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Newspaper Page Textlira m uui I it Tho . , Day's Aeus lly t HANK JKNK1NH 1AMKH KOItltKHTAL. our new eo- ' retary of national defense, My thu morning that unlfyliiK Uic army mid imvy under one heud In II 10 "iniMt cleilslve lcp in inn lorniuin tloii of a iiiilloniil military police:' since tho republic wm born. ii. iiiiiibn 11 will "cost mora In the beginning," but will Justify Helf by getting II" mora ilriciiM ior our mniiBV wllli ll would ug tonioUilng. Wen never Rot much In tlx past for tlio military money we've pem In time of pence. FOKRKSTAL nddi ("lacnnclelly," the nowiinieii report)! "The big Kent Job ahead or me today I to OKT PEOPLE," , That U always Uie bl lob. We have hay notion thut In war tank and plunc and ship and gun are the hot lulf. We have a Minllur nollon tlml In Induolry fancy machlnea are what make tho cluck lick. These nollona are far off the beam. The rliiht kind of people I Willi the right kind of bruliu are what keep the world going forward Instead of backward. WE learn from Uil morning' dl patchea Hint Uie Kaiuaa City vnt fraud!. about which nothing haa been dune yet. have been put away In the ammunition oox lor uie 1IMH twlltlcal war. The Republican leadera plan to tine them, the cor reniMiiuleuU report, aa horrible ex ample of what Uie Democrat do wncn in power. "THE record of the Democratic party In the handling of corrupt poli tical machlnea hasn't been good, lint It 1 )iut aa well to keep In mind that If Uie Republican iay In of fice too lung, with TOO MUCH POWEli. they'll be doing thing Jul a bad. Too much power In too few hand too long la good government' great eat menace. rjIHPATCHKS from Lake Buccea lU.N. headquarter) tell ua today that "a far-reaching decliilon may come tomorrow on the Balkan prob lem and with It a lent of United Nation' powera for effective action In the peaceful aettlemcnl of dis pute. " The particular point Involved I the American proposal to et up an International "watch doc" commu aion to handle the trouble that are developing along the northern bor der of Greece. Russia and her stooge lYugo lavla, Albania and Uuliiarlai may bulk at that and take the iltuatlon Inm (heir own hnud. That would lell trouble. UK might a well find out now " whether U.N. will work or won't . work In a pinch. ' It you go out hunting wlUi a gun you think I loaded and meet 41 peevish bear and find your gun won't hoot you're III bad way probably worse off Ulan If you had no gun. In that event, you'd have been more careful to keep out of the bear way. THE Dutch (at least according to their dory) capture the rich coal area of Uie Indonesian Island of Sumatra, and at U10 same time move to ojieil Uie long-closed porta of the Island of Java to world trade. In tin ruckus, which 1 baalcally almllar to our colonial iltuaUon Uiat led up to the Revolutionary war, we can't help lympalhlrhig with Uie Indonesian people. Bull, If the In donesian go on living like they ob viously want to live, how much foreign commerce 1 rubber, oil, etc.) will they product? The modern world crave rubber, tin, oil, coal and auch In vast quantities. What we call progres haa It problem. BSTORIA fishermen are reporting the nrrlvul of a fnbulou run of tuna. Lower Columbia cannerle ay deliveries so far are close to the previous record-breaking season In 1044., Alt till come at a time when new red meat acarcltle appear to be approaching at a gallop. Maybe there I auch a thing a manna from the sky only In tills case It would ' be fish from Uie ea. The only fly In the ointment I the announcement Uiat tuna are selling u high as I4B0 a ton, which la get- U.'snllnu n I'M I. C'alnmn Al W rr ' 3 Donuld fiakcr clulmed the nine o'eloek apoihght tin morning while he waa working at itreet repair an Eleventh itreet. WEATHER H. (July ll m Mia. -....l rnnlpllslUn, mlinlihl, slrsr U mHnliM, aiir ' Nlrssta rr I lilt I. !.( iii .. 11.11 Harnisl . !. Mrscsall rsrllr clur. Highway Accidents Injure Six Half a dozen person were In jured, none seriously. In highway auto aeeldenta over the week-end and aa a result of one of the col llslona a three-ear affair that lied up traffic on the Merrill road for two hour a Malln farm employe I reallng In the Klamath county Jail. He 1 Ray Wlllard Ileem, 33. who 1 charged with taking and using an automobile without consent of the owner. Iteein waa aald to have been the driver of a truck which truck two auto near Mac' atore lata Saturday night. The trurk be longed to John Derra of Malln, Occin'a employer. Deem wa arrest ed today at Malln. The two cars Involved were nedan driven by Carloa lyyva of Hprague River and John Patrick of Tule lake. Hldeawlped Car Slat police sn Id that the truck, allegedly oiK-ratcd by Deem, tried to pasa Uie Leyva car, aldeswined the rear of It and then crashed head-on with Uie Patrick machine. The driver of Uie trurk left the cenr of the accident on toot, with out Identifying himself, John Patrick, Richard Maxwell of Tulelake and Howard Huntsman, a Port lwl soldier on leave, were all taken to HllUlde hospital and re leased after treatment. Maxwell had a broken ankle and Patrick a chest Injury and cut about hi body. Oecupsnts of Uie I.eyve car were not hurt. The truck caught fire after the accident but Uie blaxc waa quickly rxtlngulhed. .Another accident took place at Hiiltleld on the state line road about I :m a. m. Sunday, and It was very similar to the one on a Merrill highway. A aedan collided with a trurk and Uie driver of Uie nedan boiled after the accident. He tlll has not been located. , In th trurk were Harold. Kay- tCNllat4 ful I. l'lama ) . Armed Bandit Robs Grocery An unmasked holdup man pulled an armed robbery at Uie Cox gro cery. 432 Commercial, early 81111- day morning and escaped with about 4S In currency and mver, a cnecx for tltl and a paper aack contain ing between 15 and 10 worth of email change. The man wa waiting at th door of Uie grocery when Mr. Herbert Cox arrived to open for business yesterday. He went Inside when Uie door wa unlocked. Mr. Cox asked If she could help him and the man (aid: "Yea, give me all Uie money In Uie lilt." He drew pistol from hi pocket and ordered Mrs. Cox to keep her eye lowered while she took the money out of Uie cash drawer and handed It to him. Then, ordering Mr. Cox to turn around and face the back of Uie atore, Uie tlck-up man walked out. Mrs. Cox called police a soon a the bandit had left the atore. but a carch of Uie neighborhood failed to turn mm up. She described the man aa being between 30 and 30 years of age. 5 feet I Inches, weighing approxi mately loo pound, wearing a dark Drown auit. Drown rial and Drown glove. PKICE riVE CKNTM tfS KLAMo' '' v ."' ' '' JN, MONDAY, JULY ii, 1947 (Telephone Sill) N1M Foifestal' tails Rffifbry Miq Injured 3 i -i fA Vw-iT?' ttiV F-YkW I - ' The lop picture ahow a group of trail ride members packing George HUH, who waa Injured In a fall from hi horse, out of the rugged country above Lake o' the Wood where the accident occurred. The bottom picture wa snapped at Four Mile lake, where a local plane picked up the Injured man and flew him to the hospital In Klamath Fall. Picture by La ton Sleight ; . : Action On Balkans Near LAKE SUCCESS. July 28 (i A consensus of delegates Indicates that a far-reaching decision may come tomorrow on the Balkan problem, and with It a test of the United Nations' powers for effective action In the peaceful settlement of dis putes. As the U. N. security council pre pared to convene at 3 p. m. (EDT) today, delegates said they anticipat ed a vote tomorrow, or not later than Thursday, on an American pro posal to set up an International "watch-dog" commission over the Balkans. The vote on the plan will climax a week-long fight between Russia and the United States over the Bal kan problem, which was brought to Uie council by Greece and resulted Initially In an Inquiry Into Balkan border Incidents. Mrs. Truman To Be Buried At Quiet Ceremony Today GRANDVIKW, Mo. July 28 lP Mrs, Martha Ellen Truman, daughter of a Missouri pioneer farmer and mother of the natton'a president, will be burled this afternoon on a shaded knoll In Kansas the town where he wa born 84 year ago, The ceremony will be simple and private, as the mother and her de voted son, Harry 8. Truman, hod fircvlously agreed. Tho funeral scrv ces, beginning at 3 p. m., CST, in Mrs. Truman's plainly furnished living room, were for the family alone. Only Few Car Only three or four ear will follow Mrs. Truman' cortege on II 17-mlle trip to Forest Hill cemetery from the HtUe cottage on dusty, unpaved f eland avenue In urandvlew, near the Frisco railroad track. It was In Grandvlew the president spent 12 days away from Uie world's Highest omce In May because his mother had a sinking spell; there he was bound Saturday when word of Rider Packed Out Of Injured Man Flown To Hospital After Accident By JOY BIGGS George W. Hlllls. Klamath Falls business man, Injured Sunday on Uie two-day Skyline trail ride, was brought to Four-Mile lake by a stretcher constructed by his com panions, where he was picked up by plane and flown to Klamath Falls. Hlllls resides at 810 Eldorado. An ambulance waiting at the air port rushed the patient to Hillside wnere x-rays snowed ne nad in curved five broken ribs and a frac tured pelvis. Hlllls' horse reared as he climbed into the saddle knocking Hlllls against a tree before he was thrown free. The accident, the only one on the Sheriff's passe ride, occurred Sunday morning about 11 o'clock The troop of 42 riders had started tne nomewara journey, alter spena lug the night camping on the shores of Island lake, about 6000 her heart's failure overtook him in Uie presidential plane. Forest Hill cemetery made ready grave 8 In block 43, lot us. in tne aame lot rests John Anderson Tru man, the president's father. The location is the top of a rolling hill, under maples, elms and oak. John Truman was buried there November 4, 1014. The Truman sorrow, though more than a family affair, was sheltered from the curious by Secret Service mon, state and local police, who blockaded Yoads for two blocks around the frame house. On the door of the cream-colored frame house was a funeral wreath of purple and white,, Inside, at the foot of a simple, silvery casket, was a single great cluster of red roses. In Uie open casket, where close friends said their goodbye's yester day, lay Martha Truman, In her favorite blue dress a dress she bought last February to wear on a visit to Harry In th Whit House. Woods p.xm.- feet high in the Cascades, above Lake o' Uie Woods. ' Several of the riders had started down the trail ahead of Uie others and Hlllls had dismounted to ad Just his saddle, about three miles from camp, between Island lake and Four-Mile lake. As he started to remount, his horse, Rusty, reared throwing him against a tree along the rugged trail. His wife, Lillian and daughter, Sylvia, were with him on Uie ride. Dr. James Hilton, also making the ride, attended the injured man, giving- him a sedative and making him comfortable until a stretcher was constructed from cut saplings and a tarp. E. P. "Pat" Ivory, cap tain of the Sheriff's posse, took com mand of Uie situation detailing three to ride ahead and phone tor an am bulance. The amphibious plane, equipped for bed patients, was contacted at the air show in Lakeview. arriving (Cvntlnned an Ps 10. Column ) Gunman Tells Of Nervous Nights Spent Getting Courage For Holdup PORTLAND, July 28 (TV-A gunman who police said told of walking the streets for Uiree nights and drinking to nerve himself to rob money for a return to Michigan was held, today under $8900 ball. . An alert taxi driver, tipped oft police after two sisters were robbed and wounded in a scuffle with a gunman Saturday night Augusta Amato. 24, and Mary Rose Amato, 33, were parked down town when a man forced his way into their car, and, after ordering them at gunpoint to drive him about town, took their money. Near a service station, the younger sister grabbed for the gun. It went off, Inflicting minor flesh wounds oti both sisters. The man fled. ' A little later a gunman answering the same description robbed $7 from a cab driver, Clifford E. Wright. The taxi dispatcher warned all cabbies. Toward midnight Cabbie James who asked for a nonexistent address. ringing, Pearce climbed out, phoned DetecUve Roger Sinnott identified 30, and booked him on two counts of assault and robbery. The detecUve said Dough admitted carrying out the robberies to finance his way back to Michigan whera h had served a prison term. Unification Biggest Step In History WASHINGTON, July 28 WV James Forreatal, who will be the L'nited States first secretary of na Uonal defense, declared today that the uoiflcaUon of army and navy under a single department la the "moat decisive tep" In military pol icy since the formation of the re public. The navy secretary told hi first news conference since being named to head the overall U. 8. military establishment thai "we have a blue print and a charter bat the blue print and the charier have to be manned by people.' He added: "In my Judgment, this constitutes the most decisive and definitive step in the formulaUon of a nation al military policy since Uie fonna Uon of Uie republic." Forres tai said it has not yet been decided whether he will have hi offices In Uie Pentagon (war de partment building or elsewhere, nor haa the date of bis taking offi cial oath aa America's first secre tary of defense been decided. Forres tal aald that the new setup of a separate army, air force and navy under the overall control of Uie secretary of defense will aave money in the long run and be bene ficial in the sense of "getting' Uie most out of our money." UniflcaUon will cost more in the beginning he said, adding, "it is my tiope the added expense will be nominal. The biggest job ahead of him to day he told newsmen laconically is to "get people." Sudden Rain Pelts Basin 1 The surprising mid-summer rain storm that pelted the Klamath basin over tne weeK-ena totaled up to .s of an inch of precipitation but did little agricultural damage. Rain fell intermittently from Sat urday afternoon through Sunday night. It caught some hay and seed grass down, causing small losses in these divisions, but in general the farmers were pleased. Some addi tional lodging of barley was reported as a result of the wind and rain. Rainfall for the entire storm to taled .66 of an inch at the Copco measurement device here. Tulelake reported .35 of an Inch, and the west side pumping plant, .46. The rain alleviated fire danger conditions in the forests, and was unaccompanied by lightning. San Diego Fire Under Control SAN DIEGO, Calif., July 28 (IP Bulldozers were closing Uie last mile of control gap today around the fourth major brush fire in a week In Uie vicinity of Palomar moun tain and its big astronomical ob servatory. U. 8. forest service offi cials said tne fires were oi incen diary origin. An air survey showed the flames. expected to be under control within 30 hours, had blackened 2000 acres In Uie Cuca valley area, 400 acres of which w ere in Uie Cleveland na tional forest. Nearly 1000 men were in the federal and state crews fight ing Uie fire. Lifetime Pass Given Tiny Tot COPENHAGEN, July 28 MV-The Copenhagen Tramway company is sued a lifetime pass today to the one-day-old son oi L.U ana Mrs. ft Olsen of Conenhagen. The child was born on one of the couipttuy s sueei, vua. ASSEMBLY PORTLAND. July 28 (iPh- The 23rd annual grand assembly of the Railroad Yardmasters of America will open tonight and 500 members are expected Deiore tne iinai ous- Incss meeting Wednesday. Pearce picked up a suspicious fare Pretending his telephone stand was police. They arrested the man. the man as Jay Harmon Oough, No Resistance Shown By Java Port Defenders BATAVIA, Java, July 28 uP) Dutch military headquarters announe4 today sweeping new raceewea In Eastern Sumatra, reporting the capture virtually Intact of vital coal and oil region more than 10 mile from the Jumping off point of Dutch troops at Palembang. The advance were announced as The Netherlands navy ordered the Java porta of Chertbon, Probollnggo and Banjoewangl opened im mediately to normal trade In an effort to get treat (tore of captured raw materials moving to world market. In two separate communiques, the Dutch announced that they had captured the rich Sumatra oilfield town of Br.toeradja, 80 mile aouth wet of Palembang, and the lmporant Boeklt Assam coal mines, 30 mile further to the Southwest. T City Belied Batoeradja wa seized Intact with out resistance, the announcement said, and asserted that the occupa tion of the Shell and Standard Vacuum OH holdings there was be ing consolidated. The attitude of the remaining oilfield personnel "seem favorable," the bulleUn added. The Dutch aald they had cap tured large qiunUiles of arms in the South Sumatra operaUona, but aid the retreating Indoneaion had burned several village to the ground en the road to Hekajoe, some (2 mile northwest of Palembang. Midway on the southwest, coast of Sumatra, near Padang, a small dutch amphibious force was report ed to have captured a republican battery on Bankoed by which bad been harassing Dutch shipping. Two Jewish Ships Held MATF Inlv 9m n D.I.i.i. 1 force escorted Into Haifa harbor today two small wooden veaaels jammed with approximately 11M uncertified Jewish Immigrant and Immediate!? transferred meat of them to waiting British ihip for ucpurMMon w tvyprna, . Both refugee ship were sponsored by Haganah, Jewish underground nnraniTAtlnn In a nn Mm-u.in . smash Uie British blockade barring icwisa immigration to tne Holy The first ihip to arrive today waa the 300-ton motor-powered ealque "Return to Zion" originally named the Lndana loaded with 396 Immi grants whom a Jewish source aaid had come from a North African port. The Tease! carried a slrn reading "Haganah Ship" and flew the Zion flag. 934 passengers, who Included 122 children and 71 women, were, trans ferred autcklv to British riennrtjttlnn ships, staging the HMIkvah national jewisn anuiem as tney walked the uei-essary iuo yam along a pier. Four men and a women, the first passengers to De removed, refused to budge and were carried off by troops of the British 6th airborne division. Most of the passengers, said to be chiefly oriental Jews, were young and most were In rags. Many were barefooted. Hotel Yields Second Body SUSANVTLLE. July 28 Searchers uncovered a second body in Uie baumenr. nt lh, , . . . Lassen hotel late Saturday, that of uuco isaugiierLy. mgm crerK, and closed their probe of the debris of the building which burned Thurs day. Previously the body of Joe Mun kittrick, bootblack and night porter at Uie Mt. Lassen, was uncovered. Both Munkittrick and Daugherty Uiree-story building. uaugnertys rjoay lay near the door of his room, and was not badly burned. It is believed he died of suffocation and then was burled un der tons of masonry and burned luuwia wueu uie ouuaing couapsea. Strawberries Get Bigger, Yet Tt must h a ffrwwf vm, try C- ... berries. A picture of Elmer Balsiger with huge, luscious strawberries grown in his garden, which appeared recently in The Herald and News, prompted Mr. and Mrs. William W. Abbey to pick a box of berries from their garden at 1715 Oak. The berries range from four to five and one half inches In circumference. The berries are from plants which were set out this spring. They are everbearing, but Mr. and Mrs. Abbey do not know the exact variety. As to taste, they are sweet and flavor-some. Two In Hospital After Lakeview Shooting Fray . , . , , 11 limn niu woman am hncnltallva t. 1 today and the woman's husband is held in the Lake county Jail as a re sult of a shooting tray three miles north of town early this morning. Mrs. Llllte Lee was shot three times, in the shoulder, leg and ab domen, and is considered in a crlU cal condition, and another man, as yet unidentified, has a bullet hole In his wrist. Robert E. Lee, 32, ad mitted the shooting and voluntarily gave himself up to Lake County Sheriff Hank Cassidy. The shooting took place at 5:55 a. m., north of Lakeview on highway 395, when Lee followed his wife and her companion out of town, crowd ed their pickup truck off the road Anri flra4 Inln m. v v.,,t shots into the right side of the truck and two Into the left, and when Mrs. Lee and the man jumped out and ran he fired more shots at them, Sheriff Cassidy said. The WnlinHpH fnnn anrl wnman were picked up by passing motor ists and taken into Lakeview to the Trade Talks Still Stalled LONDON, July 28 Py Sir Stafford Ciippa told parliament today that British-Russian trade treaty nego tiation broke down in Moscow last week because of Soviet demands for revision of Uie 1941 loan agreement. Russia owes Great Britain 55,000, 000 pounds ( 220,000.000) under terms of Uie civil credit agreement. Crlpps, president of the board of trade, aaid British negotiation of fered a number of concession, but ' "we could not go the whole way the ' Soviet government demanded aa a condition of an agreement." The British had hoped for wheat, timber and canned fish. The Bus- aiana wanted heavy machinery, ralia and pipes. The Moscow radio assert ed the talks broke down because Britain would not guarantee some deliveries and because credit term could not be reconciled. The British delegation, headed by -J. Harold Wilson, returned Friday from Moscow after five weeks of " intensive and detailed negotlaUona, Crlpps said the British labor gov ernment wished to expand trade with Russia and aald he hoped the disappointing failure wa only "tem porary." He did not mention the Moscow radio report, which a spokesman for the board of trade called, "very Russian-sided." Reds, China Clash In UN LAKE SUCCESS, July 28 UP) China and Soviet Russia clashed, today in Uie United NaUons secur lty council membership committee over admitting Outer Mongolia, with Russia charging that soma circles In Asia would like to seek! th Greek situaUon ' duplicated In the Far East China's delegate. Dr. Sbuhsht Hsu, told the membership committee which is considering applicaUona of , wuiiwica hi government opposed Outer Mongolia because of bus a. uicu iiivuiuu oi tvmna oy Outer Mongolian troops, supported bV tank Thi mm,nu4 " - veto of the application. : uexei h. Krasiinikor. Russian delegate who figured in an exchange nf frank tTb- H,h V. -.1 j 1 -1 ... . vuici dele gates at a committee meeting, last iirumuuy cnargea mat tne Chlatee allegations are "absurd. ulll.fntinrfMl V... . t. ...ww.u.U, B1U, UMk 111 1 CS1 11. J Chinese troops violated Outer Mon- vnllan t 8 vdttwiy. World Mourns With Truman WASHINGTON. July 28 0P Mes sages of condolences on the death of President Truman's mother poured into the White House today from all over the world. They came from heads of states, foreign ministers, ambassadors, gov ernors, other leaders and just plain people. The following came from King George VI and the British aueen. Elizabeth: : ' "The queen and I send you our deep sympathy In the sad loss that you have sustained through the death of your mother." Housinq Probe Board Named WAfiHTNflTnH .Tillw . lim Senator Vandenberg R-MIch.) to-. uujr niuiuuuceo. appointment ox seven senators on the Joint con- rresslnnnl inmmlltoa fn In.uu,!-. ' vv.u..vvbW w UllWtWttW housing. ' au are members or the commit tee of banking and currency. The are Senators Tobey (R-N. H.), chairman; Flanders (R-Vt.), Cain R-Wash.), McCarthy (R-Wis.), Wagner (D-N. Y.), Taylor (D-Ida-ho) and Sparkman (D-Ala.) out the road in search for Lee when he met thft mm vnmtntr In render. Lee was in the company of Pete Longfellow, rancher of the area. Lee had stopped at Longfellow's ranch and told of the shooting, ask ing Longfellow to bring him to town. He aald that a "domestic tri angle" brought en the shooting. Mrs. Lee had filed suit for divorce some time ago, but since then they had tried to patch up their mar riage. Recently she filed an amended complaint for divorce and Lee was served with the papers Friday. He told the sheriff he had been worrying about the divorce far quite a while and early this morn ing happened to see his wife on th road near Crane creek. A few min utes later he chanced to see her 1 and the other man in the truck and gave chase. No charae ha hiwm n1ui4 asrftinafc Lee yet.