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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1947)
rui fa fin fl JV IB mi Vi7 0)0) I n I hn llajVfews Ity 1 HANK JKNKINH CPKAKINU In Billings, Miinlanii, tha other duy, Uonoriil Klaon liuwor sulil: "II look mora mid mora as tliuuuh Ills United male will have tu ac cept a two-world cfincaiit wlwii wo have boon Burkina lor u uiio-woriu plan." ' Herbert Hoover, who will be 13 tiny alter tomorrow, provides a blunt answer, Ho says In Hun rranciscoi "Another year alter the war's ond Und llio earth wIllioiiL peace, with Hillo recovery In production, with Iiu'I'cunIiik (Iniiuor of starvation abroad mill Willi alarms ol another world wnr." Ho adds: "One nnlluil alono-Hovlct Rus sia Is responsible lor the world's present unsettled slate." DtiPOIlE disputing his slulcinciit, go bock to Uio charier meeting o( United Nullum In San Fratitiscu In rurly IIH6. Recall what happened. Into Uio structure of Die U. N charter there was Inserted Uio key tone ol tlio VI'.TO POWER. II Inserted Uou ItUMIa lint DEMAND Uio veto power or NO UNITED NATIONS. The veto power wcuKciicd lalally whatever valuo tlio structure iinuht have hud. There can bo no humor ny doubt ol that. null yourself; "Why did HiiMia one adoption ol the veto de vice?" You will need no special liuldu knowledge la active at mi inmwei. Common hurso nemo will led you thai Russia then DARED NOT op pose Uio unillod world ucmuud lor pcaca by co-oierullve pressure. The United Buu- and Uriluiu. not to inciilloii other nations, were THEN loo strong to be trilled wiUi. Ho Russia's leaden came forward with Uie bTALUNU device ol the one-nutlon veto power. In purpose was to lialn lime until tha United Htales . nd llrltalii should become weaker wiliit K unit I a became stronger. : 11 lm worked. What Ituuln played lor at Bun Francisco him come about. THAT t why, u Elsenhower tells u. wo are lorccd to "accept n two-world concept when wo nave been working lur a one-world plan." i'coco by co-operauve ellort UiroughouV Uio world U a gamo In which more Uinn one must partic ipate. Russia WONT I'LAY. Thai If being made amply plain lo us. t BRITAIN la notably weak, lor rca sons thai are generally under stood. Her war burden was ternlic. Carrying It lor six years ol shooting left her exhausted. Tu become stronger, she must havo MORK PRODUCTION. To ob lajn muro production, she has turned la socialism to the theory thnl the suto must order mid Uio Individual mini obey. As production lulls lo nwtcrlaliifc, she turns STILL FARTHER In Uie soclullsl direction. The house ol commons today ap prove.! "In principle" upon second rending, without a record vole, a bill giving lo the soclullsl govern ment I u r I i e r sweeping "crisis powers." This bill will empower Uie government to tell British men und women WHERE THEY MUST WORK. 11 empowers the state to TAKE OVKR FIRMS CONSIDERED TO ME OPERATING INEFI'IC I1SNTLY. Churchill, leader ol the conserva tive opposition, culls it a "blank rheck lor totalitarian government," To tlio urginnonl ul Its supporters that Britain fucos a crisis Unit Is llkrly to move lorwnrd swlltly mul that Uie government "must huvo power to dual drastically mid swlltly with awkward situations that muy arise," ha snaps: "Hitler suld Uiat. ' JO there you arc. , ' Hrituln Is teetering on tho ftince. The probabilities at the moment aro strong that she will go all over on the side ol "goyernmont must order; the 'Individual 'input obey." Unclor that theory, Uie Individual Is the pawn; Uie government makes the troves, We slinll fee what we shall soe. Federal Spending Figure Close To Truman Estimate WASHINGTON, Ann;. 8 W) President Trumnn's entry Into tho battle of the budKCl bolstered evi dence today that federal spending this Ilscal year as tho administra tion adds It up will bo cIoho to the otlglnnl Whlto House catlmiito of .17,600,000,000, Taking an Indirect poke at claims' of big savings by tho ropubllcnn congrosa, Mr. Truman announced that ho . has ordered a "detailed and cxhnustlvo" study of fcdoral outlays and Income , When this Is completed ho will Ishiio it rovlow and analysis of "all tho facts," presumably In tho cus tomary mid-August budgot rovlow. Administration budgot officials, Immediately after coiiRross nd, Jotinicd, said that dcsplto numer ous cuts in appropriations the gov ernment probably -will spond. fairly close to the amount estimated by Mr, Truman In hln budget mcssago last January. They spoke anony mously, to keep' out of tho political crossfire, WfATHER wr.Aiui it six. iauiiui ii .... mm l t't Hi'ttuuiliiii Ut 4 bum iu Htrvsin yr lo 1 1. If! l.l r' . ! ' Nurmsl m il Vnrwlt Kslr titilsr "! urilsr. I'HICK FIVE CENTS Plane Netherlands Ready To Reject Plan LAKE BUCCK8H, Aug. 8 l'i The Netherlands government wus report ed ready today to reject any plan lur compulsory arbltrutjon ol the Indonesian dispute, Inhumed qunrU'rs described the Dutch position us follows: 1. They n Ii Cuily had agrerd tu ac cept the "good olllces" ol the United ritiite la help settle the undeclared war. 2. They would huvo no objections to a United Nations commission to supervise Uie present truce. 3. They would accept no UN com mission either to mediate or arbi trate Uie dispute. The Netherlands views wcie mudo known as the security council put the Indonesian question aside until Tuesday alterniiou to give the dele gates a chance to study a new com munication from the Indonesian government promising creation ol un arbitration commission. Police Close Carnival Game Three carnival "games ot skill" were ordered closed by the police department Inst night utter one young niun dropped 150, later re turned by the management, trying lo pick out the right ping pong bail Jim Hlllwell, president ot Uie Junior chnmber ol commerce, snld Hint he represented Uie Jaycces lu winching one Kitme and saw rote James of the lloinnja housing unit theorelkiilly win a radio und an other small ca-ih award or two. then be talked Into a pyramiding system ol wagering In which he lost t&o, Alter a protest to Uie carnival niumuier, the money was returned wlUi an apology, but three ol Uie devices, Uie ping pong ball, a wheel and a marble guine, were ordered closed. Blllwrll suld 'Uiat he also saw another young man drop about 17 and still another around tit on the guine. , Members of the Jnyces have been at the carnival each night winching the games, and Hlllwell 'suld Unit tlio police department ordered the lid clamped down as soon i It learned what was going on under the gulsa of skill. Ho said that Uie Uuee devices ordered closed wero ol Uie "Tell-you-whul-1'm-golug - to - do" variety In which the player Is gradually built up Into taking big chances and losing. The ' carnlvnl Is booked here through Sunday, and Hlllwell snld that Uie Jnyceeif plan to Intorm Jnycee units In Eugeno, where the show Is believed to bo booked next, lo keep an eye on things up Uicfo. Stllwcll suld tho Jnycees Interest In tho matter was purely one of not liking to see the public bilked. Mrs. F. S. Sargent Dies In Spokane Word wns received hero today ol the death ol Mrs. P. 8. Siuuent on Thursday morning at nor. homo at 1734 South Lincoln street In Spo kane, Wash. Mrs. Sargent was tho mother ol Mrs. Harold H. McCov. who lived here lor several years whllo her husband was assistant manngor of tho local plant of the Wcyorhncuser Timber company. Sho was well known here, as sho had visited her daughter frequently In Klamath Palls. She had celebrated her Bind birthday In Spokane Inst week. Burial services will bo held Inter In Plormont, New Hampshire. But whllo Mr. Truman himself stilted ho would make no "hnsty predictions," other administration officials said today tholr further studies of tho now legislation bear out that conclusion ot 10 days ugo. Thoy calculate that tho congres sional savings amount lo about $1,1100,000,000, but that additional costs npt foreseen when congriiss weiiy to work In January will eat up a sizeable part of that sum and bring tho expenditures total only a fow hundreds of millions below the original $37,500,000,000 estimate, Tho new expenditures litcludo tho $400,000,000 areok-Ttirklsh aid pro gram, and tho Virtual certainly of Britain's using perhaps $500,000,000 moro of hor loan than was bud geted for this yoar. Also, congress voted expenditures of $160,000,000 for stockpiling . materials, $04,000, 000 to fight hoof-and-mouth dis ease $35,000,000 for veterans and otnor Horns which wore not In the original budget estimate, tost 20 Aboard Navy Ship In Alaska KOPIAK, Alaska, Aug, I M Wind whipped waters along the Alaska peninsula and the adjacent Aleutians today were the center ol a second days' air and ship search lor missing navy l'IIV-5-A with 20 men aboard. Nevenleenlh naval dUlrlrt head quarters said the Kodlsk based plane, with 15 passengers and a crew of five, last reported by radio at 10.4.1 a. m. Wednesday. It said It was ISO miles from Us Dutch Har bor destination, with enough gaso line fur six hours' firing. II had started the UOO-mllc fllihl at 6:20 a, ni. Krurchers held the hope that the plane might have made a safe land ing In sheltered waters along the route, with Us radio damaged. Kin Notified But the navy yeslerday notified next of kin of navy personnel that Ihey were missing. Names were be ing withheld, It was reported, until all army personnel kin were notified. At Uie lime of the plane's last radio reiwrt, visibility was about mile but It was burking heavy head winds. Weather conditions In the ares farced search plane from Kodlsk to turn back olire yeslerday, but U later Joined the hunt. The I'UY had participated In sev eral rescue missions Itself. The last one was July 8 when It picked up a critically ailing fisherman from trawler at sea. Letter Tells l(o vacs Death BUDAPEST, Aug. t W A relloble Informant said today he had seen a Soviet letter reporting Uie death ol Beta Kovucs, lormer sccretary Keuernl of the smallholders party whose arrest by the Russians pro voked protests from the United States government. The Informant said Russian Min ister O. M. Pushkin had reported the death, without specifying place or time, to Uie office ol Hungary's acting foreign minister, Erno Ml halyil. Since Kovacs was arrested by the Russians, he presumably died In a RiLvtlau prison. A spokcsuinn for Mlhnlyll said at a news 'conference today that 'nothing wus known" of the state of Kovucs' health. , Kovacs was Uiken from his home by Russian troops the night of Feb ruary 25, on charges of espionage agulnsf the red army. Members of Uie Hungarian smallholders party and later the American government charged Kovacs was arrested by the Russians only after the Hungarian communist parly had lolled to se cure his arrest on tho grounds Uiat he had plotted against Hungarian "democracy." UP Railroad Asks Damages PORTLAND, Aug. 8 (PI The Union Pacific railroad seeks $134,120 from the state of Oregon (is a result of a rock and earth slide which burled its tracks at Multnomah falls last year. In suit tiled In circuit court yes terday, the railroad alleged the state failed to tnka precautionary meas ures and as a result the rock and oar 111 slid from the state's rock pit on the hillside above the tracks. The company alleges heavy ex ponse in clearing the tracks, repair ing dnmnge and re-routing trains to tho Washington side of the river. Tlio Columbia river highway also was closed by the slide. DA's Wife ECilis Qn HOT SPRINGS, Ark.,'Aug. 8 Prosecutor Sidney S. MeMuth said his pretty 26-year-old blonde wife killed his father, Hal P. McMnth, 56, at their swank suburban homo early last night while "hysterical with fright" , . . MeMuth declared he was request ing Circuit Judge Clyde E. Brown to cull a spcoinl meeting bt tlio grand Jury to Investigate ami also was re questing appointment of a spcolal prosecutor to present Uie case. lNIeiMnlli, who spearheaded an ex servlcemcn's ticket which unseated a powerful Hot Springs organisation rust year, said the circuit Judge had Indicated ho would eomply. Brown and MeMath, a wearer of the Navy Cross earned with the marines In the Pacific, aro law partners, Hnggard, unshaven and attired In .ATI! FAI.I.H, OKKOON, HtlDAV, AUUVHT . 1047 Ilreaklasl was In the ofllng for I'epe, this little gray squirrel, at 9 on whose shoulder Pepe Is perched, found the bushy-tailed UtUe animal long ago, and the two bave since been fast friends. Body Found In Reservoir LAKEVIKW, Aug. 8 The body ol Ralph Newman, 38, who drowned lb Thompson's reservoir last Saturday, was recovered late yeslerday after noon by two Weyerhaeuser Timber company employes who had been detailed from camp 8 to make a dully search. The body was located In the water about 100 yards Irom where loot prints had indicated Uiut Newman had taken to the water In an at tempt; to swim across a narrow neck of the lake. Tom Radcllffc and E.ul Smith made the find. Radclllle was In Uie fishing party with Newman the day he drowned. i ' Sheriff Hank Caslday and District Aturney Bob Welch brought New man's body to Lakeview. His wife, from Hollywood and brother, Mar vin, from Oakdale, Calif., arrived in Lakeview yeslerday. Phones In Car Now Reality PORTLAND, Aug. 8 Wt Tele phone culls Irom nulomoblles plug ging Into the Portland exchange, will be possible within a month, Uie Pacllic Telephone and Tele graph company reported today. However, at an liuUtllaUon charge ot 'IS, monthly minimum ot t'i'i and 3D cents a call alter Uie Ural 20 if Uie utilities com mission approves Uie rate Uie number of applications is expect ed to be somewhat restricted. Initially Uie company will have equipment' to handle only 33 In-. sUUlaUons and It said the service1 would sUfft with possibly 15 or 20 subscribers, most of them commer cial vehicles. Plans call, the company reported, lor installation of additional pick up stations from Portland to Eu gene along highway 68-E and on the Columbia River highway, per mitting motorists to place calls to passing clUcs. - Driver's License Renewals Due SALEM. Aug. 8 (P "Every Ore gon driver's license numbered be tween 5R-66.000 and 5R-09.000 must be renewed this month," Secretary of State Robert S. Pnrrell Jr., re minded Oregon motorists today. Li censes with serial numbers lower than 54-666,000 have been void for somo time, he declared. Schedules showing, when licenses become Invalid arc available free at service and police stations, sheriff's offices or from driver's license clerks or txamlners. I rumpled shu t and trousers, McMMh handed reporters a prepared state ment covering the investigation of the shooting. The shooting first was reported by the young prosecutor's wife, at exacUy 7 p, m. (CST) and McMnth's statement was the first official prondtmpement covering the affair. v 'l'raglo Occurrence McMntlVs account: "This is a tragic occurrence. I grieve for my fnUier, my moUicr, my children and my wife. "My father has been running my farm, coming: to tho form In the morning and returning to his home In Hot Springs In the evening, For years he has been an excessively heavy drinker. When he drank, like many men, he underwent a change In character. Lately ho has been (Telephone Sill) Round-The-World Plane Leaves Cairo For Karachi CAIRO, Aug. 8 WP Pilot William P. Qdom, a third of the way along on his elfort to set a new solo record around Uie world, left Cairo today at 6:39 p. m. (11:39 a. m. Eastern Standard Time) for Karachi, India. The former British ferry com mand airman, now living in Roslyn, N. Y., was only 23 hours 46 minutes out ol Chicago, his starting point, as he headed down the 2200-mile leg to Karachi, He was trying to cut to 90 hours or less the 186-hour record lor a solo Illght around Uie world set by Wiley Post In 1933. Odom spent only 55 minutes In Carlo retuellng. He arrived Irom Parts .at, &:44 p,.ra, and said. he.had averagea aDout 4j roues an nour ou Uie hop from t France In perfect Rising Mercury Forecast Here Afternoon temperatures hovering In the 80 s, blue skies, and sunshine are tic optimistic weather forecast made today by the state weather bureau. . Klamath people, noting the grad ual lowering of night temperatures, will have ae least one more nice week-end for their summer excur sions belore nippy fall weather gives added appeal to a cozy chair and a good book. The mercury dropped to 44 de grees on Uie CAA weather station's official thermometers in the wee, smell hours of Friday morning. At 12:30 today the temperature was at 73. Employment Hits Record WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 OP). Civilian employment mounted to a new all-Ume record of 60,079,000 In July, the census bureau reported today. Joblessness climbed also, reach ing 2,584,000 as students, sought summer work and graduates hunt ed Uieir first Jobs. This was 29,000 above June. The month was the second in which the working force topped 60,000,000 tho "full employment" goal as defined by former Vice President Henry A. Wallace. July employment topped June, the pre vious high, by 24,000 workers. Counting those In the armed forces, the nation's July total of Job holders was 62,664,000.. drinking more and more. Drinking caused him to become Irrational, abuslvo and violent "Monday when I was In court in Mt Ida nij wife, Anne, had to call the sheriff's office after he (tho elder MoMath) had maltreated and badly bruised her, "I arrived at the samo time the sheriff's deputies did, 'Anne wns badly shaken and frightened when I got to her, I at once took my father In hand and as soon as he was able we discussed Uie situation. He agreed with me that he needed medical treatment. Arrangements for proper care and hospitalization for him were to be completed this week, s. Started Drinking ..."Yesterday he started drinking again after I had left town. He No. 7i r o'clock this morning. Jerry Hayden, In the woods at Fort Klamath not ' weather. Gander, Nfld., was his only stop before he hit Paris. Tall winds were promised to help on Uie India leg. The 8 foot 2 inch flier. 27 years old, left Paris at 11:39 a. m., Cairo time (4:39 a. m.. Eastern Standard Time) after a stop of 91 minutes to take on 2000 gallons of gasoline, he got 1200 gallons of gasoline in an hour's stopover last night at Gander, his first landing after leaving Chi cago at 12:53 p. m., Eastern Stand ard Time yesterday. His flying lime to Cairo was 19 hours 20 minutes. The trip here covered about 6500 mile ol the 10.600 mile route he charted around the World.. He flew around Uie world last April In 78 hours 55 ' minutes but not alone. Milton Reynolds, Chicago manufacturer, -and T. Car roll Salee. accompanied him then in the same plane. Odom looked fresh as he climbed out of the cockpit at Farouk field here. He said he had averaged about 285 miles an hour, Including time aground, since be left Chicago. He estimated Uiat his average speed since leaving Chicago was about 20 miles an hour faster than on his previous trip with Reynolds. He said Uie weather had been per fect all Uie way. Police Probe Indian Death Turning back rumors that Uiere was something that didn't meet Uie eye In Uie death of Jlmmie Chock toot, 42-year-old Klamath Indian In the main government canal Wednes day night, state police today said Chocktoot definitely drowned by ac cident after a day of hard drink ing. ' . . According to police report of their InvesUgaUon. Chocktoot and his wife, Vivian Tupper, ore believed to have consumed two quarts of cheap whiskey and two quarts of bay rum Wednesday. They also ore suposed to have given a bootlegger $4.50 for another bottle of whiskey, but the booUegger pocketed the $4.50 and didn't live Up to his end of the sale. There have been several reports Uiat Chocktoot was seen fighting with an unidentified man at the canal a short time before he drowned, but the body was examined closely at Ward's Funeral Home and no marks of violence were found. The police theory is Uiat Chock toot fell down the bank of the canal and slid on his back, head first into the water, and was unable to get out. His wife was not able to pull him out, either, and it finally took two patrolmen to get the body from .the water. Frighv returned to our home In my absence. He started mistreating one of our horses. Anne pleaded with him to stop. He became enraged and violent and threatened to kill the horse. He also threatened her. "She ran Into the house to get away from him. -He followed her, threatening and cursing and with his fist clinched. She picked up my ,45 automatic, which r keep in my desk, with the Idea of frightening him away. "He started Into Uie house after her. Ann knew he was not himself. She became hysterica, with fright arid bega.i firing. Anne had never fired a weapon before In her life. I know she did not Intend to kill my father, because she loved him as we all did, Sho would not have Inten tionally killed even to save her own life." t Tempers As Committee Issues Order WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 fAV-Senator Ferguson (K-Mleh.) capped bitter verbal exchange with Howard Hughes today by Issuing a subpoena for private document and papers Hughes has In a downtown hotel. Ferguson's actldn, as chairman of the senate war invesUgaUng sub committee, came after Hughes had refused to produce John Meyer, hi publicity man, and had said he would make available from his paper! only those cleared by his attorneys. A subpoena also was Issued for Shouting that "we're not going structed committee aides to Issue a supposed to be in custody of one a of the Hollywood millionaires au ditors in a downtown hotel room. Personal Property Noah Dietrich, who heads Hughes' Tool company, told the committee that, although he had been serv ed with a subpoena to produce the documents, he legally does not have possession of them because they comprise Hughes' personal papers. "Do yon have those papers Ferguson demanded of Hughes. "I don't have them on my' per son. If that is what you mean," Haghes retorted, as spectators roared with laughter. Banging a ' gloss ash tray on the committee table, Ferguson shouted: "Don t try to get smart with this committee." . As the committee recessed for lunch, Francis Flanagan, its assist ant counsel, served upon Hughes a subpoena to produce the records of his financial affairs. Flanagan said Uie subpoena was for Uie records of Hughes' personal account, Including his checking ac count Ferguson told reporters that a previous subpoena for Meyer had expired last night He said com mittee aides last night asked Meyer to be present today and he BgTeed to be on hand, but did not appear. "We trusted him and we shouldn't have," Uie chairman said. Flanagan said that committee investigators were hunting Meyer In an attempt to serve the second subpoena on the publicity agent T. A. Slack, Hughes attorney. said: . "I have no idea where Meyer Is." Food Control To Continue WASHINGTON. aIuj. 8 UP) The United Nauons food and agricul ture organization said today the :ohoieis another' year of govern mental controls over food exports and imports or a possible serious political and social blowup in Eu rope. In a report prepared for its an nual meeting opening at Geneva August 25, the FOA called for ex tension of a system of International collaboration In dividing scarce foods among shortage areas. Dnder. this system due to ex pire December 31 unless extended by Uie more than 30 nations volun tarily cooperaUng the governments rather than commercial agencies largely control movements of foods. Stating that world food produc tion has not recovered as quickly as had been expected and Uiat many areas face even slimmer diets next yest than this. Uie FAQ said global action must be intensified to prevent possible starvation, par ticularly In Asia. Bookies Using Eternal Flame PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 8 P Bookmakers have adopted' the eter nal flame principal as an evidence destroying device, members of Uie police Vice squad said today. Detectives said that in raiding a West Philadelphia garage yesterday they came upon a large metal can containing a lighted burner and a similar one in a second floor room. Both cans contained the ash remains of what the raiders believe were betUng slips and several other papers Keie found on the floor nearby, ap parently dropped in haste as police entered. PINE IP PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 8 UP) Western pine orders, shipments and productio i were up in the week ended Aug. 2, the Western Pine as sociation reported today although shipments ind production were be low those for the comparable period last year. Reinforcements Rushed To Uncontrolled Tujunga f ire LOS ANGELES. Aug. 8 liPi-r-Re- inforcements of 150 firefighters, par achuted to Condor peak in the An geles National forest, Joined in the battle today as the big Tujunga canyon brush ond light timber fire raged uncontrolled for its fourth day. Early today the blaze had crept down the canyon to within one and one-half miles of the small com munity of Tujunga and U. S. Ranger M. W. Dunham said the burned-over area now totaled approximately 4200 acres. . An effort was made yesterday to create rain by artificial methods above the burning area where two have died and the list of injured reached some 75. The Los Angeles Times, with the aid 'of scientists, arranged to have dry ice dropped from a plane on, a cloud In an attempt, which proved unsuccessful, to Induce showers. The Flare Meyer. to argue with you," Ferguson In subpoena to seize Hughes' paper No U.S. Films For Britain NEW YORK. Aug. (JP) Erlo Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, an nounced today directors of the Mo tion Picture Export assoclaUon had voted to discontinue Immediately shipments of American feature film and short subjects to England. Johnston said the ban would con tinue Indefinitely. The action came after the British government had authorized the Im position of an import tax on films which the organization estimates will absorb 75 per cent of the earn ings of American films In Great Britain. The vote came In the course of a closed three-hour session attended by 50 executives of the motion pic ture Industry. At its conclusion Johnston Issued the announcement and said: , "This tax In effect strangles Amer ican film shipments to England. "If the British do not want Amer ican pictures, that's one thing. If they do, they shouldn't expect to get dollar's worth of film for quarter. And that's exactly what the tax will do." Object Found UnderWater VANCOUVER, B. C. AUg. 8 (CP) The RCN frigate Antlgonish report ed today that it had located an "object about 12 feet high" lying In 60 feet of water off Prevost Island In the Gulf of Oeorgla. The frigate has. . been sweeping; the area with, asJlc equipment for wreckage of th trans-Canada airliner missing since) April 28 with 15 persons aboard. "It could be anything," RCAP of ficials said as navy divers prepared to make a descent In the fast-moving, treacherous waters that have hamm ered the search. 'We do not want to raise hone that it may be the TCA airliner." Located near Active pass on tho route used by the Vancouver-Vls-toria boats, Uie island has long been' the scene of report of "rising oil" by lighthouse keepers on the Island. Crater Accident Fatal To Three MEDFORD. Auk a (iPi-il of Uie four passengers in a car that piungea. on tne crater Lake high way into a eorze last Mnnrfnv re mained alive today. Mrs. Estella H. King, 60, Spring City, Pa., died In a hospital yester day of accident intm-ipa TV, ,n other victims Mr. and Mrs. William a. Hoiiman, Beaver Falls, Pa., brother-in-law and sister of Mrs. King -succumbed earlier. The Hoffmans' grandson, 13-year-old Phillip H. Hoffman, only other OCCUDant Of the CAr. VM nmnrtoA somewhat Improved today, though sun in serious conamon. Fire Destroys Yamsay Timber Over 35 acres of virgin Ponderosa pine In the little Yamsay unit of the Klamath Indian reservation were burned over, before the fire which broke out Thursday morning was brought under control. . Crews working to put out the blaz ing timber fire reported It controlled at 9 p. m. Thursday and the mopping up process was in operation Friday morning In the region. A majority of the logs can be sal vaged usually in a fire of this type, forest authorities advise, and slight lost is expected. paper explained that a "single cumulus cloud failed, to cooperate." The attempt was made because, of recent such rain-making successes In Arizona. At an altitude. of 14,000 feet a plane made five sweeps across the top of the cloud, dumping from 60 to 120 pounds of powdered dry Ice each time. Scientists explained that the cloud was not high enough to be in the freezing level where such an experiment might have proved successful. Firefighters, aided by a wind change, were able to halt flame which had reached within half mile of 20 homes In the Twin Peak area. Approximately 1000 men were fighting the fire on all fronts. Forest Supervisor William V. Men denhall's aides said the fire wa definitely out of control on the west side of Big Tujunga and wa still a threat on the east tide. 1
