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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1947)
M1 in fir n7 N Jl 1& IBM Nation Adjusts To Phone Lack; Talks Continue F' By The Asaoclated Praia Till' American public adjusted llHclf to ahurply curtailed trio plioue service today aa tho coast to count strike' of nearly 300,000 omployra of till) Ucll Kytilvm entered IU accond duy. Cull! between diul tolephonua continued without Interruption, but culla over niiimiul phones, or traveling the long distance linen of tho American Telephone mid Telegraph coinpuny, purent organization of the Bell System, generally were limited to emergency cull. Of tho iilitlon u 31,000,000 telephone, 18,700,000 arc (lltil-opcrulccl. Negotiation to end (ho coiial-to-coust utrlko, culled yesterday by tho Independent Nutlonul Kederullon of Telephone Workers, wero renamed today In Washington and In muny other cities over tho iititlun, but Joseph A. Uclrno, NKTW president, suld the ' unloni were nettling down for In The By FRANK JENKINS nrllE other duy the prealrient of ono of tho country' lurgt-at detriment tore offered the til lenient to reporters Hint "present prosperity enn not be limtnlned at present price lovela." Wlmt ho menus la tliat present price levels will nut permit the distribution of cnouiih THINGS to keep our Induatrlul ' plunt busy Hi full cuuclty Indefinitely. UiiIpm we cun keep our In duatrlul plunt operating at soino thing Ilka Its full cuiwclty, wo ran not auatnlii Indefinitely our present itandurd of prosperity. WHILE we are about It, we " might well examine crit ically our preaent widely ad, vertlaed atotu of "prosperity." In terma of THINGS, rulher thun In terma of dollar, Jiml how prospermia are we, anyway? lit terma of THINGS, are wo rrully any more proaprrnua now than wo wero In the middle 3(l'a, when the first aliock of tho de pression wua over but we atlll regarded ourselves aa definitely In a period of "hard lime?" nrlllNK twice before you anawer. Hack In tho middle 30's. you rnuld buy an utnmohlle if you hud tne price. You oiitn t have to wait. You Juat wulkvd down own. lain the money on tho hue and drove your cur off. I he (hooting wnr litis been over now for nearly two ycura. but you atlll can't walk down town, puy over your money and drive a new ear home. To do thnl, you must have had your mime on the list for quite a long time. It la the aume with a vast amount of other wanted mer chandise. You have hud to WAIT for it. While you have been wnltlng, you have been DOING WITHOUT. 'yllE point Is that when you have to do without things you arc not living in a state of high and advanced prosperity, pros perity I an abundance of THINGS. Money has little enough to do with It. It la things Unit count. Wo hve learned that In the hard school of experience. pOR tho past year or ao we have been doing without because the thing we wanted hndn't yet been produced. But if, after they are produced, the prlco of mem la ao nigh tnai we can i at' ford to buy what we want we ahalj be no better off than we wero before. Tho only kind of prosperity Unit does us any good is that wnich la based upon an abun dance of things at prices we can afford to pay. Nashville Evens Teacher Theft NASHVILLE. Tcnn., April 8 (I 'I An Oregon schoolman Htoppcd at Nashville some week ago on a teacher-recruit-lng campaign through tho south, C, E, Perry, assistant super intendent ot schools at Port land, interviewing two dozen teachers, described his visit as "successful," Last night the Nashville board of education evened things up. It hired Mrs. Cath rccn Osmcnt Cnrlcn, teacher at Portland, Ore. I Day's lews Soviet Proposal On Greek Loan Surprises UN Council LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y April 8 (P) Delegates to the security council hurriedly cabled their governments for Instructions to day on Russia's surprise proposal which would give tho United Na tions the right to supervise Amer ican aid to Greece. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko laid the proposal be fore the council last night Bflcr he hact-vlBorously attacked what he called the "unilateral" notion ot the United StBtes and doclnrcd that President Trumanls program to old Greece and Trrkey con stituted Interference in tho In ternal affairs of those (countries. Although tho Sovitjt resolu tion, calling for creating of a special security council commis sion to supervise aid to Greece, I did not mention the Ift S. pro I gram specifically, It win pointed a lonu shutdown. Willie a few ureas, cither be cause they urc outside of the Hell Syatem or for other rcaaons wore unuffcclcd by tho curtail ment of local telephone aervlco, tho pinch In long distance wa felt everywhere. Boms Strvlca I3y using the supervisory per sonnel to tuko over itrikcrs' Joba. the A. T. and T. said it wa able to bundle 22 V per cent of usual long distance traf fic. Tho coinpuny spokesman auid in New York tliut whllo the company hud announced It would accept only emergency cull, It also was handling "nec essary culls" which he described us of a aerluus rather than a social nuture. The A. T. und T. spokesman added that in 14 largo cilica, 23 per cent of the long diatancc poaitiona were manned by u pcrvlsory personnel. He added tliat about 10 per cent of Its non-auicrvlsory personnel also showed up for work yesterday in Now York City. Union official have predicted that the absence of maintenance men soon will result In a fur: llier curtailment of long dls tunee service, as well as a re duction of the present emergen cy service provided for users of manually operated tele phones. They also doubt that tho dial system without its uaual maintenance will continue to give untroubled service, First lifting of the atrike ac tion was reported last night when Kenneth Abrahainson president of the Jamestown (N V.) Federation of Telephone Workers, an NFTW affiliate, an nounced a 0 per cent pay In crtiaae had been accepted and 66 operators and 4 plant cm ployes would return to work for the Jamestown jeiepnone cor poration. Reds Give In On Treaty MOSCOW. April 8 (P Soviet Foreign Minister v. M. Moiotov agreed under western pressure tonight to halt the long discus sions of Big Four disagreements on current German problems and to turn to other mutters the next being the question of Gcr man frontiers. The ministers will take up the frontier question tomorrow. In a conciliatory move, Molo tov agreed to demands by U. S Secretary of State Marshall British Foreign Secretory Ernest Bcvin and French Foreign Min lster Georges Bidault to drop from the plans for a German pro visional government the Soviet proposal that security police powers be vesica in a central governmepi. Basin Drenched By Spring Rain Raincoats, umbrellas and gn toshes got a workout today as rain continued to sprinkle the bnsin area. The clear sunny skies of Easter Sunday were only a memory this week, with scarcely a rav of sunshine since then. The weatherman indicated lit tle hope for a let-up of cloudy drlppy skies for Wednesday, with a forecast of more clouds and rain. Precipitation in the lost 24 hours reached a figure of .02, with a minimum temperature of 24 degrees at about 5 a.m. today, The mercury's high Monday aft' ernoon was 47. out by some delegates that this was the only aid in sight at present. The first reaction to the Soviet program was that the kind of supervision it envisaged would definitely rule out the use of the American funds for any military purposes. Since this was one of tho primary alms set forth in the U. S. program, there appeared to be little likelihood that the United States could accept It. Russia's resolution will be taken up Thursday when the council resumes discussion of the Greek question. At the same time the council will consider a United States resolution propos ing that the UN uaikan investi gating commission keep repre sentatives In northern Greece whllo tho commission's report is being drafted in Geneva. Henry Fo. n Dies DETROIT, April 8 (Pi In the flickering light of kerosene lumps and candles Henry Ford, famed pioneer of the automobile industry, died at 11:40 o'clock lust night in his home in nearby Dearborn, He would have reuched his 84th birthduy next July 30. High flood wuters of the River Rouge running through the V i:...it : :.f. J.fmOt a At to a Detroit funeral home this morning and will be returned to the Ford Greenfield village to lie In state all day Wednesday. All Ford operation throughout the world will be suspended on Thursday. Flags on all Ford property will be at half staff until after the funeral. Mr. Ford' death marked the passing of not only one of the world' most noted industrialists but of an individualist who dcvcloed one of the most colossal family fortunes the world has known out of what often had been- ridiculed as "a lot of crazy Ideas." He developed his great Industrial empire for which he was once said to have refused $1,000,000,000, out of an idea for a cheap automobile and an initial capital investment, mainly by his friends, of $28,000. That was in 100.1. and at his death the great empire belonged exclusively to his family and had manufactured more than 31, 000.000 vehicles. He had been planning to celebrate his wife's birthday and thalr SOth weddina anniversary next Friday.' The surviving members of widow, and Mr. Edsel B. (Eleanor) Ford, and her children, Henry II, Benson, William and Josephine Ford. Edsel Ford, only son of the noted manufacturer, died In May, 1D43. Death came to the elder Ford a little more than a year and a half after he had relinquished all participation in the manage ment of his great company. When lie resigned as president, a post he took over upon the deatli of his son, Edsel, he said he wanted to devote more time to "personnl affairs." From other quarters, however, it was said that dissatisfaction on the part of the younger Ford generation, particularly Mrs, Edsel Ford, had led to the reorganization of administrative personnel. Phone Manager Gets Sympathy From Subscriber Chuck Seavcy, manager of the Klamath Falls branch of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, was somewhat taken aback Mon day, first day of the nation wide telephone strike, while manning the operator's sta tion, a job done by women these many years. The operator's signal came In over the dial and Seavey responded with "Operator." A woman's voice apologized and said, "Sorry, wrong number." She dialed again. Seavey was right in there punching and again said, "Operator." There was a' moment's pause! "Dearie," sympathized the woman. "Do you have a cold?" Seavey refused to provide The Herald and News with his response. Price Rise Parley Subject WASHINGTON, April 8 (P) Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the president's economic ad visory council, said todny that the price situation is serious at this time. Leaving the White House after a conference with President Tru man, Nourse told reporters he was "frankly worried over the Inability to bring prices down generally and the resulting pres sures culminating in increased wage demands. Mr.' Truman, after receiving the report from his advisory council called a special meeting of the cabinet for tomorrow to discuss the price situation in detail. Tlie cabinet ordinarily meets on Friday. Mr. Truman, who has repeat edly expressed concern over ris ing costs, declared in a speech Saturday night that he hoped Industry would not go "whole hog for profits," Other members ot the council accompanied Nourse to see Mr. Truman today. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the council would submit a report to the cabinet meeting. AMATH Ford cstute had cut power and heating services at the resi dence and a wood burning fireplace warmed the room. Mr. Ford's death was due to a cere bral hemorrhage. It came after the noted Industrialist had spent a vigorous day Inspecting flood water damage around the Ford plant and wa making plans for another inspec tion this morning. Friends laid he had never appeared in better health. At hi bedside were his wife, Mrs. Clara Bryant Ford, and a member of the house hold staff. Funeral services will be held from St. Paul Episcopal ca thedral In Detroit on Thursday at an hour to be announced later. The body was taken the family. In addition to the Local Phone Service Good Klamath dial telephone system continued today to carry local traffic without interruption as the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company's 100 Klamath employes remained off the job in a nation-wide strike. Managerial and ' supervisory employes did emergency duty at the big switchboard in the tele phone office, handling long dis tance calls on a restricted basis. A small phonograph record de vice was in use, informing per sons who dialed for operator that "due to the strike, we are accept ing only emergency calls. If you have an emergency call, slowly signal your operator." This rou tine announcement was delivered in measured style in a woman's voice. Yesterday, about 1000 long distance calls were attempted, but not all were completed. Man ager Charles Seavey said emerg ency calls generally apply ' to matters of sickness or death, ship ment of perishable food products and situations in which failure to complete the call might result in serious loss or damage to life or property. Time to head south. It's 9 o'clock and our early morning photoa caught Richard Robustelll aettina hi order book from Gale Duncan preparatory to leaving ior the Merrill, Malin. Tule- Uk country with Hi daily truck FALLS. OREGON. TUESDAY. APRIL I, 1947 SEATTLE. Wash.. April 8 UP) Nine person died in the bus Duwamiih river following a wild (kid. The bus, according to the truck, skidded over the bank, and sank in the water of the river. wrecking crew drag it out over the river bank. Phone Tie-Up End Seen WASHINGTON. April 8 !) Federal Conciliator Peter G. Manno reported the government is "hopeful" of a settlement to day in the long distance part of the nation-wide telephone strike. As negotiations resumed be tween the union and the Amer ican Telephone and Telegraph company's long lines xiivision Manno told reporters: "We are hopeful that a settle ment will be effectuated in the Jong lines today." Long distance service has been hit hardest by' the two-day-old cross-country work stoppage the first in the industry. Manno emphasized that a set tlement of the long lines phase would not end the entire walk out of 294,000 telephone work ers. John J. Moran, president of the American Union, of Tele phone Workers which represents long distance employes, was less optimistic. Moran, when asked whether a settlement could be expected soon replied, "that's up to the company. Miners Head Back To Pits WASHINGTON, April 8 (JP) John L. Lewis today expressed "gratification" that coal produc tion yesterday was "substantial" and instructed miners to resume work as fast as each mine is certified as safe. Lewis, president of the AFL United Mine Workers, made pub lic a telegram he sent to each district president of the union. It said in part: "Let us all hope that the be lated efforts of the federal gov ernment to establish safety in the mines will not prove to be a spasmodic gesture and will pave the way lor mandatory safety legislation by the federal con gress." The coal mines administration said its reports last night showed 100,000 miners, including 54,000 members of John L. Lewis' UMW, digging coal in 500 pits on the first day of the scheduled safety stoppage after the union's six-day mourning period for vic tims of the uentraiia, ill., blast. The UMW has 400,000 soft coal miners. load for J. Marvin Hilton. (Telephone 8111) Bus Plunges Into River Eyewitnesses Of Heroic SEATTLE. April 8 P) The fear-filled minutes when a North Coast Lines bus collided with an oil truck and plunged into the Duwamksh river last night, killing nine persons, were de scribed today by the bus driver and eye witnesses to the acci dent. The driver. Melvln D. Long, 22, Olympia, was taken to the New Renton hospital suffering leg injuries and shock. 1 saw the truck coming, ai me from the east side of the highway, but never realized he would hit me," he said. "l guess I biacxed out aner Ford Fortune $718 Million DETROIT. April 8 (P Henry Ford himself probably never knew the exact amount of the fabulous fortune he amassed in the development of his great mo tor car enterprise. He was one of 13 original shareholders who nooled $28,000 to establish the Ford Motor com pany in 1903. When the Ford Motor com pany filed its annual statement of assets and liabilities with the Massachusetts tax commission for the year ended December 31, 1945. it reported $718,660,356 in assets. This included cash, notes and accounts receivable, stocks, bonds, securities and patent rights listed at $230,580,915: real estate at $143,924,799: machin ery, equipment, furniture and fixtures of $200,609,862: mer chandise and supplies $142,748,- 017; prepaid insurance, taxes, etc.. $796,761. The company reported sur plus Of $612,678,531. . Murder Trial Gains Speed SANTA ANA, Calif., April 8 (P) An exhumation order may be asked in the Overell yacht murder case, it was indicated today as the state attorney gen eral's office took over the in vestigation and prosecution. - Humbert Mulvey, who heads the staff of investigators under Deputy Attorney General Henry A. Dietz, told newsmen that a superior court order would be sought for the removal of the body of Mrs. Walter E. Overell, slain with her husband, "be cause of the variance between testimony by two autopsy sur geons before the grand jury." Six-Year-Old Is Hero Of Wreck SEATTLE, April 8 (P) Six-year-old Darlene Wick of Port land was credited today by sur vivors of the tragic North Coast Lines bus crash last night as one of the principal heroines of their survival. The child and her grand mother, Mrs. Helga Wick, with whom she was returning for a Seattle visit, were killed in the bus' plunge into the Duwamish river south of the city. . Calmly and with even voice, the girl stood in the partially submerged bus and directed ef forts of volunteer rescuers who cut through the metal top to extricate passengers, survivors said. WEATHER M. April 7) ...47 Mln. tl prtflJpiUilon lat hours .....M Atriam year to flat ......7.1 Lail rear ...Il,f4 Normal . (MS Poricaiti Cloadr occasional rain No. 10903 aft it had plunged into the driver, collided with an oil The bus is shown here a a AP wizephoto. Tell Story Rescue Efforts the crash. When I came to, the bus was beginning to fill with water. So I kicked out the wind shield framework and started to climb out. Suddenly I remembered there had been a man right beside me. So I went back and carried him out. We clung to some drift wood in the water until we were rescued." Meantime, screams of the trap ped victims brought aid. "The first think I saw was the truck going around in cir cles, and then I saw the bus in the water," Jack Paris said. "There were three" men trying to get out of the water, so I help ed them." E. i. Grubling grabbed an axe and, after chopping a hole in the roof, helped several women through the hole. "I heard a little girl say, 'Don't choJ me, mister.' I guess she didn't make it." He apparently referred to 6-year-bld Darlene Wick, whom survivors described as a heroine in directing rescuers but who lost her own life. Purl Enlor, 23, said he was eating his dinner when the bus passed his place. "A few seconds later, I heard the crash. I looked out the win dow and saw the truck spinning around and the bus headed for the river. "I grabbed some rope from my car and ran for the bus. With the help of others, we broke rear windows and helped two women to safety. Mill Power House Burned To Ground A short in the generator in the power house at the Lodgepole Pine Products company at Mo wich caused the fire which de stroyed the building early Mon day morning, it was learned here today. H. C. Chase, SP trainmaster, went north Monday to investi gate possible damages done SP facilities there but on his return said only the power house was lost. The plant is some 200 feet away from the main line and did not reach SP holdings, Chase said. v q Story Of Marine Battle With Communists Related By JOHN RODERICK HSINHO, China, .April 8 (P) The story of how a small band of U. S. marines foiled a well planned attempt by Chinese communists to destroy a big am munition dump last Saturday was unfolded here today. Only a small section of the depot was fired by the commu nists. Witnesses said it exploded with a great burst of orange light and a thundering roar that smashed windows for five miles around. As the first U. S. newsman to reach this village of mud huts west of Tientsin, I learned how the marines overcame superior numbers in a brief but furious battle which cost the lives of five of the Americans. Sixteen others were wounded. Of the 14 still hospitalized, one is in criti cal condition, the other 13 are making "encouraging progress." Six communists were left dead and many of their comrades fled along a blood-spotted route across the Chinchung river, eight miles to the north. A seventh Chinese a non-participant was killed by a stray bullet. Funeral services for the five dead marines will be held Wednesday. Bus Plunges Into River After Crash SEATTLE, April 8 P) Eight bus passengers and an oil ' truck driver lost their lives last night when a heavy Seattle bound North Coast Lines bin collided with the tanker at the ' south city limits and then plunged into the Duwamish river alongside the Pacific high way. . . Eleven other passengers and the bus driver, Melvin D. Long, 22, of Olympia, survived. Soma had severe injuries but none was critical. Two of the dead, both women passengers, remained unidenti fied this morning. Identified dead were: Telford F. Smlthee, Seattle, the truck driver. Mr. and Mrs. Ervln Burian, Tacoma. James Mark Sullivan, Seattle. First Lt. Lydia M. Cressman, 40, an army nurse of Seattle. Darlene Wick, - 6, Portland, Ore. . t Mrs. Helga Wick, Seattle, grandmother of Darlene. Mrs. Mildred Morse, 63, Se attle post office employe (1203' James street). She was a sister of Dr. Fred Webster, Portland. Heroic rescue work by eye-' witnesses and passing motorists.' who waded into the river and climbed atop the two-thirds sub merged bus, prevented a heav ier death toil. The first rescuers at the seen hacked holes into the roof to A- pull to safety frightened passen gers who were fighting for air inside the wreckage. The bus driver escaped by kicking out the windshield while a number of men got out without assistance and clung to driftwood in the river until res-, cued. Thirty minutes afterward the scene was one of confusion a deputy sheriffs, police offii cera and. state patrolmen work ed in a heavy rain with artifi cial respiration and puimotorr to revive passengers as they were removed from the river. , Possibility that locked steer ing gear resulted from the col lision may -have sent the bus. caroming into the river, was be ing investigated today by ther state patrol, according to Capt. CU-C furseth, district super visor. The bus was Impounded by the patrol for examination. Full scale Investigations to determine responsibility were lCaUBi. wm rmgm . Cvlaau 1) 7ater Okay This Year Irrigation areas of the Klam ath country will "ride through" this season on available storage water, but another winter of low precipitation will create a se rious moisture situation in this section, it was brought out at a water survey conference held here yesterday. All of the irrigation areas served by the irrigation systems will probably have ample water this - year. Dry land farming faces a season of "fair" precipi tation. Good summer range is going to be short, and this pros pect has resulted in the market disposal of a considerable num ber of cattle for this period of the year. Sprague river estimate for the next six months is a flow of 125, 000 acre feet, or 54 per cent of a 10-year average; Williamson river, 240,000 acre feet or 64 per cent; Upper Klamath lake storage, 375,000 acre feet or 78 per cent; Gerber reservoir stor age, 6000 feet or 28 per cent; Clear lake reservoir, 12,000 acre feet or 25 per cent. Fort Klam ath area prospect is fair; Lenz area, fair; north fork Sprague, fair; south fork, fair; Indian res ervation, poor. The reds struck with the ad vance aid of what is suspected here of being a fifth column, since they knew in advance some of the secrets of marine communications and cut two buried phone cables. Their apparent objective: de struction of all the ammunition which couldn't be carried away. The attempted coup failed be cause the marines reacted with typical leatherneck speed and hard-fisted fighting. Before they withdrew, the at tackers set fire to two magazine sheds containing 105-millimeter shells, but millions of other shells remained untouched. During the battle, a relief con voy was formed of two seven ton tanks, a jeep and two trucks, filled with men. It raced safely over buried landmines close to Hsinho, but a few miles down the road the lead tank touched off another mine. One tank was disabled, The marines threw themselves to the ground and 45 minutes of hot fighting followed. The com munists withdrew shortly after additional marines reached the scene on foot.
