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Newspaper Page Textmam. fo) Ira N JV bis III Day's km II Y riUNK JKNKINH MOl.O'i'OV Hill morning turns down 111 British-French pro. ihwiiI tur European recovery under II,o Marshall progrim (under which III United Stale mi prepared to uy til Western Kliriipe: "Gel back ' ti work and will llnniic you") Russia's Nil. a limn aaya the ItrlllNh-KriiHih propoaala "would lead in no iiwxl roaulu" nd warns Iwth nations Hint tlirlr action on rnlllnn the conference! vould land to division of Kurnp. a PKItllAPH lh British-French o tlnll atiuuld bo explained here. WK uiiglimtcd Hi "U"t to work and wo II finance you" program. Uul w had a cttiniy hunch that 11 w pro posed It to Russia ahed thumb It Jluwn bceitiiac H ctno Irnm iu. Bo we uul tl British mid Hi French tn ruin It oil til lluaalan. Hem tlio Vail "conference." ANYW. i, w forced a nowuuwii. W know now xctly where Ituula stuliu. She tl behind 1 1 to HK-ttlii-Adrlallo IH. which apparently . I: la payment, '- - 'VrmbJhlnd U(U lift hs ' trim t to keep Wwoern Europe iu giy and la turmoil, knowing Im out ol loiig-conllnued hunger. niiull ""! hpeiica. CUM MUN16M EMKIIOES. Wll U iltualloii Uiu. inaU. iwrlwtly clear, our Job. a the uiaimiluil ot r tiiuiprl lu a between UlC individual w "J 0? ,.nkti.d on Una planet. Fortunately thero an in W ' ... that beginning to re .liu tin tact and Uiat Ui Ifcm loleraile. i ol each other . right may b forthcoming. ,,. ilii iii Hire countl ot northern Whl "l iBk.gll, Whatcom and Han Jui AKL carpenter have WAIVKU U-cenuvper-huur pay under Uielr conuaci. K M Wealoii. president ot th WaahmgUm sum I twir uvi thla morning: m wor e?a .'"dcnlly bcllev. U t belter to h.v. l"b l which U.cy can work every dy el a raia people CAN atl'lc MU.U1..U. Trade Councl . jay.. " .,'n.1 , , m Ilk. the. Hnughl turn out to be lh right uium." . , . IT UOfcfl Uk licrv.. H aUo tak natriuium. In Umea Uk the. . i Si wared. W donl know ?"..lTlT; aomii. and w rl r,ioUv.ly Uiat w.:. lotu. u good uwhal toada to llillaUon Ilk IM tllincaa Hay THERE U another atraw In Uu kind. . Hi...i-h tlilamorn- A V unt ui i w.. . , .... iwiwnrful autt Coal "peralo'r. ar. predicting today thai an aiireement will be readied with John L. Uwli in Um to jvirt M all-out aixia iienk coal induauy." , ,, . The oerator. (who ' main anonymoiia) Maert Uiat Wwu already haa been aaaured by Uitlu rnllal liuliulrlallaU Uiat hi aolt coal dinner. In northern and weal em piu will fet their tull 1 centa aii hour wag hlk demand. HIKINO coal wage 34 cenU an hour may hlk Hi prlc ot coal. Coal la a primary raw material In the making ot ateel. It coal price are upued. tel price may be lipped. Bteel I the primary raw material ot mot ot the thing we need wornt. II everything goe up analii. Inflation will bit harder till. The coal operator know that. But they know alio thai w have a -lew labor law that give, more power to employer than they hav had In Ui recent pant. It haa been dubbed lerroneonaly, till writer Uilnkai a SLAVE labor law. It iicem probable that the coal mine owner may be taylng that Ihey want to do their part to make ,ijie now law WOKK FAIRLY, and 'are therefore going the whole road and meeting Lewi' wage demand. If they DONT RAISK PRICES. It will be reaaonably certain that thla 1 what they aro trying to do. ANYWAY, then lgii In the ky are Intere.ntlng. So far, they are renmurlng. The only way to Hop Inflation I to STOP IT. Theiie are move In that direction. They come lodny from both aide of the fence. Let' hope they are the beginning ot what we need moat. NICW INDUSTRY PORTLAND, July 3 (! Portland added 103 new Industrie, employing about (100 nomnnii, during the first half of thin yrnr, the chamber of coinmcrco reported today. Product from the new plant rnngo from log cabin to clothing, tile and hardware. . House Committee Drafts' Report On Ship "Subsidy" WASHINGTON, July 3 (Al A house foreign affairs subcommittee ha dratted a ropurt assorting tliut nmi'lMmo unions are getting what amounts to a $".00,000,000 a year subsidy undor the administration' foreign aid program. The report was submitted today to the full committee and subcom mittee members said they expected. It to be made public within a tow days. Asking not to bo quoted by name, some of the members said the sub committee concluded nflor a study that the aid program was under taken without full knowledge of economic factors Involved, Spoolfl- oally, they contended: 1. About $1,000,000,000 of Ihe pro gram goes mutually for shipping costs, and the' maritime workers get about half of that. This amounts, the subcommittee argues, to a "mbaldy" for the union. WIATHIR Mat. Unit I) ) Mln. 41 rrrtillUn II kauri .. IM Htraam yr l It.ftS MM vur li t! N.rmil . tl.U l-UICK KIVK ( KNT OOP's Tht. plclurn from the Lincoln atreel hill look acroa the town at Hogback mountain, allowing the light which gleam from that summit nightly lnr Klamath Forrat Protective aaaociatlon eatabllahrd a lookout there. Th picture wad taken with a 50-mlnute time exposure, the aperture (tupped al fl(. by Herald and News Photographer We (iudrrian. The Hogback lookout la Jack Dale. IK. ion o(Mabrl Dale, 624 Ful ton, and nightly al I o'elork. Dale wink the llht a a aignal to hi mother that all Is well with himself, hi wife. Kita, 16. and their 3-month-old daughter, who live with him In th. lookout tower. Dale haa a ga t ype light, there being no power line to the lookout. Tht view may b linprrsalve, but th view Dale ha of the Klamath basin at night has It "beat all hollow," according to KFPA officials. Incidentally, the streak In right center In the above picture waa made by the llghta of ears going up Motorcycle hill, a favorite spooning snot. . Businessmen Guard Water O RANTS PASS. July 1 (Pi Busl nesamen acting as vlglllaiites last night were guarding the Rogue River city water supply and the city council also met to pas two emergency ordinance a a result of the city' reservoir being drain ed by unknown person Monday night. When resident reporte d no water. check of the reservoir disclosed that a valve had been openca and the water allowed to run Into an Irrigation dllrh. according to Fire Chief Max Miller. Tile tampering with the city' water supply follow ed a myalerlou tire which destroy ed the Sullivan lime plant there Saturday night. The council last night passed a water rationing ordinance and. at ihe request ol Chief Miller, banned all fireworks In the business sec tion as a precaution against fire. Yeslerday, a locked case waa placed around the reservoir valve and a guard posted. Businessmen also volunteered to patrol the city during the night hour In an ef fort to frustrate further activities of what Chief, Miller believe to be a firebug. Wife Held In Shooting Case HOOD RIVER, July 3 M' Her bert W. Johnson. 45. was In "fair" condition today In a Portland hos pital wnere he was tnKen last night with a .38 caliber bullet wound In his forehead. HI wife was In the city Jail, held without chnrgc. Sheriff R. L. Olllmouthe said he was called yesterday to Johnson' service station on the Mount Hood loon highway 33 miles south of here and found Johnson wounded behind a tree 30 feet from the house. Mrs. Johnson win In the house, the sher iff said. The bullet lodged In the roof of Johnson's mouth and was coughed out. Johnson was able to walk and he recognlwd friends. William Dick. The Dalles attor ney, has been retained by Mr. John son. In this connection, the subcom mlttco i reported to have recom mended turning over idle Liberty ships to foreign countries and let ting them handle the cargoes with lower-paid seamen. 3. This country Is getting nothing substantial In return for materials shipped abroad because, as one member put It, "no one In the ad ministration seems to know what the other countries have In the way of things we actually need." 3. The program seems to have beon "pulled out of the air"' with out first determining the country' ability to provide large-scale aid. One member said the subcom mittee' studies showed "a com plete lack of cooperation" between congress and the stnU) department. In tact, he added, "there appears to have been a studied nlan to keep the house In the dark about many I aspect of the program. ' RI.AMAT" 0 ' ' W, Wr.WNF.HMAV, Jlil,V 2, IM7 (Telephone 1111) No. 10M3 iaffftiiaiii ReaKjf Prate Hogback Lookout Light N o Coal Operators See Hope Of Averting New Strike WASHINGTON. July 2 UI Powerful soft coal operator pre dicted today that an agreement will be reached with John L. Lewis In tune to avert an all-out atrtke next Tuesday in the bituminous Indus try. The oiieralors, who asked to re main nnoymoua, said the United Mine Workers chief already has been assured by Influential Indus- Medlin Trial Slated For GP Mrs. Lucille Medlin and her common-law husband, Hugh Gllreath. defendants In the "Miss X" case now held In Jail at Yreka, will be brought back to Qranta Pass for trial. 4 Al Yreka the charges against the man and woman who have con fessed conspiring to abandon Mary Jane Medlin,' the woman's two year old daughter, are assault with In tent to commit murder. However, officials there say that the most serious crime the brutal beating of the little girl occurred in Oregon before she was aban doned at Weed, and lor that reason the couple would be returned to Oregon. They had been living at Selma In Josephine county. Charges of conspiring to commit a felony have been filed against Mrs. Medlin, 33. and Gllreath, 36, by the Josephine county district at torney. District Attorney William P. Johnson, Sheriff Loyd Lewis and Sgt. C. R. Borgman of the Grants Pass state police detachment went to Yreka tills morning to take the couple Into custody and will return them to the Josephine county Jail. Weather Outlook Good For Fourth Weather prospects for the 4th of July holidays looked encouraging today as Klamath people hoped the clear skies and sunshine hold through the week-end. The mercury Tuesdav afternoon scooted up to 86, lacking Just one degreo ot reaching the season high of 87, recorded on May 1 and again on May 36. 1110 temperature was sliding up again today and at 11:30 a. m. stood at 76. Defense Heads Urge1 Women's Reserve WASHINGTON, July 3 () Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimltz urged congress today to authorise perma nently me services ot women in tne regular and reserve army and navy. The armv and navv chiefs nralsed before the senate armed services committee the parts played in World War II by the Wacs and Waves, auxiliary women's corps of mo two service orancnes. Provision for existence of the Wacs and Waves will expire under present , law six months after the war Is declared officially over. There are now D100 Wacs and 3600 Waves In active service. Both chiefs urged anmoval of a bill b e the committee td utilise 1 all available resources. ew Night Feature Here I .. 5 A. trtallsta that his soft coal diggers in nonnern and western pits will get their full 36 cents an hour wage hike demands. Secret Meeting The concessions were made at a secret meeting last Thursday at tended by Lewis. President Benja min F. Palrless ot the U. S. Steel corporation. Chairman George M. Humphrey of the Pittsburgh Con solidation Coal company, and other northern producers. The Industry spokesman who con firmed this meeting said western operators agreed to the wage pledge. Tlits left southern mme.wwhich produce about 26 per cent of the nation's soft coal faced with the prospect ot capitulating on the same terms or seeing their pita closed when the miners' 10-day vacation ends next Tuesday. The southerners had Insisted on separate bargaining conferences. Side Issues chief among them Lewis' demand for a 10 Instead of a five cent a ton royalty for his union velfare and retirement fund were said to be the only barrier to a formal northwest settlement. Husband's Search Ends YREKA, Cnllf., July 3 The hus band of Bonnie Owsley Wallace, amnesia victim who was found wandering on the street at Duns mulr some time ago. has arrived in Yreka to claim his wife. He Is Ray Wallace, 40. recently ot Spokane, who said he has been searching over the western half of the United States for Mrs. Wallace since she left him in Salt Lake City a year ago. Mrs, Wallace, according to hos pital attendants here, recognised her husband, the first Indication of re turning memory. The Wallaces were married eight years ago, and have three daugh ters, aged 4, 8 and 7. who are with their paternal grandmother In Min neapolis. Wallace located his wife through a newspaper picture which was published after she was dis covered in Dunsmulr. Wallace, a scenic artist, said he plans to take his wife back to Spokane. lhY ear-Old Girl Drives Off Big Cougar After Attack On Her Dog , PO.-IT ANGELES. July 2 W If 11-year-old Carolyn Osborne's great grandfather, who hewed a farm out of the Olympic peninsula wilder ness 85 years ago, were alive today he'd be a pretty proud man. For Carolyn quelled a six-foot, year-old cougar wrtjjv a volley of rocks when ho dared attack her. dog Feathers while she was berry pick ing on the ranch of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Avery, Sat urday. Carolyn heard a stir in the bushes, then the cougar Jumped out and went for Feathers. Carolyn started to run but thought about her dog. As she turned back she gathered stones and hurling them at the cat sent him crashing into the underbrush. Feathers wasn't hurt, Just a little mauled. - At the ranch house she told her grandfather who returned to the scene and set two traps at a spot where. the animal had buried some luncheon meat, apparently left by picnickers. Sunday they found the cougar, his two front paws In a trap. Avery shot and killed him. Carolyn Is the daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. James Osborne of Mount Vernon, Wash. Her grandparents' ranch Is scarcely a quarter of a mile from the main Olympic highway, on the Little river, Fraud Trial Defense Heard WASHINGTON. July 3 (Pi The prosecution tn the May-Garsson war fraud trial today challenged defense contentions that a guilty verdict" wuuiu iimvq unci imuuiim icpnttua- slons and argued, instead, that it would be a "healthy" thing for de mocracy. "Let's clean up our dirty linen in our back yard," Prosecutor William A. Paisley urged the Jury in plead ing for the conviction of ex-Congressman Andrew J. May and mu nitions makers Murray and Henry Garsson. May, wartime chairman of the house military committee, Is ac cused of taking more than (60.000 in bribes from the Garssons for favors on war contracts. Defense Attorney Charles J. Mar giottl asserted a conviction of such wartime top figures would be seized upon by U. S. "enemies" abroad as "an argument against, democ racy." Striking at that contention. Paisley said In a closing statement as the case neared the Jury: "I'm not afmid of any inter national repercussions. New Planes To Be Tested SEATTLE. July 3 UP) The first of a fleet of double-decked strato crulsers. a 67'a-ton airplane which will cruise at 340 miles an hour, rolled out of the Boeing plant to day, second new-type plane brought out the past 20 days. Together with a second similar ship to be finished In a month, the plane will go through seven-day-a-week tests, each flying about 50.000 miles. They will carry approximate ly a ton of test equipment. The first plane Is one of 20 built for Pan American World Airways. In all, 56 are on order by five other major United States and foreign air lines and the army air transport command. They will carry up to 80 passengers and four tons of cargo and baggage. Last June 12. the first of the new B-50 supcrbomobers for the army air forces rolled off the assembly lines. It now has almost JO hours flight test time. about 10 miles west of Port Angeles . Evidence Of Influence Demanded WASHINGTON, July 2 lP Angry republican demand that Prealdenl Truman produce evidence that real estate lobbyist Influenced eonrreaa' rent control action ex ploded a new political battle today between the democratic White House and GOP lawmaker. Calling on the president to order prosecution of any lobbyists' he considers guilty of "subversive" ac tivities. Senator Wherry Neb.). the republican whip, said that if Mr. Truman ha no concrete evi dence to back up hi charges "he ought to apologize to congress." In his message to eongresa when he signed the rent control bill Monday, Mr. Truman said the "real estate lobby" had "displayed a ruthless disregard of the public welfare" by attempting to "weak en rent control and do away with necessary aid to housing." He objected particularly to a sec tion permitting 15 per cent rent increases when tenants and land lords algn leases for all of 1948. 4robe Asked The president asked for a con gressional investigation of what he called the "brazen operations" of lobbyists, contending that "nothing could be hiore clearly subversive' of representative government", than efforts to "block programs so es sential to the needs of our citi zens." Senator Buck (R-Del.) chal lenged the president's right to send congress a message with a bill he had signed, and the hot cross-fire debate brought -Wherry to his feet late yesterday to assert that Mr. Truman's action had reached "a new low" politically. Wherry shouted that the presi dent's message constituted the use of "low down political methods." He demanded that if Mr. Truman has any Information on "subver sive activities" he submit It to the Justice department. . Farm Labor Surplus Noted HILLSBORO, July 2 UP "No Help Wanted" signs have reap peared on some Washington county fields for the first time since pre war days. The county farm labor assistant reported more farm workers than farm jobs, even now when, the blackcap, boysenberry and young berry harvest is at its peak. Grow ers, their labor needs tilled by job hunters who call at' the farms; have placed very few calls for pickers with the farm labor office. , The labor surplus, first noticed when the strawberry and cherry harvest was cut by rain damage, is expected to continue until bush bean ripen In mid-July. Plywood Panel To Be Shown OLYMPIA. Wash.. July 2 (JP) A plywood panel Washington Veneer company officials believe to be the largest ever manufactured will be entered in a Fourth of July parade here. Frank Abbott, production su perintendent tor local operations, announced today. The huge sheet Is Just over 72 feet long. 10 feet wide and 1316 of an inch thick. "We were going to make it 100 feet long." Abbott said, "but we were afraid the float would not be able to go around street corners." Actually, he said, the veneer com pany can produce parsls 10 feet wide and of any length "as long as they can be hauled out of the plant." Missing Flier Found In Wilds LA GRANDE. Ore.. July 3 tPl A three-week search for a missing Dallas. Texas, flier was over today. his body found beside a demoiisnea airplane In the Blue mountains. He was Clarence P. Welton. 36, who took off from Boise, Ida.. June 10 on a flight to Spokane. Planes since had searched the entire route for him. A sheepherder found" the wreck age in timbered ' country six miles southeast of Tollgate. The body was brought here pending word from Dallas relatives. Biologists To Go To Bikini Soon 8EATTLE, July 2 UPt Clarence Pautzke and Robert Meigs, fisheries biologists with the state game de partment, have been granted 60-day leaves of absence to do research work for theXatomlc energy commission at Bikini atoll. Department Director Don W. Clarke said the men -would accom pany Prof. Loren Donaldson of the University ot Washington to Bikini to study the effects of Irradiation on Tish at the site ot last year's atom bomb tests. Pautzke was one of the observer at the time of tht tests. Mississippi Flood Crest Peak Reached ST. LOUIS. July 3 (IP) The mud dy Mississippi river appeared to have reached Its cret here today after smashing four main levee yesterday and routing thousand of persons from their homes In nearby Illinois communities. The river remained stationary at 40.3, a 103-year high, and Harry F. Wahlgren. U. 8. meteorologist, said It was expected to start falling be fore dark. While the worst of the flood ap peared past for the St. Louis area, the situation southward as far a Cairo, 111., remained critical. A levee break in Jackson county. 111., 100 miles south of here, flooded the town of Grand Tower and sev eral unincorporated areas. Walter Whitehead, county dis aster chairman for the Red Cros. estimated 320 families fled their homes In Grand Tower and the surrounding area and said up to 40.000 acres of crops had been lost in the county. Grand Tower had been virtually isolated yesterday by an upstream levee break which sent floodwaters pouring down an lnltnd valley and closed all but one road leading Into the town of 1000 people. Plane Helps Logging Camp NORTH BEND. July 2 V-Log ging operations are now being kept going via parachute. Late yesterday afternoon the Camas Valley Lumber and Logging company reported tnat Its power unit in Isolated Camas valley, 60 miles east of here, had tailed. Within an hour and a half, Lloyd Ellison, manager of a part aupply house, dropped the needed et of valve by parachute. He flew the plane himself. . It was believed the flrat time 'In Oregon that stalled logging ma chinery received emergency repair part that way. Stop-Gap Fund Gets Okay WASHINGTON. July 2 UP) A senate-house group reached agree ment today on a compromise meas ure to supply emergency funds for government agencies until congress can act on regular appropriations. The action lifted the threat of delayed paydays for thousands of government workers as well as the possibility that veterans benefit pay ments would be halted temrjorarilT. Senator Bridges (R-N.H.), chair man oi tne senate appropriations committee, announced the agree ment and said the house and senate probably will approve it promptly. The stop-gap measure became necessary because most of the major appropriations bills for the new fis cal year, which began Tuesday, have not been passed by congress. Both the senate and the house had proposed different ways of meeting the problem and a. dead lock developed. Under the conference group plan, with certain exceptions, all govern ment agencies will be allowed to operate during July or on a month ly basis until an appropriation Is completed at the lowest of these rates: one-twelfth of last year's ap propriations or one,-twelfth of new budget estimates. Wrong Number Cause Of Halt SHANGHAI, July 2 IIP) A wrong number 6000 miles astray on the new transpacific radio-telephone stepped up Editor Woo Kya-tang's pulse for a few seconds today. "Hello, hello, darling." said the, sweet feminine voice from Washing ton. "How are you. dear?" When Woo. executive editor of the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, seemed unresponsive, the voice continued in a hurt tone: "This is Dorothy, darling. How are you?" Then, hesitatingly, "... Aren't you Bill?',' At this crucial point the Shang hai operator decided that Woo wasn't "Bill" and cut them off. -h$ M B U mN?V-'.' ) lptmmmmmm ii.i-.rr- T 14 Ray Biwer holds while Harry Mathl solder for the Pacific Tele phone company a they seal the end of cable preparatory to torsga The 9 o'clock leniman Just happened along to watch these men take down the overhrad lines wkteh are new rap laced by an n4riroimal ysieen, .... ' Reds Refuse Agreement On Policy PARIS, July t fPt The three power foreign minister' conference on the Manhall proposal ended In failure today when the Kuaalan refoaed to agree to Join In a co operative .International effort for European cconomle recovery. The French government Immedi ately announced that France ana Britain would pursue a study of the Marshall . ald-to-Kurope program along with any countries which wish to Join them. Before the conference was ter minated Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov declared that British French proposals relating to U. 8. oecrewry oi oiace Miirsnau s suggest s."ns wouia lead to a division ol Europe. He also predicted the pro posals would "lead to no good re sults." Mutual Help The British-French suggestion had dealt with organizing the con tinent for mutual self help with financial aid from the United States, u suggested by Secretary of State George C. Marshall In a speech at Harvard university June 5. A high Soviet official said today's session ended the conference. "It Is finished," French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault told French newspapermen as he walked out of the foreign ministry. An official British aoaree predict ed earlier that Britain and France aoon would invite other European countries to -'participate In a pro gram of over-all economic planning to help restore the continent's war- shattered economy. A French source said British For eign Minister Ernest Bevln declared In a heated outburst that Molotov' statement was "a travesty of fact.'' The informant quoted Bevln as con tinuing: "I don't know if he (Molotov) la repeating Intentionally a false In terpretation of things In the hop that people will finish by believing this erroneous Interpretation. "I regret the threat which hav been pronounced with regard to th eventual consequence of our en visaged decision, bat my country already ha had the occasion to face ap to such a situation and will continue to do ao." French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault cautioned the Soviet Union upon a decision which would divide Europe Into two groups of powers. The world, he said, had been a witness that France had done all she could to prevent such a divi sion. "France solemnly declines all re sponsibility for the consequence of of a decision which she has don her utmost to avoid," he said. . me rrenen-umisn plan wotua have set up a steering committee for Europe. Molotov assailed the plan a invading the wvereignty of Euro pean atate. ' Molotov' statement. Issued by a Soviet embassy official, said the pi-n called for a new organization "standing over and above the coun tries ot Europe and interfering in their internal affairs down to determining the line of develop ment to be followed by the main branches of Industry In those coun tries." , . Cigaret Tax Stamp Ready SALEM, July 2 (IP) The state tax coninuscion said today that all cig aret sola In Oregon after 12:01 a. m. Saturday must bear the stamp showing payment ot a two-cent per package tax, but that if the refer endum against the bill Is successful, the commission 1 prepared to make refunds. The referendum petitions, circu lated by tobacco wholesalers, must be filed by 5 p. m. Friday In order to prevent the bill from becoming law. - The tax is expected to raise about $2,000,000 a year. If the referendum is successful, then the measure would go on the ballot at the spe cial sales tax election next Octo- ner i.