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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 7, 1947)
mm HA Lra I'm Tl- 1 n .,, lay's lens lly FRANK JENKINH a lhso word hi written, there " Un't much In the newii of today that OOKfl riOOMI There U MUOH that Is ilgnlflrant. (The trouble with "significant" iirwn I tluil It calls utioii un to think, Mid thinking makes our heads hurt.) JN England, Premier Atllee la facing up to tough Job mid In doing the beat he cull with Inadequate tool, lie li trying to ninkn aiiolitl lam produce the TIUNOH that UNI lilt people, accualonicd before the war to a fairly high atandard of living, want. Socialism l beautiful dream, ap pealing strongly to Impractlrul peo ple who havo become accustomed to ell Uie no-called comforts of modern liidiutrlitl clvllluitlon but don't want to HAY TIIK I'Ult'K-whlch U wfgk end planning mid Uirn making flJiings come out aa planned. That, v loo, takes thinking nnd Ahlhkliig, a we already remarked In Thla piece, uuikea nor hernia hurt. Effective, mnklnii-thlngii-w o r k-out ihlnklng and plnimliig cuta too deep ly Into the hnura when we d rather be out having ouraelvra a whale of a time. The trouble with auelallain la that It ronrenu llaelf too much with DIVIDING UP and too Utile with HKOUUCTION. HuclallaU, who In the main are loveabte, more or leu Irreaponalble, iMxiplc. alwaya arem to forget thai before Uilnga ran be divided up they have to be pro duced. HTT1.KE, acutely aware that British people want more thlnga (espe cially more food, more rluthea and more hnuaca to replace Ihone Ulat were bomted out during the wan and equally aware, even though he head anclalut government, that theae thlnga nnut be produced be fore they can be poueued, aay In a rather remarkable ieech In Uie houae of commoiu: "There haa been a failure on the part of aome workera to real Ire that shorter houra and higher wagra nnut be matched by O HEATER EJTOIIT." i That li to nay. this mu.it be done IP the Urltlbh people are to have the thlnga thry want, if they are willing to go on doing progressively without the thlnga they want but aren't producing, thry ran prob ably muddle through aomehow, In a skimpy, hungry economy i ... TN an effort to grasp the full Im port of what Altlee la trying to tell hl people, let a are II We can aim pllfy the situation . The modern In dustrie! aystrra U ao complex tliat when we look at la aa whole It confuse tu. Mo lel'a go back to the old desert taland illustration Buppoae you and aay two oilier people are caat away ou turn an laland, There will be no alorea, where you can go and buy what you wait when you want It. But, being crcaturea of habit and money being one of the moat firmly Imbedded of our modern hablla, you may decide that you have to have MONEY be fore you can get ahead. 80 you agree that you will uae shells that you pick up on the beach for money. Having got Ulat far. It will occur to you Immediately (ihlnklng along the lines to which you have becomo accuatomed In Uie modern civiliza tion from which you were snatched by the accident of shipwreck) that you can raise your wnges as often ' and aa high aa you please and can arrange your hours In any manner you choose and make Ulcm as short as your fancy dictates. There will be nobody to kick. There will be no wicked boss around to any to you when you hit him up for a raise: "Hell, nol I can't afford It." If you want to kid yourselves that you're rich by the simple device of setting your dally whko at a thousand sheila, with double lime for hollduys, you enn go ahead and do It. If two thousand shells a day make you feel richer still, why, put the scnle up to two thousand shells and throw In triple pay for jover time. y Who cares? Then) lit plenty of shells on the bench. TJPo this point, everything will be lovely and the goose will hung high. You'll wonder why nobody ever thought of this before, and pnt yourselves on the buck for being grent thinkers. IT will all work beautifully UNTIL 1 YOU GET HUNGRY. When you begin to get hungry, you will make for yourselves the fundamental economic discovery which up to now you'vo regarded as simply the wicked doctrine, of ex ploiters that unless you flslf harder, longer and mora Intelligent ly and climb more trees to get more (Citnllnneil en I'afB S, Column Hl Plane Crashes Into Flaming Waste-Gas Burner, Carrying Four To Fiery Death EVERETT. Mass., Aug. 7 (IV-A small airplane plunged out of a fog shrouded sky early today Into a flaming waste-gas burner of a mon ster oil plant carrying to fiery death the ships four socially promi nent oocupnnls aa the pilot appar ently thought he was shooting down Into brlghlly-lll Boston airport. Tho dead were: Thomas Mnndell, 411, treasurer of Urn Ciii'i'lor-Mimdoll Air Condition ing Gni'poi'iitlou or Boston unci son of the Into George S. Mundcll, pub lisher of the old Boston Transcript, Mnndell's two debutnnto daugh ters Anne. 33. nnd Harriot. 10. both I of Boston. Pilot NoInoii Pel), 33-ycur-olrt vet eran filer and member of a social ly prominent Long Island, N. Y family. WEATHER M.i.'lAuiu.i III an 4I. . Irrlilulla lail II kauri swum Mar ! Il l .I rear . 11.4a Nalmal II.SO Itrtiiaill rtlr (Hilar, Irlaay. I'lllCE flVK CENTS 46 Units On Coppeck Bay In Opening The reclamation hureau has de cided on 4.(1 humratead unlla, em bracing 3100 acres of land, tor the (upper bay opening alalrd for late thla year. Thla reprmenta less than half of the land scheduled for eventual homestead entry In the Coppeck bay dlatrlrt. but today's announce ment confirms reporta aome weeka ago that the bureau did not expect to get the entire area ready for thla year's opening, Copieck bay lira neur the 7400 acre unit oil Tulelnke where SO veterans who won farma In the drawing last December are now growing good crops of barley, aeed clover, alfalfa and potatoes. The Coppeck bay land Is rich Tule lake bottom land. October I Dale Regional director Richard L. Dke of Uie reolamatlon service an nounced that the official statement on the opening will be made about October 1 and receipt of applica tions will close DO days Uiereafter. While anyone may apply. World War II veterans will have prefer ence until the end of the M-day period. Veterans wishing to make appli cations for the farm units should request blanks from the V. H. Rec lamation bureau offices In Klamath t-'alla or Sacramento. Application forma will be sent them shortly after October I. Moke said that veterans who have requested home stead Information since the close of the filing for the 1046 Tulelake opening IriepU li. I00 or veter ana on older mailing data who have returned earda sent them by tne bureau -signifying their intcreat In new openings, should not write In aialn. Thry are already on the mailing Hate. The Tule lake (Coppeck buy) opening Is one of five now going on or soon to start. totalniK 30.000 acres. The others are In Wyoming and Arltona. Fir Log Too Big For Mill COOS BAY, Ore., Aug. 7 i' A huge Douglas fir log so big It can not be handled by one of Oregon's largest mills will be blasted In two so It can go up the conveyor to Uie saws. The 38-foot stick Is 110 Inches In diameter Just one Inch short of 10 feet. Ralph Llljeberg. Coos Buy Lumber company mill foreman, snld It was Uie largest he had seen in 14 years' experience. Llljeberg said blnck powder would be used to split the log In the mill pond. .Felled In Uie Sltkum forest and brought here by rail, the log con tains 13.5.13 board feet of lumber by the Doyle Bcrlbner scale enough to build three five-room houses. Old Ford Still Plugging Along DETROIT. Aug. 7 m All 81-yenr-ald Seattle couple on a cross country auto trip gnve their 1031 model T Pord a rest today while they toured tho Ford Motor Co. domain here in luxurious, 1047 limousines. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hlclschcr, who arrived yesterday doing a snnppy .30 miles an hour In their ancient auto, were the guests of the Ford company on a visit to the Rouge plant and Greenfield vil lage. The octoRcnarlans have set Nova Scotia as the goal of their 15.000 mlle excursion and will bo hoping for 41 "good tallwlnd" which they report helps them to burn up the roads at 30 miles an hour. Flying the Mandells back from Montreal, Pell Is believed to have be come lost In the murky early morn ing fog and to havo mistaken the lights flaring atop huge gasoline stills of the Hcneon Oil company for those of an airport, fire officials said, WWItncsHcs snld that tho small Stlnson tilrcinft its motors silent dropped Into tho mouth of the chlm-noy-llko fiiiiinto "like- a dead pig eon" nf Lor uiuTowly mlslng scvcrnl towering tanks containing high ex plosive petroleum products. The furnace resembling a huge brick alio rises about SO feet In the middle of the oil plant. The small plane was completely swallowed up aa It dropped Into the 20-foot wide "field burner." TH l-O1 dOV.O'J" o imm An unidentified woman (foreground) Ilea amid twisted timbers at the Good Time park, Goshen, N. Y after aome temporary stands collapsed Just before the start of the Ilambletonlan trotting races. At least 61 persons were injured, but none believed critically AP Wlrephoto. Power Back . After Break PORTLAND, Aug. T.MT Power service was back nearly to normal In downtown Portland today after a series of explosions that Jarred S. W. SixUi avenue business build ings and knocked out electrical con nections. One after another 11 manhole covers sailed Into the air from the explosions yesterday. A few pe destrians fell flat on Uie crowded sidewalks. The rest ran for cover. Only four suffered injuries, all of minor nature. A short-circuit In an under ground line was blnmed for Uie explosions, which cut three power lines and knocked out an under ground substation. Firemen bat tled underground flames for an hour after. Some building elevators stopped. Theatres went black. Two radio stations were off the air for a while.' Publication of the Oregon Ian and Journal editions was dc layed. Service was restored later as Uie Pacific Power A: Light com pany brought In power by alternate lines. "Pipe Down" . Quiets Pipes SEATTLE, Aug. 7 W') Pipe down, police ordered. 80 His Majesty's consul to the grent Northwest, George E. Vaughn, Rcnr Adm. Ralph Wood. u.s.N. (Rot.) and Robert Gillespie, busi nessman, and Gillespie's son. Bruce, promptly stopped their midnight bagpipe music. "Our Scottish highland gnmes nrc Saturday," explained John L. Scott their host, n promlnont renltor, to policemen summoned by neighbors. Wo re way behind on our practice. "But we'll stop and .apologise to our neighbors." Admiral Wood was beating n drum and the other three were skirling- 0' the pipes, Scott said to day. It was between midnight and 1 a. m. In the morning. An explosion rocked the area as the .plane crushed. Tho body of one girl fell between the outer and Inner walls of the great twin-walled brick and steel cylinder. The other three plunged Into the red-hot flaming in terior mid were burned beyond re cognition within a few minutes. , Tho Mundcll plnne was nn hour and a halt ovorciuc, nt the Beverly airport 15 miles away when It crashed, leading flro officials to spe culate Pell was' attempting an emer gency lnnding. Any chance to save the quartet was hopeless, Wasto gas being pumped Into the furnace was quick ly shut off and then through emer gency doors workers dragged with long poles and hooks to recover the remains of the victims as the inter ior cooled. . ".J -tl.LH, OREGON, T1IUKHDAY, AlGLhT 7, 1947 (Telephone (111) . No. 1103 - : ftmfrol Owr Steels Race Track Stands Collapse Briton Blames Rising U.S. Prices For British Crisis IX)NDON. Aug, 7 iPh-A BrIUsh oiflclul blamed rising American prices and "the rapidly Increasing surplus of U. S. exports over U. 8. imports" today for Uie sudden wor sening of Britain's economic crisis. Britain's plight Is linked to a "worldwide dollar famine" caused by America's selling to foreign countries more than twice as much as she buys, the chancellor of Uie exchequer, Hugh Dnlton, told Uie house of commons. Dalton was replying to criticisms by conservatives and left wing so cialists that the labor government "squandered" the $3,750,000,000 U. S loan and that Prime Minister Attlce's new work-more-and-eat less program promised "too UtUe, too Inte." , Dalton disclosed that because of Canada's dollar shortage Uie United Canadian purchases and draw on Its Canadian credit for Uie other fifty per cent of the costs. The lcftwlngers were discontented from the U. S. loan lor h"if of Its Kingdom has agreed to pay dollars Gunshot Hurts Macdoel Man The , Klamath ' Ambulance scrvlceN received a call at 3 p. m.. Wednes day, to go to Macdoel, Calif., after a man who was believed to have been accidentally shot while sitting in an automobile In front of the Ideal restaurant. The man. brought to Hillside hos pital for trentment, gnve his name ns Glenn W. McKlnnls. 39, of Ash Innd. Hospital attendants say that he Is suffering from a chest wound, but Is not seriously Injured. Rctha Patterson, slster-ln-lnw of McKlnnls, and Donas Edscl were In the restaurant and heard the shot outside. McKlnnls is snld to have kvnlked Into the restaurant and the ambulance was called. Landing Craft Blows Up BREMERTON, Aug. 7 (Pi A small landing craft converted to private use exploded while taking on petroleum supplies at the Stan dard Oil company dock here today. Injuring six persons, all of whom were rescued from the water where they were thrown by the blost. j Taken to local hospitals were: Elroy McCnu, 'of Bremerton, iiiavy ' vafd fireman and the boat's owner: I Dr. Duncan C. MncLcnnnn, a minis ter: Mrs. MncLennan, his wife; their daughter, Janet: Stanley Allen and his son, Stanley Allen Jr Addresses of Uie victims were not Immediately available, Jack Lcnliait of Bremerton, who was standing about 50 yards from the boat when It exploded, said Uie heat wns so Intense that his shirt collar was burned In two places. The boat was virtually, demolished, he said, adding that a navy tug nearby extinguished the dock fire which followed the blast. because Uie announced reduction In Britain's armed forces, under Uie new plan would leave, more than 1.000,000 men. under arms by next spring far more than Uie reduced number they have been advocating ever since they attacked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's foreign policy last November. The conservative opposition blast ed the Attlee program on the ground that It was "too little, too late." They made three specific points in their criticism: 1. They said Uie government was dealing with Uie crisis too hurried ly, at too late a time. 2. They said Uie plan was not de tailed enough. 3. They said Uie government had failed to give Uie country a full statement of the peril it faces. Chemult Auto Court Sold The Chemult Auto court is be ing purchased by a Bend business man in one of Uie largest property transactions of recent weeks In Klamath county, recordings at the county clerk's office reveal. Purchaser is Chester E. Taylor and the seller Is Arthur J. Farla. The selling price was $31,500. Included In the sale were eight cabins, a restaurant and filling sta tion, all furnished. Faria agrees not to open a restaurant or auto court in Chemult for three years. Also being bought by Taylor Is some property across the highway owned by Joe Bcllavane for $9000. Goose Held As Wonderful Pet. NEW YORK. Aug. 7 (iPi Some men take dogs for pets, a few take cnts. but Harry Brown will take a gander. A he-goose, that is. Snapper, now 10 years old. is such a friend-maker for Brown's poultry market that an Insurance company will pay Brown $100 If Snapper com mits suicide or is lost through "war. Invasion, rebellion, insurrection, selsure or abduction." The gander loves children, says Brown. But he hates: the telephone; the color bluer Jake. Brown's boy assistant: all uniforms: the Scots man next door. Cat Clean But Very, Very Dizzy CHICAGO. Aug. 7 These postwar improvements in home appliances are too much for a certain Chlqago cat. This tnbby spied an open new type side-door washing machine In the home of Its mistress, nnd decided the soiled clothes would make a good bed. i Later' the mistress dropped some more laundry In the ma chine and turned on .the motor. When she stopped the washer a half hour later, a very clean but dizzy cat staggered out, and went looking for a new, safer sleeping place. Exports To Be Limited By Ruling WASHINGTON. Aug. 7 iPj The United HUtes will revert October 1 to Its strict wartime controls over steel export. These require government ap proval of both the country to re ceive the metal and the oae there to which It la to be put. Since shortly after the war Amer ican exporters have been permitted to lump their orders and ask per mission to ship a specific tonnage. M. E. Sweeney, chief of the com merce department's export control division over general products, told a reporter today the return to Uie wartime allocation method is neces sary because of Uie large sums Uie United States Is spending on foreign reconstruction. Rebuilding First First consideration In issuing ex port licenses, Sweeney said, will be given to requests for shipments aimed at rebuilding basic industries most likely to move Uie purchasing nations back Into financial good health. Since the policy could result in- direcUy, however, in coloring the industrial pattern of nations now dependent on American steel, the commerce department is preparing to consult with foreign governments on that score as welL. In explaining the decision to clamp tighter controls over steel pro duct, bweeney said: "For the basic Industries of Europe we would rather ship them, for in stance, can making plants than tin plate with which to can their per ishable foods. On the other hand, we'd rather send them tin-plate than keep on sending food. An we'd also rather send them tractors to pro duce., their own fond. Our whnlp i tirivm ' I tn ant thm Hanlr tt -ten- ducing tor themselves." Globe-Girdling Flight Starts CHICAGO. Aug. 7 (Pi William P. Odom, 27-year-old former British ferry command officer, took off at 12:53 p. m. (CDT) today in his con verted twin-engine army bomber In an effort to halve Uie late Wiley Post's 1933 solo globe circling time record. While a handful of spectators at Douglas airport shouted good wishes, Odom. piloting Uie "Rey nolds Bombshell," started off on the twice-postponed flight with a bag of chicken sandwiches and some fresh oranges and tomatoes. The plane, with about a two thirds load of gasoline, gained alti tude swiftly, circled Uie field, and headed toward Gander. Newfound land, the first scheduled stop, aided by a 30 mile an hour tallwind. UN Speeds Balkan Query LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. 1 VP) Spurred on by Greece's warning that she would be swept into the Russian sphere unless the United Nations acted, security council delegates to day explored new avenues in efforts to reach agreement on quelling Bal kan disorders. Greek Ambassador Vassili Den dramls said Russia's veto of the American plan for a watch-dog com mission in Uie troubled Balkans clearly indicated Moscow's aim. "The object is to give Uie appear ance of a solution and to lull the world into a false sense of security until it is too late until one more country has been reduced to vas salage," Dendramls told the dele gates last night In one of the blunt est attacks ever made on Russia in the council chamber. ' Fire Fighters Battle Blaze A fire burning on the Klamath In dian reservation" had covefed about four acres of virgin timber In the Little Yamsay unit by noon today, according to reports. The Klamath Forest Protective as sociation got news of Uie, fire from the lookout on Bear buttb at 10:12 a. ni. Thursday and sent two men Immediately to Investigate. The blaze was too much for this limited crew and the Indian service fire fighters wero called to assist. Tho Indian service plane was circling the location, guiding volun teer assistants to the spot. Reports Find ! '.i Dr. F. Bruce Russell, a reUred Los Angeles psychoanalyst, is pic tured in Los Angeles aa he de scribed his discovery on the Colo rado deaert of what be described aa an ancient cifllizaUon, whose men were eight or nine feet talL AP wirepboto. Santiago Hit By Earthquake HAVANA. Aug. 7 Oft One man died of a heart attack and thirty persons suffered Injuries as the sit; of Santiago was shaken six Umes yesterday afternoon and last night by earthquakes. The populace of Cuba's second city (pop. 120.000) remained out of doors all night in fear that their homes would collapse. Most of the city's houses showed cracks today as s result of the earth's movement. The first tremor was felt at 3:03 p. m. (EST) yesterday and the last at 12:45 a. m. today. Most of the Injuries were classified as light. Jews Decree WorkStoppage . 'JERUSALEM. Aug. 7 OPr-Jewish leaders decreed a complete three hour work stoppage this afternoon in protest against the internment by British authorities of three Jewish mayors and some 40 other Jews for Uie avowed purpose of checking ter rorism. Violence continued meanwhile. British authorities announced that 12 oil tank cars were wrecked by a mine explosion at Ras El Ain, be tween Tel Aviv and Haifa. The blast ripped up 300 yards of railway track, but caused no casualties, the an nouncement said. An extraordinary meeting of Vaad Leuml (Uie Jewish national council) and other leaders decided upon Uie work stoppage in the Jewish areas of Uie Holy Land. They ordered all Jewish traffic halted and all Jewish shops, restaurants and places of amusement closed from 3 p. m. to 5 p. m. Student, Teacher Killed In Crash KELSO. Wash., Aug. 7 (IP) A student pilot and his instructor were killed yesterday when their light plane, engine sputtering, crashed in. to a pasture a quarter-mile from Uie Kelso airport Allen Blackwell, 21, Kelso, Uie stu dent, was Instantly killed and the Instructor, David E. Davidson, Long view, died later in a Longview hos. pltal from internal injuries. 9 o'clock I L. ;2J i iw it i Though the harvest season Is not In full swing, farmers are begin ning to deliver grain to the Pacif le Cooperative warehouse on Spring street, the 9 o'clock photog discovered this morning. In the picture Lee Pool Is shown dumping a sack of grain from his track Into a hopper to be carried to the proper ' ' . . -.'r i Hughes Hits At Brewster Testimony WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (If) Howard Hughe today challenged Senator Brewster (K-Me.) to re peat under oath a press statement by Brewater that an airline hoateas was afraid to travel alone with Hughes In his private airplane. Tbe plane manufacturer iaaoed the challenge after Inviting the senate war investigating commit tea to stack againat each other the records of Brewater and Hughs) for "telling tha truth." Hoghe referred to the alrlln hoatea Incident a a "smear ram paign." And he said the senators ought to look at their reputations when deciding whether he or Brewster Is telling the truth In their con troversy over an airlines merger proposition. Denies Charge With both under oath, Hughes has charged and Brewster had de nied that the senator once offered to call off Uie senate investigation of Hughes' $40,000,000 wartlm plane contracts if ha (Hughes) . would agree to merge his Trans World Airlines with Pan Ameri can. Hughe said that after he bad revealed that his private airplane carried Brewster and Senator Bricker IR-Obio) from Washing ton to Columbus, O., last February, that Brewster told newsmen In Washington that a TWA hostess on this ride had confided that "an absolutely refused to be alone with me." "I wonder why It was necessary ' to bring Uie name of this girl Into this." Hughes said. Then he offered a sworn affi davit by Harriet Applewlck, a TWA hostess, which termed the Brew ster charges "absolutely untrue." He asked that Senator Brewster be requested to answer this ques tion: "Are you willing to state under oath whether you made the state ment to the press?" To Reply Later Chairman Ferguson (R-Mlch.) accepted affidavits of Miss Apple wick and M. E. Bell, captain of Uie Hughes ship, and Indicated Brew ster would get V chance to reply . later. The hearing was punctuated by frequent flare-ups of tamper. Once, Ferguson accused Hughes of "try liig to .discredit?', the committee.;,; The" outburst from the chairman of Uie subcommittee came after Hughes during a turbulent session in Uie witness chair: Accused Uie committee of being "unfair" by firing cross, questions at him but not at Senator Brew ster (R-Me.) whom Hughes charges once attempted to "blackmail" him Into agreeing to an airlines merger. Called a "pack of lies" Brew ster's denial that there Is any truth In Uie "blackmail" story.- Finally. Ferguson flared np.- "We appreciate what you are trying to do here indicates clearly you are trying to discredit the committee," Ferguson said in measured phrases. "That means the Integrity of the United States senate Is at stake." Medford Youth Is Fire Hero ' EPHRATA. Wash.. Aug: 7 () A 22-year-old Medford, Ore., war vet eran, Gerlad Fierllng. was credited today with saving Uie lives of five persons, including three children! from a fire which swent through a six-unit temporary apartment house here yesterday. Clad only in bathing trunks, Fier llng guided the panic-stricken sur vivors to safety while the flames ate at the building. All of his own house hold furnishings were destroyed: ' Officials of the bureau of reclama tion, which operated the building, estimated damage at $20,000. Special I.
