Maritime A rhiters Suggest Seaman Bonus
In Th
Bay's km
Br rnANK jcnkins
THE dltchea till morning
give li un Intereatliig ex
amnio of legislation I" aeed.
The village of Skokle, Illinois,
rum lipuvlly to Iota 30 feel wlilo.
It linn a building ordinance
MTlfyliiu thut MO house iniiy be
built which dues nut have Hi
i-ul a tlioumiiiil aquare (ret of
floor apace and requiring ut the
nmn tliim space of four fnot on
rui'h irliln between Hie walla ml
I ho iroxrty llnt-a. The remit In
tint cun of 30-foot lola It thnt
hmite cun t bo more limn 22 fret
wlilo anil mimt hp aoinewhat
more thnn 45 feet deep.
The correspondent who flip
, Hid dlapalc-h aiiggetla that aueh
' a hfiiiM uiiinlrl tunic a uiliirl
bnwllrg alley but Isn't too well
adapted to modern living.
AT the prcent nuiinenl In hit
tory, Hie United Slain la
priictlciilly bunkrupl for goods.
All over Hie country are govern-
iKfitl ujart-lwinana hllllllnU Wltll
i aurplua war gooda that ciin't be
old becHime of Icgltlutlon ao
...,...ll..i...l Murl unworkable
Hint It can't be unraveled enouuh
to iMTinlt talcs.
riMUftlnnlntf an unfnrtu
unto Inlenl In America for lawa
Hint won't work.
rllOM Aaunclon. the Hlllo-
known capital of not at all
well known I'araguuy, cornea a
dtapatrh telling of a pre-duwn
barracks revolt In which five
I'urmiunyon aoldlera were killed
fii-r rifle and artillery fire had
rallied around the town for four
houra or more before the revolt
uiiM minllpd.
The uprising aecma to have
been headed By a 1-nionci vie
torlano Vera, who waa peeved
hri-aiiui of hit removal aa com'
mander of a Paraguayan cavalry
dlvlalon.
THATS what happena when
pvervhodv who can command
a FOLLOWING can take hla
neevea out on the government.
Snrh altuallona can be aC'
ciirately described a LIBERTY
gone to iceo.
nrllE new from China today la
mixed.
A I4..lnu If-lll-A llPlWAPn tllC
rival factiona haa been arranged,
with Uenerai Marnan a neip.
luil Ihn rilttniitehea are full Of
..l. .. ..... ' nl ulnlnllmta nf the
truce. It will be little less than
a miracle If the natlonallata and
Iho communUU In China get
together without a civil war.
It la an extremoly anfo gueaa
that peace and tranquility are
1 what the' common, ordinary
4 mattes of China want more than
anything else In the world, but
their hoiiea and dealrea are being
frustrated by ambition for per
sonal power on the part of
Chlna't factional leadera.
History telli ua that thli situa
tion has been prevalent In more
or leaa aggravated form ever
ince what we loosely term
"civilization" began.
tyE'VE made a lot of progress
" some directions, but no
where npar enough progress In
the direction of Intelligent and
workable human relationships.
TTALY today formally becomes
a republic.
That sounds like NEWS. May
be It Is.
It all depends.
ROME, dominant In ancient
Italy as a clty-stote, START
ED aa a republic. The republic
cli'cn.ved because the citizens let
scheming politicians pull the
wool over their eyes.
Rome then became an oli
garchy, ruled by a patrician sen
tries -which decayed In time be
7 cninij everybody who amounted
io anything became so absorbed
In grabbing personal wealth and
personal power that no time was
loft for governing the. country
decently.
There followed then ONE
, MAN despotism, wllh power
A held by all kinds of despots
" from efficient, even statesman
like, Julius and Augustus down
to insane Caligula.
SO don't pay too much attention
to the GESTURE by which
Italy has again become a re
public. Gestures mean so little.
Democracy THAT WORKS
t goes so deep and means so much.
Phony $50 Bills
Appear In U. S.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10
(IP) Counterfeit $50 bills of ex
ceptional workmanship and pos
sibly made In the Orient are ap
pearing in the United States,
William E. Merrill of the secret
. service announced today.
Four of the spurious bills have
been found In San Francisco, six
In Seattle and one In New York
Clly, Morrill snld.
"It Is the best Job of counter
felling that I have over run In
to," he addod,
No Grain Left
At The Dalles
THE DALLES, Juno 10 (I')
Grain supplies at the nort ele.
vntors liere nro exhausted, Port
SI
(lunger uolph Klnisey snld to
ny. The Inst two carloads of
-wheat wero shipped last week.
The famine relief program
within the last six months took
most of the grain, he reported.
A survey showed that most
other Wasco and Sherman coun
ty elevators also are without
wheat.
Iowa Hotel
Death Toll
Goes To 16
DUBUQUE, la., June 10 (IP)
The death toll In a tragic (Ire
'Ink lug leading nurta in tlio
Investlgutlon were tlio state fire
marshal's office, the Dubuque
county attorney and the coroner.
At the tnino time, Dr. r. a.
Leonard, coroner, countermund-
cl a prevloua decision and aaid
an iniuvat would bo held before
a three-member Jury,
The 16th falul victim of the
fire waa Mra. William Canfleld,
73, wife of the hotel owner. Her
husband was taken deud from
the ruins yesterday. She died
of third degree burnt.
Three of tlio dead remained
unidentified and 23 persons allll
were reported missing by the
Red Cross. Fifteen more were
111 the hospital.
Hatard Delays Starch
While officers held off fur
ther search for bodlet on orders
of Deputy Stuto Fire Marshal
Zach Cook, who said the walla
were "dunguroutly nigging." the
American Red Cross continued
a radio appeal for all persons
who were registered at the hotel
Saturday night to report to the
Red Cross.
The hotel register listed 123
names, many of which were
illegible because of water dam
age. The Red Cross said the
misting probably Included the
three unidentified dead.
Fire Chief Perry Kirch aald
he expected to find "a few"
more bodies In the piles of
charred debris.
The blaie waa fought 2 Hi
houra by 75 firemen and there
were aconea of horror and hero
lam. Kirch praised the work of
civilians who aided firemen and
35 policemen to bring out vic
tims.
Car Kills Man
NearTulelake
TULELAKE. June 10 Her.
bert Theodore Bird, 42, a'lubor-
er on tlin Charlc waiarip
ranch at" Tulctake, waa fatally
injured at 11:05 last night when
he was struck by a car driven
by Gus Tllch of Tulelake about
a mile and a halt norm oi tuie-
lake, California.
California stale pollco inves
tigating the accident said that
llird came ud on the muni high'
way from the atdo of the roud,
crossed to the center and then
started back when he was hit
Police noted the odor of alcohol
on him.
He was .rushed to Hillside
hosultal by Merchant Police am-
bulance where his Injuries were
aald to Include extensive skull
fracture and a brain injury. He
died at 2:18 a. m. and the body
was taken to Ward's Funeral
home pending location of
friends or relatives.
The Impact of the crash
knocked Bird about 30 feet, of
ficers said, and damaged the
front end of Tilch's auto. He
stopped as soon as Bird was
hit and, after Investigation, was
not held.
Tllch, a mechanic at Balslg.
er s gurago In Tulelake, was
driving home from a fishing
trip to Diamond lake. In the
car with him wero Lylo Sheror
and Harold Clinton of Tulelake
and Clinton's father from Reno.
Very little is known about
Bird In Tulelake other than his
namo and birthdate, Juno 15,
11104. He fans been in Tulelake
only a short time and Saturday
night, June l, all his personal
effects were stolen from his
bunk at the Waldrlp ranch.
His mother who resides at
routo 1 box 46, Rolla, Mo., has
Dcen notuieo.
at the Canfleld hotel went to a'-'W X v. "! -'7iT f' S w ' t, T7 - .
10 today aa a three-pronged 1 KK ' tf . ', ' ' ' ' r . :W 'I'" ' --'," " ! .";''
vcatlgallon waa atarlod to d' 57iK-,v." t V 1KtZt' A ' rt'
mine the cause of the , siPjp l2Ntt.Js'i'- mftfiiltf tlr' 'A 't " ' "
which awept through the A . iZWSitwl iTrtHI a m. '
room atructur. ahortly aflJ' I W i&?r5mlMi
midnight yesterday. , v t-f fetAj'Jfll tTJ ai A ' li
Communist Blows Charged
As China Negotiates Peace
NANKING, June 10 P) U. S.
General Marshall and commu
nist Gen. Chou En-lal today
discussed conditions for perma
nent peace In China while the
government made new charges
that Red troops violated the
current trace by attacking sev
eral cities.
Chou reported on weekend
discussions ho held with party
leaders at Yenan headquarters.
Ycnan decisions and Chou's con
versation with Marshall were
secret, as have bcon all recent
negotiations.
The government controlled
Central News agency charged
that 200 national officers and
men were killed or wounded as
12 communist brigades assault
ed government positions at Lata
and Kiu railway stations, cast
of Yungkl,
Yu Fel-peng, mlnlster of com
munications, also visited Mar
shall's headquarters to discuss
restoration of communications,
one of the government's three
prerequisites to a pcaco treaty.
There was no Indication when
Marshall would confer again
with Chiang Kai-shek, who per
sonally is negotiating for the
government,
(Associated Press correspon
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Klamath Sheriff's Posse
Places Fifth At Portland
By JOY BIGGS
Despite obstacles and misad
ventures, Capt. E. P. "Hat
Ivory guided the Klamath
County Sheriff fosse to nun
place In precision riding, with a
military drill, In the 1048 Rose
Festival's Thursday night ahow
at Multnomah atadium, Port
land. The Klamath cavalry drill,
presented second In contest
with nine oilier po.mc rxniui
Hons from as many Oregon
counties, was the only one of
Hi kind In the entire show, the
other posses all following some
whnt different patterns. Sheriff
Lloyd Low led the Klamath
county posse.
Mlxliup dogged me group oi
30 men riding for Klnmoth
county from the stnrt, but was
met Willi such a mood of non
chalance that the - grandstand
was led to believe it was a
"gag" when one rider was dis
mounted and another "frozen"
in Hie arena.
Trouble started for the group
when Keith Mooif was crowded
against the barn and suffered a
cracked rib while loading his
palomino Tuesday night for the
festival. He received medical
attention upon arriving in
Portland and with several
lengths of tape across his chest
rode In his place as corporal of
Board Studies
Barracks Use
The proposed use of the
Klamath Marine Bnrracks as an
extension center of the state
board of higher education was
under discussion at the board
meeting in Portland this after
noon, with no definite action re
ported at mid-afternoon.
Indications were, however,
that a question of staffing the
proposed institution was prov
ing a stumbling block in the
Portland discussions. There was
some contention that the board
couldn't find teachers for the
schools already operating, and
would have too few instructors
to handle a new set-up at Klam
ath Falls.
This development threw a
pessimistic slant on the Bar
racks plan, which was fostered
at the start by Gov. Earl Snell
and Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall,
former Barracks' mcdicnl chief.
dent Tom Masterson radioed
from Pciping that the govern
ment's Central News agency
charged the communists at
tacked four Manchurinn cities
four hours after Chiang's cease
fire order to government troops
became effective Friday.
(Masterson said it was likely'
the red troops were without
radios and were not Informed of
the truce, news of which was
broadcast a day in advance.
(The government agency's re
port, from Chnngcluin, tho Man
churian capital, snld the com
munists attacked Tnolnichao, 70
miles to the north; Lata, east
of Yungkl; Hushuhsein and Hal
ahai. It described tho Lata of:
fenslvo as "largo scale."
(Masterson, in another dis
patch, sold a government spokes
man, told of "heavy casualties"
In battling to retain the Impor
tant Shantung province rail city
of Tohslcn, 70 miles north of
Tslnnn, provincial capital. The
spokesman said 20,000 Chinese
communists attacked the city at
nightfall.
(Fall of the clly was Immi
nent, the spokesman added. He
reported that a truce team at
tempting to halt tho fighting
could not get outside the city
limits because of heavy firing.)
1
Swimmers Swarm to KUHS
thronot which lintd up at Klamath Union high school this morn
story on page e.
squad four in the show and pa
rade, and stood his watch with
Hie others.
Two Mounts Left Behind
Through some delay in get
Ing two horses to the Klamath
county fairgrounds in time for
loading, these horses were left
behind. Two substitute mounts
had to be rented in Portland,
but with a strenuous practice
drill Wednesday afternoon, they
shaped up well in the show.
En route, one of the three
trucks of horses was hit by an
oil truck, delaying It by several
hours. Rain descended in tor-
(Caatlnaat aa rasa t, Calarna SI
Rome Decrees
New Republic
ROME, June 10 (VP) Italy
formally became a republic late
today.
In brief ceremonies In Monte-
cltorio palace's "Hall of the
Wolf," Chief Justice Giuseppe
Pagano announced that the court
of cassation, highest tribunal in
Italy, had officially determined
that the people had voted out
the House of Savoy monarchy in
the plebiscite last week.
Meanwhile, with royalists
pressing last minute demands
that Hie court examine their
claims of fraud in the plebiscite
before making any announce
ment, the newspaper "Espresso"
quoted an associate Justice as
saying the court, "after careful
consideration," had decided it
was not competent to pass upon
Hie monarchists contention that
an absolute majority of all bal
lots cast both valid and invalid
was required for a republican
victory.
In any case court function
aries expressed belief that the
number of ballots invalidated
for Irregularities would be far
below the republican majority of
2,011,000 which the ministry of
interior announced last week.
Truman Cancels
Trip To Manila
WASHINGTON, June 10 (IP)
President Truman today aban
doned hopes of visiting Manila
July 4 for the inauguration of
Philippine independence.
White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said Mr. Tru
man had been forced to cancel
plans to visit the islands be
cause, with congress likely to be
in session through the middle
of July, it will be impossible
for him to get away.
The president, Ross said, has
designated Secretary of Interior
J. A. Krug to represent him at
the inauguration as his persona)
representative.
Veteran Minister
Dies In Portland
PORTLAND, June 10 OP)
Dr. Walton Skipworth, 83, who
served 51 years In the Methodist
ministry before retiring, died at
his home here yesterday
His first pastorate was at
Springfield, and served later in
Portland, Bend and Richmond.
Ho was a former trustee of Wil
lamette university. In 1905 he
introduced a resolution at the
Oregon Methodist conference
which resulted In removal of
the body of Jason Lee, the mis
sionary, from Canada to Salem.
Gen. Emmons Moved
From "Alaskan Post
WASHINGTON, June 10 (IP)
The war department said today
that Lt. Gen. Delos Emmons has
received a "routine" transfer
from command of the Alaska de
partment. It added that it had
no announcement yet as to his
new assignment ai a successor,
.
'Fence' Held
Crown Jewels
CHICAGO. June 10 P The
Hessian crown Jewels, prize of
the "greatest jewel robbery' of
modern times," were in the
hands of a "fence" when Col.
Jack W. Durant and Wac Capt
Kathleen B. Durant were seized,
the army said today.
Major John D. Evans of Lin
coln, Neb., sixth service com
mand provost marshal, related
at a news conference that Col.
Durant had no idea of where
the jewels were when he was
seized by military police In the
LaSalle hotel last weex.
On Friday the colonel asked
for permission to make a tele
Dhone call. Evans said the
colonel talked to the "fence,'
an underworld name for dealer
in stolen goods, and was told to
wait for another telephone cau.
One hour later, Evans con
tinued. Durant received a call
at a restaurant and was in
formed the jewels had been hid
den In a locker in the Illinois
Central railroad station. The
caller gave Durant instructions
on where to find the Key.
. Durant and the military escort
nicked up the key and wnt to
the station where the precious
loot was recovered. Mat. Evans
did not make known where the
key was obtained.
Evans said Col. Durant made
his call to the "fence" at 7:30
p. m. and inai me can dbck
came at o:ju d. m. ine an
nouncement of the jewel theft
had appeared in the afternoon
papers Friday and the "fence"
knew the stuff was excepUon-
ally "hot," Evans said.
Hotel Sold
For $36,000
Announcement of the sale of
the Lake, hotel to Mrs. Athel
Smith, of Eugene, for $36,000
was made today by Chllcote and
Smith, who handled the sale.
Mrs. Smith, who comes to
Klamath from Eugene, pur
chased the property from Mrs.
Ruth Kerns Ray, former owner.
Present plans, according to Mrs.
Smith, are to continue use of the
building as a hotel for the pres
ent, but to turn lt into a teen
age center as soon as materials
are available.
Plans for the youth center
will call for an almost complete
remodeling of the building, with
recreation facilities on the first
floor and offices on the second.
liAt the present time the short
age of building materials win
hold up any such plan, she said.
Baseball Scores
American Lttgut
R. H. E.
Cleveland 3 7 1
Boston 6 12 0
Gromck, Klicnman (6), Center
(7) and Lollar; Butland, Johnson
(8) and H. Wagner.
R. H. E.
Detroit H 12 1
New York 3 5 2
Trucks and Tebbetts; Gettel,
Gumpert (3), Wight (6), Byrne
(8) and Robinson.
National League
' R HE-
Philadelphia 8 1
Chlcogo 8 13 2
Milnar, Mauney (1), Ripple (8),
Karl (9), Raffensberger (9),
Schanx (9) and Semlnlck;
Borowy, Meers (9), Blthorn (9)
and McCullough. -
R. H. E.
Boston 10 13 1
Pittsburgh 5 9 4
Wright, Pscdel (8) and Masl;
Roe, Albosta (6), Gables (8) and
Salkcld.
R. ' H, E.
New York 5 11 1
Cincinnati-. .7 13-0
Span Open
Tomorrow
On 0.C.&E.
Logging trains will roll on
the O. C. and E. again tomor
row, according to SP officials.
The O. C. & E. - Altamont
span, wrecked in last week's
logging train mishap, is under
going repairs at the present
time, and a temporary roadbed
will be in operation sometime
tomorrow permitting use of the
bridge.
W. W, Simmons, steel bridge
foreman for the SP, is on the !
spot with a four man crew from 1
the Sacramento Division, and
reports that work Is progres-:
sing satisfactorily. Some 25 1
men from Hie Klamath area are
also working on the repairs.
A pile driver, brought ud by
special train from the bay area,
is driving a total of 38 pilings
under the bridge for additional
support while repairs are un
derway. The pilings, 30 feet in
length, are being driven down
to the sandstone strata under
the canal, a distance of about
14 to 15 feet. Crews have been
working two shifts on the
Bridge to get it open as soon as
possible.
Beams Removed
In the course .of repairs it
was necessary to remove the
top beams of the span to allow
the pile driver to work, and
these will have to be re-riveted.
Five of the vertical posts were
so badly damaged that they
will have to be replaced. These
five beams will be made some
where in the bay area and ship
ped to Klamath for installa
tion. No date has as yet been
named as to when the bridge
will reach final completion, but
it will depend in a large meas
ure on the SDeed with uhih
the out of town steel work can
oe accomplished. . , .
Grand Jurors
Begin Session
The Klamath county grand
jury went into session this
morning and immediately began
calling witnesses for criminal
cases which have come up since
the jury last met in December.
The jury sessions in the court
house are secret until the final
report is ready but it was be
lieved that Judge David R. Van
denberg gave only routine in
structions to the jury and a
quiet session is the expectation.
Witnesses called for today in
cluded those in the Tex Ains
worth shooting-stabbing case in
which Ainsworth survived a
duel with Glen Harris three
weeks ago. Ainsworth, who was
shot five times in the fight, is
recovering but is still in the
Klamath Valley hospital. Three
of the five .22-caliber bullets
have been removed from his
abdomen.
Another case for which wit
nesses were called today was
the charges of rape placed
against Robert Lloyd Farris and
Harold Richard Gartin, who are
accused of raping a 14-year-old
Umatilla Indian girl.
The grand jury may also be
called upon to investigate con
ditions of the county and city
jails and workings of the juve
nile office.
Tale Of U.S.-Nazi
Opens Trial
BELGRADE, June 10 (VP)
Marshal Tito's Yugoslav govern
ment charged at the opening of
Gen. Draja Mihailovic s treason
trial today that American of
ficers sat in on a conference be
tween the former Chetnik leader
and the German commander in
Yugoslavia.
The government Indictment
was read at the opening of the
trial of the man who was left
behind by former King Peter's
government for the announced
purpose of waging underground
war against Hie Germans. It
also charged that Mihailovic was
sent word by British officers in
Cairo to "liquidate communists
as soon as possible." -
The voluminous bill of par
ticulars, with detailed charges
of collaboration and war crimes
against Mihailovic, said Hie Brit
ish sent tho instructions to the
King Peter's supposed resistance
leader in the spring of 1944 by
two officers who attended the
king's marriage to Princess
Alexandria of Greece.
In the summer of 1944, the
indictment continued, "the Am
erican Colonel McDowell, chief
of the American military mis
sion to Mihailovic's headquart
ers, arrived at the airfield at
Pranjlna. As soon as he met
Mihailovic he told him 'we
Americans are not interested in
your fight with Germany. They
must be put out of Yugoslavia
by action of the allies. It is up
WEATHER NEWS
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Seized
Terundori Aral. 26, with Jap
aneta guard aittr being seised
in alleged plot on life of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. Aral alleg
edly said ha had joined com
munist party to make assassina
tion attempt appear as rtd plot.
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Arabs Prepare
For Mufti Aid
JERUSALEM, June 10 UP)
Arabs decorated most of the
narrow streets of the old city
of Jerusalem today with flags,
flowers and olive branches on
hearing unconfirmed reports
that the grand mufti of Jeru
salem had arrived at Damascus
to help Arab resistance against
Jewish immigration.
The Moslem leader was exiled
in 1937 for anti-British activi
ties.
- His pictures appeared every
where in Jerusalem, surrounded
by wreaths of olive leaves.
Many streets In the Arab quar
ter, of the new city also were
decorated.
"Guides" and beggars all were
saying with conviction that we
know the mufti is in Damascus
and he will be coming to Jeru
salem in a few days." The Arab
league council currently is meet
ing in extraordinary session in
Damascus, capital of Syria.
Despite the belief of the Arabs
in Hie street, Jamal El Husseini,
nephew of the mufti, reported
by telephone to the secretary
general of the Arab higher com
mittee that he was unable to
confirm the news of the mufti's
arrival.
China And India
Demand Shipping
SEATTLE, June 10 (JP)
China and India today demand
ed a fair share of the world's
shipping tonnage, to permit them
to compete in world trade, when
spokesmen addressed a plenary
session of the international labor
organization's maritime confer
ence here.
Mansukhlal Atmaram Master,
secretary of the Indian National
Shipowners' association, said
Great Britain and the United
States must listen ot China and
Indian and other Far Eastern
countries and must heed the ILO
principle that no nation can
exercise a shipping monopoly
without world disaster.
Parley
Of Mihailovic
to you to remain among the
people . . . America is helping
exclusively you and your move
ment in Yugoslavia.
In August, 1944, the indict
ment said. McDowell "took part"
in a meeting at the village of
Focsi between Mihailovic and
the chief of the administrative
staff of the German military
commander ' in berbia, ieu'
bacher. McDowell also partici
pated in a latter meeting in Sep
tember between Mihailovic and
Neubacher's deputy, Sterker,
near the village of Panjina, it
was charged.
The indictment declared that
in 1943 the axis launched its
fourth major offensive against
Tito's partisans, Mihailovic per
sonally and through Maj. Ostojic
ordered all his Chetnik units to
take part in the operations
"aimed at destruction of the
forces of national liberation
(Tito s partisans).
''At that time the British col
onel, Bailey, who was attached
to Mihailovic s supreme 'com'
mand and who was fully ac
quainted with the plan and de
velopment of operations carried
out by Mihailovic, said that the
allies were preparing an Invasion
for the spring of 1943 on the
Adriatic coast and that it was
necessary to liquidate the com'
munists in order to have a clear
hinterland which would enable
his forces to take up a position
unhindered on the Dalmatian
coast.
Congress
May Act
In Crisis
WASHINGTON, June 10 (At
Federal conciliators In the marU
time strike threat today sug.
gested a cash bonus system for
paying for hours worked over
fixed limit within the present
56-hour week for seamen.
The new government plan
was offered In a negotiating seta
sion between representatives of
east coast ship operators and
the CIO National Maritime un.
ion, biggest organization In the
seven unions affiliated with tht
committee for maritime unity.
The CMU has called a nation
wide merchant marine strut
for midnight Friday.
The government move cam
after a house labor subcommit
tee, with an eye to the dead
locked labor department nego
tiations, decided to go ahead
with hearings tomorrow in an
effort to work out some con
gresslonal solution to the crisis,'
Ktllty Promises Action
Chairman Augustine B. KeU
ley (D-Pa.) of the tub-commit,
tee on labor-management, told
reporter that his group had held,
off hearings hoping the labor de,
partment could work out a set.
tlement.
"We had hope for a settler
ment by tomorrow but now that
it looks like there will be nothr
ing coming out of the labor de.
partment negotiations we feel
that we should get busy right
away," Kelley said. -
'The deadline for the itrlkt
is getting right on us."
Seven unions affiliated with
the ClO-dominated committee"
for maritime unity (CMU) have
set a strike date for midnight
Friday in behalf of their de
mands, principally for a reduc
tion in the present 56-hour-work
week. "
Prince Chosen
King Of Siam I
BANGKOK, June 10 WH
Prince Phumiophon Aduldet, 18;'
was named king of Siam today
while this nation mourned the!
death of. his brother, 20-year-old
King Ananda Mahldol, who was
found in the royal palace y ester'
day with a bullet wound between;
the eyes. --
The new king, who will be
come "the ruler of more ' than
200,000 square miles and 18,000,
000 subjects, was unanimously
selected by an extraordinary
session of the legislature, meet
ins 12 hours after his brother'!
death.
The Siamese police director
general told the legislature that
Ananda's death was accidental. -
Phumiophon Aduldet, the al
most constant compaion of his
older brother, was born in Bos
ton, Mass., while his father, tho
late Prince Mahidol of Songkhla,
was studying at Harvard.
Phumiophon Aduldet and Anan
da attended school together in
Switzerland.
The young ruler had been 111
for two days and arose at 6 a. m.
yesterday to take some medicine.
Nothing was known of his ac
tions after that time, official
sources said, and his body was
discovered several hours later in .
the bedroom of the Barampinian
palace by a servant.
Ananda was a fancier of fire
arms and often oracticed firmer
in Hie palace grounds. :
Revolt Fails
In Paraguay -:
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Jun
10 (IP) A p re-dawn barracks re
volt in which five Paraauavan
soldiers were killed Sunday ap-
peared quelled today after Pres
ident Gen. Higinio Morinso "re-
assumed" control of the army and
(our high cavalry officers fled
to the Brazilian embassy. '.
Rifle and artillery fire rattled
around the suburban Camp
Grande barracks for four hours
to 6 a. m. Sunday and truck
loads of soldiers sped through
the streets. Asuncion, mostly un
aware of the uprising except for .
the gunplay, was quiet for ths
rest of the day and transporta
tion and entertainment facilities
operated normally. It was the
second attempted revolt this
year.
Ihe noisy but futile revolt ap
peared to have been headed by
Col, Victoriano Benitez Vera,
who was angry because of his
removal as commander of the
first cavalry division, while he
was in Buenos Aires on a spe
cial diplomatic errand. Return,
ing, Benitez Vera went to divi
sional headquarters where he
apparently gained sympathy ot
other officers and raised the re
bellion. Moringo took personal com
mand of the army from his com.
mander in-chief since March 26,
Gen. Vlncente Machuca, who
was reported not involved in
the barracks incident.. The presi
dent ordered all troops in the
capital to surround the barracks
and the first cavalry division
soon submitted. Artillery was
hauled up from Camp Paraguarl.
The ministry of interior is
sued a communique after the
firing ceased saying there had
been a "lamentable Incident
among some units of the first
cavalry division over internal
questions."