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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1948)
ftIA fo) i a, ' Dip Jews 11 HUNK JCNKINN ITALY In III Uio Mown uuulii. Pur nine diiys tlmin linn been stubborn aliike ul uo.imio bunk work era. Thla niiirnliiit's Iconic dlaputches any II Ihri'iitcha to grow Into fiome lliliiic IIKIUKIt maybe the r.oin munlala' lohu-ruiiioml nationwide general atiikc. Myaterliiu prcimiiitioni. Hie uluot In Ituine. ItoAU lll.OCKH have boon Uiblulird un aovcral niuln highwaya leading Into llio city. MoUtl burra cut limn barbed who have been atrown In homo of tlio clty'a alronla iprrnmnubly lu flatten Uio Urea ol patrolling Jrrpvl WATCH 11. Ths coiiiiiiuiiIMii, b.olly In kc J In Ktmie ft wlulo buck, uro probably reforming Ulclr Intra uud picpurliiu for another aaaault on luily'a Mill 'lliuky iiovrriiinriit. Thai la lo auy, lliey 1IAVKNT CIIVKN Ul'. Alio wolili Franco. '1 lie coin munlala (line arc aimpltinuiily ''quiet, ll'a hard to believe tliey have thruwn III thti apoiige. mE Irani from Washington loony Hint we're glvliiK Tin key tour of our beal aiibmarlitra unit arc prrpnrlnit to give alx to Ciieece. tWheii you to iirrvotu. you allp guns to your frlcnda to uie auulhal your nirlillra.l Our navy ha about I HO auba. Ruaaift la reputed to huvo tuaybo aa many &a 'J60. DllAZIL uutluwa tile turninuiilal parly, llard-bullrd proplo cheer. They aay wo ahould do likcwiKe. TliU writer doubu It. IN THIS COUNTRY, comuumiMii out In the open will bo far Iraa dniiKeroiu Ulan cumtnuiiuin driven underground. In Una country, Uio more we know about coinniuuiMii (Uulli. thai lai Uio loaa allracuve 11 will be lo ua. Any common, ordinary American who would be willing to give up what our aynlrm ollera to aveiage people for what commuulam oflcra to average people uuglil to have hla head rxamlurd. CO much for Uio pcntlmlalic ncwa. Korea hopeful alraw In Uie news winds: Our drpartrnrnl of agiiculluie aaya Una morning thai on Uio ba.m of preaent Information II la reaaon ftble to aaaume Uial Kurnpe'a wheal acreage lllla year will KXCKKD thai of the paal Iwo low-level yeura. ll adda that throughout WrMern KuruH CONDITIONS iweailicr, etc. i are anid lo be fair lo good. ANYI1I1NU Uial Unheals. III' erruacd pioduction la good news. V ' T1IK office uf Indian aftulra uu Waalilngtoni comra up today Willi an INTKLLltiKNT Idea. It aaya II will InveatiKale "ruiployiiiFiit opporlumura for Nuvajoa on Cali fornia fnrma lo replace Imported Mexican labor." The Navajoa talinoil ha hungry a Kuropcana) are one of our aure apoia. Thla writcr'a notion of It la iliat Uie Nuvajoa have been WPA'd TCX LONO. Thai will ruin any body. J I' the laal niluute. Oovrinur Wall grrn of Washington commute, from dcalli lo ilu-ycar ImpriKoument Uio acnience of a 17-ycar-old Van couver youth who alubbed to deiilh girl he waa trying to raie. lie aaya: "Society iiium give more coiiAlderallon lo Uicm; social prob lerna and Juvenile delinquency." lie Hilda: "I will recommend to the next legislature with u II I he force t my command thai I lie criminal code be Amended lo deal with audi eaaea In a more rnllulilenrd man ner." UK may be wrong. He may be right. CerlHlnly there la room for enllglilenrneiil In our methods of drilling with wrong-doera. We throw Uirm Into prisons thai are SCHOOLS KOH CHIME. When lliey griulllnle. c arnd thrill out Into ii aoclcty Unit rcluaca to have anything CONSTRUCTIVE TO DO WITH THKM. 8o they full back on what they hnvc learned In the Jennie achoul. . It Isn't much to be proud of. K VMM A ICV LONDON, Jim. 9 !' Prune Mm liler Alllee uml hla lop cabinet of fleers met Uio high commissioners if the Iliillsh doinlnlona tndny and summurlr.ed for them new but Ht 111 secret dlplomatlo decision aimed ftl curbing (ho spread of commu nism. The meeting came leas Hum 54 hours after the cnblnet reviewed the illlflcullles between the western poweis mid Russia In general, and Uie nltunlUin In Germany and Oiecco In pnrtlculnr. Police Eye Diamond Ring As New Clue In Slaying A valuable diamond ring, suld lo have been owned by Murlo Franklin prior to her marriage to Homer V. I'Vunklln, hns become an angle lu the case of the slnylng of Uio :i-ycar-old woman at I heir suburban homo November 30. The ring, said to contain one largo diamond and 211 other stones In a platinum selling, Is now In the hands ol sluln police. Homer I'Vaukllii lius iiilinll.led Inking I he ring from his wife's (Inurr before li burled her In their backyard December 2. Ho sold the ring, valued at round 11000, for a reported $76 ft 'ow days alter the slnylng, at a sec ond hand shop on 8. 61 h. The ring was recovered bv police nt I ho shop. Sheriff Llovd Low said thai I'Vunklln's slaicinenl was thai he WEATHER Slat. (Jan. a.. 1H Mia. ........ 11 I'r.c.lpll.ll.n Ual SI kavri airaain Mar lo a.wl l.aal raar . 1.14 .."al at fararaall Tarllr dandy. riiicK hvk ( i;nth faWm Tat Blasis Truman Policy While Pledging GOP Action WASHINGTON, Jan. Irt'i Senator Tuft ill-Ohio) called I'ren Went Trumun'a Irglalntlve prod rum the road to "natlonul bankruptcy" and ft "totalitarian suae" and prom ised today that the OOP-controlled congress will never follow It. Instead. Tuft suld, the republicans will go ahead with their own pro gram, make every effort lo cut gov ernment expenaea, mid "really cut nil taxes mid Uie tax burden mid cut them for good." Tuft, ft cundldale for the repub lican presidential nomination, went on the radio lust night to reply lo Mr. Truman's alttle-of-lhe-unlon message which republicans have been railing "campulgn speech" alined ftl next full a elcctlona. The Ohio aenulor asserted the president proioaea to put the fed eral government in the role of "Santa Claus" mid has offered ft program amounting only to "the old Mercury Skids To 22 Here Tile mercury akldded lo 12 de grees In the early morning hours to day, and left frosty coat of white on lop well saturated ground. Maximum temjierature yesterday was 40 degrees. There was no pre cipltaUon In Uie paat 34 hours. All' of Oregon'a major highways were oiwn today ftfler three days of serloua closurea caused by floods throughout Western Oregon. The highway commission said seven routes re atlll closed. They are both Albauy-Corvallls highways, the Woodburu-Kslacuda, Cascade, North Huuttum, Ucllcvue-Hopewel) and Wilsonvllle ferry route. There were many sections of one-way traffic over Western Oregon lody because of alldra and construction. Mountain roads were Icy but well sanded. The t . m. commission report In cluded the following Information ot interest to residents of Uils section of Oregon: Odell lake. Willamette highway 15 degrees, rlcnr, Icy but sanded. Orrcnsprlhga highway pavement frosty but sanded. Sun mountain. The Oalles-Call-fornia highway 10 degrees, clear. 28 Indies roadside snow, few Icy spots. Willamette highway one - way traffic east of Lowell. Stassen Hits Speculators WASHINOTON, Jan. 9 of. Har old E. Btassrn accused administra tion "Insiders" of using official In formation to make s $4,000,000 profit In commodity trading since the war and called for legislation lo prevent such activity. The former Mlnnesotft governor, now seeking the republican presi dential nomination, told ft senate appropriations subcommittee that "I do not think any member of the government should be In the food commodity markets." He added thnl Irglslatlon apparently Is the only way to prevent this. Htussen also testifier' that: 1. Edwin W. Pauley, special as sistant to Army Secretary Royal!, profited lo the extent of approxi mately m.000.000 from his trading and "did not make a full disclosure" of his activities when he appeared before the eommlllee Inst month 2. Brig. Oen. Wallace H. Graham, president Truman's personal physi cian, was "not truthful" In ft recent statement on his commodity trad ing. "Our Information Is that, In fnrt, Dr. Graham did not leave the market Immediately after the pres ident's October 5 address on specu lators. He did not leave the market until I very specifically said the executive branch of the government was Involved." noticed Uio ring on her finger when he started to bury Marie, and took It off. The finger was not mutilated or cut off, as some rumors have said. The sheriff said he had Dr. Ocorgo H. Adler, county coroner, make a special examination ol the hand to determine that (act. Wild her Uio ring and Its sale could be const iiird as a possible motive for the slaying, the sheriff would not liuiuiid a guess, but he said It probably would be used as evidence In the event Franklin comes to trial, Franklin Is In the county 'Jail, held without ball on ft charge of first degree murder, Tlio body ot Marie Fronklln Is due to be shipped to San Andreas, Calif., tomorrow for formal burial. U m W .,o'Vi P iiii.i ii iiiii iiiiia i.iiaja miii. ii.n.1 ,n , , ..iaii. in Mil UMl nnnauMi mi i n i ii.i.w "-at" Strike new clrnl principle of promising the people something for nothing." Tuft Is chKlrinun ol the senate republican (ml Icy committee, and the sharpness of hla worda awept aide 111 advance ft "peace" proposal with which ScnuUrr Hutch ID-N.M.) came forward today. Meanwhile Chairman Taller R N.Y.I of the house appropriations committee estimated the Truman program would cost 120.000,000,000 and said thla would make tax re duction ft prime OOP target for 1048 n Impossibility. Tuft centered hla fire mainly on Uie president's domestic proposals, Including a I40-per-ersou "cost of living" uut cut wlUi un offsetting 13.200,000.000 boost In corporation luxes, compulsory curbs un Infla tion and a ten-yeur plan lo advance the aoclul welfare of the naUon. Nobody could fall to agree wlui the president's objective of Improving the lot of the people, the Ohloan suld. But as for the president's Ideas on how this should be done, he asserted: "Taken together they add up to national bankruptcy." "Taken together they will add up lo ft totalitarian atat." Calling Mr. Truman's lax plan "about ss discriminatory proposal as could be made," Tail added: "If followed to lis logical con clusion he would ullliuittely exempt a lurge proportion of all Income and shift all taxes onto very small proportion of the population." Ford Facing Damage Suit NEW YOHK. Jan. 9 Wy-Hcflry Ford 2nd, Uia Ford Motor company. Uie Dearborn Motors corporation and seven other officers mid direc tors of Uie compmilea were named dclendunis In t251.OO0.0OO damage suit filed yesterday In federal court by Harry Ferguson, Irish-born farm machinery Inventor, The suit charged Uial the de fendants Infringed on patents by copying the Ferguson line of farm tractors and violated anU-trusl legislation by conspiring to drive Uie plaintiff's firm. Harry Ferguson. Inc.. of Detroit, out of business. In a statement at Detroit, Henry Ford 2nd described the complaint as "ridiculous," and "full of un truths." He suld Ford officials would be "very happy to meet all of Uie allegations ... at the proper lime and place." The complaint Involved one of the largest amounts ever sought In a civil action here. The suit esti mated capital value of the Fergu son company at BO.OOO,000 and said action of the defendants Impeded profitable operation of the com pany. Eugene Hammer Killer Sentenced EUGENE, Jan. 9 P) Clarence Eubank. 61,' was sentenced to the "rest of his natural life" In the state penitentiary here today by Judge Q. T. Sklpworth In Lane county circuit court. Eubank, who beat 411-year-old Eva Sather over the head with a ham mer In a drunken brawl in the shack In which they lived, pleaded guilty lo second-degree murder. The victim, removed :o a hospital after the beating last Sunday night, died a few hours later. Garney Walker, a former hus band of the victim who was held In Jail as a material witness, was re leased following the sentence. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. (An U'KDA) Potatoes: 10 broken, 4 unbroken ears on trarek: arrivals. California 1, Oregon Si market firm; Klamath Russets No. 2-A. 3.50; No. 1 bakers $4.25; Idaho It assets No. 1-A, $4.75. I.OS ANGK1.KS, Jan. S ol') (l'M)AI Potatoes: 14 broken, 26 unbroken ears on track; arrivals, California 3, Oregon 2, Idaho 14, I'tah 3, by truck 30; market firm to slightly stronger on White Rose, aleady on Kuaaels; Idaho RusseU No. 1-A, $4.65-4.15; K,laniftlh Ruaseta No. 1-A $5.00. Strike Ties Up Singapore Docks SINGAPORE, Jan. B (IF) About 6000 stevedores and harbor employes struck today and tied tip Singapore harbor, which Is crowded with some 35 ocean-going vessels. Tho stevedores demand a free ex tra meal dally, triple pay for over time during the second half of the night shift, no payment of wages In arrears except In the presence of h union official, and a "victory bonus" of an unspecified amount to nmrk the end of the war with Japan. i KLAMATH FALLS, OKKUON, FKIDAV, rows Bank Tie-Up May Spread Over Nation ItO.MK. Jan. 9 (A- A stubborn nine-day-old atrlke or 60.000 bank Morkrra snarled Italy's complex economy and threatened today to grow Inlo aomething bigger per hapa the commuolats' long-rumored nationwide general strike. The eommunlal-domlnatrd cham bers of labor In Milan and Home voted full support to the bank work ers laal night The Kome chamber declared that It waa awaiting onlr HdlsDosiUona from the national or ganism" the 6.000,000 member general labor confederation be fore taking "concrete aelion." Sources In the Italian interior ministry said extraordinary police precautions had been ordered on the basis of Information received by the government that "something was In the air." One rightist news paper mentioned a "plan against Rome. Road Block Road blocks were established on several highways leading Into Rome and metal burrs cut from barbed wire were strewn on several streets In the capital as part of the some what mysterious precautions. Labor Minister Amlntore Fanfani tried again to patch things up with the bunk workers, but representatives of the bankers, still set against con tinuing Into this year the tem porary pay boosts granted last year, failed to show up for conferences. In the meantime, the holiday lull In Italy appeared lo be ended. Strikes, tnasa meetings and assort "n"t,- "I T :'h,h lXl TJ. ."1?.., ...r ed disorders cropped up all ever Uie nation, aa If to prove to Premier Aieldr de Gaaperl that his communist-socialist foes had not yet ahot their bolt in their effort to unseat him. In Rome, workers seized three factories, charging Uiat the owners were closing down without reason. Police were hard put to oust them. Butter, Eggs Price Drops Housewives facing the new year with grim determination to hold to a well balanced budget In the face of Increasing prices, were rewarded Uils morning with word that butter and eggs dropped on Uie wholesale market. Butter went down two cents fol lowing Uie January 2 Increase to 88 cents. Today the wholesale price stood at 88 cents which made It around 93 to 95 on the retail market. Eggs toppled three cents on the dozen, wholesale. They were marked at 12 'j cents for large AA's. 70 j cents on medium AA's. Eggs were selling five to six cents higher at the stores. Milk held firm. Freak Accident Nips Fingers PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 9 (Pi Eight-year-old Donald Neil Is nurs ing a couple of frostbitten fingers today all because of a bottle of soda pop. The youngster stuck his hand through an opening in a dispensing machine at a church recreation center lost night and then couldn't got his fingers out again. Several grownups tried to free Donald without success. Police and firemen finally pried the. metal top off the machine. The boy's hand had been in the machine so long by that time, how ever, that Its cooling device had nipped his fingers badly enough to require treatment at German town hospital. Seven-Year-Od Recovering In Bend Hospital After Dramatic Rescue From Flood-Isolated Area BEND, Jan. 9 fPV-Seven-ycar-old Betty Coles was In a hospital here todoy, recovering from pneumonia, after ft dramatic rescue from the flood-isolated North Santiam country. A physician gave her " very good chance" to recover from double lobar pneumonia. Sho was Isolated with two other families when the North Santiam river washed out a swinging bridge at Detroit Wednesday. Detroit residents yesterday saw her mother frantically waving across tho swollen river. William Crowell, Detroit, at once began crossing the river on the two cables left from the washed-out bridge. Others swung behind him, 150 foot across the canyon, their feet moving cautiously on a lower cable, Uielr hands gripping the other wire a few feet higher. The lower coble waa barely a foot over the water In Uio center of the river. Once ftcross, Utey bundled the child In a stretcher, carried her two miles to a cable car crossing, and from there took her In an automobile to Bend. Her mother accompanied her. She Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. "Bill" Coles. The father now is working at the Hanford project In Richland, Wash. Assisting In the rescue were U. S. engineers and forest service men and Detroit residents led by Forest Ranger S. T. Moore and BUI Murray. JANUARY , 1II4S Telephone Kill Paris Plane Crash Kills 15 I lifoeal'iff rat' A rescue worker probes into France DC-4 airliner from Brussels. while coming in for a landint at the persona. Including three Americans, British Troops Arab Army In Border Battle JERUSALEM. Jan. S (P Jewish , attack by forces from across the sources said British troons clashed today with 300 volunteers of an ' "Arab people s army " which crossed the border from Syria and at .taderd a Jewish settlement In-upper Galilee. These Informants said two settlers were injured In a two-hour batUe with the Arabs In the first large Tax Listings Due March 2 I Listings of taxable personal prop I erty are required by Oregon law from all property owners In the county and should be returned to the tax assessor's office in the : ,rthn. k xtnreh t I Forms for u,is purpose have been mailed to all persons who were list- ed as owners f taxable personal property last year, and to others wno were not contacted last year, Assessor Glenn Ternll said today. Items to be listed include live stock, farm equipment, merchandise, boats not already licensed, privately-owned improvements on public lands, shop and factory equipment, furniture or equipment in commer cial use. Exempt are trucks, trail ers, automobiles or airplanes which are licensed by the state Persons having such non-exempt property who do not receive these forms may obtain them by contact ing the tax assessor's office. Pedestrians Do Their Best! HOLLYWOOD. Jan. 9 (tfv Alfred Schrier, 21, was hurrying to catch a bus when he was struck by an automobile. He was knocked lo Uie pavement and a crowd quickly gathered. He struggled to get up but several pairs of hands restrained him. "Don't move," chorused several voices. "You may have a broken back or something." Helpful on lookers swathed him in a blanket. Sirens screamed. Police arrived. The crowd got bigger. Finally an ambulance picked Schrier up and rushed him to Hollywood receiving hospital. There he was thoroughly exam ined. The diagnosis: A sprained thumb. No. 1Z33 x4& J the wreckage of a Paris-bound Air Belgium, which crashed ftnd burned Paris Le Bourget air field. Fifteen were killed. Clash With Syrian frontier. The informants speculated whether the Arabs were led by Fawzi Kaukjl, one of the chiefs of the Palestine Arab revolt of 1930. : Jewish sources said the Arabs ar rived In trucks and. before attack ing Kfar Szold. a collective settle ment named for the American phil-1 antnropist, Henrietta Szold. struck at Uie nearby settlement of Dan and blew up a water pipeline. New deaths by violence in the Holy Land brought to 643 the toll since partition was announced. In Jerusalem. British soldiers, be hind police armored cars, took lour truckloads of supplies into the old wall city, where 1500 Jews have been besieged by Arabs since New Year's Day. The stern gang, extreme group of the Jewish underground, issued a statement telling foreign corre spondents they "forfeited their priv ileges of Immunity" by carrying Identification cards, from the Arab higher executive. f Flying Saucer Blamed In Death LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Jan. 9 ;P Luminous objects in the sky and reported by some observers to be "flying saucers" or discs, have been reported over Kentucky and adjoin ing states and are blamed for the death of an airplane pilot who was following one of them. Capt. Thomas F. Mantell Jr., 25, of Louisville, a veteran of the army air forces In World War II, crashed near Franklin, Ky., late Wednes day when his plane exploded In midair. At headquarters of the Kentucky air national guard ot which Man tell was an officer. Capt. R. L. Tyler, operations officer, said an Investi gation was being conducted. Capt. Tyler said facts revealed so far In dicate that Mantell flew too high In his pursuit of the sky rover and became unconscious. T:rg jumaiumi i I iiajaiiiilwaaaaasaawaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMia i I I it , M , J .m ft J a'v.'!j' v-' . . .. v.v'.' Pi"'iiiiMl'ilalii'rtiiir4-f'iaii!i,iiw''W- aiiiin iTmiriMr im ' Smoke billows skyward from pier 8 In Brooklyn as a flreboat pours water Into the five-alarm blast which destroyed the pier and damaged the freighter Rio Parana. Flames aboard the ship were extinguished after the vessel was towed Into mid-stream In the Eaat river. Pollcemea estimated slasjutge te pier and Its eargo at 11,500,000. r X Mystery Of Missing Tie Case Solved PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. WPV- Ladles, have you been wondering what became of those "beautiful" neckties you gave hubby for Christ mas? Ross Lee, domestic dry cleaners manager here, thinks he has sn an swer. He says many of the liasny neckpieces none of which needed cleaning start appealing on his not called for" list after the holi days. They are brought In by furtive eyed men who never return. And Lee never tries to contact the own ers because he's certain they signed false names anyway. He says a few of these "gift" ties some possibly are birthday ties appear throughout the year but that the heaviest business Is after Christmas. "You can't blame the men." he concludes, "those ties are pretty horrible." Normal Rail Schedule Near Northbound train movements through Klamath Falls are expect ed to return to rmal tonight at 9:50 o'clock, when northbound No. 16 arrives here from Uie south. Movements have been off sched ule since Wednesday when high waters of Uie 8acramento river washed out a 200-foot bridge and considerable track on the SP line at CasUe Crags Just south of Duns muir. Between 300 and 400 workmen were dispatched to the Castle Crags washout and labored the clock around to make repairs on the bridge and tracks. Crewmen saw passengers and freights moving In order at 9:30 a. m. today. Crew members from Klamath Falls. Eu gene and Sacramento continued their mopping up Jobs just as soon as Uie emergency was met. The Sacramento river was rapidly re ceding today. Traffic has been normal from Portland but these trains have been held at Dunsmulr. and traffic from the south has been held at Gerber. SP officials here said that despite Uie pile-up of both passenger and freight trains, the movements were going out rapidly and everything should be "under control" by to- nignt Turkey Gets Four US Subs WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 oP Four of the navy's powerful fleet-type submarines are being supplied to Turkey as part of the United States program to strengthen that country against Soviet Russia. The navy made the announcement today. Rep. Vinson (D) later told reporters that six submarines also will be transferred to Greece, where government forces are battling guerrillas along the borders of her northern, communist neighbors. Delivery of Uie 1500-ton undersea vessels to Turkey will be completed some time in April, along with the transfer of eight motor mine sweep ers, one net laying vessel, one gaso line tanker and one repair vessel. This Is the latest In s series ot American moves to reinforce Greece and Turkey and generally bolster the position of the western powers in the Eastern Mediterranean, ft target of Soviet Interests. The navy has about 180 sub marines in Its operating and reserve fleets. Russia Is reputed to have an even larger undersea force possibly as many as 250. Vapor Plugs Said Cause Of Crash SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 9 m Co pilot Raymond Elck of the charter plane which crashed near here, kill' ing 18 persons and Injuring nine, said "vapor plugs" Uie formation of vapor from gasoline similar to an air bubble hampered operation of the twin engines on the fatal flight. Eick's statement was made from his hospital bed last night shortly after rescue workers returned with the body of the eighteenth victim. Costly Fire Rozes N. Y. Up-River Property Hardest Hit PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. ( OP) - The crest ef a Willamette rivet flood that already has cost front $7,000,000 to $13,000,000 In damage rolled on toward Portland today. Clear skies this morning with only s few light showers forecast for tonight told, however, of the flood's approaching end. It moved paat the aiate capital ot Salem early today, cloalng the male bridge acroas the river there, put Ung a UtUe water In the basement of the capltol building, flooding West Salem stores, but causing only minor damage compared with thai upriver. A few hundred families south ot Salem previously had moved out ot danger to higher ground. Cleaning Up Upriver where most of the multi million-dollar damage as estimat ed by army engineers was done, residents began cleaning up debris as waters receded. Waters also subsided In the rjmp- qua. Rogue and other Southern Oregon rivers which flooded under the Impact ot heavy rains and tem peratures that melted mountain snow. The floods have claimed six live In their four-day course. Only minor damage, however. II expected henceforth. The forecast was for the Willamette to flood only low-lying areas around Oregon City and Portland. A few miles below here the flood will run Into the wider Columbia) river. There It will get In its last licks tomorrow, backing up the Columbia a foot over flood stage and inundating lowlands around Vancouver, Wash. Bank Theft Nets $114,000 NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 9 W Four unmasked armed men held up ft mid-town New Orleans bank today and its president, A. P. Imahom, said they escaped with 1114.000 in cash. The men forced their way lnte the bank five minutes before open ing Ume, slugged a negro janitor into unconsciousness and herded, some 2 employes into locked rooms. They then forced the bank mana ger to unlock the vault. Detective Joseph Tardo said the men took S 60.000 from one section of the vault, and an estimated 154. 000 from other parts of the safe anil from ths teller cages. Bank offi cials are still checking to deter mine Uie exact amount.' The negro porter. Joseph U Thomas, admitted the four met) while he was letting early custom ers into the bank about 8:30 o'clock, The bandits immediately ushered eight women employes into on locker room and about six men lnte another. They then turned to the manager, forcing him to open the vault. - After scooping up all the cask) and silver In sight they escaped in a waiting automobile, which, on witness said, bore a license plate which resembled those .on state owned cars. License Tag Fines Given Despite continued warning, there were motorists In Klamath county driving around without their 1941 license plates or evidences of appli cation. Two arrests were made yes terday and those who fell into the hands of the law paid S5.50 fines In justice court. Others were ex pected In court at 3 p. m. this after noon. State police warned for the last time today that plates or applica tions were to be In full view. The total number of application) at the license bureau in the court bouse had reached 5950 at 11 a. m. this morning. The demand waa tapering off. however, and the great majority of Klamath drivers was thought to be In order. Pier
