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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1947)
ifi to WEATHER M, jo lit as aia as rMiaiiim hui u kr ae Stream year t Sato........ t9JU LMt rr .. N.rm.l ll.lt iri mi reus M In The- Day's lews Widespread lly l-IMNK JKNKINH . IH these woi (In are written, tho new labor iiw enacted by cull liru, vetoed by Ihn Prsaldenl mid e-cniuUed over his veto by thump nil inajiirlllcs In both huuu mill lenato dominates lh home front. Tho Impression wo get from th news l one of uproar mid con cision.' t irb-lru ilil. fiu't ftlnnf In vmif mliirl " I'OMTH'H entera heavily Into me situation, west year m a rroi oVntlul year. In preparation for Presidential coinpiilKiia, In thin ilemiK-racy of the United Htatra o( America, w make bin medicine. 'Hint account lor I lot of Die ipronr. QN the political side, till- rafters w nro rattling Una morning with Ihrrata lo no out ufttir every enn vrraamati unci senator who voted (r the bill or hud lyiytliliiK to do wllh Its enactment mid run them rimurd, j Well, thr roiiiriKMiintii mid th iftiiiliua who vnmd lor thn now law In tho flrnl plum mid thou voted , lo m a It over the I'rnnldrnt'a veto ykiirw nil Hint lii advanre. Tliry anew wlmt they woulil have to far. They nro miinnii the shrewdest ItidKea of public opinion wo have If thoy hadn't believed there In ttronK public dcmuiiri for wlmt thoy hnvo done, they wouldn t have done it. Ho wo nmy iiwume that there are TWO aldra fc the political laaue that la involved. VKKP Uila fart aim In mind: Husk-ally, tho now law amentia tho ' Ziuinor act, The Wniinor act fitit too much powor In too frw land. That was lla greatest fault. Collective bnrKnlnlnii is merely collective HAKUA1NINO. If you and I alt down at a table to mukr a bargain and I have TOO MUCH P JWKIt, the contract we make la protiy likely to be baoly one-sicica All biulurM mon know Dim a "Ti tian i which la imply tho written i memorandum of a bargain that haa boon Hindi-) la proliy likely to uc unprofliuble If It la badly one aidrd that i to any, If It gives the bulk of the bonrflta to one aide. llnrd experience hoa taukht ua that very, very many of these bar gains (with their accompanying contracts" have worked out un anlUfartorlly In practice. 'Ilial la why tho ' demand haa arisen for amendment of the Wagner act. BI. WAYS. In tho pat. our labor lawn have been one-aided. Knr generation. btUiineu had too much power. Thin power was umixrd. Then came tho Wimner act, with IU Krant of too much power lo the luilmu. Thai power him likewise l. n abused. ...What we muni have. If there Is lo bo lr..lusrrlaf pear and the great prosperity we all want and can have If we go about It right, la a balanced lw t at give NKITHKH BHJI4 too much power. Tliat, and only that, can Insure the co-operallon we must have If we are to get where we want to got. Co-operation AMONG EQUALS work. There la aeldom much co operation between a big man with , club and a little man with a toothpick. WHAT the public want la a law " thnt will be fair to both ildea. The WaBiier art waan't fair. The h.bor laws In the old daya weren't fair. The fact la generally recog nised that we need to make a new atarL If thla new law provea to be tin fair to labor, aa IU political ene mies assert, we can amend It. The unprejudiced, non-polltlcal public will DKMAND amendment If It ttirna out Unit all we have done la to put too much power back Into one set of hnmta. The thing to do la to see If we enn mnke It work. If, In practice, we find aertlnna that are unwork able (becauae thoy put too much power In too few handa) we can amend these sections so that thoy will work. Making bur Industrial system work In the goal that all good citi zens want to reach, Search Made For Plane f . LA GRANDE. June 54 A' .senrrh for a missing airman, lost in a DT-13 between Boise and Spo kane June S, was continued today ss army air roscue planes continued i their senrch over the mountainous II ii I lies area. Army officials directing the search here said today their efforts to locate the piano and IU pilot, Clarence T, Wclton of Dallas, Tex., will continue for another woek or 10 days. ThtfTO army C-47 transports wore expected to Join the search today ns the scene of the hunt shifted to ward tho Elkhom ridge area. Body Of Merrill Boy Still 0 .recovered From River Still unrecovcrod Is the body of an 8-ycar-old Morrill boy who Is be llnved to havo drowned In Lost i river n miio and a naif west of Mer rill uboul noon yesterday. Tho boy, Identified as- Oeorge Dickenson, Is tho son of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas E. Wauon. The step father works at Tulelake and the family only recently came to live In , Merrill. ) Deputy Sheriff Jack Praney and other officers dragged the bottom of the river from tho bridge where the In (I disappeared downstream for ' sonio length yesterday afternoon, j without result. Tho search, with four boats taking part, Is going on today. A glllnct hns beon stretched across tho river still farther downstream , on the chance that the bodv might ' roll on tho bottom. This is the first ' tlmo tho glllnct has been used In a I sofu-rh of this typo In Klamath t county, Deputy Francy said, ' Tho Dickenson bov was plavlng V with a 9-ycar-old lad, Wesley Mo J Aloster, when ho disappeared. Wes f i ley was unable to give officers much PRICK FIVE CENTH . ! KLAMATH V .(,",' .ON, TLKHDAY, JUNE 24, 1947 i i j ii . i i ii i i i ii i iii ' i k i ii- Fire L i 4 - - ,y , .,. dZ7 . - .. fA lllark columns of smoke rise from the burning Unkrr Marke? as flrrboaU throw water on a burning pier at Wilmington. Call!., which was aeroae channel from the Ill-fated vraael. Firemen aueeetded In keeping flames from- big fuel storage tonka in foreground. Early damage eatlmatea were two dead. It missing and above 1 10, 00, 900 damage. ', ' . Reds Quash Balkan Query LONDON, June 24 () An au UiorlMUve British source reported today that Ru&sl. for the second time la two week, had rejected a Brltiah request for "clarification' of the situation In Hungary. A foreign office spokesman con firmed receipt In London of a Rus sian reply to the memorandum sub mitted to Boviei foreign Minister V. M. Molotov In Moscow on Juno 17, but said he could not disclose IU contenu. The Russian note, the spokesman said, was delivered here over the week-end, presumably at the same time that Soviet Ambassador Oeor- gl Zarubln transmitted his govern ments acceptance or the British- French Invitation to attend three powor talks on European recon struction. Tax Bill Reintroduced WASHINGTON. June S4 (IPi Chairman Knutson (R-Mlnn.) of the house' ways and moans com mittee today reintroduced the ve toed bill cutting Income taxes $4,000,000,000 annually. The new vorslon makes the slash effective next January 1 Instead of July 1, mis yoar. Knutson told renortera the ac- tlon was taken "with the approval of" House Speaker Martin (R-Mass.) and Republican Leader Halleck of Indiana.- However, he said the bill will not be taken up before congress ad journs, "unless there is sufficient demand for it to put It over. This moans a two-tnirds majority in both houses." ' Evidently anticipating another veto, if congress sends such a bill to the While House agnln, he said: "If there's a big enough demand, we'll take It up; If not we'll keep It on Ice." of a story of what went on, but said that when they reached the bridge aorosa the river between the Falvey and Hoarn ranches, they decided to go swimming, Wesley said he took off his clothes and went Into the water. He said the Dickenson boy removed his overalls on the bridge and either fell or Jumped lntd.the water, and wasn't seen afterward. Wesley said he thought Oeorge had "gone home." U was later learned from the boy's parents that he couldn't swim. The overalls were found on the bridge. There was some attempt to dive for the body today, but that was abandoned, Praney said that drag ging yesterday was hampered by nu merous clams on the bottom of the river which closed thernsolves over the points of the grappling hooks. Lost river, at the bridge, is about 10 feet deep in the center of the stream with only a small current. Mr. and Mrs. Watson had come to Merrlll only last Thursday. They have throe other children, antt have been aided by the Red Cross. i 'Kr Floods Faniland Devastate Harbor Area t 1 k i. Busi Hotel Incidents Eyed As Best Clue In Girl Case The strange actions of a man who was seen on a southbound Trall waya bus and later In Klamath Falls with a little girl on June 13. were atlll considered by authorities here today as the best clue in the effort to Identity little "Miss X," the Weed beating victim. State police disclosed they had learned that the man registered at the Wlllard hotel irore on the night of June 13 as Orover Hall, asking for a crib to be placed In his. room. Fifteen minutes later he cancelled the reservation. , Officers said thla man, together with a woman and a little girl, got on a southbound Trallways bus tl.t day at Bond. The man and wo man were ordered from the bus at Chemult by Die bus driver because thry were causing a commotion. That night, the driver reported, he saw the man and little girl at the Wlllard hotal. A few minutes after the man saw the bus driver at the hotel, he cancelled the regis tration, and disappeared. It was on the following week-end that a little girl was found, beat' en and criminally mistreated. In brush behind a Weed dance hall, and witnesses reported having seen her arrive In Weed on a southbound Gery hound bus from Klamath Falls, The girl has not been menu fled, and no one has claimed' her despite widespread publicity. state ponce sain today mat scv- oral persons who were on trie Trail ways ous on tno trip irom uenci to Chemult nave tentatively identified the little girl from pictures as the same girl who was on the bus. They Said positive identification could not be made unless the witnesses saw the girl at Yreka, where she Is In a French Tax Measure OK'd PARIS. June 24 (IP) Premier Paul Ramadlcr's drastic tax bill which will raise prices of such items as bread, milk and cigarettes was adopted today by the French na tional assembly. The vote was 302 to 241, fifty-nine members abstained. The measure, which Includes ad ministration economies and the sup pression of state subsidies. Is de signed to raise 136,000,000,000 francs SJi14UOU'0OO). A series of strikes protesting the measure broke out In scattered parts of France. About 150,000 coal miners walked out In the national ised northern coal fields. At Mar seille the labor federation ordered a two-hour demonstration strike which threatened to tie up the na tions largest port this afternoon. The assembly voted after an all- night session. Reed Retains School, Post , Only 40 votes were cast In Mon day's school balloting with Nelson Reed, Incumbent, unanimously re elected to serve a flvn-venr term on school board No. 2, Klamath Union nign scnooi. Reed's wis the only name ap pearing on the ballot. His recently completed term was also for a five year period. Polls were at KUHS from 2 to 7 p. m. yesterday. ..cA - .- Following Tanker Explosion - r . hospital. Some of the witnesses aald the girl addressed the man on the bus as "Uncle Orover." There has been no trace of the woman who was with the man and girl on the bus, A Yreka souree today suggested the possibility of connecting this Klamath Incident with the case of a woman amnesia victim who was found on the street at Dunsmulr on the same week-end. This woman was holding a pair of shoes In her arms, much as one would a. baby, and appeared to be waiting or lock li.g for some one. She Is still unidentified. It was pointed out that the lack of any reports of missing children or anyone claiming little Miss X might be explained If It were found the woman amnesia victim Is the same woman who was on the bus with the man and girl In northern Klumnth county. Pictures of the amnesia victim will be sent here and further effort will be made to Identify her and the child. Two Die In Auto' Accidents Today PORTLAND. June 24 (flV-Traffic accidents killed two persons In the Portland area last night. An automobile and a gasoline truck collided In the city, killing Hans Qysler, 67, Portland, plaster ing contractor, a passenger In the automobile. The driver, Leonard Mlkkclson, 27, , Portland, suffered slight Injuries. The truck burst Into flame, but Its driven .Clifford Smith, Vancouver, Wash., leaped to safety. Near Oresham an. automobile skidded off the Mt. Hood loop high way, fatally Injuring Mrs. Katie Kalama, Warm Springs Indian res, ervatlon. The car was driven by Clifford Barney Tulee, 23, Harrah, wasn., wno escapeci injury. Count Budget P,ares Figures By $1271.40 ' The county budget committee, In making Its final draft of the coun ty's, fiscal document for 1947-48 raised its sights a trifle on four cur rent expense Items and did some paring of the amount of-fmoney to ?o , into the stand-by emergency und, all In all whacking off $1271.40 of 'the ocjlective property owner's tax bill. No changes were made In the amount of funds earmarked for roafs. The- public hearing, conducted last'.Friday by the budget commit tee, was very Q-ilct and In the main the budget document remains Just as It! hns been published previously. The budget committee merely took Its estimated receipts and tailored the estimated expenditures for 1947 1948 U fit. Heret are the Items changed?: ' Sheriff's office, salary for three tax deputies, Increased from $6660 to $7020. Treasurer's office, salary for onJ aeputy, i increased irom suiuu to $2200. A EmenteVicy fund decreased from 34,700 to 32,984.60. Library lund lor books increased from $27861 to $3321.40. Library ffund for solarles in creased from $12,985 to $13,685. (Telephone (111) ' V . f I t - ... Cultural Fund Okayed Today WASHINGTON. June 24 (Pi -The senate appropriations commit' tee today recommended granting 111.500.000 to carry on for another year the state department's cul tural and Information program, in cluding trie "Voice oi America broadcasts to Russia. The action was taken In approv ing a total of $538.916,492 or ap proximately 12.000.000 more than the house allowed for operation of the state Justice and commerce de partments and the federal Judiciary during the fiscal year beginning July 1. Of the total. 1234324.703 was recommended for the state depart ment. The house had voted to eliminate the information program by deny ing it any share of the state de partment's funds. The senate com mittee, in restoring the Item, pro posed $11,500,000 for operating ex- nnu nnri 1 S00 000 to Close OUt part of the program, including the agency s new xorn unite. Truman Receives Firecracker WASHINGTON, June 24 tPi Michael D Condatore. aged 2 4. was a White House caller today and gave President Truman a firecrack er. , Mr. Truman gave nim a small bronze hat as a souvenir. Michael is the son of Mrs. Ruth Condatore, secretary of the Ameri can Cavalcade of Freedom, which Is going t put on a Fourth of July celebration here. The purpose of his visit accom panied by B. F. Harloff, publicity chairman was to invite .the presi dent to attend. Mr. Truman ex plained that he has a previous en gagement to speak at Thomas Jef ferson's home near Charlottesville, Va. Committee The amount tabbed for the li brary to be raised by taxation was Increased to $13,589.48, instead of $12,354.08. The grand total of the current expense fund was decreased from $460,166.74 to $458,931.34. Total on the current expense roll which will come from the pocket book of the property owner by way of taxation now is $387,190.91, In stead of $388,462.31, making the tax saving of $1271.40 over the original budget document. Tho budget now goes into effect July 1 and forms the measuring stick of Klamath county's official business and services from that date until June 30, 1948. Two Brothers, Two Cars, Two Fines .SEATTLE, June 24 () Two .brothers, whose automobiles both 1935 models of the same make collided Saturday appeared in traffic court yesterday and each was found at fault. . Arnold Remestad, 23, truck driver, was fined $50 for reckless driv ing, his license suspended 30 days and he was sentenced to 24 hours in Jail, suspended. Edward Remestad, 25, a gardener, was fined $25 for negligent driving. ' Testimony showed Edward's automobile skidded to a stop and was rammed by Arnold's. 1 ' ' The two live at the same address. , ' . No. 1MM7 Railroads Tom Out By Crest OMAHA. June 24 UP) The swol len Missouri river neared a record level In Southeast Nebraska today aa it attempted lo absorb the over flow from tributaries atlll spread ing their destruction upstream. At Kulo in Southeast Nebraska "Big Muddy" reached 20.65 at a. m. todar, only M of a foot be low the all-time record 24.96 level set June 15. New crests on tribu taries were expected to boost the figure to a new record. In Iowa, towns along the lower Raccoon and Dea Moines riven Ineludinr Dea Malnea, Ottumwa and Van Meter braced themselves for higher water today. Fort Dodge, la., lost its power and water aapply aa the Bp per Des Moines river in undated the power plant. Creat Expected In Northeast Nebraska, a crest on the Elkhom river was expected to reach Norfolk tonight. Today it was flooding thousands of acres and tearing away railroad and highway lines near Ewing and Nellgh. At Columbus, Neb., where a fourth of the city was under water, emer gency centers were set up -at the city hall and hospitals to handle hundreds of evacuees. ' The Loup river at Columbus waa three miles wide. Rail and highway traffic in Ne braska. Iowa and Missouri was stop ped completely in many areas by hare gape in pavements and track beds, but torn telephone and tele graphie lines were being restored. Behind the flood waters, resi dents of Nebraska. Iowa and Mis souri repaired damages and cleared away debris, while ahead of the floods others moved to higher ground. At Cambridge, In Southwest Ne- DraaKa. where 13 persons' were- rownea in Sunday's Hash flood, the search continued for four hnrflea Nine already have been recovered. Two drownings near Miller. Neb, ana a rornaoo aeatn near Oxford, Neb.. left Nebraska . with a week end toll of 16. From Alma. Neb., farther east on the Republican river, came a report that the Republican river bridge at the site of the Harlan county dam went out ana aixes Droxe, necessi tating weeks of delay In construc tion of one of Southwest Nebraska's principal flood control structures. The bridge was completed only Fri- aay. I GM President Lauds Measure WASHINGTON, June 24 ) Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors, told congress to day that what the nation needs most Is "continuous, uninterrupted, efficient production." And to make that possible, he said, the nation "must be protected from . . . monopolistic strikes that paralyze whole vital industries or shut down one important commu nity alter another." "The majority of the people of our country recognise this truth and an important step in this di rection has just been taken by con gress," he added, obviously referring to enactment of the Taft-Hartley moor Din wnicn contains provisions aesigneo to mock "national paraly. sis" strikes. wuson outlined nis views m a statement to the joint congression al committee on the economic re port He was the first witness at a series of hearings which trie com mittee hopes will point the way to ward economic stabilization. Fire District Bond Issue OK With a vote of 63 to 7. voters in the south suburban area Monday put their okay on the special $50,000 bond issue needed to create funds for the recently-formed suburban rural flrc protection district. Bonded indebtedness will be un dertaken to cover erection of a fire house, acquiring a site for a fire station, purchase of equipment, in stallation of water mains, hydrants, ponds, and reservoirs, and other necessary items. Members of the board of directors met following the tabulation of votes, and formally adopted a reso lution regarding the bond issue. July 11 has been set as the date for re ceiving bids. . President of the board is L. Alva Lewis, and Clyde Williams is secre tary, otner members are wunam S. Metier, Leon . Judd and Cecil Praether. Washington, j 24 resenlotives, itimaHng that bituminoui miners ara idle, work sroppojo might grow into fuN-KOla national 04 ' ' The eitimata on number of toft coal miner idle te ba'tad by the National Coal association en reports received f torn ft ' members up until midday. A spokesman for the Industry told a reporter the work stoppage appears to be "a clear violation" of the. nw Taft Hartley union-curbing labor law. Ha expressed fear It wmU, grow into a nationwide shutdown.! . . Enactment of the new labor measure into law yesterday,' when' the senate overrode President Truman's veto, touched off mine shutdowns and brought calls for widespread pretest strikes as labor reacted swiftly and bitterly. . Government officials, taken by surprise at the action of John L. Lewis' coal miners are scheduled to begin a 10-day vacation Friday, but made no immediate move to meet the growing shutdown. ' Under the new labor law, Mr. Truman could appoint a board of Inquiry immediately to look Into the situation. A shutdown was antici pated when the 10-day vacation period Is ended July 7. Navy Captain M. H. Colllaon. eoal mines administrator ia charge of government operation of the pits until the Unseal authority to run them expires June IS, admittad a lack; of naorts on the auliat of the idleness. ' i Collison acknowledged the stoppage Is "widespread." i , At the United Mine Workers' headquartars, there was BO ocmaasnt on the situation from Lewis or his associates. - Irate union leaden, atanf by the ease with which bath house aaal senate overrode President Truman's veto, threatened reprisals a4 she polls against legislators who favored the WL Others' promised to work for Ha prompt repeal and for quick court' tests of its constitutionality. ' . ' Cries of anger and protest same from many of the aaUon's top union bosses. One aald privately that 10 years of litigation is nt store for organized labor and Industry. Shortly after the senate voted yesterday, mines began closing; la Alabama and Pennsylvania. The shutdowns spread today and more the 50 pits, employing 31,000, were idle In those two states. Onto, JUInoU and West Virginia. . Mora NU May Close 1 ' .,.( . A United Mine Workers official In MMaburfh predicted more seal pits would be closed today. John L. Lewis, L'MW chief, remained salenS on this development, aa well as on passage of the tabor bilL r . The miners begin a regular lS-aay vacation Friday. Thus tttoao who have stayed off the Job are "Jumping the gun" ttw days,. . There was aome scattered talk of a general strike by the more uaoa U.oee.eoe members of labor unions, but AFL and CIO headquarters here minimised the possibility of any such mora. PITTSBURGH. June 24 (P) With their union leaders hurHnc pro tests at final congressional adoption of the Taft-Hartley labor bill, more than one-fourth of the nation's soft coal miners some 1X.00O men were on strike In seven states today, dosing several hundred mines. , Tha walkouts heaan in aihm overrode President Truman's veto spread swiftly through the big. coal -. - Reports-of the-idle Included: 26.700; Illinois. 24.700 (including 1700 Progressive Mine Workers); Ale bama, 17.500; Kentucky, up to 15,000; Ohio, 3473; Indiana, 3000. ; The walkouts, apparently a spontaneous protest against pasessja of the labor bill, came at a time when wage negotiations between John , L. Lewis, president of the APL-Umited Mine Workers' 4W.000 mem ban. and the mine operators had been broken off pending- final disposition of the bill. ' .' , ' -, i Meanwhile', the miners had been prepared to begin a lo-day vase tion at Friday midnight, just three days before the expiration of toe interim contract of the UMW and the federal government, signed ha May. 1947, to end a strike which began when management and union failed to negotiate an agreement. V, . , , ' One mine company spokesman said at was unlikely a new contract ( would be signed by, July g,- the day the miners are scheduled to end, their vacation, and that it was probable there would be some "-con- ' fusion" in the coal fields then. He said he referred to the miners lotus time slogan of "no contract, no work." ) ; ' , . At most points, UMW officers answered queries with a brief "su comment." . . . , At Cumberland, Md., howerer, an unidentified UMW' spokesman, said: , "The boys are very bitter about the slave-labor law, but we neve ' planned no action here.. The new law will probably be tested , in court actions as a result of leases protest DETROIT, June U iff) The striking Foreman's Association ;ef' . America asked the CIO United Auto Workers to resaeet picket hates around the Ford Motor company, a reaueat which. If agreed to, would idle an estimated 85,SO0 production workers, ' The same request was made to the UAW-CIO in connection with FAA strikes at the Gar Wood Industries, Inc., hi Detroit, and the Mid land Steel Products company In Cleveland. President Robert H. Keys of the FAA, in a letter to WaHer P. Reuther, head of the UAW-CIO, said the striking foremen were asking: aid from production workers because "since the passage of the Taft Hartley bill, the (Ford) company is determined to continue to operate its plants regardless of any financial loss and inferiority of their products." i Keys admitted that the 35-day strike of 3800 Ford foremen over terms of a proposed new contract had failed to close Ford plants as the FAA had anticipated. ' Era a W -jf feajfii.i.,als;r i .I.1.' i ii AiAaSu Wiimjmtmm kit i)n.'n IMm4t Brhrht. new street marbius caught the ( o'clock Speeial uheteera. pher's eye this noratng as Tom air gun en Main and 7th. (ap $ coal industry t Usr Half of Hi no Host's xprtie) fear today that Mt4 . . Wxt night shortly after the of the union control meeeuis out fields in other states. . Pennsylvania, S3.179; West VuWuV' m many places. 14 3. f i'fiL; I Vf - "Hjr.'l 1 ! . was yahatlag Mm seriaas with est i If S