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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1946)
MM PRICE FIVE CENTS In Tho Day's lews Br frank ji.np.ina ASlllNUTON, D C Aa purl w of tlm uciu-rul "background- Inn" prngruin, Reconversion Di rector Chester Howies, who alts nit the hottest mmt In Washing Inn, hud been Invited to appi-nr before this august body of edl torn. Kale willing olherwlae. On the I nlilht before, the home of rcpro- ! fPiitntlvrt, working until near midnight, drnlt with the OI'A ' In nuit'h the miinnrr of a conk ai-ramhllnu an run. So Mr. Howies sent In aubstllute he himself being fully occupied In the cold, gray duwn of the morn Inn after with tho task of try ing to unscramble the egg. THE atihatltuto was a runny, rough-hewn young mini who ought to ue lit tun atiiie depart inrnt, for he handled tin-no lr rltntcd editors (everybody who acta even clone to OI'A seema irritated) with lucl and diplo macy, )ln admitted Hint OPA Isn't perfect. Whenever the witters became t roulilivl. he poured up on them the nil of a tolerant and underatnndlim amile. lint at every clung of tho Iron, purk Hew, If you wunt to aturt a fight anywhere In America, hut men tlon OI'A and you will be fully arcommodnted. Thin session was no exception to the common rule. Tempers were on edue by the time the discussion eiulecl. TV7IIAT the house did to OPA, " PLUS whul the senate may be expected to do to whnt the houao did, haa been the No. l topic of conversation In Wash inillon ever aince It hnppened. It l reunoniibly fair deduc tion that it waan't a put-up Job. Thla writer, after In Ik Inn to a lot of the principals (who nre a little scared, now thai they have actuully dod It, aa Ited Sjkel ton taya) la of the opinion thnt when the. member of the hnuae - went into the session that after i ' noon they had no thouKht of definitely scrambling the OPA egg. Die accumuinted annoy ance and bad temper that OPA haa atlrred up everywhere In try I nil to do ita more or leaa impoaalblo Job Juit bubbled and bo led until they accumulated a head of ateam that blew up the teakettle Ai a goncrator of heat, OPA la at leaat a cloao accond to nuclear fission rON'T be too sure the senate will put the plecea buck to- ether. Into something closely reacmblliiK OI'A before the houao exotoaion. Tho aenntora get mall from their conatituenta. too and the OPA mall thnt poura into Wash Ington follow a pnttcrn. The proponents of price control nre voluble, but hnzy. They're like the vii.it mnjnrlty of ua who are imnltcrnbly FOR virtue In tho abatrnct. Hut they are foggy on rietnlla. They nre for lower prlcea aa a principle, but let It go at tint Opponentl of OPA nre defi nite nnd positive. They si'KUI FY. The (Ilea of every member or congress bulge with IN STANCES of what has been done to citizen and tnxpnyera llltlo merchants who hnvo been fined and humiliated be cntiao aomo raw new clerk has overcharged somebody a penny on a enn of prune, etc. (One ' compluinnnt told hla senator ho niny hnvo dono It, but he wnsn't V entirely reaponslblo for detitil.i t at tho moment, na he hnd Just " Rot the newa thnt hla boy hnd been killed In kurotic.) The files of the aenntora are full of letters of thla sort, Just na nre the tiles or tho represents tives, and the senators nre Just as humnn lis anybody else. They're likely to soften the harshness of the house bill a little, but they hnvo no love for OPA nnd OPA-crs especially the lnttcr, TTHE cold solemn truth of the matter la thnt in a produc tive economy ns vnst nnd vnricd as Amerlcn'a the mind of man is simply INCAPABLE of mus tering the nslronomic task of fixing nrbitrnrily a fair nnd Just fu'lco for' every ono of the mll lons of items thnt nre Involved in our productive system which ebbs nnd "flows nnd shifts from day to dny na demnnd nnd supply rlao and fall and costs vnry. In thnt fuct lies OPA's basic trouble. Veteran Carrier On Last Voyage SAN FRANCISCO, Mny 1 (P) Tho veteran nircrnfl carrier Snr atoga sailed today for Honolulu en route to the Bikini uloll atom bomb tests. Tho fumed "Snra" curried a crew of only 000, compared to Its wnrtlmo complement of 3200. The ship, ono of the largest vessels designated for the bomb tests, was equipped with secret Instruments to record effects of the bombing. Nip LefifSeeks Power Soviet And Byrnes Row Over Italy PARIS. Muy I (AP) Soviet Foreign Minister Vynchealnv M. Molotov and U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrne clashed in the qtication of the future al lied control of Duly toduy aa tho furelgn ministers council turned thumbs down on Aus tria's plen fur return of the southern Tyrol by Ituly. A qualified conference source said the Soviet minister sharply opposed Byrnes' proposnl for a single general commiaalon to supcrvlso the currying out of tho Italian treaty provisions on the ground that It would be an Infringement of Italian sov ereignty. Molotov reversed the Soviet policy followed at last Septem ber's council meeting at which the Russians voted with their cnllengues to set up only mil itary control commissions. At thla morning's aesaion, over which he presided, Molotov came out in favor of no com miaalon at all. The ministers were dlacusaing the laat of 11 points of disagreement over the Italian treaty. Austrian Pita Rajactad lit considering the Austrian Italian border question, the den utlea decided that the Austrian request for return of the south Tyrol, ceded to Italy after the First World War, was a major frontier rectification which the council hnd decided against last September. Tho question arose at the meeting of the ministers yesterday whether the request was a major or minor border chango and the matter was hand ed over to the deputies. Redding Stage May Tap Burns LA REVIEW. May 1 (Ti Ex tension of the Rcdding-Alturns-Lnkcvlcw stage line to the town of Burns Is In prospect, Thomas B. Riley, owner-operator of the line, notified the Lake County chamber of commerce toduy, Riley said the firm had applied lo the intcratutc commerce com miaalon for the extension, and asked that tho ICC hearing be held here. The new service would oper ato daily directly from Redding to Burns, via Alturas and Lake view. It would connect with Pacific Greyhound. Hager Finally Gets Safety Signal L I' ' : h-mi W" 'Aim y J lllyl k All; ' After years of urging by local safoty signal has Just been installed at the Hager crossing of the O. C. and E. railroad, scene of many serious accidents. Here Joy Biggi oi The Herald and Newi staff looki over the new signal. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDWvO Parking Meter Plan Gets Chamber Directors' Okeh After Spirited Discussion Play As You Fly LAS VEGAS. Nar., Mar !') Flying roulatte that's the lateit Idas for axpanding gambling In Navada. Duk Wll.y and Eddie Alias, oparators of a Las Vagas night club, announced they are nego tiating for purchase of a four angina transport plana to uta aa a flying gambling casino between Las Vagas and Rano. "This will enable tourists, harriad businessman and others to enjoy gambling while trav eling and thus save time in the air." said Wiley. Atom Defenses Readied By U S WASHINGTON. Muy I (PI The armed forces were reported well advanced in their plans to day for putting some of the na tion's key military plants and headquarters underground event ually as a precaution against atomic or rocket attacks in a possible future war. A committee of the reorganized army and navy munitions board has been busy surveying under ground aitea for several weeks under tho general supervision of a civilian industrialist, Richard R. Deupree, of Cincinnati. The work has included a study of the possible usefulness of such cav erns as Mammoth Cave, Ky., and Carlsbad caverns, N. M. Beyond that hint members of the group are mum on what has been done or may be undertaken. World War II largely solved the problem of this country'sNcw York -Pittsburgh -Norfolk "vul nerable triangle" where industry was concentrated, this official noted. Beginning with the con struction before PcHrl Hnrbor of the first string of TNT and smokeless powder plants, the munitions industry, including aircraft plants, wns widely dis persed nt war and navy depart ment insistence. A recognized remaining prob lem is the snfegunrds of key mili tary headquarters and such plants as those making rockets and atom bombs whose quick de struction might be a solar plexus blow. groups, a modern automatle MAY 1. 1B4 (TelaphoM Parking meters for Klamath Falls won the favor of the board of directors of the chamber of commerce today noon after a spirited discussion. The approved motion favors a six months trial period for the meters, with the understanding that net pifCceds from parking meter be svnt in the develop ment of off-sti M.-t parking areas. The chamber motion also pro posed thnt any commissions on the salo of the meters be credited to the city, rather than to any in dividual. Meanwhile, the local merch ant association called a meeting for 10 a. m. Friday at the cham ber to consider the parking meter iasue. The matter is com ing to a head as a result of action of the city traffic safety coun cil, recommending to the city council that it try meters for a six-month period. The recom mendation ha not reached the common council for action. Discussion at the chamber meeting indicated directors' opinion that parking meters are only a partial volution to parking problems, and that off-street parking areaa should be pressed as a constructive use of parking meter revenues. Director C. A. Dunn asserted that the revenue feature is the chief value of park ing meters. Others said that parking meters tend to create traffic movement and to do an automatic policing Job that keeps parking space open for rural and other shoppers. Meanwhile, a Herald and News informal survey among business men brought a variety or views on the Dark In meter question. Among those asked, approval ap peared to outweigh disapproval of a meter trial. Several merchants were strong for giving the meters a trial, and some were emphatically favor able to Immediate installation on the grounds that meters had worked advantageously in other cities. The fewer dissenting voices were as emphatically against having parking meters, using the argument that meters do not solve anything as traffic officers still have to check on motorists overstaying their time, increas ing the need lor more oflicers. The objectors stated that towns already having meters were not entirely satisfied witn tncm. One merchant thought that shoppers should not be charged to park in their own town while Datronizine their local stores. Another merchant said if the revenue from meters was bud geted for certain civic improve ments and funds were used specifically for these purposes he would be all for it. but he seemed doubtful that this would work out. Morse Assails OPA 'Gestapo' WASHINGTON, May 1 VP) Senntor Morse (R-Ore.) says the primary fault with OPA is the way in which it is being admin istered, and not in the law itself. He said he will vote for re tention of price control and agninst "crippling amendments" attached by the house. "It has always been my posi tion that OPA must be continued in order to check the profiteer ing greed which will gnllop roughshod over the people of this country during tne recon version period if the check-rein is taken off the bridle," he said in a statement. "What we need in OPA Is a houscclenning of its incompe tents and gestapo-minded subor dinates and a re-dedication on the part of its officials to the principles and inflation-control objectives set forth in the orig inal price control- act." Senator Attacks Property Disposal WASHirCITON, May 1 (P) Senator Byrd (D-Va.) asserted today the government's handling of surplus property disposal is "a national scandal" and ordered an investigation by the Joint con gressional economy committee which he heads. Although it has been eight months since t h e fighting stopped, Byrd said in a state ment, "effective machinery has not yet been established to per mit the citizens" to purchase war surplus goods. WEATHER NEWS Me- 1 ii, (April Ml t Mia. .il reelpltellea leel Se iears at Stream eeer U date " i Neraul . .. I.H 1 jeer .! rereealli Fair ead waraier. till) Humbtr 10809 Laborites Threaten Big Strike TOKYO, May 1 (Organ ized labor used its occupation won freedom to voice a May Day threat of a general strike to support its demand for a leftist government. Meantime, Japanese police and American forces searched for the fanatic accused of hav ing plotted to kill General Mac Arthur at the height of today's celebration by an estimated 400,000 Japanese in front of the Imperial palace. It was Japan's first May Day celebration in 11 years and it passed quietly without a single reported act of violence. Socialist Kanju Kato, in a la bor committee conference with Premier Shidehara, said a na tionwide walkout might be called if a single party cabinet was formed by the rightist lib erals. The liberal party won 139 diet seat in the recent elec tion but failed to gain a ma jority. "The people may rise against it," Kato told the premier. 'This might take the form of a gen eral strike. In that case, who is going to take the responsibility you?" Shidehara, who resigned his cabinet nine days aso in an election aftermath, agreed to listen to the committee's de mands some voiced angrily but declined to comment. The conference followed the assembly which the American provost marshal estimated at tracted, 400,000 . Japanese. The croVd. gartered just a block irom MacArthur s headquarters, waved red banners, sang, and heard speeches demanding rights for workers. Then it dis persed in the rain to march through various sections of the capital while Kato'a group went to comer with Shidehara. Armed American soldiers cir culated through the crowd, looking for Hideo Tokayama, accused by MacArthur's head quarters of having plotted to kill him with grenades and pis tols at the height of today's celcDrauon. An informant now in American custody told Mac- Arthur s aides of the plot. Gl's Mobbed By Japanese TOKYO, May 1 JP) Two American soldiers were beaten Sunday night by a mob of Jap anese, one of whom said he would "not take anything from any Gl's," the army newspaper Stars and Stripes reported today. Capt. Michael G. Frisch, chief of the criminal investigation di vision (CID) of the provost mar shal's office, was quoted as say ing tne two Americans privates in the 608th engineer aviation battalion were painfully but not seriously hurt. The two soldiers were walking down a street in Kamata, be tween Tokyo and Yokohama. They were approached by four Japanese, one of whom said he had been through the Okinawa campaign and did not propose to "take anything from any Gl's." Then he whistled and 75 to 100 Japanese swarmed around the Americans, while 15 or 20 beat them. Many of the group carried wooden rifles and sticks. Baseball Scores AMERICAN R. H. E. St. Louis 2 10 1 Philadelphia 3 6 1 Potter and Sears; Fowler, r lores ana nosar. Cleveland 3 4 1 New York 6 9 1 Reynolds, Klieman (5), Pod- gajny (6), Black (8) and Hayes; Ruffing and Dickey. Detroit 14 3 Boston ...13 12 2 Benton, White (2), Gentry (7) ana Teobets, Swift (7); Ferris and H. Wagner. NATIONAL Brooklyn 5 15 1 Chicago 16 2 Gregg and Sandlock; Fleming, Erlckson (4), Bithorn (4), Hany zewskl (9) and McCullough, Sciiefflng (8). Philadelphia ZZIZ 8 11 1 Pittsburgh 0 5 0 Pearson- and Hemslev. Sem Inick (7); Albosta, Gerheauser W. uanr ibj and saikeid. It's May 1A Black Day On A Dog's Calendar 1 l a : t v tjtta V aV "io ?n -n 13 m u k r VS (!, ,J, 311'l.S , : m t j i ,t-n tAI t ft tn (ia n ...Witt w is t w!H6 xr -tt-.rv tT'W JO 11 M U M'W 24 1 14 Bonville, the giant St Bernard owned by Mr. and Mrs. Mor gan Johnson of 900 Eldorado, uphappily faces the prospect of being shut-in from today. May 1, until July 1. Along with hundreds of other Klamath Falls pooches, Bon ville will have to forego his canine habit of storing bones in the tulip bed. While the pups observed the whole thing mournfully, gardeners rejoiced at a chance for their new spring gardens to grow. A city ordinance provides that the dogs be tied or penned up for 60 days each spring, and city police say that the ruling will be strictly enforced. Police Chief Orville Hamilton says that dogs found running loose will be taken to the city pound, where the owners will have to pay a fine to retrieve their pets. Shoppers Snatched For Jury Duty . PORTLAND, May 1 (IP) Surprised Portland shoppers were snatched from downtown streets here yesterday as Fed eral Judge James Alger Fee sent U. S. marshals out looking for jurors to keep his court calendar on schedule. Jury venires ran out with two jurors needed to complete the last cast on the day's calen dar. U. S. Marshal; Frank Meyers and -Al Price were or dered to get some jurors from the street. Price reported one trim brunette snubbed him and flounced away when he in-, quired "are you 21 years old" Clark Fears Monopolies ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 1, UP) Attorney General Tom C. Clark charged today that "many of those who demand the re moval of controls over the build ing and related industries ostensibly in the name of com petition in fact ' desire private monopoly to regulate that great industry." Clark namdd no names in making his statement before the 34th annual convention of the United States chamber of com merce. The board of directors of the chamber on Monday ap proved for convention considera tion a resolution, likewise in general terms, expressing op position to the federal housing construction program and favor ing removal of restraints on pri vate construction. Meanwhile, in an unrelated action, the 53-man directorate of the chamber sidetracked a pro posal which would have placed their organization on record for outright repeal of tne wagner labor relations act. In a brief reference to labor in connection with the anti-trust laws, the attorney general said "certain activities of labor unions, having nothing to do with the legitimate ends of or ganized labor, constitute undesir able restraints upon our econ omy." Maritime Cooks Vote For Strike SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 &) CIO marine cooks and stewards of four west coast ports have- voted 93 per cent in favor of a strike for more pay and a 40-hour week, union officials announced today. Ballots have been counted in San Francisco, Seattle, Port land, and Wilmington, Calif., union officials said. Votes have not been com pleted in New York, New Or leans, Baltimore and Honolulu. Negotiations reached an im passe last April 10. Marine Barracks Declared Surplus WASHINGTON, May 1 (P) The navy said today that the Klamath Falls Marine Barracks has been formally declared sur plus, opening the way for the Oregon state board of higher edu cation to take it over. The navy said no agency ex cept the state was interested in negotiating for the facility. V C 4 : W Aw $yi Mix-Up In OPA Hits Clothes NEW YORK. May 1 UP) Men's clothing manufacturers halted deliveries on 75 to 80 per cent ot all suits Demg produced, industry spokesmen said today. They said conflicting office of price administration regulations make it impossible for them to ship the bulk of their production without incurring heavy 'penal ties. The Clothing Manufacturers Association of the U. S. A., lead ing trade organization in the field, asserted that manufactur ers "find themselves in a auan- dry because an OPA maximum average price regulation forbids shipment of goods priced in ac cordance with another OPA reg ulation, and therefore shipments have been stopped. Otherwise manufacturers would incur pen alties aue to tne contact caused by the two regulations." It was estimated in the indus try that shipment of approxi mately 325,000 men's suits, 80, 000 overcoats and topcoats, and 80,000 boys' garments will be held up each week until such time as the two orders are recon ciled. Airport Program OK'd By Congress WASHINGTON, May 1 (IP) A half-billion dollar federal aid program for state and munici pal airport construction went to President Truman today for his signature. Congress completed action when the senate voted 49 to 32 yesterday for a compromise bill allowing cities and states to ap ply to the federal government for airport funds on a match ing basis. The house approved the measure April 2. The bill authorizes the $500, 000,000 to be allocated over a seven-year period starting next July 1, with annual outlays lirti ited to $100,000,000. Seventy five per cent of the fund would be apportioned among the states under a formula taking into consideration both area and population of a state. Daylight Saving Decision Pends; Local With farmers emphatically opposed, but many city people indicating they would like the extra daylight hours in the eve ning after work. Klamath peo ple today awaited word from Salem as to whether Oregon is going to have daylight saving time. Governor Earl Snell of Ore gon and Governor Mon C. Wall gren of Washington were sched uled to talk the matter over by long distance late this after noon, and from that conversa tion is expected to come a deci sion on daylight saving for the northwest. Klamath chamber of com merce directors went on record today against daylight saving time, after hearing vigorous statements with respect to the opposition of farmers. Henry Semon, director in charge of ag riculture, said that farm people feel that daylight saving time is especially bad in harvest pe riods, bringing an end to the Navy Head Sees End Of Marines WASHINGTON, May 1 (AP) Secretary of the Navy Forreatal declared today that "outright abolishment of the marine corps la a possibility under the pro posed legislation to merge the army and the navy." While maintaining that the navy la in favor of "practical improvement in the coordina tion of the armed services" ho warned the senate naval com. mittee against (1) concentration of power in the hands of one man, (2) the idea of "merge now and organize later," and (3) cur. tailing naval aviation and the marine corps. Forreatal declared that the) current proposal to merge the army and the navy into a single department of defense is "based on a major premise which is raise. Kavy Favors Coordinator He told the senate naval Mm. mittee that the navy is solidly behind a program of "practical Improvement in the coordination of the armed services," but criti cized sharply details of the pres ent merger plan. Pending legislation that the committee is considering, ha said, "fails to differentiate be tween unified command in com bat areas and the planning func tion at the seat of the govern ment which require deliberation ana conference. "Concerning! the neerf nf m. ordinating research, logistics. training ana intelligence func tions of the army and navy, he opposed what he called ' the army proposal" as putting too much power into the hands of one man "a supreme chief of staff' and because It would "reduce our present departments . . . to the status of agencies." Forrestal suggested that a di rector of common defense have supervisory jurisdiction the) "alter ego of the president" making the decisions that the president does not have time to make. - Wants Ho "Overlord" "I would describe the duties of this proposed executive and his office as duties of a coordi naUnft. and staff character as opposed to the army's concept of an overlord of all the serv ices." He said British experience had proved the danger of neglecting naval aviation. "We have grave fears for the future of naval aviation if this bill should pass in its present form,'' he added. The sinking of the British Prince of Wales and the Repulse as well as the es cape of the Scharnhorst, tha Gneisenau, the Prinz Eugen, through the English channel was directly due to lack of a naval air arm, he declared. Forrestal objected to a pro posed single department with a secretary of common defense and five assistants as "illogical administratively" and said in some cases "vacuums of authori ty" would exist. . 'i Dangerous Concentration ' "I have deep misgivings about the danger of the concentration of . . . huge authority in the hands of one military man," he said, adding: "1 mistrust the principle ot relying on a single genius to make all the basic decisions. I also know that it was a most fortunate thing that the navy was able to speak as an equal partner in presenting the re quirements of the Pacific war." Forrestal emphasized that the navy was in complete accord with the desire of President Tru man to set up an integrated "military foreign relations in dustrial economic organize tion" which would keep the na tion's military machine usable and effective. "I believe that legislation can be drafted," Forrestal said, "which will attain (this). 1 have done everything within my pow er and capacity to aid in the preparation of such legislation," he told the committee, "and you can be assured that those ef forts will be continued." Opinion Split work day at the time when threshing conditions are best. He said: "If you want yout crops harvested, don't change to daylight saving." H. P. Bosworth Jr., horn from overseas service, said ha experienced two-hour daylight saving in England and it proved most satisfactory. It was finally voted by the) directors to oppose daylight sav ing in Oregon and to inform Gov. Snell by wire. Many local people, who work in offices and mills, have voiced their favor for daylight saving because it gives them time for gardening and other activities in evening daylight hours. Arriving In U. S. Br Tha Aamelatta' mu Jiu I. Franeli. T8, Mt. Shaila, arrived on Oanaraf Haia dua In Seat Ua April J8. . . Arthur C. HIIHiman Jr., I art.. Klamath Fall-, arrived on General Uaea dua la SeatUa April St.
