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Newspaper Page Text10 MSlMIlllli lnllmirV 1 I PrfttP ffl ZV UX T II SheVMiss Oregon' frh ChittC ""-d 7iVl3lMSwv CSiUJLHJ Al5liiCi tosfe. BamedFor My FRANK JKNKINH FltANUK, through her iU-ti-ynto lu tlio United Nullum social and iconomlo council, today makes a low apcal to Ittuala (o Join In implementing" tlio Mnralmll plan tor aid to Eurojw. The French drlrgule lOcorjic UnrUi says dlalrual between Ituaal ami Hie Wctern power In par alysing Kumiieim recovery, Speak nil of the ItUMlun contention Dial Ilia Mnralmll plun, a it I being worked out with lirlUall-Krrni.il aid, will interfere with imtloiml tov eieliiiiuea, he y: "We hoie thla nilltmlo will chuniie when distrust disappear." It will 11' dlalrtlal disappear. Ilul dlatruat, like a bargain, Involve! two purtlea. Up to a yenr or ao ajio, we wanted to" trual Kumita and link with her toward a peaceful, prosperous world. Now we are AFRAID to. v ' pHKllE la full ly good evidence that 1 111 the conlllcl Uinl la arising lirlwern cumiiiiiiilun and the Wel ri it Idea ol democracy Ituaala U Imping lor an economic co!laue In tile United Stales. Thai hoe aeema tu be one ol roiiimunum a lnd-by. At any rate. Dr. T. F. Cheng, a member ol Chiang Kai-shek central com inlltee, tuya in I'orlland, where he arrived a day or ao ago, thai China a cummuiuat are walling for a col Upae III Nnllcmallat China before at templing to aelui power from the central government. lie adda that China la looking forward lo a good food harvest tint fall and aaya that If thla hope la realised the poaalblllllea of a col lapse tliere will be greatly reduced. UJ HKKKVKK hunger and hopclcu " nei iwralal, corninunlam ha a bright future. It la unfortunate, but till true, that Kuaala altitude ever amre the ahootlng atopped looka like deliberate promotion of cliaoa throughout t h e non-cummunial world In the hope that non-com. munUl counuiea will graap at com munlam aa drowning people grasp at alrawa. Until we ran gel rid of that uaplclon. II will be hard (or uf to work with ituula. TNTEKKSTINIJ aUirlea drifting out from the Kual laa yel unverified I hint that aomcthlng new and highly timilflcanl may be happening In COAL. The nilncra. thee reiwrui anaerl, are turning In and Working hurd. They are said to be mining more coal In the shorter work week pro vided by the new contract )ut aigned than in the longer work week under the old contract. There are hopea that Una Increaaed output per man may offaet the higher wagea and thue remove the neceanlty for higher coal prlcea. aiial la a lancinating proapect. Higher wagea rOK INCREASED PRODUCTION are economically aound. Higher wagea provide a market for Increaaed production II prlcea can be kept at a level that people can afford to pay. Maybe we are finally beginning to turn the corner. THERE la a lot of talk these daya 1 about the Kaiser contract lor big cargo-carrying planea. Most of the talk hints al scandal. Well, there muy have been cause for scandal. When money la tossed n 11 Council Meeting Slated Tonight The city's official business was lorccd to wall until tonight, Tues day, since only two councilmen turned up for the regular council meeting Monday, Hoping that more of Uie city dads will be available, Mnyor Ed Oatendorf set the council session for 7:30 tonight, at A. F. Condrey nod Angus-Newton were the only coincllmen present. The meeting adjourned soon after 7:30 p. m. since no business can be undertaken unless a quorum of members Is on hand, The sharp rul-a-tiit-tat of a drill caught the ear of the 9 o'clock phnlog, and II. n. AusUn, who, was manning the drill, caught his eye, Austin is working on the front steps of Klamath Union high school. i 1 i ir i i io - er ... j - ' '.a:.: 7 " I'ltICK FIVE TENTH Man Killed In Hit-Run Auto Crash Joe I.. Alvarado. 27-year-old Mri Iran residing at Merrill, waa killed Inalanlly rany this morning a half 111ft lllill' 10 diIIii above the rlly limits of Malln on the Merrill highway In what was evidently a hit-and-run accident. Ills death brings the IU47 11.47 !, total of traffic fatalities aalalUy In Klamath county to 10. Alvarado'a badly mangled body waa found In the center of the high way al 4:411 a. m. by leamon Kowler, who was driving toward Mulln to work. Kowler called Wllfnrd Dixon, who lived nearby, to wntch the body to see that It wusn'l disturbed or hit by another car, and weul to Malln to call officers. I'ollre Arrive mate police, Deputy Hherlff Marlon Hames and Deputy Coroner Marvin Albee went to the scene of the accident. They determined that Alvarado had died about 4 a. m. The Mexican, known as "Indian Joe," waa seen In Mulln last night and apparently was walking down Uie highway back lo Merrill early thla morning when he waa hit by a car or truck. Physical evidence Indicated thai Uie death machine was traveling toward Malln and thai Alvarado'a body was dragged some 30 feel before the wheels of the vehicle passed over It. Ills head waa badly fractured, both arms were broken and the body was severely crushed as to be almost unreeognlaable. II was brought to Wards funeral home. lnvesllgatora aald Uinl there were no skid marks on Uie pave ment or no broken glass which might lead 4a IdenUflcaUon of Uie hit-and-run driver. Alvarado la survived by hi wife and a child In Merrill. He Is snld to be a veteran of World War II and had been working around Mer rill a a potato sorter. Chinese Rap Foreign Aid NANKINO, July 3 t1 Repre sentatives of the Democratic league told Lt Gen, Albert C, Wedcmeyer today that the Chinese people are bitterly opposed to any foreign as sistance which would likely prolong the civil war "whether It cornea from the United States or the Soviets." Lo Lung-chl, league spokesman, told newamen after a conference with Wedemeyer'a American fact finding mission that he waa con vinced the Investigation was im partial "but we are more Interested In what happens after Uiey return to Washington." Conferences were also held with representatives of Uie Young China party and with Independents. A spokesman for Uie fact-finding mis sion said Uiat "Important Informa tion" about Uie Chinese situation Is being contributed by unofficial sources and that It complements or supplements Information from Chi nese and American officials.' S Steel To AniMtnfie race - rflPL-cfi 7h TrtO The nitrate-loaded Norwegian freighter Oceai, Victory burns la the harbor of Brest, France, today thorUy before eiplodlng with a blast which klll.d at least fifteen persons and Injured hundreds. The ex plosion leveled waterfront buildings and started fires In the heart of the city. (AP wirephoto via radio from I'arlal. Ship Blasf Grills 15 Soviets Block Balkan Watch LAKE SUCCESS. July 20 11 Using her veto. Russia today blocked a United Nations effort to establish a border watch over Uie Balkans and brought a warning from the United States that a "grave situa tion'' had been created. Herschel V. Johnson, U. S. deputy delegate, declared that Uie Soviet action had created a situation that required Uie consultation of some delegate with their government im mediately. On Johnson's motion the council adjourned until tomorrow afternoon, fiireslalllng an expected speech from Andrei A. Oromyko, Soviet delegate, on his veto. The council had previously ap proved the commission plan para graph by paragraph with Russia abstaining on all these votes but when It came to a final vote on the plan as a w hole Oromyko used his power of veto. The final vole was nine to two, Russia and Poland In the negative. French Ask Cooperation LAKE SUCCESS, July 29 iJ'i Franse made a new appeal to Rus sia today to Join In Implementing Uie Marshall plan. The appeal was made by French Delegate Ocorges Boris as the United Nations economic and social council launched a general debate on the economic commission for Europe. Boris said distrust between Russia and the' western powers was ' par alyzing European economic recov ery. He blamed the failure of me recent three power conference in Paris on this distrust and urged that tho big powers make every ef fort to develop "freedom from dis trust." ' Speaking of Russia's contentions that the British-French plan of Implementing the Marshall plan would interfere with national soverelgnlles, Boris said: ' "We hope thus attitude will change when distrust disappears." Flying Discs Pop Up Again Pilot Reports One Near 'BOISE, Ida., July 29 JP) It's fly lug disc time again In Idaho, and the United Air Lines pilot who spotted the latest one says "they ought to be kept off Uie olvtl air ways." Capt. Charles F. Glblan, who while coming In to Bolso for a landing last night reported spotting a disc IIkc object "going like hell" at about 9000 fect, told the Bolso Statesman: "If It Is real It must bo some sort of military experiment and If that Is the rase they ought to arrange to keep the objects off the civil air ways." Army and navy spokesman had denied knowledge of the discs. Glblan, who talked to the States man by telephone from Pendleton, became the second United Pilot on flight. 105 to report seeing tho fly ing objects. His predecessor was Cnpt. E. J. Smith who said he spotted I iW - " -'''H OUKGUN, TUKHDAY, JULY Nitrate-Laden Freighter Blazes - --- .p. : " jUmj'Sf ir ? 1 BREST, France, July & iPr Of ficials reported 15 dead and at least 422 Injured In this port today from the explosion and fire that wrecked the nitrate-laden Norwegian freight er Ocean Liberty yesterday. Four of the injured died this morning, the French ministry of marine said. Uadly Injured and hospitalised at nearby Landerneau were 46 others, five of whom doctors termed criUl, chalet hospital rrported It had treated 378 for cuts and bruises In flicted by flying deeds. (Ammonium nitrate is a synthetic product relatively recently developed. It Is made by Uie Introduction of ammonium gas Into nitric add, and now Is used principally as a ferU lirer.l Jules Moch. minister of public works, said the United States and France might confer on new ways to transport ammonium nitrate, re calling the similarity of this ex plosion to the one at Texas City, Tex., last April which killed 470 persons and Injured 376. Origin Mystery Moch said he had no definite In formation on how the fire started In the hold, but he praised Uie har bor boat crew who tied a line on the Ocean Liberty and towed her awny from the docks. "The casualties might have been as bad as in Texas City," Moch said, "If It were not for the bravery and quick thinking of the men who towed the burning ship toward Uie sea." The explosion did not set off a series of oUier blasts, as happened at Texas City, but It did blow up the city gas system and gasoline storage depot. Several wooden structures In tqwn caught fire. Hundreds more were severely shaken when the nitrate went off with a shattering blast that smashed In building fronts along the sea front, set off an explosion In Uie city's go system, fired a gasoline storage tank and demolished lines of communication. All Uiose killed were dock workers or seamen. The crew had been taken off the ship before Uie ex plosion, but her captain was re ported killed by flying debris. SHAACK DEATH CHICAGO, July 29 OP) Harry C. Schaack, 60, former president of the Chicago board of trade and a mem ber of the grain exchange since 1911, died fast night. He was born In Chicago. two groups of discs July 4, near Emmett, Idaho. PORTLAND, Ore.. July 29 IP1 One of the two United Airlines pilots, who last night reported after land ing at Boise that they watched what appeared to be a dlso object' In the sky, told an Oregonlan re porter later, "I'm not convinced this was a disc." Capt. Charles F. Glblan, who with First Officer Jack Harvey was quot ed as telling of seeing something in the sky as they nearcd Boise, told the newspaper reporter as their westbound plane landed here 'at 11:05 p. m. that "this" might have been a small tragmcnt of a stratus cloud which dispersed as we watch ed it." He added, however, that If It were some sort of aircraft "it could only have been a disc." Smith's story came during the ell- 21), 1M7 At Brest IT" ' Plane Crash Kills Nine EOLIN FIELD, Fla., July 29 Nine crew members of a four engine l bomber were killed today when their r'CS field. Capt. Robert Oaughon. Eglln field public relations officer, re ported. Another crew member was seri ously Injured, and another escaped injury, Captain Gaughan said. Names of Uie victims were with held pending Identification of next of kin. ' The plane was on a training flight when It crashed. Captain Gaughan reported, shortly after 8 a. m. Central Standard Time. Local Man Hurt In Auto Wreck Jerry O. Tresner. operator of Uie Klamath Auto and Body Works, was painfully injured in an auto mobile accident over Uie week-end and it confined to a bed in a Red ding hospital with a broken leg, broken collarbone and dislocated hip. Word reaching here indicated that Tresner had been driving south and picked up a hitchhiker between Dunsmuir and Redding, and that the hitchhiker was driving and Tresner was asleep In Uie back seat of his car. The driver was unfamiliar with Uie road and Uie cor went over rounding a curve. Runaway Horse Vs. Iron Horse PHILADELPHIA. July 29 P A pair of happy-go-lucky dobbins ran away from their SouUi Philadelphia stable today and for several hours carried on a private feud with Uie Iron horse. The two horses decided the grass growing between the ties of Uie Baltimore, and Ohio end Reading railroad tracks on Swanson street made for pretty good eating. While freight trains waited, two policemen finally succeeded ' in leading the troublemakers back home. As Airlines Boise Airport max of Uie flying disc reports, which started In late June In the state of Washington. During early July there were few states In Uie nation with out at least one report of a disc and persons in numerous other coun tries, Including Japan, also said they sited the objects. Glblan's disc or whatever was the first reported since word of the objects tapered off about two weeks ago. The pilot said his first officer. Jack Harvey, also saw the object last night. . They said they saw a round, flat object In Uie sky west of Mountain Home, a village 45 miles east of here. Both men said they thought the object was an airplane until "in a matter of seconds it disappeared, apparently going away from us." Glblan said If the object was 40 miles or so distant from the air liner, It was as big as an airplane. 1 ., . . i I est v r. Ufa a. i (Tclephon. Sill. No. 1095 1 A I H ltttlt Be $5 Per Ton Boost Made Over Nation NEW YORK, July 29 fPr-Vniled H tales Steel corporation, aald It would announce within the next few day steel price advaneea of about IS a ton. Irving 8. Olds, chairman, announced today after a directors meeUng. Announcement by - the big steel corporation virtually completed Uie cycle of price Increases by the na tion's steel producers. More Increases Earlier in the day increases were posted by Bethlehem Steel, Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet Ic Tube. Oven Uie week-end most other com panies announced hikes ranging from $5 lo 110 a ton on finished products. Olds said: "The costs of V. 8. steel since present delivered prices were named by its subsidiaries around the beginning of this year had actually increased more than SS a ton of finished steel, which is the average amount of this price increase. This increase in steel price ts made necessary by substantially higher employment cost; the mounting cost of raw materials auch a scrap, Un, lead, xinc, copper and palm oil, which are Important lngredienta in the manufacture of steel; the Increased costs of goods and services which these sub- I H i ari mint nnrplui' tn nrdpr lo 'carrv on their business: and the substanUally greater cost of replac ing worn out facilities. As an il lustration of recent higher costs, the price of scrap has advanced more than 110 months." ton In Uie two Red Program Gets Boost WASHINGTON, July 29 UP) Ex pansion of American official broad casts to Soviet Russia wa ordered today by the stale department as it cut back- other programs because of reduced funds allocated by con gress. Officials said beginning tonight a new 30-minute "Voice of America" program of news in the Russian language and music will be beamed to Uie Moscow area. A one-hour program of news, music and features which started last February will continue unchanged. The new half -hour broadcast was timed to reach Moscow at midnight. The present program is heard from 8:00 to 9:00 p. m. Moscow Ume. The expansion, officials indicated, result from recommendations of Ambassador Walter B. Smith. The new broadcast will be prepared by the present staff and is .to Involve no additional cost. Spud Support Prices Higher PORTLAND, July 29 (P) Sup port prices for Oregon 1947 late crop potatoes were listed today by the state committee of Uie U. S. pro duction and marketing administra tion at 40 to 80 cents a bushel high er than last year. x The rates In 32counties, for U. S. No. 1 grade, f.o.b. cars, are: Sep tember, $2.40: October, $2.50; No vember, $2.70; December, $2.90; Jan uary, $3.10.' . Rates for Malheur, Baker. Wal lows and Union counties are 20 bents a bushel lower. Perfect1 Cribbage Hand Dealt At Last PORTLAND. July 29 MV- After a half a century of cribbage play ing, E. R. Francis knows what a 39 hand looks like. One was dealt to him by his brother, C. H; Francis, the latter reported. It contained three- fives and the jack of spades with Uie five of spades turned up. Gold Miner Shoots Partner To Death, Kills Self With Dynamite QUTNCY, Calif., July 29 VP) Sheriff Melvin Schooler of Plumas county said today a gold miner shot his partner to death before Uie eyes of the partner's wife, then killed himself with a dynamite blast which sealed his body in an abandoned mine shaft. Schooler related that Donald Walte, 35, Blairsden, was killed Satur day night as the climax of an argument with Fred Larsen, also 35, over some remarks by Walte that Larsert "didn't like." He said the two had drunk three bottles of wine.' Larsen first knocked Walte unconscious with an Iron pestle In a cabin near their Black Pepper mine, Sheriff Schooler said. While Mrs. Walte tried frantically to revive her husband. Larsen shot him through Uie heat with a .32 caliber revolver, Uie sheriff said. According to a note Larsen left, Schooler said, the miner held Mrs. Walte hostage from 7 p. m. until dawn Sunday while he "de cided what to do." Then he wrote his note, told Mrs. Waite to telephone the sheriff and blew himself up. A searching party found the body by entering another part of the mine shaft, I s v f i i ' I VI ' 1 JoAnn Amorde, 20, blonde blue eyed Hoseburg, Ore-, grade school teacher, wa crowned "Mis Ore gon" a that state's first entry in the annual Miss America contest (AP Wirephoto) Miss Oregon Honor Guest ROSEBURO. July 29 oPi Mua Oregon wa to be Uie guest of honor at two recepUons In this area today as civic boosters and resident turned out to welcome home Miss Jo Ann Amorde, Uie 20-year-old blue-eyed blonde who won the state UUe at Seaside. The Sutherlln grade school teacher wore the banner of the city of Rose burg In Uie state's, first Miss Oregon contest that takes her to Atlantic City In September to compete for Uie naUonal tiUe. -I Boseburg's Paul Bunyan - club members will escort her Irom tne airport to the city, where Mayor Albert O. Flegel will present tne Keys of the city. Later another reception at Sutherlln will welcome her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Amorde. Medford Fire Claims Settled MEDFORD. July 29 Wt An out of -court setUement of five damage suits by Medford firms against Uie American Fruit Growers. Inc.. re sulting from Uie Industrial secUon tire here last summer, was reported today. Amounts of Uie settlements were not disclosed, but Uie original dam age claims totaled $420,081. The firms, and the individual claims, were: Monarch Seed and Feed Co.. $85,131; Portland Lumber Co., $100,059; Sherwin-WUliams Co., $3245: Maurice Spats of Crystal Springs Packing Co.. $11510: V. J. Namitz of Medford Milling Co., $116306. Fishermen Halt Duster With Ease OMAHA, July 29 VP) A fisher man annoyed by a DDT-spraying plane flying low over nearby Carter lake, downed Uie plane by heaving a beer can into its- propellor. Pilot Larry Anderson of Ksmsas City had no trouble landing Uie plane at the nearby municipal air port, but repair of Uie propellor "cost us five hours' flying," H..A. Herschfleld of Aerial Crop Service, said. Price Up For Book Of 1947 Laws SALEM, July 29 (fl) The state printing board decided 'today to charge $4.35 for each copy of the laws passed by the 1947 legislature. The books will be distributed within two weeks. The price two years ago was $3 and before that was $1.25. . The board raised Uie price be cause of increased printing costs, and because the book, which weighs 4li pounds, is the heaviest in his tory, as the 1947 legislature passed a record number of new laws. BATAVIA, Java, July M VP The Indonesian republican radio aald a transport plane bearing Red Croa medical supplies was shot down tonight by two Dutch fight er planea and that nine persons. including at least throe British cltlxena, were killed. The broadcast. Identifying Uie plane as an Indian Dakota, said Uie pilot, former RAP Wing Com mander Constantlne, and the co pilot, former RAP Squadron Lead er Hazelhurst, both were killed. It said Conatantine's wife was found dead In the plane, a maohtnegura bullet through her head. Crashed In Flames The broadcast said Dutch fight ers opened fire as the transport was circling Jogjakarta for a land ing, and that the transport crashed In flames. An Indonesian named Abdul Ganl waa the lone survivor. He was quoted aa saying the attack waa a complete surprise and that he saved himself at the last minute by lumping. The broadcast said the Dutch consul general at Singa pore had cleared the plane's cargo of medieinie. A radio speaker who identified himself as Peter Radcliff, a former British army colonel, gave what he said was an eye witness ac count: "I saw a solitary transport plana approaching. It circled at low al titude with landing gear down. Suddenly from Uie east two fight- ' er planes approached. They were modern and fast and they could not have been other than Dutch. "There we?; four bursts of fire. Then silence. I heard the trans port plane crash. At 8 p. m. prima Minister SJarlfoeddln called me. He took me to the hospital. There I learned first band the plane had been privately owned and totally unarmed. It carried two tons of medical supplies. Radio Malaya pre viously announced it was coming. Even the Dutch radio at Batavia said the plane would arrive with these supplies." UN To Vote On Balkan Vatch LAKE SUCCESS, July 28 W The United Nations security council . agreed to begin voting late today on a United States proposal to set up a watch commission over the Bal kans. . r . . The council concluded discussion on the Balkan problem shortly be 'fore lunch, thus paving the way to ward a climax of a month-long fight between the United States and Rut- . sia. ' i . - ; With Russia maintaining a 24 hour silence, a majority of the coun cil members expressed approval of a U. S. proposal that the proposed commission be composed of eleven members. Whether the Soviet Union would inject Uie veto on this part of the American resolution was still a mat ter of conjecture. Throughout the morning session Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko worked busily on a speech. - Robber Asks Bankruptcy SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 VP) Bank robber Richard A Numer, now serving Uie 12th year of his 35-year sentence at Alcatraz prison, want federal court to declaie him bank rupt and make Warden James A, Johnston pay him 54 cents. The warden, Numer's complaint says. Is holding his only assets, the 54 cents, 80 paint brushes and 30 , tubes of colors, for a, fracas causing $75 damage to isolation cell block D. He asked the court to wipe out the damage claim against him in the bankruptcy action and said hi . assets were not subject to bank ruptcy seizure. He was sentenced to 45 years for i a bank robbery In Tennessee, and his sentence was reduced to SJ ' years. , ' Strange Death Mangles Boy PROVIDENCE. R. I., July 29 VP) Seven-year-old Frank Goddad, on , his way to the movies in an old jalopy, met death in a way the , movies probably never have pro duced. As he sat In the rumble seat of James Mitchell's machine yesterday, with the six-year-old Mitchell boy with him, the rusty metal flooring gave way. Frank! clothing caught on the whirling drive shaft. Before Mitchell could stop the car, Frank was dead badly mangled. Mitchell, hysterical, was taken to ' a hospital. His ion escaped harm. First License Plates Arrive SALEM, July 29 VPy The first shipment of Oregon's 1948 motor ve hicle license plates was received by -the state department today. The plates have red numeral on aluminum background. This year' plates are black on aluminum. There were 50,000 plates lit the first shipment . They are made by Irwln-Hodson company, Portland, ' which has mad: Uie Oregon plate ior many years.