its horrid teeth and there will go tho old ball garner-America will bo KAPUT! DETWEEN theso two voices of croaking disaster we Amer icans, whose forefathers In the short spneo of about a century and a half lamed a continental wilderness nnd built a way of Uio better than any that ever existed in the world before, have been more or loss reduced to a hopeless mass of Jolly that can do nothing but quiver and shake. Whatever else may bo said, THAT certainly ISN'T the Amer- lean way. TN these terrible months, we've been lost and wandoring around In tho swamp. Ford's appeal to GET OUT AND DO SOMETHING is like a ' voice crying to the lost wanderer: "This way llo homo and hope ana nuppincss; llx s uut uu 1NG." : TF wo sit around and cry and wall and bawl, Inflation cor tulnly WILL get us for after an mi latum is simpiy a lauh OF THINGS. When you seo idle people starving with their pockets stuffed with money, you'ro nover again In all your mo uncertain as to thut. If wo get out and DO SOME THING, wo con lick inflation by the perfectly simple, practlcnlly sure-lire processes or FruJUUU TION plus COMPETITION. production will provide us with tho things- we need and healthy competition will bring prices down to where we can reach them. OUT WITHOUT PRODUC " TION, we'll to SUNKI That woy lies ruin. Delicate Operation Performed On Child A dollcatn onoratlon on a one- hour-old Infant, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Schneydor, 2218 Or chard, was performed Tuesday night at Hillside hospital. The child, born January 20, ts responding nicely, hospital at tendants said today. Ho weighed ft pounds lOi ounces and is the cnnoydcr's only child. The father is an employe of Consoli dated Freightways. mm Xtifes Telephone BUM PRICE riVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31. 194a Number 10733 1 -ABOARD LOST M reared mm m Lawmakers Ask Firms To Give In 40 Congressmen Call On GM, U. S. Steel To Grant Hikes By Tht Associated. Press Forty congressmen called on tho U. S. Steel and General Mo tors corporations today to accept federal recommendations for set tling strikes in the steel and automobile-industries. At tho same time General Mo tors executives arranged to re sume negotiations with the CIO United Auto Workers In Detroit, a spokesman for the CIO Pack inghouse Workers contended the government had assumed a "moral obligation" to boost their wages, and CIO President Philip Murray met with Sccro!ary of tho Trcosury Fred M. Vinson. Tho congressmen's recommen dations were contained In a round-robln latter made public in Washington by Rep. Hook (D Mlch.) It urged GM to accept a fact-finding board's recommen dation for a wago Increase of iui com an nour ana asiica u. a. Steel to agree to President Tru man's proposal for an J8i cents hourly wage hike. Tho (congress men Included thrco Washington democrats, Coffc, Dclucy and Savage. I Hopes Dim ! The proposal came art early hopes for a swift settlement of these two major strike's ap peared to dim. ( Ralph Hclstcln, counsel for tho CIO Meat Workers, tbldl a federal fact-finding board an Washington that the government interfered with the union's right to strike when it' seized the strike-bound meat Industry last Saturday and Hint it "now must seo to it that equity and Justice Is done." Strike Curb Bill Debated WASHINGTON. Jan. 31 (fl) The house cleared the way today for consideration of broad legis lation to curb industrial strife. On a rpll call vote, the mem bers decided to begin debate at onco on the bill by Rep. Case (R-S. D.) to control strikes. Tho measure is a substitute for fact-finding legislation asked by President Trumon. It is backed by a powerful coalition of repub licans and southern democrats. Debate on the legislation start- ea immediately but a final vote is not expected until at least Sat urday and probably not until next week. SIU1 In t Pony Express -tter Than That t i- " fiW' If , V Vl-s' v U It took 'this letter Just 9 years, 8 months and 21 days to gel from Portland to A. H. (Red) Bussman, local business man, and ex-councilman. The letter arrived in the regular mail this week. The return address shows it is from the McNary for Senator committee, and inside, under date of May 7, 1936. Is a message aaking for support for Senator McNary's candidacy. Senator McNary, who since has died, ran for reelection in. 1936 against Klamath's Willis Mshoney. There Was no explanation of the tardiness of the letter, except that an irregular brown light-stain indicated the envelope must have been lying somewhere for a long time possibly behind a desk or' box. The postmark bore no date, being third class mail. It evidently was recently dis covered and dispatched to the addressee, who finds It too late to do anything for Senator McNary's 1936 candidacy. Two Dead In Auio Plunge; Father Of Victim Dies As Result Of Double Tragedy YREKA, Calif. Two Siskiyou county residents, a man and his wife, were killed instantly in an automobile accident and the shock of the woman's death killed her father in a tragedy which occurred 70 miles west of here Tuesday, ' ' A second accident took the life of a motorist and seriously injured his companion not 24 hours later In the same vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer M. Scars who reside near the Forks of the Salmon on Know Nothing creek, were returning to their home on tho Salmon River road when their car plunged over an 80 foot embankment. The two had been visiting friends and when they did not return home, neigh- Sig ns Of Resentment And Sullen Anger Of Japanese Repats Appear In Islands By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Jan.-31 ' (yP) Signs of resentment and sullen anger of tens of thousands of "un beaten" repatriated Japanese have appeared in the home is lands and present a potential menace to occupation forces, tho Canadian member of the Far Eastern advisory commis sion said today. . In an interview before de parting for Canada, Col. L. M. Cosgrave said evidences of the repatriates' attitude which have appeared in the countryside are "too small to put your finger on now, but they must be watched." By promptly smashing any evidence of subversive activity, the colonel- suggested, a rela tively small number of occupa tion counter-intelligence agents will be able to minimize the threat of these elements. The "unbeaten" Japanese, he said, Include . some ' from the United States and Canada, but mainly consist of demobilized troops from China. "Remember they were never beaten in China.. Th;ey never saw the allied power., that was, demonstrated to - the -Japanese coming back from other Pacific regions. Instead they had been swaggering top dogs for years, accustomed to lording it over everyone. t . "Now they are back as ordi nary citizens. Instead of a lot of power end money they are unemployed, ignored by other Japanese and perhaps soon will become hungry. They may at tempt to stir up trouble." More than a million Japanese have been repatriated from all parts of Japan's one-time em pire. Those In China have been given a high priority say al lied officials, to minimize their chances of ' causing trouble there. More -than 5,000,000 other Japanese, mostly demo bilized servicemen, are await ing return home. Cosgrave, a war-time intelli gence officer, snid American counter-intelligence agents aW well awnro of the potential threat of these repatriates and are watching them closely. bors started a searching party and included in the group was Mrs. Sears' father, Harvey S. Redfield, 56. As Mrs. Sears' body was moved from the wreck nee. Redfield drooped dead. Mrs. Redfield is suffering from shock following the cientn ot per hus band and daughter. Bodies were moved to Eureka and will be shipped to San Jose for burial The Sears were well-known miners of the Salmon country. The Sears' car had struck a rock released by a slide on the narrow road. ; At about 1:30 p. m. Wednes day, a car bearing a Washington license plunged 300 feet over an embankment on the Klamath river road between Somes Bar and Orleans, carrying the driver to his.death and critically injur ine 20-vear-old Elmer Richards. .in of Mrs. Letha Attebury of Somes Bar. The driver remained unidentified today, ' Murders Laid To Polsh Pofce i '- WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 ffl Secretary of State Byrnes said today that Uje Polish security police appeared 1q be implicated in a number ot recent muraers of nrominent Polish Doliticans. Byrnes made this assertion in a statement which disclosed that he had told the Polish govern ment ilt was expected to take nenesstirv steps "to assure the freedom and security which are essential" to holding free elec tions, i A slate department .spokes man, who Issued the statement at a news conference, said it was designed to answer ques tions submitted by reporters "re garding the allegations that a reign bf political murders is tak ing pace in Poland." : i WEATHER i January 31, 1946 -Max. j(Jan. 30)....33 Mln...... 3 Precipitation last 24 hours... .00 Stream year to date -9.04 Normal . 6.55 Last year... .4.98 Forecast!- Clear - Friday. . Pioneer Passes Gash Seen Near Top Of Mountain Search Launched As Transport Fails To Reach Denver DENVER, Jan. 31 P) Hope for the lives of 21 persons in cluding two honeymooners and a dozen soldiers aboard a missing United Air Lines transport was all but abandoned after what appeared to be the wreckage of the plane was sighted on a moun tain peak 65 miles northwest of Laramie, Wyoming. Captain Frank Crismon, assist ant flight supervisor of flight operation at Denver, led the aerial search which began at day- ngnt wnen the plane was several hours overdue at Denver. About mid-morning he sighted a long, wide sash in the deep snow near the top of Elk mountain which towers 11,125 feet in the eastern fringe of the Rockies.' In his report to Denver he said this mark was sighted through broken clouds, and in a stiff wind that made close ap- proacn u me peax impossible, Not Definite He did not report any signs of fire or a definite sighting of me smashed plane but said he was convinced that what he saw marked the crash of the trans port UAL officials here specu lated tnat tneaooay ot the plane might be buried in the deep snow. Crismon returned to Cheyenne, about 100 miles east of Elk mountain, to organize a ground search party but it was expected to be many hours before they could reach the remote Medicine Bow range area. Snow on the mountain was estimated at four ' to five feet with drifts running up to much greater depth, perhaps as much as 12 or 15 feet ' Sheriff Glenn -Penland of Rawlins, Wyo., set out with eight men in cars to scout the jagged peak to determine how best to reach the summit "They won't be able to get to any wreckage by car," Deputy Sheriff Jack Best said, "it will take skis and snowshoes." Best said that some air search ers had reported seeing a burned off spot about 200 feet from the summit. - ' Fire Partially Destroys Home Fire which started in a wood shed and spread to the residence partially destroyed the home oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. Doug las Brinson and three-year-old son Earl, 2406 Shasta way, at 10:30 a. m. today. The property Is owned by M. R. Scotti. The woodshed was completely destroyed and damage of more than $200 was done to the house. Brinson is an ex-serviceman. The city fire1 department re ceived a call advising that the fire was in the city limits. On arriving the truck crew found tho fire outside the city limits and they were unable to give aid. The county fire department truck was also brought to the scene and succeeded in extin guishing the flames. KF Temperature 3 Above Zero Zero temperatures invaded this area again this morning al though it was three aboe in Klamath Falls as compared to an even zero reading Wednesday. It was 4 degrees below on Sun mountain on The Dalles-California highway and zero at both highway patrols on the Green springs and Quartz mountain. All roads are now sanded and sufficient manpower is available to keep all winter equipment rolling, the highway department said this morning. Chains are still advised in any mountain travel out of Klamath Falls. t ' " '': f ' , "' if ' ' ' ft , 'fSZJ"' l i f W ', M z4 v 1 ' . .- -fji V Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 p. m. at Wnitlock's for J. O. Haroaker, 89, pioneer B o n a n s a surveyor, business man. newapaper operator, and justice of the peace. He had lived in the Bonanza area for 66 years. ' Henry Ford II Asks Removal Of Controls DETROIT, Jan. 31 (P) Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motors company, was on record today with a demand that gov ernment remove price controls to clear the path for "the kind of operation that Americans like best finding a way to make money to beating competition to market with something better and cheaper." Ford expressed his views in a telegram to John W. Snyder, di rector of the office of war mo bilization and reconversion in Washington, with a warning that unless his company could get steel promptly "we will have to shut . down completely some time this week." He declared it would cost $400,000 a day to maintain idte assembly lines and at "current op a win,. . ,;.. rently losing $300 on every car we mane. "Time and time again," Ford said, "we have been forced to shut down operations because suppliers could not get us parts and materials for our cars and trucks. Some of them have stopped making our parts be cause iney lost money at their ceiling prices." The youthful company presi dent declared "Nobody wants "run-away" inflation but if we continue to stifle American In dustry's ability to produce, that is exactly, in my ooinion, what we are neaaed tor. U. S. Freighter Said Sinking LONDON, Jan. 31 (IP) The grounded 9000-ton American freighter Luray Victory broke its- back and was reported sink ing early tonight on the Good win sands just as rescue craft from the southeast English coast reacnea ner. The Luray Victory, bound from Baltimore to Bremerhaven, had been aground 19 hours. Koutm seas, whipped by a gale, made rescue attempts dif ficult but another ship, the 8000- ton Aiti-Mer-raar, oouna irom Galveston, Tex., to Rotterdam, was re-floated by British tugs after two hours on the sand bank. The crew abandoned shin in a heavy sea. All were brought ashore in a lifeboat and fed and housed in a British army camp. imo injuries were reported. Case May To Jury late Dm Afternoon The caie of the state of Oregon versus Earl Heuvel was expected ro go to the jury at 3:30 today. Rex Kimmel, attorney general prosecuting tho former chief of police on sodomy charges, told the jury in his clos ing argument that if Heuvel did "commit this act he ii just a guilty os if he committed this act against an angel." The prosecution charged that the defense continually "yelled frame-up" when "they didn't hove much else to talk about." Kimmel advised that none of the prosecution's major I points has been disputed by the aeiense. Taking the stand in his own behalf yesterday. Earl Heuvel denied that he fled from Klam ath Falls in January, 1945, to es cape justice but maintained he left to escape injustice. He intended to stay away un til his. health was better, then when his wife, Virginia, came home from the army, to come back, hire private detectives and "fight the charge and this con spiracy against me." A preliminary charge of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor had been placed against him at the time he left, a hear ing conducted, and Heuvel was bound over - to the grand jury and posted $1000 bail. Tnat charge, jon which Heuvel was later indicted, concerned Willie Mse Collins, then 15, and her older sister, Margaret. "Certain Factions" "Certain factions In town didn't like me," Heuvel said, "and had tried numerous ways to get rid of me. One day Gun ner Edward Kron, marine MP of ficer who had worked with me getting evidence on the activi ties of the Collins girls, told me he couldn't do me any more good, that he had his neck stuck out and had to get it back in and that he had been told by local politicians that the next marine involved with these girls would probably get 20 years." , Heuvel later mentioned that a "certain individual had said 'if we don't get him on this one we'll get hun on the next.' " He also mentioned Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney's public remark after' the preliminary hearing that the Collins girls had lied during, the hearing and were morally no good, "but ther' is sufficient cause to believe that the defendant, Earl Heuvel, guilty, xnercore i order mm to be held to answer for the same." Heuvel also testified that Set. Earl Tichenor of the state police naa maae remarks against mm. He maintained he was victim of a "political frameup" and had to get away for a while. Under cross-examination he said that he knew the grand jury was in session at the time of his departure and "supposed" the contributing case -would be brought before the body. Unilateral Denial Heuvel's testimony also in cluded an emphatic and uni lateral denial of the allegations of immoral conduct placed against him by Virginia Rose Gibson and Bernice Huff. He declared he had no recollection of ever seeing the girls person ally before the time Miss Huff came into the courtroom during the trial last November in which she was complaining witness and Heuvel was defendant. Heuvel said that he might have interviewed them when they were first brought to the station on November 8, 1944, but could not recall doing so. He talked at length on the question ing and booking routine at tne jail and said that there was no way to place these girls in mind over the hundreds of other per sons he has had contact with as police chief. He was asked by his attor ney, Earl Bernard, "Did you ever indulee in any immoral acts with her (Virginia Gib son)?" The answer was an em- Dhatie "No." "Did you ever at any time mane any improper request to (Continued an Pre S, Column 3) t , Buy It And Run It Hood's Proposal To Complainants At Heat Plant Conference An offer from-D. O. Hood of the Klamath Heating company to sell the plant for about $75,000 to anyone willing to handle it climaxed a two-hour meeting this morning of the state public utilities commissioner, heating company representatives and complaining heat consumers. Hood said that it would re quire about another $75,000 to make the additions and improve ments that would put the plant on a basis of maximum efficien cy, but said then he was sure it could be made a paying proposi tion. He expressed willingness to cooperate with a committee of consumers to work out a definite proposition. "We've been hearing a lot about what ought to be done in management of this plant, and we're going to give you folks a chance to find out and do some thing about these problems," said Hood. He suggested the pos sibility of the organization of a cooperative to handle the deal. There were no immediate "takers" onuHood's offer. The hearing with George Flagg, - public utilities commis sioner, was arranged by a com mittee representing the heat us ers when they felt that their bills from the company for December were unjustifiably hign. Presents Complainis Bert Hall, chairman of the committee, presented their over all complaints in a report to the commissioner,- heading the list with charges of inadequacy of service and objecting to the rates charged on services furnished. The report explained that it was the committee's information that the interruption in service is caused by "lack of wood fuel and the shutting down of the plant for conversion to oil or because of mechanical difficulties." . The general feeling, accord (ConUnuce ta Fas Column i) ' House Group Spikes Truman Training Plan WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 OP) The house military committee today spiked administration hopes of early action on a con tinued draft law and universal military training. It decided to concentrate in stead on a new national defense act. And Chairman May (D-Ky.) pointed out that all other army proposals necessarily will hinge on the new act's contents. The committee already has held long hearings on universal training, but the new move evi dently wiped out plans to resume mem now. jno bearing date has been set on the question of ex tending the draft, which is due to expire May 15. Assigned . A special nine-man subcom mittee was assigned to work out recommendations for the post war defense act which will blue print the overall peacetime structure of the army. The army meanwhile moved to step up the flow of replace ments for long-service Gl's over seas. The training period for future replacements was ordered cut to eight weeks. Previously 13 to 17 weeks training was re- ' quired.' .; ,.",:,'..... '-,.v ?'"The war department has been claiming that it is hard put to provide sufficient replacements to keep pace with the present rate of demobilization. Man Not Held In Car Death A coroner's jury in session Thursday morning failed to find sufficient evidence to charge James Herbert McCulloch, 20-year-old soldier, with a crime in connection with the injury and subsequent death of Mrs. Mary Donelson Frain. Mrs. Frain was injured Janu ary 22 when she was struck by McCulloch's car on' S. 6th and Martin, and the woman died at Klamath Valley hospital January 28. The jury recommended that the proper authorities be urged to take immediate, steps to re duce the traffic hazards in "that particular area," referring to the S. 6th and Martin section. Following is the jury's verdict: "That Mrs. Frain came to her death by means of injuries sus tained in an automobile accident occurring January 22, 1946. and that while there is considerable evidence to indicate a degree of negligence on the part of the driver, we do not consider it sufficient to charge the driver with a crime thereby. However. hould the district attorney feel tne evidence sumcient to war rant further action, he should present the case to the grand jury. ' "We further recommend that the proper authorities be urged to take immediate steps to re duce the traffic hazards of that particular area." ' ' Dr. George H, Adler, coroner, advised that Mrs. Frain came to -her death from multiple rib frac tures with extensive damage to the lungs. Dr. Wayne Espersen also testified to this effect. There -were no eye witnesses to the ac cident. Young McCulloch, home on leave from the service, was not present at the inquest but had been advised of the investigation. Members of the coroner's jury were Wyatt Padgett, foreman; John Sandmeyer, Harry C. Mess ner, L. A. Murphy, Charles Ever ett Bohannon and George M. Ep person. The inquest was held at Ward's. . Arriving In United States By Associated Press ' Jennings Lowman. Ma., Klamath Falls, arriving on West Point duo in New York from Manila approximately February 5. -. Lester E. Newton ; PFC. Weed, arrived on Cape Per petua duo .In Seattle Janu ary 28. - if
