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ilMlliMiilllll i T.. ft i'V i'i'.':-' (Telephone 8111) KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, TUESDAY. APRIL 16, 1946 - Number 10796 II PRICE FIVE CENTS , nm.ni. rubl tender apol at ne wauta poll a voiun Koh nT.htlc-iiudince alltr he w inoculated again. I tarCh'ldr.n'. Aid aoclety In New York city, in AP wiroohoto Doughfoots Who Aspire 'a Be Donc'nq Masters To 'Be Financed By Uncfe Sam War Bureau Blamed For Draft Mess WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) Senator Edwin C. JuhiiKon (I) Coin.) asserted today the wnr department l responsible for what he termed the "confused and chaotic" drv.ft extension bill plissed by the house. Tin- legislation provides for a nine-month extension of the clrnlt law beyond May 15, but piohibits any inductions until Oct. IT). It also halts the drafting of teen-age youths. In a blistering letter to Secretary of War Patterson, the Colorado senator spoke of the war department's "blind and eon(ienital stupidity, and said the department apparently had Mine Blast Snuffed Out 1549 Lives , ARTHUR I. EDSON Abiunui v". i" ' ) be ihockinit news to railnl drill sergeants, but li bill of Hunts definitely T , ..,. , n loot wlio aspires to be I dancing muster. tiditiBJ came (nun Arthur ay, wno ieciiuif-i unf people how to trip tlic anlaslic in us innny including jitterbug style, mver, Murray does nut pate any stampede of ex to learn JitterbuKKinu t ;jge Stands t On Record it David H. VfindenberR, over KFLW yesterday n. nave hia views of the main points of conflict in coming circuit JudKeship on, the recent dismissals of easel and the handling of lie matters In Klamath y. He aald that his only cal policy was to stand on (cord. fidenbcrg pointed out that r past 16 months ho has on iwn authority dismissed or a flown a directed verdict ly three cases, while 13 been dismissed on motion p district attorney's office. reiterated tlint It Is his ks lo follow the law in nil rs in court and that there 0 moratorium on law dur political race. Jutinlle Matters 1 Judge said that Juvenile rs have been ly here, considering the M personnel and facilities sine war years, and that it ' poncy never to send n ' offender to a reform fxeent as a I. -ml rnu.irt has tried to handle IIVKIIllo tacy and crime in such l wai no criminal record be established nifninst n i unmoor, no sn i,l m., I li... w of commitments to ju- owiuuons irom hero W was 4n n , , ,h! year before rie.i,!?it!cnbor,! commend '' office and or their h n in i n. "u cooncr.i i,n f-,. P'Ke in the nn.i ., ' ' tSi'K was 'mode event ' y s',:1 15 I'- ' S ,com,"i'ntnry pro Leh h conduet,.?! each nil! newt! rnr.M.wi "'""insofThe Herald and - proram "16 JurtA 9a ITt . Anrll 1 Z"ln 'e state wn nT of, Warden lfi peniten- II II. ' i.n oi ine dL Poole, an"",'1 wr "''been i ,""'L,l"ver, Jil courf here rJl",e 2" wns fo,i,i In a 'reel wlw.r. i " An,l . ue "rkcdT'''1'. store KCd late Christmas BlrtnL. p 10 (AP) Fin. Anrll (Her '..."P.r riH." '"'Ulni! it,,.... ?theS " 1. 0 vie- nnerican i w 11110 Sx .,tll!nled ,5','!' M,"n K wJr," "y 1 .nnn i Uncle Suiinr's expense? 'They know how tir do tliat already, leach veterans daneinit- They enn accept pupils under the CI bill nnd the government fools the bill. He said about half of his New York pupils want lo teach danc Inii. Most of the others, he lidded, came nt the proddlnK of psychi atrist. "They need social contacts." Murray said. "DancliiK itlves them confidence and helps them lo Kct readjusted." No price tax has yet been worked out for this instruction in the art of dance, he said. Uncle Sam will pay costs, plus 10 per cent. Tile usual charues, lie said, are $4 for n private lesson or $1 to $2 for class instruction. A Veternns Administration (VA) official said If n fellow wants to learn how to be a dancer, that's his business. This official udded that If the veteran never Intended lo use danciiiK as n business, but just thouitht danciiiK mlKht Improve his Saturday nlKht technique, there's nothinn VA can do about it. "Ilut that's true of any vet ernn," lie added. "We can help him k'ct an education, but we can't force lilm to use it." The VA man said the bar racks nre full of men with un usual ambitions. Such as the GI in Greenland who wondered about silversmithlnK. And the liuy In Switzerland who fell in love with n Swiss watch. He wrote In to apply for a course In watchmaking. Gent Minus Shoe Gets Wrong Man So sorry, young monl A certain stats polico offi cer, on assignmont in tho Bly area this wookend, found It convenient to spond the night In the Bly hotel, whore his sleep, about 6 a. m was dis turbed by a stealthy turn of . a key in the lock. In walked a 6 foot-2 inobl ate who glowered at the of ficer! In walked a 6-foot-2 inebri shoe I'm going to boat the out of youl" With that the man swung twice, miss ing both times, and found himself on the bed with the officer looking down on him. The man, with one shoe on and ona shoe off. was moved from the hotel to the Bly Jail where a charge of drunken noss was placed against Frits Gust Johnson, timber fnllor. He was finod $3., plus $6.45. He never found his shoe. TOKYO, April HI OTl The world's worst minimi disaster mi undemround explosion which snufled out 1MD Chinese and Korean lives in the llonkeiko colliery in Manchuria was re ported for the first time today t,u nlli..H tw.iirloniirters almost he said while visiting one of his fmir yt.iirK ,,tl-r it happened, studios here. accident occurred April Murray told a reporter thai ! 20. 11142, under Japanese occupa hls New York nnd Washington lion. It was kept secret by the studios hnvo been certified to military from even the Japanese government for a month. Short Circuit The explosion was set off by n short circuit which ignited me thane gas. That exploded and ac cumulation, of coal (lust m lun nels for a distance of more than two kilometers (nbout 11 miles), said Kirk V. Cammnck, mining engineer with the natural re sources division of allied head quarters. Most of the deaths were caused by carbon monoxide pois oning. Several hundred were needless; a mine official refused to turn on ventilating fans for fear of spreading tho fire, Cam mack said. The only comparable mine disaster wiis at I'as de Calais, France, In 1U06, when 1100 French miners were killed, Cam mack added. The llonkeiko colliery, locat ed in the Pen Hsi-hu coal field, produced 000,000 tons of coal in 1041. Leaves Navy South Sixth Award Slated The South Sixth street widen ing project contract will prob ably be awarded tomorrow to Warren Northwest, Inc., which bid $3(11,811 for the Job. War ren's bid was approved April 6 by the highway commission, nnd has since been in the hnnds of the engineer with power lo award. Delay was caused pend ing closing of minor right-of-way matters. Word from Salem today wns Hint the bid of Augelo Dovcri for widening the Altamont bridge on South Sixth hns been referred to the OPA In Wash ington lo determine if It is too high. Doveri's bid price was $14,385. Today, the n. A. Helntz Con struction company was award ed n contract to grnde .88 miles of the Spring Creek-Lobert sec tion of The Dnlles-Californin highway re routing around Sun mountain. Bid was $208,447. Previously, contracts hnd been awarded for grading of 2.01 miles of the Spring Creek hill section to Strong nnd McDon ald, Taeoma, at $100,058, nnd to McNutt brothers, Eugene, for grading 25.01 miles from Ma znmn junction to Spring Creek hill, at $243,501.60. Contrnct on a lighting pro ject on South Sixth, on which Mark Smith of Klamath Falls is low bidder, will probably be let In a few days. High School Girl's Dance Of Salome Brings Blushes DETROIT, April 16 l) The case of Lincoln high school's "Salome," whose scantily-veiled dunce was the hit of a recent 'teen-agn assembly revue, went before the school board today. An estimated 150 of. the 800 mm! high school sludenl.s struck Monclnv nfler n rumor spread Hint lil-ycnr-olcl Beverly Cort would be expelled for her forbidden performance in the revue. Walter Bradley, principal, said there is no thought of ex pelling the girl and that she probnbly will not bo punished nt nil, Ho said he nsked the stu dents to return lo classes nnd to send n delegation to discuss the niiiltnr with the school bonrcl. Beverly, Brndley said, was to hnve worn slacks In her appear unco ill the assembly room. In slend, ho said, she slipped out of them nl mo iasi moment bihi "Salome" danced in abbreviated shorts and ballet skirt with a top resembling a bathing suit. A "vigorous protest" came from the show's sponsor, Mrs Stella Koski, civics teacher nl the school. , , Bradley snld Mrs. Koskl had nsked elimination of the skit, f.nlillivl "Salome. Where She Danced," on grounds that It wns more suited for adults than for school children, nnd that Hie student show people hnd agreed "Yet when the show ennio on 'R.ilnm,.' danced." Bradley said "They slipped the skit bnck in on Mrs. rioski. assumed "that members of con gress are dummies and that they can be awed and influenced by u mass of distorted mathemat ics." .Johnson said the house meas ure would not provide replace ments for fathers and combat veterans now in service. He urged the department to back his proposal for a six weeks' extension to July 1 ' Johnson said the senate now must find a way out of the "muddle" created by the war department's "arrogant demand" for a year's extension of selec tive service. Muddleheada "It never seemed to occur to these muddleheads that a six weeks' extension could have been supported by them with honest calculations, and that all the jugglers in kingdom come could not and did not make a case for year's extension," John son declared. The senate military commit tee previously had rejected Johnson's proposal for the six weeks' extension. Johnson told Patterson the department ought to "admit its mistake" and ask congress for only a limited extension of the draft. "The war department ought to make a mental note now of I h e thoroughly - demonstrated tact that it cannot fool congress all the lime," he declared. Johnson contended that a six weeks' extension would provide sufficient men by July 1 to re place all drafted fathers, com bnt veterans who desire to get out of the army and all draftees with 18 months' service. The bill adopted by the sen ate committee would halt the future drafting of fathers and would limit tho service of pres ent and future inductions to 18 months. Johnson also assailed what he described ns the wnr depart ment's determination to draft "eighteen-year old boys for po lice work in foreign lands." "The welfare of the United States and its military security demands that these boys remain in school, he declared. Every one understands army officers' passion for the conscription if immature, benrdlcss schoolboys, bu Hint fascists-inspired aspir ation must be corbel by the congress in a period when a shooting war does not exist." Truman Signs Petrillo Curb WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) President Truman signed today legislation making it a federal offense to use coercion against radio broadcasters. Sponsors said the measure is designed to halt certain prac tices of the AFL musicians union headed by James C. Pe trillo. It carries penalties of up to a year's imprisonment and $1000 fine for compelling or attempting to compel broad casters to: 1. Hire more employes than they want. 2. Pay money for services not performed. 3. Pay unions for the use of phonograph records. 4. Pay again for broadcasting a transcript of a previous pro gram. The same penalties could be invoked against persons inter fering with broadcast of cul tural or cducatlonnl programs originating in foreign lands. T h e legislation developed from nn original attempt by Senator Vandenberg (K-Mich.) to override a Petrillo ban against broadcast of a students music festival at Intcrloclicn, Mich. Petrillo contended the pro gram took jobs from profes sional musicians. y a ' jinn . l U' I" f Capt. Xowcll USNR, now on from tho navy. medical let-up T. Coggeshall. terminal leave He headed the at the Marine Barracks throughout the post's career. Action Held Up On Russia's Proposal To Drop Iran Case NEW YORK, April 16 (AP) The United Nations security council today postponed action on Russia's proposal for dropping the Ruasian-Irnian case and adjournod until tomorrow with three dolegates domanding immediate consideration of Poland's charges anainit Franco Spain. Dr. Quo Tai-chi, chairman, announced the council would meet at noon PST tomorrow. He did not state what would be taken up then. But France, Russia and Poland joined in asking immediate consideration of the Spanish case. Poland has charged Franco Spain with endangering world peace and with harboring nazi scientists doing research on new weapons in this atomic age. bight delegates lined up yes- Dragging Continued For Missing Limbs OREGON CITY, April 16 (IT) State police and sheriff's depu ties continued dragging opera tions at n number of points in the Willninelte river todny, seeking missing pnrts of the torso re covered from tho river Friday. The torso was identified by Dr. Warren C. Hunter of the Uni versity of Oregon medical school ns that of a woman about 50 years old. Coggeshall To Leave Klamath Capt. Lowell T. Coggeshall, USNK, chief medical officer of the Marine Barracks, was re leased to inactive duty Monday at Seattle. Capt. Coggeshall was accom panied by Mrs. Coggeshall on the trip to Seattle to receive his release. He is now on terminal leave. He plans to remain here un til about May 1, when the fam ily will return to Michigan. Capt. Coggeshall heads the de partment of tropical diseases at the University of Michigan. Capt. Coggeshall was medical head of the Marine Barracks from its inception, and the original mlssion-of-the-Bm-raclcs was conceived by him. For the outstanding job done there in the control of tropical diseases among marine veterans of the Pacific fighting, he was award ed the Gorgas medal. Deserted Boy Kills Father MURRAY. Ky., April 16 MV A 16-year-old farm boy who said he made a home for two younger sisters ond a brother when their parents deserted them over a year ago, today awaited juven ile court hearing on June 3, charged with fatally shooting his father. Acting Juvenile Judge Wei- don Rayburn of Calloway county said the youth, Leonard Man ning, told him at his .-rraign- ment here yesterday he killed his father, Gervis Manning Sr., 50. with a shotglin last Wednes day when the elder Manning come to the farm home near here with the expressed intention of removing the household goods. Story of Poverty Rayburn said the youth, placed in the custody of a neigh bor, unfolded a story of poverty and hardship during a period of more than a year as he tried to work the farm, owned by an uncle, with the aid of his brother and sisters, Peggy, 15, Mary, 13, and Gervis Jr., 10. The judge quoted Manning as saying his parents separated and both went north to look for work. His father, the judge sail1 the youth related, also had threatened to take his scanty crop. The mother, Mrs. Ida Bell Manning of Detroit, has returned since the shooting and told of ficers she would like to make a home for the children. Bridges Blocks Merger Measure WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) A protest by Senator Bridges (R-N.M.) blocked the senate mil itury committee's plan to send the nriny-iiavy merger bill to a sharply-divided senate today Bridges told a reporter after a closed session he objected to the move because he was "not satisfied" with the legislation which would create a single de partment of common defense. "It involves," he said, "too grent n concentration of power in the hnnds of one man. I be lieve we can have unity of 'tho armed forces without too grent a concentration of authority." Bridges said Chairman Elbert Thonins (D-Utah) agreed to an other session of the committee to' hear a detailed analysis of the bill before final action is tnken. He added that he had favored open hearings on the measure but proponents had objected. terday and today against Rus sia's proposal that the council immediately strike the Russian Iranian case from its agenda. Russia and Poland stand to gether for the Russian move. The eleventh nation on the council, France, presented this morning a compromise proposal designed to have Secretary Gen eral Trygve's report to the gen eral assembly which meets here Sept. 3. This would have the ef fect of taking the case off the council's docket. Doubts Legality Lie this morning handed the council a memorandum expres sing doubt that the council could legally keep the case on its agen da. He noted that the council had not declared a dispute exist ed, that the governments had an nounced an agreement and that Iran had withdrawn the case. The council referred the Lie memorandum to its committee of experts for a report within two days. This could bring the matter up again on Thursday. The council saw a brief recur rence of the bitterness that marked its session late yesterday when the Russian delegate, An drei A. Gromyko, expressed "doubt" that the United States and Britain wanted a peaceful settlement of the Iranian case. Not Wise Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., the American delegate, told the council today thai -his - govern ment still thought it not wise to drop the Iranian case immediate ly. Sir Alexander Cadogan, the British delegate, who said yes terday that the Iranian case was before the council again only because Russia had brought it up, did not reply again today to the Russian remarks. Gromyko closed the discus sion by telling the council that he had "called things by their names yesterday and I did not expect the delegate of the Unit ed States to agree." Disorders Subside In Mining City By The Associated Press Tho ntinn'c lahnr front fllV New Attack Mapped On Blac ( Marts WASHINGTON, April 16 OP) The government mapped a new attack on the snarled food situa tion today involving butter, bread, meat and black markets. Wartime controls were or dered slapped back in an effort to spur butter production and Stabilization Director Chester Bowles foresaw a "real im provement within the next 60 days" on this front. The senate agriculture com mittee called for more details on factors dislocating meat dis tribution, while OPA and the agriculture department moved to restore other wartime controls on slaughtering with the aim of spreading available supplies more evenly. Bread Problem A potential bread problem had members of the senate small bus iness committee seeking ways of meeting famine relief quotas for overseas without impairing the nation's flour supplies. Baking industry spokesmen told the committee yesterday that if these supplies fall 25 per cent below last year, government bread rationing or black markets in the food are probable. The move for butter produc tion was bracketed with OPA action to keep consumers bills at their present levels for milk, butter, cheese and other dairv products. A program of larger subsidies for dairy farmers was Train Jumper Now In Clinic Justine Oliver Looysen, 39-year-old resident of Pasadena who stabbed a Southern Pacific brakeman after leaping from a southbound train near Midland Sunday night, has been removed from the county jail to the coun ty medical clinic. He is still under observation by Dr. Peter H. Rozendal, coun ty health officer, and no crim inal charges have been filed against him. It is expected by the sheriff's office that Looysen will be kept under medical surveillance for several days. An effort is being made to contact the man's rela tives in California. Donald Partin, the SP brake man, was not injured seriously. Oregon Cars To Carry 2 Plates SALEM, April 16 (AP) The state board of control announced today that Oregon motor ve hicles will carry two license plates in 1947, and it awarded the contract for the 465,000 sets of plates to the Irwin-Hodson company of Portland on a bid of 20.97 cents a pair. The plates will have black numerals on a grey background. tension eased in Butte, Mont after a weekend of disturbances which officials attributed to a strike at the Anaconda Copper Mining company. Sheriff Al McLeod said volun teer war veterans and members of the striking CIO miners' union aided authorities in re storing order in the strike-bound copper capital of 40,000. He said representatives of the CIO international union oi mine, mill and smelter workers pa trolled streets last night with crowds to keep order. Aimed At Non-Strikers Officials said the violence over the weekend, resulting in wrecking of several homes, was directed at miners who did not ioin the strike at the Anaconda company. Several groups of wo men and children, who were threatened by anonymous tele phone callers, were moved from their homes for protection last night Crowds gathered last night at homes of company employes who remained at their jobs as maintenance workers after the CIO miners struck last Tuesday in a wage dispute. The union has condemned vandalism. Coal Truce Sought In Washington, Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach redoubled his attempts to break the dead lock in negotiations between John L. Lewis' AFL United Mine Workers and strike-bound soft coal operators. No confer ences, however, were scheduled today as the union president who quit the negotiations sessions last week, stood pat for a com mitment from the operators to the principle of a tonnage levy for a health and welfare fund, to be operated by the union. 2 Naval Fliers Killed In Crash AMERICUS, Ga., April 16 (&) Two fliers from the naval air station at Vero Beach, Fla., were killed in a plane crash near here yesterday. Public relations officer at the Vero Beach station identified the victims as Lt. (jg) Linwood V. Weeks, 25, of Berlin, N. J., the pilot, and Ens. E. F. Goebel, 21 of Portland, Ore. The plane had made a flight to St. Louis, last Friday and was en route back to its base. Coun ty police found Weeks' body more than a mile from the scene of the crash. They said he appar ently had attempted to bail out. bor costs. Wartime Ban On butter, the OPA aimed at overcoming a situation which had made it more profitable to use butterfat for ice cream and other products than for butter. Accordingly, the wartime ban will be restored on the sale of whipping cream and restrictions will be placed on the amount of butterfat in ice cream. The pro gram also includes price ceilings for the first time on cream used in bakery products and ice cream. Leonard E. Hurtz of Omaha, chairman of the dairy industry committee, contended in a statement that the new pro gram would lead to a decline in milk production "and continued shortages'" of dairy products. The senate agriculture com mittee was plainly exercised about the meat situation which Packer' James D. Cooney testi fied was "a national scandal which makes prohibition loolc like petty crime." Dairymen Rap Milk Subsidy PORTLAND, Ore., April 18 W) A dairy industry spokes man today asserted Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles' milk subsidy was a "political move" while State Agriculture Di rector E. L. Peterson announced the plan "won't work" because it will not put cows on the farms. Peterson reported the state's dairy cattle census declined in 1945 and is continuing to drop and questioned whether the new subsidies would boost pro duction to meet the rising de mand for quality milk. At the same time, W. W. Henry, spokesman for the big dairy cooperative association which led Oregon dairymen in a recent strike for higher prices, said the order would force dairymen to turn milk into channels where normally the dairymen does not receive hia best price. Meanwhile, women's organi zations in Portland continued their demands for quotas and ceiling prices on powdered milk products which they declared funnel fluid milk from the area's bottled trade. Driver Of Stage Still Unconscious PORTLAND, April 16 () The driver of a bus struck yes terday morning by a troop .train at a crossing here still was un conscious today, the hospital reported. Cobra Woman Found To Be Man After Fatal Snake Nip LONG BEACH, Calif., April 16 (AP) A snakecharmor' who as Elsie the Cobra Woman thrilled thousands of visitors to Long Beach's Pike, was un masked today as a man. Dr. J. L. Robinson, assistant county autopsy surgeon, said he made the discovery in a post mortem into the entertainer's death from rattlesnake bite. Detective-Inspector B. C. Car tensen said Alexander Marks, a shipyard worker, told him he was Elsie's third "husband." They were married 18 years ago in San 'Francisco. "Her records were lost in a circus train wreck years ago," Cartensen quoted Marks as say ing. "All I can tell you about her early life is from memory. He added, the detective said, that Elsie's family name was Nadir, he was born 58 years ago in India, first appeared in trav eling shows as u dog-faced boy, then a monkey-man, and finally as a bearded lady. Elsie died Sunday of the effects of a seven-foot diamond head rattler's bite Saturday night during the show on the Pike a miniature Coney Island. Police said Elsie, 6 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 295 pounds, would be buried as "John Doe Nadir," but, of necessity, in feminine clothing. Indian Stabbing Trial Set May 9 The trial of Willard Williams, 29-year-old Bea.tty Indian charged with second degree murder, has been set for Slay 9 in the Portland district fed eral court. Williams is held for stabbing Egbert Hugo Smith, also an In dian, at the climax of a New Year's Eve party at Beatty. The hilling occurred about an hour and a half after the be ginning of the year 1946. Smith was stabbed in the throat with a pocket knife and Williams was arrested at tha scene by Indian officers. J. C, O'Neill is William's attorney. Registrants Swamp Clerk's Office The county clerk's office wai having a run of last-minute reg istrants getting their name in the pot for the May 17 primary voting as the registration dead line nearcd this afternoon. Poll books will be closed at 5:30 p. m. today. A tabulation of registrants will be made ai soon as possible. Two years ago there wer more than 20,000 registered vot ers in Klamath county and un official figures gathered twe weeks ngo indicated that tin books wert then about 400C names short of that figure. : r"- . si f. O" 1 1. ' If m liVi: n 1
