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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1946)
U.S. Chamber Probes Wages WASHINGTON, Dec 23 A The United States chamber of commerce disclosed plans today to marshal its 2000 member or ganizations behind a drive in congress to relieve employers from possible "portal-to-portal" Jay liabilities dating back to 938. Spurred by the snow-balling claims of workers in mass pro duction industries for pay at twice normal overtime rates for travel and other non-production time not hitherto paid for, the chamber will submit a refer endum Friday to its entire mem. bership. These members in turn will poll some 30,000 companies on a series of proposed amendments to the fair labor standards act ec 1938. It is this act which makes the back-pay suits possible. It es tablished a 44-hour week for the first year, a 42-hour week for wo years, men a 40-hour week after 1940 for emDlovea ensasod in producing goods for Interstate commerce. Earlier this year the supreme cuuri in a case involving 1ZUU CIO United Pottery Workers at Mt. Clemens, Mich. held that employes are entitled to pay for time spent preparing for their jobs on company property. Junction Smashup Injures Two Two persons suffered injuries wnen uie car in wnicn tney were passengers overturned near the Lakeview Junction shortly after o'clock Sunday night. In Hillside hospital is Helen Jackson, 16, 2208 LaVerne, her injuries undetermined. It is thought she has several frac tures. Treated at the hospital was Bill Ledbetter, 17, 1750 Burns, who suffered a cut on the right side of the head. Driver of the car, according to state police, was Roderick All is, 20, 3135 Eberlein. He suffered only slight hurts. Investigating officers said the Packard sedan which Allis was driving toward Dairy overturned when Allis apparently applied the brakes. The machine trav eled 120 feet before coming to rest upside down on the side of the highway. No other car was involved. t iiuu a Niws, r.Mt, on. mowpat, w, imi, r sitti Christmas Anthems Sumj By Youthful Voices Tulelake Youth Leaves Hospital Christmas will probably be a happier day for 12-year-old El don Rung than was that other recently celebrated holiday, Thanksgiving Day. Early Monday morning Hill side hospital attendants were busy getting Eldon ready to go home. He has been a patient since Thanksgiving, when he was brought into the hospital suffering from severe burns about the body received when he started a fire in the kitchen stove with oil. Eldon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lin Lomax of near Tule lake. The boy's father is em ployed at Lepley Motors in that town. Thieves Snitch Christmas Lights The least Christmas-minded person in town is at work again. City police have re ceived a number of calls from people who reported that whole strings of Christmas tree lights or bulbs have been stolen from outdoor lighting arrangements. One outraged resident voiced the feelings of all this morning when he said that he's "going to take down his outdoor holi day decorations before someone walks off with the rest of his lights." Baldock Named To Highway Position SALEM, Dec. 23 (IP) State Highway Engineer R. H. Bal dock was elected first vice presi dent of the American Associa tion of State Highway Officials at its convention in Los Angeles last week, Baldock said today on his return from the conven tion. After a year in his new office, he will become association presi dent, and will be the second Oregon man to be president of the AASHO in 10 years. Former State Highway Com missioner Henry F. Cabell was association president In 1937. Mia ,.-..--I. Iliifed Members of tha recently organised Junior C oeautuul program ol music Sunday morning w Infant Holy, a Polish carol. Officers of tha gro ler, vie president Ronald Juniper, secretary-tr group and sponsors of the choir arc Mr. and M Members are: David Deller, Maurice Deller. V Gloria Stolk, LaVonne Spear. Frances Stearns. Guderian. Jacky May Murphy. Carrie Sue Hellb Angel. Wlllard Hobinsoa. Bonita Huddart, Shell Reva Snell. Jack Schulse. Greg Schulae, Martha ey. Kurt Uerllnos, Arlene Lynch. Nancr Lynch. son. Patsy Taylor. Jean Condrey. Robin Bithell. holr of the First Methodist church presented a hen thev lino Adeste Fldeles. Walts' Carol and up arei Frances Stearns, president! Maurice Del easurer. June Murphy it accompanist tor the rs. Dexter Elliott. Jack O'Connor is director, irginla Smith, Diane Binkley. Randal Blnkley. Billy Morris. Janice Larson. Gwen Selber. Carol ronner. Wayne Elliott, David Cummingt. Wayne a Glllen, Charles Rice. Don Rice. Dorothy Buker. Wilton, Ronald Juniper. Patty Clark, Don Mar Richard Baltlger. Gerry Barker. Malcolm Jack Eddie Mahan and George Vlahot. Quadruplets Born To British War Bride Today BALTIMORE. Dec. 23 (IPi Charles Hcnn Jr. was casting about today for names and a house big enough for a family suddenly increased to seven by the birth of quadruplets three boys and a girl to the British girl he married during the war. The babies were placed Im mediately after birth yesterday in individual oxygenated incu bators as a precautionary meas ure, although Dr. Thomas J. Bowyer. who made the deliv eries, said the quads' chances of survival were "very, very good. Russ To Publish Roosevelt Book MOSCOW. Dec. 23 (PI An informed source said today the Soviets would publish Elliott Koosevelt s book "As He Saw It," in the Russian language early next year. The late president s son gave Prime Minister Stalin an auto graphed copy of the book Sat urday night. The decision to publish the book in Russian was made earlier, it was said. Roosevelt and his actress wife flew from . Moscow toward the United States Sunday, expect ing to spend Christmas with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y. They landed at Berlin en route and took off later for London. Roosevelt's interview with Stalin on the generalissimo's 87th birthday was the first pub lic indication that Stalin had returned to the Kremlin from a prolonged vacation. Roose velt said Stalin appeared fit and in pood spirits. Bevin Optimistic On World Peace LONDON. Dec. 23 P) For eign Secretary Ernest Bcvin, Britain's treaty negotiator and part-time United Nations spokes man, is optimistic over the chances for "friendship and co operation between great powers," which he terms "the surest basis on which to build peace." I believe we nave entered me first stage of establishing con cord and harmony between great powers," he told the people in a radio speech last nignt adding later: "Friendship and cooper ation between great powers is the surest basis on which to build peace for all time." But he warned that peacemaking would take several years. The B5-year-oid labor-govern ment diplomat in his 20-minute BBC address reported on the Big Four foreign ministers' treaty making and the United Nations general assembly session in New York, from which he returned last Thursday, and laid down his aims for the foreign ministers' next meeting in Moscow March 10. The 23-year-old mother also is in "good condition" after the delivery which was performed without anesthetic in 53 min utes at the St. Agnes hospital. Tha couple, who have an other son, Johnny, about 13 months old, met and married in England while Henn was a sergeant with the 84th division and Mrs. Hcnn, the former Dor othy Ccast, was serving in the British equivalent of the Amer ican Wacs, Mrs. Hcnn was one of the calmest persons in the hospital and after the delivery asked for a "British cup of tea" before taking a sedative. The quads were not weighed, but Dr. William H. Sawyers, who with Dr. Walter Bcnavcnt assisted at the delivery, esti mated they were "approximate ly half normal size, or about four pounds apiece." Hcnn, who didn't get his first look at his new offspring until three hours after their births said he and his wife had picked no names, although they were informed by X-rays last Novem ber that quadruplets were on the way. "We didn't want to tempi fate," he said. "Now that they are all here and living we'll give them names. This is sure a case of four of a kind mean ing a full house." The 28-year-old bookbinder was referring to his housing problem. At present he and his wife and their 15-months-old son are living with his parents, three of his brothers and a sister. $323,000 Loot Taken From Store MODESTO. Calif.. Dec. 23 (At Police hunted today for four giuimen who kidnaped the entire family of a Modesto store manager and robbed the store of $323,000 after telling their victims they had planned the bold crime for six montlis. Chief of Police Urbane Picker ing said the thieves forced Mot ley Thcuker, manager of the Soars-Roebuck retail store, his wife and two 'teen-aged sons to leave their home and drive them in the family car to the store Saturday night. Theaker said he was forced to open the safe and remove the money by flashlight. He said $30,000 in another compartment of the safe was overlooked. YOUTHS APPREHENDED IN ILLEGAL SHOOTING Three tecn-aged boys, 14 and 13 years old, were apprehended by city police and a California Oregon Power company repre sentative Saturday afternoon for shooting rifles on the bank of Link river in town. The weapons, two .22 cal. rifle and a .22 pistol, were taken to the police station, and the boys were turned over to the juvenile office for an appearance today. CHRISTMAS TREE THEFTS COME HIGH ASTORIA, Doc. 23 (!) Don't steal your Christmas tree In northwestern Oregon. It's too expensive. Harold Tonolc, assistant dis trict forest warden, reported that two men were fined $200 each for chopping down Christ mas trees on state lands. Two other tree hunters were arrest ed in Columbia county, Jap Quake, Tidal Wave Death Toll Nears 1 725 TOKYO, Dec. 23 (Pi The toll of dead calculated as high as 1125 so far,' thousands of wretched, shivering Japanese to night huddled around fires near the waterlogged wreckage of their homes destroyed by the earthquake and tidal waves early Saturday. The home ministry listed 1B28 dead, with reports still coming in from previously isolated areas in Southern Shikoku island and the Wakayama peninsula. Kyo do New Agency reported its count at 1123 killed. Kyodo listed 2700 killed, missing and injured. A bitter cold wind blew stead ily across Japan from the Man churian plains, adding to the mis erable discomfort of Japanese who lost their homes and their relatives or friends in the tragic dawn Saturday, The homeless tens of thou sands were living under rail road trestles, in forests and along the beaches, stoking little fires against the biting winter weather, as relief crews sought to deliver emergency food, clothing and medical supplies. The home ministry listed 1028 as dead, 145 as missing and 1035 injured, and reported that well over 100,000 persons were made homeless In one of the world's worst natural disasters. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Elchel berger, commander of the U. S. eighth army, announced mean while that no American person nel had been killed or injured. Less than 100 Yanks in the Wakayama peninsula area center of the quake zone will not be evacuated immediately, army headquarters said, because they are In no danger and "have a Job to do there." Food and fresh water was dropped by air to the American garrisons, American army pilots who flew over Shikoku said the Koehl area appeared to bo the worst damaged considerably harder hit than Wakayama peninsula of Southern Honshu, which also was battered by the six tidal waves. Homestead Letters Sent Reclamation office Workers begun the tvdlou Job toduy of preparing notification letters to the 130S veterans who partici pated In the Tulelaks homestead drawing. Veterans whose names were drawn from tlx) pickle Jur Inst Wednesday will be notified of thrlr status as a result of that af fair. The remaining applicants will be told that their names are being held In reserve, but Hint If it Is possible to obtain 88 qualified homesteaders out of the first 172, they will not ob tain land In tills opening. The Job of sending out the let ters will probably not be con cluded until after the first of tha year. Meanwhile, the homestead ex amining board has begun re. checking the applications of the first 88 drawn last Wednesday. Supreme Court To Hear Lewis WASHINGTON. Dec. 23 r The supreme court today granted John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers a hearing on a new appeal questioning the val idity of the preliminary Injunc tion Issued against them during the recent soft coal strike. Tho effect Is to broaden the Issues of law before the court in Lewis' appeal from tho (10,000 fine Impoiu-d on him and the $3,500,000 fine on tho union for contempt of court. In earlier petitions, Lewi and the union challenged the validity of temporary restraining orders Issued in the same caie by U. S. District Judge T. Alan Golds borough here. The supreme court. In accept Ing the latest appeal, consoli dated It with the appeals grant ed earlier. Argument on all of the Issues will be heard Jan uary 14, Mrs. Cummins' Death Reported Mrs. Lillian Bell Cummins. 84, for more than 82 years a resident of the Klamath basin, died at the home of her son, A. I). Cum mins. 2004 Ogdvn, at 11:13 p. m. Sunday. Mrs. Cummins had been in III health for the punt two years. Born March 8. 1882. In Wood land, Calif., she come to the outhend of Tute luke in Modoc county with her parents, tha lute Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Cor nell, who for many years ran the old stage depot known as Cornell on the Fremont trail. Mrs. Cummins' husband, Albert, died in 1022. He had home steaded on Dry luke in 1882 and spent most of his life there. Final rites will be announced by Whlllock's. Winecoff Fire Work Of Arsonist ATLANTA, Dec. 23 (Pi A special agent for the national board of fire underwriters told a Fulton county grand Jury to duy that the rapid spread of flames In the Winecoff hotel fire Dccomler 7 tndicutcd tha work of a skilled arsonist. Charles M. Huguley, who has been Investigating the blmo ever since 110 persons lost their lives in the conflagration, told the grand Jury that a veteran arsonist may havo laid a thin trail of gasoline from floor to floor, causing the fire to spreud beyond control. He mild he believed It Impos sible for tho fire to havo start ed from a cignrct without guests in nearby rooms smelling the smoke. Bricker-Taft Decision Asked COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 23 (TV Friends of U. S. Scn.-clcct John W. Brlcker disclosed today lie wanted an early decision on whether he or Son. Robert A. Taft should step aside In the coming presidential race. "Tho question should be de cided quickly," a spokesman, re questing anonymity, quoted uncKcr as saying. Brlcker. the 1044 renuhllcan vice presidential candidate, de clined to verify the report at his office hero, "I have no agreement with Bob Taft and I've authorized no ono to negotiate for ma," Brlck er stated.
