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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1947)
I ' - - - . ; ft iiS eralo so i ete By FRANK JENKINS OFF for Sunt! Cruz, to altond the annual winter tendon of the California Nowapapor Pub lisher's uoclntlon, Co by wuy of tho crooked, winding road over the ttunta Cruz niuunUlna, which once waa , crookuder and narrower than now, but -till lan't atnilght wuy. When Guspur do Portola paused this generul way kiiiii two centuries ago, It would have burn Junt right -for hi pack mulvii, which were .hurt-coupled and narrow guugo. - For curt of modern wheelbtine, ' Jl ha IU dUadvanUiuc. Too olten your front bumper, just guing Into curve, knock a dent In your rear fender Jual coming out of it. GOVERNOR WARREN, ad dressing dinner leulon of the CNl'A, give clear, lucid outline of hi propositi to apend more money on California' highway In order to bring them up to modern itundurda. He lan't, he auyi, suggesting any definite, added up and checked over toUil to bo tpent In any definite period of time not two billion, eight hundred million, not three billion. Not any agreed-upon and takc-ct to-flniah um. Thut, he explain, 1 the business of the legislature. All he I proponing, ho say. I thut California shall levy and expend enough money to bring her road system from where It la to where It will have to be if It I to handle the traffic of the future expeditiously, eco . nomlcally and aufcly. THE levy, he ay, should be In tho form of an addition to the gasoline tax, which now stands at three cent per gallon. ' He doesn't name any definite ad dition, but somehow he leave you with tho idea that he think the gas tax could go a high a six cent wiinoui producing more money than will be needed to finish the job. l - I l .1 I .. 1 1 Un vilturiii-, jiiviuvitM,,, the gas tax la now raising about $23,000,000 per year for each cent.) BY way of bringing to hi hear er some understanding of k what future traffic will amount ' to in this state, he repeat hi prediction that within the easily measurable future the popula tion of California will reach -0 million, . (Tho preaeut gum U around nine millions, some two and a half million of which have been added since the war began.) He doesn't set the date when these 20 million will be counted and proved by the census. But he give the Utistlcally-mlnded something to worx on. The best figure available, he ' say. Indicate that California i gaining come 20,000 new real' dents each MONTH by Immlgra tlon from other (tote. She 1 gaining another 10.000 by ex cess ol birth over drams or a total access of 30,000 person per month. : You don't even need pencil and paper to figure that up. You can do it In your head. A gain of 30,000 per month amount to 3HU,uuu per year, or, allowing lor minor miscalculation, an' other million every three year. That I to lay, if the governor's estimate are not too far off, California will have her 20 mil lion In something Ilk 30 year. P' Isn't too Improbable. In fact, It isn't improbable 'at all. When you see how the aouthcrn part of the state i already burst ing at the seams, you doubt If it will take 30 years. HERE Is a thought for South ern Oregon: When California get a popula tion of 20 millions, our market! will be TREMENDOUSLY ex panded. BARBED WIRE CLUB PORTLAND, Jan. 22 (IP) Portlandcrs who were war prla oners will form a "barbed wire club" here Friday night. Rescue workers mere through th wreckage of four-englhed navy transport plane which vraahed while attempting a landing at Oakland airport. Twenty-one persona were taken to nospnai. v ,0 -II w ' ' PRICE riVB CENTS I Tot - Iis4l 10 Veterans Disqualified In Tule Race Ten of the 86 World War II voteruns whoso number were drawn for Tulelake homestead December IB have been dis qualified by the homestead ex amining board, the reclamation bureau disclosed toaay. f ailure to substantiate showing of farm ing experience was glvon as the basic reason for the rejection, which are mbject to appeal. If the board' .rejection are uatalned by the regional di rector of the reclamation bureau, who 1 the appeal officer, the first ten alternates will move up aa potential homesteader, it was disclosed the board ha already reviewed the application of more than a dozen of the alter nate, and ha cleared enough of them to assure qualified appii' cant for all of the 86 fertile irrl gated farms available. Rejectee are given ten day in which to file1 appeal with Richard Boke, Sacramento, re gional director. All notices have been lent out and the appeal nerlod will all have expired by February 1. Quick action on the appeals, If any are lued, l cx Dected from Boke. Board member said they agreed upon rejection only after the most careful Investigation of the veteran' qualifications under the rule. Out of 200 re jection by the same board of the original list of applicants for the (uaata aa rust a. Myer May Be Housing Head WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (IP) The senate banking committee today unanimously approved President Truman' nomination of Dillon Myer for administrator of the United State housing au thority. Previously Senator Taft (Ohio) head of the Republican steering committee had told reporters he would abide by the banking committee's decision. Taft blocked Myer'i confirma tion with an objection before the senate adjourned last lummer. HI explanation wa that he felt Myer wa better qualified in the agricultural than the housing field. Chairman Tobey (R-NH) of the banking committee said today Myer's name probably will come before the senate thia week for action. . Ankeny To Leave NY Thursday NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (IP) Lewi H. Ankeny, wanted in Klamath Fall, Ore.,' on em bezzlement charge, was turned over to -Deputy Sheriff Marlon Barnc. of Klamath Falls, today when Barnes presented a gov ernor' warrant to General Sea sides Judge Jame Garrett Wal lace. Barnes said he was prepar ing 'to leave tomorrow with his prisoner for Oregon. Ankeny wa arrested as a fugi tive Dee. 23. Navy Plane Crash Kills 1, 21 yW? r A wirepnoto, XL A' o -LB, First Six of the IS Camp Fire GUI assisting la the March of Dime campaign are shown abora. The day before the drive was launched ISO container were distributed throughout the business district Left to right: (top row) Margaret Maxier. Loralou Rolph, Dorothy Lowell. (Right) Joyce Markert Mary Louise Oerrue, Poland, Yugoslavia Make Huge Demands Of Germany LONDON. Jan. 22 OP) Poland and Yugoslavia demanded huge (cldemonui of land and; money from war-flattened Germany and Auitria today. Memoranda were prepared by the two Slavic bloc state for consideration by deputies of the four power foreign minister council drafting separate Ger man and Austrian treaties. Poland asked for a new Ger man frontier running from west of Schweinemunde on the Baltic down the west banks of the Oder and Neisse rivers to Czechoslo vakia. Yugoslavia demanded suffi cient reparations from Austria to settle war damages estimated at more than $11,000,000,000. Yugoslav claims to more than 1000 square miles of Austrian territory were registered pre viously before the deputies ot the four-power foreign ministers KPCA To Meet Here Saturday Saturday will be "farmers' and stockmen's day" in Klamath Falls. It will be the occasion of the annual stockholders' meeting of the Klamath Production Credit association, and several hundred farmers, stockmen and their wives will be here for the event The meetings will start in the armory at 11 a, m., with ' a luncheon to be a feature. The KPCA Jurisdiction covers Klamath and-Lake counties, and the northern parts ot Siskiyou and Modoc counties. - Injured -V" ::4 OREOOH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1.47 yllafe Step In March Of Dims Elva Hae Boyd. conferring here upon German and Austrian pegce(treayes(.-, "The exact amount tl Austrian reparations sought was not pre cisely stated, but a long memo randum presented to the depu ties detailed vast war damages for which the Yugoslavs said they were entitled to compensa tion. Austria was declared especial ly responsible for much of the damage and for a terroristic oc cupation in which tens of thou sands of Yugoslavs were slain as hostages, deported as slave labor ers and perished in concentra tion camps. . - The Austrian, because of their geographical position, the memorandum said, had a great er interest than the Germans in subjugating Yugoslavia. The memorandum added that the proportion of Austrians in the armies used in the attack was far greater than 10 per cent, "which is the proportion of the Austrian (CUaa rs 4. Clam ) March Of Dimes Shows Quick Response Here Klamath county dimes are marching to the fight against in fantile paralysis in quick re sponse to the 1947 drive launch ed January IS. R. D. Rakestraw, treasurer for the Klamath county chapter of tne national foundation for In fantile Paralysis, stated that a good response was -toeine shown in dance ticket sales and special Dequesta. Camp Fire Girls placed 150 containers in business houses in the down town district at the beginning of the drive, to en courage small contributions. These will be picked up at the close or tne two weeks drive, Camp Fire Girls are also tak ing charge of booths in four downtown department stores, working in shifts of two at a time from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., Saturdays. The booths were opened last week and will be open two more Saturdays, Jan uary Z3 and February 1 Booths are stationed at J. C Penney company, F. W. Wool- worth company, J. J. Newberry company and Miller's depart ment store, where any size do nations will be accepted, The March of Dimes dance will be held at the Klamath armory Saturday night, January Zo,. wltn music by Baldy s band, band. Heavy Winds Batter Oregon's Coast PORTLAND, Jan. 22 (ff) Heavy winds were battering the Oregon coast today, the weather oureau reported. The North Head weather sta tlon said a southwest wind of 33 to 40 miles an hour was blowing along the section where the freighter Drexel Victory sank Monday. A 20 to 25 mile an hour wind was forecast for Port land. (Telephone rata Portal Pay Ruling Made 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (P The treasury ruled today uiat employers who have to pay back wage claims under portal-to-portal suits may charge the pay ments off against taxes lor the years involved. Since corporate taxes were considerably higher through 1945 because the excess profits tax was then in effect, the ruling means much higher refunds than would be the case if the de ductions were taken from cur rent tax rates. The excess profits tax imposed a net levy of 85 H per cent on butpvimw taaaa9 ea. v , 1936-1939 average. The regular income tax for corporations through 1945 was 40 per cent. Effective with 1946 earnings, corporations pay a regular rate of 38 per cent and no excess profits tax. The treasury ruling was an nounced by Secretary Snyder as a senate judiciary subcommit tee continued hearings on legis lation to void or limit back pay portal suits. Police Follow Murder Clue PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 22 (P) A break in the slaying of a ship captain here may come late to day, Detective Chief James Pur cell reported as he assigned men to investigate a clue whose na ture he did not divulge. The body of Frank B. Tatum, 53, Billerica, Mass., master of the S. S. Edwin Abbey, was found at the foot of a cliff in the fashionable West Hills district yesterday after he had been missing for a week. Police took into - custody Patrick Raymond, 40, alias Pat O'Day, owner of the Cecil club where Tatum was reported to have been, and two others, Har old E. Sehorn, 25, and John Snyder, 20. No formal charges had been filed today but Deputy District Attorney C. C. Comisky went be fore the grand jury at 10 a. m. after investigating the case. A notation "suspicion of murder" was made on the men's booking and they were held without re course to bail. ' ' " Pneumonia Cases Drop In Oregon PORTLAND, Jan. 22 () Pneumonia cases in Oregon dropped from 54 to 35 last week, the state board of health re ported, today, although the 1947 total is 71 per cent above the corresponding period last year. Communicable disease in gen eral registered a 2 per cent de cline from the preceding week. The first training course for polio emergency volunteers drew 175 persons, far more than the 50 who had been expected. The course will prepare laymen to help in the care of infantile paralysis patients. . WEATHER Mm. .. tl) H Mia. i rraulFllkll" H ..M Stream yr ! Sal ....S.M UM )' .! Nanaal ,.!. "raeasll L B 1 1 toMpmlm aaasa, ptMlhlc sUailatM To ire- till) K umber 10838 Fir Neighbors Save Life Of Sister Flames which swept a four- room cabin a quarter of a mile over the California line on the old Malin highway last night, took the life of 3 -year-old Tom my Spencer and his step-sister, Peggy Blake, 13, is in a serious condition in Klamath Valley hospital. - The children were moved from the burning structure through the heroic efforts of neighbors. The fire was discovered at 10:30 p. m. Tommy died at the hospital here at 4:35 a. m. today, his death attributed to inhalation of smoke. Parents of the youngsters, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Franklin Spencer, were at Peggy's bedside today. The girl has second-degree burns on the face, both arms, back and neck. Her condition is only fair. Mr. and Mrs. Leamon Fowler of Tulelake, friends of the Spen cer family, were first to reach the residence as they drove home from the Cal-Ore Packing com pany where they work as grad ers. Mrs. Fowler' said it was about 10:30 p. m. and as they ap proached the nouse saw smoxe pouring from windows on either side. The Fowlers pushed open the front door, which was un locked, but were prevented from entering the room because of smoke and flames. Mrs. Fow ler then told her husband she believed the children were sleeping in the back bedroom and they went to the side of the house where Fowler broke open a window with his fisL raised the sash and reached irf'tofcull Tommy from his bed. The child was unconscious and had minor bums on the body. Fowler brought bedding through the window and Mrs. Fowler wrapped the little boy in a comforter and took him to the car. In the meantime, Mrs. Fow ler had raised another neighbor, James Leighton, who lives two doors east of the Spencer house. t (Caatinatt Ff 4. CllBBl ) Brazil Stops U.S. Travel WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 UP) The Brazilian government has ordered its consuls throughout the United States to cease issu ing visas for American citizens or others to enter Brazil. At the Brazilian embassy, one official suggested to reporters to day that the government at Rio De Janeiro was drafting new visa regulations and had ordered the suspension until they .could be made effective. This inform ant said, that he was sure the suspension was temporary. Inquiries and complaints were pouring into the state depart ment. They indicated that how ever temporary the order had upset travel plans of many peo ple. ' No Immediate explanation was available from state depart ment officials. The Brazilian consul general in Miami said he had received orders yesterday to stop grant ing visas. Meacham Loses Cold Spot Title PORTLAND, Jan. 22 () Seneca townsfolk challenge the weather bureau on its claim that Meacham is the cold spot of Oregon. The town of 600 residents re called that the mercury dropped so low when a weather man was stationed there in 1943 that he soon packed up and moved away it reported a minus 42. But Seneca needn't go into past history for its big freeze. wnen tne weatner bureau re ported on Jan. 16 that the cold' est spot in the state was Mea cham at 11 degrees above zero, the Seneca schoolhouse : ther mometer showed 43 degrees be low. . . . New Pilot Bill Introduced Today SALEM, Jan. 22 (fl3) A bill to make it illegal to pilot an air plane while under the influence of liquor or narcotics was intro duced today by Reps. William B. Morse, Prineville; Frank J. Van Dyke, Medford, . and Harvey Wells, Portland. It also would require that all pilots in the state be licensed by the federal government. In A Hurry i2l Actre Laraine Day runs up the ramp to board an airplane at Los Angeles for El Paso, Toc prior to her marriage with Leo Durocher, Brooklyn baseball club manager, who followed her aboard the plane a moment later. Later at Juare. Max.. the movie star obtained a divorce from J. Ray Hendricks, Santa Monica, Calif., airport manager. AP wirepholo. Fall From Tree Proves Fatal Clifford G.' Scott, 39-year-old Malin resident who fell 40 feet from a tree while working with a trimming crew late Monday, died at Hillside hospital at 9:35 p. m. Tuesday from multiple fractures. Scott - was uncon scious when moved to the hos pital and failed to regain con sciousness before his death. He also suffered punctured lungs and broken ribs in the fall. Scott had released his safety belt preparingTtf. descend wnen he slipped and the - limb on which he was standing gave way. He grabbed a second limb but failed to hold and plunged to the ground. It is understood that he had been topping a big tree just one mile north of Tule lake while working with a crew employed by J. L. Taylor who has a contract with The Cali fornia Oregon Power company. The body is at Ward's and an obituary appears aisewnere in thia issue. , .. Hoover Accepts Food Survey Job WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 UP) Former President Herbert Hoo ver today accepted an assign ment from President Truman to undertake a survey of food problems in the .joint U. S. British zones of occupied Ger many and Austria. Hoover said he plans to fly to Europe the latter part of next week, if possible, to start his in spection tour. He. announced his acceptance of the task after a conference with Mr. Truman, attended also by Dr. Julius Klein, one-time head of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. He told reporters at the White House that his mission will be directed "to food and its collateral problems." Carlson Said To Be Improving PORTLAND, Jan. 22 UP) Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson, war-famed leader of Carlson's marine raiders, is much im- firoved, Marine Capt. R. E. Sul ivan reported after a visit at Carlson's Brightwood home. The-marine leader was dis missed from the Astoria Naval hospital December 16 where he rested after two heart attacks November 8. Government Support WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 ' (IP) Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson suggested today that the government's promise to support farm prices be revised to avoid a possible outlay of more than $2,000,000,000 and wasteful overproduction. Any changes should be made, he said, only by mutual consent of farmers and the government. In a statement presented to the house agriculture committee, Anderson said the price-support commitment, which runs to the end of 1948, encourages produc tion for a wartime pattern ol de mand. "I am not suggesting for an instant," be said, "that we back down from the spirit of the gov ernment's commitments to farm ers. That would be unthinkable. We would do better to. pay the bill, whatever the cost, for that Oregon Car Used By Abductor By RICHARD COSHINO LODI, Calif., Jan. 22 W) -Refreshed by a night's sleep, Alice Dean Devlne, pretty,, vivacious, 17-year-old Lodi high school girl. iujr auuea a lew oeuuu to in story of her 26-hour ordeal in the hands of a . kidnaper and would-be extortionist. Search for the man, who) Al,r1.l nnll. ... , I after the girl escaped, continued in California, with officer re porting no new developments. via noi Dizuggie Interviewer permitted to talk With hP n n,nifu Ulm morning that ahe had not strug gled with her abductor Monday evening because that she feared she "might antagonize him." When confronted with a knife i iia gun, sne said sne permitted me Kianaper to Dind Her wrists With WirI nnJ maI.J I . , a..U lliaiIlCU 1(1 111 car on the drive to Sacramento, about 30 miles distant. On two occasions, the man left the car to take refreshment, and cm-ii urne tne gin permitted her self to be locked in the luggage carrier of the 1937 Ford sedan. "I thought I had better do It the most comfortable way," she fold . th nrflM MRMMnUM... John D. Keyes of the San Fran- Kwu v.Bii'Suueuni. Two Versions with one told by a California uigaway patrolman in sacra- montn whn mintaJ th. Mtwl -a saying' she struggled fiercely The girl said she still waa nervous. i "This girl is going to relax to day," her father said, "we've been through a rough day. I hope you who have children won't have to go through this experience." . The 165-pound girl athlete broke out of her bonds In a highway motel near Sacramento yesterday afternoon while tho kidnaper -was away and tele phoned her location to relative in Sacramento. State police broadcast an all points alarm for the arrest of a . man ' they said ' had used tho . names of Everett Wescott Stilea of Portland, Ore., and William- (Bill) cues, identifying himself 4 an .agent for air eastern jpub--lishing bousei-.-'-'- '"" Alice Dean was held under po- (CaaUaaa M rff , Calaaui , , Mercury Up Oyer Basin Higher daytime temperatures and slightly warmer nights held a gunt ox nope lor coid-ioggea Klamath folk today. The mer cury reached 60 degrees Tues day afternoon, with a minimum reading of 21 between 7 and 8 a. m. Wednesday. Forecasts predicted little tem perature change with possible cloudiness Thursday. ' . Most roads in the state were almost normal today with only a few sections of snow and ice, according to the state highway commission. There was light frost over streets and roads in Klamath Falls early today. Sun mountain has a few icy patches, but the highway has been sand ed. Highway department crews are sanding the Green Spring highway, which is covered with light frost. .... Chinese New Year Comes In Quietly PORTLAND, Jan. 22 WThe city's Chinese colony ushered In the 4463rd year of their ancestral calendar today, without benefit of the traditional lion's head and firecrackers. . The lion, used in a serpentine dance on tho Chinese new year, failed to arrive from Canton; and the old lion's head was too worn out for dancing. As for fire crackers, city ordinances forbid them. But, said Chinese residents, there would be plenty of chicken and duck for the celebration. And a dance and motion picture was scheduled aa a benefit for China relief. Farm Price Revision Asked would still be a part of the cost of the war." The . secretary offered no specific proposals but-said It i vital that his department, con gress and farmers join to prevent ''mnota In n-nHimtinn mftnrk. .. . . .wM -vu, wf money and soil." Anderson said he foresees no great - difficulty with support programs this year because most commodities involved will stay above support levels throughout 1947. ' - . He forecast large outlays of government funds on price-sup . port - loans . on non-perishable commodities and purchase of perishable product in 1948. Products 'Which ' would glv trouble under present legislation were listed as potatoes, eggs, Eultry, wool, flaxseed, peanuts, dts.and vegetables, and ooV
