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raj o) o) JV Lai JV fl)M i is r By FRANK JENKINS r rN Belgium, ex prisoner of war, who wore held fur long and weary yean In Cirrnmn concentration camps, arn rioting in the slrocta of Uruaxcla. They aro demanding pensions and bomuii'i In PAYMENT for their sufferings. Living In a German prison cami) wm certainly no picnic. Still, the pensions and the bonuses that are being demand rd would have to be piild by the Ui'lvlnn government. The money received and pulcl out by tho Holulnn government cutnoa out of the pocket! of tho iiulgiaii people, II in probuble lluil In one way or another all m-iguina aui ferrd an a result of tho wr. If the iiolglun Kovernmrnt K atnrla paying ALL It people for I llirvirlvntloiia they endured a a ' .1. ... .... .1, ...111 ........t.. reiuu oi ma wur, u wm inuiuy iniuc them to suffer further prl , vatlons now In order to recom penae themaclvoa for what thry offered durlnii the war ycura. Somehow, that doesn't sound like tlood common aenc. ONE'of the trugedlca of war and IU altermiith la the fact tlwit o many of the things that are done don't icem to make sense. IN Chicago the other day, the price of pork' on the hoof touched a hlh of $30 per hundredweight. Two thing. hnp iuiied: Hog producers throughout the Middle Weil, atlmulutcd by the record price, mailed their nwlne to Chicago in recora numutrra, lluvitra bulked at the high price, and hoga began to pile up in the dockyard pen. With more aellers than buy. era, prlcca agged. (Pomiibly only temporarily, but at least they sagged.) 'i'hnt la supply and demand In - action. . npllERE was another develop- nicnt. Prices of securities on the New York alock exchange, which had dropped sharply the day before, dropped (harply again. People evidently rcaaoned something like thla: "Pork la food. If food prlcca go up aharply and atay up, labor ...III 1.. L.ttla n. .PA IVMUM Will IlliVW W ,,TV IHW.V m ' If wagea go up again, PRICES will go up again. If prices get higher than people can or will nay. INDUSTRY WILL BE Less profitable, so i think I'll aelfmy atocka while the (cit ing l good." . i, j When the people who had reaaoncd thla way began to (ell, prlcca of atocka tumbled for the almple reaaon that there were moro aellera than buyer. WELL, you aay, what of it what la It to US? It la thla much to all of ua: BuainoM la obvloualy (kltttah and nervoua. Every time there la a flurry ANYWHERE there la apt to bo a flurry EVERY WHERE. The more flurrlea there are, tho greater are the chance that American buainesa will go Into a tullapln, aa business all over the world haa gone into a tnllnpln. If we could only hit acme kind of level and then tough It out until prlcca and production reach aomo aort of workable bnlance. It would be better for all of ua. A COUNTY Juvenile officer down In California warna that there will probably be a star tllng rlao In juvenile delin quency during the next few year. Among other contributing cauaea, he cites thla one: "Teen -agora ore quick to rccngnlzo their rights, but NOT their responsibilities. Lack of JOBS la a major cause.. If the Injior market la to be closed f aknin to youth, aa before tho war, by tcchnlcalitica, there is littlo hope of eradicating the more serious stages of juvenile delinquency." That la to aay, IDLE young pooplo nro apt to GET INTO MISCHIEF. w E hear a lot about what to do to kecD young people out (Canllnuad an fata 4, Calumn a 8-Y ear-Old Aids FBI In Tracing Missing Jewelry SPOKANE, Wash., March 1 OP) An clght-ycnr-old boy who agreed to "go to work" on tho case after demanding that an FBI agent produce his creden tials wm credited today with helping locate $13,450 worth of lost jewelry which youngsters had used as playthings for two weeks. H. G, Maynor, special agent In charge of the Seattle FBI of fice, related tho tnle of a boy who found the Jewelry and gave away a $700 sapphire ring and of a woman who discarded a $12,730 .penrl necklace bconuso she "decided my $3 string looked better." a Rodney Peterson, tho eight-year-old FBI "assistant," was questioned by an agent trac ing the route of a delivery truck which lost tho jowols en routo to the home of Mrs. George F, Jewett, Mnynor said. "If you are an FBI man, show mo your credentials," Mnynor snid tho youngster demanded. The agent complied, Rodney in j v w , PRICE FIVE CENTS l-aQ" KLAM ' .HEOON, SATURDAY, MARCH I, 47 (Telephone Bill) Number 10871 US Sres fif .Local fcpiW Sit Soong Quits As Chinese Premier NANKING. March 1 (I') T. V. Soong reaigncd today as pre mier of China und waa succeeded by Gcnorallsaimo Chiang Kui hek as thla country moved ateudlly towards a war to the finlah between the government and communlaU. Accepting the dramutlc rcaig nation of hia brother-in-law, who waa under fire for Chlna'a eco nomic dlfficultlca, Chiang had hlmaelf voted into tho poaitlon of acting prealdent of the execu tive yuun (premier), while retain ing hla prcaidency of the govern ment. Thus Chiang assumed complete economic and political as well as milltury powers at a time when It appeared likely that the na tion s future was at stake. Soong, criticized by political foes for his handling of China's financial crisis, made his an nouncement before a critical legislative yuan (council) which had aummoned him to defend his fiscal policies. Before stepping aside, Soong, who is the generalissimo's brother-in-law, declared the com munists, by destroying commu nications, were responsible for the chaotic state of China's econ omy. Soong gavo no reason for his resignation, but it came at a time when criticism of hla eco nomic policies waa rising both In the press and In the legislative yuan, which Is headed by Sun. The recent dizzy drop of the Chinese dollar was blamed on Soong'a export subsidy plan, which he was forced to Junk u unworkable. Some sources said he might be given a diplomatic appointment or a apodal mission to Washing ton. His resignation strength ened a general Impression that even more fateful days were ahead for China. UN To Talk Europe Aid LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., Murch 10P) The United Na tions prepared today to go to the economic aid of the war- ravuged nations of Europe. Before the UN economic and sociul council was a British ap peal to give top priority to the creation of a permanent eco nomic commission which would hcln Eurone act back on its feet. Hector McNeil, British minis ter of state, told the council as It opened its fourth session yes terday that In his opinion this was tne most important issue before tho 18-mcmbcr body. It appeared likely that the council would begin debate on the question of creating the commission next week. Detonates were generally agreed that such a commission should be created, but Russia and the western powers were expected to clnsh over the exact duties of tho proposed agency. Meanwhile, Groat Britain under prodding from the Amer ican state department to clarify its immediate intentions in Palestine expressed willing ness to accept any obligations laid down by the United Na tions for liquidation of the Holy Land mandate. spected the papers and was con vinced. "I'll go right to work on it," he promised. He did. Within half an hour, Mnynor snid, Rodney's mother told the FBI a classmate had notified Rodney he had scon another boy wearing tho sapphire. Pursuing tho lead, the FBI pieced together this story of the missing jewelry: The package had fallen off the delivery truck and was found by seven-year-old Dale Rnndnnt. Ho gave the ring to another boy who wore It a week, "got tired of It and presented It as a Valentine" to a third boy. Dale threw away the necklace after tearing off a $300. diamond clasp on a cont button. A wom an who found it on her window sill snid -she "put the string up ngnlnst my neck" but tossed It Into a drnwvr because sho pre ferred her $5 string. Mra. Jewnlt snlH flip Ipwnlrv had been sent here from Chi cn go. Girl Scouts of troops S, 11 and 19. ware up early Saturday morning delivering posters around town for the Red Cross campaign which gets under way Monday morning in its drive for funds. Mrs. Dean Ofborn, troop leader, passts out the placards to Scouts (right to left) Bonita Hunter. Sara Stawart, Cora Lee Logsdan. Julia Harnden, Ellis Nitschelm, Carol Michels, Pa tricia Lehto, Shlrlay Mattoon, Joan Elliott. Linda Franklin and Virginia Thurman. Soviets Suffer Coal Shortage ' MOSCOW. March 1 P) The Russian council of ministers (cabinot), blaming a lag in coal production for delaying the na tion's whole economic develop ment, today called for a 16 per cent increase in coal ouiput as it sets goals for 1847 under the five-year plan. The council, listing "short comings" of 1046, said: The coal Industry . . . expe riencing the greatest difficul tics aa a result of the conse quences of the war. is lagging behind, thus holding up the de velopment of other branches of heavy industry, railway trans port and the whole national economy. The announcement said a number of hardships" had been created by consequences of the war, crop failures and "back wardness of Individual branches of the people's economy." It added: 'The council of ministers draws the attention of minis ters of the union republics to the fact that the tnsk of ful filling and overfulfilling the five-year plan requires radical improvement in leadership in Industry and production plan- Weyerhaeuser President Dies LONGVIEW. Mnrch 1 W) J. P. Wevcrhaeuscr Jr.. vice presi dent of the Weyerhaeuser Tim ber compnny.today snid he hns been notified of the death in St. Paul. Minn., Thursday of H. H. Irvine, president of the timber concern. He was elected presi dent at a meeting last May and wns the oldest director in point of service of anyone on tne bnnrd. Irvine was a director In several affiliated Weyerhaeuser concerns and a vital "cog" in thp pnmnnnv's nnerations. Wev- erhaeoser said. The funeral will be held Monday nt St. Paul. Department Says No New Spud Grade The state department of agri culture announced today it had decided agninst establishing a new commerclnl grnde of pota toes in' Oregon. At the request of the Klamath Potato Growers association, tho department held hearings at sev eral Oregon points on the pro posed grade. It is reported today thnt sentiment for establishing the grade was strong only at Klamnth Falls, while nt the other hearings, strong opposition was expressed. In view of the lack of unanim ity among growers, the depart ment decided to deny the Klam nth request. HOUSES OKAYED PORTLAND, March 1 UP) The federal housing authority todny authorized construction of 10 houses in Klamath Falls by David C. Gregg. " Girl Scours Aid In Red Cross Murray Regains Building As Long A finul decree entered by Cir. cuit Judge R. S. Hamilton-last night brought an end to the protracted litigation over the Main street structure which houses the Woolworth store and Matt Finnlgan's. a case that has made legal history here. After E. J. Murray, builder of the structure and plaintiff in the case, tendered $10,640.31 in court. Judge Hamilton made an order declaring Murray the true and legal owner of the building and he took possession last night. For nine years, the build ing had been in possession of T. B. Wattcrs, M. S. West, C. J. Martin, their spouses, and Mary L. Moore, held by the supreme court to be mortgagees in pos session. The case came back into court for its final phase yesterday when the defendants, pursuant to a mandate by the supreme mii.l onlaparf a final aiwinnllna showing a balance in their favor of $10,640.31. Murray built the structure in 1920. Against it was a mortgage held by the Pacific Savings and Loan association. In March, 1036. the defendants redeemed it and received what, they told Storm Threatens At Crater Lake Skies were overcast at Crater Lnke nationnl park this Satur day morning and a storm was threatening, the weather report from park authorities advised. Fair skiing conditions were expected to improve if the im pending storm breaks with a new snowfall. Snow depth now is measured at 97 inches. Temperature at 8:30 a.m. Sat urday was 25 degrees; maximum Friday was 41 degrees and min imum 22 degrees. . Roads are reported in good shape but motorists are cautioned to carry chains. Tickets Go On Sale At 6:30 Expecting a terrific demand for basketball tickets to the Klamath Medford series Tues day and Wednesday, Klamath Union high school officials have announced that the gymnasium doors will not open until 6:30 p. m. on those days for general admission scat sales. The games will not start until 8:15. This two-game series will determine the district 4 basket ball championship. Foresters Await Experiment Result SEASIDE, March 1 XJOVor. esters are wniting to see wheth er trees come up through the terns west of Saddle mountain. If they do, aerial seeding works. Some 800 acres of . burned over land were seeded by plane this week, in a half dav. If the seed reaches the ground through tne neavy fern cover ana sprouts trees, the method probably will be widely adopted. Campaign " " 1 Litigation Ends the court, they assumed to be a warranty deed irom wnson . Wiley and G. Q. D'AIbini, local attorneys, whp in turn had re ceived the pfliperty from Mur ray. But tne latter asserted mat he had not surrendered his in terest to Wiley and D'AIbini, and sought re-possession of the building. The defendants won the first round in circuit court here, re ceiving a decree from Circuit Judge Arthur D. Hay of Lake view, now on the supreme bench. But on appeal to the su preme court, Judge Hay was re versed. The court held the deed to be a trust deed instead of a warranty deed, and held Wat ters, and others, to be mort gagees in possession. An ac counting was ordered to settle between the parties. The defendants reported they paid $65,000 in the original transaction and paid off income tax liens of about $3500. In their nine years of occu pancy, they spent $26,000 on improvements and taxes. They had a total of $147,000 in the property. They reported rents in the amount of $103,000, to gether with interest at 6 per cent The balance held due them before turning the structure over was $10,640.31. Hugh L. Biggs o Portland rep resented Murray, and the de fendants were represented by Kuykendall and Kuykendall and Arthur Schaupp of Klamath Falls.. Summit Simmers With Summer CASCADE SUMMIT. Ore.. March 1 People here are won dering if Cascade Summit is try ing to be anotner Palm springs. The weather is so mild that no coat is necessary in the day. One section man worked sans shirt one day to get a suntan. This is one or tne mildest winters on record. This territory which has been eyed as an ideal location for winter sports may yet try to steal California's glory. DARING BUSH PILOTS RESCUE CRASH VICTIMS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 1 (IP) Fourteen army fliers, whose blazing B-29 crashed with an "explosion like Bikini" after they had parachuted to safety, were rescued by four daring civilian pilots , yes terday from the snow-covered tundra wastelands of the Alaska peninsula over which the Superfortress crew had been flying in search of 13 lost comrades. Four of the airmen were hospitalized with undisclosed injuries at the small set tlement of Kanakanak, six others were taken to the fishing village of Naknek on Bristol bay near where the plane went down, and the remninder were flown to their base at Elmendorf field near Anchor age. The Alaskan air command, which has lost three B-29s in a week, said an en gine of the giant bomber burst into flames during the hunt for another Super WEATHER afas. (fab. Ja . ..il Ml. M Praelallallaa laal ft aaaia. M (Iraaia raar fata s.a Narmal a.al Laal rr 11.11 Faracaalt Oceaalaaal ahawara. Offer Of $10,600 Held Not Enough Condemnation procee d i n g s have been started by the fed eral government to gain posses sion of trie 16.81-acre Beaumont tract in the upper Hot Springs area as a location for a pro posed 3i million dollar veterans hospital. The property is owned by Howard R. Perrin and Dr. E. D. Johnson, and was the site se lected by the government for the hospital. Perrin and Dr. Johnson have owned the plot for about 20 years, and were holding it for future use as a restricted residential district Government Appraisal The government's appraisal of the acreage is $10,600, and that amount has been posted in federal court. The owners of the property can either settle for that amount or can go to court in the condemnation suit and try to obtain a higher judgment from a federal jury. Perrin said today that they would go to court. He said that he and Dr. Johnson considered the property to be worth much more than the amount the gov ernment has offered. Perrin said that the particular bit of property had not been ouered Dy nun and ur. jonnson to the government for the hos pital, but according to t. a. (Taxi) Thomas the Beaumont site was on a list of proposed loca tions which were submitted to the government, and it was the one chosen, t-- --- The property, Perrin said, had been tentatively laid out in 66 building lots for future develop ment, and that plans for it as a residential area would have brought the owners considerably more money than the govern ments' $10,600, but that the gov ernment has a right to take the property for a reasonable price by exercising its right of emi nent domain. City, County Jail Plan OK Blueprints of the proposed eountv-citv iail building were approved by the jail commission during a meeting yesterday aft ernoon, and go now to the county court and city council for ap proval. The jail Dunning, to De mcaieu on Klamath between zno ano 3rd streets, was originally planned to cost about $150,000 to $175,000, with the county put ting up two-thirds of the money and the city one-third. However, the cost of construc tion being what it is today, none of the members of the commis sion entertains great hopes of building the jail within the mon etary limitations now set. Architect Sheldon urumDaugn drew the plans for the building, which would house the oliices oi city police, 'sheriff, juvenile of fice and county and city lockups. Building priorities have already been granted by the civilian pro duction administration. There have been several pro posed changes in the plans, in cluding rearrangement of the front entrance to the building and a change in the boiler room, but the commission okayed the plans as drawn. Approval of the city council and county court is necessary before the jail commission can ask for bids on the project fortress which disappeared in the Mt. Katmai region Monday. An abandon ship order was given by the commander, Lt. B. M. Johnson, Rt. 4, Mason City, la., when it became apparent the big craft could not be saved. The hazardous, dramatic rescue of the stranded B-29 airmen was the second this week from the bleak wastes of the Arctic. Eleven other fliers were snatched from the northwestern Greenland ice cap Mon day by an air transport command pilot who risked his life and the lives of his crew to bring the men to safety. Veteran bush pilots who flew out the 14 fliers from the Alaska peninsula were Orville Tosch of the Ray Petersen Flying Service, Anchorage: Dennis Fenno, owner of the Dillingham Air Service; Myron Mo ran of Dillingham, and Bill Smith of the Pacific Northern Airlines. Tosch. who was en route to Anchorage from Dillingham, and Fenno, who was Held I "A -4 . ' m Vs' Police Capt. R. E. Pratt of Pueblo, Colo., said Henry Suhra. 68, (above) signed a I a4n4)aiahMiV 4 a 4 h hi A naknn a4 his wife. Hose. 61. to death with a bot cake grlddla. Pratt said Suhra still had his wife's blood on his hands when questioned. AP wirtphoto. Independent Men Sign All independent meat opera tors in this area today had signed the butchers agreement for the new wage scale, $1.57 14 per hour, 48-hour week, effec tive Monday, March 3, it was announced by George Murphy, business agent for the butchers local 366, AFL. Under this agreement, inde pendents will pay an increase of 37 Vt cents per hour over the existing scale of $1.20 per hour, Murphy said. Negotiations were still under way today between the nego tiating committee of the1 local and the representative of Safe way Stores. Joe McMenamin of Seattle. McMenamin arrived here Friday. Murphy advised The Herald and News that in August the local negotiated a new contract for the Portland wage scale of $57.50 per a 48-hour week. u 'We.,were told, when we ac cepted the Portland' scale that when Portland butchers received more money following the Oc tober negotiation, the same scale would go into effect here. This promise was made by Mc Menamin of Safeway which con trols five Safeway markets and three of Emil's foodstores in this area. "No further increase followed the October meeting and the demand for higher wages was made here last January when the October promise failed to materialize," Murphy said. "We are doing everything in our power to settle this matter peacefully and, without calling a strute, tne business agent continued. "The whole thing now hinges on the negotiations between McMenamin of Safe way and our committee. We hope that it will be accomp lished without further diffi culty." Murphy said that he did not know of any specific meeting between his committee and the Safeway representative at this time. Louis Zieman, US concil iator from . Eugene, remained here this week-end. 53 Killed In Greek Ambush ATHENS. March 1 (PP Press dispatches said today that a left ist guerrilla band killed 53 Greek gendarmes yesterday in a bloody ambush near the village of Domoko, between Trikkala and Lamia. The dispatches said a contin gent of 66 gendarmes left Lamia yesterday morning for Domoko, to the north, and was surprised at a bend in the road by a band which opened deadly machine gun and rifle fire on the gen darmes two trucks. Survivors who escaped, the dispatches said, declared the guerrillas killed gendarmes who were wounded in the first on slaught after stripping them naked. Officer's Club Target Of Blast JERUSALEM. March 1 (P) A terrific explosion wrecked British officers' club In the heart of modern Jerusalem today, and an official announcement said 16 persons were killed, 17 were Injured and 24 were missing. Three of the dead two po licemen and a civilian were killed in bursts of gunfire be tween attackers and police. While rescue parties clawed frantically through blackened debris, police and helmeted troops searched the Jewish BULLETIN JERUSALEM, March 1 (IP) Unconfirmed report! said three explosions tonight roclj. d th dock area in the Pales, tin port city of Haifa, and that a large fire was raging there. agency building and Yeshuron synagogue both across th street from the club for the perpetrators of the Sabbath blast. Area Cloaed The area was cordoned, and traffic throughout Jerusalem was at a standstill. Eye-witnesses said a number of armed c-.en surrounded the club, on fashionable King George avenue, a few moments before the blast, and exchanged gunfire with guards. It was not immediately learned whether the Bomb waa carried into the building or hurled from a passing automg- . Explosives Thrown An unofficial report said a group of men drove alongside the building under cover of the fire laid down by their com panions, and threw explosives through a window into the halL Three attackers were believed to have been wounded and cap tured. A truck was found parked about 50 yards from the build..! ing, and officers said it might have been used by the attackers in hurling the bombs. The death toll was greater than in any other one incident in turbulent Holy Land since last iCaaUaaa aa rata a. Calau ) Storm Breaks 7arm Veather After weeks of . springlike weather with the mercury reaching 65 degrees on Febru ary 23, the highest of the year. March came in today like a surly lion showerins minsled snow and rain on the basin. ine sudden drop in tempera ture and the unexnected cipitation caught a great many people Saturday morning with' out warm coats and galoshes, tricked as they were by the weatherman into thinking that spring had come to stay. farmers, too, were caught with discs and harrows in th fields, having sarted spring cul tivation during the recent warm spell. Only a little over half the rainfall of the same time last year has dampened the coun. iryside tne first two months of 1947, and almost three inches less than normal moisture has fallen. If the old almanac prediction can be relied upon however, March will go out like a lamb, with sunshine and mild weath er, farmers will get back to work in the fields and gay hats will be brought out from clos ets and boxes again. Teachers Firm In Pay Demand BUFFALO, N. Y., March 1 VP) The president of the city board of education, Bernard J. Dowd, called today for an im mediate conference of officials of the city, school department and Buffalo Teachers federation in an effort to reach a settle ment of the six-day-old strike of 2400 teachers. , Meanwhile, the city's 2400y striking teachers stood pat on tneir demand tor an immediate salary increase in the face of the state administration's "back to work" call. flying from Egegik to Dillingham, both saw the airmen parachute from thelf flaming Superfortress. They said . the smoke, flames and explosion from the crash of the huge ship resembled pictures of the atomic tests at Bikini. Tosch and Fenno put their small amphibious planes down on a lake a mile and a halt away and quickly began round ing up the 14 fliers. They were joined soon afterward by Moran and Smith, who put their craft down on the ice-rimmed lake and aided in bringing the B-29 crew to its edge. From theje the heavily-loaded amphibians were lifted off the water's surface without mishap and the airmen taken to the set tlements. Pilot of the plane which crashed was Lt. F. B. .Oliver, Sandpolnt, Ida. He was the only Pacific northwest man aboard. The Superfortress for which Oliver'l plane was searching still Is missing. . -1
