Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, June 27, 1947, Page 1, Image 1

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lly HUNK JKNKINH
Till!; United HUiU'H today i heroic
lha ' sccuilly council of United
Nation, meeting t Luke Huccrnnl
plnngca Yugoaliivla, Albmilit mid
lluluurlH Willi unlng lorio hkiiIiihI
Urocee, mid advociilca employment
of COIJNTKK KOHCK by United
Natlona II noccaanry.
IT oouuda liniilo iu plan ON
4 PAPKIt. An a mutter uf fuel, tltut
la rxnclly what wo cxpectad United
Nuthuui lu do when wn act It up.
Our thought wna tlint If hot
headed nniloiia endangered the
peace by rimuKintt In a brawl Unlied
Nsllnm, ucllng aa the WOltl.L)
I'OI.IOKMAN, Would alep 111 Mid
knock Ihrlr hoada together aa
aquad of burly ria wudea Into
alrrct brawl and settle It then mid
there.
We arc dlarovcrliiB already that
' policing tlm win lil and making It
nl(i fur peaceful-minded people
len t m iliiiplc as tlial,
FORMER Huprrma Court Juallce
Roberta, tcallfylng before the
armed aeivlrca committee uf the
house of repicaentiillvea In Waah
liiKtfin tlila iiiornliiK. expresses be
lief thul United Natlona Ima op
porlunltlra to acrve aa forum for
I hp itiilloua of the, world to dlacuaa
their problems.
HUT. lie ailda. "II waa doomed to
failure from the alurl aa a security
omaulullun because any ONK of
the Ulg Three iiuIIoim lUimrd
illalra, Great llrllalu and Ruaaia)
ran by ue uf the veto iiower pre
vent It from finirtlonliui eflectlvely."
We'd all like to aay Dial Roberta
la utterly mlalakcn, but havliiK aeen
the veto power in action durum the
pant couple of ypara we are coni
pellpd to admit thal what he ays
Un'l far off Hip OiiUi.
W
IIY la It an hard to gel natlona to
art together for their common
good?
- Well. Machlavclll told u four
ppniurlca alio that NATIONS and
PKOIM.K arc different Tht HULKK.
ha aald lualng KUI.KR a aynony
motu with OOVKHNMENTi la not
bound by any auch code of honor aa
blnda Indlvlduala. If It aulta hla
i national i purpoMi to UK. he muat
lie. If It aulU hla inallonall pur-
poae to commit murder, he muat
commit murdrr. In other worda,
ANY meaua that lain hla end are
juallflrd by the principle of "na
tlonallatlc welfare. '
That waa obviously trua In Marhl
avalll's lime. It la almoal aa true
now. It la atlll basically true that
NATIONS, which contend that their
rlghla are "aovercIKU" that la to
aay. not aubjerl to any conlrol what
aorver by any other nation rerni
uiae no law aavo the primeval law
of clnw and hum. , r
tlillll NATIONH become PfcOI'IT.
that la until they aubmlt to the
j basic laws of human decency, aa In
F dividual are willing to doj-rot-
i a..ftn hv imp nation m uiv
world FOR THE COMMON GOOD
will be brautnui in pnnciipw i
dltflcult In practice.
r
DONT lot confidence In United
Nalfnna. But don't exiect tt to
aPttle all our problem RIGHT NOW.
Making a better world TAKES
TIME lime reckoned In centime
rather than In deya.
I
PHERt Is an Intereatlng and hliihly
aignlflcant little story m the news
today.
A MIM Vella Wilcox, who Uvea In
Horur Kong. Inherited a ahare of an
Illinois ratate. Her share amounted
to 1700 3 In V. 8. money, and a
check for that amount waa aent to
her. Whrn ahe cashes the check
In Hong Kong, she will get some
what In excess of SEVEN MILLION
DOLLARS In Chinese money.
For a little while, ahe will be richer
than Croesua In her mind. Just
looking at Ihe worda SEVEN MIL
LION DOLLARS written on a check
made payable to you gfve you de
lusions of grandeur.
As human beings, we'rt built that
way. i
, a
IT'S the same way with our BOOM
Incomes In these days of Inflation.
We hook at our paychecks and suy
gleefully to ouraelvra: "Hoyl This Is
a wonderful world I Why didn't
somebody tell Grandpa about alt
this so Dad could have had what
we have?"
-
wRUT when we go out to spend the
money well, that Is another
slorv. Wo discover then that IN
TERMS OF THINGS we get lust
about what we got back In the days
of the depression.
That Is the way It will be with
, Miss Wilcox when she goes out In
Hong Kong to spend her millions.
When she looks at her check, her
lipnd will be In the clouds. When
ahe starts to SPEND. IT she will lilt
the enrth with a dull thud.
She will learn, as so many of us
have, that there ain't no such thing
as something for nothing,
OK ASKED
PORTLAND, June 27 oP Ap
proval for construction of a MO.000
achool building addition wns-sought
loday by district 84. Eimcne, In an
appllcatlnn to the construction re
view committee.
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PUICIfi riVK CKNTH
CIO Leaders
Meet To
Discuss Bill
WAKHINUTON. June x7 UP
Leaders of f.000.000 ( IO members,
raallaned by President Truman
along with all labor and manage
ment to live up to the new Taft-
Hartley law, gathered loday to draft
a program of conical or compliance,
CfO Prealdenl Philip Murray con
vened hla ll-meraber executive board
to hear an up-to-the-minute ale-up
of the new atalute aa compiled by
Ihe labor orianliatlon'a entire legal
ataff. Attorneys for each of the 49
CIO unions met here yralerday with
General Counsel Lee Preaaman.
Both Hip AKL and the CIO have
ejpcted the Idea of general protest
airlkpa, altnougli AM. rrraicicni Wil
liam Green lold reiKirlera ycslrrday
Unit uuloiia throughout the nation
wete urging him to call one to last
"until the act ta repealed."
Meet July
Iiulead. Green culled a meeting
hers July of the heads of the
A PL's 105 unions, to go over the
law and determine a program of
policy Die aame type of araalon
fixed for loday by Murray and the
CIO.
President Truman made hla ap
peal for compliance by employera
and unions in a lormai aiaiemem ai
hla ncwa conference late yeaterday.
He called Ukii both labor and man
agement "to exercise patience and
moderation In accommodating them
aelvea to the changes made neces
sary by the act."
"In accordance with the consti
tutional proccsMB of our govern
ment." he said, "we must all rrapeel
Its provisions."
Air Tour
Visits Here
The air waa filled with strange
craft Thursday afternoon when
about 40 of the 00 planes on the
chamber of commerce Ul-state air
tour put down here. .
Lunch had been served to the five
flights Unit composed the air car
avan at Burnt and the longest leg
of the tour was from Burns to
Klamath Kails. Some of Uie planes
went direct from Burns to Meriford
where the group was to be enter
tained at the country club and some
went to Lakevtew.
The first of the group to arrive
here was the CAA plane which act
down about 1:30. The last of Uie
group came In afler 5 p. m. and
had to buck a head wind on the
lap to Mcdford where thry were
supposed to be at 6 o'clock.
There were three amphibious
planes In the group, one a arum
man Widgeon belonging to the
Dwyer Lumber company. The heli
copter which everyone was looking
forward to seeing here was damaged
slightly In the stop at Boise and
hud :i be loft there to await repairs.
. Phil Hitchcock, president of the
Klamath County chamber of com
merce aviation committee was pres
ent to welcome the group and shake
hands with Roy Owen, president of
the Portland chamber aviation com
mittee. The Klamath Basin Rodeo
court with Queen Ginger Thomas
arrived on horseback at the airport
to extend an Invitation to the air
travelers to attend Uie July 4, 5 and
8 rodeo.
Nagel Arraigned
This Afternoon
William Henry Nagel, Portland
preacher Indicted for contributing
to the delinquency of a minor, was
to be arraigned In circuit court here
this afternoon. He Is free on $2600
cash ball.
Nngcl's attorney, Oeorge Mowry.
arrived here this morning, and Cir
cuit Judge Orval Millard of Drums
Pass waa due to come In this after
noon. Mowry said that he Intended
to talk with District Attorney Clar
ence A. Humble about setting a date
for a possible trial In the case.
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Horse Meets
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Klamath Baaln Kodeo Queen Ginger Thomas Is shown here on horseback welcoming A. Vsurhan,
(left), of KION radio station In Portland, and Edward J. Ball of Ball-Ralston Flying service, Portland,
two of Ihe men on Ihe tri-stale chamber of commerce air lour which stopped at Klamath airport Thurs
day for refueling. The wing lips of a Heabee from the air caravan can be seen behind Queen Ginger. Ball
and Vaughan flew in Ball's AT-8.
'Flying Discs'
Deepens; More
Bv The Aaabrlaled Press
The mystery of ihe "Hying Discs
deepened loday aa more Washington
and Oregon residents stepped for
ward to back report of the eerie
aaaeerlike object first reported
Wedneaday by an Idaho filer to
have been flying In formation over
Ihe Cascade mountains.
One witness, E. H. Sprinkle of
Eugene, Ore., produced a phdtograph
Retail Stores
To Close
Retail stores will close July 4. 5
and for a three-day holiday but
the majority of the food stores,
restaurants and amusement centers
will be open the 6th for the con
venience of Uie public. The holiday
will give employes an opportunity to
take part In the community rodeo
and the 4th of July celebrations.
Businesses also slated to close for
the three-day period are the Oregon
state Unuor store, the city and
onunty libraries, the city hall, the
county Courthouse, and the cham
ber of commerce. The post office
will be closed the 4th but will be
open until noon. July 5. The Herald
and News will publish the 4th but
not the 6th.
Tails Take To
Rails For Run
SEATTLE. Juno 27 (PI The hog
ger, tallowpot and captain engi
neer, fireman and conductor on
the inaugural East bound run of the
Milwaukee railroad's new stream
liner will wear full-dress suits on
its Initial run out of Tacoma Sun
day. The ldsa la the railroad's, not the
trainmen concerned.
Bulletin
The hodv of elght-year-nld Gerald
Dickenson of Merrill floated to the
surface of Lost river tills morning
and was recovered, according to Ed
Davis, Merrill town marshal.
The lad was drowned In the river
last Monday. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas E. Watson of Morrill.
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Mystery
See Objects
last High', of "flyliw objects" which
herald he sighted from a Eugrne
hill June 18. Enlargements snowea
seven dots in the sky In what could
be military formation.
elill another version, this time of
a night flight, was reported by
Archie Edr of Wenatchee. while
driving on Ihe Moses lake highway
laat Friday night with his father
and family, Edea said he taw a
speeding object "descending In a
long slant ... it looked like a long,
oval blue-white flame.
"Aa we watched, It neared the
ground and when It was about 200
feet high It exploded. There was no
blinding flash, but there were great
showers of sparks and plies of flame
seemed to hurUe to the ground," he
said.
A "very-bright, shiny object" was
reported by Mrs. Dennis Howell of
Salem, Ore., a week before Ac
cording to Mrs. Howard Ki Wheeler
of Bremerton, she and her husband
sighted three of the objects flying
west about six o'clock in the eve
ning. A Yakima woman. Mrs. Ethel
Wheelhouse. also reported sighting
the "watsits" Tuesday afternoon.'
They sped so fast she could not
count them and abruptly dis
appeared, she said.
Fairgrounds
Repairs Made
Extensive repairs and remodeling
work are In progress at Uie fair
grounds In preparation for the com
ing rodeo, set for July 4, 5 and 6.
Seating capacity has been Increased,
fences and chutes repaired, gates
built and all painted white.
A new fence between the arena
and the race track, in front of the
grandstand, has been constructed
so that races may be In progress
at the same time as other events .to
speed the show along. The arena
Itself will be completely sawdusted
this year for tho first time.
Red Bussman, Don Kenyon and
Herman Faster will be ticket takers
at the three-day show and the Red
Cross first aid station will be super
vised by Dr. George Adler with a
different doctor donating his serv
ices each day. An ambulance will
be on the grounds at all times.
These Klamath Falls Girls Is A Potential Miss
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(Telephone Bill)
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Eisler Draws
Full Sentence
WASHINGTON, June 27 fP
Gerhart Eisler. communist, today
drew the maximum federal court
penalty of a year In. prison and
$1000 fine for contempt, of congress.
Federal District Court Justice
Alexander Holtxoff passed the sen
tence after denying a motion for a
new trial and a dramatic personal
plea for mercy from Eisler, who
has been described in congress as
the "No. 1 Soviet commissar" In
this country.
Eisler was convicted June 10 of
contempt In refusing to take an
oath for testimony before the house
committee on un-American actlvi
Ues last February
In his plea for leniency. Eisler
said he was a European anti-fascist
political refugee. He loudly pro
tested that he was "a victim of a
witch-hunting hysteria in this
country. Instigated and encouraged
by the un-American actlviUes com
mittee." Floods Mount
In Midwest
DBS MOINES. Ia.. June 27 WP
The flood -stricken Midwest area of
Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri and Illi
nois,' where thousands remained
homeless and damage to crops was
estimated at millions of dollars, pre
pared for further devastation today
as rivers and streams rolled on to
near record crests.
Residents of Ottumwa and Eddy
vllle. Ia.. who twice In less than a
month have fought flood waters,
again were threatened by tne swollen
Des Moines river. Yesterday the
stream, together with the Raccoon
river, brought the highest water In
44 years to Iowa's capital city of
170,000.
There was no let-up In the surging
Missouri river, which In Boonvllle,
Mo., reached 31.3 feet in the greatest
flood in 103 years. The muddy stream
overflowed Into thousands of acres
of land near Rulo, Neb.
At least 2000 persons were home
less along the Mississippi river be
tween Alton and Cairo. 111.
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No. 10970
Liquidation
Issue Basis
Of Action
With anti-liquidation forces tak
ing control, the Klamath Indian
Tribal council in aeaaion at the
Agency yeaterday voted to recall
Wade Crawford as tribal delegate
to Washington, D. C, and to cancel
his authority.
Crawford, leader of the movement
to have the reaervaUon liquidated
under terms of a bill now in con
gress, promptly declared in Wash
ington that the council'a action was
irregular and that he would disre
gard it.
xne council yesterday also voted
to recall June Poltras. a supporter
of the Crawford liquidation move
ment, as secretary and member of
the trjbal loan board. Mrs. Poltras
also challenged the method of re
moval and asserted she would de
mand an Investigation of the activi
ties against ner.
Climaxed Controversy
The tribal council action yester
day climaxed a developing contro
versy on the reservation over the
liquidation measure and over the
administrative activities of Super-'
intendent B. O. courtrlgnt. and on
Its face Indicated a victory for
Courtiight's supporters and the
liquidation opposition.
Seldon Kirk, chairman of the
general council, said that the recall
of Crawford was based on the fact
he has been pressing for liquida
tion in disregard of instructions
from the tribal council. He declared
Crawford waa charged with in
subordination and wilful disregard
of interest of the tribe.
Crawford, who Is in Washington,
was sent a telegram today from the
Agency, cancelling his authority,
and tribal officials said no further
pay will be granted him except his
travel fare home.
Backed Issue
Mre. Poltras was recalled on the
Sounds that while .employed, as a
an board member, she was adro-'
eating liquidation of the reservation
contrary to previous council action,
and she also voted and advocated
abollahment of the loan board and
"wanted to oust the superintendent.M
Mrs, Poltras appeared some weeks
ago in Washington before a con
gressional committee and urged
aboliahments of the loan board be
cause it was not conducted In a
business-like manner.
Rose Bond, former loan board
clerk and an avowed enemy of Mrs.
Poltras, was elected to her place on
the loan board, effective immedir
ately.
The Crawford position win re
main vacant for the time being1, it
was Indicated. Boyd Jackson, the
other tribal delegate to Washington,
who was present at the council
meeting yesterday, remains In of
fice. He is regarded as a member
of the anti-llquidaUon and pro-administration
group.
Raised Question
Crawford, in a hot statement to
day from Washington, raised the
question of the legality of the coun
cil action in recalling him, assert
ing: "The only way I can be removed
is by secret ballot." pointing out'
that he was elected by secret ballot.
But Kirk, the council chairman,
said that matter was taken care of
(Caallnaad an Pac S, Calama 1)
Ford Agrees
To Wage Hike
DETROIT, June 27 WPI The
Ford Motor company and the CIO
United Automobile Workers' union
reached an agreement today pro
viding for a wage Increase of seven
cents an hour and a pension plan
Instead of paid holidays for some
110.000 production workers.
Richard T. Leonard, head of the
DAW-CIO Ford division, said the
pension plan win cost the company
$200,000,000 a year. It is the first
old-age retirement plan to be im
plemented In the automotive indus
try. Leonard said the direct wage in
crease plus the benefits of the pen
sion plan will make the increase
"over 15 cents an hour" to the
workers.
America
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Wade Crawford, voted out as
Klamath Indian tribal delegate to
Washington by the Indiana In
council yesterday, declared he would
disregard the action.
Crawford Says
Action Illegal
WASHINGTON. June 27 P
Wade Crawford, tribal delegate of
the Klamath Indians in Oregon, said
today he will disregard the action
of the Klamath council in recalling
him from Washington because he
considers the acUon Illegal.
Crawford said he was chosen by
a secret ballot to represent the tribe
in pushing for legislation to liqui
date the Klamath reservation.
"The only way I can be removed is
bv secret ballot." he said. "The
action yesterday was the result of
pressure exerted by the government's
Indian service ana tne inoe nas
never voted to recall me In secret
ballot."
Crawford charged the Indian
service had engineered the tribal
meeting yesterday after the, business
committee, at Insistence of the
superintendent of the agency, had
voted to recall him. He charged
that the Indian service had spent
tribal funds to take the Indians to
the meeUng in buses and only 84
tribe members voted for his recall.
"It was not the voice of the In
dians," Crawford said, "but that of
a meeting Dacked bv the Indian
service. The Indian service built up
a strong political outfit under tne
new deal and I find It Is operating
on most Indian reservations." ,
Parade Has
KidSection'
A bigger and better Juvenile see.
tion will be part of the 4th of July
paraoe in is year witn a variety oi
entries and iots of prizes.
Every child entering this section
will receive either an ice cream
cone or a popslckle, and there will
be three prizes in each type of en
try, a first prize of 12. second a case
of cola, third a quart of ice cream.
Prizes will be awarded for the best
decorated doll buggy, best decorated
tricycle, bicycle, wagon, dog and
cart, unmounted cowboy and un
mounted Indian with the best cos
tumes, the best pony and rider and
the funniest and the prettiest cos
tumes. All children wishing to take part
in the parade must register with
Roland Woodruff, manager of the
Lost River dairy, who Is in charge
of the Juvenile section of the pa
rade. Registration must be made at
the dairy by noon on July 3. Pa
raders will meet at 9:30 a. m. at the
dairy on July 4. and be ready to
take their place in the parade pro
cession. ,
Officers Turn Up Prison
YREKA, Calif., June 27 Mrs,
Laura Lucille, Meddlin, 22, mother
of Mary Jane, the 2-year-old girl
found abandoned and beaten at
Weed June 15, spent four years in
a Missouri reformatory as a juvenile
delinquent before coming to the
West early In the war years.-
Deputy Sheriff Thome West of
Siskiyou county said that they had
just learned from Missouri of Mrs.
Meddlin s past record.
The man in the child-beating
case. Hugh Gilreath, 25, has insist
ed that he has no past criminal
record and the federal bureau of
Investigation is checking up on him.
Gilreath Is a native of Jellico,
Tenn.
Both he and Mrs. Meddlin are
charged with assault with intent to
murder Mary Jane Meddlin, but the
FBI and Josephine county, Oregon,
authorities are also Interested and
Siskiyou District Attorney Fred W.
Burton said yesterday that there Is
a chance that the case will be turn
Operations
Cut To 45
Per Cent
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toD all nrndllndtr furluu annnnnMiJ
Urtullmrii nf nb . i J
mwnurin ant net 10 aoout 41
per cent of capacity to meet m ro;i
innrtar lni)ni.l t.w .,IIJ A -a-JI 1
precfdinf b 10-day puid miner bolil
7 urffimiinft- milling,,. tOlllgnt.1
The clriwtlc slah in operation!
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Jill noli! Ht.flp Rnmni-uflmi tl,- aaA
steelmaker in the far-flung U, H
Eroducer. Carneaie-IUInoui h
of theoretical capacity before thl
ucanu quitting me pits mil
week In anger over passage of thl
Taft-Hartley labor law. I
rurnacea Down I
The nnmtiniiii nl-o-Hu V,-H l..l
down the equivalent of 4f of Its 3
district blast furnaces.
The deep cutback In steel opera
tlons came as more than 250,00
APL-Unlted Mine Workers wen
idle, mainly In protest walkouts, oi
the eve of the holiday granted 400.
000 union diggers by the navy coa
mine administration .Th
ment quits the coal business nexl
rauiiuay, june 3u, returning the pit
to private owners.
The wildcat strikes premature!'
Idled 65.000 miners In Penruylvanii
pits alone, a substantial proportloi
of whom-worked in steel firm-owner
entire output goes Into steel-makinto
u. o. oteei s 43,uvu-ton aauy pro
duction In Southwestern jPennsyl
vanla mines was virtually stifled
along with that of Jones A Laughlii
oieci corporation, anq, otner. steel
liuuuixrs.
Oil Shipping
Limit Asked
WASHINGTON. June 27 (yf) -Legislation
to restrict gasoline ant
petroleum products exports was In
troduced today as the house mer
chant marine committee launcher
an Inquiry Into oil shipments U
Russia.
The bill, offered by Commlttei
Chairman Welchel (R-Ohlo). woult
prohibit any petroleum exports un
less the war and navy department
certified that they would not inter
fere with national defense, and thi
commerce department certified tha
they would not restrict domestic
consumption.
Welchel's committee is trying t
find out why oil la being exportet
to the 8oviet and other countries
at a time when there Is talk o
gasoline rationing . In the Unltec
Btatea.'-'-.
Reds Burn
Szepingkai .
MUKDEN, Manchuria, June IT (
The communists put Szepingkai t
the torch and withdrew today fron
that ravaged railway junction ell;
106 miles northeast of Mukden t
escape a pincers threat by two gov
eminent columns.
The communists, who had taker
virtually all of the city and railwa;
installations In a two-week assauli
made a forced march to position,
about 12 miles to the west.
There they remain in a posltloi
to threaten the all-important Mukden-Changchun
railway, but gov.
ernment military paper Chung Si
Jlh Pao Said the developmenl
frustrated communist plans to In
vade Mukden and Changchun them-
selves.
Record Of'Mrs. MeddlM
ed over to either federal or Ore
gon authorities.
Oilreath and Mrs. Meddlin are
held without bail, and have not
yet been arraigned. Gilreath haa
been placed In "felony row" of thi
Siskiyou Jail, -rif. other prisoners
after being kept in solitary for two
days.
Mrs. Meddlin, mother of-thre
young children by three different
men, is in the Siskiyou General
hospital, as are all three of the chil
dren. Yesterday afternoon Mr.
Meddlin was taken In to see Mary
Jane and officers said she gave no
sign of emotion when she faced the
daughter she Is accused of conspir
ing to murder. ,
Mary Jane, the "Miss X" of the
case until it was broken Tuesday
at Grants Pass, is fully recovered
from her ordeal and has been show
ered with gifts, money, clothing and
offers of adoption since she uncon
cernedly became a nationally-known
figure after being found In a clump
of brush back of a Weed dance nail
June 15.
IRMA McBRIDE JUNE HKRgHBEKOEB
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