Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, February 22, 1946, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Herald and news., February 22, 1946, Page 1, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1946)

Page of 10 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (2.8 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 10 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page Textw w mww mm I . : - ; : IS . .tfmto&tte.ir LF-J Srf Telephone QUI , j - j Dj.Mjy Djff PniCE FIVE CENTB KLAMATH FALLB, OREGON, FHIDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1946 Number 10752 " ' JF cmujm mots fuune'ih Bombay " , . ; . rnANK JENKINS &'tt I' Ll..if ntlL UHK--- - fe. . ht f ir back Into W ."!"!..,: would Imvo rl'Tmt In scanning tho .themomc.d. (. i,tt on the Hpmnny I . total of 30'klllod ....i..,i. T in under- ... f ihn Innililo arc Sre, " track tack In nr I Winn lu r..iini in India. .ro not very popular .,.nklni!. Ilio building Ulnl tho coniiminlitt new led by "intrutUrrH" who Li. the furniture mm i"- u Mil Ol UIC WIIKH'WB IIHU uu ii I.! nml miners. kill uw -- . h communis charge that t Jkn wcro Niitlcmul guv- Lot secret service men. Li doesn't Indicate any 9'' , ... 1 ...til iimimil liunouni oi " Chinese wciions. It Chinese newspapers In k...i,iii lodnv carry a i protest by 20 nallonally m Kholant ciilllnu the i secret mireemeiit the moiit milcd In modern diplomatic 5 chnmo 'thot tho luto Unt Roosevelt traded Man- Ml or MUSS""' uiiu i in Jipsnesc war iihu ui.T.iiM -kit imilo tnl.itnke can not dCUKd aespiio ins coiuii miL'nrd victory." EiL unfortimntely, dotwn I Lite my growing good will United suites in -ninu. FOSTER DULLES, who ll be remembered us Dew- ri exoert on foreign rem- i uys In m Washington's hfcy iddrcss nt Princeton hin tv iw i c 1 nns nwnriieci in honorary deijrco of Doc- loiuws): hA first meetinitsj of tho IrdNstlons have miulo it per- lv clear that the big nations lr.it lee ml it is very ini tial to settle their differ ' idds: "I have listened for It! to representative! of the tr ly council accusing outers Otcndinst themselves. Most tatime. It seemed to mo. the tZxit wero using the council iwum where through propa- tu md clever maneuvers could score a national salt) fi expense of others. It concludes: "Tho situation parting. Wo have no tlmo Iwte, Tho nnttem of tho p is tironay taking lorm, IIMiorm is NOT A I'LEAS- (ONE. It resembles the pat Id the past." I lit bin nations do not feel tt It is Important to settle differences f UNO Is to be merely a p whc.ro member nations I leek to securn ndvnntiiift-ii tanjolves at tho exnenso of Iri- f the pattern of tho future Is iraiow tho pattern of tho III high time fnr Amorli-n in R her DOMESTIC dlffi. W'Jt qiBrrels and disputes u UVYIN TO WORK. lie world wc are going Into In be morn nr liu n vntl. I of tho world of the past, He will NEED TO Bii tord brings weakness , ".iiiui uiniui uniicvn KLVf holdl"8 118 onclt when "), 80 '"rwnrd, we must ra to put 11 th o PEOPLE. They Ite ntK dly lod nt tlmos. but f ' other people. Pbff "f 11,0 momonl, and pincss lcoderslilp Isn't per- m is s LL IC0nrlF- """-""I. Ull III 1110, """""" mt ii i ma " nB0Ut ,n tho Sji nny. r ift iitmt re Mr. Petrl, Ctoeo cm . inuir irans- VESTvSIMPLE BUSINESS en(oLPicn ?' 'aw, If It tn'rccd, to take caro of r High h "Wed Egypt 5- Pob. 22 mo-. hiiDoni 1 troops and Br it , hkepl cl0S(5 8unrd " Wei-n , "'"uusninonis m Tl.te(! represent Inc. fn but nvoltl further M 'r J rlnnoi,riccd British toi, ,lrng on tho domon- !lsht . ri"y communlaue raffl't-hafl boon iure on u, ""'"'or! to "oftuatd 1 1 t,-,m"nstrntors Unci. 1110 Uvea of Brllisli to GM Strike Moves Near Showdown Dewey Expects To Get ; Definite Answer By Midnight By The Associated Press Fresh disputes bobbed up on the nation's labor sccno today but the 04 day old General Mo tors strike moved nearer a show down on all Issues still in dis pute. Special Federal Mediator James F. Dewey said In Detroit lie expected to net n definite "yes" or "no" unswer from man auement and union by midnight on nil issues. When representatives of the corporation and the CIO United Auto Workers resumed neiiotlu lions earlier In tho dtiy, Dewey said ho expected thu parties to reach an agreement by midnight. However, when tho meeting was recessed for lunch, Dewey said lie had not intended to imply a settlement might bo expected by Hint time. The UM slriko of 173,000 pro duction workers was one of tho first mujor work sloppuges to upset reconversion schedules af ter V-J Day and has shut off more than halt of the nation's potential production of new mo torcars. Wane Issue Dewey and UAW Vice Presi dent Walter P. iieuther uiirued that the wugo issue still was a major stumbling block, with the union Indicating it was holding out for the ltti cents un hour boost recommended by a presi dential fact-findlnu board. GM has offered Ids cents. Dewey said ' several moro tilings remutned to dc seined. Otherwise tho labor picture remained gloomy, however, with U7U,uuu still Idle in strikes and new controversies ncaring a head In tho telephone, electrical, coal and shipping Industries. A strike iitlectlnii 250.000 telephone workers has been set (or Mutch 7 by the National Fed eration of Telephone Workers' cxccutlvo board. However, the independent union officials said they will continue to meet with government officials in efforts to settle tho wago dispute. Island Scene Of Uprisings BATAVIA, Java. Feb. 22 (VP) Uprisings by natives nt six dif ferent places on Celebes island northeast of Java wero reported hero todtiy. Officials of the unrecognized Indonesian republic here said mo reported uprisings were "spontaneous" and not directed by their agents. Meanwhile, fighting continued In the industrial and railway sections of Bnndocng, Java, as British Indian troops continued an operation apparently aimed at clcnrlng Indonesians com pletely from the town. Mickey Gets A Medal f 9 tlx Mi). Gen. A. R. Boiling (left), pins the Bronse Star on T3 Mickey Rooney, young screen star, for meritorious service while entertaining troops during shell fire. The presentation was made rocently in Frankfurt,' Germany. Rooney, a member of the army's spoclal sorvices unit, expects a discharge from the service shortly. AP wlrephoto via signal, corps radio). Contest For Klamath's Two Legislative Posts Certain A contest for Klamath's two legislative posts next fall ap peared certain today when Troy Cook, potato grower and pack er, said he was sending in his filing for the republican nomin ation. Cook w a s a near-candidate two years ago for tho same nomination, lie made his filing late, and failure to send the fil ing fee threw the filing out on a technicality. Before ho could send it in after learning of the omission, tho filing date had passed. Technically, there are two re publican nominations and two democratic nominations for the legislature. Cook will run for one of the republican nomina tions, nnd Mrs. Kose M. fooie, incumbent, is also running for republican nomination. 3 Men 'Milk' Pinball Game SPOKANE, Feb. 22 (TP) Ar rested with $85 in nickels on their 'person, three men were held hero on vagrancy charges last night, after they were caught "milking" a pinball ma chine by a high powered mag net secreted up one of the men's sleeves. i Truman Urges V-Gardeners To Help Relieve Food Lack WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 (VP) The nation's victory gardeners wero called on today to dupli cate their yeoman wartime service and help relieve tho postwar global food shortages. Tho appeal came from Presi dent Trumnn who said urgent needs abroad "for food from this country emphasize the im portance of continued effort to add to our total food supply." The stringent food outlook also was stressed by Secretary of Agrlculturo Anderson In a simultaneous statement late yes terday. Ho summoned the na tion's farmers to increase their 1048 foodstuff planting by more than 3,200,000 acres. "The situation," ho declared, "calls for a continued all-out production effort" even. though this "will monn a heavy strain on tho soil and a delay in farm ers' reconversion toward a ncacctlmo pattern of soil man agement." In congress, meanwhile, price aspect of food products vied for attention, with subsidies and ceilings to the foro. Two rcmiblican soiwlors Taft of Ohio and Ilickcnlooper of Iowa suggested to newsmen that a program should be con sidered now for "tapering off" food subsidies, currently costing the government $1,500,000,000 annually, Both said they are opposed in principle to peacetime subsidies but are apprehensive that it would be an economic shock to the country if subsidies were cut off overnight. Hence, they thought it might be wiser to end them gradually. Elimination of subsidies would mean higher price signs in the grocery stores. The subsidy on butter, for instance, is about 15 cents a pound; that on meat about 6 cents a pound. OPA ceilings also came un der attack today by beet sugar processors, who claim they are not allowed what they are en titled to under the price con trol act and the stabilization act. Senator Murdock (D-Utah), from sugnr beet country, was not too optimistic that proces sors would be able to increase the consumer supply of sugar this year. ? Henry Semon, Incumbent, Is candidate for democratic nom ination. If . there is no other democratic candidate, one of the republicans probably will also get the democratic nomination However it all comes out in the primary, presence of more than two candidates means a contest in the general election in . the fall We present oros' pect being a contest among Se mon, Mrs. Poole and Cook for the two jobs. Cook is a native of Klamath county. He operates potato packing set-ups at Hager and M a 1 i n, and also is a potato grower. He has a wife, two children, and lives at 939 Si-dorado. Vork Return Deadline Set PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. 22 IJPt A deadline which, if CIO union checkers failed to return to work as requested, would mean cancel lation of their contract and par alysis ot waiertront activity here, has been postponed to Mon day. The Waterfront Employers as sociation, which originally set the deadline at 5 p. m. yesterday, extended it to 8 a. m. Monday. Employers have stipulated that checkers resume their obs on the basis of the number set by ship operators. Since January 27 the dispute over the number of cargo check ers to be hired has idled the Boise Victory of tho Hawaiian American Steamship company. Sugar Loaf Road Will Be Rebuilt ALTURAS, Calif., Feb. 22 (P) According to a telephone mess age received from Sacramento Wednesday, tho California state highway commission allocated $250,000 to be used , in the re construction of the highway be tween New Pine Creek and Davis Creek.: It is planned to use prison labor in the construction. A barracks will be built at a cost of $75,000. Fifty prisoners and 18 free men will be used. The money allocated will have to be used in 1946-47. When com pleted, the road will have a four per cent grade. This is the road over Sugar Loaf mountain that has been frequently mentioned in news and editorial comment in Ore gon and California papers re cently, It is a section of' US 305. I House OK's Bill To Curb Music Head Decision On How Far To Carry Measure Up To Group WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 IM A congressional decision on how far to go in trying to curb James C. Petrillo's powers over radio broadcasting rested largely today with a senate-house conference committee. The house last night passed, 222 to 43, a bill aimed directly at authority wielded by the fiery president of the American Feder ation of Musicians. The senate approved a much milder measure on the same sub ject a year ago. Accordingly, the task of drafting legislation acceptable to both chambers is set to go to a joint committee. Later both house and senate will vote on the committee's version. Measure Backed Rep. Lea (D-Calif.), author of the house-passed bill, predicted the senators would go along with most provisions of his measure. It would outlaw the use of force, threats "or other means" to compel radio stations to pay tribute to unions for using phon ograph records. It also would prohibit any. ac tion to. require broadcasters to employ more workers than need ed or to halt foreign programs or any type of non-commercial, educational or cultural offering. Violators would be subject to a year's imprisonment or a $1000 tine, or Dotn. 'Terror Plot' Brings Arrest BUENOS AIRES. Feb. 22 (VP) Argentine police said today that a number of men had been ar rested and a large quantity of arms seized in what was de scribed as a terroristic plot" to cause trouble before the Sunday general election. Authorities asserted that cap tured documents showed the group planned a "terroristic" se ries of uprisines in Buenos Aires. The police did. not immediate ly identity the group with any political party, but contended that among tnose neia were sev eral known to be communists. The communist party has been supporting Jose Tamborini, op ponent ot (-.01. i'aui .peron tor tne presidency. Russ Tanker Breaks Apart WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (P) The navy said today- its Adak office had reported a Russian tanker, with men and women aboard, has broken up about 360 miles southeast of that Aleutian base. The after-half of the vessel was reported still afloat, the navy added. The American tanker Puente Hills sighted the section of the Soviet ship, with at least 25 per sons aboard, and reported it was attempting to tow the wreck to port. The Puente Hills said she was unable to learn the name of the Soviet tanker or whether the for ward half of the ship might also still be afloat. Notables Will View Barracks Preparations were complete today for visits to Klamath Falls . Saturday of representa tives of the state emergency board and the state board of higher education, here to look over the Marine Barracks plant with a view to usine it as a veterans' educational center. Governor Earl Snell, who has been much interested in the project here, will arrive Satur day morning to spend the day here. v George Aiken, state budget director, was expected to come with members of the emergency board, of which Henry Semon, Klamath Falls, is a member. Charles Byrne, secretary of the state board of higher education, will bring the education group here in his own car. Signs Bill HMHUI.I,. 1IIL IJJJ.ilJ.IU, nj President Truman holds the pens with which he signed the full employment bill, making it a function of the government. by advance planning and pre ventive legislation, to try to prevent prolonged periods of unemployment. NEA telephoto. Local Yoman Struck By Car Mrs. Leslie B. Wright. 43. of 438 High, was rushed to Klam ath Valley hospital for examina tion and treatment of injuries after she was struck by a car driven by Stanley . Grate, Cop co employe residing at 2540 Or chard, at 5th and Main about 6 o'clock last night. She received a back injury and her condition at the hospital to day was termed good. City police arrested Grate at the scene of the accident and charged him with failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. He posted $25 bail and is to ap pear in court tomorrow. Mrs. Wright is employed In the ready-to-wear department of Moe's store on Main. She had just finished work and had started home yesterday when the accident occurred. Grate, police said, was making a left tirrn off N. 5th onto Main after stopping at the traffic sign there. Mrs. Wright stepped off the curb to cross Main street when tile car struck her, knock ing her to the pavement. The car was traveling' slowly in low gear, the police report said. Grate stopped immediate ly and assisted in taking Mrs. Wright into Moe's store until the Merchants-Police ambulance ar rived. Grate said that he did not see Mrs. Wright until his car hit her. 439 Believed Dead In Blast HERFORD, Germany, Feb. 22 (fP) British and German au thorities abandoned rescue work at shattered Grimberg mine near Kamen today and said as many as 439 miners may have lost their lives in the explosion that occurred two days ago. The decision that further rescue efforts were useless was reached at a meeting of the management, workers and mine Inspectors at the pithead and work started immediately on sealing the shaft with cement. Death Toll May Number 50 Or More Navy Mutineers Clash With British; 250 Hurt By G. MILTON KELLY BOMBAY, Feb. 22 (9:35 p. m.) IP) Rioting swept on unchecked despite a strict curfew in Bom bay tonight after a day of bloody tumult in which at least 50 per sons were believed killed and 250 wounded. City-wide disorder met with machinegun and rifle fire from troops and police. British Tom mies with heavy artillery and tanks, as well as planes and warships converged on the city of 1,400,000 to put down what Deputy Police Commissioner A. E. Caffin called a state of "ab solute rebellion." The disorders were touched off by a mutiny of nearly 12,000 sailors of the Royal Indian navy, mainly In the Bombay area. Force Surrender At Karachi parachute troopers used rifles, mortars and field guns to force surrender of the mutinous crew of the HMIS Hin dustan after 25 minutes of action in which the sailors fired the sloop's four-inch. guns. , Four of the seamen were killed and 26 injured. In Bombay rebellious seamen were still in control of 10 small war vessels, although they were making no move toward, nostu-itv. A British communique" said one British soldier had been slightly wounded in forcing the Hindustan to run up the white flag at Karachi, while two mer chant navy otricers ano two Brit ish sailors were injured in the Bombay riots when military ve hicles were attacked. The communique said two British regiments, the . second Leicester and the first Essex, had been moved into the city to assist in restoring order. Fire on Mobs Rifle and machinegun fire crackled in many sections against mobs which beat, stoned and knifed their victims, set fire to police and military trucks and private cars, smashed store and bank windows and looted. Hundreds of British Tommies poured into the city in trucks and armored cars with orders to fire as occasion demanded. A heavy force of bomber planes ar rived at airfields ringing the city. In the harbor mutinous Indians still in control of a flotilla of 10 small warcraft were faced by the advance guard of a strong royal navy force ordered here to put down the mutiny. Heavy artil lery was being sent to the city. Escaped Convict Robs Lunch Room PORTLAND, Feb. 22 (VP) A iHpntified as the life termer who broke from the state penitentiary last ween robbed a lunch counter last nleht. holdine eieht patrons at gunpoint. The bandit, accompanied by another armed man. took $40 from the till, $20 from one customer, and $2 from another. Four of the customers later viewed a 10-vear-old picture of Alio T UnmflplH pnnvintpd murderer who escaped from the penitentiary, ana aeciarea mat he was the robber. Washington's Words Sound Again In Halls Of Congress By The Associated Press The nation observed George Washington's 214th birthday an niversary in traditional fashion today, with Doth houses of the national congress setting the pace by listening to a reading of the famous farewell address. Directed to .the people of the. United States," ' the address was delivered September 17, 1796 to announce that the na tion's first president declined to be considered for a third term. Again, as on each anniversary of his birth, these words of Washington sounded in the halls of congress: "The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. it is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real in dependence; , the support of your tranquility at home; your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize . . ." The day started a long week end for workers who do not have Saturday duties, and the normal number of these was swelled as many financial markets and other businesses usually operat ing on Saturday declared that day also as a holiday. President Truman boarded his yacht, the USS Williamsburg, during the day for a weekend on the Potomac, ; . Before he left, Lt. Col. James H. Batte, White House military aide, placed a , presidential wreath at the base of the Wash ington monument. - Veterans organizations placed wreaths on Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon. National Com mander John Steele led the American Legion's observance there. Stiff Opposition May Make Confirmation Impossible By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 Senate democrats eager to avoid a possible party splitting vota appeared today to be pursuing a twin line of strategy aimed at withdrawal of Edwin Pauley'i nomination as under secretary of the navy. One democratic senator who says he is inclined to doubt the wisdom of the appointment but hasn't said so publicly told a re porter he has been urged by his party colleagues to make a state ment similar to one by Senator Stewart (D-Tenn.) calling on Pauley to step out of the fight. The strategy, as this senator explained it, involves an attempt to convince the former demo cratic national treasurer that enough democrats are lined up against him to make confirma tion impossible. Pauley has con tended that he can be confirmed, despite indications that any such result is extremely doubtful. - Integrity Questioned The nominee has insisted that since his integrity has been ques tioned in testimony, before the senate naval committee,- the senate itself must decide the is-. sue. i The second democratic move afoot is one which its sponsor! believe might make it easier for Pauley to withdraw with face saving all around. These legislators said they thought it might be possible to obtain from the naval commit tee once Pauley asked official ly for withdrawal of his name a summation of evidence finding that the charges against him had not been- substantiated. Chief Accusation Chief accusation is that by former Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, who .testified Pauley suggested to him in 1944 that $300,000 in democratic campaign funds could be raised from oil men if the government did not press its claim-to owner ship of tidelands oil areas. . .. Any committee action of this kind probably would find re publican' members in violent Op position. And sponsors of . the plan acknowledged that they are not at all certain all of the demo crats would go along. There ar il democrats and seven republi cans on the committee. Chinese Press Plant Wrecked CHUNGKING, Feb. 22 (ff) The three story downtown office and book store of the communist New China Daily News- was wrecked today. Intruders smashed all furn iture and tossed it out of win dows with fittings, personal be longings of employes and books and papers, which were torn to bits. . - Communists charged the in truders were Kuomintang (Na tional) party secret service men. They said the intruders battled communist employes from room to room and floor to floor. Two employes were hospital ized with serious injuries. Meantime, more than 10,000 Chinese students marched through Chungking streets, de manding that Russia "quit Man churia" and asking that commun ists answer five questions, in cluding "who is organizing pup pet regimes in Manchuria?" McVoy Verdict i To fie Announced WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 P)' An announcement on the find ings of the court-martial of Capt. Charles B. McVay 3rd, on charges of negligence connected with the loss of his ship, the Cruiser Indianapolis, is expected tomorrow. The navy scheduled today' a news conference on Saturday' by Admiral Chester Nimitz, chief of naval - operations, '- and Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, deputy chief, on "the McVay court-martial." In answer to questions, officials said the court's finding "probably" would be announced.' The court on December 20 cleared McVay of charges of culpable inefficiency but with held announcement on a charge that he was negligent because he failed to follow a zigzag course through an area where submarines might be encountered. Arriving In United States By The Associated Press ; Charles Bremer, Li, Klam ath Falls, arriving on Altoona Victory due in Seattle Febru ary 23. . .i