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Newspaper Page Textft AM fo) Aetata a RICE riVE CENTS Br FRANK JENKINS lewis welfare mm refused In Th .-.m, Day's lei fil TPPF.R KLAMATH lake f - where tlili column sturtcd f u..(rilnv mill tft Ufliwt 1111 ill ft Jut of philosophising ii much in the news theno days. On Hi wnndcd winlern iluire, John C. ..... ....i ...., I--,.,! inn n J years ago. Out of his pondnrlngs . I.I. .1. I.... in mlfM ,? IUIH 111" U II I IIIIIIMIll'll l" . I the hull hy the horns and take I ovit Mi'xlmn California lor the if United States. i! Thus the American flog was 7 curried finally and definitely to i the Pacific, to remain there. Thu the United Stale of Amer 1 Ira look the fateful step thai led i to Its present eminence the No. 1 world power. , IT wan an Inevitable lep, of course. If Fremont had not taken It. tomcono elo would have done o. It was a part of our depllny. We were not cut In the pattern to remain little. Still. It l matter of satls fartlon and pride to us of Klam ath that the bold derlnlon to go ahead and IX) THE INEVI TABLE waa reached that night a century ago on the ihorea of our great Inland lake. There la a thrill In walking where the foot of deatlny ha trod. THE white pelican l the patron bird of Klamath lake. It l a atranKcly contradictory crea ture. In lt natural element air and water It Is graceful and Impressive. On land, i r'pcclully clone tip. It ll a wad .ulna? .rsrlenture. " 1 no oriti oi m iw-ihju a . i.j t-i.. .ii t ... j who are familiar with the huge f I.I I- I.... In llinlr mmmiir Immft Mima iivi v know. In alignment and maneu ver, a squadron of pelicans can give pointers to many a crack air smiadron. Severn! year ago, this writer wna neaneo norm on jnKnwuy 97. Glancing upward, ho aw ii. ftnuh t9 ulitf wlniri in the wide blue yonder. One moment they were clearly visime agamm the ky. An instant later, they would disappear. Then they would reappear always In per fect formation. They were high up in the aky, and when they banked toward the un its rnya would catch their wings. When they banked awny from the un, they became Invisible. Alwayi when they flashed In to view, their linea were ac curately dressed. It was a thrilling display. WE of the Klamath country are accustomed to the sight of rjclicnn fishing on a riffle Thcv nre methodical about II. In fishing a riffle, as In their "drill" In the summer skies, they make as careful use of formation as a disciplined military unit under commnnd. They will throw a first rank across the shallow water, ench bird taking interval, and then behind the first rank a second rank wilt form, each bird carefully stag gering the Intervals of the rank V Re front of him. It takes a quick nd agile fish to get through the line alive. Wo Klamnth people tell this (ale abroad, and get almost in variably the hollow lnugh that greets a whopper when told by a stronger whom you non i ac tually want to call a liar. - PELICANS ire tremendous fishermen. The amount of fish they are SAID to consume In a day, when multiplied by the number of pelicans supposed to bo fishing each day during the summer season, runs into a ton nage that this writer hesitates to quote, even nmnng friends, Fortunately, their diet seems to run extensively to the more sluggish fish and less to the ac tive and ber.utiful trout which the human fisherman seeks, with characteristic human arrogance, to appropriate for himself. pROSSING the Williamson to day, two of the huge birds slanted gracefully down to a landing on the water. They look strangely like Clipper planes coining In. They touch the water, bounce the merest trifle, then coast to a stop, throwing spray on both sides and leaving a distinct woke behind them. One almost expects them to open up their doors and begin to unload passengers and freight. Arriving In U. S. Ry Thi AMnrUlril rren nonMit . (lallahrr, SNil Klam Ih rnU. arrlvrfl nn Attmirnl Hush Rodman dua In Naw York May 14. Truman Acts To Prevent Draft Halt WASHINGTON. May IS (IP) Childless men 20 through 20 years old came back Into the draft picture today as President Truman's choice of "the lesser of two evils kept selective service legully ullve but crippled. For the moment, however, only men 20-25 will be inducted, Mr. Truman chose last night to sign a 43-day stop-gup exten sion of thr draft law but with an outright ban on Inductions of e'lher fathers or teen-uge youths rather thnn let the act expire at midnight. The chief executive affixed his signature )ust four hours be fore the deadline. Less than two hours earlier the senate rammed through the extender after Sena tor Lauger (It- N. D.) abandoned his threat to talk selective serv ice to death. Harshey Acts at Once Draft Director Lewli B. Iter shey Immediately wired locnl boards to confine Inductions to men In the under-20 group Mr. Truman designated when Japan fell last August, but army offi cials in a position to know said this will have to be changed. Noting that the new law specifically permits men 20 through 20 to be drafted, one of ficial said, "Of course, that's what we'li have to do." Ho asked not to be Identified by name. Mr. Truman left no doubt that he was displeased with the way the rirftft extension was brought about. His press secretary, Charles G. Ross, used the "lesser of two evils" description In tell ing reporter the president re garded the stop-gap measure as it "bad bill." "The president doesn't like It at all, but feels, as some of his olficlals do, that It will be bet ter to sign It than have confusion that will result from failure to continue a legislative support for armed force inductions. Yoshida Looms As Nip Premier TOKYO. May 1.1 Mt Foreign Minister Shlgeru Yoshida, who today becamo president of the liberal party, appeared tonight to be on the way to the premier ship of Japan. Political leaders conferred on plans for a right-wing cabinet to succeed that of Premier Shlde hara as the new, and mostly un tried, members of the diet pre pared to open tomorrow the BOth extraordinary session. The diet must organize tomor row to comply with the law pro viding a meeting within five months of the dissolution of the previous diet. It then is expect ed to recess until the new cabi net can develop a program, prob ably in about three weeks. Shidehara was expected to recommend to Emperor Hirohito that Yoshida be commanded to form a new government. The foreign minister accepted tho liberal party presidency on the urging of tho present emperor. Doctor Reflecis On Women And Why They Outlive Men PHILADELPHIA, May 15 W) Dr. Roger I. Lee, president of the American Medical associa tion, today offered same of his theories on tho question of "why women live longer than men." "The usual answers do not satisfy me," said the Boston doctor In an address prepared for delivery before the 27th meeting of the American Col lege of Physicians. "To be sure, up to the pres ent," he said, "women do not go to war in the sense of com bat. But women mostly can make the transition from their more active years to their less active years with less difficulty and less anguish. "Women commonly are Inter ested in' their gardens, in the making of Red Cross supplies, In knitting and in the household arts and crafts. Women go to lectures at their church. They visit tho sick and the unfortu nate. "They keep up tho family correspondence, remember birthdays and anniversaries. They are often handy and help ful with grandchildren, These are not the activities of big KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. First Grader Rescues Companion r mT 3 :r-; . ' ' Six-ytar-old Harold Day. (right) first grade student at Mills school, rascued his companion, Gilbert, also 6 and a first grader, when GUbart fell into an open storm sewer on Orchard avenue yesterday. The bandage en Gilbert's forehead covers a gash he received when he tumbled into . Byrnes Wants Fall Meeting PARIS. May 15 (fl) U. S. Sec retary of Slate Byrnes proposed to the foreign ministers' council today that a peace conference be called November 12 to draft a peace treaty for Germany, an American Informant said. In a session taken up with discussion of critical German problems, Byrnes proposed that representatives of Britain, Rus sia, France and the United States start meeting Immediately to draw up a treaty draft for Ger many which tho foreign min isters could present to the peace conference, the Informant said. If the date of November 12 Is adopted, the peace conference would convene on the 25th anni versary of the opening session of the 1921 Washington disarm ament conference and 28 years and a day after tho 1918 armis tice. Byrnes was reported to have proposed that the foreign min isters' representatives first re port on the economic status of Germany to the foreign min isters council at their next meet ing, possibly June 15. Byrnes" thre colleagues, tho foreign ministers of Russia, France and Britain, said they wanted to study the proposal be fore committing themselves. business, great scholarship or of a profession, but who will say that those activities are not useful?" Usoful Feeling Essential Ho concluded: "In the last analysis, the best solution we have now of a hap py and contented old age is the consciousness of belonging to the world of the day, of having a part in it and of being of some use." Discussing physical aspects of growing old, Dr. Lee said that there arc now approximately 9,000,000 people In this country who are over 65, and that a white child can now be expected to live to be 65, and a white adult of 40 can expect to live to be over 70. "Medical science which halt been aggressive in eliminating many infections such as diph theria, typhoid and more re cently pneumonia," Lee said, "Is suddenly faced with the firoblcm of caring for those it ins saved, who arc now a veri table host of the elderly." Ho said he placed nutrition "In the first rank" in nny pro grnm of preventive medicine to aid the elderly. MAY 15, 194 (Telephone tne muady eaten nira 1st Grade Lad Rescues Mate Six-year-old Harold Day, Mills school first grader, is a hero to day. Yesterday noon when Harold and Gilbert Baker, 6, were going home from school for lunch they noticed that one of the openwork grate coverings of a subterran ean catch-basin on Orchard ave nue was off to one side, exposing the sewer hole. The youngsters tried to replace the grating over the hole but the rectangular covering slipped into the sewer, dragging Gilbert In with It. Quick-thinking Harold grabbed his friend by the heels and hauled him out. Gilbert had hit the water and mud in the bottom of the basin, had mud all in his hair and on his clothes, was bleeding profusely from a gash In his forehead, and was almost knocked out. A neighbor lady on Orchard avenue saw the two youngsters, Gilbert muddy and bleeding and Harold helping him toward home and took the boys into her house where she washed Gilbert and doctored his cut. Harold is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Day, 2436 Orchard, and Gilbert lives across the street at 2437 Orchard. His par ents arc Mr. and Mrs. Cy Baker. Both boys are back In school today none the worse for their experience, but Gilbert still doesn't know what happened He says it was "like a dream," he doesn't remember falling in or being pulled out. Baseball Scores BROOKLYN, May 15 (P) Howie Pollet pitched the St. Louis Cardinals into undisputed possession of first place in the National league today by blank ing the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1-0, on five hits. The Cards scored their run In the second Inning when Dick Sislcr tripled home George Kurowskl, who had doubled. R H E St. Louis 15 1 Brooklyn 0 5 0 Pollet and Odea; Webber, Hat ten (9) and Anderson. Pittsburgh at Boston post poped, rain. AMERICAN Boston 2 3 0 Chicago 3 8 2 Hughson and Wagner; Rigncy, Smith (9) and Cieky. Philadelphia 0 6 0 Cleveland '. 3 8 0 Knott, Harris (5), Besse (7) and Rnsar; Harder and Hayes. New York 2 6 0 St. Louis 8 8 0 Gcttcl, Russo (7), Murphy (7), Gumpcrt (8) and Dickey, Silvcs trl (8); Zoldak and Hclf. WEATHER NEWS Mar Mx. (Mr i ' - rraelallatlan M hri .... . lima jnt U Narmal l.M l-t rr faracaatl CUar Thft4ar. in'uu i.i i 1 .rim 1 ------------- 1111) Nunbtr 10821 White House To Intervene If Talks Fail By The Associated Press The soft coal operators reject ed "unequivocally" today John L. Lewis' demand for a 7 per cent payroll levy to finance a miners' health and welfare fund but President Truman was repre sented as ready to use "every possible action" to prevent re sumption of the soft coal strike. The president's position was revealed by Reconversion Direc tor John W. Snyder, who gave no details of what possible steps were planned. The operators' negotiating com mittee termed Lewis' proposal "a new social theory and philos ophy, the effect of which would extend to every industry in America and as such must be considered and acted upon as A national problem and not as one relating to the coal industry alone." The chief of the United Mine Workeri vowed yesterday he would not negotiate a contract for the 400,000 miners "now or later" that failed to include his demands for the welfare fund. While the coal operators did not reject the idea of a fund, their stand apparently erased any possibility of a settlement of the dispute by today, as re quested by President Truman. As a counter proposal, the operators suggested the possi bility of setting up a jointly financed fund for hardship cases under administration of an in dependent agency such as the Red Cross. In rejecting Lewis' health and welfare fund proposal, the opera tors said it did not go into the matter of wages, hours or work ing conditions; that the plan constituted "double taxation" on the industry in view of current social welfare payments and that the demand was a problem for public legislative bodies. Asked for comment, Lewis said "it seems that for a coal miner there is no balm in Gilead." Iranian Troops Mass In Nor h TEHRAN. May 15 tP Cen tral Iranian government troops were reported by the Tabriz radio' to have reached the bor ders of Azerbaijan today, but Premier Jafar Pishevari of the separatist regime in that nor thern province declared: "We are not afraid of an attack. Broadcasting from his capital at Tabriz last night, Pishevari asserted that Premier Ahmed yavam of the central govern ment was "aware that our army is made up of fighting men who will not be defeated. He said any attack by the central government troops would constitute a violation of the agreement Qavam made with Russia. Previously an observer returning from Tabriz said troops or tne sell-proclaimed auton omous regime in Azerbaijan were wearing Russian uniforms and holding warlike maneuvers. The central government yes terday reaffirmed tnat it was determined to avoid civil war and Pishevari in his broadcast declared Qavam as a "wise and patriotic man," adding "he knows our strength. Pishevari blamed the break' down of Azerbaijan-central gov ernment negotiations on "re actionary elements in the Teh ran government. He made no reference to any possibility of returning to Tehran for further conversations looking toward Azerbaijan's return to the au' thorny of the central govern ment. Qavam earlier said Pishe vari had returned to Tabriz only for new instructions.' Forest Men Talk On KFLW Tonight Lorry Mays, supervisor of tho Fremont national forest, and Russell Bacon, timber manage ment agent of the Modoc nation al forest, will be in the studio of KFLW for interviews on to night's "Managing Editor's Re port," Malcolm Epley's 7:30 p. m. program. They will be asked for infor mation about the two big nearby forest areas that provide eco nomic and recreational assets for this community. r The two forest men are here for a joint meeting tonight of the Izoak Walton league and Klamath Sportsmen a association. Yisa Denied 'Hooligan' Embassy Aid WASHINGTON, May 15 OP) The United States hat demanded that Russia drop a charge of 'hooliganism" against an Amer ican embassy clerk In Moscow and allow him to leave the coun try immediately. Russia hat re fused. This was learned today from American diplomatic officials. They indicated that the case of Waldo Kuess is becoming a full blown diplomatic incident in volving the state department, the embassy in Moscow and the Kremlin all to the tune of a furious exchange of reports and instructions. The state department is draft ing a new set of instructions to the embassy. Inside information is that the American representa tives in Moscow will now be for mally advised not to budge an inch in the case. Retaliation Suspected American officials privately express the suspicion that the Russians brought charges against Ruess as a sort of retaliation for the American arrest five months ago of Soviet naval Lieutenant Nicolai G. Redin on a charge of espionage. Official informants give this as the play-by-play in the case of Ruess: The embassy clerk, who comes from Hollywood, Calif., has been a member of the Moscow em bassy staff for two years and had expected soon to come home on leave. Two weeks ago he was accused by the Soviet Union of having committed "hooligan acts toward a Russian actress. The alleged incident occurred, the charge says, in February. The charge was not filed at the end of April. On May 4 Ruess, who was not arrested or asked to post bail, received a summons to appear four days later at the Moscow city prosecutor's office. Immunity Refused The embassy took the position that Ruess had diplomatic im munity. Such Immunity is grant ed comparable Russian repre sentatives in the United States. Ruess did not go to the city prosecutor's office. ... Russia rejected the argument Thereupon the embassy asked for an exit visa for Ruess so he could leave the country and de manded that the charges against him be dropped. This was re fused. Instead, the Soviet for eign office issued a new sum mons. The embassy, acting on instruc tions from the state department, then refused a second time to turn Ruess over to the Russians. The department advised the em bassy to await formal instruc tions before making its next move. Red Star Charges US European Plot MOSCOW, May 15 OP) A Red Star writer charged today that published comment in the United States showed some Americans wanted to keep permanent mili tary bases in Iceland as part of a program to dominate Europe. P. Rysakov said newspapers of Denmark, Sweden and Norway had declared "many times that retention of American military forces in Iceland contradicts the i.hn. nl (ha TA.I.nlin nannlA and violates their sovereignty, no matter on what motives it i based." - Pulpwood Material In Area Discussed At Fire Banquet The Klamath country has raw materials for a pulpwood indus try providing payrolls equalling those from 200-300 million feet of sawlogs. That was the statement given last night by E. T. F. Wohlen berg. forestry counsel of the Western Forestry and Conserva tion association, in the principal address at the annual Stop For est Fires banquet. Pointing to the expected drop in sawlog production in this area, Wohlenberg said that a thriving pulpwood industry could make up for a substantial part of this loss. From the best Information available, Wohlenberg said, it appears that a pulp capacity of 500 tons a day could be main tained from the lodgepole pine areas of Deschutes - Klamath Luke counties. A 500-ton ca pacity mill would use 160,000 to 180,000 tons a year, and this could readily be supplied by 320,000 to 400,000 cords of pulp wood. Big Acreage in Area There are 1,125,000 acres of pulpwood lands in the region, and it is estimated this acreage can produce one-third of a cord per acre per year under good practices. This would mean ap- Kroximately 400,000 cords for arvest. "If 400,000 cords of wood were cut annually, it is the equivalent of 200 million feet of logs in volume," said Wohlen berg. "However, in cutting this cordwood, there would be at Propaganda Act Seen In Jap May Day TOKYO, May 15 OP) George Atcheson Jr., General Mac Arthur's political adviser, today told the' allied council for Japan that a Japanese May Day message placed before it by Russia'! member was "an attempt to spread communistic propoganda." The message, addressed separately to the four council mem bers and to MacArthur, called the Japanese government "enemies of democratic revolution" and asked the allies for coorjeratioa ana assistance to acnieve iree-ir dom. The message was not signed. The Russian delegate, Lt. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko, brought the message to the council with a request to MacArthur for infor mation on the statements made therein. "According to translators, the document was not written in id iomatic Japanese, cut rather gives the impression that the original had been drawn up in a foreign language and then translated into Japanese for pre sentation," said Atcheson, who is American member and chair man of the council as well as MacArthur's aide. Communism Opposed "I do not need to tell you the United States does not favor communism in the United States or Japan," Atcheson contin ued. "It Is my opinion that the ef forts of members of this council should be toward the democrati zation of Japan and it is not con sistent with our clear duty in that respect for any member of the council to give support in public meetings of the council or otherwise to any one Japanese political party." Atcheson's remarks were made during a verbal engagement be tween him and Derevyanko on the authenticity of "the facts" in the message and whether it represented the views of an es timated 500,000 Japanese who took part in a May lay demon stration here. The discussion was conclud ed with a Russian request for information at the next meet ing. May 29. on an investigation that Atcheson said was being conducted into allegations made in the document. Charges made in the statement included sup pression of. movement in Drotest of the Hce ration, control of speech on Shikoku island, per version of allied purge direc tives, and diversion by influen tial groups of food and other necessities allotted by the allies to the Japanese government. .. .. Advisory Function Only Earlier today, Atcheson told the council that its sole function was to advise MacArthur in car rying out policies already agreed upon by the allies. He was reply ing to a Russian demand that council business be conducted in accord with paragraph five of the Moscow communique that established the .council, and which states that the supreme commander, allied powers Mac Arthur will "consult and ad vise with the council in advance of the issuance of orders on mat ters of substance, exingencies of the situation permitting." US Wives Target Of German Shots FRANKFURT. Germany, May 15 jpi Two shots were fired last r.ight at a train filled with wives and children of American soldiers and civilians near Gies- I sen, Germany, U. S. army off i- cials disclosed tonight, I No one was Injured. least 50 to 100 per cent increase in the amount of labor; while, in the manufacture of pulp, there would be less payrolls than in the manufacture of lum ber. From the over-all stand point, you would get as much labor out of this operation as you would out of 200 million feet of logs." Water May Be Problem Wohlenberg said the Klamath area seems to have enough water for a pulp industry, but there would be water problems to work out. "With the lodgepole and other species, there is a background here for a reasonable pulp in dustry," said the speaker. "How ever, do not make the mistake of trying to get too much pro duction. If you over-cut, you hit a blank wall." Wohlenberg discussed other possible uses of lodgepole, such as for poles and sawtimber. Another feature of the ban quet was the reading of a mes sage from Lyle Watts, chief of the U. S. forest service. This will appear in full later in The Herald and News. Walt Wiesendangcr, chairman of the American Legion Stop Forest Fires committee, presid ed at the meeting, and read a message emphasizing the im portance of fire prevention. Spe cial music and other features made up the program, which drew a near capacity audience to the Willard hotel dining room. Lions club co-sponsored the ban Moscow Raps US In Korea MOSCOW, May 15 (AP) Tha government newspaper Izvestia charged today that American representatives at the recent meeting of the joint Russian United States commission for Korea had tried to open a path for reactionaries to capture pow er over the Korean people. The meeting broke down after six weeks, it said, because tha Americans failed to show an understanding of the meaning of the Korean decisions reached at the Moscow conference of the foreign ministers last December. (Lt. Gen. John Jl. Hodge, U. S. commander in Korea, has of fered to resume the joint com mission negotiations, held at Seoul, Korea.) A 3000-word article signed B. K." was the first compre hensive account in the Soviet press about the meetings which started March 20. It said the Americans had pro posed calling off the meeting af ter a deadlock developed over their proposal for ending the Soviet-American zonal demarca tion line at the 38th parallel and of unifying Korea economic ally. Board May Aid BuckarooDays The Klamath county fair board today showed a willing ness to play ball with the Klam ath Buckaroo Days committee should unforeseen occurrences make it impossible for the Fourth oi July rodeo to show a profit. O. D. Matthews, president of the rodeo association, in a state ment made to The Herald and News Tuesday, said that higher costs of operation including the increased demand of the fair board seeking 10 per cent ot the gross receipts following the payment of the government's 20 per cent fee. would Drobably eliminate this year's show. . Percy Murray, chairman ot the fair board, in replying to -Mathews' statement said this morning that should rain or snow make it necessary to call oft tne iourth ol July celebration, the fair board was more than willing to make a satisfactory adjustment. Murray pointed out, however, that the board feels it is only fair that 10 per cent of the gross after government payment, be paid for rental of the grounds. In the past several years the rodeo association has paid $500 for annual use of the grounds. Of this amount, Murray said, the fair board has paid for liability insurance during the rodeo's several day show and last year paid in the neighbor hood of $150 to build up the old stands before insurance could be obtained. In addition, the board has paid for light and water at the grounds leaving no appreci able margin from the original fee. ! "I feel that the rodeo group, as now set up, should put on the show but the public relations have been such as to antagonize a large percentage of the people, unjustly perhaps," Murray said today. "We, the fair board, want to see them make a go of it, and if (CoBllaaad Face 4, Calnmn 1) Hot Water Routs Crater Lake Bear The first bear reported to have come out of' hibernation this spring at Crater Lake national park was caught in an awkwl position by the camp cook this week. Fred "Frenchy" Voutour. cook at headquarters, saw a big black bear when he looked up to sea what darkened the kitchen win dow one morning this week. Having heard that shouting only angered bears he looked about for a handy weapon and his eye fell upon a dipper. There was a kettle of hot water on tha stove. Frenchy made a rear maneuv er coming up behind the bear outside the house Just as the front half of the animal disap peared across the window sill. The bear was next seen relish lng a cool seat in the snow.