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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1946)
US Ship Out Of PRICE riVE CENTS Klamath rails. Oron, Monday, Dec. 23, lS4f Number 10117 In il. Dav's Aeus Br rnANK jemkimi nrlUS la Junior. We hoixf you'll like him. But wo can l bo any too sure that you will. He's awfully akinny. Wiieti you try to pick him up, Iff like plucking at a (rather on the run. There dot-in) i seem to be any thing much to get hold of. Hut, anyway, he's the beet we can do (or a couple of week, yllE reason we can't do any better la that there lan't paper enough. We of the Herald and New now understand the plight of the Israelites during their Kgyptlan bomlaiie. They couldn't muko enough bricks because there wawt I enough straw and in thoae days It took straw to make the fcgyptian mud uck together ao as to make a durablo brick, In the dnya, it takea puper to make a NbWhpapcr, and there Just Isn't paper enough to go around. TT Isn't that aper production x (in North America) has (alien off. We're making more paper than ever bc(ore. People Just WANT more pmt. More books are being printed. More maguzinca are being priu eo. More copies of newspaper are being printed. We're using paper (or towels and for napkins and for handkerchiefs. Demund has outrun available supply. Wo can't muke paper with our bare hands. Complicated ma chinery la needed. It takes three or four years to get a new paper mill Into production from scratch. Before we can get all the puper we want, production will nave to catch up. . THE paper shortage la world wido. Paper In a TOOL of enlighten ment. There are worried com plaints Uuit Uie spread of democracy will be hampered if we can't somehow get paper enough to bring the message of democracy to ail the peoples of the world. That may be a menace. But this writer, who has his cynical moments, I awnre thnt paper Is also tlio TOOL OF PHOPA GANDA. Falsities, a well as truth, are committed to paper. So the fact that because of paper shortages less bunk ran be ped dled may offset the fact that less truth can be spread. As to thot, we can only hope. Rut hope is always better than despair. A NYWAY we of the Herald and " News haven't enough puper to print the kind of newspucr we'd like to be printing. We've already borrowed, (or use In 1940, from our allotment of papor for 1947. The debt has to bo repaid. So we'll have to put up with Junior for a couple of weeks. Then, for another month or so. we'll have to put up with papers a lot smnller than we'd liko to print.' It will be close to the first of Mnrch before we get bnek to something like normal. We hope you'll put up with tis and take our word thnt we're doing the best we can with wlmt we hnve to work with. We know now thnt bricks can't be made without straw. Civil War Vet Gets Wishes SANDPOINT, Idaho. Dec. 23 (A Last spring Israel A. Broadsword, Idnho's only living Civil War veteran, told news papermen ho wanted three tilings to live to bo 100, to vote In the 1040 elections and to own Civil War uniform again. Today he had achieved all three. . Broadsword, who says he vot ed for Abraham Lincoln In 1BB4, was nt tlio polls hero last month. And on his 100th birthday to day ho learned he is to receive a Union nrmy uniform a a blrthdny Rift from the Bonner county American Red Cross chapter, which obtained It from fui eastern military good manu facturer. ; Gunshot Fatal To Indian Wilfred Barkley, 23-year-old Klamath Indian, died from a gun shot wound, which officers said was apparently self-inflicted, at his house in Sprague River early Sunday morning, and his white wife, Edna, 33, Is held in the county Jail (or Introducing in toxicating liquor on the reservation. Sheriff LJoyd L. Low, . who wun outer oiiicers, invcsiigaico. the shooting, said that Barkley was believed to have sat on the side of his bed, put the muzzle of a 30-30 carbine under his chin and pressed tlte trigger. The shooting occurred about 4:30 a. m after a drinking party at Berkley's house. His wife, Edna, was in the bed at the time and an Indian youth, Janslow Jackson, IH, was asleep on a aav enporl in Uie next room. Tlio bullet tore off the upper left sido of the Indian i nead, and passed through the ceiling and roof. Barkley'a wife ran to a neigh bor's house and the Sprague River constuble was called. In dian Officer Willis Pankcy ar rived a few minutes later, and put In a call to Deputy Coroner Marvin Albee, who went to Sprague River with Sheriff Low and Deputy Marlon Barnes. The sheriff said that Burklcy's body was sprawled on the bed, and that the rifle was several feet away, on a trunk, the used cartridge ejected and the ham mer back. The cartridge was on the floor. He said that apparent ly someone had pumped the rifle and ejected the shell before of ficers arrived. Jackson, who was In the next room, suld that he (C..IU..S r.i. t, Vmmm I) YULE FESTIVITIES SLATED FOR TONIGHT Holiday festivities will center tonight. Monduy. at 7:30 o'clock on the courthouse lawn where the community Christmas tree will be lighted and the awards in the outdoor illumination con test will be presented. The recently organized com munity chorus will appear for the first time and this group will sing several carols. Tom O'Dwyer will be master of cere monies, thcro -vlll be a Santa Clous, group singing, and finally tlio distribution of treats to the children by members of the Jun ior chamber of commerce. IN IJM17 PERSON y17 11 WORLD PREMIER The cartoon above Illustrates Herald and News finds Itself here at the fag end of the year and the reason for this diminutive edition which we have dubbed as Junior. Because of the noar-exhaustion of our paper quota, we have been forced to resort to Junior a tabloid edition with out advertising from now until January 6, when the papor will return to Its full size and regular format. Durlna Junior s brief life we a adequately as his sise will permit, and to make him sparkle with color and a tew innovations. PANDORA BOX MURDERER GETS LIFE SENTENCE PORTLAND, Dec. 23 OP) A first degree murder conviction with a recommendation for life imprison, nent was returned by a circuit Jury here yesterday In the trial of Jamea Wesley Bowden, 4B, for the "pandora box" death oi nis wife. Judge Walter L. Tooze said he would pronounce sentence trl duy morning. The verdict binds the court to giving the former Aleutian war-worker a Hie prison term. The Jury reached the verdict in less than five hours dellbera lion, taking the case late Sat urday evening and retiring to bed a few hours later to resume consideration yesterday morn ing. Bowden' 47-year-old wife was blown to bits in the basement of their home July 27 when she opened a trunk the defendant admitted contained a box he had rigged with dynamite to "eliminate" a rival for Mrs. Bowden s affections. The prose. cution accused Bowden of de liberately arousing the woman's curiosity to open the box. Bowden's two daughters testi fied In hi defense Saturday and told the Jury they believed their father really loved their mother. Bowden contended he had put tne letnai box In the basement .or sa(e keeping after deciding not to use it on his rival. He said he was trying to find a way to dismantle it. "Biggest Turkey" Proves Too Big CHICAGO. Dec. 23 OP) Kcye Carson, of Cuero, Tex., promised "the biggest turkey in the country" to anyone who recovered the guns and other articles stolen from his car here recently. , Yesterday, he paid off, with a 46-pound bird for Detectives James Derrig and Anthony Thurston, who had arrested the burglars and recovered the loot. Derrig and Thurston looked at th bird and looked at each other. "Will It go In your oven?" asked Derrig. "No, said Thurs ton, "will it go In yours?" They took the turkey to the St. Vincent's orphanage, where the children decided it was about the right size for their oven. ILL MAVt TO DO r.crc ufpf ' V s ' the situation in which The hope to mako Mm do the lob Free City Port DAIREN-, Manchuria, Dec. 20 (Delayed) (JP) A United State navy ship pulled out of the port of Daircn this afternoon after receiving a verbal ultimatum from Russian military officials te the ef' that "unless you leave within 20 minutes we will not be 'y v, 'ible for the consequences. SyO ly the Russian military commander In charge of the city sed to permit an American businessman with full TfeY) clearance from U. S. authorities Case nds J, fharri, Donald L. Ya. t in the county lull for i th in tanl In Is i M i nr t tntf of Miss Mary McCon. 'Pjjeccmber 14. has not yet been apprised of the death of Miss McConb. Sheriff Lloyd L. Low said today, but a more serious charge is to be filed against Uie man some time today. District Attorney Clarence A. Humble said that the charge against Yancey would be UDDed to cither first or second degree murder. Miss McComb died at 4:23 o clock Saturday afternoon Just a week after the shooting. Sheriff Low signed the first charge against the 35-year-old ex-serviceman, and said that he would sign a murder charge. Miss McComb was shot in the neck at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Matts. Yancey's step father and mother. Saturday night. December 14. and Yancey made a statement to the sheriff and district attorney saving that he fired the shot which struck Miss McComb. She was the county librarian and lived across the street from the Cres cent avenue home of the Malta, where Yancey resided. Paralyzed and in a coma, she lived almost a week at Klamath Valley hospital. The bullet, which lodged near her soine, was never removed because of the seriousness of the 50-year- oia woman condition. Yancey, an armv discharcee. received a severe head injury at a rodeo in Salinas. Calif., while in service, and has been patient in several veterans hos pitals. Ofdcials here have sent for his medical record. Since returning from the serv ice. Yancey worked for a time for Miss McComb at the county library, and operated a small ski repair shop in the rear of Miss McComb's home, 1635 crescent. Woman Stabs Man To Death PORTLAND, Dec. 23 (IP) A 22-year-old woman, who de tectives said was angered be cause her boy friend went for a walk with another woman dur ing a party, stabbed him fatally in front of a half-dozen guests at a Christmas party yesterday. The witnesses said the young wwian sobbed "I stabbed him. oh. Lord, don't let him die," as zs-year-oid Isaac Gray collapsed in a housing project living room. He was dead upon arrival at a hospital. Detectives J. C. Qulnn and B. P. Hutchins said Uie young woman told them she had meant only to "frighten him," and that the attack came as the climax of many qunrrela. The woman was held for the district attorney. Both she and Gray are negro. JAP SKIPPER TELLS OF OUAKE AT SEA TOKYO. Dec. 23 (JPi The skipper of a Japanese-manned Ltr (landing ship, tank) which was 12 miles off Shingu at the time of Saturday's carthauake reported today the feeling was as it me nuu nod nit a mine a tremendous shock." The ves sel was not damaged. inis was the first report from a ship at sea during the quake. TAFT TO ASK CHAIR WASHINGTON. Dec. 23 lPl Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio said today he will ask the chair manship of the senate commit tee when republican senators meet December 30 to Organize for their new majority role. WEATHER Max. (Dec. 22) 55 Min 25 Precipitation last 24 hours .. .00 Stream year to date 3.48 Last year .. 5.28 Normal . . 4. 07 Forocasti Partly cloudr. little change In temperature. to debark. Also denied permis sion to land were two American newspapermen, representing the . combined world press. (Russian troops have occupied Dairen since the Japanese ur-. render. Although the Chinese Russian treaty of 1945 called for its designation as a free port under Chinese administra tion, Soviet forces still are id control of the city. (In Washington, the state de partment said it had received no report of the "verbal ulti-, malum" and would have ao ' immediate comment.) Second Trip The vessel, LC-3 1090, wa oa a second routine courier mission to Dairen carrying diplomatic mail and supplies to the U. S. consulate there. In view of the fact that the details of the first trip had been revealed to the press, two cor respondents were permitted to take passage on this trip by Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr., commander of the seventh fleet, in order to be present in event their going ashore would meet with the approval of local au thorities. Admiral Cooke bad ruled that no photographs could be made without the consent of the local officials. The ship arrived at Dairen December 18, and requested permission to remain in . port for 48 hours. This-was accepted without comment by the Soviet authorities who met the ship at anchorage. The ship remained in the l( uvi IWV W1U1UV1IH1 uuuni while U. S. Consul General H. Merrill Benninghoff attempted a last minute appeal to the Soviet military authorities to permit an American business man, Jess L. Poole, Atlanta, Ga., representing the Standard Vacuum Oil Co., to go ashore. It was at this mint that the Soviet ultimatum was delivered. The Soviets ordered the ship to leave despite the fact that neither the diplomatic courier nor the commanding officer of the ship were aboard. They were at the American consulate awaiting results of Consul Gen eral Benninghoff's final appeal to the Soviet commander. They arrived on board only at the very moment of the ship's de parture. He Got The Farm; Now Needs Wife SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 23 (Pi Get ready, you girls in Tulelake. John P. O'Sullivan - is coming courting. One of four San Francisco winners in the Tulelake, Calif., homestead drawing, the 41-year- old bachelor is looking for a wife to go with his newly acquired farm. "I'll have to marry right away. of course," he beamed. He said he had worked in the Tule region no a Ai iiiuaiiu iuf years, ttilCT coming over from Ireland in 1926, and knows several Tule lake girls who would make fine wives, but "no one in particular." Passes MART McCOMB A V " l ' N. 1 L.
