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ma Lr Lra um Ik? li Sharp Cost Rise Looms On Freight WASHINGTON, June 22 (II The nation's freight rule bill will nweivo iliurply upward next month, but OI'A official wllhlipltl Judgement today nil to thn effect on living and busi ness conti. Increase In InteMlnle frolghl rate nl churgc which will brlnii mil and water currier about CIDO.UUO.OOO innro In gro revenue on an annual basis were authorized InlB yen- tprdny by the Interatuto com merce commission, And tlll lurger boost are In prospect. The coiiimllon an nounced that 0 full ImHrltiK will be held "promptly" on the carriers-petition for 29 percent rtate hike to meet what they mlled "critical" flnuncliil con- "llon- .... . The new freight rate, effec tive July I on three duy' ad viince notice, will continue un til the commlwlon reaches dm clalon on the proponed 25 per cent Increase. No OPA Comment The OPA declined to peeu Lite Immediately on whnt Im pact the Increase would have on the stabilization program. Di rector Paul Porter mild he could not forocaiit before Monday what effect, if any, the boost will have on the price of good hauled by rail and water. The increase fall Into four categories: 1. A general six percent In crease with exception for cer tain bade commodities 2. An additional five percent hike for eastern railroad to equalize their earning with nlher carrier. 3. A three percent boost on agricultural product, livenlock and It product, and low.grado .product or mine, aticn a ann cravel. broken rock and slag Theiw aro the basic commodltle excepted from the general six percent Increase. 4. Specific increase for an thracite, bituminous coal, lignite and Iron ore. Passenger rate are not af fected. However, at the forth coming hearing the commission will consider the carriers' re quest to make permanent the 10 percent passenger , fare in crease authorized In January, 1942. This Is scheduled to ex pire six months after the legal , termination of the war. - Referring to the railroads' contention that "their flnnnclnl condition ha become critical," the commission said "some In crease In Ihclr freight rate and charges are Justified a Just and reasonable and a necessary for carrying out the purpose of the national transportation policy declared by congress." New Dilemma Faces Truman WASHINGTON, Juno 22 (!) Congress thrust a new labor dilemma upon President Tru man today in the form of the so-called Hobbs "antl-racketcer-Ing" bill, long the target of vio lent union criticism. Passage came on a voice vote. The measure, which ha been bidding annually for passage since 1042, surprised everyone by whipping through tho sen ate, suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday In the exact form al ready approved by the house. Capitol Hill Immediately j buzzed with (peculation wheth er Mr. Truman might veto It. In tho Juno 1 1 Case bill veto, Mr, Truman said that whllo he was "In full accord with the ob i Jectlves," congress should ex it pressly provide that tho mcas lire "doc not make It a felony to strike and picket peacefully and to . take other legitimate and peaceful concerted action." A it went to the president, the H o b b a measure provided maximum penalties of 20 year Imprisonment and $10,000 fine or both for persons who vlo lato its provision making wrongful obstruction of Inter state commerce a felony. Sponsors snld its provision were designed to prevent union member and other from halt ing trucks carrying produce to market and forcing farmer' drivers to pay a union monv ' bers' wage before they could proceed to their destination Cleaver-Armed Chinese Battle Police Raiders VANCOUVER, B. C. June 22 (W) Chinese armed with meat cleavers fought city, federal and Royal Canadian Mounted pollco officers yesterday In a storybook raid on Market alley climaxed by the discovery and capture of a fabulous pile of loot. . Inspector M. F, Anthony, head the RCMP criminal Investigation bureau, said tho raid capped an Investigation Into the operation . of a gang of amugglcrs, lottery 1 operators and narcotics dealers. J He snld five Chlneso were ar rested and a sixth, believed the "key" man, was thought to be in the United States. 1 Sixteen officers swooped down the alley, a dingy section of PrUclBrVircriTlii i-aj. KLAMAt"' " -t-K .lEQOIf , SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1S4 (Telephone CUD Number 10B53 . . o- , , . Hailstorms Lash Klamath More Food Predicted By Bowles WASHINGTON, June 22 M'j Economic Stabilizer Chester liowlc predicted today there will be more meal available for a while after July I and that tho bread hortaKo will be "eased conaldorably" In 30 days. Howies, In hi weekly radio address (AUC network), sold Unit in view of pending legisla tion to remove price ceilings on meat June 30. you can't blame meat shipper for holding up their cattle and hogs right now." No mutter what happens, Howies nilclrd, "more meat is going to flow Into the stores after July 1." Rut the bigger supply won't lust, Dowlcs predicted. He said that because of the tight grain situation which, mean less feed for livestock meat sup plies will begin to decline again by "about December or maybe as early as November." Outlook For Year Bowles said the outlook Is for about 139 to 140 pounds of meat a ptrion thl year, a against demand for about 165 and tho prewar average of 125 pound. On the bread shortage, Howies said "the best Informa tion I have Is that it will be eased considerably in 30 days. The winter wheat harvest is nnw In full swing . . and pros pect ore good for an excellent crop. If we get it, I look for a lot more wheat for our flour mill and more flour for out baker." Bowles made these predic tions on supplies of other foods: Poultry 'The outlook Is good for generous supplies through July and August at least. Later on, if meet supplies get tighter, we may find that the number of people buying poultry will put a heavy drain on poultry supplies." Eggs "Should be plentiful until next winter, at least, with supplies sufficient to give every one In the country an egg a day." Butter "Despite the govern ment's new program to encour age production, butter output at best will still be only about 60 per cent of what it wa before the war." OPA Extension Still In Debate WASHINGTON, June 22 (IP) Senate-house conferees on the OPA extension bill today an nounced agreement on all but four major points. Remaining to be settled are these questions: , The length of the extension. Tho house voted nine months, tho senate a full year. The senate amendment spe cifically lifting price controls on meat, poultry, dairy products, tobacco and petroleum products at the end of this month. Creation of a decontrol board. The size and duration of food subsidies. Tho conferees will moot again at 5 p. m (PST) Monday In an effort to clear up the points of difference and send the legis lation on to the house, then the senate, for ilnal approval. The price control law will ex pire at midnight, June 30 a week from tomorrow unless extension action Is taken be fore then, Vancouver's Chinatown, finally overpowering lour men armed with meat cleavers who were guarding a doorway. No death or Injuries were reported. Beyond the doorway the offi cer found and seized $47,000 In Canadian currency, $1200 In United States gold coins, several pounds of narcotics, a supply of lottery ticKcts ana oriental jew elry jado and dinmonds of un estimated value. They also took charge of a half-ton safe, which Inspector Anthony said would not be opened until the man still at largo Is captured. He snld tho ring's operations extended Into the United States, across Canada, and to China. Flash Flood Forms Ford In Main Street Underpass! 7T 8 tl Indian Leader Drops Dispute NEW DELHI, June 22 P) Jawal arlal Nehru, president elect of the congress party, tem porarily - dropped his dispute, with Kashmir authorities' today. The controversy had resulted In widespread strikes and disturb ances and the death of two per sons. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, congress - party president, re ceived a telegram irom the spir ited chlcftain-clect saying he was accepting Azad's instruc tions to drop the dispute and re turn to Delhi, "on the under standing that I come back to Kashmir." Nehru was arrested Thursday In the princely state of Kashmir when ho attempted to Intervene In agitation by tho Kashmir na tional conference against Ma harajah Sir Hari Singh, wealthy Hindu ruler of tho overwhelm ingly Moslem state. Sheik Ab dullah, leader of the movement agitating for abdication of the maharajah, has been accused of sedition, and strikes and dem onstrations occurred as a result of his arrest. Nehru was arrest ed when he defied a district magistrate's order banning him from the state. Shortly afterward press dis patches said Nehru had left for the Punjab on his way to Delhi, and Azad announced that the congress party' working com mittee, stalled by Nehru's ab sence, would conclude its delib erations on Britain's plans for an interim . government tomor row. "The final resolution will be adopted tomorrow," he said. Viceroy Wavoll had asked for a reply by Juno 23 to British plans for- an interim1 govern ment to rule until Indian inde pendence con be put Into effect. New Car Outlook Still Grim Here The outlook for new cars In Klnmath Falls Is about as gloomy as the weather. Dealers In town report that delivery of new cars is very slow, and that almost no new models have been sent In for tho past several weeks. Waiting lists are long, and Klamathitcs are having to wait their turn for the new cars ex cept in the Instance where fail ure to get a car works a defi nite hardship. Hope is still held by most dealers that the situation will Improve within a month, and that new cars will be delivered to dealers within a six-week to two-month period. Lad Who Can't Swim Saves Tiny Brother BEND, Ore., Juno 22 (P) Ten-year-old Linus Dahlheim, who towed his little brother ashore from the Deschutes river Thursday, was still puzzled over his feat today. You see, ho can't swim. "I'm aure I enn't," he Insisted. "I never could." He lumped Into deep water after three-year-old Arthur tum bled from the bank, and some how managed to rescue him.. ; t QdL p . Joi Just purer in second and driver did to ford the. foot-deep derpass on Main street during th ii.,.:,, ,.' r -'-fw w 4hj M's "Sir-ii 3 ;.r A ,l carelul driver like th on in the lower picture got stranded in mid-stream and had to wait until a Samaritan cam along to give them a shove. Nisei Regiment Homeward Bound ROME, Juno 22 () The famed 422nd infantry regiment, composed of Japanese-American troops, sailed from Leghorn to day aboard the Wilson Victory, bound for Camp Kilmer, N. J., and deactivation. The Nisei regiment as it was known is one of the most dec orated units in the United States army, Its 4000 volunteers setting one of the war's most impressive combat records in four cam paigns In Italy and France. ; Dallas Blast Probe Starts DALLAS. Tex., June 22 m Firemen and wreck experts dug today in the rubble-flllcd base- mcnt of the swank Baker hotel with possibility they may un cover more victims of the ter rific explosion wnich yesterday took a known toll of seven dead and 41 Injured. Explosion Expert George M. Klutz of the United States bur eau of mines said after a sur vey: ... "We can't tell a thing about the cause yet. It takes time the cause may never be confirmed." Fire Chief C. N. Penn called In Kintz and E. L. Mitchell of. San Antonio, representative of the national board of fire under writers, to assist in an exhaus tive Investigation. , The explosion was the third major hotel disaster in the na tion in 16 days. First and worst was the flash firo that swept Chicago's Hotel LaSallo early the morning of June S, claiming 60 lives and in juring more than 200. Four days later another early morning fire killed 17 persons in the Canfleld hotel, Dubuque, Iowa. .... :,..; m do i i i ttatsl 3 - V take It easy. That's what careful stream which formed in th un storm early last night. Not-io Trieste Area Troops Moved LONDON, June 22 0P) A spokesman for the British for eign office acknowledged today that there have befit some pre cautionary troop movements, in the area of Trieste occupied by British and American troops. But he -said Yugoslav reports that the demarcation line would be moved five miles eastward were "nonsense." The Yugoslav press said yes terday American and British concentrations were taking place near the demarcation line in disputed Venezia Giulia, that two. British armored divisions were on th& move and that ex tensive military preparations were taking place. The spokesman said' Britain denied ' categorically that any unctniKs or ustachl were among the British-American units in American uniform. Britain, he continued "very much resented" the assertions of the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug that civil police in Trieste were linked with "fas cist elements." The police, he said, had put forth a very credit able performance "especially in view of the provocations put forth by Slovane groups in Yugoslavia." Because of general activities of a provocative nature, he con tinued, it was considered advis able to maintain military forces capable of dealing with any contingency. Horseshoe Pischer Entertains Truman WASHINGTON, June 22 (P) Jimmy Risk, trick horseshoe pitcher, threw 15 straight ring ers and performed other feats on the White House horseshoe court today for edification of President Truman and a group of admirals,' ' f - f 1 1 -. V' -' "''kv'!. : Ti " WEATHER NEWS Jam tf, Ma. aaa III SI Mia. Praalallatlaa lia ti aaara llraam raar ......SI . II.J4 Kamal II.W I.Ml rar Heavy Rains Bring City Flash Flood Br HALE SCAHBROUCH Yesterday' hailstorm and ac companying eieciricai aispiay centered north of town around the Wocu-8hippington-Lake-hore area but lapped over into the city limits enough to cause a flash flood which was more than the city' storm sewer sys tem could handle at once and did considerable damage to gar. den and voung crops. Precipitation figures at the airport showed only .01 inch of rain but while the storm was soine on in and north of town skies were clear at the airport and down Merrill way a dust storm was blowing. Just north oi town uopcos guage and the one kept by the reclamation bureau showed half-an-inch of rain In little more than an hour, beginning about 5:45 p. m., and all reports indicate more than that further north where most of the dam. age was caused. At wocus, f eiican uity, snip Dinston and in the Lakeshore area from two to four inches of hail covered the ground at the climax of tne storm and old timers said that it was the hard est hailstorm they had ever seen in Oregon. yesterday, incidentally, was the official first day of summer, tuanuaaea aa rasa I. wiana i Expert Chosen For Food Post- WASHINGTON. June 22 (IP) The government's leading expert on international food problems. Dr. D. A. FitzGerald, stepped out of his agriculture department job today to direct a 20-nation campaign against famine. The new international emerg ency food council picked Fitz Gerald late yesterday as its sec retary general. He will be in charge of efforts to round up more food in lands of plenty and divide it fairly among the world's hungry peoples. Operating chiefly through a nine-nation central committee, the council will recommend to its members plans for meeting the world food crisis during the next 18 months. Then it is up to the members to cooperate as best they can. L. A. H. Peters, Netherlands delegate on the council, was picked to preside over its meet ings as chairman. J. Charles Van Essche of Belgium will serve as vice chairman. Lean and grey at 43, Fitz Gerald knows perhaps more than anyone in the government about actual conditions in lands that need help and in many of those which can supply it. He was the only federal official to accompany former President Hoover on his recently-concluded food survey of 38 nations in Europe, Asia and Latin America. FitzGerald, who was born on a wheat farm near Grenfell, Sas katchewan, Canada, now is an American citizen. He has been moving up in the agriculture de partment for.il years. First Bikini Atom Bomb To Flash Heat Ten Thousand Times Greater Than Sun By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Writer ABOARD USS APPALACH IAN, EN ROUTE TO BIKINI, June 22 (P) The atomic bomb over Bikini atoll less than two weeks hence ' will flash with light and searing heat equal to 10,000 suns rolled into one. And this first test will be classified as a laboratory rather than a naval war experiment. These facts were brought out in the first conference aboard the. Appalachian en route from Honolulu ' with more than 150 writers and broadcasters. Naval authorities, it was ex plained, last fall had to choose between three possible kinds of atomic tests. No one test would suffice for them all. The three were: 1. Laboratory type to meas ure the bomb itself as a bomb by exploding the missle high in the air. 2. Naval harbor type of at tack at or under the surface of the sea. 3. To measure the bomb against ship design by deep wa ter explosion. The first type was selected for July 1. The harbor type test is . set for July 20 with the Planners Seek Pageant Title The search Is on for a suitable name for the Klamath centennial being held here In August. Chair man Geneva Duncan I asking everyone In the basin to con tribute short name for consid eration. The name, when chosen, will act as a trademark to be used on banners, car stickers, the centennial emblem, and all advertising connected with the pageant. the name should In some way pertain to the opening of the South Emigrant road in 1846 which was followed by develop ment of thl community. Ex ample of the names being sub mitted I "From Trail to Rail." Contributions should be left at the chamber of commerce before Tuesday, June 25. Western Air Reopens Case LOS ANGELES. June 22 tPi Western Air Lines announced that it was petitioning the civil aeronautics board in Washing- ion, y,., today for reversal of a recent decision denvins the airline permission to operate trunk air service between San Francisco and the Pacific north west. . Western Air said its petition declared that the CAB decision of last May 22 left United Air Line as the only trunk-line op erator serving the , coastwide area peiween Seattle, Tacoma, t-oniana ana oan rrancisco. Hugh Darlinc. attorney for Western Air, said the airline advanced the following reasons in asking for a reversal: "Recent . economic develop ments on the west coast re quire that the benefits of com petition should be afforded to the important air route between San Francisco and Seattle. "The CAB refused to approve service by Western Air in the Pacific northwest, partly be cause the board placed undue emphasis on United Air Line declining revenues at the pres ent time, whereas Western Air maintains that UnHed's decline in earnings is merely a temnc- rary and irrelevant phenomenon which is parallel with current drops in earnings of all U.; S. airlines due to lack nt piaiics w carry wouia-De passen gers. . "With the recent award to Western Air of tho route from somnern- California to Mexico City, extension of Western Air's operation north from San Fran cisco to Seattle would afford the entire Pacific coast single carrier service to the Latin American capital." Local aviation enthusiast who have been working to keep the United Air lines start here on schedule, said today they (Caallaaa as rata . Colon ) Baseball Scores NATIONAL ' . . R H F. Chicago .:. : 5 7 1 New York 2 9 0 Wyse and McCulloueh- Kns. lo, Joyce (6), Fischer (8) and Cooper. (First game) t R H E St. Louis 5 8 1 Brooklyn 19 0 fotiet and Garagiola; Barney, Gregg (7), Behrman (9) and Sand lock. R H E Pittsburgh 3 9.1 Boston 4 7 1 Sewell and Camilli, Lopez (9); Johnson, Roser (10) and Padgett, Masi (10). (10 innings) AMERICAN R H E Philadelphia 5 16 . 1 Chicago 2 ' 9 0 Fowler and Rosar; Lopat, Hol- ungswortn to), tiaynes (8) and iresn, r ernandez (8). R H E Boston 3 6 1 Cleveland ..: 4 10 1 Ferriss and H. Wagner; Embre, Krakauskas (8) and Hayes. bomb exploding under the la goon waters in the midst of a ship anchorage. The first . will give truth to some of the feats of giants who existed only in mythology. There will be a real Jove's fist. It will literally squeeze entire ships in the same way that mythological giants were sup posed to crush ships in their time in their fists. . This is true because atom bomb pressures are equal on all sides simultaneously fore, aft, port and starboard and on top of all decks when the bomb explodes in air. This will be true even if the first Bikini bomb bursts full half a mile aloft. Ordinary bombs and tor pedoes squeeze only against one side and only on a fraction of that side. Bikini scientific men have talked of as much as 100 pounds pressure on every square inch of ship above water line. Will such pressure crush a ship like an eggshell or tear it like one blasted by a 1000-mlle-an-hour hurricane or if it survives crushins-exolode it by the in ternal suction that follows an atomic blast? Answers can be calculated. But they did nqt Plan Meets ; Objection ByMolotov PARIS. June 22 Wl Seere. tary of State James F. Byrnea today unsuccessfully proposed calling a European peace con ference July 15, American In-, fnrmants said. Soviet Forelirn Minister V. M. Molotov objected that draft treaties were not yet completed. The foreign ministers met In an informal secret section la Luxembourg palace. . There had been a feeling among some member of the American delegation as they went into session that an agree ment on the disputed city of! Trieste in the Italian-Yugoslav border area might be in the mak ing following; the private dinner given last night by Byrnes for Molotov. No Information was given out on the dinner, however, and it was not known whether a try at a Trieste solution mieht take thai form of postponement for a year as in uie case oi Italy's colonies. TxUaU Loom Importantly , t It was generally conceded that, settlement of Trieste and tha Italian Yugoslavia frontier would lead to agreement on fundamentals of projected peace treaties with Italy, the Balkans and Finland. " (In Washington the White House said Secretary of State Byrnes called President Truman by trans-Atlantic telephone at 9:15 a. m. today and talked to him for five minutes, reporting on progress of the foreign min isters meeting in Paris. (The White House said Mrl Truman was at his desk when the call came. Byrnes has been reporting daily to the president by cable up to now. Official! would not say what Byrnes re ported.) ...!,. Byrnes was host at last night'f dinner, in the American delega tion hotel, for Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, his dep uty, Andrei J. Vishinsky, and' Interpreter Vladimir Pavlov. - Although there was no Imme-, diate indication of what went on across the table, it was be lieved probable that a frank dis" cussion of deadlocked matter was held by Byrnes and Molotov.' Defense Funds Pass Congress WASHINGTON, June 22 (JP Billions for defense spelled out congressional determination to day to keep the nation's armed forces at record ' peacetime strength and efficiency for the coming year. '. . Between house and senate more than $11,000,000,000 have been voted some $7,000,000, 000 of it for the army, the larg est peacetime budget in war de partment history, and more than $4,000,000,000 for the navy. ... ' The huge appropriations bills are not yet ready to go to the White House, pending agreement on differences which have cropped up between house and senate versions, but indi cations were that the overall money total would not be great ly affected. , ' The house stamped its ap proval yesterday on a $7,091, 034,700 army fund bill for the fiscal year starting July 1, and promptly packed the measure along to the senate. The senate, meanwhile was voting $34,100,000,000 for the navy in a session which saw more than $6,000,000,000 of ex penditures approved without record vote and over the audi ble protest of only one among the 96 lawmakers. ' agree.' Only laboratory experi ment in the first Bikini explo sion can answer accurately. Because' this is a laboratory test, the ships will be placed carefully so most can be ex pected tor survive, it is urgent to learn, first, not how much an atom bomb can destroy, but what are the limits and dis tances at which ships and men may be safe. ; : The Biant fist measurements are for the army and navy air forces, also. - Unpredictable until tried are the effects of this squeeze on jeeps, trucks, planes and every sort of military equipment that will be placed on decks at care fully chosen distances. There also is the heat blast, starting at 100,000,000 degreoa Fahrenheit inside the bomb. The outer skin of armor plate turrets may melt like a surface of shooting stars. No eno ever melted a turret that way be fore, 'because the world never had a furnace big nor hot enough. Such skin melting may either cause trivial damage to the turret or put it out of ac tion. Again, the laboratory type of test is needed to find out, t
