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By FRANK JENKINS
IJEItE'H ono Xor your bouk;
1 According to tho Fish and
Wildlife Survlcu, Amurica'a big
giiino population 18 Increasing
muter ilinn tho nuinbur ol po-
tunlliil nuiiloral
TN 1043, Flxh and Wildlife
tcllit u. wo had o total of
7.HH.-I22 bin game animals, an
INCREASE ol b.l) pur cent over
JO'll. In lliu auiuu period, our
liuinun populution grow Icaa
than ono per cent.)
UEHE'S onothcr ono for the
book:
T!T 11M3, PENNSYLVANIA
iiud tho nation'ii LA KG EST big
mo populution. Michigan
runkud second, Minnesota third
ni Fur Western Cullfornlu and
Oregon trailed ulong in fourth
and fifth nlucua.
Pcnnxylvunlu la ono of our
OLDEST atutca. Michlgun and
Mlniicaola aru no aprlng chick
cna, o ago la reckoned In our
young country,
A FULL generation ago, in our
minds, we'd kissed our big
gume goodbye, and small boya
wore saying sadly nun iney
would never get a shot ut a deer
or a bcur or a cutumount. They
wrn tflimmllv SURE of It.
YcUfOW highly industrialized
Pennsylvania unci Mlcliigun arc
utir No. 1 and No. 2 big gumo
atuti'i ond richly agricultural
Minnesota laNo. Jl
WJE'VE linen eloomllv sure of
" ao many, many deproaalng
liunga mm novcr ewinu iu iui.
As long ago n a couple of
ti nMnliMlt It nrnlinm.
1st named Multiius had us all con.
vinced that the worm a numan
populution must increase s
riiaif.i ihiin tin world
capacity to produce food that
we'd all starve to death.
Ho had flguroa to prove it.
tM thiM Hnva "rndlenl" nolltl
cluna and "radical" trenda in
thinking uro aeuring our ultra.
tf..iitnnrvn!lvft mil uf their boota.
A century and a quarter ago
Andrew Jackson, the wild man
from tho West, wita frightening
tho ultra-conaorvauvca oi mo
.l 1U .Anl.nnrrl until lhl.ll
swiwuwv ..... ...
tooth chattered. .They could ace
tne cna oi inu iuui.n w.
life approaching at a gallop
unci no way in hikiii iv owy ,i
W7E didn't tlatvf, ns Molthus
W mrA .i.'m wnnlri. The
, reactionary conservotlam of tho
lato mm ono mo cony
t-cniurlcs followed Old Hickory a
"wlldnesa.
WE'RE worried alck about
.irii,-. w n Inflation
creeping up on ua like a hungry
llger UIIU HU wuy v mvy
uruic. .
ELL, tho atrlkoa of the late
' un'a nnrl flin nnrlv DQ'a ucra
vastly moro dlaconccrting than
nnvthlnu we're seeing now.
They were BLOODY, among
u,i. nm tlin MIGHTY
TnnnnrTlVE UPSWINGS of
tho early part of this century
camo oner incin. ,
Thcro W08 KfcAL, 1IUIIIV1UII,
based upon hick of production of
,1. r"l..ll UIiip nnrl
llliug.i, unui mu
..r.tin wnnt linnurv with arccn
bocks in their pocket. But tho
heavy PRODUCTION and tho
atlff toMmiiiun inui mi
lowed licked the inflation quick
ly enough. , , .
rE'UP. terrified into connlp-
' inn u hv thA tmitntjicln of
tne preasuro groups uuu w w-
verging on vt iiiiiku".
How about Coxoy's army?
TMl II i,trm.lr n?
Of courao not. In tho long
perspective ot time, Coxoy'a
army was no moro than a buz
ing gnat. ...
t tf.rf.'S aome eood advice:
QUIT WORRYING about
America. There la nothing in
,k. imAfUn ntHiirA nf tnrlnv
II, u ..III.'. - - v
Hint hard work, BIG PRODUC
TION, intelligent competition
nnd a reasonable measure of
tolerance won't cure. s
Engineers OK
Walkout Vote
CLEVELAND. Feb. 1 fP) -
Committee chairmen of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive En
utnecrs lodnv unanimously au-
thorlzcd n strike vote among the
organization's 78,000 members.
Tho Brotherhood ot Railroad
Trainmen already is polling its
215,000 members on tho ques
tion of a striko and expects to
have the results compiled about
reb. 10.
Both Alvanloy Johnston, grand
chief engineer, and A. F. Whit
ney, president of tho trainmen,
have predicted that a strike, if
called, would paralyze tho na
tion's railroad system. The two
brotherhoods, since last July,
have been demanding wage in
creases and changes in working
rules from tho country's rail--roads.
Telephone MM 1 1
PHICE riVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1948
Number 10734
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WEATHER
February I, 1946
Max. (Jan. 31) ...33 Mln 14
Precipitation last 24 houra .. .00
Stream year to date 9.04
Normal ... 6.61 Last year... .5.07
Forecaitt Snow or ahowera.
REACH CRASHED PLAN
GIZZARD HALTS EFFORTS
TO
75 MM
Gale Rages
On Summit
E
40 -Below -Zero Cold
Forces Climbers
To Retreat
By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY
ELK MOUNTAIN, Wyo., Feb.
I OP) A screaming blizzard on
tho perilous aldea of 11,125-foot
Elk mountain today prevented
new efforts to acnle the peak in
to which a United Air Linea
transport apparently crashed yea
tvrduy with 21 persona.
P. R. Gallagher of Cheyenne,
member of an eight-man search
party that fought to within 300
feet of tho summit last night,
aaid the climbers wcro forced
buck at a 75-mllc-an-hour gale
and 40-bclow-zcro cold.
"I waa on my handa and feet
at tho last," Gallagher aaid. "If
we had gone on, we would have
had to attend tho night If we
had, I don't see how we could
have lived."
Gallagher was suffering from
frostbite and othora in the party
were covered with ico when they
returned hero last night.
They roportcd visibility on the
bald, formidable peak, which
reaches into tho clouds above
Underline, was lesa than 60 feet
See No Wreckage
They uw no signs of wreckage
but were headed directly for the
spot where a deep, quarter-mile
furrow in the snow convinced
aerial acarchcra yesterday that
the plane had smashed into the
mountain top about 3 a. m.
(mountain standard time).
Clouds and swirling snow con
tinued to shroud the peak today
and old-timers sold tho storm
might liust a week or more. Tom
Reese, a rancher, told tho rescue
party It would bo foolhardy to
try to scalo the mountain unless
tho top was visible.
An army convoy of 50 men
from Fort Warren, Wyo., ar
rived here last night but when
officers viewed tho atorm-blastcd
mountain they sent 40 of the
men bock to Warren to wait for
a break in the weather.
Bob Rosa, a coal mine superin
tendent at Hanna, Wyo., had a
ski party organized and was con
sidering tho advislbllity of tack
ling the mountain from the
northwest.
Chilean Body
Defies Labor
SANTIAGO. Chill, Feb. 1 (VP)
The . powerful leftist popular
front withdrew Its support from
the government today after the
lattcr's rejection of labor and
leftist demands for reorganiza
tion of tho cabinet.
Tho popular front, which put
tile government in power, issued
a communique accusing Acting
President Alfredo Duhalde of
"total responsibility for the pres
ent grave crisis" and charging
that tho existing situation "could
drag the country to a catastrophe
of incalculable proportions."
Japan
a-rom Sinking Ship
A ..! -iP
Capt. Emuaabure Kato of Nagoya. aklpper of the Japaneae repatriation thip Enoahlma Maru (can
ter, with btnoculara), atanda on the deck of the American ahip Brevard aurrounded by aome
of the 4300 repatrlatea, after the American ahip had xeacued them in 25 minutea. The Enoihima
hit a mine near Shanghai and aank. The American ahip waa akippered by -Lieut. John Elliott
of San . Diego, Calif. IAP wlrephoto).
X.I f
Strike Curb
Bill Rapped
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 (VP)
The house, .debating heatedly to
day over sweeping new strike
control legislation, received con
flicting demands from national
farm and labor leaders.
AFL President William Green.
in a telegram read to members
by Rep. Bailey (D-W. Va.), urged
defeat of the bill introduced by
Rep. Case (R-S. D.). Green said
the measure would bring "chaos,
confusion and injustice" and
would "disrupt Industrial rela
tions." Edward A. O'Neal, president
of tho American Farm Federa
tion, took the opposite view,
however. He wrote all represen
tatives advising passage of the
Case plan. He said it would pro
tect tne public and this is neces
sary because of "the apparent
disregard for the public interest
on the part of both disputants.
7000 More MD's
To Be Released
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (VP)
The war department today
eased the discharge requirements
for medical officers to permit
the release of 7000 additional
doctors within the next five
months.
By that time, Secretary Pat
terson said, all but approximate
ly 4000 of the 41,000 physicians
who were taken into the army
during the war will be back
home.
GOP Senators Ask Action
To Choke Off Filibuster
By FRANCIS J. KELLY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (VP)
nupuuiican senators demanded
today that action be taken to
choke off tho FEPC filibuster.
The GOP lawmakers an
nounced they are ready to take
tho initiative if something isn't
done quickly by the democrats
who favor tho bill to create a
permanent fair employment
practice commission.
Kenneth S. Wherry, republi
can senate whip, gave Senator
Chavez (D-N. M.) until the end
Of tho week to seek limitation
of debate.
Senate republicans, he said,
"arc getting restless and thov
want somo action. They mean
business."
Chavez, whn mnnAiivprnrl
FEPC up for consideration de
spite the vehement opposition of
southern senators, has. been so
liciting votes to have tho so
called gag rule invoked against
tho filibuster. He claims to have
lined tip 44.
xi requires a two-third vote ol
the senate to limit debate, but
only 16 votes to petition - that
such a limitation be considered.
Tho latter move Is what Wherry
has in mind.
Ho told Chavez after the sen
ate adjourned last night that 21
of those signed up against the
filibuster are republicans, or five
more than the number required
to seek d ebate limitation.
Wherry added if Chavez did not
move on a bi-partisan basis that
limitation bo considered, tho re
publicans will file such a peti
tion on a partisan basis,
Getting 16 signers, however., is
only the first step. The petition
then must be formally filed with
the senate, and that is a - for
midable task under the present
parliamentary situation.
Southern opponents of FEPC
have not based their two-weeks-long
filibuster on the measure it
self, but on technical motions to
correct the journal of senate pro
ceedings for January 17. The
southerners contend debate limi
tation cannot be applied against
such a motion, . , ,.
Portland Jail
Said 'Disgrace'
For Second Time
PORTLAND. Feb. 1 (VP)
Portland's city jail was called a
"disgrace to. the city" by the
county grand' jury again today,
for the second time In two
months. . ,
The January grand jury re
port made particular criticism of
tne women s quarters, as overcrowded.
Just a month ago the Decem
ber grand jury reported that the
jail "is a disgrace to the city of
Portland" and said that "plain
soap ana water would help."
Sled Accident
Injures Girl
Emllie Elliot, 11 -year -old
daughter of C. S. Elliot, man
ager of J. C. Penney company,
was seriously injured at 4:45 p.
m. Thursday while coasting on
the Washington street hill near
her home. The little girl
crossed the Washington and N.
2nd intersection -. on her sled
and passed under a car operat
ed by Jack D. Ellison; 21, KFJI
ajinouncer.
"Ellison was "Traveling at a
slow rate on the snow packed
street and was able to stop im
mediately. He assisted the child
to her hom ,103 Washington,
and then moi? -her to Klamath
Valley hospital where the at
tending physician reported the
little girl suffering from severe
contusions of the head, concus
sion and a severe laceration of
the back. She also has bruises
on the right leg.
- Emllie was moved to her
home last night and was re
ported as resting today. Ellison
was absolved of blame.
Seattle Man Buys
Variety Store
Sale of the Klamath Variety
store to E. M. Alspaugh of Se
attle was announced today by
Fred Eyerly, who has operated
the business for the .last 17
years.
Alspaugh is an experienced
operator of stores similar to
Klamath Variety, and it is ex
pected his son will come hero
ar resident manager. The new
owners took over this morning.
Eyerly operated the store at
464 Main for 12 years, and
moved it to 838 Main about five
years ago. He came here from
Woodburn. He said today that
he plans to retain his home in
Klamath Falls, but will go
south for a vacation trip. '
Legion uaims
YA Breakdown
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (VP)
The American Legion called on
congress today for an immediate
investigation of a "tragic break
down" in the veterans adminis
tration under Gen. Omar H.
Bradley, who took over as chief
less than six months ago.
John Stelle, the Legion's na
tional commander, made the "de
mand" for action in letters to all
members of congress and said the
law makers should see that their
"mandates are no longer ignored
by the veterans administration."
VA officials at first reserved
comment on the letter, but
Stclle's aides said its release was
preceded by an acrimonious tele
phone battle between Stelle and
Bradly over major VA policies.
Later, officials of the adminis
tration announced that Bradley
would give a report at a late
afternoon news conference on his
six months administration.
Price Of Sugar
Will Be Raised ,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (VP)
Stabilization Director John ; C.
Collet announced today the re
tail price of sugar soon will in
crease "slightly mpre than half
cent" a pound. '
He said the effective date
would be announced, by OPA.
An official of that agency said
an increase of approximately six-
tenths of a cent- a pound-would
be put into effect -in the next
few days." -'
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Qroup Struggles
Throughout Wight?
Without Success
A tired jury that had been out nearly 24 hours reported this afternoon that It wot
deadlocked on a verdict in the sodomy case against ex-Police Chief Earl Heuvel, but Cir
cuit Judge Arlie .Walker sent word to the jurors to keep on trying.
It was at 2:30 p. m. today that the jurors knocked on the jury room door and said
they could not reach agreement. By that time, they had already established a probable
local record for length of deliberation. Old-timers said they could recall no case of jury
deliberation going over 24 hours here, and one said that no jury in 20 years had stayed out
all night.
Apparently hopelessly deadlocked, jurors had nevertheless continued for many hours
in discussion of the sensational case. But Judge Walker sent back word that he hoped they
could still bring a definite conclusion to their deliberations, and their secret conference
went on. At 3:10 p. m. this incident was repeated.
Only three trips to restaurants for meals, and a brief return to the courtroom for
clarification of instructions, had broken the deliberations of the 12-man body behind the
locked door of the courthouse jury room. Actual lapsed time in the jury room at 3:10 to
day was approximately 2014 hours. The jury took the case at 3:10 p. m. yesterday.
The judge had previously stated that the trial of Heuvel on a charge of contributing to
tne delinquency oi a minor t-
Todd Says
Shooting
Accidental
Clyde Edward Todd, 37-year-
old southern racuic railroad de
tective held in the county jail
on a charge of second degree
murder in connection with the
death of Ross C. Simmers last
Friday night, will contend that
the shooting was accidental,
Todd's lawyer, . J. C. O'Neill,
said today.
Todd has asked for a prelimi
nary hearing in justice court,
but the date for the hearing has
not been set as the district at
torney has been busy all this
week prosecuting the Earl Heu
vel case.
No 111 Will
O'Neill said that Todd had
told him that the shooting was
purely accidental and that he
had no ill will or any Intention
of causing Simmers any harm
during the session of "horseplay"
which was climaxed bv Sim
mers' death with a 32-20 bullet in
Us .heart, - i-- - - -V
The shooting happened In" a
narrow, crampefl office room of
the Pacific Fruit Express Ice
dock in the SP yards. Simmers
was a PFE employe working in
the office and Todd had come in
to use the telephone. He pa
troled the area around the ice
dock.
Todd has told O'Neill that he
accidentally -kicked Simmers'
chair as he passed by on his way
to the telephone and that he had
begged the man's pardon for
bumping into his chair.
' The railroad detective has
been held in jail since the night
of the shooting.
Pauley Denies
Oil Land Deal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (VP)
Edwin W. Pauley flatly denied
today that he ever offered to
raise several hundred thousand
dollars in campaign contribu
tions for the democratic party
in return for withdrawal of the
government's suit to establish
federal title to submerged oil
lands.
Pauley this afternoon told
the senate naval affairs com
mittee, which is holding hear
ings on his nomination to be
undersecretary of the navy,
that a statement to that effect
by Interior Secretary Ickeswas
"not true."
He said he recalled having
only one conference with Ickes,
at a time when the democratic
national committee had a $300,
000 deficit, and that he went to
see Ickes to solicit his personal i
efforts to meet the deficit.
would follow the sodomy case,
but when new jurors came in
this morning he dismissed them
temporarily to await develop
ments from the jury room. This
afternoon, he strongly indicated
his intention of re-trying the
sodomy case if the jury is unable
u reacn a verdict.
Courtroom spectators listened
closely today for some hint of
the trend of the jury-room con
troversy when the jurors filed
back into the jury box to ask the
court aome questions.
Puta Question
Jury Foreman Ben Henzel put
ine question, stating tnat tne
jurors wished the judge to re
peat his instructions concerning
an accomplice. Previously, the
jury had sent word from the
jury room to ask for a dictionary
to look up the same word." Judge
Walker denied that request, but
when the jurors came in this
morning he carefully repeated
his instructions and answered
specific questions from various
jurors concerning the testimony
of an accomplice, the importance
of flight, and corroboration.
In answer to a question, the
judge emphasized that the testi
mony of an accomplice must be
corroborated to bear weight, and
that under Oregon law the ten
dency is to view the testimony of
an accomplice with distrust. Ref
erence was to the testimony oi
Chief Acts
To End Big
Steel Tie-Up
By The Associated Praia
Reports the administration was
ready to step into the steel
stalemate again with a new pro
posal ' gained Impetus today
when President Truman sum
moned the steel fact-finding
board and Price Administrator
Chester Bowles to the White
House. . , .w
The fact-finding board was
called to a 1 p. m. (PST) confer
ence and an OPA official aaid
Bowles had been asked to cut
short a vacation in South Caro
lina and return to Washington
immediately. Bowles was ex
pected tonight or early tomor
row. Plans for terminating the 12
day strike of 750,000 steel work
ers were reported in the hands
nf T-l .
n
fpect to The fct wlrt which o tavolv. seizure, as yet.
Heuvel is charged. Jurors
seemed to be . puzzled as to
whether she was an accomplice
m the commission of a crime,
how much weight her testimony
should have, whether she acted
under duress and undue influ
ence from Heuvel, and whether
Heuvel would be guilty if the
girl had been an accomplice in
the commission of a crime.
Weigh Testimony
In reference to the latter ques
tion, the judge said that this mat
ter concerned the weight to be
given the girl's testimony, and
that even though jurors miglit
believe she committed a crime,
that fact, alone, would not clear
the defendant.
The jurors then returned to
the jury room, making the later
report that it seemed impossible
to reach a verdict.
Bailiff Ike Rumer maintained
a lonely vigil at the jury room
door throughout the night. Judge
Walker stayed at the courthouse
until after midnight, as did at
torneys, the defendant and his
wife, Virginia, and others. The
judge said that the longest he
had ever kept a jury out was
33 i hours.
In his instructions to the jury
yesterday afternoon, Judge Ar
lie G. Walker told the 12 men
that "anv reasonable doubt you
have is the property of the de
fendant,, just ine same as ins
horse or cow or money."
But not every possible or
trivial doubt can be classed as
a reasonable doubt, the judge
added. He charged the jury
men that they had to be "mor
ally certain" of guilt before a
verdict of guilty can be re
turned.
He enumerated the three ma
terial allegations in the indict
ment, saying that it was incum-
(Conunued on fftae s, vuani ,
Deaf? Ends Turbulent Career Of Carl
Magee, Crusading Newspaper Editor Who
Aided In Exposing Teapot Dome Scandal
OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 1 (VP)
Death last night ended the tur
bulent career of Carl C. Magee,
73, crusading newspaper, editor
who played a prominent part in
exposing the Teapot Dome oil
scandal.
Magee--former editor, school
teacher, lawyer, inventor and
businessman died of heart dis
ease after a short illness with in
fluenza. . ,
The man who in later years
invented the parking meter was
a stormy petrel of political jour
nalism in New Mexico where he
once was tried on manslaughter
charges.
As editor of the Albuquerque
Morning Journal, he gained na
tional prominence in the early
1920's for helDine to exDose the
Teapot Dome naval reserve scan
dal which brought about the
downfall of Secretary of the In
terior Aioert a. .t ail. v
' His fiery editorials first tit-
quired why Oilman Harry Sin
clair's train should spend several
days on a siding near Fall's ex
pensive ranch home.
He was called to Washington
to testify before a senate com
mittee whose investigation led to
uncovering the $100,000 deal be
tween Fall and Sinclair for leas
ing of the naval oil reserve.
Magee, sentenced to jail in the
Summer of 1923 after a trial for
contempt growing out of an edi
torial which appeared in his
paper while he faced charges of
criminal libel in District Judge
D. J. Leahy's court, was pardon
ed by Gov. James F. Hinkle after
serving a night and a day of the
sentence.
Magee set out to defeat Leahy
for re-election and his editorial
campaign proved successful.
Two years later, Magee acci
dentally shot and killed a state
highway employe in a fray
which grew out of the trial.
The crusading editor was seat
ed In the lobby of Las Vegas
hotel when Leahy entered. The
former judge spotted Magee,
strode over, shouted at him, then
struck him, knocking Magee to
the floor.
From a prone position,' the edi
tor kicked at the judge and fired
throe shots from his pistol,
striking Leahy in the arm and
mortally wounding John B. Las
seter, a bystander.
Tried at Las Vegas on a man
slaughter ' charge, Magee was
freed by Judge Luis E. Armijo,
who had defeated Leahy. Armi
jo ruled state's evidence was in
sufficient; that it failed to show
an unlawful act, and that Magee
acted in self defense.
Magee came to Oklahoma City
in October, 1927, as editor of
the Oklahoma News where he
continued his crusading attacks
on Oklahoma politics through
his column, "Turning on the
Light."
The president told hi nri
conference yesterday that the
administration still was working;
on possible price increases for
steel.
Favora Incxeaae
Although Bowles was' report
ed favoring a steel . price in
crease not in excess of $2.50 a
ton, the U. S. Steel corporation
said it would require a price in
crease "greatly in - excess!' of
$6.25 a ton to meet the 181 cents
hourly wage Increase the union
demands.
More than 200.000 wnrtmi n
96 General Motors plants marked
uieir i jra oay on striKe as a fed- '
eral mediator in . Detroit con
tinued his efforts to effect an
agreement between the corpora
tion and leaders of the CIO Uni
ted Auto Workers union. Wage
and the maintenance of union
membership were the chief ix.
sues under discussion. . .
Bevin Charges
Peace Periled
LONDON. Feb. 1 TOlToro!
Secretary Bevin told the United
Nations security council today
that "Moscow and communist
party propaganda" endangered
world peace.
This, he said, was "the real
danger" to peace.
Bevin made this statement In.
blasting back at Russian charges
that Britain imperiled world se
curity by maintaining troops
which the Rnvlpt
fascist and pro-monarchist ele
ments in ureece.
Bevin demanded a straight ve
or no verdict from the council
on the Russian charge.
Counterine the charees nf
Soviet Vice Commissar . Andrei
Vishinsky that a "white terror"
exists in Greece, .Bevin said Brit
ish troops had supported the
right of all factions to a voice in
Greek affairs and had refrained''
from iirmosine on the enuntrv
minority government.
Snyder Backs
Price Control
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1 (VP)
Reconversion Director John W.
Snyder today told Henry Ford,
2d, that abandonment of price
control now would retard indus
trial development for years to
come."
Ford, head of the Ford Motor
company had proposed removal
of price controls on automobiles
and their supplies. Snyder tele
graphed him:
"I believe strongly that at this
time we need firm control of
prices. Firm control is not in
consistent with the desire of the
administration to remove imped
iments to production which art
demonstrated to exist."