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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1946)
, : in t By FRANK JENKINS THINGS bculn to pop in Wash Inuton toclny. Tho (Icpiirtmuiit of lubor opens I drlvo to "push for aottlomunt" of all cm-runt striked and gut tho reconversion program BACK INTO man GEAR. Sccroturv (of lubor) Scliwollcn bncli advises industry generally lo up unci trust 10 ui'A." A T the mi mo time, "hluh n OPA offlclul" (who won't lot hi iinmn bo UBod) promises DinpioyorH tutu prico incrcaso application to offset wago boosts under tho now kuioIH.u ttun policy "uro going to bo bundled fust." Hu adds t lilt I OPA In confident It can STAY AUKEAST or nny How of petitions (from Industry) for prlco help, and nnys tbnt If necessary personnel will . bo transferred from othur OPA du- pnrtmunts to "keep tho bull rolling." lln concludes: "There are no two ways about It, wo hitvo JUST GOT to move speedily." , , , THE Inevitable conclusion, lit x this distance. Is that some body In Washington Is SCARED and Is moving fust to get result!) quickly. , , , WHY? Well, this Is tho situation: There will be an election tills full in which ALL tho members of tho house of representatives nnd a third o( tho members 01 tho senate must run the guunt- let of public opinion. II wo urc still in a statu of deadlock and STAGNATION on election day. It Isn't liurd to guess whut will hiumcii. There will be n lot of new faces In Washington. PEOPLE are getting tired of r deadlock and stagnation. They want to go places und do things. They wont to collect on tho promises of tho bruve new world. A CLOUD appears today In the sky no lurger ul the mo ment than a man's hand. But it lias an ominous color. . Washington dispatches tell us tho laoor department is inuncn Ini! an ultemut to bout back a rising tide of unemployment thut is expected lo leuvo ia mil, LION JOBLESS by Juno 30. . Juno 30 Ik only FOUR V MONTHS uororo election;' - .... THIS Is Amcricu's position to day: Wo have the raw materials. Wo hove the lubor. Wo have tho INDUSTRIAL PLANT the greatest slnco tho world began; unscurrcd by w,ur. Markets for some tlmo to come will bo hugo. Thero Is a fantastic demand lor . goods. Wo havo ALL THE MAKINGS of prosperity EXCEPT CON FIDENCE! Tho feeling Is grow ing swiftly that conlldenco is lacking because of tho blunder , ing Incptncss of tho government in Washington. ' SUPPOSE tho Republicans should win control of con gress this November. Suppose they should BREAK THE DEADLOCK and open the door to tho bravo new world we're all yearning for and touch off tho long period of prosperity thut Is practically Inevitable if we can get Intelligent leadership. What will happen then? . THE answer Is as plain as the nose on your face. Tho Democratic party, New Dcolism and all, will be as dead na . I wi nnmnnrnlln rtnrtv tuna after the Civil War and as tho Republican party was after 1930. IT Isn't .surprising that things ere beginning to POP in Wash-Inaton. wnrni nnlfn nrnhnhlft thnl to Rnrnuullnff. BRAWLING bureaucracy that today is tho federal government may bo so frightened by tho pic ture of present events as to be ready to pour on tho coal to got tho results that pcoplo aro ob viously wanting. Watch It. It may bo something big. ' Hung Jury Winds Up Hxon Trial The trial of Leo Arlot Hixon for receiving and concealing stolen property ended with a hung Jury, dismissed shortly niter midnigiu lost mgnt attcr more than "eight hours of delib eration. Tho caso wont to tho Jury at 3:40 p. hi. yesterday. Harry. E. Wilson, foreman, reported that tho 12 men wore deadlocked from tho first ballot. Hlxon was charged with hav ing in his possession a pair of saddlebags and a lariat allegedly stolen from W. Eberhart last August. He Is also the defendant in another case to come Into court March 20, In which he is accused of possessing a set of .work, harness stolen from tho "Vera Crisler ranch. The Klamath Indian youth is free on $3000 ball, "WEATHER February 20, 1946 tax. (Feb. 19) ... 44 Mln. ... 28 'xoclpltaiion last 24 hours Trace (roam your to date 9.70 vormal ....7.97 Last year ... 6.66 forecast: Snow In mountains. ) Pauley Issue Splits Demo Party Pope Pius Warns Of Imperialism Foundation Of Human Intercourse Said Endangered VATICAN CITY, Feb, 20 (IP) I'opo I'lus in a broudcust direct ed to the world after he hud placed blrcttus on tho heads of 2U new cardinals warned tonight thut modern imperialism "cur ries in It germs which endanger llic very loundations oi numun intercourse." Peoples ovor tho world, he suid, aro anxious for their mutual security, and "anxiety born of an unbridled tendency toward expansion which has within it tho gnuwlng worm of ceaseless unrest, and brings it about that to each demand mude us needed for security there fol lows another and another with out end.'.' Universality Emphasizing tho universality of the church a universality borne out by tho handing of bircttas to new cardinals from six continents In a colorful cere mony In tho vaulted hall of bene dictions the pontiff declared tho church stood out as a warn ing and a stundurd in a world torn and divided. The church, ho declared Is "Indivisible." ' The speech, broadcast from tho Vatican City radio and heard In many parts of the world, was delivered in the hall of bene dictions, whero tho pope had just placed bircttas on 20 of the 32 new cardinals, including four from the United States, in one of the most colorful cere monies In the history of the Roman Catholic church. Speaking of social values, the pontiff said the individual man should bo ablo to use his own powers and not be subjected by tho community. , " Joblessness Seen Rising WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (IP) Tho labor department launched an attempt today to beat back a rising tide of unemployment it expects to leave 6,000,000 jobless by June 30. Tho United States Employ ment service will attack the firoblcm by asking employers to 1st all job vacancies with USES. Latest census bureau figures place present unemployment at about 3,000,000. USES Director Robert C. Goodwin estimated yesterday that of 8,000,000 discharged members of tho armed services, 6,000,000 looked for work and 3,300,000 registered with USES. Ho added many others were expected to register, because 4, 000,000 more veterans will be back into tho United States be foro tho end of June. Bulletin LONDON. Feb. 20 IPi Rui- sia denied tonight that its agents had obtained Important secret data from Canada and said that "the attitude adopted by the Canadian government ... is in compatible with normal relations between the two countries." PRICE FIVE CENTS . : f KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1946 Telephone 8111 Number 10750 More Evidence Of Klamath's Building Splurge I fTTT II ill . V? -l'-fefGcJ 2 I SI 3 Theiit nictures, taken at randoni In the southern sectorf o wi!i,-'re' f urthar evidence 'that Klamath" Falls Is underadtna a comprehensive postwar-building boom and also indicates that when new automobiles are put on the market, this city will be well equipped with places to sell them. Upper left, Burness Motor company, DeSoto dealer, building going up on Walnut be tween Sth and 6th. Upper right, frame dwelling being built for C lotus Revet at 1749 Summers lane. Center left, the red-brick Church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints,- building being erected at Home and Martin. Center right, Lombard Motor company. Dodge and Plymouth, at S. 6tb and Willow. Lower left, prefabricated dwelling, on Eberlein. Lower right. Jack Elie's Nash Mo tor company building at S. 6th and Willow. .-..., 4 Critically Hurt In Wreck SALEM. Feb. 20 (IP) A bus driver and three Salem women were seriously injured last night when a chartered Pacific Grey hound bus collided head-on wltn an oil truck on the Pacific high way 12 miles south of Salem. The bus was carrying 36 Sa lem women to an Eaglos lodge meeting in Albany. Mrs. William Ogle was In a critical condition today, while Mrs. Reva Davidson and Mrs. June Wallace were re- Dorted in fair condition. Paul Hart, the bus driver, also of Sa lem, was in a serious condition. Seventeen other women were treated at hospitals for cuts and bruises and wero discharged. Mclvln : L. Stimson. Lake Grove, driver of the oil truck, was not Injured. Tho bus was thrown on tne highway but remained upright. Pistol Duel Fatal To Two In Shiloh Sect Shooting DURHAM. Me.. Feb. 20 (P) A double slaying etched another chuptcr today hi tho colorful his tory of annow, the hilltop "temple" here of a religious bccI, xne mngnom, inc. Sheriff Louis E. Gondron said a pistol duel between Irenec La prise, about 30, of Brunswick, and Dr. Charles Reedcr, 39-ycar- oia Jjurnam osteopath, ended yesterday with both men dead und Carl Webster, 32, and Mrs. Kneelnnd Godfrey, 71, slightly wounded. Lapriso, a shipyard employe, was discharged from the army five months ago after three years overseas as a second llcutonant with an artillery outfit. Ho mar ried a Lisbon Falls girl last No vember, i State Police Sgt. John P. Cros by said tho shooting occurred more than two hours after La prise visited tho religious com munity as a would-be purchaser of the property and then present ed tho caretaker with a letter de manding "a sum of money." Investigators were making a detailed probe of the shooting, he added, "because, undoubtedly others are involved in this at tempt to get money." For two hours after he present ed the letter, tho investigators related, Laprlse held Webster, Mrs. Godfrey and two other sect members at gunpoint In a room of the temple until Dr. Reedcr, warned of "trouble" at Shilon, came to their aid. Recdor ordered Laprlse to get out, Then the men started shoot ing with automatic pistols, Gon dron said. Laprise fell with two slugs in tho abdomen; Rcedcr's heart was pierced.- - Two shots gave Webster and Mrs. Godfrey minor leg wounds. Caretaker Philip Holland and sect member Bernard Anderson escaped Injury. Holland is a son-in-law ' of Frank W. Sandford, wher- built snuon on orcicrs or a "aivine voice," he said at the turn of the century as a communal dwelling for members of his "Holy Ghost and 'Us Society' which later became "The King dom, Inc." At one time nearly 1000 lived in the huge wooden structure built in the form of a hollow square and surmounted by a once-gilded "prayer tower," and in various -outbuildings. In 1910 four of Sandford's fol lowers died of scurvy and two of drowning In the course of a world evangelization cruiss by the self-styled "Elijah" of the sect. The federal government held Sandford responsible for the deaths, and he was sent to prison for 10 years. What happened to him after he left prison, is a mystery. The community has remained in use, however, Ernest Tupper, tho current pastor, said from 100 to 150 attend divine services there each Sunday. Butter Lack Grows Worse Because Of Price Ceiling If the scrounging housewife thinks the butter situation has developed into an all-time head ache, she'd butter think again. The present scarcity of butter Is nothing to what is in store for the nation's consumers, ac cording to Glenn Kent, man ager of the Klamath Falls Creamery, who returned last night from San Francisco where he attended the Pacific Coast Butter, Egg, Cheese and Poultry association session. "The picture Isn't good," was Kent's first comment. Then he elaborated on the convention which brought 550 butter and egg men to the Bay city.: . "The-farmer' is getting from 35 to 40 cents more for fluid milk than they will for cream that goes into butter, and they won't divert into the butter channel because of the price dis crepancy. That just means there won't be any more butter. "The government is doing nothing to remove the ceiling so that dairymen can find it profit able to bring in cream and the government men present at the convention did not -commit them selves in any way. They spoke, not so much on control, but on the dairy market in general," Kent said. . i Coast Scoured According to Kent the Pacific coast is being scoured for pos sible sources of butter. He and Stanley Soran, in charge of the poultry and egg department for Klamath Falls Creamery, were unsuccessful in making contacts for butter. Kent observed that dairy products were more scarce than at any time during the war and that instead of getting bet ter wouid be much worse. Speaking for' his own plant, Kent said that four years ago there was a weekly output of nine churnings of 900 pounds each, or better than 8000 pounds of butter for local consumption and export. At the present time there is approximately 1400 pounds of butter, this going to schools, hospitals, restaurants and back to the. producer so that he, the producer, will continue to bring in cream. "Unless the .government agrees to pay more for butter than fluid milk, producers will not change. That is the secret of the. whole ' thing," Kent opined. snort raaricet He also said that the poultry and egg picture wasn't any bet ter than tho butter picture, With so much wheat gqing to Europe the grower is nowN operating on a snort maricet ana tnere isn t sufficient feed available. Poul try men are sending their flocks to market and a Wednesday morning report from Los An geles advised that in May the government plans to take 60 per cent of the available wheat for foreign consumption. In Dela ware and Maryland, biggest poultry producing areas in the world, there is a tremendous amount of chickens being sent to New York and other markets for table use. Going back to the butter sa nation, Kent, said a u. s. de partment of agriculture report received this morning said that total milk production during January reached only 8.6 million pounds or three . per cent less than January, 1945 and lowest for the month since 1941.. For the nation as a whole, milk pro duction per cow continued at tne rate of only slightly below the record level of 1942, but the percentage of cows being milked on February 1, 1946, was lowest in 21 years of record. Confab At the final convention session Tuesday of the dairy association in San Francisco, Paul McClure of Great Falls, Mont., . chairman of its butter committee, said that the housewife's chances of get ting butter and how much would she have to pay if OPA controls were abandoned could be answered in this way: ' "Butter price," he said, "prob ably would go up to about $1 a pound, but that would be temporary. Milk , would begin to back into its normal share of butter making, and the supply of butter would increase. But ter, then, would sell for some where around 70 cents a pound." Klamath housewives are now paying 55 cents a pound. The burning question would they rather butter wduld shoot up and they paid for what they wanted, or let it remain scarce or non-existant at the present price. Report Claims. : Septuplets Born LONDON, Feb. 20 (P) The Exchange Telegraph agency reported from Paris tonight that the wife of a pub lic house proprietor had given birth to septuplets, four girls and three boys, all alive. The agency said the multiple birth occurred in Rue Gal lande,' Paris. There was no immediate confirmation . of the report from any other sources. Rose Poole Seeks Off ice Rose M. Poole, republican member of the state legislature from Klamath county, today mailed in her notice of intention to be a candidate on the May 17 nominating primary to the sec retary of state in Salem. Mrs. Poole is now serving her first term in the lower house. Henry Semon, ' democrat, the senior representative from this county, announced his intention to run for re-election several days ago. Senator Marsha!! Cor nett of Klamath county will hold over into the next year, and is a leading candidate for senate presidency. The situation surrounding the judgeship of the 13th judicial district was cleared a bit this morning when L. Orth Sisemore and Dayton E.- Van Vactor, local attorneys said they wold not be candidates opposing Judge David R. Vandenberg. Judge Vandenberg has an nounced that his name will be on the non-partisan primary ballot. District Attorney Clarence A. Humble, who has also tbeen mentioned as a possible nominee for the post, was in court today and unavailable for a statement. Gary B. Cozad, present Link ville district, constable, filed his petition for re-nomination with the county clerk this morning. Cozad was first elected constable in 1924. He is a republican. There have been no other con stable candidates filed as yet, although the post in Plevna, Odell, Lost 1 Eiver, Klamath Lake, Sprague River, Tulelake, Yainax and Wood river dis tricts is up for balloting this year. Withdrawal Proposed By Stewart Fort as Says He Heard Oil Suit Talked With Ickes WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (IP) Senator Stewart, Tennessee dem ocrat, asserted today Edwin W. Pauley's nomination as under secretary of navy had "seriously split" the democratic party and Pauley should withdraw his name "in common decency," Both President Truman and Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan, national democratic chairman, must "certainly be em barrassed" by the fight the nom ination has provoked," Stewart said. "I regret that Mr. Pauley has not withdrawn his name or that Mr. Hannegan has not had him do it," Stewart added. "To con tinue to embarrass the president is bad." Praises Truman Later, Senator Bilbo (D-Miss.) in a statement praised Mr. Tru man for "standing pat" on the nomination. Bilbo said he want ed to vote for Pauley's confirma-1 tion to show his - utter con tempt" of statements made - by Harold L. Ickes in opposing Pauley's selection. . Neither Bilbo nor Stewart are members of the senate naval committee which is holding hear ings on the nomination. Stewart issued his statement shortly after Abe Fortas testified he heard Pauley discuss demo cratic campaign contributions and the tidelands oil suit with Harold L. Ickes but could not recall whether the two subjects were linked "on a contingent basis." " The former undersecretary of interior offered this testimony to the senate- naval committee, which is studying'Pauley's nom ination to be undersecretary of navy. --- -. ' Dovns Placed At Fire Scene Mrs. -Mabel Shearer, witness for the prosecution, testified this morning in circuit court that she saw Alva W. Downs, former city building inspector being tried for arsqn, enter an unoccupied dwelling owned by D. L. Mosier on the Old Fort road and a few minutes, later saw the building on fire. That was on 'July 18, 1945. Mrs. Shearer said she was living across the road from Mosier's house at the time. Downs, she testified, drove up to the house, entered through the back, carried out a roll of linoleum and other articles, and drove off. Shortly after he left the tarpaper-covered four-room house began to burn.. Took Stove Mrs. Shearer also said that she had seen Downs enter the house about a month before and carry off a stove. She identified the defendant, sitting in the court room as the man she had seen visit the Mosier dwelling. ' Mosier, owner of the property, was the first state witness called this morning. His testimony was that the dwelling was livable, but that he had left it locked up and with some articles of fur niture inside when he went to California to work in August, 1944. He intended to return here to live when his work was finished, he said. He stated that he had never received from Downs or from the city any notice of condemna tion. At the time, Downs was building inspector for Klamath Falls and the Mosier dwelling had been considered for condem nation by the city council. Downs was arrested August 11 for the burning and has-been held in the county jail in lieu of S5000 bond since that time. Jurors hearing the case are R. H. Barnett, C. H. Booth; L. A. Johanson, George Bodenhamer, Carl F. White, Dennis O'Connor, Jack Jackson, Walter Zindar, Fred B. Robinson, B. H. Pickett, Harry E. Wilson and George W. Van Horn. Downs is being de fended by R. F. McLaren. $7 Million 'Inheritance' Found Work Of Prankster SOUTH BEND, Ind.. Feb. 20 W) Jack E. Love, 22-year-old Notre Dame student, told a re porter today that "I realize now that the letter I received telling me I had inherited a fortune was a hoax for which I am not re sponsible." "Some prankster and not a New York law firm sent me a letter three weeks, ago telling me of the inheritance from a great uncle," he added. Love, a war veteran, made the statement after conferring with officials at the university, where he is a law student. Love said the letter had told him a great uncle, Claude Love, had left him more than a million dollars. No Claude Love or the for tune could be found in Olym pia, Wash., where the student said he believed his uncle lived. ! Earlier, he had said he thought it was a joke at first and that if newsmen "find out that Uricle Claude didn't leave me anything, the joke's on me." . Young Love, former football player at the University of Mary land, said he had not seen his uncle since 1940 and had had no word from him since a Christmas card in 1944. Tie-Up May Be Called At Any Time Strategy Session Now Underway To Set , Walkout Date By The Associated Press - The National Federation oi Telephone Workers (Ind.) mar ped lines today for a possible nationwide tleup of telephone service "at any time" after con elusion of a strategy meeting now underway. - The executive board of th union, authorized yesterday to call a strike for higher wages, went into a special session at Memphis, Tenn., with heads -oi 15 affiliated unions which have complied with the Smith-Con nally act by filing strike notices. John J. Moran. president of the Federation of Long Line Tele phone workers, which has filed notice, said it was "very prob able" a strike date would be set at the conference. . , Negotiations However, Joseph A. Beirne, NFTW president, has stated no strike would be called until "all avenues of peaceful negotiation! are closed." - A strike of the union's 250,000 members would tie up long dis tance telephone service and shut off local calls in most states. ' A union spokesman .who de clined to Derm it use of his name.: said strike strateev would be completed enough in detail at the Memphis meeting, so that "a na tional strike can be called at any ' time." This included appoint ment of a national strike direc tor and strike strategy commit tees on a local, regional and na tional basis. - - The 50 NFTW affiliated un ions are demanding a $10 week ly wage hike, minimum hourly. waife nf 65 cents and a return tA uie u nour weeK. - With the number of strike Idle in the nation reduced to around 970,000 - by continuing settle ments in the steel strike, the la bor department started a drivf to "push for settlement"; of ail Secretary of Labor Schwellen- I-bach told industry generally his aavise was to "sign up and trust to OPA,'' while an OPA official promised employes that price in crease applications to offset waffa - !nrriocao iinrlan 4Va nAiaa stabilization policy, "are going to be handled fast." Schwellenbach said the new wage-price policy's success hinged on prompt government action and he added federal agen cies involved had assured him that speedy consideration would be given to all requests for price relief. . Legion Leases HCO Quarters ' Negotiations for the purchase of equipment of the Marine NCO quarters and the lease on the space jn the Willard hotel for use by Klamath Falls American Legion post, Wo. 8, have been completed it was announced last night at the Legion meeting. -O. D. Matthews, chairman of the club committee, reported that the club room lease had been, obtained from W. D. Miller, owner of the Willard. Further plans as to usage of the club will be made by the Legion. 550 Trapped In Coal Mine LONDON, Feb. 20 (IP) A Reuters dispatch from Herford, Germany, said that 550 persona were trapped below ground to day in a coal mine at Unna, near Dortmund in the British occupa tion zone, following an ex plosion. . Nine of the 16 persons brought to the surface thus far were re ported to be dead. The disoatch said the others were believed doomed, v Lumber Executive Taken By Death ROSEBURG, Ore.; Feb. 20 (IP) Charles Edward Miller, 54, presi dent of the Young's Bay Lumber company, Roseburg, died sudden ly at his home here today of a heart ailment. . Born in New York City, ha had been prominently identified with the lumber industry of Oregon for the last 25 years. ' - Arriving In United States - By The Associated Press ; -Chester V. Carlson, Sgt. Weed, arrived on General An derson due in New York Feb ruary 18. '. ,
