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Newspaper Page TextVatican Radio Deplores Reich Conditions Lefond Whitlock c: ; Lelend Whitlock, Fremont junior high school student, Ii hown with the historic marker he found at California and Front atreati. It will ba rattorad to Its original location naar Framont bridge, where John C. Fremont crossed Link river In 1846, " -. In Th Br FRANK JENKINS A PART of th show for the editor lathered here in Washington 1 a siwc in 1 confer nice with President Truman at the Whlto House. Admission Is by badge, Just like the regular members of the White llnuse corresimndentM corps, which docs away with a lot of fancy Identification that must be gone through with In the case of a cas ual visit. THERE are 4U0-odd members In attendance till year, which Is too much for the pleas ant little Oval Room, where the President s regular news confer rnces aro held. So It Is staged In the magnificent but still home like and charming east Room. We ill In slowly elowly be rceuse lot of these dignified Minors have worn their hats. In stead of adopting the more or less universal Washington nat ion custom. (It's an economical habit hero, where hut check rooms are more numerous than bureaucrats.) It lakes time for the White House staff to get all the hat stowed safely away. We glance out at the inner gardens, which could De Kept much belter than they are. Some way It make us feel infinitely better. Gardeners are scarce and hard to come by where Wt live, It gives us a tie of kinship with our government to feel thus cos unlly that even the President can't manage to keep everything In apple pie order around his house, fN the west wall of the .Eost Room hangs the portrait of Washington that was saved by Dolly Madison when tne uriusn II, uf,ltnl nnrl hlirnrwi tho White House in 1814. She was one or tne iusi 10 leave, nis tory tells us, nnd her final act i...r.,tn knp llulit wAtf Irt mil Ihn canvas into a tight cylinder and rlnthinff of the Dcrlod. It I a realistic portrait of the l"0iner Ol Ills voumry iiui me l.lAnl.,nrl n iA ripnamv hnntltlflll picture thnt Is shown In most of wnnni niRinrips. no is ac- tuolly homely but he look like a man. Again It gives you a feeling or Kinsnip wun your gov ernment and with history. You 'n..t Km, a ii ti In nnH 4nllrnH weather and tho crops with this man. t t N tho mantel of tho fireplace on the west wall Is a bust of Thomas Jefferson. It also Is real. In most of his scnooi nistory pic- (tirni .Inffnrann Innlca ton muph like he wants to pat us on the head ana say in tones oi solemn majesty: "Go thy way and fear Hnt mv fhllrl for I nm with thee." History, too, is saturated with propaganda, and iikc tne current brand It often backfires. This bust of Jefferson strong ly resembles the late Senator Mc Nary. It has that same look of alert Interest. You feel that If (Cenllnma an rit t, Column I) Strike May Flare In Match Plants WASHINGTON, April 27 (P) Spread of a strike to take in plants producing 85 per cent of the nation's matches was in pros pect for midnight tonight. Federal attempts to conciliate a wage dispute continued. Francis Gerhart, president of the AFL nntlnnal match workers council, said the additional walk out would affect the Diamond Mulch company plant at Osh kosh, Wis., and tho BFD Mutch company plant at Cloquct, Minn, Workers demanding a "mini mum" IB cents hourly wago boost are already on strike at the Ohio Match company plnnt at Wadsworth, Ohio, and Dia mond plant at Barbcrlon, Ohio. Day's lews And Historic Find ., m .j.i'".irirl"J'"'T! Youth 'Finds' Fremont Trail The alertness of a youngster lutvrrstcd In Klnmnth country history la credited with the forthcoming restoration of a historic marker at the point where John C. Fremont crossed Link river at what Is now Klnmnth Falls in 1846. L e I a n d Whitlock, Fremont junior high school student, Is the hoy who found tho marker, iwrtlnlly covered with dirt, at California and Front streets. It is a block of Ashland gran ite, and on Ita face are chiseled the words: "Fremont Trail 1846." Lcland related his find to Mrs. Burns Stone, history teacher at Fremont. Mrs. Stone ben on an Invcstl gallon of the history of the marker. She asked many old timurs who could remember nothing about such a marker. Finally, through W. A.! Dclxell, Portland, former Klamath p't mastcr, and Rachel- Applegate Swan, Klamath historian now living at Junction City, she traced the story of the marker. Dedicated She learned that it was dedi cated on May 10, 1916, In cere monies sponsored by the late Capt. Oliver Cromwell Apple gate. May 6, 1016, was tho 70th anniversary of Fremont's cross ing of Link river, but inclem ent weather delayed the cere monies for four days, according to old newspaper accounts. The lata George Grizzle, pioneer monument dealer, furnished the slnb. The marker was placed be fore the construction of the Fre mont bridge. When highway do- Sartment contractors built the ridgo In 1027 or thereabouts, the slab of granite was moved and apparently left on the ground at California and Front streets, where young Whitlock found it IB years later. The highway department has agreed to replace it at the east end of the bridge, and Eulalona chapter, Daughters of tho Amer ican Revolution will sponsor the restoration of the tablet. Good Deed Leads To Swift Kick! Senior Skip Day was some- uiing more man a day for fun and frolic to one high school senior. Yesterday was the day when Klamath Union high school mem bers are permitted to legally skip scnooi, put jjciores Hcirrich mignt nave been better off had she gone to her classes. While driving beyond Fort Klamath, Dclorcs and a group of friends encountered two largo worn norscs pioaaing down the middle of the road. Dclorcs vol unteered to lead them out of the way. The first one behaved nicely but the other responded by kicking the young girl to me otner side of the road. Beyond minor scratches nnrt bruises. Dclorcs was unhurt.' When her friends come to her aid, her only comment was that her wrist watch, a graduntion gift from her rjarents. was un. damaged. AFL Labor Group For Vanbenberg The AFL Central I.nlinr ,.mm. ell, representing all the subor- dlnatA AVI. rnnnnll In ihn Klamath basin, lust night passed a unanimous resolution endors ing the campaign of David R. Vnndcnberg for circuit Judge. This pnHnr.aemnnf urn a thn day's only further development in me ncatca contest for the bench between Vnndenberg, present Judge, and Clarence A, Humble, district attorney. Thn rpsnlllllnn wna nnatinrl nt a regular meeting of the council. PRICE FIVE tffo' " r- .o fminlMWPiTil MmH u km Farm Favor Said Major Aid To OPA WASHINGTON, April 27 lP) Senator Mitchell (D-Wash.) to day described as "Important help" to OPA the contention of major farm organizations that the house went too far in vot ing to loosen price controls. Mitchell, one of the senate's most vigorous supporters of OPA, told reporters: 'This is about the first rec ognition we huvo hud ot com mittee hearings from critics of OPA that a weuk price control agency would be dangerous to the country." Mitchell was referring to statements yesterday before the senuto bunking committee by President Kdward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation and Albert Goss, master of the nutionol grange. liuth wanted OPA to "mend its ways," but both said the house had been too drastic with some of its provisions in a bill to ex tend the price agency's life nine months beyond June 30. OPA Endorsed President James G. Patton of the National Farmers union gave OPA a warm endorse ment. On the other hand. Charles W. Holman, representing the National Cooperative Milk Pro ducers association asked the committee to end all price con trol on milk and Its products June 30. He, as did O'Neal and Goss, called for an end to gov ernment subsidies to processors to keep retail prices down. Holman termed his proposals "the only remedy for a vicious ly snarled price ceiling struc ture that is wrecking dairy pro duction and dooming American consumers to a milk famine." Mitchell said he und other members of the senate are get ting increasingly heavy mail on the issue of continuing OPA without "crippling amend ments." He said his last check showed 1338 letters for OPA ond 162 against. Portland Port Tie-Up Looms PORTLAND. Ore., April 27 (A') A general tieup of Port land's waterfront Monday ap peared likely today as the CIO Supercargoes and Checkers union took no steps to answer a waterfront employers' ulti matum setting 8 a. m. Monday as deadline for cancellation of the contract. H. W. Hanks, union business agent, said the union had not sanctioned members' refusal to work the American Hnwailan line vessel Sioux Fulls Victory cause of tho ultimatum and reiterated a statement made to employers that the union lacks authority to "force them to work against their better Judg ment." No further answer will be made, he said. Train Crash Probe Delayed CHICAGO, April 27 (AP) State' Attorney Lea Daniels of Du Page county today subpoenaed Burlington railroad officials and train crews to testify at a grand jury investigation Tuesday into the collision of two of tha lino's fast passenger trains at Naperville Thursday. Forty-four persons were killed and more than 100 in- , jured in the wreck. NAPERVILLE, III., April 27 (AP) State's Attorney General Lee Daniels, temporarily delayed in his effort to push an inquiry into a collision of two fast Burlington passenger trains which killed 44, asserted today he was "not entirely satisfied" that W. W. Blaine, 68-year-old engineer on the Exposition Express, "is to bear the en tire blame." i "I believe other angles might be about as much to blame as the engineer's operation," the prosecutor told newsmen after calling off his inquiry when no members of the train crews appeared. The Burlington railroad, meanwhile, scheduled a sep arate investigation conference in Chicago for later in the day, Membors of the two train crews were instructed to attend. Daniels said he would attond the Chicago meet ing, , Blaine, who remained at the controls of the Exposi tion Flyer when it rammed into the standing Advance Flyer, was still being treated at an Aurora hospital for a skull fracture. He has been charged with man slaughter. A 24-hour guard was established at tho Aurora hos pital, where physicians said Blaine would be confined for two or three weeks. x-t KLAMATH Civilian Use Of Airport Pressed Possibility that civilian filers may get back on the municipal airport before com pletion of formal arrange ments between the city and navy was Indicated today in a telegram received here from Congressman Lowell Stockman. Congressman Stockman said he had conferred with navy officials in Washington, and they had agreed to tele graph the commander of air bases, 13th naval district, suggesting that civilians be permitted to use the field pending execution of the In terim permit by the city. The city airport commis sion and city council have voted to accept an interim permit from the navy to au thorize civilian use of the field formally, but it will take some time to complete this arrangement. Stockman said that copies of a draft of the permit are being air mailed from Washington to the city. Stage Strike Picture Dark PORTLAND. April 27 (IP) The three-week Oregon Motor Stages strike continued with no hope of prompt settlement today after a session of com pany and union officials and a federal conciliation commission ended last night. The meeting, attended by mayors of Salem and Eugene, concluded without announce ment ot further negotiation. Tho company's offer, report ed by- General Manager Ay L. Schneider, was $1.12 hi an hour lor city drivers, $1-3 'tt lor mechanics, and $1.25 for over the-road drivers, or 5 4 cents a mile if they prefer. He said an alternative suggestion would allow employes to work while the company takes part in full arbitration. Harold Oathos, union spokes man, said the union would re turn to work with $1.15 an hour for city drivers, $1.40 for mechanics and $1.35 hour ly or 5 V4 cents a mile for road drivers. He declared employes, too, are willing to negotiate. Skagit PUD Wins Court Decision MOUNT VERNON, Wash., April 27 (IF) The Skagit county public utility district today won its court test of the legality of the proposed $135,000,000 pur chase of the Puget Sound Power & Light Co. far-flung hydroelec tric empire. Superior Judge W. L. Brickley in a verbal decision ordered John Wylic, secretary of the Skagit commission, to sign the bonds and the purchase contract and dismissed the intervenors' com plaint filed by the Weyerhaeuser Timber company as an interested taxpayer. Attorneys for both sides pre viously had announced inform ally that the case would be car ried to the state -supreme court for a speedy action, perhaps in the May term. FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY. MM Government May Seize Mill Wheat WASHINGTON, April 27 (IP) The government, In a "much more drastic" step to avert star vation abroad, may move in and take part of the wheat now held by mills and elevators. The grain obtained in this way would be used to help meet famine relief promises un til greater quantities can be bought directly from farmers. The action appears to be the only course open to the govern ment if it is to keep its exports during the next few critical weeks from falling far short of urgent overseas needs. Decision Pending A decision thus to requisition part of the wheat remaining in commercial channels may be made today by Secretary of Ag riculture Clinton P. Anderson. Anderson was due back at his office after a visit to Minneso ta and North Dakota where he appealed personally to farmers to sell their remaining below normal supplies to the govern ment for shipment to famine areas. This farm wheat, however, will require several weeks to reach port in any great amount, hence the possibility of quicker action. The first open hint of the pos sible form any further action might take came from a state department new conference yesterday. . , , . Drastic Step '' rjacusslng the food , situation with reporters. Acting Secre tary of btate Dean Acheson said he believed much more drastic steps must be taken to get wheat and flour lor the desti tute overseas. Asked what might be done, he replied there is no great mystery about it. If you want to get wheat and flour, Acheson said, what you have to do is to go and take wheat or flour. There are vari ous ways to do that, he added, including the possibility of ra tioning. Basic Fleet Left To Italy PARIS, April 27 (IP) The foreign ministers council agreed tonight to leave Italy a basic naval fleet and to divide its other warships among the four large powers, Greece and Yugo slavia. With Russia agreeing to the division in the most cordial of the peace sessions yet held here by the foreign ministers of Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States, the min isters reached an accord on the broad general proportions of the fleet division. Specific details were not set tled during the three-hour meeting. wriJ -MfL W tj -.TEV ta-. . .aaaaaaaV) uSaK&wMMtiiii. jZ t Victim of Burlington train wreck at Naperville, 111., is pulled through coach window and onto improvised stretcher by volun teer rescue workers. APRIL 27. 194 (Telept (Telephone 8111) M Bruin Causes Furor In City PORTLAND, Ore.. April 27 (IP) A black bear that turned up mysteriously in suburban Portland was fin ally dispatched today after a two ana a half hour chase by police and half-clad citizenry. Twenty-five police and 15 police cars were summoned shortly after dawn when a resident spotted a 300-pound bear rambling down the side walk. The bear took off down lots and behind houses, with officials and a few resident whooping behind him. He kept disappearing, only to pop into view again farther away. While nlghtclothed house holders rushed out to view the hide-and-seek, Gene Tea gue, resident of the neigh borhood, finally wounded the animal with his .270 rifle. Patrolman R. A. Jensen fol lowed with the fatal bullet. Then officials started won dering who the carcass be longed to. The zoo has no AWOL bears; there Isn't a circus in town; and nobody is known to have a . loose tame bear. Cline Draws Nine Jolts SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 UP) White-haired Alfred Leon ard Cline was sentenced today to nine consecutive terms of from one to fourteen years in prison for forging the names of two women who had wed him and then died mysteriously. Judge Herbert C Kaufman, in passing sentence, referred to Cline as "One-man crime, incor- poratea. "While it is true that you were convicted only of forgery," the Judge stated, "circumstances sur rounding the case constitutes a pattern of conduct revolting and shocking to the conscience." Several elderly women died and left their estates to Cline. In Dallas a murder charge was filed against him, but no action was taken on it. District Attor ney Edmund G. Brown of . San Francisco, has declared, the women who died were cremated at once, on Cline's orders, and under names 'other than their own. Black Blizzards Strike Dakotas Minneapolis.. April 27 m Swirling dust filled skies over North and South Dakota and Nebraska today and airplane pi lots reacmng Minneapolis re ported the visibility had been reduced to one to three miles. The Minneapolis airport weath er station said that the dust storm, reminiscent of the "black blizzards" of 1934 and 1935. is the result of an advancing wind' front stretching north and south on a line from Minot, N. D., to Pierre, S. D., and through Ne braska. rhe dust was noted by pil at 8000 feet in western North Dakota. WEATHER NEWS April J, Ills Mh. (April sat 17 Mia. SI rraalaltaUan lut tt kaaia .. Straaai yaar la fata 1 1 tit Haraial lt.M Laal aaar raraaailt Claar SaaSar. -..--------------- .n.'i'.rirj Number 10806 14 I Pi Kan hnuA IIVU LIIVUJ Opposed To Spain Quiz NEW YORK, April 27 VP) A majority of the United Na tion security council member ship hoped today that a week end message with new instruc tions from Moscow might move Soviet Delegate Andrew A. Gro myko from his steadfast opposi tion to any subcommittee in vestigation of Franco Spain. There was nothing, however, to indicate that Gromyko would waver from his contention that Spain already has been proved a menace to peace and that sub sidiary pursuit of the question would lead only to delay, thus forestalling immediate action against Spain. The 10 other members of the council were in apparent agreement on a proposal to investigate to de termine whether Spain is, as charged, a threat to world peace. Last Holdout The sober, black-haired Soviet delegate became the last hold out against the appointment of a subcommittee to compile all the available data on Spain from the intelligence services of the individual governments of the U.N. and any additional evidence it may turn up. Aus tralian Delegate W. R. Hodgson twice revised his resolution pro posing the subcommittee in quiry in an effort to bring the council to unanimous agree ment. The third draft was drawn before yesterday's session at a last-minute breakfast confer ence at which Hodgson won over. French Deleeate Henri Bonnet and Dr. Oscar Lange of roiana, who Had riddled the subcommittee proposal with amendments and counter-pro posals the day before in a partial lineup with the adamant uromyko. . Cinder Fracas 2-Vay Contest Klamath Falls and Medford dominated the preliminary track ana iieid trials of the annual Southern Oregon-Northern Cali fornia cinder meet this morning on Modoc field and the finals this afternoon in most events are ex pected to devolve into a contest between the two teams. The Pelicans are defending champs and in addition to Med ford 14 other Oregon and Cali fornia track teams are participat ing. The meet is sponsored this year by the 20-30 club. In the shot put prelims Med' ford placed first, second and sixth while Klamath athletes placed third, fourth and fifth, Klamath was first in discus: Medford second and third and Klamath first and fourth in the javelin throw and Klamath sec ond in the broad lump. Gandee of Ashland placed first in the 100-yard and 220 dashes, turning in marks of 10.2 and 22.8 seconds. Bob Redkey took one heat in the 220 low hurdles and Medford's Singler took the oth er, Singler was disqualified for running in the wrong lane but the decision was later reversed, His time wa9 26.7 seconds. Thirty-two runners will com pete in the 440-yard dash, one of the last events scheduled this afternoon.. Time Shift Set Sunday By Th Associated Press Daylight saving time will go into effect at 2 a. m. tomorrow (Sunday) in six eastern states and portions of 19 others. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia, however, will not observe the time change. States which will push time pieces ahead one hour on a statewide basis are New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and Connecticut. Those states where communi ties will make their own deci sions on the subject are New York, West Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Kentucky, Mis souri, New Mexico, Indiana, r, , T in T 1 Louisiana, Delaware, Oregon, Maine and Maryland. Most of Maine will observe daylight saving time but most of Oregon won't. Most Canadian cities will ob serve daylight saving time be ginning at 2 a., m. tomorrow, I Starvation; Looting And Rape Scored LONDON, April 27 (VP) The . Vatican radio citing a "report' i of an unidentified eyewitness, charges that SO Germans ara perishing each week In camps in the Russian occupation zone of eastern Germany amid wide spread conditions of disease, ! plunder, starvation and rape. "The German press is not 1- ' lowed to mention the extent ol ' the suffering," declared tha ; broadcast, recorded last night in '. London. "Only the church has ' the power to raise Its voice be- ; fore the world. ! "Many of the priests who have ! shared their bread with the ret- ' ugees are too weak to celebrate ' a service. Added to the great physical suffering is the great spiritual burden. There is no ! food, no blankets, no medicine, i no nothing. 1 50 Die Each Week ! "In camDS built tn appnmmn. ' date 2000 to 4000, some 50 people ' aie eacn ween. i The broadcast said children in the area were suffering and that ; cries for help were going up from ! a'- auu wuiiiwi who aue uein( brutally raped and whose bodilv and spiritual health is com- pletely shaken, so that they are unable to give birth to a healthy child. "There are no doctors to cope ! with venereal diseases and if there were any, there are no i medicines," the radio said. "The eastern half of the Rus- ! sian zone has been thoroughly plundered," it continued. "There ' are not even .seeds for the coming year. Only some two to four per cent of the cattle is still here. Broken In Body "Thousands of children have : for a year been without any j teaching. They just vegetate, are undernourished, broken in body and spirit." j In describing the transfer of "some 5,500,000 persons" from : the eastern part of the zone to new homes in the west, the broadcast said: "Their suffering 1 Immense, '. horrible and cannot be expressed, j in figures. i "One must have seen the plight trains packed with peo- j pie plundered both spiritually ' and materially. Their cry for i material help is reinforced by a ! cry for priests, priests who could help them die humanely and give ! them a Christian burial. "Never before has there been such an opportunity for the church in the, Genaan.: east as i today.". j Roxas Issues ; MANILA, April 27 (JP) Man uel Roxas issued a victory state ment today as his lead in the Philippines' presidential race exceeded 125,000 votes, but in cumbent Sergio Osmena declin ed to concede defeat. , Presidential Secretary Jose Reyes said Osmena planned an official statement for next week. Roxas said he already was selecting his cabinet, and added: "The keynote of my adminis tration will be justice to every one and reestablishment of a reign of law. Despite charge of fascism against me, I am sure I am the greatest champ ion of democracy." Asked t o comment on a Osmena spokesman's charge that the election was "stolen, the v confidence Roxas said: "seventy to 80 per cent of tha people exercised their free will. There were large scale frauds in some districts, but the great majority expressed themselves freely." GOP Leads Dems In Lake County LAKEVIEW. April 27 The republicans hold a lead of 112 over the democrats in Lake county when they go-to the polls in the primary election, accord ing to registration figures re leased today by County Clerk: Genevieve Hanks. Total regis- , tration is only 2260, 17 below the registration of June, 1043, and almost one-half of the total voters in Lake county, . , The republicans dropped from 1207 in June last year to 1174 this year, while the democrats : jumped from 1041 to 1062. There were 23 miscellaneous registrants ' ana one socialist, the same as i last year. , . Following are the figures for i the two major parties In June, 1945, this year and the last gen eral election in November, 1944: Hep. Dem. This year . 1174 1062 June, 1945 1207 1041 November, 1944 .... 1368 1221 Baseball Scores ; R HE' Pittsburgh .............. 2 8 1 i Cincinnati 5 8 1. Strincevich, Hallet (6) Lan- ning (8) and V. Smith, Baker ' (6), Beggs and Mueller. American R HE St. Louis 2 6 1 1 ' Chicago 0 3 2 : Zoldak and Mancuso: Grove. Papish (7). Cadwell (9) and '. Treh.