Post Calls
For Support
Of VA Quiz
GRANTS PASS, Feb. 6 m
The Oregon department of the
American Legion was called up
on by Grants Pass post 28 to
; lend all possible support to Na
Vtional Commander John Stelle
in his demand for a .congres
sional Investigation of' the vet
erans' administration,.'ln a peti-
4Ixh B4n(a) imnnlmnitclv Mntt.
MUll UUHU w..
day night.
The resolution was adopted
following disclosures here Sun-;
' day by Commander Nell Mor-'
,fitt that the "tragic breakdown' i
of the VA as described b:
' Steele in his letters calling for i
investigation! does exist in Ore .
gon. . " ' : ' I
Backs Charge I
In answer to a nationally pub
' llcized statement credited to
President Truman that he did
not "feelthat Stelle was speak
ing for the American Legion"
in .his accusations of inefficien
cy against the VA, which is
headed by General Omar N.
Bradley, the Grants Pas;: reso
lution declared that, insofar a?
' the VA operations in' Oregon
were concerned. Commander
Stelle does speak for ihe Amer
ican Legion,
The resolution vra presented
to the Grants Pas? post by W.
C. (Pete) Allen after a discus
sion of the natior,al controversy
-in which Past Cammander Niel
R. Allen gave a summary of
the VA situation in Oregon and
the meeting with department of
ficials. ,-
California Weekend Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Farrens and Mr. and
Mrs. Paul O. Landry spent the
. weekend ' at Boyes Springs,
. Sonoma county, uam. xney
became acquainted with friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Caillier
and Landry dropped into the
navy recruiting office Wednes
i day to bring Caillier a message
. from them.
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Suits, Ensembles,
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ROOSTER
Ll Tibcij Firms To
Qf sraie 'In Red'
SI 6KANK, Feb. 6 (P) The
offiCit ?f price administration
has lutjed, that lumber firms
must uttcrate 25 per cent "in
the rcii'' for six months before
increased ceiling prices would
be granted ior lumber, a lum
ber industry spokesman said
yesterday.
Charles S. Hoffman, acting
manager of the Products Manufacturing-
association in Spo
kane,, said "This is bad news.
For .presumably it would apply
to the whole industry, not just
lo the pole companies."
Htt said the opinion might in
terfere with resumption of
work in lumber plants which
have signed contracts with
nni is ending lumber strikes in
the northwest.
Mother Of KF
Han Passes
Hubert E. Wattenbure. 219
Pine. Tuesday was advised of
tiie death of his mother, Mrs.
Marv Catherine Wattenburg, on
that" day in Fossil, Ore., follow
ing an illness of more than 30
years.
Mrs. Wattenburg would have
been 88 years of age February
17. She was born or. western
pioneer parents in 1857. shortly
after they had settled in Santa
Clara county, California. The
familv moved to Oregon, going
first to Lane county where she
married and her son, Robert,
was born. Ten children were
born to the couple. Mr. Watten
burg died in 1916.
Due to weather conditions,
Wattenburg will be unable to
attend final rites for his mother.
She had suffered from arthritis
and had been in a wheel chair
for many years.
Keno Pioneer
Hurt By Auto
Thomas J. Prathor, 85-vcar-
old pioneer and retired Keno
merchant, was painfully irqurea
when he was struck by a car
driven by Mrs. R. W. Shellhorn.
route 2, at Esplanade and Wall
about 7:15 last night. Klamath
Valley hospital officials today
reported that he was suffering
from a knee injury.
Mrs. Shellhorn told police
that she was turning left onto
Wall when she saw a man's legs
silhouetted against the lights of
her car. She jammed on her
brakes but apparently hit Pra
ttler with her left bumper.
She placed the aged man in
her car and asked him where his
home was. He told her 645 Ala
meda, but Mrs. Shellhorn, not
familiar with Klamath Falls,
drove up Wall to Monclaire and
turned left to go up the hill.
Her j car wouldn't c limb the
hill, however, investigating po
lice reported, but slid sideways
back down and she was unable
to drive out. Mrs. Shellhorn then
phoned Mrs. Ross Simmers,
Prather'g daughter, at the Ala
meda address, to tell her of the
accident.
In the meantime an unidenti
fied man who knew Prather and
bad seen the accident, went to
the Simmers home to tell Mrs.
Simmers. When Mrs. Shellhorn's
call came Mrs. Simmers rushed
over to the stalled car on Mon
claire and took Prather to the
hospital.
- The oldest recorded document
on paper is a deed of King Roger
of Sicily of the year 1102.
Scout Knives 2.50
Flashlights, Eveready .7.......... 1.25
Pencil Lights, Eveready .75
For "hard to get items"
,. it't .
THE GUN STORE
714 Main
DISCOUNT
On The Following Goods
i.' (Sola Limit to Goodi'on Hand)
Sale Starts Thursday, Feb. 7
Light Plants
Post Hole Diggers
Haymaster Stackers
Workmaster Manure
Scoops
Workmaster Bulldog
Attachment
Hydraulic Scrapers
Wisconsin Engines
:. Irrigation Syphons
Electric Welders
' Sickle Grinders
Barrel Pumps
Cyclone Air Cleaners
Hand Grease Guns
Electric Fence Chargers
D. D. T.
Bolts Machine and
Carriage
Babbit Bearings
No. 55AIL and No. 55AIR
Chain Links
No. 55 Chain Sprockets
Repair Parts
V Belts
V Pulleys
Belt Dressing
Brown Equipment Co.
KLAMATH FALLS and LAKE VIEW
Phone 824 . Phone 1482
U. S: Forces
In Japan Cut
To 200,000
TOKYO, Feb. 6 (PI In less
than the six months he had set.
General MacArthur has made
good his plan to cut United
States occupation forces in Japan
10 suu.uuu men.
There are only 203.817 Amcrl
can officers and enlisted men in
Nippon today, and that includes
the air force, headquarters fig
ures .show.
Since the surrender five
months ago, MacArthur has sent
home under the discharge point
system, 324,829 Pacific veterans
trom forces m Japan.
The maximum occupation
strength probably was 450,000
when troops were pouring in
from the Philippines and other
Pacific island bases but the
exact fissure is not available.
MacArthur's September 17 an
nouncement that he expected to
reduce the occupation force to
200,000 men within six months
surprised Washington. President
Truman said he had not known
of it, but hoped it would SDeed
discharges. The state depart
ment notea mat sucn a cut must
not interfere with the army act
ing as an instrument to carry
out occupation policy destruc
tion of Japan's will to make war.
Five months of the occuoation
have passed without a single In
cident of resistance. Except for
scattered military policemen.
both officers and men go about
unarmed.
Accidents Take
96,000 Lives
CHICAGO, Feb. 6 m Ac
cidents in the United States in
1945 cost the lives of 98.000 per
sons, injured 10,300.000 and the
estimated economic loss was five
billion, two hundred million dol
lars, the National Safety council
said today.
The council said that the toll
was only 1 per cent above 1944,
but that the comparison was mis
leading "because it does not ac
curately depict the seriousness
of the current accident prob
lem." "The 1945 increase is as small
as it is only because of a natural
and drastic reduction in acci
dents to military personnel," the
council said. "Actually, figures
show that the nation celebrated
V-J Day by going on a prolonged
traffic spree that hasn't ended
yet."
Gales Lash Coast
Line; Snow Heavy
(Continued from Page One)
the crews who battled high
winds.
A check with local traffic of
ficers showed a number of minor
arrirfpnta nnn, nf whi ,h in.
volved personal injuries. Resi
dents living on hills used chains
to get back and forth to town
and rhflina vanra nHtricnri fni all
traffic leaving here. There was
nve incnes oi new snow on tne
Green Snrine Mrlv hi. mnrrt.
ing and this figure was expected
to be doubled by nightfall as
snow continued in that area.
no wire service
TVlA 14pra1H anri M.uio n-.l
this morning, was without Asso-
i-iaica rress wire service as two
power break-downs occurred,
one "flrnnnrt firant. Pose" anrl
the other in the vicinity of The
jjaues. oervice was resumed at
around 9 a. m. today.
Klamath was nt tVtA
part of Oregon to find itself in
a winter xie-up. A gale which
battered the coast sent winds up
in 90-milp an hnnr 9nH tiroeVtafJ
ashore a coast guard boat with
us tour men missing today. The
weather bureau reported the
slide-covered rock-blocked rail
road tracks and broken telephone
wires in its wake. Winds which
endangered ships along the coast
were subsiding today.
In the Columbia river gorge,
the highway and the Union Pa
cific railroad tracks were blocked
by a tremendous slide loosened
by rain and wind.
T e 1 e p hone communications
were down in several parts of
southwestern Oregon, as winds
sent trees crashing over the
poles.
The storm was nation-wide and
as for the forecast for the next
24 hours? Why, it's going to
snow! ,
Postal Receipts
Total $17,838.70
January postal receipts for
1946 amounted to $17,838.70, ac
cording to a report by Burt E.
Hawkins, Klamath Falls post
master. This is a decrease from re
ceipts for January, 1945, which
totaled $20,774.90, and is due,
Hawkins explained, to evacua
tion of personnel from the Tule
lake Jap camp, the naval air
station and the Marine Barracks.
These factors have affected
all business in the area, he said,
Kiid with business below normal
money hasn't been in circulation
as it was in the early part of
1945.
Former Judge
'Sold Justice'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8
The house judiciary committee
reported today that former Fed
eral Judge Albert W. Johnson of
L,ewisuui'K. ra.. sold justice in
his court "for all the traffic
would bear.
The committee report to the
house said, however, that no pur
pose would De served in im
peaching Johnson because he re
signed last July and subsequent
ly cut himself off from a SI 0,000-a-year
full-pny pension. He had
served 20 years.
The report was approved by
the committee after three secret
sessions during which members
debated the propriety of its re
lease before Johnson and nine
co-defendants go on trial in
Scranton on conspiracy charges.
Order Of Antelope
Will Meet In July
The " Order of the Antelope
will meet July 12, 13 and 14 at
the famed "Blue Sky hotel" on
towering Hart mountain in Lake
county, according to Marshall
Cornett, chief white tail of the
organization. .
In the war years, meetings of
this unique group were canceled,
but a reunion of the clan is now
on schedule for the July dates.
Cornett attended a meeting in
Lakevlew this week at which
plans were made.
It is expected to hold the at
tendance to 300. Invitations are
to be sent out immediately,
i
Klamath Couple
Reported Improved
Mrs. Harold W. Harris of
May's auto camp on Biehn street,
was released from Klamath Val
ley hospital Wednesday morrting
where she has been receiving
treatment since Sunday for car
bon monoxide poisoning. Harris,
employed by the Oregon state
highway department, expects to
be released Thursday. Both are
rapidly recovering.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Harris were
unconscious when found in their
cabin early Sunday afternoon as
fumes from a gas heater, which
was burning throughout the
night, caused carbon monoxide
poison to fill the room.
COMMITS SUICIDE
BELGRADE. Feb. 8 (Ft
The ministry of interior said to-
nigrit mat Uen. Milan Medic,
premier of Serbia during the
German occupation, had com
mitted suicide by hurling him
self from a third floor window
in the prison where he
held.
VITAL STATISTICS
FOX -Born at HUlsld hospital, Klam
ath Falls, Ore., February S, 1948, to Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Fox. Merrill, Ore., a boy.
Weight: 7 pounds 34 ounces.
ENGLISH Born at Hillside hospital.
Klamath Falls. Ore.. February a, 1946.
to Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Enfll'h. 1004
Homedale, a girl. Weight: 8 pounds 5
ounces.
STILL WELL Born at Klamath Valley
hospital, Klamath Falls, Ore.. February
3, 1040. to Mr. and Mrs. Jamea S Stlll-
well. 2805 Summers lane, a girl. Weight:
i pounas 23 34 ouncea.
British Turn
Down Proposal
LONDON, Feb. 8 (A) The
British cabinet was reliably re
ported today to have rejected in
its present form a proposal foY
ending the United Nations crisis
over Greece and to have author
ised Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevln to try for a further com
promise. The cabinet's reported decision
indicated the possibility of new
talks among the five major pow
er members of tho UNO Security
council on the British-Russian
dispute and left the way open
for the pending compromise for
mula lo be approved provided it
could be modified in a muuiier
acceptable to Bevln.
The formula, worked out at a
five-power meeting last night,
calls tor:
1. Pigeonholing Russia's
charges that British troops in
Greece menace world peace,
2. Issuance of a statement by
Security Council President Nor
man J. O. Makin of Australia
that the council has taken note
of all the arguments made by
Russia, Britain, Greece and the
other members of the council
during the dispute.
United Nations leaders be
lieved the compromise proposal
also was under consideration in
Moscow.
USBR Project
Map Finished
The first new map of Klam
ath basin's U. S. bureau of
reclamation project since 1938
is now completed, E. Laton
Stephens, superintendent of the
local office, announced today.
The map shows construction
in Tule lake and lower Klamath
areas during the past decade and
includes reservoirs, canals,
drains, telephone lines, roads,
areas irrigated by gravity and
pumping, irrigable lands and
proposed drains and canals.
Several thousand of these
maps have been printed and are
obtainable at the reclamation
office, post office building.
Ditch Breaks On
Klamath Project
Heavy snowfall, combined
with water turned into canals
in lower Klamath area for Irri
gation purposes, broke a ditch
on the U. S. bureau of reclama
tion project at Ady, it was re
ported today.
Farmers have been using the
water to flood the Klamath
drainage district. The break in
the ditch occurred at pumping
plant "F," inundating the Job,
causing a lot of work but little
damage.
The pumping plant Is still un
dcr construction by Tru-Mbc
company and the break caused
considerable inconvenience al
though it was unnecessary to
turn off the water to repair the
damage.
More Klamath Men
Released From Navy
New names are being added
daily to the list of men from this
area being discharged from the
navy.
From Klamath Falls are John
nie B. Fisher, S 1c; Edward J.
Donovan, MM 1c; Alvin G. An
derson, MMM 1c, 3744 La
Verne- Robert J. Moyle, AO 2c,
1318 Johnson; Wilton C. Cham
plin, S 1c; Lowell Paup, SK 3c,
114 Lincoln; Harlo J. Perrin.
TM 2C, 2212 Eberleln; Willard
G. Brlsbon, R 3c, 226 Mortimer,
and Joseph E. Day, S 1c, Rt. 3
Box 469.
Earl B. Thorpe, SC 1c, Box
337, Fort Klamath, has also re
ceived his navy' discharge.
2 Remaining
Cases Tossed
Out Of Court
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presented, not on "theories
Drought in by the defense,"
"1 do nut cluim," ho sulci,
"anything tor tho two girls," nut
he told the jury that such un Im
moral act would bo more apt lo
have been committed with u girl
of this type "than with a daugh
ter of a prominent citizen
agulnst whom there is nothing to
be said."
However, he assorted, coming
to the defense of the girls, theru
has been no word of evidence
that the girls hud been Immoral
or broken any law in Kltimiith
Fulls.
"Who Is here who will stuiul
up and suy anything good about
this defendant," ho asked, mul
"who is hero who will lako the
stand and say anything bad
about these girls?"
Corroboration
Concerning tho discrepancies
In the stories of Miss Gibson it ml
Miss Huff. Kimmel said thut if
there hud been any framing done
there wouldn't have been any
discrepancies, lie concluded by
declaring that every point of
the Gibson girl's story had been
corroborated, except the specific
act itself.
Judge Walker gave the Jury
comprehensive instructions as to
the law and what was admissible
evidence, and the Jury retired to
deliberate.
Bernard took eight exceptions
to the Instructions.
Reservations For
C Of C Meet Should
Be Made At Once
Reservations should be in to
day for the Klamath County
chamber of commerce all-member
Friday dinner meeting to
be held at the Willard hotel at
6:30 p. m.
This is an important forum
meeting anranged by Vernon
Moore, chairman, and his spe
cial committee to make mem
bers acquainted with work of
the organization.
Each committee chairman has
prepared a written report of
activities since May 1, 1045,
which will bo distributed to
members and In addition there
will be oral reports from the
tourist committee by Ed Bell,
aviation committee by.E. G.
Newbill; housing, L. L. Lom
bard, and rates, George P.
Davis.
Missionary Society The
Kalhryn Bcattie Missionary so
ciety of Pcoce Memorial Presby
terian church will meet Friday
at 10:30 a. m., at the home of
Mrs. C. A. Young, 4667 Thomp
son, Just off Hope street In St.
Francis park. There will be
nomination of officers and every
one attending Is asked to bring
sandwiches and table service.
Wednesday. Ttb. I, IMS
HERALD AND NEWS TWt
Two Drowned
In Heavy Sea
ABERDEEN, Wash., Feb, 6 (VP)
Two bodies have been recovered
ami search continued today for
two other members of a four
man crew of n coasl gunrd motor
lifeboat, believed drowned last
night on an errand of mercy in
tho windswept Pacific.
The 30-foot boat, put out from
Ihe North Cove lifeguard station
when a storm, which swept this
area yesterday, reached a wind
velocity of 40 miles an hour, to
hunt for two missing oiie-nuin
crub bouts. Scvurul hours later
the boat, lis crew missing and lis
radio on and Its foghorn blow
ing, wushed ashore at Ocean City
10 miles north of Hoqulnm.
Compromise Bill
Passed By House
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8 (IP)
Th hnilttl tnHni' tia.nrt unl
sent to the senate compromise
legislation declaring mainte
nance of maximum employment
a government responsibility.
The bill was a substitute for
OlA sn.ml If.rt "full mnnlnvmimt"
hill recommended by President
Truman, Chairman Cochran
(DMo.) of the accounts com
mitteo predicted Mr. Truman
will sign It.
Appendix Out Joan Noel, 11-year-old
daughter of Howard
Noel of 45 IB Crosby, had an
emergency operation for the re
moval of her appendix at Hill
side hospital this morning. She
was reported doing nicely.
Recruiter To Talk V
To KUHS Senior Men
Vernon Chllwood, officer Jit
charge with Leonard Caillier n
the navy recruiting station in
Klamath Falls, will talk to high
school senior boys in Klamath
county,
Chllwood will bo In Mulln la
speak lo the students, Friday' nl
2:45 p. in., and In Merrill,
Wednesday, February 13 at 11:11
a, m. at tlin school, lie will ex
plain tho advantages of a high
school education before onlcrliig
the Norvlco.
Sight saving classes have been
established in many cities for
students with serious impairment
of sight.
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FIERY MISERY OF
HOT FLASHES
If the functional "middle-age"
period peculiar to women causes
you to suffer from hot flashes, ner
vous tension, lefltability try fam
ous Lydla Z. Plnkham's Vegetable
Compound to relieve such symptoms.
Plnkham's Compound Is one of the
best known medicines for this nur-
pose. Also a grand stomachic tonic I
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