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Newspaper Page TextMl fo) Ml IN MM In Tho Day's Sews By FRANK JENKINS PRESIDENT TIIUMAN tells hl prcus conference thin morn Inir Hint hi prupumil lu Induct int'ii who strike ugiilimt the gov ernment linn bron "grossly mis represented mill nilauiHlnmloud. Alt hn wiintcd, ho explained, wan authority to cltipntlr.e exper- . . , -I. ,1... lit. it'lll'cn men III wui n mi duplies seized by tho govern menta limit of citizens 111 an emergency. "Kvcn a sheriff." hp remarked to t h correspondents, "can ilepiitlM' uny clluen lo enforce the liiw." IN tills writer' opinion, all thin tulk of "sluve" labor In ahmird, Imluliied In lor polltlrul effect. r. f.i.... tt.at iinu itllfntiMM -1lulllllK muui, nil ,. other Hum maintaining the mi thorily of government 111 an emergency, would ho the one mire wiiy to hrlnn on a revolu tion In this country. Those who ore accused (by Im plication) of wuntlnit slave labor IHINT WANT REVOLUTION. Anybody knows that. , THIS whole subjecl of employer-employee relations (In cluding tho laws governing such relations) has become a No. 1 political Issue that will bo threshed, out at the polls In elec tions over a considerable period of time beginning at tho elec tion next November, when all the members of the house and a third of the members of the sen ate will Inco tho lest of re election. As tho temper of tho voter becomes apimrenl as a result ni these elections, new laws will be shaped and existing laws will be amended. 11 will be a SLOW proems not an Immedlnto one. It will be yenrs before a policy is hammered out that will be generally accepted as sound. So let's keep our shirt on. Let's not rock the boat. PRESIDENT TRUMAN l ap- pan-ntly determined to go through with what he has started. He tells his press conference this morning that he will use every means In his power to keep the snips running in 1110 event of n niitlon-wide maritime ..rib.. 11a .,.. l,n uMt II -n h navv. the war shinning admin Istratlon, the coast guard and the army If necessary. That la quite a lot of means. We must remember, In esti mating tho situation, that of lictally wo are still at war and the President still lias at lit dis posal all the war powers granted to him for the period of tho war emergency. TF you are not to become con- fused, you must keep in mind that It is Hi Li strikes in uiu ill' dustry Industry essential to the functioning of the uurmal hfo of the nation, such as railroads, coal mines, shipping, etc. that will be dealt with In the manner 1'resident Truman lias Initialed. The hundreds of little disturb ances arc not concerned. One can't help wondering at times If big Industry and big labor aren't getting too big to handle. They aro already too big to be handled by any power other than I lie federal govern mcnt, acting for ALL the people on the sound and tested principle that the rights of all are superior to me amiiiiions ot the com parativcly few. AS Is frequently pointed out In - mis column, me ncwsatwayi LOOKS worse than it rcnlly Ii because the unusual and excit ing get so much more attention In, Ih from ,,.., ,11 1,,.. ...r-ll..,.. ,,, from renders, than the normal ana me unexciting. For example: Civilian Production Admin lulflllflP Smnll fwllllla m.l 1,. Washington today that while IJillUlltUWIl Ut MUIHIJ1U KOOUS nilS uccn sei duck by tnc recent ser les of strikes it is already touch lng new pence-time levels. Employment In Anrll. hn snv climbed to 64J millions, and if ii rises another zt millions as, lift RilVit. nnnnio nnflnl., It ...111 hit tho B7-mllllon mark, whjch f nlmnal nn tn lli fin . mi.... - I' vw-iiiiiuuii figure that so scandalized us by us nccniiiiK impossmiiity when It was first suggested something line H yuui ugo. nrltAT gives us n hint of the " fnntnstlc possibilities for full employment and prosperity In America when wo finally get 0uuii:m uijwii to uiismcss. OPA Increases Ceiling On Fir WASHINGTON, May 31 (P) The OPA rnised mill price ceil lugs on Douglas fir and other west coast lumber an average $3.50 per 1000 board feet todav. The Increases, however, are discretionary and mills seeking to claim them, tho OPA snld, must rearrange culling sched ules to produce mainly bnnrds "and dimension lumber, items most needed for housing. The Increases, tho OPA sold in announcing them yesterday, are being granted to encourage tho production of lumber need ed for the veterans emergency housing program, PRICE FIVE CENTS CCC Wheat To Relieve Feed Lack SPOKANE, May 31 UP) Im- medlalo rcleaso or 100,000 bush els of commodity credit corpor ation wheat for use In relieving the crltlral feed shortage among poultry flocks of the northwest was announced here today by C. P. Duwncn, Washington slate director of the production and marketing administration. Downen said half of the wheat would go to Washington and half to Oregon. The grain will be from stocks held In the northwest. "We expect to have some of the wheat rolling today to take rare of emergency cases, Dow nen said. He added tnat me wheat will be sent to feed pro cessors designated by the Waslv Ington state feed advisory com' mission. Downen was advised of the action by Lawrence Norton, western region PMA director, after a conference with Under secretary of Agriculture N. E. Dodd. Million Bushels Asktd Tho Washington stnto PMA earlier this week had asked the government to release one mil lion bushels of the CCC wheat but Downen said today the amount released would care for emergency needs until promised feed grains arrive irom me mil west. Northwest poultry flocks, which have been slaughtered in great numbers, are In the most Immediate need of feed and will get tho bulk of the 100.000 bushels but Downcn said thai did not mean the door was closed to any cases where live stock losses would be suffered as a result of feed shortages. The grain will go to feed pro cessors with the understanding that they will buy gram Irom the new crop this summer and return the amounts to the CCC. FDR Caution To Stark Told WASHINGTON, May 31 P The Pearl Harbor committee heard testimony today that Pres ident Roosevelt telephoned Ad miral Harold R. Stark the night of December 6, 1041, to say that Japanese-American relations were serious. Stark himself couldn't remem ber anything about it, but re quested the committee to hear testimony from Capt. Harold D. Krlck. Krlck said he recalled Stark (who was then chief of naval operations) received a While House phone call after the two naval officers and their wives had spent the evening at a Washington theatre. Stark previously had testified he did not recall where he was on the night preceding tho at tack on Pearl Harbor. When the two couples dined together again lust week, Stark stated, Krlck informed him of the incident and he hastily wrote a letter to the investigating com mittee, which reopened Its hear ings today to add Krick's story to Its voluminous record. Both officers were heard at an open committee session. Rep. Keefo (R-Wls.), the only repub lican member present, protest ed against reopening the ses sions after they had formally been closed last week. Klamath's Buy 50 Per Cent The average person in Klam ath Falls had a buying income of $1550 during 1045. That is 50 per cent greater than the na tional per capita Income of $1038, according to the annual survey just released by Sales Management magazine and in terpreted by the research staff of Standard Insurance compony. Klamath Falls' retail sales to taled $35,343,000 Inst year. Of Ibis $7,402,000 was spent for food, $7,207,000 for general merchandise and $1,284,000 at drug stores. Lost year, retail sales for the whole stnto totaled $1)08,480,000. Of this amount $230,612,000 was spent for food, $178,01)0,000 for general mer chandise, and $33,581,000 at drug stores, Oregon's per capita buying Income ot $1308 Is 28 per cent higher than the national per capita buying Income, Tho ef fective buying income of Ore gon in 1048 was $1,710,000,000 or 184 per cent of 1030. The national Increase was 127 per cent. Oregon's population as of July, 1045, increased 10.7 per cent over April, 1040, while the ".v ATH dvi u y Strike Terms WASHINGTON. May 31 fH Senator Byrd (D-Va.) asserted to day the terms for settlement or the soft coal strike constituted "government surrender to John L. Lewis, mine workers enter. lu signing the new coal con tract with the government, Byrd told the senate, Lewis "won his greatest victory." It was the fourth time, he added, that the government had bowed to the United Mine Workers' president. Soviets Cramp Pauley Probe SEOUL, May 31 (!) The U. S. reparations commission, seek ing to determine if the Russians removed machinery from north Korea, is operating under such tight restrictions in the Soviet occupation lone that Edwin W. Pauley, reparations chief, has protested. Pauley's assistant, Dr. Ernest L. Klein, disclosed the protest today and presented this version of the situation: Col. Gen. I. M. Chlstiakov, Russian military commander, has barred tho 10-member com mission from two of five Indus trial areas -the commission had selected for inspection. A fiber plant has been closed to tho mission, on grounds that it housed Soviet troops. The mission photographer has been forbidden to take photo graphs on official trips, thus ren dering difficult the substanti ation of any evidence the mis sion finds. The mission is closely guard ed. It can move about only by prearrangement and consent of the Russians. It must keep to gether. The mission has been denied air travel to speed up Its work, on grounds that north Korea lacks proper landing facilities. Senators Vote Against Delay WASHINGTON. Mav 31 (1 The senate refused 42 to 40 to day to pigeon-hole for 10 days President Truman's emergency muor legislation. Defeating a motion bv Sena. tor Thomas (D-Utnh) to delay action, the senate apparently cleared the way for eventual passage of a revised mcature bearing only part of the author ity Mr. Truman requested to meet strike crises. Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) led the fight against the Thomas motion. Barkley con tended the! the house-approved uuifouia ue revised on the sen ate floor without the dclav in. volvcd in sending It back to the interstate commerce committee. The senate on Wednesday de leted mo arart section of the bill by a 70-13 vote. But it declined earlier todav to limit application of the re maining sections to public utili ties, transportation, steel, coal and oil Industries. It defeated, 45 to 35. an amendment by Senator Taft (R-Ohlo) to accomplish this pur pose. WASHINGTON, May 31 M") Sen. Morse (R-Ore.) voted against the Taft amendment to limit application of President Truman a emergency labor leg islation to public utilities, steel, oil, coal and transportation. Senator Cordon (R-Ore.) voted for. ing Income Over Average national Increase was but 2 per cent, Oregon's 1945 individual fed eral income tax payment on a per capita basis was $168 In contrast to a national average of $151. The gross income per farm in Oregon in 1945 was $5048 while the United States average was $3907. For all farms in Oregon the gross in come was $312,130,000. The nation's $0.8 billion sales or ordinary life insurance, when divided state-wide, showed $74 per capita in Oregon or $1 un der the national per capita av era go. The nation's net effective buying income topped $133, 438,255,000. Even after record breaking taxes the nation's pub lic saved approximately 27 per cent of Its Income. The total ttve-year savings ol the war period amounted to $145,800,- 000,000, and consumer debts were virtually wiped off the books. Sales Management stat ed, "the wiping out of consumer debt, plus a pay-as-you-go in come tax plan, allows American consumers to start Irom scratch In 1948." FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 31, IMS Meeting Set To Consider Heating Buy Customers of the Klamath Heating company have been called to a meeting at the cir cuit court room tonight, to con sider purchase of the utility's physical plant. A committee oi local citizens which has been conferring with heating company officials over a period of several months, has obtained a definite proposition which it Intends to present to the heat users. Mayor Ed Ostcndorf, a mem ber of the committee, today em phasized the importance of a full attendance at tonight's meet ing of all heating company users as well as owners ol ouuciings heated from the central plant here. "The outcome of tonight's meeting may decido whether we are going to have cenlml heal here or not, next winter," Os tcndorf warned, urging every interested person to attend. Pried at $55,000 The reported price at which the company is willing to sell the physical plant to customers is around $55,000. Affairs of the heating com pany have been under discus sion here for several years. Num erous meetings hBve been held with company officials, civic and municipal leaders, and represent atives of the PUC. D. O. Hood, president of the company, has stated that unless some definite plan is worked out, the company would simply have to give up operation of the plant. He said the company could not go on on the present basis much longer. Fuel shortage is one of the latest troubles to plague the com pany, and last year it converted partially to oil, resulting in sharp Increases of rates, 1 . Purchase of the plant,: and plans for lb operation in case of purchase, will both be dis cussed at tonight's meeting called for 7:30 p. m. Members of the citizens com mittee, appointed through the chamber of commerce, include Ostendorf. L. Orth Sisemore, E. B. Hall, Fred Hoagland and G. C. Lorenz. Slot Machines Called Illegal SALEM, May 31 0P) Slot ma chines and pinball devices can not be legally 'icenscd by Oregon municipalities, Attorney General George Neuner ruled here Fri day in an advisory opinion. The opinion reoucstcd by Dis trict Attorney Leland S. Duncan of Harney county stated that an amendment to the state constitu tion would be necessary before such games of chance could be legally licensed in Oregon cities, Father Flanagan To Visit Ireland ROSSLARE HARBOR. Eire, May 31 (') County Roscommon is planning a big celebration for a famous native son. Father Flanagan ot Omaha's Boy's Town, who will arrive early in Juno. It will be his first visit home in more than 40 years. a ! ?:- - ' . t ft i'ittit jWn.ii ji.n - 0 Q: Striking union crow members climb ropes to board thsir at Thorold, Ont to give battlt bshlnd the Moronic, seaman at onto the Edmonton. Both craft from Montreal to Sainla. OaW (Telephone Bataan Survivor With Leper Wife SAN FRANCISCO, May 31 (P) Mujor Hans Hornsbostel, 65-year-old survivor of Uie Bataan death march, - accompanied his wife Gertrude, a leprosy pa tient, today on a special railway car bound for the federal lepro sarium at Carville, La. "We are anxious to get there and get settled," said the major as the couple left San Francisco last night. He is due for an army release soon and has an nounced he would spend his re maining years with his wife. Mrs. Hornsbostel has express ed the belief that she contract ed the disease while interned by the Japanese at the Santo Tomas camp in the Philippines. . Houston Calls Rodeo Confab The auestion of a Fourth, of July celebration here next month will probably be ironed out mis afternoon at 4:30 o'clock when interested citizens will attend a meeting called at the chamber of commerce by the chamber president, John H. Houston. Since Wednesday's announce ment by the Klamath Buckaroo Days committee that lack of co ooeration between that group and civic bodies made it impos sible for the sponsoring of a suc cessful rodeo, there has been much speculation as to a celebra tion over the holiday. There was some talk over the past few days concerning a rodeo presented by Drivate interests. In the meantime, interested citizens took a hand in matters and Houston asked that meet ing be held this afternoon at which representatives of the chamber of commerce, Klamath Buckaroo Days, the fair board, American Legion, county court. merchants' organization. Saddle club. Sheriffs Posse, and any in dividual anxious- to. see cele- Dranona nere. over - isb -eourui, were asked to attend. St ettinius Asks Release WASHINGTON, May 31 (JPt Edward R. Stettinlus Jr., has submitted his resignation as this government's representative on the United Nations security coun cil, but President Truman said today he will refuse to accept it Mr. Truman told a news con ference both he and Secretary of State Byrnes want Stettinius to remain as the United States delegate and he believed that Stettinius would agree to do so. Stettinius, the president said, sent in a letter of resignation saying he had completed the Job he had agreed to do that is, the task of helping to organize the United Nations. It was the third time Stettin ius had advised Mr. Truman that he was ready to leave govern ment service and return to pri vate life. There have been persistent re ports that Stettinius was not particularly pleased with the role of U. N. representative af ter Mr. Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes made clear that policy was being shaped in Washington rather than by the U. N. delegate in New York. Strikers Sworm Aboard Ship idk s- - .is to non-union craw men of the freighter Edmonton which berthed right is attempting to tois a missi over tne top oi in noronic belona to Canadian Steamship Line, The Noronic was on a cruise AP wlrephoto. WEATHER NEWS Mar Mai. (Ma SSI Mia. M rraallllia lait tl kaira ...l Slrtan rtar I Sala It.tt Mtrmtt 1I.IS Vmtt ?r 1S.M ; raracaall Ovaraaat wllk llfhl afcaw. ri. tilt) Number 10834 Hard Coal Shutdown Complete By Tht Associated Prats The nation's 75,000 hard coal miners went on strike today as the vanguard of the 400,000 striking soft coal miners began returning to work under an agreement reached Wednesday with the government. Mr. Truman said he still was wholeheartedly In favor of emer gency striker-dralt legislation he has asked of congress. The house approved such a strike control bill but the senate elimi nated this provision. The chief Justice declined to say whether he would approve the Case strike control Din con gress sent to his desk. This mea sure sets up permanent medi ation procedure for dealing with threatened strikes, - Union sources described the strike in the anthracite fields as 100 per cent effective. All Colliers Closed At Hazleton, Pa., a union spokesman said "There are no collieries in the anthracite field working." He said all anthracite districts had received notices from UMW headquarters in Washington "not to work until the contract Is signed and they get further notice to return to work." The strike became effec tive at 12:01 a. m. at expiration of the miners' contract with the operators. Negotiations between operat ors and UMW representatives were scheduled to be resumed today with reports that UMW President John L. Lewis would join the conferences. Both groups ot miners are memrjers oi uie AFL-UMW. - Yesterday's negotiating: session in New York ended in failure. In Washington advisers to Presi dent Truman urged him not ts seize the hard coal mines, and a high official said the advice was based on the hope tnat the anthracite industry will soon agree to terms similar to those in the government contract which ended the soft coal dispute. The principal issues in the hard coal dispute are wage in creases and a health and welfare fund, similar to the demands by the UMW for the soft coal work ers. Meanwhile, the government was to continue to operate the seized soft coal mines until the operators agree to a contract with Lewis. Chinese Troops Move On Harbin PE1PING, May 3 ! ) Gen. Tu Li-ming reported from Chang chun today that Chinese govern ment troops have gained the south bank of the Sungari river, near Taollachao, 70 miles south of Harbin. Tu. commander of the govern ment's central Manchuria force, said the communists abandoned large quantities of vehicles and heavy cannon south of the Sun gari, apparently because of in ability to remove them in their swift withdrawal north from Changchun. .4 .. i. ship, the passtngar liner Moronic Romanian Police Threaten Yanks BUCHAREST, May 28 (Delayed) IJD Three American officers and an enlisted man who Intervened in the arrest of a confidential Romanian employe of the U. S. military mission Mon day were threatened with vio lence by Romanian police, one of the Americans said today. Another confidential Roman ian employe of the U. S. military mission and a woman working in the finance office of the U. S. legation were under arrest and held incommunicado at Malmai son prison. The communist-dominated Romanian regime has re buffed efforts of U. S. officials to learn the reasons for their arrests, their condition and ways in which they can be assisted. Homage Paid To War Dead Klamath's World War H dead were honored in a simple and dignified Memorial Day cere mony yesterday morning and the white shaft on the court house lawn was banked with hundreds of floral tributes to the 175 names listed on the monu ment. Dayton E. Van Vactor, ex major in the army and Klamath Falls attorney, stood directly be low an inscription on the monu ment recalling Lincoln's words, "We hereby resolve that these dead shall not . have died in vain." when he asked an au dience of several persons ts re- aeaicate America to the princi ples for which the men named on the shaft gave their lives He stressed that "these men did not die to have communism, fascism or any other 'ism' come into America" and charged his listeners that the only way the living can serve the dead is by resolving to keep the high Ideals they fought for. After Van Vactor's talk, the commanders of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Le gion placed wreaths at the base of the shaft, and the courthouse lawn ceremony ended with a rifle volley by marine riflemen and "Taps by a marine bugler. From the courthouse the marching units went to Link ville cemetery for rites conduct ed by the Veteran of Foreign vy ars. KuKIux Issue Stirs Georgia ATLANTA, May 31 (JP) The resurgent Ku Kiux Klan, faced with a fight to retain its charter and a $700,000 bill from the tax collector, has become a primary issue in Georgia's torrid gover nor's race. Gov. Ellis Arnall, who an nounced he would seek through judicial and possibly legislative channels to "de-hood" the order, contends the Klan's chief polit ical preoccupation is the gov ernor'j race. For days the Arnall-backed candidate, James V. Carmichael, young business man and ex legislator, has been attributing Klan sympathies to his oppon ents, ex-governors uene rat madge and E. D. Rivers. The admitted aim of the Klan is retention of the traditional "white democratic primary" of Georgia, which the U. S su preme court has said must go. laimadge, who is campaign ing on a oroeram of ''white supremacy," has said that he would welcome votes from the Klan or anyone else favoring circumvention of the supreme court's order through legislative act. McNarney Demands Reich Economy Aid BERLIN. May 31 CP) Gen. Joseph T. McNarney demanded today fulfillment of the Pots dam agreement's provisions to administer Oermany as an eco nomic unit as necessary to pull the country out of an economic crisis which has grows critical in the western zones. President Reveals Stalin Rejected White House Bid WASHINGTON. May 31 (P) President Truman announced today he invited Marshal Stalin to visit Washington about 30 days ago, but Stalin declined be cause his doctors advised him against a long journey. At a news conference Mr. Tru man said that he asked Stalin to make a social visit here while the Paris conference of foreign ministers was In progress. The conference ended two weeks ago. It was his second invitation to Stalin to visit Washington, the president said. The first was made the time of the Potsdam conference last summer and re fused by Stalin for the same reasons of health. Asked whether he had any plans for seeing Stalin elsewhere Mr. Truman replied he had no immediate plans. Another newsman sought com ment on. the exchanges between Foreign Minister Molotov of Russia and Secretary Byrnes over efforts to write a European peace and how those exchanges might affect peace conference prospects. CIO-IV A And PIRC Agree On 5c Hike A 5 cents an hour Increase for some 3600 CIO-IWA pine Indus try workers of Oregon and Cali fornia has been agreed upon by negotiators for the union and the Pine Industrial Relations Com mittee, Inc., It was announced, here today. The increase, If approved by individual unions, operators and the wage stabilization board, will boost the minimum sawmill rata to $1,071, and the minimum bos factory wage to $1.05. Under the agreement, the wage boost will become retro active to April 1, 1046, and will fix wages for one year, or until April 1, 197. The negotiated wage raise maintains the remanufacturing differential within the Industry, as well as the 21 cents diueren tial between pine and fir. Basin Area Affected Affected are the operations in the Klamath Basin district coun cil of the CIO-IWA as well as the California provisional council of that organization, and members of the PIRC having contracts with the CIO-IWA. These ir elude some 23 companies in the Klamath Falls. Medford. Central Oregon and California areas, with a total employment ox around S600. Operators tn the Klamath area Include Weyerhaeuser Timber company, Ewauna Box company. Bly Logging company, Big Lakes Box company woods, Klamath Basin Pine Mills, and Chiloquin Lumber company. Major opera Uons of the region, affected in clude the Medford Corporation, woods, Brooks-Scanlon and Shev- lin-Hixon at Bend, Ochocho Lum ber company at Prineville, Mc Cloud River Lumber company of McCloud. The PIRC and the AFL nego tiators are still negotiating. The last raise obtained by tho CIO-IWA workers of the area was shortly after the first of the year. Emperor Calls On MacArthur TOKYO. May 31 VP) Em peror Hirohito, a quiet little man in a Dlain business suit, made his secretly-arranged second call oh General MacArthur at the U. S. embassy today. The two report edly talked of food, of recoa struction, and of the vast changes in - Japan since Hirohito naa come hat in hand to MacArthur'i door for the first time last Sep tember 27. Hidemasa Terasakf, of the im perial household ministry, acted as interpreter and was the only other person in the room. H told newsmen only that a variety of topics had been discussed. Other sources is the household, ministry divulged the general subjects covered in the hour and a half meeting of emperor and conqueror. The meeting came just three? days ahead of the scheduled opening of International war crimes trials in Tokyo. MacArthur declined to com ment to the press; so did his staff. Hirohito was accompanied tw the embassy by Imperial House hold Minister Yoshitami Matsu daira. There were no guards, and the two-car cavalcade left the palace so quietly that even Premier Shigero Yoshida's of fice said it was unaware of such a call. The emperor's- power ha waned so perceptibly since his September visit to MacArthur's residence that today's meeting doubtless will cause little of the repressed indignation provoked by his first call. Many Japanese at that time were visibly shocked that one so high as their .em peror would condescend to leave his palace for such a purpose. Speculation has been that the deadlock between, the foreign ministers Is so tight that, ai Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) has been insisting In. the senate only a meeting of the chiefs of state could make progress. Mr. Truman, however, de clined to comment on the peaca conference situation or the Byrnes-Molotov exchange. Mr. Truman then was asked whether he was ready to make public his correspondence with Stalin concerning a request for Russian cooperation in a world food program. Stalin turned down the president's idea, ex plaining it came too late in view of other Soviet commitments. If any such correspondence la given out, Mr. Truman said, it would be released by the (tat department. In extending the invitation to Stalin, a reporter inquired, did the president indicate what topics might be discussed at their meeting. Mr. Truman grinned. No, he said, he had asked tin Soviet leader for social visit.