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Newspaper Page TextINDIANS . II 9 jn ffl DavsW By FRANK JENKINS IVIIAT to do with OPA Is one " of tho burning Issues In Washington. Tlia administration wants Biieo control extended WITH UT STltlNCiS. Bowies' asslst- it (a man mimed Zauns Potter) puts tho official vluwpolnt In this wiiy: "If tho OPA net Is extended, wo enn DECONTROL OUR SELVES out of existence moy bo by 1047, on everything but rent' rN tho oilier sldo of tho fence, there is n urowhm suspicion tliut mi Inside group of theorists would una to retain prico con trol Indefinitely as a tool with which to shapo n planned economy in America, 'T'llE danger at tho present lliumciu in mill uvcryootiy j.. WANTS THINGS (and apparent ; Iy has tho money to pay for 1 them) at a time when thcro 'aren't things enough to go around, This danger Is so real that OPA will probably bo extended beyond Juno 30. when It is duo to cxpiro if nothing is done. MEANWHILE Republicans in congress ore talking of a DEFINITE FORMULA for end ing price ceilings. They are mulling theso two points: 1. Redefine OPA s powers In such u way as to prevent their una to control tho' nation's economy. 2. Removo colllngs in each in dustry as iind when Its produc tion reaches 73 per cent of normal, nrllE fact that Republicans In congress uro considering ANY sort of definite POSITIVE pro gram is interesting, and perhaps significant. So far the Republican party has been PURELY NEGATIVE. I, i... i i i i ...... i ji iiiin ti iiu.-is.i-u tutu cuuipiiiiiiiru, but has offered no constructive plan of its own. IN Bombny today, there are ANTI-AMERICAN demonstra lions. A mob of Indians (meaning people who live in India), in cluding number of persons wearing the uniform of the Royal Indian navy, tears a U. S. flag down from above one of our government offices and BURNS IT In Iho street. The motives back of the flag- burning - Incident aro unclear from tho dispatches, but .spokesman for tho mob said to group of American corres pondents: "This Is not an antl-Amcrlcan demonstration. It Is anti-British. But the Americans should get out of India too. What right have you here when you ore not Indian?" WHAT hits us with a jolt Is " the obvious fact thai Amer ica's reputation Is not what It ONCE WAS throughout the world. In Bombay, apparently, thcro are people who look upon lis as UPHOLDERS OF OP PRESSION. There was a tlmo when Amer ica stood forth as the FOE of oppression. nnUF.QF. nrn ni-lmlltnillv llrNuli times. The world Is filled with fear and hatred. As ONE OF THE VICTORS. America is naturally under suspicion. Main taining our historic reputation unsullied, under such conditions, is a task of staggering pro portions, calling for leadership of almost superhuman excel lence.. But, in Incident after Incident, It has seemed to this insignif icant writer that our foreign policy ling FAILED to dramatize to the world the genuine good will of tho ' American people toward other peoples. If that Is true, the failure Is a tragedy, SPEAKING of dramatic In cidents, tho dispatches pic ture one for us today. HIROIIITO comes forth from 1. 1 . , l lir T c Jim puiucu mill vrifYO II111UI1H the pcoplo of Tokyo, pausing re peatedly among working men at their benches for a few brief words. Duana Honnessy, AP corrcs- fiondent, comments: "It wasn't Ike prcwor days, when every one was cleared' from upper floors of buildings so they could not look down on the descendant of the sun goddess." Hirohlto is smort. Ho knows how to udnpt himself to now ways. NEW Attempt To Read Wire Not Allowed Walsh Says Telegram Pertained To Fund Solicitations By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (IP) The senate naval committee cut off abruptly today an attempt by Senator Tobey (R-N.H.) to rcud a toiogram from on airlines president which Chairman Walsh (D-Mass.) said pertained to demo cratic campaign fund solicita tions, Tho committee Informally sus tained Walsh's refusal to hear the telegram from W. A. Patter son, United Airlines president, to Tobey after Tobcy had taken the unusual step of being sworn as a witness. Wulsh said the group ought to hear direct from Patterson, who has been called as a witness. Tobey sought to read the com munication after Senator Brew ster (R-Mc.) had asked Edwin W. Pauley, President Trumun's nom inco for undersecretary of tho navy, a series of questions about tho ethics of soliciting corpora tion officials for funds. Query Brewster asked Pauley wheth er ho thought it would have been proper for him or Gcorga KII llon, now national democratic treasurer, to suggest to a corpor ation applying for a government franchise "that it contribute $35, 000 through tho medium of its officers." "No such thing occurred," re plied Pauley, who formerly serv ed as democratic national treasurer. Pauley testified, in response to questions, that Kllllon hud told him lust night that he, Pau ley, had talked to Patterson on tho telephone from New York during the 1044 campaign. He had no previous recollection of the conversation, Pauley said. No Suggestion Ho said ho did not suggest to Patterson that contributions be mude by corporation olllccra.. ., At this point, Tobey demand ed to be sworn os a witness and then testified he had talked re cently to Potterson in Denver and tho airlines president nad confirmed a report that Tobey had received previously. When he started to read the telegram which he said Patter son had sent him in further con firmation, Walsh halted him. Wage Boosts Get Approval WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (IP) Tho national wage stabilization board today ordered automatic approval, lor price reuci pur poses, of all wage Increases "low. fully made" before tho new wage-prlco policy was announced. In a blanket authorization, de- .signed to clear the board s dock et lor an expected rusn oi new wugo approval applications, the agency directed Its 12 regional boards to clear out most of 660 cases on fllo prior to February 14. - The employers Involved now may bypass the stabilization board and appeal directly to OPA for price Increases. Wage cases included, under to day s order were inose wnicn, under the wage-price policy, were "heretofore lawfully made, or mode in accordance with a government recommendation. . ." The shinbulldlne stabilization conference, reviewing wages for that industry since early Decem ber, recommended the Increases for unnroxlmotely 450.000 work ers. Management dissented, but CIO-Marlne and Shipbuilding Workers and AFL-Motal Trades department members approved the amount.' Almost simultaneously a fed eral fact-finding board recom mended tno same m-cent nine for 30,000 CIO-Farm Equipment Workers on strike ot 10 Interna tional Harvester company plants since January 21. T" Arms Believed To Be Those Of Degnan Girl Discovered CHICAGO. Feb. 19 (JP) Coroner A. L. Brodlo reported the arms of a child found today in a north side alley sewer "positively" were thoso of the kidnaped, slain and dismem bered Susanna Dognan, 6. CHICAGO, Fob 19 (I1) The arms from the body M a young girl believed to be Suzanne Deg nan, 6, kidnaped, killed and dis membered on January 7, were found today in a manhole three blocks from tho Degnan homo. All other ports of the little glnl's body wore recovered tho night of tho kidnaping In four sower' catch basins within two blocks of tho residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Degnan, at S043 Kcnmore ave nue. Tho arms found today were located by Commonwealth Edi son company workmen in a man hole In North Broadway, 100 foot north of Hollywood avenue. Workmen reported tho discov ery to the detective bureau. They wore searching an underground electric service conduit for a power leakage when they made their gruesome find. . Tho kidnaper of Suzanne, who left n $20,000 ransom note, has eluded a search that included all tho top officials of the city's law enforcement agencies, plus tho scientific aid of the FBI lab oratories in Washington, . stms str ON SHE . EVIDENCE CUT OFF M . N ire I ttpm mm $tp$ PRICE FIVE CENTS Telephone 8111 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 194S Number 10749 Explosion Takes High Toll New Orleans Blast Hurts 27 Persons BOARD SAYS BARRACKS PLAN FEASIBLE; FUNDS NEEDED PORTLAND, Feb. 19 (AP) The state board of higher educa tion declared today that use of the Klamath Falls Marine Bar racks as an educational unit was feasible if sufficient funds could be obtained. Willard L. Marks, "chairman of the board, reported in a state ment that emergency use of the Klamath Falls center was "prac tical from the standpoint of the physical plant and feasible edu cationally." He added, however, that board funds were so limited that any "funds needed over and above the fee income will have to be supplied outside the board's present resources." -..-- Members of the board who are able to do so will visit the Ma rine Barracks next Saturday "to get first hand information as to the situation," he said. Governor Earl Snell, who first announced the possible use of the Klamath Barracks as an educa tional center for veterans, has in dicated he will discuss the financ ing question with the state emer gency board. It is expected that while the center will be primarily for, veterans, others, especially those, from this area, would be permitted to attend the state's in stitution here. ' The board at Portland today studied a report prepared by a gfoup of state and education of ficials who came to Klamath Falls recently to inspect the plant. House Group Invites Ford II To Give Price Ceiling Views WASHINGTON, Feb.. 19 (JP) The house banking committee to day Invited Henry Ford, II, to appear personally for a presen tation of his side of an argument with OPA on the pricing of new automobiles. Chnlrman Spencc (D-Ky.) an nounced Ford would be called, after Representative Crawford (R-Mich.) vigorously objected to on attack he said OPA had made upon young Ford, now directing head of the Ford Motor com pany. Rep. Buffelt (R-Neb.) said that the OPA had attempted "to hrnwhent Mr. Ford." in public statements, and challenged Its authority to do so. Chester Bowles, OPA chief and newly appointed economic stabilizer, shot back that he know nothing in the law to pre vent OPA from "correcting false or misleading statements. Bowles, witness before the committee at the time on legis- Lumber Export Hearings Set WASHINGTON. Feb. 19 (JP) Chairman Knowland (R-Callf.) of the senate agriculture sub committee to investigate lumber exports announced today It will begin hearings probably next week, Knowland is author of the resolution calling for the In quiry, Senator Knowland said he ex pects to call as witnesses repre sentatives of the civilian produc tion administration and OPA. He is anxious, ho said, to learn the necessity for the export quota of 225,000,000 board feet of lum ber recently announced by OPA. Ho told the senate that If that rate Is continued for a yearv it would mean shipment of enough lumber to build 100,000 homes at a time when the nation is fac ing a critical housing shortage. Dormitory Bids Found Too High SALEM, Feb. 19 ( Ore gon's $10,000,000 building pro gram for state institutions re ceived a severe jolt this after noon when the first bids were found to bo far higher than the estimated costs and money avail able. Tho board of control opened bids on the first project, a cus todial building for the state hos pital's cottage farm. The low bid, submitted by flhnrles R. Schmiedeskamn of Oswego, was $511,930, dompared with tho board ot control's esti mate of $325,000. There wore five other bidders. ranging up to $645,538. lation to prolong OPA's life, had just testified that the Ford com pany last summer requested a 55 per cent increase for new cars over the "prewar price of Ford automobiles,' . Outrageous "This was an outrageous in crease to ask, much less to al low," Bowles said.. "I have no idea what Ford would ask if there was no price control." Representative Patman (D Tcx.) asked Bowles for a state ment on young Ford's reported accusation that OPA was hold ing up production of automo biles, by its pricing policy.- Pat man said young Ford had stated his company was losing $300 on each automobile produced. Bowles told the committee "I don't think the request (for a price increase) is in line with the tradition of the Ford com pany. I am sorry . young Ford seems to have departed from the tradition." He explained that heretofore the Tord cmpany had been a leader In high wages and low prices. Hits Snag The administration's drive to give OPA an unchallenged lease on life bumped into potential trouble today a republican plan to write a. definite formula for junking ceilings. As a spokesman for the agency told the house banking commit tee that all controls' except rents probably can be eliminated next year, Rep. Wolcott (Mich.), rank ing committee republican, said he- favors a system that would provide for gradual but forced OPA liquidation. This could be accomplished, Wolcott told reporters, by an amendment requiring removal of price ceilings in each indus try when it is found that pro duction has reached 75 per cent of normal output. He would base the industry-by-industry decontrol on find ings by OPA's own advisory com mittees, with any disputes to be settled by the emergency court of appeals. Buffer Expected' To Grow Scarcer SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (JP) Butter will be scarcer and government controls will remain longer, western butter and egg men are advised. At the concluding session of the Pacific Coast Butter, Egg, Cheese and Poultry association, Paul McClure of Great Falls, Mont., declared "there's going to be less and less butter, and Joseph Danzansky, association Washington representative, ad vised producers to expect gov ernment control for a long time. Klamath Housewives Raid Groceries Of White Flour "Please pass the light bread' as they say down south. , But the light bread will soon be dark as the March 1 deadline for manufacture of white flour approaches. Housewives, scared once more of getting caught short, have raided shelves and warehouses and the white flour supply in Klamath Falls is practically nil. One grocer, when asked as to his flour supply this morning, chuck led and said "there ain't none." . Last week housewives became alarmed as they did back in the old coffee days and tied on their bonnets, grabbed their pocket books and made forlie first gro cery store. It all came about when the president announced that America - would help feed tho world and one way to do it was to keep more of the whole wheat in flour and that the next allotment would be "dark.". They can't do this to us was the opinion of thousands of homemakers In Klamath Falls and it was the same throughout the nation. "We want our pie and cake as white as the driven snow!" And so began the run which left flour supplies down to noth ing. Several stores reported that no limit was placed on flour and any number of sales of 10 50 pound sacks were made. The average sale was three 50-pound sacks. In most small families, where the mother is not a bread baker, the average consumption is two 50-pound sacks of white flour. Today, grocers, ventured, this same family has a two to three year supply on hand. And there's danger in that, too. Warning against storing too much flour which may become infested with weevils, one mer chant told the housewife not to complain if she found wildlife in her snow white flour. On the other hand, one announced, this new flour that will be coming from the mills March 1, won't be half as dark as most women think it will. In fact, it could probably be served in either pas try or bread without much no tice. As for cake flour, that special blend which is the kitchen cook's delight, that will be as short as snow white flour, v It is probable that another shipment of white flour will reach Klamath Falls before March 1., After that date manu facturers can mill only an 80 per cent extraction. It's the other 20 per cent of whole wheat that's driving the ladies crazy. Several Thought Dead In Wreckage Of Building NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19 (JP) An explosion and fire wrecked a three-story brick apartment building here today, injuring more than 20 persons and dos- sibly killing several others. Rescuers could not explore all the wreckage pending the clearance of heavy beams but Police Captain James Cripps, neaa oi one detail, said he thought the ruins contained sev eral bodies. Cripps added that 33 of the 55 persons listed as occupants of the 14-apartment house had been accounted for and that 27 of these were injured. All Negroes The building was a unit in the St. Bernard housing project All the casualties were negroes. State Fire Marshall Campbell Palfrey .said indications were the explosion resulted from an accumulation of gas on the first floor. Army and navy ambulances were Called into service to aug ment city ambulances in rescue work.. Service men from the port., of . embarkation and the navy also aided police and fire men. , j The building is a unit of a federal housing project. , Smelled Gas One person who escaped de clared that "we smelled gas in the house and somebody, struck a match." Another witness said the explosion made a thunder ous noise and then the building burst into flames. The explosion was heard for miles around and attracted thousands of spectators. Win dows were shattered and fur nishings were upset in houses over- a considerable area. . State Fire Marshal Campbell Palfrey said an investigation would be made of the blast. Phone Strike Authorized MEMPHIS Tonn Vah to IIBI The National Federation of Tele- Dhone Wnrkprs sewmhlv inAav granted the executive board the autnoriiy 10 can a coast-to-coast su-iKe wnenever "it considers proper and with due considera tion tn plrilimclflnrac nf tha n. eral affiliates." , NFTW Officials . nnnminpp1 that the assembly adopted a resolution embodying the auth orization by an overwhelming majority. " The vote was 121,000 for the resolution: 30.000 against it onri 2500 not voting. The union voted on a per capita basis, seven of the inde pendent's 50 autonomous unions were not represented in the voting. 4bducton Car Thought Found LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19 (JP) Sheriff's deputies announced to. day that an automobile, an swering the general description of that in which little Rochelle Gluskoter was declared to have been driven away by a strange young man last Friday, was found parked on Long Beach boulevard. In it, the officers said, was a pair of shoes of the sort the child wore-when she disap peared from a neighbor's yard. They added,' however, that the shoes and children's clothes also found in the car were not those worn by Rochelle. The automobile was one that had been reported stolen. WEATHER (February 19) , ' Max. (Feb. 18) ... 4. Min 34 Precipitation last 24 nours... .uo Stream year to date 9.70 Normal ....7.90. Last year ... 6.86 Forecast: Showers Wednesday. Aflob Yecoirs U. IFIcag From Pole BOMBAY, Feb. 19 (IP) A mob of Indians, including a num ber wearing the uniform ef the royal Indian navy, today tor the United States flag from the U. S. Information service offle hare and burned the flag in the street. Walter D. Shackleton, in charge of the office, said he had informed the American consulate and Ralph Block, principal public affairs officer of the USIS at New Delhi, and that he wal awaiting instructions concerning filing an official protest to th Indian and British government. Shackleton said that about 300 demonstrators who wera marching in the street suddenly swarmed up to the USIS office where the United States flag flew from a pole just over the door of the agency's libraray. "One man climbed onto the shoulders of another man and tore down the flag," he said. itiey ran around the corner with the flag and when thev failed in their efforts to set-it afire with matches they ob tained a newspaper, lit the paper and used this as a torch to burn the flag," Shackleton said. He said an unidentified ser geant, who had a jeep parked near the USIS headquarters, was hit on the shoulder with a shovel and clubs in the hands of some members of the mob, but he leaped into the vehicle and escaped, apparently with out serious injury. The mob stormed down Horn by road, stopping military trucks and other vehicles. Some of the demonstrators attacked several British and Indian offi cers with clubs, the British army public relations office said. The crowd earned con gress parly flags and shouted slogans. - The cause of the demonstra tion was not clear, but some observers expressed belief it might have started as a mani festation of sympathy with a sitdown strike staged yesterday by 1000 royal Indian navy sea men in a demand for better ra tions and a revision of pay al lowances. : - Wreck Puts In GRANTS PASS, Feb. 19 (JP) An accident on the Pacific high way near the Glendale junction Monday night put three persons in tne nospitai nere, two serious ly injured. Fred Horton of Azalea suf fered a crushed chest, Miss Edith Mead of Seattle suffered a pos sible fractured hip and Mrs. Naomi Hoffnvin of Bremerton a cut chin and cut foot. All were reported in fair condition today. State police said that they were told by Miss Dorothy Belcher of Spokane, driver of one car heading south, that her car hit a chuck - hole which caused it to skid into a car driven north by Paul Newman of Azalea: Riding with Miss Belcher were Mrs. Hoffman, owner of the car, Miss Mead and Miss Caroline Tempio of Brem erton. Riding with Newman was Horton. Both cars were badly damaged. Auditor Backs Vardaman Action WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (JP) John O. Price, an auditor, as serted today there was "nothing improper" or "crooked" about the activities of Commodore James K. Vardaman Jr., in the bankruptcy reorganization of the Vardaman Shoe company. The auditor offered this testi mony to the senate banking sub committee considering the nomi nation of Vardaman, President Truman's naval aide, for a 14 year term on the federal reserve board of governors. . $1800 Paid For Illegal Deer Meat TULELAKE. Feb. 19 Costa muuniea 10 more man flouu for illegal possession of venison when six Klamath hunters paid $900 in the Tulelake justice court Monday just exactly two weeks after they had been fined a like amount and costs in tha Klamath Falls justice court. The six, through their attor. ney, Harry D. Boivin, entered pleas of guilty to the charge of huntine deer durine closed krs. son and illegal killing and pos, session of deer meat before Jus tice E. L. Booth of Tulelake Monday morning. The defend ants were io Jilvln friend Sr., William Thomas Myers, Leo El vin Friend Jr.,-Elmer Nathaniel Carlson, Edward Thomas Bent ley and John Nelson Friend, j ;.. Charge , The deer were. killed In tha California lava beds winter graa.' , ing area and at the time of the) arrest of .-the sextet state police charged they had in their pos session the dressed carcasses of six does, five of them fresh. On February 4, the six men ap peared before Justice of tha Peace J. A. Mahoney, Klamath Falls, and drew fines of $150 and $7.20 costs, each. Similar fines were levied against the six Mon day by Justice Booth. They were given unui i eDruary za to make Sayment and then released on leir own recognizance. . Nine officers including Cali fornia state wardens and federal game management agents, wera in justice court yesterday to ap pear as witnesses against the six. On February . 4. California state police found the place where the deer had been slaugh tered and trailed the car bearing the venison and hides back to the state line. Oregon state po ' lice took over from there and the carcasses were found at tha home of Leo Elvin Friend Sr. The meat went to the county poor farm here. Foundry Men Accept Boost PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 19 (JP) settlement ot a dispute whicq had threatened a strike of north west foundry workers was ap proved by a mass meeting o Portland workers last night. H. W. Sprague, secretary ot -the AFL Molders and Foundry Workers local, said the settle ment provided wage boosts of 10 cents an hour for common labor, 14 cents for journeymen, 19 epnta for intprmpdlntp rlnspa- and 18 cents for skilled journey men. ' The union originally asked 30 per cent increase. ' Equator-Crossing Ordeal i Fatal To 2 S.F. Youths CAM PBiMfTQrn TToh 10 (JP) The deaths of two San Francisco youths who sailed in the crew of a Chile-bound freighter ship were reported to day by their parents, one of whom said he was notified his son died after an "equator crossing initiation." The youtns were: T .aiviw Pnhort "Rm00. son of Robert L. Bragg, a merchant mnrina nfflppr. and Mrs. Marie Fafara, who said he was 14 years old. ' Stanford Fluitt, 16, son of Mrs. Helen Fluitt. The parents of both boys said they received telegrams from the South Atlantic Steamship Lines notifying , them of the jBti,a rf tKplr snns. and sav ing they were being buried in Tocopilla, unue. Tne parems said the youths sailed aboard tho -Prnripriplr W. Galbraith of the South Atlantic Lines from San Francisco January 13. Bragg said he and Mrs. Fa fara received - a letter, - dated February 7, from E d g a r S. Ehlers, American vice consul in Antofagasta, Chile, saying Le roy had "died as a result of an equator-crossing initiation ' in which he and several members of the crew had been given large doses of saltpeter mixed with water." - - Bragg said the letter stated Leroy and an unidentified crew member died within six hours; despite every attention glverr them and that Ehlers doubted , any "malicious intent", in the initiation, a customary rite in equator crossings. ' Leroy had attempted to ob tain their permission to go to sea for two years, his parents , said in an interview, and final ly got an unidentified person to sign "guardianship" papers stat ing he was 17. They said they were endeavoring to have his body returned here.