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Newspaper Page TextLa ui PRICE FIVE CENT8 V KLAMATH FALLS. OHEOOW . X. JANUARY 30. 1947 , J Q 1 In The llav's lens By FRANK JENKINS AS theso words arc written, the " iituto of Ccorgiu has two gov mwrs mid u legislative assembly mi imL w i f i c Imruoif or at templed bribery u r 0 being leveled by 1JOTII nidi.-. Unt It him no money. State . fundi huvo been tlvd tin by court action Initialed by thu bunk In which Ueorglu's canlt Is dciMisitcd. The banks cbu tluuit, nil private enterprise In pt to win-re money Is concerned iinlnl I nil thn court tnusl no tide who la entitled to wrltu Ills checks. If. und when, the courts do cldu who Is entitled to write the check) they will have decided who Is the LEGAL heud of thu stiitc. a a THUS uuiiln us so often be fore In the history of Anglo- Slixnn deinocrucy the HOLlJblt OF THE PURSE STRINGS will control the iioverniueut. a TT Is a sound principle. A If n t.i.ll.in'a nwini-v Iiffuira BfA wisely administered it Is apt to follow Unit UTHKH utliiirs win tie nut too budly niiinuKud. lint if the people's money is reck' Irssly wanted ALL. government is likely to he bud. a a a ' T .'DER our system, which lias been harninered out on the anvil of experience, the legin- latures (congress Is a niitlonul led! lature) bold the purse strings mid Uio courts Interpret thv laws. This Is the moral: Ue VKHY careful In voting for luwmukrrs mid for Indues. If you simply HAVE to vote for clt-mugogui's, vote lor atlimnisiru live demuKOKues. a a a MOW Is a good lime to ro- ' member Hint I, in the reck f iet ycirs that arc pn.'t. congress had handled more wisely tho piwer of the purse strings tho burden of debt and Inflation tinder -which-we aro. struggling would be llgiitcr. a a a OIIN FOSTER DULLES. Re- J publican adviser on Interna tional nffulrs, proposes In an address in New York that the rich Rhine basin of western Germany bo placed under tho control of a .uropciin authority "selected by and rcsxmlblo to the peoples of Western Europe" that will get this Immensely significant area HACK INTO PRODUCTION AND USE. He says: "It would be futile and stupid to provide by treaty for per manent disuse of this natural in dustrial center of Europe." That is sound common sense. To wreck western Germany 'beceuse its coal and its Iron and Its skilled manpower have often been used for war would be like saying that because In the past swords and guns have been mndo of steel we will hereafter outlaw the use of steel. That would be cutting off our noses to spite our faces. a a a pltOVERDS have been well dc- fined as "the distilled wisdom of the ages." That Is to say, man's experience down through th- thousands of centuries dur ing which he has lived has been crystallized into certain tcrso statements of indisputable fact. " Here is a well-known proverb: 5 Satan will find some work for OLE hands to do." Most of Western Europe is idle. It has been idle now for nearly two years. Idle and HUNGRY. Idleness breeds trou. bio an certainly as male and fo mule rats breed more rabi. If we lonvo Europe Idle and hungry while wc quarrel over what is to be done with it, ws might as well tighten up our belts and get ready for another war SOON. $4000 March Of Dimes Fund Still Below Necessary Sum Contributions for the March of Dimes have reached the $4000 murk und money is still coming In, Mrs. Dcna D. Buckcs, chair man, said today. This Is still be low tho amount contributed by Klamath county In 1046 and the epidemic Inst year exhausted funds allotted for sccvrnl depart ments, Mrs. Bnckcs pointed out. "Research work Is being car ried on continually by the na tional foundation In the fight against infantile paralysis and current cases must bo cared for at the sumo time, requiring tre mendous funds. While Klamath county was fortunate In its free dom from cases last year, tho dread disease may strike any family at any timo and money must be forthcoming immediate ly when this occurs," Mrs. Bnckcs said. "Our Insurance for care when ilvr malady strikes is In the con k lilbutlons wo moke for the cause Ship Captain Wearing Ring When Killed PORTLAND, Jnn. 30 (A1) Ship Capt. Frank R. Tatum was wearing a missing ring and wrist watch the night he is believed to have been slain, police were told today. Robert L. Petersen of Grants Puss, chief steward on the S. S Edwin Abbey, who did not ship out when Tntum's vessel left this week, reported voluntarily at the Solicc station and said he had ren in night spot January 13 with Tatum. "About 2 o'clock the next morning I left," he said, "and waited for him half an hour be fore going back to the ship, but no rut urn. Three men are charged with the murder of Tatum, whose body was found at the base of a SU-foot cliff. Two of the charged men were auoted by Detective Chief James Purcell as saying the night club owner, Patrick Raymond, beat up Tatum and they took him from the club and threw him over the cliff. T a t u m's diamond studded watch and a ring were not on the body. Police said Petersen told them the ring fit too tightly to nave slipped oil In a light. AFL Protests Labor Curbs MIAMI, Fla.. Jan. 30 !) Th? 15 top policy-maker of the nr Lt conieiiuea loouy n wuuiu be. "a tragic mistake" to enact proposed labor-curbing legisla Hon In congress because it would boost the number of strikes. ALF Presldont William Green said the 13-man executive eoun cil which handles affair of the 7,000.000 AKL members between annual conventions, would at tack each of the bills it consld crcd injurious to labor. After one day of deliberations, however, the council issued I general denunciation of bills de signed to curb labor activities now pending in congress, and said It had reports from through out the nation, labor-manage- nient relations are "constantly Improving. Hunting License Move Favored SALEM, Jan. 30 Ml Bills to prohibit the borrowing of hunt ing or angling licenses ana to give the game commission con trol over all of tho Umpqua river won house approval today and were sent to the senate. The house sent back to com mittee a bill to place tagging and sealing of game under game commission rules, after the ques tion was raised as to whether It would be Illegal delegation of authority. Crewmen Feared Lost In Ship Fire LONDON, Jan. 30 m Two passengers and some of the 40 crewmen of the 72l-lon British steamer Samwater were feared lost today after a fire caused abandonment of the vessel dur ing a trip from Australia to Liverpool, The Glen Line Ltd., managers for the ship, which is owned by the Ministry of Trans port, said survivors were picked up by the Swedish steamer P. L. Pnhlsson, due to dock tonight at Lisbon, At the beginning of the drive cards were distributed in the city schools with slots for up to SO cents in dimes. Mills school leads in contributions to date among the schools heard from, with $50.90 contributed. Fremont school turned in $40.75; Roosevelt, $40.95; River side, $30.50; Pelican, $31.25; Conger, $27.00; Falrvlow, $21.51. These contributions were all made by the students them- solves. The Chemult basketball game played for the March of Dimes turned in $44.50 toward the fight. Between 600 and 700 persons attended the March of Dimes dance at the armory Saturday night which was pronounced a financial success. Containers about town will be opened at the close of the drive and the amount collected in this manner will be announced as soon as it has been added. CIO Charges Wage-Hour Evasions DETROIT. Jan. 30 (IT) The United States government, Inter vening In the Mt. Clemens Pot tery Co. case, urged today that portal pay time spent by labor bo balanced against periods of time that employes devote to personal pursuits during work ing hours. The government's position was outlined a short time after attorneys for the CIO filed briefs declaring the outpouring of more than $4,000,000,000 in por tal pay suits resulted from a colossal gamble to evade the wage-hour act. Sonnatt Statement John F. Sonnctt. assistant at torney general, told Federal Judge Frank A. Plcard, who has been directed by the supreme court to asses damages against the Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.: "It would seem that the court should give due consideration to periods of time that employes are permitted to devote to per sonal pursuits during normal working hours. ' "Plainly, an employer is not entitled to deduct trifling personal-pursuit periods during working hours in computing the work week under the (fair labor standards) act, and, by the same token, the employe should not be entitled to the addition of trifling periods of preliminary activity. "As a matter of business real ity, such periods should be treat ed as- offsetting; each 'other with out the need for keeping rec ords - - -.- Sonnett also argued that the keeping "of records of very short intervals of time would be likely to produce unpleasant working conditions for employes and serve as an Irritant tending to disrupt industrial peace." The assistant attorney ecn- eral said that it is the govern ment's conclusion moreover that the portal pay time In the Mt. Clemens case is "in light of the realities of the industrial world de minimis." He went on to define the de minimis doctrine as one whose basic principles "always has been that matters of relatively slight importance should not be permitted to take precedence over matters of much greater Importance." Rent Move To Be Inspected WASHINGTON. Jan. SO OP Chairman Tobey (R-N. H.) indi cated today the senate banking committee will seek an explana tion of why the administration rushed up to the point of mak ing a 10 per cent rent increase, then backed away on White House orders. Calling it a "comedy of er rors," Tobey told reporters "I think an explanation would be very interesting." "Somebody is embarrassed to put it mildly," he commented. borne light may be shed when the senate Erourj hears James W. Follin, deputy administrator or me omce of temporary con trols, testify tomorrow on legis lation to raise rents 15 per cent. It was in OTC that an order for a 10 per cent rise was drafted and all preparations made for its issuance yesterday. It never came out because President Tru man intervened and dictated the policy that any Increase in rents la a matter for congress. Communists Cut China Railway SHANGHAI, Jan. 30 (AP) Communist forces in north China cut the vital Peiping-Tientsin railway today, shortly after the announcement that American military units are being with drawn from China. The communists severed, tem porarily at least, the route over which. U. S. forces must with draw from Peiping, site of the truce headquarters that will be abandoned with the end of America's long but futile peace efforts. Associated Press Correspond ent John Roderick reported from Tientsin that the railway link was cut at Wclshanchuang, about midway between Tientsin and Peiping. Fighting still raged there. (Telephone Sill) Portal Pay After Winter's I. ist, . f It i Upper picture shows ear parked on Main a treat, with an ice cream sign inappropriately in the background. Blow, telephone company crews work under difficulty repairing underground linn on South Sixth street. WINTER'S HEAVIEST STORM STRIKES The lash of an ocean-borne storm was felt in the Klamath basin today as winter's heaviest snowfall was recorded here early this morning. Snow started tailing early yesterday and car ried on through the night, reach ing a depth of eight inches on the level. Temperatures were mild in this area but the Associated Press said the coldest weather ever recorded on the North American continent was report ed today by the department of transport weather station at Snag airport in the Yukon, The alcohol thermometer at the air port, 175 miles northwest of Whitehorse, sank to 78.7 below zero or one-fifth of a degree lower than the previous record 78.5 registered at Good Hope, N. W. T., in 1910. Snag airport is near the Alaska-Yukon boundary. A wire bulletin from Van couver, Wash., advised that a Georgia Row Opens Again ATLANTA, Jan. 30 (JP) Talmadge leaders introduced In the Georgia legislature today their first punitive legislation aimed at quelling official opposi tion to claims of Herman Tal madge to the disputed governor ship of Georgia. The bill, offered Dy speaker Fred Hand and three floor lead ers, would strip Georgia's at torney general of his power to inquire into activities of public officials, and would force him to accept assistants named by the governor and confirmed by the senate; The target is Attorney General Eugene Cook, who has refused to recognize Talmadge as gov ernor, and who is representing Tnlmadge's rival, Lieut.-Gov. M. E. Thompson, in court action to unseat him. Cook recently rejected two assistants, nomi nated by Talmadge, and accepted four others nominated by Thompson, WEATHER MM. ill. ) 7 Mia. tl rraaialtatlaa laat M kaara ..,.! Sfraam jaar la data .......a.St Narmal ........47 Ltrt raar ..M faraeaall Saaw flarrlai. Number 10845 Heaviest Snow h C r VV'C X storm swept into that city today with the wind reaching a veloc ity of 72 miles per hour, just short of hurricane force, to leave in its wake waterfront damage which may skyrocket to the $1,000,000 mark. From Montgomery, Ala., came a story which advised of an un confirmed report that four ne groes were killed at Kent near there when a tornado struck that community. At Tallassee, six miles from the stricken area, hospital attendants estimated the number of injured up to 30. Seattle, Wash., residents shiv ered in an icy north wind which sent the mercury skidding to 30 degrees above zero after sun-up today, as slush and snow froze on the highways and numerous rural King county schools were forced to close. The bubbling weather caul dron produced a stew of snow, sleet, rain and ice for the Oregon country and the state highway department frowned on motor ists using the mountain passes. Visibility is poor at higher elevations and the commission warned motorists against using the roads unless "they have to." It was snowing and drifting over much of this area and chains are required. At Odell lake on the Willamette highway, it was snowing and a high north wind was drifting the snow. Eight inches of new fall was reported and three snowplows are operat ing on the stretch. There is a short section of one-way traffic around rock slides nine miles east of McCredie Springs. Klamath Falls' minimum was Millfeed Price Rise Expected PORTLAND, Jan. 30 (AP) An increase in millfeed prices was predicted here today as a result of the million-dollar flour mill fire at Tacoma. Leon S. Jackson, secretary of the Oregon Feed and Seed Deal ers' association, said the lack of millfeed from the big Tacoma operation would tighten the market, Sit 7 -:; - '- . .fSBi KF Man Arrested After Girl Tells Of Attack On Lonely Road Near Dorris A harrowing story told by a girl who, nude except for a single sock, was picked up on highway 97 near Dorris yester day, resulted today in the ar rest of Jack Kyle Perry, 39, ac cused of an attack upon the 17-year-old high school student. Perry was charged with con tributing to the delinquency of a minor, but California authori ties, expected here later today, may press more serious charges against him. Police say he has admitted the truth of the girl's story. The girl, her face swollen from blows received in a strug gle which occurred on a snowy side road near Dorris, is in the Dorris hospital. Police said her hands bear shallow cuts sus tained when she pushed away a knife which her assailant used in forcing her to remove her clothing. State Police Sergeant Earl Tichenor said that the investi gation shows his investigators learned the girl was induced to get into a car near the high school by a man who asked her .to go home with him to talk to his wife about their daughter. He said his wife was worried about the "daughter." The girl finally agreed to get in the car, although she said she did not know the "daugh ter." Upon . the pretext of follow ing a car in which the daugh ter was riding, the man drove out U. S. 97. The girl protest ed, but did not become serious ly suspicious until they reached Dorris, when the man' bought a bottle of wine. 21 at 8 a. m. today. Sun Moun tain pass reported 27 inches of new snow and it was "blowing and drifting." On the Green Springs highway there is a new fall of 10 inches. Plows were operating in the Lakeview dis trict where' a high wind was drifting the new snow and the same condition existed in the Bend and Lapine sections. The weather bureau said low temperatures were in prospect tonight, dropping to sub-zero levels at some points. Snow was expected here before nightfall. School buses, operated by both the county and city systems, were bringing youngsters to school on time, the Southern Pa cific advised trains were run ning on schedule and that two flangers were at work clearing the tracks, one between Klam ath Falls and Crescent and the other - on the OC&E section. Greyhound buses were making their runs on time. United Air Lines advised all trips on sched ule and that plows had cleared the runways. The airport was closed to smaller aircraft, it was reported, Basic School Plan Opposed SALEM, Ore., Jan 30 (AP) Opposition to the house plan for distribution of the $16,000,000 state basic school support fund developed today when school ad ministrators from Multnomah county and representatives from eastern Oregon leveled their guns at the plan. They charge the bill does not equalize educa tional opportunities and that the bill wouldn't' give them the money to which they are en titled. Multnomah county would get $2,700,000 from the bill, while it wants $4,000,000. Some Multnomah county legis lators would vote to repeal the whole law, which the voters passed last November. Up-state counties voted against the law, with Multnoma',4 county voters putting it into law. Returning along U. S. 97, he turned off on a side road, and the car became stalled in a snowbank. According to the girl's story, the' man then made advances and finally, angered at her resistance, produced a butcher knife which he held to her throat. She was forced to remove her clothing. Her as sailant also told her he had a gun. Deciding to make a break for it, she ran through the snow, and her assailant hurled the knife at her as she fled. She went to the highway, and stood there in the snowstorm, wear ing only one sock. Several cars passed by, she said, before Gale Duncan, driv home from work at Klamath Falls, stopped. He wrapped a coat around her and drove to his home. He and Mrs. Duncan gave the girl more clothing, and took her to the hospital at Dorris, where she was found Cantlnt aa Fafa 7, Calasa S Parking In Alleys Balked In a move to alleviate the Darkine Droblem imoosed on truckers by the installation of parking meters. Mayor Ed Osten dorf said today that he would ask the police department to patrol the alleys between Klam ath, Main and Pine and keep them cleared of parked cars and trucks. Representatives of trucking companies here have voiced pro test over the lack of loading zones on Main street, now that meters have been installed, and also claim that often the trucks are unable to use the alleyways because of parked cars. Mayor Ostendorf said that he would ask that from now on any undue parking blocking the alleys would bring on traffic tickets. Even that move will not en tirely clear up the truckers' problem, because there is no through alley between Main and Klamath from 6th to 9th, it was ooserved. Kidnap Search Draws. Blank.: MEDFORD, Ore Jan. 30 Police search, here for William Elmer Giles, sought by Cali fornia authorities in the abduc tion of 17-year-old Alice Dean Devine at Lodi, Calif., failed to turn up any suspects. Assistant Chief of Police Jo seph Cave reported today Cali fornia police had indicated the man who held the pretty girl for ransom had formerly lived here. Cave said police could learn of no person ia or near Medford of that name who answered the description of Miss Devine's ab ductor. The man, who posed as a representative of a publishing house seeking "cover girls," was driving a 1937 grey sedan, po lice said. Borneo Oil Town Scene Of Battle BATAVIA, Java, Jan. 30 (JPi Indonesian nationalists operating from jungle hideouts overran the Dutch garrison at the East Bor neo oil center of Sangasanga and held the town for two days be fore being driven out, Nether lands army spokesman said to day. It was the first serious fight ing reported from Borneo in months and tended to confirm Indonesian reports that there was a widespread guerrilla movement in Borneo favoring the incorporation of Borneo into the Indonesian republic with Java and Sumatra. MB School Deal Boils Down To Question By MALCOLM EPLEY Two hurdles another test vote by the state board of educa tion and a legislative appropria tion of more than half a million dollars face the Marine Bar racks vocation education al school project before it will be assured. The board of education meets in Salem at 10 a. m. Friday to decide whether to take the plant over from the federal govern ment. The board has already voted favorably on the proposal, and the new meeting is called to reconsider in the light of final requirements by the federal gov ernment. Inasmuch as these re quirements call fo. only a nom inal payment by the state, there appears to be no basis for a re versal by the board on that score. O. I. Paulson, head of the state vocational education program, has estimated it will cost $116, 625 of state funds to operate the vocation school to June 1 1947, and $378,841 of state funds will be required for the next blen nium. This financing must be approved by the legislature. Paulson's estimates are based on the following: To June 30. 1947 400 enroll ment with dally attendance of Settlement Reached At $1,821 Rate The carpenters' strike, effec tive since January 8, 1947, was ended at noon today when nego tiating committees from the car penters local, No. 190, and ABC and E, the employers' group, agreed to a wage scalo of $1.82) per hour. Agreements were being signed today covering all members of ABC and E, notices to be mailed out to all independent contrac tors (not members of ABC and E) authorizing a cut-back in wages from $1,871 to $1.82s, as of today, January 30, or the current pay period. The agreement will not expire until January 1, 1948, and this is agreeable to both the un ion and contractors, C. D. Long, business agent for the local, said today he was "slad the strike was finally settled and the members could go back to work." "It is my advice to each man affected by the strike to report to his respective employer and to ascertain dates when he will re turn to work. Larry Watklns, president of ABC and E, advised The Herald and News at noon today that ha confirmed the report of the local and said that details of the agree ment for the calendar year, 1947, were in the process of settle ment. Sympathy crafts are also affected by the settlement. A second meeting was scheduled this afternoon to complete de tails. Kidnap Plot Heads Sought JERUSALEM, Jan. 30 (Ft British troops swooped down on the Montefiore quarter of Jeru salem early this morning and be gan a house-to-house search for the kidnapers of a British banker who stumbled into a clinic dazed and bleeding last night after be ing held prisoner for 78 hours. The section an ancient Jewish quarter outside the old city walls was cordoned off and several hundred persons were herded in to hastily erected screening pens for questioning. At mid-morning it- was, announced that six had been detained for further exam ination. Police also cordoned off and searched the Jewish industrial suburb of Givat Shaul. Details as to how the kidnaped banker, H. A. I. Collins, a re tired army major, regained hia freedom, were not immediately disclosed. Taken to a hospital, where his condition was de scribed this morning as "ser ious," the dazed Collins told po lice: "I was badly treated and had to fight my way out." First Sugar From New Plant WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 (AP) Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore.) said that the first wood sugar was being produced today at the Willam ette Valley Wood Chemical-company plant In Springfield. - , The plant, built during war time as an experiment to turn wood waste into ethyl alcohol, is the first of its kind in the country. Wood sugar is the first step in alcohol production. "The successful production of sugar from wood waste is the culmination of years of effort by those interested in this pro duction, and marks the begin nine of a new industry which will be of great value to lum bermen in the Pacific north west," Ellsworth said. "It means a huge amount of wood waste can now be put to a useful pur pose." Of Financing 250 for three months; next bi ennium 800 enrollment with average daily attendance of 633 the first year, and 1200 enroll ment with average dally attend ance of 810 the second year. Paulson says that surveys have indicated these attendance estimates are conservative. The major purpose of the program ia to establish a statewide voca tional school at the Marine Bar racks plant. Initially, it may be used in part for overflow enroll ment from the state college, uni versity, and Klamath Union high, school. Details of transaction with the federal government have been clarified in the past few days. It had been feared that the gov ernment requirements might ser iously change the situation, but this has not been the case. The administrative costs of transfer ring the property, which the state must pay, will not amount to more than $200, it is believed. All the state must pay is the cost of transferring personal proper ty from . the Barracks to tha Klamath naval air station, - The real issue involved there fore has boiled down to opera tional financing by the state of Oregon if it decides to set up tha school. .