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MP mm II tt&lfr 31 $tit& Sill I " . ; jpBKnrnVECEHTB l-CT- KLAMATHrALLB. OREGON, WEDV ' 9 . D. 1948 (Telephone 8111) Number 10815 jVS v In Th By FRANK JENKINS BUTTER 111 Uit-iie acarclty dayi li wlirra yim find It and when. It will show up In placet you (Inn'l expect to find It. and will bo nilanlng in other plucca where yim think It certainly ought to be. Tha hotsy-tolHy spots have no edge. In (net. It's a more or lra (ori'Kiino ciincluiilon that the ritzier the pluro the acarcrr tno butler. CvmIc'H cxnluin It thla way: The bin. well-known placet dnn'l dare to monkey with the li lurk niurkcl buzz auw. There are rumors everywhere nf reglima where the butler aup ply la huh. Thla wrlter'a advice i to take 'em with a handful of null. Rumors are acrewbull af fair, ciinrernluil themnelvea ex tensively will) thinita that aren't true. In a quick const-to-coost-and-back Jump, thla acrlbe hna aecn butter In abundunce nowhere. IN the Eal, Jam la the prevail ing butter luhatituto. In touth rrn California, they're be KinntnK to experiment extensively with a nft cheese mixture. It Isn't bad. If you hut your cyea, ypu can nlmoit kid yourself into thinking IH edible. THE Loa Anuelra Tiinea carried a little eye-cntcher tory the other day to the effect that Parla hna Juit shipped in 800 loin of butter from Argentina. (Trying to visualize BOO tona of butter ia a little like trying to Imagine a trillion. Which, oddly enough, calla to mind the fuel thut tlio national debt of the United S Intel la now a little In exceaa of a quarter of a trillion dollars.) The apend -with -both -handa boyt havo finally nil me jncxpoi. They have pushed the national .,..,. 1.. tl... rnftlma it tt.trn. V n...nlul fiintr. whurn trvintf to 1 . I 1, I- ..I..I..I.W, ( t jiilioervunu n i ,.. Aorm a mental picture o( dla- r tancea meaaured In million! oi A light-ycara. When more bllllona of govern ment exDcndlturo are propoacd, we taxpayera Juat ahrug our ahouldora and mutter: "Aw, what tho heck. BUT to get back to the Timet" atory of the shipment of Ar gentine butter to Parla. The correspondent simulated the rait ing of a gentle eyebrow by re marking that it aeemcd a trifle odd to be shipping butler from the Argentine when Normandy, only a atone'a throw awny, at atonc-throwing goea In Europe, ia practically flouting In dairy products. He ended up by aug gestlng Hint the black marketeers might be able to throw light on tho oddity if they were willing to talk (which they nuturally are not.) A GREAT many GIs have aecn Normandy. They will re member it as a (at land, liberally sprinkled with cows, and will recall that only a part of it wat devastated in the fighting. Everv now and then a shell would fall on a cow which waa a pily, for when a shell falls on a cow disgustingly little good meat Is left In the vicinity, I ho written records are hazy on the point, but word of mouth talcs were loose in Europe last year to tho effect that from time to time Normandy cows were killed by the accidental discharge of American weapons. (By a strange coincidence, weapons teemed to be more Uablo to the phenom enon of accidental dlscnurge un der the conditions prevailing when fut cows and hungry Gla were odjuccnt to each other.) All thla, of course, is mere source muterliil which if sifted carefully by meticulous research ers might yield nuggets of (act. It would bo chnritublo to pre sume that the cows of Normandy were so depleted In numbers by (ailing shells and bombs and the accidental discharges of weapons already referred to that they are no longer capable of supplying nearby Paris with butter. yHESE sumo GIs, however, will also recall that the people of Normandy thought no more of a franc than you or I would think of a quarter-section of good land. So it tuny bo that they have been tempted by evil black marketeers and arc selling their good butter at fantastically high black mar ket prices instead of disposing of it lit ruinous rationed prices. It Is deplorable what war and its hund-mnldcns, scarcity and Inflation, can accomplish in tho wny of debusing public morals, Let us hope that tho noble Ideal ists who are socking to lend us along the bright and shining paths of a regimented economy do not hear of it. It might shock their simple, trusting faith In the goodness of human nature. Civilian Fliers km -t toy . V' Civilian (liars are today reinstated on the old municipal taction of the air station and con ducting the aviation butlnata at utual after Mayor Ed Oatendori yaattrday tigned and turned over to the navy an Interim permit allowing the fllert to use the field. The fliers themtelvet are putting up the money to operate the port until the city takea over. Left to right above, are Mar shall Cornett. owner of a civilian plane; Lt. Cmdr. 8. A. Congdon. who received the aigned permit from the mayor) Ottendorf, and Lt. Cmdr. J. F. Flttgerald of the naval air atation. Mayor Faces Angry Council In Another Stormy Session Over Conduct Of Meter Row Dissension between the mayor and the city council which waa touched off Monday night con tinued hot and heavy when the council met In siwciiil session with Mayor Ed pstendorf Tues day afternoon to Iron out their differences. The council Indicated a strong reluctance to open the meeting at long aa the preaa, which waa present by the mayor's invita tion, was represented, but since the mayor had given his ap proval, newspaper and radio rep resentative! remained. The councilmcn, rebellious at the mayor's action in publicizing city affairs before the council hu(l been consulted, stated their General Raps Allied Policy BERLIN, May 8 Ml Gen. Joseph T. McNarney said today that allied failure to achieve a common policy on the treat ment of Germany as a political unit has permitted German po litical and trade union leaders to make political capital, play ing off one occupying power against another. Tho American military gover nor pointed out this situation In his monthly report on occu pation affairs. McNarney also warned that the German food crisis threatens to upset care fully laid plans in all phases of the allied occupation. The U. S. commander's re port said that "in general there has been little progress toward tho treatment of Germany as an economic unlV." Ho attribut ed this chiefly to French oppo sition, which insists that there be prior consideration of west ern boundaries. McNarney also warned against the peril of onc-pnrty or dictatorship rule In tho mer ger of communist and social democrat parties, which was ef fected in the Russian zone of occupation. Baseball Scores AMERICAN SHE St, Louis 13 0 New York 8 7 2 Zoldak and Mancuso; Chand ler and Dickey. Cleveland 5 7 0 Philadelphia 2 6 4 Feller and Lollar; Kncrr, Sav age (5), Brown (8) and Rosar, Dcsnullcls (8). Chicago .'. 10 17 2 Boston : 14 17 4 Hnynes, Grovo (3), Popish (4), Cadwell (7) and Tresh, Fcrnan des (6); Harris, Fcrriss (0) and Wagner. NATIONAL Boston 8 9 3 Chicago 10 14 1 Juvory, Singleton (3), Rcld (fl), Wright (8) and Nasi, Poland (7); Wyso and Livingston. New York 18 0 Pittsburgh 0 8 0 Koslo and Lombard!; Ostcr muollcr and Baker. Allowed e$v k0'.aval Air Station 12 r-M' -".- case with particular reference to the previous evening when the question of the Installation of parking meters was brought to the council by the public and the original recommendation from the traffic safety council had not been presented on Die council agenda. Demanding to know why the recommendation was not on the council peg, the councilmcn were told by the mayor that it had been misplaced. At this, Paul Landry accused the mayor of purposely planning the meeting so that he would not be there and the recommendation would not be available to the council. Mayor Answers "You had a copy of the recom mendation. You could have in troduced it," said the mayor, speaking to Councilman Landry, who was acting mayor the night before in Ostendorf's absence. Holding that it was a matter of principle, Landry replied that he did not feel that lt would be right for him to present the recommendation when it should come from the mayor. Backing Landry up, Councilman Rollln Cnntrull said, "Any one of us would have done the same thing had we been in Paul's place." "Troublemaklng" Charged Directing his comments to Can trull, the mayor accused him of always being the one to start trouble. Contrail, angered by the accusation, answered that the mayor had a personal grudge against him, adding, "When I ask a question at our meetings, the mayor hardly gives me a civil answer. You can tell Just by looking at his face." Councilman Angus Newton In- ICantltiurd on rg t, Clumn S) Iranians Battle Kurd Tribesmen TEHERAN, May 8 ) The newspaper Arman Mllll reported today an outbreak of fighting be tween the Iranian army and Kur dish tribesmen in Kurdistan and snid Snu-Jbulngh, capital of Ghuzl Mohammed's "Indepen dent Kurdish republic," had been bombed. - "Heavy casualties" were re ported at the city. The report said Iranian forces under Gen. Jehanbanl, (rom Sar dnsht and Suqqlz, had been "beaten back" by the tribesmen and had lost 100 officers and men. Red Cross Assists Underwood Homeless WHITE SALMON, Wash., May 8 W) Tho 30 families left home less Sunday by a fire which wiped out the tiny town of Un derwood were receiving Red Cross aid today. A Red Cross representative from San Francisco came to help disaster victims. A truckloud of clothing and food was shipped by the Troutdnle community, and White Salmon residents con tributed more supplies. Tho homeless families are liv ing In houses in the region thrown open for the fire vic tims. Indians whose small shacks burned left (or The Dalles, leav ing salvaged possessions in small piles guarded by mongrel dogs. - a i TV M m mi n V 1 r ft' Strikers Firm As Idle Zoom By The Aatoclaied Preta The number idle because of the 38-day toft coal strike zoomed past 800,000 today at the na tion's Industries, railroads and utilities strangled for lack of fuel. .. .... .. j" Meanwhile, the government i failed In an informal attempt to get 400,000 of the idle coal min er back to work aa the AFL Unlted Mine Workers policy com mittee announced it stood back of John L. Lewis' demands for a health and welfare fund and other concessions. The snowballing effects of the prolonged stoppage leveled a blow at the nation's reconver sion program that combined the impacts of both the recent steel and automotive strikes. These were the main develop ments: Automobiles The Ford Motor Co. announced it was suspending "virtually all operations" indef initely tonight because of "the coal strike, shortage of parts and railroad transportation." The company said 110,000 workers will be affected. General Motors Corp. closed its electromotive plant at La Grange, 111. Chrysler Corp. spokesmen reported the company's assembly line and body plant operations might sus pend next week. Railroads The Association of American Railroads estimated 51,000 railroad men have been laid off because of the strike and that another 100,000 will be laid off after May IS. Industries serviced by the railroads have laid off an estimated 250,000, the association said. . Parade Tonight! The V-E Day parade, spon sored by the Veterans of For eign Wara, will be held to night, atarting at 7 p. m. The parade will atart from the armory, go down Main to Third, and down Klamath to Fourth. r-lJu"' Sailors Face Naval Court In Jap Cruiser Sabotage PEARL HARBOR. May 8 UP) Court-martial specifications were prepared today against five U. S. navy crewmen accused of sabo taging the Japanese cruiser Sa kawa en route to Bikini, and thereby endangering the lives of their shipmates. . Cmdr. L, W. McConnnughay, director of discipline for the 14th naval district here, announced the preparation of charges but said he was not yet ready to re port their exact nature. The five men were held meanwhile as prisoncrs-at-largee. Lt. David Merrill, Hartford, Conn., chief engineer aboard the Sakuwa as she made her hazard ous 40-day. cruise to Bikini to become an atomic bomb target, said sabotage occurred on April 5, 6 and 7 at Enlwetok. Fuel System Smashed Crewmen, he said, knocked out the ship's fuel system, smashed instruments and valves, No Peace, But No War On V-E Day WASHINGTON, May 8 OP) The world observed the first anniversary of victory in Europe today without war anywhere but also without peace. in fact, the best estimate of diplomatic authorities here is it may be several years before real conditions of peace are restored among nations. The prospects even for this, they say, have been darkened by the evident fail ure of the foreign ministers' con ference in Paris to make prog ress on European peace settle ments. The situation in Europe It matched in Asia by the dispute between the Chinese communists and the central government; and in the Middle East by the ten sions over the war-born Pales tine crisis revolving around pro posals for the admittance of 100, 000 Jewish refugees to the Holy Land. Some Progress Made Estimates of the condition In which the world finds itself on today's V-E anniversary leave little doubt that the allied pow ers have made considerable prog ress toward organizing machin ery to preserve peace once they establish it. But It is the process of establishing the peace that presents the toughest going. Almost the only major problem In Europe on which the United States, Britain, Russia and France seem to find a common denominator of agreement at the moment is the one presented by the Franco government in Spain. They don't like Franco. But in the major political dis- flutes concerning Russia's rights n the Balkans, the (uture of Germany, British domination in the Mediterranean on these there is no basic agreement. And officials here hold little hope of early settlements. School Parade Flouts Snell PORTLAND, May 8 (JF) Commerce high school students paraded around school grounds today with banners reading "Down With Snell," "We Want Sports" and "Shrike." Similar action was reported brewing at Lincoln high school. and the student body president at Washington urged students there to stay out of the demon stration. Governor Snell's refusal to call a special legislative session to legalize a Portland school tax levy election and his charge that school officials' statements were political, prompted the ac tion. School . Supt. Willard B. Spalding said he had spent the morning attempting to head off student leaders. Two plans were reported getting widespread student sup port one for parades and pick et lines and we otner lor a caravan to Salem to protest to the governor. Joint Food Board To Be Continued WASHINGTON, May 8 (JP) President Truman and the Brit' ish and Canadian prime min isters announced today the conv bined food board will be coa tinued until next December 31. In a joint statement, they said this was essential "because of the deterioration that has oc curred In the world food situa tion in recent months and the need to continue to control the distribution of many foods with a view of preventing widespread suffering ana starvation. and cut high pressure steam lines, so that "if anyone had walked in front of that leak, it could have cut them in two." The Sukawa's voyage from Japan was a 40-day tale of woe. Pearl Harbor stuff officers re lated; they termed it "a remark able exhibition of seamanship that she reached Bikini. Merrill said the odor aboard the filthy ship was "horrible"; that falling refrigeration afford ed only a 12-day supply of perishable - foods for the trip; that the cruiser exhausted her fuel before reaching Eniwetok, and that, after being towed in. the crew had only one small boat for bringing fresh supplies aboard as well as affording the crew recreation ashore. The Japanese battleship Na gato, making the same trip, took 44 days to reach Bikini. She, too, ran out of fuel, her electric power failed and eight of her Doner blew out. V-E Dayl At 9 o'clock (eaatern war time) on the tenae morn ing of May 8, 1945, the newa bacame official. President Truman and Brltain'a Prime Miniater Churchill broadcast aimultaneoualy the nawa that the war in Europe wat over. Late that afternoon, the documenta were ratified in Berlin. Hostilitiea ended, with the exception of iaolatad pockets in Cxechoalovakia. at 6:01 p. m.. eaatern war time. That night, one year ago today, there waa world-wide joy, dancing in the atzeeta restrained only by knowl edge that there waa still a war in the Far Eaat. Messenger Caught Fremont On This Day in May, 1846 On May 8, 1846, John C. Fremont and his small force of white men and Delaware Indian scouts made their way along the west ern shore of Upper Klamath lake, through rough country familiar to most Klamath people. They had camped the night of May 7 on Cherry creek (or possibly Seven Mile creek). Today's 100th anniversary account of Fremont's story continues, ending with the first episode of an event that was of profound significance in the history of the west Fremont's receipt of a message with information that turned him back into California to take part in winning mai men Mexican province for the United States. Reading (rom Fremont's "Memoirs of My Life": We continued our route over the same kind of ground, ren dered difficult by obstructions which the wash of rain and snow, and the fallen timber, the undisturbed accumulations of the manv years, had placed in these forests. Crossing spurs of moun tains and working around the bays or coves between the ridges, or winding among the hills, it is" surprising how a long day s march dwindles away to a few miles when it comes to be laid down between the rigorous astronomical stations. We had trav eled in this direction many such days when we camped in the afternoon of the 8th of May. ; Unexplored ' ' " A oinnrs t mnuntaliis. which, are shown Sn tho view of Mhe lake (the view that appeared Newa Monday) gives some Idea or tne cnaracier oi mis unex plored region. By unexplored, I wish to be understood to say that it had never been explored or mapped, or in any way brought into common knowledge, or rarely visited except by strong parties of trappers, and by those at remote intervals, doubtless never by trappers singly. It was a true wilderness. There was the great range of mountains behind the coast, and behind it the lakes and rivers known to the trappers and that was all ... All of this gave the country a charm for me. It would have been dull work to plod over a safe country and here and there to correct some old error ... . . . Some 17 months before this time, in the December of '43, in coming south from the Columbia, I had encamped on a large savannah, or meadow-like lake ... I met there the Tlamath chief and his wife . . . Where I encamped this night, I was only 2,0 miles in an airline from their village and I was promising my self the pleasure of seeing them again. According to what the Indians to the south end of the lake had told me, I had only to travel eastward a short march and I would find a large village at the inlet of the river (Williamson river.) . . . His Plana I wished to penetrate among the mountains of the Cascade ranges ... I felt sure they were absolutely unknown . . . And possibly, I thought, I should descend their western flanks and some safe harbor might yet be found by careful search along the interior through these mountains to the sea. I thought that until the snow should go off the lower part of the mountains I might occupy what remained of the spring, by a survey of the Tlamath river to its heads, and make a good map of the country along the base of the mountains ... I felt sure there was game in the woods of these mountains as well as in those more to the south. Traveling along the north ern part of this range in 43, I had seen elk tracks in the snow, and at an old Cayuse village in the pine forest at the foot of the mountains, about 60 miles farther south, there were many deer horns lying around. . This showed me that we should probably find both elk and deer, and bear, in the mountains . . . And I had not forgotten how fascinated I had been with the winter beauty of the snowy range farther north, when at sunrise and at sunset their rose colored peaks stood up out of the dark pine forests into the clear light of the sky. VISITORS IN CAMP How fate purtuea a man! Thinking and ruminating on theae things, I waa atanding alone by my campfire, enjoying iti warmth, for the night air of early apring ia chill under the ahadowa of the high mountaina. Suddenly, my eara caught the faint tound of hones' feet, and while I wat watching and listening at the tounda, ao atrange hereabouts, came nearer, there emerged (rom the . darkneta into the circle of firelight two horiemen, riding alowly aa though horae and man were fatigued by long trav eling. In the foremoat, I recognised the familiar (ace of Neal, with a companion whom I alao knew. They had ridden nearly 100 mllea in the latt two dayi. having been tent forward by a United Statet officer who wat on my trail with dispatches lor me; but Neal doubted if he would get through. After their horaea had been turned into the band and they were seated by my fire . . . Neal told me his atory. The officer who waa trying to overtake me waa named Gillespie. He had been sent to California by the government and had letters for delivery to me. Neal knew the great danger from Indiana in thia country, and hia party becoming alarmed and my trail being fresh, Gillespie had tent forward Neal and Sigler upon their beat horiet to overtake me and inform me of the tituation . . . When they parted from him they had not reached the lake, and for greater safety had not kept my trail quite to the outlet, but crossed to the right bank of the river, striking my trail again on the lake shore. They had discovered Indians on my trail after they left Gillespie, and on the upper part of the lake the Indians had tried to cut them off, and they had escaped only by the speed and strength of their horses, which Neal had brought from his own rancho (In California). He said that in his opinion, I could not reach Gillespie in time to save him, as he had with him only three men and was traveling slow. A quick eye and a good horse mean life to a man in the Indian country. Neal had both. He was a lover of horses and knew a good one ... He had been sent forward by the messen ger to let me know that he was in danger of being cut off by the Indians. The trail back along the shore at the foot of the mountains was so nearly impassable at night that nothing could be gained by attempting it, but everything was made ready for an early start in the morning. ... . (Continued tomorrow). id on page 1 of The Herald and i Russ Envoy Won't Face Iran Issue NEW YORK, May 8 W) An. drei A. Gromvko, Soviet dele gate, boycotted the 40th aeaslon of the United Natipru Security council, which was called today to receive reports on the evacua tion of Iran by Red army troops The Soviet delegate thus in dicated that he would atand by his previous assertion to tha council members that he would not discuss the Iranian case fur ther in the council. As he left hia hotel thia morn ing, he was asked, "Are you going to the security council' meeting today?" "I don't think so," he replied. "Has your government filed a report on the Iranian matter?" was the next question. "I know of no such report," he answered. Axerbaijan Situation Clouded Hussein Ala, Iranian ambas sador here for the council meet ing, said this morning he had no further information from his government in Teheran beyond his statement made Monday night that the Russians have withdrawn from four provinces but that the situation in tha fifth province in question, Azer baijan, could not be clarified. The British delegation was ex- Sected to take the position that ! no further reports are forth coming immediately, the Iranian case should be kept on the agen da. Some delegations indicated that Russia could wipe the slat clean with a simple declaration that the evacuations were either completed or virtually finished, but Russia has not complied with the council's request for a re port by May 6. Railways Face Fresh Menace . By The Asaociated Preaa A new strike threat against the nation's railroads was re ported today. E. Jones, general chairman ot the Brotherhood of Maintenance) of Way of the Missouri-Kansas Texas railroad, said at Denison. Texas, that the 14 non-operating brotherhoods of American rail roads woum take a strike vote) between May 20 and June 15. The Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Locomotive En gineers have set a strike against the carriers for May 18. The other operating brotherhoods, representing conductors, switch men and locomotive firemen and enginemen, notified the roadi May 3 they would take a strike vote unless they were granted wage increases of $1.20 a day in addition to the boost of $1.28 daily ordered by an arbitration board in April. Nearly 1,500,000 employed are represented by the various operating and non-operating railroad unions. Wage increases averaging 16 cents hourly have been granted or recommended for all the em ployes. This was slightly mora than half of their wage demands which averaged S2.50 dailv. Soviets Stall Paris Parley PARIS, May 8 () The for. eign ministers conference ap peared today to be breaking up on the rocks of Soviet-western discord. American sources said U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, with a dramatic refer ence to this first anniversary of official V-E Day, proposed shift ing the burden of drafting Eur ope's peace treaties from the shoulders of the four ministers of Russia, Britain, France and the United States to a 21-nation peace conference to meet in Par is June 15. "At Moscow," the secretary was reported to have said, "there was a promise to the world that we will have a peace conference. We have got to carry out that promise. That will be the best celebration the world can have on V-E Day." American quarters said both British Foreign Secretary Ern est Bevin and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault fell in with Byrnes', suggestion, but So viet foreign minister, V. M. Mol otov, asked for time to study the idea. Byrnes was quoted as saying on behalf of his proposal that "sometimes when we are con fronted with problems like those confronting us" it was best to let "fresh minds" tackle the questions. President 62 Today WASHINGTON, May 8 (P) President Truman observed hit 62nd birthday today by potting a "butineta at utual' notice at the White Houte. If the family planned any Earty, Mr. Truman hadn't ten told about it. Neither had While Houte official!. Secretary Charlet G. Rota said Mr. Truman told him it would be "like any othtr day, only more ao," and that if there waa to be a birthday cake It was being kept secret from him.
