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Newspaper Page TextBit IMl Ul ui m ENTB PRICE FIVE CENTS Vandenberg In Th Br THANK JENKINS ...vw Day's Jews , ...,.,.,.',.,: ....I . Y'A! S thrao words ere written, liurtlv before noon, rail- road strike seems Inevitable. Only ix'Cturular, last-minute change of (runt cun vull It. PERHAPS It is Jut well. The Ituntlon on our produc tion front Is now somewhat like boll on tho buck of the nock. II needs to come to head before It run be treated effectively. If It Isn't treated effectively. 11)8 million may spread with result ing permanent dniuuKe. Something nuinuinentul, Ilka stoppage of railroad tran)orta. ti which concerns every liv ing person In Amerlru In about all that can brinit till boll on the back of our neck to a head. IF we are to attempt onythlng iiu. an Inii'llluent discussion of anythlnit o universally disss troua a thl threatened tie-up of rail transport upon which the orderly life of our country depends we mint begin by con ceding that the strikers are probably ulnccro In their be lief that they ore entitled to what they are asking. Thli Is a time of universal discontent and apprchcnslun. Even if we are doing well enough at the moment, we are all Inclined to bo tearful of the future. Jn a time of universal fear tho law of self preservation which Is generally described as the first law of nature rises above all other considerations. That is why people HOARD FOOD at every opportunity. , jhey reiillzo that It is unfair to V others, but in the face of the J ear Hint the food supply may become Inadequate tho law of self-preservation takes command and they lay hands on food whon and where and how they can and store It up for their OWN possible future pressing needs, SO It Is with the now closely organized CLASSES of our population. As the fear of Infla tion (which Is a mounting scarci ty of things, visibly reflected In the form of higher prices) grips them, they take muss action to PROTECT THEMSELVES, re gardless of the welfare of the wholo population, Just as food hoarders act to get theirs NOW, before It Is all gone. THE pity of It Is that these efforts are all so useless. The steelworkers wage a cost ly strike and win a considerable Increase in wuges. Whereupon steel rises In price. Since steel is a basic raw material, the prices of other things rise In response to tho rise In the cost of steel. So It is with coul. So It will be with transportation. All a 10 funiliimuntul necessities, and as their cost rises other costs will rise, In Inevitable, Irresist ible response. The workers, who suffered and denied themselves to win tlie increased wages, soon find v, thut the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker reach y into tho pockets where they put their increased earnings and filch all the new money away and more besides. Then it must all be done over again with worso consequences. BUT such is the nature of in flation which is like a squirrel running around and around in his rotating cage. The hnrdcr he runs, the more ex hausted he becomes. But he GETS NOWHERE. There Is nowhere for him to get, under the system. THE only hope for the squirrel Is to get away from the ro tating cage system. Tho only hope for us in our present di lemma is to get away from the Inflationary system. The only euro for inflation la PRODUCTION. Recurring strikes hamper pro duction, and so lonvo us worse off than before and move fur ther off into the future tho time when we can get out of the whirling cuge in which we are . running ourselves ragged, THIS is a good time to got back to the seemingly callous statement made at the beginning of this column to the effect that perhaps It will bo just as well if the situation now existing in America in brought to a head by , , a strlko that stops rail trans 1 portntlon. , Inflntlon, which lies at the root nf all these strikes and disturbances, Is a fdrm of IN SANITY. Medical research is teaching us that it is possible to cure certain forms of insanity by administering a SHOCK to ((.'nllnut an l'aft S, Column I) KLAMATH Winners Gov. Earl Snell (left) will again be the republican party's wheelhcri in the Notmuw gen eral election, gaining the nomination by an overwhelming majority from hit republican opponent, Henry Black, in the primaries yesterday. David R. Vendenberg (center) will serve another six years as judge of the 32nd judicial district, having gained a 3-2 majority over Clarence A. Humble, and Frank Howard (right) will remain Klamath county's surveyor. He defeated Wally Hector. Snell Landslide Features Vote PORTLAND, May 18 (AP) Governor Earl Snell, who didn't even bother to campaign, had a landslide, republican rcnomln ation today, returns from yes terday's primary election giving him better than a B to 1 margin over Henry Black, Portland house painter. Sweeping every county, Snell rolled up 67,6:)i) votes to Black's 12,903 in 1340 fo the 1848 pre cincts. Black, who ran two years ago for president, vice president, U. S. senator and .delegate to the republican national conven tion, lost his home county, Mult nomah, by S to 1. Sncll's opponent next Novem ber will be Carl C. Donaugh, Portland democrat and former U. S. district attorney, who was unopposed for the democratic nomination. Eppt Defeats Dover In the only other state office contest, David C. Epps, Mill City publisher who had left-wing support, defeated Floyd K. Dov er, Grants Pass mining engin eer, for the democratic nomina tion for secretory of state, Epps leading 28.832 to 17,346 in 1,200 precincts. Epps will oppose Secretary of State Robert S. Far roll, Jr., who won republican renomlnatlon without opposi tion. . Democrat ic congressional nominations apparently went to State Sen. Lew Wallace, Port land, democratic national com mitteeman, and Lyman Ross, former state senator and Aloha farmer and realtor. Wallace, In returns from SOT Multnomah county's S12 pre cincts, was ahead 20 708 to tC.MIM.S r.(. 1. t'.l.m. ) ility Issues Get Poor Vote By The Associated Press Oregon voters thumbed down five public power proposals in the primary election and ap proved one, incomplete returns Indicated today. Tho one successful public power proposal was granting a franchise to the northern Wasco county public utility district to enable it to build a power sys tem. Astoria rejected a charter amendment which would have enabled the city to issue bonds for a municipal power system. An election on establishment of a PUD there may come up in the full. Linn county turned down a PUD for the fourth time, and onothcr proposed PUD, includ ing only the town of Lebanon, was defeated. Northern Lincoln county on the coast rejected a PUD in that area. Malheur county voted down formation of a PUD by a 2S71 to 1071 majority. - Locust Host Blocks Sardinian Railway ROME, Muy 18 If) Swarms of locusts so thick that they blocked Sardinia's 'main rail lino were reported today In a dispatch from Cagllari, the Island capital. Five UNRRA sponsored planes have arrived to fight the pluguo with poison. Arriving In U. S. By Thf AftsooUIrd Frets Dnneld M. Rrherl, VtV., Klnmnth Falls, arrivlnjr on Crmta Rtca Victory due In New York Muy IT. TALLS. f?j' loAY.MAY Beats In Yesterday's Primary Cabinet Resigns After Dutch Vote AMSTERDAM, May 18 (!") The Dutch cabinet tendered its resignation to Queen Wllhcl mlna today as final returns showed Premier William Scher merhorn's socialist party of labor ran second to the middle-of-the-road Catholic party in parliamentary elections yester day. The Catholic party scored a narrow victory over the labor party by gaining 30.8 per cent of the more than 4,750.000 votes cast. Representatives were chos en In the election for the lower house of . parliaments.. . . .. Gandhi Endorses British Proposal NEW DELHI, May 18 OP) Mohandas K. Gandhi told a f;roup of his congress party fol owcrs last night that the British cabinet mission's proposals for a union of Indian contained "a seed to convert this land of sor row into one without sorrow and suffering." Gnndhi, at his usual evening prayer meeting, said the cabinet mission had "every reason to be proud" of its proposals, which recommended a plan for fed eration of Indian states under a single national government. "There are some who said the English were incapable of doing the right thing." Gandhi said. "I do not agree with them." 'No Quarter' Order Given Nazi Panzers DACHAU, May 18 (Pi Nazi armored troops poised for the 1944-43 winter countcrof tensive into Belgium were ordered to "drive on recklessly, give no quarter, take no prisoners," prosecution witnesses in the Mnlmedy trial testified today. The testimony was given by four enlisted men of a combat team of the SS regiment com manded by Col. Joachim Pcipcr, one of the 74 defendants. The prosecution maintains that as a result of such orders more than S00 American prisoners of war were slain in cold blood, more than B0 Belgian civilians were murdered and other atrocities were perpetrated against un armed persons. Strike Grist Flows At Last As Railway Labor Machinery Grinds Slowly But Certainly By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, May 18 (iP) Here's the ABC of the railroad strike due to start at 4 p. m. to day, i Only two of the 20 big rail road unions called the strike. Those are the engineers and trainmen, about 250,000 of them. A strike of them would be enough to tie up the railroads, they're key men. The. other unions would hardly operate ,the roads without them. But, although the strike was called by only two of the 20 unions, all 20 wanted the same things: They wanted higher pay and some changes In their contracts with the railroads. All of them put in tholr de mands almost a year ago. They argued with the railroad com panies for months. Then, when no settlement was reached, the dispute went before a number of government boards. All this has taken time, plcn- t fflt4 (Teleph (Telephone Voting Wf W W WW v ; M Pension Fund Fails To Pass LEVY RESULTS Retirement Fund Yes . 11S4 No 1300 Park Paving Levy Yes 1312 No ... 1086 Lot Revolving' Fund Yes 1340 No 1092 Klamath Falls taxpayers voted yesterday .to increase their prop erty levies by three-quarters of a mill for the coming year, but declined-a city invitation for an additional boost of a mill and one-quarter for the city em ployes retirement fund. The so-called "lot revolving fund," bringing with it a half mill levy for one year, was okayed by the public, 1340 to 1092, and goes into effect.. The money brought in next time taxes are paid goes into a spe cial fund and from that fund the city takes out the amount necessary to pay its cost of paving streets in front of city owned lots. Private owners on the other side of the street will pay for their share and the city's cost will be added to the price of the lot. When the lot is sold, the money is returned to the fund to be used again. The "park pavement levy" passed by a slightly smaller margin, 1312 to 1086, bearing a quarter-mill levy for one year. Thut measure, and the money brought in, permits the city to do some small paving jobs around two or three parks and when that money is spent it is not recovered. Most important of the meas ures on yesterday's ballot was the one which voters turned down, the "retirement fund," vetoed 1300 to 1154. That meas ure would have set up a per manent mill and a quarter levy to provide a pension system for policemen, firemen and street department workers. It was voted down and city employes, not covered by social security, are still not in line for any pensions or retirement benefits. ty of time, and is just coming to a head now, and for this rea son: Government Halves Demand The government boards de cided the unions were entitled to about only half the wage in creases they wanted. Also, the boards decided, the demands for contract changes would need a lot more time to straighten out. .Not all the unions asked for precisely the same things. Nor did all go through precisely the same procedure. Here's an ex planation. The 20 unions are divided up this way: 1. There are five very 1 bg unions, the big five brother, hoods, which operate the trains. They're culled the operating unions. The five unions are: en gineers, trainmen, conductors, switchmen, engincmcn. 2. There are 15 other unions of railroad workers. They don't (CntlBiS Fat , Cllini ) Humble 7C; vv- WEATHER NEWS Mmt II Mtm. (MT ." rrxlIUUa iMt M ., llrM J I U H.tl NWMl - .1. IS . '! rrill OI.r r. , . 1111) Number 10823 Close Race Ends In Win For Howard David R. Vandenberg was re turned to the circuit Judgeship of Klamath county yesterday in a decisive 3-2 victory over his single opponent. District At torney Clarence Humble. The filial cotintt Vandenberg 3037, Humble ISlt. Seizing commanding lead on the first vote, count at 8:03 p. m. in The Herald and News office. Judge Vandenberg . was never beaded and mounting re turns increased the trend in his direction. Af in-in n m nut,-!, s torney Humble visited the news paper office, and over radio sta tion KFLW conceded defeat. congratulating his opponent. Fif teen minute later. Judge Van. denberg spoke over, the KFLW mike, thanking his supporters and pledging an- euictent ana just administration oi tne of fice he had won in a hot cam rjalfn. A majority in the primary de livered the office to Judge Van denberg, without the necessity of another race in the' November general election. urveror Vote Clee '-' In the only other local con test in the 1946 primary. Frank Z. Howard, republican incum bent, nosed out wauy Hector, county engineer, for republican nomination for county surveyor, The latest vote Howard 1404, Hector 1141. ' .A Only about 4935 voters vent to the. polls, ' representing ap proximately! 28 per xcni--of the registration. Jit was generally agreed that -without the circuit judge race, the volume would have fallen far below mat low percentage. That contest carried virtually all the apparent inter est. . . . ! Republicans nominated- with out contest. Rose M. Poole, v cumfoent, and Troy Cook-, for. the two Klamath county state rep resentative positions. Mrs. Poole received 1870 votes, and woo 1440. Henry Semon, -democratic incumbent, was re-nominated by democrats for 'one of the state legislative Jobs, with 1903 votes. Klamath county gave a smash ing majority to Earl snell, gov ernor, in his re-nomination el- fort against Henry Black.-Port land. Klamath democrat favor ed David C- Eppa for. eetretary of state, nominated over Floyd K. Dover. Republicans out-voted demo crats by several hundred votes. For example, in the unopposed congressional bids, - Republican Lowell Stockman polled 2374 votes, and Democrat Lamar Townsend polled 1837 votes. County Returns HON PARTISAN Circuit Judge ;. Clarence Humble 1U David R. Vandenberg 3037 Vandenberg' lead II 19. . REPUBLICAN Congressman Stockman 2374 Governor Black 2tl. Snell 2198.- Secretary of. state Terrell, 2424. - .... Labor commissioner Kimsey 1929. State Representative Cook 1440. Poole 1970. (2 nominated) County commissioner Pope 2188. Surveyor Hector 1141. How ard 1404. . DEMOCRAT Congressman Townsend 1837. Governor Donaugh' 1351. , Secretary of state Dover 799. Epps 1031. .' Labor commissioner Peoples 1499. -t Slat representative Samoa 1903. County' Commissioner Mas. sty 1817. County assessor Nelson' 1121 ' Hungry Mobs Loot -German Food Trains HERFORD, Germany, May 18 Wholesale looting of food trains by massed crowd in-the Essen area involving a number of clashes between German po lice and civilians has taken place every day this month, the British military government dis closed 'today. -: -1 ; : Crowds in some cases num bered more than 500, More than 100 persons have been arrested in this area It was announced.; No Yamsay Votes Yesterday's primary elec tion was a more or less lethar gic affair all over the county -less than 30 per cent of the voters turning out but no where was there more lethar gy than in Yamsay precinct. Nobody at all voted up there. Yamsay, up on Sand moun tain, has 20 registered voters, three republicans, 10 demo crat and one independent, but all 20 stayed away from the polling . place at Sand creek. A few years back, when the logging camp were working around Yamsay, there were more than 200 voters in the lively precinct, but not so to day. Even the election board of ficials sat at the polls all day and didn't cast a ballot. Board Chairman W. A. Donnelly 'and. the other four members are all from Fort Klamath and voted there. - Yamsay 's- returns were the first' called in to the county clerk's office -after the polls closed last night, beating even precinct 6 which voted in the courthouse, basement. Don nelly's speed in getting his re turn in was due, no doubt, to rapid counting up to noth ing;; Troops Alert For Jap Mobs TOKYO Mav 1 ft im A mA-t. can troops in the .Tokyo-Yokohama area today were placed under alert orders as organizers of a mass demonstration claimed mat tens of. thousands would illJlM. at th. Imn-.l -.1... gate tomorrow demanding more food. A second gathering was plan ned for Yokohama. Americans, as is their policy, will not interfere, but will be prepared to protect U. S. prop erty, and lives if trouble devel ops. Meantime, Premier Shigeru Yoshida floundered through an other day in a vain attempt to form- a cabinet.' Several of his ehfitae . W. . nnnrthl 4a h.,,. declined positions. I he diet continued in recess, awaiting completion of the cabi net. It still was puzzled as to the -status of Takekichi - Miki, elected , speaker of the house of renreeentatives hut nnw ronM ered; a. .possible pwgee on.tivs basis rot hIs...ultra-ntionalistlc ana political record. . . Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE D r . : -. .. xv. n. Chicago i 18 0 New- York , 3 5 3 ; Schmitx and McCullough; Voi tell.1 Jnw' m nitrtntw t Krau.(6), Carden (8) and Lorn- parqi,-: warren (f irst game). Cincinnati at Thilartlnhi nntnnnH rain fiiuDurgn at Brooklyn,; post pones, wet grounds. Chicago at New York, second nine Dostrjoned. rain -nH wet grounds. - - AMERICAN LEAGUE - '' - r. H. e. New York l 3 1 Chicago . 5 8 2 Bonn am, : Marshall (8) and W. Dickey; Grove and G. Dickey. Washington at Cleveland post poned to permit Washineton club to entrain' for Chicago be- iore anticipated rail strike. No Action' On Coal WASHINGTON, May 18 W Charles G. Ross, presidential press secretary, said he an ticipated ho White House de velopment today in the dead lock coal contract dispute. There was no indication from the- soft coal operators or John L. Lewis' and his United Mine Workers of a weekend change in the pic ture. Get The Count In 1 iniul niwinanar.TMHln office. A mike from KFLW was set up in the news department, as shown above. Left to right! Bob McCarl and Mel Baldwin. KFLW announcers) Joy Biggs, Herald-News editorial staffen Mal colm Epley, newspaper managing editor) George Godard. assistant pressman, who hslped canvas precincts) Lois Stewart, city editor. : ; '. t Truman's Plea Brings Respite At Last Minute WASHINGTON, May 18 tPh-President Truman announced a five-day suspension of the scheduled nationwide railroad strike today at a special news conference, minutes before the 4 p. m. deadline set for its start. The president said the Brotherhoods of Railroad Trainmen and Engineers had agreed to his mat ne was comment lurtner progress could be made toward v wage agreement 11 tney negotiated anew with the managemen t. Mr. Truman said A. F. Whitney, head of the trainmen. ., Alvanley Johnston, chief of the engineers, would fly here to-1 morrow for resumption of nego tiations. He telephoned the brother hood chiefs at Cleveland at 3 p. m., Mr. Truman related, and they called him back at 3:34 p. m., accepting his proposal to postpone. Postponement Key Words The president told reporters that the unions' key words an nouncing to locals the postpone ment of the strike were "Con vention" for the trainmen and 'Johnston for the engineers. Only a handful of reporters was at the White House when Eben Ayers, assistant press sec retary, rushed into the press room shouting that the presi dent would hold a news confer ence immediately. When the newsmen scrambled into the president's office Mr. Truman was seated at his desk with Dr. John R. Steelman, special labor consultant, on his right and Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach behind him. He had been conferring with these two off and on during the day. "I hope you have some good news," a reporter said in greet ing. Mr. Truman looked down to a typewritten sheet scribbled with insertion and replied e hoped so. He then began to reai the brief announcement. He said the engineers and trainmen had agreed to move the strike date from 4 d. m. today to 4 p. m. May 23 in response to hi re quest. Hopeful Assurance They agreed, Mr. Truman added, on his assurance that he was confident further progress could be made with further negotiations. These negotiations broke off Thursday morning when the carrier representative stood fast on an emergency board rec ommendation for a wage in crease of 18 cent an hour or S1.28 a day for the 250,000 members of the two brother hoods. The carriers rejected a modi fied union proposal for an in crease of 18 per cent with a minimum raise of $1.44 a day as compared with the workers' original demand for 25 per cent with a floor of $2.50 a day. After Mr. Truman ordered the railroads taken over by the government yesterday represen tatives of the carriers said they stood ready at any time to re sume negotiations. Raeder Asserts Hitler Urged Singapore Move To Bluff US NUERNBERG. May 18. (AP) Grand Adm. Erich Raeder testi fied before the international mil itary tribunal today that Ger many urged Japan early in 1941 to capture Singapore, in the be lief that this would frighten the United States into remaining neutral. The German proposition was made by Adolf Hitler at a con ference in Berlin March 5, 1941 with Yosuke Matsuoka, then Japanese foreign minister, Raed er said. He added that Hitler is sued a statement later that day to the effect that Japan would take such a step. "There were circles suggest ing that Japan attack Vladivos tok, but I believed that would be a grave mistake," the former and Put It Out Election Night Motto lrion service was nrovlded Frldav niaht at The Herald and Newt request for delay on assurane . . Byrnes Arrives In Washington WASHINGTON. Mav 18 lPI Secretary of State Byrnes re turned from the Paris foreign ministers conference today and announced that he would report to the nation Monday night. Byrnes' plane landed at the national airport at 10:33 a. m., (EST). He went directly to th state department, saying ho planned to let President Truman know immediately of his arrival. Evidently, Byrnes expected t see Mr. Truman promptly. Otherwise, the secretary, who had left for the Paris conference with relative small hope of suc cess in writing European peace treaties, nad notning to say on the outcome of the meeting which many diplomats termed an almost complete failure. Byrnes was accompanied home by his principal advisers; Chairman Connally (D-Tex.) ot the r.-nate foreign relations com mittee, and Sen. Vandenberg (R Mich.). The secretary Is slated to return to Paris by June 15 for resumption of the sessions in an attempt again to write peace treaties for Europe. Connally told newsmen that Byrnes had played "a distin guished part" in the conference and added: "While it did not accomplish all that we had hoped for, it made . substantial achievements which I am sure will be helpful to the meeting in June." Vandenberg, who had been assailed by the Soviet newspaper Pravda in Moscow as the gravedlgger" of the conference because he publicly stated his doubts of its success a week ago, declared he had no comment on either -the conference or the Pravda charge, at the moment, Mac Arthur Asks Renegade List TOKYO, May 18 (P) General MacArthur today instructed the Japanese government to prepare a list of American nationals who applied for Japanese citizenship, entered the Japanese armed services or served with Japanese government agencies in the war. Under the 1940 U. S. national ity act, anyone in any of those categories forfeited his United States ciizenship. - German naval chief said as he t concluded his defense against , charges of conspiracy. "I believed that with Singa . pore's fall the United Stateil would be intimidated and stay out ot tne war." Raeder scoffed at charges by the prosecution that he "conspir ed" to bring America into the. war, contending that "with my small navy fighting England I certainly didn't want the United States also on my neck." Raeder duplicated the testi mony of another defendant . Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz. that the attack on Pearl Harbor was "a complete surprise to the reich, which thought Japan's moves would be against the Brit ish and Dutch in the Pacific.