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' ' , - : : 11 " 1 . i i-X"LfxiVvw""i ---------------- I i sUr i. Lg (,1 BpBi r. - j,. Hy PRANK JKNKINH ' ' r 3 .aiu .uir.nKi tmniv in' v iui (ilnhnn Hill No. 1092 I - I . ' Til Kills li a deeply humiliating nuts In tho now UHluy. . Kx-Giiugrraamiin Andrew J. Mny It lound guilty by a Jury In Icd nl court In Washington ul ac cepting a brlbo ($M.34.uli fur using u Influence us wartime chairman ul ilia jiuiua military ulfnira com mittee U vt contract lur on outfit of munition makera. t Ha and tlia brlba glvere (Uie (luruon brollicrai ara given In- ilrlvrnilnala sentence of from eight month to lo year in prison. pflAT la outright corruiiUun, lor money. 11 waa corruption, for iiioury, that ala awny the structure of govern iiirnl III Home. Aa government In Koine rotted awny. the Human em pire began to decline. When It fell, civilization (ell with II and Uie world ol Dial duy went Into Uie niw M the Dark Ages. MAY and tho Onmaoiia uroleal Uiat thry did nothing duhoneat. Tliotr atory la Dint they were just hrliiinir lha war effort. More con imcia. mora munltlona. Mora munition!, more power to wage war. And o on. Not in defense of them but In the Interest of clear thinking. It U true that money waa then being Uirown aiound like dirt. On evrry hand. e aaw avldrnre of waate and ex liavngance. Wi were allocked at first, liradually we brcaiue hard- ened to It. What'a a few mora dullars? That la Uie way we ami to think of It. It may have been lha way May and lha Uaraauna came to Hunk. It It ray to fall Into Uie rut of bad Uilnk Inx. Hut the ahlnlng truth U Uial NOTHJNU can rxciue corruption and Uklng, or giving, a brlba to gel contract from your government Uial can't be got by aouud. honest meth od! la corruption In Ita lowest form. H la a liumlllallng development. any way you look ai IL THEKE U another upaettlng clr cunutance In connection with tlili May-Uaraaon bualneas. May alanda before the courl and prnclalma hi COMPLETE IN NOCENCE. Ha aaya: "I aland be Jure Uie courl lodny with a clear, rlran conscience. I never violated law an fur aa I know In the 73 vurk f niv llfi. 1 npvrr rnrrlvnl a dollar directly or Indirectly Uial wna iiot honestly earned or Jiully due." Thai brlnga up another coiifutlng anal cu aur iinnmi 11 'in "itiu i we ao graaUy NKKU Uie truth. What la Uie truth? Who U tha liar? Coiitualon denlroya confidence. Without conflderm, you can't go ahead, If you don't go ahead, you lip back. There ara many Ihlnga In Uila world that are wrong. The difficulty we find In drawing Uie Una between propaganda and truth la one of them. T)Q I'll hou-va of congrcu finally approve and the Prealrffir. will probably algn the new law to UNIFY the natlon'a armed aervlcea. Among other things, It will place all Uie armed forces under a single cabinet officer to be known aa the secretary of national defense. It aeema a sound step to take. But, after all. a law Is only a law. It la what we do with the law that counts. TP this new law Is' to accomplish what we want It In accomplish, it must 8TRKNOTHKN OUK NA TIONAL. DEFENSE, If It Is to do that. It must be realistically ad ministered. If It Is to be- reallallcally admin istered, we 'must change our whole thlnklng.ln regard to military estab lishment In time of pence. If we can't do thnt, the new law will do ua little good. JN the past, we thought seldom ot our peace time military elnbllsh mont n a FIGHTING KOIICE TO 'anllnui4 n Im 1. Column II Kven the mlcleet englnea require and the- nine o'clock photor enuglit living the boiler on the South ihorough cleaning. Ride are free on treat celebrate! ita new lighting. 1 ...., sr'-.)iiijiiii mini ii uimmyi 'iium rimis rive tJKwxit -w rt . r i f ?1 1 Wit. Haiier ' - Row Keeps Senate Up All Night WAHIIINGTON, July 35 Wi Hen ator llnrkley (U-Ky.l, the minority lender, today blocked a renewed at tempt to bring up the Kern reso lution to Investigate Attorney Gen eral Clark conduct III the Kansas City vote fraud cases a contro versy that kept the scute Ul session all night. The Krm proposal had been laid aside trinporarlly at dawn for con aldrrallon of a supplemental appro priation bill and then for a few hours' rest before reconveidng. When the aesslon waa resumed at noon, Hrnntor Kem (It-Mo.! asked unanimous ronsrnt to bring his In vratlgaUon resolution up again but Karkley objected. Kern's assertion thai he ha.' been under tin, Impression Uial Harkley waa "in charge of a filibuster' brought Una retort from Uia Ken lucklan: "That la a gratuitous and Incor rect atatement." Denial Harkley denied there had been a filibuster and declared tho republi can aide had consumed four times aa much Urn aa lha democrat while the matter had been pending. Rep. Ploeaer (R-Mo.) aald In a statement that failure to obtain a congressional probe of Uie 104a Kan sas City primary election Uil aea slon would only spur Uie Missouri republican delegation to Insist on action when congress reconvenes next January. "rlomrthlng To Hide" Aj-iverllng the house la put In a "peculiar parliamentary situation" by Minority Leader Rayburn (U-Tex.) "modified f ilibuiter," Ploe aer declared: "The demonatraUon In the aenate and tho delaying action taken by 'Mr. Raybuni In the houafl are In dications Uial tin administration hua aoineUilng very definite to hide In the investlgaUon of Uie Justice department's handling of Uie Mla souri vole fraud. Republican aenale leadera con ceded defeat after an 18-hour all nlghl session. Reds Control (JEW, Claim WASHINGTON, July 2& iT) Jnmea J. Conroy. New York local union official, told coiiRrcsa today that communists liave "lock, stock and barrel" control of the Interna tional union of tha CIO - United Electrical Workers. Conroy. who la business agent of New York UEW local 1337. tesU fled beforo the house un-Amerlcnn activities committee and swore Uiat Tom Fltipatrlck and Wllllnm Sent ncr, gnternutlonnl union vice pres ident are communist. Describing himself as a former communist who soured on the par ty, Conroy anld reds control Uie Internntlonnl although they have but one per cent of the member ship. an overhaul at regular Intervals Gordon Helilmberg till morning Sixth atreet rail line powerhouse a the tiny railway tonight aa Sixth . v : ?4St I ykZ? - ?sJJK ill MOI'N'T RAINIKR, Wash., July ir.n.in ni.n iHm! rrnahrd last Srnnrr. First semrehers found do Alaska Hunt Yields Clue ' PAIRIIANKB. Alaska. July 35 (Pi A pair of blood-stained trousers and a report by a Bunnydale. Wash., tourist Uiat he had been "thumbed" for a ride by a man answering Uie description of a man wanted for Uie crazed ax-slaylng of two men last Saturday, spurred federal authorities today aa Alaska a greatest mannunt of modern history went Into Ita fifth day. The bloody trousers were found In a Tana river shelter cabin lcsa than a day's walk from the little Oerstle river Indian encampment where" Uie bodies of Donald R. Harris, 33. and Carl Ahiutrom, 68. were found last Sunday. U. S. Marshal Stanley J. Nichols aald he wo Informed by Deputy Marshall Steve Mlkulna Uiat the trousers were found when Uie In dian trapper who Uvea In the cabin returned from a trip. The cabin had been broken Into and a pair of Uie trnpper'a own trousers taken, Mlkulas said. ' Celebration On Sixth All Set Speeches and official ceremonies will begin at 8 o'clock tonight, marking the lighting of South Sixth street. Festivities will take place on the service runway, paralleling S. 8th, at a point Just beyond Uie Tower theatre. The program will be broadcast from 8 to 8:30 p. m. over radio sta tion KFLW. Numerous state, coun ty and city officials and other per sona instrumental in getting a light ing district for tho section of the Uiorbughfnre from Washburn way td Altntnont drive will apeak briefly. Following will be a atreet dance, slated for 8:30 p. m. Kaiser Probers May Hear Jones WASHINGTON. July 25 ( Sen atorial lnvestlgntora hinted today at" Jesse Jones as an ace witness In their effort to prove thnt White House pressure forced award of a 440.000,000 wnrtlme plane contract to Howard Hughes and Henry J. Kaiser. The former cablhct member's pos sible appearance hinges, one senator said, on whether any documentary evidence la found In the files of Uie late President Roosevelt. A senate war Investigating sub committee will open a hearing Mon day into, the contract for planes thnt nover wora delivered. 1 2 Washingtonians Make Ways-Means WASHINGTON, July 25 P) Washington state hnd two mem bers of Its congressional dclcgntlon on the powerful house Appropriations committee today with election of Rep. Jnckson, D-Wnsh.. to succeed former Rep D'Alesnndro, D-Md. Rep. Horan, R-Wnsli., already wns a member of the group. Jackson resigned Ills membership In the liouso merchant murine and fisheries committee to accept Uie post. Gives Plane Missing Half Year Found waJI'.p.a-T w .iaa .it - ia High on snow- covered Mount Rainier, bits of wreckage of the Marine December 10 are. found by sear e In a, trace of the SJ marine aboard the transport, AP wlrepboto Truman Signs Stop-Dating Gl Benefits WASHINGTON. July J& (V! President Trllman today signed leg station repealing some 175 wartime and emergency laws now or Within one year and putting stop-dates on vcurana' GI benefit. The measure leave In effect scores of other war-powers statutes. In a atatement. Mr. Truman said It la "not possible'' at this time to wipe out the whole list. The new legislation deelarea that Insofar as certain acta of congress are concerned. "World War II. the limited emergency, and the unlim ited emergency shall be construed aa terminated and peace eatab lished." Stop Dates One major effect of today' ac- It Was Almost End Of The Tail PORTLAND. July 35 P Two po lice patrolmen were dispatched to the Mrs. Raymond Gale home last night to do something about a cat whose tall was wound around the spin shaft of a washing machine. Pntrolmnn R. J. Mnrlow put a blanket over the cat's head. Patrol man W. M. Barker drew hi gun. relented, and asked for a pair of scissors. Just as he started to snip, the cut yowled and leaped free, un harmed. The report failed to say what the cat wns doing in the washing machine-in Uie first place. Credit Limits May Be Lifted WASHINGTON. July 25 UPt A return to unrestricted Installment buving by Nov. 1 appears likely to day with the possibility that Presi dent Truman might end controls on time payment purchases even earlier. Comuromise' legislation to kill the credit buying curbs at the end of October passed the house by voice vote and was sent to the senate. Senate action Is expected to send the measure on to the White House by tomorrow night. Meanwhile, the' federal reserve board predicted that Mr. Truman will list Uie restraints, as he prom ised last June 5 to do unless, con gress passed a lnw specifically authorizing the restriction in peace, time. Bishop Protests Marriage Of Ex-Wife Of Elliott Roosevelt To Clergyman NEW YORK, Jury 25 (P) Bishop William T. Manning. In a letter In the current issue of "The Living Church," has protested the fact that the first wife of Elliott Roosevelt was permitted to marry a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church. The retired blshon of the Diocese of New York also protested the fact that the Very Rev. Kirk B. O'Perrall, dean of St, Paul's cnthcdrali Detroit, was allowed to marry a divorced woman. In his' letter, Bishop Manning asked whether Uie action In the two dioceses concerned meant "wo are now to have a number of ecclesiastical Renos, and the consequent abolition of any Christian standards of niRrriage, in Uie church." Canon Thomas A. Sparks, pastor of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, acting as spokesman for Bishop Manning, confirmed yesterday that the marriages to which the bishop referred were those of ithe first wife of Elliott Roosovelt to the Rev. Benedict Henry Hnnson of Baltimore, and the wedding of Dean O'Ferrall to Mrs. Isabelle W. Morrill,. 30; who was a member of the choir of the Detroit cathedral. Up Mystery aaajpij Bruce meyera, iem ana unnt Legislation Hon Is to out stoD-datca on GI bene fit for about 16,000,000 servicemen and veteran. Hereafter new army enlistees (In eluding those who enured service less than 90 days ago) will be con sldered peacetime personnel, and will not be eligible for GI unem- nlovment Dav. educational or lob. training aid. or government loan guarantees. If thev have service-incurred dis. abilities they will get compensation at only about 75 per cent of the wartime rates. For veterans who entered the rank more than 90 days ago. edu cational courses must start . not later than four years after this date and completed not more than nine years after. , Unemployment allowances will cease two years hence: loan guar antee fnay be made until ten years hence. The federal guarantee of premiums on commercial life insur ance policies of servicemen termi nates Immediately. i Fireworks Thieves Go On Probation ASTORIA. July 25 P The last two of 22 Portland boys charged with stealing all Seasides fireworks Just before the Fourth of July were free on probation today. The two Robert Allen Benson and Edward Leionard Wlllimontr were ordered not to appear In Sea side unless constantly accompanied by their parents. They all must 'pay 100 ench to the fire department, owner of the S2000 worth of stolen fireworks. Man Arrested In Party Holdup PORTLAND. Ore.. July 25 m A man . was tinder arrest here to day after the holdup of guests at a private party in a fnshionable duw trlct last night. Albert William Molin. co-owner of a Jewelry firm here, was enter taining friends at his home- last night when an armed man appear ed at the back door'. He took the men's money at gunpoint, but de clined some Jewelry which the wom en guests, frightened, started to hand him. The gunman then fled on a bus. Shortly afterward city police board ed the bus and arrested a man whose seat hid a .38 caliber revolver. Scalers Find Evidence Of Lost Plane By VIRGINIA McNEIIX ' LONOMIRE, Mt, Rainier National Park. July 25 tJPi A tattered frag ment of a marine's uniform, a weathered piece of a serviceman' health record and a few bits of wreckage ended last night Uie seven- month mystery over the fate of a marine transport plane which dis appeared with 32 men aboard. Members of a party of eight Rai nier national park rangers found the bits of evidence high up near the 10.000-foot level of Mount Ral- nler's treacherous South Tacoma glacier, and navy officers said there waa no doubt about their being from the long-missing plane, which was lost from a storm-harassed forma tion of a San Diego-Seattle flight. Another Try The party, accompanied today by Navy Lt. Gordon Stanley, left thelr base camp at Uie 5800-foot level again this forenoon to climb to the wreckage but Uie weather had turned bad and Park Supt. John Preston said lt might be snowing at that altitude. It was raining here. ' The decision over awarding the S5000 reward offered by parent of Uie plane victims for finding the plane, and also as to whether It would be possible to find and bring any bodies down from Uie wreckage, remained to be made. IX Stanley was to report to higher navy authori ties after his return from the climb- The plane apparenUy crashed Into the aide of a i sheer 3000-foot cliff, the party aald. with the tell-tale bita of evidence found ' on the crevasse-torn glacier at. Uie base of the precipice. . Capt.. A. O.Hule. odmmatideipS uie Sana Point naval air station, said the rangers' reports indicated' Uiat Uie plane exploded, scattering wreckage and personnel over a wide area. "In view of the nature of the glacier at the foot of this mounu1 in side." he said, "little hope is enter tained for Uie recovery of the bodies." Dutch Cut Off Central Java . By. The Associated Press Strife tore Indonesia, Greece and Palestine today. Dutch armed forces, which start ed shooting when negoUaUons with the Indonesian republic failed, were declared by Dutch sources to have isolated central Java from the rice producing east and the west. The Indonesians said their army had en tered a sector of the North Java port of Semarang. The Greek government said a guerrilla force ot up to 1500 using heavy artillery, was repelled after an attack on Grevena, 40 miles east of the Albanian border. The Greeks have asserted that the guerrillas came partly from Albania, and that Yugoslavia and Bulgaria had been aiding Uie irregulars. Sporadic acts ot violence contin ued in Palestine, a British man date, where underground Jewish or gantzattons apparently were acUng In protest against the deportation of 4500 Jews Intercepted on the SS Exodus of 1947. New Men Here On Coppeck Project Additional assistance has been secured by the U. S. bureau of reclamation from the Denver office. in connection with reclaiming land for homesteads In the Coppeck bay area, flood control work on Lost river and plans aftd design for other work to be constructed on the Klamath project, . The two men who have arrived from Denver are Kenneth J Greene, a civil engineer with the canal design division, and Albert B. Hunslcker, mechanical engineer. Both men have been transferred here to remain unUl the work is completed. Greene was accompa nied by his wife, and Hunslcker expects his wife and seven-year-old daughter, Margaret Ann, to Join him In about a month. FPHA To Release 1100 Employes WASHINGTON, July 25 (m The federal public housing authority an nounced today it will dismiss 1100 employes and close regional offices at Boston, Cleveland and Seattle. The actions, necessitated by a 40 per cent cut from last year s appro. prlatlon, will be accompanied by a general reorganization of the agency, FPHA Commissioner Dillon S. Myer snid. This will reduce PPHA's personnel to 1900. or less than half the aver age payroll of 4000 In the 1947 fiscal year. v -,y -ifjmr . I Henry N. Moe. retired Klamath bualneaa man, apparently escaped serious burl in an automobile accident at Oceanlake yesterday, while W. 1. Grove, Merrill railroad man, received a broken Jaw. First Associated Press report wa that Moe's Jaw was broken, but new in formaUon today Indicated this was la error. KenneU-ElU Groves Hurt In Crackup Henry N. Moe, retired Klamath Palls businessman, may not nave been Injured In an automobile ac cident near Oceanlake. Ore, as re ported yesterday, but W. J. (Bill) Groves. Great Northern railway dispatcher at Merrill. Is believed to have received a broken Jaw. The accident cost Uie life of one woman and badly injured another man. Fragmentary report coming in from Oceanlake yesterday Indicated that Moe had been hurt, but lt Is now fairly well established that It was Groves who was injured. He wa driving Moe's car and Investi gating officers got the name of "H. N. Moe. Klamath Fall" from Uie auto registration. The Great Northern office here received a card from Mrs. Groves, written from McMinnvllle. saying that It waa doubtful whether Groves would be able to return to work Monday, but did not tell Uie extent of his Injuries or mention Moe. - Mrsv- Ted Dutment also received a letter containing word of the ac cident, Indicating that Groves wa alone In Moe car ana was in jured. The dead woman was tentatively identified as Mrs. John F. Karjaie, about 60. of San Francisco. A man Identified as John F. Karjaie was critically injured and taken to a McMinnvllle hospital. Oceanlake City Marshal George Meade said that the car driven. by Karjaie was trying to pas a truck on a hill when lt was rammed head on by Uie car driven by Groves. The woman was thrown clear of Uie vehicle and down a 20-foot embank ment. Mr. and Mrs. Groves and Henry Moe had been on a vacation trip to Canada and along the coast for two week and were due home Sun day. Reds Deny UN Balkan Power LAKE SUCCESS. July 25 UP) Russia told Uie United Nations se curity council today the council had no power to force the Balkan states to cooperate with the American proposed border commission. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Oro myko thus took sharp issue with contentions of Herschel V. Johnson, deputy U. S. delegate, Uiat decisions of the council under chapter six oi the UN charter were binding. Johnson Immediately countered with another warning that failure of any state to comply with a decision ot the council might result in en forcement measures of the strongest kind. "Any failure would lay the non complying states opem to serious action to Insure their cooperaUon," Johnson said. "The council can make such decisions under chapter VI." Ex-Congressman May. Given Prison Jolt In Bribe Case WASHINGTON, July 25 (flV-Ex-Congressman Andrew J. May was sentenced today to a term of from eight months to two years in prison on charges of accepting $53,634.07 in bribes while he was wartime chairman ot the house military af fairs committee. The two men accused of paying May the bribes munitions makers Murray and Henry Garsson also were given prison terms with a minimum of eight months and a maximum ot two years. The sentencing was delayed for more than two hours while the de fendants' lawyer pleaded for a new trial and May beseeched the court for mercy. Plea Made The 72-year-old former Kentucky democratic congressman Insisted that he had never taken "a single dime" dishonestly during his long service in congress. He told Judge Schweinhaut: "I stand before the court' today Mt: Lassen Hotel Razed By Flames SUSANVILLE, Calif., July 25 Two men, both employes of the Mt. Lassen hotel, are missing and are , believed to be buried under tons ct debris In Uie basement of the hotel which collapsed after a day-Jong $700,000 fire yesterday. The build ing was still smouldering this morn. Ing and too hot for searcher to probe for the bodies. James A. Daugherty, night clerk at Uie hotel, was believed to have . been asleep In hi room in Uie base ment when the fire was discovered and Is considered to have died, but officials are not sure about the fate of Joe Munkltuick, a bootblack, who also had a room In Uie base ment and hasn't been seen since the fire. Thirty Rescued Thirty guest of the hotel were rescued from the burning building, brought down by firemen's ladders while choking smoke obscured the scene. All other guest were able to get out of the building aafely. The fire waa believed to have started In the basement of the three-story building, second largest structure In Suaanville. Several, office rooms and seven stores in the building were burned out. The structure Is located on Uie corner of Main street and Lassen avenue In the heart of town. It was' built in 1925, of reinforced concrete and stucco. On the ground floor of the build- lng was Uie office of the Suaan ville chamber of commerce, bureau of Internal revenue, a cocktail lounge, coffee shop, dining room, clothing store, realty office, office of an optometrist and other businesses. Buildings adjacent to the Mt. Las sen did not, catch fire, although water flooded the basement of a hardware store. Fire fighting equipment was brought to the scene when the blase wa discovered about 9:3 a. m. from the Hurlong ordnance depot. West wood, several lumber mills in tha district and the state forestry serv ice. The firemen attached hoaes to every fire plug within four Mocks of the building and at one time there were 32 hoses playing on the biaie. Huge Water Use For six hours the hoses turned 5000 gallons ot water a minute on the flaming building 1300,000 gal lons total during Uie six hours. A few streams of water were still going in this morning. Late yester day afternoon the root and third story ot the - structure collapsed, falling Into the basement. The Mt. Lassen hotel building was owned by Fred Abbey, his wife and mother-in-law. Abbey set the dam age estimate at $700,000. Nothing; was saved from Uie burning struc-. ture except a few optical Instru ment from the optometrist's of-, flee on the ground floor. Foreign Aid Finance OK'd WASHINGTON, July 25 WV-Senator Connally (D-Tex.) told the senate today that "Irregular bands from Albania, Yugoslavia and Bul garia" are attempting to "overthrow Uie government of Greece and In stall therein a communistic state."' His statement came as the senate passed a $1,530,361,000 bill to finance American foreign policy, including the $400,000,000 promised to Greece and Turkey for their drive against communism. The measure now goes back to the house for action on senate additions. Connally, former chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, said lt Is of the "utmost Importance that the United States make good on President Truman's promise of economic and other aid to Greece and Turkey." Bold Thief Gets Policeman's Cash NEWARK, N. J-, July 35 UP) Patrolman Frank Meyers reported to) police today that two wallets con taining $970 and miscellaneous i papers were stolen from his back ' pocket while he slept last night in a parked automobile. Patrolman Meyers has been a member ot the police department for 25 years. with a clear, clean conscience. "I never violated a law as far as I . know in the 72 years of my life. "I never received a dollar directly -or indirectly that was not honestly ' earned or JusUy due." May was convicted July 3 after an 11-week-long trial of accepting $53,634.07 in bribes from munitions makers Murray and Henry Garsson. The Garsson brothers were found guilty of giving the bribes for favors and,, like May, came Into court to hear' their penalty. But May told Judge Schweinhaut: "I never got a single dime from the Garsson or anybody else. "I never did a thing In congress that today vexes my conscience. "I stand here today on the mercy of the court If I go to jail my grandchildren will drop out of col lege. "Regardless or what has been said In the malicious press . I'm not , gailty." t
