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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 29, 1946)
A M JVL fo) Hay's lews By FRANK JENKINS AS tha coiivtmtiiiii ln Wah liiKtdii) Willi which thrm chronicle ro dealing it the moment aembli, Uiore In a filial tingle "I excitement In tho air. Tho hlifli (Kilnl of the e kIiiii ! to ho a vlKlt by throe ltuln editor, and their iirt aiipt'iirance la scheduled for thl afternoon. THE morning sewion wear on. Tho lunch hour arrive. Tha "bnokiirmtnd" speaker i Ad inlntl Ninillz. He tin a grim fare, but It is Htlhtctipd by a twinkle in hi ryo. Hi chief. Admiral King, hit a grimmer face that la seldom llHtiteiml by a twinkle. You wonder Idly If navy Job tend to make men grim. Then you think of Admiral HaUcy, and decide there' nothing to It. There have been few tougher fighter than llulncy, but hi face i round and pleasant and he I full of wine crnrk In hi off moment. Men go through life with tha face nature ha given them. AFTER luncheon, thera i dls apixilnting new. Tho ltu lttn, flying to the meeting, are held up by weather In New foundland. No telling when they'll arrive. Wo settl down to work. , . IJVENTUALLY they do arrive lute In the afternoon. They are tnken first to tho ftunian rmbiiuy, then (untied over to tho meeting. Imagine yourself landing Irt Moncow. iaklng no Ituiwlan, and going at once Into a meet ing of Hunalan where you are expected to do the honor for your country. Iff a tough al ignment. Hut they handled themselves well. HEADING tholr delegation is a major general, In the full uniform of hi rank. He is the mlliturv editor of Pravda. Hi name i Mikhail Komanovlch Guluktkmov. He wear horn-rlmmed g!ar. If you removed hi uniform and dremod him In civilian attire, he could mingle with these editor and you'd never know he hadn't come from Cincinnati or Buffalo or Yonker. ill fuce 1 round and plump, Mid ht h a greoter sinllo. Uni "form apart, he looks Ilka a typical member of a typical American chamber of commerce. IZVESTIA. another of the great II linn Inn newspaper, i repre sented by llya Khrenburg, a member of it editorial stuff, lie la also a novellt and essayist. And a war correspondent. Some of hi work. Including an ac count of the lego of Sevastopol, ha appeared in magazine in th! country. He is a clear and vivid writer. EHRENBURQ la the physical opposite of Galaktlonov. He has none of the general rounded contour. Instead, he is ' angular, almost thin. He has an alert, Intense face, with decpset eyes, and a shock of hair. He ;cnk with great earnestness. Ho ha an odd gesture of putting 1.1. fi.rtt imnH tn him phest. nnlm inward, with the tips of his rc- inxcd lingers loucnmg ms hkh1 tie. Hi dress Is tho spit and Imago of the less meticulously attired American editors present, with the slight carelessness as to de tail that, rightly or wrongly, we have come to associate in our minds with literary men. ml IE lhlrH member of the So- vlet delegation is Konstantin Mikhnllovlcn simonov, repre senting the editorial staff of Kcd Star, the red army newspaper. Ho is the youngster of the party, just turned 30. He Is a novelist and a playwright, as well as a war correspondent who covered all the fightlng fronts for his newspaper. lie Is plump with the plump ness of youth, as contrasted with tUa matiiMi rtnhllf rolntinna mnn rolypolyncBB of the general. His iiulr Is black ana ammaani, ana Ills face, especially the eyes, has what we Americans think of as the Slavic cast. Like Ehrenburg's, Ills voice is earnest and he speaks with an intensity that carries to his hear ers a strong impression of sin cerity and desire to convince. All speak in Russian, using an Interpreter. , , THIS is running out to con V siderable length, and there Is an acute paper shortage. H will be better to continue it to morrow.) Family Rescued From Gas Fumes PORTLAND, April 29 (A) A family of five was rescued early today from a home filled with furnace fumes. Sheriff's deputies snid they were called to the Wayne M. Nelson homo in northeast Port land by the telephone operator. Nelson was awakened by his 6-year-old daughter and man aged to reach the phone and call for help. Mrs, Nelson was reported In serious condition but the others were not hospitnliicd. PRICE riVB CENTS Spain Probe Compromise Gets 0. K. Br rRANCIS W. CARPENTER NEW YORK. April 29 (!') Tho United Nation security council, with Soviet Kuuia ab laining, twlay adopted a com promise resolution setting up a sub-committee of five members to Investigate charge against the Franco guveriimoiit of Spain. Ten affirmative vote were cart. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko kept hi hand down when tho vole was taken on a reiulution which would require the sub-committee to report by May 31. Dr. Hafex Aftil I'asna, cnsir man and Egyptian dolegate, then named Australia, Brazil, China, France and Poland as members of the nib-committee. Reserve Opinion Both Gromyko and ttic United State delegate. Edward R. Stet tiniu Jr., indicated they were reervlng the opinion of their delegations on whether the reso lution was a substantive matter or ono of procedure. Tho Neth erlands delegate, Dr. Eelco Van Klefens, also reserved the right to talk later on the matter of procedure, indicating a fight on tiic veto question at an indefinite date. Shortly after the council met Gromyko announced he would abstain from voting. Gromyko made It clear that the Russian regarded the mat ter already a question of sub stance instead of one of pro cedure but that they did not choose now to invite the veto power. The Soviet delegate said that if he had voted against the Australian proposal it would mako it impossible to pass It, in dicating that he regarded it a a substantive matter even in this stage, "This abstinence from voting doe not in any way constitute a precedent," he declared. 2 Mill Men In Accidents Two accidents were reported by Klamath Valley hospital to day, both involving sawmill em ployes. Tom Smith, 68, route 3 box 1009, oiler at Pelican Bay Lumber company's sawmill, suf fered a fracture of the leg at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon when he fell at his home. Lee Hardin. 52, 923 S. 8th, laborer employed in the Ewauna Box company sawmill, suffered a badly bruised right foot early Monday morning when he drop ped a heavy, wet slab on his foot. His injuries arc not thought serious. Byrnes Proposes Four-Power Pact PARIS. Apri! 29 (P) Secre tary of State James F. Byrnes said tonight he had proposed that Great Britain, France, Russia and the United States sign 23-year mutual assistance pact to assure German disarmament after the occupation is ended. Rioting Marks German Vote As New Rightist Party Wins By RICHARD O 'REGAN FRANKFURT, April 29 Germany's fast growing new political party, the right-of-cen-tcr Christian Social union, won an overwhelming victory In weekend county council elec tions in the American tone, marred by rioting and pro-riazi activity. Conservative rural voters gave the church-supported party almost a two to one lead over its nearest rival, the security left wing social democrats. Tho communist party polled only a bare 8.4 per cent of the 3,138,347 votes cast in the sec ond free election in the area in 13 years. Willie 8043 elected county of ficials took their scats on rural councils today, four United States army agencies were in vestigating a street battlo be tween German voters and more than S000 Jewish displaced per sons at Dlcsscn in Bavaria. Six persons were reported still In hospitals out of 18 treat ed for stab wounds and beat ings in the riot which finally (' Leaving DR. PETER ROZENDAL Dr. Rozendal Quits Office Dr. Peter H. Rozendal, for eight yean county health offi cer, announced today he has re signed his public position here to go into private practice at Corvalli. The position here will be handled temporarily by Dr. J. Martin Adams, who is home from the service, pending com pletion of remodeling of down town offices for him. Dr. Rozondal said he had con ildored entering private . pree tice here, but was unable to find a suite of offices. He came here from Lake Preston, S. D., in July, 1838, succeeding Dr. Neil F. Black as Klamath county health officer. During his administration, the county health unit offices were moved to the onlarged center in the former Llghtfoot hospital and a detention home estab lished in connection with the unit. Dr. Rozendal said he wished to express his appreciation to county and city public officials and all others who had cooper ated with him in the public health program here. Permits Needed For Bonfires Fire Chief Keith K, Ambrose warned householders agRinst building fires out of doors with out permit following a cali at 11:28 a. m. Sunday to S2S N 8th, where a trash fire got out of bounds. No permit had been issued and the fire department urged ali persons to contact tho chief s office in Hie future, uc cupant of the N. 8th property is E. C. Bradberry. Two calls were received Mon day. The first camo in at 10:48 a. m. from the J. Giison resi dence, 818 N. 8th, where a flue fire was reported. The second was reported at 12:13 p. m. from the R. R. McClintock residence, 1124 Owens, where a flooded oil stove threatened the structure. There was no damage irt either CRse, firemen said. was quelled by American sol dtcrs. Search was underway todBy for two Jewish guards whose disappearance prompted the dis placed persons to rush the Ger man polls after a report circu lated that the guards had been murdered by civilians. Counter' espionage -agents were probing the appearance of nazi swastikas in another Ba varian town and the setting fire to a communist meeting hall. Rurals voters in staunchly pro-Catholic Bavaria gave the Christian Social union its' big total of 1,779,203 votes to the social democrats' 938,783 by overriding the majority the Int ter secured in more industrial ized greater Hesse. A scries of . lesser disorders in other Bavarian towns char acterized tho county council elections held throughout the American zone. U. S. officials denied, however, reports thRt two deaths had occurred, al though American troops, hem med in by rioting masses of displaced persons, were forced to fire into the air to break up (he milling mob at Diessen, x A1 .( ;-V?T Wef " - KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Parking Plan Approved By Safety Body The city traffic afety com mittee ha submitted recom mendation to the city council that parking meters be installed in downtown Klamath Fails fur a trial period of six months. The traffic prooiem in the busincKS district has been a sub ject of wide discussion for some time, and committeemen said they feci that the installation of the meters wiil Bileviate the situation by proving a more rapid turn-over of cars parked on the main streets. Members of the committee considered calling on represen tatives of other cities to find out if the meters worked suc cessfully, but decided against it since the meters can be reject ed if they prove unsatisfactory after a six-month trial. Up To Council The exact streets which the meters would cover are not known, but they would be, pre sumably, ail the streets in the business district and not only on Main. The committee has recom mended the type of automatic postwar meter, which it be lieves will make policing of the downtown area easier. The city council will deal with the matter probably at its next meeting. The council wiil not meet tonight since today is the fifth Monday In Uie montti. Stage Line Sale Made Dale Mattoon, deputy sheriff, and Ernest (Jiggers) Koschnick, steward at the Elks club, have purchased the Red Bcii stage iine from tiie estate of the late Gor don Quimby and will take over operation of the una May l. The purchase Includes the route between here. Lakeview and Burns, three buses and other Red Ball property. Mattoon is resigning from his job bs deputy sheriff to assume the management of tnc line. L. A. (Jack) Murphy is admini strator of the Quimby estate and the stage line has been operated under the jurisdiction of Quim- by's heirs since his death last November 3. Judge David R. Vandenberg will approve the purchase petition before it goes into effect. Quimby established the Red Bali line in 1928 and operated it until his death. Mattoon and Koschnick will be equal partners in the owner ship of the stage line. Purchase price was not revealed but ua official estimates put it in the neighborhood of $20,000. Firing From Car Stirs Officers TULELAKE. April 29 Sev eral shots fired into the air from a moving car at dusk in the bus iness district, put Night Officer Bob Fishlcigh on the alert Satur day night. Fishleigh was without means of transportation and was unable to follow the car which left town soon after the incident. Similar reports came from Malin and the Henley district where two youths are alleged to have fired two shots into a truck load of lumber on the Merrill highway. Row Ties Up Portland Port PORTLAND, Ore., April 29 m The Portland Waterfront Em ployers association canceled its contract with the CIO Super cargoes and Checkers union this morning but only a handful of ships iikely to be affected by the near-complete port tie-up were in the haroor. j Eighteen ships left port yes terday and Saturday as loading was speeded up to beat the dead' line set by employers in drawn out dispute with the union over the number oi ciieciters to Be employed. BUY PAPER OSWEGO, April 29 P) Mr. and Mrs. William L. Blizzard, former newspaper publishers at Portoia, Calif., have purchased tho weekly Oswego Review, E. A. Donnelly announced today. . MONDAY, APRIL 29, 194 Klomoth Sprinter rrn 5 y , ,m, -M mi in 11 m 1V ,m i ' w-rtfiiifrffrin , -MOliiri n.niimn mn i a tui. .w Tnmm. PMrrrfi flft!. itsrtins Tunntr of off to a flyina start as the oun sounds opnlnS the half-mile relay a the 28-30 ciuls Southern Oreaon-Northwn California track meat en Modoc field Saturday aftaraoon. la t5 tcor.d isn i. - n-Ji-.j ..,.,.,. tMrA I. n.nrf nA an th Inside Ashland. Mdf ord iasra won the fast neat and the relay, with Klamath finishing close secc-no, mkb tura fifth. Grant Pass. Altuta and Malin lan the second heat. Klamath Fail wea Use meet for the fourth straight year. Registration Strength In County 4553 Below 1944 VOTER TABULATION May, 1948, Primary Klamath Falls- Republican 3485 Democrat jo Independent 18 Communist 1 Non-partisan, etc. 353 Total 8185 Klamath county Republican 3404 Democrat 4837 Independent 29 Socialist 3 Non-partisan, etc.. 25 Total - Total ail-county 8530 18,715 Final registration figures- for Klamath county before the May 17 primary, compiled by the county clerk, indicate a loss el 4553 voter over the county' registered strength before the 1844 general election and a slight loss of democratic party sirengm although both city and county are stiil comfortably on the dem ocratic tide of the ledger. Of a total of 18,715 voters registered now, 8185 are demo crats. 6889 are reoubiicans. 47 are independents, three social ists, one communist and 810 de clared themselves non-partisan Truman Frees Big Five Packers WASHINGTON, April 29 AP) President Truman announced to day that the "big five" of the meat packing Industry will be released from government con trol at midnight tonight. The five. Armour, Swift and Company. Wiison, Cudahy and Morreil, were seized by the government January 6 along with a number of smaller com nanies and operating units fol lowing a prolonged labor dis pute. The White House said that a number of the smaller com panies already had been re leased from government opera tion. The release of the big five means, in effect, the return of control of the meatpacking in dustry to private operations. A total of 269 plants original ly were seized by the govern ment. Peoce Hopes Dim In China Warfare CHUNGKING, April 29 AP) Efforts to settle the fighting in Manchuria broke down today. the utmost efforts of Gen. Mar shall proving Insufficient to bridge the chasm between the Chinese national government and the communists. . . . All sides revealed that settle ment of the civil conflict faced Indefinite delay, with the gov ernment refusing the newest truce proposal and the commu nists demanding stronRly favor Bble terms on the basis of their military successes. Illegal Angling Results In Fine Paul Daly Hess, Hopka build ing, paid a line ot s.a Satur day when he appeared before Justice of the Peace J. W.. Grit- ton of Bly in answer to a charge of angling -with pro hibited methods. Hess was fish ing in the north fork of Sprague river with two lines, according to state police who made the arrest. State police officers were busy alone the streams Sun day as scores of anglers were trying their luck on the second Sunday since opening - of the fishing season. r" WEATHER NEWS Arll HI, (( ffcl. Kts itft tt kf Krc Trfc rwr l t ittt KarKkt K it I. it r .. ( .... - (Tiphejs Off To Flying Start In or failed to state a party pref erence. The city has 4328 democrats. 3485 republicans and 372 regis trants not luted m eitner major nartv. In the county are democrats, 3404 republicans and 288 others. The democratic all-county ma jority it new approximately 54.8 per cent oi tne total registration, the republican figure is about 41.2 per cent and the non-parti san, independents ana otners make up the extra per cent Two yean ago me aemocrai majority was almost 57 per cent. The number of non-partisans registered now is larger than any previous listing because overseas registrations for servicemen did not call for party preference. Ex-servicemen who registered overseas wili be asked to state a Breference before getting a pri mary ballot on election day and those who do not state a pref erence win take part in the non partisan voting oniy ( elf uiiiiywii Hits Klamath The warm, sununerlike weather felt last week in Klam ath Fails basin vanished today before a blast of chill, wintry air and a 3 l-msle-per-hour Tftina blowlne west-northwest. The wind brought with It showers and snow flurries and biting cold although the mercury dropped only to 40 degrees at the lowest this morning. Clearing weather is predicted Tuesday but still cool for the basin. Snowfalls In ' the mountain passes continued today, weather reports snowed, ana plows op erated on tne summit oi tne Wil lamette highway. Slush covered the Santiam highway near the summit. An inch of new snow was re ported by the state highway com mission at Santiam junction where the temperature was 30 degrees and total snowfall at the summit was SO inches. It was snowing hard this morn ing at Odell lake, with a tem perature of 27 degrees and one and one-naif incnes oi new snow. A light flurry of snow fell at Bend today. Chains were not necessary on any of the mountain highways, it was stated. SCHOOL QUOTA FILLED PORTLAND, Ore,, April 28 AP The University of Oregon medical school's fall terra ouota of 75 new students has been filled. Dean David W. L, Baird reported today in report urging more space . and an enlarged faculty. Dean Baird said 300 ap plications have been turned down, most of them from vet erans. tife f 10 Vet Force Proposed To Stamp Out WASHINGTON, April 29 m Senator Murdock' D-Utah) pro posed today that the OPA use veterans in a strong enforcement arm to stamp out black markets as the AFL urged senate rejec tion of house amendments to price control laws. Murdock's Idea was called very good suggestion" by Wil liam Green, president of the American federation of Labor. ' Green told the senate banking committee, at hearings on legis lation to continue price controls, that some house-passed proposals on OPA would "amend price con trol to death." After Green had commented that "wa can't surrender to th "' - J Mil Nutnbar 1QSD? Hslf-Mile Relay the KUKS lay team, setting Legislature Meet Slated SALEM. Ann! 23 m Ore gon s first special legislative ses sion in 11 years probably will be held within the next two weeks to enable the legislature to take the bugs out oi Hie Mult nomah county election registrar! law so that the Portland school: district can proceed with its etec- -lion May 17 to levy $1,750,SSS in school taxes, it appeared to-: day, - ; While tiovernor tart atieu said he is waitine for briefs to bo filed by the school district. there was every indication ae would call the special session. The 1345 legislature passed law creating the office of elec tion registrat for Multnomah county only, but it forgot to give him power to- call school elec tions. Consequently, the state jupreme court rujed last Friday that there is no way hi -which the school election can Be field unless the legislature fixes up the law by adding art amendment giving the . election registrar power to hold the school elec tions. The Portland school district said that unless the people vote the additional $1,750,13133, school activities would have to be cur tailed 28 per cent. Progress Mode Is Rail Strike Talk CHICAGO, April 29 m Railroad representatives report ed "progress" today in discus sions with two brotherhoods in an effort to head off a strike, set for May 18, that would dis rupt the nation's rail service. Committees representing the nation's carriers conferred be hind closed doors for two and one-half hours to review the findings of President Truman's fact-finding board which the unions called unsatisfactory. Spokesmen for both sides is sued brief statements as the morning session ended and pre dicted that the conferences would continue for several days before definite results could be made public. Noted Explorer Dies in Gotham NEW YORK. AjSrii 29 iJPt Robert Abram (Captain Bob) BariletL m noted explorer who was a colleague of Admiral Bob ert E. Peary in his 1S0S discov ery of the north pole and who "commuted to tne Arctic iut 40 vears, died here yesterday. He entered the Harkr.ess pa vilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian medical center last "Wed nesday with what doctors said was an acute kidney and heart condition. Capt. Bartlett never reached the pole himself although he took Peary within dog-sled dis tance of it. Black Market black market," Murdock made his suggestion, adding, "I be lieve a lot of veterans could do the job." Senator Capehart fR-lnd.) ac cused the administration of in dulging In "a 108 per cent black market" deal in its corn subsidy arrangement. . When the government sought to get corn for its famine-relief program, it found it had tapsy a 30 -cents-a-bushel premium, Capehart said. When businessmen pay isbove ceilings to get commodities needed to keep running. Cape hart said, they are called black marketeers. "Now the government It doing the same thing," he said. Nip Warlord; 27 Others To Be Tried psni Warlord Hidekl Xoja and 21 other rmiiiarisiic leader were indicted by the siiiet to. day as war criminals. ey will be arraigned Kay S on 55 specific eharaet renuine from murder of thousands 1 Americans on Pearl Hereof day to conspiracy to hammer trie wnole world into slave atctec of the axis. Defense counsel is expected to be given reasonable time to prepare its case before trials begin before an li-r.aticn irl. bunal. Tribunal members heard Chif Allied Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan read the indictments i the Japanese war ministry build ing, then called U. S. navy Capt. Beverly M. Coleman, who will head tne defense, into brief conference, ' Wide Baas Ai he presented the Indict ments, Keenan outlined three categories of charges; Crimes against peace, "conventional" war crimes, and "crimes against i humanity." Offenses thus range. from maltreatment of individu als to world coniipiTacy, and Keenan, made It plain that the whole IS-year-stery of Japan' bloody Bid for waiid power will be tald la the forthcoming trial. Those named in the indict menu Included: Four former premiers: To jo. Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Kekt Hirota and Gen. Xuniakl Koko. A dm. Gssml Kagano, former chief of staff whose direct order " launched .the attack on Pearl harbor. Geo. Kenii Doifcara, Japan's "Lawrence of Manchuria, who engineered the prewar Manchur ian incident. Three principal arranger o the tri-partite act with Italy and Gerraasyi Tenner Foreign Minister losuke Matsuoka, Geo, Hioshi Oshima (ex-ambassador to Germany), and Toshsa Shir a. tori ex-arnbassador to Italy). , Six other former ministers: Gen. Sadao Araks, war; Okmorl ' Kaya, finance; Kiro Minami. war; Mamoru Shigemitsu, for eign; Shigetsro Shimeda, navyj and Shigenori Togo, foreign minister when war began. Gen. oshir0 Umezo, whs with Shigemits'vi signed sorrer dr tenasaboaip the &"SS Mi souri ia "Tokyo bey last Sep tember. . ; Hirohit' Omitted -. Not mentioned in fee indk& merits were Emperor Hiroiiito and a half dozen oi Tojo' form er cabinet ministers; Micoio Ys zawa, Hiohiyo Jwamura, Kuni hiko Hashida, Hiroya ino, Nobu. sake Kishi and Vice Adm. Ken Terajima. Keenan did not refer to them bat commented that omission of a name "in a sense Implies exoneration; other names may be added. indictments included specific chaises of starting the war against the 11 allied nations, and 18 of the prisoners including Tojo were accused of murder fcy "ordering, causing and per asiSting the armed forces of Ja pan to attack territory, ships and airplanes" of other nations in Hie Dec. 7, 1941, sr.eak . at tacks. Hie charge listed as mur dered some 4063 Americsxs at Pearl harbor and others in the Philippines. Accused with Tojo in the mur ders were Doihara, Hiranuma, Hirota, Hoshino, Kaya, Kido Ki mura. Muto. Nagano. Oka, Oshi m,a Sato, Shimada, Susuki, and Togo. "it may seem strange to in clade charges of murder, said -Keenan, "but it is high time that promoters of aggressive, ruth less war and treaty-breakers, should be stripped oi glamour . and exposed as they are plain, ordinary murders," On another count, aH defen dants were held responsible for planning "to procure and per mit murder on a whoieseale of prisoners of war . . , in ruthless pursuit of victory In the unlaw f ui war Twelve were charged with killing many thousands of Chi nese civilians and fourteen were charged with murder oi Rus sian troops in 1838-1S33. Crash Terminates Chase By Felice A state patrolman's car today boasts a crumpled fender as the result of a brash with Louis Thomas Barrett, 31, route 3 box 35, whom officers arrested ai 2:25 a, m. Sunday on the Midland road one mite south of highway m. Officers said that Barrett's coupe was going south on S. fitii and at She Midland intersection turned off on that road. It was first noticed that Barrett's car was without a tail light and when the patrol car siren blew to stop Barrett, he allegedly stepped ort the gas and drove away. Police approached again and gave the siren, this time the state car was on the left side of Barrett who, apparently, applied his brake, caught the patroi car on the ief side and sent it into the ditch. There were no Injuries. Bar rett was cited to appear ia court charged with Inadequate brakes and violation of the basic rule. He got a warning slip en tfc eaiaUHgst. ,. ,
