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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1946)
n mm m mm. liiH By FRANK JENKINS CKCHETARY OF AGRICUL & TURE ANDERSON today loins President Truman In urg. lug continuation of wartime food luljKklli's and prlco controls be yond Juno 30 whon they will explro unless extended by con gress. , Ho hud hitherto favored the ending of all control tills com lug Juno, but ha changed his mind, ho any, because It "ap pears that tho department (of agriculture) underestimated the tremendous demand for food and the great buying power in the nuntis o( workers una reluming vctcruns. amontf others." Ho adds that tho "danger of Inflation hnn become to great that l feel It I necessary to mailt tain both prlco controls ana sub oiciics. UTE concludes: "The depart 1 mont of agriculture's policy linn been und will continue to be directed toward eliminating war tlmo controls Just as soon as It can be done without leonarai Inn economic balance, without contributing to Inflation." - UE may bo right. 1 4 If ALL controls were rut daily removed, it seems prob able that prices would jump alarmingly. Still, we mustn't I (mo sluht of the fundamental fact that In the long pull ONLY FULL PRODUCTION CAN CURE INFLATION. Inflation Is basically shortage of things, It Is merely aggravated, not CAUSED, by an abundance of money. Full production, plus actlvt competition, will stabilize prices quickly enough. THERE are disturbing Indies tlons thai present policies are holding down production. That (coins to be the NUU of our labor troubles. It is clear enough to all Intelligent thinkers that WHEREVER price control re suits In holding down nrodua tlon It Is CONTRIBUTING to Inflation rather thnn restraining it. It doesn't seem smart to take off all controls suddenly, in one brash sweep. But we certainly won't be smart if we permit price controls to noia down pro (luctlon. That would be like trying to put out a fire by pouring gar oitne on it. ' THERE u something else' that ought to De netier unacrsiooa than it Is why Is government HO SLOW in putting military surplusca or consumer goods on the market? There are unsettling stories about tho amount or sucn gooas held In storage. We hear of warehouses simply bursting with army and navy consumer goods. Admittedly, a lot of this talk is rumor, and rumor is something that can t be depended on. But the rumors are so per sistent that we can l help won derlng If there isn't something back of them. TF there are such stores, relcas Ing them to a goods-hungry public In this period of acute scarcities would bo temporarily equivalent, from the standpoint or homing intuition unacr con trol. to increasing production, We ought to have the truth about this military consumer goods surplus. IF it exists, it ought to baYiot onto the mar- kats inuw, when people need Jt and have tho money 'to puy lor it. It Is beginning to seem silly to suggest another congressional investigation, but from one source or another we ought to get the truth. Present rumors arc rapidly destroying public confidence In our whole govern' mental set-up. That Is dangerous. V Nip Balloons Yet Being Found SPOKANE. Feb. 8 (VP) Java nese balloons launched In Japan before V-J Day are still being found in remote areas of the west, tho war department told the Chronicle today. Tho department, answering Jiucrics irom tno paper, said In ormation available to date indi cated 281 balloons landed on this contlnont. Thirty-two bombs at tached to the balloons or their fragment have been discovered. The dopartment said full In formation on the number of bal loons or bombs recovered since V-J Day, Is not immediately available. Anderson Favors Food Subsidies ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 5 (IP) Secretory of Agriculture Ander on added his support today to President Truman's plea that congress continue wartime food subsidies and price controls be yond their-June 30 expiration date. Anderson last fall advocated letting the subsidies expire. They have been costing the govern ment more than $1,700,000,000 a year. The cabinet officer outlined his new stand in a speech pre pared for a meeting of the Na tional Canncrs association. Sparks Fly Over Negro Church Site Racial Dispute Rages In Chambers Of City Council Protest of property owners over tho solo of two city owned lots to a negro church, developed a major headache for tho city council in session last night as a racial dispute raged for an hour and a half in tho council chum bors. Chorglng that "Klamath Foils is laying the egg to start hatch ing a religious war," Mrs. Irene Kroenert, Bth and Pino, was one of a dozen to give defensive volco to the colored people's problem. Property owners, on tho other hand, churged inter ferenco "from outsiders" as they gave vigorous protest to the council in sulc of the city lots. Backing the offer of Mrs. Caro line M. Tlmms, colored pastor of tho Union Mission, were a half dozon Klamath Falls ministers and othor friends of Mrs. Timms Mrs. Tlmms, who has lived here for many years and Is the widow of William E. Tlmms and the mother of a large family, was first to take the floor in her own behalf, Mrs. Tlmms sold that the church located at 291 Com mercial wished to expand and to erect a place for peoplo of her race to stay as part of the church program. The church wants to buy two adjacent lots to prop erty it now holds. Construction of the so-called rooming house Is the bone of contention and adjacent prop erty owners and residents of the neighborhood are demanding of the council that tho property be withheld from sale for such a purpose as they consider it would render their property valueless for rental purposes. Asks Consideration The Rev. Victor Phillips of the First Methodist church asked the council to give Mrs. Tlmms all consideration which would be given "anyone of tho others of us," intimating that should the request come from a white minister there would be no hesi tation on the part of the council. It was Mrs. Kroenert who hod the most to say in defense of Mrs; Timms. bite said, in part: -"Do you- think just tho Meth odists, Just the Presbyterians, are going to heaven?" At this point some one in the audience called out: "You can have them In your neighborhood!" Mrs. Kroenert continued: "I have friends among the In dians, friends among the Chinese and I'm proud of it, and friends among the colored people and I'm proud of It. I refer you to a book, "As a Man Thlnkcth so Is He." Blasts Negroes Peter Zounich, 325 Commer cial, property owner in the neighborhood In question, ad vised the council that as holder of six lots near tho church he was "ruined if the colored peo ple come in." Zounich said the town had hod "prostitutes, boot leggers and now niggers." "If anybody likes niggers let them get them In their yard," Zounich shouted. Mrs. Tlmms was observed to be weeping silently as Zounich spoke , Instantly Andrew J. Kroenert was on his feet in defense of Mrs. Timms. "It's high time we come down and give them a chance," Kroe nert said. "I defy you to say any thing against Mrs. Tlmms." At this point, Kroenert him self was near tears as his voice shook In addressing the council. It seemed touch and go,, with property owners counteracting the picas of friends of the church. Bombshell George Reed of 1125 Walnut touched off a bombshell in the ministerial Quarters when he said that: "Religion Is oil right and I'm (Continued en ! s, Column 1) 9tm Telephone MUM PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 194S Number 10737 NEW VIDEHG Mayor Referees Racial Dispute mi SIT G q Mrs. Caroline M. Tlmms and Rufus Holt, minister of the Church of Christ, present their side of the story to Mayor Ed Ostendorf as property owners protest purchase by colored people of city lots adjacent to Mrs. Tlmms' church on Commercial street. Anti-Strike Bill Bricked WASHINGTON, Feb. Ilfl- Thc house today rejected the first major attempt to modify the strike control bill sponsored by Rep. Cote (R-S. D.). On a voice vote, the chamber turned down an amendment by Rep. Landis (R-Ind.) to eliminate a ban on use of boycotts in la bor disputes. A short time later, however, Die house agreed to an amend ment by Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich.) denying courts the power of in- i unction to enforce the boycott an. Instead,' the penalty would be loss of bargaining rights for employes. Rep. Howard Smith (D-Va.) called the Landis proposal "the first effort to sabotage, sterilize and cnponlzo" the Case bill. Rep. Paul Stewart (D-Oklo.) sold that "tills is an atomic amendment which would blow everything the people wont from me Din. They said that without the boycott ban jurisdictional dis putes would be condqned. Undismayed, opponents- re newed efforts to head off the bill by offering less drastic substitutes. WEATHER February 5, 1946 .. Max. (Feb. 4) 30 Mln 22 Precipitation last 24 hours 01 Stream year to date 9.13 Normal. ...6.90 Last year... .5.32 Forecast! Showers. Four Caere Teams To Clash Tonight In Benefit Games Final event of the Mnroh nf Dimes campaign will bo the benefit basketball anmps in I ho n.una gym ionium at 7:30 when tho Orogon Woolen team ploys tho Honloy town quintet, and Rlckys Jewelers will meet tho Tuloloke Merchants in tho sec ond tilt. All proceeds will go to the infantile paralysis fund. A check of the returns to dnte revealed $4125.30 have been re ceived by the treasurer of the county chanter. Hov D. Rnkn. strow, but this docs not include the amount received from thea tro collections during the last ween or me campaign. Proceeds have not yet como In from a benefit dance sponsored by the Chlloquin PTA on Satur day evening, or from a similar affair held at Malln, Checks are also still being received by Rake straw for the March of Dimes dance tickets which were mailed out from the office of the Foun dation's county chairman, Mrs. Dona Bnckes. Theatre collections totaled $2910.09, according to a report from Lloyd ' Lamb, manager, which was $350 over the amount received lost year. Half of this will bo contributed to the coun ty's polio fund, and the other half sent to the national organi zation, George M. Mann, head of Northwest Theatres, who was in charge of the theatres' participa tion in northern California and southern Oregon, expressed his appreciation to the theatregoers for their assistance. No returns have yet been re ceived from the city schools, but contributions from county schools to do,te Include: Altamont junior high $71.55, Shasta ele mentary $43.48, Henley grade $31.60, Henley , high $23.26, Chlloquin schools $131.96, Fair haven $46, Altamont elementary $52.30,' Summers $11.17 and Keno $16.20. A. J. McDonold, county vice chairman, stated Tuesday that he feels certain that Klamath's $8000 quota will be reached when all returns have been received. Group Approves Two State Area For UNO Home LONDON, Feb. 5 (IP) The 13-member United Nations in terim committee today approved a recommendation to put the organization's permanent home In the - Stamford Greenwich -Westchester area of Connecticut and New York. Australia protested, still urg ing San Francisco for the site. Col. W. R. Hodgson, the Aus tralian delegate, said after the closed meeting - that he would ask rejection of the recommen dation tomorrow when it is pre sented to the full 51-membcr committee on headquarters. He added that he would put up a fight for San Francisco. The Stamford - Greenwich Westchester area was recom mended by the UNO site inspec tion committee. Group Rejects House Ceilings WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (P) The house banking committee today rejected, 14 to 11, an ad ministration proposal to - put price ceilings on old houses. The committee, however, left In the bill by Rep. Fatman (D-Tex.), a provision for price controls on new homes. The price celling on old dwellings, as well as new ones, was proposed by Wilson W. Wy att, newly . appointed' housing administrator. The Patman bill ha,d stipulat ed that after a certain future date the first sale of an old house .would be the celling price. During the housing emer gency it could sell for no high er price except to cover costs to any. improvements. Housing Units Saved For Vets As vacancies occur, all pub lic housing units here will be held for occupancy by dis tressed families of veterans and families of military personnel, it was announced today by George W. Coplen, regional rep resentative of the national housing agency. Present occupants of public housing may continue to occupy the places in which they are housed, and approved applica tions of distressed families will not be affected. The order means that no more civilian families will be accepted as applicants for quar ters in the local public housing projects. Privately financed housing is not affected. HoytToHead Denver Post DENVER, Feb. 5 W5) Retire ment of W. C. Shepherd as edi tor and publisher of the Denver Post and appointment of Pal mer Hoyt, former editor and publisher of the Portland (Ore.) Oregonian was announced to day by directors of the Denver Post Publishing company. E. R. Campbell, Denver at torney and a director of the company, announced that Hoyt, who is a director of the Associ ated Press, had signed a con tract today and would take over "in the near future." Hoyt rose to the publisher's seat of the Oregonian the hard way. He went to work on the copy desk of the Oregonian in 1923, after holding down the telegraph desk of the Pendle ton, Ore., East Oregonian. "In 1931 he was named news editor, and in 1933 managing editor. Five years later he was named manager, and a year after that, publisher. Circulation Rose In the seven years that he was at the helm of the Oregon ian, its circulation rose from 117,553 to an estimated 192,529. Hoyt served as - president of Sigma Delta Chi, national pro fessional journalism fraternity, in 1941. In 1943, on leave from the paper, he was domestic di rector of the office of war information. PORTLAND, Feb. 5 OP) Palmer Hoyt, editor and pub lisher of the Oregonian, de scribed his new position as pub lisher of the Denver Post as "a new challenge" today. The Oregonian made no an nouncement on a possible suc cessor to Hoyt. Body Approves Ship Transfer WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (IP) The house naval committee to day approved legislation author izing President Truman to trans fer surplus U. S. destroyer es corts and other light naval craft to China. At the navy's request,' the committee relaxed a ban against transfer of heavier warships, in cluding battleships, cruisers, submarines and aircraft carriers. As amended, the bill would per mit transfer of the larger craft provided congress specifically approves. Chairman' Vinson (D-Ga.) said he- had been advised by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operation's, that the government docs not now contemplate giving battleships and the heavier type vessels to China but it might desire to do so later. Hotel Check By Heuvel Trial Point Witness Says Women Stayed In Room With Marines A startling bit of evidence not before brought in to the trial of Earl Heuvel, former Klamath Falls police chief, was laid be fore the jury late yesterday afternoon when Ruth Ray, man ager of the Lake hotel, testified that Virginia Rose Gibson and Bernice Huff had stayed at her hotel during the latter part of 1944 and also that Heuvel checked her records twice short ly after he was first placed under arrest in the early winter of 1944-45. The hotel registry docs not show the names of the two girls but the girls were brought into the courtroom and Mrs. Ray identified them as having reg istered at the Lake hotel on October 22, 1944, with two marines as husband and wife. The room rent, she said, was $4 a day for four people, not $6 for two as the girls have testified. Under cross-examination by Prosecutor Rex Kimmel, Mrs. Ray said that she was not pos itive that these two girls were the same ones who had regis tered with the marines, but was sure the girls had stayed there and she had asked them to leave because she. was 'suspicious." " . Wanted Job ,., . ' ."The little fat girl," she said, referring to Bernice Huff, called her mother and asked for money, and also applied for the job of chambermaid in the hotel. Also under cross-examination, Mrs. Ray testified that Heuvel had checked her records twice in the winter of 1944-45 and once again after he was brought back from Arkansas last sum mer. The first time, she said, Heuvel told her he would "make it good" if she would give him some information. She asked him, she said, if the girls were from The Dalles, but received no answer. On the stand this morning the former police officer stated that the first independent recollec tion'he has of the girls was after he was arrested in Arkansas and brought back to Oregon. ' He said he did not recall questioning the girls or taking them to court, but pointed out that he might have done so and that there was nothing unusual about his questioning arrested persons and conducting them to court. When interrogating them, it was his policy to separate per sons arrested together, he re lated. Blanket Denial Heuvel categorically denied that he had ever made any im moral advances toward Bernice Huff and Virginia Rose Gibson, telling the jury, "That certainly is not true, gentlemen." He testified at length concern ing his health, the reasons he left Klamath Falls, his sojourn in California and Arkansas end the reasons for concealing his identity while away, but dis claimed any knowledge of the sodomy indictment against him. Odell Olson, city policeman, told the court yesterday that he saw Heuvel on the street here January 26 of last year and that on Feb. 27 he received a tele- Shone call from Fresno, Calif. e said that he recognized the voice as Heuvel's, and told him of the indictment and that the bail was set at $21,000 cash. , Connection Poor But under cross-examination Olson said that the telephone connection was poor and that he couldn't swear it was Heuvel's voice. Heuvel himself testified that he left Klamath Falls early in the morning on "January 25 or 26" and that he had given a man in Fresno money to make a call to Klamath Falls, but did not know whether it had been put through. Heuvel's testimony ended shortly before noon today and the case will probably go to the jury late this afternoon after closing arguments of the at torneys. ROAD CLOSED SALEM, Feb. 5 (fP) The Columbia river highway was closed this afternoon by a huge slide three miles east of Mult nomah falls, the state highway commission announced. , Port e 47 PeirsorDS j&ecoc h Secas CHIecovy KETCHIKAN. Alaska. Feb. S fP)Th. lighthouse tender edar wirelessed coast guard headquarters that It had removed some of the wrecked steamship Yukon's passengers and was U tempting to remove other, with rafts, army barges and motor whaleboBts. It described the wreck scene, where the Yukon piled on the rocks Sunday night, as Cape Fairfield, the western lid of Johnstone bay, southeast of Seward. 7 Nine vessels were at the scene today. The seas were running lidded" yMty ut visibility was Improved, the cSdw . ..i.' l'm"Jl fPrt otal of 71 persons had so far been i i j Tv u '"n sxeamsnip. The Cedar was attempting to land breeches buoy equipment ashore, with which to land addU tional survivors, but iwslU und k. j I., ,"" J ?c " 9U"d cul, Onondaga arrived at Seward tod with 47 women and children - " Ioar taken off the Yukon, which was bound from KourarH in Gaalfl. with approximately 500 men, women and children. . Three men, landed earlier by the army tug FS-241 after thev were washed off the broken Uamship, were hospitalized at Seward. The coast guard buoy tender Cedar and the navy salvage ship Curb began rescue work after the Onondaga steamed away with its hysterical sur vivors, and the freighter North Haven and army transport Brig. Gen. M. G. Zalinski were stand ing by in Ellington passage to take their turns at rescuing sur vivors. Seas were subsiding but there was a heavy snowstorm handicapping rescue work. Meantime the steamship Al aska, at Kodiak, was ordered to Seward to aid that little town s accommodating survivors and to bring them to Seattle. The three men landed by the army tug told interviewers at Seward that there were 20 men unaccounted for among the 496 passengers and crew aboard the Yukon. The coast guard and the Alaska Steamship company, the war shipping administration, had no word of casualties, and expressed - douDts concerning tho report. - ' ...... Lodge Fray Fatal To Portland Man " wv, vjii. tnn - (7aif nn hoM irt 4at1 kara on a first degree murder charge loaay alter an altercation at Timberline lodge which was fa tal to Guv L. Nilsnn 51. Pnrl. land. District Attorney Stanley J. Mitchell said Mack, a waiter at the lodge, and Nelson, a fry cook,- argued briefly. Nelson died a few hours later of in juries from a blow which struck hiv hparl norniner tha pnnrrolo floor, Mitchell stated. letTruman Steer Tugs Say Strikers By The Associated Press ; The federal government ap-; peared ready today to take over j operations of the tugboat system: in New York's big harbor as paralyzing strike tied up com mercial hipping and deprived the city s millions of new ship ments of food and fuel supplies. Mayor William O'Dwyer's set tlement program was rejected by the 3500 striking AFL tug- greeted warnings of imminent jcuci ai seizure wim cries of "Let Truman steer the tugs." Lapt. William Bradley, presi dent of the united marine divi sion of the AFL International Lnnpfinrpmpn'. nt,nnfntlAM - serted the tugboat workers, who quit their jobs Monday morning in a dispute with operators over wages una nours, would refuse to work under federal control. As New York City officials acted to end the walkout of AFL tugboat employes, a month-old strike of 7000 CIO employes of Western .Union Telegraph com pany threatened to create a new labor problem..: The ereater OREGON CITY, Feb. 5 Wl ! , w "ork CIO . council, which Clarence Allen Mack. 23. Cdfnfj-Tr:,. """nwu un.' tnn-i-Mif ,. hoM . 4n h'. aemocis m tne metropoll- ran area, called a two-hour work stoppage next Monday of all its members, except those engaged in "vital" services. .. held Immediate chief attention in the nation's biggest city. O'Dwyer declared last night that COntinilfltfnn nt ih nm.lr tn page would "cause a grave crisis wic iwu auu iuci supply ior 'J , rr,. liccaatitiiy enHnnror tho Viaolfh n lha ' residents." Confiscated Venison 1 y H -J . "1 r g -"'r Six men said haavv fines in iustice court yesterday after plead ing guilty to the illegal possession of these six deer carcasses. Five of the deer were believed to have been shot in the Call-: fornia lava beds Sunday and the other appeared to have been! killed about two weeks ago. The venison was confiscated by court order and delivered to the poor farm. The state patrolman is Mark Sullivan, who located the illegal meat. (See also story on sports page).
