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Newspaper Page TextWW? MM m vow P,hTU Bay's ws lly I HANK JCNKINH WHY do to 1 1 1 it 1 1 y men mil off go lug lo the barber tiiilll thry can no lunger endure what thry nee when thry mik In the mlrriir? 1 II the pill n of cpurutlng themselves from the dollnr thut In the giln tariff In these days? Probably not. It renin lo be ml!y true Dint mrn aren't thut economical. It l mure llkrly II nit there ere to muny thing they can't put off without dire consequences that Uiey welcome the chance to procrastinate In the cne of a hair cut, T any rate, thin writer reached " the alaite lhl mornlnii where hl bfk hair wa beginning to curl up h'Uie manner aliened a generation nr ao nun by William Jennings Bryan, and headed fur a barber pole that wa visible down Hie atreet. The barber turned out to be on the aging ule. which raise another Interesting queallon: Who at any time in the recent pant has een a young alilp learning the barber's trade? They certainly aren't Hum roua. On the other hand, If casual glance Uirough the window behind .which women alt with these Inverted mllltlng machine clamped down over their head call be Uiuled, Uie name doesn't hold true with the other ex. Fleeung glimpse of the allendanu Indicate that few of them can remember when McKlnley wa elected. t THIS particular barber was no body Hiring chicken, but he wu faU Admitting that culling what remain of thla acribe'a hair I no Job to set apart a whole day fur. he beat Die aver one by quite a little, A few anlpa and a vli or ao with Ilia clippers, and he look off the choker and said casually: "There you are. bud. aa allele aa an onion." Back in the period when the price waa two blta. It waa one of the m)or tenet of Un barberlng trade that the customer docsn'l like to have hit look whtshed off too hastily. Nick the Greek, who ran the leading toiuorlal emporium in Un town where thla writer got hit first new, papering Job. used to put It tint way: "The customer want lo feel that he' getting hi money' worth, and when you turn him out In about the time It lake a hungry nigger to akin a caltuh he feel cheated and doesn't come back." Nick. Incidentally, got ten cent for a aliavt and a quarter for a hair cut, and went on the Job at 7 In the morning" Hid quit when the atonned coming. If lie got through by 2 o'clock on Sun day morning, he Uiought he wai doing fine. Ha had )ut one falling as an artnu He lnlted on wearing the nail of hi right little finger long, and It alway tickled you behind the ear. We used to pend hour trying to get him to cut It hort, but no luck. Nick wa a proud of that long finger nail a noma men are of a cowlick In their front hair. r: turned out that thlt barber waa recently from Alaska. They prob ably don't like to fool away time In the barber't chair up there whero men are men. and llme'a a waslln'. Asked about Alaskans, he thook hit head. "Alaska pol! too many men," he replied. "Mnny's the youngter I've aeen come up from the state and start oft awell. Then he'd get lo helling around night, drinking llcker and playing poker. The next atep after that was to lake up with a quaw. That finishes the best of 'em." Ho took It aa long as he could, he ald, and then goi out. The, odd part of It la thai he' homesick. He wouldn't admit It, but he'd give hla hlrt to be back In Ketchikan, where he put In the bulk of his 33 years In the north. MilgrSuppl7fn Oregon Studied SALEM, Jan. 23 (Pi The stale department of agriculture la making . lis annual mrvey of the milk supply of cities enforcing their own fluid milk ordinances, the d 'rtincnt said today. The atirvey now la being niudo In Klamath Fall, Medford and Salem. Other cltlc to be chocked are On tario, Pendleton, Astoria, Portland, Corvalllt and Eugene. Bavaria Paralyzed As Million Workers Walk Out MUNICH. Germany. Jim. a:i iT! Most of Bavaria was purnlyr.ed to day by n general strike of up to 1,000.000 workers. They wero cnlled out by union lenders to protest food shortage. The l,rlke started nt midnight and wns to last 94 hours, Indica tions in ninny areas were Uint It would continue through Snlurday and Suiidny. It wns tho Inmost mass Inbor wnlkout in Cloimimy since tho war. No violence wns reported by curly afternoon In any mnjor cities Munich. Nuernberg, Wuer.buig, Augsburg, Pn.isnu, Cnbcrg or Hot. aiilknrs occnslonnlly were rough wll'.i smnll Mores which stayed open In two nrcas, but generally the Bn vnilnns used the strike a n dny of lost, Some 00,000 Munich workers dem onstrated hero In Adolf Hitler's old pnrndo grounds, mnrchlng with red banners dcinnndlhg "liberty," U. S. military government obsorvcrs snid communist element took purl. Banners variously declared Hint, "wa are Germans, not a colony" and "away with Blronla liberty." WEATHER Slat. Urn, I'll . All Mln IS I'rtflplUlluii Uil 14 huur US mi vain Msr If ' ! rr . S.S Normal ... urrNli I sir. ritlCr: I'lVK CIIN'I'H Survey Of City, County Costs $8500 Klamath Fall and Klamath county are almost aet on an $H5O0 eeonomlo and traffic survey lo be made by the firm of llahn, Campbell and assoelatea of llurlliigame, Calif., a firm which make a specially of surveys and planning for govern mental and buslnesa organisation. Representative of the city anu county official families and pluuiilng boards met yesterday afternoon at the chamber of commerce building and asked Jumea Cuiflpbell. Junior partner of Die IlurlliiKame company, lo draw up a contract for the work. The contract la to be sent to Die city council In time fur action Mon day night and lo the county court by Wednesday. Just Hurler The "18500 package" is Just a tarter on the Job Uie surveying company hna proposed for Klamath Kails and the trading area, but la all the cliy and county planners feel they can handle financially Just now. Included In the package are two principal Item a general economic look at the Klamath country, lis resources, population and potentialities and a survey of the street and highway needs of Uie city and county. The latter U for Immediate work, because It wa a highway and Iraf flo problem that brought about the proposed survey In the first place, the problem of handling cross-town traffic. An economic survey I rt up to be used aa a guide for future plan ning and development. It will at tempt to forecast wtial Uie Klamath area will be like 1, !0 or 1 years Im ," -' Naturally such a survey will have to disregard city limits and county lines, because the trading area of mrtroiralltan Klamath Falls bears directly and tremendously on the future of the city, and trading area are limited by geographic and not political boundaries. One eclflc Item In that survey will be recommendation for drain age In the Immediate suburban area. Campbell, at Uie Insistence of Vern Moore, chairman of the new county zoning commission, said that a drainage study would be Included. Lack of adequate drainage is one retarding factor In the growth of certain suburban districts. The $8500 cost of the survey will be -borne by the chnmlier of com merce iHOOfli, city ($2250) and county (50i. It Is exacted. Muscular Gl's Enter Contest FORT LEWIS, Jan. 33 (IV) Chimpanzee-cheated soldiers flexed bulging bleeps here today while pimple-muscled comrade looked on with envy after officials announced this army (Hist next month will select lla "Mr. Fort Lewis." The post gym Is sponsoring the "body beautiful" contest, and It 1 planned to have the champion crowned by a fittingly beautiful nurse or Wac. The winner will be chosen on his over-all excellence. Ills chest may not be the biggest, but it will match his arms, legs, shoulders and back. And, na a beauty queen must have her court, the king of mnles will havo hla retinue. Ilndlvldual win ners will bo selected In the best-of-chesta, etc., divisions. They will get as yet undesignated awards; Mr. Fort Lewis will be awarded a cup. Speakers were interrupted with such cries as "we want new elections" nnd "where there Is hunger, democ racy hna lost Its rights." The crowd dispersed quietly. . Knrller, hundreds of angry Ger man commuters hnd stormed U. S, military trains trying to get to work. Rail authorities finally put on emergency trains, Communications and Industrial plnnfs In 28 cities and scores of towns were Idle. The strike cnll had excluded workers for Uie military government and military establish ments, swltchbonrd operators, police employe and workers in hospitals. Some strikers wore reported In the Ruhr, the industrial core of Grrmnny, which lies in I he British none. Lawrence Wilkinson, director of the U. S. military government eco nomic division, sulci In a brondonst Inst night Hint $750,000,000 worth of footl, will bo Imported at tho ex penso of the U. S. nnd British gov ernments into the two western aones this your. This mnrked a 60 per cent IncrcHMi over Inst yenr nnd an expense to the United Slates alone of $1100,000,000. Slayer vmrw"my" 111 1 ""y X?m"yi' 1 i".ML,i'iii''i"i,i 1 u ' j)t"sWtig'' "" """" I -?. V KLAMATH FAM.H, OHF.UON, Hill) A V, JANUARY 23, 1B4X Telephone 8111 Meat Price War Rough On Stores ST. HELENS, Jan. 23 iIV-A mall Invasion of meat-hungry aliens threatened to put the ki bosh on St. Helens' price war to day. Out-of-towners begun Infil trating St. Helens' butcher shop at the newt of 65-cent pork chops, 211 -cent beef Blew meat, and 40 cent round steak. Cash register rang like a stuck whistle. "And every time Uiey ring," groaned one operator, "I lose some more money. I'm sell ing T-bone steak at 65 cent a pound, and they cost me 72 cents." Homeuiwiicr. delighted with the price war that started three week ago when a new meat mar ket offered bargain rale, feared the influx of customers would force an armistice. Already free hamburger ha gone. Roy Harrington, who ad vertised free hamburger Tuesday on the theory that "It might aa well be free as half free." scrubbed the ad off hi store window last night. Back Fixed, Memory Back PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 33 Oft A purse snatchcr grabbed Buell Scott wallet and memory at the same Ume. The unusual story began Wednes day a Scott wa hltch-luking home to Si. Joseph, Mo., and a stranger snatched hi wallet. Scott chased him. but a he ran around corner, h (aid yesterday, "the Hithts went but. I ' don't remember from there until now," Police said he came to headquar ters, asking, "who am I?" Nearly 48 hours of questioning produced nothing. Then a physician found a spine dislocation. He fixed it. Scott slept four hours. When he awakened his memory was back Scott said he had come to the West Coast in an attempt to sign In Seattle for an Alaskan Job, but failed to get hired. Maryland Rye Plant Closes BALTIMORE. Jan. 23 (Pt One of the mast warmly-regarded tradi tions of Maryland straight rye whisky has received a mighty blow today, and leading citizens are up in arms. Officers of the Frank L. Wight distilling company at Lorelcy, Md., have announced they do not plnn to re-open at Uie end of the present grain-saving holiday, And while there are other firms still coming through with rye, Uie Lorelcy plant Is the last remaining distillery devoted exclusively to Maryland straight. "I sincerely hope this will not happen," is what Governor William Preston Lane Jr. telegraphed com pany heads. Oeorge W. Crnbbe, retiring gen eral superintendent of the Antl Snloon League of America, also had a comment: "A good thing," he asserted dryly. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 23 ') tUSDA) Potatoes: 11 broken. 10 unbroken cars on track; arrivals: Oregon 8, Ncvndn 1, Cnlifornia 1; market firm to slightly stronger; KKlnmnth Russets No. 1 sire A $4.05; Deschutes No. 1 bakers $6.00; Idnho Russets No. 1 shx A $4.80. 1,03 ANGELES, Jan. 23 V) U8D A) Potatoes: market unset tled; arrivals: 18 broken, 30 un broken ' enrs on track; arrivals: California 8, Oregon 1, Idnho 7, Utah 2, 14 cars arrived by truck; Idnho Russets No. 1 $4.48-70, ac cording to slac. Moscow Orders Toy Manufacture MOSCOW, Jnn. 23 (IV-Subway enr ordors or no subwny enr orders, the Mytlschl compnny of Moscow must not discontinue making tri cycles nnd electric Irons, says Prnv dn, the communist parly news pnper. x . In a criticism published today, Pravda aald It was the duty of every factory in the Soviet Union, no matter what its bnslc product, to produce consumer goods as well. Tho pnper said the Mytishchi compnny pleaded it hnd discontin ued mnnufncturlng tricycles, skates, Irons nnd other Items so It could fulfill subway enr orders. But Pravda sold consumer goods out puts must ha Increased in every factory. Last-Minute Appeals Fail To Cheat Gas HALK.M, Jan. 23 iI'i Wardrll II. Henderson, 27, Portland negro mur derer, died In the stale prison ga chamber at 11:41 a. m. today, pro testing hla Innocence tu the end. 1 "I got a raw deal," Henderson told reporter Just before he died, "I I never killed a man In my life." llendersfn, nervous and fright ened, went Into the gas chamber at 8:23, clad only In short. A mask covered hi eyes. At 8:31 the pellet were dropped. He wa unconscious In a few seconds, and waa pro nounced dead 10 minute later. Henderson was convicted of the fatal shooting of Walter Poole. Van port butcher. In Portland on Christ ma Eve of 1945. Henderson told the reporters that hi attorney "told me to play ball with the authorities and I'd get olf with a light sentence. I played ball and got the ga chamber Instead." 40 Witnesses About 40 person, only half the usual number, saw the execution, which wa the 11th in the 11-year-old ga chamber. Prison Warden George Alexander i read the death warrant to Hender son 45 minute before he died. Hen derson had his Inst meal sausages, I scrambled eggs and pop at 10 p. m. I last night. He did not sleep all night. ; Prison Chaplain Alexander Jones spent the night with him. as did a Portland negro minister who refused to disclose his name. The state will burr hi body since no relativea claimed It. Henderson ha a wile In elm. Wash., a mother ... mjiu m iMLiier, lo Detroit, Alexander aald. Court Veto The state supreme court yester day refused to take JurladicUon of the Henderson case. His attorneys In it last-minute move attempted to get Uie case Into Uie high court. Cliaralnff that the rienth nenaltv r- ,ultcd from racial prejudice among jurors. The Marion county circuit court also refused to grant a delay. 1 Lat-mlnute appeal came from I numerou Portland group. one appeal, aigned by nine or ganization In Portland, said the governor had "irnorrd and declared Invalid the sworn statement of two Juror that racial prejudice entered Into the Jury deliberations." This appeal also accused the gov ernor of "long association as an attorney for clients who discriminate against negro citizens." It asked a suspension of the denth sentence while an "Impartinl in vestigation" of the trial would be made. KRI'PTION AUCKLAND. N. Z., Jan. 23 (VPi Mount Raupehu. 3175-foot volcano in the center of North island, New Zealand, erupted at noon today with a spectacular burst of vapor which reached a height of 5000 feet. Within 10 minutes all signs of ac tivity had censed. It was Raupehu's first eruption In months. The New Look Hr JJ IK r rft if ..... .'';'' 1 , i The New Look la modeled by four attraetlve Klamath Fall clerk a spring demands longer and fuller aklrta and higher necklines. Stand ing, right, Mlnda Anderson,' Seated on the atalrway, Hael Russell, and standing, Erma Foulger and Jeanne Hamilton. ' Held To Face L Homer Franklin, 54, wa named returned by the Klamath county trial here for the slaying and farmyard burial of bi wife, Marie. Franklin I held without bail In Naturalization Visit Slated A naturalliaUon officer from the U. S. immigration service will be in town Tuesday and Wednesday of next week to attend to matters hav ! hut to do with naturajtaatlon mate rer He will be located in the court house and anyone having buslnesa with Uie Immigration service Is re quested to come to Uie courthouse Uiose . days. The officer will also make a visit here in February. Steinseifer May Ask Post Carl Steinseifer. local wholesale distributor, said today that he ha sent to Salem for the necessary forms and plans to file for the re publican nomination for state rep resentative. Steinseifer, a resident of Klamath Falls for 21 years. Is a veteran of World War I. This Is the first time he has tried for politicnl office, and he Is the first republican to declare publicly for nomination to one of the two state representative posi tions allotted to this county. Henry Scmon, incumbent, has announced for democratic nomination as rep resentative. Mayor Ed Ostendorf is consider ing making a try for republican representative nomination, but hasn't announced. Troy Cook and Knrl Dehllnger are also pondering their chances In this contest, but said last night they hadn't decided yet. No. 1345 Murder Charge In a first degree murder Indictment grand Jury and probably will go to the county Jail. Budget Cut Caution Urged ;., WASHINGTON, Jan. 33 W Re publican senators Indicated ' today; that $3,000,000,000 may be the top amount they are Tilling to promise to cut out ot President Truman's $39,669,000,000 budget. Chairman Taft of Ohio called the senate's GOP policy committee in to session (10 a. m. ESTi to con sider the question. Taft has said he thinks $3,000. 000.000 can be lopped off proposed government expenditures for the fiscal year beginning July 1. But Chairman Bridges (R-N. H.) of the senate appropriations committee is represented by friends as reluctant to go along with a pledge of even that amount because he fears con gress may not be able to hold to such a goal when the time comes for voUng the money. Some house leaders. Including Chairman Taber iR-N. Y.) of the appropriations committee, have called for a $5,000,000,000 slash. Bridges, however, is said to feel this total could be reached only by chop ping deeply into funds proposed for the European economic recovery program, Taber headed the senate-house legislative budget committee last year when Uie senate and house never did compromise differences over how much to try to trim Mr. Truman's spending estimates. Copyright Laws May Be Changed WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 P) A move to revamp the nation's 39-year-old copyright laws in an ef fort to end the dispute between James C. Petrillo's Musicians union and the record-making industry drew GOP support in Uie house to day. Chairman Hartley (N.J.) and two republican colleagues on the labor committee. Reps. Kearns (Pa.) and Landls llnd.), told newsmen they favor such a step. Kearns said he will Introduce a bill early next week to give royalty rights to musicians who make phon ograph records. Under the present copyright law, written in 1909 while the phon ograph industry still was in its in fancy, recording musicians have no legal protection lor their products. Barley Crop Goal Increased In '48 PORTLAND, Jan. 23 (P) Crop goals recommended by the USDA state-production and marketing ad ministration committee for Oregon farmers in 1948 are mostly the same or slightly above last year's. A wheat acreage nearly as large as in 1947, a large Increase In barley, an increase in corn, nnd some re duction in oats were among the re commendations. Expansion in legumes was ad vised: twice as much alfalfa seed as Inst year, more than twice as much lndino clover, and smaller In creases in red clover, alslke clover and vetch. The committee recommended that 25,000 sows fnrrow tills spring; that beef catUe and sheep are kept at their present levels. , Army Keep Political Row WASHINGTON, Jan. 33 WPV-General Dwlght D. Elsenhower aald flatly today: "I am not available lor and could not accept nomlnaUon to high political office." The army chief of taff tatement referred to entry of hi name In the New Hampshire presidential primary March 9. "Ike" wrote Leonard V. Finder, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, that for two reasons he had heretofore "refrained from making the bald statement that I would not accept the nomination." The first, Eisenhower aald, waa that such an expression would "smack of effrontery." A second and deepar reason, the general added, wm a "persistent doubt that I could phraae a flat refusal without appearing to violate that concept of duty to country which calls upon every good cltlien to place no limitations upon hi readiness to serve In any designated capacity." In this connection, Elsenhower aald it I hi conviction that "unleaa a an individual feel some Inner com- B I pulsion and special qualifications to brand Jury Indicts Franklin In a partial report made late yes terday afternoon, the Klamath county grand Jury returned seven Indictment and one not true bill, then adjourned until Tuesday morning. Chief among the indict ment wa that of Homer Valentine Franklin, charged with first degree murder. Franklin is accused ol shooting his wife, Marie, with a revolver at tnelr farm home near the airport, November 30, and burying her in their backyard. Mrs. Franklin's death was not known until Janu ary 3, when the 64-year-old ex-navy man confessed the slaying and the body was exhumed. Franklin ha retained two attor neys to defend him, and has indi cated he will claim the shooting' wa done in sell-defense. The only not true bill returned yesterday cleared Elmer Carl Man ning, Agency Lake rancher, of charges of rape. Manslaughter Wayne Addison Fetters, charged with fatally beating Melvin Larson in a tight at Fetters' Oregon ave nue residence July 7, waa indicted for-manslaughter and returned to the county jail thla morning. Fet ters had been free on $2500 bail, but with the Indictment hi bail wa upped to $5000. Also brought back to the Jail after indictment for grand larceny wa Joseph Harry DinchL. who had been free on $2000 bail. His ball was raised to $3600, and he was re arrested this morning. The indictments of Fetters and Dirschl were kept secret until Uie men were taken into custody again. One other indictment is also being kept secret. . Other true bill returned named Chester W. Calaway, 21, charged with statutory rape involving a 14-year-old local girl; and Earl Leslie Walltn Jr., charged with larceny in a dwelling. Wallin is accused of burglarising the residence of G. A. Kranse on High street, October 3. Calaway is free on $5000 bail and Wallin is in Uie county Jail. When Uie grand Jury returns to work Tuesday it is expected to take action of four or five more felony cases. Rail Strike Threat Grows CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (P) William T. Farley, president of Uie Associa tion of American Railroads, said to day the nation's carriers will "have to fight to a finish" the demands of three rail brotherhoods for a 30 per cent wage Increase and change in working rules. Farley said Uie possibility of a railroad strike or another round of wage Increases "is a serious threat not only to Uie railroads but to Uie country as a whole." Farley, in an address prepared for a joint luncheon ot Uie Mid west shippers advisory board and the Traffic club ot Chicago, said the strike set for February 1 by the three unions "will doubtless be headed off temporarily by the ap pointment of an emergency fact finding board." "But some 60 days hence It is en tirely possible that the country will be facing some such crisis as that which Uie Engineers Brotherhood, among others, brought on in May, 1946," Farley said. Itinerant Dies Loss Of Legs Under Train CHILOQUIN, Jan. 23 An Illinois itinerant, riding a southbound freight Inst night, lost both legs and his left hand when he fell beneath the wheels of a r . Ing railroad car at Suego siding, 18 miles norUi ot Chlloquin. The man, identified as Proctor L. Reld, 53, ot Munsey, 111., died at Hillside hospital nortly before noon today. He had been conscious almost up to the time of his death. His sister, Mrs. Myrtle Davidson, 1720 Mohawk drive, Akron, 0 has been notified of her brother's acci dent.' Apparently the man was sleeping on a moving lumber car when he Chief To Clear Of enter the political arena which I do not a refusal to do so Involve no violation of the highest stand ards of devotion to duty." He con tinued: Reluctant "It was only the possible mis interpretation of my attitude that caused me concern and so long u I could believe that mere denial of political ambition would prevent serious misunderstanding and mis directed effort, I was reluctant to say more." "It would seem almost tuperflooa, for me to add that as long a I live I shall hold myself In instant read ineaa to respond to any call by the government to military duty." Eisenhower 1 scheduled to go on terminal leave from the army around February 15 and in Jon will become president of Columbia, university. His name not only has been en tered through a delegate alate in the first presidential primary of th year in New Hampshire, but repub- ,. llcan supporter also entered hi' name in the Oregon primary In May. Only yesterday some ot his sup porters announced they would make an effort to put him in the Cali fornia, primary, also scheduled for May. . Elsenhower has been regarded as a leading "dark horse" for the 1848 republican nomination for many months. Only this week members ot the republican n a tl o n a 1 committee meeting here had many huddle over- the so-called Eisenhower threat Loose Log Kills Worker Klamath county's second Indus trial fatality occurred early Thurs day afternoon when a log slipped and crushed to death instantly 43-year-old Frank Delamo Delin La Douceur, logging contractor ot Cres cent. The tragedy took place three quarters of a mile west of Crescent at a mill operated by the West Town Lumber company. It Is understood that LaDouceur was standing back of a truck hold ing onto a rope which was attached to one end ot a log; His stepson, Robert Rider, with whom he had been working, climbed into the cab o: the truck, started the engine, but had not proceeded to back up when the log rolled oft and crushed La Douceur's head. Death was instan taneous. LaDouceur is survived by his wife, Mollie, three sons, Frank Jr., Phil lip, Donald, and two daughters, Vir ginia and Shirley, all of Crescent, and two stepsons, Theodore and Robert Rider, both of Laurel, Mont. Ward's will announce final rites. Final rites will be held Saturday at 10 a. m. from Ward's chapel with interment at 1 p. m. in Mountain View cemetery at Ashland. Rev. Charles J. Sundstrom ot Crescent will officiate. Pirate Treasure Said Discovered WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 23 (P The widow of a once-wealthy Tammany Hall leader said today she has two maps showing Uie loca-. Hon of $76,000,000 in pirate gold and is seeking a contractor to re cover Uie treasure. Mrs. Bula Edmundson Croker, 64, widow ot Richard C. Croker, said she owns Uie land where the maps show Uie gold was burled in Uie years 1781-1783 about 40 miles from Pensacola. She said the maps place gold and other valuables In 25 feet of water in a bayou and she be lieves Uie treasure is resting on rock bottom about 38 feet below the sur face. Following was Jarred off by the switching of the cars, and tell beneath the wheels. Both legs were severed Just above the ankle, his left arm be tween the wrist and elbow. His screams were heard by the freight conductor who stopped the train and by John Gulnnlt, South ern Pacific section laborer. Gulnnlt, who is trained in flrnt-ald, minis tered to the man and then put him in the caboose of the train which brought him to Chlloquin. After more treatment there, he was sent to Klamath Falls in a panel truck driven by Jerry Wolff. Reed never lost consciousness and was able to tell of the accident and Identify himself. .