WEATHER
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Mrlltarlr wind orf cual.
New Year's Servtce Special
at-rvtce will lx" held nl the .lull
Lutheran cliurch, 1023 High, on
New Year's Kve at 11:15 unci ex
tondlng until 12 midnight. The
rhuir will present p-clal mimic
for the candlelight service. Vie
, tor A. Scluil.c, iMulor, will MiM-nk
on "Knowing the Secret of tin
Fleeting Ycitrs." The religious
ti net film, "A Wiininn to Re
member," will lie shown the
swine evening at 8, and on Wed
nesday at 4 p.m. The public Is
cordially Invited.
Called North Mn. K..I Cior
dun of the Marlon uliartiiH-nU
hua been culled to Vuncouver.
B C. by Ilia death of her father,
Cunt. W. J. Kuui', on December
30, Capt. Kane served an Inland
water transport officer in the
Uriliili now durliiM World War
1. Mr. tiordoli'a muter und
brother in law. Mr. and Mm. A.
A. llurria of llerkelev. came
north and M m. Gordon iolned
them en route to Vancouver by
train.
riylnq Here Mr. and Mm.
Purler Yelt Jr. and young win
David, all of Portland, uie ex
pected here today. Alnnduv, en
route to Sun Francisco for the
New Yeur holiday. They will
be overnight guests of Mr. and
Mix. Murlnn Barnes of Olene.
Yett la flying hi new plane und
hiu been a frequent vlnitor here.
New Year's Dane A New
Yeur' Eve party and dunce will
be held In the rccrcntioiuil lutll
of the new Latter Day Suinls
chun-h at 9 p. m. Tuewuiy, with
music by Stuart's band. All
mi-nilx-m of the church aiul
frienda are Invited.
Return South Mulur and
Mm. .ed lliirnea and young nun,
llrentun. returned to Hamilton
Field, San Frunclrco. Stmdiiv
afler a Cliririlmus visit here ut
the home of bin father. W. IS.
Barnes. 324 S. 8th, and with
other relatives.
Crater Lake
Ski Trail Open
The iik I trail from Crater lake
rim to Annie Spring was opened
Sunday and funs who enjoy the
long run were using the trull to
advantage, according to T. C
I'urker, assistant park superin
tendent. Some ISO earn carrying
537 passengers, many of them
kiera, entered the purk Sunday.
Purker auld thnt curs were
reentered from Oregon, Wash
ington, California, Idaho, Colo
rado and Arizona and that many
futilities came for the day. the
children sledding and playing in
Hie snow.
Minimum temporuture tlili
mornli.a wan 0 deKreea, maxi
mum 14. Sunday Uie maximum
was 'JO dcicreca and the day was
beautiful with S3 Inches of
packed snow and a cout of four
to five Inches of powdery snow,
muklnK ski conditions perfect.
All week-end accommodations
were tuken up and the duy wus
free from accidents, Purker ad
vised. Those plunnlng to ko into
the purk over New Year's ore
advised to put on chains for the
trip from headquarters to the
rim as tho road is covered with
ice and snow.
Lounge To Be
Built At Lodge
LAKEVIEW, Dec. 30 Jerauld
Jncolxton hus started coiwitruction
f a new addition to Hunter's
lodge that will be the first cock
tail yoitnge in Lake county. The
lounge will bo 30 by 424 feet,
built between the wings of the
hotel, and will scat approxi
mately 80 people. A small
amount of room will be available
for dancing.
Subdued lighting: effects will
be used, and tho upper half of
the walls will contain murals of
Lake county scenes such as the
geyser nt tho hotel, antelope,
deer, ducks and Reese,
Tho new lounyo will be ready
for occupancy In nboul three or
four months, Jucobson said.
DlaraUeed Mm. Frances In
lirum, Utl, tiiother of Mn, Idu
Hector of thla city, win dismiss
ed from llllliilde hospltul where
she hint received treulinent the
piiHl scvcrul duyii. Mra. Ingram
now resides ut Grunts Puss but
la a former Klumuth KuIIh runt
dent and well known here.
Discharges Filed Army and
navy discharges filed in the
counlv clerk'a office thin punt
week Included filings mude by
Hay II. Gliihrccht. James K.
Decker, Clyde J'eck and Wil
liam (J. Myers.
Treatment Harry "Li-bens,
Anchor hotel and employed by
Ashley Chevrolet, wan dismiss
ed Monduy from Hillside hon
pitnl where he haa received
treatment alnco December 4.
In Hospital Kul N o r K e,
Southern l'uclflc employe here
on the Job from Sun Frunclsco,
is receiving treatment at Hill
Ida hospital,
Rehearsal The regular Mon
day night reheariuil of the com
munity chorus will be held to
nlulil at 8 o'clock in the music
room of Klumuth Union high
school.
Midland Grange Thr Home
r.conomics club of Midland
Kriinue will meet at the home of
Mrs. Oral llenvalln In Stewart
Lenox addition at 2 p. m. Tues
day.
ScleiitlHts believe thnt the
roam emanation from old Ruin-
hIInK Mnld mountain ut Luke
Lure. N. C, are enuxed by
boulders fulling from the roofs
of eaves deep In the moumuin
Postwar Slump Fails To
Develop In
PORTLAND. Dec. 30 (At
The predicted poat-wur slump
for Oregon failed to develop in
11140, figures showed here to
day, farm Income and payrolls
were at record levels for peace
time. The department of agricul
ture estimated furm Income was
$300,000,000, slightly more than
in 1045 and an all-time high.
The state unemployment coin-H-nsution
commission reported
payrolls at SOUO.OOO.OOO, slight
ly lower than in 1945 when
somo shipyards still operated,
but more thnn 00 per cent high
er than the last peacetime yeur
of 104i.
Rusiness leaders predicted
1047 would be even better. A
chamber of commerce poll
showed most believed there
Scotch Whiskey
High Everywhere
CAMPBKLLTOWN, Scotland.
Dec. 30 Ml This is the tradi
tional home of Scotch whiskey,
but today some of the town's
thirstier citizens were offering
up to $40 a bottle for the liquor.
The high prices rose from
scarcity. There are 2.000.000
gallons of Scotch in the town's
warehouses, but it is In bond for
five ycors more and when re
leased, most of It will go to the
United StnHcs.
Portland Hotels
Get Trade Slump
PORTLAND, Dec. 30 P
Portlnnd hotelmen announced a
surprise today: a traveler can
ask for a room and be ushered
right in.
For the first time since the
war's outbreak, hoteliers said,
demand has slackened enough
to make rooms obtainable with
out reservations. They blamed
a holiday slump, and predicted
tho situation would continue at
least until mid-January.
Merrill Literary
Club Head Named
MERRILL, Dec. 30 Mrs. Wil
liam Walker has been re-elected
president of the Merrill Library
club, with Mrs. Otto Ellis to
serve nRain as secretary. Mrs.
W. F. Jinnette is the new treas
urer and Mrs. M. A. Bowman is
vice president.
The election followed the an
nual Christmns potluck luncheon
and Rift exchange at the homo
of Mrs. Walker.
Ex-Marines To
Parachute Into
Hidden Valley
TORONTO. Dec. 30 W) Con
firmation or denial of the many
rumors surrounding the fumed
Nuhunui OicudlcHH) vulloy of
northern Ilrltlsh Columbia may
bo forthcoming next summer.
I.t. W. K. Bulemun disclosed
yesterduv that ho und a group
of murine corps veterans will
drop Into the valley by para
chute. Tho vallev. which has claimed
the lives of many who sought to
explore it. Is reputed to contain
tropical vegetation and a water
fall twice as high as Niagara.
Indian natives have reported
prehistoric animals ranging the
valley's headlands.
Last Septembi-r, a Yakima,
Wash, couple and a relative
Mr. and Mrs. James Watts and
Edwurd Ross were reported
missing In the vullev for some
time before muking their way
to civilization.
Dutcman said the marines
also will seek John Patterson, a
gold miner who entered the val
ley In June and has not been re
ported since.
Truman Names
Undersecretary
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 V)
President Trumnn has chosen A.
L. M. Wiggins. Hnrtsvlllc. S. C.
hunker, to be undersecretary of
the treasury.
Tho White House announced
today that Wiggins, former
president of the American Bunk
ers association, will succeed O.
Max Gardner when the latter
becomes ambassador to Britain.
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles u. Ross said the nomin
ation of Wiggins will be sent to
the senntc after the senate octs
on Gardner s diplomatic appoint
ment. Gardner will continue as
treosurv undersecretary until
that time.
Oregon So Far
would be a slump in the first
quarter of tho your, but thai
steady improvement would lol
low.
They foresee a construction
boom. Largest announced pro
ject is Pacific 1 cic phono and
leiegraphs proposed $25,000
000 worth of additions to the
system. The tourist trade, which
brought in $100,000,000 this
yeur, is expected to net even
more.
Despite closure of shipyards
in Portland, the city had new
highs in bank clearings, prop
erty sales and store receipts
The city added 155 new indus
tries, expected eventually to
employ 3500 workers. The $34
435,000 in building permits was
second only to the boom year
or 1U23
Centennial
Payments In
All but 29 of the Klamath
centennial guarantors have paid
the small assessments necessary
to close the financial books of the
big 1946 celebration, it was- re
ported by Business Manager
Charles btark of the centennial
commission today.
Stark said that Uie payments
so fur have taken care of 85
per cent of Uie deficit.
He urged tliut others who
underwrote the centennial pay
their share immediately so the
books nwiy be closed. The cele
bration, whose costs ran close to
$25,000, had a deficit of less than
$1000.
Wife Of Pilot
Reaches Shanghai
SHANGHAI, Dec. 30 )
Mrs. J. M. Greenwood, whose
husband was killed Christmas
night In an airplane crash while
she was at sen, arrived today
from Houston, Tex., with her
two small children.
She was met aboard the
steamship Joseph Lee by her late
husband's closest friend, who
brought her ashore In a tug. She
said her plans were indefinite.
Fellow passengers said Mrs.
Greenwood heard of her hus
band's death on her cabin radio.
She was twirling the dial trying
to Ret some music when a news
broadcaster reported "the only
American killed in the crash
was Capt. J. M. Greenwood of
Texas."
MSBAI.D NIW. Blaattlb falli. On.
Manufacturers Fear CIO
Wage Increase Proposal
Would Lead To Price Hike
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 Ml The National Association of
Manufacturers today described
of wage increases as "pure guesswork" and "statistical non
sense." and reiterated that higher wages will force up prices again.
NAM made its position known In a statement by Dr. Ralph
Robey, Its chief economist. Robey is also a newspaper and maga
sine writer on economies and finance and served as an economic
adviser to Alf F. Lindon, the republican nominee, in the 1938
residential campaign."
Rve Fire
Calls Answered
The cold weather brought tho
fire laddies out of their warm
quarters to answer five calls
during the week-end. The first
come at 5:30 p. m. Saturday
from the Horace E. Getz resi
dence, 511 Pacific Terrace, when
a flue fire was reported. There
was no damage.
Sunday at 12:18 a. m. Uie de
partment answered a- call to
the Oregon barbecue stand at
Oregon and Upham when a pan
of hot grease was reported on
fire in the oven. There was
slight damage. At 9:25 a. m. a
defective fireplace caused resi
dents of 1405 Worden to sum
mon the fire truck. There was
no damage, firemen said. The
place is occupied by Art Vro
man. At 6:40 p. m. Sunday the
truck ran to 2362 Rudcliffc
where a fire under the floor of
the house caused small damage.
T J Imhfiff ia flu iwntunt
fl.ast call came at 7:38 a. m.
Monday from 2000 Oregon,
where fire in the walls of a
garage caused some damage.
The property is owned by Guy
Hancock and occupied by V.
Kerns and E. Buck.
5 Voodburn
Escapees Back
PORTLAND, Dec. 30 ifP)
Five of 12 boys who escaped
the state training school at
Woodburn yesterday afternoon
were recaptured in this region
late last night and early this
morning.
Two were taken Into custody,
the Clackamas county sheriff's
office said, after stealing a
truck in Oregon City. Sons of
the truck's owner trailed the
boys to Portland.
Three other inmates were
captured later in northeast
Portland. The 12 boys had es
caped in two groups.
One group of six pushed their
way out of a cottage window
and the second broke out of a
kitchen window before the su
pervisor could stop them.
Superintendent M. D. Wooley
reported none was dangerous
and attributed the mass break
to general restlessness over the
holidays.
British Troops
Search For Kidnappers
JERUSALEM, Dec. 30 W
The British military announced
today that all Jewish communi
ties along the Palestine coast had
been placed out of bounds to the
30,000 British troops on duty in
the area, as authoriUes pressed
a search, for Uie armed kidnapers
who a (TO tic ted a British major
and three sergeants last night
and gave each 18 lashes in what
was described as a retaliatory
move.
A military source predicted
that authorities, fearing British
troops might seek vengeance for
the floggings, would keep the
ruling in force at least until after
New Year's Eve. The provost
marshal's office said that "feel
ing is running high" in Uie mili
tary camps.
Jewish agency sources ex
pressed regret for the floggings.
Meanwhile the British ship.
Ocean Vigour, arrived in Haifa
harbor bringing 750 Jewish ref
ugees who were deported to Cy
prus when they originally ar
rived here within immigration
certificates.
MONOAr, Dm. M. ft. TkM
CIO arguments for a new round
Robey sharply criticized the
report made for the CIO by
Robert Nathan, private ccono.
mist and former war production
planner. Robey asserted Nathan
had a "record of faulty predic
tions such as that unemploy
ment would reach 8,000,000 in
the spring of 1946."
Nathan maintained in his re
port for the CIO that present
business profits are high enough
.so that industry can grant pay
boosts up to 25 per cent with
out raising prices or reducing
profits below wartime peaks.
"The whole theory of the re
port to the CIO," Robey's state
ment said, "is based on Nathan's
guess as to what business profits
would be in the last quarter of
1946 and his assumption that
business will continue to earn
at least that much from here
on. . . .
"Nathan's figures for 1946 are
merely his own estimate. Being
purely guesswork, this is like, a
weather prophet predicting it is
going to rain next Sunday. The
only way to find out if it does
rain is to wait until next Sun
day. This is dangerous business
when it comes to economics."
11
First Robin"
Here Again
This may start an argument
like last year's "first robin"
story, but late Saturday after
noon The Herald and News re
ceived a call from C. R. Cald
well. 1534 Madison, that trees
in front of his home were "full
of fat robins."
These robins, according to
Caldwell, are the first he has
seen and The Herald and News
at this time docs not go so far
as to say these are the first
robins. We learned our lesson
last year when a first robin
story brought a veritable storm
of protest from readers who
had already been in on the
first robin.
Anyway, we can say that
these are the first robins re
ported to The Herald and Nvas
and thereby stand pat- Cald
well told this office that some
200 of the red breasted birds,
fat and sassy, were making
merry in his trees and they
looked, to him, "like they were
going someplace."
(Ed. Note: The Herald and
News ornithologist says there
ain't no such thing as a "first
robin" as robins hang around
here all winter!)
Launch
Search for the perpetrators of
last night's floggings continued,
with British authoriUes and
Palestine police participating iu
Uie manhunt.
Authorities said that Uie major
was whisked away by five armed
men from Uie lounge of the Hotel
Mctropole in Nathanya, 40 miles
north of Tel Aviv, where he was
sitting with his wife. He was
said to have been blindfolded,
tied to a rack and beaten with a
cane.
Meanwhile eight men, armed
with submachine guns, abducted
two sergeants from in front of
the Armon hotel on Tel Aviv's
waterfront. Forced into an auto
mobile, they were taken to Uie
outskirts of the all-Jewish city,
where, police said, their abduc
tors "took down their pants and
administered 18 strokes apiece."
A third sergeant was flogged
at Rishon Le Zion, the historic
Jewish settlement founded by
Baron Rothschild, 20 miles
south of Tel Aviv. He was said
to be in serious condition in a
military hospital.