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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1947)
fffl 111 fin JU fnrui MM n u rniHir irNiriHR A SEATTLE clinputcli lliln morning conveys to u this !ta.rtllug Hewn: "The braaa cuapldor appears to be lutiuli'd tuwiird the nino liitn wit tlir clgur afore liullun. It soon will cllmipix-iir frum 140 Scuttle office buildings." A HE we gutting cultured? " Apparently not. We ncein to bo getting merely iiliorl of time, flio dlaixilch continue: "Stumped os an Intolerable nulNince In an nurvuiniMit be tween the building owner and iniiniiKen association and the bulldluu nrvlce employe" unluii, the spittoons will be ' placed on the bunned list ef fective April 1. "Business Agent William Zclitner Mild he supposed the union would make an allowanca for the confirmed tobacco chew er. JJut." he added, 'It ahould be porcclulii one. Wo art opposed to the old brass cus pidors which require so much scrubbing mid pollablnu.' " SO there you are. If wo could afford it, wc might lio on Indefinitely chew ing tobacco and apltllnu III the direction of the guhbonn. Hut when It gel TOO KXI'KNSIVE, we do something about tt. Such is progreai. IN Waahiniitou today, Repre sentative A n g e 1 1 (Oregon! Multnomah county dIMrlct con- greaaman) gets the ear of a re porter and aaya: "Republican! In congress feel I tint tuxei can be reduced if wo cut out all exlravuitunco and wusle and eliminate unessential government agencies and func tion. NOTHING could be truer than that atutemcnt. But before we can tramline Repreaentatlvo AnKcll'i hooefut philosophy In to actual tax-cutting achieve mrnt we mutt gel together on jHime iort of workable definition of "extravngunce and waste and "unessential government agenclea and function!. Unfortunately we are now loo much Inclined to define extra . vagaurr and wifMe a aoinclhlng TTIIE OTHER FELLOW want, and unessential government agencies and function! a thoae which spend money in somebody ' else a district or state. We'ro too much inclined "to condone government ext vagance if the money ii to bo spent in OUR town or county or itiite. THIS writer ha ieen iome mighty good, otherwise wholly aenaihle, chambers of commerce OK plain and outright government extravagance iiuv ply because the money was to be apent in their bailiwick. They usually explain that "if we don't get tho money, somebody clue will." TJERE i! an interesting aide 1 1 light on communism and how it works In this country: Governor Kim Slglcr, of Michigan, testifies before the house committee on un-American actlvitlea that for months there (('ntlnaai an rag 4, Calunta 1) if. r, f. . ..at vi "f ft v. A. 8. Dorlaque, (left), Lakeshore drive home owner, was up fitrly this morning talking over with Bill Fystt. At o ciock, was uuoerian caugnt ine two ioo tag at possible site ier bis 9 e'Clock Special shot. WEATHER Mai. IMar. tl . M Mln. rai-lsllallan laal II him If" - aiiaam rati- u !ala .-.a.ls Laal year ... II. OS Narmal .. u.wl raraiaall l'Udf laSar "'' ,!,.., lanlaMJ farllr slsar aalwrSajr, PRICE riVE CENTS Marshall Asks Speed On Treaty Mnmw Mnrch 28 ll'f U. S. Secretary of Stale Marshall nrooosed to the council of for eign ministers tonight a druatic three-point streamlining of Its work on current uerniun pcum treu tv nrobleiiM with an April 2 deadline for completing the Job. The speedup proposal met a generally favorable response from the outer inrce ministers. Austria Deadlock The council, meanwhile, failed completely to break the dead lock on Herman assets in nuf tna. thus dimming the prospects for completing an Austrian treuly here. The KiMslans have begun a bargaining drive in the confer ence tit net reonrationa from current German production, it was learned, but ilic uniiea States and Britain thus far are standing against a proposed com promise. Iran scrvea notice too ay, throuuh Ambassador Prince Mo- zuffar Flrouz, that she would claim reparations from Germany at the peace conference for war damages listed at .i.uod,uuu,uuu. While Soviet Foreign Mln inter V. M. Mololov made clear from tho start that continuing repar ations Is the most Important Rus sian requirement in any German economic settlement, tne situ ation had developed into a de mand and counter-demand situ ation until an all-night session of the Dig Four council's co ordinating committee lust night caused all the power to begin playing -some of their highest cards, The ministers deputies, mean while, made some slight progress toward clearing up disputed pro visions of the Austrian treaty. The deputies agreed to five tech nlcul and relatively minor points, decided they could not agree on four others, and received an Austrian political committee re port on displaced persons. First Timber Auction Spot Set PORTLAND, Ore., March 28 The U. S. forest service's first experiment in auctioning timber Instead of selling It under sealed bids will be made May 5. Tho auction, on 76.187.000 bnnrd feet of timber on the Wlllnme creek watershed near Packwood, Wash., will be held here. the installation of a cesspool I. ft'f - m '.-AC: W -fi- A BP Tha rfrlvar walked awav from ' I. ,1 --. curve about a half mile beyond-Moore not returned to claim the coupe tn in iha machine, was i.n.rf in maba a cum where lour shore residents observed. Folks tection tna a warning signs a -'-'. ' - Gunman Gets $3500 In Theft SPOKANE, Morch 28 (41 A lone bandit who threatened a teller with a note written on a telegraph blank staged a hold up at the Washington Trust company this morning and made off with $3300. Tho teller, Ruth Cottlngham, said the man approached her cage, carrying a hand in his pocket as If he had a gun, and shoved through the cage a note reading: "You arc as good as dead it you don't give me your money." The womon said he instruct ed her to put the money into a bag and then warned her to go to the back of tho cage and stay there until he was outside. As soon as he left, she said, she tripped the alarm. Police were unable to deter mine immediately how the ban dit escaped. The man's only disguise was a set of colored spectacles. Auto Union Called Red WASHINGTON, Mnrch 28 lP) Gov. Kim SlRler, of Michigan, testified todov that three high officials of the CIO United Auto Workers union are "captives of the communist party of the United States." He listed them to the house committee on un-American ac tivities as follows: "R. J. Thomas, former presi dent and now vice president of the union; George Addes, secretary-treasurer; and Richard P. Leonard, national director of the Ford department." ' Sigler said "they follow the communist party lines in union activities." For months, the governor said, there has been a "terrific struggle" for control of the CIO UAW in Detroit between com munists and good loyal Amer ican citizens. Repentent Thief Returns Locket PHILADELPHIA, March 28 (;i) Because the thief had a conscience, although a long smouldering one, a $125 cameo locket stolen eight years ago was buck In possession of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin today. Martin noted a smnll paper bag tied to the knob of his front door. Inside was the locket, a family heirloom, Intact except for a small gold cross which had hung from the cameo. In the bag was an unsigned note saying, "I am sorry." "RIDAY, MARCH it. 1947 ed Curve Was His Undoing -1" iOt this mass of wreckage which park at 2:30 o'clock this wnicn carries uregon license no. traveling at a high rate of speed cars have been wrecked within that live along the drive said today they woyld ukjurther pro iihs . - - Terrorisis Blast Pipeline In Haifa; JERUSALEM, March 28 IO British officials said today five Jews had blown up an oil pipe line in the Haifa dock district, setting off a fire that raged through extensive oil and ben zine installations. The announcement eaid the Jews, dressed as Arabs and arm ed with revolvers, forced their way through heavy defenses of the oil dock area at 9:05 a. m. and placed small charges of ex plosives under the pipeline in several places. They, tried to flee in a small Gas Tax Hike Voted Down SACRAMENTO. March 28 W) The California assembly today was on record, at least tempo rarily, as against ' raising the state's 2 -cent gasoline tax to help finance a $280,000,000 long range highway program. It so indicated by a 47 to 30 vote in committee of the whole as the climax to a rousing and at times tumultuous session late yesterday. f urther, by a voice vote the assembly overrode Governor Warren's objections to attaching a rider to the Collier road de velopment measure requiring the state to pay half the costs of removing or relocating pipe lines or other facilities of public utili ties to make way for expressway or freeways. Four technical amendments were adopted also. But Speaker Sam L. Collins ruled none of the amendments are yet in the superhighway bill. It will be necessary, he said, to take them up separately for a vote on third reading. VA Press Agents To Be Tossed Out WASHINGTON, March 28 (P) The house appropriations com mittee struck pay dirt today in its drive to cut down on the number of government press agents. It recommended a reduction of 181 public relations employes in the veterans administration. The committee reported to the house the VA has boosted the number of public relations workers from eight to 281 in 18 months and declared the In. crease "cannot be justified." PINE ORDERS DROP PORTLAND, March 28 (TP) Western pine orders dropped in the week ended March 22, but shipments and production in creased, the Western Pine asso ciation reported today. (Telephone 8111) 0 vfcr Log 1m :: G piled up on Lakeshore drive morning. At a late hour he had 3sa-j2. ine operator oi tna toward Klamath Falls when it the past several months. Lake- , " " '" - ' Oil Fires Rage truck, the report said, but were turned back and then attempted to scatter and escape afoot. Sev eral suspects were rounded up for questioning, but police de clined to say wnetner any were connected with the blasts. Inhabitants of Haifa, a major Palestine port on the Mediter ranean northwest of Jerusalem, told of Hearing two heavy ex plosions. The fire started by the blasts spreac to nearDy on ana Den zine tanks of the Shell Oil com. pany. Policy, navy and oil com pany fire brigades struggled for more than an hour to bring the blaze under control. A smoke pall spread over the city. The sight of this and the sound of the explosions and of vehicles racing through the streets spread excitement through Haifa, but no curfew was imposed. nana is tne terminus of the Iraq Petroleum company's 800- mne pipeline which carries oil from the Kirkuk fields in north eastern Iraq. Group Slates Mine Probe WASHINGTON. March 28 (P) Senator Butler (R-Neb.), chair man of the senate public lands committee, appointed a special committee today to investigate the mine disaster at Centralia, 111., in which 111 men are dead or missing. Members of the special com mittee are: Senators Cordon (R-Ore.), chairman; Dworshak (R-Idaho) and O'Mahoney (D Wyo.) "The Investigation w i 1 1 be vigorously conducted, beginning immediately and a report made to the senate at the earliest pos sible d a t e," Butler said in a statement. Homesteaders Meet Soil Heads Tulelake homesteaders who are already turning the soil on the units acquired in the big drawing last December 16, have been advised that on April 7, at 1 p. m., at Newell, four Modoc county agricultural officials will be available for information pur poses. Present will be, John C. Hays' Modoc county agricultural agent; Oran V. Commons, secretary of the agricultural conservation association; Tom Briles, Modoc county agricultural commis sioner, and Traver W. Goethe, supervisor of the farmers, borne administration. 14 y i : e J No. 10894 Salem Solon Reverses On Second Vote SALEM. March 28 W) Pos sibility that the Oregon legis lature would adopt a compre hensive reforestation program almost dlsaDDeared today as the senate seemed hopelessly dead locked over Uovernor tan Snell's house-approved bill to set up a $500,000 annual lorestry conservation and research fund by levying a tax of 10 cents per thousand feet on all timber cut in the state. Senate Split 15-15 The upper house stands 15-15 on the measure, and the gov ernor's forces were faced with the task of finding another vote before the but comes up for final consideration today. The senate passed it IB to 14 two days ago, but yesterday the opponents succeeded in getting it reconsidered. Then the sena tors lined up 15-15 on a motion to kill the bill. Sen. Allan Carson, Salem, who had consistently voted with the supporters of the measure, was the man who -changed over to the opposition. He explained he had decided the bill is unconsti tutional, although Attorney Gen eral George Neuner said it is constitutional. Opponents of the bill charged that Governor Snell has been putting tremendous pressure on the senators to vote for his bill. and the supporters of the meas ure say that the timber com panies, who think the general public should pay the reforesta tion costs, have been applying pressure to Kill . 78 Known Dead In Mine Blast CENTRALIA, 111., March 28 (JPy Rescue workers, chancing injury and possible death them selves, found the bodies of 11 more dead in the Central Coal company's mine No. 5 today and the toll of Tuesday's explosion advanced toward the predicted 111. Exploration of the long sub terranean corridors was expect ed to be completed today but no one save kinfolk clinging desper ately to their hopes believed a single survivor would be found in the debris. Several hours were expected to lapse before the 11 bodies found today could be moved to the shaft and brought to the surface for identification. Mean while, 18 of the 32 corpses re moved last night and early today were identified. The new find placed at 78 the number of known dead, 53 of whom have been identified and brought to the surface and of the remainder of 142 men in the mine at the time of the blast 33 remained unaccounted for and 31 were rescued. Brass Cuspidor Loses Battle SEATTLE. March 28 UP) The brass cuspidor today ap peared to be headed toward the same fate as the cigar store Indian. It soon will disappear from lit) Seattle office buildings. Stamped as an intolerable nuisance in an agreement be tween the Building Owners and Managers association and the Building Service Employes union, the spittoons will be placed on the banned list effec tive April 1. Business Agent nuuam z,ieg- ner said he 'supposed the union would make an allowance for the confirmed tobacco chewer. "But it should be a porcelain one. We are opposed to the old brass cuspidors which require so much scrubbing and polish ing." Bay City Traffic Halted By Rain SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (jp) Rain drenched metropolitan San Francisco last night, block ing streets, flooding basements and popping iron covers off man holes. The city sewer department said sewers overflowed at 20 street intersections. A cave-in on one street dam- BBpd an automobile driven into it. Half an inch of rain fell be tween 10:30 p.m. and midnight. Ousted ar," - uMxir",wei i sy a'l L. E. (Jap) Haskell, whose ouster as director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma was announced, says he was "fired because I exceeded the athletic budget to give ... a winning athletic program." Haskell said he exceeded the budget in some eases because of orders from the university president. Wagner Case Appeal Eyed Immediately after a verdict of guilty was returned in the case of State of Oregon vs. Verne L. Wagner, former city police offi cer charged with assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, in cir cuit court Thursday afternoon, ueiense Attorney Herbert P. Welch of Lakeview announced his intention of appeal. The 12-man jury, filed back into the circuit courtroom at 2:48 yesterday afternoon and Jury Foreman G. K. Van Riper handed the verdict to Judge Charles H. Combs of Lakeview. After reading the verdict to the court, Judge Combs asked Welch if he wished the jury polled. Welch answered "Yes," and it was found that the verdict was unanimous. - " Judge Combs then set the time for sentencing at 4 p. m April 3. Assault, armed with a dan gerous weapon carries with it a sentence of from one to 10 years in the tate penitentiary, one month to one year in the county jail, or a fine of from $100 to $1000, depending upon the deci sion of the judge. Wagner was accused in a grand jury indictment of beat ing with a pistol. Bob Lloyd F arris while F arris was in his custody at the city police station last April. The grand jury had returned the indictment on the instructions of Judge David K. Vandenberg to investigate alle gations of police brutalities in the county. Wagner's attorney based his arguments upon a plea of self defense. The principal witness for the state was State Police Of ficer William J. Colbert who was in the room with Wagner and Farris at the time of the beating. ' ATC Plane On Last Leg Of Trip WASHINGTON. March 28 (JP) The air transport command re ported that a C-54 plane left Adak in the Aleutians at 4:32 a. m. (EST) today on the last leg of a survey flight over tne great circle route to Tokyo. It was scheduled to arrive at the Japa nese capital in about 12 hours. ATC said it contemplated regular services along the 5700 mile northern route from San Francisco to Tokyo, to replace the present 8000-mile run Dy way of Hawaii. The survey flight Is being made to check weather, com munications and navigation aids. It reached Adak late yesterday. Food Rioters In Germany Stone British Buildings DUESSELDORF, Germany, March 28 W) Germans in a crowd of about 100,000 stoned British - occupied buildings and attacked British military cars to day in a two-hour demonstration over food shortages. It was the most violent manifestation of unrest in the Ruhr since the oc cupation began, and the biggest rally since Hitler. Two military cars were over turned and one was thrown in a park lake; another, carrying British and American corres pondents, was stoned by demon strators; windows in the three British buildings were smashed. Traffic was paralyzed as the huge crowd milled through .the public park in the center of the city, listening to speeches by trade union leaders. British pub lie safety officials said police reinforcements were standing by, but had been kept hidden from the view of the demonstra tors. Police had advised allied No Action Seen For Near Future WASHINGTON, March 28 P The senate finance committee reserved a cold storage spot to day for the house-approved tax cutting bill until members can find out more about government costs next year. Chairman Mllllkin (R-Colo.) told a raporter that hearings on the measure to lop nearly $,. 000,000,000 off this years tax bills of 46,000.000 citizens "probably won't be started for several weeks." These hearings are necessary before the full senate can act. Pushed Through With the aid of 40 democrats. 233 republicans pushed the bill through the house yesterday on a 273 to 137 vote. This was one short of the two-thirds that would be required to override a veto and indicated that some compromising may be in order if GOP leaders hope to get a tax slashing bill enacted over ada mant White House opposition. Millikin left little doubt that when his committee does get around to it, some changes are likely in the measure which pro vides 30 per cent slashes in taxes for 25,000,000 in the lower in come brackets and 20 per cent off for most in the higher eche lons. "Personally. I want to wait until there is some decision on the budget before we determine what we are going to do about cutting taxes," the Colorado senator said. "It remains to be seen whether the senate commit tee will not want to cut as deep ly as the house." Millikin noted that conferees! haven't been able to reach a compromise on the house move to pledge a $6,000,000,000 cut ill President Truman's budget and the senate's decision not only to hold this reduction to $4,500, 000,000 but to apply $2,600, 000,000 In surplus revenues to debt payments. Quiet Reigns In Milk Strike AMITE, Fla., March 28 W . A curious quiet reigned here to day, transiorming wnat nsoi beeh the storm center of a rocrgh- ' and-ready dairymen's strike into just another sleepy little Louis iana town. In the small hours of the morn ing a human road block con sisting of 20 or 30 dairy farm ers was removed from highway 51 which cuts through the heart of the downtown district. No where in evidence were the gun toting red-necked farmers who have been protesting a cut in milk prices by dumping . milk cargoes from trains and trucks. The Illinois Central's train-No. . 1 stopped briefly at 7:10 a, m. to discharge passengers, and de parted unmolested. Meantime officials of the dairymen's union declined to ex plain the sudden slackening of strike activities at Amite. Possibly of significance was the fact federal bureau of inves tigation agents were in town, looking into the recent stopping of trains and removal of New Orleans-bound milk. The dairymen reported a com plete breakdown of negotiation with distributors. Indians Demand New Camp Sites THE DALLES, Ore., March 28 (iPy Indians were on the way today to obtaining new camp sites to replace their ancient grounds flooded by the lake at' Bonneville dam. Sixty tribesmen, called to tes tify at an army engineers' hear ing, suggested six locations for the new camps. The engineers said the $50,000 available for the work might not cover that many. Indian spokesmen said the gov ernment had promised to provide sites with the same facilities as the flooded ones. That would demand level ground, with fish drying racks and water supplies, they said. vehicles to avoid the area during the demonstration. The crowd dispersed at noon, some marching away in col umns, others streaming down the streets like a football crowd going home. British officials say the 1550 calory ration scale has not been met for the past few weeks, and that some pla"es received only 800 calories daily. Workers abandoned factories, shops and offices to parade to the park, carrying banners with such slogans as: "We are hun gry," "Don't let our children starve," and "We want bread." - The whole demonstration had earmarks of systematic organiza tion and British officials said it was political, but declined to name the party they believed re, sponsible. German sources said communists were responsible fog the demonstration!, bgt said trade unionists did the detailed organizing work, , f
