Price Controls Will Be
Eased Without Clamping
Stringent Lid On Wages
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 lP)
A high government official pre
dicted today President Truman's
new wage-price policy aimed at
restoring industrial peace will
case price controls without
clamping a rigid lid on wages.
The formula, subject of day
and night White House confer
ences, reportedly is "just about
set." But the official, who could
not be quoted by name, expressed
some uncertainty as to the reac
tion it will receive from labor
and Industry particularly la
bor unless further revisions are
made.
Part of the pressure for a quick
decision on the long pending is
sue apparently stems from a
purported refusal by Stabiliza
tion Administrator John (J, Col
let to approve higher steel prices
In the absence of the authority
the new wage-price policy would
give him.
A top-ranking federal execu
tive, regarded as a key figure
in the national economic pic
ture, said Collet will approve the
; steel price boost as soon as Mr.
Truman Issues the formal back
ing. The stabilization chief argued
with other White House aides,
this official said, that the legal
ity of the increase could be ques
tioned unless it were preceded
by a formula which could be ap
plied to industry generally.
The official added that the
administration is certain the
steel hike, reportedly around $5
a ton, will permit the industry to
boost wages and send some 750,
000 striking CIO Steel Workers
back to their jobs at 18$ cents
more an hour.
The decision against a flat per
centage ceiling on wages was
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made yesterday, it was learned
thus removing one of the prime
obstacles to settlement of the
wage-price policy debate.
As an alternative to a firm
limit, one of the conferees diS'
closed, Mr. Truman's economic
advisers were considering a re
turn to machinery comparable to
that of the old war labor board
and available now in the nation
al wage stabilization board.
W. Willard Wirtz, WSB chair
man, was called into the wage
price parleys yesterday'
Both the AFL, and the CIO
have registered opposition to
any fixed wage limit and also
have indicated opposition to a
return to war labor board prac
tices. On this basis, it was held
possible that some further modi'
fication of present thinking
might be written into the policy.
Planes Hunt
Student Pilot
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 Navy
and private planes have been
searching the area between Cen-
tralia and Portland since Satur
day for RM 1c W. N. Todd,
student pilot, who is missing
on a flight to North Bend, Ore.
The navy, in reporting the
search, said Todd was to have
put in at Troutdale airport to
refuel, but failed to arrive
there. He was on a two-day lib
erty and was flying a rented,
red Taylorcraft plane.
Owners of the aircraft said
they hoped Todd had been able
to land at some farm in the re
gion. Search will be concentrated
today in the foothills of Mt. St.
Helens east of Kelso.
Snowslide Kills
72-Year-Old Woman
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (JP) A 72-year-old
woman, Mrs. Juliette
Wright, was killed yesterday
when snow slid from her roof and
engulfed her as she was sweep
ing the walk of her home at Mil
ler River, west of Skykomish,
Wash.
The King county coroner's of
fice, in reporting the accident,
said neighbors discovered her
body, and said forest rangers in
the area reported two feet of
snow on community roofs-
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mist to infections of nose, throat and lungs.
(Asthma, Bronchitis, Colds, Sinusitis,
Hay Fever, Etc.)
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Phone 553S
Far West Goes
On Hitting New
Spending Marks
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13
W) The far west goes on hit
ting new high spending records
in spite of all the agonies of re
conversion. Neither strikes, nor shortages
of materials for manufacturers,
nor lack of many lines of mer
chandise seems able to halt the
rise.
Proof of the spending speed
came today from the federal re
serve bank of San Francisco. It
issued bare figures on bank
debits, or spending of bank de
posits by check. The checks for
31 western cities ran up to $77,
769 million in January. That
was the biggest figure for any
January, the third biggest
month in western history, and
virtually 10 cents on the dollar
higher than the previous J mili
ary record set a year ago.
Death Takes
Peter Reinero
Peter Reinero, 78. a long-time
resident of Klamath Falls, passed
away this morning following a
lengthy illness at the home of
his daughter. Mrs. Edward Kahl
of 714 N. 10th.
He was born in Marmora.
Italy, February ,17. 1867, and
came to the United States in
1896. He and his family made
their home in Mt. Shasta, Calif.,
where Mrs. Reinero died in 1921.
Late that year he came to Klam
ath Falls and has lived here
since that time.
Reinero operated the Belmont
grocery on Oregon avenue until
he suffered a paralytic stroke
six years ago. For the past five
years he has made his home with
his eldest daughter.
He is survived by two broth
ers, Phillip Reinero of Merced,
Calif., and Ben Reinero of San
ger. Calif.; one sister. Mrs. M.
Andrei's of Clovis, Calif.; one son,
Robert Reinero of Tulsa. Okla.:
three daughters. Mrs. Edward
Kahl and Mrs. Virgil Tuter of
ruamatn rails, and Mrs. Rohert
Anglin of Empire, Ore.; eight
grandchildren and four great
grandchildren. Funeral services
will be announced later by
Ward's. .
78 Die In Two
Plane Crashes
LONDON. Feb. 13 (JP At
least 18 persons died today when
an RAF flying boat fell into the
sea off the south English coast
and a Canadian army transport
craft crashed into a ridge of the
surrey mils south ot London.
Two British officers and eight
men were killed in the crash of
the Sunderland flying boat,
which exploded after falling off
Lee-on-Solent. Fire boats fought
the flames four hours.
At least eight of 24 passengers
on the Canadian plane were
killed. Thirteen were injured
and the fate of three was not
determined. The transport was
en route from Buckleburg, Germany.
British Bride Of Klamath
Man To Arrive In New York
Joyce Lucy Putty, English
bride of Thomas E. Putty, Her
ald and News engraver, is due
in New York February 18.
Patty mot the former Miss
Woodbridge while ho was sta
tioned in England with the arm-
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O'Neill Asks
Reduction Of
Murder Count
(Continued from Page One)
mers 'make a threatening mo
tion at Todd with a sap, he tes
tified. Odell Olson, police officer who
arrested Todd, testified that the
railroad policeman was standing
outside the office when he ar
rived, and Simmers was dead on
the floor inside.
Todd told him, Olson said, that
Simmers had started to swing at
him with the sap. Todd was ner
vous and almost hysterical when
arrested, Olson said.
Justice of the Peace J. A. Ma
honey heard the testimony and
O'Neill's motion that the charge
be reduced to manslaughter and
postponed a decision until to
morrow morning at 10:30.
It is estimated there are from
three to six million hay fever
sufferers in the United States.
After tho accident or fir
you will want the but policy
possible. Se or call Hans Nor
land. 123 N. 6th St., phone
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Police Arrest
Yank Traitor
VIENNA, Feb. 13 (fl') Robert
Best, former American . news
paper correspondent In Vienna
who was indicted for treason on
charges of broadcasting mi.l
propaganda, has been arrested
by British security police at Vil
lach, Austria, an intelligence of
ficer said today.
The officer added that Best
was to be turned over to Amer
ican authorities. Best was being
lx-ui incommunicuao.
Intelligence officers In Vienna
said the state department would
determine just what would be
done in his case, but it was as
sumed he would be returned to
the united btales to answer
charges aguinst him as in the
ease of Ezra Pound, the expatri
ate poet who was arrested in
Italy.
Divorce Granted
To Sonja Henie
CHICAGO. Feb. 13 VP) Sonja
Henie. ice skating motion pic
ture star, who testified her hus
band told her to "go your way
and I'll go mine," was granted
a divorce today from Dan Top
ping, weaitny new xork sports
man. They were married here July
4, 1940 and she testified they
separated January 11, 1945. They
had no children. Miss Henie
said a property settlement had
been arranged and she waived
all other rights, asking restora
tion of her maiden name.
Russians Tell
Of Naii Torture
NUERNBERG. Feb. 13 UP)
A vast record of. human suffer
ing was unfolded by the Soviet
prosecution during a five-hour
recital to the international mili
tary tribunal today in which
millions of red army soldiers
were declared to have died un
der nazi torture.
The Russians said shiploads
of naked living men were towed
out into the Baltic and dumped
overboard, that other thousands
were driven into buildings
which were then set afire and
that thousands succumbed to a
forced diet of sawdust,
Fresno Man Draws
Two-Year Sentence
ROSEBURG, Ore., Feb. 13 (P)
Charles Lawrence Shaw, 32,
Fresno, Calif., was sentenced to
not more than two years in the
state penitentiary yesterday by
Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly,
on the charge of unlawful pos
session of morphine. After plead
ing miiltv on the district attor
ney's information, Shaw waived
his pre-sentence rigni 01 two
days' delay.
ed forces. She was lit tho ATS
uiul ho met her on his second
leuvo in Reading Berkshire, Wo-
vcinoer lb, l!M.
They were married In St.
Mary's church, March 2S, 1944,
nnd he was sent to France In
August, returning to England in
December Just before lie was
sent home. Patty was released
from the army in September anil
came to work fur the Herald
nnd News in October. He work
ed as a carrier boy tor tho paper
u number of yours ago.
Mrs. Putty has ono brother and
four sisters. Her homo was In
Amcrsham. England. She is ar
riving on the Santa Paula with
597 brides ami children of Amer
ican servicemen.
Pact Sought
For Foundries
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (IP)
Foundry workers and employ
ers sought to avert a strike of
3000 workers, scheduled for
Thursday morning, as seven
meetings were in session last
night in western Wushlugton
and Oregon.
Representatives of the 79
foundries met in Scuttle and
members of the Foundry Work
ers and'.Molders union held
meetings here and at Portland,
Tacoma, Belllngham, Everett
and Sedro-Woolley. Before them
was a proposal which came
from a 14-hour meeting of op
erators and union leaders last
Saturday.
The union is seeking wage
Increase.
Search Launched
For 'Rochester'
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 13
(P) The coast guard dispatched
a search plane and a patrol boat
today to look for Eddie Ander
son, the Rochester of Jack Ben
ny's radio program, who has not
been heard from since he left
Wilmington, Calif., at noon yes
terday in his 36-foot yacht for
Catallna Island.
Empress Nagako
"Real Human"
. TOKYO, Feb. 13 P) Empress
Nagako talked Informally today
with 50 normal (high) school
girls who were "surprised to
find her real human. We al
ways regarded the empress as a
mythical figure."
The girl volunteers were clean
ing up around a burned building
in the Imperial Palace grounds
when the empress appeared. She
startled the girls by Inquiring
about their food and living con
ditions. '
The awed students kept their
eyes to the ground.
Indian Riots
Take 22 Lives
CALCUTTA, Fob. 13 Ml
One tlioufiind American troops
on leave were evacuated toduy
from strife-torn Calcutta after
IB U. S. soldiers hud been In
jured in aiiti-Urltlli riots which
continued for tho third day.
At least 22 persons, none of
them Amvrlcans, have been
killed and more than 200 injured
in tho clashes.
Wednesday. Ftp. 13, 1848
Women Requested
To Attend Tea
All women of tho oily uro urgud
to attend tho annual Doom
beclirr benefit bridge party and
tea which will bo given Satin
dav at 1:30 p. in. In thn Wll
luril hotel under the auspices
of lite Klainuth Fulls Woman's
Library club.
Mrs. Walter lirown Is chulr-
CALCUTTA, Fob. 13 (l'l
British troops quieted rioting
Hindus and Moslems In Calcutta
toduy as tho city's second mil
breii k of destruction within two
nnd a half mouths subsided
after taking u toll of nt least
22 dead and more thnn 200 in
jured. The soldiers were In con
trol of the city.
The troops were called In
Inst night after R. G. Casey,
governor of Bengal, declared in
a broadcast "tho situation ia
such that I have asked tho army
to come to the assistance of the
civil power in order thnt order
may be restored In Calcutta as
quickly as possible."
(Earlier Associated Press dis
patches erroneously Interpreted
Casey's statement as a declara
tion of martial law).
Muny of tho city's shopping
districts today were scenes of
destruction. Tho transportation
system remained paralyzed, but
a few ricksha boys were reap-1
pc-nrlng.
Business establishments and 1
homes of Europeans bore the
brunt of the rioters' attack. j
Tlx rioting was In protest
against tho seven-year sentence
passed on an officer of the 1
Japanese-sponsored "Indian nu-1
tional army."
NOT SPEAKING 1
HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 13 P)
John Decker, artist friend of the
lute John Burrymore, Is not on 1
speaking terms with his pet par-1
rot today. !
As Decker was exhibiting the
bird to friends, it uttered a j
squawk and sank its beak Into
his nose, narrowly missing his j
eye. His doctor said today Deck
er was lucky not 10 nave lost
the optic.
OBITUARY
MYRON WILLIS HtVAt
Myron Willis McVay rwatdant of
Klamath Fall. Or., for th laal JO
yMn, uiMd away In thU city on Wad
n.wlfly. rebruary 13, IMA. at U a, m.
following an Ulna ot thr daya, Mt
waa a native or Horn brook. Calif., and
at tht timt ot hla daalh waa ad S3
ear S month and 14 days. Surviving
art hH wlft. Mr PmH McVay and one
on, Myron .Willi McVay Jr., of thin
city: two brother-. Hobtrt of Tacoma,
Wash, and I -on of ValUJo. Calif.: on
alitor, Mrs. A I let Seaman of Mtdford,
On. Mr. McVay wa a mtmbtr of
KeUo lodo No. M AT. AM . Mlll-h
Tempi of Aahland. Ort . and Klamath
Conalatnrv. Tha ramalni rat In lh
Earl WhltlocJc funaral Horn. Pint at
Sixth. Notte of funaral to bt an
nounced Thursday.
FUNERAL
rxrn nrtsvr.
Funeral strvlcea for tht latt Fred
Spencer who paued away In thta city
on Saturday. February 0. 1044. following
an lllntaa of four day. ware hold In the
rhanel of th Earl Whltlork Funeral
Koine. Pin at Sixth, on Wtdneaday.
February 13. 1U4A at 10 a. m. Commit
ment service and Interment followed
In Ktno cemetery.
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