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
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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
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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
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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.