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V IiiTJiti DilfS :CS By FRANK JENKINS GENERAL MARSHALL, wlio (or lunii unci weary months has boon trying to culm thing down In China, I apparently pretty well fuel up. In a report Just made public by tho stale department, ha denounces the "duinlnaiit reactionary group" in Chlnu's nationalist government mid lit the numc time speak bit terly of the wllllniinoiw of tho Chinese communist to wreck tho country. If necessary, In order to throw Chiang Kai-shek and his Kunmlntang party out. HI report, as noarly as muy be Judged from the press con dcimulioni of It, follow the ' "piuguo on both your houses" line. lAlCP thin In mind m to Cliinii: v It Is ruled by ONE-PARTY government, headed by a dic tator. Whnt Is hupuciilng in China appvari to folluw the pat tern of one-party government! everywhere in Russia, In Ger many, In Italy, In Spain wherever (mart men, reaching for power, have been able to RE CREATE dictatorship under an other name, Whatever In wrong In China fund It li obvious that PLENTY la wrong) track back to TOO MUCH POWER In TOO FEW HANDS too long. Ever since the world began, that haa been a wrecker and a smasher of men's llbertiei. ONE other thing to remember about China: Chiang Katuhck wa for many yean painted to us a Just abort of an angel. The palming win done by PROPAGANDISTS. The truth waa concealed by CENSORSHIP. Propaganda and censorship are a loo wreckera and smashers of men'a liberties. Getting the truth about what la happening la euentlal to dmnocracy. If men can be flim-flammed aa to the facta of life, liberty will become only a hollow ahell. AS a matter of cold fact, much of what la wrong with ua in these daya haa ita origin In the unfortunate truth that o many of ua "know ao many thlnga that ain't ao." Only bv building on a foundu i tlon of FACT can we raise a 'structure that la worth while. THAT raise again highly important question: , WHAT IS A FACT? Thlf 1 a fact: Two plua two equal four. Thia la another ' fact: Daylight follows darkness. Facta are thlnga that stand Uio teal of experience. WHILE we're on thia "preach ing" lint, let's follow through the case of thia man Rocco who a few daya ago thought up a fancy acheme to kill hi ex-wife. He wrapped a gun up in complicated pack age, kidded not-toobrlght young woman into the belief Unit It waa a trick camera that would take a picture of a jewel thief who waa wanted by an inaurance company, and Induced her to aim .thia contraption t the ex-Mra. Rocco and pull a atrlng. Instead of camera, it wax a aawed-off shotgun, and initcad of taking a picture of Rocco's ex-wlfo it filled her leg with buckshot and the leg had to be amputated.. TWE get the final chapter today. " Rocco dlca In corner up in tho annwy Calakill mountain of New England under the bullets of pursuing officer of the law thua coming to the end he was headed for. What a fool he was! If he had devoted the iwmo amount of groy matter to aome legitimate , enterprise uch, aay, a running successful hamburger stand, he -would be out In front and happy, 7 Instead of lying dead In the anow. Crime really doesn't pay. It never did pay. ' ' FLAMINO SLIPPER CAUSES HOUSE FIRE LIBBY, Mont.. Jan. 7 W) Mrs. Ed Dutton lighted a mutch and the stick's flumlng hond snapped and fell into her fur trimmed bedroom slipper. - She kicked the burning slip per and it landed on a daven port, Flames quickly enveloped the davenport and ' one hour later the Dutton home was in ruins. Palestine Partition Only Hope For Holy Land Peace LONDON. Jan. 7 W') For eign Secretary Ernest Bevln and Colonial Secretary Arthur - Creech Jones were reported by a government source today to have "decided In principle" that partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states was Britain's only hope of settling the Holy Land problem. While the colonial and for eign offices studied what this Informant called "several varia tions on the partition theme," the British government received an appeal from Hagana, most moderate of Jewish under ground organizations In Pales tine, to shun any "large-scale retaliatory operations in tho tfloly Land." ' - The British cabinet expected to consider Palestine proposals $31 Wkim T Marshall Raps China Communists WASHINGTON. Jon. 7 (!) Gen. George C. Marshall today denounced the "dominant re actionary' group In China s na tlonullat government, protested the "provocative" policies of Chlneiie communist and said liberal leadership 1 needed to end civil strife there. Breaking a long alienee on the situation In China, President Truman's personal envoy to Nanking declared that reuctlon. arles In Chiang Kui-ahek's gov. eminent "huve evidently count ed upon substantial American support regardless of their tHillon. Statement Released His statement, released by the state department a day after the wmte House announced Marshall la returning home to report, left wide open the que tlons of whether he will go back to China and whether China will be given the 30U,0u0,u0u loan it tins been seeking from the export-Import bank. Marshall said thut China's newly adopted constitution will provide an opportunity to form a democratic government, but he noted thut it romulne to be seen whether the government will afford a "genuine welcome' to all groups to ahare in the administration. Ilia Ire waa directed at both tho government and the com munist, but was particularly bitter In dlcussing the propa ganda of tho latter group. He said that the "dyed In the wool communist" have not hesitated at the most "drastic measures to gain their end as, for Instance, the destruction of communica tions in order to wreck the economy of China and produce a situation that would facilitate th i overthrow or collapse of the government." Huge Meteor Seen In Sky LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 lP) A fiery ball, giving off weird flashes of light, roared over southern California last night and out to sea. It was visible from San Diego to Bakcrsficld nearly 200 miles apart. Although two separate searches were made for crashed pluncs, it was agreed today that the object was a meteor, and Dr. Clarence H. Cleminahaw of Griffith observatory said It ap parently was "exceptionally large." No missing planes were reported. Transport pilots over Bakers field and Burbank reported the object flnshcd by at tremendous speed. Telephone switchboards In many cities were jammed as watchers called police and newspapers. Reykjavik War Bride In School VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 7 OP) Murk Greene of Vancouver is back at his Stanford univer sity studies Accompanied by his Icelandic bride, ranay May Runolfsdotter of Reykjavik. The 1941 University of Wash ington student and Misa Runolfs dotter met while he was sta tioned In Iceland-with the army air forces. On return from tho army ho transferred to Stan ford university. She arrived here at the close of the old year and they were married New Year's Eve. Thursday. An atmosphere of urgency was heightened by tho steady flow of British soldiers, veterans of north African des ert warfare, from Egypt Into Palestine, where London sources have predicted a large scale of fensive to crush Jewish under ground resistance. Moshe Shcrtok, political head of the Jewish agency, told a news conference world Jewry would revert to ita old demand creation of a Jewish state encompassing all Palestine. He said world Jewry's attempts to approach the Palestine problem constructively by reducing its demands had met with' "no pos itive response," and urged Brit ain to denounce any intention to impose the Morrison plan upon the Holy Land. - "They'll naver get m allr." Alphoni Rocco, hunted in th Nw York City "camera" shoot ing of his formar wife, twon before he w shot to death on-this snow-cOTrd hill. Corporal D. F. Lang. Corporal F, W. Hilirank and Trooper J. A. SabaUllo of the stata police stand orer th body. CIO-US Steel Parley Slated PITTSBURGH, Jan. 7 Ml The U. S. Steel corporation and tho CIO-Unltcd Steclworkors of America begin negotiations Jan uary 16 for a new contract that may once again set the wage pat tern for the steel industry. A year ago the Stcclworkcrs' demand for a $2-a-day increase resulted in a month-long nation wide steel strike. It was settled by an 184-cent hourly wage boost. Tho present contract ex pires February 13. This year the Steclworkors' wage demands remain undis closed. Steclworker and Nation al CIO President Philip Murray, however, has announced he ex pects a "substantial" boost with out a corresponding rise in prices. The 10-niun. executive board of tho Stcelworkcrs meets here Thursday and Friday to map its strategy against "Big Steel." U. S. Steel, in announcing the start of negotiations, said the meeting was requested by Mur ray. A Stcelworkcrs spokesman said the union will make its for mal demands January 16, in cluding an unspecified wage in crease, portal-to-portal pay, re vised insurance plan and pre mium pay for Saturdays, Sun days and holidays.' Greek Insurgent Battles Continue ATHENS, Jan, 7 (A1) News papers reported today at least 20 persons had been killed in continuing skirmishes between Greek government forces and insurgents, ,. Press reports ' said members of an insurgent band seized the mayor,- vice mayor and two other residents of the village of Zarko, near Trikkala, and that their bodies were found a few hours later in a field near the town. In Athens, more than 190 persons were said to be under arrest in connection with five week-end slayings in a commu-nist-xite (extreme rightist) feud. Likeness Baffles Senate Members WASHINGTON; Jan. 7 UP) Senator Bridges (R-N.H.) looks a lot like Senator Wherry (R-Neb.) Also, vice versa. "In this now session," Senator Bridges told a photographer to day, "even some of the senators have us confused." '.'Maybe a picture would help straighten this out," said Sena- tor Wherry. So the photographer took a picture. Then "Thank you very much. Sen ator Bridges," he said to Senator wnerry. .MATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7. 1947 Budget Death Climaxes Killer Hunt Death In Mountain Hideout GRAND GORGE. N. Y., Jan. 7 (P) "They'll never get me alive," Alphonse Rocco swqre before he was shot to death in hia snowy hilltop hideout near here, after a futile flight fol lowing the New Year's Eve "camera" shooting of his for mer wife in New York City. Rocco met death last night under an evergreen tree and a full moon in Patchin hollow, as he crouched in a sleeping bag taken from one of the two Farmer Routs Sleeping Bear CANYON CITY, Jan. 7 (P) Ira Kimbell was pitching hay to his stock when he heard a grunt under the hay pile. He jabbed with his pitchfork, thinking to rout out a pig. He reared a 200-pound black bear, sleepy-eyed but indignant over this hibernation halt. . , Kimbell's dog jumped. He knocked the bear down, but the bruin grabbed the dog in a vise like hug. Kimbell came to the rescue with his pitchfork. The bear dropped the dog and started for the man. Both man and dog dashed for safety. Last seen, the bear was amb ling for the timber, still rumb ling indignantly. Actress Held For Manslaughter REDLANDS, Calif., Jan. 7.(P) Film Actress Helen Walker, re cuperating in a hospital from automobile crash injuries suf fered New eYar's night, has been ordered to appear in police court January 21 for a preliminary h e a i n g on a manslaughter charge. , Pfc. Robert Lee of March field was killed when Miss Walker's car, in which he was a passenger, overturned six times on a High way. Two other men in the car escaped serious Injury. Bail of $2500 was posted for the 24-year-old actress. No Fatalities In Oxygen Tank Blast ' QUINCY. Mass.. Jan. 7 WP) After an all-nicht search.' fire officials said today no one had Deen trapped in tin explosion last night of 2000 tanks of oxy gen' at the West Quincv plant of the Air Reduction Sales com pany. At first it was feared at, least one workman had been killed by the b last that injured eight persons, and smashed windows within a half mile. (Telephone till) Proposed Catskill mountain farm homes where he gained shelter for nearly 48 hours by brandishing two pistols. He fired four shots from his German W a 1 1 h e r automatic (PA38) as state police and New York City . detectives waded through knee-deep snow to sur round him. Then Trooper James H. Smith, after shooting at close range, called: "Come on out, you skunk!" Rocco could not come out. A bullet . had struck home. One had smashed his nose and the blood ran like revenge over the crusted snow. State Police Inspector Charles La Forge led tne uphill attack over the mile from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. .Lewis, where Rocco last had been seen. The Lewis', whose 2-year-old son, Richard, slept through most- of the fracas, admitted the lean, dark fugitive in the com pany of Frank Naish, in whose nearby Broome Center home Rocco had paced for 29 hours previously. Rocco had met both families in previous hunting trips to this Catskill mountain area, where. in prohibition days, "Legs" Dia mond and other notorious gang, sters lurked. The terrified couples said Rocco v o i c e d - no definite threats, but twirled his pistols menacingly. He never mentioned the trick shooting in a crowded Times Sauare subway of his beauti. ful former wife, according to Lewis, but he repeated over and over: ' "I was framed,' and "they'll never get me alive."; The gun that inflicted the wound that necessitated the amputation of one of Mrs. Roc co's legs , was concealed by Christmas wrappings. Blonde Pearl Lusk, 19, told Police. Roc co, under the pretense he was an insurance investigator, had instructed her in the use of the "camera" to photograph hidden jewelry he said Mrs. Rocco was wearing. War Dead To Be Returned Soon PORTLAND, Jan. 7 (JP) The first of Oregon's war dead to be returned from foreign soil for burial in the state will begin ar riving within a year, Lt. Col. V, L. Lewis reported here. The commanding officer of the Auburn, Wash., distribution center estimated that bodies of 4619 World War II casualties would be returned to Washing ton, northern Idaho and western Oregon. . The estimate did not include eastern Oregon and southern Idaho. He reported letters were being mailed to next of kin to facili tate the return and that families of Oregon war dead need not take the initiative in the matter. WEATHER Kil. Un. : Mln. 14 Prclpluiln Uil U konri M Stream ytmt ( .t j.r s.ll Ntrraal ...4.ln rret: Cltar today. Innliht n W4nftfsr, lltilr ebne la UmatrfttB't, Number 10831 Truman To Fight Tax Reductions WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 VP) President Truman wa report ed ready today to send congress $37,000,000,000 budget and simultaneously take a strong stand against any tax cuts. This speculative figur dub-head-on with estimates al ready girn reporters by th nw republican chairman of th hous appropriation commit t, Rp. Tber of Nw York. H told reporters th nds of goTrnmnt can b mt with bout S29.500.000.000. Also the president's view that any revenue surplus should go to reducing the public debt as already indicated in his state of the Union message runs in to a determined tax-cutting drive by Chairman Knutson (R Minn.) of the house ways and means committee. Tax Cut Knutson contend congress can reduce levies on incomes up to $300,000 by 20 per cent and still balance the budget by tuning expenses. Thus the budget and taxes join labor law revision as the hottest issues of the new re publican dominated congress. Usually well posted adminis tration men say they expect the president in his budget message Friday to anticipate the repub lican economy and tax drives with, these arguments: ' L Th . only way govern- ' mnTspDdIng can b rtfducad 1 by cutting down on srr ics and benefits to veterans, aid to stales and (imilar pro gram voted by congress in th past and therefor not subject to reduction by presi dential action. 2. When th tim com that th government can af ford to reduce tsxas, first consideration should go to th lower income brackets, plus such tax relief a will provide Incentive to expand business and employment op portunities. Hanoi Battle Still Raging MANILA, Jan. 7 Of) A Viet Nam communique broadcast to day by radio Hanoi reported 240 French troops were killed, 30 were wounded and two tanks were knocked out in a 10-hour battle in Hanoi Friday. The broadcast said numerous detachments of French infantry, supported by 20 tanks, armored cars and fighting planes, launched simultaneous attacks at 5:30 a. m. against Viet Nam positions in the Ngoc Ha quarter of northwest Hanoi. The quarter includes Kim Ma Pagoda, Leiu giai cathedral and Hommel beer factory. The communique reported 200 r rencn soldiers were killed in that encounter and 40 more were killed by guerrillas who checked the French advance in the center of Hanoi. Scientists Say Academy PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 7 P A state geologist has reported an analysis of the cylindrical object which fell from a clear sky here is of refractory material such as used in the lining of rockets, the Oregonian reported today in a copyrighted article. The newspaper said Dr. John E. Allen, chief of the Oregon de partment of geology and mineral industries laboratory, avoided any positive statement that the three-inch long object was a por tion of a sky missile. The geologist supervised a spectrographic analysis of a small fragment and reported to the newspaper that it was not concrete, as originally believed, but contained elements to give reasonable basis for the hypothe sis that it could have been used in rocket construction. Dr. Allen said the material contained aluminum, . titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome and zircon. "One of the essentials of a rocket," Dr. Allen was quoted as reporting, "is a refractory lining which can withstand the tremen dous temperatures involved. If such a lining were introduced Indo-China Bound Ma). Gen. Jacque LeClerc labor) Fiance's famed ar mored warfare specialist, I be ing pushed to Indo-China, Loon Blum, iterim president-premier announced in Pari. Nativa hare risen against th French and serious fighting rages at Hanoi, capital of Indo-China. where the French are using tank and plan. -A? wirephoto. Woolworth Founder Dies SCRANTON. Pa.. Jan. 7 M Charles Sumner Woolworth, who was a founder of the Wool worth chain of 5 and 10 cent stores 65 years ago, died today at his home. He was 90 years old. Woolworth, who had been tn ill health for several weeks, opened his first store here 65 years ago and later formed the F. W. Woolworth company with his brother, the late Frank W. Woolworth. and the late Fred M. Kirby of Wilkes-Barre. - Woolworth was born August 1, 1856, at Rodman, Jefferson county, New York, the son of John and Fannie McBrier Wool worth. The 5 and 10 cent store idea was credited to ..Frank .Woolr worth but the success of the en terprise was largely attributed to Charles, who began his career sweeping floors and tending fires at Watertown, N. Y., for $4 a week. YA Hospital Approach Out At a meeting yesterday after noon in the city council cham bers, representatives from . the veterans administration in formed the city council and plan ning commission that the -proposed entrance to the new vet erans hospital along Hillside was not acceptable to the VA engi neers. The VA engineers, headed by Col. Beadle, explained that a survey of the Hillside street en trance proved that; the grade was too great for the heavy trucks to negotiate when carrying sup plies to the installation. . A hew survey for a possible approach was made by the engi neers with the aid of E. A. Thomas, city engineer, and it was decided that the most prac ticable route would be along Old Fort road, then cutting off to the left around the hills and entering the Beaumont tract at the northeastern corner. Part of the proposed road will lie in the county and Judge U. E. Reeder of the county court stated that he thought the coun ty would underwrite the ex pense of the county's portion of the road, just as the city is doing as its share. Object Found Could Be Portion Of Rocket through a small hole, while in a plastic state, it might leave the hole filled with a plug similar to the object found on the Hill Mil itary academy campus. . This, then, could be blown out when the interior lining disintegrated or the rocket exploded." . The geologist said the analy sis did not show the concentra- Missile Found Painters Return To Local Jobs "We are not acceDtlna tha ABC and E offer. Th strike goes onl" This was th statement given Th Herald and News at 12:00 p. m. today by C. D. Long. bust, a agent of th carpenters un ion, local 190. whan advisad that general contractors here had re affirmed their priout proposal of 11.75 per hour and war standing pat. ine union seeks l.H7i per hour and todav refused the ABC and E offer, General contractors were In session at 10 o'clock this morn ing in the offices of Duncan and Lekberg, and issued a brief statement as to their stand on the 1.75 offer, and indicated willingness to reopen negotiations- on April 1 in the event circumstances at that time iusti- tied such action." Long, speaking for the union, had this to say: written Agreement 'We demand a signed and written agreement between the local and the contractors spec ifying the date on rvhich the de mands of ure local, of 51.871 per hour, will be met. We are not accepting the ABC and E offer. The strike goes on!" While carpenters remained out today, members of the paint ers union, local 1279, returned back to work Tuesday morning at 51.621 per hour, effective January 6. This pay will con- - unue until March 1, then to au tomatically adopt the state or Portland scale, whichever is higher. Joe Willis, business agent of the painters local, ad vised the Painting and Decorat ing contractors of America, Klamath chapter, and non af filiate contractors at a meeting Monday afternoon, that painters would be at work Tuesday morn ing pending outcome of meet ing which the local will hold to night . In Portland, wage increases of ' 20 cents an . hour, affecting some 9000 workers and practi cally all of the home builders in Portland, were obtained in the first agreement signed with the Portland Home Builders, Inc., it was announced by Fred Manash, secretary of the Portland Build ing and Construction Trades council, AF of L. . f ortianu acai -XXhe -agreement is effective on the first full payroll period after January 10 and provides a scale for carpenters of $1.75 per hour. When C. D. Long was advised of the Portland decision, he said today that the Portland scale would be rejected here on th grounds that "Klamath Falls ia entitled to more money than Portland due to higher costs of living in this area, less time of steady employment on projects, and that Klamath is traditionally a higher wage scale area than the valley areas and Portland." Long said that due to isolated conditions existing here, "it is impossible to draw men to Klam ath Falls from other parts of the state at comparable wage . scale." The membership of local 190, carpenters union, totals 420. This also includes the Tulelake area. The business agent said that 40 per cent of the local is involved in the strike and the other 60 per cent is employed by inde pendent contractors not affiliat ed with ABC and E, and "who are willingly paying the $1,874 per hour effective January 1." Antarctic Search Proves Fruitless ABOARD THE USS MT. OLYMPUS, Jan. 7 (iP) A sea. plane scouted for nine hours along the coast of bleak Ells worth island yesterday without finding trace of nine fliers, miss ing from the navy's Antarctic ex pedition. The crew of the search plane, a Martin mariner sent out by the seaplane tender Pine Island, re ported an 11,100 square mile area off the tip of Cape Dart was covered in the flight. Ai Hili tion of elements that would un questionably establish ita use in rockets. . -; An . army representative has taken over the major portion of the object for examination but Pacific coast army headquarters in San Francisco and others in Washington reported no knowl edge of any test results. At White Sands, N, M army offi cials said no ceramic type ma terial was used in the rocket V-2 tested there. Other rocket tests have been made in the deserts of California. The Oregonian said Dr. Allen declared any statement on the possible origin of the material would be "wild guessing" but added that "nothing has ever been said about the landing places of rockets which have been reported going north over Sweden," Capt. Leon G. Thompson of the military academy staff re ported the object fell and rolled at his feet during a brief ice shower mysteriously confined to a 15 foot square area at the cam pus. The sky was clear and no aircraft were in sight, Capt. Thompson said. , i
