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Newspaper Page TextMM. r IBS M !W 1- ( H 1 lit) iwwwx ww wnl llav's Jews By FRANK JENKINS (Travel Corrcpondcne) WHEN Fra JunlMiro Serr and hit mllltury ocort, aflor traveling overland Ilia wholt hot, dry length of the peninsula of I.owor California, reached Sun DW-go bay (about 1771) they wi-ru met by aupiily nhipn Hint hud come up from Mexico, .Sun Dli'iio win to be the sits of tin- flrnt inlimloii, and the ihlp cunii'd luod, utensils and mull nuinlior of skilled worker. The bulk of the labor nece. ii ry for the building of tho misrlnna end for their operation and maintenance afterward wni to ba rocrultcd from the native papulation. THE native proved lo be a lifforant lot. They lived larnely on a diet of acorn, aupplemenled by roots, herb, grauhoppcr, liz ards, etc. But, meager a their existence wan, they resented In trusion upon It, and there wai eonlrierublo fighling before they proved lo their bitter nolii fuction that their puny bowi and arrows were no match for the wer.poiin and the armor of the Spaniard. Thereafter the tank of con vention and civilization proceed edbut at a alow puce. They had never worked for them elvi. and could ace no merit In working for theiie itrango new comer. Teaching them that their bread ttiunt be earned by the sweat of their brow wi tome thing of a lk. HOW did Father Serra bring them around to the white mu-t'i way of living? Well, like a lot of wonicn who have tamed tin- wild men that hunbandi are whin finally captured and brought Into the matrimonial camp, he "fed the brulea." TAMING even thru fimple ravage won't eay. You'd think that after a diet of acorn, root, herb, grau ho'Xr and lizard they'd have Sone fur white man' food in a IB way. They didn't. They BALKED at it. t A.k ome candid houewlfe ' how he managed with her hu- i bund after she gut him home 1 frorr tho honeymoon and began 1 feed him out of her new French cookbook. She'll prob ably tell you that in apllo of all hu could do he hungered long for the food of hi youth. It waa that way with these California Indian. From time to time. In iplte of all the prleit could do with their pot and pan, they'd Jump the reserva tion and go in aearch of a good vquare meal of gramihoppera. liz ard, etc. The loldier would have to be icnl out to bring them back. YVHO know how many hu- bund might have taken to the brush In the early year of tho civilizing proccn we call marriage If it hadn't been for wh'it the neighbor would think? These primitive reiident of early Southern California wera restrained by no luch Inhibi tion. The neighbor they knew luiciii't yet begun to think. So when they felt an Irresistible craving for acorns, garnished with lizard and grasshopper au naturel, they took it on the lorr.. Tne soldier often had a hard time bringing them back to a aense of obllgution to their new responsibilities and opportun ities. They killed some of them in the process. DUT In time civilization had " Its way with them, and they ac(iired a fatal taste for the gruels and the tortillas and the mulligan that the white men fed them. Also they came to like their rations regularly. Thereafter the Jig was up. No more roaming the hills ac cording to the dictates of their own free will, eating when they could catch a lizard napping, or a grasshopper off his guard, or an oak tree at acorn season, and going Independently lean and lank at other times. They became victims, you see, of their GROWING WANTS. "THIS gadget civilization of nurs has snorod us all In the sanif colls. If we could go back to shako cabins, ragged jeans (Continue en Pes 4, Column S Four Die In Coast Guard Plane Crash MEDFORD, Feb. 13 (IP) Two survivors of the crash of a coast guard PBY plane that killed four crewmen told today of how they crawled from the twisted, burning wreckage after it plowed Into Dia mond rock on Mount Rlchtor north of this southern Oregon city. Bodies of the four killed were being brought out of the rugged, snow-bound area today over an eight milo trail by a coast guard search crew led by U. S. foresters and Oregon state police. - The survivors are Seaman 1c Melvln E. Savage, . Plymouth, Mich., who was badly burned, and Sea man 1c Randolph M. Creasy, Lynchburg, Va., who was suffering only from shock and exposure. They were passengers. The dead and next of kin are: Lt. Cmdr. John Macintosh, formerly of Spokane; wife, Virginia, a son, Bruce D,, 8, and two daughters, Bonnlo J., S, and Beth J., 2, all of Port Angeles. Lt. (jg) Ralph E. Osterberg; wife, Frances, and two daughters, Ida L 5, and Gertrude S.. 3, of Port A ...... 1 . I kl. If-- t - I "I- 1 . w y "ft"1-, "iiu inn iiiuiitBi, iuia, . hi k.llr,n W.k 11.1 I 1I-I...I II I .1- -. II .... ' I .1 ...l 1 HI 11 W Wi ivrfli t h - ton h S Mtt: r : : : ' 'S 25) PRICE FIVE CENTS lCI KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, ' '' 13. 1947 Number 10157 . Storm Fills Straws GOP's Stand Firm Behind Budget Cut WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 M Republican fiscal managers re fused to yield today on their decision to (lash the 1048 budget by $8,000,000,000 dcsplto army navy protests that cutting their fund will endanger the nation' security. Secretary of War Patterson declare last night that if the army is made to take a 1 1,300, 000,000 cut "the current and long-term missions of the army, including those of Gen. Mac Arthur in Jupan and Gen. Mc Narney in Germany, will be Jeopardized." Patterson issued his statement soon after the navy sent a rvport to congress saying that even a J500.00U.OU0 drop In it funds might make the fighting fleets "immobile and impotent as an Instrument of national defense." Instead of giving ground. Rep. Dirksen (R-IlT.). of the house ap propriations committee described the armed forces' protests as part of a pressure campaign "to keep the fat and padding" in Presi dent Truman's $37,1)00,000.000 budget. This calls for $8,700, 000,000 for the army and $4,423, 000.000 for the navy. The showdown will come to morrow when a 20-man subcom mittee submits to the 102-mem-ber senate-house budget com mittee it formal recommenda tion that Mr. Truman's spend ing estimate be pared to $31. 900,000,000. ,. i. i , - Dimes March ' Total $7000 A splendid response from Klamath county topped the chap ter's hopes, with $7000 contrib uted to the March of Dimes campaign. A detailed breakdown of con tributions from communities, school ho-nefita Dnrl Allior r,-f-. will be - reclaaed when final Dooxworx is completed, Mrs. Dene D. Backes, chairman, said today. Mareh nf Dim Hnnn nl T.ttlr. shore Inn Friday. January 31 iook in sot wmcn nas been turned in to the fund. The bas ketball game between Oregon Froah and Ashley Chevrolet held Inst Saturday turned in $225. Money from containers distrib uter! thrniiirhnnf Ihn ltv amnnt ed to $1000. Officers of Klamath County chapter of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis for the 1947 campaign are Mrs. Rjiokeo. phalrmnn- A T Mnnn. aid, vice chairman; R. D. Rake- straw, treasurer, and Mrs. Helen Gates, secretary. R. P. Ellingson Seriously III Word of the serious illness of R. Parchcr Ellingson Sr.,- well known Klamath Falls lumber operator and millman, was re ceived here todav from Lady smith, Wis,, where Ellingson was called a week ago by the sud den death of his brother, E. O. Ellingson, Ladysmith district at torney. Ellingson Is said to be suffer ing from pneumonia and two of his sons, Don anc" Robert Jr., left by plane Tuesday to be at his bedside. Mrs, Ellingson and daughter, Dorothea, accompan ied Ellingson to Wisconsin last week. nnmiiun vatmucioi ' Rescues Baby Three-year-old John Rodney ter, Jacqueline, to a bottle of milk alter he saved her life when fire destroyed their home near Mobile, Ala., after an oil cooking itove exploded. John pulled hi sister from the biasing bouse and attracted neighbors with Weeks, the mother, saved her t-month-old daughter, but the flame iiolated John and his lttM.v smiting him on his own. - .t. i. .. . . ' - ..- AP wirephote. Public Raises Proposed US Art Showing WASHINGTON. Feb. IS P) Rep. Stefan (R-Neb.) took one look today at a state department art collection intended for showing abroad, shuddered, and commented: "No wonder foreigner think Americans are crazy." The state department assembled the exhibits to show other nations what U. S. artists of the modern school are doing these days. Look magazine published photographs of some of the paint- '"'people began writing their congressmen. Among others, they wrote to Stefan. There they struck pay dirt. The Ncbraskan is chairman of a house appropriations sub committee which deals with state department requests for funds. People "in all parts of the country" have sent copies of the magazine to the committee along with bitter complaints about the art, Stefan told a reporter. Most of them singled out a canvas portraying a strapping young amazon in diaphanous garb, reclining. Its title is "Circus Girl Resting." but the Indignant letter-writers said in substance she looks more like a Chicago Bears' tackle taking it easy during a time out. , .11 They objected, Stefan said, to any inference that the typical American girl is better equipped to move a piano than play one. Seamen End Coal Strike PORTLAND. Ore., Feb. 13 P) Britisli seamen of the freighter Hnrtington today ended their strike against taking a coal cargo to Singapore instead of coal-starved Britain. British Consul James McDon ald said the men agreed late last night to call off their strike when it was explained the coal crisis in England would be over before the freighter could ar rive in the British isles. The 21 seamen walked off their Jobs Tuesday because their families in England are suffer ing from the coal shortage. They asked that the ship be diverted from Singapore to England. McDonald said the coal loaded here was needed In Singapore to fuel ships carrying food to the British isles. Aviation Chief Machinists Mate Roy Mason; wife, Sclma K., and daughter, Harriet E 15, of Port An geles, and his mother, Mrs. Amie F. Mason, of At lantic, N. C. - Aviation Radioman 1c Ruff in E.' Crosby; wife, Paulincc, of Port Angeles, and a brother, D. M. Crosby of Walterboro, S. C. , Sgt. L. H. Harrcll of the state police headquarters here reported the four men were - probably killed outright when the plane roared into the mountain side late Monday afternoon. Creasy told the police officer the plane was fly ing In a fog when suddenly the mountain loomed out of the mist. The pilot swerved the plane, but one wing was torn off and the plane plummeted to earth. It burst Into flames. The coast guardsman said he and Savage tumbled out of holes ripped in the side of the plane and smothered the flames on their clothing with snow. Savage was badly burned about the body, arms and face but at the Sacred Heart hospital his condition was described as not critical. Sister From Fire Weeks help hi 2-year-old sis his screams of "lire!" Mrs. J. R. Row Over House Hears Strike Case WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 P) The house labor committee heard today an abcount of strike vio lence at a small Connecticut dairy and promptly decided to summon local prosecutors to tell why cases against union men had been delayed. Chaiiman Hartley (R-N.J.) said the law enforcement officers would be brought before the committee "to determine why the cases haven't been heard, al though they havs been in their hands over a year." ' Abraham Norman, treasurer of the Norman dairies at New Canaan, Conn., testified to the violence and "bloodshed" which he said resulted after the AFL Teamster union struck at his plant last year. The party returning for the bodies of the four others today will have to retrace the trail made last night by Sgt. Harrell and his three aides. Har rell said the eight miles of mountain road was heavily drifted and the scene of the crash was locat ed 500 feet straight down the mountain side from the road. A coast guard group attempted late last night to enter the area, but turned back after struggling a few hundred yards up the mountain road. The airplane was on a flight from Port Angeles, Wash., on the first leg of a trip to New York when lt was last heard from at 2:23 p. m. (PST) Tuesday. The pilot indicated he expected to land here in 30 minutes. A rain and windstorm had lashed the re gion all that day, uprooting trees and power poles. The plane indicated It was flying at 5000 feet, according to the CAA operator here. Mount Rlchter rises to 4700 feet at Its peak. The plane crashed Into the side of Dlarnond rock, a high elevation on the southwest slope of the mountain. Rain Ends Dry Period For Basin The Klamath basin, lie pas ture, farm and range lands soaked with life-giving rain which fell this week, eagerly ab sorbed the moisture which Its dry fields need for the coming months. Not only did the rain storm give the Klamath country a much-needed soaking but it built up valuable moisture in the water storage reservoirs. Up until this week's storm, the country was "pretty dry, ac cording to Walt Jendrzcjewski, Klamath county's assistant agri cultural agent. Agricultural areas in the basin can stand a dry year if there is plenty of water in storage. Jendrzeiewski explained, as most of the farm ing 1 done by irrigation, but the rangelands suffer in a dry season. The United States bureau of reclamation reports .38 of an inch of precipitation on Wednes day, with .06 of an inch at Ger ber dam and .58 at Clear lake. Water elevation at UDDer Klam ath lake was reported at 4139.40 cubic feet on Wednesday, the California Oregon Power com pany aovised. inis ngure. trans lated to the layman, means that the lake elevation is approxi mately three feet under the ca pacity figure which is 4142 cubic feet. The lake is expected to reach peak capacity about June. At this time last year. 1946, the lake elevation was 4141.29. ' J'oor grazing facilities-. have beon reported from- the " Red Bluff and Redding, Calif., sec tors, and Klamath spuds nave been ehipped south to augment feeding. Many Klamath basin cattlemen have been feeding livestock on Kiamatn potatoes this winter with hay selling at $40 per ton. May prices nere have dropped this week to $34 per ton on board car and ship ments to coast regions are ex pected to pick up. Wind velocity on Tuesday, February 11 reached 40 miles per hour, blowing from the south. Continued rains Wednes day counteracted the drying ef fect of the strong wind. Riots Flare In Holy Land JERUSALEM. Feb. 13 UP) Maj. Gen. H. A. MacMillan, who stormed the Rhine with the 51st Highland division, took com mand of British troops in Pales tine and Trans-Jordan toda, suc ceeding Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn Bar ker. The change of command came in the midst of a new outbreak of violence in the Holy Land. The British army, battling the elusive Jewish underground, ar ranged to clamp on the most rigid security measures yet in voked in the Jerusalem area at noon putting into full effect a new cantonization of the city in to four heavily secured com pounds, where limited restric tions have been in effect for a week. Last night seven Jews were re ported wounded and four kid naped in skirmishes between Arabs and Jews and between Jewish extremists and moderate elements in other parts of Pales tine. Today police reported a government fisheries launch sunk and a police barge dam aged by two explosions, ap parently of time bombs, as they lay tied up at a jetty in Haifa hips upply To London LONDON, Feb. 13 (AP) power brownout, now enforced saved 78,000 tons ot coal in three days, but that the situation remains very critical. , He said the six big power stations of London had 'only a week's supply of fuel and that the London Cos company's coal piles had dwindled to stocks that would last nine and a half days. While he spoke, grimy colliers beat down the east coast from northeast loading porti and scores of trains carried fuel supplies toward stilled industrial centers, in a battle against the economic crisis which has thrown 5,000,000 or more persons out of work and forced on island-wide power reduction, under wartime penalties of fines and prison for violations. Temperatures dropped to 23 degrees Fahrenheit, last night and no immediate relief was forecast. All four British railroads reported every effort was being made to get coal through on lines which snow drifts had clogged. A notional defense act carrying penalties ranging up to fines of $2000 and imprison ment for two years for violators was invoked as the daily five-hour ban on the use of electricity for homes and other Stockmen Oppose Bills The reorganized Klamath Stockmen's association yester day went on record aa wholly opposing two pieces of proposed legislation now facing the Ore gon senate and house of repre sentatives, and favoring an other. All three are of great importance to the cattle-raising industry in this part of the country. About SO Klamath county stockmen met at the Winema yesterday afternoon to revamp the old Southern Oregon Live stock association, electing Henry Gerber, who has ranch interests at Bly, president of the group. Jack Marshall of Olene, was chosen vice president, and C. A. Henderson, Klamath Falls, secretary. The group presented a unani mous face against a proposed herd law and a brand inspec tion bill, and favored retention of the wartime liberal truck length regulations. The herd law, proposed be fore the house of representa tives, would prohibit cattle running at large in eastern Ore- (CoatlHi ro . Clm Arms Cut Up; For Final Vote LAKE SUCCESS. 1. Y., Feb. 13 (jf) The United Nations se curity council was summonea 10 dav (3 D. m.. EST) to give final approval to proposed arms re duction machinery aiier United States had won a pre liminary victory in the fight over atomic control procedure. By a vote of 9 to 0, with Russia and Poland abstaining, the council last night approved s clause which would set up an 11-nation "commission for con ventional armaments to study all phases of arms reduction not already being examined by the atomic energy commission. ' The United States, over Rus sia's opposition, has contended from the beginning that atomic controls should be studied sep arately from general disarma ment. Last night's vote taken ,at the end of a seven-hour debate came as the council considered clause by clause a draft resolu tion outlining the entire ma chinery of arms reduction. This resolution must be voted upon as a whole today, but it was considered unlikely that Russia would invoke the veto. None Injured In Plane Crash EDMONTON. Alta.. Feb. 13 (CP) None of the 12 occupants of a U. S. army u-o transport plane was injured when the Dig four-motored craft crashed short ly after taking off from Fort Nelson airport last night, Ameri can officials here said today. Wings of the plane were torn off by scrub trees, and the ma chine is a wreck. The accident is being investi gated by officers from Great Falls. Bridge Burning Charge Filed VANCOUVER, Wash., Feb. 13 (P) Two charges have been filed against the driver of one of the oil trucks which burned on the Washougal river bridge last week, with such intensity the structure collapsed. Sgt. M. A. Paulson of the state patrol yesterday filed negligent driving and operating with de fective brakes charges against Theodore T. Chicks, La Center, driver of the Washington Co operative Farmers' association truck. His vehicle crashed into the rear of a McCall Oil com pany tanker and the fire ensued. WEATHER Max. (Fab. 12) ... 49 Mln. ... 38 Precipitation last 24 hours ... .09 Stream year to date 5.25 Normal ... 7.22 Last year ... 9.65 Forecaiti Showers tonight and tomorrow. Rush Fuel Prime Minister Attlee informed parliament todav that tho throughout the island on o domestic consumption was Scotland and wales shivering in the bitterest cold wave in half a century. Attlee, calling for measures as urgent as for a major mili tary operation to speed the mining and transport of coal, set up a special nine-man "coal cabinet" and ordered Labor Minister George Isaacs to or ganize Immediately additional civilian labor to help in clear ing the snow-blocked arteries of transport. War Blackout A blackout of street lighting comparable to that of the war returned to Britain as all street and highway lights except those at dangerous intersections were ordered extinguished. It remained uncertain wheth er it would be necessary to re store wartime labor controls in order to recruit, from the five to six million temporarily thrown out of work by the in dustrial shutdown, enough la borers to ifpload coal cars and Isaacs was directed to confer with the trades union congress on this problem and Arthur Deakin, general secretary of the transport and general workers union, suggested last night that "emergency steps" be taken through labor ex changes to get volunteers. The spirit which carried Brit ain through the dark' days of the blitz was reflected in a luei and power ministry commum aue entitled "The Battle of the Power Stations." It announced that the power embargo, effec tive since Monday in 38 of the 64 English and Welsh counties, had resulted in saving some coal but that the five-hour daily blackout was being extended to the whole island and its 49, 000,000 people, effective today. Alaska Called 'Pearl Harbor' WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 m Rep. Sixes (D-Fla.), a member of the armed services committee, said today Alaska may be tho "Pearl Harbor of the third World War" and called for Im mediate strengthening of its de fense. He told the house that 9000 planes were delivered to Russia during the war via Alaska, and added: "there is nothing to keep them from coming back the other way." 1 S ikes' address followed by a day an announcement that the United States and Canada have agreed on joint peacetime de fense measures. , Sikes said he was not among those who consider a third World War inevitable, but at the same time he decried the prac tice of "burying our head in the sand." Hen Makes Bid For Egg Fame PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (iP) A two-year-old New Hampshire hen made a bid for the nest of fame today by laying a seven ounce egg measuring 7tt inches around the middle and 10 around the ends. It was one of the largest re ported here, in recent years. The hen is owned by J. A. Bishop, Tigard. US Siands Ready To Aid j British Cocr Shortage WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (IP) President Truman said today that the United States is ready to do everything within its power to relieve the plight of the British people in their pres ent fuel emergency. In a statement, Mr. Truman said it may be possible to di vert to Great Britain a number of colliers at sea in the vicinity of the British Isles now carry ing coal to other European countries. 'This government stands ready to do everything within its power to relieve the plight of the British people in then present fuel emergency," the president's statement said. . '- -"Although we have received no request from England for aid, I have directed Captain Granville Conway, coordinator virtual wartime footing, had extended to all of England, Row Looms On Idle Pay SALEM. Feb. 13 0P A bitter struggle over proposed in creased unemployment compen sation benefits began to shape up in the Oregon legislature to day after employers served no tice they would fight the AFL CIO bills to raise maximum ben efit from $18 a week for 20 weeks in any one year to $25 for 26 weeks. James A. Cellars. Astoria flh packer representing employers, told the senate labor and Indus tries committee late yesterday that increased benefits would only lead to more cases of work. ere who would prefer to draw rcrciiis rauier man work. The labor representatives hot ly denied- there are many "chil lers" among workers, Stanley Earl, CIO representative, assert ing "99.9 per cent of the work ers would rather work than : draw unemployment benefits." Earl and James T. Marr, state AFL president, said the increase is needed because of higher liv ing costs, declaring a family could not survive on present benefits. - , Both employers and labor agreed the proposed change would have little effect on the unemployment commission' 70,000,00O trust fund. nee Skids Here A five-cent drop in eggs with in the past seven days was re ported by dealers here starting with a one-cjnt reduction last Friday, a two-cent drop Monday and another two-cent fall today. Thursday. Wholesale prices on AA large were quoted at 50 cents his' morning, A large, 48 cents, and AA medium, 47 cents. Mediums are still on short supply but the rest are ample for needs, egg men said here today. Good butter held firm but was short. Housewives greeted with en thusiasm the word that prices on U. S. inspected drawn fryers had declined as high as 8 cents per pound in the last two weeks. The fryers were selling across the counter at a retail price of between 65 and 70 cents. Most of the stuff on the market is of good quality and promises to re main so. Lodgepole Pine For Phone Use THE DALLES, Ore., Feb. IS (JP) Lodgepole pine, long hold ing a minor role in commercial operations, will, be processed here for telephone and power line construction at an addition being built to the Forest Pro ducts Treating company plant. Arthur Bode, superintendent, said a peeling machine would eliminate need for peeling in the forest. First supplies of lodgepole pine will come from eastern Ore gon with later shipments from the Bend area, he said. of emergency export programs, to determine how quickly and in what quantity coal can be landed at British ports. It would take a minimum of 15 days to ship coal from this country to England. Such shipments might very well arrive too late . to help England in the present emergency. "There are, however, a num ber of colliers at sea in the vi cinity of the British Isles car rying coal to other European countries. It may be possible to divert some of these collier to English ports." Mr. Truman said the U. S. representative with a European coal organization sitting in Lon don "has been instructed to support a request for realloca tion of the shipments of coal now at sea, if this is the British desire." ; .