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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1946)
A Nl la mm w mi is rw re nn fa Seralu ana jkSsrsi PRICE riVE CENTU House Cuts OPA's Life Jo 9 Months WASHINGTON, April 17 (AP) Tho houio voted to day to romove oil OPA con troli from meat and edible liveitock product!. WASHINGTON, April 17 (II Tho house whacked away t OPA's powers todiiy In npprov ln n hutch of amendment to li-glslutlon extending the life of the price rnntrol agency. With votes subject to H for mill roll cull, the chnnibcr: 1. Voted 200 to 112 to guar antee producers, processors, dis tributors mid retailers "rea sonable prnflt." Tho Amendment prohibit Oi'A from fixing max imum jirlcen thul do not reflect current production, processing or distributing costs, plus "rcn.ioniiblo profit," 2. Voted 171 to 144 to limit Ol'A's life to nine monlln be yond June :i0 Instead of year an requested by President Tru man, 3. Accepted, 193 to 80, on amendiiient to wind up by Jan uury 1 the government's pro Itrnm of subsidies on such ngrl cultuml products a milk and flour which arc designed to spur production. Mt Subsidies End 4. Approved, UU to 57. dim ihir umeudnieiil to halt ull ul nidy payments on meal, esti mated at S71S.000.00U annually. These subsidies have been tie- siKiicd to keep down meat costs to consumers. . Administration Oiifflclals have contended tholr removal will mean Dike in re in 1 1 prices. While the house was working over the price controls, OPA an nounced an Immediate Increase of 12 to 13 per cent in retail prices for work clothes. The action, OI'A said, resulted from higher prices for raw cotton and textiles and wngo Increases in the clothing industry, Germans Said Planning Yar NEW YORK, April 17 (P) Dr. Oscar Lwige, Polish dele gate, told the United Nations security council today that Ger man scientists in Franco Spain aro "devising new means of war." "Spain has become a refuge for tens of thousands of iibzIs," he said, charging tho govern ment in Madrid Is a threat to pence. "They Include mnrty promi nent nnzls who are carrying on rmzi activities." Liiiikc told tho council that deposits of rndlum-bcnring min erals existed In Spain, including uranium mines. "Tho question has been raised whether atomic energy projects are actually In operation in SJnnln." I.nnic ponl Imiprl. "Thnrrt t seems to bo some Indication thnt at least an effort Is being mndc in this direction, though sonic of the governments repre sented nt this table may have moro Information about it than up to now they have been will ing to disclose to the world public." Ho said that the Spanish war plants aro making Krupp-type guns on a ninss production schedule; Mausers, light arms, and nrms for tho army and navy. Mercury Climbs To 73 Degrees Whew 1 The highest temperature re corded In the Klnmnth basin since uctooor i, ltHft, was renched Tuesday afternoon when the mercury reached 711 degrees. according to civil aeronautics registration readings and 75 ac cording to U, S. bureau of rec lamation. Reclamation gave the maxi mum temperature on October 15, ll)4!i, ns 70 degrees. Figures there showed thill high tempera lure this your wns three days earlier than In 1045 when tho mercury lilt 77 on April 10. Tuesday wns tho third day In a run of uniisiinlly warm weath er for this tlmo of year. Sunday and Mondny tho maximum reached 71 degrees, CAA readings aro taken nt the Klnmnth naval nlr station and reclnmntlon readings downtown In Klnmnth Fulls where thoro Is n difference of several degrees of temperature. vrMTM FA.ri.fl. OREGON. "" ' H JUMPS G 'Spec' Murray Will Resume Post Of J uve nil e Officer. Coming Back GERALD L. (SPEC) MURRAY Probe Ordered On Rail Split By The Associated Press President Truman today or dered an emergency board cre ated to Investigate i dispute which led to a strike threat by 2500 employes of the Rock Island railroad system. Tho strike of trainmen was set for 6 p. m. EST today but under provisions of the railway l.ibor act intervention by a fact finding board automatically postpones a walkout for at least JO days. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen charged the railroad "violated scheduled rules and certain awards made by the na tional railroad and adjustment bourd." The railroad denied the charge. Tho emergency board, yet to bo named, must report to the president within 30 days. Workable Draft Bill Truman Aim WASHINGTON, April 17 M) President Truman today ex pressed hope the senate will pass a draft bill thnt works. This wns the chief executive's reply to a news conference re quest for comment on a house measure which would extend the selective service system nine months from May 15, but bar in ductions from May 15 to Oc tober 15. WYf --.. V Daughter Of Famed Pianist Dies From Revolver Bullet BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 17 (!') Climaxing an eve ning of piano musings by her famous father, Mnrin Ilurbl Hero, slim, dnrk-hnired daugh ter of Jose Iturbl, died today from n revolver bullet. The concert pianist nnd sym phony maestro fo-inri her lying in his bedroom, her blnck tresses nflamc from burning gunpowder. Del. Sgt, Arthur II. McBnin cnlled it "clenrly n case of sui cide." She succumbed In a police re ceiving hospltnl shortly nfter 3 a. m. two hours nfter the shooting while brnln speclnlists stood by helplessly. Her dentil, while her two chil dren slept nenrby, ended years of court contests over tholr cus tody, involving the 28-yenr-nld mother, her husband and her father, Iturbl, nenr collapse, could provide Investigators with no motive. Ho snid he hnd spent the evening playing for his dnugliler, his niece, Miss Am pere Beliester, and two friends of Mrs. Hero, Mr. and Mrs. Richnrd Well. Tho Wells snid they hnd come at her telephoned request, nnd described her n.l np penring troubled nnd depressed during the evening. Dot, Lt. C. R. Mnrple said Iturbl told him tho Weils had already departed and he had driven Miss Beliester home, when: "Just as I opened the front door after returning home, I WEDNESDAY. API7 . A' V Major Gerald L. (Spec) Mur ray, now on termlnul leuve from the urmy, will receive his discharge April 25 and will re sume his duties as county Ju venllo officer May 1, Circuit Judge David II. Vandcnbcrg said toduy. Murray was tho city Juvcnllo rcervatlon officer in 1030 and 1040 and was appointed to head tho county Juvenile office by Vnndcnhcrg In January, 1041. He went into the army as a second lieutenant in March, 1042. Overseus with the 41st divi sion, he served 23 months in New Guinea, tho Philippines and Jupnn. Murray's wife and son have been living in Ouk ridgo whllo he was in the serv ice. While heading the Juvenile office Murray wus Instrumental In organizing the Junior Police and Hoys clubs. Fay Lucas, who has been in charge of the Juvenile office since the resignation of Harold Hendrickson Inst October, will stay on as Murray's assistant, Vandcnbcrg said today, Allen Named Iran Envoy WASHINGTON, April 17 (AP) President Truman today an nounced the apolntmcnt of George V. Allen of Maryland, os ambassador to Iran, He also told his news confer ence he was naming Edwin F. Stanton of California, to be am- uassiuior to biam. Allen will go to his post Im mediately. At the same time, Mr. Tru man said he is not considering anybody for appointment to the diplomatic post at Rome, that he was satisfied with the man he had, Alexander Kirk Is now it the embassy in Rome. Allen, the president said with a smile, is in the near east sec tion of tho state department, and is not the George Allen, former presidential adviser, who la now a director of the RFC. Marshall Seeks Chinese Truce PEIPING, April 17 (fP) Gen eral Marshall arrived by plane from Tokyo today to resume his role as China's peacemaker as a communist assnult on Mnn churia's capital of Changchun raged toward a climax. Tho special U. S. envoy, ac companied by Mrs. Marshall, stepped out of his four-engine transport plane nine hours after taking off from Tokyo, where he conferred with General Mac Arthur. He was met by Lt. Gen. Al van C. Gillcn Jr., whom he left In charge when he left last month for Washington and con ferences with President Truman. The two generals will fly to Chungking tomorrow. heard two shots from upstairs. I rushed to my bedroom and found my daughter lying on the bed. Her hair was in flames. My .38 caliber pistol was on the floor beside her." Marplo said she had fired a test shot into 1he wall. The pianist said he extin guished the flames, then called a doctor. Mrs, Hero, clad in green pajamas nnd a robe, was taken to n hospital in an nm- uuinnco, M iss Iturbl, 18, and 20-year- oia titepnan Hero, a violinist, were married in 1938 in Bed ford Hills. N. Y. Their dauch- lers, now 0 nnd 8 years old, re spectively, aro Mario Teresa and Mnrin Antonla. . She filed suit In New York for sepnrntion in 1030, alleging non - support. A settlement, reached a year later, gave Hero custody of the daughters three months a year. In 1041, she nnd the children enmo hero, nnd a few months later she won full custody in connection wnn a suit lor di vorce. But her father, in 1043, pctl. tinned for their custody, term ing Maria "not the Drouer ber son" to have charge of them. An out-of-court settlement three days later reaffirmed her cus tody, but on condition that the children live in tho pianist's none, Subsequently sjhp. too, re turned to live wltji her father. ! y Number 10797 C HfilKPWifp , ti maucesnan To Return Barefoot and clad only in a flowing nightgown, two black eyes nnd several bandages, Jus tin Oliver Looyscn slipped out of the county medical clinic late yesterday afternoon and was the object of a two-hour manhunt before he returned to the clinic of his own volition. Looysen is being held under observation after he Jumped off a moving train near town Sun day night and stabbed a brake man who tried to apprehend him. About 4:30 yesterday after noon Wally Moss, guarding Looy sen, went into a bathroom at the clinic to get a towel and the prisoner slipped out of the room and lelt the building. Leads Search Deputy Sheriff Jack Franey was called and led the search along the canal and railroad tracks, figuring that -a man in a nightshirt would be easy to find. Meanwhile, Looysen apparent ly hid out for a while in a shed and behind a rock wall separ ating the Dr. A. A. Soulc home from the clinic on Main, then en tered the Soulc house. He was standing in the liv ing room when Mrs. Soulc came Into the room. Mrs. Soulc said she knew who he was immedi ately and was afraid to make any outcry or to telephone for help. She talked with Looysen for about 10 minutes, trying to persuade him to go on back to the clinic. Presents Himself . Finally, she said, he promised her he would and went away. A few minutes later the 30-year-old Pasadena man presented him self at the side door of the clinic, rang for admission and inform ed the attendant that ho "had been out for a walk." Mrs. Soule said thot Loovsen talked rationally to her. The man has a persecution comnlex. Dr. Peter H. Rozendal. county health officer said, and thinks people are trying to kill him. Looysen had cashed his wrists slightly with a broken razor blade earlier in the day but the cuts were superficial and were sewed up, Dr. Rozendal said. ' Sanity Hearing The sheriff's office received a telegram yesterday from the man's former wife, a Mrs. Erick son of Everett, Wash., askuig about his condition, and has in formed her that his mental enn. dition was not good and he is to nave a sanity hearing. the hearing is beinB held this afternoon. Dr. Rozendal received n rnll from Looysen's sister, also in Everett, last night asking nbout him. She said thnt he had not been in any trouble like this be fore and that he has been em ployed by an aircraft plant in California, Committee Adds To Diamond Fund The Klamath Falls troop en tertainment committee today put $940.12 in tho pot for im provement of Recreation park for a baseball field. This money will be used with city recreation reserve funds to put the field in shape for both hardball and Softball this year. The troop entertainment money was a hold-over from the war period. The committee, headed by Lynn Roycroft, de cided that it was no longer necessary to retnin the funds, nnd thnt servicemen's interest in baseball would justify giving it for use on Recreation park. Members of the committee nre Roycroft, Ed Bell, Lois Serruvs. Jim Souther, Leslie Wright, Ted Case and Fred Heilbronner. City recreation committee man, in recommending making up to $1500 available for Re creation park improvement, suggested thnt the troop enter tainment money be used also for this purpose. Pat Ivory Ma v Head Democratic Group The democratic stnto central committee's board of governors was meeting in Portland today and was expected to choose E. P. "Pat" Ivory, Klamath Falls, as chnirmnn, Tho board, composed of six men and six women, will sup plant tho existing executive committee. The group has been mapping a constitution nnd bylaws. UNI Coming i 4 3 ' ' ' i . "'Htm This man was one of the primary election before the poll voters liocKod into the county Plunge Fatal To Local Man A plunge from the sixth floor of Hotel Spokane at Spokane, Wash., late fatal at 2 Tuesday night proved ' asde cruising o'clock this morning!810" with no lights. to 22-year-old Clyde Elwin Gil crist, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gilcrist, 315 Grant. Young Gilcrist fell from the sixth floor while trying to reach the window of his locked room by crawling along a ledge, As sistant Police Chief Chester Mcadcr of Spokane advised the family. ; At tho Deaconess hospital, where Gilcrist was moved, he related before he died that a friend had reached the window along the narrow inside ledge when ho was locked out on a previous occasion and that he had tried to duplicate the feat. The young man had recently un dergone surgery in a Seattle hos pital and was thought to have been weak; irom tho operation, Meader saidJGilcrfU, fell' tiv&i stories, landing on his back on a sheet metal wall cover between the first and second floors of the hotel court. He was suffering from shock but was fully conscious when police arrived. Coroner C. J. Abrams said he probably died of internal injuries and hemor rhage as there was no evidence of fractures. War Veteran Clyde was a native of Duns muir, Calif., and had lived here with his family for the past 11 years. His father is a long-time employe of the Southern Pa cific and works as a conductor on the south run. Clyde attend ed local schools and on Septem ber 28, 1942, entered the army and served with the ground crew of the army air corps at bases in Texas and Baton Rouge,, La., until he received a medical dis charge on July 11, 1945. Follow ing his release from the service, Clyde spent several months in Los Angeles and returned here for a time with his family, tak ing a position March 17 with a Seattle magazine crew. Two weeks ago he had surgery for a hernia and just this week had resumed work going to Spokane on business. He was unmarried. Final rites will be announced later by Ward's. Clyde was a member of the Methodist church and prior to entering service was active in the Sea Scouts. In ad dition to his parents, Clyde is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Winifred Clnwson, Dorothy L., and Frances M. Gilcrist. and two brothers, Richard L. and Lloyd Lester, all of Klamath Falls with the exception of Lloyd who is I in Anchorage, Alaska. The re mains will be shipped to Klam ath Falls this week. Harry Would Cut U. S. Food Quota WASHINGTON, April 17 (P) President Truman said today most Americans eat too much and it might be a good idea if their food consumption was re duced to low European stan dards for two days a week dur ing the world crisis. Asked at his news conference nbout a proposal that Americans try living on the European ra tion one day a week, the presi dent replied that he personally liked the suggestion. He added that he didn't know why they couldn't adopt the diet two days a week. Not only do most Americans eat too much, Mr. Truman said, but they also waste enough food to prevent people in war rav aged areas from starving. Bulletin WASHINGTON, April 17 W The state department announced today that the government of Iran has given notice it intends to establish a blind censorship on outgoing news dispatches of foreign correspondents there. In Just Under The r r - M i I f a- J' last Klamath county citizens to register for voting in the May 17 books were closed yesterday afternoon. About 200 prospective clerk s omce late yesterday to get Klamath Youth Cussing Cops Doesn't Pay A certain city patrolman was making his rounds downtown last night when he spotted two safe, the officer thought, and also are contrary to city ordi- DA Criticizes Juvenile Setup District Attomev Clarence A. Humble yesterday had his time on the air over KFLW, an inter-! view on Malcolm Epley's 4:15 d. m Managing Editor's Rennrt commentary, and criticized the way juvenile matters are being I handled in Klamath countv I under Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. Humhle deelarpH Vi Tint of Juvenile officer, which pays more than the district attorney s salary, has been vacant since last October. Faye Lucas, assistant Juvenile officer, has been runnine the of- fice temporarily, he said in an swer to a question. The district attorney termed Klamath county's juvenile facili ties the "best in the state," but added that a good physical plant couldn't work unless all the vari ous offices and organizations helped. Situation Worse He said that many people be lieve that the juvenile delin quency situation here is worse now than it ever was and that in his opinion the post of juve nile omcer nas oeen vacant De- cause Vandenberg didn't want to appoint an officer or that there nilp nffiro, h hn varan ho. is something wrong with the set up so that a competent officer would not take the job. As for his record as district attorney, Humble quoted these figures: since he took office he has filed cases against 92 defend ants, 13 have been dismissed by his office, three thrown out of court by the judge, 34 commit ted to jail or prison and 33 pa- roled by the judge. Others have not yet been finished, Much of the crime here is com mitted by transients and since it is from seven to 18 months be fore he can bring a case into cuun, nuniDie reinaiKea mat often transient witnesses cannot "AhT VVhL"7 jud wHicVnt -caTfor th. dismissal and the judge signs the order. If the judge didn t think there was enough cause for a dis missal he could refuse to sign the order, the district attorney said. In some cases, he said, court rulings as to the admissability of evidence have left the district attorney no alternative but to move for a dismissal in some cases, Humble said. Women's Skirts Pose Big Problem For Uncle Samuel By VIRGINIA VAN DER VEER WASHINGTON, April 17 (P) If it gives women's skirts an inch, ponders the government, will they take a foot? And, if so, will it bring on depression? This is the momentous issue now before the civilian produc tion administration, which de cides such things as how many buttonholes and pockets a female gets these days. Women's skirts, normally as skittish as a stock market, have been hanging around the same length for four years now. All on account of a dictum known in government circles as L-85. L-85 says, for Instance, that the dress of a size 16 miss shall measure 43 inches from back of the neck to hemline. Women size 7 to the upper 40's found their wartime dresses had Wire their names on the books. Discovers nance, so he yelled for the boys to stop. He yelled three times before thev halted He pointed out to the lads the inadvisability of bike-riding in the dark and asked them to turn on their glims. One lad didn't have a light but the other one remarked that his was on. "No, it isn't," he said. "Yes, It is," the boy returned. "No, it isn't," replied the patrolman, who by this time was beginning to wonder if maybe his eyes weren't playing tricks on him. But the youth's next utterance, a profane and decidedly uncom- iblimentary bit of advice con- cerning what the officer could do if he was of such a mind, (brought the cop back to reality i with a iar. The repartee went on, getting more and more authoritative on the officer's Dart and more and more profane on that of the youth. Finally the officer called the Daddy wagon and hauled the ! sharp-tongued 16-year-old lad In to tne siaiion nouse wnere no was handed over to juvenile of- ficials. . The officer, very unhappy over the turn ol events, aaaea as a grieved PS to his arrest report: "I thought these young boys around town were my friends." U. S. Officer Held By Reds WARSAW. April 16 (Delayed) (AP) Capt. Roman T. Piernick (home address unavailable), U. r c ; : ,n,:na.A.l 1 t3at- r " "7. ,j h nrr-tPrt '"; toy feeitedtor . detained and mterrog atea lor rmy swuumcu five days by Russian officers "in Polish uniforms" following a visit to his grandfather and other relatives i a village in central Poland. Capt. Piernick declined to name the village because he said his relatives informed him they were "terrorized and feared to speak truth." He said his automobile was ' stopped at a highway blockade en route to Warsaw. Russians in Polish uniforms, he asserted, forced him out at the point of a gun. He said a Russian officer ; t0d him "your papers are not ! jn order piernick that for the next three or four days he was sub- 1 and denied permission to tele phone the American embassy. He added that a red army colonel brought him to Warsaw "to take you to our headquar ters." but released him after further questioning and instruct ed him to "tell the American embassy that all Americans are being watched." Piernick returned by plane to Berlin today. little leeway below a modest knee. OPA got its postwar problem when it called in advisers re cently to give L-85 a once-over. Everybody was satisfied but the women's dress committee. If the order must stay, said the committee, at least give every American woman a one inch margin on her skirt. With the one - inch issue squarely before them, OPA's experts (male) in the women's dress division are grappling with these questions: 1. Will one inch lead to an other? 2. If 53,000,000 American women take an inch apiece, how many miles of cloth will they use? 3. Is it true what they say about women's skirts that when they're up, we're pros perous; when they're down, so is the country? Navy Claims City Failed On Permits Civilian planes were ordered off the Klamath naval air station today by Lt. Cmdr. S. A. Cong- don, commanding officer of the station, which is located on the municipal airport. Cmdr. Congdon said the city of Klamath Falls had refused to execute either of two revoc able permits offered by the navy department to provide for civil ian flying. Therefore, said his order, "lt is directed that all civilian flying will cease, civilian air craft will be removed from the station, and the hangar, com monly called the municipal han gar, will be emptied of occupan cy by civilian operators." Flying Stopped Civilian flying was ordered stopped until the order is changed by the navy. Only em ergency landings for safety pur poses will be permitted and in those cases written reports on the conditions requiring the landing must be filed. Congdon's order brought to a head an argument of several weeks standing between civil ian fliers and city officials. Local aviation men today noon jammed a meeting of the chamber of commerce board of directors, and after a long dis cussion, the board voted to urge an immediate meeting of city officials, aviation committee members, and others Interested, to work out a policy toward ths earliest possible use of the field by civilians. Permit Offered . Phil Hitchcock, chamber avi ation director, said that the city had at first refused a revocable permit offered by the navy for civilian flying, objecting to cer tain features. He said these were corrected, and another permit offered. This time, he asserted, the city refused the permit, seek ing to have the navy take car of considerable "deferred main tenance" expenditures befora the city would sign. (The de ferred maintenance asked totals $37,500.) Hitchcock asserted that the city would not be waiving its rights to the deferred mainten ance from the navy by signing a permit that would permit ci vilians to -use the field. He de clared that three GI flight schools are being held up and civilian aviation penalized bf the city's policy. C. A. Dunn, chairman of the airport commission, said the na vy's policy was to "hold a gun to our heads and say, 'sign or else'." Dunn said there Is no city money available to run the air port, and that the commission , has no assurance that enough money would be available from private fliers to randle the ad ministration. Hitchcock said that five re sponsible private operators had agreed to assume responsibility for the field, under a permit to fly, and are willing to give a performance bond. Louis Soukup, local officer, said he had heard Mayor Ed Ostendorf quoted as having said to a navy official that the city doesn't want the airport. Mayor Ostendorf was not pres- ent. He is out of town on a fishing trip. John Houston, chamber di rector and former mayor, said that he felt the city's attitude was holding up the aviation pro gram here, and it was on rus motion that a meeting of inter ested parties was urged. Dunn remarked that "if the water gets too deep, you can get a new airport commission." He said that speech-making doesn't answer the city s financial proo lems with respect to the airport. Others argued that the mat ter of deferred maintenance could be determined at the time of the final conclusion of the airport lease, rather than in con nection with the temporary fly ing permit. Civilian planes were being moved today from the field, some going to the small airport at Worden and others to a pri vate field adjoining the airport for open storage. Fliers have been using a small "municipal hangar" on the field. There are two huge navy hangars there which are not in use. Safety Plans Laid For A-Test WASHINGTON, April 17 (P) Air officers of the atom bomb test said today that elaborate safety plans for "operation cross roads" include precautions to prevent "a premature explosion of the bomb while it is being airborne." Maj. Gen. W. E. Kepner, dep uty task force commander for aviation, referred cryptically to this hazard on the takeoff of the B-29 which will drop the bomb for the first test, but gave no details. MVVVVVVlfYlfYrtirti" WEATHER NEWS , April IT Max. (April 1(1) 13 Mln .-"B Precipitation Ull 24 houri 00 ntream year to date I l.S Normal ... .7 l.aat year 8.1 Forecast! Cltar
