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Newspaper Page Textm mm n m fffo) mm By FRANK JENKINS UNDER SECRETARY OK STATE ACHESON (inir No. t foreign relation man; General Miuuill I" ur No. 1 MIUIl) tells the Melgn relations committee nf tlm house of representatives Hi In inorning: "Tlio existence of coinmunliit riimilnutod governments ANY PLACE IN THE WOULD IS DANGEROUS TO THE SECUR ITY OF THE UNITED STATES." THAT Is to nay, Russia (which A 1 the heart, liver and lunga of communlam) la as bin already UK wo dure to lot lu-r not. Wo niUKt atop her before ho got too big tu huncne. Ili-ncc our newly announced forelun noltcy. of which aid (which will Include nillltury aid) to Greece and Turkey ! a Prl Greece and Turkey urn IN CIDENTS In tho broud program of attipping Russia (leader of t'umiminlmn) before he gets too big to handle. So we are alurtlng there. THAT la putting It wllli brutal x bluntnt'iui. But It accina to be the truth that Ilea buck of J'realdcnt Trumun'a carefully wonted foreign policy announce ment. If we are going to bnck thla new policy with all our Uvea and all our property, we need tho blunt truth. We are alowly beginning to get It. A CHESON'S atulciueiit cunie In the courae of what amounted to crow examination of him thla morning by the foreign relations committee of the hnuae. Repro- aenluUve Judd iMInucaotu) aaked him: "Would a communlat-doml' naled government of China be a danger to United States sccur ltv?" He anawercd, as stated at the head of thla column, that com munlst-dominalrd govcrnmcnta anywhere In the worm are dunuerous to our security. You aee h minced no words. .., A MOMENT later, Judd asked "Does the state department know of any communist gov. eminent In the world that is not Soviet-dominated? Acheson answered: "Communlnl organ illations throughout the world appear to act with a high degree of dis cipline and unanimity which Is beyond the probability of coin cidence. AT this point, Acheson revert- ed to the weaacl words of diplomacy. So, In tho Inlcreat of bluntness, we muat tranalule what he suld Into what he meant Here Is what ho meant to con vev to the house foreign rcls lions committee, and thence (since reporters wero present) to the Dconle or the united btalca Russia IS communism. She Is the heart and the lungs and the liver and the BRAIN of It. What ever communism does, anywhere in the world, Is directed by Rus sia. Russia Is the general stuff of communism. What Russia plans, communists everywhere carry out. CO- If communism is to be stop ocd before it engulfs us or seri ously limits our future, it must be stopped before it gets too big. Since RUSSIA IS COM M UN ISM Russia must be stop- Ked before she gets too big to andle. That Is the long and the short of our new foreign policy. Balm Fork Has Busy Spring Day 1IEPPNER, March 21 ) Balm Fork had a busy dny. All within 24 hours and with In two miles of each other in that community, these things Happened: A calf with only one nostril whs born on the Alton Osmin farm; a dog bit a horse, the horse ran away, scattering fence posts and Mnrvin and Leo Os min over the landscape; twin calves were born on the Jlmmle Monahnn ranch; and one of Peter Lcnnnn's sows had a lit ter of 11 pigs. House Committee Backs GOP Tox Slashing Program WASHINGTON. March 21 (JP) The houso ways and means com mltteo today approved, 16 to 9, the republican - bucked bill to sluHh income taxes by 30 per cent for the small taxpayers and by 20 per cent for most others. The legislation thus was head ed for tho house floor for a showdown next Thursday. The committee vole virtually fol lowed party lines. Before approving tho meas ure, the committee rejected, IS to 10. a motion by Rep. Dough ton (D-N. C.) to postpone tux con siderations "until wc know what our foreign and other commit ments will be" In connection with recent world developments. The tax cut, under the legisla tion authored by Ways and Means Chairman Knutson (R Minn,), would be effective as of last January 1. . PRICE FIVE CENTS of Machine Tax Courtright Denies Vote Meddling WASHINGTON. March 21 W Scnutor Wutkina (It-Utah) said today the road to freedom for tho American Indian appears to bo tlirough the emancipation of Individual tribes. Except for a ainull number of Individuals who have given up their tribut rights, all Indians are wards of the federal govern ment. Opening a hcurlng of his In dian affairs sub-committee to consider the Klamath (Ore.) tribe, Watktns said: "It seems to be impossible to pass any general legislation to free the Indians from govern ment supervision but the com mittee will consider the matter, tribe by tribe." Tribal Funds B. J. Courtright, superintend ent of the Klamath reservation, and today's only witness, told the committee 47 persons wert employed on the reservation by the Indian service in January, 1947, and the payroll was $13,. 154, of which 3822 came from tribal funds. He denied that, In his 10 years as superintendent, he has made any attempt to Influence reser vation elections. "1 defy anyone to tell the Klamath Indians what to do and what not to do," he told the committee. Senator Ecloil (R-Monl.) re plied : "What has been complained of Is perhaps no more than Is done in ayy organization, but the fuct remains thut we must bo particularly careful In every respect that taere be no' reflec tion cast on election procedures On tho reservation. Those peo ple are wards of tho govern ment and their elections must be accomplished by the free will of the whale tribe." He said the Klamath Indians are as Intelligent as "any com munity I know." and should be able to manage their own af fairs. Action Urged For Germany MOSCOW, March 21 (A') U. S. Secretary Marshall called on the council of foreign ministers today to set plans for the crea tion of a German government in motion at once and both he and Britain's Ernest Bevln pre sented programs for the organ ization of a federalized German nation. The council, in a brief session, agreed to invite representatives of the Austrian government here immediately for discussion of the Austrian peace treaty. . V. M. Molotov, Soviet foreign minister, said he already had as sured Foreign Minister Karl Gruber, of Austria, that visas would bo issued for the Aus trlnns assigned to come to Mos cow. The action on Austria came after Marshall had urged the council to break the Austrian trenly Impasse on what consti tutes German assets in that coun try and had expressed hope that the treaty would be completed in the Moscow meeting. PINE DOWN PORTLAND, Ore., March 21 OP) Although orders for west ern pine soared in the week ended March 13, the total was under tho three-year weekly March average, the Western Pine association reported today. Withholding from waves and salaries under the pay-as-you-go system would be slashed to con form with the tax reduction ef fective June 1. Taxpayers would get rebates for any overpay ments between January ,and Juno under the new rates, Tho bill provides an overall $3,840,000,000 slash from tho present individual tax collec tions of about $16,000,000,000 annually.' In the committee voting, one democrat joined 15 republicans in supporting tho legislation. His name was not immediately dis closed. Knutson predicted the house will approve the legislation by a comfortable margin, although democrats on the committee or ganized their ranks for a last ditch battle. Truck r- r.-..,. --as i. I) mm iVi. 8 tiny ik JV - U i raiwili ' r ... r. -n-IT HiaaiA.rf i i "II "r-iaiar Scota guarda wad through flood waters to a truck maroonod at the croaaroads at Datchat. England. Dsatruction was apread by floods throughout largo axoas of England and Walts and the air ministry forecast no immediate roliof In sight. AP wb-ophoto. Compromise Looms On Bill SACRAMENTO. March 21 iA') The Collier committee $21800.000,000 superhighway bill was oufdrtrOie floor of the assembly today 'and its ultimate fate now appeared to be des tined to be determined by a compromise between the senate and the assembly. Although ' as recently as week or 10 days ago, the pros pects of getting the bill through the assembly revenue and taxa tion committee seemed hope less, the measure survived at least as its title by a 12 to 4 vote on the final committee roll call late last night. Many amendments were made in the measure and its present form is vastly different from its original conception. Stripped from the bill are the major financing features, the proposed 2-ccnt gasoline tax increase and the trucking com pany mileage tax. Yet many of the major pro visions of the bill are intact, including the proposed highway system and the 67.4 miles of added metropolitan freeways. Lilienthal Has i Senate Support WASHINGTON. March 21 UP) David E. Lilienthal has the pres ent support of a majority of the senate, an Associated Press check showed today. Hence his confirmation as chairman of the atomic control commission Is almost certain un less some senators change their minds during debate. Of 74 members willing to 6ay how they would vote today on the controversial nomination 49 a clear majority of the 95 qualified members snid they in tend to support the nomination. Senator Tatt (R-Ohlo) said debate on the Issue probably will start Monday, , - . Best Dressed . Women Named NEW YORK, March 21 (P) The Fashion Academy an nounced today America's best dressed women of the year in 13 fields of endeavor. Six are new comers to the annual list. The Gold Medal award win ners of 1947 are Kay Francis, stage; Louise Albritton, screen; Maggl McNcillis, radio; Mrs. Jerome K. Ohrbach, young ma tron; Joan Barton, supper clubs; Rise Stevens, opera; Patricia Trovers, concert; Mrs. Leon Man- del, international set; Doris Duke, society; Lorraine Dresscl buys, debutante; Mrs. George Marshall, public life: Vivien Kcl lenis, business; Mrs. Walter Thornton, fashion and promo tion. ' Appearing on the Fashion Academy list for the first time are Mrs. Marshall, wife of the secretary of state; Mrs. Ohrbach, wlfo of the president of the New Ydrk department store of that name; and the Misses Albritton, Barton, Travers and Dresselbuys. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. FRIDAY, MARCH 21. 1947 Marooned In English Flood , vy' W i, j, eu - 'U j.i 1 Preparations Woods Operations In Basin Melting snow in upper eleva tlons and forest roads fast- be coming passable have brought about considerable preliminary Wciivity as -various woods (opera tions are getting under way in preparation for the spring and summer work. Although some Klamath mills, such as Weyerhaeuser, have con tinued woods work throughout the winter months, others shut down with the first heavy snow fall and have waited until good spring weather. April 1 appears to be the Easter Seal Sale Starts This month marks the initial sale of Easter seals in Oregon. Sponsored by 'the National So ciety for Crippled Children and Adults, and locally handled by the Soroptimist club, the cam paign climax will come on Sat urday, March 29, when Klamath people will have a chance to buy seals and small lilies to be sold downtown In the "Lily Parade for Crippled Children." The lilies will be sold in the business district on that day only by Pep Peppers of Klamath Union high school, and seals will be sold by Girl Scouts in the United States and First National banks. Seals are being sent through the mails to people here, and those receiving them are urged to send their remittances as soon as possible. Canisters and posters have been placed in downtown stores by the Boy Scouts. The seal campaign has been conducted in the mid-west for a number of years and Is just this year being introduced in Ore gon. The society's work deals with patients- suffering from severe types of infantile para lysis and similar diseases. Mrs. Robert H. Thompson, Mrs. Esther Lawlcr and Mrs. Rose M. Poole of the Soropti mist club are chairmen of the local drive. Mrs. Thompson is county chairman and Mrs. Law lcr Is seal sale chairman. Another phase of the drive is the "Shares . of Happiness," larger contributions by business houses and individuals. Pine Palaver Slated Here Major negotiations covering wage and welfare matters will come before a meeting of repre sentatives of the CIO Interna tional Woodworkers o America and the Pine Industrial Relations committee, starting next Wed nesday at Klamath Falls. 1 The negotiations will cover the pine industry In Klamath basin and northern California. Meanwhile, on the fir side of the lumbering picture of the northwest, the Lumbermen's In dustrial Relations committee, Willamette Valley Lumber Op erators association and Oregon Coast operators association agreed to a joint committee to negotiate on an Industry wide basis with the IWA. (Telephone till) 2)1 1 1, aBinaiaf.--ui.it ;a.s'.;... .. 'al Underway For go c'ratio 5SH S-nS permit. Old timers tare used- uae neavy, auaaen storms ox mia spring in the Klamath basin, and few would set a definite date when the crews would start bringing the pine from the for ests to the mills. Ivory Pine company plans to start heavy operations by April 1, the weather continuing as it is today, but a small crew is al ready doing preliminary road work and snag falling. The outfit is operating eight miles north west of Bly and a crew of some 50 men will go into the woods within two weeks time. The mill will also operate around the first of April, cutting 110,000 feet per day. Two shifts, both day and night, will be employed. Ivory Pine sources said today that the firm shipped out all inventory early in the year and the past month has been quiet. Spangler Lumuer company is also operating in the Bly area, southeast of that community. Of ficials said logging would start within the next week or 10 days, also contingent on the weather, with the sawmill operating two shifts per day and cutting 100, 000 feet.The mill is now sawing on logs decked last winter. Log ging contract for Spangler is be- (CaaUnardl aaj Pasa 3. Colama 1) Board Kills Hospital Move SALEM, March 21 (fP) The state board of control advised the legislature today that the hospital at Camp White could not be used as a state home for feeble-minded persons, but that it might be used for a home for senile persons from the state nospuais ana tor umrainaDie in mates from the Fairview home for feeble-minded persons. The board took its action to day after receiving a report from a committee of experts which it sent to Camp White. "It is the judgment of this board that the same amount of money be expended at existing institutions will provide better and more efficient care and hos pitalization," the board said. The board said it would cost $1,300,000 for alterations and ad ditions which would be neces sary at Camp White, and that $300,000 would be needed to move Fairview home to Camp White. It also would cost, the board estimated, $5,000,000 additional for the next 10 years to oper ate it as a home for feeble-minded persons. ' ' BULLETIN OSC rooters will have their radios tuned tonight to the Ore gon Stata-Oklahoma champion ship basketball gama being aired diract from Kansas City. Sta tion KFLW wUl carry the hoop by hoop account of the gama beginning at 7:30 p. m. through arrangement with KOAC Cor- allia and tho Tidowater-Aaso- ciatod Oil company. WEATHER Mil. I Mir. Ml ... 71 Mia.. PrfelpllatUn Uat SI faaara M.....M Stream vaar ta Sata ..S.M Lait yCar II.M Narmal I.SL FaraeaM: Ineraaalna alaaSlnaaa taSar anS SalarSar with aeallaraS aawara taaaarraw. No. 10881 Joint Group Labors To Cut Deficit SALEM, March 21 The joint legislative ways and means committee, which must decide quickly whether to make a drastic cut in all appropriations or whether to have a deficit of more than $6,000,000 for the next biennium, voted 6 to 3 to day to ask the house tax com mittee bring in the bill to levy a 30 per cent tax on slot ma chines, pinball games and punchboards. The tax committee has tabled the bill, which would bring in about $4,000,000. Work Finished The ways and means commit tee took the action after Rep. Robert C. Gile, Roseburg, chair man of the house tax committee, told the ways and means group that his committee has finished its work. The committee's pro gram includes the cigaret tax of 2 cents a package, which, would bring in $4,000,000. The 3 per cent sales tax bill, which was passed 38 to 22 yes terday, by the house and sent to the senate, would not help the deficit, since it must go to the people. Special Election C. C. Chapman, chairman of the ways and means sub-committee on finance, suggested to the committee that one way out 32rM5 r? raft .ic'toeV.op3 .tax to, make up whatever aeiicu exists at mat time, xne property tax then probably would be offset by income taxes. Snow Hampers Air Search Recent snowfall in the moun tains hampered members of the Klamath air search and rescue unit in their guest for two lone- missing planes Wednesday, but roe venture served to give the unit an actual test run in air search experience. Both missins" Dlanes. a Navion flown by Douglas Locke, and a government surplus plane pilot ed by Robert Rubottom, have been sought in this area for some weeks, and the weather has since obliterated any signs of the downed craft, the searching fliers reporiea. Eight planes can-vine eieht pilots and an equal number of observers covered the territory from Klamath Falls north to the Three Sisters area. The district was mapped out with a certain territory assigned to each plane. Most of the planes returned about noon the same day after some three hours of searching, and a few went on to Bend for refueling, returning later in the day. Planes and time were donated by the fliers and gasoline was furnished by the Shell Oil company. Sales Tax Passes House 38 To 22, But Bill Faces Revision By Senate Committee By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM, March 21 (P) -The Oregon senate, with only a week or so left to work on it, got the 3 per cent sales tax bill from the house today amid predictions by house leaders that the bill would be almost unrecognizable by the time the senate's assessment and taxation com mittee works it over. The house passed the measure late yester day 38 to 22, concluding three hours of the most bitter debate during the first 67 days of the legislature. The bill would be referred to the people at a special election June 24, the people already having beaten five sales tax proposals. The senate tax committee will begin work Monday on the bill. There is some talk that it might reduce the rate to 2 per cent, and drastically change the distribution; of the $24, 000,000 annual revenue that the bill Is expect ed to produce. The house version of the bill would give half of the receipts to counties, cities and school districts; the other half would reduce state income taxes and go into the state general fund. ' ' Some senators also don't like the idea of exempting food from the tax, as provided by the house. Opponents to the bill did most of the argu ing in the house, their main argument being that the house tax committee, which submitted the sales tax bill, deliberately side-tracked other revenue bills so that the state would have a deficit when the special election is held. Then, the opponents argued, the sponsors try Juvenile Gets Two-Year Term In Penitentiary Billy Tripp, 17, self-confessed burglar and car prowler, was sentenced to two years in the Oregon stole penitentiary in cir cuit court Wednesday, the first juvenile to be sent to the peni tentiary in the six and one-half years Circuit Judge David K. vancienocrg has been on the bench, the judge said today. Young Tripp, who will be 18 years old on March 30, was charged with burglary not in a dwelling and in court admitted that in the three days prior to his apprehension, he had entered between 12 and 15 different homes and on one occasion he had carried a gun. Tripp said he operated alone. Judge Vandenberg said the boy had been before him off and on for the past five years and he had extended him every op portunity to go straight. The judge said he gave the boy the minimum term and that it was the first juvenile he had been forced to send to the state penal institution in the time he has been on the bench. Young Tripp was found guilty of the offense following a com plaint signed by operators of the Raymond Dairy. Tripp is a parolee from the boys training school at Woodburn and was ar retted by city police January 14. At that time he made a full con fession of his activities which also included entering business' establishments. Much of the loot was recovered at the time of Tripp's arrest. The youth has a long juvenile record for small burglaries and was sent to Wood burn on August 3, 1945. He was paroled March 6, 1946. District Attorney Clfrenre Humble took Tripp's case to cir cuit court instead of juvenile court because of the youth's age and lengthy record. Spring Here, Officially Today Friday. March 21, is the first day of spring and in perverse fashion was the first overcast day in more than a week. The forecast for Satur day and Sunday is little brighter with the weatherman dishing out "cloudy, cooler and light rain." Spring arrived officially at 3:13 a. m.. Pacific time, hour of the vernal equinox. It came into the Klamath basin with a nip in the air but shrubbery and early spring flowers kept right along showing color. School children had a strong taste of spring fever in their blood this week and brought out marbles, baseballs and bats to work it out of the system. They were looking forward to the annual spring vacation in the city schools starting Friday, March 28, at the close of the afternoon classes, and continuing until Monday, April 7, the day after Easter. Even if the weatherman had forgotten to officially inform the public of the fact that today the first day of spring, shop pers would have been well aware of it as windows bulged with gay spring colors and Easter rab bits, stuffed and alive, amused the down-towners. Rent Control Extension OK'd WASHINGTON, March 21 VP) A senate banking subcommittee today unanimously approved legislation continuing rent con trols through February 29, 1948, without a general increase. Chairman Buck (R-Del.) said the subcommittee will decide net on how the rent program will be administered after OPA goes out of business next Jjune 30. Raymond M. Foley, national housing administrator, recom mended to the committee that rent ceilings be retained on new dwellings as well as on old houses. Showdown Need Cited By Acheson WASHINGTON, March 21 (P) Under Secretary of State Ache son said today the existence of "communist-dominated govern ments" any place In the world la "dangerous to the security ol the United States." Acheson made that reply when Rep. Judd (R-Minn.) asked whether a communist-dominated government of China would b a danger to United States se curity. Stcond Day For the second straight day, Acheson testified before the house foreign affairs committee on President Truman's request for authority to use $400,000,000 plus military advice and ma terials to help Greece and Tur key resist communist aggression. Before Judd's question, Ache son said that a communist-dominated government in Greece would be considered dangerous to this country's security. A moment later he commented that "communist organizations throughout the world appear to act with a high degree of dis cipline and unanimity which is. beyond the probability of coinci dence." Judd had asked whether the state department knew of any' "communist government" in the. world that is "not Soviet dom inated." At that point, Rep. Merrow CR-N.H.) interjected that he fa-' vored a "showdown" with tho communists. He added: "Mr. Stalin and his associates won't, stop their program of ag gressive expansion until the United States takes a firm stand.", - Merrow asked whether th United States would be abandon-, ing its world leadership by de nying aid to Greece and Turkey. Acheson replied: "If the United States will not accede to the. requests made on it, there will be a strong conviction through-, out the world that a great deal of our professions are merely words." ... . Siskiyou Vote Set May 27 May 27 is the date set for the Siskiyou county vote on the pro posed charter government for that county. The board of supervisors this week met at Yreka and accepted the charter, as drawn up by a group of 15 freeholders elected by Siskiyou people to prepare the document. Voters not already registered can do so now in order lo quali fy to vote on the proposed change in the county govern ment. Copies of the charter will be mailed to all voters by Siskiyou County Clerk Waldo J. Smith. . No Word Given On Fishing Fleet SEATTLE, March 21 m No word has been received here of any change in plans to send northwest-built fishing boats to China under the UIIRRA pro gram, shipping agents said to day. The last of 36 boats being built at Tacoma and Bellingham are expected to be completed within two or three weeks at a cost of $4,000,000, Tom LaFol lette, in charge of treasury de partment procurement, reported. The first convoy of the new craft is expected to leave April 1. Officials of the Marine Digest said at Astoria, Ore., yesterday UNRRA orders had halted sail ing of 11 newly-built vessels from Seattle for Shanghai. to scare the people into voting for the sales tax. The opposition said the sales tax Is unjust in that it makes poor people carry too much of the tax load. The sponsors contended no other source of revenue is available to solve the state's critical financial problems, and that all people should share in the cost of government. The opponents said they advocated Gover nor Snell's plan to use corporation income tax surpluses, citing Attorney General George Neuner's opinion that such a transfer would be legal. But the sponsors said the plan Is un constitutional. Stiffer taxes on Incomes, liquor, gambling, racetrack betting, and business were among the proposals the ' opposition offered in place of the sales tax. Rep. Frank J. Van Dyke, Ashland, led the debate for the sales tax, asserting the people have demanded better schools, more welfare money, and better government, so now they should be willing to put up the money. The opposition leader. Rep. Lyle D. Thomas, Dallas, charged sales tax proponents with "driving people into a corner and telling them they must take the sales tax, that we have no other source." The last time the people voted on the sub ject was in November, 1944, when they defeat ed a 2 per cent sales tax 269,276 to 96,697. . Both sides agreed that if the people defeat the sales tax again, a special legislation session would oe needed to balance the budget, which is expected to be about $5,000,000 short.