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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1947)
A If ! J (ft w , ( A'.'.rv PMCE riVB CENTS Inlilt. IliiTsil Br FRANK JENKINS EN ROUTE to San Franclaco. n..rlHlntf nH nluhtrnll arrive t tlit nmo tlmtt. 1 walk Into a hotel, WITHOUT a reiervatlon, and approach the doak. You know how a dog la whon you're eating something good. I know now how the dog fueli. If I'd had a tall, I'd have been wag ging it. Under inch clrcumalanccs, the urge to ingratiate youraolf U ir rrsistlblo. "THE room clerk li a young woman. Schooled in these hard acarclly years, I aay to her: "You wouldn't have a room at thla time of the day, would you?" Any salesman will tell you that U a bad approach. The an wer la too ray. J tint a llttla two Irtler word: "No." Hardly any effort at all. K you really WANT something, you mint make It HARD to ay no. That' only rudimentary paychology. But. in the matter of hotel rooms, thcae war ycara have bern tough ones. Repeated mls foruinns aap your resolution. Try ai youfwill to put a booming, ' conflci'mt tone into your voice, yod hreak unexpectedly when the pinch cornea. The. (treeta are to cold and to draft. And the nlghta are to lung.. Try ai I would to be bluff and hearty, that timid little bro mide was the beat I could man- T SHE amlled, A warming smile. . The kind of a amile that uaed F.'o aprcad over an advcrllaing salesman's, countunanue when a customer who looked solvent cam in and asked: "How about paiie ad tomorrow?"- "Why, certainly, sir," aha an swered. "What kind of room would you like?" YU know the old war atory about the smoker who stepped tip to the tobacco counter and Inquired: "Any clgarettea to day?" and the clerk who an swered: "What kind, please?" At the story goes, the man's eyes grew round with wonder, and Ilia voice shook as he mut tered: "You mean to say you've got KINDS?" Well, that's the way It was with me. ICs the. way it must have been with the Israelltca when they came up to the Red Sea with their pursuers pound ing hard behind and the tea opened up and left a dry path before their feet. Miracles are hard to assimilate. a DUT I put on a bold front and - gave the girl the specifica tions Just like we used to do in those dear, dead days before Hit ler and Mussolini and Hirohlto went on the loose. And darned if aha didn't PRO DUCE MAYBE there la a brave new ATA world. Maybe It is lust around the corner. Maybe aome of the warmth and the Joy and the satisfaction of thoao years (Canlinaa aa rasa 4, Calaata SI Hrna Coffee Press Search For Brutal LA LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (JP) Hnmpcrod by a scarcity of clues, police today pressed a roundup of suspects - in the gruesome butcher-slaying of a young wo man Identified by the federal burenu of Investigation as Eliza beth Short, 22, whoso birthplace wns Hydo Park, Mass. Tho Los Angeles Times said sho was the dnughter of Mrs. Phocbo M. Short, 46, of Medford, Mass. Tho Identification was made by the FBI In Washington from fingerprints obtained when the girl was employed in the post ex change nt Cnmp Cooke, Calif., in 1943. Tho FBI said fingerprints from the mutilated body tallied ; with those made at Camp Cooke and another set token at Santa Barbnra September 23,' 1943, ' when the girl was taken Into custody for alleged violation of juvenile court laws. Santa Barbara Policewoman Mary Unkcfer recalled that she put Miss Short, whom she de scribed as a very attractive girl, '.on a train for Medford, "about nine days later." I In Medford, Mrs, Phoebe M, ? Short said she would not believe that the victim was her daughter until she was notified by police. Mrs. Short said her daughter, Elizabeth, one of her five ! daughters, had been working as a motion picture extra until two 'Cks ago, wnen sne was De ved to have gone to San Diego arf.AMA.TM rAI.I.S.. OREOO' ' Kcked Dog Pack May Be Called In To Aid In Plane Search Russian shepherd dogs cred ited with finding five airplane wrecks this year may be called Into the week-old search for Robert Ruboltom, McMliuivllle flier missing on a flight from Klamath Falls to his home town. Tha dogs b e 1 o n g' to John Black, Ogden, Utah, and are at Roseburg, where Black is pre paring to search for Vernon Coulter and hit mother, missing since November 1 on a flight from Red Bluff, Calif., to Hills boro. Black haa agreed to fly to Klamath Falls and start the Rubottom search if the Coulters will release him. 'The air search for Rubottom today centered in the Willam ette pass country, after a report from the Cold lake section up there told of a plane, apparent ly with motor -trouble, being sighted there last Friday, the duv Rubottom disappeared. The Informant, whose name was not learned, said tlie aircraft seemed to disappear in the snow. ' An airplane party from Mc Mlnnville stayed here over night after a search flight to Klamath Falls yesterday. Men in the party are G. M. Cornwall of the McMinnville Telephone-Register, Robert Macy. Albert Ba ton, Robert Earl and AI Udlinek. They flew here in a twin-motored Cessna. One of the men plan ned to fly back in a BT-13 that was left here a week ago, and the two planes took off this morning to search the mountain area on the way back to Mc Minnville. Retail Volume Sales Climb NEW YORK,' Jan. 17 r" Clearance sales continued to at tract many shoppers in tho week ended Wednesday, boosting re tail volume moderately above the preceding week and 22 to 26 per cent ahead of the corres ponding week ago, Dun it Brad street reported today. "Consumers generally were critical of quality and compared firicea carefully before complex ng purchases, the business re search firm said. "In many canes the demand for quality re sulted in the failure of goods to sell despite further price reduc tions." Interest In furs centered on mouton, muskrat and Persian lamb, but sales were affected ad versely by mild weather. Some clearances of men's suits were reported but were very limited in scope. Demand remained close to the high levels of previous weeks. Exploding Shells Demolish Town AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17 () At least 13 persons were killed today and hundreds were be lieved injured when a truck load of German shells explod ed in Muidon, reducing a large area to rubble reminiscent of the war. Butcher Slayer to work in an army hospital. Mrs. Short said a severe case of asthma made It necessary for Elizabeth to go to a warmer climate m the winter. At San Diego Police Detectives Ed Stotler and Gerald Walk said Mrs. Elvcra French told them the slaying victim stayed at her home in Pacific Beach, San Die go suburb, for a month and left last January 7 with an unidenti fied red-haired youth, presum ably headed for Hollywood. V, I ELIZABETH 8HORT xs J .Y, JANUARY 17. 1947 V-" . v Talmadge Lieutenant Grabs Desk ATLANTA, Jan. 17 OP) Herman Talmadge seized com plete control of Georgia's capitol today and forced Ellis Arnall to move to a downtown office bulldlni Arnall, who has been gover nor for the past four years and claims he Is still the state's legal executive despite the state leg islature's naming of Talmadge, announced his Intention to estab lish the Arnall capitol downtown after a brief encounter with a Talmadge lieutenant at the state house. Desk Seised The Talmadge lieutenant. State Rep. Jimmie Dykes, earlier had seized the desk in the cap itol rotunda which Arnall oc cupied yesterday after being ex cluded from the executive cham. bers Arnall strode up to Rep. Dykes' desk and said "Jimmie, I'm governor." Dykes interrupted to aay "Ellis Arnall, you remind me of a hog. You got your head in the trough and you just can't stop." Arnall asked "have you taken my office?". Dykes replied "I have and I'm refusing to let you sit here'. You have no more right to be governor than I have. : Arnall retorted "well, left see." Then, turning to the press, and speaking into a radio micro phone, Arnall said "to the people of Georgia s governor ..of Georgia,' I have been denied ac cess to the state capitol building Branded Lie . Dykes shouted "that's a lie." Arnall continued: ". . . Today, denied access to my office in the rotunda of the capitol. In order not to discredit tha people of Georgia and to create disturbance, Fm moving to 1407 Candler building tin downtown Atlanta) there to function as chief executive. "I'm sure the courts will up hold me as legal governor." He was interrupted repeatedly by cheers from the surrounding crowd. Speaking again over the din, he continued: "Accordingly. I shall ask my secretarial staff to meet me at 1407 Candler building to func tion until the courts remove the pretender who by force and storm trooper has occupied the capitol in a coup d'etat." Hangar Hides Missing Plane BELLINGHAM, Jan. 17 V The Piper Cub plane reported missing by Don Randell, man ager of the Burlington airport, is actually at the Belllngham field, Ken Foote, manager of the Belllngham Air Service, owners of the plane, said today. Foote said one of his students, Cornelius Root, Anacortes pub lisher, picked up the plane at the Burlington airport while Randell, who is Burlington rep resentative of the company, as well as airport manager, was away. He said Root had author ity to do so, and that he had talked to the Anacortes man since his landing here. Randell has reported to the civil aeronautics authority that the plane was missing shortly after noon yesterday, the an nouncement of its disappearance was followed by a report of a bright flare and sudden fire on a hillside between Auburn and Enumclaw, causing officials to fear the plane had crashed there. . . Poole Named To Resources Group Mrs. Rose M. Poole, republican legislator from Klamath Falls, has been placed on the natural resources committee of the state house of representatives, accord ing to word received irom saiem today. .'. The assignment, made by Speaker John Hall, is in addition to other committee assignments for Mrs. Poole. - Natural resources committee covers forestry, mining and fish- erics. She was a member of the forestry committee during the last legislative session. Mrs. Poole Is also on the local government committee because of her interest in the county zon ing bill which fell by the way side during tha last session. Uiil (Telephone till) Broken Roil 4 If i : in. .. . This Is an airvlaw of tha wreckage of tha Southern Pacific's Owl, crack night train, six cars of which overturned when tha train hit a broken rail near Bakersfield early today. At least seven parsons were killed. Tha picture was received over tele phone wire at Klamath Falls before noon today by AP wira- pnoto service. RcdsMay Ask Lieu Of Naii Reparations LONDON, Jan. 17 (P) Brit ish sources predicted today that Russia might seek a five billion dollar loan from the United States as the price for scaling down reparations claims on Germanyone of the thorniest issues facing the deputy foreign ministers drafting German and Austrian peace treaties. ; The influential London econ omist, terming reparations "the crux or tne wnole matter, said the "key to a German settle ment" might lie in a U. S. loan to Russia. "The Russians have asked for $10,000,000,000 worth of repa rations from Germany, the paper said, "but the certainty of half that figure in dollars now would be of infinitely greater economic value. "Prime Minister Stalin has on two occasions recently re ferred to Russia's need for an American loan. The whole at mosphere of . the coming Mos cow conference might be changed if successful loan ne gotiations had already been completed in Washington." Commenting on the heavy cost of occupation and assert ing that unification of Germany would cut these expenditures, the economist added that "Rus sian demands seem to Russians to be justified many times over and it would indeed be a re markable situation If dollars could be found for a defeated aggressor but not for a devas tated ally. . Australia apparently lost her appeal for active participation by the "little nations" in dis cussing the German and . Aus trian treaties, i eodor 1. Uou sev, Russian deputy- foreign minister, Insisted that the smaller nations appear before the deputies council only when presenting their own treaty pro posals. The United States, Britain and France appeared to have US Entry By ? Will Bring Treason Charge . WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (VP)--Attorney General Clark said to day that Mildred Gillars, Ameri can musician who allegedly broadcast from nazl Germany as "Axis Sally," will be charged with treason if she enters the United States.. Clark told newsmen "there are reports that Miss Gillars has ar rived in Miami, Fla." and added: "If she enters the United States she will be arrested and charged with treason. ' A -justice department official told reporters that an immigra tion service check "shows that Miss Gillars has riot arrived in this country." He added: "Miss Gillars, according to our WEATHER Wai. (J.H. Id K Mm. M rrarlpllallaa laal Si aaara 'Irtam yaar Sala .M Lrfiil r ....... Naraial t.M faracatll Clear May ani la arraw. Llllla aaaasa la l- Nunbar 10834 Wrecks Train US (Loan In dropped their earlier support of the Australian proposal. Canada, as one 'of .the major fighters of the wr against Ger many, objected strenuously last night to the method adopted by the Big Four deputies for hear ing other nations' views on the peace settlements. . Butter Price Drop Expected Third drop in the wholesale price of butter in less than a week is expected Saturday morning. Klamath Falls house wives will accept the announce ment by Percy Murray, one of the operators of the Klamath Falls creamery, with joy. Since last Monday the price of butter has dropped three cents from 67 cents per pound to 64 cents per pound. The ex pected cut tomorrow will put the wholesale price to 62 cents for fresh local butter, Murray said. . . No change is expected in the price of eggs, as the cold weather has slowed down pro duction. Further decreases in butter are also seen for next week, ac cording to Murray. Cobby Wounds Self In Gun Accident PORTLAND, Jan. 17 W The wave of taxi hold-ups caught Chester L. Hunter, 27-year-old cabbie, in its back wash today and critically in jured him. Hunter accidentally shot him self . while unloading an auto matic pistol. He had loaded the gun when two passengers whom he thought acted suspicious hailed his cab. Axis Sally" best Information, Is In protective custody in Germany by the war department. She Is required to report to the military officials every two weeks. No passport has been issued to her to enter this country." Miss Gillars was released from' a U. 6. army prison on December 24 on instructions from the jus tice department at whose request she had been held. The former Portland, Me., res ident was said at that time by military government officials to have acquired the sobriquet of Axis Sally through her Berlin broadcasts to American troops in North Africa and later in Europe during the war. Is V 2 ; am fi V" wJ j V''y.il r? X. x if Night Train Overturn After Rail BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Jan. Coroner Mormon Houxa said today, and many other wera Injured whan a Southern Pacifia passenger train struck a broken rail 12 milet northwest of here early today. Ha added ana or two mora might hava died in tho wreck. Deputy Coroner John Warh, alto at tha wreck scene, eald three of tha known dead art) women. Soma of tha bodies removed from tha wreckage wera badly mangled, making ldn tification of tha axact number killed difficult. Kern County General hospital, where most of tha injured Brass Hats Okay Merger WASHINGTON. Jan. 17 (JPi The army and navy high com mand, agreed on a plan for "uni fication," today promised coop eration and greater efficiency under a single cabinet officer. One by one. Secretary of War Patterson, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, Adm. Chester W. Nim itz and Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower gave their whole-hearted endorsement to the new plan. iney spoke to a crowded news conference in the White House movie theatre. Then they turned the meeting over to experts to go into details. But, for the mog part, the plan, announced by President Truman last night, remained only a general proposition, with the chinks to be filled in, later. Congress will have a big hand In that. N unite . Admiral Nimitz said he con siders the plan a "definite and substantial forward step and I shall support it to the best of my ability." He said it will enable the services to get together on many essential matters and make progress. General Eisenhower, wearing a Florida tan, said he always has deplored the differences between army and navy officers over a merger and now that they had been resolved he personally will "support it with all I have as a "distinctive step forward. The United States, he said, will be the greater gainer by a step of this nature. During the seminar. President Truman met with his cabinet at their Tegular Friday session In another Dart of the White House. , "The meeling wa largely de- . . , . - j : : J vuicru id - m uutcussiuu w uie army -navy "unification" agree ment. 1 Truman Pleased ' Secretary of Agriculture An derson told reporters the presi dent "seemed pleased" about the agreement and "that's about a far as we got." When it came to details, ques tions at the . news seminar brought out these points: The plans make no specific provision in themselves for a single purchasing department for all branches of the armed ser vices. But the nature of the set up indicates that this is contem plated. ' The famed marine corps will continue . unchanged as the tra ditional amphibious fighting group. But there probably will be greater cooperation, training and development for use of the army, navy and marines together in such operations. - Yeather To Be Clear And Cold Clear and cold with little change In temperature was the forecast announced by the U. S. weatherman Friday and week end sports fans were promised plenty of skiing and coasting as freezing nights were on the cal endar for Saturday and Sun day. It was 4 degrees above zero at 7 a. m. today, Thursday's maximum of 33 only one degree above freezing. Mountain roads remained icy today the state highway com mission said. There was no new snow in the district and high way crews continued their work of sanding snow packed Etretcbss in higher elevations. Coldest point in this district was given as Sun mountain where the mercury fell to 6 be low last night. Additional tem peratures were given by the commission, indicative that no other sub-zero readings were recorded. Employers' Offer Still The Some . No change in the wage scale stand made by ABC and E, con tractors' group, was reported fol lowing a Thursday night meeting of the organization held at the Lekburg-Duncan offices in the Industrial Arts building. i Information that the car penters union, local 190, had de cided to discharge the nego tiating committee and sever all negotiations with ABC and E. was widely discussed by the con tractors who are holding firm to their offer of $1.80 per hour. The union is asking $1.87H and in dependent contractors, not af filiated with ABC and E, are paying this scale. - The strike of the union against ABC and E was in its 12th day today. . - Hitting Broken At Bakersfield 17 (AP) Seven Mrsofifl were knows) to kava Km Itllla1. aea mem at a to iuo, including those less seriously hurt. The dead included these, ten tatively identified: Jamas Leroy Hall, Kansas City, Mo. Battle Dilas, Richmond. Calif. Pvt. Joseph Bsrnavlcb, It. Richmond, Calif. Sheriff'a Deoutv Jack Kleth. ley estimated that S3 persons were being treated for injuries at the scene. . Hurled Through Windows Kiethley said an uncounted number of passengers were hurled through train windows and crushed beneath the weight of - four coaches and a tourist sleeper which were derailed and overturned when the Owl, night train southbound from San Francisco to Los Angeles, hit a broken rail. . The sheriffs deoutv reoort- ed that the wreckage was a ghastly scene and that legs and arms were torn from some of the victims. . Lag Severed "The halls are full of iniured and we are working on them desperately,", said an attendant at the Kern - County hospital here. Names of the dead and injured were not vet available. One of the injured was a young ster whose leg was severed in tne wreck. - Ambulance crews, sheriffs deputies and others worked feverishly- to extricate the in jured and rush them to hospi tals. A Southern Pacific disoatch- er said the train, Owl No. 58 wnicn left San Francisco at 8:30 o clock last night and was due in Los Angeles at 8:25 a. m. today, usually travelled at 60 miles an hour along the sireicn wnere the wreck oc curred.' -J -i Sergeant L. E. Prvor of the Bakersfield sheriffs office said six ambulances had, been ' tent to tne scene at Lerdo, a small railway station near Minter field, wartime training field for aviauoa caaeis. The engineer. H. P. Law rence, -and . the enndurtnr George Cochrane of Los Ange les, were unhurt as the locomo tive and tftree baggage cars be- mna u were not derailed. Sev en passenger cars of the 13-car train remained upright. Wreckage was scattered alnna the right of way for quarter of a mile. - Transverse Fissure B. V'. Mitchell, Southern Pa cific division sunerintendent. said the fatal break in the rail was a transverse fissure, im possible to detect. The train was running about 60 miles an hour. he said, ' when it struck the break at 2:40 a. m. The locomotive and three baggage cars passed over the spot and the. rail broke under the first of the four-coaches, miraieu sam. H. O. Nelson. Los Anaeles. Pullman conductor, said none of the dead or the very serious ly injured were passengers in the standard sleeping cars so far as he knew. Most of the dead and injured had been rid ing in the coaches. Arckbishop Of Quebec Passes QUEBEC. Jan. 17 ) Rod- rigue Cardinal Villeneuve, arch bishop of Quebec, died in a Los Angeles hospital last night, the archbishop's palace announced today. The cardinal, who was 63, was born the son of a Montreal shoe maker, and became a prince of the Roman Catholic church at 49. He was made archbishop of Quebec in 1931 and cardinal In 1933, Doem tz Tells Attack On NUERNBERG, Jan. 17 (IP) Adm. Karl Doenitz asserted today that a German U-boat nearly counted Winston Church ill among her victims one month after the second World War started. ' Doenitz, serving 10 years as a war criminal, told an Interroga tor in his prison cell here that the incident happened west of the Orkney islands in October, 1939, when a U-boat struck the 33,000-ton British battleship Nel son with three torpedoes which failed to explode because they were faulty. Doenitz said the U-boat captain was a "broken man" when he discovered later that Churchill was aboard the Nelson. He added that faulty torpedoes greatly hampered U-boat warfare, especi ally at the beginning of the war. wera being treated, ettimat' Huge Land Deal Made Seth Dixon, well-known and successful Fort Klamath rancher. has purchased the old Woodruff ranch, also known as tha Ore gon ranch, at the edge of Klam ath marsh, for 1175,000 In one of the largest land transactions in the county in many years. The land was bought from P. M. Jackson, trustee of the bank rupt estate of Leonard J. Wood ruff. The land lies partly at the edge of Klamath marsh and ex tends west toward The Dalies California highway at Sun mountain. Headwaters of Sand creek are on. the property. Tha total acreage was not disclosed. Woodruff was an oil million aire from Oklahoma when ha came into the Klamath country in the early 20's, according to Fred L. Pope, county commis sioner. He bought much land in the Fort Klamath area and leased it out Woodruff main tained his home in Loa Angeles. Several years later Woodruff was forced into bankruptcy. Purchase of the ranch land, described as jackpine and graz ing country, by Dixon is another chapter- in the history of that vast rortune wnicn once was Woodruffs. Sheriff Lloyd Low recall that Woodruff and a chauffeur came into Klamath county in the early 20 s. Woodruff deposited $20, 000 in a local bank his first day in town. - , Hatfield Plant a" II : TULELAKE. Jan. 17 First potatoes' to be converted to starch by the Northwest chem urgy starch plant at Hatfield will roll over the crushers early next week it was announced by C. Z. Rice, plant manager. . The plant is still under con struction and will not process glucose until later in the season. The starch output will be shipped to Wenatchee, Wash. All equip ment is installed. Trough washed potatoes will go through the crusher and over an ex tractor which will separate the pulp from , the water content through a screen. The pulp is then reground and finer sedi ment removed. The liquid is then put in a vat where the starch settles to the bottom and the water pumped off and discarded. Fresh water in quantity enough to permit pumping is added to the residue which then goes into centrifugal tanks where the moisture is spun out. The com pleted product is packed in bar rels for shipment to Wenatchee, where it is processed to make glucose. The plant will use at tha strt 200 tons of potatoes per day, which will make more than 33 tons of starch, and farmers will receive $10 per ton for their, culled potatoes at the plant. 21 Nazis Draw Life For Jap Aid SHANGHAI, Jan. XT JP Twenty-one nazis today were convicted of aiding Japan wage war after V-E Day in violation of Germany's surrender terms and were sentenced to termt ranging from five years to life Imprisonment at hard labor. The nazis passively heard their sentences patted by a four-member . U. . S. military commission. .' Of Torpedo Churchill Ship Doenitz. did not say how he knew for certain Churchill was aboard the Nelson at the time, but he declared it had been eon firmed through intelligence. LONDON, Jan7l 7 (tf) The admiralty said todav it was .aware of German claims that three torpedoes were fired at HMS Nelson while Winston Churchill was on board shortly after the start of the war but "we have no record of them."' Churchill was on board the battleship in November, 1939, a spokesman said, "But we have no record of three torpedoes being fired and no record of any of them having been seen," he declared. Th ship was mined during the same month, the spokesman said, but Churchill was not oa board at the time. OpeninnSldted t
