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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."
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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. ..