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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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. .
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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.
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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 . ,
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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-
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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.
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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