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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1947)
Alo) 0)W IfL mm Jl IhTI.u K 111 By FRANK JENKINS CAN FRANCISCO, born In tlio 3 iliiiiiuruu period of Spunlsh 2llfiirnin, gruwlng up In the lalr-on-ilic-chcat, two-fluted gold iwh days, reaching serious, ad-vmlly-tOHtud maturity In the !irlli(uukc-flr emergency Unit lied tiicin'n aoula und culled opt ill tho eonalruutlvo bent tlmt m In them, rnoro or leas coast Hi on its reputation (or 11 quar icr of cuntury thereafter. Durlnu thin guneral era, Lot ugelea grew up from a village ;luit hud ita dimly bcglnninga at what in now Olvoru street to onp or tho great cities of the world, THROUGHOUT tho sold ruiili - and the inlnlnir nnd ship ping period tlmt followed It. ' Sun Francisco traveled at high ipocd. Whatever speed itlie at lulncd during these pregnant yrnra wan eclipsed In tho up uriio of rebuilding that fol lowed the earthquake-fire. Never him there been a finer rxHinple of courage, alumina nd belief In the future than wan iihown by tho people of Hun Franclaco In the doy fol lowing that terrible morning when (hey faced a city thnl HAD UKKN but no longer was and realized that whatever Hie future held for tho city they loved muni be created UY THEMSELVES out of ashes and rubble. The way they roannnded to thnl challenge will alwuya be one of the great aucceaa stories of American hlatory. YOU know how It la when you 1 build dream houac. You pause to enjoy It. For a Utile while, Juat living In your dream houao la all you want to do. 11 won that way with San Franciscans. The city they hod built with their own hands out of the nahea of calamity was ao beautiful, ao glamorous, ao en trancing that Jimt living In it whs enough. They were like a man who after a rough, event ful, adventurous youth sudden ly finds himself married to a acductlvcly lovely, cultured woman, There will be a time when all he wanta Is to LIVE the life . he has won for himself. nrilAT lime cume to Snn Fran , ciaco in the yenra immedi ately after her rebuilding. In ttie nearly two cunturle of this city's fxtstertrs rtiose years were the golden years. Likening San Francisco to Greece, those years were Ihe Golden Age of Per icles. But during those years San Francisco COASTED. YOU can't coast alwuys. Drift ing along without a dirty, greasy but DYNAMIC and pow erful englno to keep up your speed, you must sooner or later lose momentum. San Francisco LOST MO MENTUM. There can be no suc cessful denial of that fact. Those of us who loved her, and our number is legion, saw it happening. WE saw her great bay, proba bly the finest harbor on earth, Increasingly bare of ships. We saw the warehouses that had held the products of her back country, whllo the ships loaded, grow emptier and emptier. We saw her factories beoome less nnd less Important in the economy of the Pacific Coast, Only her financial institu tions continued to play their traditional role. San Francisco has nlwnys been the banker of the Pacific. Otherwise it was a sad pic ture. ' (GENERALLY speaking, war Is a destroyer. But here In San Francisco war was in its wasteful way a builder, It built back the commerce of the great bay. It built now (ConllnuaS an Ft I, Column S) ' Krug Says Indian Affairs Bureau Still A Necessity WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (P)--The senate civil service commlt teo today considered widely di vergent statements on the need for tho Indian affairs bureau. Secretary of Interior Krug told tho committee yesterday tho bu reau would be needed until the Indian "enn move into society safely." Krug's Implication that the In dians, as a whole, are not ready for release from government re strictions was In sharp contrast to tho stand taken earlier by Wade Crawford, a Klamath In dian from Oregon. Crawford claimed that his tribe had been "assimilated with the whites for 50 years." "They llvo tho same as any body else." ho testified. "They make their own Individual liv ing. The Indian service docs not do anything for them." Crawford, who served from 1033 to 1937 as superintendent of the Klamath reservation, said that last summer the Indian service had 100 employes on that reservation, equipped with cars and trucks, and two air- anes. . . . 'The superintendent has these PRICE riVE CENTS l-ffir n KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. 1947 (Telephone 6111) Number 101 04iClM tes On Contact Nazi Death Sentence Is Appealed DACHAU, Cermany, Jan. 25 (!') A U. S. army lieutenant colonel wua reported eti route to Washington today to carry an appeul to tho United Slates supremo court on behalf of 43 German SS (el I to guard) troopers condemned to hang for the slaughter of 730 American sol diers captured during the battle of tho bulge. Colleagues of Lt. Col. Willis M. Everett, Jr., of Atlanta, de fense counsel for the condemned men during their trial last sum mer, said ho was carrying with him a review of the affair in which ho bitterly criticized the handling of the case, widely known aa the Malmcdy "mas sacre." Special Harlow ' These attorneys said at war crimes trial headquarters here they understood Everett In tended to demand a special re view by the army's Judge advo calo general In addition to filing an appeal with the supreme court Everett's review of the case openly charged that U. S. in terrogators obtained confessions from the SS men by beating and maltreating them and by conducting mock trials to frighten them. He asserted that 90 per cent of the evidence In the rase "consists of Illegal and fraudulently procured confes sions." "Tile Malmedy trial can be considered no more than the ex ercise of victorious power under the cloak of legal form, but it was totally lacking the stan dards of . American 1,1 Justice," Everett wrote. No Inhuman Conduct "There was no abnormal or Inhuman conduct proved in this (t'aallaavt aa rag S. Calanm I) People Ask Dixie Probe ATLANTA, Jan. 25 W The Aroused Citizens of Georgia, a statewide group formed to pro test the election of Herman Talmadge as governor by the legislature, today asked for a grand Jury investigation of charges that legislators were of fered bribes in connection with tho election. The demand was made in a statement by Mayor Harvoy Kennedy of Borncsville. an or iginator of the group which has been promoting mass meet ings throughout the state. It followed a statement by House Speaker Fred Hand that he intends to ask a "thbrough investigation" of the allegations by a legislative committee. Lt. Governor M. E. Thomp son, who claims he is the state's acting governor, told a press conference today he would wel come an investigation and said that grand juries are authorized to make such probes in addi tion to legislative committees, ' Talmadge had no comment on the investigation,. Dlancs that he plays about with and files about nt his own lei sure and convenience," Craw ford explained, "and If he smashes up one he takes the other one and he claims he is using that for patrolling the reservation for law and order, which is an impossibility. "How could a man In an air plane tell whether a white man was hunting on an Indian reser vation?" Nodding toward William Zim merman, acting commissioner of Indian affairs, Crawford de clared, "The Indian service will continue a hundred years if you listen to fellows like Mr. Zim merman." He declared that the Indian service Is "holding the Indian in bondage" and that Zimmerman is "the dictator of Indian authority in the United States." Crawford, who said he was "fired by tho now deal," said tho Klamath reservation is a reser vation "in name only." "We have had probably seven to eight white people on that reservation to one Indian for the past 25 or 30 years," he testi fied. . .. .. .-. Pelicans Sink Gene Hover, No. 9. made this push shot as a contribution to the Pelican 64-48 jMaketoall win over the Grants Pasa Cavemen laat night. No 20 for Grants Pass, going up to try to check the shot. Is Jack Orr, who was high scorer .lor the game with 22 points. No. 7 is Clarence Buss- man and No. 12 Is Joe Zarosinski. .. .. Berg Forces Ships To Move ABOARD THE USS MT. OLYMPUS, Little America, Jan. 25 (P) An iceberg routed three navy ships from the Bay of Whales but it was an awfully big iceberg. The berg, 200 yards long and 100 feet above water, bore down on the narrow neck of the bay yesterday as neatly aa if it were being navigated in stead of being carried by wind and current. Rather than risk having the mammoth berg crush against his three anchored ships, Ad miral Cruzen, commander of the Antarctic expedition, or dered the Mt. Olympus and the cargo ships Merrick and Yan cey to retreat out into the Ross sea. Admiral Cruzen wasn't taken by surprise in the iceberg en gagement he had been keep ing track of the big ice cube by means of radar. The three ships, hemmed in to some extent by big ice floes piled against them by the north ern wind, had some difficulty getting under way and by the time tho last of them pulled out the oncoming berg was only 600 yards away. The berg finally came to rest right where the Merrick had been anchored. Washington Has Another Flood KENT, Wash., Jan. 25 (Pi Amphibious army "ducks' from Fort Lewis and Fort Lawton today plowed through Green fiver flood waters, evacuating lowland families and their live stock and household goods In the Kent, Auburn and Renton areas for the second time in six weeks. - Evacuation work started, with Red Cross disaster authdritlcs' assistance,' shortly after day break revealed the river had broken a dyke. Just west of here, and had cut a 50-foot chunk out of the west valley highway. Police ' Chief James Allread said the dyke break, bringing new disaster to lowland farm families, temporarily relieved the threat of floods inside Kent and Ronton city limits. The Green dropped 4 Vi feet below flood stage at Auburn. Cavemen For Fifth Conference Win M M V Girl Gives Testimony In Ship Captain Murder Case PORTLAND, Jan. 25 (P) A bartender's girl friend told po lice yesterday she heard a sick ening" beating take place behind doors of the Cecil club the night Capt. Frank B. Tatum, 53, dis- Gold Carrying Plane Crashes MANILA, Jan. 25 A two- engine plane of the Philippine airlines carrying' $15,000,000 in gold was reported to ' have crashed today ten miles from Hong Kong., The C-47 plane left Manila this morning for Hong Kong. It had no passengers auoard. The crew consisted of four men. The Manila office of the air lines announced it would send out a search plane. When the last radio contact was made with the craft it was reported ten miles . from Hong Kong. There were no details of the reported crash, which presum ably occurred at sea. Nor was there any word on ownership of the gold. , Duke's" Owner Scotches Rumors About Famous Dog By JOY BIGGS Duke, much publicized dog, is no shy violet, but news stories about tlie (more or less) Boston bull terrier raise the ire of his "solo" owner, Adam Smith, of 200 Market. The "sole" is a direct and Cor rect quote from Smith who em phatically states that, 1. Duke NEVER belonged to anyone but himself. 2. Duke NEVER be longed to the marines, sailors. soldiers, Wacs, Waves or Spars. a. uuKe was Dorn in Klamath Falls and has lived here, ever since. 4. Duke has never been overseas and has no yen to go. 5. Duke intends to stay in Klamath Falls the rest of his natural life if he is let alone. And 6. Duke's sole owner wants no more news stories about the dog'. Except to inform the public once and for all time that Duke is HIS . ALONE. appeared to be found dead a week later at the foot of a 50 loot cliff. The girl, Victoria Lee Moore, 23, said she went to the club with John Snyder, 20,i sometimes bartender there, and was told to wait in the hall. She said she heard Patrick Raymond, 40, club operator, tell Snyder, "it's just a beef." Then a voice cried, "I can't give it to you, I haven't got it." The sound of breaking glass and a heavy thud followed. Of what followed she said, "I can t quite describe it. It was sickening. I asked to be taken out of the hall and into a side room." Raymond, Snyder and Harold E. Sehorn, 25, are charged with first degree murder, the latter two accused of throwing Tatum's body over the bank later that night Tatum, war-time survivor of two torpedoings, was in port while his ship, the Edwin Ab bey, was loading. .Police also hunted Lee Frank Butler, club piano player who disappeared after telling a friend he had witnessed a "terrible beating." Detective Chief Rames Pur cell said' Raymond admitted earlier that he had argued with Tatum over money he said Tatum owed him. T h e s e -eniphatic statements were brought forth by another "kidnaping" of Duke. . Every time a story appears about Duke and his association with the ma rines which was never any thing but neighborly someone nabs tlie dog, Smith said. This has occurred many times while the marines were sta tioned at the barracks here (and arbitrarily chose him from all the neighborly visiting dogs and named him as their mascot) at the time the marines left and "hated to leave Duke behind," and more recently, when some of the marines wrote, from over seas that they missed Duke. So noWi everyone should know whom Duke really belongs to, whom he has always be longed to and where he wants to stay, and PLEASE don't anyone interfere with his destiny, WEATHER Mil. limn, til M Mia S4 P'tclpllatUn lot M haara T Strum raar im Sat S.S7 Laat M'a.M Narmal .S.M rrati InortMlag eUaSlatM, llfhl rala. Move Means Production Till May By WILLIAM G. SMOCK PITTSBURGH. Jan. 25-(P) Uninterrupted production in the nation's largest steel mills will continue at least through April 30 by agreement between U. S. Steel Corp. and the United Steel workers union (CIO) to extend their present contract to per mit more leisurely, careful dis cussion of a 1947 pact. Met Yesterday Philip Murray, president of both the CIO and the Steelwork- ers, announced the agreement last night. Contract talks opened yesterday at a two-hour meet ing in which the union presented a 15-poiot program of general demands, the company made its contract extension proposal, and both sides decided to ad journ until Monday. Murray said he "assumed other companies under contract with the union would follow the same program" in extending contracts, most of which expire on the same date February 15. . Strike Last Year Just a year ago, the union's 853,000 membership was em barked on a month-long strike. In that controversy the union originally demanded a flat $2 a day increase but settled for 18 Vi cents an hour, a figure that became the national wage in crease pattern. This year's agreement to ex tend the contract during nego tiations brought from president ial assistant John R. Steelman the comment that it was "a very line move on the part ot all TOBetH-oeo." .ie,aajej, eywaj. if - themselves" - without direct White House prodding. The union has. not disclosed how much of a pay boost it wants for the 170,000 U. S. Steel subsidiary employes. The 15 point program calls only for- "a substantial wage increase." Other objectives include portal-to-portal pay, a guaranteed an nual minimum wage, premium pay for week-ends and holidays, and improved social benefits. Crater Skiing Said Poor Skiing conditions at Crater Lake national park were not good today but park headquart ers reported heavy, overcast skies and said that if snow falls, skiing should be good Sunday. At the present time there is a thick, icy crust on top ot 69 inches of packed snow. Roads are slick and icy, chains should be carried in event of snow, but chains are no good under today's, conditions. The ski tow will be in opera tion each Saturday and Sunday during the remainder of the win ter sports season, on Saturday afternoons from 12 o'clock to 4 p. m., and on Sundays from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. The tow is 1000 feet long and Al Vincze, opera tor, has several men working the machine. Some overnight accommodations are still avail able and reservations may be made by calling Charles Fyock at Fyock and Moon, Klamath Falls, or the. park headquarters. March Of Dimes Day January 27 Governor Earl Snell has des ignated Monday, January 27, as March of Dimes Day in Oregon and called on all residents of the state to contribute toward the campaign fund of the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in the fight against the dread disease. Governor Snell said: "The fight against infantile paralysis will not be completely won until every trace of this crippling disease has been erad icated from this country. This ideal is far in the future." Ruth's Condition "Not So Good" NEW YORK, Jan. 25 (VP) Babe Ruth's condition "was not as good today as yesterday," the French hospital reported. "Mr. Ruth spent a restless night," the hospital spokesman added. Ruth underwent a serious neck operation for the relief of uncontrolled pain on January 6. His condition yesterday was "good." Portal Pay Rapped By Texas Solon Br MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 (P) Senator O'Daniel (D-Tex.), today termed portal pay suits "legal ized hi-jacking" and a CIO "club over industry. The Texan lawmaker told a senate Judiciary subcommittee in a prepared statement "it is imperative that congress do something" about the situation. itio subcommittee Is consider ing legislation, including a bill introduced by O'Daniel, which would knock out or restrict por tal claims. Suits for more than $4,000,- uuu.uuu nave been tiled since the supreme court held last June that workers are entitled to pay for "make ready" activities sharpening tools, changing clothes and so forth. CIO unions have broueht mosl of the suits. In agreeing yester day to a two and a half month extension of the steelworkers' contracts with the industry, CIO President Philip Murray cited as one of the reasons the "uncer tainty" of management over por tal pay liability. Most of the contracts were due to exnlre Feb. 15. Commenting on this action, O'Daniel told a reporter he does not regard it "as any move to ward conciliation." He added: "Murray and the CIO are just familiar enough with the whole situation to realize that's the only thing they can do. They recognize that the por tal pay death sentence is such a threat to industry that they can't possibly negotiate new con tracts while it is in the picture." Senator Capehart, author, of a bill designed to wipe out all "portal" pay liability, said in a separate interview: "This shows that the portal issue is the big gest issue before congress right now. It's an invitation by both tne union and the steel Industry for congress to settle this issue and do it quickly. Lake Ranchers Fear Dry Year LAKEVIEW, Jan. 25 As Lake county's snowless days lengthen, more and more con cern is felt among stockmen and ranchers who eye the bare hills with annie -misffivinff. . Unless plenty .0f .snowfall high places there is insufficient moisture to flood the meadow lands which depend upon the snows for growth. Spring rains are usually insufficient to flood the meadows in this country. Grazing permits have ben ex tended two weeks to February 1 due to the open winter, after which stock will be put on feed until returned to the ranges again in April. . Old-Umers in the county who have seen 50 and 60 winters come and go, say that the winter of 1946-47 will be remembered as one of the strangest in Lake county's history. Outside of the highest peaks in the mountain ranges, there is practically no snow in the hills, and none in the valley. .-. Lack of snowfall would tend to affect cattle to a greater ex tent than .the sheep population, due to resulting forage condi tions, County Agent Elgin Cor nett said. If this results, it will be necessary to market a lot of cattle this fall, he said. Last year's precipitation was the lowest since 1933, and very little has been recorded by the weather bureau here in the past month, v Parking Meters Begin J At 9 o'clock this morning ths 167 parking meters on down town atreeta began taking nicks out of xnotoriats' pocketbooks and by a few minutes alter 10 o'clock people were coming In to tb police station to pay off for parking overtime, Ths picture Is os" Audrey Honsel, Herald and News front offics employs, Across The Board Raise Ruled Out Br EUGENE DODSON WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.1 The possibility of a flat "across the board" rent Increase wa ruled out today as OPA revised regulations to make it easier for landlords to get boosts in hard ship cases. OPA officials said they did not know how many of the esti mated 16,000,000 dwelling unit' under rent ceilings would be af fected. But they did predict that small property owners would. b the ones "most likely to benefit" under the changed regulations. no Decontrol An official familiar with toD administration rent discussions pointed out that "previously there was pressure from soma sources to decontrol, but now practically everyone teem we re not rax enough along for that." .-' "Now," he told a reporter, "there, is pressure on the part of some for a flat overall increase. I wouldn't think the changes coming up will provide for that He added that any changes In rent regulations would be dis- : cussed fully in advance with President Truman, Presidential ' Adviser John R. Steelman, and Maj. uen. Philip . Fleming, chief of the office of temporary controls. OPA now Is a branch of that office. The president has said he fav ors extension of rent controls beyond the present June 30 ex- 1 piration date. Hardship Cass Fleming told reporters yester day after a call on Mr. Truman, that OPA field offices had been directed to "liberalize" rents In "hardship cases." This, he said, would resolve the doubt in such cases in favor of landlords and provide for adjustment of rents on comparable dwellings in the same local areas. Fleming emphasized, however, that his orders do not break th general rent control line. OPA Commissioner Max Me Cullough told reporters that he will announce sometime next week details of revised rules in which "hardship provisions are being broadened to include such things as borderline cases am some types now ineligible." Crash Kills 12 LONDON, Jaai 25' (A1) - A Rome-bound plane of the Spen cer airways carrying settlers for South Africa crashed and burned in the takeoff from Croydon air port today, killing at least 12 si its 23 occupants. Seven of the 18 passengers and four of the five crew mem bers survived. Relatives and friends of th victims witnessed the tragedy The twin-engined DC-3 plane fal tered momentarily as it bee am airborne in a light snow and then plummeted to the field, crashing into an unoccupied Czech airlines craft. Both ships burst into flame. . Air Commodore Vernon Brown, chief inspector of acci-, dents for the ministry of civil aviation, said the ' plane- was "burned out." . ; - Many of the passengers were members of families of ex-servicemen offered free passage on the 6,000-mile trip to South Africa where they planned to make their homes. :'- Collecting Change I - I I Tt., .'I asy..i . .. w
