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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1947)
r M fin la AS mm Iii.TJk; Day's Sews By KHANK JKNKIN8 Tint) MiuruliiB's dlspnlchr tell ot 1 heavy huulliiK In Greece as CLj ck urmy plane liuninier 3000 'lettlal" (communist! guerrilla trapped an Un slope u! mountain wlilla three government brigade ulnse In fur a BIIOWDOWN battle. Ileiiioiubcir Hmlll? That' how U ilarted there. noNT Jump to the conclusion u that war U lininliieiit. Don't cover up your head and refuse to believe that war could hapiwn. Jul keep clrur In your mind Uit I lieu are troubled time. nNOTHKIl word of advice that sounds like pur preaching, mid probitbly Is: If you lire Irmplcd to do tome tiling incun mid mull mid eolliah laluiig the line of "tirttlim mine now . nid to hell with the other guy"), 'ralnl the temptation. Troubled time cull for hcliihlencd patriotism. el'A'It SKCRKTARV MAIUUIALL u today announce Dial the United Hlatc U taking tp to turn over II) merchant ahlpa to Turkey first move In the program of atreiu thcnliif tilt Turkish armed forcea. Hut U to aay, we're going to hold the Turkish oulpoal If we can. CIGNIKIOANT note: A aenaU committee on economic preparation (hi morning Helena lat in own niviuuiom to Lwjn iten UKIWON 8 view on wage and price lamination. Watch It. He aomelhlni new. IN London, the feneral secretary of the powerful British Traiuport and General Workers UNION pro puoe peacetime DRAFT of what he ralta "non-productive" workers to fill the manpower iapa In Industry . that are slowing Britain's economic recovery. The proposal come from a union executive and Is addressed to a labor government. Witch that also. It likewise Is something new. DOl-ITICAL nole on the home front: Henatar Morse of Oregon again tells hi Republican colleagues In congress that "everybody Is out of step but me." ' IN Bait Lake City, Republican gov 4 ernors, after listening to Secretary of BUM Marshall, make It plain to the reporters that they will await a peolflo "blueprint" of his European rebuilding plan before committing their party to full endorsement of economla aid abroad. Warren ol California says that be. fore he offer hi unqualified ap proral he want to see In block and white the facta Justifying such possibly expensive program. e QUR government 1 far too accretive about tills whole "stop com munism" business. It 1 vague and hairy where It ought to be specific. Things like this can end In shoot Ing. The people, whose son will have to be shot at If shooting starts, ought to be told In plain and simple word what the score 1. Dlplomatto tradition I against such frankness. , Common sense, however, I all for It. i THE department of agriculture pre diet today that till year' Pa clflc Northwest wheat crop will come within four per cent of last year's record crop. It I good news. We say to our selves: "That might mean more food at lower prices." A down year ago wed have been scared pink at the prospect of a surplus. Time change. TT-t a k - 1 1-klnds-o f-people-to. make-a-world note: A Kentucky woman dies at the age of AT and leave a 81000 legacy to ner seven-year-old brlndle bull dog and cut her M-year-old r motner on with 300, explaining In her will that her mother I "too old and In too bad health for anything oi mine to ao ner any good." Lewis May Take Over As AFL. Head PALO ALTO, Calif., July lfl (JD President John P. Shelley of the Ban Prnnclsco AFL lnbor council ay William Green may retire and be replaced by John L- Lewi as president of the American Federa tion of Labor at the AFL conven tion to be held here later this year. Me made the statement before the Stanford university business conference yesterday. Diamond Lake Move Over KlnmAth Lake Moulding com pany of Klamath Falls will build a prlvato logging rond to transport logs from the Diamond lake outting area of the Umpqua tntlonitl forest to the Southern Paclflo rallrond at Yamsay siding, it was disclosed by company officials today. . The company's decision to build It own rond came as a result of complications over an original plan on tho part of the forest service to finance reconstruction of the Dia mond lake highway to make It strong, enough to carry logging trucks. When a question developed over the appropriations lor this project, the lumbering firm worked out a program for a prlvato road project, and will build 38 miles of roadway to bring In the 60,000,000 WEATHER !. 'Jalr IS) se Mln. ss frtolplutUn laal 14 eiraain Mar Sat IS aft l.aal raar Narmal rararaill ralr UnllM, pe'llr alaaSr Ttavraear, ritICK rive CKNTB Youngster Drowns In Canal Here Two-year-old James Francla Mor ton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Morton of Mlg Hhaata way, was drowned In a diversion canal shortly before 11 o'clock this morning. The Utile boy had been playing out In the yard at hi home and had wandered away. HI mother became alarmed and atarled a search for the youngster. Neighbor found him In the shallow water of the canal about a half-block from the house. He had been missing for about 40 minutes. Taken to Hospital The tot wo placed In a car and taken to Klamath Valley hospital where attempt were made to revive him with the use of an Inhalator, but he had been In the water too long. Lee Morton, the lad'r father, la an ex-marlne and la employed by Way. erhauser Timber eompany. The couple have one other child, daughter aged nine months. The drowning was the first In the Irrigation canal this summer and brings the total of fatalities this year In Klamath county water to five. Indian Held For Knifing A charge of assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, ha been placed agalnat Buford (BUI) Weeks, 31-year-old Klamath Indian, hi connection with a knifing fray In which another Indian, Prank Thle fault, 41, was severely Injured. Week wo arrested last night by City police after Thlefault, In Klam ath Valley hospital, had signed the complaint against' him. The fight Is luppoaed to have taken place In, shack at a wood yard on the lower end of Main street yesterday morning. Thlefault told officer he had Interceded while Week wa beating his wife, Lratha. with a bottle, and Week had turned on him. Thlefault received several deep slashes across his. back and 'left arm. Week U held In the county Jail In lleO of I2&00 ball. Prison Break Plot Fails CRESCENT CITY. Calif., July U CAT All the (awing at the Del Norte county Jail was not on the violin. There was a hacksaw obllgato. Sheriff Charles W. Olover said last night In announcing that a Jail break plot had been foiled. Olover said the first Indication he had that something wa afoot among the 14 prisoners wa an unusual amount of violin playing by one of he more musically Inclined. It required 11 day of Investiga tion, he said, before Prisoner Robert R. Chittenden, about 37, admitted being the hutlgator ot a plot to cover up the sawing with music, ' Drivers, Shop Men To Bargain BEND, July IS (At Representa tive of Paclflo Trallway drivers and, shop men were to meet with company agent today In the first conference aimed at reaching set tlement of the strike which has halted Portland to Snlt Lnke City buses of the company since July 3. Guy V. Llntner, U. 8. conciliation service commissioner, met with them. The 70 men Involved In the dis pute ask 11.60 an hour for a straight 40 hour week for shopmen and 6.86 cent a mile for drivers. Logs Will Private Road feet of logs which It has contracted to purchase from the forest service. The private road will extend from Uie timber sale area beyond Diamond lake, past the lodge arid the lnke and on down to Yanuay siding, crossing U. S. 07. It will gen erally parallel the present Diamond lnke highway, and will utilize In part an old Pellcnn Bny Lumber company road. Beyond the lodge, a few miles of the access road con struction Will be done by the forest service as part of It bargain with the local firm. The road construction has al ready started, and log hauling will start around mid-August. From Yamsay siding, the logs will be railed to the company's mill on Up per Klnmath lake at Klamath Falls. KLAMATH IT House-Wreckers rn p-M"'.''! r iif "(? m ! I J rJ This M-iallon oak barrel, eridentlr used .by a prohibition btudneaiman a a storace place for moon shine, wa located yesterday under pumping device for easy access to other man is a federal Us agent, A. system. Governors OK Marshall Plan SALT LAKE CITY, July W The national governors' conference resolution' committee approved unanimously today a pledge of sup port for Secretary of State Mar shall' effort to bring peace and freedom to a weary world. Member of the committee (aid the resolution, text of which wa withheld pending action of the. full conference, wa couched In general terms of approval of Marshall's ef forts to bring a peaceful settlement of the world problems. The Marshall plan of economic rehabilitation for Europe wa not specifically mentioned In the pledge, said Oov. Frank Carlson, Kansas republican, a committee member. "It Is a very sincere resolution of support for the secretary of state," Carlson said. He added that the pledge was directed at backing Marshall' effort all over the world and not only In Europe. The resolution committee also was reported to have approved unanimously a resolution urging congress to clear up the question of state title to offshore ocean tide lands and similar areas. Britain May Draft Labor LONDON, July 18 W Britain's labor government was confronted today with a controversy-provoking propositi for a peacetime draft of so-called "non-productive" work ers to fill the manpower gaps In Industry which are slowing the na tion's economic recovery. The explosive suggestion was ad vanced by Arthur Deakln, general secretary of the powerful transport and general workers union. In a speech directly counter "to long standing 'union opposition to labor conscription and piece work pay. "There are thousands of people who ought to be put Into produc tive Industry and at once." Deakln declared after asserting that organ lied labor "must of necessity expect a limited measure of direction." Many observer believed hat Denkln's speech wn merely a trial balloon released with the approval of a cautious government seeking the reaction of trade union mem bers, on which It political strength 1 based.' Truman Urges Flood Work WASHINGTON, July 18 HV President Truman recommended to congress today an lmmednlte start upon a 10-year program for con trolling floods and developing water resources' of the ' Mississippi river basin. He asked $360,000,000 to get the work underway. In a special message, Mr.fTruman outlined a program that embraced also navigation, Irrigation, hydro elcctrlo power development and other utilization of water resources. But he snld flood control must eome first In the light of flood losses oh the Missouri and Mississippi this year that may exoeecj f 500,000,000. PAI ' ' 1KOON, WKUNKHDAV, JULY 16, 1947 sag . ' ajaj j4 M m fl o ii n - ir- u mi II ,. .,0 " . . .aaaa. Alloa sal .aaav .aav mm. II .aaov mmM 11 I 1 aw .fsx .ageoV II M o?soiy"nvfn iiiiiTmir im ni i-aimir I'li'ioiioi Locate Prohibition-Day Storage Vat ii an old bouse on Hope street. It the content. Owner of the house T. Fletcher, who waa called out " V Prohibition Days Recalled By Discovery Of Old vat A rrllo of) prohibition days, a 50 gallon storage vat for what appar ently wa a smooth-working bootleg business, wa unearthed yesterday during the razing of an old frame house on Hope street About three gallon of boose remained In the vat, but It wa about turned to water and no good. The waterproofed oak barrel, fixed up with a copper tube, petcock and Turkey To Get US Ships WASHINOTON. July 18 MV-Secretary of State Marshall announced today the United States Is taking steps to turn over 10 merchant ships to Turkey as a first move In the new program of strengthening the Tur kish armed forces.' Marshall told a press conference that, with the navy's concurrence, he had asked ' the maritime com mission to sell Turkey six U. S. government-owned cargo passenger vessels. The maritime commission also Is being asked to sell four surplus , vessel to Turkey. Marshall was asked whether this represented the llrst transfer under the 1100,000,000 undertaking to strengthen Turkey, and he replied affirmatively. Marshall noted that the sale of the six cargo-passenger vessels did not Involve expendi ture of any U. S. funds. They will be paid for in cash. Air Service Starts Soon PORTLAND, July 18 fl Regu lar passenger and airmail service connecting Western Oregon com munities will be started tomorrow by West Coast airlines feeder routes. A plane will leave here tomorrow at 10:45 a. m. stopping at McMlnn vllle, Cortnllls, Eugene. North Bend and Medford, and return via the same route. A second plane will leave Portland at 4:50 p. m. arriving at Medford at 7:50 p. m., via the same route, returning the next morning. Service Is plnmied Into Roseburg and Grants Pass when those cities provide r.dequate airports, Herbert A. Muntcr, vice president, reported. Low Level Flying Is Cause Of Consternation To Mother Minks WASHINGTON, July IS W) A mama mink, It seems, can't tell friendly aircraft from the other kind and has, besides, some mighty screwy Ideas about building an air raid shelter. This may cost the government 13079 In damages payable to A. J. Sprouffske of Roy, Wnsh. Sprouffske owned a mink farm a mile and a half from Fort Lewis, where army airplanes did a lot of low level flying during maneuver In 1939. , A each wave of aircraft appeared, Sprouffske said, the mink mothers dashed over and covered their young lim,j uu, vj, ounn, viicj mi, en wkumcdco uu VI bliu pile Sprouffske said he had 82 litters totaling 279 kit when all this started. When the airplanes finished roaring around his premises, all but 48 had smothered. The house approved his damage claim yesterday and sent It along to the senate. (Telephone gill) waa fitted with copper tubing and Is A. H. Weatherford, left, and the for look at the liquor distribution pumpuuf aunaratus - probably had been Infthe ground for 25 years. At least K badnl been touched since 1933. i , . , ' The cask wo burled underneath the porch of a small house in back of Alfred H. Weatherford' residence, 2635 Hope. The copper tube Inserted In the top of the barrel extended up Inside a wail to a shingle panel. Pushing aside the panel, the boot legger could bring to view the money- making end of hi Investment. The pump would force air Into the keg, displacing the moonshine, which would come up the copper tube and pour Into a waiting Jug. The old house now belongs to Weatherford, but he doesn't know the Identity of the businessman wh6 lived there during the national drouth. The house was being torn down when the discovery was made. Weatherford said that the SO-gal-lon barrel, coated with tar, was In Just as good condition as when it wa put In the ground, but the re maining whisky had lost Its strength. When the petcock wa first opened it gave off a distinctive alcoholic scent that was quickly wafted away on the breeze. Experts Eye Europe Plan PARIS. July 16 tPh-With the vis iting foreign ministers on their way home, economic experts of 18 coun tries settled down today to the Job of drafting a balance sheet of Eu rope's resources and requirement under the Marshall plan. The -16-nation cooperation or steering committee met. at the French foreign ministry to lay out a working program for subcommit tees on fuel and poijer, transport, food and agriculture and Iron and steel. These subcommittees will be under a five-nation executive com mittee. Delegates of western and south ern European countries approved the committee setup yesterday In the third plenary .session of a four day conference. They will not meet agnin until the committees are rendy to report, probably In late August or early September. British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln, who was conference chair mnn: Belgian Premier and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spank and Italian Foreign Minister Carlo Sforea left for home by air today, with a layer of straw. When they No. 10M - i Shortage Of Steel Said Near DETROIT, July ! it General Motor Corp, will take a week off from manufacturing passenger cor, atarting Monday, because of the ateel industry' "disturbed condi tion." CM, which make roughly half of the nation automobllea, sold lu eted supplies were too short to per. mit full-time operations. It blamed the "coai-mtnlng situation" of early July. Ultimately 180,000 workers will be laid off from the corporation' as sembly line, a GM spokesman said. The corporation, which employe a total of 285,000 production worker recently reached a weekly output of 30,000 car. There were no immediate Indica tion, . however, that other major manufacturers of motorcar would follow suit. - Coal Blamed Wilson specifically mentioned coal mining In his explanation. "Due to the disturbed condition in the teel Industry, caused by the eoal-mlnrag situation during the first two week of July," he (aid, "delivery of ateel to General Motora ha been reduced to such a low level that all pasaenger car production will have to be abut down for ooe- weck to allow us to accumulate suf ficient working Inventory." . At the same time Wilson said sheet steel ho been "extremely short' since the end of the war. He ex. plained thl wo "largely due" to strikes In coal, steel and electricity which he said slowed both produc tion and the construction of addi tional sheet steel making facilities. ! General-. Motora makes Bulck, unevroiet. ronuac, Oldsmoblle and Cadillac car. Park Bus Line To Be Tried Bus service to Moore park will again be tried this summer accord ing to Louis Soukup, head of the. Klamath Bus company. Busses will be run for several Sundays to de termine If the demand for bus serv ice warrants the Sunday trips. Busses will leave 4th and Klam ath each hour beginning at 10 a. m. and running to 6 p. m. They will leave the park each hour on the halt hour. i. Pelican City and Wocus areas will also receive bus service begin ning Friday. Two run will be made each week on Tuesday and Friday. Busses will leave 4th and Main at 10 a. m. and 3 p. rn. They will be routed from 4th, down Main, out 11th to Oregon avenue, Blehn, Front, Hanks, Lakeport streets, onto V. S. Highway No. 97 to Wocus. From Wocus busses will return to Klamath Falls. Islands Call Tax Excessive PORTLAND, July 18 (If) Hawaii optimistic over Its chances to be come the 49th state, hopes for more trade with the mainland and relief from an "excessive" tax burden, Dean D. Sellers, Hawnii newspaper man, said today. Sellers, vice president and gen. eral manager of the Hilo Tribune' Herald, said the islands "pay more taxes than 14 states in the union about $170,000,000 yearly ... we get all the knocks that the States get and can say nothing about It." An Oregon native, who formerly published the Grant Pass Bulletin. Sellers is here surveying printing plants. His paper plans to construct a new bunding. Medford Miner Hurt By Rock MEDFORD, July 16 (flV-James F. Hall, 67, was In the hospital here today after an eight-man crew worked In relays to carry him from his mountain mine where a 400- pound boulder fell and fractured his leg. The crew carried him one and a half miles down the rugged moun talnside yesterday. Self Defense Fund In Will PHILADELPHIA. July 16 P The grandson of the late Morris Altaian Is going to know Jiow to defend him' self with his fists. In his will, Altaian left (500 In trust "for the physical training of my grandson, John A. Burrison, from the time he reaches his 12th birthday until he reaches college, due em' phasls to be given to the manly art of self-defense. 1 Britain Asks US To Assume More German Expense LONDON, July It P Authorita tive Whitehall source, expressing support for latest Washington pro posal for a self-supporting Ger many, said today Britain would aak the United States to take over a greater share of the cost of feeding and running the economically fused British and American occupation zones. The British request I expected to be placed before the U. 8. govern ment late thl Week or early next week when the two countries' top most expert on Oermany meet In Washington to discus aspect of the economic and political future of Germany, the Informant said. An additional financial burden of between 8250.000.000 and $360,000,000 will' have to be shouldered by Amer ican taxpayer over the next two years If the U. 8. government agrees to take on this new commitment, It waa estimated. Banking Laws Baffle Lady NEW YORK, July 18 tV-fitatu- exque Lady Iris Mountbatten O'Mal- ley 27, who like King George VI of Great Britain Is a great grand child of Queen Victoria, appeared la night court last night in a ch eel case which she said arose from her misunderstanding of American banking practices. Lady Iris, who came to this coun try last October and said she has entered publicity work, wa arrested by police at the apartment of a friend on a Washington, D. C. waN rant accusing her of Issuing a worthless check for 188 95 In pay ment for two dresses. After arraign ment, conducted privately before Chief Magistrate Edgar Bromberger, she wa released In custody of Sir Francis Evans, British consul gen eral here, for a hearing next Tues day, The reddish blonde Englishwoman told police the did not know that It waa an offense to Issue a check without sufficient funds in the bank to cover It. and that In England the bank would communicate with the person writing such a check and di rect that the overdraft be covered. Yoman Lost On Abert Rim LAKEVTJEW, JSy 16 Searching parties are combing the Abert rim area, 20 miles northeast of Lake view, for Mrs. Virgil Strlplin of Lakeview who has been reported missing since Tuesday night. Mrs. Strlplin was fishing Tuesday after noon on Little Honey creek, and failed to return to her camp on Mud creek. Deputy Sheriff Tom Elliot and Tom Martin of the state police were out searching last night but failed to locate Mrs. Strlplin. Sheriff Henry Casiday flew to the camp this morning to arrange for trucks to take horses of the sheriff's posse into the area so that the posse can join In the search. Mrs. Strlplin was camped with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Arzner and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Keene. Sleepwalker Sleeps Right On SEATTLE, July 16 MV-At 4 a m. today, a police patrol car loud speaker blasted most of the neigh- Dornooa at zisi avenue souui ana Atlantic St. out of bed with' the news that Dennis McGee. 3, was lost and asked if anyone had seen him. About the only one who slept through the racket was Dennis, on a davenport at a nearby home. Wearing only the top of a palama suit, he crawled out ot his own bed late last night and went to the neighbor's, 200 yards away. K" I'"' i ''A J Nine o'clock may be coffee time for some, just, another hoar to others, but to this young man Terry Rlchert It's one of the happiest time of the day. He sits in his high chair then, king of all be surveys. and works diligently on his bottle Showdown Battle May Be Near ATHENS, July 18 fPV Greek army plane hammered MM leftist guer rlllaa trapped en the slopes of Mount , Gamlla north of Ioannina (Janlna) today a three government brigade cloned to for a ahowdown battle, military source reported. Army authorities said that pre caution also had keen taken against any new Invasion on Greek aotl. The authorities added that Greek In telllgence' report disclosed . there were six guerilla concentration Cen tura three In Albania and three la Yugoslavia from which new often- ' stves could be launched, Theae re port aald the largest of the three In Albania was a Tleaeovle, and that a hospital for the guerrilla was lo cated there, A source close to the general staff Indicated last night Ahat the field of the payoff battle In north western Greece probably would be near the vtllages of Yeroplatano and Vaalllkon where, he said, the army had guerrilla urrounded. Vaalllkon 1 only four mile from the Albanian frontier. Have to Fight War Minister Oeorge Btratoa said the irregular "cannot escape and have to give battle." He reported one brigade moving up from the south had stopped the) guerrilla in their push for Ioannina a city of -30,000. and two others com ing down from the north had closed , the trap from that direction. The air force, he aald, had ferried In re inforcement, landing some of them on a field partly flooded by heavy rain. The feneral itaff informant said two Greek brigade nine mile west of Yeroplatano had trapped another force of guerrilla beaten back Mon day from the village of Konltsa, U mile north of Ioannina. Pineapple Strike Ends HONOLULU, July 16 () The, strike In Hawaii's $66,000,000 pine apple , Industry ended today as abruptly a It began six days ago. Federal Labor Conciliator Nathan P. Felnslnger announced- that the CIO Longshoremen's and Ware-' housemen's union had called off the strike and that the Industry, had agreed to reopen contract ne gotiations immediately. , ILWU Chief Harry Bridges said workers would return to their Job at noon. The accord between the union and Industry leaders after five tur bulent day brought peace once again to the territory and ended the threat that the strike might spread throughout other major In dustries to cripple seriously the en tire economy of the Islands. a Crash Fatal For Croo Duster- , OLYMPIA, . July 16 W) Donald, B. Redhead. 24, died last night a a result of injuries suffered Monday when the small plane he was flying crashed on a farm southeast of here while he was dusting potatoes. He is survived by hi widow and a four-months-old child of Lake Grove, Ore., and his parents of Portland. Portland Asks Peace Conference PORTLAND, July 16 (flV-Mayor Earl Riley today sent s telegram to Secretary of State Marshall pro posing tnai tne comerence to araic a peace treaty with Japan be held In Portland. He said this city Is the closest port to the Orient and that facili ties for handling the conference are available. of
