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fffo)mlMwnvfm Mmm li m fo) 1 1 .6" 9f tmtu mm nice five CENTS In Tha Br FRANK JENKINS AS Ihia l written, OPA is .till hanging i tlio biiluncc. Tho tuiumi Ima passed a wing-clipping revlvul ninnurr, which the am nio I" debuting tlilai morning. Trumnn In till muni a tu what hn will da with It If It comes to his desk. One guesses from the tone of the Washington diapiilchi-a, how ever, that the revival bill la ex pected tu bit uppruved by the scnalo and algncd by the l'real dent, THE atock murkot U cuutloui toduy, but there la no heavy soiling In the fate nt (nlrly alrunK proaprct that the revival bill will bo enacted Into law. That la at leaal encnuruging. for heavy idling In the atock market la algn of panic. fN the world front, we have before our eye an oulaliind lug example of what happen when recklcaa pcoplo rock the boat the bombing of the Kinif David hotel In Jerui-alcm, In which mine SO people were killed and an yet unilelor mined number wounded. The bombing I itencrully ac rrplcd a an art of terrorism. Tho lorrorlnU SKKM by nil ac counts to have been JLWS. I he terribly maltreated Jews of Kuroe, (or whom an asylum In I'aleatlnr la beinK sought, atnnil to lose MOHK THAN ANYBODY ELSE by audi a deed. Thla fact la recognized by the Paleallne I'oai, the newspaper voice of official .Ionium, which ay: "The crazed cnlculatlona of men who have broken with their roiinc have weighted the air with horror." The Jewish Agency denounce the "gang of elcaperarioex who perpetrated the outrage." I F II could havo been carried through peacefully, tho Pole. tine project MIGHT have worked.' The Jews havo what Arab Paleallne needs organiz ing and buaineM ability. Time might havo demonstrated the value of those qualities even to tho Paleatlne A nibs. IN China, It looki very much as It Chiang Kai-shek has rocked the boat. It I hard to draw Intelligent conclusions from what la hap pening in China, for the truth there Is obscured by clouds of propaganda and hampered by censorship on all aides. Hut even Chiang's al.iler-ln-luw, Madame Sun Yal-sen, who is also a mem ber of the Kunmlntang (the party headed by Chlnng) accuses him of reactionary ambitions and thirst for power. His rocking of the boat has embarrassed us greatly, for It seems probable that he is using lend-lease war material with which WE supplied him to carry on tho civil war In China. He seems to figure that because of Kissession of this material, plus c troops we helped to train, NOW Is the time to crush the Chinese communists and leave him and his crowd supremo In China. JOHN M. HIGHTOWER, a com petent reporter, says In a dis patch today thai tho U. S. gov ernment now laces a foreign policy decision along these lines: 1. Shall tho U. S. government continue to give its lull support to Chiang Kai-shek, U worst comes to worst, or; 2, Shall wo adopt some other attitude, possibly Involving recognition of tho Chinese com munists as legitimate belliger ents (which would amount to standing off to one side and let ting the two factions fight It out without cither help or hindrance Irom us.) RUSSIA, of course, Is the ex plosive factor In tho situation. What will Russia do? Will stie go In full scale back of the Chinese communists if they seem to bo getting tho worst of It? Could that be tho spark that would touch off shooting war? RUSSIA Is difficult to get along with. NOTHING wc do seems to help. ' For example: Nearly every American heaved sigh of relief when Lieutenant Redln, tho young and personable Russian who was accused of spying on us, was acnuitted by an American Jury In Seattle. BUT Pravdn (Russian government newspaper) calls the whole affair a CRIMINAL, CONSPIRACY by .1. Edgar Hoover and our FBI. In a signed article by David Znnlnvsky, under tho headline: "Black Deed of the American Secret Police" Pravda says: "There Is no case of Redln. Thcro IS tho case, of tho Amer ican secret police and a known part of the American press which prefers to keep (inlet about it. "Tho Soviet officer wns seized In the streets, rudely pushed into an automobile, hnmllln tlnRl y searched and kept semi-naked In (Uanllnaad an I, Col. a) Boy Drowns, Four Injured In Mishaps A aeries of accidents, Including one drowning, occurred here in tho last 24 hours, and one young ster is In Klamath Valley hospi tal today In a critical condition after being dragged over a quar ter of a mllo by a horse. Vernon Itay Barron, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon It. Barron, 57 1 U Shasta way, was drowned while playing In a small pond at tho A. J. Tracy concrete block works and suud pit In the 1200 block of Madison yesterday afternoon. The boy, with several other neighborhood youngsters was playing on a small raft In tho pond when the raft tipped over, throwing the Barron boy Into about five and a half feet of water, witnesses said. His body was in tho water sev eral minutes before It was re covered by H. T. Nichols, em ploye of the Tracy concern, who waded in and nulled the body i out with a rake. Inhalators Fall Artificial respiration was given the boy until Sheriff Lloyd Low and state police arrived with in halators and the officers worked on him for about two hours until he was pronounced dead. Vernon Barron was a student at Shasta school, and he Is survived by his parents, two sisters and two brothers. In Klamath Valley hospital is Lorry Anderson, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson of Portland, who was drogiicd behind a horso on the Liskcy Swan Lake range. The boy, a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Llskey, had been riding herd all day yesterday with Jack Llskey and Guy Barton, arid after tho cattle were corralcd, Larry stopped to rest at tho end of the corral. Ho apparently had one leg over the saddle horn and the other resting on the fence, when a sudden fight between two bulls caused the boy's horso to bolt. Caught in Lasso' As tho horse ran, Larry's foot caught In a lasso hopo on tho saddle horn and the boy was dragged on tho ground. Llskey and Barton estimated that he was pulled more than a quarter of a mile and might have been dragged farther had not Liskcy closed the corral gate. Both men were dismounted and couldn't slop Larry's horse immediately. At tho hospital tho boy was said to bo suffering from scvero shock, bad cuts rind bruises, lacerations on his left leg and head, a punctured h'ng and gravel burns covering about 23 ll'anllaatS an rata I, Cal. ) Medford Firms Ask Picket Ban MEDFORD, July 24 (P) Two automobile firms sought tempor ary restraining orders today against picketing by the Inter national Association of Machin ists and the Central Labor Coun cil., A. P. Clnus of Claus Motors and O. C. Larson, A. C. Van galder and George Maddox of Riverside Motors and Implement company sold no strike exists at their places and that all em ployes are union members. Judge H. K. Hannn set August S for a hearing on their pleas to make the injunction perm anent. Automobile mechanics recent ly begnn picketing and employ ers said the only Issue was union shop. Civil War Clouds Threaten U. S. Training Of Chinese WASHINGTON, July 24 (P) Mounting evidence of unde clared civil war In China seem ed almost certain today to kill for this year American plans to help develop a modern, million man Chinese army. Both senate and house leaders agreed privately that legislation to authorize the United Slates to help organize, train and equip such an army has practically no chance of passage In the few days that remain before con gressional adjournment, There was some belief nt the cnpltol thnt a last-minute appeal by Secretary of Slate Byrnes might bring action. But thcro was no Indication at tho stato department that any such move is being planned. Tho milltnry aid bill Is one of tho key pieces In the govern ment's Chinese policy built on tho assumption that Gun. George C, Marshall, President Truman's special peacemaker, would succeed in his efforts to unify the nationalists and com munist forces. American officials are still hopeful. But the flow of reports KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, Pageant Construction Is now undar wa? on tha stag for tha Centennial peasant to be held at the fairgrounds August 22, 23 and 24, The staae. when completed, will be 500 feet long and will feature such thlnas as a waterfall and wagon roads set la fir. Juniper and pine trees. Morse Crams 15V2 Columns In Single Issue Of Record WASHINGTON. July 24 W)- Senator Morac (It-Ore) was a heavy contributor to the July 18 congressional record with five items totaling 13 columns. The senator started off with plea for a new Portland post office. He said the public build ings administration informed Truman Okays 2 Water Bills WASHINGTON. July 24 (VP) President Truman, signing two big flood control, navigation and water power bills, said to day he would withhold any request for too funns they au thorize at least until next sum mer. One measure Is a rivers and harbor bill, which he said au thorizes projects which ulti mately will cost $943,000,000. Tho other is a flood control bill, ultimately to cost $952, 000.000. "1 take them to be primorily authorizations to enable the war department to plan Its future program soundly, and I under stand that there is no expecta tion of early appropriation," tho president said in a statement. "1 do not intend to request funds for any of these projects during the current fiscal year. Financing. whenever made, must be based on budgetory re quirements for that period." Mr. Truman said tho two bills bring the authorized backing of river improvement work under war department jurisdiction to approximately $3,000,000,000. "Assuming that this estimate of $5,000,000,000 is accurate, and experience would indicate that it Is probably low," ho con tinued, "and assuming the new work can be prosecuted at the 1947 approprlotion rate, it will take 35 years to bring to com pletion the river and harbor protects and 20 years to com plete the flood control projects now authorized." during the last ten days or so telling ol increasing military operations by both the commu nist forces and those of Chiang Kai-shek havo started discus sions among some authorities of what tho United States might be able to do if unrestrained civil war should be declared. At the moment, while United States policy ' remains unchang ed, the talk seems to bo along two major lines: 1. Whether the United States should continue to give its full support to Chiang Kai-shek, if worst comes to worst, or 2. Whether It rhould adopt some other attitude, possibly In volving recognition of th com munists as legitimate bulkier cnts. Already, tinder the specially prolonged authority of the oth erwise expired lend-lease act, as sistance to Chiang has drapped off to tiny fraction of what it onco was. What aid is continu ing is based mainly on tho theory that Chiang needs help in completing the repatriation of Jnpnncso troops and in occupy ing tho arens from which llioy have been removed. JULY 24. 194 (Telephone Stage Rises At Fairgrounds ,:. AA tfST TJI him no city in the country need cd a new post office as badly as Portland. He inserted an edi torial from the Oregon Journal entitled "Portland'l 'Half Pint' Post Office." He' then got permission to in sert an editorial from the Den ver Post . written by Palmer Hoyt. former DUbllshcr of the Portland Oregonian,, about -prion cuuuoi. aiiij took a column ana a half. An address. "Political Ethics and Liberalism" he deliv ered before a local church, ran eight and a half columns; an editorial from the Medford, Ore., Mail-Tribune entitled "Abolish the Filibusters," half a column, and an article "Lib erals and Liberalism," four and a quarter columns. Members insert statements in the congressional record by permission asked from the floor and granted except in rare in stances when some other mem ber objects. Louis Mueller Lost At Sea Louis Mueller, former Klam ath law enforcement officer and chief special officer for the U S. Indian service, is missing ia a boat disaster in treacherous waters off Shelikof strait north west of Kodlak island, Alaska. Mueller is reported as one of 10. who are believed to have drowned when a cannery tender broke In two and sank 100 miles from the Kodiak naval base yes terday. Hope has been aban doned for the missing after a vain search by plane and sur face vessels. Lou Mueller Jr., former Klam ath boy now In Alaska,- tele phoned Klamath relatives to day about the disaster. The el der Mueller was on a special mission in connection with his work for the Indian service. His home was at Denver, Colo., but he had been in Alaska since early June. He was the son of Mr. and Mis. C. H. Mueller, Klamath Falls; brother of Mrs. Paul Sharp of this city, and father of Sally and Ann Mueller, also of Klamath Falls, as well as Lou Jr. Coming here about 1921, Mr. Mueller worked for a time as deputy sheriff under Bert Haw kins, and later went Into the Indian service as special officer. Ho served on the reservation here. About a dozen years ago he was promoted to the position of chief special officer, and for several years has lived in Den ver. His wife remained there when he went to Alaska. (See Also Page 4) Baseball Scores AMERICAN RUE Philadelphia 0 3 1 Cleveland 15 0 Savage, Fow'cr,(8) and Rosar; Felicr and Ho.an. Boston 4 14 0 Chicago 17 2 Hughson and H. Wagner; Chi Grove, Hayncs (9) and Hayes, NATIONAL Cincinnati 2 6 1 Boston 19 3 ' Walters and Mueller; Lee, SI Johnson (7) and Odea. I WTATIir NKW( ialr It, ! Mif. U.lf Ml . ... Mia. ..,.. 7 rr.rlpilaliaa latt "4 kaara .M ftoam Mar I aala . .. Ij.tT N.rm.l lt.11 La.l rtmr la.il eracasli LUIIa chaafa Ja Uaipara-tare. 6111) Number 10179 Pageant Plans Make Headway With the skeleton of the Cen tennial pageant stage slowly taking shape at the fairgrounds. people of the Klamath basin are preparing for one of the big gest projects ever undertaken in the county. -. , .,.;, :'-Iu-; v(ark.-.sUrtcd recently, will culminate in a' 500-foot setting for the pageant, August 22, 23 and 24. The pageant is the main event of the celebra tion commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Southern Route into Oregon in 1846. The finished stage will stretch completely across in front of the grandstand and bleachers. A main platform being built in the center is 32 feet wide, 12 feet high and over 100 feet long. In the center will be a water fall with Mt. Mazama rising in the rear. Long winding trails give access to a raised back ground over which wagons, stagecoaches and livestock will enter. A natural setting is pro vided by junipers, pines, firs and sagebrush. An open air theatre bowl will be placed to the side where choruses ana the orchestra will be. located. Synthetic Illumination To illuminate the area it is estimated that 200,000 watts of electricity will be used each night during the show. Flood lights and covered spotlights will be controlled to lurnisn synthetic sun and moonlight. Approximately 45,000 board feet of lumber and 1000 square vards of burlaD will be iued in the construction. Painting is be ing done by a crew of five men. Construction is being supervised bv Bob Stcdman of Medford. Stedman is a former teacher at Henley high School and has re cently been discharged from the army engineers, ine structure is being put up in a prefabricat ed fashion so that it can be used in future civic activities. A sketch of the stage setting and a working model has been don by Don Shirley, art direc tor. This model will be on dis (Canllnucd an Faca S, Cal. 7) Arabs Threaten Holy Land Move JERUSALEM, July 24 (.?) Tension in Palestine, scene or a vast manhunt for extremists who bombed the King David hotel Monday, was heightened today by an Arab warning tnat it tne British failed to halt terrorism the Arabs themselves would be forced to take a hand. While rescue workers con tinued to dig through the debris of the hotel here in hope? of finding additional persons still alive, British troops and Pales tine police combed Jerusalem for leaders of the Jewish under ground organization Irgun Zvai Leumi. The Arab warning to the Brit ish accused Attlce's administra tion of "being too reluctant to use Its full forces to wipe out terrorism and protect Arabs in Palestine. If terrorism continues, the statement Issued by the Arab executive said, "Arabs will be forced to protect their sons and interests with their own re sources and with all the strength they possess." BULLETIN By The Associated Press The earth's first submarine atomic bomb was detonated Thurtdav (today U. S. time) with a giant roar precisely en schedule. The time was 8:35 a. m. The mist and spray completely obliterated from view the 75 target vessels. An official broadcast laid tha waterspout took an entire ly different (hope from tha aerial burst and rocketed on up ward to 8000 feet. Tha outer row of target ship were tha first to appear out of tha awesoma hoxe, showing that at least soma had sur vived tha blast. There was no evidenca that any thipt had been blown into tha air, although they might have been because tha tele vision picture was blotted out at tha time of detonation. Neither the Saratoga nor the Arkansas, nor any of tha battleships could ba teen. Nor could tha carrier Independence. Fog and smoka shrouded them. Eight minute after tha explosion, television observers could count only 10 ships a tha target area of tha lagoon was still obscured. Jewish Plot Outlined By White Paper LONDON, July 24 W The British government tonight ac cused leaders of the Jewish agency for Palestine of ordering acts of violence by underground forces In Palestine. In a ten-page white paper pre sented to parliament by the colonial secretary, the govern ment published intercepted tele grams which it said linked Jew ish Leaders Moshe Shertok, Ber nard Joseph. David Bengurion and others with armed attacks by the three Jewish "illegal para military organizations" Hagana, Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern gang. The evidence, a white paper declared, influenced the. de cision for widespread police and army operations in which more than 2500 Jews In Palestine were arrested June 29. The white paper said the in formation led to these con clusions: That the Hagana and the Il legal military organization known as Palmach "caretully planned movements of sabotage and violence under the guise of the" 'Jewish, resistance . move ment." - f - -- Controlled By Agency ' That both organizations work ed under the political control of members of the jewisn agency; That the illegal Irgun Leumi and the Stern group have worked since last autumn in co operation with the high com mand of the Hagana on certain of these operations; and that the (Caatlaaa aa Fata S, Cal. ) Ehrenburg Tells Of U. S. Castes MOSCOW, July 24 P The Russian Reporter ilya Ehrenburg wrote in Izvestia today that the United States had a legalized racial caste system in the case of negroes and an entirely un official racial caste system in the treatment of Jews, Italians and Chinese. Ehrenburg has Just returned from an extensive, unrestricted tour of the United States. "America, which never knew feudalism, has established an other hierarchy a racial one, he wrote. "The English, Scotch and Irish are the aristocracy. After them come the Scandinavians and Germans, and then the French and Slavs. The Italians are many times lower. The Jews are even lower. Puerto Ricans are below them and the last at the bottom of the ladder are the negroes." 'Southern Emigrant Route' Markers To Spot Historical markers headed by the words "Southern Emigrant Route" will be placed at Klam ath county highway points along the emigrant road of 1846 by the state highway commis sion, it was learned definitely here today. - The decision marks a victory for the Klamath Historical so ciety, which has insisted that "southern route" is the historically-accurate title for the old emigrant road. - The highway commission placed the matter in the hands of the memorials committee of the Oregon His torical society, and that commit tee recommended that the name "Southern Route" be used. - The matter came to a public issue alter the Oregon branch of the American Pioneer Trails as sociation proposed that the road be marked as "Applegate Trail" on the grounds that it had been so designated on various maps and in various writings, and that it would honor Jesse and Lind say Applegate, famed Oregon pioneers. The expedition of 1846 which established the route as an emi grant road proceeded from Rick rcall, in the Willamette valley, south through western Oregon, over the Greensprlngs route, through the Klamath country and east to Fort Hall, In Idaho, where it connected with the northern route of the Oregon trail, which passed down the Columbia river. Bikini timt (1:35 p. m. PST.) Summer Heat Broils Basin, The mercury hit 94 at 2 o'clock this, afternoon. Temneratures remained about the same Wednesday as basin residents continued to swelter in the summer heat. Recordings made at the airport listed 89 de grees at 12:30 p. m. today, two degrees above Tuesday's read ings for the same time. The tem perature rose to BO degrees at noon but had dropped back a degree a half hour later. The forests were quiet, with out any forest fires being report ed. One small fire which started late Tuesday near Bonanza was put oui before there was any damage. Forecasts of high morning fogs along the coasts of Oregon and Washington gave those sections of the Pacific northwest hopes for a temporary letup from the high temperatures which have held sway throughout the area for the past four days. -. Inland, however, there was little indication of an immediate respite with only the weather man's promise of "cooler in the west portion and throughout the interior Thursday" to bolster sun-baked spirits. - Temperatures yesterday ap proached the 100-mark in eastern portions of the two states and fell off only a degree or two west of the mountains. The four-day heatwave already has taken a death toil of 35 per sona -m tne -two states, '24, u Washington. - - . Barkley Urges Speed On OPA WASHINGTON, July 24 (VP) Conceding that some "severe headaches" may be ahead in get ting UFA back into Dusiness again, Majority Leader Barkley (Ky.) today urged the senate to give speedy approval to the new compromise legislation for re viving price controls. ' He told his colleagues that the measure worked out by the sen ate-house conferees and approved by the house yesterday is "with two or three exceptions, in sub stance the same bill that congress passed previously and that the president vetoed." But, he asserted that disagree ments between house and senate had made it necessary to "make some concessions if we got any bill at all." In reply to a question, Barkley said that he had received "posi tive assurance" from the OPA administrator that some program would be worked out to alleviate the situation of elevator owners and other grain purchasers who had bought at current, arjove ceiling orices but who faced the possibility of a roll-back of prices on August 20. County s Century -Old Road Walter Meacham, secretary of the Pioneer Trails organization and who has clashed, with the Klamath group on the proper name lor tne route, nas indi cated that in spite of the state highway commission's decision on the official state markers, his group will proceed with "Apple gate Trail" markers at least in western Oregon. At last night's meeting of the Klamatn County Historical so ciety, the findings of the state historical society's committee were reviewed, and the local group also had a letter from the state highway engineer's office outlining a proposed inscription on one of the signs. The state historical society committee in its report showed it had studied the works of 12 authors. Eight of them had used the term "southern route" in re ferring to the emigrant road, and four had used both "south ern route" and "Applegate trail, route or road." The term inology was used 30 times in the, material analyzed. Of these, 24 were southern route or road and six were Applegate road, route or trail. Pageant Calendar There will be an orchestra rehearsal Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the high school music room. Russ Envoy Stands Firm Against U.S: NEW YORK. July 24 (A Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet rep resentative to the United Na tions' atomic energy commission, today flatly rejected the major United States proposals for con trol of atomic energy. Gromyko. speaking at a ses sion of committee No. 2, specifi cally turned down the U. S. pro posals for setting up an atomic development authority and for ruling out the veto on atomic matters. In making his statement, the Soviet representative made it clear that his government was rejecting "as a whole or any part" of the third memorandum submitted by Bernard M. Baruch, u. a. delegate. This memoran dum had summed up all prin cipal points of the United States plan. Announcement of Gromyko'i stand was made bv the United Nations press officer in tha midst of the closed meeting. No information was available imme diately on any possible sugges tions made by the Russian dele gate. Inetlectlve If Vetoed The United States memoran dum sets forth that controls would be wholly ineffective if enforcement could be prevented by vote of a state which haa signed a proposed control treaty. Any other conception would render the whole principle of the veto ridiculous," the memo randum added. The United States memoran dum also reiterated one of Ba ruch's statements when he pre- . sented the United States plan. He said: "There must be no veto to pro tect those who violate their solemn agreements not to de velop or use atomic energy for destructive purposes." The controversial Palestine (Caatlaata aa rata , Cal- ) - Body Of Lake Victim Found . One of the two bodies being . sought in Upper Klamath lake, that of John A. (Jack) Henry, 43. was found late yesterday after noon by a fisherman and was brought in to Klamath Falls this morning. The search for Keith Gordon, 56, is continuing. Charlie Moore, who was fish ing off Coon point, found Henry's body in about two feet of water, secured it to the bank with a line and went to Rocky Point to call in the news of his discovery to the sheriff's office. Mark Howard was with Moore at tha time of the discovery. - - Moore did not know either Gordon or Henry, so that iden tification of the body was not made until this morning. Sheriff Lloyd Low and a party went to the lake after Moore's call, but could not reach the body last night in the dark. Low and Ray Worden stayed at Rocky Point last night, and this morning, with Charlie Zieg ler, who operates Zieglcr's dock on the lake, brought the body of Henry In to Ward's funeral home. The second kapok life cushion from Gordon's boat was found still afloat about 50 yards from the body. Gordon and Henry disappeared Sunday while on a boat trip from Geary canal to Malone springs in Gordon's small power boat. Another development in tha search for Gordon came in infor mation from Orville Herman, a Balsiger employe, who told tho (Caatlaaae aa Faia S, CaL S The committee's decision read as follows: ."The recommendation of this committee is that ' the name Southern Route be used and there be not over, three or four markers in all the stretch be tween Ashland and' Malin. These can be sufficiently large so as to contain an abbreviated sketch of the road's history. There will also be avoided tho use of the word 'trail' which is rather out of place in describ ing modern roads or routes." Mrs. Buena Stone, local histor-" ian and a leader in the argu ment in favor of "southern route," commented at the meet ing last night that the Klamath group had been willing to rest its case with the highway com mission and the state historical society, and would have accept ed the decision had it been for "Applegate Trail." She empha sized that thts local attitude was not intended to belittle the part of the Applegate family In his tory. The local society favors put. ting one of the historical mark ers on the Greensprlngs high way west of Keno, at the point where the road overlooks tho Copco power plant; another on highway 39 south of Merrill, near the old stone bridge which the party crossed, and another on highway 97 near Cal-Ore, where the party also crossed. i SI i
