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Newspaper Page TextNc .MIL ml MI eraw amy 7 oa ' PRICE FIVE CENTS l" Bj" " KLAMATH FALLS, OREO' xfo'jDAY, JANUARY 21, 1B47 (Telephone 1111) Number 10837 Shotgun Blast Kills 'Baby Girl InTIie, Hay's Jens "ni-i-nr fi-'i-rii--rir-rt-tN-1- r-nr ni By FRANK JENKINS AS tlio remit of scries of ovent In which death look huiKl, the suilo o Georgia now hii two rival governor!. The sequence proceeded lonie- thing like this: Gene Talmadge. gullus-wcar-Ing, tobucco-chcwlng exponent ol "white supremacy," defeat ed once by a more moderate, more modern Southerner, CAME HACK lit the. lust elec tion. Death Intervened mid (Urn. iiird the triumph of his follow era. It seemed that Talmadge win to be succeeded by another . moderute, who hud been elected lleultmiiiil. governor. lint thin work there cume whut In oilier countries we cull "coup d'etat." Taking aclvun luge ol mi ambiguity lit Geor gia constitution, Talmadgu's eon. llrrniun, mustered white supremacy legislature behind liliii and got himself numed gov ernor. Thero the mutter stands, thin In written, with two gov ernors glowering t cuch other and invoking tho law. A long court buttle lies ahead. THERE Is another develop ment, ulo Interesting, The rival governors huvo ap pointed rival adjutuut-geueruls to COMMAND THE STATE MILITIA. If Unit hud happened in South America or the Bal kan, it would have seemed wholly logical, In America, It Is disturbing. What if the Georgia militia should spilt Into factions, euch commanded by an adjutant-gen-, mil of Its own? In such an event there would ba prewtut in Geor gia, an American common wealth; all the raw muterlula of civil war exactly similar to that which in China wo so greatly decry and condemn. IT is improbable, of course, but it could hopen. Tho Is sue of white supremacy In Georgia is as explosive as the ixaiirs that divide the Kuomln tmig and tho communis! In China, if shooting started In Georgia, the faces of our diplo mats would be extremely red. THIS is the real nub of the matter: The "wlillc supremacy" Issue 1 n Talmudge-rlddcn Georgia and Bllbo-riddcn Mississippi has been grcutly aggravated by cold blooded, selfish, "practical" poli ticians In the North who havo been Interested very little, If at oil. In removing racial discrim ination in the South but very much Interested Indeed in win ning colored votes in the North. Everyone has known all ubout that for years. Everyone has taken it for granted. At best, we have shrugged It off with the ril.HKti.stcd observation that "politicians arc like that." The Tiilmadge ruckus In Georgia and the Bilbo Incident In Miss issippi should teach us that we can t play wth garbuge without getting defiled and can't play with fire without getting burn ed. If we are going to tolerate scaly and dishonest and Insin cere political methods, we must sooner or later pay the price, Georgia and Mississippi are ad vance payments on the price we must pay for the cynical and conscienceless struggle for colored votes that so long has been a disgrace in Northern po litical campaigns. Wave Flight Orderly Dies In Oakland Airport Crash OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 21 (JP) A Wave flight orderly was killed and 20 other persons, including three women, were injured in tho crash of a four-engincd navy piano at Oakland airport yes terday when, for the first time In more than 76,000 landings, radnr-ground-control fulled to guide a ship to safety. The big naval air transport (NATS) plane landed 150 feet short of the fog-shrouded runway and crashed into a four-foot rock wall at the edgo of the field. Its undercarriage sheared away and the plane skidded across the field on its fuselage for a 1000 feet, shedding wreck age and passengers as it went. Then it caught fire and burned. The dead Wave was identified hv fhft nntV inrlnv net Atrlntlnn Specialist 3c Margaret Wallace, whose father Is Horry W. Wal lace, of Pltcnirn, Pa. Most seriously hurt of the survivors was Lt. (Jg) F. A. yMichalek from Greot Mills, Md., wlio was burned when the plane caught fire. xfts$ Ire . Jimm h ASTORIA. Ore., Jan. 21 These crewmen of the S. S. Drexel Victory, which foundered off Cape Disappointment last night, climb to the Astoria pier after their rescue by the pilot schooner Columbia, no lives were lost when the ship, loaded went down early this morning. Butcher Killer Hunt Goes On LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 lT) Search for the slashing slayer of protty Elizabeth Short, 22-coj--old movie aspirant,, started anew today with the release of a red-haired acquaintance, Robert Mauley, after police an nouncement of his complete ex oneration. dipt. Jack Donahoe of the homicide bureau, who early yesterday ordered Manley book ed on suspicion of murder, said the 2S-year-old pipe clamp salesman's movements last Tuesday nlghl and early Wed nesday, when Miss Short was killed and her body severed, had been "checked out satisfac torily." Mnnley submitted to two lie detector tests before his re lease, and Donahoe quoted him as saying he had not seen the girl since January 0, when he dropped her at a downtown hotel after an overnight trip from San Diego. Mauley's at tractive wife. Harriett, mother of their 4-month-old son, greet ed him with hug as he was freed. Cuban Air Line Protests Costs HAVANA, Cuba. Jan. 21 tA) Airplane service was suspend ed between tho hours of 3 p. m. and 7 p. m. EST, today for a general strlko protesting the cost of living. A demonstration was sched uled for 4 p. m. at which time the workers planned to demand from President Humon Urau San Martin some action to remedy the situation brought about by splraling living costs. president urau was expected to address the demonstrators from the balcony of the na tional palace. Most of those lnlured suffered only abrasions. Many remained strapped in their scats until the plane stopped, Lt. (jg) Edytho Bovle, flight nurse from East Rygate, Vt., re mained In her seat and helped others In the crash despite a definito shocked condition. 'The fire started immediately, she said. "The boys were won derful in helping." ' Flying from Moffett field, only about 40 miles south of Oakland, the plane carried a crew of seven, including the Wave who was killed, and 14 passengers. The only woman on the pas senger list was Lt. Comdr. L. A. McNaughton of tho navy nurse corps from Hastings, Neb. She was detained In Oak Knoll Naval hospital for observation. Despite the all-enshrouding fog which covered the bay area at the time of the crash, the weather was considered routine for airmen trained in radar con trolled landings. - Caps Disappointment Claims Another Victim . rW. i .. I S.'JT Yokohama Bound Ship Sinks Off Cape Disappointment ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 21 !) The freighter S. S. Drexel Vic tory sank today five miles west of Cape Disappointment after a smoothly oxgunlred .nlpjht rescue that brought the 48-man crew to U.S. Refuses Extradition WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (PI The United States has rejected Soviet Russia s request to sup render Kyrill Alcksecv, ormfer Soviet trade official who crltl elzed "dictatorship" In his home land. The Russians are seeking his arrest in this country. The stuto department an nounccd today the rejection was handed to the Soviet embassy yesterday. The announcement said it was based on the absence o an ex tradition treaty between Russia and the United states. The Russians said he is a for mer employe of their embassy in Mexico City and charged him with embezzlement. The U. S. reply said that the supreme court has stated that under the "domestic law of the United States power to provide for extradition is not confined to the executive branch of the gov ernment." Herriot Heads French Assembly PARIS, Jan. 21 (JP) Franco's national assembly confirmed Paul Rumadier, socialist, by a vote of 577 to 10 tonight as pre mier In the first government of the fourth French republic. Radical-Socialist Leader Ed ouard Herriot, 74. was elected president of the assembly. Herriot, who was unopposed, headed the old chamber of depu ties from 1936-1942. . He is In his 42nd year as mayor of Lyon, France's third largest city. A protege of Aristlde Briand, Herriot was three times premier of France before the war. He succeeds Vincent Aurlol, recent ly elected president ol the re public. Before the voting began, the legislature heard a message read from Aurlol culling upon France to "maintain and develop her al liances" and to Insist upon "iust reparations and a full security" from Germany. Portland OK's Loading Zone Use PORTLAND. Jan. 21 P) The weary motorist who only wants to dash into a cleaning store and leave a suit or drop off a pair of shoes at the cob bler's will now get a break in Portland. Acting Chief Deputy City At torney J. O. Stearns said pri vate automobiles were entitled to use loading zones, as do trucks, provided the cars re main no longer than the 20 minute time limit. with grain and bound lor Japan AP wirephoto, shore uninjured, many of them not even damp, The ship, carrying 4563 tons of grain to Yokonama, struck a sand bar in the Columbia river month. 'last -night ripping hoc deck plates and sending water gushing into the mess hall where the crew was dining, "First I felt a dull thud that seemed to empty my stomach, said Larry Sharpe, Portland one of the rescued crewmen. Before I knew it everybody was falling forward or back ward. Plates clashed to the lloor and the ocean was pouring through the porthole. We were evicted and rushed topside. Then we tried to fix her. She was cracked between holds four and five. We tried pumping water out of her, but we knew she was tost. Capt. Canute Rommcrdahl, San Mateo, who ordered his men to abandon ship after a vain two-hour fight to save the vessel, biamcd unusually deep swells which smashed the ship against the bar. When the abandon order was given, the vessel had drifted four miles north off Cape Disap pointment. The pilot's schooner, Columbia, standing by, took 19 men aboard. Others took to life boats, and were picked up in a light fog by the coast guard ves sel Triumph and the freighter Joseph Gale, bound for Portland. So smoothly was the rescue carried out that the nearest ap proach to casualty was one novice seaman who. jumped overboard in excitement and had to bo fished out by the pi lot's schooner. Larry Brown, Seattle, injured earlier in the day aboard ship, had to be helped in a lifeboat. The coast guard cutter Onon daga stood by the abandoned ship, but vws unable to prevent its submerging in the shallow waters where many vessels have been lost. Strike Situation Still Unchanged The membership- of the car penters union. Local 190, re mained on strike to'day as far as ABC and E, the contractors' group, was concerned and there was no change in the situation despite a voluntary visit here Monday of Louis Ziemen of Eu gene, conciliator with the United States department of labor. Ziemen met Monday morning with committees from ABC and E and the union, but no agree ment was reached. The carpen ters held out for $1.87 per hour from ABC and E. and the contractors' group held firm with their last offer of $1.80. Ziemen left on the 11 o'clock bus this morning for Coos Bay to sit in on another dispute which has to do with the lum ber industry and a check with both ABC. and E and the union brought forth the information that Ziemen's visit here had not changed the picture. A regular Wednesday night meeting of the local is scheduled tomorrow and action, if any, at that gathering will probably determine action of ABC and E, it was learned. M.s, Ian. Ml M Ml. ... It rnclplUtloB last M hoar .. M HtrMin year ttaU W..S.M Lat rear .... .4t Narmel rrrii rsnir eieadr ar Increasing cloaejlneaa WtsJne-aalarj unit tempi mp or. tire change; fi Week-End Accident Toll High Tragedy struck repeatedly In the Klamath basin in the past 24 hours, with authorities reporting the gunshot death of a baby girl, the critical injury of a workman who fell out of a tree, the loss of a woman's hand in a meat grinding machine, and a grim assortment of less disastrous in cidents. A blast from a 22-4:10 con vertible rifle-shotgun in the hands of her five-year-old broth er, James, brought instant death to little Judy Katherine Hill, 11 months old, at the family heme in Woe us here late Monday afternoon. The two are children of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hill, both employed at Mallory's market. Police. Called State police and Dr. George H. Adler, Klamath county cor oner, were called to the scene after both the Whitlock Funeral home attendant and a private physician were summoned by the frantic parents. Officials re constructed th shooting which occurred in the living room of the house. The children were being cared for during the day by Vir ginia Evans, 15. At about 1 p. m. a neighbor boy, Robert Lee Kinkade, also 15. had called at the Hill residence and Robert said that' as he and Virginia were sitting at the kitchen table, James walked in with the gun in his arms. Robert told police that ' he took the eun from Mimes and inspected irt "Robert said the gun was not loaded and he handed it back to the child and told him to put it back in the bedroom where he found it. Shot Heard A short time later, Robert and Virginia said, they heard an ex plosion in the living room and found 11-month-old Judy dead on the floor, the blast from the 4:10 section tearing off the baby's head. She apparently hod been crawling toward James when he fired, not more than tfiree feet from his sister's body, taking the full load of a No. 7 shot. . "She's dead. I killed her," James is reported to have said. Virginia became hysterical, (Cntiaa4 s Pr 4, Cstvma S) Butter Drops 3 Cents Today Local butter prices were marked down another three cents this morning making the wholesale price 69 cents a pound. According to one Klamath Falls butter distributor, butter sales have shown a marked in crease as a result of the recent price drops. Percy Murray of the Klamath Falls Creamery stated late yesterday that he had received several inquiries from San Francisco and Los Angeles relative to possible supplies of butter, indicating the demand was now catching up with the supply. The supply of churning cream, according to Murray has shown a marked increase during the past 10 days and they expect to have no trouble meeting the in creased local demand. Talmadge Offers To Put Office Up For Election ATLANTA, Jan. 21 (P) Her man Talmadge offered today to submit the controversy over the governorship of Georgia to the people in a "democratic white primary" election as soon as the legislature completes its session. Speaking to the general as sembly as governor, of Georgia upon its invitation, iaimadge said: "If the lieutenant governor will resign, your governor will resign. The speaker - or tne house of representatives will as sume executive authority." Under the state constitution, then the house sDeaker must call an election within 60 days. The legislative session is expected to end in March. Talmadge s offer came as a last minute revision in his pre pared text. Earlier Lieut. Gov ernor M. E. Thompson, who con tends he is the acting governor following resignation of Ellis Arnall, had challenged Tal madge to meet mm . in an elec tion. I have stated on three previ Dies "Try ANDREW J. VOLSTEAD Weird Tale Of Death Told By Murder Trio PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21 P) The battered body ol a ships captain was found today below a cnil in the lashionable west side hills, and detectives said three men told a grisly tale of tossing the man, groaning, over the 50- loot drop. The victim was Capt, Frank B. Tatum, 53, Billerica, Mass., master of the SS Edwin Abbey of the Shepard Steamship Co. Tatum had been missing a week. but his disappearance was re ported to police only yesterday. Detective Chief James Purcell said three men, taken into cus tody during a bizarre all-night investigation Highlighted by a night club raid and arrest of its 30 occupants, led police to the ship master's body. Purcell said the trio told this story: The 40-year-old owner of 'the night club, one of the three men booked on a charge of suspicion of murder, got into a fight with Ttaum in the club a week ago, and thrust Tatum, injured, into a back room. Late that night the club owner grew annoyed by Tatum's groans and ordered two younger col leagues to "get him out of here." The two men, one 20 and the other 25, drove into the west side Volstead Dies GRANITE FALLS, Minn., Jan. 21 P Andrew J. Vol stead, the man who, more than any other, personified Drohibi- tion in the United States, died Monday at his Granite Falls home after having been in vir-, tual retirement since the fed eral statute bearing his name was repealed, in 1933. -The western Minnesota coun ty lawyer served in congress tor zo years and' was chairman of the house judiciary commit tee when an enforcement act to implement the 18th amend ment became necessary in 1918. How much of that act Vol stead himself wrote remained his secret when he died Mon day at the age of 87. But in the popular mind that law became known as the Volstead act when it was passed by congress over President Wilson s veto. After his defeat in 1922, Vol stead continued his campaign against liquor started at the level of his own county by becoming legal advisor to the at. paui, Minn., district prohi bition enforcement headquar ters, a post he held until repeal came in I9ii. And God Bless All Our Governors - MARIETTA, Ga.. Jan. 21 UP) The Rev. J. C. Collum opened superior court yesterday with the usual prayer for divine guidance of the leaders of the nation and state. Then in con elusion he added: "And God bless all our gov ernors!" ous occasions prior to my elec tion as governor of Ueorgia and when I made my inaugural ad dress that the office of governor of Georgia belongs to the people of Georgia," Talmadge said. "I am anxious for the people of Georgia to have an oppor tunity to express their choice through a democratic white pri mary at the earliest possible mo ment." Talmadge recommended that the legislature remain in session to institute a democratic white primary and strengthen the elec tion laws regarding qualification of voters. "There is one way and only one legal way that the people can determine this issue at the polls," Talmadge said. "In the event of the death, disability or resignation of the governor and the lieutenant gov ernor, the executive authority of this state is vested an the speaker of the house of repre sentatives who must call a spe cial election within 60 days to elect a governor of Georgia." At Age Of 87 Lawmakers Soo Big Deficit In: State Budge.- Br PAUL W, HARVEY JR. SALEM, Jan. 21 (JP) Measures to tax amusement devices and admissions to theatres, athletic events, dance halls and other places of entertainment were ready for introduction In the stat house of representatives today. Reps. Giles L. French, Moro, and Henry Semon, Klamath Falls, are introducing the amusement device tax, endorsed by tha state tax study commission, which would levy 30 per cent tax on gross revenues from devices in which there is an element of chance, such as illegal slot machines and punchboards. The tax on devices which have an element of skill, such as pinball and iron claw games, would be 10 per cent of the gross revenue. . Rep. Joseph E. Harvey, Portland leader in the old age pension movement, said the admissions tax would duplicate tha 20 per Vcent federal admission tax. ' hills and dumped Ttatum, still groaning, over the 50-foot cliff. Police, checking the report of Tatum's disappearance filed yes terday by the steamship com pany's agents, were led to the night club as the last place Tatum had been seen. On January 14 he was noticed standing outside with R. J. Peterson, Grants Pass, Ore., his ship steward. Detectives in their investiga tion learned that a 20-year-old youth who lived in the club had been wearing for the past week an $1800 diamond-studded plat inum watch like one Tatum owned. Taken Into custody, Purcell said, the youth broke down and admitted he had helped throw the missing man over a cliff, and implicated the two others. They, too, were arrested; and the two younger ones. Purcell said, led detectives to the man's body. ne snip captain had been carrying $500 to $600 in cash when he disappeared. The night club was raided early this morning and its occupants men and women brought into the police station for questioning. More Fog Is Basin Prospect ' A weatherman's-forecast trf ciouaincM, fog and continued cold hampened hopes for better weainer lor tomorrow, Wednes day.; tuamath folk were greeted with a low hanging fog early this morning arid a chilling wind kept teeth chattering until the sun came through. Streets were coated with ice and heavy frost as the mercury sank to 20 between 4 and 5 aJn. today. Despite the cold night, the temperature rose to 52 Monday afternoon, the highest in several days. . The 10:30 a.m. southbound United Air Lines flight passed over Klamath Falls, with heavy fog preventing a langing. The northbound 10:19 flight was de layed in San Francisco because of fog. First Parking Taxi Thomas, city engineer, f''iv1 maters to be installed on downtown curbs In the next few days. The first timing device was placed on S. 4th this SBorninf, in front of the state liquor store. and that the revenues would ba used for pensions. . i ;, Must Keep Books French said the amusement device tax might have the ef fect of driving out slot machines by making it too expensive to operate them. Owners of all amusement da vices would have to keep book. If they failed to do so, they would have to accept the tax commission' estimate of tho amount of tax due. Then, If they failed to pay the tax, the state could get a lien on all the owner's property. The rec ords of the tax commission would be confidential. Legislative ways and means committee members estimated today a state budget deficit of at least $13,000,000, Instead of $6,000,000 as estimated , by State Budget Director Georgo Aiken. Liquor Profits Issue ' ; Sen. Dean H. Walker, Inde pendence, chairman of the sen ate ways and means committee, City, County Jail Civilian production adminis tration approval of a priority request for materials to build the proposed $150,000 county city jail was received by ' tho jail commission last night. Mayor Ed Ostendorf said to day that the commission was now free to advertise for bids for the structure, which will bo built on Klamath between 2nd and-3rd.-- i- - 1 ' n The - jail building b to- be financed by both the city and county, with the county paying two-thirds of the cost,, and both governments will have their, share of the money on hand irt the end of this fiscal year. Plans for a two-story modern jail building have been drawn by Sheldon Brumbaugh, archi tect, and tentatively accepted by the Jail commission, tho mayor, said, although some re visions will be made. The original request for build ing materials priority was made to CPA several months ago and turned down. Horn county and city officials expect that when bids for the structure are re ceived they will be much higher than the $150,000 cost; estimate. . Okayed Meters Installed J. examines the first of 687 parkins. i ' ' ' i J I I f m .