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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1946)
Spreading Insurrection In Indo-China Forces French To Use Guns And Planes By REMBERT JAMES PARIS. Dec. 28 (P Insurrection in Indo-Chlna, now report ed as having spread to the touth. hai forctd Franco to realise ho must uio guns and pianos in addition -to diplomacy to ktop her rich. 400-year-old colonial ompiro irom falling apart. Though a permanent government under the new iourth re public is not yet complete, this country already has had to briny into play the sterner aspect of a two-edged policy) loosen the bonds to hold colonials impatient for wider freedom! but when AFL Lumber Workers Get Pay Boost A 15-cents-an-hour wage in crease for AFL lumber industry employes In the Klamath basin district council area was an nounced jointly Friday by nego tiators for the AFL and the Pino Industrial Relations committee. The increase becomes effective January 1, 1947, according to K. A. Gordon, business agent for the AFL, and Chet Irving, repre senting the PIRC. Present basic wage for AFL sawmill and logging employes is $1.07J, and this rate will go to $1,224 under today's agreement. Box factory workers' basic wages will jump from $1.05 to $1.20. The last AFL-PIRC wage agree ment was effective May 1, 1946. 6000 Affected Gordon said that about 6000 employes are affected by the increase. The area involved in cludes AFL operations in Klam ath county, Lake county, Alturas ana canby, weed, and Rogue River valley from Grants Pass to Medford. While the basic wage has been $1.07i, less than IS per cent of all employes receive that mini mum pay, Irving said. Take home pay for the area, including overtime, has been running at SI. 42. 9, according to a Western Pine association survey. - The wage increase announced today does not affect the Gil christ Lumber company, which boosted wages 12i per cent on December 9, according to word received here. No announcement has been made relative to negotiations for an increase for CIO employes of the area, today's report covering only AFL. The negotiated raise is being submitted to the individual oper ators and unions, but ratification is believed assured. Pilot. Co-Pilot Die In Crash (Continued from Page One) clear, died a short time after the accident. American Airlines officials said the plane left Detroit at 8:42 a.m. and was expected to arrive at Chicago at 9:31. It crashed about 9:22 a.m. The officials said Pilot Hamm had reported to the Chicago operations office at 9:02 a.m. (CST) that he was flying at 4000 feet altitude over South Bend, Ind., and that he expected to land at Chicago at 9:31 a.m. At 9:17 he reported he was having engine trouble with both engines of the plane and was descending. A section crew for the New York Central railroad saw the plane -emerge from an overcast over Lake Michigan and fly in land at a low altitude. It appeared the pilot may have been attempting to make a land ing at the Michigan City airport Just two miles away. The plane was in direct line with the air port as it came down from the overcast. It did not catch fire. Pierre Dreyfus Dead In Crash NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (P) Pierre N. Dreyfus, son of the late Capt. Alfred Dreyfus whose conviction as a French military traitor in 1894 provoked world wide protest and led to his later exoneration, was among the dead in the crash-explosion of a TWA constellation near Shan non. Eire, early today. French authority is challenged, tight. Nine days ago, while President-Premier Leon Blum tack led the problems of a new so cialist interim government and even before the official Christmas-Eve rebirth of war-shattered constitutional govern ment, fighting broke out be tween Vlet-Namese and French in Hanoi, capital of Indo-China and of the young Asiatic V let Nam republic. Engagements were reported swiftly in parts of the northern protectorate states of Tonkin and Annam. Yesterday news dispatches told of trouble also in the southern Indo-Chinese colony of Cochin China. The French press agency re ported 24 Annamite, Indian and Chinese civilians killed In Christmas night gunfire at tacks on four automobiles near Saigon, Cochin China's capital. French army officers were said to have attributed the attacks to efforts of Vlet-Nam adher ents to disrupt communications throughout the colony, perhaps in preparation for an offensive. The newspaper France - Solr said that, with a 10 p. m. cur few already 'on, colonial au thorities put Saigon under a state of siege Thursday night, cancelled military leaves, re stricted soldiers to barracks and instituted armed street patrols Lin the city and road guards on the outskirts. Western Union Rates Upped WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 OP) The federal communications commission Friday authorized the Western Union Tclegroph company to Increase Its present message charges about 10 per cent. It approved for an indefinite period an increase of 20 per cent above the rates effective last June 12 when a 10 per cent in crease was granted. Mathematically, that works out to an Increase of slightly less than 10 per cent over the present charges. Western Union had asked for an increase of 15 per cent above existing rates. Western Union was authorized to increase its interstate C. N. D. (commercial news department) service charges by 15 per cent and its interstate money order premium charges by an average of 4.3 per cent. The commission estimated that the rate increases would pro duce additional annual revenues of $8,500,000. Five Die In Bus . Truck Smashup GLASGOW, Mo., Dec. 28 (P) Five of 17 passengers on a Santa Fe Trailways bus were killed and eight were injured when the swaying rear end of a truck trailer crashed into the side of the bus on a small bridge near here yesterday. The impact ripped a hole six feet long and four feet high in the side of the bus. The dead were Clarence Fainter of Spring field, 111., and four Missourlans, including a 25-year-old mother, Mrs. Marjorie White, Hale, Mo., and her three-months-old son. WEATHER Max. (Dec. 27) 35 Mln 16 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to date 3.53 Last year 5.93 Normal .. 4.31 Forecast: Clear today, becom ing cloudy Sunday. Little change in temperature. Perjury Worse Than Murder The Nagas of Assam consider murder a minor offense, while the perjurer is permitted to com mit suicide In preference to hav ing his head removed. F. H. Hunter Passes In California F. Hill Hunter, 61, former Klumnth resident and prominent mill building contractor, died ut his home In Lemon Grove, Calif., on December 24, friends hore were advised. The Hunter family left Klam ath Fulls in 1938 for Sun Diego, later purchasing a small fruit ranch in Lemon Grove whore they huve lived for a number of years. F. Hill Hunter came to this city in 1910 from Mlnno apolls, Minn., and in 1912 built the first Pelican Buy Lumber company sawmill for H. D. Mor- tenson. He built the Lamm Lum ber company plant at Modoc Point for W. E. Lamm, con structed t h e Ewuuna Box company plant, which he later enlarged to a three-band mill, and also built for Big. Lukes Lumber and Box company and the Klamath Lumber and Box company. Just prior to leaving here he built the sawmill for the Ochoco Lumber company at Princvillo under the supervision of W. E. Lamm. He became 111 as he finished that construction Job and soon after retired, going to California. He also constructed the large four-band plunt of the Long Bell Lumber company at Weed, Calif., as well as many structures out side the mill field. Soon after coming to Klamath Falls, Mr. Hunter purchased the Paul Johnson home at Portland and Pacific Terrace, the first house in this city to be heated with natural hot water. The resi dence is now occupied by Ste phen Rose. Mr. Hunter was active in civic affairs of the community and was a member of the Masonic lodge during his residence here. In addition to his wife, Harriet, Mr. Hunter is survived by a son, Robert, Lemon Grove, Calif., two duughters, Mrs. Lloyd (Harriet) Schmidt of Tigard, and Mrs. Robert (Louise) Merrick of Fort Sam Houston, Tex., as well as two grandchildren. One son, "Chappie," died here in 1925. Details as to final rites have not been learned here. Grain Market Shows Losses CHICAGO. Dec. 26 (P)Small scale but persistent selling caused fractional losses in grains on the Chicago board of trade today, although the January wheat contract displayed resistance, on the basis of government buying of the cash article. Trading was at the usually low Saturday ylcvcl. Most of the of fcrings appeared to represent profit taking and were not based on any immediate news. Support was given to wheat by mills on the downgrade. There was some buying of corn attributed to ex port interests. Wheat finished unchanged to e lower, January $2.1 111. corn was off i to a cent, January $1,301-1.30, and oats were i to a cent lower, March 73 4-1. Five Die In Plane Crash UNION, Miss., "Dec. 28 P) The charred bodies of five per sons returning to Florida from Christmas visits in Arkansas and Iowa, and that of a dog were re moved from the flaming wreck age of a crashed airplane yester day. " The victims were Identified as Mr. and Mrs. Willis F. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brannon and their four-year-old son, Terry. The Brannons and their son had visited in Conway, Ark., while the Halls were visiting In Cedar Rapids, la. The five re united in Conway for the return trip to Florida. BODY FOUND THE DALLES, Dec. 28 (IP) Sllverton High school players here for a basketball tourna ment yesterday found the body of a man in the Columbia river near the ferry slip here. Coroner Ben Callaway Identi fied it as that of John A. Joyce, an odd-jobs worker who appar ently had fallen into the water. IBAI.D NSWS. Blamta Till; , Reed Revolts Agaihit GOP , Political Plum Awards WASHINGTON, Due. 2U (!') Senator Heed of Kunsu pre dicted Unlay thai "eight or 10" of the 17 new republican mem bers will support his move to upset advance arrangements for bunding out leadership plums in the OOP-controlled somite. Heed further confused plans for working assignment to the new majority by announcing that If ho fulls to win the com merce committee chairmanship ho will seek to head the pub lic lands group. The Kamuin ulrcady hud said he will contest un attempt by Senator White of Muiire to take both tho party's floor louder ship post and the commerce chalrmunshlp ut a mooting of the 51 sonute rrpublicuns Mon day. Facing a possible chullengo by Senator Tobry of Now Hampshire for the commerce Job In any event, Rood told re porters he con claim seniority In the public lands group as his second choice. If he did that. It might upset the temporary lineup by deny ing the chairmanship of the lands committee to Senator In Ttff (Continued from Page One) the way our schools have been run la bad. Wo've spent money like drunken sailors on every thing but schools. In these cock eyed days, in particular, teach ers who have spent years In careful and costly preparation for their Jobs earn less than Janitors. It Isn't that we CAN'T AF FORD better pay for teachers and better facilities for teach ing. In our great cities, the cowt of political corruption alone would adequately finance the schools. We just haven't cared enough for the realities of education to be willing to economize else where In order to make our schools what they ought to be. TJ7E are smugly convinced that we have the best school sys tem on earth, but it is this writer's more or less considered opinion, based upon such oppor tunities for observation us he has hud, that as a general rule educated Europeans ore better educated than educated Ameri cans. Ice Skating Outlook Good Ponds in nearby areas were reported well coated with ice early Saturday morning as a seasonal low of 16 degrees was recorded by the U. S. weather man. A forecast for clear and cold was the promise of Sunday and ice skating should be good if an unexpected warm sun does not put in an appearance. Caution was urged as far as skating on the Upper Klamath lake was concerned and young sters should confine their activi ties to the shallow ponds around town and the reclamation canal which has little water in tho ditch at this timo of the year but sufficient to freeze over. Today's mnlmum was one de gree under the previous low of 17 to October 30. Four Die As Gasoline mftDT iwn Won nnA oq in Showered with gasoline after It collided with a truck on a nar row, snow-covered bridge nine miles north of here, a bus became a flaming death trap for four persons yesterday afternoon. Many of the 14 Injured per sons, some of them trapped in the burning Burlington Trail ways bus, owed their lives to a soldier passenger who smashed out the windows, and a man working In a nearby field who pulled them to safety, Sheriff John Nicola said. So badly were the four bodies burned that Coroner Arnold Veile scheduled an autopsy to day to determine the sex and make final Identification. Nicola identified three of the eATUUAV, . tS, IMS, Pa In Butler of Nubruska, who hd been expected to hend It. Any such result prububly would force Butler to clulin the chulrmunshlp of tho tax-handling finance committee, thus diking this post out of the vault ing hands of Senator Milllkln of Colorado, Reed loft no doubt, however, thut his prima objective Is U become top inun on tho com merce committee, which han dles legislation affecting com munications, transportation und other business ut homo and ubroud. Plane Blows Up In Eire Landing Try (Continued From Page One) could got little conclusive In formation as to the cause of the crush. From the observation tower ut the airport tho flush of the expUxiion was soon ut the spot where the wreckage later win found. The impression of several per sons near the spot was that the explosion took place at Just about the moment of the im pact. Sprague River Man Injured Elnur Ahlgran, Sprague River logger for Ewuuna Box com pany, wus painfully cut about the face and neck last night when ho wus knocked into plntc glass window during what police reported was a fight at tho Waldorf Billiards, 610 Main, at about 0 p. m, Ahlgran was taken to K hi ni nth Valley hospital by ambit lance and fuccs a disorderly conduct charge at the police station when he is released. His assailant has not been apprehended. Witnesses at the Waldorf said that when Ahl gran was struck and fell Into tho window, the other man u the fight left. Other police business In the past 24 hours Included the Jail ing of seven drunks, one vag rant and two porsons on disor derly conduct charges. Twe drunks bailed. Chicago Folic Hunt Killers CHICAGO, Dec. 28 (AO Po lice in Chicago and Cook county suburbs joined In hunt today for the two men who yesterday stabbed and beat to death Olu E. Freund. 84-ycar-old, wealthy, retired businessman, in his home in an exclusive section of subur ban Wilmctto. Tho aged, former engraving company executivo was stubbed nine times and Miss Marie Held, 51, a maid at tho Freund home for 18 years, was beaten severely by the men who ransacked trie luxurious home. She suffered a fractured skull and her condition at an Evnnstun hospital was re ported serious. Splattered Bus Burns dead as J tunes Frost, 21, of Lovell. Wyo.. his brother. David, 17, and Violet Stotts of Thormop oils, Wyo. Ho sii Id Lois Foster, 22, of Riverton, Wyo., who boarded the bus at Shoshone for Bozoman, Mont., had not been accounted for and was believed the fourth Victim. E. B, Brownell of Cheyenne was driving the bus, bound from Cheyenne to Billings, Mont., when it met the truck, driven by Richard Taffe of Cody, Nicola said. Both drivers slammed on the brakes. Tho truck skidded across tho bridge, which spans a narrow ditch, into the puth of the bus. The bus skidded Into the side of the truck, Igniting live gasoline.
