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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1947)
Nl M Ml I I MAIL mm Lodi Kidnaping Stirs Coast a . . jTi",-.- ... I I Alice Dlnt, j7. daughter whose kidnaping and escape have Hurry oi excitement raminitcant CD Nawipapar representative examined woodplla whara riuon not wa aald to ba found by glrl'a fathar. Here li tha Lodl homo of Mr. paranta of Alice. Instigator Of Had Communistic Affiliation, Charge WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 UP) Chairman J. Parncll Thomas (R-N.J.) of the house committee on un-Amorlcan activities do. clared today the man who got the idea for portal pay suits and the lnwycr who brought the one sustained by the supreme court "both have long records of cpm munlst affilintlon." Thomas said in a house speech Georgia Bank OK's Thompson ATLANTA, Jan. 23 P) M. E. Thompson announced today he . had been recognized as "acting governor" of Georgia by the Ful ton National bank of Atlanta which cashed "without question" the first executive check drawn since he took office. Thompson said the check, for $30, was for postage and had been presented in person by Phil Landrum, Thompson's secretary of the executive department. It was drawn against approximate ly $07,000 which was turned over to Thompson by retiring Governor Ellis Arnall. Herman Talmadge, rival "gov ernor" by virtue of election by the. Georgia general assembly, said yesterday In a news con ference ho expected to have cus tody of the executive funds in line to meet his payroll Fob vuary 1, Thompson said today: I think tills answers Mr. Tal madge, ' o( Lodl. Calif., fruitgrower, provided lha wait coatt with ol tha aarly 'thirties. 0 and Mri. John Edward Devine, Portal Pay Suit Idea that Ben Riskin, former research director for the union of Mine, Mill ana smelter workers, is credited in the union's official publication with "concocting" the idea for the claims. Thomas identified the attor ney who brought the original action in the Mount Clemens Pottery company case as Edward Lamb of Toledo. This was the action ' upheld by the supreme court, with the result that other union claims totaling more than $4,000,000,000 have been filed. Expanding his remarks for the record of congressional pro ceedings, Thomas said the April May issue of the magazine "The New Order" lists Riskin as an associated editor. The magnzlne, he said, is the official publica tion of the International Work-' ers Order, which he called 'one of the outstanding communist fronts In the United States." The magazine contained an ar ticle by Riskin, he declared, Voting Age ' Cut Beaten SALEM, Jan. 23 (V) The Ore gon senate killed 21 to 8 today a proposed constitutional amend ment to lower the minimum vot ing age from 21 to 18. The action was taken after the house election committee recom mended 4 to 1 that the resolu tion, which would have been re ferred to the people, be defeated. f PRICE FIVE r In TJ' lei By FRANK JENKINS AS related here yesterday, Gov a.,.,. UIarn tnlH IIia nnwa miner men of Cnllfornla at Santa Cruz of lili program for bringing Calilornia a nignways up 10 moo ern ilandHrdx meaning by that not merely the itandard of today but those or. ten or a dozen ycari hence. That ralc an Interesting ques tion: What wilt the standard of ten or a dozen ycara hence be? Prophecy It dangerous. But it Is reasonably safe to predict flint what we have now will be utterly luadequutc for our needs a decade from now. a a fUR immense present mileage of two-lane highway, for ex ample. Its PRESENT capacity is strained. It isn't so bad on the long straightaways such as are found on Highway 90 south of Redding. Where there is visi bility for miles ahead, slow moving and fiut-moving traffic can get along together. But on curves and hills it Is another matter. There the faster vehicles pile up behind the slower ones and, at mentioned to often in these chronicles, sooner or later somebody decides recklessly that he might as well be dead as Jummod up like this and pulls out to pan. Far too often, the traffic fig urea disclose, he winds up dead. The pity of it is that SO OFTEN he takes some Innocent party along with him to the hereafter. a a a HTHE slower-moving traffic on A hills and curves is apt to con sist largely of trucks. Much as the trucks may annoy us when we are in a hurry to get some where, we have to admit that the country simply couldnt get along without them. So we must learn to get along WITH them. The four-lane highway is the best system yet devised for get ting along with them. a a ANOTHER problem of the Xu- problem as a city street problem) Is where are we going to park our cars? Especially in the bui ness districts of our towns and our cities. Already parking places are practically non-existent in con gested areas everywhere. In the old days, you could run into a parking lot or garage if you could endure the pain of pung ling up. Now, in the larger cities invariably and in the smaller ones frequently, these places are filled up. The parking meter Isn't a solu tion of the parking problem. It is merely a source of added rev enue (usually badly needed) for the municipalities. a a a "THIS much is becoming evident: A If people can't iind a place to park their cars in the older, established business districts, they will roll out to the outskirts and do their shopping there, where parking space IS available. If the mountain won't come to Mahomet, Mahomet will come to the mountain. That is the way it works. One can't help noticing the number of business places urging "a high living standard lor ail uy me creation of a work. ers' and farmers' society through the overthrow of the capitalist society." Riskin also was a member of the advisory committee of the league for mutual aid, another "communist front," Thomas said, and had other "communist af filiations." "Mr. Lamb, like Mr. Riskin," Thomas said, "has followed the communist party line and has associated himself with numer ous fronts which have been set up during the past ten years." Diamond Studded Watch Is Clue In Mysterious Death PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 23 tP) An $1,800 diamond studded wrist watch was sought today as police attempted to unravel details of the slaying of a ship captain whose body was found Tuesday at the base of a 80-foot cliff over which he had been thrown injured but alive. Three men are charged with first degree murder in the death of Cnpt. Frank B. Tatum of Bil lcrica, Mass., who owned the watch. Detective Chief James Purcell said John Snyder, 20, one of the suspects, was reported to have worn the watch last week after Tatum disappeared but before his body was found. Frank David, held ns a material wit ness, was quoted by Purcell as saying he received package KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1947 id Absolves Search For Abductor Redoubled LODI, Calif., Jan. 23 (IP) Alice Dean Devine today met and exonerated Earl Shclton, a San Francisco ex-convict and studio operator, in her kidnap ing, and search was redoubled for a smooth-talking, middle aged man who held her a day and demanded $10,000 ransom. "This is not the man," de clared the pretty and popular 17-year-old Lodi high school student upon confronting Shcl ton. Her mother, Mrs. John Ed ward Devine. who said she had seen the man who sent for Alice Dean to have her picture taken Monday night when the girl disappeared, joined in ex onerating Shclton. The girl returned home Tues day night unharmed except for minor bruises and told police she had freed herself from rope bonds and escaped from an auto court in the absence of her captor. Meat On Road Shclton, 40-ycar-old operator of a photographic and model ing studio in San Francisco, came to Lodi voluntarily with Lodi Police Sgt. Pat Coon last night to be cleared by the girl. She earlier had said his picture "looked like" her kidnaper. He met Alice Dean and other members of the wealthy Devine family secretly on a rural road west of here and confronted her In the glare of automobile headlighuw-i-a--4 , Shelton said little at the in terview and departed soon after for San Francisco. He was not under arrest or detention In the case. Earlier his explana tion of his whereabouts was backed up by 30 models who said they were taking a dancing lesson from him Monday at the time of the girl's disappearance Garssons And May Indicted WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (VP) Attorney General Clark an nounced today the indictment of former Rep. Andrew J. May (D-Ky.) and three officials of a wartime munitions combine on charges of conspiring to defraud the government. Clark said those named with May In the Indictment, returned by a grand jury here, are: Henry M. Garsson, Murray Garsson and Joseph F. free man, all former officers and em ployes of the Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc., Elgin, 111., and of Batavia Metal Products, Inc., Batavia, 111. He said one count charges that May, wartime chairman of the house military committee, "did agree to receive" from these firms "a total of , $53, 634.07." Bilbo Improving After Operation NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 23 (IP) Senator Theodore G. Bilbo (D Miss.) a patient at Touro in firmary, was reported still im proving today, following his op eration of last Monday. It was the second operation the senator has undergone here for removal of a malignant growth from his mouth. from Snyder to hold for Patrick Raymond, 40, another of the men charged, who claimed it Mon day. The third man charged with the slaying is Harold E. Sehorn, 25. Also missing, Purcell said, is a cameo ring. Raymond has refused to talk about the watch and ring, Pur cell said, and aside from saying he' and Tatum had a fight after which the mariner left Ray mond's small, unlicensed night spot, has disclaimed knowledge of the slaying. Purcell said Snyder and Se horn told him they pushed the groaning captain over the cliff in the fashionable west hills af ter ho had lain unconscious in a back room of the club follow ing the fight. Collision L M$3t 13 HEBBJaWt 3!r 1 j T This coud. driven br J. L. morning and amacked into tha front of a city school bus loaded injured, was fined for having no operator's license. There were passengers. At tha extreme right is Deputy Sheriff Jack Franay, and News Reporter Hale Scarbxough. Ambulance Driver Harold . Butter Price Skid Slated Local butter and egg prices J continue .tjr.eilect; the. generel . downward trend with further declines slated for Klamath housewives Friday when butter will go to 67 cents wholesale, a drop of two cents a pound. Local fresh eggs have declined from four to six cents a dozen, depending on the size, this week. All storage eggs have complete ly disappeared from the markets and quotations are for fresh eggs only. Further declines are expected in the butter market as the make of butter for the nation continues more than 35 per cent ahead of last year. Eggs show just the opposite trend with a 26 per cent drop in production this year for the state of Oregon over the same period of last year. Egg prices will continue down but will surely not go as low as last year. PORTLAND, Jan. 23 (ff) The wholesale price of butter here was 66 cents a pound for top grade today and the trade said retail prices would range from 69 to 72 cents. Knife Slayer Draws Life PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 23 (JP) A second degree murder verdict with a mandatory life sentence was returned against Armando Joseph Grieco, 22, late yesterday in the knife slaying of his wife after a cafe argument. Judge Frank L. Lonergan said he would sentence the Fort Lewis soldier Saturday. The jury of six men and six women debated six hours after hearing defense attorneys argue Grieco was temporarily insane when he chased his wife around a cafe . counter, stabbing her eight times with a kitchen knife. The youth said he had tried to persuade her to obtain a divorce and earlier that day had found her in the company of sailor. Snow Falls In Park Area "Several inches of wet, soggy snow lay today on top of 72 inches of packed snow at Crater Lake national park, the Thurs day morning radio report ad vised, and skiing today was not considered good. It is warmer in the park than it has been for some time with minimum temperatures at 30 both yester day and this morning, and a maximum of 40 degrees. Snow plows were busy scrap ing the highways of ice and snow which thawed consider ably Wednesday. Medford high school students were enjoying the winter season at the park this week as it is "between se mesters" at the ichool. (Telephone Ex-Convct With School Bus Smashes Coupe I) Weat. skidded on the icy Lakeshore drive pavement early thb Children Unhurt As Auto Crashes Into School Bus A city school bus with be-1 tween 25 and 30 youngsters aboard collided with a passenger cop "early this morning a-mfle-outside the city limits on Lake shore drive, bashing in the front end of the car and slightly in juring the driver, J. L. West oi 2236 Home. - Children Unhurt There were no injuries among the school children although a Conger school boy, Allan Hough, bumped his head on the bus dashboard. West, a carpenter employed by Bob Oliver at his Lakeshore ranch, said he was driving not faster than 35 miles an hour out Lakeshore when his car began British Police Search Killer MANCHESTER, Eng., Jan. 23 (A) Two Scotland Yard homi cide investigators joined the hunt for the slayer of 10-year-old Sheila Gowrie today after noting similarities between the death of Manchester's "Little Red Riding Hood" and Norma Dale, four, who was found mur dered on Yorkshire moor last September. . The : right shoe was missing from each body. Both little girls died of strangulation. The body of each had been carried ' from the scene of the crime. The body of the Gowrie child, slain while carrying a gift of food to her grandmother, was found huddled against the back door of her home yesterday!. Un like Norma Dale, she apparent ly had not been raped, police said. Detectives discovered Sheila's missing right shoe in a back yard two doors from the Gowrie home. Capone Recovers After Stroke MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 23 (VP) Al Capone continued to show such improvement today that his physician said it was "no longer an emergency" and the family could leave if it desired. After a morning visit to the ex mobster's Palm island villa where Capone suffered an apo plectic stroke Tuesday, the phy sician said barring unforeseen complications Capone should re cover. Police Enforce Card Provision City police decided today to begin a rigid ' enforcement of a state law which requires that registration cards be visibly dis played inside automobiles, and parked cars found without reg istration in sight can be towed in to the station and the owner fined in court. Registration cards should be attached to the steering post in such a manner that it can easily be seen from the window next to the driver's seat. WIATHER Mil. limn. tl 41 Mia n rr,olllallaa lail t aaara Traea airaaai yaar l icla I.M La it jtar l.M Maratal i.tl Paraaaalr Partly afaafr laiar, laalrhl aaa FrUar. maralaf fafl Hula taatparalasa aaaaga. till) Mumbor 10S39 n with youngster. Watt, slightly no serious hurts among tha but and in the canter are Herald Fly and Sheriff Lloyd Lew. to skid on the icy pavement around curve. ... . The school bus, coming to ward "town,- -was' flowing down for a stop just around the curve. The bus driver, Vernon B. Den nis. 615 Market said that he was slowing down for the stop. west s coupe, in a skid, was on the wrong side of the pave ment and hit the heavy bus head-on. The impact wedged the vehicles together and the bus went forward 14 feet after the crash, jamming the coupe into a guard post. West, alone In the car. was bounced around in his seat and his forehead smacked. The steer ing wheel , was bent. Minor Charge After Sheriff Lloyd L. Low and Deputy Jack Franey arrived and investigated the accident. west was brought into town by ambulance for treatment of his injury. Another school bus was brought out to take the children to Conger, Roosevelt and Klam ath Union high school. West, Franey said, was from California and had been here about three months. He had no Oregon driver's license and en tered a plea of guilty to that charge and was fined $5.50 in justice court today. A Balsiger wrecker was sent out to remove the vehicles. The bus steering apparatus was broken. Bill Would Bar Minors From Bar SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 23 (fP) Both food and minors would be excluded from bars under a bill for a constitutional amendment introduced in the senate today by Senators H. E. Dillinger (D), Placerville, Chris N. Jespersen (R). San Luis Obis po, and Earl Desmond (R), Sacra mento. Regular restaurants and dining rooms could serve drinks, with a 15 cent food order. ' to (D n h i Price Stabilization Aim Of Diversion O f Spud Surplus TULELAKE, Jan. 23 Tule lake Potato Growers last night heard an explanation of the gov ernment's potato price support program from four representa tives of the California state of fice of the production and mar keting administration, field ser vice branch. William Page of Berkeley ex plained that there are two out lets into which the government is distributing potatoes one to federal, state, county and city institutions, and the second for livestock feeding. He said that the latter use for inferior grades is being stressed and the govern ment expects to use many Tule lake spuds for that purpose. Page added that the basic mo tive of the entire potato support program is to stabilize the po tato price by diversion of the surplus. With Page were Norris Cham bers and Mr. Gale, both of tha Body Pinned In Truck On US 97 North A relief driver of a Padfle Coast Motor freight truck' trailer was killed instantly this morning, crusnea in the sleep- ie alee 2 juk (.-imiparimeni oi the big machine, when u overturned near Sand Creek on Sun mountain, 50 miles norm of ruamatn Falls. 1947 Aula The body of the Fatality man, identified as George Wal lace White. 25. Portland, re mained in the mangled cab sec tion at an early hour today as wreckers attempted to right the truck. White's death today was Klamath county's second traffic fatality of the year 1047. Driver of the truck, Walter Coleman, 27, Clifford hotel, Portland, was uninjured. Hit. Ice Patch Coleman told state police and The Herald and News reporters, that White had crawled into the sleeping compartment a few minutes before the accident when they stopped the truck on the summit. Two miles from the Sand Creek state highway patrol office, Coleman said he hit an icy stretch and the trailer skidded. Coleman straightened the machine out by pulling over to one side, hitting a two-foot snowbank but then the big truck shot across the highway and overturned on the right hand shoulder after sheering off sev eral good size jackpines. The accident occurred about 9 a. m. today. Baisiger's wrecker was called from Klamath Falls but due to the position of the truck-trailer and the size of the machine, it was necessary to place a second call for another wrecker. Those at the scene said today It was probable that White's body could not be moved for some time. Only the man s hand pro truded from the sleeping com partment and it may be neces sary to cut the metal sections away from his body. Ward's will have charge ox tne remains. South Sixth Phones Quit - Five cable crew of The Paci fic Telephone and Telegraph company were up to their ears in work today attempting to re-establish service to approximately 2700 telephones in the South Sixth street district and toll ser vice to outlying sections, dis rupted late Wednesday night. Charles Seavey, manager of the telephone company, said to day that water In a manhole on S. 6th near the viaduct had crept back into the cable in the ducts and this is thought to be tha cause of service elimination. Two local crews, two from Medford and one from Eugene, were at work today attempting to es tablish the cause and if there is water in the cables it will mean tearing up the street to get at tha source. It will probably be 48 hours before total service is restored if there is water in the cables, Seavey advised. All lines from Vine south, and from Market east, are affected, according to Seavey, and toll ser vice to Merrill, Malin, Bly, Lake view and Bonanza is also out. Some Tulelake circuits are out but it was possible for The Her ald and News to get a call through to Tulelake this morn ing. ; "We are doing everything pos sible to get service back on a normal basis," Seavey said to day. "We sent for two cable crews from Medford and one from Eugene, to help us out and they arrived this morning to as sist the Klamath Falls crews. A 400-pair cable and a 600-pair cable and the toll cable are in volved." HARRIMAN O. K. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 WV- The senate commerce committee today unanimously approved President Truman's nomination of W. Averill Harriman as sec retary of commerce. Berkeley office, and Hans Kar- stensen, secretary of the Sis kiyou County Agricultural Con servation association. Gale will remain in Tulelake for two or three months to expedite tha support program. Growers were informed that if they have potatoes which are deteriorating abnormally, they may request an Immediate gov ernment inspection and the gov ernment will assume the loss of any further crop deterioration. C. W. Fensler of Tulelake re ported on a recent conference at Sacramento with the Spreckles Sugar company, which indicated its willingness to assist in ex pansion of sugar beet growing in the Tulelake area. The com pany is considering setting up a factory district In the area, which would necessitate about 9,000 acres planted in sugar beets, compared- to tha harvest of 748 acres last year. i
