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By FRANK JENKINS
pOOU (or, rulhur, the world's
' luck itf il) provides km uudur
tune lur llio new toduy.
JJrllulu (which grows Utile
wheat) rutluni) brcud, Tin' bimlc
nillon la nine ounces per cluy lor
adults, with niwclul uI1uwiii.lt.
of 15 minces lr imilu unci 11
ounces for lumulo miimiul work
ers. Expectant mothers ure ulo
lo net 11 ounces.
i
My'siows
I ' '
nrO u In America, llml seems
(ulrly ample. Wo must ru
mumuur, however, Ihul In turoiw
broad l much muru liiipurtuul
Item In the average diet tliun
here, Kurupcuiw never liuvo
been able 10 nlford (ho wulo
variety of food especially inenl
avuilublo (o us In lurtunule
America.
a a a
BHITA1N ration breud for two
reasons (o iiiuko the limited
supply of whoul no around at
......... ..,.1 l, ..I. I.. In KI'AltK
MOKE for (hi- hungry iieoplci
of condiu'iilul Europe.
Rationing l HA HONING In
Brituln, where they liuvo
curious lileu thut laws are In
truded to bo observed nnd not
circumvented. During the war
Micro win no blnck inurkctliiK
In EnKliind. Tliere Is llttla now.
FIKS1DENT THUMAN tell his
press conference till morning
thul U. 8. coiiimltnionU for the
shipment of grain uoroiul (to
feed hungry people) for the first
lx months of this year WILL
l)E MET.
"Th very fuel that housewives
toduy often find It hard to buy
loaf of bread," ho says, "Il
evidence of tho success of our
fiimlito emergency program."
Ha add:
"Tim bread (ho housewife can
not buy means Mini much more
for hungry children abroad."
. a
CHALK up on the GOOD sldo
whatever bread you do with
Youl o lhal hungry people clse
, where In the world may have a
llttlo more. (There isn't enough
food In tho world to give them
what they need. The best we
can do In lo keep them a little
farther away from starvation.)
a , a
TN the house of representatives
todnv a move to withhold
UNKIlA money from natloua that
rcfuio to permit American cor
respondent., to gather and loll
the news gains powerful support.
It Is directed, of course, at
Russia, whom censorship In still
rigid. To us in America, it
seems reasonable enough. If wo
are to dig up cash with which to
feed other people, wo ought at
least lo bo told whut Is being
done with It.
What seems rcnsonnble (o us,
however, may seem utterly un
reasonable lo Russia which
obviously has little or no under
standing of how Amerlcnn minds
work, in this mini lack of un
derstanding of each other lies
tho GREAT danger in American
Russian relations.
a a
VS7E newspaper people can't sec
" how Americans and Rus
sians aro EVER lo understand
ench other if Russia continues to
censor sharply nil exchanges of
, news between the two peoples
LOO MOVE RECORD
PORTLAND. Juno 27 P)
Movomcnt of logs through tho
Willamette locks at Oregon City
on June 13 set a new one-day
record, army engineers reported
loony. The logs totaled 4,513,'
000 board feet.
'No News-No
For Russia
WASHINGTON. Juno 27 (PI
A "no news-no cash" policy Mint
would hit Russia mustered pow
erful support today as an
amendment to the proposed
$4H5,0q0,0U0 UNRRA appropri
ation. 1
Ostensibly directed at any nn
' Hon Imposing censorship on
news doullng with tho relief
agency's activities, the amend
ment is aimed primarily nt tho
existing situation In tho Soviet
Union, according to its support
ers. Sentiment behind tho pro
posal gained strength nftcr
President Trumnn reported to
congress Tuesday Mint Moscow
lind refused to permit unccn
sored reports from -Amerlcnn
correspondents on UNRRA
operations in tho Soviet repub
lics of Ukraine and Byelorussia
(White Russia).
Rep, Dlrkscn (R-lll.) told re
porters In advance of debute on
the relief fund thnt ho would
,'offcr the amendment to restrict
I tho money to nations giving free
"Access to visiting reporters seek
ing information on UNRRA ac
tivities. If accepted ,lt would block
UNRRA aid not only for the
Ukrainian nnd Byelorussian re
Fund Lack
May Close
Heat Plant
The business district of Kliun
alli Fulls, that suction which
uses lienl and steam supplied by
the Kliiimitli Healing company,
toduy faced a henlless winter
unless consumers subscribed to
tho ncccssury $100,000 needed
lo operate and maintain the
plimt which they hope to buy
before Juno 30.
Negotiations have been under
way this month to purchuso the
physlcul properties of tho plant
but Thursday sufficient sub
scriptions hud not been made
lo assure the transaction.
E, B. Hull, Klumath Fulls
hotelmun and member of the
Citizens Consumers company,
said June 30 was the deadline
for buying the plant. It Is un
derstood that tho present con
dition of tho Klumuth Henting
company plant Is such that 11
will be closed down within six
weeks on order of the stnto and
that D. O. Hood, president of the
company, has already cancelled
all orders for equipment,
Purchase Plans
Hall said that plum cull for
tho newly organized Citizens
Consumers company lo purchase
the plant's physical luy-out In
cluding tho present boilers,
mains, trucks and equipment as
well as existing buildings which
fuco Klumuth avenue.
Volunteer solicitors, who are
also consumers, are contacting as
many other consumers as pos
sible, giving them tho opportun
ity to buy stock ' so we can
havo heat this winter." Before
anything can be done, Hall point
ed out, one-half of the cnpllul
slock, or $100,000, must be sub
scribed. The plant was offered
to the consumers in June for
$55,000.
Immediately after the heating
company offered the outfit for
sale, a committee made up of
Fred Hoaglund, chairman; E. H.
Thompson, G. C. Lorenz, T. B.
(taauaaa as raia s, I'aiamn II
Truman Wants
Bowles On Job
WASHINGTON, June 27 W)
President Truman told his news
conference today ho is trying
to persuade Chester Bowles to
remuln at his post as economic
stabilizer.
Bowles' retirement as a re
suit of restrictions on OPA
powers contemplated In pond
iug extension legislation has
long been talked.
Mr. Truman declined to dis
cuss tho wutcrcd-down price ex.
tension bill now before the sen
utc, other than to say it was
unfortunate that it has been de
bated so long.
Ho said he would decido after
the measure reaches him
whether to make a radio ad
dress outlining his position on
it.
This was his reply when
asked whether he would spenk
to the people In connection with
signing or vetoing of the bill.
On Capitol Hill, Senator
O'Dunlol (D-Tcx.) sought to get
nnd hold the senate floor for a
chance to talk OPA to death.
If ho could talk steadily uiv
tl Sunday midnight, or call up
vocal reinforcements, ho could
succeed In theory at least. Tho
present OPA law expires Juno
30.
Cash' Policy
Gains Support
publics, Dlrkson said, but also
for Romania nnd possibly north
ern Korea because of the rilffi-
cullies thnt havo been rulscd to
unhampered American press
coverage oi uie inner two nrens,
"In view of tho president's re
port mat oilier European na
tions except tho two Soviet re
publics have mndo arrange
ments for reporting of UNRRA
opcrntions," Dlrkscn told report
ers, "1 think it is only right that
congress refuse to provide any
more funds for use in those re-
PUDIICS."
While Romania was not men
tioned In the president s report,
uiiKsen sum nn American re
porter recently wns ejected
irom mm country.
How much of the new $465
000,000 fund Is earmarked for
UKralnla and Byelorussia. Dirk
sen said lie did not know, nor
wns the information available
from tho house appropriations
commmeo, winch recommended
me allotment.
Latest committee figures Indl
caled thnt up to Inst April 30
npprnxlmalely $82,000,000 of
UNRRA aid nnd been given the
two Soviet republics, both of
which were heavy sufferers
inrougnout me war years.
Who
fca?1 "ir i i
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The 20-30 club Is gunning for "vandals" who matched up the side of the steep hill over
looking Pacific Terrace some time late Monday night and re-arrangtd the 20-30 white painted
rock sign to read '4B-BO. Due to the steep slant of the hillside, this shot does not bring out the
full depth of the huge letters, Back in 1936, members of the 20-30 club piled rocks and then
painted them to advertise the club. Tom Milne, vice president of the club, reported the act
Tuesday and observed that It must have taken quite a crew a number of hours to re-arrange the
boulders which are clearly visible
painted the rock figures as part
don't know "who done it."
President Declares Crisis
in World Food 'Not Over'
WASHINGTON, June 27 (A1)
President Trumnn suld today
the world food crisis "Is not
over," although me united
Slates Is abreast of its goal jn
the shipment of grain.
The president said In a state
ment that the country must con
tinue to share its food "during
the cuming months of hunger
abroad."
He released this statement to
Fire Destroys
Manning Home
An early morning blaze com
pletely destroyed the Joy Man
ning home in the Spring Lake
district. The fire, which was
discovered at 3 a. m., Thursday
morning, leveled the building
before il could be brought un
der control.
Asleep in the house ai mat
time wore Mr. and Mrs. Man
nlng, their son. Ralph, and Mrs.
Manning's mother, Mrs. Mary
Townscnd. Manning wos awak
ened by something falling, to
find the house in flames. He
aroused the rest of the family
and all escaped without injury.
No effort was mane to ngni
the fire as It was burning be
tween the walls, but they man
aged to savo a few personal
Items. Cause of the fire was un
known. ,,
Tho story-and-a-half building
was partially Insured. Tho Man
nings have moved Into a bunk
house located on their proper
ty. Water On Again
In Shasta View
Irrigation water for the Shns
tn View district, which was shut
off Monday by order of the
U. S. reclnmntion service be
cnuse of non-payment of charges
by a number o( water users in
the district, was turned back In
to the canals this morning.
The rltuntion resulting in tho
shutting off of the wnter Mon
day arose out of differences of
opinion as to the terms of a new
contrncl now being negotlnted
between the Shasta View dis
trict and the reclnmntion serv
ice. In conferences between
representatives of the district
nnd the USRS, an agreement
was reached to provide wnter
for this yenr's crops on terms to
be governed by the new con
Irnct when completed.
Gustafson Heads
Medford Legion
MEDFORD, June 27 (Pt
Oliver A. Gustafson, World War
II overseas veteran and manager
of a Medford bottling works,
was elected commander of Med
ford post 15 of the American
Legion Inst night,
Tho past elected John Craw
ford, first vice commander;
M, ,E. Fisher, second vice com
mander; Wnlter Dunlap, adju
tant. A. J. Anderson was re
elected chaplain for the 23rd
time. , ...
S. 6th Right-Of-Way
Cleaned Up By State
The right-of-way angle on the
South 6th street widening proj
ect was cleaned up hero this
week nnd R. D. Cozad of. Can
yon City, right-of-way agent for
the Oregon stnte highwny de
partment left today for the
north. Ho has been here at In
tervals since 1041, making
Arrangements for right-of-wny
clearance on both the S. 6th
project as well as tho Chemult
Sun mountain Job to the north.
Cozad said this morning that
as far as his work was con
cerned, it was nl done In this
sector. The work extended not
only on.S. 6th, but along Ala
meda and tho proposed route of
the new highway to , tho north
entering tho city limits.
(Telephone
Done It? The Varmints'
from almost any point in town.
of the state convention program
his news conference, asserting
that the United Slates will fully
meet its half-year goal of 6,000,
000 tons of food grains, but that
final shipments to complete the
total will not leave American
ports until after the first of
July.
(In London today, Food Min
ister John Strachcy announced
that bread will be rationed
throughout Great Britain be
ginning July 21. The basic
bread ration will be nine ounces
daily for adults).
In asserting that "the crisis
is not over," Mr. Truman said
that the loaf of bread that the
housewife does not buy means
"that much more for hungry,!
emmren aDroaa.
"The very fact that house
wives today often find it hard
to buy a loaf of bread is evi
dence of the success of our fam
ine emergency program, the
presidential statement contin
ued. An accompanying report, pre
pared by Retiring Reconversion
Director John W. Snyder, now
treasury ""secretary, said the
shipment of over five and a
half million tons of bread grains
In the first half of this year is
a record "of which the govern
ment and the people can be
proud."
Snyder credited much of its
success to former President
Herbert Hoover, the honorary
chalrmon, and Chester Davis,
the chairman of the presidents
famine emergency committee.
Greece Given
Island Group
PARIS. June 27 (IP) The
foreign ministers council agreed
today to give the Dodecanese is
lands to Greece with the proviso
that they be demilitarized, an
American informant reported.
The Dodecanese ore in the
eastern Mediterranean and were
governed by Italy before the
war. The 13 small islands, of
which Rhodes is the largest,
were occupied by Italy during
the Tripoli wnr between Turkey
and Italy in 1911. The Islands
are inhabited principally by
Greek sponge fishermen. The
population is about 140,000.
Tho Germans garrisoned a
number of the Islands during
tho war and the British made
unsuccessful attempts to cap
ture them.
Previously in the foreign min
ister's negotiations Russia had
remained noncommittal con
cerning their disposition and at
one time it was reported she
was demanding the right to es
tablish naval or marine bases
there:
The ministers also accepted
French demands for the trans
fer to her of the Tcnda nnd
Briga areas on the French-Italian
frontier. This agreement
contained the provision that
Itnlv coutlnue to receive elec
tricity from the hydro-electric
Dlnnts in the valleys.
Some minor economic clnuscs
on the Romanian peace treaty
also were ngrecd upon. The
council agreed to limit the Bui
garinn navy to , approximately
7000 tons.
Road Name Row
Flares Up Anew
The argument over the termin
ology of the south road flared
again today when Walter Meaclv
am and A. L. Greenwalt of the
Old Oregon Trail association pro
tested before members of the
Oregon State highway commis
sion in Portland,
Mcacjiam nnd Greenwalt are
protesting against calling the
route between Klamath Falls and
Ashland the "southern route."
They argued that the route
should be called the "Old Apple
gate Trail."
The commission took no
action.
Tho Klamath Falls, supporters
of the name arc ,ln tho majority,
sticking to "South Road.
WEATHER NEWS
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Number 10857
Tne zo-30 ciuo recently re
neld here last week, iney sun
Rodeo Slates
10 Big Events
Ten main events will high
light the first annual rodeo of
the Klamath Rodeo association
July 4, 5, 6, and 7, featuring
Mac Barbour's bulls and buck
ing stock. The 1946 prize list
was announced Wednesday, by
the association.
Events and prizes will in
elude a musical chair, consist
ing of a group of riders playing
the game, on horseback with a
$5.00 purse each day. For the
best reined cow horse, the purse
will be $25 a day, with $25
entrance fee. A . five-eighths
mile free-for-all race, in which
all types of horses can be en
tered, will bring in a total $400
purse for the four days, with
entrance fee set at $20. ' A
quarter-mile cow horse race
will bring $50 a day to win
ners, with $10 entrance fee.
Bareback riding is to get $650
for the day moneys, entrance1
ICO, S1.VX- ; r ,
Four $800 'purse events will
be bull dogging, bull riding,
calf roping, nnd steer team rop
ing. The entrance fee will be
$20, and $20. per man in the
latter event. Money will be di
vided up into a daily $200 purse,
The main event will be bronc
riding, with a $1000 purse for
the days moneys and $20 en
trance fee.
All entry fees for each event
will be added to the purse of
the event to make up the total
purse. Both final and day mon
eys will be split 40-30-20 and
10 in all events.
"It should be a darn good
rodeo," commented Bill Ser-
ruys, vice president of the group.
All rules are governed ac
cording to the Rodeo Associa
tion of America, to which the
local group is affiliated.
Traveling Men
Pick Favorites
COLUMBUS, O., June 27 IP)
The traveling salesman who
wooed and wed the farmer's
daughter was found today by
delegates to the United Commer
cial Travelers' convention.
The UCT listed him as Fred
Schroedcr of Evansville, Ind.,
who met his wife, Uie former
Miss Essie Merrill, when he stop
ped for a glass of milk on a hot
day at her father's farm at
Marysville, Ind.
The convention's 500 delegates
selected Denver as the best all
around traveling man's town in
America.
The traveling men also ex
pressed their opinions on other
points:
Best hotel city St. Louis, Mo,
Best convention city Colum
bus. O.
Best food San Francisco.
Most beautiful women Los
Angeles.
Ousted Scribe Denounces Red Bans
ATHENS, June 27 (P) Reu
ben H. Markham, for 20 years
Balkan correspondent for the
Christian Science Monitor, said
today that history's worst re
pressions of freedom were "being
matched by tho communist
dominated governments in Bul
garia and Romania,"
Markham arrived in Athens
Monday from Bucharest after
his expulsion from Romania
despite vigorous protests by the
United States government. Act
ing Secretary of State Dean
Acheson anounccd the ex
pulsion and failure of the gov
ernment's efforts on Markham's
behalf Tuesday. v
Markham suld in an interview
today thnt "the worst thnt any
tyrant ever did In the way of
violence, personal humiliation,
the breaking up of meetings,
censoring the press and prevent
ing tho expression of public
opinion is now being matched
by the communist-dominated gov
Government Starts
Litigation Intended
To Smash Rackets'
Nine Oregon
Firms Cited
PORTLAND. June 27 UP)
Nine Oregon firms were named
In OPA price violation suits on
file today asking a total of
$672,674 in treble damages in
volving sale of lumber.
Suits were filed in circuit
courts throughout the state late
yesterday. The largest, asking
$372,194.37, was filed in Mult
nomah circuit court against the
R. G. Robbins Lumber com
pany, Portland, charging the
firm with sale of 12,000,000
board feet of fractional-size
lumber.
The Roseburg Lumber com
pany, Rosebuxg, was sued lor
$212,602.29 in treble damages
in a Douglas county court ac
tion which charged the firm
with sale of fractional dimen
sion lumber.
Other defendants, charges,
and damages asked:
Lumber Distributors, inc..
Douglas county, charged with
selling lumber without specifi
cally setting out In its invoices
the grade and price for each
specific quality of lumber sold
by the firm; damages $6831.86.
Medford Defendant
Lausmann Lumber company,
Medford. charged with sale of
fractional widths and lengths
involving 2,500,000 board feet;
damages, $37,621.14.
R. T. Ridley L,umoer com
pany, Holland, Ore., josepnine
county, charged with failure
orotjerly to invoice sale and
grade and price 701.020 board
feet of pine and Douglas fir lum
ber; damages $43,426.60.
Four suits were filed in fed
eral district court here without
specifying damages. Defendants
were;
Air King Manufacturing com
pany, Tigard, suit to enforce
compliance with inspection- re
quirements, permitting OPA
agents to inspect records.
Edward H. Schleif, Portland,
suit for injunction to halt al
leged violations resulting from
sale of two carloads of Douglas
fir snipped by Schleif from
Portland to Twin Falls, Ida.
Alleged Overcharge
. Pacific Lumber Manufactur
ing company, Portland, charged
with violations of rules cover-
(Cantlnai aa Mia S, Calamo S)
Baker Requests
New Underpass
PORTLAND, June 27 (IP)
A .Baker delegation asked the
state highway commission to
day to construct an underpass
at Dewey avenue in tnat city,
and the commission ordered an
investigation.
Ontario s commercial c i u a,
appealing to the game commis
sion to reDair streets and build
an underpass for farm-to-processing
plants traffic, was told
the project should be handled
by the city.
The commission, told its engi
neer to investigate a Newberg
request for straightening the
highway through that city. A
Tillamook plea for $5000 "repair
of streets damaged by logging
trucks was cut to $2500, and
the city told to keep its log
trucks on just one street.
Britain Decrees
Bread Rationing
LONDON, June 27 UP)
Bread will be rationed through
out Great Britain - beginning
July 21. Food Minister John
Strachey announced this in the
house of commons today.
The British did not ration
bread in either of the last two
wars.
Strachey said flour also would
be rationed.
The basic bread ration will be
nine ounces daily for adults.
Manual workers will receive 15
ounces and expectant mothers
will get 11.
ernments In Bulgaria and Ro
mania as I personally saw it."
Markham said his dispatches
reported "Russian-imposed dicta
torial methods of communist
dominated governments," includ
ing "concentration camps and
executions in the form of legal
massacres, the victims of which
are placed in unmarked graves"
in bulgaria. Bulgarian courts,
he said, are "a travesty of justice
and people are killed by the
thousands."
Markham said he talked to
hundreds of peasants and dele
gations in both countries and
witnessed a number of terroristic
acts.
On one occasion he was hav
ing dinner In Bacau, Romania,
with Ion Mihalache, vice presi
dent of the peasant party and
one of the three strongest op
position leaders in Romania,
when Mihalache was attacked
by a band of armed communists.
Ha and the Romanian fled
None Sued Here
Mo Klamath basin lumber
firms or mill operations were
named in the OPA price vio
lation suits filed in Portland
today and the head of one of
the largest plants said to his
knowledge, no fractional-slxe
lumber had been sold in this
area.
According to The Herald
and News source, local lum
bermen considered the fractional-size
approval by the
OPA as a "poor practice."
and later the OPA removed
this regulation prior to issu
ance of the latest price list.
Barbers Mull
4-Day Layoff
Members of the barbers union
here will meet tonight to decide
whether to take a four-day va
cation from July 4 through July
7, E. G. Patrick, union secre
tary, said today, but some bar
bers and -shop operators have
voiced disapproval of the idea
of being closed during the rodeo
celebration.
The shops will be closed July
4 and Sunday, July 7, anyhow,
Patrick said, and the vote to
night will determine whether
the barbers will also be off
work the 5th and 6th.
Persons opposing the move
believe that the rodeo will
bring into town a lot of people
who will be wanting to get a
shave and haircut to spruce up a
bit for the festivities, and they
will be disappointed if they
don't find a barber shop ODen.
Patrick said that it would be
for the union, which sets hours
and prices, to decide whether
to close up or remain open for
business the two days in ques
tion, ine majority oi tne bar
bers, he believes, are for the
closure as it may be the only
vacation some oi tnem will get.
Late Premier
Of Japan Dies
TOKYO, June 27 (IP) Yosuke
Matsuoka, the one-time foreign
minister who formally linked
Japan with the axis, died early
today with "great regrets" that
he could not defend himself in
the international war crimes
court.
The disease-wasted Univer
sity of Oregon graduate real
ized for days that death was
near, and frequently told his
eldest son, Kenichiro, that he
had many things to say to the
court a defense that probably
never will be told in full. War
crimes charged against him
were officially withdrawn after
his death.
Tuberculosis, which brought
his death at 66 in unkempt.
odorous Tokyo' Imperial univer
sity hospital, first afflicted him
in 1941 upon his return from
Europe with a Soviet neutral
ity pact. German Gestapo Chief
Alfred Meisinger said Matsuoka
obtained the treaty by revealing
to Stalin nazi plans for attack
ing Russia.
It was the high point of his
career for Matsuoka, who loved
the limelight and worshipped
power. He was removed from
office as foreign minister in
1941, and sank quickly into dis
ease-ridden obscurity, his health
broken during the strenuous
months in power.
Germans Protest
Heme Evacuation
HAMBURG. Germany. June
27 UP) In the first mass Ger
man demonstration against the
allied occupation, 4000 Ham
burg citizens stormed angrily in
to the city square today pro
testing an order for the evacua
tion of persons from their
homes to make room for British
headquarters,
across the roof tops, where they
were besieged but finally man
aged to slip through the cordon
during the early morning.
Markham said a car "bearing
the number of the prime minist
er's office, carrying a group of
Romanians, kidnaped a young
Romanian working for U. S. mil
itary authorities; he has not been
released yet.
In the latter part of March,
Markham said, a particularly vi
cious attack was made upon him
by a communist paper "speak
ing in the name of the red army
and only with the approval of
Moscow," and he subsequently
was called to appear before Rus
sian General Vinogradov, the
second most important official in
Romania.
Markham said Vinogradov
gave him five days in which to
leave the country without con
sulting Brig. Gen. Courtland
Schuyler, American-member of
the allied control commission.
Schuyler and Burton Berry, chief
Move Decried
In Northwest"
, SAN JRANCISCO, June it
rv-: Paci": coast lumbermen
lashed back today at office of
price administration officials
who pressed forward a move to
smash what they called Increas
ing "rackets" that have caused -artificial
lumber shortages" all
over the country.
The OPA yesterday filed suit
against 40 lumber companies In
federal courts of California, Ore:
gon, Washington, and Arizona;
seeking to collect a total of $9,-
uto.sju in ireoia damages. The
alleged violations involved soma'
65,649,123 board feet of lumber.
At Aberdeen, Wash., Henry W.
Anderson, president of the Twin
Harbors Lumber company, call
ed the suits a "political move.?.
I think it a crime that the
OPA should pick on the north
west operator while southern
operators are running rampant
on the black market," he de
clared. The Twin Harbors Lum-
ber company was named de
fendant in a suit seeking an esti
mated $525,000 in damages, es
timated by the OPA regional of
fice to involve 10,000,000 board
feet of lumber.
These suits are based on dif
ferences of opinion in interpret
ing OPA ceilings," R. G. Rob-,
bins, president of the R. G. Rob
bins Lumber company of Port"
iana, saia. ,He declared that in
his opinion it was "a shame''
that the OPA should brina milt
against the northwest lumber in
dustries Uiat have produced lum-
Der -so aamiraoiy under handU
caps."
Donald D. Baldwin, secretary
treasurer of the Mauk Seattle
Lumber company, said the suit'
were "unfair and without legal
basis." ,
"We have been selling frac
tional lumber," he said, "but we
contend the buyer bad the choice
of whether to buy it or not;"
There certainly was no violatiorf
of the OPA regulations prohibit
ing -making the buyer- take- ,
Bumcuiiiig ne. aue -noi want 'to
get something he does want',";
Violations Listed
Anticipating that the OPA
would be accused of "interfering
with recognized business prac
tices," Lumber Enforcement
Chief Ralph Golub, as the suits
were filed, listed as violations
the following:
1. The diversion of lumber,
consisting of the shisment of
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Traffic Problem !
Solution Needed ;
CORVALLIS. June 27 (SPU
Solution of traffic congestion and
nignway accident problems are
essential to development of an
efficient national highway sys
tem, Lt. Col. Franklin M. Kreml
told delegates to the traffic in
stitute here today. '
J. he transportation chief for
General Clark's 5th army said .
highways were a part of national
defense which could not be de
stroyed by bombardment.
Judge Leroy Dawson of the
Los Angeles -traffic court said
one of the traffic law enforce
ment problems was the opinion
people have that traffic tickets
can be "fixed." He admitted
there was some justification for
the belief and added that "im
provement must be made.
Accident Fatal
To Lumber Man
ASHLAND, June 27. (P)-4
Jonas Simeon Hogstrom, 45,
lumber piler at the California
Oregon lumber mill here, was
electrocuted yesterday when a
metal lumber piling machine he
was controlling touched an
1100-volt wire.
Harry Zimmerman, tractor
operator pulling the 'piler, was
thrown clear of the tractor cab
by the jolt but was unharmed.
Hogstrom lived near Medford
with his wife and family.
of the U. S. political mission.
filed protests and the state de
partment loitowea with a vigor
ous note to Moscow and
Bucharest. " .
The Russian General Susalkov,
who Markham said "runs Ro
mania," advised the United
States officials only a few hours
before Markham was ready to
board a vessel at Constanta for
Instanbul that "suspension had
been temporarily lifted" until
it was considered on a higher
level. '
For three weeks Markham
was forbidden to file any dis
patches. At 7 p. m. June 22 he
was advised by Susaikov that
he must leave Bucharest by June
25. i.
Markham said "In view of the
coming election In Romania, tho
communist dominated govern
ment Is determined to eliminate
or restrict to the narrowest pos
sible limits the work of Amer
ican reporters and as a part of
that action expelled me.
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