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Newspaper Page TextINTl D m ME tte.MM..,.,.M .... Sy PRANK JENKINS EADL1N1S ilay jxiancH without ' an explosion. Iran offers to let UNO put the ranian eosu buck Into I ho re rlgerutor provided Russia will Ive sauninveN thut her troops 111 jhu wltlulrnwii from the ountry UNCONDITIONALLY y Mny 0. Rumln tells UNO that troop IthdiuwiiU from I run arn not ondltloiiul on other negotla lont'over matters ouch na oil ond lie like. (Both tluiK comply with UNO'a maud for mi answer of aomo ort y today.) t P' John M. lllglitowcr (a Quito well-Informed young lanlaaya In H dlanatch from Now fork thin morning: "Thin wun malhly tho BREAK thut ovory lodjt him been working for." . rtffl relief wo all frol at this - development la admittedly he Jiinio ii n when wo go to the lenti.it'a office to liuvo nn aching ooth pulled ii nil FIND THE JISTIST OUT. Tho Iran issue Is an aching ooth. Sooner or Inter, some hlnfi will have to be dono bout It. Mill, If we can postpone the lolni! until the world la In owwhut leas exploitive condi 1- tho chnnees of getting out if the Jam without ahoollng will s Better. I . ' f the present moment, people fin a atattgerlngly largo area Vo world ure hungry and Jterlena and havo no Joba and mii out! v no future. In auch t'taood, they huvo little to loau nd maybe something to gain out if ruckus. So. If we can nostnone dc lkms for awhile It may bo Jer to find SOLUTIONS. very doctor knowj there are lmi when a uuio delay la good olho patient. 'lltEECE la a fnlrly good ex amnio of tho atnto of the vol Id. Nearly 23 per cent of her lulldinua are destroyed. Nearly 0per cent of her families ure Wiles or living in temporary idvela. Agriculture (alwaya Jrtcce's mainstay) la badly out ifjjnlnl. Some 430.000 Grccka irf dead by war, pestilence and arvatlon. Her economic level, Ktycr very high, la at one of Ita eat point in lilNtory. o don't blnme the Greek a if ill tho recent election tlicy aimed to favor return to a nfnurchy h en d e d by King 3orgo II. In their minds, mon rehy is associated with BETTER .&IES In the pant. It um't un iturnl that they ahould be t)ling to return to ANYTHING htt might bring bock some eniblancc of better times. We're all human, you know. 30T only America but moat of 1 the world la In tho kind of li where It seems to the average nan that a period of peace and wcsperlty might be worth AL 40ST ANYTHING it might coat. 5'coplo oro apt to feci that way ill long as they havo ANY hope aft. (When they lose ALL HOPE tk out! TBtESIDENT TRUMAN tells his k news confcrcnco that produc Ion for civilians "Is higher to . than ever before in the na Ittn's history and is still going fj'hat Is hopeful, for It Indicates lint a majority of Americans ft' basically sound. In spite of U the Industrial shooting, tncy live been going ahead steadily lAildlno un PRODUCTION vfilch, after nil, Is the only cure or whnl alls us. lAll the other stuff we've been itnrlng so much about Is Just Tnporary paln-klllor. Illustrates something else Milch all thoughtful news Ipcr peoplo arc acutely aware iNews SPECIALIZES ON THIS USUAL, The unusual li en BAD. So, you see, the picture you t from the headlines in the rfjpcrs and the news commcntn. urs on the air is apt to SEEM JORSE than tho facts warrant. I AVING admitted the beam In our own eye. let us now call onuon to the mote in vours it you ore rigidly honest, you ii pcrnans admit that when ii read the papers you are apt iook at tnc neaauncs toning crime, Rnnnrlnl nnH nnrmntlnri iRST and sometimes oven over Jik the always large volume (JUNSTKUUTIVE. hODCfUl ws In tho papers. States Push Jocks Ahead I By The Associated Praaa ii'lve stales and parts of 18 icrs will observe daylight sav- H timn hpfftnnlntr Anl-11 9A I'ilo the remainder will con ue on standard time. Among the cities which will sh their clocks ahead one hour 2 ow York, Boston, Buffulo, 'Icago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, "ml, Loulsv 1 1 1 c, Newark, firlcstnn nnrt Tnrilnnnnnllo But Knnafta Pllu Knn Prtn. fco, Seattle, Dallas,' Dcs Moines, "puis, Milwaukee, Mlnneapo Salt r.nlrn rn nn,.L loenix and Pnrtlnnrf. rm .ulll lore tha change. i Tidal Wave Death Toll Now At 176 Weary Searchers Find 7 More Bodies At Ravaged Hilo By DON WHITEHEAD HONOLULU, April 8 (If) The multi-million dollar debris of seismic wave ravaged Hilo yielded seven more bodies to duy us weary volunteers, spurred by a threat of contagion, continued their unccuslng search. Tha earth-nuukc-horn disturb ancenow subsided took pos- suiiy iyu uvea us it pounded shores from the Aleutians to Ha waii, to California und to Peru. The territorial government of these hardest-hit Islands, rushing the roundup of 0UIJ0 fresh dia pers und huge stocks of food for doaolulccl Hilo, found time to eli cit a pledge of U. S. priorities for the vast rebuilding task ahead. Damage roao Into mil llona of dollars, und most Insur ance policies did nut cover wuvc destruction. Territorial Toll Tho territorial toll of 70 (lend and (13 missing Included: Hilo and tho Island of Hawaii 33 dead and 73 missing; Kauul 12 and six: Maul aevcu and five, nnd Oahu flvo and one. All bodies had been identified. Added to thcao were 10 pro aumcd deaths in the Aleutians und ono each in California and Peru. An estimated 4000 Hawalians were homeless. Pacific fleet headquarters re ported It was In radio contact with all Pacific ialunds on which there were U. S. naval Installa tions, and that it had no reports of any loss of life. The army also hod no reports of deaths. DA-Judge Tiff Grows Hotter By HALE SCARBROUGH The open split between Cir cuit Judge Duvld R. Vandun berg and District Attorney Clar ence A. Humble, opponents In the coming judicial election, was widening today as both men- stated to the press their view of recent criminal case dispositions in circuit court. Humble said yesterday that the Judge's action In throwing cases out of court was an at tempt "to discredit the district attorney" and today Vnndcn berg said "I am not Interested in the record of any man In this court. I'm Interested only 1 n that the Indictment be proper, be proven In court and that the state of Oregon and the defendant have a fair trial." Comments from the two can didates ran like this: Been Upheld Going bnck to the A. W. Downs trial, which was dis missed by Judge Vandcnbcrg because of what was termed a "faulty indictment," Humble said thnt the Indictment used was a statutory form and would have been upheld In the su preme court. "The court has ruled repeat edly that a stotutory Indict ment, set up by legislation, Is in good form." Humble stated. Of the Nettle Belle Lu.sk con tributing to the delinquency of a minor trial, which was dis missed when 14-year-old Flor enco Lusk refused to testify be cause what she might say would Incriminate her, the district at torney said that the girl could not possibly hnve been prose cuted for what testimony she might have given. She had had a hearing In (Continued An Tuft I, Column &) m mm lttr$ WEATHER NEWS April I Mk. fAprll 43 Mln.....Sl Precipitation lait t4 faoari. Stream year ! date....-..,. Normal. 9.27 Lait year. Forecast; Lifht showers. .11.19 7.8 a PRICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 3. 194S (Telephone 8111) Number 10783 5 REM BREAK mm STUTE PE RR Workers Given Hike Of 16 Cents CHICAGO, April 3 (P) Two arbitration boards today award ed wago Increase equivalent to 10 cents an hour to approxi mately 1,220,000 railroad work ers represented by 18 brother hoods. In each case tho wage hike was retrouctive to January 1, 1IM0. A six-man board awarded 10 cents an hour to members of 13 unions of non-operating em ployes, numbering some 1,000, 0110 who originally asked for 30 cents an hour. Their spokesman, Bert M. Jewell, said immediately the award was "wholly unsatisfac tory'' ond they would demand more. The public and union mem bers of the non-operating board signed the award but the two railroad management members did not. There was no immedi ate explanation. A three-man board awarded an Increase of $1.28 a day for a basic day, equivalent to 10 cents an hour for un eight-hour day, to about 120,000 members of three operating brotherhoods, the firemen and cnglncmen, conductors and switchmen, who hud asked for $2.50 a day. Richard F. Mitchell of the Iowa supreme court, chairman of the board in the operating case, signed the award, but Carl J. Goff, Cleveland, assistant president, Brotherhood of Lo comotive Firemen and Engine men signed It but marked his signature "dissent." Goff said he would have a statement iatcr. High Surf Danger Over KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 3 ()') Rumors and tidal wave scares were squelched lost night for Alaskan and Aleutian resi dents as an official press release was issued by the commander of the Alaskan sea frontier at Kodluk, saying in effect there is no further dunger. The statement said that all ob servations indicate "the force of tho tidal wave Is completely spent in all sections of the Aleu tians." No further effect or recur rence of the wave is expected, the release added, and it said the navy "denies all responsibility for the groundless and panic breeding rumors widely dissemi nated with such harmful effect both in Alaska and In the Con tinental United States." Tho Associated Press did not carry such rumors. The navy statement asked that "In tho future all concerned with the dissemination and pub lication of news relative to naval installations in the Alaskan Aleutian area refrain from ac tion until official and accurate reports havo been received." 2 Cons Flee Death House; 1 Fugitive Still At Large WASHINGTON, April 3 (If) Joseph D. Medley, one of two convicted slayers who escaped from the death row of the Dis trict of Columbia jail and fled in guards' uniforms, was cap tured eight hours later today. The other fugitive, Earl Mc Farland, remained at large. The 44-year-old Medley, Im plicated by police In the deaths of three red-haired women, was seized In an Anncostn, river boat house on the outskirts of Wash ington. Police quoted him as saying: "You can't blame a guy for trying and I'm going to try again. I'm glad nobody was hurt." Muj. Harvey G. Callahan, po lice superintendent, led the cap ture squad. The guards were left locked In cells when tho two killers slipped down a bed-sheet rope from a fourth floor skylight. Tho condemned men, Joseph D. Medlov. 44. and Earl McFor- land, 24, overpowered the guards at 4:18 a. m., Police Cnpt. George Little said, and then calmly spent 45 minutes preparing to flee. At 5 a. m. one of them called the guard captain nnd re ported all well in the cell block. Then they let themselves down from the roof of tho three- story jail on a rope of twisted sheets, stole a car bearing Mary land license plates, and drove away, police said. Police were stopping automo biles lcuvlng the city, and scan ning the occupants. They said they were trying to block every exit. Two cruising policemen in a squad car saw the sheets at 5:25 a. m., and informed the jailers. H. C. Davis, one of the guards, said he was checking the death house when Medley asked him for a cigarette. When Davis ap proached the bars, he said, Med ley drew a gun and advised him: "Open this door or I'll blow your head off." Davis complied. Then the other guard, Oscar C. Sandcrlin, walked into the cell block and also was overpowered. Both were forced to give up their guns and uniforms; Medley wont to McFarland's cell and released him. Medley, then a fugitive from tho Michigan stnte penitentiary, was found guilty of killing Mrs. Nancy Boyer after a poker game In her luxurious apartment on March 6, 1945. McFnrlnnd, a marino veteran of tho Guadal canal campaign, was convicted of the rnpc-slnying of Miss Doro thy Berrum, 18-year-old govern ment worker, on October 5, 1944. Land Given For Moore Park Extension Clara A. and Mary L. Moore have presented to tho city land for an extension of Moore park, shown In the above map within the dotted line boundaries. PRESENT ! J I - AovnoM v H i Aoornou j , i , I I CherruiltBeats KF At Own Game Chcmult, little northern Klamath county town, stole the limelight today in the Klamath County chamber of commerce membership campaign. To the amazement of the chamber officials, Frank Hash of Chcmult arrived In town with the membership applications of 18 residents of the northern Klamath That put Hash In a tie with Bill Kunz and Maurice Miller of Klamath Falls in the chamber's campaign. Members obtained by Hash and his wife, Myrtle, in clude William N. Hash, Les Davis, G. C. Palmer, G. W. Damon, Elmer Coffman, W. W. Knight, Hope Brader, O. E. Farrls, Hugh Portor and Robert Daniels, Chemult; R. E. McCaw, E. M. Negus, Dick Dale, J. H. Robertson, Tom Negus, Crescent; Joe Vellavance, Beaver Marsh; John Friesen, Mowlch; C. L. Snodgrass, Crescent Lake. Aofto To v.. V Klamath Donated Tract Of 250 Acres As Moore Park Addition The city park board announced today that Clara A. Moore and Mary L. Moore have given to the city of Klamath Falls a tract of 250 acres as an addition to Moore park. The new area adjoins the original park boundary on the south and extends along the hill overlooking Link river nearly to Riverside school. It is covered with timber, brush and Klamath wild plum and will greatly increase the primitive area of the park. Tho original donation of land for a city park was made in 1920 by Rufus S. Moore, his wife, Clara A. Moore, and Mary L. late OPA Decontrol Measure OK'd WASHINGTON, April 3 (AP) An amendment to the OPA act to require removal of price con trols in various fields as supply comes Into balance with demand was approved, 20 to 3, today by the house banking committee. The action would place squarely on President Truman the decisions as to when various controls shall be eliminated by stripping OPA of a large part of decontrol authority. Approval of the amendment proposed by Rep, Brown (D-Ga.) came after the committee reject ed, 15 to 9, a substitute amend ment by Rep. Wolcott (R-Mlch.), senior republican on the com mittee. This would have left de control decisions largely in the hands of industry advisory com mittees. The Brown amendment, which would provide for abolition of price controls not later than June 30, 1947, is still subject to action by the house and senate. Mahoney Named To Trial Post WASHINGTON, April 3 (If) Appointment of Willis Mahoney, Oregon democrat defeated for the senate in 1944 by Guy Cor don, to be special assistant to Joseph Keenan, chief prosecutor of war criminals in Japan, was announced by the war depart ment today. Mahoney has maintained a law office hero with Keenan for many years. He will leave Fri day for' Japan. Moore, the widow of the Charles S. Moore, and included 114 acres of land. Before this grant was made, Rufus S. Moore asked the opinion of his friend, Jotyi McLaren, "the little gar dener with the green thumb" who planned and executed the landscaping of Golden Gate park in San Francisco. Mc Laren, who always worked with nature and obtained a natural effect, saw the possibilities of the site and declared it a won derful location for a park. With a wide frontage on Up per Klamath lake, the ground rises to the south over open meadow and timber and affords an exceptional panorama of the lake and mountains to the north. The natural features of the park have been exploited in de veloping the original area, and during the summer thousands of visitors enjoy the wide lawns, picnic grounds, tennis courts and a system of paved roads and forest trails. The gift of the additional land, just announced, which will Increase the primitive area of the park, will be developed by the park board by working with nature, preserving the na tive shrubs and flowers and protecting and encouraging wild life. Foot paths and trails, will make this area accessible to visitors, who will find Indian paint brush, lupin, wild orange honeysuckle, purple larkspur, shooting star, wild columbine, pentstemon and many other wild flowers in their natural setting. The Link river canyon is a great fishing place for the white pelicans, and ducks, geese nnd other wild fowl are plentiful. Scenic Drive A scenic loop drive, under construction by the city plan ning commission, will round out the project. This drive, from (Continued on Pact i, Column 1J Firing Squad Drops Nomina MANILA, April 3 (IP) Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, a black hood over his head Jind a white target over his heart, died before a U. S. army firing squad early this morning, calm and silent to the end. The stocky Japanese, who was General MacArthur's foe in the 1942 battle of the Philippines, died for ordering the death march on Bataan and condoning widespread atrocities in the Philippines. Mrs. Homma was reported ill of typhus in Tokyo Imperial University hospital. The Hom mas' daughter, Michiko, told Kyodo news agency: "The news of the execution of my father took a weight off my mind as I have pitied (grieved because of) father's irritation in awaiting execution." Dies at 1 A. M. The execution took place "at Los Banos, 20 miles south of Manila, at about 1 a. m. It was there that Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita had been hanged in disgrace. Homma had headed the Japanese in victory in the Philippines Yamashita In de feat. Thirty minutes after Homma died, Lt. Gen. Hikotaro Tajima was hanged for the atrocity slaying of three American naval fliers In May, 1944. THAT'S ITI NUERNBERG, April 3 ((IP) Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel said at his war crimes trial to day that a typical German army staff meeting could be summed up in these words: "Hitler arrived, talked and left." ' 3 Captured; Police Seek Remaining 2 SALEM, April 3 (IP) Two more of the five young convicts who broke from the state peni tentiary last night were recap tured here today. Gordon D. Jones and Wayne Le Roy Long were found hiding under a holly bush on 14th and Chemeketa streets by Police Chief Frank Minto and Patrol man George Edwards. One of the men, Henry Floyd Brown, 18, serving 10 years for assault with a dangerous wea pon in Clackamas county, was arrested here late last night. 'The five men sprang a bar over a window on the prison's first floor and scaled a 12-foot fence last night. Two gasoline filled jars with rag wicks, which Warden George Alexan der said were apparently in tended to be thrown at the guard tower if the guard had noticed the men, were found near the fence. Roads Blocked The quintet escaped while re turning to their cells after the weekly prison show. After their absence was discovered at the night check, police blocked roads leading out of Salem and began scouring the vicinity. The escaped prisoners, be sides Brown, were: Byron Neal Dyson, 21, serv ing life term; Glenn Wilson, 21, serving 11 -year term; Wayne Le Roy Long, 21, serving eight year term; Gordon Donald Jones, 15, serving 11-year term: No Clues Warden Alexander said the 100 guards and police officers who were searching for the men didn't have even a clue on which to work. He said "we've had just a bunch of bum ru mors." The five men went over the fence in full view of a guard stationed in a tower on the prison wall. Alexander said that the guard in the tower was inexperienced, having worked only a few days. Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., and State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, board of con trol members who went to the prison last night after the break, said the bricks in which the bars had been set had been loosened. They suspect a con vict who had been washing the windows with loosening the bricks. Patterson Backs Draft Extension WASHINGTON, April 3 (IP) Secretary of War Robert P. Pat terson told senators today the present "world emergency" will last through 1946 and urged a year's extension of selective serv ice beyond May 15. His appeal was backed up by Secretary of Navy James V. For- restal who told the senate mili tary committee "we cannot be unmindful of the facts that the world is not at peace. Reds Must Promise To Pull Troops May 6 Designated As Deadline For Russ Withdrawal NEW YORK, April 3 (IP) Iran offered today to let the United Nations security council shelve the Iranian case temporarily provided Russia would give as surances that Russian troops would be withdrawn from the country unconditionally by May 6. The council, having received last minute replies from both Russia and Iran to its inquiries of last f riclay on the state of negoti ations between them, then ad journed at 11:46 a. m. EST until 11 a. m. tomorrow. Russia said that troop with drawals from Iran were not con ditional on other negotiations with Iran over such matters as oil and the like. Gromyko Absent Troops will be out of the country within a month and a half, the council was informed in the message from Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, who however continued his boycott of the Iranian discussion by not actual ly attending tne meeting. Iran, in a letter from Ambas sador Hussein Ala, advised that negotiations with Russia, in ac cord with a council decision at London, had failed, that Russian interference in Iranian affairs had continued, that Russia had made demands parellel with her troop withdrawals but that above all Iran wants a friendly peaceful settlement of the situa tion. American Secretary of State James F. Byrnes asked Ala what he would suggest. The action packed meeting, expected to pro duce dramatic results of one sort or another ever since the coun cil voted its inquiries to Mos cow and Tehran and adjourned last Friday, had reached its ap parent climax. Answer "If the Soviet representative,'.' Ala said, "would be willing to withdraw the condition of un usual circumstances which he attached to the withdrawal of troops and give the security council assurance of withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Iran effective May 6 at the "latest, Iran would be willing not to press for further consideration of the mat ter before the security council at this time, provided the mat ter was retained on the agenda." This was possibly the break that everybody had been work ing for. Evidently to avoid letting it get tied up in parlia mentary snarls of the kind which so many council meetings have produced, Dr. Quo sudden ly stopped all discussion by ad journing the council until tomorrow. KF Man On Jap Defense Counsel YOKOHAMA, April 3 ((IP) Two Japanese, charged with re sponsibility for the beheading of a B-29 bombardier and the bayonetting of the dead body of another, will go on trial before an eighth army military tribunal Friday. Defense counsel includes Lt. Richard F. Igl, 2034 Fremont street, Klamath Falls, Ore. The defendants are Capt. Ma saaki Mabuchi, charged with or dering the execution of Lt. Dar win R. Emery of Denver, and Lt. Jutaro Kikuohi, accused of bayonetting the dead body of another B-29 flier. Richard Igl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Igl, and the hus band of Phyllis Collier Igl, all of Klamath rails. Prices Of Dairy Products Likely To Be Raised Soon WASHINGTON, April 3 (IP) Retail prices for milk, butter and cheese are "quite likely" to be increased soon, government officials predicted today. Both OPA and the agriculture department have recommended increases, and their proposals are being studied by the office of economic stabilization, accord ing to these officials who with held use of their names. "The whole question of how much the increases may be is still very much up in the air," said one official, "but in the case of milk a jump of about a half cent a quart looks about right." An increase of that amount for milk, he added, would mean a hike of about six cents a pound for butter and about three cents for cheese. There has been no decision whether any milk price increase will be nationwide. There is a possibility it may be authorized only for the so-called deficit pro ducing areas the south and the Pacific and Atlantic coast areas but not in the midwest, the center of dairy production. . OPA and the agriculture de partment have recommended dairy product price boosts pri marily to try to check declining production and, if possible, to in crease output of fluid milk. A secondary reason, officials said, is a decision that something has to be done about strikes and threats of strikes in the indus try In the last few weeks OPA has received scores of applica tions for price increases, many of them prompted by imminent work stoppages. Rather than continue to handle these on an emergency area-by-arca basis, the govern ment has decided there probably will have to be a fairly general price adjustment. Officials said milk production is dropping off principally be cause increased labor and feed costs are causing farmers to trim their dairy herds. "It seems pretty apparent thai price increases are warranted to offset these higher prices," an official said. He added that in the case ol butter, the basic trouble is thai cream is being diverted to other, more profitable products. To change this, OES Is considering an order that would put crearr for manufactured products undei price control for the first-time Another possibility is the res toration of wartime controli which restricted the use ; cream.