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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.
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THUS uuiiln us so often be
fore In the history of Anglo-
Slixnn deinocrucy the HOLlJblt
OF THE PURSE STRINGS will
control the iioverniueut.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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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
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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. .