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LA Ml Ml Tunes From The Gay Nineties FRANCISCO, April 10 Pretty, blonde Virginia whose body clad only lies was found on a hotel after a cay weekend. ntly had succeeded in ittcmpt at suicide, Police it Alvm Lorrasa raid iFeriucd to the 21 -year-old Jrymen Ask A Abolition EM. Aprl 10 (VP) A group .Marion, Polk and Linn dairymen demanded to- !t the OPA be abolished, i! that it has been "dem i beyond a doubt that A has been unable to e prices in the dairy In ;ind to promote necessary jtion of dairy products." met last night at the ant of the Dairy Cooper- Association and adopted tlution, sending it today on's congressional dcle- rcsolution also charged Be OPA price policy is dairy farmers out of y. and will result in milk iff the market. They also led equalization in the If butterfat between the id and Salem areas, ex- k that Portland producers fe cents more a pound for juttcrfat. e Talked 3ig Money I FRANCISCO, April 10 ifred Leonard Cline, el- ripture quoting ex-con- trial for forgery even as 1 jury investigated the death of his former was pictured today as a n lamed volubly ol thou- aonars. Kline, an Oakland real man, drew the picture fenuant as a prosecution but hastened to add he his name with a "K" p no relation to Cline. testified, under question Prosecutor Norman El that in 1045 the de told him he wanted to 1 estate that he recently kived a stock dividend of ban S200.000 and that he K0,000 bank account in Bncisco as well as owning ounuing m umcago. harqe Filed abbing Case pe Hunt of Sprague fwho suffered deep stab Seariy rriday evening at e following an altcrca s reported improving at Valley hospital. 1 Indian Officer Willis said today from Sprague at Hunt's wife. Trossia. fclh Indian, had told him ust have hit Castine nd said the twn had P'l. Pankey said lodav had been called to the me the night before the E and Tressia had been put refused to sign a com- Kiiin.si her husband. No had been filed against Hunt today, Pankey ad- City Voted Oregon Map POND, April 10 (VP) imasied a new city to fc town of Sisters. s of yeslerduy's election, on all-dav snowstorm. voters 115 to 61 in favor hioration. The town, 22 le.sl of here, has 389 rcg-olci's. nd Mri. Emil Egert, Klamath county ploneari, play two on the concert rolltr organ before donating it to amath Muitum commission. (So (tory on page 2). al Plunge Oi Scml-lSude londe Termed As Suicide girl, who plunged in darkness yesterday from a seventh-floor room to the balustrade of the balcony, a strange career in cluding two unsuccessful efforts to kill herself, an escape from a hospital for the insane and arrests for intoxication. Corrasa continued an Invest! Ration of the case but said he considered her death a suicide. He identified army Lt. H. A. Ulankonship of Atlanta, Ga. and Bcllaire, Ohio, as the occu pant of the hotel room from which the girl fell and quoted him as saying he woke and found her in the room, that she ripped off her clothes, threaten ing to jump, and leaped before he could prevent heir. iorr.ua said the hotel room was ,-liUured -with bottles and that Miss Hepburn and Blankcn ship and another army officer, Lt. Steven Ondrusek, of Bing hampton, N. Y., had made the round of night clubs during the past weekend. Dorris, Tule Vote Heavy Voters of the nearby Califor nia towns of Tulelake and Dor ris held municipal elections yes terday, with unusually heavy voting in both places. At Dorris, two write-In candi dates were elected to the citv council, along with one incum bent. The newcomers to the council are Charlai M, Flobaro, a mill superintendent, who re ceived 1BU write-In votes, and Howard Baeson. an oil company agent, who received 119 votes. Harry N. Sieman, incumbent, was re-elected to the council with 148 votes. The Dorris voters defeated Herman N. Johns, incumbent councilman, with only 52 votes, and C. E. Baldwin, another in cumbent, with 48. Floberg, Siaman and Beeion ran on a campaign promising action on civic improvements. At Tulelake. Clarence Schott the mayor, was re-elected to the council with 129 votes. Other councilmcn chosen were William Ziegler, with 120 votes, and Al Porter, incumbent, with 132. Defeated for council were A. A. Rqdtnbergar and Charlai Card. Harold Boath defeated 3ara Welch for city treasurer. Vic toria Thayar was re-elected Tulelake city clerk. The Tulelake voters defeated a measure to make the position of city clerk appointive instead of elective. The vote was 65 yes. 105 no. In Dorris the total vote was 170, while at Tulelake a total of 1S2 votes were cast. Gasket Price Lift Brings Short Joy WASHINGTON, April 10, (AP) The OPA casket man Is very sad today. "Things around here are pretty awful," said Ralph Shults. "Isn't It strange what one little letter can do?" On Monday the OPA lifted ceilings on dozens of items, In cluding gaskets. The Associated Press hustled this news along to a breathless world, but alas, In transmission the "g" became a "c." And casket makers from coast to coast were as happy as meadow larks. But not the OPA. "Tho calls we've had," sighed Shults. "From Clovcland, from Chicago, from New York, just seeking confirmation that we've Jilted the ceiling. And the PRICE FIVE CENTS Vomen Trek To Polls In Jap Election TOKYO, April 10 (AP) Twenty-five million Japanese led by a surprisingly large num ber of women who lined up early at polling places today elected a postwar government In their first free election in generations. Four parties were arrayed In the election of 4(111 members of the house of representatives the liberals and progressives, representing the conservatives in Japan's political life, and thu leftist social democrats and com munists. The few Issues were those of conservatives versus the left wing. The communists alone plumped for elimination of the emperor system. There was no indication of trend. First reports of the count are expected by late Thursday. Political experts earlier had forecast victory for conserva tives, but with no single party winning a majority of the seats at stake. The Tokyo vole was between 65 and 70 per cent of those eligible slightly higher than the confused and semi-restricted 19:17 election but considerably less than the Bfl per cent under the Hidekl Tojo coercion that marked the 11142 voting. A slightly higher trend was perceptible In several nearby rural communities. The number of women voters exceeded expectations. In Tokyo more than SO per cent of those eligible went to the polls, whereas prognosticators both male and female had expected little more than 25 per cent of them to turn out. Many who asked for ballots were unable lo vole because of mixed records and poorly co ordinated jyis(rallon, partially due to recent population shifts. Extension Of Draft Pushed WASHINGTON, April 10 (P) The house leadership signaled today for double-quick action on a bill for straightaway con tinuation of the draft until Feb ruary 15, 1947. Almost as soon as the house military committee decided In favor of this nine-month exten sion, the measure was given a preferred place on the cham ber's calendar, with debate scheduled for Friday and Sat urday and a vote hoped for be fore the weekend recess. The present law is due to ex pire exactly five weeks from today May 15, and that space leaves congress with compara tively scant elbow room should legislative tangles develop be tween house and senate over de tails of the measure to be enact ed. Indications were that the bit ter battle which preceded the committee's 15 to 8 extender recommendation late yesterday would be renewed on the house floor. But supporters of continuing selective service viewed with comfort the fact that the house vote, when it comes, probably will be a roll-call and on the sole issue of extension. Many mem bers, they believe, are fearful of voting on the record In an elec tion year against a proposal which army and administration have backed so strongly. Bulletin LONDON, April 10 fP) Prima Minister Attlae'i ' office announced that the British cabi net reached a decision at a spe cial meeting tonight to ration bread if the United States would do the same. To Casket 3ien things they said when we told them that we hncln t. Shults explained to a reporter that casket makers long have Insisted that ceilings should be abolished. Tho OPA said no. It still said no even after 200 congressmen wrolo tho OPA to check on casket ceilings. The OPA's position, as ex plained by Shults, is that if ceil ings arc removed, prices will soar. Shults said he thought every thing had begun to quiet down, And then the transmission error bobbed up, "One parting thought," said Shults, "Don't say anything about caskets having nothing to do with the co.it of living. I've heard that gag too many times before." (Talephona till) L v'TVrCtW p fJLX A ' -.4 . . iii " :. f 1t"fi''Vvr i-'-f-l-Hili-ft'r V--J i-"-'. . - - i The body of Mrs. William C. Irwin, 38, one of the victims of a quadruple slaying at Dae Molnat, la., it carried from her home by hospital attendants. The body of the family dog, Dan, 111 In the gran (arrow) where ha, too, was slain. Other victims included Mri. Irwln'i two imall children and har mother-ln-law. William O. Ir win, newspaper printer, 41. wai slightly wounded in a gun battle with police. Detective Chief Paul Caitelltne said Irwin told hlmi . , Cod had ordered me to kill my family." AP wlrephoto. Young Found Not Guilty A circuit court Jury deliber ated only 50 minutes yesterday afternoon beforo bringing In a not guilty verdict In the case of Manson James Young, retired transfer and storage operator In dicted for negligent homicide. The trial was the result of an accident which fatally Injured William II. McPherren, Klamath Falls second hand denier, at Plum and 6th In September, 1944. The prosecution maintained that Young was negligent in driving an automobile with the knowlcdgo that he was subject to attacks of epilepsy and might "black out" while at the wheel. Young's attorney, J. C. O'Neill, based his defense on a ruling made by tho California supreme court in a similar case that a person who commits a crime while unconscious, and has no knowledge of the commission of the crime, cannot be found gullly. The defendant's testimony was that he could not remember any of the circumstances of the ac cident and witnesses said that Young, Immediately following the wreck, appeared to have had a stroke or be In a daze. The Jury took tho case at 4:08 p. m. yesterday and an nounced that they hnd a verdict Just before 5 o'clock. Noel Turner was foreman of the Jury. Finney Starts . Timber Falling Timber falling operations started today on the Finney Log ging company sale at Rocky Point and logging is expected to start in about two weeks, ac cording to John Sarglnson, dis trict forest ranger, who made a trip there yesterduy. F. D. MucPherson of the en gineering department of tho U. S. forest service regional of fice in Portland, is in Klamath Falls for a couple of days check ing over engineering features pertaining to timber falling operations. It Is planned to bring In four sets of power saws for tailing, using eight men. N. I. Lewis is contractor for falling and V. J. Lovcncss, con tract logger. Forestry operations Bre gener ally hampered In most areas of the district, Sarglnson sold, by slow melting of snow, but it is possible Big Lakes Box com- finny will start operations with n the next couple of weeks, Scottish Custom Sends Cake To U. S. WASHINGTON, April 10 (AP) An old Scottish custom brought the bottom layer of a wedding cake from Scot land to the United States, and its travels aren't ended yet. The custom was explained by Home Mohr, 24, navy tech nician, who stepped off a transAtlantic plane nt Nntlonnl airport yesterday with his 20-ycnr-old Scotch bride, Bnr barn, "The Scottish custom is that the bottom layer cannot be cut until tho christening of our first child," snld Mohr, Arriving In U. S. By The Associated Preis t.romm r. Dirkiie, TSil., Klamalh FaIIh, Arriving nn l.ewlftlnn Victory due in Now York April II. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, Carry Out Victim In Quadruple Salt On Tail Snares Sparrow WAUKESHt, Wis., April 10 (V) Three-year-old Caraldine McClurg'i with, ai she watched tome birds In har back yard yesterday, was that ha had a bird for a pat. Ceraldlne'a aunt suggested har with could be fulfilled if he would go into the back yard and iprinkle a little salt on the tall of the bird she wanted. "Then." she told Caraldine, "you'll be able to catch it." The youngiter took a hand ful of salt and want to the back yard. In a few minutes she came running into har houie. shouting, and carrying a bird. As iha proudly exhibited a sparrow to her aunt, Car aldine told har iha had fol lowed har Instructions to the latter. Dock Dispute Probe Slated WASHINGTON. April 10 (,T) The labor department said today a fact-finding bonrd appointed to investigate a dispute involving Pacific const longshoremen's pay will start work here Friday. The C I O Longshoremen's union had threatened a strike of 15,000 workers for April 1 but postponed it at the request of the labor department pending the outcome of the fact-finding panel's Inquiry, Such a strike, the department said, would seriously hamper west coast ship ping. The dispute Involves a union demand for a basic wage increase from $1.15 to $1.50 per hour, overtime and vacation provisions and retroactive pay. The labor department snld Harry Bridges, union president, and Frank P., Folsle, president of the Pacific Const Waterfront Employers' association, will at tend the board's first meeting. James L. Fly, former chairman of the federal communications commission, is hend of the bonrd. Other members are Fowler V. Harper, Indiana university law professor, and Federal Judge Lloyd L. Dlnck of Washington state. Service Pay Hike Proposed WASHINGTON, April 10 (VP) A house military subcommittee recommended legislation todny to give a $400 yenrly pay raiso to all members of tho armed forces. The boost would be given to officers and enlisted men alike. The proposed increase is the same amount the house approved last week for federal employes. The $400 raise was proposed by Itep, Harness (K-Ind.) as a substitute for army and navy recommendations of a flat 20 per cent boost in pay mid allow ances of service personnel. Army spokesmen earlier this week told the military commit teemen tho overall cost of the Harness plan would be $(108,000, 000 yearly on the bosis of tho planned strength of the armed forces for July 1, 1947. DENTISTS MEET PORTLAND, April 10 Some 000 dentists began arriv ing here today for the Univer sity of Oregon dental school alumni three-day convention opening early tomorrow morning. WEDNESDAY, APHIL 10. 1S46 Slaying City Bid For Hangars Urged The city of Klamalh Falls was urged today to lose no time in mnklng application for hangars, cither buildings, and various items of equipment which the city will need from the Klamath naval air station, now located on the municipal airport. Phil Hitchcock, director in charge, and E. G. Newblll, chair man, of the aviation committee of the chamber of commerce, dis cussed the matter at the cham ber directors' meeting. They said there Is serious concern among flying men here over de lay by the city in putting in a di finite request for the facilities which the city can use If and when the airport is turned back for municipal operation. Mayor Ed Ostendarf was at tho meeting, as were Chairman C. A. Dunn and Marshall Cor nell, members of the city airport commission. The mayor asserted the request for facilities is now being prepared and said that Charles Stark, chamber manager, will shnpc its flnnl form. The information hns not yet been turned over to Stark for the brief he will write. Dunn explained the problems confronting the city in connec tion with proposed municipal management of the field. Hitch cock said that the local aviation men consider these problems as separate from the proposal mat the city press Its request for facilities. The latter matter, he said, is not controvcrsinl, and he nunln urged action. Mayor Oslcndorf snld Hint city affairs arc handled through citizens' committees, and they must recommend before tho city acts. President Orth Siscmore of the chamber said he hoped the city did not resent the interest of citizens and local civic bodies or other orgnnizations In muni cipal affairs, Dredge Lack Delays Salvage Of Ingots TOKYO, April 10 W) Ina bility to obtain dredges and other equipment has delayed the salvaging of what is re ported to be $2,000,000,000 worth of precious metals from tho floor of Tokyo bay, MaJ. D. A. Sunders of the first cavalry division reported today. The cache of platinum, gold and silver ingots, dumped from a pier by the Japanese last summer, was discovered Satur day. The source and ownership of the cache is being Investigated. II Pn ish. r Others Hurt En Boston Hack Hag Blaze BOSTON. April 10 (AP) Eight persons, including a mother, father and three small children, perished and five others were injured today In an early-morning fire that swept a four-story brick Back Bay apart ment house and brought swift Investigation by fire and police officials. Tho investigation Included two other fires which started within a ten-block radius whilo firemen were battling the flames in the apartments in Belvedere street, where the deaths occurred. The police listed the (lend as: Mr, and Mrs. Anthony Wassell and their children, Suzanne 8, Linda 3, and Peter, 2; Napoleon LaPote and his sister, Vcrnn, and Patrolman Robert Mahar, 45. , Suzanne Mahoncy, 23, was In- WEATHER NEWS April 19 Mai. (April tU 40 Mln, 14 frarlpllalUn 14 kouri ...Tfin Htresm yr U ... ll.a Ntrmil ..... I.M Mr - ' Portrait! Wind n4 rain. Number 10791 Redin Will Stand Trial In Seattle PORTLAND. Ore., April 10 (!') Nicolal Gregorovlch Redin, Russian naval lieutenant charged with espionage against this coun try, agreed here today to return to Seattle for trial. Appearing beforo the U. S. commissioner for preliminary hearing, the 20-year-old Russian declared "I am absolutely Inno cent." His attorney, Irvln Good man, said lie did not object to removing the cose to Seattle. At the brief hearing, Good man released a statement to the press reporting Redin's assertion that this whole thing is a build up for political purposes" and urging the American people to suspend Judgment until the Rus sian presents his case in the courts. Arrangements were made to change Redin's $10,000 bond to be returnable in Seattle. That, U. S. Commissioner Robert Lee dy said, has the effect of waiving the preliminary hearing. Redin said he would leave to day or tomorrow for Seattle with his wife and child. When Redin and his attorney appeared before the commission er this morning, they were asked if they waived the preliminary hearing. Goodman snld "No." Mason Dillard, assistant U. S. district attorney, presented the indictment returned by a federal grand Jury in Seattle. He also called one witness, Robert G. Lawrence, special FBI agent at Seattle. Lewis Leaves Strike Confab By The Auoclatad Praia Efforts to settle the 10-day-old soft coal strike before it applies further brakes lo the reconver sion program suffered a stiff set back todny when John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers ne gotiating committee walked out on wage conferences with the operators. Union spokesmen said .the miners' representative would not renew negotiations until the pro ducers agree to discuss a welfare fund and improved safety condi tions. K. C. Adnms, editor of the UMW Journal, said the union ne gotiators found it "useless and hopeless" to continue negotia tions under present conditions. He said the miners considered safety and welfare problems as important as wages and hours and "we arc not going to let them bypass them.' The operators remained in the conference room in Washington, al least temporarily, and did not comment immediately on the de velopment. Only a spark of life had kept the negotiations going the last few days. On the brighter side of the la bor picture, however, an 80-day-old strike of 30,000 CIO Inter national. Harvester company em ployes was settled, assuring stepped up output of critically needed farm machinery. Settlement of the Harvester strike opens the way for the na tion's largest producer of farm equipment to resume production. Hollywood Horror Man Gets Divorce LAS VEGAS, Nev.. April 10 W) Boris Karloff, Hollywood horror star, was granted a di vorce yesterday from Dorothy Pratt on grounds of mental cruelty. He sued under his real name, William Henry Pratt. Custody of their daughter, Sara Jane, 7, was awarded Mrs. Pratt. Of a property settlement, the actor said: "My wife and daughter have been well taken care of, financially." jured critically. Physicians said Mahar, who was in the area when the fire started, died from severe burns and a possible leg fracture. Bodies of three members of tho Wasscl family were huddled near a window in their upper floor apartment. The others were sprawled in other parts of their home. Thirty-three other tenants fled from the building in which the fire was burning fiercely when the first fire apparatus arrived. Other families left their homes in an adjacent building, but a firewall prevented spread of the blaze, Tho fire deportment, which sent members of Its arson squad into action, listed the damage at $10,000. Spain Said Threatening World Peace By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER NEW YORK, April 10 (API Poland asked the United Na tions security council today to take action aguinsl the Franco regime in Spain on the ground that it has already threatened world peace and Is a haven for nazls, their assets and German scientists "devising now means of warfare." The Polish appeal, filed by Ambassador Oscar Lunge with Secretary General Trygve Lie, piled up another big political issue- for the peace-enforcement body even before it had struggled out from the weight of the Iranian case. The next round In the Iranian case will come at noon Monday, a secret meeting of council members decided today, when Russia will urge and the United States and Britain oppose prompt dismissal of Iran's com plaints against Russia. Langc cited as evidence of the threat lo peace and of the "international friction" which he said were caused by Franco's government the fact that on February 26, 1940, the Spanish French frontier was closed and next day the Spanish regime "ordered the concentration of troops at the border of France." Moreover, he said, the Span ish government has given haven to nazi assets and personnel and to "war criminals and nazi lead ers who continue their activi ties" for Spain. Also, said Langc's letter, the Franco administration "allows and promotes scientific research by German scientists engaged in devising new means of war fare." Lange did not say exactly what the council ought to do about it but he urged "adoption of such measures as are pro vided for in the charter." He took sharp issue with the official American position, as stated in suite department notes on Spain, that the situation re volving around Franco is an internal one for the Spanish people to handle. He sought to show that the United Nations charter bolstered his position. Farm Homes At Jap Camp Seen The O'Mahoncy bill pending in congress would permit the reclamation service to use all the Tulelake WRA buildings it needs for farm homes and project activ ities, according to a aispaicn to day from Washington. This bill would transfer the Tulelake. Heart Mountain and Hunt centers, all in the west, to the reclamation service. Senator Taylor of Idaho told a reporter in Washington that the bill would permit the recla mation service to use the WRA buildings for project activities, and also that other buildings may be released to nearby com munities to aid in relieving housing shortages. There has been discussion here of the possibility of making some of the Tule Jap camp buildings available to veterans who will be establishing homes on farms in the Tulelake area after tho homestead opening late in the coming summer. The WRA has closed the camp and will soon move out. All Japanese have left. Harry Will Veto Basic Wage Bill WASHINGTON, April 10 W) President Truman reiterated to day that he will veto a pending minimum wage bill if it contains a new agricultural parity formu la. Rep. Outland (D-Calif.), chair man of a special house steering committee pushing the minimum wage bill, told reporters of the president's stand after a White House coll. Outland said Mr. Truman ad vised the group to fight for house passage of the bill "with out crippling amendments." "He said ithat if it contained the Russell amendment which the senate tied on to it, he would have to veto the measure," Out land said. The bill would raise the pres ent 40-cents an hour minimum wage requirements to a new scale starting at 65-ccnts and graduating over a period of years to 75. An amendment by Senator Russell (D-Gn.) would require the inclusion of labor costs in a new farm parity formula. Ad ministration leaders contend it is inflationary, LA Women Draw One-Year Terms LOS ANGELES, April 10 (AP) Two married sisters, con victed on charges of luring 'lecn-age youths to their home for immoral purposes, were sen tenced to a year in Jnil each today by Judge Clement D. Nye. The women, Mrs. Audrey Rlghtmlcr, 29, and Mrs. Goldie Lowell, 27, announced they would appeal after the court denied their motion for a new trial. f
