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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
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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
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PRICE FIVE CENTS lCI KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. THURSDAY, ' '' 13. 1947 Number 10157
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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. ,.
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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.
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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. -
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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.
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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." ; .