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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1947)
JwlllFlAwWAw o) A wniA m :fp A R mm n q lii ' .. " 1 .-!,. 1 ' Ccr Ifccc-s Down:;!; ! I r Kl 'VP' y , -BT ( . I ft J .1 r By FRANK JENKINS CROM the front pagoi of the nowspapcrs, theae headline! look us In the eye: "Dollar Pork Chopi In Offltm." "IliiK and Oram Prices Sour." "Record Food CoU Rim Coming." Then, on the financial pages, we read title itoryi "For the first time In weeks, heavy foiling hit the stock mar ket In the last hour of trading today and sent the price- of leading Imu DOWN from one to four point. A soiling or der poured in on the Now York atock exchange, tlckeri ran four mlnutei lata (meaning that wil ing volume wai no heavy that the price reporting machine! v couldn't keep up with the I change!.) I -.THE financial p a g itorlei x add: "Wall Stroot offered no plaus Kile reason for the audden breuk." WELL, If Wall Street had no " ptauilble reaion to offer, the men who make their living there are Just plain dumb. Any. one with an ounce oi Drains know! the reason. Moro high prlcei mean more high wagen. More high waged mran STILL MORE HIGH PRICES. Taken together. thre thing! mean MORE INFLA TION. By thla time, we all know what Inflation, followed by still more Inflation, meant. It meana RUIN, SO It I Utile wonder that when the headline! begin to It af com Ins ft ft booata in prlcee, to be followed by till other and STIFFER booati In oilier prices, which will Inevit ably and not unnaturally be followed by demand! for stiff wage Increase! (reiultlng, prob ably. In strikes and unavoidable stotioaita of production) the own era of securities should RUSH TO SELL while the selling if still sood. thus bringing on sharp breaks on the atock ex channel. . It la just a plain sequence of cause and rilcci. wnicn anyoooy ought to be able to figure out for himself,. w YOU muit have boon reading the news from Chins, where the power that be art strug gling with ono of the great modern Inflations. ' The Chinese have been fight ing for about ten years. First they fouaht the JaDS display- lug, at times, unexampled hero- Inn, patriotism ana aevonon. But, during all the time when they were fighting the Japs, their production was running down. At the same time, their supply of printing press money was Increasing, for It doesn't take much timo or effort to pro duce priming press money. Eventually, we came along and licked the Japs. But when we licked the Japs, the Chinese leaders didn't have sense enough to stop fighting and go to pro ducing. Having no longer a foreign enemy to fight, they started fighting among ' them' selves. They are still at it. AS a rcault. Chlnose nroduc- tlon li still non-existent, but Chinese inflation hai become a fearful and wonderful thing to gaze upon. The Chinese dot Inr which in the dayi when China wai a fairly stable PRO ' DUCING country was Quoted on the International exchange mar kets at two dollars Chinese for one dollar American was sell ing on the Shanghai black mar ket, the last time this writer saw a quotation, at the fantastic ijcate of -20.000 dollars' Chinese vor one dollar American. The American dollar has been dolns: some fancy Inflationary splruilng on Its own account, as our production has fallen be hind demand, but In comnarison t:aauaaaa rata a, calami a) Russia Believed To Have Huge Airborne Army Now WASHINGTON, Fob. 28 (IP) Russia is believed to have an alrborna army In being or in training far surpassing that of any other power. Information filtering out of Russia indicates, It was loarned today, that the Soviet Union's strength in troops trained for lightning strikes from the air may number as high as 100,000 men. This force compares with the single airborne division which the United States possesses. That divisionthe 82nd at Fort Bragg, N.C. has an authorized strength of 13,000 men but presumably is below that figure. Efforts to bring the 82nd nearer authorized strength have been complicated by the use of trained airborne soldiers as ele ments of occupation forces in Germany and Japan. Some strategists note that the reported 100,000-mon strength of the Russian airborne force may be misleading because of possible Soviet, deficiency in the important matter of air transpor- f in- tion. .Russia's primary aviation in- rest during the war was in PRICE riVE CENTS . KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2$, 1941 (Telephone 1111) Murabes 10870 U " ; : : J British May Ask US Aid In Greece By ALEX H. SINGLETON WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (!') Britain, her domestic economy near the breaking point, was re ported in congressional and diplomatic quarters today to have proposed that the United States take over her commit ments in Greece on a large scale. Although there was no White House confirmation, this was un derstood to have been the sub ject at least in part of a high ly secretive White House con ference yesterday among Presi dent Truman, his diplomatic ad visors and key legislators. One source said that the United States would issue a statement soon on what part, if any, it would assume in helping bolster the shaky Greek govern ment. Discussions On In London, a foreign office spokesman said British and Unit ed States discussions were under way in Washington on the prob lem of continuing the economic and military obligation! in strife torn Greece now borne by Britain. - It wai learned from diplomats In Washington that the whole problem of Greece, together with a report on Britain's waning re sources, was laid before Secre tary of State Marshall by Lord Inverchapel, British ambassador to this country, at a recent con ference, : Army Plane NEW YORK. Feb. 28 (IP) The Betty Jo, army P-82 fighter, completed a 4978-mile non-stop flight from Honolulu at 11;06 a. m. (EST) today In approximate ly 14 hours and 31 minutes. . Just two minutes and 44 sec onds after the twin-engine fight er roared out of a blue sky over LaGuardla field, It made a perfect landing at 11:08:44 a. m. It took off from Hickam field. Honolulu, at 8:38 p. m. (EST) last night. Emergency equipment lined the ru:iway of the big airport as .the Betty Jo zoomed in, pre pared for an emergency land ing. The pilot, Lt. Col. Robert E. Thicker of El Centra, Calif., and co-pilot, Lt. John M. Ard of In glewood. Calif., won a daring bid against 85-mile hct-Jwinds over Pennsylvania and danger ously low fuel tanks to reach their New York objective. "We're going to take a shot at New York," they said by ra dio over western Pennsylvania. An hour later they hit their mark. No Coal Contract Overture Made WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (IP) John L. Lewis wrote Senator Capehart (R-Ind.) today that no overtures toward a new contract to operate the nation's soft coal mines have been made to the United Mine Workers of Amer ica. fighter type planes. She virtu- ally Ignored he leavy bomber air- craft and, . either because of policy or production difficulties, did little transport plane build ing, What her strength in trans port Is today la uncertain. . . Lend-lease reports show that during the war the United States turned over to Russia about 700 transport airplanes among the 25,000 delivered. - How many of these 700 trans ports plus any she may have obtained from Britain and built herself still are operable is un known. However, American ex pcrts have estimated that it re quires about 1500 transports of existing designs to move one division of about 12,000 men with their equipment. . During World War II, Russia's standard airborne unit was a brigade of slightly more than 4000 men used either as para chutists or carried in transports. While dotalls are not known, it is believed that the red army may have organized Its postwar airborne force somewhat along the linos of the United States, Into divisions probably, about the standard 12,000 strength. iihW mi! if ' Ul:W ill Hi ihif) laUa This picture of the Bonansa plant the old Bonansa school niacins) the hioh school which awr.r CIF li I I III 1 ., I,; mm i will houso the elementary grades. A gymnasium is also attached to the building. Lekberg and Duncan are contractors for the Mystery Surrounding Coat Case Partially Explained Partial explanatioon of the mystery of Mrs. Eve Benson's coat which she donated to a clothing; drive early in the war and which, subsequently was pur chased by sT Mrs. Bill Baker of Scvicrvllle, Term., was given in a story which appeared in Fri day' The Oregon lan. . The Portland newspaper ad vised it had received a letter from the mail ordor house which sold the coat to "a woman in Tennessee." The Guild Mall Or der House told The Oregonian that it could not specifically know where individual items of its merchandise come from, be cause the firm buys its clothing in lots ranging from three to 500 garments at a time from dealers. These dealers, the mall order house wrote, go around the country buying up second hand doming and then re-eu-ins lt in larae Quantities to this and other firms. "It evidently was sold to some dealer, in your section of the Hoover Urges Foreign Loan WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (If) Former President Herbert Hoov er called on congress today to put United States relief abroad on a loan rather than a gift ba sis. He also urged establishment of the post of foreign relief ad ministrator to coordinate this coun-ry'a missions of mercy. Only a day after he recotn mended that the United States spend $475,000,000 for the re lief of Germany alone over the 18-month period beginning last January 1, he was failed to give his view before the house for eign affairs committee on a pro- gosed bill to expend $350,000, 00 In five other European coun tries and China. Just back from making a three weeks' survey of Europe's food needs. Hoover contends that relief for the other European countries should not be put at higher levels than those he rec ommended . for Germany and Austria. . , s Armed Favored I For Handicap ; ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 28 (P) Headed by the favored Armed, 22 thoroughbreds were named today to start in the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap tomorrow. Others named - were Galla Damion, El Lobo, Texas Sand man, Nanby Pass, Burning Dream, Soe-Tec-See, Brie a Bac, Pere Time, Adrogue, Hank H., Plover, Terry Bargello, Auto crat, Witch Sir, Stitch Again, Olhaverry, Monsoon, Triplicate, Menu, Be Courageous and Artil lery. The weather looked good to day, but there was still a threat of rain tomorrow. - Armed, topwelghted at 12S pounds, gives away 10 pounds to the next weight, Galla Damion, 120. . n The race, at a mile and one quarter, guarantees $100,000 to the winner. New Bonanza School Almost' Completed mw iMhIIi hi 'A. I7w3r II if-" consolidated school building ta dating back to 1(07. The left wing burned down four Tears aao. and 1125,000 project. country, and came to the job bers here in New York who in turn sold it to us," the letter stated. . ' Mrs-. Benson, had, as.kJPe- J ion's congressional delegates to nvcstlgate. She donated the coat to a drive for overseas needy in 1S42 or 1943, she said, pinning a little note In it ask ing the recipient to write to her if possible. In January of this year she received a letter from Mrs. Baker at Sevierville. say ing she had placed an order with a mail order house in New York and received her coat and found the note. British-French Pact Reached LONDON, Feb. 28 UP) For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin an nounced agreement on a British French treaty of alliance in the house of commons today. Bevin said he and French Foreign Minister ' Georges Bi dault would sign the treaty next Tuesday at Dunkeraue. "It is evidence of the bonds of friendship" between the ., two countries, he said. Dunkeraue has anm-ial lani. ficance to the two countries as a scene of horror and defeat re sulting from, attempted wartime cooperation that fell short of its goal of stopping the Germans in jam. Anthony Eden, conservative former foreign minister, con gratulated Bevin for concluding me new alliance. Logger Killed In Accident ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 28 (iFj Carl A. Larson, about 45, part ner in ine parson cogging com pany of Aberdeen, Wash., was Killed yesterday while working at the company's operations near Jewell. ' i - Larson walked behind a truck which was backing up to the loading platform, and was run over. Larson and his partner, Fred Hartstrom, had come to Jewell only recently to begin large scale logging operations. The only known survivor is an uncle, Elim Larson, Nehalem, Ore. . CHINESE WAR VERY STRANGE SHANGHAI, Feb. 28 v (IP) Government and Chinese com munist forces are fighting bitterly, but it's a strange civil war. Headquarters of the communists' 18th group army' in Yenan officially is part of the national army under Chiang Kai-shek. The red, white and blue national flag flies at Yenan as it does in Nanking. In the sitting room of the 18th group headquarters, a portrait or uniang iooks down from the wall in company witn those oi Sun Yat-sen, Premier Stalin. and Prime Minister Clement Attlee. The communists maintain liaison offices in Nanking and Shanghai. Nationalists and communists maintain liaison offices In Nan king and Shanghai. ' ' . Nationalists and communists meet at cocktail parties "and dinners in nationalist territory. Communist officials in nationalist territory ; give interviews attacking high government officials, including Chiang, and these are sent around the world, without censorship. Mall is delivered between tory. And on paper, at least !! . ..'' . af , - K - -j. m which next year will entlrsly tup- is used as a nign school, ra the riaht wino. when comDleted. OPA Gets Fund Till June 30 WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 UP) The senate appropriations com mittee voted 8 to 5 today to . al low the'offtee -rrt-tJr1r'artmnih tration $17, Wtfi.Bia to continue rent, rice and sugar controls un til June ao. ' . Chairman Bridges (R-N. H.) said the committee wrote into a $18,888,000 money bill a provi sion requiring OPA and the of fice of temporary controls to end all activities June 30. Bridges said ths committee, in effect, allowed the OPA about $5,000,000 to continue its opera tions for the next four months, with the remainder of the fund earmarked for payment of ter minal leave of employes and for liquidation purposes. "I want to emphasize that this action won't end controls over rent, sugar and rice," Bridges told reporters. "The committee was Informed that a rent control bill is ready for early senate, con sideration and that there is a move afoot to transfer sugar and rice controls to the department of agriculture." Teachers Yin Pay SALEM, Feb, 28 (VP) Oregon school teachers asking that the state teacher minimum salary be doubled over the present $1200-a-year figure, were over their first big hurdle today after the house education committee rec ommended a $2400 minimum for teachers with bachelor's degrees, and $2100 for teachers without them. The house education commit tee decided to introduce a bill permitting the state education department to establish aviation education programs in schools, and appropriating $60,000 a year for the purpose. The committee also recommended passage of bills to let school boards buy houses for teachers and to pro vide rigid inspection of school buses. The senate education commit tee will meet tonight to con sider proposals for distribution to school districts of the $18, 000,000 annual basic school sup- Sort fund, including house bill which the house approved 55 'to 4. nationalist and communist ' terri both sides are winning. ., Additional Tax On Gas Gets Favor The house assessment and tax ation committee voted today to introduce a bill to tax cigarets two cents a Docket to raise $2,000,000 for each of the next two years, while a majority of the committee spoke in favor of an additional one-cent a gallon gasoline tax to give more money to counties and cities. The cisaret tax is the same as was passed by the 1945 legisla ture. It was relerrea to ine peo ple and defeated 67,542 to 60,321. The proposed tax would be in effect for only two years. Revenua Increase The committee's subcommittee on new revenue proposed that the extra one-cent gasoline tax would enable increasing the cities' share of highway revenues from 5 to 12.5 per cent, and the counties' share from 15.7 to 20 per cent. Rep. Burt K. Snyder, Lake view, chairman of the house roads and highways committee, was the only member who talked against the proposal. wmie the proposal wouia not take additional revenue from the highway fund compared with what the highway commission has been getting, Snyder said the commission needs more . j enue to complete its road pro gram. Sponsors of the proposal said thevhishwav commission should not build until costs come down, and that the programs for county roads and city streets are lust as Important. Snyder declared that. the pro posal would .set the. state road program dock iu years. Police Hunt TACOMA. Feb. 28 VP) State patrol officers were watching today for two men who robbed and kidnaped a Seattle man in his own car last night and, after dumping him out at Spanaway, disappeared with his car. John weaver, of Z103 litn street, Seattle, told Pierce coun ty sheriff's officers that the rob bers entered his car, parked near the Seattle bus depot at 8 p. m., and threatening him with a gun made him start driving. They robbed him of $57, and after passing through Tacoma drove out to Spanaway where they left him near a service station from whence he called police. Weaver said the car stopped several times at taverns, but one man kept him under guard in the car while the other went into the tavern. After leaving him the car sped along the mountain highway. Post Office To Hold Centennial The only 100-year-old Dost of fice west of the. Rockies today celebrates its centennial anni versary on March 7, 1947. This om-time post office is located at Astoria in Oregon. The Astoria post office was established March 9, 1847. An invitation to attend the celebra tion was received today by Burt E. Hawkins, Klamath Falls post master. Hawkins stated he will be unable to attend. Bull Sale Price Sets New High LA GRANDE. Feb. 28 (JPi Highest prices in the history of the Tri-County Hereford Breed ers association annual sale at La Grande were paid here yes terday. The 53 bull, consigned by Hereford breeders from Un ion, Wallowa, Baker and Uma tilla counties sold for an average of $401.50, compared -with an average of $238 last year. Ten cows consigned this year brought an average of $332, com pared with an average of $238 last year. Forest i Travel Heavy In State PORTLAND, , Feb. 28 (P) More than a- million persons visited the 19 national forests of Oregon and Washington last year, 840,000 of them camping overnight, the regional for ester's office reported today. The total was nearly double that of 1945 and nearly up to the last pre-war year's peak of 1,228,000 in 1941. Kidnapers W Lewis W. Douglas (abors). one-time budget dlractor, wai appointed by President Truman to h ambassador to Great Brit ain and his nomination sent to the senate. AP wirepheto. To Flood Area WEST PALM BEACH. Feb. 28 W) The army today sent -a rescue squadron of four flying boats speeding toward the town of Trinidad, in northern Bolivia, where upward of 3000 persons were reported clinging to tree tops, roofs and debris in im minent danger of drowning in a flood. -. ' - , On direct orders from Wash ington, the fifth emergency res cue sauadron under command of Capt. Banta M. York took to the air on short notice and sped across the Caribbean sea. Four Catalina flying boats cap able of landing in Hood waters make ud the sauadron. The word from Washington was that Trinidad, a town of 8000 at a confluence of two riv- rev-d, was completely under water ' I 1 1L, ' : - M : and that a majority of its habitants had been trapped. Bomb Blast Kills Sobers ' JERUSALEM, Feb. 28 UP) Reliable - reports . from Haifa said two soldiers and five civil ians were injured in a bomb explosion there today a few hours after an intercepted refu gee ship with 1350 unauthor ized immigrants aboard was es corted into Palestine waters off Haifa. - An American consular offi cer, in Haifa to investigate re ports that the ship was carry ing an American captain and crew, said the second floor of Barclay's bank; was blasted "by the bomb. Other reports, said the explo sion was caused by a mine placed in offices of the Haifa Shipping company, on the third floor of the Barclay building. These reports said the shipping company offices were damaged, but the bank itself was un scathed. .... . , British Forces Stay In Japan TOKYO, Feb. 28 W British commonwealth forces, now .to talling about 30,000, are "here to stay" for the duration of the allied occupation of Japan, in formed sources said tonight. Departure for Malaya early in February of the United King. dom's fifth infantry brigade of about 3000 men had led to ru mors that the British contem plated a wholesale withdrawal. Informants said the . contrary was true and pointed to newly accelerated recruiting programs in New Zealand and Australia. Publicity representatives of those countries are in Japan obtaining material for the re cruiting campaigns. Fire Sweeps Pearl Harbor Dock, 25 Injured In Dlazo PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 26 (IP) The navy sought to find the cause today of a flash fire which swept a huge Pearl Harbor dock, sent 25 firefighters to the hos pital and laid a smoke pail over the giant base. Damage was expected to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it might have mount, ed far higher but for 500 navy and marine fire-fighters who con fined yesterday s ; blaze to r a quarter-mile-long wooden dock. At the height of the roaring fire, civilian workers . moved more than 5000 tons of supplies to a place of safety, when the flames licked close to the ad jacent ' warehouse area. , ; Fire broke out without warn ing in the oil-slick waters be tween the dock and the supply ship Oberon at. 10:45 a.'m. and within a few minutes had raced the length' of the dock on the submarine side of the yard. . Crews of the Oberon and the nearby destroyer tender Sierra Into Cu rve ' GALLITZTW P. r.k at im Careening wildly down a moun- . talnslde track while the remain der of the train continued on its) journey, the last car of the Penn. sylvanla railroad's New York-to-Texaa "Sunshine Special" car' rled pullman porter to hit" death and injured 10 passenger " and one crewman today. ine car, tearing loose from the train at the crest of the Alle gheny mountains while one of its two engines was being cut off, took off in a three and one-halt mile solo run backwards. Gathering speed as it went, it zipped past Bennington curve where 11 days ago the wreck of the "Red Arrow" claimed 24 lives and injured nearly 190 others. The dead porter was identi fied by the railroad as L. Keys, working out of Houston, Tex. Passengers on the car said ha was standing on the rear plat form in a vain effort to stop the flight and was crushed as the car hit the hillsldav Investigation Starts , V Railroad officials lmmedialr-Jw - started an investigation. -i;'7 Flagman Edward J. Mi ' of Bellevue. who was asm injured taken to Altoonar railroad' Jeffersotilan, w, en credit for reducing ttf ' of the lnjrta by telli J scngers to lie down in P,'! to avoid flying glass, t ! Only two passengers lit, ; ; escaped in jry. They wert, i Roebling. a'renton, N. J., known sportsman and part ( er of the Monmouth Park V track in New Jersey, and H. i Cornell, 115 Utah St, BaytowtJ Railroad policemen, stationed as guards at the scene of the Bed Arrow wreck where its two big engines still lie at the bottom of a 150-foot embankment, wera among the first to reach tha scene. They said the car was traveling at approximately 50 miles an hour as it rounded Ben nlngton curve in its wild flight. Harry G. Willis, Jersey City. ft. J., who suffered a fracture of the right leg, said he was tha first passenger to awake. - '1 noticed the car racing down the mountain aide but couldn't tell which way it was going," ho said. "The brakeman told all Jhe passengers to get out OaUtr"''rv, 1 auau aw Ma wv asie xaawv of the passengers did -this but some were too afraid to get out. We raced along for about five or even minutes. . There wasnt too much screaming. Considering the ter ror, the people did marvelously welL The brakeman tried to ap ply the emergency brake but it wouldn't work." Debt Pay3nt- FL7.d.Prc.T!-:J WASHINGTON. Feb. 28 (IP) The senate voted today to write into a budget-cutting pledge a promise to apply $2,800,000,000 of any savings toward reduction of the national debt . The vote was unanimous, 82 to 0. The action came after Sena tors Knowland (R-Calif.) and Taft (R-Ohio) had compromised two different proposals on debt payment. Knowland - at first wanted to earmark three billions for debt payment and Taft oiff"" one ouiion. , . . Divorce Bill Proposed Today - SALEM, Feb. 28 (JP) The. senate judiciary committee in troduced a bill today which would permit a divorced person to remarry 60 days after getting : the divorce. Divorced persons must now wait six months. Sen. Irving Rand, Portland, chairman of the committee, said that many Oregon persons go to Washington state to remarry be fore the six months are up. He said the bill might remedy the . situation. . .. tot their ships under way quick, kj- ly and out into the safe channel as the flames spread along the oily waters, sending blaekv smoke clouds billowing. Four fireflghting tugs and dozen smaller craft equipped with hose moved in- and shot water into the mtsi of flames, while shoreside firefighters poured on water and chemicals. . Twenty-five of the firefighters were overcome by smoke and were taken to Naval hospital, some protesting that they could stay and fight the flames. None was believed in serious, condi tion. V Navy authorities estimated that 100 others were treated for minor burns, and many others, overcome temporarily, ' were revived on the dock and returned to their stations, . r It was approximately ' four hours after the flame broke out that the fire was brought uncWr control. '
