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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1946)
Free Economy Advocates Get Clear Field In Housing WASHINGTON. Dec. 26 (JV) From here out, the administra tion will try to demonstrate a theory by top planners that un restricted private enterprise can build houses faster and better than under government re strictions. The furore over the veterans' housing program which centered about the recent resignation of Wilson W. Wyatt as federal ex- Thieves Lift Yule Gifts Sneak thieves added their bit to the general merriment of Christmas, making merry with Christmas presents belonging to a number of other people. Mrs. Dee Hawkins, operator of the Hotel cafe at the Malin hotel, reported to Deputy Sher iff Jack Francy that someone en tered her room at the hotel and made off with several gifts, in cluding a wrist watch, pen and pencil set and some items of jew elry. Ralph H. Kruger, of Bonanza, visiting friends on Roseway drive Christmas eve, lost a case of milk, a pair of gym shoes, a bottle of whiskey and a carton of cigarettes when someone went through his car, he report ed to police. Virgil Parr as of Dorris, who had his car parked near the armory while attending a Christ mas dance, told police that all the hubcaps were taken off the vehicle. Mail Passes Rush Season In comparison with the two weeks preceding Christmas the local post office was almost de serted this morning. A few tardy mailers were in evidence. Out going mail has settled down to a pre-yule normal, according to post office officials, but the amount of incoming letters and parcels continues at a high rate as mails held up at Portland and San Francisco begin coming in. Postmaster Burt E. Hawkins reported that a good many per sons brought in mail right up to the deadline Tuesday evening, some of it bound for as far as the eastern seaboard with the hope of getting it there by Christmas. Some persons, Haw kins said, had delayed their mail ing until after Christmas with the thought that their parcels would be delivered in better con dition after the Christmas rush was ended. 1 Tolliver Funeral To Be Saturday Funeral services for 13-year-old Dwight Franklin Tolliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tolli ver of the Hill road near Merrill, will be held from Ward's chapel Saturday at 10:30 a. m. Dwight suffered fatal injuries Monday afternoon when he fell while hiking on Stukel mountain with his two brothers, Lawrence, 15, and Clarence, 11. When Dwight was found unconscious on the rocks where he. had fallen and struck his head, Lawrence ran a mile to neighbors while Clarence stayed by Dwight's side. Dr. F. E. Trotman of Mer rill was summoned as were the child's parents, and they brought him down the mountain side and after first aid treatment, Dwight was rushed to Hillside hospital where he died later that night of brain injuries. Halsey Joins Rubber Company CARLISLE, Pa., Dec. 26 UP) Fleet Admiral William F. Hal sey Jr. has been elected a mem ber of the board of directors of the Carlisle Tire and Rubber company. Company President Furber Marshall, who announced the election of the famed Pacific naval leader at a Christmas par ty for employes, said Halsey has been relieved of active participa tion in naval affairs at his own request after 46 years' service. peditcr was mainly the product of conflicting schools of thought over the best way to get more homes. Some planners contended that while mandatory channeling of materials, limitations on prices and rigid inspections were neces sary 'Under war-time conditions and in the immediate aftermath of the war, this medicine could no longer benefit the Datient. Wyatt thought otherwise. Hence his resignation, leaving the free- economy advocates a relatively open field in shaping housing policies. At the top of the new program are Frank R. Creedon, expediter, and Raymond M. Foley, federal housing administrator and chief of the national housing agency. As a deputy civilian produc tion administrator and a former private engineering expert, Creedon has contended that too rigid limitations have hampered rather than helped housing and have put an unnecessary crimp in other lines of endeavor vital to postwar reconversion. Foley has been engaged In a program which involved govern ment guarantees to banks against loss on investments in private home construction. He has expressed his belief that this is a superior means of getting private industry to act. Former Local Man Killed Aaron Manuel Mogch of Prlne ville, fatally injured in an acci dent near Rawlins, Wyo., Mon day night, is known in Klamath county and is a former resident of Sprague River, friends here advised today. Mogch's mother, Mrs. Minnie Mogch, visited re cently from Princvllle for a two weeks' ' period at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Eggcrs of Olene. Mogch was employed by Alex ander Yawkey Lumber company at Princvllle but was en route to South Dakota to take over his father's ranch. He was also a member of the Portland police department at one time and served for two years in the mer chant marine. A sister, Mrs. Agnes Williams of Prinevillc, also survives. Injured in the accident was Henry Vacknitz, 35, Malin, who is in a Rawlins hospital suffer ing from a fractured leg and other hurts. His wife, Marie, is expecting to leave soon to be at his bedside. Man Confesses To Slaying TACOMA, Dec. 26 UP) Dctec tive Capt. Al Farrar said today James Mitchell, 20, had signed a confession to the fatal shooting the night of December 18 of Dr. John R. Thompson, 78, a physi cian and optometrist. Dr. Thompson was found dead in his downtown office by his daughter. Farrar said Mitchell's confes sion stated he had shot the phy sician white in a "drunken stu por." He was linked with the case when a ring, stolen from Dr. Thompson, was found on his fin ger after his arrest Tuesday night in connection with the shooting and knifing of a cab driver, Farrar said. The detective captain said Mitchell had also signed a con fession admitting that he shot and knifed Bruce Cullctt, 28, the cab driver. Cullett is in a seri ous condition at the county hos pital. No charge has yet been filed against the prisoner. 11 -Year-Old Boy In Juvenile Court An 11-year-old boy, found drunk on the sidewalk at 8th and Klamath last night, spent the remainder of the night in juvenile custody and was brought into the juvenile office today. The lad was found lying on the sidewalk by city police early last night. i. , o Soma 70 newsboys and girls were guests of The Herald and News last Monday whan they gathered for a Christmas skating parly at Skat land. Refreshments .and holiday treats completed their activities. Maurice Miller and Forfeit Alter of The Herald and Newt circulation department wete in charge. , U. S. Demands Investigation Of French Activities In The Soar Territory BERLIN, Dec. 26 (JP) The Americans have officially de manded from the French an ex planation of reports that they have been stripping Industries from other sections of their zone In Germany and transfer ring them into the Saar, around which they have now estab lished a customs frontier, it was learned todny. Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, dep uty Amcrlcon military gover nor, asked specifically about the big Roberl Bosch electrical parts plant, which the French arc said to have moved from southern Wucrttcmberg into the Saar. Clay, It was learned, request Crash Victims Found On Ice MONT JOLI. Que.. Dec. 26 W) The fifth and sixth survivors of a sunken Quebec airways plane were rescued today from an ice floe in the frigid St. Lawrence river after three tortuous days in which they drifted toward the sea. The seventh person aboard the plane, which crashed in the river Monday, had disappeared in the waters of the river and was believed- to have drowned. Four survivors previously were taken ashore. A small boat Which set out from the fishing village of Petite Vallcc on the Gaspc coast, 350 miles east of the city of Quebec, picked up the two men after a Canadian Pacific air lines plane spotted them In tho river, 80 miles wide at the point. The 5617-ton American freighter Col abce had been pushing up through the St. Lawrence ice when the last men were taken to safety. Albert Morin, one of tne rescued men. was reported to have a leg Injury aggravated by the three-day exposure to ice. Aurel Gagnon, the other saved man, was reported in good condi tion. The lost man was Florian Simard. Catholic Priests Burn To Death . f n x x k, mil. i iw. 26 UP) Two Catholic priests burned to death today in the rec tory adjacent to St. Joseph' Catholic church here. They were the Rev. Charles A. McCaulcy, 42. pastor of St. Joheph's, and the Rev. Francis T. Lioiiartont about 55. Father Dollarton came here Christmas Eve from St. John's seminary at Little Rock to assist Father Mc Cauley, who. had been 111, in Christmas services. The two died in an upstairs bedroom when a blaze of unde termined origin swept the sec ond Btory of the brick rectory. hualp a wswi. miti r.n, . TmasT, .. m. iw t, mi. Newsboys' Skating Party 6 nVbKMllS CY- i, i ed that the French present the facts in this case to the quad ripartite allied control authori ty here. He rejected a French contention that It was a uni lateral matter and not of quad ripartite concern. The dispute over the French zone industries was another facet of the Snar Issue, which came into promlnenro when the French last week end sent 1200 customs officers into the Saar to set up the customs frontier between the resources-rich ter ritory and t h remainder of Germany. Clay protested that operation as an entirely unilateral ac tion which was not presented Klamath Pilot Freed Of Fire Damage Charge PORTLAND. Ore., Dec. 26 VP) A pilot was freed from a Rov crnmcnt claim of forest fire damages today when Federal Judge Claude McColloch held he was not negligent in hitting a power line. The power line, four miles south of Newport, Wash., broke when Louis W. Sou ktip, Klam ath Falls, flew his over-heated plane into it as he aproached the Columbia river for an emergency landing July 21, 1945. The wires caused a fire burning 570 acres of timber In Colvillo national forest and the government sought reimburse ment of $6782 for cost of fight ing the blaze. The judge held that the power line was unmarked and almost invisible. Soukup testified that he did not know his plane hit ttu wire. The case was tried at Medford October 3. McComb Rites Set For Friday Final rites for Mury L. Mc Comb, since 1934 Klamath coun ty librarian, will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church with Ward's in charge. The Rov. David Barnctt will officiate and special music will be presented by Carl Hagcl, soloist, and Mrs. George W. Mclntyrc, organist. Miss McComb was a life-long member of the church. Friends are Invited to attend the services for Miss McComb, who died Saturday, December 21. There has been an excellent response to the Mory McComb memorial book shelf at Klamath county library It is understood from friends here. WHALING FLEET TOKYO, Dec. 26 (!) Allied headquarters today reported the Japanese whaling fleet caught 30 in its first six days in the antarctic,,;. mm h.MX " to the allied control council for consideration." Although, the French asserted the customs action was an anti-black market measure to sate guard the Saar's food supply and shield Its fiscal economy, German political parties here charged that It was, In effect, a change of the frontiers and "amputation of tho Saar from the German economy." German political spokesmen said it was a step by the French toward annexution of the Saar and they expressed the hope that the foreign ministers coun cil at Its Moscow meeting In March would "rescue the Suur for Germany." Jap Quake Toll Reaches 3650 TOKYO, Dec. 26 UP) The U. S. army rcvlaod the casualty toll In Japan's earthquake and tldul wave disaster to 3650400 mora than previously reported. The army's totals were 1108 killed and 2542 Injured. They surpassed for the first time the Jupancsc home ministry's fig ures, which were 12HU killed, 162 miming and 1800 injured. The U. S. fifth air force said Saturday's tidal wave, first re ported at 7 to 10 feet high, actu ally swept the Wukayuma penin sulu and Shlkoku coasts at height of 25 to 27 feet. Col. Crawford Sums of Gen eral MucArthur's public hrullh unci welfare section ruvised up ward his reiHrl on the number of homes destroyed to 18,262 and those damaged downward to 33,500. As U. S. and British plum's and a British destroyer curried supplies to tho shivering, bedrag gled homeless tens of thousands on Shlkoku, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichclbcrgcr officially reminded the Japunesc government of its responsibilities in rehabilitation. Eichelberger, commander of the U. S. eighth army, promised full cooperation. MucArthur's staff so far has provided the impetus and most of the supplies and transporta tion for the disaster region. CONVICTED KILLER GIVES EYE TO BLIND SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (P) A 29-year-old Alcatraz murder er soon to die in the San Quen tin gas chamber has offered his eyes to some blind person, pre ferably a war veteran. Mlrnn E. Thompson, serving a life term for kidnaping and kill ing an Amarlllo, Tex., police man, was sentenced to death last week for his port In tho un successful attempt of a group of Alcatraz criminals to escape lust May from tha fedoral penitentiary.
