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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1947)
M UVU M A Tffl W m JvlE Baj Views By FRANK JENKINS SAN FRANCISCO, founded on a ponlnaula. grew up on ponlnaula, Ai nmttur of fact, on the narrow tin of a peninauia 1'he rcusona thtire.for are not hard to find. Thoy 11a In the limit at which the city was com Ini to ll miiturlty. In tluit period, tranaportullon was baavd on tho horse. Like wlao, in thut doy. pooplo lot to work ear y and atuyed at It lato, The distance at which people can llvo from their work and till net n tho Job early la strict Iv limited, llrnce Ban Franclaco Inclined early toward apartment house ft living. Auniimcnt houaca and flata novo una to Do aaid lor them: They honae a lol of peo ple within a umlied area, up to a certain point, the people of a city cun llvo In nuilliplo-iinlt hotialnu and atlll walk to work, Thut oxnhilna why ancient Europe, whoao cltlca were built lonu before modern IrunaporUi' tlon. atlll Uvea ulnio.it exclusive- ly in row houm-a and other forms or multiple-unit dwellings. NEW YORK and Sun Franclaco Im ve alwuya been compared aa METROPOLITAN cltlea. The rwtiHin for thulr almllurlly la almple. Miinhattim la built on an Inland: Sun Frnnclaco on a nenlitaula. In both. ground area ia aharply limited, llcnco both havo had to build up In tho air. TN time, of courac. rallroada came to San Franclaco. And atreolcar. And fcrryboata. All of them helped to extend the ( iatunre at which people couiu live from their work. Tho atreetcara moved the rcaidence areaa back onto tho more rila tant hllla. lite ferryboat mude living on the othrr aide of the bay poaalble. Commuter com- munltlea bruan to grow up along the railroad to tho anuth. Hut atlll tho bulk of the point. latlon remained In the congealed area at tho peninsula a tip. IN cltlea with unlimited back country, tile atrectcar Mirty made It poaalble to get out Into the wider open apncea wnicn Americana, in particular have always had a yen lor. Aa popu latlon irew outward, the atrcet car systems wore modernized atei.dily In order to keep up with demand. But for tho reason already mentlnued streetcar -moflnilzi. tlon in San Frannaco haa pro ceeded alowly. In recent de- cadea. It haa STOOD STILL. It la hard to find a word to deacribe San Francisco a city transport y 1 1 e m. "Archaic" won't do. It connntca far too much modorn progroas. San Frunclaco'a atreetcara would be out-of-dulo In Shanghai. They are not only old-fash-loncd. They are worn o., When ono pauses, you pauac tit- atlnctively, feeling In your bonea that thia will be the time when it will full apart before your eyca like the one-hoaa anay. THE automobile, of course, complicated the situation. It came along at about the lime when streetcar and other mass transport would otherwise have HAD to be brought up-to-date. Everybody, naturally, wanted an automobile. Thanks to Amer ica's Renins for mass production at prices that people could af ford to pay, automobile owner ship wns swiftly extended to In elude the bulk of the population. There was a period when we all thought tho automobile would supplant all other forms of gct-to-work-and-back transportation.' In the towns and even in the smaller cities, It did. In the (Cnllna4 on Pl 4. Column S) Chinese Airliner ' Blows Up In Air SHANGHAI, Jan. 29 (P) A Chinese commercial airliner carrying Methodist Bishop and Mrs. Schuyler Edward Garth, Madison, wis., among lis 26 occupants exploded in midair 100 miles west of Hankow and tho official Central News Agency an Id today 25 persons were killed. Tho agency said the sole sur vivor was a very seriously in jured foreigner who was being - rushed to a hospital. Tho stir , vivor's identity was not report ed. The agency said its report came from Chinese civil air au thorities. Utile America Snowed In, LITTLE AMERICA, Jan. 28 (Delayed) (!') The cargoship Yancey will be sent back into the Bay of Whales toni(ht In re sponse to a call from Little America's tent town for more men and bread. The supply ships Yancey and Marrick and tho Mount Olym pus wore forced to leave the camp anchorage and seek open water when a north wind begnn blowing a huge iceberg and chunks of ice into the bay. Snow flurries swept the camp and the three ships throughout the dny, but the wind swung around to the east lato today. Rear Adm. Richard H. Cruzcn, 1. fioting the favorable turn of tha j31- wind, said, "We hope to hava PRICE FIVE CEMTl r"& Cold'Wave. Police Hold Black Dahlia Confessor LOS ANGELES, Jon. 20 Mi- Daniel S. Voorhees, curly-haired and husky, waa booked today in the county lull on suspicion of murder after, police said, he signed a confeaalnn to the sadistic mutilation slaying ol beautiful Elizabeth Short. Detective Ed Barrett displayed a sheet of paper on which was written "I did kill Elizabeth Short." It was signed "Daniel S. Voorhees." Phonad Police Voorhees, 33 and blue-eyed, surrendered to homicide detail officers late last night after tele- fihonlng them he would be wait ng on a downtown street corner, Barrett aald he announced: "I'm ao aick I can't atand It any longer. I killed the 'Black Dahlia.' Take me to Jail. I want to get it over with." Mlaa Short, 22, waa known to her friends as tha "Black Dahlia" because of her penchant for flower headdress and black rai ment. She was found dead in a vacant tot January 13. Her nude body had been battered and bi sected at the diaphragm. Kapt Silent After signing the one-sentence confession, Barrett reported, Voorhees declined to discuss the case further, saying: "I'va talked too much already. I want to see a lawyer." Det. Lt. Charles King aald questioning would bo suspended "until ho recovers from his be wildered and befuddled state-'.'. Dr. Paul Do River, police pay chlalrlat, reporting on a brief ex amination, said he could "come to no definite conclusion." Tha shocking slaying of tha young film hopeful from Med ford, Mass., has in recent days brought police and newspapers a deluge of crank notes. But among the messages were some officers believe authentic. One contained the girl's address book and social security card. Another said the slayer would give him self up at 10 a. m. today. Voor hees' arrest came less than 12 hours from the deadline, but Barrett quoted him as saying he had no part of any of the com munications. Jews Release British Judge JERUSALEM. Jan. 29 (?) One of the two British victims of underground kidnapers was at liberty today and an Irgun Zval Leumi broadcast heard in Tel Aviv indicated that the second would be freed, like the first, "at a time which we have decided." Judge Ralph Windham of the Tel Aviv district court, who was kidnaped from his courtroom Monday by armed men whom police Identified as Jews, was re leased unharmed last night in Ramat Gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Police and troops still were seeking H. A. I. Collins, Jeru salem banker and a former major in the British army, who was abducted before the eyes of a friend, Mrs. Bella Forguson, here Sunday night. Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv, one of three Jewish leaders given 48 hours by Lt. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham, the British high commissioner, to return both men, said today the ultima tum had been "prolonged." He did not disclose the new dead line. Tent Town But Still There better weather here 24 hours from now if the wind shifts to the southeast." It may be clear here by Wed nesday evening. There also ts a chance the wcathor will clear In the area of the carrier Philip pine Sea, outside the ice pack, a few hours earlier. This means there is a possibil ity tho transport plane with Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, expedi tion leader, may take off from the carrier for Little America. Cruzen said, however, it was fiossible the flight would be de ayed until Thursday or Thurs day night. The Yancey, after entering tho bay, will send Seabcea and bread ashore by small boat. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1947 sis ii i y LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 A man (loft) who gave hia nam as Daniel S. Voorhees is booked hara aarly today after be walked Into police headquarters and said, according to Capt Jack Donahoe, that he "wanted to confasa" to the mutilation slaying of Elisabeth Short. Ha was booked on suspicion of murder. Officers with bim ware not identified. AP wiraphoto. Crescent Crash Fatal To One Klamath county j third traf tii fatality since JanUary 1, 1947, occurred on the Willamette uiamel 3 pass, IS miles south, weat of Crcacent, at 1 o'clock Tuesday when Luvcrne Hunt, about 26, Long Beach, Call., received fatal injuries in a car crash.'"' Auto Bend state police raiamy were Investigating today but road conditions arc said to have made it impossible for officers to go to the scene late yesterday. Hunt died en route to St. Charles hospital, Bend, in the Niswonger Winslow ambulance. Mrs. Hunt Is recovering from injuries in St. Charles hospital. Her condition is not serious, Bend reports advised lato Wed nesday. Officers here were wait ing to receive a report from Bend police, it is understood that snow conditions caused the ac cident and that several cars were involved but injuries were received only by Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. Bay Psalm Book Brings $151,000 NEW YORK. Jan. 29 P) A man quietly nodding his head at an auction last night raised the shouted bids of Socialite Cor nelius Vanderbilt Whitney to $130,000 for a copy of tho first book printed in America then. with a final nod, acquired it for S131.000, the highest price ever paid for a book in this country. The volume was one of 11 ex istiint of the Bay Psalm book, published in 1640 at Cambridge, Mass., by the first printing es tablishment In the Massachusetts bay colony. Dr. A. S. W. Rosonbach, rare books dealer whose agent, John Fleming, outbid Whitney at the Parke-Bcrnet galleries last night, said today he considered it "a very reasonable price." Army Prisoners Escape Jail NEV YORK, Jan. 29 P) Five army prisoners hacksawed their way through iron bars to day and escaped from prison on Governor's Isl md in New York harbor, U. S. army authorities said. Four of tne prisoners had been transferred to Fort Jay on the island after attempting to escape from Ft. Dix, N. J., Now Year's eve, the army said. . A hacksaw w. found in their cell In which two bars had been cut away, the army said, and a sixth prisoner who had declined to join them in the escape wjs found In the cell. The five were believed to have swum to a row boat moored 200 feet off the island, which is Just one-half mile from the lower tip of Man hattan, and rowed to shore,' rips Britain, Europe Slaying Suspect Booked Alaska Safe From Any Ground Invasion Says Army ANCHORAGE. Alaska. Jan 28 (Delayed) IA1 If Alaska ever la- - attacked, the -enemy -will fliriKe who air Dome troops in the opinion of leading military authorities here. "I can't imagine moving masses of troops across this country by land," MaJ. Gen Howard A. Craig, who has the over-all tactical command of both army and navy forces in Alaska and the Aleutians, said today. Substantially the same state- Reds Refute Pauley Talk MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (P) The government newspaper Izvestia characterized today as "absurd and tendentious" Edwin W. Pauley's recent assertion that Russia was wrecking Man churia's industrial economy by removal of productive machin ery. Pauley, acting as President Truman's porsonal representa tive on reparations, made the statement last month in a re port based on a special mission to Manchuria during the sum mer. Izvestia particularly chal lenged Pauley's estimate that $2,000,000,000 damage had been done in Manchuria since the Soviet occupation and reassert ed Russia's right to seize Jap anese military property as "war trophies." The paper declared Pauley had deliberately tried to' confuse these "war .trophies with the question of reparations. Forest Camp To Be Inspected SALEM, Jan. ,29 House' social welfare committee mem bers will go Friday morning to inspect the forestry camp, at Timber as a prospective site for a boys' detention camp. Another site, tne state arbore tum at Camp Adair, will be in spected Saturday. The sites were recommended by the state forestry depart ment. Mrs. Anna M. Ellis, chairman of the committee, said at least seven members of the commit tee will make the trip. Pine Waste Into Hardwood CORVALLIS, Jan. 29 '() An excellent hardboard can be made from pondcrosa pine waste but tho bug is that you've got to make too much of it. Oregon forest products laboratory, experimenting at the re quest of tho Lakevicw chamber of commerce, found that the waste from eastern Oregon's ponderosa pine could be turned into hardboard efficiently with a plant producing 5rf tons a day. That, however, reported Paul M. Dunn, Oregon State college forestry dean and laboratory head, would require about 33 cords of slab wood daily and a million-dollar plant investment. To make the waste utilization practical for a fairly large mill or group of smaller mills, a process that would be efficient on a smaller scale say 20 tons- a day would require a capital outlay of $250,000. Laboratory officials held out hope of developing such pro cess if funds continue available. ... (Telephone till) ment was made a few days ago by Col. Paul v. Kane, com mander of task force Frigid-at-Fairbanks, in talks to a group of news correspondents and pho tographers touring this area. Communications is the key to the strategy of Alaskan defense, in the opinion of both men. There is only one railroad, which is blocked sometimes for weeks in bad winter weather, and a few main gravel highways connecting coastal cities with one another and the interior. Transporting large numbers of troops and supplies by surface travel presents the utmost dif ficulty. In winter any move ment through the frozen wilder ness is painfully slow and un certain. And in summer the few muddy roads provide travel sur faces which are not much better than in winter. Sending mechan ized divisions across the muskeg and tundra in the summer would be impossible, and in winter it could be done only by follow ing the frozen creeks and rivers. War Committees Hear Austin WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (VP) Warren Austin, U. S. representa tive on the United Nations se curity council, told reporters he had discussed "how to prevent World War three" at a joint meeting of the senate and house armed services committees to day. The session was closed and Austin declined to go into de tails of the two-hour parley. Chairman Uurney (R-s. D.) of the senate committee said the lawmakers were "glad to get in more detail" a report on U. N. activities. Chairman Andrews (R-N. Y.) of the house committee said the off-record discussion was "most enlightening." Lemmon Okayed As California Judge WASHINGTON. Jan. 29 (P) A senate judiciary subcommittee approved Tuesday President Tru man s nomination of Dai M. Lem mon of Sacramento to be a fed eral district judge for northern California. Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich.) said the nomination will be re ported favorably to the full com mittee next Monday. WEATHER M. Ilia. SS) .....as Mia. .,! Proclollatua lot M haari ... airvam Jtmt tm Jala A.n Nuaal .l uu rur a.aa faraeailt Occasional ohovrorcl aallaaoS acli. Number 10844 Icy Blasts Hit Fuel Short Cities By TOM WILLIAMS LONDON, Jan. 29 P) Lon don temperatures tumbled a 18 year lows xnd icy blasts of the most severe cold wave of the winter took a mounting toll of life in fuel-short French and German cities today. Swept bv gales from Siberia, the British capital was colder than Moscow. Vhe cold even af fected Big Ben, making the big clock's chimes stutter in the night. New P.acord Suburban London temper atures dropped to 11 above zero (Fahrenheit). The Kew weather observatory reported 15 above, lowest since February, 1929, and the coldest January night since 1894. At various points in the Eng lish countryside temperatures dropped to five above, equalling the official low in Berlin, where thousands of miserable residents huddled in cold lodg ings or crowded into public warming halls. Suffering Acuta Suffering was acute in the German capital, where more than 60 persons have frozen to death since December 1, city health officials reported. During the seven weeks xrom December 1 to January 15, the city health office also announced, 188 per sons were taken to hospitals with frozen limbs and 19,000 others required treatment for frostbite. At least three deaths from the cold were reported in Paris to day. - Many French towns reported record low temperatures for the nignt. commenty, in central France, reported a reading of seven below zero (Fahrenheit). Hundreds of Parisians, too poor to buy their low-priced fuel ration, crowded into subway sta tions to sleep on benches until herded out at 1:30 a. m., closing time. With coal deliveries halted by frozen canals, Paris officials an nounced new restrictions on gas consumption would become ef fective February 1. Phone Rate Raise Okayed SALEM, Jan. 29 (JP) Public Utilities Commissioner George H. Flagg today approved a $205. 000 annual rate increase for the West Coast Telephone company, which operates in the Forest Grove, La Grande, Klamath Falls and Coos Bay districts. The increase is effective Feb ruary 1, and Flagg said it is de signed to partially offset in creased wages and operating ex penses of $307,998 a year. The increase is the same as al lowed in the state of Washing ton several months ago, the com pany operating in both states. The commissioner denied, the company's petition to put com munications between exchanges in the Forest Grove -district on a toll basis where there have been no toll rates in the past. Hudson Motor Co. Employes Return DETROIT, Jan. 29 (fP) Ap proximately 14,000 Hudson Mo tor Car company employes re turned to their jobs early today after a two-day work stoppage called to protest a disciplinary suspension given a shop stew ard. The steward, James Bom- maritcf, was laid off Monday after he instructed a male worker not to relieve a woman employe. Bommarito's assertion that this was cbntrary to con tract provisions was upheld by officers of local 154, United Automobile Workers (CIO). Josephine County Storm Clears Up GRANTS PASS, Jan. 29 OP) Clear skies and bright sunshine today followed the storm which blocked - highways and snarled traffic in the Josephine county area yesterday. Highway offi cials reported the Redwood highway cleared late yesterday. The storm left deep snows on the various summits, with an estimated two feet at the Coast range summit. Heavy snow fell for a long distance along the south Pacific highway from the Siskiyou summit deep into Cal ifornia, i Secondary Boycotts End Urged WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (P R. Stafford Edwards, president of the National Electrical Manu facturers association, aaid today union secondary boycotts have increased costs of some electrical fixtures as much as 500 per cent. Testifying before the senate labor committee, Edwards urged that congress outlaw such prac tices. The committee is considering new labor legislation and among the bills before it is one to pro hibit secondary boycotts. Generally speaking, this term is applied when a union refuses to handle or work with the products of a company with which it has no direct dispute. Edwards took the stand after: 1. Theodore R. Iserman. a New York attorney, called for a general overhauling of the Wagner act. He told the com mittee the act is "the root of unsatisfactory labor relations in the United States." 2. Chairman Taft (R-Ohio) told newsmen that in view of Secretary of Labor Schwellen bach's testimony the GOP-con-trolled senate labor group and the administration may be "closer together" on pending legislation than it appeared earlier. Tax Proposal Argued Here The sales tax proposal of the state legislature was argued be fore a luncheon meeting of the Klamath County chamber of commerce today, and four speak ers were neard during the forum. Ed Geary, farmer, and J. W. Sanders, representative of the taxation committee, Klamath Realty board, were the speakers favoring the sales tax, and F. W. Winseman, manager of Harwin's jewelry store, and C. D. Long, business agent of the local car penters' union, spoke for the op position. Each speaker had eight min utes allotted in which to present his arguments. John Houston served as moderator of the forum. Concerning the sales tax pro posal it was brought out that Monday night the Merrill grange voted unanimously to endorse sucn a tax. ( ' Document File Asked WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 UP) President Truman is considering steps to prevent the withdrawal of official government papers by cabinet and other federal offi cials when they leave govern ment service. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross made this known to re porters today in the wake of an official request that Henry Mor genthau Jr. return a "major part" of a voluminous diary he took with him when he left as secretary of the treasury in July, 1945. Former Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes also has gotten his dander up over a report that ho had taken government files with him when he retired from the cabinet. Ross said it is Mr. Truman's opinion that "official papers" should be left with the govern ment. He added that the "matter has not been though through" but has been considered. The attempt to regain the Mor genthau files, Ross said, is in the hands of Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder. Carpenter Strike Situation Same Strike conditions existing be tween the carpenters' local. No. 190, and members of ABC and E, the contractors' group, remained unchanged today. The strike was called January 6 and despite ne gotiating committees on both sides, no agreement had been reached at a late hour Wednes day. Larry Watkins of Pinnlger and Watkins. president of ABC and E, advised The Herald and News that no meetings were scheduled to his knowledge to continue negotiations. Construction Predict Big CHICAGO, Jan. 29 (JP) J.L. Haynes, chief of the construction division of the U. S. department of commerce, said today his di vision believes there will be suf ficient material to supply the pre dicted $22,000,000,000 construc tion demand this year. In an address prepared for the 28th annual convention of the Associated General Contractors of America, Haynes, of Washing ton, added: "As you might judge, however, the situation will be spotty." He summarized the picture thus: "Brick inventories are at the highest level in 28 months. Lumber production last year was excellent with stocks accu mulating. Soil pipe production has been Legislature Bucks Tax r Commission By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. SALEM, Jan. 29 UP) Th Oregon legislature today mad its first move to .reduce state . income taxes, in opposition to the state tav stnriv recommendation that incoma taxes ue increased to help aolve the state's fiscal problems. Seven legislators Introduced a bill in the house today to in crease the exemptions for chil dren from $300 each to $500 each, aavinir a man with t... children $8 a year in taxes. ine Din would not affect a couple without children. The tax Studv Commission's nrnnnml ma. - to lower exemptions for married pcinuns ixum 13UU to 1 1000, and for single persona from $1000 to $750. Tha now hill 1mm 'BfMM. tures of Reps. J. O. Johnson, f-uriuuiu; narry scnmeltzer, Sherwood: William Niskanen, Bend: R C Fri.hio nv. n u C. Bennett, Dundee, and'o'tt Dnn.In, V V I . J . 31 "v"sawii, iueuiura; and Sen Thomas Parkinson, Roseburg. Another new house measure today would give cities 15 per .in iu Biaie mgnway revenues, three times the $1,100,000 a year they now get A bill to appropriate $864,000 from the general fund for sup port of the state fair, Pendleton roundun nnrl nhi i . i . rr -hub HIJU VX POSltlOnS was introduced today by Rep. Joseph E. Harvey, Port- it v r " t""vose to relieve -the fairs from being dependent UDon horxo nnd jm -in- t.-. ting, and is the first part of a move to ban racing. Basin Pioneer Passes Today ueain ininned the ranks of Klamath pioneers early today with the passing of Frederich Nitschelm, 88, for more than 38 years a rpirint r thia - wwtV and city. Mr. Nitschelm died at 7:20 a. m. Wednesday at the home of hia daughter Mrs. Byron K. Teed, 1025 Jefferson, following an ill- : ness of the past three months. In addition to Mr. Teed, he U ' survived- by twoother-datt4. " tera, Mrs. J. F. Bryant of Klam ath Falls and Mrs. C G. An drews, Vancouver, B. C, and two sons, G. W. of Portland and H. A. Nitschelm of Klamath Falls. A native of Alsace Lorraine. (Cnllaiii mm ra . Cl. i Einstein Theory Solved At Last . ; DUBLIN. Eire. Jan. 20 IB Austrian-born Dr. Erwbv". Schroedinger, professor of tha school of physics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, asserted today that he had solved a 30-year-old problem: the competent generalization of Einstein's great theory of 1916." Dr. Schroedinger gave his so lution to a group of 20 profes sors and students. It was, like Einstein's theory of relativity, expressed in algebraic symbols impossible to reproduce in con versational English. . Its effect, he said, was to re late the Einstein theory to electro-magnetics. Heretofore, the physicist said, the Einstein theory had expressed gravita tion only. US Steel-CIO Talks Recessed PITTSBURGH. Jan. 29 UP) Negotiations of the U. S. Steel Corp. and the CIO United Steel workers recessed their contract talks today until next Thursday. ' At that time, a joint an nouncement said, smaller and less cumbersome committees one representing each side will hold a general meeting. Instead of the big1 delegations negotiat ing since rriday. The conferees made no an nouncement on status of tha , talks but gave the impression that they were getting spade- work accomplished toward a meeting of management and union aims. fircrss Hats Building Boom increasing, but hardly meeting the estimated needs. "I doubt that wholesale and re tall inventories (of materials) will be normal until at least next winter. "The export of building ma terials has not seriously affected the domestic building program. "The price level of construc tion materials rose rapidly and substantially in '46. "It is, in sum, the feeling of the construction division that with strikes as usual; i. e., some thing less than the '46 pattern, a slight softening of the house market, a better flow of building materials; a materials demand less than capacity construction and building materials costs will advance somewhat, but leu than they did in '46." 3
