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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1947)
& S m M i MS AS .- - I; In 5EW .V k 1 y FRANK JENKINS fN preparing hii message 1 congress on the lUte of the Union, two thlnm were olivl ously uppermost In President I'rumen'i mind; 1. Better co-oporatlon be tween lebor end management. a. Effective co-operation be tween the Preildent and con. I rim. NJOTE the ilrei! he placet on cooperation. Co-operation ! another word for teamwork All iporti experli agree that It ii TEAMWORK that wlni gamei. The lame goei for builnoi, i rN the lubject of labor legl. v latlon, the Preildent recom mend! outlawing of we Kind or strlkci and boycott! arlilng solely from disputes between union, tie iuiyi arbltrollon huuld be REQUIRED (a lofter word for "compelled ) when I dispute Ii limply over the la tcrpretatlon of a contract. He might have added thul before we can hope for Indus trial peace management and labor (which are the parties to peace or war) muil be made piual In the eyei or the law, They are NOT equal now, Within the memory of living men, they never have been equal. Thli long-exlitlng ine quality, with tint manugeme.nl and then labor noming iuu MUCH POWER, hai rcaultcd In persistent itrtfc. TT Menu to Ah Is writer that the first concern of the new coa greiw. In Iti effort lo write a new charter, ihould be to pro. vide a fairly equal BALANCE of power botweon management and labor. All found, honeit, ilncere buiineia men know by expert ence that better, more work' able agreements ensue when the partlei to the making of them are fainy equal in power. In tuch canca, distribution of the beneflti U apt to be rcasotv ably equal and ao the aiiree. menti work out harmonlouily and with mutual profit. THE Preildent devoid conald i r ' orable ipaco and time In his 1 mcwage to exposition of the fheme that he and the mcmbcri of congress poisons the power In the next two yean 4a "mold the future of the nation" for letting peace and unprecedent ed prosperity. He tayi: "If In thli year and In the next we can find the right course to take ai each Issue arises, and If, in spite of all difficulties, we have me cour age and the resolution to take that course, then we shall achieve ttale of wcllbelng for our people without prece dent in history." He adds: "And If we continue lo work with other nations of the world earnestly, patiently and wiicly, we can granting a will for peace on the part of our neigh bors make a lasting peace for the world." THAT U to say, the Preildent and congreai should work together for the highest welfare of the nation and the world, re gardless (for the present, iat least) of partisan advantage. THAT Is a rather Idealistic hope. But not TOO idealis tic. We have proved, over and over in our history, that we can work together IN AN EMERGENCY. We proved that In the lute war, which we entered wonk and almost helpless and from which we emerged strong and a united and victorious. If we had " remained itrong and united after victory, as we were be fore, all our problems of re conversion from war to peace might have been solved and we might now be well along the road to the achievement of greater satisfactions out of life ICaallaaal aa ran 1, Cilima 1) 72-Year-Old Woman Held In Hacksaw Slaying Of Mate NEWARK, 0 Jan. 6 (P) Laura Bella Devlin, 72, who col lects old lace, wag held without charge today In the handsaw laying of her husband whose dismembered body wai found scattered in the backyard of their home here. Police Chief Gall Christman laid the mild-mannered little woman told him she cut up 75-ycar-old Thomas Devlin last week In the parlor of their mod est two-story house. Both were old-age pensioners. "He tried to kill mo so many t mei that I decided to end his jMfc." Mrs. Devlin was quoted as Vying calmly. i "And now can I go home?" asked the police chief after cribing In dotal) how she first nded Devlin Into uncon Itsnesi with ,her fists and d to break hTs bones with a sickle. , She then used the saw to dismomber the body. Christ- man quoted Mrs, Devlin as say ilng. Burned parts of the body also were found In stove. Christman stated. to PRICE riVE CENTS CRRPEHMS. Trade Union Men Strike For Pay Hike Blum-Hi of the building trade union strikes for higher waxes went Into effect toduy, Monday, with carpenters and painters off the Job awaiting further nego tiations. Between 400 and 800 mem, bers of the carpenters union, Local No. 100. and some SO members of tho painters union, Locul No. 1270. did not report on the lob today In keeping with their oral statement late Friday that memberships would be on strike effective January 0. Two other strikes, the plumb ers and sheet metal workers, have occurred during tho oas month and both were settled the plumbers back on the job at $2 per hour, and sheet metal workers settling for S1.87H per notir. me asking wage. Carpenters are asking an In crease from $1.62 per hour to Opening Of Dairen Port Asked By US WASHINGTON. Jan. 8 (VP) The United Suites has asked Russia and China to arrange without further delay to end Soviet military control of Dairen and open the Manrhurlan port to world traffic under Chinese ad ministration. The action, announced today by the state department, was the first official step taken by Wash ington following refusal of Soviet authorities on December 20 to allow three American ci vilians to land at Dairen. The Russians ordered the U. S. naval ship which took the civilians there to leave port in 20 min utes. The 20-mlnute notice wai served after the ship overstayed a 48-hoifr permit under which It una entered, blale department omciai nave said the rtussiani were within their rights in or dering tho ship out and have re frained from any criticism of the so-called "ultimatum" nature of the departure order. The state department said note was delivered to the Soviet foreign office at Moscow and the Chinese foreign office at Nan king by American diplomats on January a. GOP May Launch Conscription Ban WASHINGTON. Jan. 8 P House republicans under the leadership of Speaker Martin soon may launch a drive for an international ban on peacetime military conscription. And. until such a drive meets olthcr success or failure, the membership of the new domi nant party Is expected to oppose any kind of universal training program for thli country. Martin provided a strong hint that he still feels universal training should be sidetracked In his speech last Friday formally accepting tne nouse speakership, Told she must remain In the Licking county jail, Mrs. Devlin shook her head but made no pro ton!, Clad In a stocking cap and an old coat, Mrs. Devlin went to po lice headquarters yesterday with a letter reporting that her hus band had died in Philadelphia. Signed "Tom's Cousin," the let ter said: "We are going to Ire land" to bury him. The en velope bore no stamp and had a postmark which was drawn In black ink. Christma.-i and Coroner George Sapp went to the Devlin resi dence to Investigate. There they found parts of a body In the backyard and In an adjoining field. In six other places they discovered piles of human ashes, Including several pieces from a human skull. Confronted by the findings, Mrs. Devlin admitted the slay ing, Christman said, Asked why she didn't call ah undertaker. Mrs. Dnvlin tnlH Christman: "I'm awfully sorry I didn't do that," V A. A $1.87 Vs. Painters are asking an Increase from $1.60 per hour to $1.79. The Association of Building Contractors and Employers, ABC and E, through the presi dent, Larry Watklns. said today that no settlement of the wage controversy was seen Immed iately and that the contractors' proposed settlement for either the Portland scale or $1.75, whichever Is the higher, has been refused by the union. Con tractors are now sitting tight, waiting for a counter proposal or "for the men to return to work." Jack Roper, president of the painting contractors which is organized under the name of Painter and Decorating Con tractor! of America. Klamath chapter, advised The Herald and News that the painters had been offered a 12H-cent automatic Increase as of January 1, 1947, with rights of the union to ne gotiate for additional wages on March 1, to fall in line with state or Portland scale which ever is higher. The painters have been getting $1.50 per hour prior to January 1 and seek $1.75. "The refusal of the painting contractors to pay the wagei asked by the union is based on the consideration that the cost Is too hard for the public to carry," Roper said today. Parking Meter Shipment Here The long-awaited shipment of pa ruing meters, ordered some weeks ago by the city, arrived Saturday at the citv hall anri in stallation of the meters will be gin in a icw ciayi. After the 667 meters are In. stalled and working, Klamath people will use them on a six month trial basis. A special elec tion will be called at the end of mat time for voters to acrwnt or reject the dockers. The meters, ordered from the Iver, Cedarwall Parking Meter company, are . the manually. operated type, WHICH are cranked by hand to register. Mayor Ed Ostendorf said fees will be one cent for 12 minutes, two cents for 24 minutes, three cents for 36 minutes, four cents for 48 minutes and five cents for one hour. City Attorney Henry Perkins said last week-end that he had the parking meter ordinance, dealing with installation and operation of the meters, readv for introduction immediately after their arrival. The ordi nance will probably be discussed at tonight's council meeting. The session Is expected to be a lengthy one with action to be taken on two weeks' accumula tion of property sales, building permits and 1947 license annll. cations. This is the first meet ing since December 23. 1946. In addition to regular busi ness, new councllmcn. A. F. Con- drey. Wendell Smith and W. D. Miller, will be sworn in, and the mayor will present his list of board and committee appoint ments for approval. Truman Asks Farm Program WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 m President Truman today called upon congress for a permanent farm program designed to chan nel agriculture's abundant pro duction into use rather than into surplus stockpiles to be ab sorbed by the government at great expense. The chief executive gave only the bare outline of such a pro gram In his state of the union message. He said ways can be found (1) to utilize agriculture's new skills. (2) to exrjand its markets at home and abroad, and (3) to carry out the object ives of a "balanced pattern of peacetime production without either undue sacrifice by farm people or undue expense by the government. The goal of a "balanced cat- tern of peacetime uroductlon" carried the suggestion of some form of government production guidance of control. The president told the law makers that In the next few weeks, agriculture could face the same dangers It did after World War I when production staved up and prices fell to bring economic disaster to farm ing. -iP.TH FALLS, OHEOON, MONDAY, JANUARY i. 1947 PAINTERS WASHINGTON. Jan. President Truman, malcino hla "atata, nf h N.tin.." .J J.... u.i Joint ssion of eonoresi In " " wnitu iuiu ui nation s economy, aenaie rtendent Fro-Tempore Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.) is laft behind him. and Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin (R-Mais.) usui. wu pnoio. mu u ine iirsi siraigm news picture carried under The Herald and Newi wiraphoto lervice. reproducing for the firit time in history a newi picture in Klamath Falls taken on the same day in Washington. D. C.) St. Louis Men Arrested Here Warren J. Fortnev. 24. and Layton Thomas Glover, 38, were arrested at the Western Union office Saturday afternoon by city police on fugitive warrants from Last St. Louis, ill. . Chief of Police Orville Ham. I lion said that the men had been in town only a few days, and were wanted in East St. Louis for burglary and larceny. He said that the men had waived extradition and Illinois officers were coming after them. Irene Tunnell, 25, of 438 Washington, was given a $100 fine or 30-day sentence In police court today for vagrancy, as was Vernon Sllva, 20, Lake hotel. Miehpl McHnrmiclc and Rev- I'erly McCormich, 923 East Main, were fined $73 each lor drunk and disorderly. Traffic arrests over the 'week end Included five for speeding. Richard August Takacs, Mer rill, posted' $10 ball; George Shec-ard Crowther. Tulelake. put up $20 ball; Arnold P. Ed sail, 61, Nevada, posted . $20; Bruce E. Bartz," 2828 Summers lane, and Arvid Spencer Erick- son, were cited for a court ap pearance. Delbert E. Crumpackcr, 4 W. Oregon, posted $3 for making a U turn on S. 6th, and Leo Roy Bllckenstaff, Klamath Falls, put up- $2 for making a left turn on Main. Seven drunks were jailed over the week-end. Bilbo Leaves For Hospital WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (P) The senate's decision Saturday to postpone for at least two months any action on the controversy over seating Theodore G. Bilbo (D-Mlss.) left the democrats with only 44 active members to the republicans' 51. Bilbo left shortly after the de cision for New Orleans, where he will undergo a second cancer operation on his mouth and throat. He announced that "if I live," he will bo back to demand the seat the republicans said he shall not have until ouster charges art heard against him. : (Telephone till) President Asks 4-Poinr Labor 1 :SWuC5 " the house chamber today, calls for Rancho Tue Rumors Scotched By Police The brutal murder of Charlie Twigg and the $10,000 El Rancho . Tule robbery, now al most a year old. has not been solved and Tulelake Police Chief Frank Rhodes denies per sistent rumors that arrests have been made concerning the case. The rumors have been get ting thicker and thicker in the past, several weeks, ; many of them coming to The Herald and News as anonymous telephone tips. Some of the tipsters have expressed certainty that some one is in jail' in California in Connection with the murder and robbery. Rhodes said that there is no foundation for the rumors, that all recent clues have fizzled and that there have been no arrests. He said that he had re- Plane Crashes Fatal To Five By The Associated Press ' Five persons were killed and 21 injured in three plane crashes last night during a sud den blinding snowstorm that engulfed large areas of the east coast. The worst accident was at Carmel, N: J., where a nation wide Air Transport Service, Inc., passenger plaine crashed in a wooded area, killing the co-pilot and two passengers and injuring 19 other persons. A small private plane bound from Mt. Pleasant, Mich., to Florida, crashed in Scott coun ty, Va., killing its two occu pants. At Jones Beach, bathing re sort near New York, 16 per sons escaped serious injury as an American Airlines DC-3 two motor plane, with fuel nearly gone, made a crash landing on the beach a few feet from the water. Only the pilot and co pilot were injured and the stewardess and 13 passengers were unhurt. , The freak snowstorm, accom panied by rain and sleet, cov ered an area estimated by the weather bureau in New York to extend as far as 250 miles from that city. - , , WEATHER Ma, 'Jan. SI ... Mia , IS rrarlallallaa lail 1 kaara M Slraant vaar I Sal -S.74 Laat Mar S.IS N. ratal I.ll rarafaall Partly claalr latfar. laalfal sal Taaala; callar U aifkl. Number 10828 Proposal a four-point labor proaram de- Murder cently made a trip to the Cali fornia bay area to look over two suspects, but that nothing came of it. Sheriff Ben Richardson of Siskiyou county also denied making any headway in the case, and Klamath County Sher iff Lloyd L. Low has said that he doesn't know of any late de velopments or arrests. El Rancho Tule, located just over the California line north of Tulelake, was robbed on the morning of March 4, 1946, and the elderly watchman, Twigg, was bound, gagged and beaten to death. It was one of the most brutal crimes of modern Klam ath basin history. For many weeks California and Oregon officers and the FBI tracked down clues only to see them all peter out. Dep uty Sheriff Jack Franey went to Bend to review two young men held there for a similar type of crime last summer, but even though there was much coincidence of work and clues, he reported back that the men held in Bend did not rob El Rancho Tula. . ' Ice Skating Warning Given A warning was issued today by Recreational Director E. R Hambrick and Chief of Police urvnie Hamilton, against skat ing on Upper Klamath lake due to the numerous hot springs in that area which Drevent thu in from being completely frozen. "Please keep off the lake and avoid tragedy,1" Hambrick said in a statement Monday morn ing. He continued that the moorage was being nrennroH fm safe skating and the park keep er, kh or tne recreation de partment, 7112, can give date on ice conditions. , Former Algoma Resident Passes C. B. Janzen. former resident of Algoma community, died of a heart ailment Sunday at his home in Newport. He was 63. Janzen is survived bv his ife and two sons, all of Newport, OUT Prohibition Of Union Dispute Strikes Asked WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (AP) President Truman today handed the republican congress a legislative program topped by recommendations for new labor laws and asked its mem bers to work with him for a new and finer "state of well be ing" in America. Delivering his "State of the Union" message In person, -Mr. Truman recommended thot the legislators outlaw the kind of strikes and boycotts arising solely from disputes be tween unions. He said arbitration'should be required when a dispute is simply over the interpretation of a labor contract. Then, with a warning against "vindictive" laws, Mr. Tru man told congress the "whole industrial future of the United States" may depend on finding the "proper solution" for the . Circuit Court Faces Full 1947 Docket Calling the first docket for 1947, Judge David R. Vanden berg's circuit court went over a list of five criminal, 46 law and 38 equity cases still to be dis posed of by the court. Many of the civil matters are more than two years old, and here are sev eral other criminal and civil suits pending for which another judge has been assigned. Taking the criminal cases first. Judge Vandenberg set Feb ruary 17 as the date for trial of Delbert (Dink) Lane, indicted for threatening the commission of a felony. Lane is represented by Harold Merryman. Overruling a motion to quash the indictment against Donald Gordon Roberts, the judge or dered him arraigned on a charge of taking and using a motor ve hicle without consent of the owner. Judge Vandenberg ruled that the grand jury could inves tigate any crime in the county, regardless of whether the de fendant had waived indictment. Roberts had originally been charged with larceny of an auto and waived grand jury action, but the jury took the case and returned an indictment on the leeser charge.- ' Carl E. Vaughan, likewise in- aicted lor taking and using an auto without consent of the own er, was ordered to stand trial February 3. . Richard Carl Shuter, indicted for malicious destruction of pri vate property, was ordered to appear for arraignment January 10. He is free on S1500 bond. and lives in Mowich. Floyd Barlow, indicted for operating a gambling game, is still awaiting arraignment and his attorney, E. E. Driscoll, said that Barlow intended to plead guilty. Many of the civil suits were held over until the next docket call, and some trials were set for the next two months. Judge Vandenberg re-aDDoint- ed I. D. (Ike) Rumer his bailiff and AI Brandt court reporter for the year. The judge is start ing on his second six-year term on the bench, and thanked the county's legal fraternity for its help and cooperation during the past six years. Arthur W. Schaupp, speaking for the attorneys, expressed sat isfaction with the judge's work on the bench. Vandenberg's re cent re-election marked the first time that a circuit judge had ever been chosen for two terms in the judicial district of Klam ath county. One In 100,000. Baby Has Tooth LOS ANGELES. Jan. 6 (JP The George M. Nelsons thought they had provided all the neces sities before their baby was born. But thev forgot a tooth brush. George Thomas Nelson wan born New Year's Eve with a tooth a healthy, pearly lower incisor. The doctor says he's one in 100,000. Army Examines Mysterious Obect Dropped From Sky PORTLAND. Jan. 6 UP) An army representative has taken over examination of a . small cylinder shaped object which Hill Military academy authori ties reported fell from the clear sky Saturday amid a localized shower ol ice pellets. Joseph A. Hill, academy presi dent, who declined to name the branch of army service inter ested, said the concrete-like sub stance was coated with ice when it rolled at the feet of Capt. Leon G. Thompson, an academy Instructor. The ice shower was confined to a 15 foot square area on the acad emy grounds. The weather bureau here had no explanation for the shower or the object. The CAA- con firmed Thompson's statement that no aircraft were in the area at the time and Hugh G. firoblem of nationwide strikes n key industries, such ai coal mining. Commission Asked He proposed creation of a 20 member commission he to ap point eight members and the congress 12 with instructions to report a recommended solu tion by March 15 two weeks before the deadline set by John L. Lewis for mining soft coal. ine presidents 7U00-word message covered a wide expanse of domestic and international problems other than labor man agement relations. ' Among other things, he re newed the requests he made un successfully to the last congress for A higher minimum wage, a national health program, a new department of welfare, broad housing legislation, and a single department of national defense In general, his theme was that he and congressmen have the power in the next two years to "mold the future of the nation" for lasting peace and unprece dented prosperity. He told them: ' If in this year, and in the next, we can find the right course to take as each issue arises, and if, in spite of all dif ficulties, we have the courage and the resolution to take that course, then we shall achieve a state of well-being for our peo ple without precedent in history. Lasting Peace "And if we continue to work with the other nations of the world earnestly, patiently, and wisely, we can granting a will for peace on the part of our ' neighbors make a lasting peace for the world." The message was the first of three the White House will have for the congress this week. On Wednesday, it will send a gener al economic report. On Friday, there will be the budget mes sage detailing the government's prospective income for the 12 months beginning next July 1 and telling bow Mr. Truman thinks it should be spent In today's message, the presi dent said he wanted a balanced budget and a start on reducing (CaaUaatl aa ra 4, Calaaia 1) Fire Destroys Henley Garage HENLEY. Jan. 6 A roaring fire destroyed a corrugated iron garage building in the center of Henley's tiny business district Saturday night. The blaze, of undetermined origin, started in the front in terior of the building, in which J. B. Miller operated a garage business. It spread quickly through the structure, and threatened other buildings, in. eluding a two-story frame and stucco apartment building be ing erected within a few feet of the rear of the garage. The county fire deDartment arrived in time to save the latter building. Betty Wilhite, who lives near by, first saw the fire. The school house bell was rung, and passing motorists stopped. By that time, however, the blaze had gained such headway that there was no chance of saving the garage building. An automobile belonging to Oscar Baker, of Merrill, which was in the garage, was de stroyed, along with the garage equipment and other supplies. The garage building waa owned by Mrs. Sarah Harsh barger. Neither she nor Miller had insurance on the property destroyed. ....... Pruett, University of Oregon astronomer, declined to specu late until he examined a por tion forwarded him by the Portland Oregonlan. WHITE SANDS, N. M., Jan. 6 (JP) The army's V-2 experi ments here and the small con crete cylinder which fell to earth in a shower of Ice par ticles at Portland, Ore., could have no possible connection, Lt. Col. Harold Turner, comman der of White Sands proving ground, said today. "The concrete object would be completely outside V - J work," Turner said. "We use no concrete materials." . Turner declined to comment on whether the object might be connected with Russian rocket experiments.
