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Marines Start For China Tffl 7 MX tt A drill of 1072 marines mow aboard tha transport Can. ".. Bracklnrldga at Ban Dltgo. apparanlly haadad lor China Hainlla Waihlnalon announcamanl that laatharnackt ara to ba withdrawn Irom that country. aaid tha contlngant wai haadad might ba racaivad an routa. Bv FRANK JENKINS (From I.uguna Heuchl SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is growing Ilka a mushroom on a dike bunk on hot spring duy after a ruin. You can SEE It growing Just as. If you look closely, you cuu reo the mushroom pushing up tho soft black dirt. There is another point of similarity. As the mushroom surge upward toward the sunlight, cracks ap pear In the mound of earth above it. Southern California, too, Is cracking under the strum of Its surging growth. Tho cracks are duo to the lack of running, which in the pust was duo largely to shortage ol materials, but now Is being held buck by the truly fabulous cost of building. a THE end result of It all Is thai with NET immigration amounting to some 2U.UU0 a month, with births exceeding deullis by about 10.000 a month, with new marriuge adding steadily to tho market for hous ing and with LITTLE BUILD ING BEING DONE, tho grow grow- Jng Internal prrsnurc is bulging J tha walls of existing dwelling apace. WHY Is California growing so rapidly? If you have an Itching font and get around lot, you will find no trouble in answering that question. All over the north and the east, you will hear people saying: "Because of the war, my roots are broken loose from tho old, familiar soil. Now is the time for me to make a change. So I'm going to California." They aren't Just talking about It. They are DOING it. Hence the souring Immigration fig ures. Hence also the bursting l the senma that is so plainly visible south of tho Tchnchapl. TJOW Is Southern California growing? By wuy of an swer, I'll give you a couple of examples. Next door to where this Is written, a new little eating shop Is opening this morning. Its proprietors are from Ohio. One of lliom has a daughter who suf fers bronchial trouble. Her fattier had been here during the war, ana ne was suro mat u nc brought her back she would ba better off. (She Is, Incidentally, and he Is pleased.) iris partner Just didn't like the t cold weather back there. "Darned If I could see any rea son for freezing to death when I could come out here and be comfortable," he says. So he came. The two of them got together and started tho little eating place. The old, cynical reason for starting a restaurant used K'anllnuaS an laia 4. Calntnn A) III I llM.w V win W 11UUIJ f Coroner's Jury Upholds Barnes In Shooting Of Deputy Sheriff Marion Barnes was acting in proper perform ance of his duty when he shot and fatally wounded Donald Gordon Roberts when Roberts attempted to break nrresl at tho courthouse Monday morn ing, a six-man coroner's Jury decided after an Inquest late yesterday. Tho jury said In Its verdict tluit under Oregon law the "killing Is defined as justifi able." At the opening of the inquest tho jurors viewed the body ot tho 28-year-old man nt Ward's funeral home and wore told by 'T)r Hnnrirn H. Ariler. coroner. that his autopsy had showed i that the .38-cal. bullet struck Roberts just below his left shouldorblade, passed through lnM nnA h a n i n..rl cume out the left side of the V chest, I First person called to testify Ant. the Inquest was LcRoy Rob if Is, route 2, brother of the, f'if'Hd man, who identified tho mdy as being that of Roberts, 'HB A marina public relations ollicar lor Shanghai, but that naw ordara AP wiraphoto. S; 6th Gets New Lights The way of travelers on the new S. 6th highway ha been brightened with the completed liulullutlon of 30 lights, one at each end of the Inland". High cancllcpower Benjamin light (in live - foul standards, with aliiniiiuim reflector have been used by the atnte highway flrpurtiiirnt. These light throw their illumlnntlun upon the dc-ci-lt-rallng znnea to help eliminate traffic accidents. Work li progressing to com plete the lighting alonit the sou 111 sido of the highway from Shasta way to Altamotit drive with the contract already let to Mark Smith. Material (or the job Is on the ground and work will be started as soon as tho telephone company has transferred its lines to underground conduits on the north side. Side hiuhway lights will top 28-foot poles with 12-foot arms. Where service streets parallel the road making a six-lune high way, there will be two lights one at each end of the cross arms, llicse service streets ex- tend In, front, of Drown Equip ment company on the south side and Swan Lake Moulding on the north side of the highway and have been paved at the expense of the companies. Property owners along the re mainder of S. 6th have Installed conduits from the Midland road to tho west end of the Job, for in stallation of lights which will be completed as soon as material Is available. AFL Offers Peace Plan MIAMI, Flo., Feb. 6 lI1) .The AFL offered an industrial peace plan of its own today but refused to back any labor bills now pend ing in congress and mobilized for a showdown over them if neces sary. The IS men of the executive council who run the AFL be tween yearly conventions con cluded their meeting with two Important actions. They supported a plan pro posed in October by the Screen Actors' guild in an effort to halt Hollywood's Jurisdictional squab bles between unions. But they went further and will try to persuade tho more than 100 na tional and international unions in the AFL to apply the peace proposals in their respective fields. President William Green said each union would be asked to try to set up arbitration tribu nals which would settle disputes as they arise without need for governmental intervention. Roberts During Escape Try and said that his brother was born in LcMars, la. NoS.'cullod was Sgt. Earl Tlcnor of state police, who arrested Roberts on tho charge, for which he was to have been tried Monday, and County Clerk Charlie DcLap, who in troduced the indictment against Roberts and a photostatic copy of the court order which de clared that he had not been found insane after a sanity hearing, Then Barnes took the stand as a volunteer witness and told his story of the train of events leading up to Roberts' death on the courthouse lawn. Barnes said that when his prisoner started to run from the second floor of the courthouse he shouted for him to stop several times, then finally, .outside the building, when Roberts was gaining ground in the chase, he drew his pistol and fired once. - After Barnes finished his tes timony, Claude Shoup, brother-in-law of tho elend man, sub PRICE FIV .-afQTaw ftftv .York tat ft Army Colonel Arrested; Accused Of Smuggling In $210,000 In Jap Diamonds SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 M') An uriny colonel with an excel lent record in the Pacific, cam paigns and Japanese occupation wo under arrest today while customs officials and the army pursued investigations result ing from seizuro of $210,000 in Jupanese diamonds. The Jewels, customs officials said, were found on the officer's person and in his sufe deposit box. The Sun Francisco port of em barkation said the officer, Col. Edward J. Murray of Palo Alto, had been placed in "technical arrest and confined to quarters" on direct orders from General MucArtliur. Murruy, Tokyo dispatches suid. was officcr-in-charge of the Bunk of Japan, in the vaults of which were millions in gold and silver bullion und diamonds held in occupation custody. Murruy arrived here Monday aboard the SS Westminster Vic tory. Collector of Customs Paul Leake said customs agents seized $10,000 worth of Japanese dia monds in his watch pocket and $200,000 more from his deposit box. Leake suid Murray was traced through a previous sale here of $20,000 worth of smuggled dia monds. He said the officer, while be ing questioned, had intimated he considered the diamonds "legitimate loot." The customs service has been working on the case, Leake said, since it was discovered some British Army Moves Jews Br CARTER L. DAVIDSON JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 P) British troops moved into secur ity "area B of Jerusalem when the zero hour for evacuation of nearly 1000 Jews from their homes arrived at noon today. Only about half the Jews had left. The soldiers helped move those who tarried. Palestine was tense and bitter. The prospect for martial law in creased after the Jewish nation al council rejected a British ulti matum to help stamp out "ter rorism." The evacuations of Jews pro ceeded In confusion In four for merly peaceful residential areas which will be converted into barbed wire compounds in an ticipation of bloodshed in the promised British drive against the underground. British wives and children of army personnel and other non essential civilians were being moved out of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. African Gold Find Very Rich JOHANNESBURG South At rlca, Feb. (A) Geologists esti mated today that the new gold strike at Odendaalstrust, which they said yielded 95 ounces of gold per ton at 4886 feet depth, would produce more in a few years than the whole Rand field did in 60 years. The strike came only 10 months after a find, three-quor-tors of n mile to the west, yield ed 62 ounces per ton at 3922 feet. mitted two questions In writing to Barnes. The deputy sheriff volunteered to answer them, al though Dr. Adler told him he could not be compelled to an swer. One question was: "Did the deputy shoot to kill?" Barnes answered, "I shot to stop the prisoner." The other query: "Did Marlon Barnes ever win medals for marksmanship?" Barnes said, "No, I never won a medal in a shooting match." Next witnesses tq bo culled to the stand had seen the shoot ing, and all told virtually the samo story of the events of a few seconds. Attorneys L. Orth Sisemore, E. E. Driscoll and Henry Perkins saw the affair from tho front of the court house, while Clyde D. Brum mcll, ex-marine living at 1826 Mitchell, saw the shooting from an upstairs window across Main street. All agreed the distance (Continued an rase 1, Column t) KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY . 1947 time ago that some diamonds had been unloaded in the San Francisco market. Leake said the diamonds were not set, but had been cut, and they ranged from a fifth of a carat to 10 carats. Murray served in the Mexican border punitive expedition and in World War I. Ho once com manded a Sacramento regiment of the national guard. Recalled to active duty before American entry Into the last war, he com manded the 160th Infantry of the 40th division in the Philip pines. He later was commander of military forces on Panay island. He was presented the Legion of Merit at Yokohama lust July. Budget Draws Criticism WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 i0) Rep. Bender (R-Ohio) declared today President Truman's $37, 500,000,000 budget "is honey combed with devastating inef ficiency," and renewed his pro posal that many federal depart ments be cut 25 per cent below 1032 appropriations. "The mandate which the peo ple of the United States have given the republican party is clear and unequivocal, he said in a statement. "We were not elected to preside over the per petuation of the greatest bureau cracy in world history. "We were elected to preside over tho disintegration of this gigantic tax-consuming moaster at the earliest possible moment." The senate finance committee meanwhile approved without change a house bill extending in definitely wartime excise taxes on lur, liquor, and other items. Two Term Bill Pressed WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 M) With democrats shouting objec tions, the house went ahead to- aay with legislation submitting a constitutional amendment that Wbuld clamp a two-term limit on the presidency. , There was no roll-call vote on a republican motion to pro ceed with two hours of debate, but scores of democrats opposed it on a voice vote after their floor leader. Rep. Rayburn of Texas, advised members to "wait a little while and cool off." Republican sponsors said they were certain of the two-thirds vote necessary to send the pro posal to tne senate late today. Asserting that the amend ment would deny future gener ations the right to select whom they please for the presidency, Rayburn said: "Let us not lightly change a document that has served us well." Florida Weather "Very Unusual" MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 6 (IP) The temperature plunged to 32 de grees at the airport weather bu reau and 35 at the city weather station early today as thousands of winter visitors stuck to their beds until the sun was higher. The Miami Beach lifeguard patrol reported only about 100 braved the ocean yesterday in contrast to nine to 10 thousand on a normal day, and 17 to 18 thousand on Sundays. ' The temperature dropped to 38 on the beach early this morn ing. Passenger List Small; Profits Big GALESB'jRG, 111., Feb. 6 (if) The Galesburg and Great East ern Railroad company, which operates about 10 miles of track and docs a big business in haul ing coal, carried only one pas senger last year realizing a revenue of 36 cents for the pas senger department. . But the little road, which is a common corrier operating be tween Wataga and Victoria, 111., and may carry passengers, ex pects to be in business for a long time. Last year the road's three loco motives hauled 600,000 tons of coal from a mine near Victoria to connect with the Burlington railroad main line at Wataga. Lake Police Hold Theft Suspects Two men are held in the Lake county jail by Sheriff Henry Cassiday as suspects in the Ore gon Food store robbery of Jan uary 27 and in the meantime a charge of vagrancy has been lodged against the pair, Peter DeYoung, 19, and Frank Henry Williams, 26. Sheriff Cassiday told The Her ald and News this morning that the men were picked up early today at the home of friends named Minor on the outskirts of Lukevicw. Officers had become suspicious of the pair at 2 o'clock this morning and after making an investigation arrested DeYoung and Willia..:s. The men had no money on their persons but have a 1937 black Buick sedan. 1946 Califor nia license P-1853. Thev have been in the vicinity of Lakeview for the past two days and were unemployed. Both said they had been working as helpers for Bales and Joost, general con tractors, on a job at Winema Farms. State police here continued the investigation and said that the record of the two at Winema Farms was "not too hot" and that they were "trouble makers." Ray Malatchi, manager of Ore gon Food store at 1749 Oregon avenue, who with his helper, Billy Joplin, 16, were held up by two men at 8:15 p. m. the night of January 27, and the till rifled of some $450. has been .askpd, to go-to Lakeview -to soe if he'ean identify the two. Ma latchi said today he was unable to leave the store but may go later. Williams is described as S foot 7 inches tall. 145 pounds. brown eyes, dark brown hair and of medium complexion. De Young, who speaks with a south ern accent, according to bnerill Cassiday, is 5 feet 11 inches tall, 165 pounds, blue eyes, blond hair' and of light complexion. The sheriff said neither of the men has been quizzed concern ing the Oregon Food store holdup. Highway Bridge Collapses After Oil Truck Wreck VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 6 (P) The Washougal river bridge 15 miles east of here on the Evergreen highway buckled from the intense heat of flaming oil trucks today and both ends slid into the river. The state patrol said no one was injured. W. E. Whitney, Camas, a wit. neso, said a hay truck was cross ing the bridge when a McCall Oil company truck, passing in the opposite direction, crashed into the side of the bridge. A second oil truck, owned by the Washington Farmers' Co-operative, was following the first and smashed into it. Both burst in to flames. It was not learned immedi ately whether they were carry ing oil or gasoline. The 220-foot steel span bridge, built In 1926. buckled and as the ends dropped, the trucks were plummeted to the river's edge. Shortly after 10 a. m. they still were burning briskly. MAX GARDNER Dies r y (Telephone tw$ Denies She's Bride Pretty Constance Palassolo (above) told authorities in Mew York that Raymond Te tried to claim her as his bride after a proxy wedding which sha said sh didn't attend. Tes was charged with causing a false le gal instrument' to be filad. AT wirepnoio. Snell Proposal Constitutional SALEM, Feb. 6 UP) Gover nor Earl Snell's proposal to balance the budget by using S6.000.000 of corporation in come tax surpluses today won the endorsement of Attorney -General - George Neuner, - who ruled the proposal is constitu tional ana wouia oe susiainea by the courts. Some legislators had felt that the plan is unconstitutional be cause the constitution says all taxes must be spent for the purpose for which they were levied. The corporation excise tax originally was levied to re duce property taxes. Neuner ruled that this con stitutional provision applies only to ordinary and general taxes for state purposes and those imposed generally on all tax able property in the state. The house assessment and taxation committee said it would give first consideration to the governor's plan. Neuner said the state tax commission agrees with him. Max Gardner Dies At 64 NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (JPh-O. Max Gardner, 64, died of coro nary thrombosis today at his Hotel St. Regis suite a few hours before he was to board the liner America to sail for his new post in London as United States am bassador to Great Britain. The death was first announced by the White House, where Pres idential Secretary Charles G. Ross said President Truman was "deeply grieved and shocked." "I have lost a loyal and de voted personal friend and the country has lost a great Ameri can," the president said in a statement. Ross said Mr. Truman had not had opportunity to give any thought to a successor to Gard ner. He gave this reply when a re porter asked " any eariy ap pointment might be expected. County Officers Pay Hike Asked SALEM, Feb. 6 (iP) The Klamath county delegation in troduced two bills in the house today to increase salaries of of. ficcrs in Klamath county. The new salaries would be: Judge, clerk and assessor, $3300; commissioners, $2700; treasurer. $3000; sheriff, $3900; and Linkville justice of the peace, $3300. Oregon High In Education SALEM, Feb. 6 (P) Oregon ranks 6th from the top in the education of her citizens, with adults having an average of 0.7 years of schooling, State Super intendent of Public Instruction Rex Putnam said today. Half of all Oregonians who earn more than $5000 a year are college graduates, and only one per cent of prison inmates are college graduates. ' dl. a WEATHER M. ir.b. () ... If Mln. Prtelallatlan laat M haara M fflraam yaar la Sala . H..4.1X Nwmal fl.SA Laal yaar. S.3S raraeaali Ctaar with naralaf fa. Sill) Numbtf 10851 Looms Industrial Strife Seen In Offing WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 VP) Chairman Alfred D. Stern of the New York City emergency com mittee on rent and housing to day advanced the possibility of a "tenant strike" there if rents are increased. Stern told a senate banking subcommittee that many tenants have told us in no uncertain terms that they are prepared to resist any increase in rents by whatever means is within their power." Rent increases .will mean many evictions over' the country, he told the committee, because "a huge proportion of the pea- pie" can't pay more. The CIO Textile Workers union told congress today that if rent ceilings are raised there may be labor trouble in the textile in dustry. At the same time the National Home and Property Owners foun dation of Philadcphia contended "there will never be an adequate supply of houses and apartments as long as there is rent control." Another property owner group, the Metropolitan Fair Rent com mittee of New York, opposed re moving controls but said a 15 per cent rent increase "is impera tive." The conflicting views were presented before a senate bank ing subcommittee considering rent control legislation. John W. Edelman said Union Director Lewis M. Conn at Dan ville. Va.. wrote on January 28 that wage negotiations were go ing on. there and., a rent raw would "contribute to possible in dustrial strife." From Atlanta TWU State Di rector Kenneth Douty reported that rent hikes would increase the "potentiality of real labor trouble. Chairman William E. Russell of the Metropolitan Fair Rent committee, proposed that con gress require OPA adjustments to provide a reasonable return on the fair value of the proper ty." He said housing space created after October 1, 1S46, should be freed of controls. Crumpacker Dies In Prison Raymond Arthur Crumpacker, 38. who was serving a life sen tence in the Oregon, state peni tentiary from Klamath county, died in prison Monday, prob ably of a heart attack, according to word received from Salem. The prison announcement said that Crumpacker had been feel ing -ill for a few days and died in the prison hospital. Crumpacker was received at the prison December 14, 1945, after he had been given a life sentence for armed robbery here. He had robbed Frazers' market on S. 6th November 5, 1945, of about $85. then made a desperate attempt to break out of the coun ty jail, slugging Jailer J. L. Brownell. Crumpacker's body is at Ward's Astoria Teachers Get Pay Boost ASTORIA, Feb. 6 VP) A sub stantial Day increase has been granted Astoria city school teachers and a minimum base pay of $2400 annually has been set up, effective next September. Besides a bonus of $250 grant ed during the war, each teacher will receive $60 annually for each year of service. Navy Air Station Surplus Sale Scheduled Feb. 25 PORTLAND, Feb. 6 UP) A $500,000 surplus property sale will open at the Klamath Falls navy air station Feb. 25, T. H. Morton, war assets administra tion deputy regional disposals director, said today. A wide variety of material is involved, made up of "what the navy left behind,'1 he said. Near ly everything will be offered in lots, in sizes to meet small com mercial buyers' needs, Morton said. Everything will be sold at fixed prices. Among items on sale are barracks furniture, desks, filing cabinets, safes, stoves, electrical fittings, win dow glass, tanks and boilers, drinking fountains, coffee urns, Federation Of Labor Raps Bill SALEM, Feb. 6 fP) The Stat Federation of Labor charged to day that the 3 per cent sales tax bill, introduced In the legislature yesterday by Rep. Earl Hill of Cushman, is merely an effort to "transfer the tax load front those able to pay to those least able." The federation, in a statement submitted to each member of the legislature, said It la douht. Uul that the bill would raise much additional revenue, be cause of its provision for a $5000 added income tax deduction and its 40-mill limit on property taxes. Added Burden "The current sales tax offer ing appears to be the ultimata as an attempt to relieve prop erty taxpayers and income tax payers and place the cost of gov ernment upon the shoulders of citizens of low and medium, in comes,"., the federation said. "The history of the saiea tax in all ages is a sorry one, and it is to the great credit of Oregon that it is one of the American states that has refused to ex periment with a form of taxa tion that has imposed an intol erable burden upon the poorest citizens while failing in consid erable measure to meet the ex pectations of those able to pay who hoped to be relieved of their fair share of the cost of govern ment, the federation's state ment continued. The federation predicted that the voters would reiect the sales tax as decisively as they have on five previous occasions. Atom Question Expedited NEW YORK, Feb. 8 UPh-An informal committee of the United Nations security council agreed today that the council should act quickly to facilitate the work of the UN atomic en ergy commission. The delegates began drafting the final version of a resolution designed to set up commission for studying arms reduction. The delegates recessed for lunch shortly- after taking up a controversial paragraph deal-' ing with the exact role of the arms commission and the atomic energy commission. The United States has de manded that these two bodies be kept entirely separate and. dis tinct. Andrei A. Gromyko. Soviet Russian delegate, did not make a final decision this morning on the U. S. demand that the pro posed commission must not over lap the assignment of the atomic commission. Gromyko' Dosition was described unof ficially as "fluid." Purse Seiner Catches Sharks PORT HUENEME, Calif., Feb. 6 (IP) The 40-foot purse seiner Gerry Z, her decks awash, sailed into the harbor last night, tow ing a man-sized load of two 30 fpot sharks. ' Skipper Danny Mihovilovic, 33, said the sharks, basking drowsily in the sun, had be come entangled in his barracuda nets and ruined five nets worth $75 each before they became exhausted. But he hoped that their eight tons, including soma 645 pounds of liver, would pay the damage. Lumber Utilization Boys Too Good PORTLAND, Feb. 6 UP) The Pacific logging conference of ficials ran into a backfire from their efforts for greater utiliza tion of forest waste material. Arch Whisnant, congress sec retary, said the group wnnted to decorate the Multnomah hotel with Douglas fir bark so the 1200 boss loggers would feel at home during the three-day ses sion opening Monday. y But processors of bark have a corner on the market for the material which Whisnant said "we used to leave in the woods." dishes, cooking utensils, hand tools and fire extinguishers. Veterans certified before the sale will have exclusive buying privileges Feb. 25-27. The next two days veterans will be certi fied at the site for business, agri cultural and professional pur poses but not for re-sale. Vet erans' re-sale certificates are ob tainable only on application to the Portland WAA office. Other priority dates: RFC for small business, March 3 until noon; state and local govern mental units, March 3 from 1 to 4 p. m.; non-profit institutions, March 4; commercial buyers without priorities, March 5 and 6. Unsold lots will be offered on spot bids March 7 and until 10 a. m. March 8 when awards will be made. 9
