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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1947)
0) lul'lie lly FRANK JENKINS TN Tokyo thin niuinlng Emperor lllrolilln and Orneral MacArthur collier privately for mi hour mul 14 minutes. Tim ul)ecl of their eon fiwnie la iirt'xuini'il tii hav been the new Jap constitution, which t'onlutiiM a clause renouncing war mul (ho maintenance of armed -Th dispatch H'Hl the new cmiatltutlnii lm raised till mouiil question: Will the United Hliite undertake the. dclenst of Japan? It conclude: .i. . ' The people generally believe Uie United Slate would protect Jpu against mi aggressor, but In the h .,! of pccltlo guarantee thejr have become Increasingly nervou. IT l mi Interesting question If uilllltlMvtV should attack Japan, t.t uh.iiM itit HmV The world U full of question mark lUcse duy. , , , " NITKU NATIONS Iim turned over to in truMee lovera! llioUMind islands in the Pacific. Un der the terms of the trusteeship. Uies Islands become pracUcaly pert of the United States. Their people-largely linpl Mlcr.meal.il end Polynesian "navagea become practically perl ol our popula- 'w'hil will e do with llicmT UN admiral who hiui been looking alter these Island for the navy ,y In an article III the Saturday Kvrnlng Post that he hope our re totmer. and dn-gKxler' '"' piVmlllrd to Interfere loo aerloualy with the live their people have ""lie twill' out that In the earlier yearn of our mlwiloiiary l we :i, ...,.( l.rui. numbera of them Into wearing clothe., which they hadn't ilmie before, and an a result of their nrw and alien way of lite they tnea "'wHl'w'X able to take them NAKED into the boeom of our na tional family? Mora problem miiKrtR are urnblenu everywhere. 1 in itniMin. for example, they . law banning Uie lu of electricity and tor domellc healing from May 6 i yesterday un til Heptember 30. The purpnae of the ban waa to conserve coal. Thla morning memben of parlla .....i nu urvelv In their place and complain that the new order create a liiaewi-un""" .. Mm in-.!, no drv dlaoera. Any par- ...l nuul concede that a situation i., uinrli dimierii must remnlii per ,,..,ir,,iW damn rontaltui all the rj m ivtaia. And III Kim i... i.i i,,ii biinw. vou can't Hut hang am 'out on the line and lei the jti take care of 'em. There. liV tt.i much aim over tliere. Bo the order la modified. Home of children under three andelw ihose of person over 10 can be. heated Uit auminer. That rale another queatlon: Do British ep- loauniarlaiu wear dlper? Anyway, the problem aren't con fined to u. BRITAIN'S house of common to day approve a measure bringing under Diibllc ownenhlp all Inland .... twirl railroads. bUe. tTUCM, ubway. treetcar and canal. In ) mniiih il ha been In office, I he Brillh labor government ha already taken over control of the coal mine, lite bank of England, n air iraiuporl and Britain worldwide iyiem of communlc' tltm. . , . TN London thu morning Dr. Frank 1 II n Ulrknell, one of Ui nation leading dietician, aanerU that "Eng land I "lowly dying of trvtlon," nd add that "a a nation we mut literally permh unles food tt(wlr lnioi-nve." He y: "Food avallabla here rationed and unrailoned oulalde the, reuiuriit provide a diet of lea than 3100 caloric dally. School children now are three Inch hotter and It pound lighter than UVIWIU ,"V " " ' IT I 1 of Uie labor government. Brit aln trouble go deeper than poll lie. But It doe provide an Inter esting demount ration that even o nallnm CANT DIVIDE WHAT ISN'T PRODUCED. RCAF Squadron Joins Search ' VANCOUVER. B. C. My 1') A nmnll fleet of Canadian air force end nnvy vessels equipped with anti submarine gear todny continued a widespread coaatnl nearch for the mlnnlng Trans-Canada Alrllnea transport and II IS passengers and crewmen. The hunt covered the Islnnd area around and north of Nannlmo, B.C., and from the Snndhead lightship to the east const of Onbrlola Island. The plane disappeared seven dnys tiRO on a flight from Lethbrlilae, Alia., to Vancouver. H last reported Just three minute before scheduled to land at Vancouver. T, Idle while their owner worW are ytiinpany plant on South fltlt street. 1 l nrv ,-. : at ' " "J 1 il )jyiiWMfWit 1 " " 1 1 .Nil'plvaV)aisMH.iaiaii.iMai WEATHER Hal. iMar tl I'rarlaMallva laal 14 haara IM airaam raar la ala ... l.lft l.ail raar Il.1t Narnial la.1 rararaall Liauir, aarailanal FltlCK FIVE CKNTH Greek Loan Bill Faces Quick Death WAHIIINfiTON. May i 'II llniiae for of the administration' 1400,000.000 (irerk-Turklah aid bill ought lo admlnlaler a quirk death Diow 10 il today. Led by Hep. Bender iR-Ohlo). they organlrd force for an at tempt to bar Uie bill from even getting formal house consideration. Tliclr hoie w to win rejection of the procedure bv which . the hoiiM rules committee aent the meaaure to the floor. A vole wa In prospect by nightfall. The way the house operate, all major legislation goes tlirouKh the rules commute. Tills committee draft a rule Including such tilings as how long debate shall be per mitted. First Question The first question for the house then become whether to adopt the rule. If the rule u rejected the meaaure never gel formally be fore the house mid the chamber goea on to other business. The Greek-Turkish program came In for a lambasting In a serifs of speeches before even the question of adopting Uie rule wa formally raised. Bender termed It a policy that "can lead only lo bankruptcy" tor the United Slates. Rep Owens iR-III.I, a Id that It would "leave someone on Uie short end of the receiving line and In my opinion, II la Uncle Sam, com monly known a Santa Claua." Copco Worker Hurt By Rock An eight-pound rock, which rolled from the top of a ditch bank, (truck Charle E. Taylor on Uie back of the head and sent him to Hillside hospital for treatment of Injuries late this morning. Taylor, about 2ft. Is a new employe In the water department of The Cali fornia Oregon Power company and was working In a ditch at Ith and Pine at 11 o'clock this morning when the Injury occurred. He was knocked unconscious but revived by a physi cian, called to the scene, and then moved by Klamath Ambulance serv ice to Hillside where he wa said to be recovering. Taylor was a mem bre of a crew changing over hydrant and meters on a street widening project at Bill and Pine. He reside at 'dt3 Clinton. Russ Beamed Radio Talked WASHINGTON, May 6 iP) A compromise that would give the state department $10,000,000 for It "Voire of America" broadcasts to Russia and other European coun tries was In the wind today. It grew out of a meeting attend ed by Secretary of State Marshall. Chairman Taber (R-N.Y.I of the house appropriations committee and other congressional leaders. Mar shall called the session after the refusal of Tnber's committee to np prove a single penny of the (31.- 381,320 tho department asked for Its cultural relations program. While neither Taber nor other who attended yesterday's mcoung would discus what, if any, agree ment were reached, there were re liable reports that a tlO.ooo.OOO ap- Iiroprlatlon for foreign broadcasting tag been agreed upon tentatively. Bulletin SAN PEDRQ, Calif.. Mny 6 AV- one engine has railed on a Pan American Clipper, en route from llnwall lo the mainland, the const guard reported today. The coaat guard laid that a lecond entlne waa reonrtrd bv ratlin tn be In danger of falling. The clipper Is a tour-engine plane.. tlieae automobile parked by employes of Ewauna Box factory at the Thi( li a familiar dally scene at the l-aSa. Posses Search OAKLAND, Ore., May ofi Posse officer hunted the mountain roads northeast of here today where two gunmen who robbed the K. O. Young and Co. bank of Mb, oot) to l.'lft.ooo In currency were be lieved hiding. Five bank employes and two cus tomer were herded Into a rear room of the small bank yesterday by the gunmen, one wearing a west ern style hip holster and revolver. Using hand signal, they directed the men and three girl clerks to face Uie wall while they scooped OAKLAND, Ore., May (They ean saalle about It new. Her b personnel of the E. G. Young and com panr bank here, robbed by two armed men yesterday. T. B. Garrison, left, president of the bank, jests with ataff members who were lined agalnat wall by bandit. Left to right: Garrison, BUlie Wegner, Ona McCord, Isabel t rial, and Manager E. G. Young. Three Charged In Theft Case Charge of petty larceny have been filed against Uiree youths who were arrested yesterday for alleged ly stripping a parked car on Uie Ashland highway 8unday, and a fourth youUi. under 18 years of ace. has been turned over to Uie Juvenile offlr. can uaniei ainaver, ai, poaicq &0 bond last night and waa re leased from Jnll. Newton Jamea Iwis. 30. and Russell Burton Hicks, 18. were still In custody. The car the youths are accused of stripping belonged to Price Beel er. attendant at Uie Pine street service station, and Beeler was re sponsible for Uielr capture by sher iff's officers yesterday. VE Anniversary On Thursday The second anniversary of V-E Day will be observed Thursday, May I, at 1 o'clock In Uie evening In a simple ceremony at the Memorial shaft on Uie courthouse lawn, ar ranged by the Allied Veterans Coun cil comprised of all veteran organ izations In Uie city. There will be presentation of wreaths and a prayer offered by &. V. Zell, past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Doug Ambers, chairman of the Allied Vet erans Council. Is making plana for the presentation. All those who wish nre asked to gather at the shaft in memory of the men who lost their lives In conflict. Man Held In Jail On Murder Count LOS ANQELES. May 6 IJPI LolllS Fr'nnklln Smith, 29-year-old odd Jobs man of Everett, wasn.. was tn tnc county Jail today waiting to be tnken to Downlevlllc, Calif., where he faces a murder charge in the slaying of a Nevada sheriff's officer. Smith, subject of a widespread searrli since Sheriff's Deputy Earl Griffith was shot to death on the Reno-Susanvllle highway last Tues day, will be prosecuted In Sierra county. California, where the slay ing occurred, said M. O. Benson of the California highway patrol. big mill. 0'b,gOOM, TV 0""-, .eOON, TUF.HDAY, MAY Hills For Bank Robbers bill and (liver Into a black aatchell and fled. State Police Officer Sherman Morris ld a stolen coupe, ilmllar to the one the bandit drove from the bank, wa found abandoned north of here Just off Pacific high way SB on a mountain highway. Police search centered along the mountain road, which Officer Mor ris said later Junction with high wv W at Cottage Orove. Road block set up t trateglc point on the Pacific highway from Drain to Coo Junction, eight mile British Relax Gas Use Ban ' LONDON. . May 6 B-VTh Jabor government relaxed today Uie one-day-old ban on Uie use of gas and electricity for domestic heating after member of parliament gravely com plained that It created a diaper- drying crisis. The order, effective from May 5 to September 30 a a coal conser vaUon meaaure, will be modified for heating Uie home of children under three and also for homes of persona over 70. a spokesman for the fuel and power ministry told Uie house of commons. Vets Ask Up In School Pay WASHINGTON. May 6 The Veterans of Foreign Wars and Sen ator Pepper (D-Fla.) today urged congress to increase educational subsistence allowances and Job training grants to veteran under Uie GI bill of rights. Senator Pepper, sponsor of a bill authorising such increases, - said they are Justified on the basis or rising living costs, and "Justice to our veterans." He and Omar B. Ketchum, di rector of the VFW's naUonal legis laUve service, presented their views to a senate public welfare sub committee considering several bills on this matter. Man Drowns In Salmon River SALMON. Ida., May () John Davis, 30, Ontario, Ore.. .was drowned in the Salmon river 60 miles west of here in a vain effort to save his brother, Ouy. 20, from a similar fate when a crude cable car ferry sank Into the river Sunday. Officers said Guy started across in the ferry, but Uie cable stretched and allowed the car to drop Into the stream. The elder brother tied a rope around his waist and attempted to swim to his aid. Queen For A Klamath Falls Wednesday Mrs. Ouy Williamson, an ex-WAC in army communications, was crowned this morning as "Queen tor a Day" on Uie Mutual broad casting system program, and Wed nesday afternoon at 4 p. m. she will step down from an airplane at the Klamath municipal airport to reign over Spudland on a four day vacation tour sponsored by the Klamath County chamber of com merce. Queen .... stated that she wanted as a present a radio transmitter so that she could talk to her husband who Is tn Japan. Asked by emcee Jack Bailey about . her radio, ex perience, she stated that she' had two radio licenses and had ' been around radio as a hobby even be fore the war. The queen was raised In London and came to this country several years before the war. She has been married only six months. On her trip here she might be ac companied by her cousin, a Mrs. Fleming, or another companion of her choosing. Upon arriving here tho queen will be met at the airport by a dele gation of civic officials and escort ed to the royal suite at the Willard hotel.- That night she will be feted , (Telephone till) i n n in m south of Roseburg, were withdrawn last night. In their holdup at the bank, the bandit overlooked $5000 In 120 bill in the teller' cage. It wa revealed by Ralph Thrift, a store manager of Hutherlln and one of the two customer In the bank at Uie time. The money wa being counted out to Thrift by E. O. Young, bank manager. The money escaped atten tion of the bandit when they scooped currency and silver from other cages and the vault. Britain Hears Drive Goal 1 LONDOfV, May 8 MV-The labor government's drive to nationalize Britain's key Industries neared Its final goal today with approval by the house of commons of a measure to bring under public ownership all inland transport railroads, buses. trucks. SUbWBVS. streets rant nrt canals. The bill now goes to the house of lords, where heated opposition by the overwhelming conservative ma jority is expected, but rejection of the measure by the upper house would force a constitutional crisis which might further restrict Uie al ready limited powers of Uie lords. "If the house of lords attempts to frustrate the bill." Aneurin Bev an, laborite minister of health, de clared, "we shall set their resistance aside. Speaking for mvself only, I would set the house of lords aside anyway." In Uie normal course, under Eng lish law, an adverse vote bv the house of lords would serve only to delay passage of Uie transport bill, and not to inflict a final defeat. Goose Lake Gets Timber LAKE VIEW,- May 6 Fremont national forest's first timber auction drew many spectators but no com petition Monday, and Goose Lake Box company got the timber withr out a struggle. The 6,000,000 feet of' pine and white fir on Barnes valley rim was sold at 9.12 for the pine, and 85.27 for the white fir. The total of pine is about 6.500.000 feet. Goose Lake Box Is now logging In the Dog lake country, not far from the location of the new timber. The forest service recently an nounced Uiat it plans to hold auc tion as well as sealed bid timber sales, and the sale at Lakeview Mon day was one of the first oral auc tions held in Uie region. Day" Due In at a dinner In her honor at the Pelican room of the Willard and then taken for a command per formance to the Pelican theatre. On the following days she will en train on a whirlwind of sight-seeing tours, dinners, pleasure excur sions and sporting events. Mrs. Williamson was selected by the studio audience at the radio program from a group of tour con testants. The first woman, Mrs. Erma Reynolds of Couer d'Alene, Idaho, told the audience that she wanted a trip around Hollywood for herself and her husband. Con testant number .two, Mrs. Anne Kararian of Los Angeles, told the audience that she was having trou bles with a number of orange trees on her husbands property that was holding up his housebuilding ac tivities and she wanted the trees removed. The final contestant. Miss Elmlra Fisher of Beverly, Massa chusetts, told the group that she would like a diamond ring. A group of Judges chose Queen and Mrs. Reynolds as semt flnnllsts, Queen Guy winning be tween the two by the amount ot applause from the studio audience. No. 10KS Kansas Police Shoot Ex-Convict In Battle Alfred Paine, the convicted Sacra mento murderer who fought a gun battle with police here after es caping from San Quentin prison five weeks ago, has been apprehended and 1 held In Jail at Russellville. Ark., according to word received here from FBI Special Agent Dean Money 01 utue kock. . Paine was said to have been shot In the leg and arrested April 16. by Pope county. Arkansas, law officers, but he wa not identified until to day. Police Chief Lyle Gilbert. Russell ville, arrested the man for question ing about a car theft and burglary, according to the Arkansas report, taking him into custody after an exchange of shot during which the California convict was hit in the leg. Gave Alias 1 Booked at Rusellvllle. Paine gave the name of Paul E. Marcum. but yesterday he Identified himself a Alfred Antoine Paine to officers and admitted escaping from San Quen tin March 29. A fingerprint check bv the FBI made the identification positive. naraen Clinton uuiiy ox San Quentin has been notified and Paine will probably be sent back to California. He is now named in a federal warrant charging unlawful flight to escape confinement Klamath Battle Paine, along with Norman Jack- lin. came through Klamath Falls in a stolen car two days after escaping irom a ean vjuentin orcnard. out side Uie prison walls, and on the night of March 31 robbed John Fanning of Time Oil company on S. 6th. Immediately after the roboery the car in which Paine and Jacklin were riding was chased by a police prowl car and run into a dead end on Jefferson street at the canal. After a gun battle Jacklin was captured and Paine escaped. ' Paine Is believed to have made his way to Fort Klamath in one stolen car. then abandoned It in favor of a 1934 PonUac sedan belonging to Harold Wimer. The car was stolen out of Wimer's garage. After that Paine dropped out of sight, although stlU sought by of ficers all over Oregon and adjoin ing states. The Wimer car has never been located. Route Not Told The report from Arkansas did not say anything or the route taken by Paine in getting from Klamath Falls to Russellville, nor did it mention the Wimer car which was probably abandoned somewhere along the way. Charges of armed robbery and car theft have been placed against Paine here, but there is little chance that he will be returned to Oregon. Jack lin was held here for several days, then sent back to San Quentin where he faces a life sentence. Paine was already a lifer. Truman Blamed For Food Spiral WASHINGTON, May 6 iP Rep. August H. Andresen (R-Minn.) de clared today "Uie Truman admin istration is responsible for the in flationary spiral in food orices" and demanded a congressional investi gation of "government grain buy ing operations and speculation by individuals." He said speculators Including wealthy refugees'" have been reaping a golden harvest on government-made 'bull' markets." Andresen announced he will ask the house ways and means com mittee to amend "our Income tax laws so Uiat all foreigners will pay the same taxes as assessed against American citizens." iiiiMtiiii'iiiiii'iiiiiiiarn MHsaiiaaaaaaawaiamaaaiiaeawieawaww Pi: -0 - - v : Women telephone operator are back at the switchboard of the New at iZ Sixth avenue after terminating their strike which started April T. Apprehended Trr-aii.iii.in ..l..".-ra-V'3 ALFRED PAINE Taft Splits On Labor Measure WASHINGTON, May (TV-Senator Taft iR.-Ohiol said today he will vote against proposals by Sen ator Ball iR.-Minn.) to outlaw Industry-wide strikes and the union shop. The Ohloan told a reporter these provision, which Bail wants to write into the senate labor bill. "o too far." Both senator are mem bers of the labor committee. GOP leaders hope for a final vote on the labor measure Thursday or Friday. Taft expressed hi view a the sen ate made ready to resume debate on another amendment, sidetracked yesterday to permit passage of the IE labor department - general security upprupriauons oiu. The pending proposal, also soon- sored bv Ball, would restrict In. toustry - wide bargaining by forbid' ding national unions to dlctrte con tract terms to their locals. It also would deny collective bargaining right to national union In most cases. Youth Makes Jail Break EUGENE. Ore, May 6 P Fifteen-year-old Herbert Hlggin has escaped again from Jail this time because door was left open. ' The young Goshen boy walked out of the Jail about 6 p.m. yesterday when a guard failed to close the cell door The Woodburn school parolee es caped April 27 when he drew a revolver on a city policeman and then calmly disarmed two other city police and three state officers. He was recaptured an hour after flee ing the city Jail and has been held waiting grand jury .hearings on charges of stealing an automobile, escape from arrest and carrying a I concealed weapon. Loot valued at 88000 which the boy is charged with stealing in five Eugene burglaries was recovered when he led officers to the cache near his home. Oral Auction On Timber Successful PORTLAND, Ore.. May (IP) The first oral auction held by the U. S. Forest service In this region drew a bid three times the ap praised value of a 76.187.000-foot timber tract in Washington's Co lumbia national forest. O. F. Erickson. assistant regional forester, reported yesterday's bid ding resulted in the Skate Creek Log company. Tacoma, being high at 81.125546 for Uie .tract of fir, hemlock and other timber which was appraised at 8412,605. Forty operators participated In the four-hour bidding. The tract, lo cated south of Mount Rainier, is to be logged over a five year period. RECEIPTS UP An increase of $231.14 or 1.327 per cent was made In Klamath Falls postal receipts for April 1947 over Uie same month 1946. Receipts for April this year amounted to 817.645.92. For April 1946 they totaled 817,414.78. Telephone Girls Back Ar Work Long Lines Union Eyes Compromise WASHINGTON, May 8 V-Thi American Telephone and Telegraph company has made It striking long distance worker a new offer of weekly wage increase "somewhere above 83.40," federal conciliator reported today, The offer was described by Con- . dilator Peter J. Manno and William N. Margolis a a "complete counter proposal to the government' own CINCINNATI,- May 8 (PI A Long Lines union official aald la day that the Cincinnati local had been- told that the government would "force com promise bargain ing in the nation-wide telephone trtke li the dlapute waa not settled today. compromise suggestion of a 84.60 weekly boost, plus "fringe" Increases wnicn would bring the total to a -pacxage- ol 88.14. The company previously had of fered raises of from 82 to 84 weekly. which the government said would average for all workers about 83.40. This is exclusive of vacation and other "fringe" benefit which both Ides estimate to total about 64 cent a week. The A. T. and T. proposal cam amidst these other development in Uie 30-day-old cross-country phone tie-up: L Telephone unionist tn five Mid western state reached agreement' ending tnelr atrtkra. 2. Tbe government shifted negoti ation between the Southwestern Bell Telephone company and It 42.808 itrlking worker to 8t, Loui for "intensive bargaining.' Manno and Margolis declined to reveal to reporters the exact sum Involved in the ned A. T. and T. pro posal. But they reported, as a negotiating conference recessed: "More progress ha been made." The meeting presumably wa re cessed to give the union involved the American Union of Telephone Workers time to weigh the proposal -and discuss it with officials of the National Federation of Telephone ' Workers. The union had accepted the government' proposed etUe ment figure and ha been insisting on getting that amount. PORTLAND QUIET PORTLAND. May 6 () Picket continued to cover telephone com pany entrances without incident to day, wnue uie union head chal lenged a company report of Ui number of unionist who have re turned to work C. M. Bixler, president of the United Telephone Employe of Ore gon, said "not more than 26 or 30" member of the union returned to work yesterday. Earlier the com pany reported the number at ap proximately 120. -. Police Check Theft Clues City police were checking for clue this morning looking for a lead in the burglary ot one of the city ; schools and the entry and attempted burglary of a second. Approximately 84 was stolen from -Conger school cafeteria according to Superintendent Arnold L. Gra- lapp after entrance was gained to the building through a broken win- - i dow In the principal's office. The - entry wa discovered early today by - ine janitor, uoya Mcranana. . Entrance was also made into Fre mont school and doors leading into Uie office, library and teachers' room Jimmied but no money was found, Gralapp said. John Larson, Fremont Janitor, found the doors open. It was not learned how the prowlers entered the building prop er, Gralapp said. Officers said they considered both Jobs Uie work ot -adults. Three Operators Return To Jobs Three operators have returned to work at the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company plant here, it was disclosed by management offl- cials today. ' These are the first member of the switchboard staff to go back on the Job since the telephone strike began about a month ago. About 23 employes went through the picket line today, out of something around 100 employes affected by Uie strike here. In N. Y. "T fl i York Telephone company exchange . '
