lira
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.