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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1946)
OlfUl Ik OlfUl ft M z 'zj: u Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS THIS now wugu-prlco "formula" Hint Ima been slowing on thn Wliltu House stove (or duys and days (nuiyba WEEKS; time cer tainly clues nllp by) seems this iiioriiiiiu to bu ubuut roaciy 10 coma to u boll. Wlilto House Prom Socrolnry noun meets thn renortors nt n press conference, and carefully miyt nothing but HINTS quite u lot. i CETTLEMENT of the steel V," slrlko snd possibly other strikes may bo wrapped up In this wago-prlcc-iormulu packugo, 10 yon cnn see why Washington It no twittered up nbout it.) IT In o, urcnt secret, but we gather from what has leaked out Unit one school or miromi pruts wnntx the orlce lino held whereas another school holds thnt tlui thing to do NOW (slnco tho Industrial situation has been loused up) Is to hoist the price lid lust enough to break the deadlock that has developed, and eo not business going again. Thoro are rumors and rumors one of them to the effect, that OPA Doss Ilnwles Is to bo CI ven tho COMBINED Job of holding prices down and Jacking prociuc lion up, which would bo some, what llko riding two horses no Inn In opposite directions. IT Is obvious that some kind of rubblt has to be pulled out of ! tho hat for thliiKH havo gone co far bv tills time that It some. thliiR Isn't done to improve the strike situation there may bo a lot of NEW FACES In washing. ton lifter the election this foil which, in liwldo political circles, Is regarded as a calamity rank ing alongside unrestricted atomic warfare. BUREAUCRACY, you see, Isn't all beer and skittle. There Is always tho horrid prospect of what will Happen 11 me Bureau crats fall to please tho voting customers. , WITH the Industrial situation bad and getting no better at the moment (thoro Is a inAPiaii siriKo in I'liuuuiTiimiu, making 3.000,000 peoplo WALK TO WORK, which alwayi leaves them hot under the collar) Wash ington Is pouring tho heat on Its nmltl-uitiion-aouur nousing pro gram. . , This housing program l being . pushed hard ai tho. present mo i mem, lor iwo reasons: V 1 Wo all need HOUSES. 2. W a s h 1 n g t o n needs a , COUNTER-IRRITANT. ' WHEN you have toothache, you put a hot water bottle (or, If you're old-fashioned, a bag or hoi sniw agoin.n your men tho hotter the better. The idea is that the HEAT makes you Washington hopes the glitter and the promiso oi mc mum itininn.inllnr hmiftlna nroaram will cause the voters to forgot the industrial anaaiocK snuuuun, wnicn has neon going sou. THE "housing administrator," a Mr. Wilson W. Wyatt, holds a news conference this morning Ho tolls tho reporters that most of the available materials will bo "chutineled" Into houses costing $0000 or less, with pri- oritlcs for cx-servlco men. At tho mnno timo tho "civilian pro- ductlon administration" warns that commercial and Industrial building will bo curtailed DRASTICALLY and explains that If you're planning any building of that sort you'd bet tor havo a care as you may find yourself out on a limb you'll have trouble getting off of. (Noto that ono bureaucrat talks on one side of tho fence whllo another talks on the other side. The idea being that If you get Into a Jam both con oYM PATHIZE with you, but neither f can DO ANYTHING. ) flR. WYATT suggests tho Idea AVi of using aircraft and other t war factories Vfcitx eatens IVELY In tho production of pro. fabricated houses, with tho gov. crnmont guaranteeing a market for tho makers. (Cost plus fixed lee ngtiliiY) Ho thinks congress will sup port even the uoo minion dol lars in SUBSIDIES which nro proposed in order to kid the voter Into thinking ho Is get ting a VERY cheap house. (Wc hopo ho's wrong as to that, for it's high time for us to begfn to ((.nniinufa an i axe iu, uoiumn i Changes In Top Federal Posts Hear Formula For Settling Steel Strike To Be Announced WASHINGTON. Fob. 11 OP) Tho White House suid officially for tho first time today that changes uro In prospect In top administration personnel and In dicated announcement of a for- mulu for settling the steel strike was Imminent. Press Secretary Churlcs C. Ross told a news conference, In roply to questions, that person nel changes "uro in prospect," but he declined to cluborate. Asked whether they had to do with the stabilization high command, ho left It for report ers to use their own phraseol ogy. At tho samo time, Ross said: "When and If a steel settle ment is announced, there will bo a full explanation of all the mathematics entering into It," "On Package" At one point, Ross Indicated that a series of developments might bo wrapped up into "one nuckugc." Reporters got tho Impression ho meant that there was a pos sibility of one stutemont cover ing personnel changes, a steel settlement and a price-wago for mulu. However, Ross did not clear up this point. Ross said tiie announcement would come from tho White Houso. Asked whether such an an nouncement w a a not already prepared, he merely smiled. Asked about a possibility that John C. Collet will retire as economic stabilizer and be suc ceeded by OPA Administrator Chester Bowles with broadened authority over pricing, Ross simply, said there was nothing official yet on any personnel changes. "Any possibility of action on that today?" a reporter asked. He replied In the affirmative. "On personnel changes?" a reporter asked, Rosa said yes. U. S. Opposes Indies Probe LONDON, Feb. 11 (IP) The United States came out tonight against Russia's demand for a United Nations security council Investigation of conditions In the Dutch Eost Indies, orgulng any action at this time might upset Dutch efforts to establish peace in the Islands. Edward R. Stcttlnlus Jr., speaking for the American gov ernment, said he believed Rus sia and the Russian Ukrnlno had not Introduced 'sufficient evi dence to show a "constructive Kurpose" would be served by avlng an Investigation under United Nations auspices. Dmitri Maullsky, foreign com missar of the Ukraine, had told the council it should act to re store peace lest the situation in Indonesia, like the Civil war in Spain, prelude a great war. KF Thermometers Show 17 Above Sub-freezing weather contin ued throughout southern Oregon with additional snow flurries over tho weekend, the Oregon state highway department re ported this morning. Coldest In this area was Sun mountain on Tho Dalles-California highway. It was 5 below there this morning, 2 above on Quartz mountain, 8 above on the Grccnsprings, and 17 above here, according to CAA. New snow fell last night and tho snow stake on Sun mountain registered 125 inches, some of it well packed. All roads wore to havo been sanded by noon, the state highway said. Motorists were warned that roads through out the state were icy and in dangerous condition and caution was urged. Chains wore required on nil Cascade passes and even in the valleys where temperatures were not so low, the highways wore slick and frosty. Telephone Sill ' PRICE FIVE CENTS Mac Calls For Free Travel To Japan For Army Wives WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 OP) General Douglas. MocArthur called on congress today to pro vide transportation to Japan for wives of U. S. military per Fonncl of "all ranks" stationed there, MacArtluir, In a statement In Tokyo, said that he plans to open occupied areas to wives of servicemen about May 1 and that ho "hopes sincerely that cdhgrcss will broaden the base (of pending permissive legisla tion) to include free transporta tion for all ranks." Ho pbintod out thnt living conditions are "not comparable In many ways with those of continental America. "It will represent a type of pioneering reminiscent of the pioneer days of our own west during the 19th contury, but Just as those days developed the best of American woman hood, so it Is believed that wives of our officers and sol diers will wolcomo the oppor tunity to share hardships with their husbands." -, There was no Immediate com ment by the war department on reports from Tokyo that tho de partmcnt was "stalling" on al lowing wives to go to Japan by refusing to sanction housing projects there. Party Rift Seen Over Pauley Tiff Appointment Appeors To Face Defeat In Senate By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 OP) A rift between congressional and national committee demo crats appeared to be developing today over President Truman's controversial nomination of Edwin W. Pauley as undersec retary of the navy. Administration supporters on Capitol hill complained in orl- vuto conversations with report ers that they had not been con sulted about Mr. Truman's final decision to submit Pauley's nume. They said further they hod not been asked for their views before the president made it plain he did not plun to with draw Pauley's appointment de spite indications that it faces almost certain defeat in the sen ate. Little Chance On the other hand, National Chairman Robert E. Hanncgun and his associates on the demo cratic notional committee wcro quoted by some persons to whom they had talked as say. lug the administration leader ship in the senate had done lit tle to advance Pauley's chances for confirmation. Significantly, administration lieutenants said they had made no poll of senate sentiment on the appointment but -were cer tain after a cross check that there is lltlo hope of obtaining a favorable vote. Ordinarily when the issue is close, polls are made and pressure is brought to b ea r" on senatqrs Homes To Cost Around $6000 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 fP) Housing Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt said today most of the building -materials set aside for nouses win De cnanneica into homes costing $6000 and under, Wvatt. heading for a now- wow with congressional leaders on the big homcs-for-vcterans program, told a news conference he had "every indication of coop- oration from bi-partisan groups In both houses of congress." The favorable signs, he said, Indicate house and senate sup port even for the controversial plan for $600,000,000 in sub sidies or "premium payments" to producers or nuuaing supplies, The housing chief said he ex pectcd aircraft factories and other unused war plants to be used "very extensively" In mass Rroductlon of pre - fabricated omes, with the government guaranteeing a market for the makers. Shier Building Bought By Schuss Purchase of the two -story brick and tilo building at 115- 117 South Seventh, formerly known as the Slater building, was announced today by Charles Schuss, local business man who plans to establish a large retail wine establishment on me low er floor of the structure. The building,' which was sold to Schuss bv Dr. R. W. Stearns, now houses tho Virginia apart ments upstairs, and the Cum mlngs Fur shop and the Uptown Cleaners on the street noor. xne fur shop is to : move March 1 and the cleaners April 1, clear ing tho way for a remodeling program and establishment of tho wine store by Schuss. Con sideration is the. deal was not announced. Schuss said ' he will vacate 822 Main street, which he now. occupies with a wine business, and that Dave Hornsteln, Port land, operator of clothing stores on both sides of this space, is expected to take it over. Retail Stores Open Tomorrow In observance of ' Lincoln's birthday tomorrow, banks, city and county offices, and the state liquor store will bo closed. The post office, libraries and retail stores will open as usual. Schools will not be closed al though many will have special programs. . Number 10742 Plane With Nose In Lake ' ' """" C 1 i i ' J. ' "j iH ill Tm ilW ' ' I G Q tot I llife o 5 Survive Ice Landing; Plane Sinks Craft Forced Down On Upper Klamath Lake Sunday Morning A twin-motored plane made a forced landing on Upper Klam ath lake ice Sunday morning, and the pilot and four passengers ciamDered to saieiy as tne neavy plane cracked the ice and sank to the bottom of the lake. After trouble developed in the right motor 50 miles north. Pilot Dan Frink made a desperate ef fort to bring the plane into the Klamath airport, but the motor went out over the lake and he was forced to attempt the ice landing about 11:10 a. m. The Cessna plane skidded about a quarter of a mile onto thin ice just off Sucker springs, near Barclay springs. 15 miles north of town. As it came to a stop, the ice cracked and the craft submerged. Help Survivors The passengers, who had kicked the safety catch to re lease a door, came through the opening onto the ice. E. O. Fos ter, 629 Jefferson, who was fish ing in open water a short dis tance away, pushed a plank across the ice to help the sur vivors reach shore. -. Mrs. Frink, wife of the pilot, bruised her legs when she walked out on the wing of the plane and motion of the plane knocked her against the ice. Other members of the party were Claude Odell, Clyde Win chester and William Koltsch, all of Portland,' and all licensed pi lots bound for Phoenix, Ariz., to pick up army planes they plan ned to ferry to Portland. , The plane was about 200 feet " Passersby picked up the plane passengers and brought them to the Winema hotel. Other mem bers of the party warmly praised the work of Frink, an ex-B-29 pilot, in bringing the crippled ship to a landing. Had the plane not encountered tne tnin ice near the open water off the springs, it probably would have been undamaged and might have been repaired for a take-off from the lake surface. It is still in the lake, with only the tail protruding above the surface. What' will be done to salvage it was not certain today. tTink s home is at Vancouver, Wash., and the plane was char tered for the Phoenix trip. The Portland men are business men of that city. They planned to go on to Phoenix by other trans portation. . . Blast Fatal To Two Men SALEM, Ore., Feb. 11 (iP) An explosion and fire in a Port land General Electric company sub-station here yesterday were fatal to two power house work ers. , W. M: Hamilton, Salem plant superintendent, reported Lyle L. Davis and Alvin C. Steinke died in the hospital after injury in a blast in the control room of the plant. He said cause had not been determined. Both men are survived by their widows and each was the father of two children. miff Dmi CIO. AAersi PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 11 VP) A strike paralysing transit facilities for 3,000,000 persons today threw Philadelphia Into what Police Commissioner Herbert Kitchtnman described at the biggest traffic jam In Its history. Trolleys, buses, subway and elevated trains and trackless trolleys were idle in the strike of 9659 employes of the Phila delphia Transportation company. The workers, members of the CIO Transport Workers union, walked out last midnight in support of wage demands. While some city residents were fortunate enough to find rides in automobiles, thousands of other persons sought meana of getting to work. Suburbanites flocked to railroad stations. Kitchtnman said the thousands of automobiles Jamming . downtown Philadelphia streets made many sections almost lm. passable for as much as an hour - at a time. Another police official esti mated 50,000 cars swept into a downtown Philadelphia area which normally accommodates about 5000. Downtown parking regula tions were relaxed to provide for the tremendous traffic. In clear, crisp weather, hosts of policemen handled the thou sands of cars. Residents of out lying areas said it took an hour and a-half to drive what was normally a 20-minute trip. Picketed Carbarns Stalled in picketed carbarns were 3628 trolley cars, buses, subway and elevated trains and trackless trolleys. , The strike began at one min ute after midnight, but some of the transit workers headed for carbarns as early as 9 p. m. last night Local 234, Transport Workers Union of America (CIO), ordered the strike upon collapse of ne gotiations for a 25-cents-an-hour wage increase and 27 other de mands. The company offered a 12-cent boost. Failing in last minute peace making efforts, Howard T. Col vin, assistant director of the U. S. conciliation service, said he would hold conferences with PTC and union representatives "until .a settlement is reached." Hearings Set On Case Bill WASHINGTON", Feb. 11 JP)- The senate labor, committee de cided today to delay action upon strike control legislation until it' has conducted public hearings on the Case bill passed by the house. - ' Chairman Murray (D-Mont.) announced the full committee would meet in closed sessinn Thursday to decide upon hearing procedure on tne nouse-approved measure. "We will have to have addi tional hearings because there are a lot of matters in this Case bill that are not covered in our hear ings," Murray told his commit tee. Court Refuses Homma Petitions WARHTNnTnW Tah 11 ISK The supreme court refused today hj intervene in manna proceed ines in whir-V, .Tnnnnoco T.t Clan. era! Masaharu Homma was con victed as a war criminal and sentenced to be shot. - Homma sent petitions by air mail from Manila asking the high. court to take him out of the hands of the military. He also asked review of the refusal by thf Phllinninfie cimrnm. ,nnrt in grant him a writ of habeas cor pus.. ioee aiso page TugboatMen This striking picture was taken by Wes Guderian, Herald and News photographer, this morning, showing the tail of a twin motored plane protruding from Upper Klamath lake ice, through which it broke after a forced landing yesterday. Five occupants escaped unharmed. Guderian's shot through a Southern Pacific rock guard lends an artistic touch to a spectacular sight that brought many inquiries from passing motorists and train travel rs today. "Electricity Killed The Cat" Curio si ty and electricity killed a valuable Siamese cat owned by Capt. and Mrs. George Corcoran of the Marine Barracks. The cat was in the Corcoran home at the Marine Barracks last night when the family went put. . . Upon returning, Capt. Cor coran foui.d the cat lying dead in the livirig room beside a wire extending from a wall plug to the radio. The cat had sunk its teeth through the insulation on the wire, making contact with the live wire which electrocut ed it. '. Capt. Corcoran, Marine Bar racks quartermaster, received the cat from Capt. George Lewis, his predecessor, and the family had grown attached to the lively year-old animal. The captain said today he is anxious to find another Siamese kitten to replace the electrocuted cat in the affections of. the Cor coran boy and girl, 'Snafu' Turns Over New Leaf MEDFORD, Feb. 11 (JP) The army-style cussing of "Snafu" has given way to snatches of hymns learned in sabbath day services held at the city jail here so the Biak island parrot has been paroled to the fire de partment. . The bird, jailed , after neigh bors of Lt. Hugh Collins com plained of his nrofane vocabu lary, now is perched in the room with Medfora s tire engines. Col lins said the bird learned to swear during the island cam paigns.. ... Stabbing Victim Said Improved Lola Gallagher, 22-year-old Klamath Indian woman who suffered a deep stab wound in the abdomen Saturday morn ing, was reported improving at Hillside nospitai wnere sne un derwent major ; surgery that day. In the meantime, Osborn "Beegie" Ball, Klamath Indian, was transferred from the Chilo quin city jail to the Klamath county jail here and Special Indian Officer John Arkell said today that he would file a charge of assault with intent to kill against Ball before U. S. Commissioner Bert C. Thomas. Ball was originally held on a drunk charge. ' Arriving In United States James E. Bushong, Sgt Klamath Falls, arrived on Cape Victory due in Seattle February 10. . Kenneth L. Brondel. Sgt., Klamath - Falls, arrived on Mexico Victory due in New York February 9. : Will Accept Arbitration s.w vnpir vah 11 ,'m Striking tugboat workers in New York harbor voted at a mast meeting today to accept arbitra- b-uu ui ki levuiices wnicn tea to their week-old walkout. Capt. William Bradley, presi dent Af lni.nl n4 ilia ..nti-il marine division of the AFL In ternational ixmgshoremen s asso ciation, told 1500 rank and file members they would be advised back to work." The strikers voted on an agree ment reached yesterday by com mittees rpnrpwnfid. tVio . tinnM and the tugboat companies af- icvieu. me owners met simul taneously to act on the agree ment but had reached no deci sion when they adjourned for lunch. . The agreement provides: 1. That the 3500 tugmen re turn to work immediately upon the signing of an arbitration agreement. 2. The wage agreement that may result from the arbitration would be retroactive to January 1, when the former agreement was terminated. . . .. ; 3. The government selzur order would be lifted after both sides accepted arbitration. Sailor Killed In Wild Chase SALEM Poh 11 run " a Camp Adair naval hospital saiiur, xiooerc neatn, was bailed; last night in an automobile ac cident after he crashed a stolen car during a wild police chase on the Pacific highway near Chemawa, six miles north' of -here.- i . '.; Heath and Frederick Lindsay, another sailor, were driving a car which had been stolen from Irvin Weathers, Grand Ronde, city police said. The officer chased them, the sailors crash ing into a car driven by Arthur C. Wilson of Salem.. Lindsay was in a hospital to day, while Mrs.- Wilson was slightly injured. i Lindsay's condition could not be learned. The home towns of the sailors were unavailable. V Weather " February 11. 1946 ' Max. (Feb. 10) ...30 Min 17 Precipitation last 24 hours 04 Stream year to date ...9.65 Normal ....7.33 Last year ...6.05 Forecast: Clearing Tuesday. 4 ChUdren Die ln Blaze; 78 Lives Claimed By Fires By The Associated. Press The deaths of four children early today in a flaming house at Spokane brought to at least 16 the number of persons who lost their lives in weekend fires throughout the nation. The children, ranging in ages from three to seven, were trap ped in upstairs bedrooms of their frame home in Spokane's foothills district. Their, mother, Mrs. George L o c h e r, was in jured but another child, 18 months old, was rescued un harmed. The fire ' was believed to have started from an over heated stove. Seven elderly men, all but one lumberjacks, perished yes terday in a blaze that swept a three-story frame building at Marquette, Mich. Police Chief Don McCormick said the fire Marquette's worst disaster ap parently started when a roomer fell asleep in bed with a lighted cigarette. ' At Tallman, N. Y., six elderly women were burned fatally when flames destroyed the cen tral interior of the three-story Pinehurst Convalescent home. Ten other Inmates were injured. Cause of the blaze was not im mediately determined. , Mrs. Harold Davis, 31-year-old mother, lost her life in a fire at her Mason City, la., home yes terday after guiding her five children to safety. At San Francisco, flames en veloped' the roof of the Greek Hplflnie,. Annstnlle ehureh Inst as the minister, the Rev, Nicho las A. Tounger, had completed a sermon on fire prevention. Dam age was estimated at approxi mately $5000. The 64-year-old Methodist church of Newfield, N. Y waa destroyed by flames last night, marking the second time in less than, a month', that the pastor, the Rev. Wayne Archer, had lost a church by fire. He formerly was pastor of the Trumbull's Corner church which . burned Jan. 20. . The roof of the First Presby terian church in Kansas City wai destroyed, by a Sunday morning fire that caused a loss estimated at $25,000, . '; 4 , At C 1 I n t o ni" Mo fire swept through the big Bush Chicken Hatchery- yesterday, destroying 50,000 baby chicks and more than half a million incubator eggs. Damage was estimated at $500,000. ; . V '.
