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By FRANK JENKINS
(Travol Correspondence)
THE other day U. 8. Under
secretary of Stale Acheson
told llm senate iilomlo committee
1 1 wit Russia's foreign policy l
"an aggresslvt nd expanding
one "
Humilan rortlgn Minister
Molotov, In formal diplomatic
nolo addressed to our italo de
parlment, protested tnl state
ment, assorting that Acheson
remarks were "rudely slender
mm and hoirtlle to the Soviet
Union." . ,
Bound One of the current
V. S.-rtimnInn sparring matcll
, ended at that point. .
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1 AT the opening of Round Two,
" Secretary of State Marghall.
' Achesnn's bow, replied to Mol
otov that the U. 8. undergo
rrtarv had spoken merelv In line
or duty. He had not, Marshall
aid, volunteered an opinion of
Itumln, but had merely answered
specific questions put to him by
member of the senate regard
ing Huiwlu's ambltloni and where
they might lead
fhut, Secretary Marshall
added, In the Amerlcun way of
doing thing. When an officer
of the executive branch of our
government, ho explained, Is
called before a committee of the
legislative branch, he li under
a DUTY to answer frankly
relevant questions not Involving
a mailer of secrecy Incompatible
with the public Interest.
Marshall concluded:
"You characterize the content
of hi atHlement as a rude slander
and hostile to the Soviet Union.
Under our standard, a retrained
comment on a matter of public
policy 1 not a slander."
ABOUT the bet comment one
can make l that In General
Marshall we have found a good
man to handle our foreign af
fairs. Our modi troubleomo
foreign affair la Russia, who per.
slst in dealing with ui much
In the manner of an Inferiority
romplcxed mall boy "gassing"
another boy.
Such conduct can easily lead
to a fight In fact, In such a
situation, a fight can usually be
avoided only by unusual toler
ance, forbearance and common
sense on the part of the one who
is being gassed.
General MarghaUVwho es.soc
rcliiry of state Is1 our spokesman
In such mailers, appears to be
tolerant, forbearing, sensible,
and yet FIRM.
If given a free hand, he may
be able to keep us out of BAD
trouble.
MULL this over In your mind:
If, In this period of extreme
international gravity, we persist
In purlng down our armed forces
to the point where they will no
lunger be feared by Russia or
anybody else we could have any
reason to fear, Marshall will
.NOT have a free hand.
Instead, both of his hands will
be tied behind his back.
TF you were a small boy gassing
another boy whose hands ap
peared to be tied behind him,
you might so far lose your head
as to say or do something that
would undoubtedly precipitate a
fight.
Such things have happened.
When they happen on an Inter
national scale, the result is ex
tremely ant to be the blood and
the suffering and the horror that
wo call war.
WE A
W tin
7E Americans want tax reduc
tion. We need tax reduc
tion. High taxes result In hlKh
costs, and high costs lie at the
root of a lot" of the domestic
problems thnt are troubling us.
Before we can have materially
lower costs we must have lower
taxes.
BUT
If our prestige throughout
the world Is to be lowered to the
point where, anybody can sass
us at will, with the knowledge
that there Isn't anything much
we can do about It, war will be
shout as certain as anything can
be.
We won't submit Indefinitely
fnanllnaag an Faga T, Calama SI
British "White Paper"
Points To Grim future
LONDON, Feb. 21 (P) The
labor party government issued
today a grim white paper colled
"a working1 pattern for the na
tion." It told the austerity
weary Britons they must in
crease production or risk the
"foundations of our national
life."
The white paper designa
tion of Important official docu
ments issued by the govern
ment said:
The nation needs coal, pro
duction, foreign currency.
Tho private individual must
continue rationing, forego hopes
of shorter hours, Increase his
Individual output in mine, mill,
factory.
Organized labor must aban
don "industrial arrangements
which restrict production, prices
or employment,"
Industry must export one
fourth Its products and accept
a stern system of priority al
lotments of manpower and sup
plies. V Ifl Sir Stnfford Crlpps, board of
"'trade president, told a newt
PRICE FIVE CENTS !
Chemicals
Blamed For
Explosion
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 ()
After a night spent probing be
ncuth (luring geurchlighis, police
today fixed the death toll from
the city's worst explosion in 37
years at IS.
Of the 138 Injured sufficiently
to require hospitalization, sev
eral were feared dying.
The scene, as police and fire
men shiflud the blasted rubble of
an electroplating plant, resem
bled somewhat a garishly -lit
night-time movie set, except Unit
there was nothing - fictional
about the carnuge.
Chemical Blast
The one-story brick plunt of
the J. J. O'Connor corp. at 032
East Pico blvd., a mile from the
center of downtown Los An
geles, blew apart in a blinding
flush of chemicals at 0:43 a. m.
'(PST) yesterday. But it was
hours before a clt r picture of
the disaster could be pierced to
gether. Police and fire officials final
ly agreed that It was caused by
tile detonation of perchloric
acid, an extremely unstable sub
stance kept under pressure in re
frigeration because at room tern-
Fierature It is a seething, heavy
iquid. But how the acid was set
off remained a mystery.
Aluminum Plating
O'Connor told reporters "we
were doing something for the
government." This, ho later am
plified, was the aluminum-plating
of hospital bedg and chnirs
under a secret trado process. Not
in the plan; at the time, he was
reported In collapse at his home
last night.
Most of the victims of the
city's worst blast since the Los
A n g e 1 e a Times' . dynamiting
killed 20 men In 1010 were In
the plant or adjacent heavily
damaged buildings, although
10-year-old negro riding his bi
cycle several blocks away died
under a plummcttlng piece of
metal.
Four houses were almost com-
Elote wrecks, windows were
rokeri In 300 within a mile's
radius, glass shattered as far
distant as 70 blocks, the entire
downtown district was Jolted as
It bv earthquake, sending ter
rorized citizens to telephones,
quickly Jamming police and
newspaper lines.
Yorkers Okay
Oil Agreement
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 ()
Workors registered 07 per cent
approval today of an agreement
between two major oil companies
and the CIO oil workers Inter
national union, and definite end
to a strike threat which would
have curtailed both transporta
tion and natural gag heating in
five western states appeared as
sured. The first group of 1000 work
ers to ballot on a pact reached
yesterday after an all-night con
ference among federal concili
ators, oil companies and union
negotiators, gave, it an over
whelming margin. It. provides:
. A 10-ccnts an hour Increase
on base pay, plus a $17.70 per
month cost of living boost until
next December 31. Effective
datewould be last January 1.
conference the plan Is not "to
talitarian." "We do not say that whether
you like it or not you have got
to go Into the coal mine, or a
steel factory, or . whatever It
may be," he said.
"Instead, we try. to Induce
employers and employes to con
form to a pattern of Industrial
production in order to get the
greatest benefits for tho nation
as a whole."
"ZYXW" PAYS TAX AGAIN
CHICAGO, Feb. 21 (I1) The internal revenue office reports
that business improved in 1946 for Mr. "ZYXW," mysterious
taxpayer.
Collector Nigel D. Campbell said that the department had
received $1000 from a person who signed his name "ZYXW."
Earlier he had written the collector that he was to make tax
payments of $1700, and it would be sent in four separate en
velopes. "ZYXW" is not a newcomer at the tax office. He has been
sending in payments for the' last seven years, with only the in
itials on a blank Income tax form as a mark of Identification.
His first contribution was $300. Last year he sent in $700.
"It may be someone who Is in an illegal business," Campbell
aid, "Whoever he is, his conscience is bothering him."
KLAMATH
Victim
Rescue workers carry a victim from the wreck of a two-story brick building, blown apart by
an explosion in an electro-plating establishment in Los Angelas. It was feared by police officials
the death toll might run as high as 75. More than 300 persons were injured, 300 homeg and an
area four blockg gquare damaged. -AP wirephoto.
Ranger Battalion Hero
Held In LA. Holdups
, LOS ANGELES. Feb. gl OP)
Charles M. (Chuck) Shuhstrom.
20, today pitted his war record
as a fighting member of the 1st
ranger battalion against his post
war record in which he is
charged with 10 counts of rob
bery. .
American landing Shunstrom
strom, formerly a captain who
was termed the "wild man" of
Plane Lost
On Flight
EUGENE. Ore., Feb. 21 (P
A forlorn search began today for
the third airplane to disappear
this winter into the scattered
mountains of southern Oregon.
Aboard the light, single-en-glued
craft was a pilot Identified
as Douglas Locke, ferrying the
Navion four-placer from Los An
geles to Bcaverton, Ore.
Like the others, his disappear
ance was not reported at once
because of his failure to file a
flight plan.
Ho took off from Red Bluff,
Calif., last Sunday afternoon, say
ing he would land here or at
Lakcvicw. Three hours later the
airport here heard a plane re
port it was lost. That was the
iast heard.
Missing In previous flights are
Vernon Coulter and his mother,
both of Portland, lost after taking
off from Red Bluff last October,
and Robert Lee Rubottom, Mc
Minnvillo, Ore., lost after leav
ing Klamath Falls, Ore., Janu
ary 10.
Detroit Paper
Suspends Ads
DETROIT, Feb. 21 (P) The
Detroit News announced In a
page-one box today that all dis
play and classified advertising
will be omitted from its editions
next Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday because of a newsprint
shortage.
"The scarcity of railroad cars
and the severe weather In areas
where paper Is produced' the
news said, "have held up badly
needed shipments. Thus the
News' stock of newsprint avail
able in Detroit has dwindled to
dangerously low levels.
"There are prospects of Im-J
lm uvuiiieiii in me siiuauon soon,
we hope that we can resume
normal publication of advertis
ing on Thursday, Feb. 27."
6EGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1947
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ficketed
Removed From Explosion Scene
the Anzlo beachhead, was sub
stantiated by one of his fellow
officers, Walter F. Nye, former
ly a . lieutenant colonel. - -
Nye said that in the North
American landing Shunstrom
distinguished himself in knock
ing out enemy installations and
later participated in the invasion
of Sicily and Italy.
It was at Chiunzl pass, testi
fied Nye yesterday, that Shun
strom made his reputation for
daring. "He worked out a split
second schedule," Nye explained.
"He rolled out with his half
tracks in the darkness and fired
on enemy installations. The bar
rage lit up the countryside so
that the half-tracks became
plainly visible to the enemy. But
by the time the Germans were
set to fire, his half-tracks had
rolled back to cover. He lost
only three and knocked out
countless numbers of enemy em
placements." Nye said that Shunstrom was
one of six American officers who
participated In the ill-fated
Dieppe raid, . '
Shunstrom was arrested by
Hollywood police December 11
and charged with holding up
eignt service stations, a liquor
store and a shoe shop between
August 24 and December 5. He
has pleaded guilty to two of the
counts but his attorney is at
tempting to show that he was
not mentally responsible at the
time the crimes were allegedly
committed because of aftermaths
of the "shock and suspense of
battle."
Stores Remain
Open Saturday
While retail stores and the
city and county libraries will
remain open Saturday, February
22, Washington's birthday, of
fices in the federal building, city
hall and courthouse will observe
the holiday by being closed.
Both the U. S. National and
First National banks will be
closed, also the state liquor con
trol commission store at 122 S.
5th will close. The U. S. navy
recruiting office was sranted a
holiday Saturday as a result of
reaching its quota of five en
listees by Friday.
The Herald and News will
publish Saturday.
Manila Police :
Wounded In Row
MANILA. Feb. 21 (m Three
Manila policemen were wounded
today in a gun fight with Philip
pine army military police who,
the Manila police said, opened
fire with machine-guns because
they resented being questioned.
The battle occurred in Quezon
City, Manila's eastern suburb.
Only the arrival of civilian police
reintorcemenis stopped the ilgnt.
Manila residents recalled a
two-day battle in 1920 between
Manila police and the former
Philippine constabulary, which
later became the military police
command. They said neither side
had forgotten that affair.
Don Pay Fig!!;
India Freedom
Up To Leaders
LONDON. Feb. 21 UP) The
British government left square
ly up to feuding Hindu and Mas
pern leaders today the question
oi wnetner India intends to win
independence in bloody civil
war or through peaceful nego
tiations by the time Britain ends
her reign over the rich sub-con.
tinent 16 months hence.
Prime Minister Attlee told the
world yesterday that Britain in
tends to pull out of India by
June, 1948, and at the6ame time
appointed Admiral Lord Mount
batten, a great grandson of the
first British empress of India,
as viceroy to liquidate 200 years
of British rule..
Some empire-minded conserva
tives and sections of the British
press directly predicted that a
bloody struggle for power in
India would result from Britain's
withdrawal.
. Lord Templcwood Sir Sam
uel Hoare before he became a
peer presented a motion last
night declaring that-the end of
British rule "is likely to imperil
the peace and prosperity of In
dia." Russians Eye
Budget Slash
MOSCOW. Feb. 21 W") Dele
gates to the supreme Soviet (par
liament) debated today a 1947
budget calling for a decrease in
expenditures for the Soviet arm
ed forces and increases for in
dustry, public health, sport, com
munications and agriculture.
Total income for 1947 was
estimated in the budget at 391,
500,000,000 rubles and expendi
tures at 371,400,000,000 rubles,
of which 18 per cent would be
assigned to the armed forces as
against 24 per cent last year.
The budget, submitted to a
Joint session last night by Fi
nance Minister Arsenl G. Zver
ev, would assign the armed forces
67,000,000,000 rubles this year,
as against 72,600,000,000 in 1946.
(The ruble is not quoted in
foreign exchange trade. The of
ficial exchange rate is S.3 to the
dollar. The diplomatic rate is
12 to the dollar. Russian gov
ernment finances include many
items which, in the 'United
States, are handled by private
capital,
Russia's estimated expendi
tures would total about $70,
075,000,000 at the "official"
rate: or $30,950,000,000 at the
"diplomatic" rate.
Dog Saves Family
In Flaming Home
PORTLAND, Feb. 21 ()
A '15 -month -old mongrel dog
was credited today with saving
the lives of a family of four.
Named Mopsy, he awoke the
family by barking when smoke
began to fill the house. Mr, and
Mrs. C. W. Michaelis awoke in
time to prevent flames from
spreading into their daughters'
room.
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Non-Union
Labor Keeps
Plants Open
Placard - bearing members of
the Laundry Workers union
(AFL), local 220, are picketing
the city's three laundries today
in their quest for a 10-cent an
hour wage increase and a 40
hour week.
Approximately 70 workers,
most of them women, employed
by Superior Troy, Cascade and
Men's Hand laundry, went on
strike at 10 o'clock this morning,
immediately after rejecting a 7
cent wage increase offer made
by the laundry operators.
Some 10 members of Team
sters union, local 911 (AFL),
truck drivers for the laundries,
are following the AFL policy of
not crossing the picket lines to
pick up or deliver.
Plants Open
Although the strike is 100 per
cent effective among the union
workers, the laundries have not
closed but are operating at below
normal capacity with skeleton
crews of non-union labor. Oper
ators of all three establishments
said that in the past they had re
ceived applications for jobs
every day and were going to try
to hold out with non-union
crews, at least to do necessary
work for hospitals and hotels and
as much private work as pos
sible.
The workers, who have been
working a 44-hour week, several
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Oregon Statesmen Asked
To Probe Ton Coat Cose
Oregon's congressional dele
gates will be asked to investi
gate the strange case of the tan
coat which Mrs. Eve Benson of
Klamath Falls gave to a wartime
clothing drive and which has
turned up in possession of a Ten
nessee woman who paid $4.95
for it.
Mrs. Benson, an active worker
and contributor to various' war
time projects, recalls that she
gave the coat to a clothing drive
in 1942 or 1943 "for the poor
and needy people of Europe."
She cannot remember what or
ganization sponsored the drive,
of which there were several.
"I thought of those poor Euro
peans suffering because of nazi
greed," she said in a letter to
The Herald and News, recount
ing her experience. So she
pinned small notes to the gar
ments, asking the recipients to
write to her if possible.
She heard nothing until Jan
uary of this year, when she re
ceived a letter from Mrs. Bill
Baker of Sevierville, Tenn., say
This is a copy of the letter which a Tennessee woman wrote to
Mrs. Eve Benson, Klamath Falls, telling her about a coat which
Mrs. Benson had given in a wartime clothing drive and which
was later sold to the Tennessee woman for $4.50. Mrs. Baker's
purchase was obviously in good faith. (Name of mail order firm
deleted from this copy pending outcome of investigation).
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Drifting Snow
Closes Schools
And Highway
Br The Associated Prau
Freezing winds blasted the east today (Friday) as the heaviest
snowstorm of recent years moved seaward, leaving in its wake
at least 31 persons dead, highways snowbound, schools closed
and industry Impaired.
The deepest snowfall in the east, 27 Inches, wag reported ia
Dickenson county, Virginia.
Over-exertion in shoveling snow and traffic accident were
the chief causes of death.
Deaths by states were New Jersey, 6; Pennsylvania, 5; Con
necticut, 2; New York, 3; District of Columbia, 1: Ulinols, 2l
Massachusetts, 1.
Midwest Hit
While the full weight of snow hit the eastern seaboard states,
extreme cold followed on its heels over the Great lakes and
middle west. The temperature registered 21 degrees blow zero
ai uemiaji, Minn., and below)
zero weather extended over
Minnesota and North Dakota.
In New York City 11 inches
of snow had fallen by 10:45 a.
m. (EST), and the weather bu
reau forecast the temperature
would go to 10 degrees tonight.
Snow Drifting
Snow, whipped by strong
winds, continued to fall through
the morning in most sections,
drifting across highways and
railroads which were heavily
blanketed during the night.
The storm extended from
Maine into North Carolina, but
hope of abatement for the mid
dle Atlantic states came with
reports that the storm was re
duced to flurries in western
Pennsylvania.
In New York City the weath
er bureau said the snow was
expected to be a foot deep by
noon. It was the worst storm
since March 7-9, 1941, when
12.1 inches of snow fell.
A task force of 8000 workers
struggled to clear New York
streets, working in 35-mile-an-hour
winds that whipped among
the skyscrapers.
The experience of those who
wandered outside was dramati
cally highlighted in Notting
ham, N. Y., where two boys, 3
and 4 years old, were found
sound asleep last night in deep
woods by 250 frantic searchers
after the two had wandered
from their homes. '
ing she had placed an order with
a mail order house in New York,
had received the coat and found
the note. "I am well satisfied
with it and think 'it sure worth
the money," said Mrs. Baker's
letter.
Mrs. Be n s o n immediately
wrote to Mrs. Baker, asking for
further information. She re
ceived another letter from the
Tennessee woman, identifying
the coat as light tan with buttons
on the sleeve and stating she had
paid $4.95 for it.
"Do you have any more gar
ments you would love to sell?
asked Mrs. Baker, who obviously
had bought the coat in good
faith from the mail order house.
Mrs. Benson obtained the name
of the mail order house, and
today Klamath union No. 2 of
Oregon Republican Women had
photostatic copies made of the
letters. These, together with in
formation on the case, were sent
to Congressman Lowell Stock
man and Senators Cordon and
Morse, with requests that they
look into the matter.
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Truman Asks
$350 Million
For Relief
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 (Pi-
President Truman asked con
gress today to vote $350,000,000
for relief aid to people of lib
erated countries abroad.
In a message to the legislators
the president noted that full
scale supply .operations : by
UNRRA are rapidly drawing to
a close, and said:
"On humanitarian grounds,
and in the light of our own self
interest as well, we must not
leave the task unfinished. We
can not abandon the peoples still
in need."
UNRRA the United Nations
relief and rehabilitation admini
stration is scheduled to wind
up its operations March 31,
although winding up activities
unaer way win continue beyond
that date.
Mr. Truman's recommendation
was only for liberated countries.
united States relief activities in
occupied countries, such as Ger
many and Austria, are financed
by the war department from its
appropriations.
(White House aides said that
Former President Herbert Hoov
er has not yet reported to Mr..
Truman on his investigation
looking to long-term plana for
rehabilitation of occupied areas J
There have been enmnlainta. -
in congress about UNRRA 's ad
ministration methods; Soma
legislators contend its service
have been used to support gov
ernments uncooperative with tho
United States.
The president made no refer
ence to this, but recommended
that future United .States relief
assistance be given .directly
rather than through an interna
tional organization, and "be ad
ministered under United State
controL" .
Vandenberg
Balks At Cut
WASHINGTON. Feh 51 ISA
Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich.)
told the senate today he can
not vote for a ss.nnn nnn nnn
slash in President Truman's
oudget because he deeply fears -such
a cut would "jeopardize
our winning of the peace."
The presiding officer of tho
senate and chairman of Its for
eign relations committee opened
senate oeoate on a house-approved
resolution to put a $31,
500,000,000 ceiling on govern
ment expenditures in the fiscal
year beginning July 1. This ia
$6,000,000,000 below Mr. Tru
man's $37,500,000,000 request.
Vandenberk said ho applaud
ed "this drive on swollen fed
eral ' expenditures," but cau
tioned his republican colleagues
not to promise more economy
than they might be able to at
tain "without serious threat to
the public welfare."
If the facts later justify a cut
of $8,000,000,000, he said con
gress can maKe it as it votes on
individual., appropriation bills.
Baby Dies After
Being In Stove
SALEM, Feb. 21 VP) Tho
four-months-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Renolds of the
Salem farm labor camp died last
night from burns which Sheriff
Denver Young said were re
ceived when a 6-year-old neigh,
bor boy put her into a hot cook
stove. , ,
The baby's mother said sh
had gone to a neighbor's house,
and had left the baby lying on a
bed. When she came back, the
baby was In the stove. Sheriff
Young quoted the woman as say
ing. ;
Langell Grange
Opposed To Tax
Langell Valley grange ia on
record as opposed to a state sale!
Frank Brown, master, reported
today that a vote was taken at
the last meeting. The vote was
35 to 1 in opposition to the tax,
Brown said.
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