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V n In TIui Time Involved WEATHER Max. (r.. 1) 44 Mia J rrMlsltsltoa Si St Slruas jnt t .4.7S Karia-I .. - Lut 7r..M In Mfr. Clemen s flays rm By FRANK JENKINS (Tiuvel Correspondence) 'ylllS wrllur, as you muni have noticed, keeps dwolllng on Iho Iiuvo development thut is coming In California as u whole mid to Sotitliurn Cnllfornlu In particular. It wi t bceaUKO of awed ad nilrutlon for tho greal statu Hint In our neighbor. UIkiipm Isn't everything In this world. An mailer of fuel, size and power are nmonil tho greatest danger we fncu. When people get big nnd powerful, they seem to lone the common touch that makes life livable for all of us. Whut goes for people goes for stales, it Kocit for oruiini.atioin. it goes lor UtixiiifaH iiuiiiiuiions. We fi'iir Itimnlu because h l too bin Hiiil too powerful. No body worries his hcitd ohout tho inn. lice of small shopkeepers and little manufacturers. It la HKi business that stirs our mls- iilvlnun. Local unions In small pUinta never hurt unybudy, unci have helped a lot of people ( ureal deal, It i the bin national union, Willi miwer anil nrlvllciie con centraied In a few hands at tho lop, Ihut bother us. nlGNKSS Is dolnii somcthinK 1J lo California that Isn't alto- gelher pleasant. It la breaking tin the iielijhborllness, the com' imin friendliness, that once was the vital essence of what we proudly call Tho West of which California Ims always been an essential part. All over Cullfiirnla, and es nrcially south of tho Tchaehapl, there are loo many people. Too many people who DON'T KNOW THEIR NEIGHBORS. Doll cut dog Is coming to bo the motto of too many In these com' munilles thut are so swollen with newcomers that nobody knows anvbodv else. Ill Knew Is doing things to Oil. Iforma that aren't wholly to be adir.lred and are not at ail to uo envied. Nobody knows that bet' ter than people who have been here a long time, and who have their roots well down into the soil Among these there Is head slinking. UT there can be NO denying that what is going on down I here Is of Immense and slgnlll' cant Interest to all of Oregon, and especially to southern Ore son. lit Southern Orewn w wont r MARKETS. Give us markets. bused unon a fair balance of do mnnd and supply, and we will take care of our own growth. Growth that Is healthy Is bused upon production, and we have tho capacity for Increased pro duction that will take care of our growth In the future If we ran find profitable markets for all wo can produce. This swarming anthill that Is row I nil ud here will bring markets for everything that Southern Oregon can produce. So what is going on here Is fully as Important to our future as wnat is going on at nomc. 1 ET - HE us add a word here on EALTHY growth. People of narrow vision, In whose make-up imagination was more or less left out, see In Southern California's present hectic development only a toy balloon that Inevitably must explode as hot air continues to be forced Into It. Watching these bursting-at-thc-seam communi ties they put their fingers In their enrs and screw up their faces In anticipation of tho In cvltnble POP. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This growth is BAL ANCED growth. At its base, providing a firm foundation for tho pyramiding structure, is IN DUSTRY. Drive through these "junny vnlloys and on every side you will seo new Industrial plants. All kinds of Industries food-processing, chemical, met al-worklng, pottery. All using native raw materials. These new Industries are bringing new workers In swarms. The new workers pro vide customers for new service industries barber shops, benu' ty shops, clothes prcsserics, restaurants, grocery stores, gns stations, plumbing shops. The IContlnuvd en Pais 6, Column 6) Veto Looms In Debate On World Arms Reduction Plan NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (if) The still-unsolved problem of devis ing machinery for worldwide arms reduction wus tossed back to tho United Nations security council today, raising tho pros pect that a veto-might bo exer cised either by Russia or tho United States. After throe days of debate be hind closed doors, a six-nation committee gave up efforts to re concile American-Russian differ ences and drafted two separate resolutions. One set forth the United States position and the other tho Soviet stand. llnth tho United Slates and Russia stood firm to the end on their basic difference tho place of atomic control In any overall disarmament plan. Thus, when n showdown vote comes the one in the minority will have to give In or veto. WatTtegardloss of the parllomcn !lry outcome, -all persons close iu liiu fjruuieiii hkictcu it wuuiu PRICE FIVE CENTS itish f ue 0 House Labor Committee Plans Probe WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 W') The house labor committee, which started out to write a new labor law, sought today to broad en Us hcurtngs into a l.iu.ooo Investigation of "all complaints of union racketeering." Chulrman Hartley R-N. J.), told reporters that If the houdo grunts the money, the commit- teo also win ' inline any otner investigations Into the entire labor situation which would help in writing a bill." This, he said, would Involve sending subcommittees Into the field to look into complaints. Three days ago he disclosed plans to send out inventigatora who will gel the views of rank-and-file union men on labor legislation. Hartley first announced the committee's new plan last night after hearing testimony from eight witnesses representing Philadelphia fruit and vegetable dealers. These witnesses, testifying un der on th. said officials of local O.tl of the AKL teamsters union had "coerced" and "Intimidated" them and vlrtuully shut down the Philadelphia wholesale pro duce murkct. Hartley also disclosed he was sending a telegram to the FBI and the Philadelphia director oi public safety, asking "complete protection" for the witnesses be cause "these men are seriously ufraid of physicul violence." Jack Perry Cuts Yrists YREKA. Feb. 8 Jock Kyle Perry, 34, tried to take his own life vesterday afternoon In the Siskiyou county Jail where he Is being held on four criminal counts arising from an admitted attack on a 17-yoor-old Klamath Union high school girl. Deputy Sheriff Thorne West said that he found Perry lying on the Jail floor at 2:15 yester day ofternoon, his wrists slashed and bleeding profusely. Perry wus given cmctfcncy treatment at Siskiyou general nospiiai. When Deputy Weal found Perry, several other prisoners were gathered around him and were apparently tying to take him Into a showe room. II was determined at the hos nlliil (hat no arteries In Perry's wrists were slashed. He had been cut and bleeding for about 15 minutes, and apparently had cut his own wrists with a razor blade. Siskiyou authorities said that Perry was "scored to death," and that Mexican prisoners in tho Jail had been telling Perry stories of lynching. They had even told Perry thut a Klamath Falls man was planning to get himself put In the Siskiyou jail to get n chance to kill him, the officials said. Perry has asked for special protection for the rest oi me time he is in the Siskiyou Jail. Ho was arraigned in superior court this morning on the charges of assault with Intent to commit rape, sex perversion, crimes against children and kidnaping. and was given until Monday at 1:30 p.m. to enter a pica. Mark Brawmun was appointed his at torney. be virtually useless to adopt an arms resolution which was op posed flatly by a great power veto or no veto. Wnrren R. Austin, United States delegate, was said to be confident that he could muster the necessary seven out of 11 votes when the council meets again probably next Tuesday. However, he was reported hesi tant about "driving" a nation to the veto because of the Impera tive need lor universal) support of any arms slashing program, Tho core of the dispute is American Insistence that the terms of reference of a proposed arms reduction commission state clearly that tho new body would not infringe on the work of the already functioning atomic en ergy commission. Gromyko held such wording was not necessary and would cast doubts on the basic general assembly .resolu . , KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, 'ffl'cP KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, B' ,V Minn 'ill mm .n mmi imi i ih This unusual basketball pose was caught by The Herald and News photographer's camera up at the high school gym last night as the University oi Oregon Frosh defeated the Klamath Pelicans 52 to 51 in an overtime battle. Jerry Thorn is about to pick up the ball for Klamath while Jo Zarosinski, on hands and knees, looks on. In the foreground is Elton Lanta of th Frosh. No. 14 coming tip is Pat WohUrs. and back of Thorn is Roger Mockford. Cannon Runs Yild On Train ILLMO. Mo.. Feb. 8P A large army cannon on a flat car of a Cotton Belt railroad freight train broke loose from Its tics yesterday and started revolving as the train moved northward. Then .the Cotton Belt train met a 125-car Missouri Pacific freight, which uses the same double-tracked railroad, and be fore the trains could be stopped the rampant cannon hud caused damage unofficially estimated at $15,000. As the cannon revolved, rail road men said, it struck almost every other car on the Missouri Pacific train, punching a hole in the side of the cars 55 in all and causing damage to the dicsel locomotive to such an extent it had to be removed from the train at Gale, III. Marshall Takes Atomic Stand WASHINGTON, .Feb. 8 VP) Diplomats today viewed Secre tary Marshall's first major poli cy statement as a guarantee of determined counter - measures against Soviet world propa ganda and attempts to link atomic energy control with dis armament. Marshall declared the United States must back up its foreign poiicy with real military power until there is "peace with a dependable basis of collective security." That, he said, means there must be a universal militory training program to supply the armed services with manpower, He told a press conference he does not agree with the Russian view that atomic energy con trol can be dealt with as a part of the disarmament question. In any case there can be no dis armament until there is interna tional security, Marshall said. Indian Receives Stab Wounds Marvin Isaacs, 20 - year - old World War 2 veteran and mem ber of the Klamath Indian tribe, received critical stab wounds in a quarrel at a Chiloquin resi dence early Friday night. Spe cial Indian Officer John Arkell said that no arrests had been made but that seven persons, two women ond five men, were involved In the fracas. Isaacs was moved by Arkell's car to a point near Barclay Springs where the ambulance transferred Isaacs to Hillside hospital. Isaacs has a particular ly deep wound, apparently in flicted by a pocket knife, under the left arm, a bad cut near the left eye and numerous other wounds. Arkoll said he had the man's shirt and counted 11 slash ings in the garment. Mm Pelicans Have This Rebound Under Control GOP's' Give Up Hope For ; Change Jn Trade Program WASHINGTON. Feb. 8 UP) Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said today the republicans may as well give up hope of changing the administration's reciprocal trade program at this session of con gress. The Ohioan, who Is chairman of the senate GOP policy com mittee, told a reporter he is sure President Truman would veto Arabs Given Palestine Plan LONDON, Feb. 8 UP) A new British plan for the strife-rid den Holy Land faced the scrutiny today of Palestine Arab leaders, one of whom said that if the plan let one more Jew Into the country "it will mean war." . Jewish agency leaders were expected to be given the formu la before next week and possi bly today; 1 . . Jamal Husseinl, head of the Palestine Arab delegation here, was handed the plan last night but put off its consideration until this morning because, he said, "I'm sure it would ruin our night's rest," Undisclosed at the time it was turned over to the Arabs, the cabinet plan was based up on a compromise between For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones. Informed sources said it called for immediate entry of 100,000 displaced Eu r o p e a n ' Jews into the Holy Land, in place of the current 1500 a month. The fear of war was voiced last night by Emile Ghourl of the Arab delegation. Arab lead ers have stood firmly against an increase in Palestine s Jew ish population of some 600.000 more than 1,000,000 Arabs also live in the country. Zionist leaders have demanded that 1,000.000 Jews be settled there soon. Utah Cops Baffled By Calls SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 8 (Except for that southern ac cent, Utah state police might be chasing Virginia's criminals all over the Beehive state and the officers blame it all on an atmospheric doublecross. For the past few weeks, Utah state police cars have been receiving every call the Virginia police have been 'giving out. "If Virginians didn't have a drawl, our cars might get con fused," Patrol Inspector Rulon Bennion said. He explained that the two radio stations use the same frequency. Bennion added that a layer of gasses at 22,000 feet deflects the Virginia broadcasts directly into the Utah patrol's network from 1 a. m. to 4:15 p. m. (MST) daily. However, after sundown, the temperature of the gas mass drops cutting the connection. Everybody sighed with relief when it was discovered the phe nomenon was. restricted to a six-hour span, but then another interesting matter popped up. When the gas cools off and Virginia fades from the network, conditions become ideal for reception of Seattle city police calls. At various other times the patrol has also crossed networks with Indiana and New York police. 4BRUARY (, 1947 (Talepbona anv bill lo limit the tariff-low ering authority of the state de partment. And he said there is no pos sibility that the necessary two thirds vote could be mustered in both house and senate to override a veto. "For practical purposes, Taft said, "we can t do anything about the reciprocal trade program until next year when the present law expires. Enough democrats are certain to go along with the president to prevent repeal of the law or any material change in it." Nevertheless, Taft made it clear he does not subscribe to the compromise trade proposals put forward yesterday Dy sen ators Vandenberg (R-Mich), chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, and Mull- kin (R-Colo.), chairman of the senate GOP conference. In brief, Vandenberg and Mil Jkan proDOsed that the presi dent exercise the power they said he already has to overrule inclusion in trade pacts of tariff cuts that threaten damage to American Industry. They proposed also that "es cape" clauses be put in agree ments with foreign nations, by which the president could mod ify or wipe out cuts that "peril" business at home. Train Wreck Fatal To One CARROLL, la., Feb. 8 UP) Twenty -nine passengers of a Chicago . Great Western train halted here late Thursday by snowdrifts on the track, still were living in two railroad cars and prospects were dim that the train could proceed to Minneapolis today. The weather bureau reported the high winds which have been drifting the snow probably would not abate before noon today. Railroad officials ar ranged sleeping quarters for the passengers in one Pullman and one coach car, and were providing meals. imstraAnn Number 10853 im uu Industries To Close On Monday - LONDON, Feb. 6 (P) A wide spread press attack was loosed today against Fuel Minister Em anuel &ninwen as irime wiin ister Attlee's labor government faced a severe storm of public and parliamentary criticisms over the coal crisis which will force a major shutdown of Eng land s industries Monday. "Shinwell must go." three con scrvative provincial papers pro claimed, and even tne la Dome London Daily Herald took to task Shinwell and other members of Attlee's cabinet, accusing them of failure to keep the public in formed of ther developing crisis which has been aggravated by the severe cold wave that has gripped Europe for 1 1 days. Factories Clos On the continent the spreading coal crisis caused a drastic in dustrial shutdown in the Amer ican zone of occupation in Ger many, leaving some 250,000 workers virtually idle. About 80 per cent of the factories in tne state of Wuerttemberg-Baden be gan slowing down production oi heavy equipment this morning in preparation for a total halt ordered Monday. The u. S. zone shutdown was ordered last night by the Amer ican and German authorities. Political tension mounted in Britain amid speculation whether conservative leader Winston Churchill would choose Monday, the day of the industrial shut down in the London, Manchester and Birmingham areas, as the psychological moment to offer a motion ot censure, a-move-be recently announced he planned to make in February. Industrialists j Face Charges NUERNBERG, Feb. 8 UP) The United States formally charged five German industrial ists with war crimes today in an indictment linking the business brains of the third reich with the worst deeds of the politicians and generals. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, chief American prosecutor, served the indictment against Friedrich Flick, 63-year-old industrialist who had vast power, and four men associated with Flick in a far-flung iron and steel enter prise. Named with Flick were Otto Stcinbrinck, Konrad Kaletsch, Bernhard Weiss and Hermann Terberger names known throughout Germany but seldom if ever heard beyond the borders. These five ran the "Flick con cern," biggest private enterprise of Its kind in Europe and second only to the Hermann Goering works. Soldier Admits "Black Dahlia" Butcher Slaying . FORT DIX, N. J., Feb. 8 (iP) Capt. William Florence, head of the army s criminal investigation department here, announced to day that Corp. Joseph Dumais K 1 n .1 . . . 1 . 1. . 1 . M T7-1 : abeth Short (the Black Dahlia) in Los Angeles. Capt. Florence said Dumais had signed a lengthy statement in connection with the mutilation-murder of the attractive brunette and had admitted un der questioning that he had com mitted the crime. Post Public Relations Officer Cornelius T. Morris, who re leased the statement from Flor ence, said Dumais. a 29-year-old military policeman from Clare- mont, N. H., had Identified marks on the slain girl's body which were corroborated by Los Angeles police. Daughter Admits Slaying Father ST. LOUIS, Feb. 8 (IP) J. Vin cent Reardon, president of a St. Louis paint manufacturing con cern, was shot to death early today and Coroner Arnold J. Wlllmann said Reardon's 14-year-old daughter had admitted the shooting. Willmann quoted Mary Rear don, a junior high school stu dent, as saying she shot her father because he had stopped her from running away from home with a 13-year-old boy friend and she feared she would be put in a boarding school. 8111) Suit " By ARTHUR W. EVERETT DETROIT. Feb. 8 UP) Federal Judse Frank A. Plcard tod dismissed the Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. portal-to-portal pay case. ine court lurtner held that It small amounts of portal tlm are to be considered compensable, that industry should not b held liable for payment before last June 10, when the supreme court first outlined the portal-to-portal theory. In his 29-page opinion Judge Plcard concluded "Let ui not b understood as holding that all portal-to-portal suits should b dismissed. There may be, and perhaps are, many instances where walking and the preliminary activity time consumed is of such an amount as to call for compensation that the worker is not now receiving, but this is not one." Judge Picard went back six years to the original ruling of the master in chancery to hold that the pottery employes are not entitled to any overtime pay whatsoever. Tim Trifling The court held that at best the pottery workers might have accrued time in walking to their Jobs. He held that this time wai trifling, he added: "We go one step further and we hold that should we be in error in determining what the supreme court meant; should it b held that the supreme court intended the walking time to b computed both ways, morning, noon and night, and that this pyramided walking time being over 12 minutes was not de minimis, we then believe that in all fairness to this defendant such a holding would be of a nature not intended by either th fair labor standards act or congress, and that it would amount to an unfair and unexpected penalty against this defendant unless we took a second step and applied the doctrine of retro activity and alleviation. "In this particular case this company relied upon the wag and hour act as administered and interpreted by the adminis trator and the courts. V. S. Approval A representative of that department checked on the method of computing time and overtime at this plant in 1939 and placed its stamp of approval thereon. If the opinions, administrative letters, regulations, and decisions of our courts were followed, this would warrant any industry, including this defendant, in not computing less than 20 or 25 minutes a day walking time and preliminary activities as compensable. "The doctrine btat walking time and preliminary activities under some circumstances are compensable is not new. But close analysis of cases that have passed upon the question indi cate that they do not apply to the general field of manufacture except where the employe admittedly had to report at a certain hour where the walking and preliminary activities tune was 'considerable' or 'substantial.' Never before has ' anyone at tempted to bring walking and preliminary activities time con sumed into such a narrow, plcayunish, meager sphere. Further more we do not believe that the supreme court ever intended such an interpretation." Judge Picard began reading his opinion to newsmen at 1:30 p. m. (EST). . He spent nearly an hour in his crowded chambers explaining the background of his decision after extracting a promise that he would not be quoted except from the decision itself. Suburban League Goes Against Tax Opposition to the proposed state sales tax was put on rec ord by the Suburban League at a meeting Friday night. Matters of bus and mail service to south suburban areas were also dis cussed. A petition was presented to Louis Soukup, owner of the Klamath Bus company, for addi tional service. Complete loop trips were suggested with travel going out one street and return ing by the other on Shasta way and S. 6th, reversing the direc tion on alternate trips, and charging an additional 10-cent fare for persons traveling be yond the terminal point at Madi son. Soukurj promised full coopera tion to improve service, counter ing with a suggestion to add a bus on the half-hour, making two trips each way per hour, with the additional fare. The company will submit several workable schedules next week for approval of the league, he said. Present "mounted" mail serv ice is deemed unsatisfactory, us ing central boxes, each serving several families. The house ad dress system is employed with individuals sorting their mail from the central boxes. This problem is to be taken up with postal authorities. The league went on record oDDosine HB 88 with resolutions going out by wire Friday morn ing to Salem. This bill gives the county court authority to deter mine the type and location of buildings erected. Next meeting of the league will be held Friday, February 21. Elliott Roosevelt's Friend Lands One NEW YORK, Feb. 8 (IP) Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr. said he was hit on the jaw after a radio broadcast last night by a friend of Elliott Roosevelt after Lewis, Roosevelt and the latter's wife, former Movie Actress Faye Emerson, exchanged words in the studio. Lewis said Roosevelt accused him of insulting his wife and he said he then was punched by Dick Harrity, of the publishing house of Duell, Sloan and Pearce, publishers of Roose velt's new book about his late father. The audience leaving the studio separated them, he said. Roosevelt later apologized to him, Lewis said, and he apolo gized to Roosevelt. Lewis gave this version of the encounter, which occurred after a broadcast of Mutual's "Meet 7ortt Slow WASHINGTON. Feb. S JPi Frank Heintzleman, forest serv ice airecior in Alaska, yester day reported to Interior Secre tary Krug that even after con tracts have been signed and construction started, it will be three years before actual pro duction can start in Alaska's paper and pulp development. He said half a dozen excel lent millsites have been sur veyed in southeastern Alaska and power sites have been ex plored which are capable of producing more than 800.000 horsepower of hydroelectric en ergy. An Interior department spokesman said Heintzleman as serted that large scale develop- ment must await settlement oi aboriginal rights to - forest lands. Highway Death Rate Drops SALEM, Feb. 8 UP) Despit an all-time record of 479 per sons killed in Oregon traffic accidents last year, the state's traffic death rate dropped, Sec retary of State Robert S. Far--rell Jr said today. The traffic death rate in 1948 was 10.5 killed per 100,000,000 miles traveled, compared with 11.8 in 1945. Farrell suggested organiza tion of high school student safe ty councils to supplement class room instruction in driver training. His office is distributing a series of high school safety manuals to help student safety councils to organize and con duct accident prevention pro grams. On Lewis' Jaw the Press" . program. In whicn Roosevelt was Interviewed by newsmen, including Lewis: Roosevelt questioned Lewis about a broadcast Lewis mad in 1945 in connection with the Texas State radio network, of which Roosevelt then was stockholder. , 'Mrs. Roosevelt entered th discussion, and Lewis told her, "You weren't in the picture at that time.. You weren't too close . to Elliott at that time." Roosevelt asked Lewis: "Are you insinuating that my wife is a liar?" Then the hitting episode o curred, Lewis said. Harrity and Roosevelt, who left the studio after the Incident, could not be reached for com ment, i A
