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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1947)
'11 m I nn More Snow Predicted For Basin Whipped by strong nurlh wind, tlin Klumath basin and tirrouiulliiK muunialn area felt the lush of winter a snow cov ered this auction of southern Ore- fon tuday from dnplli of five nclie In Klamath Fall to fall of 28 inches at Cralor Lake na tional park. Ciruund transportation conlln 1 1 ftl unlntorruplrd, however. The Southern Pacific inld it waa necoiuiiry to gat out the tnow f i Ki 1 1 1 1 u equipment after more llii.ii 14 Inchna foil ut Kirk and Creacent Luke. Truln were on time ua were Greyhound buae which fouiihl 10 Inchra of new now on the Grocnapring high way. Hulh city and county schools nlil the buses from outlying dis trict brouuht aludenta to claaaes on time today. More Snow Ahead The U. 8. weather bureau, in f orccimt Iwued Monday morn ing, aald thla area ww in for more anow, continued cold and wind. Klylng wun virtually at a atiindallll at the municipal air port and United Air Lines offi cials auld the Monday morning flight curne directly over the airport and made r,eiidy to land but anow flurrlca prevented the plunca from coming in and the pilota took the ahlpa on their way, one north and the other aoulh. No plaiwa arrived or left here Sunduy, United aald, but the Monday afternoon and eve ning flight were expected to come In under 12 o'clock noon condition, The runway have been kept clear with anowplowa. All Roads Icy Minimum temperature here the paat 24 hnura waa 20 degree with the maximum going ailght ly over that and chalked at 23. K o a d a throughout Oregon were covered with Ice, anow or aluah, the atat highway com minion reported. Heaviest fall waa at Odell lake on the Wil lamette pau where the tempera- turn fell to IT riegrrca and 20 lnche of new anow waa report ed on the highway. There la 44 Inchra of roadside anow at Odell. Ten Inches of new anow fell on the Creenaprlnga. 8 Inchea on Hun mountain and packed anow wu prevalent all over the dla- 3 Men Held In Theft Quiz ROSEBURG. Jan. 13 W) Three men arreated at Coot Bay during a traffic check that dia cloaed their automobile loaded with guna, burglary toola and al most $80U0 in caah, were being quratioucd here today. State Police Sgt. P. K. Mor gan reported the trio Jamea Clifford Leo, 53, Clarence Orva Jom-a, S6, and Alvln Floyd Back mun, fit, all of Portlnnd were held in connection with $1000 robbery of the Henninger mar ket at Clcndale. Meanwhile, a Creacent City, Culif., chief of police and Jamea llight, Smith River, Calif., ar rived from Cooa Bay to Invea tiguto a afe robbery at Hlght'a aloro netting $3083 and another at Creacent City involving $838 in caah. Both robbcrlea were laat Thuradny night. Hlght told State Police Sgt. I. A. Larson at Coquille that a foreign typo platol and a ahotgun found in the car were apparent ly taken from hi store. City To Remove Snow From Streets Snow clearing equipment la being mado ready by the street department for Ita annual tussle with anow-covered streets. City Engineer E. A. Thomas aid today that truck are being equipped with blade and will be in operation, along with the grader, Tuesday. Some clearing was done on the main business streets over the week-end. Oregon Legislature Opens Today On Note Of Harmony By PAUL W. HARVEY JR SALEM, Jan. 13 H) Tho 44th Oregon legislature opened its 1947 session today on a note of harmony after one of the quickest organizing sessions in history. It took each house only a few minute to choose presiding of ficers and officials, headed by Senate President Marshall E. Cornett of Klamath Fall and Speaker John H, Hall of Port land, All of tho officers were elect ed unanimously. An example of the harmony 1 the fact that Sen. Earl T. Newbry, Ashland, nominated Cornett Jor tho sen ate leadership, and Sen. William Walsh, Coos Bay, seconded the nomliuitinn and moved that unanimous ballot be cast for Cornett. Newbry and Walsh hud been candidates themselves for senate president, The house streamlined Itself by reducing the number of com mittees from 37 to 24, but the sennto voted to slick to 31 com mittees inslend of cutting lo 24. 1 Both house voted to bar from uie iiuor an DUl niciuuei aim "jhafT S! fck. O . Jf tt WEATHER 41 ft rtVrt I ill A 1 Mm -A.! IHr icV ,:ju.:.."u'j. zzs It J piv ( "N (ifv bfcr uu"m " 'lt PRICE riVg CENT iBV KLAM OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 13. 1947 (Telephone till) Number 10830 Srifish Track Iriws Wai Out 29 Die In Veek-End Air Wrecks Br The Associated Prats Twenty - nine persona died when acven airplane craahed in the United Statea yeaterday, and today Rep, Rivera (D-S. C.) pro pined a congreaaional investiga tion of what he termed the "In excuaable killing of American people." Only two of the 31 peraons In the aeven planea survived. In New York City, mean while, major alrllnea reported that plane reservations, almost ImpoHslble to obtain last sum mer, have been going begging for the lost few days, with a number of planes leaving with empty acats. Rep. Rivera declared in Wash ington that "the American peo ple are horrified and scared to death. If there la comething wrong with the whole dog gone et-up, then something should be done," He noted specifically the crash of an Eastern Airlines Detroit-Miami paaaenger plane dur ing a rainstorm near Galax, Va., yesterday In which 18 persons IS passengers and three crew members died. William EUI Keyes Jr., 23, of Boynlon, Fla., the lone sur vivor, waa dragged from the wreck by two resident of the community who saw the crash. He suffered shock, laceration and burn. Five pcraona were killed when two planea collided over the Miami (Fla.) aviation center air port. One person was Injured critically. Miami Police Chief Karl En- gel Mid the planea collided J tnoir pilot attempted to. una on oposlte runways, Anotlier disaster In Florida cost the lives of two persona as an army training plane crasnea near Cocoa In Brevard county, Fla. A two-seated private plane craahed near aubusban Van Dyke, near Detroit, killing It occupant, an army air forces veteran ana a iiuaeni puou Snow Causes Serious Falls Numerous minor injuries were reported here today as winter took a toll of broken bones and bruises. Most seriously injured wag Ethel Lehner, 83, deputy clerk of the Klamath county cir cuit court, who fell at 2:80 p. m. Sunday at 3rd and Pine and frac tured heMeft hip. Miss Lehner, who came here five months ago from Alaaka, waa moved by am bulance to Klamath Valley hos pital. She resides at 133 Pine. Mrs. Lawrence (Cleva) Ham ons, 38, was moved by ambu lance to Hillside from her home, 18S4 Mitchell, for treatment of painful back injuries received this week-end when a toboggan on which she riding Jumped from the road and struck a ditch. The accident occurred Sunday. A fall on the walk in fint of her home, 1422 Canby. Sun day morning caused painful left leg Injuries . to Mrs. A. W. O'Brien. She is recovering sat isfactorily at her home. legislative employes during ses sions, but they did not bar per sonal secretaries of members. Claribel Buff, Salem, am! Mrs. Zylpha Zell Burns, Port land, were re-elected a chief clerks of tho house and senate, respectively. ' Other officials chosen are: Senate Caroline Porter, Sa lem, assistant chief clerk; Pearl Schaffer, Portland, calendar clerk; Gordon Barnard, Salem, reading clerk; Banks Mortimer, Portland, scrgeant-at-arms; Rex Adolph, Salem, doorkeeper, and William King, Prlnevllle, mail ing clerk. House Mrs. Patricia Sher man, Eugene, assistant chief clerk; Edith Bynon Lowe, Gold Beach, calendar clerk; Richard Wilson, Salem, reading clerk; Joseph Vogelsang, Portland, Scrgeant-at-arms; Gin Hafcnbrack, Portland, doorkeeper, and Jose phine Morris, Salem, mailing clerk. ' All legislators and state offi cials met in the house chamber this afternoon to hear Governor Snell's message and to see him Inaugurated for a second term. Stote Police State Police Officer Mark Sullivan garnered quite a bit of deer meat early Sunday night when he arreated Bob Farria, 23, Lakethorc drive, who was fined $300 in Juatlce court Monday when he entered a plea of guilty to illegal poaaeaaion of game meat. Farria aaid in court he spotlighted two fawns on the Creenaprlnga highway Saturday night. The meat waa found by atate police, crammed in a big refrigerator at the Farria home. Alio picked up at the resi dence waa Farria' brother-in-law, Henry Shadley Jr., who waa returned to the Klamath county Jail where he had eacaped a short time ago while serving a drunk count. Officera aaid Farria told them he threw the hidea and head of the fawn in Link river. The fact that the meat wa hi was at first denied by Farria. who told officera that Indian had brought it to him. Farri paid. Carpenters' Union Turns Dowri Employers Pay Offer Carpenter unionist refused today an offer from the ABC and for settlement of the car penters' strike on a basis ' of $1.80 an hour. Negotiating committee for the union and employer' group held a two-hour : session this morning. The union committee agreed to terms of the contrac tors in regard to travel pay, and C. D. Long, business agent of the local, said his committee was willing to put the men back to work at $1.80, until Chiang Okays Marshall Talk NANKING, Jan. 13 (P) Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek said today General Marshall's state ment on China, blaming extrem ists on both sides for continued strife, was "filled with construc tive criticism, showing his good will toward China," an unoffi cial source reported. Chiang gave this first formal reaction to Marshall's statement and departure from China at a memorial service for Dr. Sun Yat-sen, founder of the republic. Newsmen were excluded. On informed source said Chi ang told the audience that Mar shall's statement should not be viewed separately but in con Junction with President Tru man's declaration of policy to ward China. "We should reflect over the evil conditions Marshall men tioned if they exist we must correct them," the generalissimo was quoted as saying. - He predicted China's rehabili tation program . and general economy would improve with fi nancial aid from the United States, and praised the recent adoption by the national assem bly of a coalition constitution. Klamath Bound Plane Crashes MARYSVILLE, Calif., Jan. 13 (JP) The Yuba county sheriff's office today reported searchers had spotted the wreckage of a light plane in the vicinity of the Feather river narrows dam. Marysvllle airport reported that a BT-13, an army model light bombing trainer, had taken off -about 1:30 a. m, for Klamath Falls, Ore. It was piloted by John Ste vens, a Marysvllle- night club entertainer. It was not deter mined immediately if there were others with him. The district where the plane crashed is in a snow covered area, and is fairly rugged. Klamath airport sources said they knew' nothing of a sched uled arrival of a plane here from Marysvllle and attendants said they did not know Stevens. Bring Spotlight Hunter Into Court April 1, with the proviso that the contractors sign an agree ment that $1.87 tt be the wage scale from that date. The employer group refused this proposal. Negotiations were broken at noon and no further meetings were arranged. A meet ing of the local will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, and a committee of the contractors ha been invited to address the membership. Long said. Mean while, he said, all striking mem ber were requested to report to the office of the union. The carpenters have asked for $1.87 Vi. The employer group first offered $1.75, as compared with $1.624 previously re ceived, and Saturday came up to $1.80. Long said that any work being done by carpenters' unionists here is at $1.87 H for independent contractors not members of ABC and E. He said that carpenters working at Tulelake are getting $1.874. Court Upholds 2nd Execution WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 A) By a one-vote margin, the su preme court ruled today that Louisiana may try again to exe cute Willie Francis, 17-year-old negro who lived through one trip to the electric chair. The 5-4 decision split the court on an Interpretation of what is the "cruel and unusual punish ment" forbidden by the consti tution. The majority held that it did not bar a second attempt at exe cution where the first failed due to mechanical difficulties.. ' The minority agreed with Francis' attorneys that it would be "cruel and unusual" if Francis were again put in the chair. Crater Lake Gets 28 Inch Snowfall Twenty-eight Inches of new snow fsjl at Crater Lake nation al park from Saturday midnight until 8 o clock Monday morning and although this brought a to tal depth of 84 inches, skiing was excellent at the park over the week-end. A total of 125 cars bringing 490 people into the park was the ranger's report and there were no accidents of any kind. Roads are open but chains are required from Annie Spring to the rim. The roads are not full width and it has taken all the park equipment to keep the road open, according to T. C. Parker, assistant park superintendent. Minimum temperature the . last 24 hours was 12 degrees, maxi mum, 27, It was 16 degrees at a, m. , -1 Yets Name House Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 UP) War veterans in the house or ganized into an informal associa tion today and named as chair man Rep. Francis E. Walters ID- Fa. I One of Walters' first acts was to tell reporters he wanted to "make it plain this isn't going to be a pressure bloc." But he said a committee is go ing to make recommendations on whether any specific legisla tion will be sponsored. Out of 193 representatives eligible to attend a meeting of veterans in the house chamber, Walter said 125 showed up. Actually, he said, what the meeting did was to revive an or ganization that existed for more than 20 years after the first World War. It is called "War Veterans in Congress." Senators can come in, too, if they ever wore uniform. Walters said no legislation was discussed today. Another meeting will be held soon to re ceive the report of the commit tee. Its members are Reps. Gwynne (R-Iowa), O'Hara (R- Minn.), Springer (R-Ind.), Blat- nick (D-Minn,) and Rankin (D- Miss.) 50 Foot Waves Lash North Sea NEW YORK. Jan. 13 UP) Fifty-foot waves and westerly gales of -more than 50 miles an hour slowed shipping today in the busy north Atlantic lanes. the U. S. weather bureau re ported. The fury -of the storm which began last Tuesday, was said to be centered between Iceland and Greenland where "very deep low pressure areas" were charted by the bureau s marine department. Heavy seas and other weather conditions were reported to be delaying liners and freighters alike, from one to six days in cluding the America, queen of the American merchant marine, originally due Saturday and now scheduled to arrive tonight. New Coasting Area Named The recreation, department has added the hill beyond Joseph Conger school to its list of safe coasting areas. The hill has been graded and is said to be in fine shape for sledding. Other areas arc, 2nd street from Lin coln to the bottom of the hill, Portland from Pacific Terrace to the railroad and Worden from the top of the hill to Upham. Recreation officials urge cau tion on the part of both motor ists and coasting enthusiasts and ask motorists not to park in the coasting areas if possible. They also remind sledders to use designated coasting areas and warn against using Washington and 3rd streets, particularly. Army Used To Supply Foodstuffs LONDON. Jan. 13 (IP) The labor government used 8000 troops and sailors today to move strike-bound food to hungry Londoners, touching off a wave of sympathy strikes which in volved more than 7000 workers and threatened to mushroom to gigantic proportions. within 15 minutes of the ar rival of army personnel at Smithfield market, the city's largest meat distributing center, more than 2300 employes walk ed off the job in support of more than 15,000 truck drivers who started an unofficial strike last Monday and rejected pleas of union leaders to return to work. 44-Hour Week The truckmen demanded a 44-hour instead of a 48-hour week, two weeks paid vacations, half pay during illness and ad justment of overtime pay con ditions. The 45-member road haulage central wages board met in emergency session to consider the demands and a pre vious decision which touched off the walkout. London wa tense. All police leaves were cancelled and mounted constables accompan ied the convoys of military trucks. Long lines of army trucks poured into the city's east end past thousands of unsmiling persons at the curbs. Almost immediately after the Smithfield workers struck, 3000 laborers walked out at Covent garden, chief vegetable market in London. . Hundreds of other, .worker quit jobs In London and else where. mma Minister Attlee, sup ported in the decision to use troops by the seven ministers whose departments were in volved, called a special cabinet meeting for late today and an other for Tuesday The transport strike had gravely shortened food supplies for the 10,000,000 persons in reater London, and spread to iverpool, Leeds, Southampton and other' major cities. Nearly 1000 Bristol truckers quit and picketed depots and main roads, appealing to working drivers to stop. Sled Accident Injures Three Three Klamath Union high school students narrowly es caped serious injuries Sunday afternoon when a toboggan on which they were coasting on Lin- coin street struck a parked car at the 8th street corner. Marilyn O'Neill suffered a bruised knee and wrist, Shirley uauon nad facial injuries and Barbara Mclntee, who was guid ing the toboggan, received a leg hurt. All three were able to re turn to school Monday. Coasting was expected to be heavy tonight, Monday, and those participating were urged to use only the designated areas and to watch for cars while mo torists were equally cautioned to De on tne alert lor youngsters on sleds. Six Survivors Rescued ABOARD USS MT. OLYM PUS, Jan. 13 (IP) Surviving two weeks huddled In the wreckage of their crashed sea plane in ice-piled Ellsworth land, six of the Byrd Antarctic expedition's nine missing fliers rested in warm bunks aboard their mother ship today. Their near-miraculous rescue, after blinding polar fogs had balked repeated search attempts, touched off wild celebrations aboard ships of the navy task force but their three compan ions were listed as dead. Aboard the seaplane tender Pine Island whose skipper, Capt, Henry H, Caldwell, was one of the rescued men the survivors told how their Mar iner photo plane had brushed a peak of snow and ice but re mained airborne only to ex plode, scattering aircraft frag ments and men over 100 yards of the frozen waste. Visibility had suddenly faded on that December 30 photo mis sion, they related; earth and sky had merged into a dull white mass, with no visible horizon. The accident came just as the co-pllot. Lt. (jg) William H. Kearns Jr. of Boston, turned to return to the Pine Island. In Copco Shift i V i n mI - Harlan P. Boaworth, above, who moves up a aasiatant to the general manager, and Sam I. Ritchey, below, who aucceeda Boaworth a district manager. Copco Ups H. Bosworth Harlan P. Bosworth Jr.. for nearly 18 years district man ager of the California -Oregon Power company here, has been promoted to the position of as sistant to the general manager and will move to Medford head quarters of the company, it was tearnea loaay. Sam I. Ritchey, assistant to Bosworth here and acting dis trict manager during the war period when Bosworth wa in the service. Will be district man ager. ... A The changes, approved by Copco directors last week, be came effective January 1. . Bosworth Joined the staff of the company in July, 1923. He was in and out of here on com pany business until September 1, 1929, when he became dis trict manager. He held the title while away in the service for 3s years. He has been president of the' chamber of commerce, Rotary and the Reames Golf and Coun try club, and is now a chamber director. He said today the fam ily will remain in Klamath un til after the close of school, but his headquarters will be moved immediately to Medford. Ritchey has been with Copco about 20 years, spending most of that period with the Klam ath operations of the firm. He is president of Rotary at pres ent, past president of tne zu-isu club, and active in various civic affairs. Washington State Legislature Opens OLYMPIA, Wash.. Jan. 13 (Pi The 30th session of the Wash ington state legislature convened at high noon today with repub licans in power for the first time in 16 years. The senate was called to or der at 12:02 p. m. by Lt. Gov. Victory A. Meyers. The house convened when Chief Clerk S. H. Holcomb rapped the gavel at lz noon. Of Antarctic Expedition After Two Weeks On Ice Floe Five of the six rescued men suffered minor injuries; the sixth, Pilot Lt. (jg) Ralph Paul LeBlanc of Martinsville, La., was more severely hurt. He was drawn on a sled as the group followed a trail blazed by the discovery plane to open water eight miles away. It was there that a second seaplane landed yesterday to pick them up. Reports of their physical con dition were not immediately available. The group, in addi tion to Captain Caldwell, Pilot LeBlanc and Kearns, included: ' James Haskins Robbins, avia tion radioman 3c, San Diego, Calif.; William C. H. Warr, avia tion machinist's mate 2c, Ports mouth, Va and Owen McCarty, chief photogragher's mate, So noma, Calif. The dead: Ens. Maxwell A, Lopez, New port, R.I. Frederick Warren Williams, aviation machinist' mate 1c, Huntington, Tenn. : ; Wendell K. Henderson, avia tion radioman 1c, Wilton, Wis. The fact the survivors huddled grimly. in the wreck Big Forestry Program For State Urged By Paul W. Harvey Jr. SALEM, Jan. 13 W Gov ernor EarlSnell, urging use at corporation excise tax surpluses to balance Oregon' 194749 budget, warned today that new taxes must be levied to provide for future needs. Delivering his second in augural address, the governor also outlined a 10-year forestry program to cost $12,000,000. asked for increased veteran and unemployment benefits, and urged the lawmakers to wait for congress before passing labor legislation. The $41,404,718 budget for departments dependent upon legislative appropriations would have had, he said, a deficit of almost S8,000,000, but use of $6,000,000 in corporation excise tax surpluses would wiDe this out. He said there won't be any such surpluses available in two years, so new tax revenues must be found now so they will be available at that time. Added Revenues "If in the future," the gov. ernor declared, "the state is to meet the increased demands, the urgency of expanded facilities, the necessity for adeauate sal aries for it employes, atate school support, and the higher costs lor merchandise, equipment and supplies, some additional revenues for budget balancing in the future must be provided. ' He urged that any major tax proposals be referred to the people at a special election. He called for "substantial" in creases in the amount which the state may loan to a veteran for a farm or home loan. The ceiling now is $3000. The governor asked adoption of a far-reaching 10-year for estry program to prevent and suppress fires, promote research, and rehabilitate the 300,000-ecra Tillamook burn. The data own slightly more than half of the burn, and the governor asked that the state take over the rest i it. Severance Tax The forestry program would be financed by a severance tax of 20 cents per thousand feet oa all timber cut. anri wonlH raka $12,000,000 during the 10 years. On lahnp ftAiArnnr Snail ' he opposes "jurisdictional dis- cotts." He bad', no specific labor proposals, but urged the legisla ture to go slowly until it sees what congress does about it He told the legislators they ICatiDia Pan s. Calau k Luzon Volcano Spouts Lava MANILA, Jan. 13 (JP) South ern Luzon's towering Mayon volcano, boiling for five days, erupted this morning with a furious shower of boulders and lava. Lt. (jg) Robert Case of Ne vada, Ohio, a navy weather of ficer, circled the volcano at 10, 000 feet during the display 'in an army plane piloted by Capt. Robert A. Harris of Dayton, Ohio. "It (the peak) got redder and swelled like a bubble, then broke," Case related. "A lava stream went straight up to a height we estimated at 8000 to 10.000 feet above the peak (it self 7903 feet). "We saw huge rocks blown straight up. They looked like small houses to us even at a distance of a mile and a half or two miles. The eruption lasted about a half hour." Two towns near the base were ordered evacuated earlier as lava boiled over down the eastern and southern slopes and black smoke mushroomed three miles into the sky. age, as instructed, was reported a major factor in their eventual rescue. The search was concen trated upon the known course their plane was to have covered in its photo and mapping mis sion. . Wings and engines broke free as the plane exploded, the sur vivors related. The fuselage broke in - two. But the plane was skimming the icy, snowy surface and the fall was a short one. Only six lived through the crash and the flames. Lopez and Henderson were dead when found. Williams, thrown from the wreckage died two hours later of multiple in juries. Pilot LeBlanc was pulled un- fnneMmi -from thft flnmlnff cockpit, but survived. McCarty extricated himself from the tangle of metal; the other four' survivors were thrown clear of the plane. Gasoline In one section of the plane burned for nearly an hour but fuel in another tank was salvaged and used, in rationed dribbles, to give survivor some ' degree of warmth and to pro vide a smoking signal fire for search planes. .
