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JllltMIlCH ATTLK15 o( Dtilulh holds
"orliilii" mooting Willi hla Labor
parly member ( parliament.
AmaiiK other things, ho agrees to
out Britain's armed strength
niBtorlully In nil effort la llghton
Ills load an tha nation' civilian
economy.
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nON'T misa tho point, which la
" thin:
Aa lirlliiln steps out of hor mil
itary commitment throughout tilt
world, wo will hava to STEP IN.
Why?
'I'll it anawor la brief mill blunt.
Whatever peace the world hua In tho
lirxl generation or ao will bo COM
I'KLLKU by tho United Htute.
Peace, unfortunately, duean't Juat
happen. It hua to be mudo to hap
pen. ,
THUMB have been two historic
, period of comparative peace
Die "Tax Itniiiuna" ipruco of I tome I
and the 'Tax Drllannlca" (peace
of Britain.) Until alemmed (ram the
aame ratine.
In Iter heyday, lloiiic wo bually
occupied Willi her own dumeallii de
velopment. Wara hero and there
INTKKHUPTKD and retarded her
home development program. Ho.
when wara threatened. Home
knocked tho heada of tho belllxtr
eiila together and made them be
good.
Urltaln, through the peak of her
commercial grcauicaa, lulluwed the
aaino pattern. f
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TP there la lo be a Pax Americana
ipence of America), we mual do
likewlac.
lllalory offera thla coiirlualun:
While Home and Britain were coin
pelllng a reasonable aemblauce of
peace throughout tho world, they
were relatively proaperoua and
happy at home.
Peace, however achieved, la profit
able. TJONT Jump lo wrong conclualona.
llrlialn lan't turning tail and run
ning pell-mell for cover. With leaa
Ulan 40 million people, her preaent
armed atrenglh la AHOVK a million
men. Willi 140 million people, our
present armed alrength la 1IKLOW
a million. In proitorllon to her
numbera, alio la ataylng alronger
than we are.
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HUHTERITY or no austerity, the
Hrlllnh have decided on a big
traditional wedding, with a long
y erlod of mvlt.li rejoicing, for I'rlii-
era KIlMbetlt and her blue-blooded
navy apouae-lo-be. If necewary,
they'll pull Uielr peraonal belu a
- hole tighter to pay for It.
People everywhere are more or leaa
alike. Wo love pomp and (pending
and we dread economy.
IN her need for more dollara lo pay
V. L., It., n t , t IM hImhiib
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to cut her Import of American to
bacco and American movlea both
"luxurlea." When people atari cut
ting out luxurlea, they mean bual
lieiui. ,
TN the way of movlea, the British
1 are cutting wllh a two-edged
knife. They are planning to buy
leaa of oura and at the aame time
are making MOKE Of THEIR OWN.
Urillah movlea are beginning lo
click, even In thla country. "Henry
V," adapted for the acrcen by Hlr
Laurenco Olivier and produced by
J. Arthur Rank, Brllatn'a new cel
luloid, tycoon, haa already earned
$050,000 In Ita ahowlnga In thla coun
try, and before It la through In
America tho Rank organization ex
pec la It to earn a total of $10,
000.000. . 1
That Jan't piker money.
CPEAKINO of movies, Betty arable
laat year earned more than her
-yboha. She waa paid a total of
1200.333, whercaa tho big allot of
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Circus Slated
To. Appear Here
J An odvanco crow for Long'a Unlt-
fd aliowa arrlvoc In Klamalii ro :a
this morning to prepare far a slx
dny run, alaled to begin hero on
Tucadny, Auguat 6.
Undor tho auaplcca of post No. 8
of the American Legion, the allow
will bo act up at tho clrcua grounds
on South Sixth atroet.
Special agent for Long'a, Ch. .lea
P. Carpontcr, tvas among those who
arrived today to mnko ready for tho
August showing.
Booby Trapped Bodies Of
British Soldiers Found
.IHIlUHALliM, July 31 (PI The
bodies of two young llrltlsh ser
geant kidnapped aa hostage by
lrgun ZvhI Loimil were found
hanging today from two eucalyp
tus trees and were blasted to bit
by a booby trap when llrltlsh sol
diers started to out them down.
.lfiwiiih nnl.Meninnt. nollcn found
the bodies In a forest preserve
near Nntanya Just 24 hours after
lrgun, extremist Jewish under
ground orgniilzallon, announced It
had oxcoutod the Britons In re
prisal for thp hanging of throo
IrgimlHts convicted In a prison de
livery. Tho area was. cordoned off and
clous wore turned loose hi an at
tempt to pick, up tho trail of tho
killers.
In 'Jerusalem, top Palestine gov
ernment olfloluls met lo map a
rigid campaign against under
ground violence. One official said
plana under consideration Included
a demand upon tho Jewish ageney
in cooperate actively In stamping
i out underground attacks,
tin London Piimo Mlnlstor Atlco
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The Klamath Lake Moulding company ha announced the purchase of the fcwauna lake properly af the
at tile new mill will not be alar led by Klamath Moulding anlil their present lease en. the "Bey Scout" naUl
British Buy"
Electric Plant
LONDON, July 31 VP) The house
of lords passed tyday the bill na
tionalizing UrlUsh electricity gener
ating and distributing companies,
estimated to eost 11,400,000,000. .
The government will acquire about
100 private companies. Tho house
of commons already had passed Die
measure, which' becomes effective
January 1. Commons must act again
on minor amendments.
The government announced II con
templated expansion lo fill a criti
cal British need for more electric
power.
Air Hearing
Date Slowed
The hearing date of the proposed
Southwest Airways feeder service be
tween Klnmaui Falls, Alturas, Por
tola and Reno, has been postponed,
according to a letter received by the
Klanmlh county chamber of com
merce from James a. Ray, president
of tho Southwest Airways. Tho hear
ing beforo tho civil aeronautics
board in San Francisco has now
been set for September 8 Instead of
the previous date of August 35.
Charles Stark, Klamath chamber
head, has already prepared and
mailed a brief staling reasons why
feeder scrvlco would be an advantage
to this. aroa. Tho establishment of
air lino scrvlco between Klamath
EJiills, Lakevlew and Bolso will also
bo considered at the hearing as will
Southwest Airways feeder scrvlco bo-
Iwcon Klainalh Falls and Mcdford.
placed .tho entire Palestine situa
tion before his cabinet.)
When soldiers started to out tho
bodies down after an hour-long
probo for mines, tho booby trap
exploded behind the body of Sor
gcant Clifford Martin. It - blasted
to bits his body and that of Ser
geant Mcrvyn Palco and scattered
tho pieces over a wide area.
.The blast wounded one grenadier
guardsman In the faco and threw
several bystanders to the ground,
Including Photographer James
Prlnglo and Correspondent Carter
L. Davidson, both pf tho Associated
Press.
Pinned to tho bodies af the two
sergeants wero "communiques" In
Hebrew, telling of the "arrest" of
Hie men, their "trial, conviction
and execution In the numo of the
Jewish slrngglo for a homeland."
The inscriptions told how pleas for
clemency were, rcjeeted at the
"military trial."
Tho killings, the Inscription said,
were ' carried out as "a military
execution by tho Jowlsh resistance
to tho enemies of our homeland."
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Big Lakes Box Com
Briiain Makes
To Stave Off
LONDON, July 31 MV-Britain ar
ranged high-level economic talk
wllh the United State today In a
renewed bid to stave off her loom
ing economic crisis.
The government's board of trade
Pepper To
Tour Nation
WASHINOTON, July 31 m
Senator Pepper (Fla.) said today
ho will make his own cross-country
speaking tour this fall In an effort
to "keep our democratic party lib
eral." The Florida senator told a report
er he has not been asked to speak
for the democratic national com
mittee but will follow in tho wake
of "such republican presidential
candidates as Senator Toft (Ohlol
and Governor Dewey of New York."
Noting Tatt's call earlier this
week for republican leaders to speak
out "frankly" on foreign and do
mestic Issues, Pepper said "Dewey
has been Imitating the' Sphinx to
date but I think Senator Taft Is.
going to smoke him out."
As for his own trip, which he has
not yet . mapped In detail, Pepper
said he Intends to "straighten out
anybody who might be misled by re
publican propaganda that this was
a good congress."
Payrolls In
State Spiral
Employers In the state subject to
tho state unemployment compensa
tion law reported payrolls totaling
$188,840,402 lor the first three
months of this year a gain of 31
per cent over the same period of
1048. .
Of that figure Klamath county's
taxablo payroll was $6,733,030, and
Lake county's was $603, 797.
The stato total was 174 per cent,
greater than tho payroll for the
first quarter of 1041, the last prd-war
year. The avorago monthly pay
check over the state was $228. Har
noy county was high In that depart
ment with an average of $287. The
monthly average has doubled since
1041..
Every county has bigger- payrolls
than In the last pre-war year.
Douglas county showed a 604 "per
cent Increase. The Klamath county
lncrcaso was less than average, 47.6,
while Lake county's payrolls are up
104.1 per cent over 1941. .'
AUTO DEATH
PORTLAND, July 31 P) Mrs.
Arthur Scrlever, 65, Portland, who
was thrown from a car In a three
car collision yesterday, died In a
hospital today.
She was the 35th traffic victim
In Portland this yoar.
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Renewed Bid
Money Crisis
said It president. Sir ' Stafford
Cripps, would fly to Parts this after
noon for a conference with William
L. Clayton, U. S. undersecretary of
state for economlo affairs, and the
British press said they would, con
sider sloshing Britain's Impdrt from
America to save dollars.
Meanwhile, the Britlr'i people took
calmly disclosures that the govern
ment almost Immediately would cut
It armed strength, scale down the
nation's standard of living and call
for longer working hours to' save
British economy.
Few newspapers cot.. men ted edi
torially on the revelations, which
followed a "crisis" meeting yester
day of Prime Minister Attlee and
his labor members of parliament.
Those that did wrote approvingly.
"It Is high time that they (the
government) took this step, though
It will mean a still more austere way
of life for everyone," said the con
servative Yorkshire Post, 'owned by
the family of former Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden,
"We are eagerly waiting to see the
government take bold steps to ap
peal to the nation's patriotism and
self respect."
Informed sources have said that
Britain plans to cut down her im
ports from dollar areas almost at
once.
The slash was expected to affect
primarily American movies and
American tobacco, - and there was
every Indication that food Imports
also would be reduced.
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Duck Dates Split
WASHINGTON, July 31 (AP) President Truman today
fixed the open seasons and shooting limits on waterfowl in
the United States, territories, and possessions. v
The proclamation was issued, as. usual, under the terms
of the treaty governing migratory birds signed with Canada in
19)6 and the convention on wild fowl and game animals
concluded in 1936 with Mexico. ,
The open seasons on waterfowl and coot except for
woods ducks, snow geese and brant' in western states, and
excluding Ross' geese and swans, includes:
California ond Oregon October 21 to November 3 and
December 23 to January 5. Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming
October 7 to October 20 and December 2 to December 15.
Montana, Nevada and Utah October 21 to November 24.
Washington October 21 to November 3 and December
1 6 to December 29. ' ;.:,
The .proclamation also sets forth the number of birds
which may be taken in any one day including all fowl taken
by anyone accompanying the hunter or assisting him.
Ducks Four, including in the limit not mow than one
wood duck, and no person may possess more than 8 ducks
including in such limit not more than 1 wood duck.
Geese and brant (except snow geese in Beaverhead, Gal
latin and Madison counties in Montana, in Colorado, Idaho,
and Wyoming, an'd snow geese and brant in. states bordering
on the Atlantic ocean; and Ross' geese anywhere), as follows:
In Washington, Oregon and California 5, including in
such limit any combination not exceeding 2 of Canada Geese
(including Hutchins. or cackling geese), white-fronted geese
and brant, .
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Big Lakes Box company. Operation
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Work Pushed
On Highway
.Work Is progressing rapidly on
construction of the Lower Klamath
lake secondary highway, connecting
U. S. highway 97 with state high
way 39 in the basin South End area,
according to S. P. Jones, state high
way department resident engineer.
Contractor of the $169,759 Job Is
P. L. Somers of Klamath Falls.
Crews have completed nearly one
mile of grading of the new roadway
which measure slightly over seven
mile In length. Somers expects to
have crushing operations started
sometime in mid-August. HI esti
mate for finishing the Job is October
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Work on the project began July 2.
Family Splits:
In Good Humor
PITTSBURGH, July 31 P
Truck Drivers James and Robert
Gray, members of the AFL Team
sters union, ddn't have far to go to
take up their picketing duties in the
49-day old household movers' strike.
The Gray brothers are picketing
their father whe with two other
sons, William and Carl runs a mov
ing business here.
"Two of the boys go to the car
riers' meetings," says Father Gray,
"and two attend union meetings.
Yet we manage to keep it level and
In good humor."
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Indonesians
Burn Towns
In Retreat
BATAVIA, Java, July 31 UP
The Dutch army announced to
night the capture of fire-scarred
Malang, former resort elty which Is
the key to east central Java.
A broadcast Indonesian commu
nique ald the Dutch were within
mortar range and that Indonesians
were applying the scorched earth
policy.
Tbe republican aaaerted also
their forces were within 12 miles of
Batavla and had reoccupled the
perimeter town of Tanrerang, 8er
pong and TJimene. The Dutch de
clared this claim was "nonsense."
This reporter found no ign of re
publican activity In the general Ba
tavla area.
Heavy Fire
The Indonesian broadcast said
Malang was "heavily grenaded and
rnachlnegunned" during the night,
and that republicans started fires
in the city yesterday. It said Dutch
planes straffed Malang.
The Indonesians said another col
umn of the Dutch army, equipped
largely with U. S. lend-lease and
surplus war supplies, had cut nearly
halfway across the waist of Java
in a drive from Tegal, on the north
coast, to the Bobotsart area, 35
miles to the southeast The repub
licans asserted the Dutch were
using a company of Japanese In the
attack.
The republican seventh division,
pitted against the Dutch advanc
ing on Malang from the north, of
fered no organized resistance ex
cept that of log road blocks, tank
traps, land mines and occasional
sniping, a dispatch from Soerabaja
said. The Dutch Jungle troops were
backed-toy meunized loret-Dueh
officers (aid four Dutch soldiers
have been killed and six wounded
and that a number of enemy snipers
were killed.
French Urge
Jew Solution
PARIS. July 31 UPh-The French
cabinet weighed today a national
assembly resolution urging it to
press Britain for a speedy and
humane solution to the vexing
problem posed by 4500 Jewish
refugees who are staging a sitdown
on three British transport an
chored off France's Medlterrtjiean
coast.
The resolution was adopted late
yesterday by unanimous vote of
the assembly, which also congratu
lated the French government for
not attempting to impose a course
of action upon the Jews.
. Dispatches from Port-De-Bouc
on France's southern coast report
ed meanwhile signs of growing
restlessness among the shipbound
Jews, who have refused to dis
embark in protest against being
shipped back to France after a
fruitless attempt to crash the gates
of Palestine.
Miner Lost
In Wilds
SEATTLE, July 31 OP) Don An
drews, 60-year-old retired 'former
operator of the well-known Don's
cafe here, has been missing since
Tuesday in the Cascade wilderness
on the north fork of the Snoqualmie
river, the sheriff's office said today.
Andrews and two partners had
been developing a mine eight miles
beyond the end of the road, 20 miles
from Snoqualmie. '
Dressed only in a shirt, trousers
and straw hat, he walked away from
the nine at 4 p. m. Tuesday, E. B.
BraW reported. Brat and R. R
Jones, the partners, and two work
men searched in vain until late that
night and Brat spsnt all day yester
day getting out to Srirm.ualmie.
Forest service rangers and deputy
sheriffs went to the area today.
Sheriff's Captain Torn Nault said
bloodhounds might be taken there
from the state reformatory at Mon
roe. Andrews retired from the restau
rant business several months ago. .
Prison Blaze
Kills 22 Women
PARIS. July 31 ) French offi
cials today tentatively blamed a
lightning flash lor a fire, which lost
night swept through a third story
room of a women's prison here, re
sulting in the death of 22 of the
Inmates.
The officials said that lightning
apparently had struck a chimney of
the four-story stone building a for
mer army barracks igniting several
boxes of celluloid and acetone, used
in connection with the manufacture
of cheap Jewelry.
Big La
Company Plant
Changes Hands
The expanding Klamath Lake Moulding company 'of Klamath Fall
today announced the purchase of tho Ewauna lake sawmill propertied
of the Big Lake Box company, pioneer Klamath Fall lumber manu
facturing concern. i
Klamath Lake Moulding, owned by the Bpangler-Palmerton-Weldler ,
Interests, will take possession of the Big Lake plant when It complete!
II present lease and operation at the "Boy Hcout mill" on llpper
Klamath lake, and In the meantime. Big Lake Box company will con
tinue operations of the Ewauna lake plant for several months.
The announcement today did not Indicate the date for tho change In
operation. It did, however, point to
the sawmill field here of the Big Lake company, which waa organised
In 1917 and operated continuously In one location and under the sam
ownerahip personnel for 30 year. ' '
Here I the formal announcement made by Klamath Lake Mouldlngl
"Klamath Lake Moulding com-1
pany announce that plan for the
purchase by It of the sawmill,
planing mill, dry kiln and yard of
the Big Lake Box company, which
had been under conalderation for
the past two week, have been con
aumated. The box factory plant
was not included In the purchase
and future plan concerning It are
unknown.
"Klit math Lake Moulding com
pany is presently leasing and op
erating the Wheeler Pine company
mill on the Upper lake, which I
often referred to a the "Boy
Scout" milL When Klamath Lake
Moulding company operation at
the Wheeler Pine mill are com
pleted it plan to move it crew to
the newly-purchased plant wnere
it will continue to mill log from
it present timber holding.'
William 8pangler. Loren Palmer-
ton and Don Weldler are the prin
cipals of the purchasing company,
which did not further amplify the
announcement.
M. S. West, president of the
Big Lakes Box company, stated
that the company will continue Us
operations for several months, and
that there will be no Immediate
operating change. Big Lakes will
continue it logging operations' In
Squaw valley on the Klamath In
dian reservation.
90,000 Capacity
Tbe Big Lakes plant ha a capa
city of about 90,000 feet per shift,
and is one of the major lumber
manufacturing plants here. It waa
built In 1920 on It present site
within the limits of Klamath Falls.
Three years before that, the
company was formed by M. S.
West, A. J. Voye, Ward Dwtght,
(Cvnllnae b Pace 9. Calamn )
Letters Enter
Overell Trial
SANTA ANA, Calif., July 31 (IP)
Passionate love letters exchanged
in 'ail between Louise Overell, 18-year-old
heiress, and her 21-year-old
boy friend, George Gollum, were ad
mitted as exhibits in the Overell
yacht deaths trial today over de
fense objections.
Superior Judge Kenneth E. Mor
rison permitted their introduction
despite arguments by Z. B. West and
other defense counsel that they were
not admissible because they were
photostats, not the original. State
investigators recently disclosed that
the exchanges were photographed
by jail attendants before delivery.
J. Clark Sellers, Pasadena, hand
writing expert, testified that some
of the letters were in the same hand
as a series of other exhibits. Includ
ing Gollum's signature on a jail ad
mission cord, penmanship samples a
sheriff's captain has testified Were
taken from him. and. the signatures
"R. L. Standish" and "Robert Com-
stockv on a dynamite receipt.
Invasion Boats
To Go Up Columbia
PORTLAND, July 31 HP) Army
invasion landing craft will ascend
the Columbia tomorrow wherf 30
vessels, carrying 800 men of the 85th
engineers from Puget Sound, head
upstream to Bonneville.
The units are on a two-week
cruise from Fort Worden. Wash.,
accompanied by a freight ship, and
will tie up at Bonneville before re
turning. C."..T.
Still in the mood for thlnga mechanical, the 9 o'clock photographer
snapped this ploture of Tom Steel, a newcomer to the ranks of tb
phone company, as he took five on the rear of tha equipment track.
the forthcoming retirement from
Hughes May
Take Stand
WASHINGTON. July 31 IIP)
He 'ard Hughe and hi globe-trot-'
ting publicity man, John Meyer,
will take the stand side by side to
morrow in the senatorial Investiga
tion of Hughes' wartime plane con
tracts. Thomas Black, Hughes' attorney,
told newsmen, however, he I not
certain whether the manufacturer
will be here tomorrow. He said
Hughes told him In a telephone
conversation this afternoon that he
is still undecided when to leave
California for Washington.
Senator Ferguson (R-Mlch.) an
nounced today that' arrangements
have been made for the joint ap
pearance of the Hollywood million
aire and tho man who said he spent
lavish sum to entertain government
officials in Hughes' behalf. .
Three Boats Made '
Ferguson's announcement was
made after a session In which tha ,
senate war investigating committee
heard testimony that top military
leaders turned down a moss flying
boat program In July, 1942, yet con
tract for three boat wero made
later with Hughes and Henry J.
Kaiser.
Undersecretary of State Robert A.
Lovett testified that the Joint
(army-navy) chief of staff declared
In July of that year that the diver
sion of materials to such a program
would be "inadmissable" because
everything was needed for fighting
planes.
Kaiser had urged a program Ut
build 600 huge cargo planesv
- Two former defense plant corpor
ation oifldals who were assigned to
the Hughes' cargo plane project in
California followed Lovett on the
stand.
Taft Cagey v
On Running
COLUMBUS, O., July 31 VP)
Senator Taft (R-Ohlo) said today
he wants to be certain "there's a
good chance to win" before defi
nitely deciding to run tor the 1948
republican presidential nomination.
He made this statement to report
ers prior to a meeting of the re
publican state committee which was
expected to endorse him unanimous
ly for the nomination.
During the news conference, Taft
termed the congress session just
closed "a great success" and said re
publicans should take all possible
advantage of its record by speaking
out on it to the people.
President Vetoes .
Special Coin
WASHINGTON, July 31 WV- '
President Truman today vetoed a
measure authorizing the coinage of
half-dollars commemorating the
100th anniversary of the admission
of Wisconsin Into the union in 1848.
Mr. Truman expressed his "re
gret" that he found it necessary to
disapprove the proposal, but said he
dlf so in following the "wise policy"'
of President's Hoover and Roosevelt
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