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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 10, 1946)
MI? Ilk PRICE riVE CEHT Bays lei Br FRANK JENKINS AS thrte word aro wrllton, there li break In the long and coatly coat ilrlke. John L. Lrwl has lunt called lor a 12-dny truce, during which coul will be mined while the wage negotia tions go on. That, at leant, la iomo pro . greu. We nred coal. a a T EWIS IcU go thil typical ' blast: ' v , "Thla action (the truce) la the contribution of the United Mine Workora of America to our na tlon'a economy which la being Imperiled by the stupidity and elflh greed of the coal oner atora and associated financial In tereta and by demagogue! who have tried to lash the public mind Into a atnto of hysteria rather than grant Juatlco and fair treatment to the men who mine the nation! coal." - - THAT li a fot one, in the bent Lewi! atyle. but It la hard to eicane the conclusion that It li an offenlve-defcnlve maneuver designed to mak the fnct Hint the altuatlnrt waa rapidly getting too hot to handle. The coal burning railroad! were prac tically huttlng up "hop today, and when the rullroada atop nearly EVERYTHING atopa in thi! country, whose Industrie! are built on transportation, a a a IF you want to be well informed, remember that the atrlke hain't been called off. What we have i a two week "truce" during which coal will be mined while the wage negotiating goea on. lint, with the country all atlrred up, it la going to be bard to atop mining coal aguln. THE thing to keep in mind li that whatever eUlmcnt II arrived at will doubtless include hlaher wanes for the mlnera, to be followed by higher pricea for coul which la a basic raw ma- terlal for nearly everything, io ) thut ALL pricea will ultimately rie aa a rcaulU What the minora gain in wagei will then be taken away from them, and In the long run they will merely have put money In to one pocket to ba later taken out of another pocket, In an equal or greater amount.' a a a "Pit AT ia what we call the In A flatlonary iplral. which li al ready beginning to function with terrifying apeed. If unchecked. . lta reull will be ruin. What nmk ci ui ncrvoui ia the know' ledge that the more apeed a run awav train lalm aa It carceni down a steep grade the harder It la to STOP. And the worse the craah at the bottom of the hill. a HERE In Oregon we have an interesting, half humoroui, but by no menna reassuring do volnnment In the news. Governor Snell recently de clined to call a ipeclnl session of the legislature to fix Up existing Inw so that tho Portland school district can lovy more money, Including money for recreation and sports. There haa been a "strike" of Portland pupils. School officials estimate. Hint 2000 to 3000 were absent from classes yesterday. The "strike" swarm, laugh- i, Ing, through the streets, chant ing "we wnnt sports." They .hang an effigy of the governor on a polo. A Republican can didate for state senator from Multnomah county Joins In the disturbance, seeking to garner all the VOTES he can out of the ruckus. "THERE Is eiich a thing, even In these days, as discipline. A wholly undisciplined people simply CAN'T be an efficient people. That Is why the Portland de- (CanllnatS an Fata t. Calama S) Senate Investigates Tale Of Pearl Harbor Gambling WASHINGTON, May 10 (IP) An account of a navy-supervised gambling hall at Pearl Harbor specializing In no-limlt craps, blackjack and poker was laid before the senate war In vestigating committee today by Rear Admiral Austin K. Doyle, deputy Inspector general. - Doylo sold a chief boat swain's mate was stationed In the hall "to keep order, regu late the gambling and ace that only the proper persons were admitted." The sky's-the-limlt games were played in the recreation hall of civilian housing area No. 3, adjacent to the navy yard, during 1043 and 1944, V Doyle said. l Lumbar Camp Atmosphere i Ho testified the organized gambling wns permitted aa the lessor of two evils. Ho described the civilian employes of tho yard aa "a rough oloinont," few KLAMATH SolonsBefytlO Union Purge Yill Be Met In Primaries WASHINGTON, May 10 (IP) Member! of congress marked for a purge by the CIO'i political action committee generally chal lenged the labor-political organi zation today to do Iti worst against them In forthcoming pri maries. While seven of the 10 senators are democrats, only five of the ri'presentutlves aro members of that party. Among these Rep. Pace (D-Ga.), author of an ad ministration opposed farm pur ity price proposal; Rep. Rankin I-Mlss.), strong opponent of pel CIO proposals, and Rep. Slaugh ter (D-Mo.), from President Tru man's home district, stood out. The names were made public at Atlantic City by Thomas Burns of Akron, Ohio, assistant tiu PAC chairman, at the CIO Amal gamated Clothing Workers' con vention, Most of the 10 senators named at Atlantic City said they had not expected CIO-PAC support. And several added that they had met similar .opposition In pre vious racea and were ready to do so again. As named by Burni. the ten are Senator! Bilbo (D-Miss.), Byrd (D-Va.), Wheeler (D-Mont.), Carvllle (D-Nev.), McKellar (D Tenn ), Radcliffe (D-Md ), Gerry (DR. I.), Shlpstead (R-Minn), Smith (R-N.JJ, and Langcr (R N.D.) : ' . Wheat Output Big For 1946 WASHINGTON, May 10 (IP) Despite loss of nearly 8B.uuu.uuu bushels of wheat to dry weather In April, the agriculture depart ment today predicted an overall 1940 crop of at least billion bushels. Such a crop would enable the United States to supply foreign areas with at least 300,000,000 bushels of wheat during the marketing year beginning July 1. While trailing earlier commit ments, shipments to famine areas this season are expected to ap proach 400,000,000 bushels. The department today forecast a winter wheat crop of 742,887,- 000 bushels compared with ap proximately 830,838,000 estimat ed a month ago, and with 823, 000,000 harvested last year. No forecast was made on spring wheat production, Inas much as seeding of this crop has Just been completed. How ever, on the basis of acreage planted and yields equal to the 1937-44 acreage, the spring crop would total at least 260,000,000 bushels. Last year it was 290, 000,000 bushels. U. S. Court Dismisses Cotton Margin Suit WASHINGTON, May 10 (IP) Saying it lacked Jurisdiction, the fcdoral district court' today dis missed a suit to void a govern ment regulation which raised margin requirements for trading in cotton futures. "Thla court is without juris diction to pass on the validity or Invalidity of the regulation in volved In this suit," said Justice Jennings Bailey in a memor andum accompanying the dis missal action. , of whom had their families with thorn, and added that the at mosphere of the housing area was "kind of like that of an old fashioned lumber camp." Chairman Mead (D-N.Y.) read into the record that Vice Ad miral D. W. Bagley was com mandant of the naval district at that time. "Was there any rake-off?" Mead wanted to know. "I would prefer not to go Into that at this time, as we are still investigating the case." Doyle replied. When pressed by Sonator Ferguson (R-Mich.), Doylo con ceded that "we are very sus picious there was soma rake off." : Ha testified , at ;a hearing called to investigate. charges of widespread theft and mlsmnn ngoment of naval property In Hawaii during war time. TALLB. OREGON. rRIPAY. MAY Fremont Battled Indians On Upper Klamath Shores In Century-Ago Campaign By MALCOLM EPLEY A short-lived Indian war was fought 100 years ago this week around the northern shores of Upper Klamath lake. The hostilities began on the night of May 9, 1848, when In dians attacked the camp of John C. Fremont, on Denny creek on the west side of the lake. Fremont, as, was recounted In this historical series yesterday, had returned to Denny creek from a camp farther north, to meet LI. A. H. Gillespie of the marine corps, out from Washington with messages for him. Fremont on the evening of May 9, after hearing Gillespie s story, decided to throw off the role of ex plorer, and return to California as a U. S. army officer to help take that then Mexican province for the U. S. Perhaps because of his preoccupation with that matter, Fre mont failed to post a guard hat night. It was the second time In all his wanderings In Indian country that he had not done so. Kit Carson, famed border scout, aroused the camp with a shout of "Indians!" Carson had been awakened by a loud thud the sound of an axe crushing the head of one of Fremont'a men, Basil. Basil and a half-breed, Denny, were killed Instantly. Crane, one of Fremont'a Delaware Indian scouts, was killed in the ensu ing fight. The Indians poured arrows Into the Fremont camp. In a hand to hand fight, Crane killed the Klamath Indian chief, but was himself fatally wounded by arrows. The Indians then withdrew. ' t Punitive Expedition Fremont and his men raised blanket defenses against the arrows, and lay behind them for the night. The next day, after giving Denny's name to the creek, Fremont, Gillespie and the men moved out of camp with their dead, going north toward the main Fremont camp on Wood river. Fremont waa determined to punish the Klamaths. En route north, they turned off the lake and burled their dead under some laurels. Without encountering other Indians, they camped the night of May 10 on either Cherry or Seven Mile creek, scene of a previ oua camp on the night of May 7. The next morning they moved out of camp, but left the Dclawares behind In ambush. When Klamaths came Into the de serted camp, the Dclawares killed two of them. The night of May 11 Fremont camped beside a stream prob ably Wood river and built a strong corral for defense against attack. Plght On Williamson The next dav. May 12. with Carson and others scouting ahead, the Fremont party moved toward Williamson river, where there wis 'large Indian fishery amd vlllage.-A fight ensued be side the river, and 14 Indians were killed. The Indians fell back from sagebrush behind which they had boon fighting. When Fremont reached this sagebrush defense, he found many arrows the Indians had been forced to abandon. Fremont said the Klamath arrows were excellent and Carson called them the most beautiful and warlike arrows he had ever seen. They were all headed with a lancet-like piece of Iron or steel probably obtained from Hudson Bay company's traders on the Umpqua. They were poisoned for about six inches. They could be driven that depth into a pine tree, Fremont says in his memoirs. Fremont and his men destroyed the Indian village, and made a short march to camp for the night. Next day they moved south along the lake, probably to Berkley springs, where they made their last camp on Klamath lake. Rough Work His punitive expedition against the Indians completed, Fre mont's thoughts were turning to California and the work he planned there. Gillespie, the marine, was on hand through this excitement. He visited Fremont in camp at night, and said: "By heaven, thia Is rough work. I'll take care to let them know In Washington about this." From Barkley springs, Fremont moved south possibly through the valley In which the Marine Barracks is now located and went on into California to new and exciting experiences. (This concludes the anniversary scries on Fremont's expedi tion around Upper Klamath lake In 1846), State Not Badly Affected By Strike Complications By HALE SCARBROUGH and oarccl cost include food for The coal strike has hit Ore - gon more gently than almost any state in the Union, since this state ia dependent mainly on oil. wood and Hydroelectric power, but the freight embargo begin ning last midnight Is generally expected to bring the atrlke f treasure to bear on Oregon's umber industry and building. The embargo on non-essential freight may not actually come to the pinching point now that John L. Lewis has about decided to let his miners go back to work. Since midnight last night the railroads here have not been al lowed to accept or shipment any motorlal not on the "ex cepted" list released by the of fice of defense transportation that was billed out after mid night. Parcel Post Restricted The local post office has also been ordered not to accept for parcel post shipment any pack age weighing more than 11 pounds or with a combined length and girth of more than 60 inches which contains ma terial not on the excepted list. Exceptlona for both freight Airline Employes . Vote Strike Notice SPOKANE, Wash., May 10 (IP) Maintenance and service work ers of Northwest Airlines yes terday voted to give notice to strike, joining employes at Port land, Seattle and St. Paul. C. F. West, Seattle, Interna tional representative of the AFL International Association of Ma chinists, said last night the work ers favored strike notices by votes of 20 to 1 in Spokane, 12 to 0 In Portland, 68 to 1 In Se attle and 275 to 4 In St. Paul. 'V. (Telephone 1 human consumption, oils and oil products, fuels, medicines, drugs and other necessities. Lumber milled locally can still move out on either of the two railroads here, the Southern Pacific and Great Northern, which are oil-burning lines. Those roads, and connecting oil burning roads, can still handle shipments going back east as far as St. Paul, Chicago, New Or leans, and cover mo.it points in the west. Passenger Trains Not Hit The SP passenger service will not be affected by the embargo since the SP uses oil-burners over the entire route from Port land to New Orleans. . For travel beyond the SP lines, connecting railroads are planning to continue operation of through trains originating on the const to Chicago and St. Louis. Between Chicago and St. Louis the eastern roads, which are principally coal-burning, will continue to run their leading trains. Second sections of some trains in the east will be cur tailed and therefore decrease carrying cat jcity back there. Return Reservations Advocated Persons planning a rail trip to the east are requested by the SP to make return reservations In advance whenever possible. If the miners go back to work. Just how long the embargo will remain in effect is still a de batable question but it is gener ally expected that it win be lifted as soon as the railroads get enough coal to resume nor mal traffic. Few of Oregon's industries de pend on coal for fuel and there have been no plant closures or layoffs reported as a result of the coal atrike. 10, 19 WEATHER NEWS Mai. (Mar ...at Mia. 44 rrt.laluil.a Slf.aai year la N.ua.l lt.ll faraaattl Claa I Mi 14 Inn M 4U4a 11.11 41 Laai raat .. jt CUar Salariar. 1111) Numbtr 10117 Meters Up At Council On Monday The clty'f recurring headache, the proposed installation of park ing meters, will be officially in troduced at the next meeting of the city council Monday night. The troublesome matter of the parking gadget, which brought to a head a domestic row in the city's official family early this week, will be presented by Mayor Ed Oatendorf, and it is expected that a large number of retailers will again be on hand to register their opposition to the proposal. At last Monday's session the merchants were present to state their case, but found that they had nothing to object to since the recommendation from the traffic safety council regarding the meters did not appear on the council docket. Mayor Vs. Council Indignant because neither the recommendation nor the mayor. whom they considered respon sible, were present, the council verbally raked Mayor Ostendorf over the coals. A special meet ing with the mayor was called the following day. The verbal battering continued when the council and mayor met, with little reached in the way of a final decision. The traffic safety council will meet in regular session tonight, out according to tne mayor, no further developments on the parking meter question will arise. U. S. Holds Up Polish Fund WASHINGTON, May 10 IIP) The state deDartment held un u,uuu,uuu iiv credits it- jhe Polish government today while reviewing whether the Poles have failed to meet U. S. condi tions. The department would say of- nciauy oniy tnat tne credit had not been cancelled. However, diplomatic officials disclosed tne question has been raised whether Warsaw had met tnese commitments: 1. To guarantee free lectlnn 2. To inform the Polish people " we man agreements. 3. To exchange with the U. S. full information on treaties and agreements each nation- makes witn otner governments. The officials said Washington has been advised the Polish gov ernment has not yet told its people anything about the loan or the commitments, nor in formed the U. S. of tis other out side agreements specifically, it was presumed, irom Kussia. Congress Quiz On Gen. Devers WASHINGTON, May 10 (IP) unairman May (U-Ky) an nounced today the house mill tary committee will "investigate immediately" a report, since denied, that General Jacob L. Devers referred to congress as a group of "cowards." . In a statement last night. uovers said I aid not use the word coward." The announcement came after several members had assailed Devers They said they based their criticism on a news story in which Devers was quoted as referring to congress as a group of "cowards, afraid to tackle the controversial draft bill." Devers also was quoted as saying congress "is afraid to make a decision" and that if one of his divisional command ers acted likewise "I'd fire him." Man Drops Dead In Medford Drill MEDFORD, May 10 (IP) Har rlson Warren Skinner, 50, owner of a Wlldervllle store, died sud denly while participating in Shrine patrol drum corps prac tice here last night. Skinner suddenly slumped down on the Medford high school tennis court where the corps was practicing, Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris said, and died a few minutes later. Baseball Scores NEW YORK, May 10 (IP) The torrid Boston Red Sox stretched their consecutive game winning streak to 15 today and their American league lead to five and one-half games by defeating the runner-up New York Yankees, 5-4, before a total attendance of 62,645 fans, Joe DiMagglo temporarily over came a 3-0 Red Sox lead in the fifth inning when he belted a grand flam home run. , , WFATHFD KIFNA, Accuses British LL' Col. Fred Eldrldge, bow discharged, is author of book "Wrath in Burma." containing sensational charges against Brit ish and China during Stilwell CBI campaign. Bride Debate Stirs Commons LONDON, May 10 WV-The house of commons hotly disputed today whether "40 per cent of tne giris under zu in tngiana are pregnant- on their wedding Laborite T. C. Skefflngton Lodge said they were. He cited figures from the Marriage Guid ance council, a private social agency. Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross replied: "I won't for a moment accept these figures. But I am afraid that the state of morals in the country are not what it should be." Beverly Baxter, a conserva tive and novelist, asked Sir Hart ley to denounce the figures "more strongly," asserting: "If this is published without con siderable repudiation, it will shock the people of the domin ions and of the United States." Murder Verdict In Prison Riot SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 fJP) A coroner's Jury today held that the two guards killed in the re cent Alcatraz prison uprising were "murdered," and that the three convicts slain in the revolt "and others" were responsible. The jury also decided that the killing of the three prisoners by guards was justifiable homicide. Roseburg Injured To Fly To Seattle SEATTLE, May 10 (JP Pilot Don Burkhard will make a mercy flight today to Roseburg, Oregon, to bring back to Seattle Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Browne of Port Angeles, who were criti cally injured Sunday in an auto mobile accident. Dr. Ralph Edgar Allen said Browne is being brought here for bone surgery. His wife, Mildred, suffered leg fractures and other hurts. The plane, making two trips, will carry one of the in jured persons at a time, along with a nurse and a co-pilot. Jaycees Install let Q If ' -i ... :-r ""Hr" John Sandmeyer, retiring president of the Klamath Falls Junior chamber of commerce, pins the emblem of his office on the lapel of Ray Ward, new head of the local chapter, at the In stallation banquet held Monday night. May. t, at Molatore's. Miners Return To Pits Under 12-Day Break By The Associatad Praia A 12-day truce in the soft coal strike, to take effect Monday, was called by John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president, today. Subordinate leaders of 400,000 striking coal mlnera were In structed to get their local memberships back in the pits as soon as the local mine managements agreed to make retroactive dur ing the truce any pay Increase negotiated later. Lewis called his action "the contribution" of his union "to our nation's economy." He said the nation's economy was being "imperilled by the stupidity and selfish greed of a " the coal operators and associat-1 A ed financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of - hysteria rather than grant justice and fair treat ment" to miners. The action came shortly after President Truman invited Lewis and a representative of the soft coal industry to a White House WASHINGTON. May 10 IIP) President Truman today asked John L. Lewis and the opera tors to negotiate a new con tract for reopening struck lof t coal mines within four or five days. meeting at 1 p. m. (PST). The meeting was called after Mr. Truman met with his cabinet, As word of Lewis' action spread across the nation, where commerce and Industry were crippled as they never were during the war, regulatory bodies assigned to the conserva tion of dwindling coal stocks arranged hurried meetings to study the effects of the truce upon their restrictions. Army And Ha yy To Buy Lumber PORTLAND, May 10 (IP) The army and navy will begin buy ing huge supplies of northwest lumber next week for the first time since the war ended, an of ficial said today. R. L. Hennesey, Portland rep resentative of the army-navy pur- chasine agency, said priority orders for 60,000,000 board feet needed by Portland and Seattle offices .would be placed with tut ana pine rmus. The priority system was adopt ed after the last attempt to ob tain lumber by auction resulted in only .750,000 feet being of fered by mills. Hennesey said most of the lumber needed is small sizes for crating and packing the same sized lumber as needed in hous ing. Since 40 per cent of lum ber production is set aside for housing construction, military buyers expect to take a large share of larger sized lumber and ship it to resaw plants. Many Casualties In Plane Crashes PENSACOLA, Fla., May 10 (IP) Between 25 and 30 bodies were removed from the wreckage of two four-engined bombers and a smaller plane which crashed today in a re mote sector north of Munson, L. C. Cook, dispatcher for the state forest service, reported. New President lop benerais Meet In Tokyo TOKYO. May 10 (&) The too commanders of victorious allied armies in Europe and the Pacific, met today for the first time sine hostilities began. "We never thought we'd be getting together again out here," exclaimed General Eisenhower. whose leadership brought victory in the European tneater, to uen- eral MacArthur, supreme com mander in the Pacific. . They had not met since 1939, when Eisenhower as a lieutenant colonel left the staff of Mao Arthur, then commander in the Philippines. 1 "Well, Mae, how are you?" were the chief of staff's first words as he grasped MacArthur a hands. "It'a good to see you again," exclaimed MacArthur as he slapped Elsenhower on the shoulder. After a quick word with Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, eighth army commander who ac companied MacArthur to Atsugi airport, the two top commander departed for lunch at the Amer ican embassy. Eisenhower's plane landed with the aid of radar because of a 300 foot ceiling and a drizzling rain. House Delays Draft Action WASHINGTON, May 10. HP) An objectioa by Rep. Sheridan (D-Pa). blocked immediate, htouwe action today - on stop-gap legis lation extending the draft lav until July 1, Sheridan, a member of the military committee, objected to a request ol unairman May (U Ky) for unanimous consent for immediate action on the mea sure, passed yesterday by tho senate. However, there was no objec tion to a later reauest for house consideration next Monday, two days before the present draft law expires. Discussion indicated that an attempt will be made Monday to write into the stop-gap legis lation a ban against induction of teen-agers. The house banned the draft ing of 18 and 19-year-olds when it passed last month a separata bill extending the draft law until next February 15. The senata has not acted on that bill. Nazi Y2 Rocket Flies 72 Miles ALBUQUERQUE, May 10 (IP) A German V-2 rocket soared 127,000 yards or slightly better than 72 miles, into the stra tosDhere In a flight test at the White Sands proving grounds. radio station kuh reported to day in a remote control broadcast. Phi Beta Kappa For 2 KF Girls EUGENE, May 10 ( Twerw.-ty-five University of Oregon jtu dents have been elected to Thl Beta Kappa, national scholastic honorary. They include: I Margaret Murphy and Alary Corrigan, both of Klamath.-Falls. Only six of the 25 were! men. Portland Budget Will Not Balance PORTLAND, Ore., May 10 MP) Portland's city budget, after weeks of study, is still $1,125,- The proposed 1946-47 budgclf I shows $8,527,378 expenditures, and only $7,401,978 anticipated revenue. Proposed occupational and amusement taxes and in creased license fees would just' about even the ledger. Bowles Raises Window Shades . WASHINGTON, May 10 (IP) OPA today raised retail price ceilings for -window shades by from two to 12 cents. Manufacturers' ceilings are) being increased 15 to 20 per cent, effective Immediately, to offset higher wage and material costs. Dealers may not charge the higher retail prices until notified by manufacturers of the increase. OPA said. Arriving In U. S. Br The AMoeUteft Frcu Har twiner, Hgt., Klamfttri rails, arrived on Admiral Sim du In San Francleco May ?. .
