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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1947)
By H1ANK JKNKINH , MIHcUHSII'l today hold a primary 11 sleotluii. It will ba governed by a new stale Inw that neck to confine voting to white. NEVERTHELESS, Ihl morning dlapalchc tell u, tliouaanda ol ncgroea are expoctcd to vuta, WELL, that's lite way It not to be. We are living In a new world. In tlila new world, the ancient re lalloiuhlp of MASTER AND MAN 1 under fire. It will remain under fire until In tome distant mlllennluin It la finally dclroyod. In our own South, white and black imint Irmru to live together nut neu'Miirlly aa equals iliuiimn ' inda AREN'T cUulJ but aa FREE lo-Ol'EUATOIttt III a mutual en terprise, TliU inuluul enterprise l LIVING. Under llio miialer and limn relation ship, people (Inn't 1,1 VK, Tliey merely EXIST. Life U mora tliun mere existence. UHAT guri for our own South, goes for all tile world. Everywhere we hear 'tlie rumblliiiia of revolt aiiulnil Hie maatvr and mull rclu lloiulilp. In India. In Egypt where United Nations la culled up on loduy I "free tu from the orbit uf British power." In Indonesia, where the brown ImUvra want to live Uielr own Uvea, tree from Dutch overlordshlp. And ao on. UUMAN freedom u on tlie march. 1 HUT alaal It haa a long, hard road to travel. Until mm can see FULLY the basic soundness, the llve-and-cat-and-pruapcr wisdom of the Uoldeu Itule aa a principle for tho govern ing of human relationships, there will be many disappointment, nmiiy setback, much blood nnd aulfering. At present, we can are tlie Golden Itule only a a beautiful but VISIONARY (Ileum, licforo wo can adopt It and live by It, we mul be able to accept It whole-heartedly aa a aound and PROFITABLE rule of human conduct. Vlalona aro wonderful. Hut human beluga niUJit have brcud. And PEACE for only In peace can men have the opportunity to work and earn bread. B TIME will come when men will aee that only by doing unto otlieri aa tliry would that other shall do unto them can the opportunity be given to all tu work and earn and have. lint that time Inn't here. MARXISTS "" Hi fir dupeal claim Uial communism la a aub tltute for ttic Uolden Utile, la itr Ltaten to tlila: Ruaala today deliver to Caecho alovakla the tint of 200.000 ton of wheat ahe haa promlaed to barter to the Catena In return for varioui product of Ciech Indtuiry. Where did Ittual get Uie wheat? She TOOK It, till morning dia palchea tell ua, aa REPARATIONS from the Hungarlana, who had grown the wheat and who are aa hungry aa anybody elae. IN Detroit, CIO auto worker win from the Ford Motor company a "year of grace" In which Ford agree NOT to Invoke the ami atrlke damage ault penalties of the new labor law. Hopeful? Well, It could be 'If both employer and union apend tlie year of grace In learning how they can get along to gether hi peace and mutual profit. If the year la ipent In tightening the line and strengthening the de fense for further Industrial warfare, only harm can come of It. - Man's Body 'Not Found LAKEVIEW. Aug. 6 Tho body of Ralph Newman, 38, Wcycrhneuii er Timber company employeo who wax believed to have drowned In Thompson's rcxcrvolr Inst Saturday, waa not recovered by dragging opcr otlons at the roaervolr ycaUirday, Newman Ix believed to have gone Into the water to try to xwlm across neck of the reservoir. He nnd three fishing companions had been In a boat accident and overturned, but all made shore pushing the capsized boat. The other three men and a fourth went back across the lnke In the boat, leaving Newman on the shore, but when they returned he was gone nnd bare footprints led to the water. Newman was a chnlnmnn on n Wcyerhneuscr survey crew nnd lived at Camp 8 In Lnko county. Indonesians Claim Dutch Violated Cease Fire Order BATAVIA, Java., Aug. 6 (PH-The Indonesian republican army ac cused tho Netherlands tonight of the first major violation of the cease-fire ordors halting tho pocket war on Java and Bumatro for United Nations Inquiry. Both Indonesian nnd Dutch lend ers Indicated they wero ready to reply shot for shot to eny breaches. ' Radio Jogjakarta quoted a re publican army spokesman as as serting that three Dutch columns hnd continued an attack tor two nnd a half hours, after tho dead line last midnight, resulting In the Dutch onpturo of Oambong, 03 miles west of Jogjakarta, tho Indoncslun capital, Eurller advises from the north ... .. ii ' PRICK flVF. CENTS RoaseraK fcllirag i . '" ,;' '( M . . . ' i ' ;: . j. -Jirrroaa-iSifc" Thl plrlurr ahow the Fremont Bawmlll rompany plant at Lakerlew at the height of a Are Which exrred f 100,000, The company hope to rebuild Immediately. j .; Egypt Asks Army Leave LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. S ill Egypt appenled to the United Na tion security council today to free her from "the orbit of British Im perii power" by ordering the Im mediate withdrawal of all British troops from Egyptian soil. Tlie appeal waa made personally by Egyptian Premier Nokrashy Pasha aa the council began consid eration of Egypt'a complaint that continued presence of British forces In Egypt waa a "potential peril" to peace In the Middle East "We are here," Nokrashy Pasha declared, "to challenge the basic assumptions of nineteenth century Imoertnllsm." In his 10.000-word speech, the Egyptian premier Informed the council that his government no longer considered Itself bound by tlie Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1036, under which British forces are sta tioned In this strategic Mediterran ean country. Appeal Causes Jam At Hospital Attendants at Hillside hospital tills morning were beginning to think everybody In town has type B blood. It all stnrtod when weU-mennlng friends of' Sam Wnllnnd. who Is 111 at Hillside hospital, notified a local radio station to broadcast an nppenl for typo B blood doners to report to tho hospital. Equally well-meaning calls began pi,urlng Into tho hospital from people willing to donate blood. They were all told politely that the hos pital keeps n filed list of all types of doners who may be called upon, and only In direst emergencies would a like call be Issued. Wnllnnd. of 333 Fulton, Is Janitor at the county courthouse. Attend ants snld today that It may not be necessary for the elderly man to be given a transfusion. centra! front Indicated the cense fire order wns working out well. Vice President Mohammed Hottn spako over the rcpubllcnn rndlo at Bukltlnggl, Sumntrn, ordering the Indonesian people to end hostil ities, but snylng: "If the Dutch enfrlugc on the cense fire order, 'the Indonesian people nro entitled to fight back." An Associated Press frontline dis patch said Dutch soldiers had. been ordered to- return fire for fire, should the Indonesians attack. The Dutch won control of 310 air miles of the north coast of Java by linking up their enstorn nnd west ern forces n few hours before the ccnsc-flre orders took effect last midnight, a dispatch from Semn rang said, When Fire Destroyed Lokeview Mill Jew-Baiting Crowds Break Windows In England Riots LONDON, Aug. & CP) A Jew baltlng crowd of 700 persons dam aged eight Jewish-owned shops in Manchester last night and early to day aa antl-semltlc Incidents flared for .the fourth successive day in widely scattered British cities In cluding London, Birmingham and Liverpool. - Police arrested 38 demonstrators World Flight Turns Back CHICAOO, Aug. S Wi William i Bill) Odom. who took off on a pro jected around-the-world solo speed flight yesterday, was back on his home airport today after having flown approximately one-sixth of the intended mileage. Shortly after passing over Hall fax. Nova Scotia, In his 4000-horse power, twin-engined plane, the former British ferry -ommnnd pilot said his ailerons Jammed and he was forced to turn back. He landed on tlie Chicago airport at 11:65 Central Daylight time last night, 9 hours nnd 24 minutes after the take-off. He snld he probably would leave again tomorrow In an other attempt to halve the round-the-world sola record of 188 hours set by the late Wiley Post In the famed slnglc-englncd "Winnie Mac" monoplnno In 1033. The 27-yenr-old pilot snld he had covered about ono-slxth of tho pro jected flight or more thnn 3000 miles of his 19,600-mile route In the trip to Nova Scotia and back. Elks Picnic Set For August 17th An event of Sunday, August 17, will bo the annual Elks lodge picnic for members and their families, to be held at the gravel pit. Cyril Cook and Otb Fleet arc co chairmen of tho picnic. Festivities will get under way about 10 a. m. Highlight of the picnlo lunch will be barbecued beef. Games will be featured for youngsters. A large crowd Is anticipated by the chairmen. Shooting Victim Said Recovering LAKEVIEW, Aug. 6 Mrs. Llllle Lee, wounded four times by her estranged husbnnd on July 28, Is recovering In n Lnkeview hospital and tlie husband, Robert Lee, Is under $10,000 ball on a charge of assault with Intent to kill. The charge was based on a com plnint signed by Chnrles Edwnrd Fultii, who was hit In tlie wrist dur ing the fusillade of pistol shots Lee Is alleged to have poured Into the truck In which Mrs. Leo and Fulta woro riding. vUiLir.g, OHKGON, TUKHDAY, AUGU8T I, 1M7 In Liverpool, where street ' lights were turned on during the night for the first time since power -saving blackout restrictions were ordered last winter. Several Liverpool police were in jured battling the demonstrators aa firemen stood by ready to douse the rioters with hoses in case the situa tion got beyond police control. Although some quarters expressed belief that the riots were incited by "fascist-like" organizations, police snld they thought the vandalism was the work of Irresponsible youths rather than an organized campaign of antl-semitism. Shop windows were smashed In London's Bethnal Green section, where many Jews live, and commu nist hendquarters In the same dis trict also was battered. Other window-smashing outbreaks were re ported In Newcastle, Collyhurst and Cliorlton-on-Medlock. In Birmingham a wall was dec orated with a sign nearly a half a block long emblazoned with yard high letters proclaiming: "Gentiles arise, resist Jewish en terprise. Remember Pnlce and Martin." Mervyn Palce and Clifford Mar tin were tlie two British sergeants hanged by Jewish extremists In Pal estine lost week in retaliation for execution of three members of the Jewish underground. There was no Indication of who had put up tlie sign invoking their memory. Youth Wages Gun Battle PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 5 (P A gun fight in the railroad yards here enrly today ended In ' the capture of a 19-year-old Illinois youth and no damage to participants. , Detective Leonard Shaffer said the prisoner, booked on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, Identified, himself as Carrol James Berry, route a, Paris, 111., and snld he hnd been AWOL from Goat Island nnvnl station, Snn Francisco, since Mny. . , . Shnffer snld a taxi driver called police shortly after 1 a. m. and reported that a tare hnd attempted to hold him up but fled to the rail road yards when the cab wns driven Into Its licadqunrters garage. Two patrolmen, seeing a fleeing figure In Uie darkness, called out to halt and were answered by six shots. They responded with five. Later de tectives found the youth crouching under a railroad car. He came out with his hnnds up although Shaffer snld his .38 caliber revolver had been re-loadcd nnd there were 35 extra rounds in his pocket. (Telephone (111) dol leveled the plant Sunday, Damagea Falling Limb Kills Logger A man tentatively identified as Luther Piper, timber faller for Fin ney Logging company at Rocky Point, was reported killer' today by a falling limb. First reports did not give any de tails of the accident except that Piper and a partner were working in the woods on the Pelican Butte unit of forest service timber when a limb struck the man on the head. Piper was employed by Harry Lewis, who is cutting logs on a con tract for the Finney company. He was believed to be about 44 years old and a resident of Klamath Falls. Deputy Coroner Wlllard Ward was called to the scene of the accident. Mississippi To Test Vote Law JACKSON, Mbs.. Aug. 5 tP (Mississippi's new primary laws, ad mittedly passed to assure "white" state elections, win rje tested lor me first time In today's democratic pri mary in which about 6000 negroes are expected to participate. Under the laws passed Inst March at a special session of the legisla ture, prospective voters must certify agreement with party principles as set forth by the state democratic executive committee. The principles as announced by the committee Include opposition to a federal fair employment practices commission and federal anti-poll tax and anli-lynching legislation. Voters also must seek accord "with the time-honored nnd cherished tra ditions of the South." President . T. B. Wilson of the Mississippi Progressive V o t e r s" league, who estimated that about half of tlie 12.000 registered ne groes in the state would attempt to vote, said members of his organiza tion were advised to create no dis turbance at the polls should their vote be challenged. Pepper-Laden Trailer Skids A lnrge truck-trailer loaded with crates of peppers brike n hitch while rounding the curve at Oregon and Blehn shortly after noon today, pitching the trailer over on its side. The truck wns driven by Henry Sear and was northbound from Los Angeles. There was little damage but the peppers had to be unloaded before a Bnlslger wrecker could right tlie trailer. The .trailer landed ti Its left side on the curbing nnd sidewalk. WfATHER Mat. iai.1 . J Mia, PrMlBlutlM tail 94 kaara 4 airaam yar 1 1 . Laat rasr ..U.4 Narmal ... M M faraeaats Fair lsar, 1Vaaaa ar. No. 111 Elliott Says He Wasn't At Party WASHINGTON, Aug. S oPi El liott Roosevelt, angrily demanding that senate committee "clean Dp my moral record," challenged Pub licity Man John W. Meyer today to aay that Meyer ever "procured" any party girl for him. T ratifying before the senate war Inveatigating committee, the aecond on of the late wartime president challenged la particular an Item on Meyera expense voucher with the Howard Hughes Aircraft company Ustlng "girls at hotel, ate, SM." "The records of tlie White House are available, and they will ahow I was at the White House and I was not at the 8tatler hotel late." he shouted. Plane Probe The committee is Inquiring Into (40.000.000 of wartime contracts given Hughes. It received last week the expense accounts of Meyer, pub licity man for Hughes. These showed some (1611.000 purportedly spent during war years in entertaining various people. Including some high government official. There were payments to young women listed for entertaining Meyer's guests. The accounts showed over (3000 spent on entertainment for Roose velt and his friends. On the night Roosevelt said he was at the White House, Meyer had hated a (76 dinner with Roosevelt, then an rrmy air force eoloueL and a (50 charge for girls. "These could have been two girls I had dinner with," Meyer said. "Their names aren't here. If their names were here, it would help. Later he rald "It may have been Colonel Eidson" at the hotel with him, referring to Col. HaaVy Eidson, who waa a member of a Roosevelt headed mission which recommended that the government buy Hughes' 1 photo reconnaissance plane, j (A (22.000.000 contract for this j plane waa let after Roosevelt's I recommendation. Earlier, army air corps experts had ruled against the plane. No plane was delivered be- i fore the war's end). Meyer said that when making out expense accounts it was hi custom to "put down the most Important name" and sometimes "the most im portant person was not there." "And the most Important person was not there." Roosevelt shouted. The late president' son said, in reply to a question from Chairman Ferguston (R-Mich.l of the sub committee that he met Meyer in a hotel night before last and first (Cantianr aa Pas S, Calaaaa 3) Strangled Child Found In Forest FALL RIVER, Mass., Aug. 5 OP Eight-year-old Theresa Lefleur, missing since yesterday, was found dead today brutally beaten and possibly strangled and violated in a wooded spot to which police said they were led by an uncle of the child. Charles McGarty, 25, the uncle who, according to Deputy Police Chief Charles A. McDonald, had been questioned after the girl's par' ents reported her disappearan-' last night, was detained for further questioning. No charge was placed against him Immediately. fsg rnirjw ' ' r Back on the man-at-work theme, the 9 o'clock photog caught Rudy ers' aupplics on the post office lawn after completion of the redecorating Job on the federal building. Questioned Minneapolis police questioned Mrs. Berths Anderson (above), 78, three of whose grown ebfldren, all prevlouily adjudged incompetent, were found tied or confined to their home. AP wirephoto. Crater Crash Kills Woman MED FORD, Aug. 5 OP) One was dead and three Pennsylvania and Ohio tourists were In a hospital here today with serious injuries after their automobile plunged from the Cascade gorge near Crater lake. Mrs. Olive Hoffman. 64. Beaver Falls. Pa., died late yesterday in the wreckage of the Hoffman car. Her husband. William A. Hoffman, a retired druggist, was critically hurt but the hospital had not de termined extent of his injuries. Mrs. Estelia H. King. 60, Spring City. Pa., a sister of Mrs. Hoffman, suf fered a broken shoulder and frac tures of both legs. Phillip H. Hoff man. 13, Ashtabula. O., suffered possible skull fracture. Hearing Site Undecided Whether the., senate public lands committee hearing this month will be held In Klamath Falls or on the Klamath Indian reservation is still a moot question. The senators have reserved hotel rooms at the Willard, spoken for use of the circuit court room in the county courthouse for the hearings and retained Al Brandt, court re porter, to report the proceedings. However, the business committee of the Klamath Indian council has announced that the hearing would be conducted on the reservation in the big council hall. The senate committee is scheduled to be on the reservation August 18 for an inspection trip. The hearing proper will start August 18 and run through August 22. Some People Are Hard To See! WTLDWOOD, N. J., Aug. 5 0P( After his 15th try, Joseph Daniels of Philadelphia got a chance to talk with his friend Joseph Edwards in Jail but it cost him 5. Edwards, also a Philadelphian, had been arrested on a charge of break ing glass in the street Subsequent ly, Daniels appeared in police head quarters 15 times in an attempt to see his friend. Finally Daniels was given his chance when Sgt. James Stine arrested him on a disorderly conduct charge and placed him In tlie same cell with Edwards. Daniels was fined $5, Edwards $10. Union Given Year's Time To Negotiate DETROIT, Aug. lP Th CIO United Auto Worker, in an agree ment . averting . their . Ford . Motor company strike scheduled for today, were given a years graca from trike damage ault under the Taft- Hartley labor law. Thl the company agreed to In an eleventh-hour pact which aerved to keep 107,000 production worker on the Job aa a nationwide walkout, set for noon, was called off. The agreement, under which the union and company will undertake mutually to settle their dispute growing from the act's penalty pro visions, protects the union for a pe riod of a year from the date a new contract is signed. One Year Period Ford and UAW agreed to spend at least a year If necessary in order to secure a mutually satiafact- y understanding of union and com pany privileges. A Joint committee will seek this. . A Joint company-union statement announcing the agreement averting We atrike was made publle at 4:30 a. m. (EST), less than eight hours ahead of the strike deadline. The statement said the union would not be held liable for breach of contract 'ibecause c any strike or work stoppage" during the year's period. "The company," said the state ment, "will not institute any ault against the union, its officers and members in such event." In addition, the UAW-CIO waa given the "right to atrlke" on the issue If no solution were forthcom ing after "a year of deliberation and negotiations." ,. Snell Praises Liquor Board SALEM, Aug. 5 0P The Oregon liquor control "commission Is en titled to credit for its success in reducing inventories at no financial loss to the state and still with the assurance that its patrons will have available for selection a complete as sortment of standard brands of mer chandise," Governor Snell declared today. In a statement Issued in response to published insinuations that all had not been aboveboard in. a re cent sale of the commission's South ern distillery stocks, the governor said "I appointed to the commission men of character and integrity, men of proven business ability and Judg ment. . "The state is fortunate to have the benefit of their services." Snell was out of the state when the disputes arose over what several' Oregon newspapers termed "the liquor swap" deal. 19 Killed In Texas Yreck WAXAHACH1E, Tex Aug. 5 Of) Nineteen persons Including IT ne groes and two white ' men were killed in Texas' worst 1947 traffic accident at dawn today when two trucks collided on a slight curve near here. Six were injured. The white men killed, neither identified yet, were the driver of a gasoline tank truck, and a hitch hiker. The negroes were construction workers on their way to Dallas. ; Hours after the crash the trucks were still burning, and traffic on the heavily-traveled main highway to Dallas was being detoured. Highway patrol officers shot bul let holes is the tank truck to cause It to burn out more quickly. , Some of the bodies were taken to a hastily improvised orgue in a negro theatre here. The injured were In hospitals in Waxahachie nnd Ennis. , . , ,i Angea labeling thlpments ef paint
