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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
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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
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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
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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. .