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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1946)
V Hand Of Assassin Hinted In Siamese King's Death BANGKOK, Siam, June 26 (PI A reliable report today said medical evidence secretly studied by a board of 18 physi cians supports to a considerable extent the theory that youthful King Ananda Mahidol was the victim of an assassin. The 20-year-old monarch was found dead In " his apartment June 9. The official report to parliament the next day said he accidentally shot himself and that the bullet went through the forehead. There were numerous ru mors, however, that the king either had committed suicide because of a thwarted love af fair while he was a student in Switzerland or because of dis satisfaction with his role as monarch, or that he had been killed by reactionary royalists who disliked his democratic tendencies. As a result of the rumors the TRUCKS AND PICKUPS FOR RENT You Driva-Long. Short Trips Mot Yourself Sara H STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 East Main commission was appointed to make an Investigation. The commission ordered the body taken from its great golden urn in Dusit hall for examination and X-rays were made to de termine the course of tha bul let. The medical board, which in cluded one American, will re turn its report suggesting as sassination to the special in quiry commission investigating the strange circumstances of the monarch's death, it was learned. The exact details of the medi cal inquiry will be withheld until the commission reports. It was learned, however, that the sensational medical finding came in the course of a two day investigation by doctors who examined the body min utely. Gunfire tests were made on corpses. X-rays and photo graphs of the body at the seen of death were examined. Indians in the United States numbered 333.969 in 1940 with 63,125 of this amount being in Oklahoma and 55,076 in Arizona. Of Course vacation . clothes for a Glorious "fourth' PLAY SUITS from 3.99 up SLACK SETS from .49 up BLOUSES from 2.20 up SHORTS from 1.99 up "T" & BASQUE SHIRTS from 1.99 up SWIM SUITS from 3.99 up SLACKS from 3.99 up NEW COLORS SMART FABRICS ALL SIZES It' t Siok wuA out di9 PUm Throngs Gather At Scene Of Medford Blaze ' ' ' ill tul. i 4 ii I jiwiiii 1 wyw.M I,, - -- ,A -' .- .. -j . J.Jn,.-J , i hj. ....... . . r - - i -. e1 r U v : a Blaze Destroys 3-Block Sector In City Center (Continued from Page One) offices are a s h o r t distance i m (k American Dlant. He was working in his office at the time and noucea smoiwe .rini from the northwest corner of the big new plant. An immediate call to the Medford fire department was followed by cans to h land. Central Point, Camp . i i : . a fAMrf sprvice de- III IC aiivi - j . . partments which responded at once. There was ample water on hand to fight the flames which were brought under con trol at about 8 o'clock. Fruit Spray Burns The new American plant, built In the fall of 1944 by a chain outfit with headquarters in Philadelphia, was the first to go. Drums holding a highly in flammable fruit spray, burst with the intense heat, spraying the wooden structure and turn ing it into a sky-high leaping mass of flames and smoke. The burning barrels of oil resisted efforts of the firemen to halt the spread for more than an hour. Great clouds of black smoke, caused by the burning FILMS 35c DEVELOPED and PRINTED 6 or 8 Exposure Roll Reprints 4c Each Jumbo Prints 8c Ea. Photo Supplies - Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention BUD'S 1031 Main Phona 3586 Madford'i moit tragic fir from an industrial standpoint was viewed from S. Fir street by a horda of valUy citlt.nry early Tuesday night. Above, persons from surrounding communities thronged to Mtdford to gather around the entire ctrcumferance of the fire. Laft, in the foreground, is tha Myron Root Packing company which escaped tha blase. Below, a typical seen. Ap proximately a doien families, whose homes in the west side were menaced by the conflagration, moved out of their houses. Wind bore the blase toward tha homes until equipment from surrounding communities and army installations arrived and aid ed in getting the fire under control. Furniture and clothing from several of the homes were piled In the city park. Photos by Brainerd. Medford; courtesy Medford Mall Tribune. spray, rolled across the city as thousands of spectators jammed streets near the South Fir-Bart-lett street area where the fire burned. Airline pilots reported that flames were still outlining the razed section at midnight, but bv then firemen had ended the threat to other sections of the : city and only a few heavy tim bers were burning. The cement structure of the Monarch , company plant was credited with slowing the flames sufficiently to permit ! firemen to concentrate their i hose and eventually control the fire. The American plant faces Fir street and covers an area of about one-half a block. It is , FEHLEN'S MEATS and STORAGE LOCKERS GROCERIES Meat Cutting and Curing for Lockers No Meat Shortage Here Hunting and Fishing Licenses 4707 S. 6th OPEN SUNDAYS bound bv Fir on one IH and the Southern Pacific tracks on the other. Hoses across tracks prevented movement of SP trains and north and south bound trains were delayed in Medford several hours. Fire Leaps Street The Crystal Springs plant, owned by Maurice and Ward Spaatz is about 100 feet south of the American plant and the flames leaped easily across the intervening space to catch that building which was built a num ber of years ago. Klamath folks will be interested to learn that Mrs. Maurice Spaatz is the for mer Clarice Elliott Horun of this city. Next to catch fire was the Porter Lumber company, owned by George Porter of Medford. Soon after the commercial plants had felt the fury of the flames, the fire swept into an adjoining . residential section. Only the home of Mrs. Helen Tumy actually felt the damage bv fire, hut rlflmnffA almntt equally as harsh was suffered uy nome owners wnen neat, smoke and water swept their hniUPB When t ho Tumv rr i dence caught fire, firemen were lorcea to use a n e a v y hose which literally "blew the Inside out" of the structure. Residents became panicky at the proximity of the flames and Atcheson Says Pact Violated TOKYO, Juno 28 (,V) Chair man George C. Atcheson Jr., told the Hllii'd council for Japan today, In effect, that Hussia was violuting the Potsdam surren der terms by failing to repatri ate Japanese captured in Mun cluiriu. The Russian member said the council wasn't supposed to talk about that; it wasn't on the agenda. The American chulrman made his point this way: He quoted the Potsdam dec laration, to which Russia wus a party, as providing that "Jap anese military forces, after liu tng comtili'ti'ly disarmed, shall be permitted to return to their homes." He followed with figures on the percentage of Japanese re patriated from various areas Including: Soviet areas, zero per cent. (American news correspondents who entered Manchuria last February drew from the red army commandant at Mukden, Maj. Gen. Andrei Kovtoun Slunkevitch, the statement that disarmed Japanese troops In his area had been sent by train to work projects in Siberia). Atcheson concluded: "I sub mit the opinion that applicable terms of the surrender should bo carried out voluntarily by all allied authorities as prompt ly as practicable, From the point of view of allied unity alone, I should not wish to see any terms of the surrender uni laterally abrogated or disre garded. French Cabinet Wins Approval PARIS. June 26 (A1) Tho French constituent assrmhly voted approval today of Presi dent Georges Bidault's new coal ition government, 317 to 4. The president had called earl ier for a truce among political parties and promised Franco would "maintain our friendships and alliances with the great peo ples who were our allies in the war and In the victory. He stood by his financial pro gram of wage increases not ex ceeding 15 per cent, as against a demand of the powerful gen eral confederation of labor for a 23 per cent increase. ;.A1 D a NKWS, Kl.m... WM'NMI'At. J M. I..., r. U. Injured Indian Girl Reported Improved The condition of Christina HUI ,n ...1-IoiihIv Inlurcd In an auto mobile accident near Klamath Aguucy this ween, was rpuin-u i.,,....,.i Wnilmoiliiv afternoon at Klamutli Valley hiltal. . . i. . i.-.i ii .kf i im Aiioiuer iituiHn " Klamath tribe, Kthi'l Mao Huff, Injured near the Agency on the Spiugue ltlver road Monday, was v...,..., iu...i .... rriini mil. umiiiiroi i .ii,. " "., sliln hospital. Miss Huff wn null wnen ner car leu vtm and overturned. N.Y. Holocaust Flames Again NEW YOHK. Juno 28 Ml A smouldering bla.o aftermath of yesterday's disastrous fire which destroyed the Statt-u Island ferry terminal and claimed three lives spread today to emergency piers and all but halted ferry service to llrooklyn and Man hattan. Soma 40 persons were Injured. Inconvenience which almost amounted to Isolation faced Sliiten island's .10.01)0 commu ters, forced to detour by bus or train through the traffic-congested New Jersey aporoaeli to New York City, up until noon. The department of marine and aviation began limited opera tions at noon with four boats putting In at a pier on the north side of the Island, a quarter-mile away from the terminal. A fresh crew of firemen came on duty at dawn, working with pneumatic drills to penetrate concrete flooring and get at flames which stubbornly ate through the highly Inflammable creosote piling. All told, 200 fire fighters were hacking away at the scorching, smoking lieup of rubble trying to quell tho $2,000,000 blair, worst In Staten Island history. Classified Ads Bring Results. 10 Die As Train Wrecks Truck HAHL1NGEN. Tex.. Jun. Jj r;iiTt.ii wins klllnti u,i .. seriously Injured when a pani. ger nam imiwru mud mi op,,,, truck packed with Latin Ainrr. lean farm workers on a palm, lined rlghlofway near hri ImHlv Mflnr flunk Vrslnfiti.t. The accident was strikingly similar In one In 111-10 when 2u were killed near Alamo, a frw miles to the west. j The victims and wreckuua I yesterday were scattered fur i;!o feet, Some were hurled uliiiot i Into nearby oningn anil giupe. i fruit orchards, fur which n,a j seinl-tropUnl Hlo Grande vullry ! Is famous. All were believed to be rn. dents of nearby La I'alnma .Tin y j were all Latin American-., r American citizens of Mexican heritage. The dead and Injured lay along the rails for half an hour until ambulances from llarliugeii ul,(j Mercedes arrived to pick Ihrm up. No occupants of the truck, which was believed to contain 21 persons, most of them stun. I. Ing III the bed of the vehul.f escaped Injury. Picker Lack Causes Cherry .Crop Crisis SALF.M. June 2 (!) Cherries nre rotting on the' trees in Ihef Willamette valley, and fiirnirra throughout the slate are getting an Idea of how the farm labor shortage may affect their own harvests. The shortage of cherry nlckrr. Is caused by lark of housing. In the Sulein arra alone, growers, with the biggest crop In srvrrui years, are railing for AO00 pick ers. Thai's more than the Snlnn area can provide, so migratory farm laborers are needed. The Oregon Slate college ex tension service says that good pickers ran earn more than (13 a day. Hut the Jobs go begging. started carting furniture from their homes. One excited man, Medford sources said, threw an end table through a window. Soon the courthouse lawn and city park were filled with fur niture and this morning many a householder was without her own pieces of furniture which got mixed up as people moved back. Records Destroyed Heads of the American and Crystal Springs plants said one of their heaviest losses occurred when flames consumed lists of customers which have been compiled throughout the years and went to all points in the world. When the fire hit tho space which held piles of pine cones, tissue paper and decora tions for the thousands of gift wrappings, the flames roared with renewed Intensity. The American specialized In gift boxes. Tall piles of box shook, used by the two fruit firms, went up In smoke but It Is understood that southern Oregon lumber firms can replace the shook be fore the fall harvest. Medford sources advised that virtually all companies carried sufficient insurance to "pretty well" cover the losses sustained in the Tuesday night fire. Box OUtc Optnt 1i30-6i4S ft SO TtlltAV Um4iu C'siUr 4iri Nraiil n Mull im Tamaf r la farevat Siarts THURSDAY "Ore-kits: Am Ttf 7 ffffit a JAMES MASON ANN TODD HUGH MtDlRMOTT HUBERT 10M DtrfsHw.Yra-.Owa ' THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA . 617 MAIN Bring on the eats... Have a Coke "3? -jw?V Mlsss..lTr i.TT iTsf 'SMatvy . 1 MaJmw, . . .pause and make it a friendly Fourth Off to the wide-open spaces for a day of fun. There's plenty of eats and there's frosty Coca-Cola. Have a Coc is the signal to send the day off to a flying start. Ice-cold Coke brings refreshment to the friendly pause to those times when you are nearest to those who are closest to you. lOmtO UNDCI AUTHORITY Of THI COCA-COIA COAPANV IT COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF KLAMATH FALLS Hear The Coke Club with Morton Downey KFJI 9:15 A. M. I UiA' M BHassssssa' 1 ' I Ink V f1 .. li,kXial "Coke" Coca-Cola 'Cots-Cols" snd IU bbnvlstion 'CokV srt ths restate red trsdo marks which disUfiKUlih Um prod- xlluct of Tbi Coct-Colt Company, -0 14 n CCCa- ii. Offint Upana u;as ENDS TONITE "Men in Hor Diary" with Peggy Ryan Jon Hall Louisa Allbrltton Alio Johnnie Mack Brown in "The Hountcd Mine" Starts THURSDAY Here's That Romantic Rogue! YRIHIXKO I 1 I -1 M 1 " 1 Continuous Dally 12i30 RIGHT NOW- TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME! 169 Atmm i hi jiirn tj -Also- L-J "Cat People" Hlmttitt fllrnan S JTh Hr.1l 1 fnon B7 x optn 1i30-Bi4S Opsn 6:45-- Aout PlauinQ 0 HIGH SPIRITED ADVENTURE IN SUN-SPLASHED TECHNICOLOR MacMURRAY . BAXTER -iBeSSsSm 1
