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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1947)
MAN PRICE FIVE CENTS By FRANK JENKINS AFIIIE biuko uut llila nuirnl of flee biillillnu In which lliln ivrllrr wiw worKlnK. H wim wimi Iho reporter no oiien nei'rioo n "ulubhurn" lilnte. U"t to liectuculur. At time, tlie imuke would bil low out into tho lreet, encour nulnu tho (pectutom, but tilt-He rllMlnVM In-ilt-fl fiMv U ItlllllltU HI mit TIimii llm Mmrikn Wflllld blow iiwny mid tho hope thiit were obviouniy cnteruiinea oy crowd would (nil. the WltlLE tho fire, in ll outward " nnd vmlblo npcct, w dl- (ppolutlttK. tho ahow put on uy the firo di-piirtment In -ttlni( to the scciio wiu all tlml could be Ui-alrcd. l.erf bv red automobile cur rylnu the diatrlct chief chemlcnl eiiltinea, hook and ladder truck and hone cart beuun to pour In from all direction. It wo cilll dally deacribed a a two-alarm hliue, and each alurm hrouiiht a atUfylnii proceaion of equip ment, all with (Iron waning iiko bunshee. Tho hrk-klnu ilrcna (topped all work within a block, and every window (aclnK on tho fire promptly filled with head. Uut traffic In the itrccta didn't atop any more than would have been tho cans In a country town. Kach driver went rliihl on, hop ing: to bp able to kcl in tho clear and ito on about ma uiiainc uo fore ui-ulnu cauiihl In a lam. At tho name time, all pede trlan atopped In their track and then dived headlong INTO tho Jam. LIUMAN nature I funny that wy. If you're afoot when a fire ataru, you don't care if you never gel to work. But If you're awheel, you want out of there qu ck. ... I A FIRE it popularly tuppotcd to be hot aluir in a wnall town, and when talking to their country cnuotti the blrtxlly folk ammo a Ulane air. t o near mom talk, von wouldn't think they rver punned In their enrcen for anything liort oi oartnquaKes and tidal wave. That' Jut the old metropol itan razmntaz. Thcao city dick er are uckcr for a good fire, or fur a traffic craah at an Intemec tion or even for a dogfight. If it I true that Judy O Grady and the Colonel lady are Hater un der the kln, It I equally true that city people and country peo ple are full blood brother when the fire drens begin to yowl. Both want to aoe the how. "THEY'RE alike in another way. Nobody abort of the unln Riired owner of the (tuff threat ened by the fire demon and hi unsecured creditors EVER watched a fire without harboring the secret hope thnt it would get out of control and go racing in every direction SAVE in the di rection of each watcher's pro perty. This writer can remember watching when a small boy a fire In the flour mill that was the town chief economic asset EVERYBODY wa there. And everybody excepting owners and maybe a few key employees whs hoping secretly that it wonlcl te a big one this time. The flumes would die out under the stream of water poured on by yho sweating firemen, and hopes --vould sink. Then tho conflaura Hon would break out somewhere else nnd plensed anticipation would be written on every fnco. . TT was exactly like that in this 4 crowd In one of America's most Important cities. Don't let anybody toll you that city people and country people are different. They're, as alike as peas out of me some pon. "THE fire turned out to be a nasty one, oven if it didn't provide much of a show. Six fire men were injured, and were hauled awny In ambulances. The lire dennrtmcnt estimated the loss at $7300 and the owner at , SZUU.UOO. As a final trait in human na ture, those who had looked on from beginning to end bought copies of the first editions of the (C.nlin. n P.st . Column I) Attack By Dogs Kills Small Boy VIRGINIA, Minn., Feb. 1 (P) Glen Brace, 5, was bitten to death here Friday by six Dober mon Plnschcr dogs, that got free from their pen as the lad arrived to admire them. Dr. J. Arnold Malmstrom, dep uty coroner, said Glen, the son of Mr. and Mrs, Howard Brace of Virginia, died of multiple bites and resultant loss of blood. A. W, Blbblns, the dogs' owner, discovered the tragedy when he hoard the animals barking, and oortnred the seven months old tltys shot. III Tins ... Day's Ms KLAMATH FALLS, OHE' alasfSps Talked Barbed Wire Strung In Jerusalem Br CARTER L. DAVIDSON JERUSALEM, Feb. 1 (!') Military labor crew went Into action before dawn today re atrhiglng barbed wire barricade and renewing defensca, In an apparent cond atep by the Hrltiah government to turn all Palestine Into a fori rem against underground violence. Yesterday tho government or dered all non-esiwntlal British women and children together with oine. men evacuated by Tut-day, moved tho families of married army men Into barrack and told government otflclal to prepare for a lmllar move. Working in rain and mud, military group could be een re furbishing Jerusalem' defense lines with burbed wire. Some block of flat previously used as officers' club wcro being bar ricaded, lending Impetus to re ports that the blocks were being taken over a compound. Protest against yesterday' evacuation order Increased to day as houaewive vehemently opposed leaving their huabanda to return to wintertime England. Wive of police officers, given the option of slaying if their hulbunds agreed, banded in Sa rona encampment at Tel Aviv to declare: "we stay." Unicameral Plan Offered SACRAMENTO. Calif.. Feb. I (Pi a new attempt to establish a unicameral legislature in Cali fornia, rather than the present two-chamber system, began in tho senate assembly yesterday with the introduction of a pro posed constitutional amendment. -ri, kin vv r.li-nn M Ander son (D) of' Hawthorne, proposed a single nouse ui iu mcsi and 40 senator, the former to be elected by districts on a population basis, the latter to represent areas of not less than 30.000 population. Senator and assemblymen would lit together, with the lieutenant governor a probable presiding officer, he said. Previous attempts to change California's legislative system have been defeated. More Power In Bomb Seen WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 ) A hint of new and more power ft I atomic bombs came from the domestic atomic energy commis sion today as senators deferred final action on President Tru num's six nominations to the agency. The commission, In the first of two report it Is required to submit to congress yearly, an nounced that "research and de velopment wdrk on Improved atomic weapons Is in progress." A member of the senate-house atomic committee, who asked not to bo quoted by name, said he interprets this as- confirma tion of rumors that something vastly moro powerful than the bombs which dropped on Japan is In production. Democrats Light Backfires Against Budget Trimming WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 P) Democrats began a determined- backfire today against GOP pro posals to trim billions out of President Truman's budget in J (reparation for a 20 per cent ncome tax flash. Rcd. Cannon (D-Mo.). veteran member of the tax-fixing ways and means committee, scoffed at assertions that 1,000,000 gov ernment workers can be fired at swing of $3,500,000,000 a year, Rcd. Forand (D R. I.) said he will counter any attempt to vote a 20 per cent across-the-board tax reduction with a substitute bill giving most relief to the low Income brackets. And Senator Lucas (D-I1U de clared the republican economy military security and "the finan cial security of every American TATUHDAY, FEBHUAHY 1. 1947 US Officer Target Of Red Tirade BERLIN, Feb. 1 tlf) MuJ. Gen Alexander Kotlkov, Rus sian commandant for Berlin, in an action unprecedented in tho occupation of Berlin, made an open attack today on Col. Frank L. Howley, American deputy commaiidunt, In the official red army newspaper, Tacgllcho HunilNchau. Gen. Kotlkov, for the first time appealing to the Germans aguinst one of his colleagues in the allied commandntura, ac cused liowley of attempting to "sabotage" the election of mem ber of Berlin's trade union fed eration and Indirectly accused him of threatening the "recon duction of German political lifo on a democratic basin." Gtn. Kotlkov permitted the publication by Taegliche Rund schau of the complete text of a long statement which he made to the members of the com mandatura yesterday a bitter tirade against Col. Howley and other "American personalities" whom he accused of "exerting pressure" on the Berlin unions. AFL Bids For United Front MIAMI, Flo Feb. 1 UP) Leader of the AFL today used CIO President Philip Murray's bid for a united labor front as an opening to propose a merger of the rival labor groups. Strategically, the AFL execu tivo council, meeting here, put Murray on a spot. They said the 'kind of unity of action with which Murray sought to combat anti-labor forces could come only through "organic" or physical merger of the more than 13,000,000 members of the two big outfits. Murray on Dec. 3, suggested that tho CIO, the railroad brotherhoods and the AFL should work together to fight off unfavorable legislation at a particularly gloomy time for labor. John L. Lewis' miners still were on strike and In dustries were being forced Into idleness for lack of fuel. Midwest Gets Cold Warning By The Associated Praas Cold wave warnings were is sued for Minnesota and Iowa to day as forecasters warned that a new cold spell was headed for the midwest. Chilly weather moved into the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas today, with a temperature of 27 below zero reported at Lemmon, S. D Bnd -26 at Minot and Wil liston, N. D. The weather bureau at Chi cago said the cold would cover the eastern half of the country by tomorrow night, with the ex ception of New England and Florida. In addition, a new storm, cen tered today In tho state of Wash ington, will move southeastward and brlno snow to the north- central states tomorrow night and Monday. who has Invested In government bonds." The wholesale cut in the num. ber of civilian federal employes, which now stands at 2,300,000 was proposed to the- senate' house budget committee yester day by Chairman Taber (R N.Y.), of the house appropria tions group. Chairman Knutson (R-Minn.), of the house ways and means committee, told reporters later it whs the "general feeling" at the meeting that the payroll could be cut to 1,300,000 with out impairing government func tions. That total, he said, would sUl! be 400,000 more federal workers than there were in 1930. Cannon dismissed the meeting of the budget group, a combina tion of committees which will fix a ceiling for federal spend ing, as a "political field day" for the GOP. (TcUpboi Bills Slated At Salem On Official Pay A measure will be introduced in the legislature to give the members of Klamath county's elective official family salary raises of $600 a year, according to Representative Henry Soman. Klamath county's budget for this fiscal year seta aside money for $600 raises for the county judge, two commissioners, clerk, sheriff, tax assessor and treas urer. Other measure are anticipat ed to give raises to the circuit Judge, from $6000 to $8000, and district attorney, from $3000 to $3600. Ur-der the present pay scale the county judge gets $2700 a year, the commissioners $2100, sheriff $3300, clerk $2700, as sessor $2700 and treasurer $2400. $600 Incraata Semon said that a straight $000 raise would be asked for in the house measure, but that there may be some changes be fore it comes out of the com mittee. Already there has been some discussion of whether the two commissioners should get a $600 raise because their job necessitates only two or three work days a week, and docs not keep them from having another occupation. All the county elective offi cials have been receiving $25 a month over their listed salaries for the past four years, granted in temporary legislative meas ures during the war years, but the provision for those raises ex pired January 1. Anoolntive county ... employe ..- have-tbaen given salary increases In the pait year. County Judge U. E. Reedcr, Clerk Charlie DeLap and Sheriff Lloyd L. Low have been in Salem discussing the pay pro position wiui members of the legislature. The $600 raise was approved by R. P. Ellingson, A. D. Collier and E. M. Hammond, the budget committee, last summer and okayed at the budget hearing. Soak Reaction It is also understood that legis lation will be sought to raise the pay of Justice of the Jeaee Joe Mahoncy of the Linkville dis trict. Legislators have indicated they would be interested in re ceiving evidences of public re action to the proposed pay in creases of county officials. They may be addressed at the state house at Salem. Japs Call Off Wildcat Strike TOKYO. Feb. 1 (JTh Ali Japan Express company union tonight cancelled a wildcat strike, reporting it was acting miner pressure from General MacArthur's headquarters, but told its locals to be ready to walk out on a moment's notice. The strike was scheduled to morrow night. The union claims 130,000 members. Earlier today, leftist labor leaders, in their first open chal lenge of MacArthur's authority, petitioned the allied council for the Far East to investigate Jap anese labor conditions and Mac Arthur's orders cancelling a scheduled strike of 2,400,000 government workers. Express union leaders charg ed management had taken ad vantage of MacArthur's strike ban to reject a compromise of workers' demands. Struck Papers Quit Publishing PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 (P) The Philadelphia Record com pany, whose three newspapers in Philadelphia and Camden, N. J., have been strikebound since No vember 7 by the American News paper Guild (CIO) suspended pub lication today. The Record said the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia would acquire all three newspapers and radio station WCAU. 1 Suspension of the Record left the nation's third largest city with three daily English language newspapers. Tho Guild struck - the three newspapers for hlghev wages and hotter working conditions. All three papers, however, continued publication until today with ex ecutive personnel taking over editorial duties. weather I I Gasoline Spring Tapped I Mis. Utm. Ill Ill Ml JM PrulplUtl0a M hBr fflraai jrar ! flat 4,1f Nrmtl .9f Mil ;tar..uJ.f FcrMftili Llibt rtlat. a 811 1) Number 10847 J J .11 "vS- I J Mr ,rr . 7.'- - J Jim Scott, manager of th Safeway grocery on Main (treat, display a jug of ethyl gasoline taken from a sump in tha basement of hi store building. The -gas leaked out of a storage tank at Ernie Bridger' errice station aero the atreet and into ' the Safeway store. Bridger estimate that he lost around 600 gallon of the stuff that make automobile run. Mysterious Gasoline Seepage Into Store Basement Sump Traced To Station Tank The source of a mysterious spring that gushe'd forth pure ethyl gasoline in the basement of the Safeway store at 12th and Main has been located at Ernie Bridger's service station across the street. Jim Scott, manager of the Safeway store, discovered the spring after smelling gas in his store for several weeks. Gaso line was running In a red flow into a sump in the grocery store basement. Scott notified a plumber who Idaho Project Will Pay Out BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 1 (A) When the Tieton reclamation division of the Yakima valley turns $19,630 over to Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug on February 14, it will be the first reclamation project in the nation to repay the complete building outlay, the regional office of the bureau of reclamation disclosed today. Since its opening in 1910, the area has produced an estimated $157,085,358 in crops 45 times the federal investment of S3, 597.479. Residents from all parts of the northwest will gather in Yakima February 14 to honor the Ticton "old-timers." In addition to Secretary Krug and Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, other northwest governors have been invited to attend. rruck Parking Will Be Topic A meeting has been called by Mayor Ed Ostcndorf for Monday at 10:30 a. m. in the Klamath County chamber of commerce board of directors rooms to dis cuss the receiving of freight and parking of trucks in the down town area, it was announced to day. The session is the outcome of the parking meter Installation as it affects trucks. 1' , A ' diagnosed the fluid as pure gas oline, and then the fire depart ment began looking around to see where it was coming from. Firemen checked all the gas pumps and tanks in the neigh borhood all the way up to the high school without finding a leak. Tank Excavated Then a closer check threw susoicion on a 1002-gallon aux iliary storage tank at Bridger's Standard station. A pressure pump put on that tank forced gas into the. Safeway sump in bucketsfull. The big tank was excavated and the cause of the leak was apparent rust and time had eaten through the metal around the rim of the container. Ethyl gas from the tank had been seeping out the end of the tank, drifting along under Main street into the drainage tile in front of the Safeway building and on into the sump. Scott could bail gasoline, a little dirty but virtually pure, from his sump by the gallon. - Now that the tank at Bridger's station is out the flow of gas into the sump has slackened to a trickle, but a little is still com ing in from the gas-soaked ground under the street. Gas Mining Bridger said that his tank had been in the ground eight years. There had been 850 gallons of ethyl in it before the leak was detected, and when the tank was taken out only about 150 gal lons remained, a net loss of 600 Solon Says Order Mix-Up Proves Need Of Rent Hike WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (&) Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.), de clared today Maj. Gen Philip B. Fleming's decision to order a 10 per cent rent ceiling boost without consulting President Truman proves landlords should receive an increase. Fleming, administrator of the office of temporary controls, told the senate banking com mittee he ordered the hike into effect not knowing the presi dent has repeatedly opposed such a move. James W. Follin, Fleming's deputy, was going ahead with the order when it was killed abruptly at. the White House. The mixup occurred late Wed nesday, while Fleming was in Iowa to attend his mother's funeral. gallons. A new tank is being shipped down from Portland for installation. Fire Chief Keith Ambrose said that from now on his depart ment was going to have to watch for proper installation of gaso line and fuel oil tanks 'and that they should be tarred or coated in some way to resist rust and deterioration. . . . Perry Hints Guilty Plea Jack Kyle Perry, held on four criminal charges in the Siskiyou county jail at Yreka, was taken to Dorris today for arraignment in justice court by District At torney Fred W, Burton and a sheriff's officer. Perry, 34, is charged with as sault with intent to commit rape, crimes against children, sex per version and kidnaping, all charges based on an attack on a 17-year-old Klamath Falls girl on a side road near Dorris Wednesday evening. The man has admitted the at tack on the girl in a signed state ment taken while he was held in jail here, and has indicated that he will plead guilty to all charges. In justice court he can either ask for a preliminary hearing or he can waive the hearing and indictment and go directly into superior court. The Wisconsin first-termer questioned Fleming intensively following his statement yester day. "He admitted that his Ideas hadn't changed since three days ago when he thought there should be a 10 per cent in crease," McCarthy said later in an interview. Fleming told the committee landlords in general are better off than they were before-rent control, but that an increasing number are finding themselves in an unfavorable financial po sition. He explained that with the limited staff available, it might be beyond the administrative ability of his office to grant relief to individual hardship cases expeditiously. Chief Beams On Building Peace Plan By ERNEST V. VACCAHO WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (yp President Truman talked ex uberantly today of the now period of "good labor news" in announcing a voluntary arbltra. indnu.t?yr.eement ln 0,9 bulldln a..i.. irvT' Between the Associated General Contractor . r ""- nru rjUHO ing and construction trade de EteL Sfl? voluntary r. r, . Drevcl" work stop pages by lockout or strike. " president sa d it would ba a "significant step forward hi industrial relations in this coun- , nopea " would spread to other industries. No Trip P.On.lw , ,. . . "-"''" ' "appuy, no told re- S?iie lni.a 'ormal statement that "we have had good kbor news during the past ten days. . . "c iuiu newsmen: -Inl .ha?no '"'enHon of leav. &kffiHL?"n3'r. """'her . ur. a ili r ",,a " Min tho,,ffAhlee meet him he megenge" 2. Ma J. Gen. Philip b. Flem. Pon,ibTmyWWVheaK?0''. per cent rent InrrooL "L . '"H - to knaVLf 5 want...' I . pi" in: nappen tow Fleming, the president said nothing will haplpen. tJi'.tiJ'01 inaugurated a "lam. j . .. "PPOintment of n" .&! government i . """"urii ne nas never racked , defeate1 member ot congress for a job. Likes Flying K". "if 10 "eep on flying ne uites to, and th tm,Ce has not indicated SL" any worry on that Kore. n b5erved that when your train Two Z " Pne or a cJa'a ?P" ingress will do ciare a policy on air safety. Ico Citv "2 ""n-rtoP to Mex her f Mar?h 3 when Hoes .6. He hasn't been invited in ScttoVoada-:",thou thai ?-Ue,?S,nld.,"bou' "Port ,, v ' uccroea to poll all state governors In the future on tf thersiboSanpolicy. he ad Houi0rl,fme-from he Whit. - of-thTUTol .22 More Sugar In '47 Demanded Ahouse committee investigating food shortages "insisted" unani mously today on 10 to 13 pounds ttX?au io'erery America this year. It said industrial users The committee rushed its re port and recommendations to Sectary of Agriculture Clinton ... ul advance of a Monday meeting of an Interna uonal moo. ah.j... ... . wUl try to divide the world sup .uT.hfuCommittee said it "insists that Tha ....... . - r .. vi agriculture retain approximately 3,300,000 ,, short tons of Cuban snioar"- which the U. S. has bought un der an agreement with the Cu- Manholes Circled By AFL Strikers NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (JP) Lo. cal 3 of the AFL's International Brotherhood of Electrical Work ers has adopted the novel strike technique of picketing open manholes where non-striking CIO men are working. AFL pickets with cardboard signs marched in circles, around manholes yesterday, occasionally shouting down to the men below the streets. Thomas Gordon, a picket, said dizziness was an occupational hazard of the picketing. The picket circle was small, he said, so the strikers walked slowly and kept switching their move ment from clockwise to counter clockwise. Snow Vanishes At Portland PORTLAND, Feb. 1 (JP) More than six inches of snow covered Portland's west hill late yesterday but by dawn it had vanished, melted by high er temperatures and pouring rain. Starting shortly after noon yesterday, snow flurries turned to a steady fall but soon after dark rain mixed with anow. A few hour later rain took over completely. Throughout the city street were snow covered and traffic was slowed to a crawl during the early evening rush hours.
