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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1948)
V "A maw imi mm .n p - In Tlio Bars lews Hy MtANK JKNK1NU PROM Berlin till morning comca now ol a reported communist pluu (Identified mi "Protocol M") Ul HMAMII THE MARSHALL I'l.AN mid crlpplo Uie Industrial Ruhr. (The Ruhr In Uio heart ul Western Kuropciin Industry, much u Uio Dotrult-Oliloiigii-l'llUibuigli trlunulo la tlio heart ul American Industry.) Tho plan 1 wild to have tlio lull backing ul Uio Uumliilunii (Uio gcn orul suit ol wurld communism) und Uio I'omtiloto support ul Uio Movici Union. It I suposcd to bo brought about by iiiiim strikes in key in dustries. Tlio "key position" III Uio plan l jiultl Ul Inivc born assigned tu tlio (Jeimiii) communist puny. IT doesn't tcvin to bo Just a buugey mint rumor. This morning Ucr lln dispatches iwy "Uioro la no In cllimtluii in either American or British olllclnl quarters U) doubt Uio authenticity ul the plan." s Yot. will Und Uio details olriwliore in Una newspaper lodiiy. WASHINGTON dispatches UKluy tell ul the reopening ul a war time American alrllcld near Tripoli, III NurUl Africa. Till Held Is to be opened Willi Uio co-uporiilluil ul Uio llrliudi. WHY ll American mr base In " North Alrlca? The answer l brutally simple as so nuuiy answers ore Ulrse duya. It bud troublo break anywhere In Uio crIUcnl Medllerruneun area (which we have uken under our wing under the Truninn Doctrine) WE COULDNT CIKT T11KHK IN TIME KROM HKKK. WIS COUI.U OKT TIIKKK IN TIME FROM TRIPOLI. pitOM Cairo (Egypt) today Uiere comes UiU development: "Assad Dauber, chlel ol the prcse section ol Uie Arab League (com puted ol seven Arab countries In Uio Middle Eoali told a newt conlorencc today Uiat Uio League haa recom mended Umt Arab natluiu) OCCUPY ALL PALESTINE WITH REG ULAR ARMIES when the British too leavt. HI ARMIES begin to move in Palestine, what will Russia do7) RSSAD DAOHER adds: "The League will consider II an UNFRIENDLY ACT II an Inter national police force liiieaiiing Uio military nn ol UNITED NA TIONS) aliould bo acut to the Holy Land before tho llrliiah leave." He oticludaa: "TIM League council WOUia IMILW wp w uirot Itncy." INDIA 8 delegation at Lake Succea 1 (UN headquarter i lella Uie security council o( UN) Una morn ing Uiat a lull scale war with Pakistan may develop unles UN lakea measure to hull Uie lighting In Kashmir. Prom Nanking, In China, cornea word Uial resident of besieged (by Uio communist i Mukden, In Man churia, are HANOINO THEM tiKLVEa to eacapa death by atnrva llon. IN audi a world background we are 1 auuroachlim our 1948 Presidential campaign. Our atUludo hu nearly alwaya been (the gravely critical campaign of 1800 wsji an exception) thai a Presidential election la more fun Uian a houseful ol monkeys. We're probably In for a disop polnlmcnt Uils time. The necessity to govern our actlniia by STATESMANSHIP AND PATRIOTISM will be likely to spoil our enjoyment, NINE KILLED PARENT, Clue., Jan. 15 Pi Ca nadian National Railways olflclala aald today Uiat nine person were killed and 55 Injured In Uie wreck age yesterday of two passenger trains near Wykes In Uie frozen Northland. BBBMBBBaaBBaaBaaBBaBBaaaaBaBaBBBBBBBBaSiaaBBBBBBBBBaMBBBBa Orvllle I,ce, left, wa Basel administration representative of Portland, ha been In town thl week to go over final detail of the quitclaim deed to the municipal airport, formerly the naval air station, which turn over to the city of Klamath Falls, the field and Installations valued In excess of 83.000,000. The deed waa signed by Mayor Kd Ostendorf Wednesday morning. With Lee, are Ralph Macartney, center, chairman of the airport commission, and Mayor Ostendorf, Judge Holds Decision In Murder Case A move to have the first degree murder charge against llumer V. I'ranklln dlamlased waa made and promptly ruled out this morning In a preliminary hearing for Franklin held before Justice of the Peace J. A. Mahoney In Juallee court. Judge Mahoney haa the option of dismiss Ing the charge, reducing It to a leas er crime or turning the 54-year-old ei-aallur over to the grand Jury, but he reserved a decision until to morrow. The homing amounted lo a legal tug-uf-wur between Dlstrlcl At torney Cinicucc A. Humble, repre senting the prosecution, und Attor neys U, 8. liulciillne and E. IS. Drlscoll, remitted by the defendant. Humble was determined lo reveal aa llllle of Ills eaae aa possible and still hold Kranklln to the first de gree murder charge, while the de fense lawyers were on what Humble termed a "fishing expedition" to find out how strong the prosecu tion's case la. Two Witnesses The prosecution culled only two witnesses. Htate Police Officer Toild Knapp und Leslie (Swede) llurroun. Knitpp's direct testimony dealt only with a statement Kranklln made January 3, when he admitted alaymg Ills wife, 43-ycur-old Marie, and Uie event at Uie Kranklln rr . nee near Uie airport when Uie woman's body was recovered from a backyard grave. While Knapp waa talking, Krank lln broke In once as If to niako a correction In the testimony, but was hurriedly shushed by lialcnllnc. Then, when Knapp wa handed over fur cross-examination. Balcn ttne began asking about various ar ticles of possible evidence such as Uie revolver Marie Franklin al legedly waa killed with, blood stained cloUilng, bullets and the like winch were sent to the stale police crime laboratory In Portland for examination. After some quesUoiis and answers on that line went Into the records, Humble put In an objection that the craaa-examlnallon waa getUng far away from the limits he art on direct qucatloning. aaylng that the defense waa Just on a "fishing ex pedition to find an alibi for a first degree murder." On Humble second protest. Judge Mahoney ruled against the defenae questioning. Officer Harroun appearanc aa a wltneaa merely brought out that he had previously been acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Kranklln and IdenUfled the body of the woman when 11 was taken from the grave. Next, Knapp wa brought back to say Uiat he observed a wound In Uie icsallaas .n r 4. Cslaata si WTC Lowers Lumber Price ST. PAUL. Minn.. Jan. 15 lA't Kred K. Weyerhaeuser, president of Uie Weyerhaeuser Snlea company, said In a statement that effective today the company was reducing price on several kinds of lumber used In home building. Weycrlineusor ald Uie reductions were made wiUi a view "to do our port In reducing Uie cost of building and In checking Uie Inflationary trends now Uircalcnlng our national welfare." He said I lie price cuts would aver age 10 per cent al the mills an coast Douglas fir, western hemlock and coast red cedar lumber shipped from Weyerhaeuser affiliated mills to the retail lumber trade. The reductions, he added, will be maintained for the next 60 days "and longer If we believe conditions warrant." City Gets Deed To $3,000,000 .. is Mia, It ksiirs I '. -.V tar Is slt tar ....!. Nvrmsl... Mrseiill fslr. I'llICK KIVK CKNTH American Officials Study Cominform Plan To Smash Marshall Plan In Europe IIKItLIN, Jan. IS ll'j llrltlsh and American officials atudled twlay a reported (.'omlnform scheme Ident ified aa "Protocol M" for amashlng the Marshall plan and crippling the Industrial Ruhr, The aull-com-munlst German press, which pub lished the alleged communist pro gram, denounced It aa a proposed "Putsch." Details of the plan. Ural published by the French-licensed newspaper Der Kurler late yesterday, aald the program, brought to light In West ern Germany, would be coordinated by the Cominform the communist "Inlormatlon agency" set up by cum. muulst leader of nine nations In Poland last fall and supported fully by the Soviet Union. There seemed llllle Inclination In either Hrltish or American official quarter to doubt the authenticity of the plan. One American official aald publication of the plan alone wa damaging enough lo the com munist program In Germany. An official BrlUsh atulemeiit UiU morn I lie aald "the announcement of Fir Brings Record Bid PORTLAND. Jan. 15 iA'y Demand for lumber brought a new record bid of 124.53 a thousand feet for Douglas fir In bidding yesterday for Oregon and California agency Umber. The sale also wa Uie first In sev eral years In which all tracts offer ed were sold, resulting In aggregate bids of 8618318.15 for the 77.8:u,0O0 board feet In 29 tract In nine West ern Oregon counties. Bids were 11.6 per cent above appraisal value. The previous high bid for O-C timber was 82 on Ponderosa pine. Averana atumDaae Drlcea bid were 1 18.67 a thousand, for Doutia fir. 816.74 for miliar pine ar.d 81281 for Ponderosa pine. The new record bid wo by Jones Lumber corporation, Portland, for 676.000 feet hi Clackamas county. Other successful bidders Included: Douglas County Lumber company and Roseburg Lumber company, Rnseburg: Rex Clemens, Philomath: Elk Lumber company and Southern Oregon Sugar Pine corporation. Medford: Gardiner Lumber com- I pany. Gardiner: Oram Lumber cor poration, Myrtle Creek: Spalding and Son, Grants Pass; Willamette Valley Lumber company, Dallas. Ellis To Run For Senate Presidency 8ALEM. Jan. 15 (tfv-State Sena tor Rex Ellis, Pendleton mining and Insurance man, announced hero to day he would run for the presidency of the 1949 senate. The only other announced candi date Is Senator Angus Olbson. Junction City, although Senator William E. Walsh. Coos Bay. has Indicated he would run. Ellis has represented Morrow, : Umatilla and Union counties In the i upper house continuously since 1037, being one of the veteran mem-1 bers. He ran for congress In 1M0, has lived In Pendleton since 1919. and has been active In republican party affairs. Airport 7 t ' ' 'V ! ' asaaaaajraaTaaMaaasiaaaaB the Cominform plan came from Oernian source and we have no reason to doubt Its authenticity." No Comment A spokesman at tho headquarters of the cocimunlst-conlrolled Soviet sponsored soclallat unity party In lierlln, described the plan as "non sense" but added Uiat he couldn't say anything more about It Im mediately. "Protocol M," as published by anU-communlai newspupers In Ber lin today, sets out the operational procedure for creating mass strikes In transport and metal Industries ol Western Germany "to break the monopolistic-capitalistic attack of Uie so-called Marshall plan." The Protocol was quoted as de claring that the Cominform head quarter In Belgrade would coordi nate the effort of the German com munist party with the fight In all European countriee and added that "Uie home of socialism union, can and will support thf light against the monopolistic-capitalistic power with all and every mean." "In conjunction with the entire working class of all European coun tries, Uie Oerman working class will, In perserverlng batUe for key post Uons of producUon, take over the power," the plan wa quoted as stal ing. "It Is nut a matter of ministers' posts but of jumping eff places for ih final freeing of Uie proletariat of Uie world." The Oerman party was reportedly given Uie "key position'' In this fight to carry out Uie struggle for the "European production center in Uie Ruhr." Tidelands Ruling Asked WASHINGTON, NJarii " 16 (Pt ' w President Truman wa asked today by a Texas delesaUon to aupport leglslaUon recognizing state owner ship of submerged or ttdal lands within their boundaries. Senator Connally (D-Tex.) and Attorney General Price Daniel of Uiat state renewed Uie controversy over the tidewater lands at a White House conference. LeglslaUon. they said, will be sought at this session of congress to replace a measure vetoed by Presi dent Truman. Uie latter acted prior to a supreme court ruling last year that Uie federal government has paramount rights over oil-beating tidelands on Uie California coast. The court's decision, Uie Texans said, specifically omitted any hold ing Uiat the government had own ership of the lands extending three miles seaward from the low-tide mark. The proposed legislation would confirm state ownership of sub merged lands "subject to all neces sary paramount powers" of the fed eral government In such matters as national defense and navigation. Blast Tears Hole In Ship At Pier HOBOKEN. N. J., Jan. 15 fypi A ship Ued up at pier 2 of the Todd shipyards was shaken today by an explosion that ripped a 40 to 50 foot hole amidships, Police Sergeant Ed gar Scott said. Chief Bonln said eight companies were sent to the scene. There were no Immediate reports ot any casualties. Todd shipyards In New York said the blast occurred on the Elks Hills, a large ocean-going tanker under repairs In drydock. The company said the fire was under control. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 (AP USDA) Potatoes: 15 broken. 13 unbroken can on track; arrivals Calif. 4, Nevada 1, Idaho 1, Oregon 1: market slightly weaker; Klamath Russets No. 1-A $4.70-75. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (AP USDA) Potatoes: 19 broken, 43 unbroken cars on track; arrivals Calif. 8. Idaho 13, Utah 1; 7 cars ar rived by truck; market slightly weaker; no sale reported. . Bondits Mistake Car; Arrested PORTLAND, Jan. 16 (PI Two young gunmen thought a sheriff's car sounded like a taxi, and hat was a mistake. Deputies Ralph Benton and L. Johnson drove up to a tavern at Hillsdale, looking tor two men re ported to have robbed cab driver Sum Soter a short time earlier. As they parked, two men answering thr descriptions of the wanted men came out. The deputies reported that after they disarmed the men, who gave the names John Clyde Mitchell, 18, and Floyd Robert Barnes. 18, tho prisoners said they had called a cab, planning to rob the driver, and thought Uie car parking at the tav ern waa their cab. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, . (...,.., ' i. -.J ru,fitikm.'mim a), i aaiia aa!r. l. . '1 f Vft A jf Pel Stars Honored Two outstanding player of the 1947 Pelican football team were honored last night when ttwy receired award voted them by their Klamath L'nlon high achoot teammate. Coach Ed Ryan made the preaentaUon during the Lions club gridiron banquet at the WMard. The top picture how Lester Foster, senior guard, getUng hi trophy a "outstanding lineman" of Uie squad from Ryan, and the latter I Tommy Edwards, senior halfback, voted the "moat InspiraUonal" Pelican player. Both boy are considered fine col lege football prospects. More than 206 gridiron fans Jammed Uie hotel banquet room last night to hear the guest speaker of the evening. Jim Aiken, head football coach at the University of Oregon. Republicans Veto Truman Tax Plan In WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 UP Re publicans today pasted a "file and forget" tag on President Truman's proposal for a "cost of living" cut in income taxes balanced by a new excess profits levy on corporations. With even key congressional dem ocrats showing little enthusiasm for the White House plan, Uie majority leadership signaled Instead for ac tion on a measure by Rep. Knutson (R-Mlnn.) to reduce income taxes 65.600.000.000 a year, mainly on a percentage basis. The bouse ways and means com mittee which Knutson heads was summoned to take up his bill to- Doctors Fear For Gandhi NEW DELHI. Jan. 15 & Mo handas K. Gandhi, In Uie third day of his fast for communal peace In India, was too weak today to attend his usual prayer meeting, and his doctors expressed concern over his loss of weight. The four physicians attending the aged spiritual leader Issued this bulletin: "Today Is the third day of Ma hatma Gandhi's fast. He is natur ally losing weight: weakness has considerably Increased. He had to be carried out to the bathroom in an arm chair this morning. His voice Is feeble. "We once again appeal to his friends and Uie public not to seek interviews or darshan." (Darshan means his public appearance, which Hindus consider holy.) Gandhi last night exhibited deep worry over a new massacre In Mos lem Pakistan. A large crowd of refugees from the pun jab shouted "Let Gandhi die I" and broke up a Sikh peace procession near the Sikh temple in the old city. The procession was to have terminated at Birla house, where Gandhi Is staying. Only a handful of the Sikhs reached Birla house, where they were told Qandhl was too 1U to see them. Red Ships Warn Off Rescuers TOKYO. Jan. 15 WV-A Japanese ship officer was quoted In Tokyo newspapers today as declaring two Russian patrol vessels levelled deck guns at non-Soviet rescue craft which offered assistance to Uie foundering Russian ship Dvlna last week. The officer, Uie first mate of the Choun Maru, gave his account to Japanese newsmen In Kushlro, Hok kaido, where the Dvlna was towed by a Russian ship. The mate's name was not given. United States navy and army au thorities in Tokyo said Uiey had 116 Information on tho report. On the morning ot January 10, said Uie . first mate, Uie Russian patrol boat on each side of the listing Dvlna kept his ship and Uie American-controlled but Japanese manned Hugh M. Smith at a distance. JANUARY IS, 1M Telephone 8111 t. Favor Of Own morrow. Secretary of the Treasury Snyder was Invited as the first witness. The president's proposal went be fore congress late yesterday after he conferred at Uie White House with Reps. Doughton (D-N.C.I, Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Dingell ID Mich.), all members of the ways and means committee. To Uie surprise of many it was Introduced by Dingell Instead of Doughton, who is house manager of tax matters tor his party and head ed Uie committee when democrats controlled congress. "I wasnt ready to take a posi- Uon," Doughton told reporters. "I wasn't consulted before Uie bill was drafted." Senator George tD-Ga.), demo cratic leader on tax legislation in Uie senate, said "no comment" when asked what he thought of it. The measure would: - 1. Give each taxpayer a flat 840 a year reduction for himself and each dependent dated back to Jan uary 1. Thus a man with a wife and two children would pay $160 less in 1948.- This would remove 10.300,000 persons from Uie tax rolls and reduce the taxes ot 54,500,000 others. 3. Recoup Uie $3,200,000,000 loss of federal revenue by a new 75 per cent excess profits tax on corpora tions. CorporaUons with profits ot $50,000 or less would be exempt. Others would receive an exempUon ot 135 per cent of their average 1935-39 profit plus $50,000. Josephus Daniels Dies At 85 RALEIGH. N. C, Jan. 15 ("i Josephus Daniels, Raleigh publisher, died at 1:35 p. m. today. He was 85 years old.' . The former secretary ot the navy and one-time ambassador to Mexico had been confined to his bed since January 4 when he developed bron chitis. Complications followed and pneu monia set in. Hope for his recovery had been abandoned early this week, but the vitality with which he clung to life amazed his physicians. - Passes .1 ..m 7 - ; C"""""m:1 " Inti'i am Josephus Daniel, publisher, for mer cabinet officer and ambassa dor, died today at Raleigh, N. C. t No. 1238 ty. 1 X " 1 J Petrillo May Face T-H Law WASHINGTON, . Jan. "15 VP) Rep. Hartley (R-N. J.) declared to day that even it the Lea act won't work against James C. Petrillo, "I'm satisfied Uiat the Taft-Hartley bill will " ' ; , . Congress passed the Lea act ex prtssl) to prevent Petrillo from re quiring radio stations to employ, more members of his American Fed eration of Musicians than Uie sta tions say they need. Federal Judge J. Walter LaBuy acquitted Petrillo in Chicago yester day ot a charge that he violated the act by trying to force a radio sta tion to hire three extra phonograph record librarians. One section of the Taft-Hartley act says It Is an unfair labor prac tice for a union to make an em ployer pay. or try to make him pay, "for services which are not per formed or not to be performed." If that does not fill the ' bill Hartley said, congress should put unions under the anU-trust laws. Blast Rips Chair Plant CHICAGO, Jan. 15 0P An ex plosion blew out the north wall of a furniture company building to day, dumping furniture into a street and trapping an undetermined number of persons in the wreckage. Two persons were Injured and were taken to Henrotin hospitaL The four-story building at 619 N. La Salle street was occupied by the Provus Brothers Furniture com pany. Four floors of the building collapsed into Ontario street. March Of Dimes Drive Starts In County Today Today marked the start ot thai 1948 March of Dimes campaign In Kiamath county and throughout the nation. An office has been es tablished, contact are being made and workers are campaigning to make this year's polio drive surpass the 1947 goal of $8000. One-half of the total donation will remain In Klamath county, and the rest will go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be used for research and epidem ic Insurance." In case of polio epi demics, such as the one in Idaho this year, the Insurance fund Is available to stricken communities for their fight against the disease. The Klamath county chapter' of fice has been set up In the lobby of : the Wlllard hotel, with Dorl Thompson, secretary. The telephone number Is 7334. Letters containing tickets to the January 31 dance, climax or the drive, will be mailed to over 5000 county people. Volunteer are needed to help stuff envelopei with GOP's Plan Big Relief Fund Slash WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 0P it. retary of tbe Army Royall told sena tors today that the alternaUve to European recovery plan may be drafting men for military service. Royall made Uie statement to the senate foreign relations eommlttaa ' today In response to questions from Chairman Vandenberg (R.-Mlch.) and Senator Lodge (R.-Moas.) The army secretary testified yes terday that nnleas the recovery plan, is accepted, the army and Its budtet will have to be "measurably and Im mediately" increased. Asked how this can be accom plished, Royall said either through an Increase In voluntary enlistments, which he said is doubtful, or "some method of (elective service." Only Draft Left ' It w assume that voluntary en listments have not produced a many men a necessary, that leave only the draft. Lodge commented. Royall replied that this la correct. In other words. Lodge aald. w have the alternaUve of the foreign recovery plan, or "else going back to the draft." Royall said thl is the "lorleal conclusion" unless aonw . way eaa be found through Increased com pensation or some other mean. Secretary of Defense ForreataL meanwhile, told the hoase-forelga affairs committee the recovery pro gram cannot Be construed aa -a threat against any nation.' Senator Ball (R.-Mlnn.) predicted congress will make a "sizable" cut In the $8,800,000,000 asked by the ad. ministration tor the first 16 month of operation. Ball said he thinks most republi can lawmakers share this view de spite Secretary of 8tate Marshall's insistence that the amount la a "precision" figure. CriUcfxinr what he termed tha cabinet officer' effort to aanam a "manU of infallibility," Ball, s member of the senate foreign rela tion committee, told reporter H la generally conceded that Marshall "is a good soldier." "But," Ball added, "his Infallibil ity as an international strategist might be quesUoned In view of the tact that he was one of the top ad visers In the Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam (Big Three) confereneaa. where many of the blunders which nave contributed to the present in ternational crisis were made." ' Ball said he hopes the state de partment will submit "more speoifla projects designed to increase Eur ope's producUon of coal. iteeL food and transportation." Weather Here Stays Warm Pussywillows were turning out and no wonder with a maximum of that past 34 hours of 46 degrees despite Uie 19 minimum registered between 6:30 and 7:30 a. m. today. Clear, bright days have been on the weatherman's menu the past week with more of Uie same prom ised Klamath folks who have been reveling In unseasonable warmth and sunshine since early January. It was cold elsewhere In the stato with a minus 3 -degree temperature reported on the Weston-Elgin high way in Eastern Oregon. Thli waa Uie only below zero reading but other sections said it was cold. It was 10 above at Uie Santiam Junc tion; 33 at Odell lake where packed snow and Ice exist from Salt Creek tunnel to Odell butte; 13 degree on the Greensprlngs highway, and 10 degrees above on Sun mountain. Truman To Ask -Oil Conservation WASHINGTON, Jan. IS ( Th interior department said today that President Truman within the next 34 hours la expected to direct rigor ous conservation ot petroleum nip plies by all government agencies to help relieve the critical fuel short age. Secretary ot Interior Krug, mean while, called upon the publio for an immediate 16 per cent reducUon in the use. of gasoline, fuel oil and natural gas. Max W. Ball, director ot the In terior department's oil and gas dl" vision, made the statement about the expected White House directive. tickets. Mr. Paul Buck, county drive chairman, asks that any wom en Interested in helping meet at the parish hall ot St, Paul'l Episco pal church any time Between io a m. and 4 p. m. Friday. Youngsters In the city and coun ty school are being given eard which hold dimes, and are aaked to give as much as they can toward filling the cards. Member ot the Klamath County Quota club ara handling distribution of coin con tainers In restaurants and ttore around town. Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Olrlt will be In charge of booths In down town stores Saturday, and Boy Scouts will distribute posters In thf business district. Members of the Toastm asters and Toastmla tress clubs have offered their time In giving ipeeche on be half of the drive at meetings ot other organisation. Information on this phase of the drive may be had by callln March of Dimes bead quarters. (Sea picture ea rags I) f
