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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1946)
mm MJL 1 III liar's lews By FRANK JENKINS A FAINT Inn of economic " anlly appear In Washington .odiiy. Kxplulnlng Unit It 1 necosmiry ji order to comply with Uio I'rnaldulll'l nlltllhf llltloll budget. Reconversion Director Slouhiiui) order 700 million dollur worm at uovernmcnt coiuftructlon re moved (or tho Immediate prevent from thv moo million uoiiur puo lie work program. Obeying liln "directive," fed eral uuciiclt'K hiivit nircudy turt- rl vlftlug the TWA program lor vpproxlumlely three -quarter o( hlllliin dollnm wen Hi o( federal construction tliut cun lie deferred ul leunt until next vprluu. 't'lm dlHiiiitcucs liidlcutc tliut , mine of the nlfled-ont project! i limy be ellinlnnled entirely. ' v TT In obvious to any careful 1 X ililnker Hint in theve duy of " neute shortage we need MOST OK ALL tho kind of productive pending that will bring u av quickly a pouilble the neceMltlin of everyuny mouerii iivinn ami LEAST Or" ALL the kind of pending Involved In I'WA pro ject. ' LET'S nee if we cun t put Hint little more clenrly. If you wunt hirl unci hort nnd mill nnd butter unit cgtf nnd meiil nnd houses dm neurly every body dne), you DON'T want the government to into up a lnrgu hnre of tlie nviillnble mnterliilii nnd lubor In building flood con trol project nnd micli tliut CAN WAIT until we're better able to nfford them. We need fowl, clothing nnd heller NOW. We am wull quite while, without being hurt, for our PWA project. Tlml I Uio vltuntlon in nut hell. LET'S stay clear-eyed to WHY Mich nn order l issued. The Idea I probnbly beginning to spread In offlclul Wnihlngton that reek leu xndlng isn't too populur any more. So, with a critically Important election coming up in Nuvember, ttie administration I beginning to make ECONOMY gestures. Pints tills In vour hat: The politician will SPEND long a they think pending will get them rc-eiccieu, when ever they get the idea tliut too much spending will DEFEAT .thTiii, they'll QUIT SPENDING. Thut is tiie wny politic work. NOTE carefully that till PWA pending I postponed ONLY until next pring. If the pend em are re-elected thl. fall, the IKMidlng will be RESUMED a onn a the election Is wifely over. REPUBLICAN Nntlonol Chair man J. Cnrroll Keece says in Portland that If n Itoubllcnn congress I elected In November it will promptly uncover ninny ense of wnr profiteering. He add thai nothing smaller thnn tho Pentagon building could hold all the profiteer. rON'T let yoiirnelf be misled too much by hi tnlement. Hrmemher that tho Republican are OUT nnd wnnt IN. They're proml.ilng us a thorough, cleaning If they get in. They're primarily Interested In getting In. STILL If you are dissatisfied with the woy thing arc going in Washing ton, about the only wny you can get a change i to vole Demo crat out and vote Republicans in. If you vote Democrat back in, they will naturally accept it as nn endorsement of what they have been doing. That'B tho wny our political system work. TF there hn been corruption, the general Democratic desire will be to pluy It down as much a possible, because bringing it out Into the open Hunt o( clay will tend to DISCREDIT their sltlc. The present desire of Repub lican, who ore OUT, i to un cover a much ns possible in or dor to put the Democratic INS on the spot. yllE sincere and Intelligent pnrt of tho public, of course, I merely anxious to drive corrup tion out of government nnd keep it nut. Corruption and good govern ment don't go together and without good government we'll be aunk. Firebug Escapes Forest Dragnet ROSEBURG. Ore., Aug. 6 UP) Tho Inccndlnrist who Sunday started a string of blazes in the rnrost lands southwest of can ynnville lins made good his es cape. Fred Southwlck, supervis ing wnrden of the Pouglns Forest Protective association, sulci to duv. The 1 80-ncrc fire which merged from 14 separate "sets," was re ported under control, a the Into forestry department arbo retum crew returned to Corvnlll after relieving the jassocinllon's lire fighters Sunday night. Tho firebug was spotted by aerial observers In the act of lighting the Inst of the 14 fire in a mile-long string nt the edge of nn old burn on Silver Butte. Ground crews were summoned by rnclio, but they fulled to nab the fugltlv. PRICE riVE CENTS Police Start Crack-Down On Drivers City, county and stale police lust night decided the timo had come to lower the boom on drunk, reckles and speeding driver and now muximum fine and Jail sentence await offend er brought before Justice of the Pence J. A. Mahoiiey in Justice court. The incident that exploded the honeymoon si-tup of iinnll fine and ball for wild motor ists wus the arrest by slate police of three teen-agers Inst night playing follow the leader at 70 miles an hour out on the highway. Limit fines und possible hill sentences nrc promised In Justice court from now on, as well as suspension or revocation of driving licenses. For a violation of the basic rule sprcdlni! the law pro vide for a fine of up to $100, 10 clays in Jnil or both. In the past the Justice court has gen erally fined the offender $10 nnd let it go at that. C'ltv police have extracted $10 fines or that amount of bull, but have authority to make it higher. Jail Possible Reckless driving In the pnst lias genernlly brought a $23 fine, the minimum, but a maxi mum of $300 with five to B0 dnys In Jail is permlssablc. Drunk driving, tho most ser ious offense, has been drawing a $100 fine, but enn be made $1000, a yenr in Jail or both. Bail posted at the police sta tion for these offenses is often Jumped nnfl forfeited, but post ing bail does not necessarily cleur the offender of the chnrgc. The pollco Judge lias authority to forfeit the ball and bring tho offender Into court on a bench warrant If be feel the case need further punishment. Judgo Mnhoney toduv la tak ing away the driver license of two of the bovs arrested last night. The third was under 18 and was turned over to the Juvenile office. Succor Rushed To Quake Area CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domin ican Republic, Aug. f) (!) The government rushed aid today to areas south of the Monte Christ! mountain rnnge, stricken Sunday by nn earthquake and tidal wave which took a toll of at least two dead and dnmagect more than 11 towns In this Caribbean republic. Eye witness reports received toduy from Matunza on the nortn const, said a tidal wave swept Inland as much a a mile so swiftly that it caught a party fleeing in an automobile. The eye witness said the resi dents had been forewarned, how ever, when the waters first re ceded much below the low tide mark and had taken refuge in trees nnd high plnces. Mennwhlle apprehension grip ped the republic a new tremor shook the ground hero yesterdny nnd blacked out rndlo commun icnllons for several hours. Government Senators On Mortgage 'Monopoly' NEW YORK, Aug. 6 (P) The federal government today charged in a civil anti-trust suit that 37 insurance . companies, savings banks and commercial bunks and a firm owned by the savings banks sought to keep rents up and prevent certain types of new construction In the New York City area. The suit named as defendants the Mortgage Conference of New York, with headquarters at 14 Wall street, tho Savings Bank Trust Company of New York nnd 37 member of the conference. It 'sought nn in junction against the alleged practices and dissolution of the mortgage conference, described as composed of insurance com panies, snvings banks and com merclul banks. The Savings Banks Trust Company of New York is wholly owned by var ious savings banks. A special federal grand jury recommended tlie action ufter hearing testimony since Juno 11. The Jury, discharged yestordny by Federal Judge Mnrlon S. Boyd in a closed courtroom, recommended: .yO A4VaLU. OREGON. TUESDAY. AUGUST I. Ey tt 1 M - j- --- - '-'-' -j Sheriff Lloyd Low hands official Invitations to Klamath's Centennial to Jo BlackwtU. the pony express rldtr who will deliver tnem to oiliciais in norinern uregon. miin jam u cnti av ion, mounted on his black and whit horse. Council May Put Levies Up To Vote One resolution calling for an annexation to the city, another for reorganization of the park board nnd two recreation meas ures were passed through pre liminary phases for their appear ance on the November ballot by the city council in session Mon day night. The annexation measure cov ers nri area south of Klamath Falls. The south city limits now arc at Shasta way and the reso lution calls for the boundaries of tlie city to be moved to in clude Shasta way to Washburn wny across to S. Sixth to the railroad right of way and back to the present city limits. A 4-mill levy is asked for in one of the recreation bills to be used for recreation facilities, primarily a swimming pool to be located on the property pur chased by the city from Will Humphrey. The levy will be in effect four years beginning with 147-'48 and ending with 1030 '51 and will provide $175,000 for recreational purposes. The second recreation levy Is for purely operational needs to enlarge the present fund. It calls for a mill and- a half and is n continuing tnx providing for acquisition, maintenance and purchasing of equipment for rec reation centers. The council discussed plans for a change in the park board and tlie resolution was read. At tho present time the park board is appointed by the cir cuit Judge nnd operates Inde- CC'anllnutd an Pas t. Column 6) Files Suit "It Is tho sense of this grand jury thut the government should file civil proceedings against the mortgngc conference and nil of its affiliates to correct tlie conditions found to exist by this grand jury." The complaint charged that the defendants have utilized the conference to eliminate competition among themselves on mortgage loans of over $10, 000, on properties located i in New York City and the metro politan area: to fix minimum interest rntes nnd amortization terms; to establish standard ap praisal procedures and valua tions; and to stabilize the! real estate markets in New York and the metropolitan area. The complaint alleges further that In 1045 the total amount of new first mortgages placed on multiple dwellings, office buildings, lofts and other com mercial and Industrial struc tures In the New York City area totaled about $225,000,000. and that the members of tho mortgage conference made ap proximately 60 per cent of such loans. mm Centennial Couriers Leave ,,Tr i Klamath 'Pony Arrives At Grants Pass ' GRANTS PASS. Aug. (P) Sporting crop of chin foliage that made them appear like the famed Dalton gang of yesteryear, three advance rider of Klamath Falls' "Pony Express" cantered into Grants Pass Monday night bearing authentic letters to local county and city officials inviting them to the Oregon Trail south ern route pageant to be held at the Klamath county fairgrounds August 22-24. Heading the delegation was bushy bearded Joe Blackwell, ex- Kentucklan, ex-marine, ex-sailor, ex-prize fighter and long-time Henry To Run From Vard 5 Jack Henry, shop foreman of the Klamath Shopping Guide. yesterday took out a petition to have his name placed on the i November city ballot as a can didate for the city council from ward 5. Henry's announcement brings to three tlie total of candidates for the post being vacated by Rollin Cantrall who has decid ed against running for the of fice again. Cantrall has served as councilman lor eight years. Wendell Smith and E. F. Wall have previously filed for the office. Henry is a former chairman of the democratic central com mittee and is active in the Eagles lodge. He resides at 803 St. Francis. To have his name placed on the ballot Henry must get the signatures of one-tenth of the number of voters in his ward who cast a ballot for a candi date in tlie last mayoralty elec tion. American Farmer Nears Falmouth LONDON, Aug. 6 P) The collision -damaged U. S. mer chant ship American Farmer was making for Falmouth at about eight knots today and was expected to arrive there about 8 p. m. tomorrow. There was no confirmation in the London press today of reports that both American ves sels might be held upon reach ing Falmouth for an admiralty court to decide whether the Hudson Shipping company of Cardiff, Wales, owner of the Elizabeth, was entitled to sal vage. Both British nnd American salvage laws hold that owners of a helpless vessel and owners of her cargo must pay rescuers whatever Is decreed by a prize court. , Application of the British maritime principle that the awards depend upon the "effect of the services rendered" would bring tip the question of the value of the Elizabeth's rescue attempt. 1I4S (Tlphon till) lgvNulaiH "i Express' resident farmer-v of Klamath county. Accompanying him were Newt Nelson, Klamath county assessor and Chet Barton, prom inent Aberdeen-Angus cattle man of that locality. Wearing ancient leather chaps and toting a long-barreled Ken tucky squirrel rifle, Blackwell rode to the chamber of commerce on Jiis horse. Dan Patch, leading a phlegmatic pack mule. Blowing lustily through his ebony beard, he parted it long enough to emit a lusty "howdy, partner" and to invite sundry spectators grouped around staring at the strange sight to attend the big "shindig." Monday the trio visited Ash land, Medford and Grants Pass on the first leg of a proposed six day trip. Traveling by way of Roseburg, Coos Bay, Newport, Astoria and Portland the riders will return to Klamath next Sat urday via Salem, Corvallis, Eu gene and Bend. They hope to be in the latter town on Friday to attend an exhibition game of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Turk Premier Resigns Post ANKARA, Aug. 8 .PvRecep Peker, who fought beside Kemal Ataturk 23 years ago in the suc cessful revolt against the sul tans, undertook today to form a new Turkish government replac ing that of Premier Sukru Sara coglu, which resigned last night in the face of heavy opposition to its domestic policies. Saracoglu's resignation repre sented one of the greatest up heavals in Turkish politics since Ataturk died in 1938 and Ismet Inonu followed him as president. It was the result of popular dis satisfaction with domestic af fairs, particularly the high cost of living. Dissatisfaction, climaxed by a short lived demonstration staged by peasant and workers before the parliament building last night, became plainly evident in the elections two weeks ago, when 62 members of a new democratic party of opposition were chosen deputies for the na tional assembly which convened yesterday. Last night's demonstration broken up quickly by mounted police came shortly after the new assembly re-elected Presi dent Ismet Inonu to his third four-year term. The 62 demo crats voted solidly against him and sat in stony silence as the 400 other members of the as sembly greeted Inonu. This was the first time in history that a Turkish chief executive had been rebuffed. Pageant Calendar Mrs. Clyde James and Horace Robinson will meet with all Indians of the Chllo quin region for rehearsal of the Indian scene at 7 p. m., Wednesday, In the Spanish Castle in Chiloquin. femi Top - i WEATHER NEWS Aatail , IM Max. Aa. tl M Mia. 4 raclalUMan last 4 lull llrtaaa Mf ! Naraial rj.tt Lail Jr IJ tl Mum bar 10890 Solon Said In Company Of Garssons WASHINGTON. Aug. 6 UP) Senate war investigators were said today to be pursuing a tip that Rep. May (D-riy.J vacationed in Miami Beach. Fla., with offi cials of the Garsson Munitions combine in March or April, 1944. An official of the Mead com mittee said the group has re ceived information indicating that the Kentucky lawmaker may have been at the Versailles hotel in Miami Beach at some period during that time with Murray and Henry Garsson. The two brothers were guiding lights of the Batavia and Erie Basin Metal Products companies and other firms in the combine. Congress was in recess from April 1 to 12. 1944. (In Miami, Leonard Adelman, manager of the Versailles hotel, said that the Garsson brothers were frequent guests but he did not remember they had ever been visited by Rep. May.) Denied Expenses Paid In a speech to the house last July 8, May denied specifically that he had received any travel expenses from the Cumberland Lumber company, an affiliate of the combine, adding that "I never used one penny of anybody s money except my own as travel expense or otherwise." Nevertheless, the committee was understood to be preparing to- question May when his health permits him to appear about the reasons for and the expenses of the reported Florida trip at a period when war de partment witnesses have testified the house military committee chairman was exerting "special pressure" in behalf of the Gars son companies. Committee records Indicate that May also will be asked to explain his letters of April 12 and May 2, 1945, to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower concerning court martial proceedings against Capt. Joseph Herman Garsson. In his April 12 letter. May described Murray Garsson, the captain's father, as "one of my firm per sonal friends." Falling Plane Misses Tank LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 UP) A Douglas C-74 Globemaster, largest plane now used by the army, crashed with an earth shaking roar within a few hun dred feet of a million-barrel oil storage tank yesterday but the four crew members escaped by parachuting. Pilot Russell K. Thaw, famed racing and test flier, received minor injuries. He told a sher iff s deputy: My wing fell off. Thaw is the son of Harry K. Thaw, wealthy New York play boy of the early lauus. Only last week Douglas an nounced that the same plane, pi loted by Thaw, established what the army said was a world rec ord by lifting 172,000 pounds, more than twice its own weight. The Globemaster has a wing spread of 173 feet, is 124 feet long and its four engines total 12,000 horsepower. Yesterday's flight was an un successful attempt to continue a series of accelerated dive tests. Douglas officials said the plane, which crashed 45 minutes after taking off from Municipal air port, was carrying considerable more weight than it would normally. One of the huge motors broke away, plummeted through the top of the oil tank and was sub merged in 30 feet of oil but did not fire the tank. The scat tered wreckage burned and the field where-the plane landed re sembled a shell torn battlefield. U. P. Train Crash Blamed On Speed WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (" The interstate commerce com mission today attributed the col lision of two passenger trains on the Union Pacific railroad at Hot Lake, Ore., June 6 to fail ure to control properly the speed of one of the trains in accord ance with signal indications. The commission said one per son was killed and 115 were in jured. The speed of the eastbound train was about 15 miles an hour when lt crashed into a west bound train at a meeting point, me iuw said. Degnorsi Yctf iLe cads List!" f 3 CCilDs CHICAGO. Aug. I UP) William Heiren confessed formally today three of the most Tg crime la Chicago' history th kidnap-killing of Suienne Degnan, th "lipstick murder" of France Brown and th fatal throat slashing of Mrs. Jotephln Ross, 43-year-old widow. Th (trapping 17-year-old UnWenlty of Chicago student, Stat' Attorney William J. Tuohy said, mad th confession voluntarily in a conference arranged by hi own attorney. Th attorney were reported to hav arranged th confusion as moT to avoid a posiibl state recommendation for death in th electric chair but Tuohy mad no announcement Immediately of any "deal." Heiren. after a tearful conference with hi parent In hi county jail cell yesterday, told 1 Tuohy today he strangled thei . - 6-year-old Degnan girl with his fingers as she lay in bed. Then he took her body to th base ment of a nearby apartment building and cut it to pieces, he added. Killed Two Mora Tuohy said Heiren followed up this confession with admis sions he killed Miss Brown and Mrs. Ross. The prosecutor ar ranged for Heiren to re-enact the Degnan killing later in the day. The 'lipstick" slaying of ex Wave Frances Brown took place less than a month before the Degnan killing, on Decem ber 10. Miss Brown, 33, was shot, then stabbed to death in her North Side apartment and the killer left this message scrawled in lipstick on the wall: "For heaven' sake catch me before I kill more. I can not control myself." Miss Brown' nearly nude body was found draped over a bathtub. She had been shot twice and a 10-inch steel knife pierced her throat from ear to ear. The nude body of Mrs. Ross, 43-vear-old widow, was found on her bed June 3, 1945, her throat slashed. Her apartment at 4108 Kenmore was only four blocks from where Miss Brown was slain. Was In Das He claimed he was in a sort of daze when he killed the 6- vear-old eirl last January 7. After dropping the parts of her dismembered body in sew ers in her neighborhood, he added, he returned to the "di- secting" room and wrote a note demanding $20,000 ransom. He claimed he wrote the ran som note after killing and dis membering the tiny victim be cause he believed that tne Desi wav "to relieve the parents would be to give them some hni the child was alive." He said he selected his vic tim entirely by chance. He was in the neighborhood earlier, he related, and observed the win dow of her bedroom was not closed. It was then he got tne idea of entering the house, he added. Reece Sounds Call For GOP Congress SEATTLE. Aug. 6 UP) Chair man Carroll Reece of the repub lican national committee said to day the party must gain control of congress before it can get a republican presidential victory in iy8. The ouiet snoken. graying for mer Tennessee congressman told interviewers that the republican sponsored legislation has been smothered by the democratic ma jority in congress and the party can not present its "forward looking, corrective program. Four Die In Crash Of Naval Airplanes WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 UP) A mid-air collision of two naval Dlanes near Leonardtown, Md. yesterday brought death to four persons, one or tnem tne grana son of Admiral Robert E. Peary, the north pole explorer. The fatalities included Lt. Pearv D. Stafford, of Washing ton, the admiral's grandson, and Lt. Comdr. C. M. Whitmore of Pocomoke, Md. Retail Clothiers Hopeful Over New Textile Prices WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 UP) A spokesman for retail clothing merchants said wistfully today that higher textile prices may put $2.25 shirts and 79-cent shorts back on store shelves. "That's our hope,' 'said Louis Rothschild, executive director of the National Association of Re tail Clothiers. He told a reporter that the average 16 per cent increase in cotton textile ceilings put into effect by OPA yesterday, "un doubtedly will encourage great er production" of cotton ap parel. "Manufacturers will have an incentive to produce shirts to re tall at $2.25 and shorts at 79 cents," Rothschild said. "We haven't had any of those In a long time." Up to now Rothschild added, manufacturers have not been 6 Men Lost As Lightning Hits Tanker JACKSONVILLE, Fla,, Aug. UP) Officers of the stricken tanker Homestead, destroyed by fire and explosion after being; struck by lightning at a dock: here, continued a search today for three men still unaccounted, for many hours after th dis aster occurred. The tanker's captain, Maurlc A. Tunstall of Hopkinsville, Ky., said two crew members and a dock watchman were missing. A complete check, however, awaited the arrival of the ship's personnel roster from Houston. Texas. Tunstall, only 28 and in com mand of the Homestead since June 16, said the missing crew members were Jack Bowman, a Georgia seaman and a messraan , named Duckworth, who had re ported to the ship when it docked here. The captain said some of the crew of 49, includ ing himself, were ashore when the lightning struck. On Hospitalised Only one crew member sus taineri iniurie reauirina ho - pitalizatlon. Twenty-nine others ' were terated for cut and burn. Hope that th three missing; men might not have perished with the ship came from Lt. Cmdr. Stanley J. Halka of Long Beach. Calif., the Homestead's first engineer. Halka, last to leave the badly listing vessel, said he made a search of auart- ' ers before leaping overboard and was unable to find any of tn crew on board. Drone Planes Cross Pacific MUROC. Calif.. Aug. 8 (VP) Two army B-17 drones landed at this army air base at iu:oi ana 11:09 a. m. (PST) today, com pleting a 2400-mile flight from Hilo, Hawaii. It was the longest totally unmanned flight in avia tion history. The drones wer controlled by one mother ship each. Just off California coast on drone dropped a 100-pound prac tice smoke bomb near Santa Rosa island. This involved opening the bomb bay doors releasing; the bomb, and reclosing tho doors, all by remote control. The operation, known as '-'remote," was conceived by Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay at Eniwe tok shortly after the first atomic bomb test to prove efficiency and practicability of guided missile. Although one drone dropped a bomb, in warfare the practice plan would call for a drone, heavily laden with explosives, to be crashed into its target while the mother ship orbited at a safe range. Mother ships have controlled drones up to 25 miles and theo retically with powerful radar could control them up to 100 miles. The present limitation on control is th limit of radar vision. able to make a profit on thesa lower priced Items. He said they should begin to reappear in stores in about. 30 days. OPA said the 16 per cent tex tile increase will boost cotton clothing prices six to eight per cent and jump the cost of House hold linens about 17 per cent. Rothschild, however expressed belief the OPA clothing prlca estimate is "on the conservative side." While OPA was boosting tex tile prices to meet requirements of the new price control law, the agency's consumer advlory committee called for caution in lifting ceiling from basic com modities, especially food. The committee urged govern ment agencies, including the new, price decontrol board, to taka a "strong stand" against "pre matura" elimination of controls.
