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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 4, 1947)
fUl fo)M jWU la U1U 1 if 111 .H'llO ''" tly FRANK JKNKINH rllK senate armed forces committee UKliiy uiiHiilnioiinly approves leg islation to put the nation military inri nvl force under SINGLE ircielnry uf national security. iijdokU purely by pCRCO-tllllt amiiilartts. II I big fitlrnlliiti. with iiiurli tradition lnvulvml. Bhniply dlllrrlng oplnlotia are held III Wnahlngloii. It In likely. how over, IhHl the non-piofcaloiil pub lit', uncreated uuly In efficient na tional defenae, will be almoal m unlilnua In " approval of the Idea ul ClNK co-ordinated depart llirnt of national defcune l tho Minnie's armed forces comiiilttoe. Till': l.il war taught kit prcliy uliiliily Unit Hi way to umj nnnlrii, navies and nlr forces ef fectively l In co-ordination, nil a Huliler ur hla right and lett flats flint one mid then tha other, de wriKlliiK on huw lila opponent opena Hd hit defense. 'I'ha fighter who doean't keep hit flila miller complete, co-ordinated control, ready In a apllt traction ol a aec'iiud to um whichever one prom ises the beat rcault umler the elr ruiiutaiicea ol the moment, wnu low Iliihu. To ua nou-prufraalonala down at I he common herd level, Una acema lo make aenae. Nothing rlae dot.-, a AT a aeaalou III Washington yrilcr day, President Truman "indicat ed'' to Argentina ambaMadur Una roiinlry'a "wllllnanrM to all down Willi Argentina and (he olhrr Amir Iran republic (o draft a mutual de Irnae ireaty." 'Ill conference la aald III Una morning's dlapaiehea lo have "re eslabllahrd formal ood relalloiu." DIPLOMATS III Waalilnilon aay (hey expect aa a rcault of the conference that thia country will now aire to aell military equipment lo (he Argciillne government. That would be a feature of con fidence. When, after a quarrel with aomrbody. you patch up your (rouble with him lo the extent that you are willing to aell him a nun and ammunition to fit It, It la a aura mil that you want to be frlenda with him. FOLLOWING the good will session with Argentina. Sprullle llrnden renlnna aa aaalalant of atale. 11 wa lliailrn who, aa our ambnaantlor to Amentum, gueaard wrong on Heron, who la the Argentine atrong man. llindrii openly tried to defeat him In mi Arwrutliie election, J'KRON WON. Tlial put tia on a ,Vf t spot. Tha purimae of the Tru-tuu- ronfrtenca. wa undoubtedly to get ua ulf of 111 Hraden'a reatgna lion la a diplomatic way of aayliuj (hat we have changed our mlnda. TP we are going to face Ruaala throughout the coming decade In a aplrlt of competition, It certainly noaali good will among our neighbor of the Weatern Hcinlaphere. It never paya to hava a acrap In your back yard when you are looking for trouble at the front door. In the paat, wa haven't been too amnrt In our relatlona with our neighbor to the aouth. Our attitude toward (hem haa amacked too much of "big I and little you." There haa been plenty of talk of good will at the top, but not enough KEELING of good will at the bottom levela. "Talking nice" seldom wina you any real frlenda. Frlendahlp that counla la baaed more on deeda than on words. 117 HAT we need to do In the case of " Argentina la to find a way to BUY what aha haa to BELL. After all, good honeat business, with both atdea profiting from the exchange, la about the beat way there la to build lasting friendships. KUHS Band To Play At Conclave ' Some 60 members of the Klamath Union high school band will leave Klamath Falls July 18 for Portland whero they will participate In the national Elks convention parade slated for July IT. The band, which will go by bus. returns the next tiny. Andrew Loncy Jr., supervisor of .music In the city schools, will ac- kcompany tho band. All Southern Oregon Elks lodges are participating In expenses to send (he band to Portland, according to Wlllnrd Ward, convention chairman for the Klamnth Falls lodgo. The uniforms In which the band will appear were presented to the mualo group by the Elks lodgo last year. Knwerlntr oIoikIh hover over thin tha rovinf 9 o'clock Hpeclnl picture Dap Jews , : O: .Y .Yi,, cm r !V" WEATHER Mil 'Jmia Mia. It rinlrllalln lail .... a.l airfirtt yiar la iu a.ttS l.i-l ' mi Naimal Il.ai Karacatll rarllr tlaae? laiar, (mafia, PHIL'K FIVK CKNTH Police Probe Shooting On Reservation Kvtland Chilouulii. 37-year-old Klamath Indian, la hi Klanialh Val ley lioapllal In a critical condition aa the rrault of gtmahol wounda re ceived aomellme 'iueaday after noon at the Frank Hummers ranch 14 mile eaat of Chllottuln. Chllouuln. a World War II vet eran, was aald to be "holding hit own'1 at an early hour tlila after noon but he haa a gaping wound In the left groin. A bullet from a high powered rifle such aa a 30.30 shot at clone range, paused through Chlloiiulira Ixxly, according lo Dr. George II. Adler, called late yester day to administer aid. Driven to Town The shooting apparently look place around 2 p. m., Special Indian Officer John Arkell told The Herald and Newa Unlay, but Chllouuln was not brought Into Klamath Kails un til several hours later. He waa driven here In the Bummers car by Mrs. Roland lilcka and admitted to the hospital at 6:46 p. in. Immediately after Arkell received word of Uio ahoollng, two FBI men from Klamath Falla. and members of ala(e llce, started Ihe Inveallga lion. Arkell aald no arrests had been made at noon today. C'hlloquln. a full Klamath, waa born at Chlloquln In IIUU. the sou of the late Klldie and Maggie Chllo quln. 11 Drowned In Ship Sinking WINDSOR. Out., June 4 Mi Eleven crew members were report ed drowned and three othera were missing early today after the heavily ore-laden steamer, Emror. struck a rock and sank In fog-shrouded Lake Hnixrlnr off lonely Isle lloyalc. Twenty-one aurvlvora were taken to Ft. Williams. Out., a lJke Super ior port a short dlaliiuce north of the Minnesota boundary. The 7000 ton freighter, operated by the Canada Hteanuhlp Lines, Lid. -struck a. rock at 4:10 a.'m, tfcTi, about flva hours after she sailed from Port Arthur, Out., for Ashtabula, O. Capt. Norman Reoch of Montreal. oMratlng manager of the line, listed Capt. Kldon Walklnahaw of Colling wood. Out., among the victims. He said the first mate, second engineer, three cooks and five other crew members also drowned. At Windsor, officials of the line said the Emperor carried a crew of 36 but no passengers. Tlie scene of (he sinking waa off Passage Island light, where a wide but rock-studded channel connects Upper Lake Superior with Thunder bay. Air Travel Rights Off BUDAPEST. June 4 Ml The U. S. legation Informed the Hungar ian government today thatplanea of tlie Russian-Hungarian Transport company Maasovlet no longer are being iiermltted to fly over the American aonea of Austria and Oer ninny because of lack of American civil aviation rights In Hungary. Tlie announcement was delivered to the new premier, Lajos Dinnyea, and to Acting Foreign Minister Erno Mlhalyfl, pro-communist members of tho small holders party. It con stituted an American response to Russian and Hungarian hindrance of American air activities In Hun gary during the past two years. The memorandum added that no answer had been received and askod when a favorable reply could bo ex pected. Hungary has negotiated civil avia tion agreements with other coun tries (Russia, Yugoslavia and Po land) and the legation emphasised that tho U. S. waa unwilling to ac cept less than Its legitimate rights as regards air navigation In Hun gary, eltlter during or after tho per iod of occupation. n burned residence In the Fehcnn man thli morn Inf. KLAMATH RUTLAND. VL, June 4 lTV-This picture, rushed to The Herald and Newa by wirephoto thla morning, shows the area around Pittsford, nrar Rutland. VL, where roads, fields and homes are covered with water following a sudden flood after torrential rains had drenched the countryside. This aerial flew taj taken looking south toward Proctor. , : ' ! ... '..(').";' c. H U' ..s.;: :i Waterfront OK Held Near SAN FRANCISCO. June 4 wVi Prospects brightened today o for avoiding a repetition of losl year's long, paralysing maritime strike on the west coast. Harry Bridges said his CIO Inter nationa) Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's union had reached a tentative agreement with tlie water front emnlfiver. It waa imrlerstnori to call for a year's extension 1 without any pay increase of tlie contract due to expire June IS. "I hope before the week la out to be able to report an agreement on the waterfront," Bridges told a union meeting. Wntcrfront employers, who at first Insisted on limiting any con tract extension to September 30. tlie date of expiration of AFL contracts, were reported acceding to a year's extension It present wage levels are maintained. The employers figure tlinl a longshoreman a west coast pay averages up to around 190 weekly. Officials Probe Plane Wreckage SAN BERNARDINO. Calif., June 4 M't Army officials examined tlie charred, twisted wreckage of the amphibious patrol plane today, seeking to learn what caused the twin-engine craft to falter and crash during nn attempted land ing, carrying four of Its occupants to fiery deaths. A fifth. Bertram C. Collls, civil Ian mechanic from Riverside, Calif., escaped with minor Injuries by leaping Just before the plane crack ed up while returning from a 30 mlnuto test Tllght. ' The dead Inducted Capt. Bernard J. O'Doiincll, pilot, Portland, Ore. City urea as they caught the eye of '-MYvYYV:.Y FALLS, OREGON, WKDNKHDAi-, JUNE 4, 1847 Flash Flood Covers Ve r T r . i' :!c: n - N-' Prominent Briions Get Explosive LONDON, June 4 MV-Scotland Yard said today that prominent Britons had received letters from Italy filled with explosives and ar ranged to detonate when opened. Ma). Oen. Sir Edward Spears, an admitted antl-Zionlst, said he re ceived one of the letters and that Coal Talks Break Down WASHINGTON, June 4 MV-Contract negotiations between John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and southern coal operators broke down today. Ten minutes before the talks were scheduled to resume, the UMW representatives notified operators they would not attend because the mine owners yesterday had made public their wage proposals. These Included an offer of an 85 cents dally pay Increase in return for abandonment of portal-to-portal pay time tor underground travel In the mines. Similar negotiations between Lewis and operators from the north and west were suspended last week after the two sides disagreed on the Issue of wages. Two Cars Pile Up On Viaduct Two cnrsT a trailer and a guard rail were damaged about 2 a. m. today in a traffic tie-up on the S. 6(h street viaduct. One vehicle, drawing a small trailer, was driven by Thomas Mon roe Smith, route 1. Smith's car had a plugged gas line and tho motor died on the grade going up the viaduct. As the car and trailer were slipping backwards, a second machine driven by Lewis Hcrschel Austin tried to pass and struck tlie left rear fender of Smith's car. The Impact threw Austin's sedan into the guard rail. A wrecker was needed to tow In both vehicles. Stee Worker Plunges To Fiery Death Through Crust Of Slag Pile JOHNSTOWN. Pa., June 4 l& A 27-year-old worker plunged to a fiery death from the iron-like crust of a 100-foot high slag pile In what a Bethlehem Steel company official described as "the most horrible ac oldcnt" in the company's history. W. H. Slick, slag train engineer, who was only 18 feet away, said the victim, World War II Veteran John Smatlak Jr., of Johnstown, "simply .threw up his hands and disappeared." "One Instant he was there and tho next he was gone," Slick said. Smatlak's bride of less than a year, who Is to become a mother soon, was prostrated at word of her husband's death late yesterday. If the slag pile Is cool enough today, company officials said they will use a power shovel in an effort to find Smatlak's remains. , Slag piles, containing refuse from steel mills, are usually used as the roadbed of a slag train. Tho Interior burns from spontaneous com bustion, often for years, Bethlehem officials said they had never heard of a similar accident. Smatlak disappeared Into a four-foot hole ripped across the top of tlie crust in an almost unprecedented collapse. The crust was so solid a railroad track had been bunt on (Telephone till) rmonr City And Area i ft Through Mail It contained "a mechanism like the Inside of a watch between two sheets of paper" and a bag of powder "about the site of a banana." A Scotland Yard spokesman said that "I can neither confirm nor deny" a London Evening Standard report that Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, chief of the imperial general staff, and Sir. Stafford Crlpps, president of the board of trade, also received tlie Infernal machines. A spokesman for Prime Minister Attlee said no such letter was re ceived at 10 Downing street. . Navy Men Search Odell Melvin T. Storer. SF1. and Charles R. Kay, GM1, navy men from Portland, are now at Odell lake to search for the bodies of Harold Hndley and Leonard Callller, who disappeared and are presumed to have drowned In the lake May 24. The navy men are prepared to stay at Odell lake for two weeks. They will occupy the cabin owned by Edouard Prlaulx of Chlloquln. the same cabin which was being used by Hndley and Callller on their tragic fishing trip. Storer and Kay have a boat and plan to make a complete search of the lake and shore for the bodies. Storer Is an expert naval diver and probably will go down to recover the bodies if they are located In the water. New Air Service Begins This Week ASTORIA. June 4 Wl Regular twice-weekly air service between Hood River. Ore., and Astoria and Warrenton began here this week. Flying a Seabee amphibian plane. Ray Axford. an ex-army pilot, on his first trip here unloaded fresh strawberries and took on a load of fresh fillets, halibut and crab meat. Axford and a fellow pilot, Luke Nichols, own and operate the plane as tho Pelican Air Service. Their headquarters is at Hood River. it. No. loss Truman To Get New Airplane , SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 4 W A - new "flying White House'' was about ready for test flights to day. The f our-engined presidential transport plane, replacing the "Sac red Cow" which has traveled" 430. 000 miles during the administrations of President Truman and the late President Roosevelt, is a luxurious ly fitted ship capable of cruising at 31S miles an hour, with a top of 368. It was named "The Independ ence." for President Truman's resi dence city, Independence, Mo. In announcing completion of the new plane, Douglas Aircraft com pany and the army air forces said it is a C-118 but basically a DC-6. the Sacred Cow being a C-54 or military version of the commercial DC-4. Braden Quits Post Today WASHINGTON, June 4 ' President Truman today announced the resignation of Spruille Braden as assistant secretary of state. Braden is a former ambassador to Argentina and long was at the center of controversy within the administration over United States Argentine relations. There have been reports that he wanted to leave tlie department but was waiting until the outcome of the differences with Argentina. These differences were pretty well ironed out in a conference yester day of President Truman and Ar gentine Ambassador Oscar Ivanis scvlch. Burglary Suspect ; Shot To Death . , ' PORTLAND, Ore., June 4 UP) A burslarv susnect was fatallv wound ed early today by a policeman called to Investigate noises on the roof of a building. The victim was Identified as Allan John Cameron, Portland. Detective Sgt. D. J. Mltola said Patrolman C. L. Fltzslmmons re-, ported seeing a man climb down the side of the Scientific Research building in East Portland and break Into a run. The patrolman fired once wunout enect, men urea a second shot which brought the man down. Mltola said the roof showed evi dence of an attempt to enter. A second man was believed Involved. Bulletin The two Softball games which were scheduled for tonight on Modoc field, hava been cancelled because of wet grounds. Frank Drew, president of the city Softball association, said that the regular games would be held Friday night, weather permit ting, and that tonight's cancelled contests would be played at a later date. Rutland iVlissing: Power Supply Cut Off RUTLAND. VL, Jan 4 W This pleturesaa Varment elty of 1I.444 waa without power and water today torrential rainfall, caused an atlmated l2,04o,Mt damage and left upwards of 6M persons temporarily homelea. Thirteen-year-old Richard La Vlctolr waa reported mlaalnf and fears for hi safety grew. Three other lost In th confusion aa lowland dweller fled their homes were found by their families. ior. Ernest W. Gibson ordered emergency supplies of food, water and clothing rushed to Rutland second largest city In Vermont and ordered out the national guard. Flood waters that awept down from mountain slopes were reeedlnf rapidly, untU at noon they were within the bank of East ereek again. aca oi wsiier waa creating tne moat serious difficulties, tha gover nor (aid. The shortage arose from destruction of city water mains. Ten farm houses In Chittenden lust north of RutUnd .a away when a power dam la East PHUford burst About a doien bouse Action On Tax Slash Bill Delayed WASHINGTON. June 4 OP) Pres ident Truman will not act on the M ,000, 000,000 Income tax bin before he leave for Kansas City Friday moraine Secretary Charles G. Boa aaio loaay. Rot told reporters he did not know whether Mr. Truman would act before he leaves for Canada next Monday after his return front the Midwest In Kansas City, he will ad ores the meeting of the 15th divi sion with which he sored in the first World war. The tax bill, he added, has not yet reached the president's desk, al though congress completed work on it yesterday. . Mr. Truman has 10 days, not counting Sundays, to veto or sign the blh. Newa Conference Ross said the president will hold a news conference at 10:30 (9:30 a. m. EST) tomorrow and regular cabi net meeting tomorrow afternoon. He said the cabinet session la not an emergency meeting but Is merely advanced from Friday to accommo date the president. The bill on which the senate com pleted congressional action yester day is designed to take effect July 1. mat means nunareas oi tnou- sands of revised withholding tax in structions and forms will have to go out to employers all over the coun try in the next three weeks If the bill becomes law. Most withholdings would be cut 20 or 30 per cent the iirsi ox next momn. ' Veto Exueeted One democratic official on Canltol Hill told reporters last night that uruess Mr. uruman nas a last-minute change of mind he will veto the bill. But speculation continued rile. The senate approved the measure in Its final form vesterd&v. 4A to 28. The house voted for It Monday, Ml m. A two-thirds majority in both houses would be required to over ride a veto, and senate republicans concede they simply don't have the voics io uo so. Tax Vote To Be Reconsidered SACRAMENTO. June 4 in Tha assembly voted unanimously today to reconsider the vote by which uovemor warrens I9S.000.000 a year tax reduction measure was denied passage. The motion was made by As semblyman Alfred Robertson D Santa Barbara, who announced amendments seeking further reduc tions will be presented tomorrow, as follows: 1 Lowering of bank and corpor ation franchise tax, 6 per cent. 2 Decreasing personal Income tax 5 per cent at all levels. 3 Reducing sales-use tax from 2!i to 2 per cent These. It was estimated, would save between 840,000,000 and 60, 000.000. A statement by Finance Director James S. Dean today estimated spe cial appropriation bills pending In the legislature, over and above the $654,000,000 budget, total 8678,268, 2S9. In addition, he said, other meas ures It oassed would provide for transferrin? 847.807,500 from the state's general fund to special re sen' e funds for future expenditure. Committee Okays Merger Measure WASHINGTON, June 4 IflV-The senate armed services committee today unanimously approved legis lation to put the nation's military and naval forces under a single sec retary of national security. The bill specifies that the army, navy and a separate air force are to be under "unified direction" to pro vide for their "authoritative coor dination," but are not to be merged. Federal Court Jerry O'Sulllvan's personal Injury suit for $35,000 against the Weyer haeuser Timber company was before Judge James Alger Fee's federal court today in a non-Jury trial. The litigants waived the jury during a pre-trial conference yesterday and the panel of jurors was dismissed. The condemnation case brought by the federal government against Howard Perrln and Dr. E. D. John son concerning the Beaumont tract, chosen site for a proposed veterans hospital, was continued Indefinitely by the court. , Also continued and In the process of settlement Is the government's condemnation suit against the Great Northern railway. Jerry O'Sulllvan, walking with th Yout-h after a flash flood resulting frooa In Rutland, Itself. were deatroved the ensulnc flood ramd fl mile Into the elty. Approximately 200 other house Were badly damaged. More than 1000 persons war evacuated as the food water swirled on this city after breaking through the East Pittsford dam, about five miles to the north. By The Associated Proa Another dam burst 18 miles up the Moose river from Lyons Falls, N. Y, wrecking a bridge spanning the main highway Into the Adiron dack and flooding farm lands, but the Tillage itself escaped major Flood IM Home In Oneida. N. V rm,iH, ni, I receded after spreading over a six block area and flooding 300 home. A fourth of Elmira, N. Y waa y flooded by Chemung river trlbu. taries. which aulckiv nmvl-rt til ing Six-Mile creek caused the evac- uauon oi aa iinaca lamlllea. High water took out bridge at Noblesbororo, 35 miles north of Utica, and at Flovd. the New vrk state police reported. Highways In many areas were blocked by lloodV-'" damage. , Jne rains, which ranged up to four-inch torrents, forced h evacuation of 50 families from Domes at SDrinirvIll- D- .A others it Conneautville. Water ran . urP over tne main street of Kerrtown. Pa. First to be struck hv h- r. the Miami River valley north of Dayton and other inviann. ' Central and Northern Ohio. At ! I?3' p families were forced from UUUJCO, Indian Bases Hsiaiiuyiicu NEW DELHI June 4 jpi Via. ";' count Mountbatten. vlceroo? l :, 2LaJ P,Lml,d..tl,e PPI to day that Britain would retain no bases whatever within the sub-con- ' toent when its complete lndepend- ' BrishSpIaCnhleVei Under toe ns "I think It would be most Im proper for any foreign power to have bases in India." the viceroy ." told a news conference. '. He made it plain that under the -plan, announced yesterday, Hindu stan (Hindu India) and Pakistan (Moslem India) would be lnde- pendent both of British and each ' other and that neither could con- . trol the other on the question of remaining within the British com monwealth. Both will have domin ion status for the transitional pe riod. "Dominion status Is absolute lndea pendence." the viceroy said. The native (princely) states will get their own Independence from Britain's paramount authority as soon as power Is transferred In the rest of India. Mountbatten said, and will be free to choose whether they ' will be independent or will Join Hindustan or Pakistan. ' Columnist Drops Charge BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.. June 4 ', fPh-Columnist Lee Mortimer has dropped his assault charge against Frank Sinatra announcing that . the crooner had agreed to pay him. $9000 but the boys didnt make up. They didn't speak or smile to one ' another during a 6 p. m. Besalon yesterday In Justice court. Each Just looked glum when he looked In the other's direction. 'i Mortimer, quoted by Sheriff Ser geant R. B. Fox as saying that ' Sinatra knocked him down and beat ; him while three other men held him outside Clro's night club last April 8, rose from his chair at the counsel table between two lawyers. "I acknowledge that I have re ceived satisfaction for the injury done to me," he read to Judge Cecil D. Holland from a typewritten yel low sheet, much edited In pencil. , "Furthermore. Sinatra has publiclr acknowledged that I did not call him the vile names he stated I call ed him." Mortimer asked the court to dls- : miss the case. Judge Holland did so. directing Sinatra to pay court costs of about 890 and ordering the crooner's 8500 ball refunded. Considers O' Sullivan nury Suit aid of a cane, was called to the wit ness stand this morning. He Bald : that he had been severely injured when a load of lumber fell on him at the Weyerhaeuser mill lift April, , 1948, that his Injuries kept him In : bed for 30 days and are preventing him from working. O'Sulllvan Is represented by Ben . Anderson, Portland attorney, while R. B. Maxwell Is representing Wey- ; erhaeuser. In other action this morning, Clay ton Burrell, young Klamath Falls at- . torney, was sworn In to practice ' before the federal bar, and the civil , case of Lampropulos vs. Kent, to set aside a deed; was declared ready for trial.