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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1947)
w w -v' ' . . . ' .o : f RICE rive CENTS Hope Fades For London 'Strike End LONDON. Jhd. IS !') More than 2U00 Thame lightermen nd thousnmle of stevedore and dock on i nl t work tudny In iym pntliy wulkouts, swelling to 40, UUU or mors the number of per son Idle In London'! mush rooiiilng 10 (lay-old transport trlko. The new work stoppages, pro testing the use of troop to re- place striking truck driven) fur delivery of food, came a ncgo. tumors huurd for an curly Tlt-mcnt of the truck dispute, tlyux of an "unofficial" alrlkc wliu-h some . labor partisans ,,rUy-ed ml(lit ' upset the Inbor Wtinieiit. ' nlon leader appealed to the docK workcrj at a mooting till ""jTaliiu to return to their John, '"Xl their speeches, citing the JSinklng truckcre' advice U" luat further sympathy walkouts, ( were ahoutud down. ' Strike leader J. E. Evan. In a message to the 30.000 strikers, aald he hoped "m concrete proposals" would develop In un ion negotiation today and the Daily Herald, labor organ, aald in a bold hradltne: "Strike Call off Likely Today." At leat 20,000 other union member protecting ue of troop to deliver food aupplle to Loudon hop prepared to join the walkout If the new con ference fall. The truck driver want a 44-hour work week In deed of 48 hour, two-week paid vacation and overtime pay In trad of lime off. The, public, which already ha missed mod of one week' meat ration because of the drlke, placed It bo PC fveetUement In a new government-itfoniored joint industrial council bf trans port worker and employer em powered to reconsider the trlker' demand. The employ er inid, however, that the atrlke end before the new coun cil take action. Crater Skies Clear Today A 30-hour dorm spent itaelf at Crater Lake national park early Tueidav afternoon and the area presents a beautiful winter picture according to Wednesday morning radio report. It wa 2 degree below icro early this morning but the temperature roie to 8 above at 8:30 a. m. Max imum wa 18 degree. All road through tiio park, south to wed, were opon to two way truffle. There wa one-way truffle to the rim early today but plow were working to open a two-way drive. T. C. Parker, assistant park (upcrlntcndent, ald Wedncdav would be a good day for park visitor n visibility is good and picture taking opportunities ex cellent. There 1 a snow depth of 86 inches and it I settling fast. Skiing wa only fair but after wSome use of the rum, it ahould The well pneked for the week-end, Parker advised. Wednesday was clear and cold with no wind blowing. ierary Skids To Sub Zero Rtoit i. Rival Georgia Chieftains Create Hiatus In Dixie ATLANTA, Jan. 15. MV Rival claimants to the governor ship of Georgia established of fices in the slate capitol today and each immediately set up his own military department. The claimant were Ellis Ar nall, who has held the office for the past four years, and Herman Talmadge, who was named by the legislature early today to the office which his late father, Eu gene Tnlmadge, won In last No vember's general election. The elder Talmadge died last month. Arnall refused to heed the ac tion of the legislature and in a dramatic early morning en counter with Talmndge and In the face of a yelling mob of Talmadge supporters refused to turn the office over to him. As his first act upon arrival at his office today, Arnall named Col, R. W. Collins, commander of the stale guard, as adjutant foneral to succeed Marvin Grlf In, who last flight was sworn in by Talmndge as his adjutant ttoneral. Griffin formerly served under Arnall., Then Arnall communicated with Secretory of War Patterson by telephone and asked federal recognition of Collins a' Uf iRadlcr goncral and the state' KLAMATH FALLS, trt- Midwinter activity of duck ha been reported from various part of the basin the past few day. A huge horde of mallard la feeding regularly la a field at the Malia-Tulelake (unction south of Merrill, according to Ray Morasco of Tulelako and Fred Robinson of Klamath Fall, as well as others who have seen them. The above picture shows a vast concentration of duck on the water of Lake Ewauna within the limit of Klamath Falls, the picture being taken from the Link river bridge. Local Butter Price Drops A three-cent drop In wholesale butter prices In a 3-day period was ihown In tlH Klamath basin with, another drop of one cent today. Lad Monday the price dropped two cent. Till Is local, fresh grade-A butter. The supply 1 plentiful to meet all local demands, whole salers dated, and no outside but ter la being brought In. A check with four local stores two chain and two independent. gave a retail price range on but ter per pound at 78 to 83 cents, Monday high on retail butter wa 88 cents. The egg market remained firm today with fresh eggs wholesal ing at 64 cents per dozen. This price I expected to strengthen for the next few weeks as pro. ductlon is stalled during bad weather. 54 Pneumonia Cases In State PORTLAND, Jan. 15 (At Fifty-four pneumonia cases were re- ported . In Oregon in the past week, the date board of health laid today, the highest number since the same week: two years a no when there were 100 cases. Other diseases reported for the week Included seven cases oi diphtheria with four in Lane county and one each In Benton, Klamath and Marlon: two polio myelitis cases, one in Jackson and one In Multnomah counties; 89 cases of gonorrhea, a 20 per cent decline from the previous week: 31 cases of syphilis, put ting the year's total at 88; and 123 cases of chickenpox. adjutant general. Arnall de clined to say what Patterson an swered, but when he hung up, he turned to newsmen and said "This is the adjutant general," pointing toward Collins. (The state guard was set up during the war to function in place of the national guard. Its demobilization lies awaited full reorganization of the national guard.) Arnall said Griffin had re signed and hod accepted office under Talmadge, "this pretend er." Whan Talmndge., who was in an office Griffin had set up for him just off the main governor's reception room, heard of Ar nnll's call to the secretary of war, he told his executive sec retary, Benton Odom, to "block all communications." Then Talmndge put in a tele phone call for United States Senator Richard B. Russell in Washington, Talmadge arrived at the capi tol shortly after 0:30 a. m. and Arnall, who earlier had left un der protection of national guardsmen, arrived shortly thereafter. Shortly after his arrival, Tal madge conferred with Griffin. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY It. 1M7 Duck Hordes Seen In Basin r' 'az" ' " j European Border Disputes Loom As Big Treaty Snag LONDON, Jan. 15 (P) Dep uty foreign ministers of the United SUtoa, Russia, Great Britain , a n d . JTraiics started spadework for treaties with Aus tria and Germany today and were confronted unofficially with border disputes, a frequent cause of European wars. Yugoslav representatives In London Indicated Marshal Tito' country would ask for a sub stantial piece of southern Aus tria. Other neighbors of the de le led central states exerted quiet pressure outside the coun cil chamber lor Austrian and German land. The Australian delegation was so concerned about possible delays over territorial questions that it proposed that a fact-find- Truman Plans Big Six Meet WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 () President Truman will hold hi first bi-partisan legislative con ference wit': the new congres sional "Big Six" tomorrow. . The White House announced today that four republican con gressional landers will meet with the president at the White House at 10 a. m. (EST) tomor row together with the demo cratic minority leaders, Senator Barkley (Ky.) and Rep. Rayburn (Tex.). Rayburn yesterday told of the president's decision to hold per iodic legislative conferences with the leaders of the republican con gressional majority as well as the democratic chieftains. Senator Vandenbers? (Mich.V the president pro tempore of the senate; Senate Majority Leader White (Me.), Speaker Martin (Mass,), and House Majority Leader Hallck (Ind.), of the house will sit In on the con ferences. Truman Pleads For Highway Safety WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 (fP) President Truman today called upon every state and community "to work unceasingly throushout 1947 to promote highway safety." In a statement, the president said "it is an appalling fact that 34,000 American citizens were killed in automobile accidents In 1948." Vandenberg To Portland Court Circuit Judge David R. Van- denberg Is in Portland today to preside on the bench in that city starting Thursday. The court here is in recess. Judge Charles H.-. Combs of Lake view has been assigned to preside over four cases here, but Is reported ill at Lakevlew and may not be In Klamath Fall this week. (Telephone v. , ing commission be established to study all claim. .. The deputies were preparing for the discussion of the foreign,! ministers,- themselve - at" the forthcoming Moscow conference. They were concerned primarily today with Germany. A Yugoslav delegation headed by Dr. Joza ' Vilfan expressed concern about a Slovene minor ity in the Austrian province of Carinthla and asserted that the Slovenes sought union with Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavs said Informally that a transfer of populations was not feasible and that annexation of the vaguely defined region would be a bet ter solution. A Yugoslav spokesman said they also Avould demand the surrender by Austria of a con siaeraoie number of persons considered war criminals. He charged that many had found refuge in Austria and that the Ustachl, a fascist band which held absolute sway in Slovenia during tne uerman occupation, still existed in Austria as an or ganized formation. Australia was understood to have given general approval to British and American drafts of an Austrian treaty of inde pendence. The delegation also suggested measures for the fed eration of what is left of Ger many, with strong federal states. Australia urged also that a sub stantial life be given to German economy to prevent the country from becoming a drain on the allied and occupying powers. Highway Crew Man Injured An Oregon state highway maintenance crew employe suf fered a fractured right leg and other injuries when he was struck by a passing motorist whose brakes failed to hold on the ice and snow covered high way near Klamath Agency late this morning. Sherman Maher, about 45, Chlloquln resident, is in Hillside hospital for treatment of his in juries. The motorist is said 4o be J. E. Robblns, Pasadena, Calif., who was south bound at the time of the accident. Robbins brought Maher to Hillside. He said he applied his brakes when he saw the crew but that the car skidded into the workman as the wheels failed to hold on the ice. Maher was admitted at 11:45 a. m. Naxi War Trial Postponed Today NUERNBERG, Germany, Jan. 15 (fP) The war crimes trial of Field Marshal Erhard Milch was adjourned today to allow his counsel time to prepare his de fense. The U. S. prosecution com pleted evidence charging Milch with full knowledge of Inhuman medical experiments carried out in the interest of the nazl air force, I WEATHER i Hai. (Jan. ).... I Ml. .1 rrielrllalUa laal 14 tnn M Straam Mar ta Jala. ...I.M Laal rr Narmal S.M rararaall fair tadar ana tamar raw, warmer Ibis aftarnaaa. till) Number 10832 Statewide Cold Spell End Seen TEMPERATURES Klamath Falls 1 below Chemult 17 below Mt. Hebron 14 below Alturas 6 below Kirk -14 below Mowich 14 below Crescent lake 14 below Sun Mountain pass ...13 below Odell lake Zero Greensprings summit 2 below Gerber dam 11 below Crater lake 2 below Baker .. 18 below Bend ...10 below Burn i 9 below Malin 8 below Tulelake 3 below Mcacham 28 below Sub-zero weather chilled the folk of the Klamath basin to their bones this morning when the mercury fell to 1 degree be low zero at 4:30 a. m.. coldest since January 1, 1942, when 2 below was chalked up by the weather man. Forecad for the next 24 hours wa "fair today and slightly warmer. Coldest point in the area was Chemult where the SP thermom eter recorded 17 degrees below. following closely on Chemult heels was Mt. Hebron to the south, where it was 14 below. It was 6 below at Alturas, 14 be low at Kirk, Mowich and Cres cent Lake to the north, plain zero at Odell and 13 below on Sun Mountain pass. Unofficial reports from Malin advised it was 6 below there and Tulelake reports varied. One source said it was S below, an other 1 below, and at (he USBR pumping plant, it was 3 above. Reclamation officials reported 11 below at uerber oam. Meacham nosed out Chemult as the coldest place in the state when it rang up a 28-below temperature reading. It was 10 below at Bend and 9 below at Burns. Pendleton had 3 above while Baker shivered at a minus 18. Valley residents. Including Medford and Salem, reported 18 above and it was also that tem perature in Portland - where householders stoked furnaces in their battle with the unaccus tomed temperatures for these points. Eugene's minimum was 21 and Roseburg s was 26. On the coast, North Bend reported 27 and Brookings. 30. Seasonal lows were reported elsewhere in the state. The cold failed to put a crimp in ground or air travel and buses, trains and planes were on schedule. United Air Lines, which saw no planes coming in from Saturday afternoon until Tuesday afternoon, said here to day that the flights were arriv ing on time. The Southern Pa cific reported that snow ceased falling in the north district and the flanger was removed after clearing the drifted area in the Crescent Lake sector. Roads throughout the state continued today to be covered with ice or packed snow and chains were advised by the com aiission. Sanding crews were operating in the district. Road side snow was chalked at 62 inches at Odell lake, and 37 inches on Sun Mountain pass. Crime Wave Hits Peaceful Madras MADRAS, Jan. 15 (ip) The crime wave has reached Madras, an honest central Oregon city which hadn't had a real burglary in several years. Burglars broke the back door of the Rialto tavern during the night, taking $50 and some cigarettes, and attempting, but failing, to cart off the heavy safe. Except for th theft of some narcotics from a drug store last year, Madras has had no rob beries during recent years. WAA Takes Under- Pay Suit To Court PORTLAND, Jan. 15 ) Herbert A. Jones, Hillsboro, is going to have to fight out in court his demand that the gov ernment deliver 4824 heavy marine Rear joints he bought for $69.13 for which the U. S. origin ally paid $62,000. Victor E. Harr, assistant U. S. district attorney, said he would file a motion for dismissal of Jones' suit against the war assets administration. Jones purchased the material in November but the WAA refused delivery and unofficially explained a clerical error caused the mixup. Luxury Tax Continuance Gets Okay WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 fiiP) Republican tax managers gave a green light today to legislation continuing indefinitely the high wartime excise rates on such things as liquor, fur and jew elry. . The surprise decision to head off an automatic $1,500,000,000 roll-back in levies July 1 brought GOP lawmakers and President Truman eye-to-eye on the first major tax problem to confront the 80th congress. But republicans expressed a re newed determination to cut in dividual income taxes 20 per cent a move strongly opposed by the president. Chairman Knutson (R-Mlnn.) said the house ways and means committee may approve a bill continuing the high excises at its fird meeting on Friday. Such a quick step, ht Mid, would erase business- uncertainty caused by consumers delaying purchases in anticipation of the otherwise automatic reductions six months hence. The bill, to be offered by Rep. Grant (R-Ind.), "would remove the incentive to stop buying in anticipation of tax cuts," Knut son said. Moreover, he told news men, the continued large collec tion of excise revenues would make it easy for the republicans to slash individual income taxes by a fifth this year, at a total estimated saving to income earn ers of $3,350,000,000. If Chairman Taber (R-N. Y.) of the house appropriations com mittee is .correct in declaring "that the budget can be held down," Knutson said, then: "A 20 per cent tax reduction will be comparatively easy, and we should be able to pay four or five billions on the public debt Taber's latest edimate is that "three to four billions" can be pared from the president's $37, 528.000.000 spending figure. The reversal of position came at the first meeting of GOP members of the house ways and means committee yesterday. Boy Injured In Accident Timothy Bender, 6-year-old Altamont student, was in a e- ious conditiurt--at HilUido 4ios- pital today - following - injuries received when he was struck by a pickup operated by Kenneth Nelson, 31, 5015 Summer lane, when the child is said to have dashed in front of Nelson's ma chine while en route to school. The accident occurred at 8:30 a. m. at LaVerne and Altamont drive. Nelson, an employe of the Klamath Lake Moulding com pany, said he was driving to ward town whe.i the child, standing at the side of the road, suddenly ran in front of his car. Nelson applied the brakes, struck the child and the boy was hurled 20 feet. Nelson's car skidded and overturned in the ditch. The driver was slightly injured. Shortly after the accident Mrs. Lyle Parker, 3004 LaVerne, drove up and Nelson placed the child in her car and they rushed the boy to Hillside where he is thought to have possible head and internal injuries. Attend ing physicians had not X-rayed the boy at an early hour this afternoon due to his condition. Timothy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bender, 3735 La Verne. State police investigated, the accident this morning. Nel son's pickup was badly dam aged. Tule Interviews Halted Briefly Personal interviewing of home stead drawing winners by the homestead examining board has been " temporarily suspended, according to Tenbrook William son, homestead official. William son eilained that 18 persons were questioned by the board Monday and Tuesday and no more interviews will be held until probably the first of next week. The principal point being probed into by the examining board, Williamson said, is the amount of farming experience of the applicants. He stated that there will be some of the orig inal 86 winners in the drawing who will be rejected. In the event of rejections, the first of the 86 alternates drawn from the mixer will be put in line for a homestead. Henry Munday Leaves Hospital Henry V. ' "Pete" ' Munday, who suffered severe body burns when his Crosby street residence was destroyed by fire just before the Christmas holidays, was able to leave Klamath Valley hospi tal Tuesday. The hospital did not have the Munday family's new address, but recently Mrs. Munday said she thought they would occupy a trailer house until the Crosby street house could be made liv able. Munday is greatly im proves but is still under treatment. Spud Leader Scott Warren, Algoma, Is new president of the Klamath Pota to Growers association, suc ceeding Karl Dehlinger of Hen- lay. Warren was elected at a potato grower meeting In Hen ley this week, and John Dag nan of Merrill and William Tu- bach of Po valley were named on the board of directors. De tailed information on potato support and diversion will be given in a special story In to morrow paper by Walt Jen- drijewski. assistant e o u n t y agent. Reds Refuse To Join US Pole Protest LONDON, Jan. 15 UP Mos cow announced today that "the Soviet government cannot agree" with the United States and Britain that tactics of the Polish provisional government made it unlikely that Sunday's scheduled elections could be free and un fettered. The Moscow radio said Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov on Monday handed to U. a. Am bassador Walter Bedell Smith a Russian answer to an American request to the Soviet government to join in the protest to Poland. The U. S. request, sent in con junction, with ia - stiff -nqte to Poland herself, was delivered in Moscow early this month. This, the Moscow radio said, was Molotov's reply: "The Soviet government can not agree with the charges con tained in the note against the provisional Polish government of national unity of violating the pledges laid on it by the decisions of the Yalta and Berlin (Pots dam) conferences, providing for the holding of tree and Unfet tered elections In Poland on the basis of a universal electoral law with secret ballot, whereby all democratic, anti-nazi parties will have the right to participate and put forward candidates. The British foreign office re leased the text of a third British note to Warsaw, stating that the conduct of the Polish election campaign threatened a breach of the Potsdam agreement. McMinnville Pilot Missing McMinnville, ore., Jan. is (IP) Rubert Rubottom, parner in the newly-formed Airborne Ex press company, has been missing since Friday on a flight from Klamath Falls to his home here, friends said today. Albert H. Bliton. McMinnville. said Rubottom left Klamath Falls at 2:30 Friday in a surplus army monoplane he was bringing back from UKlahoma. Bliton said the pilot was not missed immediately, since he had not filed flight plans. A check of gas slips traced nis course. Local Firm Reaches Into Umpqua Forest For Timber Klamath Falls' lumber indus try reaches into the Umpqua na tional forest for raw material for the first time as the result of a successful bid by the Klamath Lake Molding company (also known as Palnierton Lumber company) for nearly 50,000,000 feet in the Lonesome Meadows unit in the Diamond Lake dis trict. Formal acceptance of the Klamath bid was announced to day through the office of M. M. Nelson, supervisor of the Ump qua National forest, with offices at Roseburg. The timber lies about 10 miles from Diamond lake. The logs will be hauled 38 miles over the Diamond lake highway to Dia mond lake siding on the South ern Pacific, and will be railed from there to Klamath Falls. The local firm will saw the logs at the Klamath Lake mill on Up per Klamath lake. Involved in the project is an important public road construc tion program. The forest service allotting from its funds S335.0C0 to construct 3-inch asphaltic con Public Vote On Issue Expected SALEM, Jan. 15 (P) House leaders said todav thev wnnlrl turn to1 a sales tax, which haa repeatedly been rejected by th VOterS. as a mean nf anlvinal Oregon's financial problem. They said they are having estimates prepared to determine now large the tax would have to do. they plan to refer it to the people at a special election soon after the end of the legis lature. Optlmlstie The leaders are nntlmlatln that the legislature will pass It, but they are somewhat rinuhtrul about whether the voters will accept it. They oppose Governor Earl Snell's DTODOsal to use Sft.nnn.. 000 of corporation excise tax surpluses to balance the budget. They want this money used for property tax reduction purposes. wM,n ...L- 4uuaas aiisiiia H. Hall said "anyone., who knows anything about the need for more state revenues also knows that new taxes must be found. And a sales tax la the onlv anruap Rep. Earl Hill of Cushman, Lane county, said he would ask the house assessment and tax ation committee to Introduce the sales tax. But if the com mittee doesn't. Hill said, HiU and others will submit it. ' Rep. Robert C. Gile, Roseburg, chairman of the committee, said would sponsor it, asserting "that matter must be thrashed out. Representative Hill, asserting that the corporation excise tax revenues sohuld be used for property tax reduction, said:: "Owners of real property are faced with a tax burden that is entirely too heavy. The states to the north and south of Oregon have found that the sales tax is the real solution to their fiscal problem. Youths Flee From Custody Charles F. Farrara, 17, and a 16-year-old companion escaped from the county juvenile cottage on Summers lane last night or early this morning and are be lieved : to be heading toward Idahn r i . . .. v ; .. - Tarrar i the army deserter who admitted burfflarlzimr the Recreation bowling alley last week-end, and the other lad has been held in connection with re cent thefts of copper wire from the telephone company. .. Faye Blackmer, deputy Juve nile officer, said that army MP's from Saac field, San Antonio, Tex., were on their way here to take Farrara into custody. Ha deserted the army last Septenv The boys were kept In the same room at the juvenile cot tage and were present at the bedtime check at 10:30 last night They were missed at 6:30 aja. today. Some time between those hours they managed to take the lock off their door and leave the cot tage. The boys are believed ,to be ill-clad for near-zero weather. State notice were alerted to be on the lookout for the boys on the chance that they might have stolen a car, but there had been no vehicle thefts reported here at a late hour today. Marine Transport Search Fruitless' TACOMA, Jan. 15 (JP) The fate of a missing marine corps transport plane and its 32 pas sengers continued to elude searchers today, more than a month after it disappeared while en route to Seattle from San Diego, Calif. Four airplanes and a helicopter from McChord field rescue squadron spent a com bined 17 hours in the air over Mount Rainier yesterday with out success. crete top on the Diamond lake highway, in order to make that road strong enough to bear the heavy log traffic. Nelson said this road work will be done in 1947, and logging operations are expected to be undertaken this summer. The Palmerton bid was $8.08 for Douglas fir, and $13.25 for white pine. The tract is about 85 per cent Douglas fir. While the names of other bid ders 'were not given out, it is understood they were Klamath Falls firms. The development Is regarded as significant Inasmuch as it points to possibility of further timber supply for Klamath mills from the Umpqua forest area in the Diamond lake country. Al though there is some haul over adverse grade involved, it was pointed out that the transport situation is more favorable for bringing the logs this way than over rough country to the west of the timber. Presence of the paved Diamond lake highway and the Southern Pacific's main line is an important factor in this situation.
