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Newspaper Page Textmm mm mm mmm h ; . . : : ; . Expressmen Slate Strike; Panel Set By The Aaaoclatad Preaa ; Prriilrlrut Trtiinnn appointed a fuel finding bonril today In niov to avert atrlke of 65,000 ? AKL rllway exprrta employes 'et for 12:01 (. m. Krlduy, - Appointment of tlio board, tin ' drr provlalnna of the national k railway labor net, normally poul ts pones liny atrlke (or t Intuit 60 duy. 1'ha bonrd, members of il which have yrt to be selected, will lllvoBUKllin m" wikd unii nil iibinlt rccomnienclullona. Meanwhile, bualnraa at the De trolt railway express lermlnul win tint up for ths third day an lllllf) untnliiVM fnilnl In lllflW UD kejor work, whllo In New York ' bbout 12,000 workers ware it'hrdnled to leave their Jobs at L in., it - ,, nj k...... 11,111 R, 111. 1 lllirmiuy, - lluuis ahead of tho strike cull. Delay Probable A delay of the scheduled walk out for at leant .10 duyn, how ever, Il rritnrdcd as probable with the Intervention of I'lfail dent Trunuin In miming a fact finding board to lnvetiattt and recoiniiwnd settlements In the wage dispute. Tho nutlonnl (railway) media tion board, under rallroud labor act procedure, normally auncla slrlko notlcea to lliu Whltu House with request for prealclenllul appointment of a fact-finding bourd. A formal notice of the walkout wa received by the board yestt-rduy from George M. llnrruon, president of tho AFL Ilrotlierhood af Kullway and Steamship Worker. In Detroit, tho employe! atart ed leaving their John Monday to attend a union meeting to con aider the company' offer of a wage boon I of 10 centa an hour. The propoaul waa rejected by the union members, who have demanded a hlko of 16 centa an hour. Similar to demanda of oilier locala, expreaa company officials in Detroit said they did not con aider the workers on atrtke "as et" Death Takes Allen Sloan Allen Johns Stonn, 67, for the past 46 yean a resident of Klum ath county and active during his lifetime in public affairs, died suddenly at 6:30 o'clock last ev ening while working In Ilia gar den at tho family home, 202 Payne. Death was attributed to cerebral hemorrhage, Mr. Sloan waa born at Monti cello, Wayne county, Kentucky, February 23, 1870, the aon of tho lute Marlon Laluyette Sloan and Rose Ellen Weaver Sloan of Ken tucky. The family moved to Mis souri and settled In Hurrlsburg lor a time, coming to Klamath Kails In 18U8. Later Mr. and Mrs. Sloan moved to Ashland with three daughtera but tho two sons, Allen and Hubert rcmulncd here. Robert "Dob" Sloan died In Portland In 1030. Tax Collector For several years Allen Sloan was in the abstract business dur ing the early expansions of the city. Later no joined ma Klam ath county courthouse staff and for yoara was county tax col lector. At tho tlmo of his pass ing ho wos employed by W. D. Miller company as bookkeeper. Mr. Slonn was a long tlmo member of tho Klamath Elks lodge having Joined on October 23, 1013. He was married Jan uary iu, iuzu, to MnciKo t lop Ion, who survives as docs one daughter Rosemary, Mrs. Dan Kyingson. Mr. and Mrs. Elling son were in Unity, in eastern y Oregon, and on word of Mr. ".Sloan's death returned hero Im- v mediately, arriving ims morn' Inn. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Clop- ton of Berkeley, brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Sloan, are expected hero tonight. In addition to Mrs. Sloan and Rosemary, three sisters survive, Mrs. Samuel Hill and Mrs. Jack hoslnr of Ashland, and Mary Sloan of Medfnrd. Final rites will bo held Friday at 3 p. m. from Whitlock'a chap el with interment In tho family plot at Ltnkvlllc cemetery. Tho service will be under tho aus pices of tho Klnmnth Falls Elks lodge. Mr. Sloan leaves a host of friends who mourn his pass ing. Quiz Ordered On Escapee's Hurts : PORTLAND, Ore,, April 24 Mft Tho district attorney to day ordered a grand Jury inves tigation of how John Drew, 25- year-old convicted slayer recap tured after a lull escape, was cut and bruised. Drew, when brought buck to , Jnll yesterday afternoon by dep uty sheriffs, hud severe bruises and ince cuts. A cornon oi depu ties and police surrounded Drew and Kenneth L. Tcaguc, 28, who escaped Jnll with him, a llttlo cast of here. Deputies said Drew "tripped i Vnd feIl down a couple of times f Its wc were bringing him out of ' the brush," ' i District Attorney Thomas B. Hundley ordered nn lnciulry to , begin tomorrow after Sheriff 1V1IUIIII X. I 1 II lb BHMI IIU lllllllllUU no Investigation of Drew's injuries. Herald l PRICE riVE CENTS lf 3 fa Heads C Of C JOHN HOUSTON John Houston Chamber Head John H. Houston, former mayor and long active In civic affuirs, was elected president of the Klamath County chamber of commerce at a meeting of the newly-constituted board of directors today noon. Houston succeeds L. Orth Slsemore. The new president served as vice president under Slsemore. Other newly-chosen officers are William Ganong, vice presi dent; Roy Rakestraw, treasurer, and Charles It. Stark, manager. Seven men elected to the board in balloting concluded this week are H. P. Bosworth, Malcolm Epley, William Ga nong, Richard Hcnzel, Vernon Moore, Vern Owens and Milch ell Tlllotson. Of these, Moore is the only director who has not held that position previously. The annual meeting of the chamber will bo held on May 21 at the high school auditori um. Portland chamber of com merce, which will have a good will delegation here at that time, will provide the speaker. It will not be a dinner meeting. Outlook For Butter Dim WASHINGTON, April 24 (P) The government plans to re enter the butter market about May 1 to buy 60,000,000 pounds to supply the armed services and military hospitals during tho next 12 months. To assure itself of this quan tity, tho government probably will require manufacturers to set asido a portion of their out put during May and June. Last summer It purchased 323,000,000 pounds under a set aside order, but later turned 76,000,000 pounds back to civil ian markets when supplies bo came very scarce. Government buying for the year ahead will bo concentrated In the May-Juno period when butter production normally reaches Its peak for the year. By obtaining a year's needs In this period, the government thus eliminates itself as a com- fictitor with civilians during ow production periods. Estimates on May and June production of butter were not available. At lust year's produc tion rates for thut period, tho 60,000,000 pound government requirement would bo equiva lent to about 18 per cent of tho combined May-June production of creamery butter. But despite the government's plan to secure military needs during the flush production sea son, the outlook for civilian supplies of butter next fall and winter aro not bright. Rubber Industry May Top Goal Of 66,000,000 Tires WASHINGTON, April 24 (VP) Good news for motorists: the rubber Industry bids fair to sur pass Its towering production goal of 66,000,000 new passenger tires this year. ' Civilian production officials mado this encouraging forecast today, saying tho record output drive Is being helped by new cot ton yarn controls protecting tire cord supplies. Tho Industry's goal is 13,000, 000 tires more than the estimated 83,000,000 passenger casings pro duced In tho previous banner year of 1041. Despite the present bright out look, however, OPA officials cautioned motorists that retail dealers probably will continue to run a week or two behind on tire deliveries throughout the summer, catching up with day- (Telaphon' 0'$i KLAMATH fALLB, OHEGON. Die n Test NAM Rapped For Drive Against OPA WASHINGTON, April 24 (A) Sena lor Mitchell (D-Wash.) took the National Association of Man ufacturers to task today for spending $303,630 in its antl OPA campaign. He called such spending "out of line." Mitchell was one of a group of democratic senators who tangled with Robert R. Wason, president of the NAM, . when Wason disclosed what the asso ciation's antl-OPA drive had cost. "The average consumer who wants prices held down couldn't hope to duplicate that amount," Mitchell said to a reporter. Wason testified at hearings yesterday on legislation to ex tend OI'A a year beyond June 30. In the course of the hearing, Chairman Wagner (D-N.Y.) men tioned that he had received 1730 telegrams for continuance of OPA. without restrictive amend ments such as the house tacked on. Wagner said there were 26 telegrams against the continu ance. OPA Propaganda "Propaganda machine," ex ploded Wason. Later the NAM president quoted Hep. M. Vurscll (K ill.) as having said the OPA has thousands of employes in dulging In propaganda at an an nual cost of (13,000,000. This assertion was challenged by Zcnas L. Potter of OPA who said the price control -agency spend nothing on propaganda, and that the $13,000,000 figure Included such things aa the cost of printing ration books for every person In the country. Wason pleaded In his testi mony for an end to all price con trols on manufactured goods. He said: "We urge you to give the man ufacturers of America a chance to turn out the goods with which to smother inflation." Wason contended especially that OPA was retarding produc tion. He said it had nothing to do with production except to hinder it. Lovness Buys McCollum Firm Sale of McCollum Lumber, in cluding the plant at Mulin and timber holdings in the Bryant mountain tract in northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon, to Lovness Logging company of Canby, Calif., was made known today. Lovness took over the plant and woods operation Saturday. The transaction Includes the sawmill, planing mill, dry sheds, retail stock ana camp buildings at Malln, and the timber. Total consideration will run over one quarter million dollars, it was learned, George McCollum was owner and operator of McCollum Lum ber. His future plans aro in definite. McCollum came to Klamath county in 1020 from Grants Pass and has operated in this area since that time. Lovness Logging officials said today the company would op crate along tho lines McCollum operated In the past by re tailing their entire cut. Lovness Li a California firm and this en trance into the retail field is thought to be the first for that outfit. Lovness has been logging in the Canby section and has provided Ralph L. Smith com pany at Canby with logs. to-day demand only In the final quarter of the year. As advance to Intending vaca tioners, one OPA spokesman of fered: "Put yourself on a deal er's list In plenty of time, expect delivory in 10 days to two weeks, have one of the old tires ro capped for a spare." ' Far In the forefront of recon version, tire manufacturers so far this year have eclipsed 1941's peak production rate but are crowding the limit of their ma terials supply. One major difficulty, tho shortage of yarn for tire cords which has plagued manufac turers in recent weeks, should be relieved by the emergency "freeze" of cotton yarn mill spindles on May 1, CPA rubber official predicted, j Springtime Comes J .'.".,. .... , . i f i v 'ti.. ' 'i : ; . : , ' . i . - Vr ' . ' &&it. iljih ait'r'' - '"-"' ' '' - Edna Klllmayar of The Herald and News staff, admires a Himalaya buah cherry which la now in full bloom in the George Ulrlch gardena. 636 Congar. Ulrich planted the cherry 10 yeaia ago and It is an exceptionally fine, hardy ahrub for this country. The Himalaya buah cherry is natire to Tibet and growa wild in altitudea up to 7000 feet. It la cold proof and bug proof. Ulrich aaya, and flowera along the branchsa right to the ground and even on the trunk. After the flowera are gone, the cherry puts out little mulberry-like leavea and then developa a amall aeedad tart cherry which can be used for piea. It ia aelf-pollanising and as far as Ulrich knows, is the only one in Klamath county where It does Tery nicely. Cline Convicted By Jury On 9 Charges Of Forgery SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (p) White-haired Alfred Leon ard Cline, whose cross-country trail was marked by deaths and cremations of elderly women, stands convicted today on nine charges of forgery. The 38 -year -old ex-convict and former choir leader, who told the Judge in private con- Bund Leader To Be Freed FRANKFURT, April 24 0P Fritz Kuhn, fuehrer of the Ger man American volksbund, will be released by the U. S. army from a German Internment camp tomorrow morning. Chastened by long confine ment and troubled by a heart ill ness, Kuhn declared to bo "not a threat" to American occupa tion forces in Germany. He was expected to proceed directly to Munich, where his wife and two children live in a bomb-damaged house. A stotcmcnt today by Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's headquar ters said Kuhn "is an unknown figure in Germany and his health and spirit are broken." In Jail since 1039. Kuhn served more than three and a half years in prison in the United States for embezzlement of bund funds. Immediately after completing his sentence he was interned at Crys tal City, Tex., and a year later lost his American citizenship. Mercury Rises To 80 Degrees The Klamath basin busked In summerlike weather today when tho mercury rose to tho highest recorded this year, hitting 80 de grees at 12:30 p. m. The maximum temperature recorded Tuesday was 78 de grees which was the seasonal. The mercury continued to climb Wednesday until It reached the new high shortly after noon. A moderate northwesterly breeze saved the day from becoming op prcsslvcly hot and partly cloudy skies with probable showers are forecast for Thursday, according I WEDNESDAY. APRIL 24. 1MB feint To Conger Avenue ferences that there was no such thing as a perfect crime, was convicted by a Jury of five men and seven women yesterday for forging papers involving the es tates of two of the women who died in his company. Both were wives of the mys terious, gospel-quoting Cline, who is charged in Dallas, Tex., with murder and has been un der investigation in the deaths of at least four women, The forgeries were on papers in volving the $323,000 estate of the former Mrs. Eva Delora Keebs Cline, wealthy Chicago widow, and the former- Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt Lewis, of Oak land. Judge Herbert C. Kaufman set the sentencing for Saturday. The maximum penalty is 126 years in prison 14 years on each count. After the Jury returned its verdict with less than two hours of deliberotion, Judge Kaufman revealed that in his chambers April 1 Cline tried to bargain with a plea of guilty for sen tences to run concurrently on each count. Kaufman said he refused and told Cline that a change of plea from innocent to guilty was a matter only he and his attorney could decide. Defense Attorney J. W. Ehrlich said his client never took him into his confi dence on the matter. Stettinius Will Back Spain Quiz NEW YOKK, April 24 VP) Edward R. Stettinius Jr., U. S. delegate to the United Nations security council, was reliably re ported today to have indicated he would support the Australian proposal for a thorough investi gation of Franco Spain. Sources close to Stettinius said he might ask Australian Dele gate W. R. Hodgson to clarify the scope of the inquiry but that ho was prepared to go along with the growing list of delegates who have lined up behind the pro posal. This would come as the coun cil took a one-day recess after which Soviet Russia lost her battle to have the council drop the Iranian case and announced she would boycott any further discussion of the case. Number Oras Number 10803 Plane Rams Into Side Of Dwelling BURBANK. Calif.. April 24 UP) A Western Air Lines trans port, on a test flight witnout oassengers. crashed into a house today, killing its three crewmen. Oceuoanta of tne house. Mat thew Brychta, 30, his wife, Mil dred, and their three children, Ronnie, 3, Janet, 3, and Carol, 18 months, escaped injury. The boulevard, was severely dam aged by flames. C. N. (Jimmie) James, vice president of the airline, said the pilot swerved the big plane in an effort to avoid bitting the Bhychta home. "The sacrifice which pilot Fld roeff chose to make was in the finest tradition of commercial aviation," James declared "The pilot crashed the plane in the backyard of the Brychta resi dence, where it burned with only minor damage to the kitchen and rear of the house." ' Overshot Field A Western Air Lines official said the plane's pilot called Lockheed air terminal tower con trol with an emergency landing request, reported he was oper ating on a single engine, then overshot the field on his ap proach and asked permission to land from the opposite direction. Permission was granted, but nothing further was heard from the Diane. Wind was negligible at the time, the tower dispatcher said, x- -.- - --- - The crash occurred four miles from Lockheed air terminal. transcontinental terminal for major airlines serving the Los Ajigeies metropolitan area. Western Air listed the plane's occupants as: Wayne M. Fidroetf, 26, Los Angeles, the pilot. Native of Billings, Mont., - survived by widow, Lillian, and father, Wil liam. Marvin Schwartzbach, 23, Ros- coe, CaluT., the co-pilot, survived by widow, Jeanne, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Schwarzbach, Anaheim, Calif. Leon A. Turgeon, 36, Holly wood, the mechanic. Survived by widow, Helene, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Turgeon of Pownal, Vt. Wives of the pilot and co-Dilot were waiting for them at the airport. 2 Missing Boys Return To Homes Steve Custer. 11. and Danny Dedman, 9, for whom the hills back of Moore park and the Upper lake were being searched yesterday, returned to their homes last night. They were located at Hilde brand when descriptions of the missing boys were broadcast over KFLW and KFJI. Sheriff Lloyd I. Low received a call saying that the youngsters had been seen near Dairy. By the time the sheriff arrived at Hildebrand the boys had ap parently hitch-hiked back to town and gone home. They had been missing since Saturday afternoon and had been camping out back in the hills. Mussolini's Body Claimed Spirited AcrossRiver Po ROME, April 24 (P) A mys terious telephone caller told the Milan newspaper Corriere Lom bardo today that the body of Benito Mussolini, stolen from a grave in potter's field yester day, has been spirited south across the river Po. The anonymous caller said: "This night at 3 o'clock Mus solini's body has passed the Po river at Caorso." Caorso is near Piacenza. The caller said the body of the as sassinated fascist dictator was taken across the river in a boat, but declined to say how many were aboard. The newspaper said the man was believed to be the same as the one who called it yesterday and declared "a body has been stolen from Maggiore cemetery in Milan." The newspaper re fused to believe the story until a communique three hours later told of the stealing of the re mains of Mussolini. Minister of the Interior Giuseppe Romita ordered police to block all highways from Mi- City CoubucdD Must- AcvrD AAaitfer GVHextf The city airport commiaalon yesterday afternoon voted to. iee ommand acceptance of the revocable permit offered by the navy lor civilian use ol the Klamath municipal airport, currently bald under leaae by the navy. Action waa taken after a week in which civilian fliers were refuaad uae of the airport. They will not be back on the field) until the council haa acted on the airport commiaaion's recom mendation and other atepa have been taken. The council may meet Thuraday night in a apeclal aeaaisn. The revocable permit offered by the navy permit civilian use oi tne lanaing lacuitie ana' the old municipal hangar. It does not involve the big navy hangars or other naval facili ties. A question of deferred main tenance work which the airport commission has insisted the navy should take care of will be kept separate from the revocable per mit matter and may not be de cided until the termination of the navy's lease on the field. Field Management The airport commission took up the question of management of the field, considering a pro posal by five aircraft service operators that they assume man agement responsibility until July 1. or such time as the city wants to take over the operation. At torneys for the city and opera tors were studying a proposed contract draft today. Mayor Ed Ostendorf Indicated that there is still a possibility of management by the city under some agreement with the opera tors. At its meeting, the commission recommended a request to the navy for hangars and other facil ities which had been prepared by Manager Charles Stark of the chamber of commerce at the re quest of the city. At today s chamber of com merce directors' meeting, Mayor Ostendorf in strong terms denied a statement that had been at tributed to him to the effect that he had told a navy official that "we don't want the d . . . airport." "I never made any such state ment," said the mayor. "I have talked with the navy officials. and they say they do not know where any such quotation ong mated." Xjt was voted to have the mayor's' statement recorded in the minutes of the directors' meeting, In the minutes of the cham ber directors'- meeting for April 10 it ia noted that Louis Soukup, local aviation man, had reported the mayor's alleged quotation, which Ostendorf vehemently de nied today. Hunters Face Munition Ban WASHINGTON, April 24 (A) The civilian production admin istration is considering restora tion of wartime controls on the sale of ammunition to sportsmen hunters. An official of the agency who withheld use of his name said today "This may be necessary because of the worldwide criti cal shortage of lead." During the war sales of civil ian ammunition were restricted during most of the year, to farm ers, ranchers and law enforce ment officers. Limited quanti ties were made available to sportsmen during the hunting season. The CPA official said the ag ency has been discussing the possibility of reinvoking these limitations, which were dropped last October. Baseball Scores NATIONAL R H E St. Louis 3 6 3 Cincinnati 2 9 0 Pollet and Rice; Blackwell, Fox (5), Lambert (6), Hetkl (8) and Mueller. lan in an effort to frustrate any attempt to bring Mussolini's body to Rome. Police guarded the Palazzo Venezia, Mussolini's famed headquarters when he was the dictator of Italy. Throughout the night police stopped every automobile ap proaching the palace. Romita declared that "one man alone" knew the exact lo cation of the unmarked grave in a Milan potter's field. He declined, however, to identify the man while the investigation still is under way. Milan newspapers, meanwhile reported that police had found near the open grave a note which was signed by the "dem ocratic fascist party" and which said: "Duce, finally you are with us. We repeatedly requested of the authorities that you be giv en a worthier tomb, but this al ways has been denied us. Now you will have a grave worthy of your person and of all you accomplished, covered with roses and flowers." Crackdown Ordered On U. S. Troops FRANKFURT. Germany. April 24 (JP) Gen. Joseph T. McNarney today ordered a dis ciplinary crackdown on all American troops in Europe be cause "discipline in certain localities and commands in this theater has deteriorated to the point of discrediting the fine ner formance of our troops in gen eral." In orders Issued to unit com manders, the theater commander declared "all commanders and their subordinates must now de vote themselves to the reestab lishment of discipline." "This," he said, "becomes their most important immediate func tion." Gen. McNarney's written or der said: , Pride Weakened "Due to rapid demobilization and frequent changes of station of units, and assignments of en listed men and officers, firm ties ox unit pride have been weak ened. The traditional constant concern of officers for the wel fare of their men and consequent mutual loyalties have been dif ficult to maintain during this transition period. Teamworai often has been forgotten. "Consequently, disclipine in certain localities and commands in this theater has deteriorated to a point of discrediting the fin performance ot our troops . in general. - ..:. - Six Indications "Indications of this state can be found in: "A. Participation in black man, ket activities and in indulgence) in drunkenness. "B. A high absent without leave rate and an excessive in cidence of other disciplinary in fractions. "C. High automobile accident rate. ' "D. Excessive venereal disease rate. "E. General lack of smartness in appearance and conscientious observance of military courtesy. "F. Complaining attitude toward constituted military au thority and those duties essential to maintain high' standards of soldierly efficiency." 2500 Rioting Cons Give Up . MILAN, April 24 (IP) Twen. ty-five hundred rioting prisoners in San Vittore prison surren dered this afternoon, after hold ing out for four days. - However, a small group of gangsters, headed by Erzio Bar bieri, leader of the revolt, still held out and boasted they would continue to fight to the end. - More than 30 guards held as hostages by the prisoners were freed without injury, although the death toll among the pris oners themselves rose to eight today. The surrender came after a tower of the fortress-like prison was half destroyed by shell fire and after military authorities served the rioting prisoners with an ultimatum to deliver the 30 guards or prepare for an all out assault from tanks and ar tillery. Younger Guards Sought At Pen SALEM, April 24 (IP) The state board of control today was trying to find more money to hire younger and more alert guards at the state prison as a means of stopping the current wave of prison breaks. Nine men have escaped this month. The board asked the state budget division to try . to dis cover some money, and said it might have to ask the state emergency board for an appro priation. The board went to the prison yesterday and said that the main reason for the escapes is that the guards are too old. HOOVER IN NEW DELHI 4 BOMBAY, April 24 (P) Her bert Hoover arrived here by plane from New Delhi this after noon and immediately conferred with the provincial food board on the food supply situation In this area..