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Newspaper Page TextMK Mil mm .. .trT : . . Br FRANK JENKINS 'AS thai words urn written (about noon) the atrlklng en gineers mid trBiiunnn havu of fered to end their strike IF Prealdmit Trumnn will nl them negotiate further WITH HIM ' for wugo Increases. (Itcforo the offer win mude, lie hnd already hrokvn off re lation) with the atrlkera.) fllE two striking unions of- fered to go buck to work for 18 cent mi hour Increase PLUS the seven rule changes rerom mended by the president's f net finding bonrd last mmitli. Thin morning the 1R nnn-atrlk-f lug mil unions ACCEPTKD the ) prealdent'i mediation offer of 1 8 cenls mi hour Increase with chungca In working rules to be deferred for one year. npHAT la how the iltuntlon stands (it noon, At 1 o'clock (Coast time) the president la achcdulcd to go be fore congreaa to oak for special alrlko leglalntlnn. Speaker Huy burn hn told him Unit the limine la ready to pus auch legialu tlon tit 40 minute. RfEAN WHILE Prealdent Tru- man has revealed hlmaelf to the country aa a man with the courage to act declalvcly when , the time for action can no long' er be deferred. In hi radio speech Inat night, bo wild: "Th.li Is no contest between labor and management. It is a contest between a amull number of men and their government. lie added:' "The welfare of the country must come first." nrHESE words were backed up by plans for the army to take over the trains and protect the men who want to work. Military police battullon In Washington were under orders to move on five minutes notice. The railroad managements were told by the offlco of defenae transportation to recruit new men and call on tho nrmy to protect the roads and throw pickts off company property If V need be. BACK of these stern orders lies the principle that the rights of ALL must be kept superior to the right of me r bw, Orgunl.ed society is built upon that principle. If it is permitted to be destroyed, organized so ciety will disappear and annrchy will prevail. The robber barons of tho Middle Ages denied that the rights of all aro superior to the rights of the few and Insisted upon GETTING THEIRS by the power or me strong arm. If that principle can be de nied, you unci i ana our orgnn lzed friends (If we are STRONG enough) can defy the police here In Oregon and California anu ENFORCE OUR WILL on every bodv else. If that can be done organized government is OUT and we arc bnck to the days of the robber barons. T ET us not forget (because It Is fundamental) thot In the bnck around of all this industrial trouble that is plaguing us is tho grim specter or inflation inflation In a form that Is rapidly developing fangs nnd claws. If Inflation can be stopped before It gets loose, EVERYONE will benefit wnge workers most of nil. for It Is tho history of runaway Inflation that next after those with fixed Incomes r wage workers suffer most of all because prices tend to go up so much faster man wages. Wo must never forget thnt production Is tho only cure for Inflation, INFLATION Is a form of hys- torln. Nearly everyone knows of or has heard or cases or nysioncai persons brought out of It by a sharp slap In the face. If President Trumnn lins nmed to slan tho striking en glncers and trolnmen, it Is for their own good ns time win in.' evitobly tell. Baseball Scores AMERICAN R II E New York 4 fl 0 Boston 7 14 1 Chandler, Gumpert (5), Miller (7) and Dlckev. Urcsclier (0), ail vcstrl (fl); Fcrrlss, Johnson (7) and H. Wagner, First same Philadelphia 1 8 1 Washington 4 10 1 Newsoin and Rosnrj Haefnor and Evans. NATION AL Boston 3 3 1 New York 5 7 2 Wallnco, SI Johnson (3), Roscr (7) and Hofferth; Kennedy, Trlnklo (0) ond Warren, i Brooklyn 710 0 Philadelphia 18 3 Lomburdl and Anderson; T, Hughes, Mulcahy (3), Hoorst (0) nnd scmlnlck. Chicago at Pittsburgh, post poncd, rain and wet grounds. PRICE riVE CENTS Senate OK's Strike Curb Legislation WASHINGTON, May 28 (II By top-heavy majorities, the seonta voted today to Impose a UO-diiy cooling off period to pre vent "quickie strikes and then swiftly accepted President Tru man's long-standing suggestion for creation of fuel-finding boards in labor disputes. The vole on the cooling off amendment, by roll call, was 84 to 20. Approval of the fact-finding board proposal came On a roll cull vote of 81) to 111. Doth amendment apply to pending legislation to curb strikes. . The senate acted while await ing a 4 p. m. appearance by President Truman. Senator Ilyrd (D-Vo.), speok Ing In the armite an Id thut a half dozen labor lenders "can destroy the economy of tho country" and demunded that congress work to night nnd tomorrow to legislate this power out of their lunula. The amendment, by Senator Doll, directs that any time the federal mediation bonrd Inter vene on Its own motion or ut the request . of cither parly, workers shall slay on the Job and employers shall not lock out tnelr work force for 60 days after the first attempt at collec tive bargaining. Heavy Penalties The penalties fur failure to ob serve these requirements would be denial to striking workera of their right to reemployment un der the Wagner act and to hold employers who closed their plant guilty of unfair labor practices under that act. Bull said the erfect or the amendment would bojo require collective bargaining by union as well ns employers, a provision he said Is not now In the Wag ner act. He termed It a "very mild" re striction upon Ihe "right to strike." The sennte nlso wrote Into the bill by a 48 to 30 vote a pro posal by Senator Ellender ID La.), denying the benefit of the Wngncr act to unions of super visory employes. Ellender said this would prohibit effective un ionization of foremen. Merchants Refuse To Sell Strikers PERRY. Fla., Mny 25 VP) Merchants here refused to sell food, gnsoline or other commod ities to railroad employes unless they could prove they wero not on strike, President Joe II. Scales of the Taylor County chamber of commerce sulci. It wna unanimously agreed among' merchant hero to dis courage biiIcs to striking railway employes. "These merchonts feel that those strikers who are contrib uting to tho already-serious food shortage are not themselves en titled to portions of the small remaining supply," Scales said. Lewis Delays Reply WASHINGTON, Mny 25 VP) John L. Lewis delayed until 8 p. m. today his reply to ten tative proposals handed him by tho government for n new soft coal agreement, thus al lowing him time to hear Presi dent Truman's special message to congress. No official renson for the delay was mude by Krug, who disclosed tho postponement, Whitney -Johnson 'Challenge' Long Struggle In Behalf By Harold C. McKlnley CLEVELAND, May 25 (AP) The two men singled out by President Truman as having challenged tho government "as It has seldom bo'oro been chal lenged In all our history" be gan battling for railroad labor a half-century ago. Upon the heads of the two striking rail brotherhoods President A. F. Whitney of the railroad trainmen and Alvanloy Johnston, grand chief engineer of tho locomotive engineers tho president place responsibil ity for the "terrible havoc" and "suffering" resulting from the nationwide rail tie-up. Whitney, now 73, has directed tho wealthy and powerful Brotherhood of Railroad Train men slnco 11)20. Johnston was elected head of tho engineers 21 years ago, Tills is the first gener al strlko cnllcd by these brother hoods during their tenure, Whitney a rise to the train men's presidency was a 38-year I Merlon Albrecht Phi Beta Kappa Morion Albrecht, duughtcr of Mr. uud Mrs. Km 11 Albrecht, 310 Pacific Terrace, was one of the 82 students at Stanford univer sity, Palo Alto, Calif., elected to Phi Beta Kuppu, natlonul sehol uatlc fraternity. Miss Albrecht, member of the class of 1040, was graduated In International economic at Stan ford this spring. Initiation cere mony Is scheduled May 27, with Dr. liriidlu, renowned geneticist, us tho speaker. He will also be Initiated as an honorary member of Beta chapter, Phi Beta Kappa. M. B. Disposal Terms On Way Klamath Falls Marino Bar rucks has moved one step further towurd possible use as a tempor ary veterans' college. It was learned today thnt Senator Guy Cordon had wired George Aiken, atute budget director, advising him the wnr assets administra tion had approved transfer of the big plant on the hill. Aiken, who met In Portland Friday with regional WAA offi cuils nnd state board of higher education representatives, said the rail strike apparently had delayed terms of the transfer. Governor Sncll has supported the transfer, already approved by tho board. Aiken advised The Herald and News this morning that disposal of the plant will be handled by the Portland office of WAA and E. W. Barnes of that office would be in charge. Cordon had wired Aiken previously that a letter of instruction of disposal, mailed in Washington Thursday to the WAA in Portland, would prob ably reach him Monday and final details of the mattor should be known on that day. .... Up to now. final-terms of the disposition are en route from Washington and nothing definite could bo given out. R. C. Groesbeck of Klamath Falls, member of the board of higher education, said today that the board had a meeting slated for June 10, at Portland, but if an emergency meeting 1 called In connection with the barracks, he would attend. "I have received no advice of any kind that is definite as to the disposition of the barracks," Groesbeck said today. He added thnt secretary of the board, Dr. C. D. Byrnes of Eugene, was now In Portland receiving details of tho transfer and that Byrnes would report findings to other members of the board. Klamath Falls Marine Bar racks, declared surplus by the navy on May 1, were turned over to the Portland WAA Wednes day as tho first step in possible acquisition by the state of Ore gon as a veterans college. The barracks, which cost $6,- ouu.uuo to build, have been con sidered by the state board of higher education as a potential college to ease the load in other Oregon schools. Governor Snell favored the project when he said, "5000 World War II veterans will be knocking on tho doors of already crowded Oregon schools of high er eaucmion next ion. Chicago Grain Receipts Drop CHICAGO, May 25 () Shnrp reductions In grain re ceipts here today were attribut ed to the railroad strike. Arriv als of wheat totaled 3000 bushels against 11,000 a week ago. corn 1(14.000 agntnst 600,000 and oaU 23,000 ugninst 28,000. climb. Born at Cedar Rapids, la., April 12, 1873, he gained much of his learning at the side of his Canadian-born father, the Rev. J. L. Whitney, a circuit riding minister. A farmhand at 15, Whitney was attracted to railroading and" made his own opportunity to start as a "candy butcher," Outspoken and Vituperative Outspoken, at times vitupera tive, Whitney is a political liber al who was summoned on var ious occasions to confer with the lute President Roosevelt on la bor problems. Roosevelt ap pointed him a delegate to the Inter-Americnn peace confer ence in Buenos Aires in 1036. ' At 73, he has tremendous vig or, the appearance of a prosper ous business man. a firm hold on his organization's 200,000 orid members and an Interest in wild life which he indulges nt his suburban bay village home, Whitney consistently has said that labor's wartime gain must KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY. Junior Chamber Officers Here For Convention Ho ii Sfis?; , -. . .. i Junior chamber of commerce officials here for the annual state convention this weekend In clude lltlt to right) Carl Helm, La Grandei Ray Ward, Klamath chapter president; Marvin Hlxon, Salami Lee Stidd, Portland, state president; Merle Nash, Eugene; Lofton Tatum, Port land and Bruce Gilbert of Bend. President Calls On U. N. To Make Peace A Reality NEW YORK. May 25 VP) President Truman told the Unit ed Nations economic and social council today it can make the peace a realty for the common people all over the,- world- . In a message to the council at its first meeting in the Unit ed States, the nation's chief ex ecutive said the council's task "is to achieve freedom from want, to encourage production, help to open up transport and clear communications and to as suro higher standards of liv ing." . The president's message was read by John G. Winant, United States delegate to the council, shortly after the 18-nation body convened In the chamber used by the United Nations security Federal Court To Meet Here The first regular term of fed eral court for Klamath Falls will convene In the county court house Tuesday, June 4, with Judge James Alger Fee of Port land on the bench, it was learned today. A federal court for this area was approved last fall and ses sions will be held here regular ly. In the past there have been several special federal court terms in Klamath Falls. None of the local court offi cers will have anything to do with the federal session as a federal bailiff, marshal,- clerk and reporter will come with Judge Fee. While federal court is in ses sion there will be no activity in the local circuit court . No jury cases are set for circuit court now add the grand jury is not scheduled to meet until late in June. Climaxes Of Rail Labor be preserved during peacetime. else "we shall have won the war but lost the peace." Johnston, the less vociferous of the. two rail brotherhood leaders, stepped into the locomo tive engineers' top post at a time when the organization had branched out into commerce and finance. Johnston had disapproved, de clar'eg "I'm not a banker," and after his election began putting the brotherhood on the basis where he believed it belonged working for the interest of its members. His strongtn among the en gineers 78,000 members partly lies In the wage fights he has won in their behalf, beginning with g 7U per cent Increase in 1027, tho year he wos confront ed with liquidation of the en gineers' various holdings. Johnston, stocky at 71, Is taci turn and statements made dur ing tho weeks preceding the rail strike usually came from Whit ney with Johnston concurring. MAY 25, 194S (Telephone council at the UN Interim head quarters at Hunter college. The delegates found a globe full of problems besetting the peoples of the world awaiting them. Thet council first met in London last winter. "The opening of this second session of the economic and so cial council stirs the hearts of the common people all over the world," Mr. Truman's message said. "You can make the peace a reality for them." Welcoming the council for the American people, Mr. Tru man said: While the security council stands guard against new threats to peace, the economic and social council mobilizes the constructive forces of mankind for the victories of peace. "We did not" struggle to pre vent the domination of the world by the axis powers only to accept hunger, disease, pov erty and insecurity in a world muue lice uy mate i- Algoma Marsh Lease Yanted C. A. Dunn. Klamath Falls contractor, who made applica tion to the bureau of reclama tion for rjossible lease of a section of marshland immediately south of Alsoma. today was aavisea ry the USBR that the matter was being taken into . consideration and would be included in invest! gation of similar projects in the territory for leasing. The section includes approxl mately 1000 acres north of Klam ath Falls and west ot me or tracks near Algoma. Dunn ex plained in a recent letter to the bureau that the land was not productive in its present state "and in this condition for many years and no attempt has been made to reclaim it.'1 he consid ered the time ripe for bringing this land into production. Dunn, In his application, said he would accept the land on a 20-year lease, during which time he would build a dike . around the land and install water con trol so that it would readily be farmed. At the end of 20 years the land is to revert to the U. S. government, Dunn agreed. If these terms were not agree able, Dunn advised in his letter. he suggested the land be put up for bids on a long term lease. If the government does not see fit to lease the land under any circumstances, Dunn said, he thought it only foir to the public, to the Klamatn county district, and to the returning war vet erans, that the land be immedi ately reclaimed by the U. S. gov ernment and tnrown open to entry, It was Dunn's opinion that any thing less than 20 years would be too short a period in which to reclaim the land and get it Into satisfactory production, and if substantial structures were de manded by the government, ad ditional time would be required as there is "considerable differ ence between the minimum necessary and maximum require ments possible In reclaiming this land. Number 10830 State Jaycees Open Meetings The annual state Junior cham ber of commerce convention got under way here last night with the first social event of the cal endar, a stag party, at the arm ory. The confab will run for three days, with a full schedule of business and social meetings under the direction of Ray Ward, president and general chairman of the local chapter. Convention headquarters is at the Willard hotel, where about 100 out-of-town members have registered. This morning was taken up with various com mittee meetings, following com pletion of which elections were held for the various state offices. During the business session. the Jayceettes have several events planned for the wives of delegates, and tonight all will get together with a dinner dance and installation ceremonies at the " armory, with music by Evans' band. The new state of ficers will be. introduced over the regular half hour broadcast over KFJI at 10 p. m. A cocktail hour will precede the dinner at 6:30. Lee Stidd. of Oswego, state president, arrived here yester day and is presiding at all meet ings. The Mail Goes 8111) Postmaster J. C. Casey of Beatty yesterday received this sack of mail from Pilot Al Cummings, Klamath Agency, as "the shortest airmail line In the world" went Into operation at the start of the nationwide rail strike. The line runs from Klamath Agency to Beatty, Klamath Falls and Medford. Superintendent B. G. Courtright of the Agency, Friday and would continue for the duration of the strike. Ap proval of postmasters was granted. The Agency patrol plane, Piper Cub, was pressed into imaay, a second Saturday. Strikers Return As Truman Asks Draft Authority WASHINGTON, May 25 VP) John R. Steelman, labor con sultant to President Truman announced today the railroad atrik has been settled. Steelman made his announcement to reporters at a downtown hotel as Mr. Truman personally asked a joint session of congress for emergency strike legislation. The agreement, he said, was for 16 cent an hour Increase as recommended by a fact-finding board, to be retroactive to January 1, 1946, plus an additional 2ft cents an hour effective) May 22, 1946, or a total of 18 Mi cents an hour increase. Steelman said "memoranda of agreement" had been signed between all the carriers and brotherhoods. Presidents A. F. Whitney and Alvanley Johnston of the strik- S. P. Rails Hum In Short Order Within a matter of minutes after the 45-hour nation-wide strike ended, the Klamath Falls Southern Pacific office an nounced a 38-car train of perish ables grinding over the rails north bound for Portland. The time of departure was 1:30 p. m. Lloyd S. Stitt, SP district freight and passenger agent, said news of the strike break was re ceived with great relief at his office. Southbound No. 19, the pas senger train which was halted here early Thursday evening when the crew completed its run under strike conditions, was be ing prepared today to leave at the normal time, 6:50 tonight. Seven passengers had remained in Klamath Falls, including two newlywed couples, and they would continue their Journey south. . Oneratine the perishable train. held over here from its journey north, were A. C. Schoupe, road foreman of engines serving as engineer on the run, and train masters W. C. Hughes and H. C. Chase, brakeman. tonauciorc, not on strike, were also called into service. - Normal In 24 Hours Normal traffic Is expected to be resumed, here within 24 hours, Stitt said. - ' V " " First freight through Klamath Falls was due in around 3 p. m. today, northbound from Gerber and loaded with perishables. This was a 40-car train manned by a volunteer crew and of ficials. The first passenger to go over the rails will probably be the Cascade due out of Portland at 4 p. m. this afternoon, south bound. It will reach here shortly after midnight, Stitt advised. The nation-wide strike, pictur ed locally, was conducted with out violence of any kind and no pickets were visible at any time. Stitt said that the strike had long range repercussions as far as the local yards were concern ed. Some 60-odd clerical posi tions in the freight and yard of fice were eliminated and abol ished as of Monday at 8 a. m., had the strike continued. He said that with the end of the strike he could "not say off hand" whether these positions would be reestablished but it is probable that they would be re turned with no loss of time or money to the employe. Through By Air said the route was inaugurated service and one flioht was made tring unions told reporters the en gineers and trainmen will be ordered back to work. Steelman said there will be a moratorium on changes in working rules for one year. In reply to a question, Steel man said President Truman had not been told of the settlement when he went before congress at 1 p. m., PST. Truman Addresses Congress WASHINGTON, May 25 VP) President Truman asked con gress today for authority . to draft into the armed forces of the United States all workers on strike against the govern- ment. . ' The president also recom mended a six-month temporary statute providing criminal pen alties against employers and union leaders where presiden tial request for men to return to work in major industries is ignored. In the course of his personal message to a Joint session of house and senate Mr. Truman announced that the rail strike had been settled on the govern ment's terms. Loud cheers greeted his words. Mr. Truman said the right of employes to strike against pri vate employers should be pre served. But he declared thero should be a long-range labor policy worked out, by a joint house-senate committee espe cially . created tor me purpose, to see what can be done about reducing strikes against private enterprise. :';EMaaiial.To -Welfare" - Grim-visaged as he stood be fore the assembled legislators, Mr. Truman asked for legisla tion he said is "essential to the welfare of our people." The president said that he stood by his radio promise last night "to undertake to run the railroads with the army, if nec essary." He did not act sooner, he said, because he was deter mined to allow every opportu nity for settlement of the rail road dispute in normal ways. On the current crisis, Mr. Truman said: 'We are dealing with a hand ful of men who are striking against their own government and against everyone of their fellow citizens. 'We are dealing with a hand ful of men who have it within their power to cripple the en tire economy of tne nation. Knife Killer Still Alive John Tex' Ainsworth is still alive and reported "resting well" at the Klamath Valley hospital, although his condition remains critical. The 46-year-old man has been too weak to undergo an opera tion and the five 22-caliber slugs which sent him to the hos pital Thursday afternoon are still in his stomach and chest. He was given blood plasma Thurs day. Because there was no eye wit nesses to the knife and pistol duel between Ainsworth and Glen Harris, 38, in a woodshed back of the Avalon rooms, 9th and Walnut, Thursday, police in- vestigation has failed to deter mine which man started the fight, and Sheriff Lloyd Low said today that it would prob ably be a matter for the grand jury to decide. In two statements to the po lice before he died, one brand ed as false, Harris said that Ainsworth struck the first blow and that he fired in self-defense. Harris' first statement was that Ainsworth stabbed him while he was on a bed in the rooming house, but Mrs. Rose Lapham, who heard the shots, said the fight started in the woodshed. Ainsworth has maintained that at least two bullets hit his body before he swung his pock et knife at Harris. In reconstructing the fight from evidence on the ground and from Mrs. Lapham's story, officials are unable to say for sure which man was the aggres sor. By Oregon law concerning self-defense, a person may use "whatever force necessary" to defend himself from attack. Harris died of his stab wounds Thursday night, almost nine hours after the fight. He was a native of Salem, Mo., and had been in Klamath Falls about three years.