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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)
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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-
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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.
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