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FlfjTi jIUJJ MINT p 12M By rRANK JENKINS IT look! till morning m If peace ha UDiiii to pot In Cltlna. A rilMiutch from Nanking says: "lllvul Chinese government mid communist armies Bra ON THE MAHCIl along tho mighty Yangtze river today mid dailies nnrtli of this vltul artery of L'liltm pone threat of full-scalo civil war." lioth sides are accusing ooch other of aggression (In the language of diplomacy, "eg gremlon" In wlnit tho other fel low duct to you.) TVE can't bollevo much of any- " tiling wo hoar from China where censorship acreom out tho bulk of the truth nod permlU only propaganda to filter through. II lit of till much wo ran he fiultn lure: If tho common run of Chlna'a people could have their way, tliero would oo no civn war. Tho trouble Ilea In the embl tlona of RIVAL LEADERS SEEKING I'OWEH. W1IEN you feel like praying, " you might try Dili one: "Dour Cod, givo u wlto and umelf ah leaders. A great deal of tho GOOD America haa accoiiipllnhcd In the world can be laid at the door of Washington's wle and unselfish (eaderahlp In the critical hours of our nation a birth. AT his press conference thla " morning, President Truman rules out for thla year at least tho proaiiect of a bllllon-dollar loan to Kusaia. no teua a queatlouer that ho haa no Inten- tlun of Biking congress at thla tension for more fund for foreign financing, (bxlsting funria avail' able for such a purpose ara practically used up.) Before we lend money to Rus sia, we'd better bo pretty sure what It la going to be used far, That's what any WISE banker wants to know beforo he makes a loan. ON tho troubled foreign front, I'remicr Alclde dc Caspcrl expresses disappointment today In "American promises." saying In Rome this morning that he fears the new Itiillnn republic will fall If Trieste la Intornullon allied as recommended by the four-power foreign ministers council. He adds: When the Americans entered Italy, we were told that If wo fought beside you this and that and tho other thing would be con sldered In the final peace treaties. Instead, wlialT WO lose Trieste, an Italian city.' a TTALY has been unbelievably dumb. Twice In a rfv she has wsded into world war with the wrong crowd. That Is the REAL reason for her troubles. De Gasperl Is meroly trying to lay the blume on somebody else which Is a very common human falling. Italy's griefs track straight back to POOH LEADERSHIP- which the Italians tamely stood lor. CTILL. when we wanted to pry them loose from the Germans, we undoubtedly DID promise the Italians more than we could hope to deliver. Just as in tho Atlantic Charter we proclaimed beautiful ideals that we later abandoned. WHEN an individual makes " promises thnt he knows ho probably won't be able to make good on, when IN A PINCH ho talks high idealism that he later lorgets, no is pretty sure to for ion confidence. Tho nmo goes for nations, TP vou want ntihlie confidence r - - . vou'd better make uood on your promises. If, in an effort 10 win tricnus when you need mem, you pose as a great Idealist you'd belter HE an Idealist. Ono can't help feeling that In recent years America has TALKED Idonllsm too much and FKACTICEU It too little. Typhoon Lashes Chinese Harbor HONG KONG, July 18 (P) winns roncning a maximum velocity of 102 miles an hou wrcckod at least six vessels of various sizes today as a typhoon insnna nong riong harbor lor threo hours, The typhoon moved tonight to the southwest but heavy ruins continued in mis city. Many cars, trucks, and Jeeps were abnndoncd In flooded streets. Officials snld it was too early to cstimnte tho total damage caused by the winds, which rouged generally between 60 and 102 miles an hour velocity. Fifty Nurses Needed For Barnes Hospital PORTLAND. Julv IB IJP - Fifty registered nurses are need. ed to complete the staff at Barnes General hospital, Van couver, Wash,, Dr. Paul I. Car tor, manager of the Veterans' Hospital here, snld todnv. Barnes General is scheduled 1o open August 1 as an annex to the Portland hospital, with tao patients to bo admitted CIO Selects Jack Kroll To Run PAC WASHINGTON, July 18 VP) The CIO announced today the selection of Jack Kroll as ad ministrative head of the CIO political action committee, with top level policy vested In a five man executive bdard. ' This setup would replace the one-man control of PAC activi ties which prevailed under the lalo Sidney llillman. Kroll, 61, who has been Hill man's asslstunt on ClO-PAC, will handle day-to-day supervision and direction of CIO-PAC work. CIO President Philip Murray muuo loduy s announcement alter tho pmn had been ra III led at a closed door meeting ol tnu CIO executive board. In recognition of its responsi bilities In tho Held of political action," Murray told reporters, 'the CIO has decided to tntciuflly its work in tills Held and to en large the aparatua lor conduct ing political action work." Board Hamad Tho five-man executive board. named to shape CIO-PAC pol iclos, cunslsls of the secretary treasurers of four CIO unions plus Kroll, a vice president of the CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers union. Kroll will be executivo board chairman. The CIO political action com mittee Itself was enlarged from to li member with Murray and CIO Secretary-Treasurer James li. Carey Included among the new members. Under the old setup Murray had been only ex-oflicio chair man of the group. He said to day til a I hia membership on the commltteo should not be taken to mean that he will have any closer relationship with CIO-PAC wan Heretofore. Some CIO leaders, Murray said, had suggested that he take over CIO-PAC Icadershln him self, but he asserted that the burden of other duties" In the CIO prevented this. Kroll for the last 23 years has lived in Cincinnati where ho is manager of tho Joint board of tne Amalgamated Clothing Workers (CIO). As a vice Dresi- dent of that union, he was long associated with Hillmaii. its president. Russia Denies Grab Protests LONDON. July 18 Rus sia has rejected United States and British representations on seizure of Austrian property for reparations, a high authority said today. In lensthv note handed the Austrian government, the Sov iet occupation authorities in Austria were said to have made it plain that there is no change In their recent position in re gard to seizure of $22,000,000 worth of Austrian industrial plants and other property con fiscated by the Germans follow ing the anchlusa in 1938. The text of the note was not available in London but its es sential points were known to authoritative sources, which said It disagreed with almost every point set forth In Ameri can and British representations. The controversy arose 4uly 6 when tho Soviet- command in Austria announced the property In eastern Austria had passed into Soviet ownership along with all other "German exter nal assets" in the Russian zone. The United States disputed this interpretation In the allied council, asserting that property forcibly confiscated by the Ger mans after 1938 could not be classified as German under the Potsdam agrccmont. Government-Granted Pact Gives Lewis New Toehold WASHINGTON, July 18 P) A government -granted wage agreement covering 138 mine supervisors gave John L. Lewis a new toehold today in the soft coal Industry. It means that Lewis and his United Mine Workers (AFL) have won the first contract specifying supervisors' wages and working conditions ever ne gotiated In the industry's his tory. Mine owners for years have resisted oil attempts to enter In to union contracts applicable to supervisors on the contention that supervisors represent man agement. In recent weeks the operators sought unsuccessfully to re strain tho government from en tering into such an agreement. The mines still" are under feder al ownership as a result of the seizure order which grew out of the two-month bituminous strike this spring. The agreement signed by Secretary of the Interior J. A. Kmg and Adm. Ben C. Morecll, coal- mines administrator, stipu lates that it Is to be effective only for the period of govern ment possession and Is to be voided in event the courts should hold the government acted improperly. However, the coal Industry PRICE V Hoe Balks Rankin Move On Atom Bill WASHINGTON. July 18 (P) Opponents of the administra tion's atomic energy control bill today lost the first round of their fight to kill the legislation. By a standing volo of 131 to 102, the house defeated a mo tion by Rap. John E. Rankin (D-Mixs.) to slrlko nut tho bill's enacting clause. This action would have killed the measure. Rankin, who yesterday told the hojse there are spies now at tho Oak Ridge, Tcnn., atomic plant, declared In support of his motion that world pence should be secured before "we begin to Hive away the weapons. . . " He contended tiiat the legis lation, proposing creation of a five-man control commission, would result in leakage of the atom bomb secret to other na tions. Chairman May (D-Ky.) or the military committee opposed Rank-in's move, calling on the house to at least consider the legislation and then chango It if it wanted to. Immediately after Rankin's motion fnllcd. Rep. Short (R- Mo.) moved to send the measure back to the military committee, which would have had the ef fect of pigeon-holing it until next year. Short's motion lost 107 to 50. Plan Underway On New County PENDLETON. July 18 un commercial clubs or tour uma- tllla county and two Morrow county towns are launching a campaign to form a new county, named after the late Senator Charles McNary. In the vicinity of McNary dam, W. R. Nugent of Umatilla announced- loduy. Nunent aald Umatilla. Itcrm- Islon. Stanfleld and Echo In Umatilla county and Boardman and lrrluon In Morrow county are starting tabulation of their assessed valuation, aimed at forming the nation's youngest county. "These towns feel mat tney are not getting much In return for their tart money." Nugent said. "We have been partic ularly neglected in coin road development and school pro grams." It was this neglect and vastly different Interests from the sur rounding wheat country in pres ent counties which prompted the campaign, he said, pointing out mat the area or tne proposed county will include irrigated lands growing a wide array of diversified crops. He said a "kick-off" meeting or campaign leaders will be held sometime next week. Hammond Injured By Kicking Horse James Hammond, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hammond of Merrill, suffered a deep gash over tho eye and other head in juries when he was kicked by a horse at the Willow Creek ranch cast of Dorrls early this morning. Young Hammond, recently re turned from duty with the army, is at Klamath Valley hospital. He was admitted at 10 a. m. His condition Is not considered ser ious. views as Inevitable that Lewis will Insist on the operators' ac cepting, once they resume own ership, all the terms and condi tions which existed during gov ernment seizure. The agreement announced lust night applies only to the 136 supervisors at four mines of the Jones and Laughltn Steel corporation In western Pennsyl vania, the Vesta No, 4, S and 6 and the Slmimopln mine at California, Pa. Tho national labor relations board ruled several months ago that tho United Clerical, Tech nical and Supervisory Employes union of UMW's district 50 was tho proper bargaining agent for these employes. J. & L. resist ed the decision and moved to contest it in the courts. J. & L. supervisors covcr"d In tho pact were granted a $1.83 daily pay boost plus a $25 in crease in vacation pay. Krug and Morecll signed two other agreements covering clerical and technical employes of J. & L. and the Industrial Col lieries corporation, Johnstown, Pa., a subsidiary of Bethlehem bieol. Tnese workers were given the same 184-cent hourly increase granted Lewis coal miners under an earlier government-union agreement. KLAMATH Fine Hirsute Crop Boast. Herald-News VP I ? ' t -I V i f t V, M A '1 It jaVl Gtorge Godard. assistant pressman at The Ha raid and Naws plant, laanad against th press to day while the stall photographer throw the lights on his elegant whisker crop which ho hopes to have to his waist before tho Centonnial oaaaant whiskerino contest doses. Officially, the contest gou under way Monday, and detail el th whU kerino . doal wil Ceoiga Juitcoulda't, wnitl -. .). k,i i- - Legion Elects Paul Otterbein Paul Otterbein of Klamath Falls, was elected district com mander of District No. 4, at the American Legion convention which ended in Portland late Wednesday. Vice commander of the district which embraces this area, is Harry Pinkerton of Mcdford. Also of vital interest to this area was the resolution made at the state meet, urging delay in disposal of the Marine Bar racks by the war assets admin istration. In a rush to clean up the business, delegates voted unan imously for all resolutions seek ing aid for World War II vet erans. The convention was returned to Portland for August 14, 13 and 16. 1947. Other officers serving with the new commander are: Jack Maris. Roseburg, of the Suther- lln-Onklnnd post, vice com mander; Thomas Stoughton, Portland, reelected finance of ficer: Lt. Col. George Monval- liu Bailey, S. J.. Pendleton. chaplain. Resolutions seeking aid to veterans urged: relaxing of state loan laws so veterans may borrow to repair homes and farms or to stock or re-stock ranches, instead of only for pur chase of homes, or farms: in creasing of loans from $3000 to $6000: transfer of home and farm appraisal from state land lord to the director of veterans' affairs: inclusion of veterans on the state apprenticeship coun cils; reorganization of surplus war property sale procedures. Seattle Records Quakes In Sea SEATTLE. July 18 (iP) Two strong submarine earthquakes rocked the ocean floor about 800 miles from here at 10:11 fast" m. and 10:20 p. m. (PST) night, Prof. George E. Goodspccd,- University of Wash ington seismologist, reported to day. "They were so severe that had they occurred inland the damage would have been con siderable," he said. The shocks persisted with di minished intensity for 43 min utes and "probably" centered In a well-known submarine fault off the California-Oregon border, he said. However, they might have been off the north cm tip of Vancouver island and checks witn untitornia seismolo gists will aid in locating their source, he added. The shocks were recorded on tho Fordham university seismo graph in New York City and were described there as "quite severe.!' FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, ' . f ''' . ., v. ; fJE .'. i ( - -. ... J ,. ti r ! f -J Dynamite Supplies Moved From Market Street Site Explosives described by Fire Chief Keith K. Ambrose as sufficient to blast out every window in Klamath Falls, were moved from a Market street commercial plant this week at request of the chief. A large quantity of dynamite at the Klamath Concrete Pipe company plant, 805 Market, was stored contrary to city ordinance, the chief said, and when he explained the danger to company officials, they willingly cooperated and moved the supply within an hour to their magazine on tne Jieno highway. At least 573 pounds of 4U per Air Inaugural Plans Talked Plans for opening festivities with the inauguration of United Air Lines' four-daily flights into Klamath Falls on August 1, were under discussion this afternoon at the Klamath County chamber of commerce. Here from Portland is Tom Blanchard, traveling traffic rep resentative of United Air Lines, and with W. T. Mclntyre. station agent, the two met with com mittee members to discuss in augural plans from the commu nity standpoint. Blanchard announced today that this city will have direct service to Spokane and other Inland Empire cities when Uni ted comes in here. Announce ment of other flights out of Klamath Falls will be published in the near future, Mclntyre said. Those interested in the Spokane contact, were advised that that city will be only- five and one-half hours away on a through Mainliner passenger and cargo flight leaving here at mid morning. Intermediate cities on the route will include Salem, Portland and Pendleton. The flight will leave Klamath Falls at 10:11 a. m reaching Salem at 11:48 a. m., Portland at 12:19 a. m., Pendleton at 2:12 p. m., and Suokane at 3:38 p. m. Bulletin WASHINGTON, July 18 ) Senate conferees on OPA re jected today a proposal by house members for a compromise tnat would have removed tho senato ban on any further price ceil ings for meat, milk, eggs and other foods. Senator Taft (R-Ol and Chair man Sponsa (D-Ky) of the housa banking committee Jointly an nounced thet house members had offered, and the senate members promptly rejected, tho compro mise proposaK JULY 18. 194S (Telephone Whiskerino! V: . announced at that time. . ; Y : cent dynamite, 50 pounds of 50 per cent dynamite, 1075 pounds of black blasting powder and 22,075 electric dynamite caps were in the company buildings. Chief Ambrose indicated that no-- special protective measure had been taken in storing the explosives.- In fact, he said, in several of the buildings, where the dynamite was stored, repair work and welding were being done. The dynamite is retailed by the Klamath Concrete Pipe company, handling Du Pont ex plosives for this area. The com pany is subject to government inspection and had satisfied federal requirements, officials said today. Floyd Summers, owner, said he was not aware of the city ordinance and had been keeping a limited supply on hand for customers. The com pany has a magazine on the Lee Holliday ranch, five miles from town, but delivery charges are around $2.50, which as Sum mers pointed out, is expensive lor someone ' wishing a few sticks of dynamite. The matter came to the fire department s attention when Hoy Howe, fire department in spector, heard about it while making a check of fire hazards on Main street The dynamite was taken to the magazine by the company as soon as it was brought to their attention . Chief Ambrose mentioned the matter before the city coun cil Monday night and suggested that the ' city ordinance be amended so that no explosives can be kept in the city. At that time the council did not take any definite action until the state regulations could be ex amined. Baseball Scores NATIONAL R H E 3 Brooklyn ......1. : 2 8 Cincinnati 4 9 1 Higbe, Herring (3). Lombard! (7) and Anderson. Edwards (7) Heusser and Meuller. Boston 9 13 1 Chicago 3 6 0 Lee and O'Dea, Mas! (5); Pas- scau, Meer (2), Olsen (3), Bauer (6), Fleming (8) and McCullough Scheffing (8). New York 3 12 1 Pittsburgh 7 12 . ( Koslo and Lombard!, Warren (8); Bahr,.Roe (2), Lanning (7) and Lopez. AMERICAN Cleveland 7 8 Philadelphia 3 8 Webber, Gromek (6) and He- gan; Christopher, t lores (2) and nosar. e Chicago 2 Boston 3 S 0 9 0 Papish. Rigney (1) and Hayes Harris, Kllngcr (7) and H. Wag ner. i . '. 7 : V J WEATHER NEWS Jalf IS, ISIS Ma. (JilT 111 SS Mia. S3 PrMlaltallae laat S4 kaara . Slraaaa Jtar la Sal .ll." Naraial It.ll Laal f" f afaeaill CUar laalfkl aai malar. 8111) Number 10874 Six Die As Blast Rocks Resort Town ONSET, Mass., July 18 (P) A gas explosion rocked the center of this crowded Buzzards bay resort today and official re ports placed the dead at six, with the possibility that others were buried in the wreckage. All the dead lived in Onset. Upwards of 23 were injured. some seriously. Four buildings, housing a spa, gift shop and sea food restaurant were damaged in the blast at the height of the noon luncheon rush in eating and dining places. The state fire marshal in Bos ton said he had been informed by an inspector on the scene that six were killed. Wareham police who cover the village of Onset, also said six were known to be dead. Restaurant Destroyed Police of the town of Ware bam, of which Onset is a vil lage, said four persons were known to be dead and that 18 to 20 persons were injured in the blast which destroyed Christy's restaurant and dam aged surrounding buildings. Names of dead and injured were not immediately available. Tobey hospital reported that two persons injured in the ex plosion were dead on arrival and that 18 to 20 others were brought there for treatment. Every ambulance within 35 miles radius was called. The Onset fire department reported the fire that followed the blast had been extinguished but said "we may be digging all night long." . Yangtze Move Menaces China NANKING, July 18 (-IP) Rival Chinese government and com munist armies were on the march along the mighty Yangtse river today and clashes north of this vital artery of China posed a threat of full-scale civil war. -Gen. Chou En-lai. leader of the community delegation in Nan king, charged the government with "aggressions" and told a press conference "local conflicts are blossoming rapidly into civil war." Peng Hsuen-pei. minister of information, denied this and as serted that communist armies instead were marching from the north upon the Yangtze, along whose bahks lie Nanking and the great port ot snangnai. . General Marshall, special U. S. envoy, flew to the summer capital at Kuling to confer with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and presumably gave him the latest account of the deteriorat ing situation. There was an ominous quiet in Manchuria, but from reports pouring in little remained in China proper of last January's cease-fire agreement which Mar shall hoped to use as a founda tion for a permanent peace. Chou said fighting now was concentrated north of Shanghai and northeast of Nanking in northern Kiangsu province, the strategic Shantung on the sea board farther north, in northern Hupeh. which embraces Peiping and Tientsin, and south Shansi, just west of Hupeh. County To Hike Valuations And Cut Property Tax Rate By Halo Scarbrough (Ed Note: This is the first of a series of articles to acquaint Klamath county residents with the assessed valuation increase.) The assessed valuation of prop erty in Klamath county is going to be raised 25 per cent, straight across the board, this fall, so one night soon a landowner with a piece of ground worth $1000 in the tax assessor's office is going to go to bed with that fig ure in mind and wake up the next morning to find that his land then is worth $1250. But, when tax paying time comes, the boost will not make any difference in the amount of money paid for the right to own the land, because the millage rate of taxes will be reduced in a percentage to correspond with the raise in valuation. In other words, this change is just on the books in the office of the county tax assessor and the state tax commission, and the taxpayer will not be nicked for anv more monev for the new assessed valuation of his prop erty than he was for the old assessment. Take the $1000 valuation for example: Proceedings Against May Meet Delay WASHINGTON, July 18 UP) The senate war investigating committee reported today that it haa uncovered "new evi dence" in its war profits In quiry into a midwest munition! combine. The "new evidence" delayed a committee decision on what steps it might take In hailing Chairman May (D-Ky.) of tho house military committee be- WASHINGTON. July 18 Mrs. Eleanor Hall, a witnssa in senate's war profits in quiry, said today she had been given police protection after receiving "mysterious telephone calls" last night. Mrs. Hall testified yester day before tho senato war In vestigating committee about operations of the Washington office of a midweatern muni tions firm which formerly employed her as a secrets -y. fore it for a public explanation of his activities in connection with the combine. The committee met for more than an hour behind closed doors for a "general discussion" of possible steps. , Two written invitations al ready have been sent to him by Chairman Mead (D-N. Y.) to ap pear "voluntarily." But he has laid down conditions for that appearance among them the right to cross examine witnesses and summon records which the committee has refused to ac cept. , . . Front Darned May has acknowledged that he aided the Illinois industrial combine during the war years. but has insisted that aid was for the war effort alone, and has denied that he profited person ally. Yesterday the committee heard testimony that he one asked an official of the com bine: "What about that $3000?" At the close of today s execu tive session, Francis Flanagan of committee counsel announced the discovery of the new evi dence, but flatly refused to dis close to reporters even an "ink ling" of its nature or who' it involved. He acknowledged that it might involve the reopening of public hearings. - Mead, who brought public hearings to a tumultuous end yesterday, said the committee also will decide what action to take on the non-appearance of Murray Garsson. Garsson was one of the promoters of the Erie Basin Metal Products company of Elgin, 111., and Batavia Metal Products company of Batavia, 111., leading companies in the munitions setup. Lawyers View Degnan Scene CHICAGO, July 18 m William Heirens' attorneys ex- amined the scene of the kidnap slavine of Suzanne Degnan to day, indicating preparations for a possible court detense oi ineir client on that charge. Published reports that a deal still was in the making whereby Heirens would confess formally to three slayings in return .for the state's recommendation for a life sentence instead of the electric chair were discounted today by the Herald-American which said: "All horse trading for a pre trial settlement of the fate of William Heirens, the schizo phrenic murder suspect, was abandoned today and opposing counsel began preparing for a judge and jury trial." State's Attorney William J. Tuohy and Heirens' ; lawyers would not comment on reports a "deal" ever was suggested or considered. Based on the 1945-48 levy for the city of Klamath Falls, the tax was 94 mills, or $94 for a $1000 assessed valuation. The new valuation will be $1ZS0, one-fourth more, but the tax levy will be corresponding dropped to 75.2 mills, and bring in $94 on the $1250. Reason for the boost In prop erty valuation, as explained by tax authorities, is that Klamath county's property for a long time past has held a very low assess- ed valuation a ratio of 36 to an average of 50 for the state and that just tends to make the prop . erty in this county look like It S -not worth very much. This 25 per cent boost, to be apportioned equally to all assess able property In the county, is -designed to place Klamath's val uation ratio on a more equitable footing with the other counties in the state. Both the city council and the county court have requested that the assessed valuation of the county be increased, and this change has been worked out by Newt Nelson, tax assessor, and Arthur A.' Selander, chief ap- praisal engineer of the state tax commission. V
