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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
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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.
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President Asks 4-Poinr Labor
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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. - , ,
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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.