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Newspaper Page Text1MB mm In Th- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS f N Washington tlio house of rep- recBiilutlvc names quickly a 1)111 lo rrvlvo Ol'A fur 20 duy (lo lilvo time (or reconsideration of the whol subject of price cuii- tr"lii' Iho loiinle, tlin picture ll different. Thrro "adumaiil" op position block! nil rffuru to put through Immediately ilinilar nirnmire. The Al'n Washington correspondent bundling Out utory myii: "Opposition In the scnitlu made It increasingly apparent tlmt nny rrntorutlon of Ol'A will lie delayed possibly I or several week." www MEANWHILE nil price con trol! are off. If they REMAIN off for per iod of icvrrul werks, the old, lumlllur luw of supply mid du innml will be given a chance to nee whut It can do In tht'iie dis turbed dnyi. IF It fall! completely If our economy torn Into n wild Infla tionary prlco boom price con trol! will be reilorrd. i'robubly In an oven nioro rlIU form than before. Whether io Intendi'd or not, it look! very much a! If President Truman'! veto of the Ol'A ex ten. lun bill will mull In a TEST of the frco market system. WITH all holder! off, cattle price In Chicago score a new hltlh record of fUM per hun dred pound! 4.50 over the Ui'A ceiling. BUT In Chlcaito lifting of celling! and upptng of price! brought a Jam oi trucka ilircc-quurter of a mile Ionic at the stockyards, which already were deluded with the grculcst arrival! of cut tle and hogs atneo luat Juuuury. THE free enterprise lyilem, you can fee, went to work Im mediately. With the priced tipped materially, livestock be gun to pour Into imirkcl. IK euouitli cornea In to exceed demand, even nightly, tlio price will go down. Tim li Uie way free market! work. IN New York today, commodity future! SAG after yesterday I excited price splurge. Cotton prict-i dropped a! much ! 1.40 a bale, ronpoudlng to hedging and urotll tuning imcaii- lug leliiug by huldera who leur the prico will CO DOWN instead ol going up alill more.) Wool topi open luwer than ycatcrUuy, Cotton acvd oil luturu (nieuu lug purchuws now lor delivery later) advanced a cent a puuuu but no sales were rccordeu. Thui aguui, in thu now free commodity murki-ls, we aee con !crvanm ratner tnan wud m liutionury exuiteinciii runug bus iness thinking. THE itory li much the imnc on tho Mew York tocK markeu Thla morning i dispatches re pprt: "Selected itocKl managed a CltEti'lNu advance touuy, while many market lenders rest ed behind minus signs," The point is tnul BUYERS are Cautious. In a wild Inllutlonary boom, such a political backers of Ol'A have Insisted would hit us It price controls were removed, uuycri are never cautious. "HESTER BOWLES, the -"stormy petrel of price control, says this morning: "On the basis of what hiip poncd on Uie markets ycslerduy, you can look for a 75 per cent Increase In meat price. Hogs were up 33 per cent yesterday. With lubsidie! off, you can add lvnnnuta an raga s, leiumn mi CPA Sanctions Starch Factory Construction of $200,000 of commercial buildings highlight ed by a Klunimh alia potato firm, held civilian production administration approval at Port land todny. Klamath Falls Potnto Prod ucts, Inc., received the green light to remodel a building at Merrill to produce starch and related products,' Tho building will cost $18,000, and equipment $79,000. Southerners Block FEPC Debate Asserts Ellsworth WASHINGTON, July 2 (!') Rep. Ellsworth (R-Orc.) said In a statement today southern mem bers of tho house ore blocking consideration of the fair employ ment practice bill and that efforts of Rep. Mnrcnntonio (Al NY) to bring It up eneh Wed nesday wasted valuable time. The representative explained that under house rules each Wed nesday is calendar day, when members can call up legislation without approval of the houso rules committee. Tho rules coin millco will not approve tlio FEPC bill, he continued, and each Wednesday Marenntonlo trio to call It up. Because of this, he said, tho houso has lost one day out of each week as no business has been transacted on thnt day for two months. "Marcnnlonlo's strategy would work except for the filibuster ing luetics of representatives from southern states," Ellsworth PltlCE FIVE CENTS i$iH"4 Trieste Issue Brings Accord To Conference PARIS, July 2 (!') The foreign minister agreed In principle today on the Internationalization of Trieste, but has not yet ugrt'cd on a stnlulo for the Adriatic port, Sen. Arthur Vandvn berg said. The Michigan lennlor said the council had also agreed on the a ten to be Included In the eventual international zone, fore shadowing eventual acceptance of the French compromise pro posal on the Italian-Yugoslav frontier. The council did not discuss the question of fixing a dale for the general European peace conference, the senator said on re Voluntary Rent Curbs Asked Here With the OPA lit least tem porarily wrapped up, tho Klam ath Realty board Is gulng to hear a recommendation from its board of directors tomorrow urging a voluntary rent control for tho Klamath Full! area, by which landlords will be asked to bind themselves not to push for oul-oMine rentals. If such a proposal Is adopted and any sort of rent control Agency set up here, it will have to bo voluulury as it would have no way to enforce ceilings, but the Ideu is advanced by real es tate men, Uogue Dale of the realty board said today that he thought tho majority of Klamath land lords would abide by this type of control and not bo greedy for huge profits at the expense of tenants, but that there will un doubtedly be some chlselcrs who will want to muko a killing whllo they can. The national realty board ha lied introduced In congress a bill calling for 10 to IS per cent rent Increases over OPA ceil ings, but during the life of the Ol'A that has been blocked. Realtors here bcltcvo that per centage of increase is Justified In many cases, because of In creased maintenance costs, but there are cases here In town where even OPA ceiling rents have been too high. Thus far in Klamath Falls (fartllnna! la rata t, talamn 41 Airport Group Misses Confab A scheduled session of the air craft operators from the city air port, the mayor and the city airport commission shed little optimism on the already strained situation of rates and charges at the air field. Chairman C. A. Dunn of the commission, and the members, Marshall Cornell and Jack Mur phey, were called by the mayor but were not present for the meeting, all having business else where. The meeting was the outcome of last night's council session when some 20 or 30 fliers were present to air their grievances on the rate, which they felt is too high. Tho fliers' request for some concession on the $1000 yearly rate was answered this morning when they were Informed that the airport commission will per mit them to pay $300 this year slnco the license year begins January l and the fiscal year when the rales went Into effect began July 1. Fliers sny that they are definitely not satisfied with the arrangement. Held Too High The group, represented by Phil Hitchcock, Monday nigut expressed its views when Hitch- (C'onllnue! an Fata a, Calumn HI said. "Southerner do not want the FEPC bill considered and will do everything possiblo to prevent It. They stay away from tho floor on Wednesday and then one of their number makes a point of order thnt a quorum Is not present, whereupon It Is nec essary lo call the roll. As suon as the roll call is completed, the members leave again and tho samo thing is done all over. Wo have had as ninny as seven roll calls in an afternoon, ending In a motion to adjourn by somo member who Is disgusted with the whole affair. "The southerners will never give in, so It Is useless for Mar cantonlo and other proponents of the FEPC bill to continue this practice It has been going on for weeks now, and I nssiuno will continue until adjournment of tho session, It is a horrible waste of valuable legislative time." KLAMATH turning to tnc American dele gation headquarters alter a four-hour meeting. Yugoslav Protest! PARIS, June 2 (!') Edward KardelJ, deputy premier of Yu goslavia, said today his country could not accept a French com promise proposal on the Italian Yugoslav border before the council of foreign ministers. He Spoke to a news confer ence as the foreign minister! of the United Stales, Russia, France and the United Kingdom grappled with the knotty prob lem of Trieste, the Italian Adri atic port sought by Yugoslavia. A solution might allow the dip lomats to set a date for the 21 nation general peace confer ence. KardelJ said he proposed a compromise frontier to Secre tary of Stale Byrnes during a morning meeting at the Amerl-' can's hotel. He laid his government would accept Internationalization of Trieste on condition that Yugo slavia participated In the ad ministration of the city. He as serted it was impossible for any Yugoslav government to agree lo the border proposed by France, even though the United States. Russia and the United Kingdom have accepted it. Molotor Agrees Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov. in one of the most dramatic moments of these conference!, accepted both proposal! yesterday, thus agreeing to establish the new Italian - Yugoslav boundary along a line running generally from Tarvisio to Gorizia, then over to a few miles cast of Tri este and down to the coast Just south of Capodistria. This line, which generally follows one previously proposed by the British and Americans, deprives Yugoslavia of the Tar via railway from Austria to the coast, and the Monfalconc ship yards, which would remain Italian. Acceptance of this boundary represented an Important con cession by Russia, as did accep tance of the internationalization plan for Trieste by which the Adriatic por.t city would be In ternationalized for at least 10 years under combined Italian Yugoslav and allied control. Russia previously had backed Yugoslavia's claim for sover eignty in the city against Italy's similar claim. Jews Charge Torture Acts LONDON, July 2 (P) Berl Locker, a member of the world executive of the Jewish agency, told a press conference today he had received reports alleging acts of torture on Jewish men and women detained at the Athlit camp near Haifa, Pales tine. He said former Inmates of the Buchcnwald prison In Germany were beaten at another Pales tine camp. Commenting on the mllitnry. police opcrntlons In Palestine, Locker declared: "The world must know thnt the situation Is graver thnn has been painted by the British press or in the house of com mons and it Is getting graver from hour to hour." Baseball Scores NATIONAL R H E Philadelphia 2 8 0 Brooklyn 3 8 1 Stnnccti, Mulligan (8), Karl (0) and Hemslcy; Higbe, Casey ((I), Herring (7) and Edwards, Anderson (0). H. E 13 0 -4 3 tinker; Fleming Pittsburgh 9 Chicago 0 Hclntzclmnn and Chlpmnn, Adams (3), (3) and McCullnugh, AMERICAN R H E St. Louis 2 5 1 Cleveland 4 12 1 Shirley nnd Hclf; Krnknuskn, Lemon (7) nnd Hegnn. Washington nt Philadelphia (2 gnmcs) postponed, wet grounds. FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY ' " 'i Pictured ahoy it Wayna Buck Boy Scout camp thii yar. Jill program with Dtlbtrt Yantis In carrying food and iuppllcs to Diamond and Cow horn peaki. They were obtained by the Modoc council in Eagleiville, Calif., for 17.50 eich. Jill ha never been curried and, a yet. never worn a pack laddie. f rate Mississippi Solon Rips And Claws Newsman TUPELO, Miss., July 2 () Rankin is seeking renomlna U. S. Representative John Ran- tion from Mississippi's first con kin of Mississippi assaulted an I gresslonal district in today's Associated Press photographer democratic primary, here today, ripping off the news- The photograpner was Allen man's shirt and scratching his W. Snipes of Memphis. neck and hands after the Tatter took picture of the congress man outside a Tupelo polling place. United To Fly. 2 Planes Daily While in Portland yesterday, Charlie Stark, secretary of the Klamath County chamber of commerce, was given a time table of the passenger flights United Air Lines plans to' in augurate through Klamath Falls August 1. There will be one northbound and one southbound plane through here each day. The northbound plane Is sched uled to leave San Francisco at 8:20 a. m., by way of Oakland and Sacramento, and arrive in Klamath Falls at 10:51 a. m., a flight of two hours and 29 min utes. After a 10-mlnute stop here, the plane will take off at 11:01 a. m. for Portland, via Salem, arriving in Portland at 1:09 p. m., two hours and eight minutes from Klamath. The next stop is Seattle, at 2:18 p. m. Coming south tho plane will leave Seattle at 11:05 a. m., leave Portland nt 12:13 p. m., and ar rive at Klamath airport at 2:25 p. m. After a 10-minute layover, the plane goes to San Francisco, arriving at 4:39 p. m. A good connection there makes arrival time in Los Angeles at 7:05 p. m. Elapsed time from Klamath Falls to New York City, includ ing plane changes and stops, will be about 20 hours, through Port land, Denver, Chicago, Philadel phia and intermediate stops. The aviation committee of the chamber of commerce is meeting this afternoon to plnn a celebra tion for the opening of regular air service here. Transferred Wallace Bruce, shown here, will leave Klamath Falls Fri day to take over management of Montgomery Ward and com pany In Stockton, Bruce cam to Klamath Falls April 1, 1942, to manage th itore here. Story on page S. 1 . aJBaaajajaaseajjjaaeBK ' : ) Cm (Telephone Jill And Boy Scouts s 'J ;?-.v. (left) and Ttddy Houstr noiainq Jill, a donkey io b usd at and htr mothar. Jinny, will b charge. Fiihing and hiking trips Walter Long, Tupelo oaker, gave the Associated Press an eyewitness account of the Inci dent Said Long: "1 was standing over on the courthouse lawn about 30 yards away from the two men. I saw th- photographer take the pic ture and turn around to walk away. "Just then, Rankin yelled and Jumped on the photographer's back, scratching his neck and gouging at his hands to get the camera." "Rankin," Long continued, "then shouted, 'I'll kill you, I'll kill you'." The baker said Snipes was holding his camera with ona hand and trying to shield him self with the other. "He obvious ly didn't want to hurt Rankin for he made no effort to strike him or throw him off his back." Long said he then ran across the street and pulled Rankin off the AP man. Rankin wrested the camera away from Snipes. Photographer Snipes said from Tupelo that he called upon Ran kin this morning and asked to take a picture of the congress man a he voted. Rankin denied the request. Later, Snipes snapped a pic ture of Mrs. Rankin In the poll ing place as she voted alone. Sev eral minutes later Snipes said he saw Rankin outside the court house and went out to take the picture. Snipes was the only photo grapher present. Court Refuses Heirens Writ CHICAGO. July 2 fP Chief Justice Harold G. Ward in crim inal court today denied a writ of habeas corpus to 17-yenr-old William Heirens, University of Chicago student questioned about the Suzanne Degnan kidnap-slay-Ing and ordered him remanded to the custody of the state's attorney and of police. Assistant States Attorney James V. Cunningham told the court his office would not ask a further continuance, and that formal charges involving assault and burglary would be filed "as soon as possible," possibly within an hour. Cunningham told Judge Ward these charges would total 19, in cluding one of assault with In tent to murder, three of assault with intent to kill, and 15 of burglary. None of the charges involved tho Degnan case, the state attor ney's office said. Picket Line Violence Flares In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD, July 2 (P) Violence flared briefly at three major movie studios today as pickets of the striking AFL conference of studio unions clashed with police and studio workers, members of the AFL International Alliance of The atrical Stage Employes. Numbers of the latter pene trated . massed picket lines at Warner Brothers studio In Bur bank, MGM at Culver City and Universal at Universal City but firodttctlon at all three was bad y hampered. ' WEATHER NEWS j.ir f. Mat. Ilmlr M Mia 4! Fraf-lallatlaa laat 14 fcafs....aa Strain aaar la Sala ..IS.4 Kil ll.ai Laal jaar " fararaat: UwnMr alaat ta'ajr, la algal, Bw4 WafaaaSar. 8111) Number 10861 uied lor outpost pack trips, a will b mad with th donkey! Parade Plans Nearly Ready Arrangements for the mile and a half long Fourth of July rodeo parade are nearing completion, according to E. P. Ivory, chair man of the parade committee. The parade will form at 10 a. m., July 4, at Spring street, and continue on Main to 2nd, passing the judges stand at 8th. It will turn on 2nd and Klamath and continue- along that street for disbanding. Additional entries are coming in and it is expected that the parade will grow to greater pro portions. New entries may be recorded with the chairman of the section with which the entry is made or at rodeo headquarters, 424 S. 6th. Leading the event will be Queen Jill Givan and her court, followed by the Klamath Saddle club, band, stunt section, civic section, the community section, the fraternal section, the com mercial section, the industrial section,' the labor section, the automotive section, the aviation section, the Chico quadrille team, the Indian section, the juvenile section, the veterans' section, the harness horse section, and the mounted horse section. Ticket sales are the largest of any rodeo held here, with all covered grandstand seats for July 4 sold out. Reserve seats for July 6 and 7 are still on sale. General admission will be sold Friday and Saturday. Those who have pledged $500 toward the rodeo's success are Frank Jenkins, W. A. Serruys, Lloyd Low, Elmer Balsiger, Ar thur Rickbeil, E. P. Ivory, Carl Steinseifer, R. C. Woodruff, An drew Collier, Basil Brown, Mar shall Cornett, Guy Barton and Brady Narey. Trial Of Gigler Set Next Week The impending trial of An drew Gigler, local butcher, on two charges of assault and bat tery against OPA investigators has been continued until next week in justice court. Gigler is charged with rough ing up Charles Bird and Theo dore Holdt, OPA men, when they asked to examine his meat market records last week. U. S. Balentine will represent Gigler. Parking Banned All cars will be kept off Main street between 2nd and Spring Thursday morning un til after the parade, either by drivers parking somewhere else voluntarily or the cars being towed away by the police department. Police Chief Orville Hamilton said today. He and the police depart ment have been authorized to keep the main stem free of cars for the parade, and mo torists who park in that area Thursday morning will have to come to the police station and pay a towing charge to recover their cars. Hamilton has also warned residents to tell their guests to, park their cars somewhere else that morning, because they'll be hauled in just the same as a resident. Cars pnrked on Main overnight must be moved early Thurs day morning. 3 Leaders Baffle For Quick Act To Revive OPA WASHINGTON. July 2 (JPt Administration loader fnnoht today against giving rent controls a right-of-way In the senate over a revival of OPA s general price powers. Blocked by adamant opponents from speeding action on legis lation to restore OPA, Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky.) told the banking committee It would be "dolna throuah a farce" to recommend senate action on a bill dealing with only ono phase of the price question. Senator Capehart (R-Ind.) proposed the Immediate considera tion of a rent bill on grounds restoration of such control is not controversial. . In the face of Barklev's onnoaitinn. Tanohnrt aaM h anatn . will ask tomorrow for a com- mmee vote on rents. 'It seems to me." Barklev said, "that we ought to try In an honest, fair way, without too much delay, to work out some thing comprehensive." Taft Hopeful Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said he thought the chances good that the committee could agree on a general bill this week. If not, Taft said he would favor re porting the rent control meas ure, perhaps including authori ty for a 10 per cent increase in rent if it appears there is to be no general price control law. All price controls were off. The senate opposition made it increasingly apparent that any restoration will be delayed pos sibly several weeks. There were these develop ment as the nation went into its second day of a completely tree economy: 1. The labor department's price index for basic commodi ties such things as livestock, grains, hides, textiles and met als jumped 7.7 points yester day compared with a rise of two-tenths of one point last week. Farm products account ed tor most of the surge, 2. OPA Chief Paul Porter, broadcasting to agency em ployes across the nation, assert ed that rising stock and com modity prices are an ominous sign that speculators are al ready placing bets on infla tion." But he insisted that price controls would win out. 3. DesDite the soaring prices at primary markets, retailers for the most part held to OPA ceilinss. Meat was a notable exceDtion. when it could be found. Rents Soar 4V The sharpest-jump- of all was In rents, with advances run ning up to one-third more in many places and out of sight in a few. This prompted Ches ter Bowles, retiring stabiliza tion director, to urge governors last night to invoke their emer gency powers to ireeze rentals. The - banking committee in sisted that the price and rent enntrnl issue be handled in one legislative package. A similar measure in the senate was rout ed to that chamber's banking committee for routine, unhur ried treatment. Senator Taft, who criticized OPA .-.Derations in a radio ad dress last night, told a reporter ho i willing to make some changes in his presidentially nritii-iTf) amendment so long as any bill retains the principle of making prices Keep pace wuu cost increases on major items. Kidnaped Lawyer Found In Corral SANTA MARIA, Calif., July 2 OP) Shaken but unharmed, Clifford C. Anglim, El Cerrito city attorney and former collec tor of internal revenue for northern California, was found trussed in a ranch corral 13 miles south of here today. He told police he had been kidnaped and robbed last night as he steDDed into a car after buying ice cream near his home in the San Francisco bay area 275 miles to the north. Police broadcast a pickup order for two negroes driving Anglim's car. Livestock Flood Swamps Markets As Ceilings Lift By Th Associated Press A flood of cattle and hog shipments swamped the na tion's livestock markets today in answer to yesterday's up surge in prices and in Chicago cattle scored a record high of $22.50 exceeding the OPA ceiling $4.50. Lifting of OPA ceilings brought a jam of trucks three quarters of a mile long at the Chicago stockyards, deluged with the greatest arrival of cat tle and hogs since last January. Hog prices dropped $2 under yesterday's $18.50 peak, but even that figure was $1.65 above the old OPA maximum. All previous records were smashed by yesterday's $22 cat tle top. A survey of the 12 ranking markets in the country showed 111,700 hogs in the pens com pared to 23,400 a week ago and 54,500 a year ago first in dication since the end of OPA that the gears of supply and demand were beginning to creak again. The stock market had cooled off with price changes narrow and slightly mixed. Wool and cotton tops were down but some grains continued strong. These fluctuations still had Fire Crews Fight Bikini Atom Blazes ABOARD USS APPALA CHIAN. July 2 Firefiaht- ing crews worked on into ths second day in atom-blasted Bi kini lagoon today, dousing lin gering pockets of flame through the target fleet five of whose 73 vessels already had been sunk. That the second test, tenta tively scheduled within three or four weeks may take a far great er toll was indicated in an inter view with Navy Secretary For restal radioed from the flagship Mt. McKinley. He expressed surprise at the "relatively unim portant damage inflicted upon the heavier ships by Monday's air drop, but noted that such ships are "difficult to sink unles they sustain underwater dam age." The second atomic blast if ta be set off under water, with th sea transmitting a terrific blow to the hulls of the test fleet. - The lagoon at mid-afternoon today still was "reacting" from blast and lethal radiation of ye terday morning's aerial burst. Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey, air force commander, reported from Kwajalein. He termed the opera tion "a complete and unqualified success." , Question TJnanswertd Whether crewmen could have ived through the blast remained an unanswered question, but sci entists expect to learn much by observing the effects of the ray, upon surviving test animals, tethered at battle stations aboard the target fleet. Fifth test ship to sink was the broken Japanese cruiser Sakawa (Canllnac an Paca I, Column 3) Mayor Urges Safe Holiday : In a proclamation to the peo ple of Klamath Falls issued to day. Mayor E. Ostendorf urged everyone to enjoy this peacetime Fourth of July to the fullest, but take care that accidents ana tragedies do not mar the holi day. , The proclamation reads: "I request every citizen of this city to accept personal respon sibility for avoiding accidents over the Fourth of July holiday period, and thus enable our com munity to take an active part in the nationwide Fourth of July campaign now being conducted by the National Safety council to hold down the holiday death toll. "Let us not mar with tragedy this first peacetime celebration in five years of the day dedicat ed to our Independence, now re affirmed and strengthened in tha greatest battles of our history. Let the day bring thanksgiving, not sorrow. "Have fun on the Fourth, but be alive on the 5th." ED OSTENDORF, Mayor not generally affected the na tion's retail price, held in check for the most part by merchants who pledged to "hold-the-Iine" until the situation is clarified. There was no change In i 'he pattern of rising rent prices i ?x cept in scattered install s where state and civil autln n- ties attempted to Impose th lr own emergency ceilings. Major department stores In New York and throughout the nation, along with clothing manufacturers, announced their intention of keeping prices at OPA levels. Governors of New Jersey, Alabama and Massachusetts froze rent charges by executive order. Rentals in New York; and the District of Columbia already were controlled by law. Gov. Robert D. Blue of Iowa asked all citizens to observe all provisions previously in effect and requested magistrates and officers to refrain from serving eviction writs in rental increase cases. Some rents In Denver were increased more than 100 per cent despite an appeal from tha Denver Board of Realtors to maintain ceilings, while in Dal las rents went up sharply, many doubled.