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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.
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KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31. 194a
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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