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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1946)
MKT TAsn n orn I n A m Jus. Ilav'sScivs By FRANK JENKINS SOR a few hours yesterday, Hit " government of the United Hale operated In th black. A nt of tuxpuycr paid their Iniit inirli;r bills, and for a Utile vhlle the till wnit full of money. Then an Interest paymont on lie niitlimal debt came clut? ind ULOOKYI We were back In tie red again, cum It imprests you, tne fc tu iintliiii'a debt amount!) to the Idv mm of 231) HILUON3. pin l few odd millions (the ex net Hgurr tlilit morning wui S259, U7.0UO,000.) The Interest payment that rams due amounted to $41)0,231, Ilia, (In caw these big figure rave you woozy, a thoy do . ihln writer, tlwl In Juirt under a Half billion dollor.) Anyway, they help im to under Mand why our old uncle in the trapped brecche and the goutce ha to dig up lot of money nd even then, with the bills pouring In a they arc. can't lay nut of the red for more than a fow hour at a time, IT will do u. no harm to re member that a lot of these big bills were Incurred back in tha free and easy days when we were leaving everything to pupa nd not bothering our head with (illy detniln like who will pay the billi when they come due. The great trouble with dancing rally down the prlmrone puth In lint the time cornea Inevitably when the piper ha to bo paid. A DEBT amounting to 250 BILLION dollar U quite a debt. Still, it Isn't an Impossible debt. Our Uncle Sumuel i still a good man, and many a good man ha been head over heel In deb'. BUT HAS WORKED HIS WAY OUT. Thl i tho tiling we mustn't forget: It take WORK to get out of debt. You can't Just laugh It off. HERE I an Interesting pre diction in the new of this morning: vThe scientist tell us that com mercial use of atomic power will be poiwlble In little a flvo year If the uuverument give til" go-abend signal, We're inclined to make the mistake of thinking of atomic power a a dreadful ogre whose Hole capacity I DESTRUCTION. That isn't necessarily true. If wu have sense enough to devise a way to keep everybody from uaing atomic power for destruc tion, there will be practically no limit to the benefit we can derive from It. V TEBT or no debt, quarrel or no quarrel, we are living In a fascinating world these day. For example: , John Hopkins University scientists announce the ACCI DENTAL discovery of a new method of radio reception by means of a piece of frozen metal about tho size of a common pin. The mct.nl is columblum nitride made SUPERCONDUCTIVE by lowering its temperature to about 433 degree below zero. On this tiny gadget, the Johns Hopkins researchers have been able to hear local programs clearly without the use of any power source and without tubes or antenna. They are cautious, asserting only that' "perhaps In another two or three months we will bo able to tell what wo havo." Already, however, pre dictions are being made that tha new discovery may lead to a revolutionary new means of long-distance radio transmission and reception. IMAGINE listening to local pro grams, WITHOUT power, tubes or antenna, on a Jigger whose working Innards depend only on a piece of frozen metal the size of a pinl And yet we were hearing only a few years ago that everything worth learning had been learned nd everything worth doing had been done! Australian Nurse Tells Of Jap Machine Gunning TOKYO, Doc. 20 (VP) An Australian army nurse who sur vived a Japanese machine gun ning and three and a half years Imprisonment today confronted Hldeki T0J0 and 26 other war crimes defendants with a story ot barbaric treatment of women and children In POW camps. Cant. Vivian Bullwlnkcl, 31, 'testified at the To jo trial: She was evacuated from Sing apore February 24, 1042, on a small steamer with 250 women . and children, Including 60 nurs ing sinters, and a few elderly men. Two days later, near Bangk island off the northwest tip of Sumatra, thrco Japanese planes bombed and strafed tho ship and it began to sink, All but two of the lifeboats sank because of strafing dam age. "With 12 other nurses, I Jumped overside and swam to a sinking lifeboat." Next day the party, enlarged by survivors of another ship, decided to surrender, All women and children except '22 nurses r aj-p "rig PRICE FlVlTcENTB .-. KL. ALLS. OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 20. IMS (Telephone 1111) Mnmbet 10815 1 V 1 ' Bilk Denies Dreg ftHnplicity : Quick Coal Peace Hopes Fade Today WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (VP) A sharp spilt among oft coal operators over whether to nego tiate now for a new contract with John L, Lewi dashed hope today for a quick nation-wide peace between the industry and it miners. Producers whose pits yield 60 per cent uf the country's coal held themselves ready to deal Willi the United Mine Workers chief "at any convenient date," without waiting for a supreme court decision on his leiiul trou ble arising from the November WUIKOUU South Break But the powerful Southern Coal Producer association, whose mines produce a third of tho 000,000.000-ton annual sup ply, broke away from tiie ma jority with a decision to hold aloof until l-he courts have had their say. Far western mine owners In dicated they would go along with the southerners. The high court will hear on Junuary 14 Lewis' appeal from 3,ftl0,C00 in fines against him self and the United Mine Work ers, imposed after the UMW chief ignored a district court order to Ciead off the recent 17 day strike. Differences Long smoldering differences between the southern associa tion, biggest single producing unit in tne national negotiating committee, and the remainder of the Industry broke Into the open ai a nine-nour meeting yester day. The committee was adlourned sine die without any dates set for re-assembllng which meant there la scant chance of a na tional contract in the foreseeable future. Reds Reject Atom Proposal LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y-, Dec. 20 (I') The United Nations atomic energy commission today approved "In principle" the United States atomic control plan after Soviet Delegate An drei A. Gromyko announced dramatically that he was with drawing from the discussions. Gromyko did not leave the council chamber as tie did last April during discussion of the Iranian cose in the security coun cil, but he made It clear that his silence was not a mere ab stention. Despite personal ap peals from Great Britain and China for his cooperation, Gro myko fliitly refused to vote. The commission already" had rejected a Soviet demand that action on the U. S. atomic plan be postponed and a Polish pro posal that tie American plan be sent to the commission's political committee without recommenda tion. The final vote was on a Can adian compromise, which pro vided that tho commission ap prove tho "principles" set forth in the U, S. plan, but that the final wording be left to the com mittee. The Canadian proposal previously had been accepted by the United States delegation. and one civilian woman were sent away In care of a Chinese doctor. The nurses stayed to care for 12 stretcher cases. A few hours later, a Japanese officer and IS soldiers marched the men to the beach, out of sight. "Wo board shots and the Jap anese soldiers came back clean ing their rifles and bayonets. When they had finished their cleaning, they ordered the 23 of us (women) to march into the sea. We had gone but a few yards when they started machine-gunning us. I saw others fall. Then I was hit. A bullet passed through my body at the waist and I was knocked down." She was washed ashore, un conscious. Reviving, she crawled into a Jungle, where sho ngaln lost consciousness. Reviving three days later, she was joined by one of the Englishmen. He told her all stretcher patients had been bayonetted and left for dead, but he had managed to crawl Into the Jungle.' They later surrendered and experi enced prison camp mistreatment. Christmas i 1177 "'" ur "" :-js3t rr r ' tt w, nrn This happened in Medferd yesterday morninif. The car. driven br Leonora T. Brail of Ash land, wu in a collision at Central and Sixth atrMts in the nearby town. After the crash, it veered over the sidewalk, and right into the window of the Evans Sports shop, with the above result. ... Yule Mailing Heavy Here ' Business at the post office' nickinn ud once more after mid-week slump In parcel maUrJ Inn. This morning the lobby was crowded with last-minut mailer, standing In line carrying heap of bundles. According to Postmaster Burt E. Hawkins, the peak 01 mailing Is fxnecU-H to be reached Mon day when the accumulated mail from Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday morning win dc handled bv the postofflce staff. Surprisingly enough, Hawkins said, he packages his year are coming in in very good condi tion, thus far there have been few if any Incidents where pack ages have become unwrapped or maneled after being mailed. Hawkins reminded mailers that the post office parcel post and stamp windows will be kept open Saturday until 6 p.m. for the convenience of patrons. Boiled Beans, In Boston, Too BOSTON. Dec 20 (P) Boiled beans in Boston of all places. This is what the state prison publication, "The Mentor, had to say about It: "xxx boiled beans are an unforgivable sacrilege upon the succulent atom and a libel to the fair city of Boston whose bean fame is celebrated in every cor ner of this earth." Warden Francis J. W. Lana gan ruefully admitted today that It was true. Prisoners have been served boiled beans instead ot the traditional Boston baked beans. "Pots are hard to get," the warden explained. License Plate Sales Drop. Off The sale of 194 . auto licenses, heavy earlier this week, have dropped off sharply at the ' li cense bureau in the courthouse, but police officers have been in structed that 1046 licenses will be - void, at midnight Decem ber 31. . For the first time since early in the war Oregon is putting out two plates, front and back, for each car. The plates are aluminum color with black nu merals. - Cost is $5.25 at the bureau' here, including 25 cents for a temporary sticker, but only $5 if license applications are sent direct to the secretary of state In Salem. -All plates are mailed from Salem. - . j Sacred Heart Mass To Be Broadcast - For the first time, the mid night mass, at Sacred : Heart Catholic church will be broad cast over radio station KFLW on Tuesday, Christmas Eve. The special feature will be on the air from 11:45 p. m. to 1 a. m with the first 15 min utes devoted to music by the church choir, directed by John O'Connor. The Rev. Father Timothy P. Casey will cele brate the; mass. , v., . Show Window Takes Students Give $500 Check To Munday, Hero Of Blaze Henry V. (Pete) Munday, who was ' badly burned while helping his wife and two chil- dren out of a flaming house last Sundav mornlns. today received a check for $500 from the stu dent body of Klamath Union high school. The money was handed him by Ben Larson and Helen Eckert, student body of ficials. Munday house at 3328 Cros by, was almost gutted by the blaze which atarted while he was building a fire in a heat ing stove, and about all that was saved was a few articles of clothing for the children. Police Find Death Car MEDFORD, Ore., Dec. 20 (VP) Automobile -headlights shining at the bottom of a deep canyon in the Siskiyou mountains led state police yesterday to the body- of mest Ray Holt, 39, 19659 Des Moines way, Seattle. Police said the body was near wrecked automobile that ap parently plunged from the Pacific highway Wednesday night a few miles south of Ash land as the man drove north. The wreck was not discovered until darkness enabled police to see the headlights. Papers on the body identified Holt as a vice president of the AFL United Clay Workers union. Deputy. Coroner C. M. Litwiller, Ashland, said. , Light Judges To Make, City Tour , Suburban householders, espe cially, were reminded by the Junior chamber of commerce committee today that Judges will make their rounds Saturday and Sunday nights in the outdoor Christmas lighting contest. This is the first year the su burbs have been included, and all residents of the nearby areas north, west, south and east were urged to participate. There is .still time to make lighting displays, it was pointed out, and simple display in good taste is as likely to win a prize as an elaborate one. In the city and suburbs, there are eight divisions in the light ing contest. j Lake 'O Woods Ice Skating Good The road to Lake O' The Woods is open, according to Ed Morse, caretaker for the Home Owners assocation, and can be driven without chains to east side homes. Morse reports that the lake Is frozen over and that ice skating is excellent at the present time. . The road to the west side cabins has not been opened due to a heavy crust of snow, and Is impassable at the pres ent time. Beating The 29-year-old logger said that there was no insurance on the house, and about- $800 in surance.. on some $1700 worth of furniture. MurtdaV bad been working only about three weeks after a previous injury had him hospitalized for some time. He was 'severely burned about the legs and body while getting his wife and children, Virginia, 5. and Lyndelle, 2, out of the flaming house. Mun day got his wife and Lyndelle out a window, then had to search for the other little girl. Still on his hospital bed at Klamath Valley hospital, he re ceived the check at noon today, breaking out in a sweat and al most . too overcome with emo tion to speak. With the check he was given a letter from the KUHS stu dent body saying that the stu dents hoped the gift would make possible a better Christ mas for him and his family. Munday's wife is now stay ing at Pelican City and the children are with relatives in Bly. General Eaker May Retire PORTLAND. Dec. 20 VP) Mayor Earl Riley said he had been advised Gen. Ira Eaker plans to retire next year to a home on southwestern Oregon's famed fishing stream, the Rogue river. The mayor said he was told by Eaker while in London during the war that he intended to live on the Rogue and today he re ceived a letter from Glenn Jack son, Medford, formerly a colonel on the general's staff,-saying the air corps officer was engaged in getting title to the old Frank Tou Velle tract. Numerous film stars have property on the Rogue river and Former President Herbert Hoov er has fished it extensively. Smith Drafts New Labor Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (VP) Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), co-author of the war labor dis putes act, today outlined a peacetime strife control pro gram ' that would ban closed shops and provide Indirectly for compulsory arbitration. Smith sketched out details of his proposed measure 'during a conference with President Tru man yesterday but declined to say what, if any, reaction it met at the White House. The Virginian told reporters he plans to introduce his bill when the new congress meets two weeks from today. With Senator Connelly (D- Tex.),. Smith wrote the war time labor act wnicn Decame law over President Roosevelt's veto. It gives the government power to seize plants involved in labor disputes and to prose cute union leaders who. engi neer strikes in seized industries. - WEATHER Mas. mn, t .... l Mia. t rraalallallaa laat t4 aaara ...M Htraara yar I ata I.4R Laat aaar 4.77 Mariaal 1 U faracaait Fair lata?, laalfbt aa Satariari littla aaaasa la laaiparalara. Admits He Took Money From Doctor WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (P Clashing testimony about pay ment of $1500 in a narcotics case held the Bilbo investigation wide open today as the stormy public hearings recessed for the Christ mas holiday. "1 have nothing to hide," Sen ator Theodore S. Bilbo (D-Miss.) told the senate war investigating committee yesterday as he de nied repeatedly any knowledge of payments reported to have been made to him by a doctor for helping get a narcotics per mit for a Natchez, Miss., man. WiU Open File Bilbo also offered to open his private files to investigators seeking information on the nar cotics allegation, or "anything els that has come up in these hearings." Chairman Mead (D-N.Y.) an nounced after Bilbo's testimony that the hearings were "recessed subject to call of the chair." But Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) told a reporter later that additional testimony definitely will be necessary. "It looks like the first Mon day after Christmas (December 30)," Ferguson said, adding that the final decision is up to Mead. Admits Getting Money Bilbo, after nearly a full day of testimony spiced with bitter denunciations, denials and coun- (CaaUaaaa mm r-aa 11. Caraaaa 1) Anti-Red Riot , Flares In Rfo RIO DE JANEIRO", Dec.' 20 (VP) A series of anti-communist dem onstrations last night during which mobs stoned the party's headquarters, burned a Russian flag, wrecked election billboards and beat a Euardsmen followed an announcement that Brazil was withdrawing the second secre tary from her Moscow embassy, at Russia's request. Foreign Minister Raul Fer nandes said' yesterday that Am bassador Pomentel Brandao in Moscow had agreed to release his second secretary, Joao Ba tista Soares De Pina, but said he believed the secretary was not responsible for a street fight in which he was reported to have been involved. The foreign minister said he had asked for an official report on the incident and expressed fear the secretary . "may have been imprisoned and' mis treated." - Merrill Holds Yule Festival MERRILL, Dec. 20 Santa gave over 1000 sacks of candy, nuts and other goodies to Mer rill youngsters Thursday night when Merrill -held its annual community Christmas party 'at the -high school gym. All of the organizations in Merrill cooperated to get the big Christmas tree which centered the evening's festivities. Ray Van Meter was Santa Claus. On the program were the high school girls' glee club, directed by Mrs. George Elliott, and the second grade elementary class, directed by Mrs. Luther McAnul ty, Merrill schools closed for the holidays Friday when all of the classes held their parties. Classes will be held on Decem ber 30, and on New. Year's Day students will again be given a holiday to return January 2, Ashland Radio Station Burns ASHLAND, Ore., Dec. 20 (VP) The building and equipment of radio station KWIN, operated by the Rogue Valley Broadcasting company, was completely de stroyed by fire today. The station had begun broad casting on an 18-hour daily schedule last July. Bob Rein hold, station manager, said the fire apparently began in the con trol room. The loss was reported covered by insurance. CANCER OSCOW, Dec, 20 (VP) The ministry of public health today adopted a five-year plan of can cer research and decreed the struggle against cancer to be the principle task of Soviet public health. School Building Gets Green Light WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (VP) The office of temporary controls ordered it first relaxation of non-housing construction restric tions under the new housing program today, to permit build ing of urgently needed primary and junior high school facilities. The civilian production ad ministration division of OTC said the new policy wll permit con struction of new school build ings if present classroom facil ities are insufficient to allow full Instruction for a school's en rollment in one daily session. Heretofore, CPA said, it gen erally approved such building only if available facilities were insufficient even when two com plete sessions were held in the same school daily. The agency said the relax ation is possible "because of in creased production of construc tion materials." Tule Wreck Injures One TULELAKE, Dec. 20 David Forrester, 42, of Tulelake, was injured early Friday morning when the car in which he was driving smashed into the rear of a vehicle driven by Horace Al corn, 20, also of Tulelake, at the railroad crossing at Hatfield. The Alborn car, according to California highway patrolmen, was parked between the first and second railroad tracks wait ing for a switch engine to get off the road, when Forrester came suddenly up behind and crashed into the rear of the ve hicle. The Alcorn car was knocked about 100 feet down the tracks by the force of the blow, officers said. Forrested suffered a severe gash on his forehead and five broken ribs and a possible frac tured breastbone. The Klamath city ambulance was called to the scene of the crash and Forrester was taken to Hillside hospital for treatment. Alcorn was un injured. Police state that Forrester had been picked up in Tulelake earlier and given a sobriety ex amination. He was charged with drunken driving after the acci dent in a complaint signed by Gerald WUlso. California . state patrolman, who Investigated . the ' Damage to each car is approx imately $600, police said. For rester was driving a 1940 Chev rolet 'sedan and Alcorn was in a brand new 1946 Mercury con vertible coupe. Ground Crews Search Plane SEATTLE, Dec. 20 (VP) Search parties fanned out through the rugged country south of Mount Rainier again today in the continuing hunt for a marine corps transport plane missing since December 10 with 32 aboard. The search extended Into the Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Adams areas. Planes from McChord field were ready to enter tie quest again today if the weather cleared and navy aircraft was to photograph the region around Toledo when visibility permit ted. One party was near Wilke son, Perce county, to check re ports that the plane had been heard December 10. Fog shrouded the i-iills and the use of search planes, and army, navy and coast guard of ficers met at the Sand Point naval air station -here to plan fu ture action. They asserted the search would be continued as long as there was hope the plane could be found. Several feet "of snow covered much of the ground in the search area. Experts Predict Atomic Power Within Five Years BOSTON, Dec. 20 (VP) Com mercial use of atomic energy within five years was predicted today by a group of New Eng land experts providing the gov ernment gives the "green light" to industry.- Atomic generation of electric power, they said, could be ac complished at an original cost comparable to present modern methods and eventually for much less. These views were expressed In a report by a New England council committee headed by Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology and one of the developers of the atom bomb. Although no atomic power plants have been built, they said, "there now seems to be no ques tion, from the purely technical standpoint, about the possibility of generating large nmjunts of pov-ei from the heat liberated during the operation of atomic piles." ' Many factors, they 'added, would affect the speed with which the atom is put to com mercial use among them gov ernment financial support for research and development, full release of technical Information commensurate with security and Airliners Land Safely After Crash' ABERDEEN, Md., Dec. 20 (VP) Split-second reactions by two pilots were credited today with saving the lives of 85 passengors and crew members of two Miami-bound airliners which col lided 2000 feet in the air near here in an accident unpre cedented In American commer cial air travel. . None of the passengers suf fered so much as a scratch, al though both planes were dam aged in the collision, which oc curred in clear weather shortly after dark last night. The co-pilot of one, a big, four engined DC-4 eastern airlines craft carrying 56 passengers, said he saw the other, a two engined Universal Airlines C-47, approaching from the left three or four miles north of Aberdeen. He pulled his ship up at the last instant and scraped over the top of the Universal plane, eastern officials said. . Seconds Count The co-oilot. R. Brown, ot Miami, said he had "just a sec- ona or two in watch to avert disaster. The nilot of thin nlane. J. B. Kuhn, also of Miami, told a reporter, "Brown saved the day.'' A three-by-five-foot hole was ripped in the tail section of the larger plane, while the Universal liner, carrying 22 passengers and a crew of three on a charter flight, had a hole driven into the upper portion of the fuselage. its escape naicn wrencnea iree and its radio and hydraulic system knocked out of commis sion. Despite the damage, ..Henry Norris, of Cambridge, Mass., . pilot of the Universal ship, brought it down safely at the Aberdeen proving ground field, while the eastern plane was landed uneventfully by Kuhn before waiting crash-wagons and fire-engines at National airport, Washington, D. C. The four-engined DC-4, cruis ing at about 230 milea an hour, apparently had overtaken tho slower aircraft. The Universal plane, bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico, via Miami, left Newark airport at 5:08 p. m., EST. The Eastern airliner departed' at 5:13 p. m. from the same field, on a sched uled non-stop run to Miami. Occupants of both, plane, -mostly -vacationists amduatnesfA men, reported little if any con fusion at the time of their nar row escape, and most said they had been unaware of the extent of their danger. All, however, had lavish praises for crew members. Survivors' Party , One grateful survivor ot tho Eastern plane, Ben J. Slutzky, of Eilenville, N. Y., announced he was presenting $500 to tho crew and invited other passen .(CaaUaaai mm Paca'U, Calaaa.,4) Yomen Fliers Play Santa EDMONTON, Alta., Dec.' 28 (CP) Two United States wom en fliers, en route from Seattle, Wash., to Fairbanks, . Alaska, with two light planes, left here today on the next leg of their trip north. The planes are load ed with Christmas toys for tho northern city. The pilots are Colin' Hunter and Virginia Hill, ex-member of the American WASPS (worn, en's air force service pilots). They are instructors at airports; near Seattle but are on leavo of absence to deliver the planes to owners in Alaska. Winter' storms in the moun tains delayed the fliers at Kim berley, B. C, last week ' bu they reached Calgary Sunday. They planned 250-mile hops on the northern route and hoped to reach their destination iq plenty of time for Christmas. "provided that Industry be glverj the green light to proceed witll its own development." . Granted these, they said, "il seems probable that within five years atomic piles could be op erating lor tne purpose oi pro ducing electric power." , The committee said f.iat it wai difficult to predict what th first commercial uses of atom it power would be but that "i seems likely that it will be foi purposes needing heavy and con tinuous loads oi power." f SHOWN w DAYS LEFT
