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Hey Fella, Crater Lake's In Klamath County! :J Wilt U MMK l)IM yUljA fi7ir, '.'fcfri ' n v rr, - - : . lcrf"i ; N Telephone till . , ',''''' ' ' ' ' ' CENTS KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1948 Number 10739 l: ffW MDJETE RMD OPEN JlL-aiwI I -...- r ' , y ' ' . vr ' ' , ' I t 5 Manager Charley Stark of the chamber of oommuci und this map to Illustrate hli point to Don Cram, ConiolldaUd Frelghtwayi agent hart, aftar tha Consolidated people published a "houio organ" with a cover picture of Crater lake and a notation that It ia "near Mediord, Ore." Charley commented that the lake li near Medford, but nearer Klamath Falls, and the surrounding park li entirely within Klamath county. In The Bav'sta By FRANK JENKINS IJHEHIDENT TRUMAN tells press conferaico this mom lull ho hopes to huvo ready In u diiy or no u "formuln" to halt the steel unci other strikes, Ho adds Hint tha "formula under consideration In not COMPLETELY NEW wago-prlcc plmi, out rather one (or meetln, the altuiitlon the nation is fuvvi with now," TT la apparently a compromise Intended to make possible Jilting ( llio price ceiling hero and there so that wages in kry hot spots, such as steel, can be raised enough to get strike settlements.) TTHE President tolls the report-- ors tno wholo question Is one of production. ' If wo net mam production now," he adds, "the situation will adjust Itself, and there will ' then bo no necu lor a new wage prlco formula." AT least, his thinking I sound. Full nroductlon wlir supply tho thlnus we want and need. Tho COMPETITION that in a free Industrial society accom panics full production and an abundance of things will bring prices down. THAT Isn't lust a foncy theory A It actuully worked after tlx Inst war, when we did hnve a relatively free Induslrlnl society I'lvnty of us can remember the mld-20s. when after rcslorn tion of full civilian production prices of automobiles (and other thliiKs) beunn to tumble. This writer rcculls (still a little rue fully, after all these yearn) buy. InK a new car and seeing the price drop J .100 the next weckl HAVING caught us up on what Is being dune in an effort to break tho dangerous Indus- trial deadlock that Is facing us, Ihc President makes a &TAK TLING move. In a statement declaring the world faces a FOOD CRISIS that may bo tho "worst In modern times, he orders gov ernment agencies to draft emer gency rules to CUT consumption of wheat at homo so that MASS STARVATION abroad may be averted. (No ono who has seen postwar Europe with his own eyes can doubt Unit the danger of mass starvation there Is real. Condi lions seem to bo little better in Asia.) THE emergency wheat rules suggested will Include 1. Muro flour (darker In color and coarser In texture; the "war bread" of history) from each bushel of wheat. 2. Forbidding use of wheat (and reduction of use of other grains) in making whiskey and beer. 3. Asking farmers to feed less wheat und other' grains and DIRECTING tho department of ugrlculture to develop programs designed to CUT DOWN produc tion of livestock until grain sup plies occome plentiful again. THUS, again, the Idea of an ECONOMY OF SCARCITY is blasted by the march of events. A few years ago, It looked even to reasonably broad-minded and Intelligent observers like the world was swamped hope lessly in wncai wnn smau nope of EVER getting out from under. Now wo are considering drastic emergency measures to make the dwindling supply of wheat go around, so that whllo people may go hungry they WON'T starvel WHEAT KEEPS. w Wheat put In tombs In tho Pyramids 40 centuries ago has boon found usable when ex humed. Tho wheat wo stored up In tho big surplus years is now coming in extremely handy, , TN tho long pull, the result of A art, economy of scarcity Is simply LACK OF THINGS PEOPLE WANT AND NEED (Continued on I'use 3, Column 0) Truman Says Wage-Price Plan Will Be Ready Soon WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (If) President Truman today fore cast a remedy for tin; big strikes in a day or two. Government officials handling price problems sliniiltiincoiiKly Jumped predic tions on the coming steel price increase to around $5.25 a ton. These were the developments on tho capital's labor front: 1. Mr. Truman told his news conference the imminent new formula will not be a completely new wage-price policy but rather one for meeting tho situation the nation faces now. 2. ClO'a top "strategy committee' of striking union leaders ! met, guve no word of its deci sions. President Philip Murray Frey To Head The Oregonian PORTLAND. Ore, Feb. 7 (IP) Appointment of M. J. Frey to tho general managership of the Oregonian to succeed E. Palmer Hoy l, was announced by the newspaper today. Frey has been business man ager since 11)38, the same your Hoyt was named to tho pub lisher's post he has resigned to become editor and publisher of the Denver Post. Succeeding Frey as business manager Is Arden X. Pangborn, managing director of the news paper's radio station KGW. H. Q. Cox will step up from assist ant manager of KGW to the sta tion managership. Frey, a native of Walhalla, N. D., came to Portland In 1010. Ho went to work for the Ore gonian circulation department in 1813, later was named circula tion promotion manager and in 1934 circulation manager. persons Sought For Jury Duty The county court Is now combing through the lists of Klamath county registered vot ers to choose 500 persons for possible Jury duty during tho coming year, Tho 800 names will bo divid ed equally between Klamath Falls and the remainder of the county, and the names placed In a Jury box. Then In June and December 31 names will be drawn out, seven becoming grand Jurymen and tho remain der going to moke up the regu lar panel for tho term of court. said the strikes steel, General Motors and electrical workers were "gelling along pretty good." Murray prepared to visit tho president later In the day. 3. Officials of two agencies, not quotable by name, told re porters it looked as If some thing like $5.25 or at least around $5, would be added to steel price ceilings to clear the wuy for a steel strjko set tlement. This Is twice OPA's original aim of $2.50. One offi cial said there was "still some strong feeling for $4, but a good chance now it will go higher." Mr. Trumuu told questioners he thought the wage-price plan could bo worked out in a few days, but when asked if It was a "big steel formula," said ho had not heard jf that--4 The president said the whole question Is ono of production. All the people arc aware, he added, of the need for produc tion. If wo get mass production now, he said, the situation will adjust itself. There will be no reason for a new wage-price formula then, he stated. Production Aim He said this (mass) produc tion aim was what the admin istration had laid down from the start. Since the wor ended, he said, the administration has called for all-out production, to meet tho demand that had been pil ing up. He added tho adminis tration's first wage-price formu la (of last fall) would have worked if we had got the pro duction we hoped we were go ing to get. The unsettled labor situation will not prevent his departure Monday for a 10-day vacation in Florida and nearby waters, the president asserted. He said he can still do business by tele phone from his yacht, tho Williamsburg. Highway Crews Fight Heavy Snow Weatherman Predicts Clear Skies For Next 24 Hours A rising barometer, clearing skies and bright sunshine gave truth today to the weatherman's forecast of fair weothcr for the next 24 hours after a winter storm which lashed the Klamath basin yesterday. State highway snow removal crews, battling the heaviest snows In years, succeeded this morning in reopening the Willa mette highway, closed late Wednesday by slides. Close to 10 inches of snow covered the immediate Klamath Falls area as the result of a storm which swept in here at about 7:30 a. m. yesterday. All city schools held classes this morning but In the county, Hen ley schools did not open. Attendance Normal Superintendent Arnold L. Gra lano'a office advised this morn- inn thot attendance was normal in the seven elementary schools in town and the high school at tendance was the same. Buses came through carrying students from outlying districts, without trouble. At Riverside school, perched on a hill high above town, stu dents virtually slid honto as snow drifted into the flights of steps. The streets to tne scjiooi were cleared by city plows early this morning and Principal Dar rcll Potter said attendance was higher than anticipated.' Farmers in the Tulelake areas used modern methods In keeping roads open so their children --uld get to school. They cleared roaos wun nuiiaozers. Snownlows operated by ma rines, kept the- hill road to the Marine Barracks open yesterday and the two plows concentrated on the winding roads on the post where Col. Charles T. Brooks re ported between 10 and 12 inches of new snow this morning. City crews were busy during the day as a warm sun turned much of the snow into slush and water. Workmen cleared the catch basins in anticipation of a heavy run-off. . City equipment was operating on S. 6th this morning. Fresh snow fell throughout the mountain area last night and this morning and the high wind which had hampered clearing of the roads, dropped to normal. six luetics ot new snow on tun mountain of The Dalles-California highway, brought the total to 125 Inches. State highway crews continued sanding on the iiioniinuta on raso i, uoinma si Military Tribunal Hears How Hess Flew To Scotland In 1941 With Proposals To Oust Churchill And Set Up New Cabinet NUERNBERG. Feb. 7 (IP) Tho British government dis closed to the International mili tary tribunal today that Rudolf Hess flew to Scotland In 1941 with proposals to unseat the Churchill government and make peace with a new cabinet which would assure the nazls a free hand In Europe. Hess, a scarecrow flguro In a second hand suit, clutched his hands on tho prisoner's dock rail as a British army officer de manded his punishment as one of the 22 nazl defendants here. Opening the individual prose cution case against the former No. 3 nazl, the British presented reports of interrogations of Hess that were recorded after he para chuted onto a farm near Glas gow. Hess declared he had come to convince Britons that "Hitler would sincerely regret' tho col lopso of tho British empire" and that they, should make nonce be fore It was too late. He sought to show the British that "avaricious Americans" had evil designs on tho empire1 and "uanacia would certainly be in corporated in tho United States." Captured minutes of a conver sation between former Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribben trop and Benito Mussolini in Rome three days after tho flight said Hess had sent a farowell letter to Hitler promising to "uso ureat Britain fascist circles to persuade the British to glvo In." Kiuuentrop told Mussolini. however, that- Hitler became very angry and declared he "would have Hess shot Imme diately if he returned to Ger many." In the . British Interrogations Hess said he had tried in vain to arrange a meeting in Lisbon with the Duke of Hamilton before de ciding to fly to Britain for face-to-face negotiations with the duke. The reports showed Hess made three earlier attempts to fly to Scotland but- was turned back each time by bad weather. The first attempt was made in December, 1940.:' Ho finally was permitted to talk with Hamilton on May 11, the day after he was picked up In a Scottish field with a broken leg. The duke's report on the meeting said: "He asked me if I could get together leading members of my party to talk over things with a view to mak ing pcaco proposals. "He requested me to ask the king to give him a 'parole' as he had come unarmed and of his own. free will." To Ivone A. KlrkDatrlck. Brit- Ish foreign office reprcsentativel who was sent to Identify him, Hess outlined ; tho following peace terms: "1. Gcrmuny should be given a free hand in Europe, "2, England should have . a free hund in tho British emnire except that former German col onies should be returned to Gormnny, . 1 "3. Russia should be Included In Asia, but Germany had. cer tain demands to make of Russia which would have to be satis fied, either by negotiations or as a result of war. There was, however, no truth in rumors that the fuehrer contemplated an early attack on Russia." . - (The nazls attacked Russia on June 22, 1941.) ' "4. The British should evacu ate Iraq. "5. The peace agreement would have to contain a provi sion for reciprocal indemnifica tion of British and German na tionals whose property had been expropriated as a result of the wan "6. The proposal could only be considered on the understanding that it was negotiated by Ger many with an English govern ment other than the present British government. Mr. Chur chill, who had planned war since 1936, and his colleagues, who had lent themselves to his war policy, were not persons with whom the fuehrer would nego tiate." With the reports, the British also made public a statement to parliament on Sept. 22, 1943, by Anthony Eden, then foreign secretary in which he stated: "It was throughout made clear to Hess that there was no question -whatever of any talks or negotiations of any kind tak ing place with Hitler or his gov ernment, Hess has been dealt with as a prisoner of war since his arrival in this country and will so continue to be treated until the end of tho war." ' 4 tMg& vi '"t- '," '' I Klamath's Marine Barracks, which has been suggested or moral possible use now that tha marines plan to move out March 1, has some br and new features as well as buildings and equip ment that have been in use for some time. Here's an inside view of the new post, exchange restaurant, which should come in handy if the post is used as a veterans' set-up or for some other of the suggested purposes. Maintenance of the post on the hill has been kept at a high level. 7 Pass e tigers O f Liner Yukon Unaccounted For After Rescue KETCHIKAN," Alaska. Feb. -7 (P) Seven persons were un accounted for when rescue vessels brought to Seward the last known load of survivors from the wrecked- liner Yukon Four Held In Picket Deaths BLOOMINGTON, 111., Feb. 7 (P) Four guards of the strike bound Toledo.i Peoria and West ern railroad today were charged with murdering two pickets in a shooting fracas yesterday at nearby Gridlcy. . The four guards, all described by Assistant Chief John Ritter of the state highway police as former servicemen,- were listed as follows: Lewis A. Smith, 27, and his brother, Raleigh J. Smith, 23, both of Blandinsville, 111. Ever ett J. Parks, 22, of Canton, 111., and Roy Dailey, 35, of Peoria, 111. Two complaints were signed against each man by Garland F. Brown, Peoria, who said he was chairman of the pickets' com mittee yesterday at Gridley, where two pickets were slain and three others were shot near A. T. P. & W. train. Each guard was charged in separate complaints with "shoot ing and killing" Arthur Brown, 42, of Spring Bay, 111., a former engineer on the road, and Irwin Paschon, 27, of Peoria, a former timekeeper on the line. Arthur Brown is not related to Garland Brown, who signed the com plaints. U. S. Not Behind Rest Of World WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (IP) President Truman made public today a letter from the dean of Canterbury in England, categori cally denying he had ever said that the United States was 100 years behind the rest of the world in everything but religion and 150 years behind in that. : , The president read the letter from Dean Hewlett Johnson at his news conference and called it most interesting. It was under date of January 31. The dean praised : American achievement and said Europe could learn many things from this country. GIRL BORN HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 (IP) A ' girl,, weighing 6 pounds 5 ounces, was born to Deanna Durbln at Cadars of Lebanon hospital just before noon today. Jtellx Jackson,. Mss uurbins husband and the producer of her pictures, said the baby would be named Jessica Louise. last night, and today the crew and passenger lists were being checked and rechecked to learn the names of the missing. All Seward watched the sea for signs of any straggling small craft which might come in with some or all of the seven. The rescuers had found no bodies and had removed the last of the Yukon's crew and passen gers from the grounded, broken vessel and from the nearby shore. When the mercy craft unloaded their last group of sur vivors at Seward and a count was made the coast guard said 465 had been carried to safety. The passengers and crew, ac cording to lists announced by the Alaska Steamship company and the army, numbered 497. The coast guard report from Seward said it was not known as yet whether all the crewmen and passengers listed actually had been aboard when the Yukon sailed Sunday night from Seward, seven hours before she ran aground on the storm beaten rocks in Johnstone bay. The cutter Onondaga, its crew dead tired after more than 48 hours of battle with the sea and snow and wind, messaged late yesterday that all survivors had been rescued and the Yukon abandoned. There had been re ports from rescued passengers and crewmen that casualties had been seen, but none of these could be verified. Three crewmen pulled from the water by a tug after the Yukon broke in two Monday night said they thought several were lost, one man estimating the number at 20 or more. One Sassenger said he had been told iree bodies were recovered. Repeatedly the coast guard's messages from the scene said there were no reports of casual ties from the rescue ships and no bodies had been found. - Last to be taken aboard the Onondaga and the other craft were some 100 persons who had managed to reach the narrow strip of beach beneath a barren, 5000-foot high cliff. A pilot who carried pictures from Anchorage to Seattle yesterday said the tem perature at the disaster scene was near zero and the people on the beach must have been whipped by spray from the tow ering waves. . "How anybody could survive long in that water I don't know," he said. Seward opened its doors to the survivors. Its few taxicabs and private cars rallied at the docks to take the arrivals to hotels and private homes after they were checked by a crew of army doc tors and nurses and Red Cross workers. The steamer Alaska was due early this morning to carry the survivors to Seattle, destination of the ill-fated Yukon Haft In Lumber Exports Asked WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (IP) A halt in lumber exports was asked in the senate today by Senator Knowland (R-Calif.) The Californian said the ci vilian production administration had authorized exports of zz.o, 000.000 board feet during a three-month period, arid assert ed this had been done "at a time when we have a critical shortage of building and con struction material in this coun try." Knowland told the senate lumber interests "cannot be blamed" for the exports because shippers are allowed a price in excess of $7.50 per thousand board feet above domestic quotations. Return To Meai Rationing To Be Called If Necessary WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (IP) President Truman said today he would call for a return to meat rationing if it becomes necessary to prevent 10 to 15 million peo ple from starving to death. The president told his news conference that he thought it would not be necessary to ration meat, that he hoped not. If, however, it becomes neces sary to keep from 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 people abroad from starving, he continued, . he thought the country ought-to do it. He explained that he was vital ly concerned with the prospect of widespread starvation in war torn countries, accentuated - by losses of wheat crops in some countries and other grains else where. He -hopes, he said, that his wheat conservation order yester day may make it possible to ship 6,000,000 tons of wheat abroad during the first six months of this year. Friends and allies during the war, he said, are not to blame for their desperate situation. It would be un-American, he add ed, to permit people in enemy countries to starve. Canada, Australia and other countries with food surpluses are being asked to cooperate, he said, adding he was confident that the American people will cooperate fully by buying less. In no event, he . said in re sponse to a question, will the DeoDle of enemv countries be al lowed a richer diet than those of allied countries. What this country is trying to ao, he said, is take care oi us al lies first. Asked whether there was any hoarding of wheat in this coun try, he said he was not familiar with it if there was. (See also rage n. . ...-. House Votes Measure By za ia inn Legislation Will Meet Stern Opposition In Senate By ULiAln JOHNSON WASHINGTON. Feb. 7 (IP) , The house today passed 257 to loo tne hotiy-disputed Case bill to curb and seek settlements of labor strife. Final action came on a roll call vote, sending the far-reaching strike control legislation to the senate. There, its foes pre dict it will meet tough sledding. Just before the conclusive bal lot, members shouted down a motion by Rep. Baldwin (R-N. Y.) to send tne Din bbck to tne la- The measure, by Rep. Case (R-S. D.), won tentative approv al late yesterday by a 197 to 115 standing count. Clinching Vote But the clinching vote was de layed until today when Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich.) insisted that the lengthy bill be read to th house in its entirety. ; The Case proposal, as it now stands, would: 1. Create a federal mediation board with authority to step in to major laoor disputes and for bid strikes or lockouts for 30 days while it sought to solve them. 2. Permit wide use of court In junctions in enforcing the cool ing off period, preventing vio lence or insuring movement of pensnaoie goods. 3. Provide for . civil ... suits against either labor or manage ment for breaking contracts. 4. Outlaw violence in picket ing by either side. (Violators would be subject to court injunc tions onH in lns rt thai Viartfaln. tag powers). 5. Ban boycotts used to forca disputants to come to terms. Sponsors said this would pre vent many jurisdictional contro versies. (Violators would face loss of their bargaining powers.) 6. Deny employe status to -unions of supervisory workers, un less they do manual productive) labor. ., ... Control Voting -,Case's backers a powerful coalition ' 'ofrtpublIcans and clearly in control of the voting on more than a score of suggest ed modifications and substitutes. Opponents mainly close friends of organized labor fought the plan bitterly. They declared it would strip workers of their rights and promote in dustrial discord. 5 Men Held In Hammer Death EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 7 (IP) Police said five men had been held for questioning in connec tion with the hammer slaying of Bernice Honrath, 20, former ly of Huron, S. D., whose un conscious form, nude from the waist down, was found in a small city park here Tuesday night. ' . Detective Capt. C. E. Jones had a special detail of six men assigned to the case. The girl was beaten on the head and body apparently with a claw hammer, an autopsy dis closed, as she took a short cut Kama fmm , Vi rini-ii mliani f. Y. i worked. She died about five hours later without regaining consciousness. The autopsy re port said she had not been raped. Graua Studies Barracks Use ; A group of representatives of the state and the state higher educational board left here today after a quick survey of the Klam ath Falls Marine Barracks plant, to consider its possible suitabil ity for educational or other state purposes. Klamath Lions club has sug gested the plant might be con verted into a veterans' school for vocational and other training. In the party were Dr. A. L, Strand, president of Oregon state college; ueorge AiKen, state budget director; Dr. E. M. Pallett, executive secretary, Uni versity of Oregon; Dr. J. - F. Cramer, dean, extension service; Charles Byrne, secretary, board of higher education. : . Bulletin WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (IP) : Supporters of the FEPC bill privately conceded defeat today and sensed to a tsriei of oarlia- mentary moves simed at ending a three-weeks filibuster Satur day, i WEATHER (February 7) . Max. (Feb. 6) ..:...32 Min. ..,.29 Precipitation last 24 hour .....I Stream year to date ......9.63 Normal ....7.04 Last year .. .5.5S Forecast! Clear Friday. ..
