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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1946)
German Border Changes Vill Face U. S. Opposition BERLIN. Dw. 30 M Reliable diplomatic sources predicts today t proposals lor rTitk)i oi Gwmur'i wmImb frontier, except for cession of tha Sui to France, would bo strongly op posed by tho United. States at the forthcoming Gorman poaco It Is expected, these sources laid, that tha United States will at only oppoto Franca'a claima to tha Rhtnaland but will reject mora modaat bordar changaa proposed by Holland and Belgium ualau tha couatrlaa concornod can proaant aatltfactorr proof that tha paopla of tho araa concarnad "genuinely datira" a change. Tha poaltion of tha Unitad Statai and others on tha Qarman bordar aattlamanta b being outllnad among tha four major alllad powers hara for presentation to tha foralgn ministers council whan it conTanaa in Moacow in March. The American positions, it a was understood here, will be essentially the same as that out lined by secretary of State James F. Byrnes in his Stutt gart policy speech last Septem ber, although it is being pre pared in more aciau to meet the complex claims against Ger many expected to develop at the coming negotiations. At Stuttgart Byrnes declared the United States docs not con sider the eastern borders of Germany as decided and an nounced ' opposition to any claims against Germany In the west except for the French claim to the Saar. He further qualified this by saying that in return for the Saar, France should "readjust her repara tions claims." There have been strong indi cations during the past week that Russia will support the United States position with re gard to Germany's western frontiers. Soviet supervised and sponsored newspapers in Ber lin have launched bitter attacks against the French for the new customs control which they have established over the Saar, and also have criticized Dutch and Belgian claims for border revisions. Dance Head Faces Fraud PORTLAND, Dec. 30 JP) A dance studio manager was under indictment here today, accused of getting GI payments for non existent dance lessons. Odd Hagen Foss, 32, manager ot the Arthur Murray studio here, was charged with fraud by the government. The complaint said he induced a veteran to apply for GI bill of rights pay ments for dance lessons. The veteran had taken lessons before the studio was certified as a training school and was an instructor there at the time the application was made, the com plaint said. Foss is free on $3000 bond. Hal King, Oakland, Calif., re gional manager of the chain of dance studios, said the Portland studio's franchise had been sus pended, and the company would repay any amount in a defraud ment. 55 Motorists Cited In Traffic Check Fifty-five motorists, caught in a two-way traffic check conduct ed by state police yesterday, are in for an appearance in justice court today. The check was conducted simultaneously at the Merrill and Ashland junctions. Police checked for brakes, horns, wind shield swipes and operator's licenses, and said that 40 of the offenders were given citations for having faulty emergency brakes. Allied Control Outlines New BERLIN, Dec. 30 (IP) The allied control council today pub lished a sweeping new law for Germany prohibiting the manu facture, import and possession of all war materials from atom bombs to daggers and kites. The prohibitions are contained in control council law No. 43. It includes many provisions for demilitarization of Germany which were previously executed by the four occupation zone com manders in the form of proclama tions and directives. The law requires that Ger mans declare to the allies any still-existing war stocks, which are to be destroyed or converted to essential peacetime uses. It provides penalties o imprison Family Holds Reunion Here For the first time In 40 years, four sisters and two brothers gathered here to enjoy a family reunion with the arrival of three of the sisters from England . Mrs. J. W, QukbeU, 2232 Gar den, was host to her family which included Mrs. Elisabeth Hyde and Mrs. Clssie Smith, both of Hyde, - Cheshire, England, and Mrs. Alice Wade, Stockport, Eng land, and the brothers, William Pomroy of San Francisco and Walter Pomroy of Klamath Falls. Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Wade left England on the Queen Elizabeth November 22, docking in New York December 1. The sisters spent Christmas with Wil liam in San Francisco and ar rived here Friday night. They plan to make an Indefinite stay of probably four months. Wil liam Pomroy had completed plans for a trip to England to visit his family last May but became ill on the train and it was through his efforts that the sisters were able to get passage to the United States to take part in the family reunion. Quibcll is The Herald and News carrier for the Mills addi tion district and has held this job for the past 13 years, which gives him the title of "oldest car rier" for the paper. Nazi Doctor To Die FRANKFURT. Germany, Dec. 30 (P) Dr. Friedrich Mennecke, former SS lieutenant-colonel, was sentenced to death, and three of his subordinates were given prison terms today by a German criminal court which convicted them of the Euthanasia murder of hundreds of inmates of the Eichberg insane asylum. It was the first war crimes trial of Germans by a German court. The victims also were Germans, some of the hundreds ot thou sands of mental and physical defectives exterminated during the war by the nazis. The court found Dr. Mennecke guilty of ordering the slaying of 1000 asylum inmates as part of his "scientific experiments." The convictions and sentences may be appealed to a German supreme court at Frankfurt and also are subject to review Dy tne American military government, without whose approval no death sentences may be carried out. Never plunge glass and pot tery cooking dishes into cold water. Soak to loosen crusted or burned food. Wash as usual. Council German Laws ment and, in serious cases, death for violations. Dispensations may be made for peacetime requirements such as arms and ammunition for police, explosives for demoli tion work and cryptographic ma chines for authorized internal security services. Also forbidden are warships of all classes, aircraft of all types including kites, captive balloons, gliders and model aircraft and all drawings, specifications, de signs, models and reproductions relating to the development, test ing or inspection of war ma terials. The ban on war chemicals In cludes rocket fuels such as high concentrates of hydrogen perox ide. . Panthers Back In Their Cage EL PASO, Tax,, Deo. 30 (P) . A Railway Express ear contain ing three panthers was en route to Los Angeles today after tho anlmalsV campaign for freedom had delayed the trip more than 48 hours. -. , ... The campaign did 'not win their freedom- but it did win the animals a privato car. The panthers, being shipped from Dallas to California, es caped from their cnge In a Toxus and Pacific railroad baggage car early last Friday while en route to El Paso. Dr. Noble Hainiler. trainer and shipper ot the animals, arrived there yesterday from Dallas and decided it would be safer to put them in another car rather than attempt to re-crate them. Armed only with a chair and a piece of pipe two feet long, Hamltcr prodded tho animals into an empty car. The panthers had not been without food during their, pro longed stay in the car but they had been without water for 24 hours. A small dog. soma chickens and a barrel of fish that had been traveling with the panthers were unharmed. Police Busy Over Weekend Nathan Copporfleld. 29-ycur- old Klamath Indian from Beatty, in the city Jail on a drunk charge, Saturday night started a one man riot with other inmates of the drunk tank and had to be locked up by himself after offi cers had quelled the disturbance. In police court this morning Copporfleld pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $25 and given an extra 10 days According to pollco report, the Indian beat and kicked two other drunks. Robert Bickman, roomer at the Cozy hotel, was fined $35 and given a 10-day sentence this morning for giving liquor to an Indian, Henrietta Johns, who was jailed on a drunk count. Bickman and the Indian woman were arrested In his hotel room Saturday night. Three traffic arrests were made by police over the week end. Walter Gustave Eschenbeck, 205 Commercial, was cited to come to court tills afternoon for a violation of the basic rule on S. 6th; Robert M. Farrand, 405 Martin, was cited for making a U turn on 7th between Main and Klamath, and Keith Elbert Henry. 2215 Vine, posted $5 ball for running a red light. rive drunks appeared in court this morning and six drunks posted bail over the week-end. Melhase Case Row Looms By way of answer to charges made in- an equity suit rCgard ln. Ua ...I.I. r " XlC I L 1 1 . 1 1 u cnwiv vt wub mviiHinvi Klamath pioneer who died March 28, the defendants, Win- ired w. (.leghorn, John u. Clcghorn and the Wlthrow-Mcl-hase company have entered a motion to have several lines of the original complaint stricken from the record, The original suit was filed by George F, Ketsdcver, Wilt liam M. Melhase and Eva E. Soulc, representing the heirs of the Melhase estate. Their complaint charged that the Clcgliorns, owners of half of the Withrow-Mclhase com pany, had persuaded Melhase to transfer his half of tho com- fiany which includes the build ng of the Hall hotel to them, and also to make gifts to them amounting to some $75,000, thereby disinheriting the right ful heirs to the estate. The defendants' motion asks that several phrases which in fer that the transfer was made without any consideration whatsoever" be stricken from the complaint. A. W. Schaunn and D. E. Van Vactor are attorneys for the Clcghorns, and J. H. Carnahan Is representing tne plaintiffs. Judge Charles H. Combs of Lakeview has been assigned to conduct the case. Special House Committee Levels Blast At Russians WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (ZD Charges of economic enslave ment, political terrorism, relig ious repression, broken prom lues and ambitions for military power were leveled agulnst Russia to day by the special house com mittee . on postwar economic policy. - . . Tho committee report the sharpest official criticism of Russia on Capitol Hill since tho Soviet Union wont to war with Germany demanded that the United Stales assert "positive leadership" In European eco nomic affairs. Simultaneously It asserted that if Russia actually Is found to be using German war plants to re arm, the western allies should Youths Held In Holdup James Lee, 24. who was or dered to leave Klamath Falls early in December, and a 18-year-old Klamath Falls boy are being held in Jail at Sacramento in connection with an armed rob bery, according to word received by officials here. The naturo of the robbory was not disclosed, but officials were asked to check up on the pistol used, which is believed to have been stolen here. Lee, according to police rec ords, had been in Klamath Falls for several months and was ar rested three limes. The last time, early this month, he was given a 90-day suspended sentence for vagrancy and ordered to leave town. The other youth Is well known to the police and Juvenile office. and. was known to have been armed when he left town several days ago. Rail Crossing ' Wreck Kills 2 MOUNT VERNON. Dec. 30 f1 A futher and his six-year-old duuKhter fought for life in the Skagit county hospital here today as the aftermath of on automobile-train collision which yesterday morning killed tho wlfo and mother and a three-year-old daughter. The dead were Mrs. Elva Trautman, 35, and Donald, 3, of East Stanwood. Etrlcn Trautman, 32, the hus band and father, was said by hospital attendants to have a brain concussion, severe lacera tions and a broken anklo. The daughter, Carol, received multi ple head wounds, concussion and cuts. The accident occurred short ly before noon Sunday at the Fir (formerly Conway) railway crossing. State police said Trautman apparently drove his car onto the crossing directly in front of a Great Northern passenger train, southbound from Van couver, B. C. to Seattle. The im pact hurled Trautman 92 feet from the crash scene. The others were dragged in the car. Identification papers on Traut man indicated the family had recently moved to East Stan wood from Anacortca, police said. GOP Committee Runs Into Challenge WASHINGTON. Dec. 30 (Pi Senate republican leaders' plan to divide up committee assign ments at an afternoon meeting bumped into a challenge from Senator Robey (R-N.H.) today of their right to act now. In advance of the meeting, Tobcy told reporters that a rule adopted by tho republican con ference (the organization of sen ate GOP members) on December 15, 1944, forbids making or ap proving any committee assign ments until after congress actu ally convenes He took notice of statements by members of the outgoing re publican committee on commit tees, that they were merely mak ing recommendations to the full group of 51 republican senators and senators-elect. Tobey called this committee a "rump" group, but declared: "Any child of adolescence who doesn't know that those recom MONBAT, Dm. M. IM, Fata S'tM denounce the entire Potsdam Bk Three agreement and demand that the Soviets "evacuate Ger many completely." First reaction to tha commit, tee's . document e a m in tho form of a protest against "head line hunters" by Rep. Sol Bloom (D-N.Y.), retiring chairman ot the house foreign affairs com mittee, Illoom told reporters the com mittee should huve submitted its evidence, "If It huat any" to the atute and war departments for in vestigation. He contended the report would do "fur more harm than good" In current dlpluniutlu negotiations. The state department declined any Immediate comment. Case Of Beer Costs $1700 WOODBURY, N. J., Dec. 90 (A1) Jack Bitting, manager of a liquor store, sold a case of beer for $.1.85 Saturday. After tha customer left, Bitting remem bered ho had placed a paper bag containing $1700 m cash and checks in the beer case which was taken away. The money was put there because he did not want to take the store re ceipts with him overnight. Bitting has appealed to the customer to put in another ap pearance with the money. Theatre Man's Death Told PORTLAND, Ore.. Dee. 30 Wl Albert J. Finko, 51, vice presi dent of the Evergreen Theatres corporation which operates mo tion picture houses in Oregon and Washington, died after a heart attack here yesterday. Flnke, who went to Seattle after the first World war and managed theatres In Seattle, Bremerton, and Belllngham. established a company with Al Rosenberg of Seattle to operate show houses In several Wash ington cities. In 1D35 this com pany was merged with two oth ers to become the Evergreen Theatres corporation, and Finko moved here. Finko, prominent In civic af fairs, leave the widow, Marie, formerly of Belllngham, a daugh ter, and a son. Accident Victims Said Recovering Clinton Barrett, 20, son of Mrs. Ot Barrett, routa 3 box 305, who suffered the loss of his right eye In an accident at Weyer haeuser Timber company late Fridoy, was reported recovering at Hillside hospital today. It is understood that Barrett was stacking boards when one struck him In the eya Tom Watson, 40-year-old em ploye of the American Box com pany, Chlloquin, was recovering from a broken leg received Fri day night in a fall downtown in Klamath Falls. Ho Is a patient at Hillside hospital. Another induatrlal Injury was reported from Hillside when Al Hcndrlckson, Southern Pacific employe, suffered an injury to the left foot on December 2.1. Ho is also improving. Hcndrlckson is a resident of Los Angeles. Over Meeting mendations will gathor tho forces of a snowball is lust kidding himself." Tobey's attitude and a bid by Senator Reed of Kansas for the commerco committee chairman ship tentatively assigned by the leaders to Senator Whlto ot Maine raised the prospect of a sharp row In the GOP meeting. Tho gathering of all GOP sen- ' ators was called to agree on or ganization ot the senate branch of the now congress and parcel, out the choice leadership posts, Tobey made It clear he would ' challenge at tho meeting tho.. right ot what he called a "rump" committee on committees to make any committee assign ments. He declared that under exist Ing rules, the new committee on committees could not be appoint ed until after tho next session ot congress actually convenes on I Friday.
