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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1948)
mm mmm mm Ill's ws iip:d IfifJS) MlWifO lly FRANK JKNK1NH THIS other duy In Bulla, tlcoigl Dliiiltiov, communist premier of Bulgaria, delivered hlniscll of t atiiLcmcnl tu the effect Hint "the Kiistcru Kuioiiciin milium III the ttuvlcl urhlt Intend Ui form frcli'l u t loll of milieu a AM.IISB to lluaala when the time It ripe,'' v Hilt morning I'm vlu. ufflclul Miutcow urumi of Hie coniiiilinlnl puny, letn no with counter alula inent on the tiime subject. It suya: "The editor of I'm villi conaldrr Unit these countries stand In need of NOT it problematical mid fur Ictchcd totlcritlliiii . . . nor du they need a custom union. Whut llicy nrd In coiuolldullun mid defense of Iheir Independence mid auvcrclgnty liy iiiobllluilloii mill oriiuui.iUlon of hilenml DKMOCHATIO forces'' tWOUUH are girul aliill-capccially double-Jointed dliiloiiuitic word. Thla country-town writer ha no iilru a to whut la In tho wind but ampcd that iimybe tlieae little taalern Eurournn countrloa would like to ru,u tlirlr own ahcbung us in llriendrlil AM, IKS of ItllaMa. whereaa I'ravila la trlllnii Ihem they are UOINO tn be run by the COM MUNIBT PAHTY. which la con trolled from Moscow. Anyway, It's a fairly aule rule that when the big ahoia itl the top bet in to u fumy word trouble la In time for tlie wtalful I.ITTLK people at Ihe boUolll of the heap IIP HI Wajihlnutiill. Ihe legislature hu coinmlllee on un-American actlvltlea. 11 U meotliiK In Heattir thla week and la putlinii the bee on alleged conimunlau. Those UKn whom the bee 1 placed are howhnii like wounded wulvea about Invasion of their conatltiitlonal right. Again thla insignificant writer Inula himacll confused. He haa Utile us for people who no around with brnaa banda witch hunting for communlat and telling people In effect to "behold what a good American I AM." On Uii other hand. 'he haa no rejpect lor fuxy-mliidrd plnka who aland on their "conatltuuoual" rlllhu mid relux for publication to aay whether they are commuutau or not. If oonununlam la worth a linker's dam aa a movement for the ealab liahment and preservation of funda ment! human rlllhu, M follower ought to ba f'ROUU of their attlha tion with lu Washington lint morning comes thla opllmlatlc word: "Republican member of the house way and mean coinmlllee ald to day that tnxc cn be cut NJ.J00. 000.000 (lx billion, 300 million dol lar! and Die government can atlll pay 111.000.000.000 ill billion dol lar) on the national debt In the next two year." rr ouni good-w'ondcrfully good. 1 If we oould cut txe and begin to pay off our debt al a aubatantlal rate, we could gel price down to aomelhlng like reason. Uut before throwing your hat ao high It may be carried off by the wind, remember Ihut 1 1)1 1 the HKOINNINU of a campaign year. IIP in 8t. Helen (Oregon!, they u have a butcher war. It marled when a new meat shop cut the price of hamburger aa a device to get new customer marled through the door and the existing ahnps met Ihe new . enterpriser' price and went him one belter. The rucku ha now reached the point where one establishment is giving away big slice of ham and paying tho customer ten cent to carry It home. BBSURD? " Certnlnlyl Rut It doe point out fur us what competition enn do when It gels going. If you'll stop long enough to think, you'll probubly come to the conclusion that free comietltlon, even when II does occasionally go to silly lengths, Is belter for the gen Oral run of in than monopoly, cither by private Interests or by tho STATE. I'HOTKHT NEWPORT, Jnn. 28 (AV The Newport chamber of commerce Joined the Yachnta chamber today In protesting the stntc highway commission's decision to sell some of the beach sund at Ynchut. The chamber contend Mint re moval of the ennrse sand will stop silver smelt from spawning there. Loretta Young's Story Of European Trip "Shocker" lly IIAItTON I). PA H IK LONDON, Jnn. 38 (IV-Hollywood Screen Star Lorciln Young's ob servation about hor recent trip to Loudon hit the front pnges today. The reaction gciioriilly wn shocked but restrained: "Loretln, how could youl" The comments or lite screen stnr were contained In nil Associated Press Interview in Hollywood, which reported : "'You get Ihe feeling over there thai people are tired, rirnlned of feeling," she sMil, 'their tltunllnn I heartbreaking, sobering, des perate.' "Hht recalled the business ex ecutive who wn walking on cnrtl-bonrd-patohed solos for lack of a rntlon coupon , , , Tho tiny girl who asked, when given a bit of covered chocolnte, 'do I lick or do I bile?' , . , The London snip reporter vulfo i, mt i I ! , r i. .ibgi i v i . i . i. ritU K HVK CKNTH lE9- -"J.0.0 -ATII KAM.M, OREGON, WEDNKBDAV, JANUARY 2. Telephone 8111 No. 1249 OVS Sfarants fiei CtoisEBig toy t. ' - ' ' ' - - - ' ' , 1 , . r : . - - : .: - t. ; v '- i . - '".. Thea arathe MouoUIn View "boxcar apartmenla whlrh In the guiure Mill houae-Oregan VecaUnna) aehtul -atadealav'Tlier aae located at the end of Main atreet and uin piciura wa laaen looainr down Cn iioquin arenne. Tne apanmenu are ai iraine and com position eon alruetlan and wera dealgned aa temporary dwellinra three yrara ago. Fire Razes Keno Garage A fire believed to have been started by a vagrant spark from an arc-welding outfit yesterday after noon completely razed Ihe Keno garage on the west end of Keno community. The oue-story frame building burned to tho ground In leas thnn an hour. Owner Joe DeOraude managed to save a truck he was working on hulde the shop and a few tool and Items of equipment, but most of hi eaulnment and stock of the garage went up In smoke. UeOrande estimated the damage at "close to $4000." The shop stock Included new tires, tubes, some spare part, barrels of oil, containers of grease, a (pare motor and the like. UeOrande said he was welding on the truck when a spark appar ently fell through the floor of the shop and Ignited an oil-soaked tim ber below. The fire spread rapidly under the flooring of Uie garage and wa too tar gone to fight when first noticed. Keno community doe not have any flre-fightlng equipment, so the blaze consumed the garage building without hindrance. A county fire truck made the run out but ar rived too lute to be of assistance. State police shot holes In oil drums to avoid explosion. The shop was built by DeOrnnde 13 monihs ago. He aald he had some Insurance on the place and would rebuild. HUM MONEY HALKM, Jan. 2B iIV-The slnte de partment todnyrilstiibutcd $63,077 In lliiuor privilege tax money to counties unci cities, the amount hav ing been collected In the last qunr ter of 1M7. wore a benrd for lnck of rnv.or blades ... The f nctoiy worker who fntnl mound 11 n. m. for lnck of ndequato brenkfnsls . , . Tho thin soup, pasty porridge, the honing 'boiled with pnrnffln, I'm sure. In two weeks I never snw a piece of montl Tom (Tom Lewis, Miss Young's nd-mnn husband,) did get one bite of bncon.' " British eyebrow were high. The Dully Mirror printed Mis Young's comment under the head ing: "The things some people set." and suggested she had returned to Amer ica with "nn aching heart for all Ihe hunger unci shivering she thought she snw." Tho News, largest circulating nfternoon pnper In the world, dead punned II story by printing Miss Young's remnrki In two columns headed: "Mle In Britain, by Loretta Young." 'i Mountain View Project Apartments Go To OVS Students Second Degree Murder Charge Filed In Shooting five more Indictment and two not true bills were brought In by the county grand Jury late yesterday afternoon, after a one day session, and the Jury recevied until March 30. Principal of the indictments ws that of 31 -year-old James Elsa Wyatt for second degree murder. Wynit 1 charged with fatally wounding Robert Theodore Mela with a 21 rifle al a railroad Jungle ihnnty last Friday. William Jackson Easter, California i avenue grocer, wn named In an Indictment charging assault, armed with a dangerous weapon. He 1 accused of shooting and slightly wounding Dick Oaskln al the store several weeks ago. The other true bills were returned against 30-year-old Archie DeWltt, for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and John Crelghton, for obtaining money and properly by false pretenses. Rare Tree Seeds Found Cambridge, Mnss., Jan. 38 ol'i Seed of a tree believed extinct for one hundred million yenrs have nrrlved at Harvard's Arnold ar boretum and soon will be shipped to botanical gardens In the United States and England. Up to two years ago the meta scnuol, a type of fir tree, was known only from fossil remains. The first living specimen was found In Febru ary, 194(1, by Chinese explorers In a remote vnlley ol Central China. The seeds were obtained Inter by an arboretum expedition which lo cated 100 more metasequolas, de strlbed as more thnn 100 feet high with seven - and - one - half foot trunks. Although cone-bearing, the liee loses it leaves in winter. To find the best growing condi tions for the nge-old tree a Hnrvnrd piofessor Is sending seeds to several gnrdens nud institutions Including the Scnttle arboretum: park de partment, Los Angeles, Calif., Hunt ington arborotum, Pasndenn, Calif.; Morion Arboretum, Chicago; Fair child tropical gnrdens, California Drove, Fla,; Golden Gate park, San Frnnclsco; the Roynl Horticultural socloty, London, and Roynl Botani cal gardens, Kew, England. Royal Couple Get $200,000 Allowance LONDON. Jnn. 38 (Ti A bill granting Princes Elir.nbeth and Prince Philip 1300.000 mutually pnsscd the house of common finally todny without a word of argument. The money Inrgcly 1 tax free. Approval In the house of lords Is a foregone conclusion. So is roynl assent, which will make it law, ' ; i e HJ"' . r Th charge against DeWltt In volve a 15-year-old girl. One other. Indictment 1 being kept secret. The not true bill cleared Lortnzla Edwards, young Chlloquln negro, of a charge of assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, and Buford Week, an Indian, of a similar charge. Both were released from the county Jail The grand Jury made a short re port laying that there were still matter which It wanted to look In to, and requested that tt be re turned to active session March 30. Search On For Missing Plane FRANKFURT. Germany, Jan. 3 WV-All U. S. air force rescue agen cies were ordered tonight to hunt a missing C-47 transport plana which had three American women and five children aboard. The American craft also carried a crew of four. It wa lost soon after leaving Litres. France, Tues day morning for Udlne, Italy. The passengers were dependent of U. S. .servicemen and were en route to the Trieste occupation area. Air force officials said they feared the plane had fallen Into the Medi terranean. - Bulletins FRESNO, Calif., Jan. 28 (AP) Thirty-three persons were believed to hove perish ed today os o chartered air liner crashed in the Diablo section .of the Coast range near here. There were no sur vivors. The civil aeronautics ad ministration at Oakland said the crashed plane left the Oakland airport this morning with 28 Mexican nationals, all agricultural workers, a U. S. immigration department guard, and a crew of four fliers. By 1 1:30 a. m. 19 bodies had been removed from the smoking wreckage. GRANTS PA8S. Jnn. 18 iTl Mrs. Maxlne Suchv, 23, a waitress, wa killed today by her eatranrrd husband, James Suchy, 27, who then wounded nimself fatally With a pistol aliot In the head, Police Sit. (' R. Borgman reported. Otear O'Donnell,- another auto court tenant, told Police Hergeant Borgman that Suchy drove up In the couple's automobile, took a revolver fioin the car and atarted firing when hi wife opened the cabin dear. t 1 ' m I X.n l A Steelworkers Eye Pay Boost PITTSBURGH, Jan. 38 P The CIO United Steelworkers announced today It 170-man wage policy com mlttee has been called to meet here February 18 "to prepare a program to lay before the steel Industry call ing for an increase in wages." It was the first definite announce ment that the union will seek i "third round of post-war wage boosts. It did not Indicate Just how much more money would be sought. The union's contracts run to April 1949. but provision was made tor the wage section to be re-opened by request on April 1, 1948. Bf ' "! . "wlfac: , -W-.-VE. 0 A fire at Keno yesterday afternoon destroyed the frame building DeGrande, owner of Ihe establishment, was doing a welding job on a and, ignited oil-soaked timbers below. Th building Mountain View Units Available Br HALE SCARBROL'GH A tentative agreement was reach ed this morning to permit Oregon Vocational school students to more into 15 now vacant apartment units at Ihe Mountain View federal hous ing project, and to allow more stu dent to occupy the "boxcar" apart ments aa vacancies occur. Students and their families prob ably will start moving into the 39-a-month government homes this week-end. Austin Ha den, federal housing superintendent here, assured OVS Director Winston Purvine in a con versation today that he would have no objection to OVS veteran-students taking the apartment, and said he did not believe the regional housing office in San Francisco would object- Locals First Previously OVS students had not been allowed to apply for housing on a policy of taking care of local resident veterans in the housing un its first. But yesterday afternoon Purvine and 14 GI students of OVS visited the Mountain View project and de cided they wanted to move in. So thla morning Purvine asked Hayden if they would be allowed and wa assured they would. There are 15 IC'VDtlDVC Pare S. C'alBma 3! Big Wind Hits California LOS ANGELES, Jan. IS JV-Thi is not only the year of the long drought in Southern California, but the year of the big wind as well. A windstorm stirred up great clouds of dust and sand and swept through Ontario yesterday at the rate of 85 miles an hour. This gust, in excess of hurricane proportions, was reported by the operations of ficer at Ontario International air port, who said it continued for only a few seconds, forcing a suspension of air traffic and damaging one plane. Scores of trees were unrooted by the wind, which blanketed a wide area of greater Los Angeles. A barn was blown down in San Bernardino, where maximum velocity was SI miles an hour. Pelting sand made traffic hazardous on foothill and valley boulevards between Los An geles and San Bernardino. In Los Angeles the wind reached a maximum velocity of 18 miles and there was no damage, but small craft warnings were hoisted until this morning from Ventura to the Mexican border. Garage At Keno Goes In ahe in Meat Market Pays You To Take It Away ST. IIKLENS, Ore., Jan. 28 m The three-way batch en' war here hai reached the stage where one of the competitors la living away $1 a pound lice of ham and handing the customer a dime to carry them home. That la the offer of Jack Hap ping ton, whose new shop three weeks ago started the price war that has been a bonanza to budget worried housewives In a widening area. Furthermore. Ihe new entry In the meat retailing field here was happy to deliver the ham, but explained regretfully that he wouldn't send a dime on such orders. MI just pay to have It carried away. If you want tt delivered you will have to take It for nothing," he told one cus tomer. bo far Sappington haa used up 25 to 30 hams and figures the hams weighed 12 to 14 pounds each. Lat week the free-for-all com petition bidding brought free hamburger from Sapping ton's competitors, plus free delivery Other meats are sold but at prices that are attracting buyers from as far as Portland. What the next move will be is anybody's guess and even the three competitors won't venture any suggestion. GM Facing T-H Charge WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 Wi Rob ert N. Denham, general counsel of the national labor relations board, today charged Gt..?ral Motors cor poration with an unfair labor prac tice under the Taft-Hartley law. He alleged it refused to bargain with the CIO auto workers uniei on an insurance plan. Denham's complaint to the NLRB was based on charges brought by the union January 22. A hearing was set for February 10. NLRB official said the formal complaint clear the way for Den ham to aeek a court order for Gen eral Motors to stop the alleged un fair labor practice. Denham charged GM with (1) re fusal to bargain on a union proposal for an Insurance plan, and 12 1 at tempting to compel QMs 250.000 workers to accept a. company- arrpngea insurance plan. lne complaint said the CIO-(JAW ha tried for several year to win an agreement on an insurance plan giving workers payment for sick ness, accident, medical or surgical treatment; hospitalization or death. Icebound Town Hears Navy News NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 28 P) The navy, using the only com munication with ice-bound Cam den. Ark., transmitted an Asso ciated Press news report to the Evening News there yesterday. Other communications between Camden and the outside world were broken off by ' the heavy layer of sleet and Ice deposited by today's storm. The single communication line was maintained by shortwave radio through the eighth naval district reserve transmitter. The Camden paper also used the circuit to transmit news ot the city's plight to the Associated Press bureau at Little Rock. Up In Oily Smoke housing the Keno garage, with an o my -: iaaaiamliaaiiiiiii'llliiiii V l iniiHii. in Inn 'T truck when a spark I believed to have fallen through the floor board an hour. $16 Billion ! Asked For Coming Year WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 WH-Tha nation may be aaktd to spend aa much a 1BJOO,000,000 for detenu next year if friction with Russia continue, senator disclosed today. Thla would be 50 per cent mora) than President Truman ha aked In hi peacetime record budget for the It months beginning July 1. Th estimate of future military needs came from member of thai senate armed service committee after a closed door conference wliil the high command yesterday. Ilaite Needed They said Gen. Eisenhower, re tiring army chief of ataff, and other top ranking general and admiral advised that the army, navy and air force moat be brought up to data quickly. , Gen. Eisenhower - and others la the high command were said t have told the senators yesterday the way they think the next war will be fought. It may begin, they were quoted aa aying. with an aerial attack on th United States using the atom bomb. This wa one of the reasons riven for having a large reserve of trained men to take over ruined cities and man essential Industrie, The United States wa describe! aa needing 1,000,000 trained men to occupy and guard the outlying air base from which It would launch it aerial counterattack upon the enemy. Big Tax Slash Held Possible i WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 W) ' Republican members of the housa ways and means committee said to day taxes can be cut $6,300,000,000 and the government still can pay (11.000.000.000 on the national debt in the next two fiscal years. The 15 GOP members made that declaration when formally reporting to the house that the committee haa approved Rep. Knutson's CR-Mlnn.) tax-slashing bill. i They said their calculation la based on a planned $3,000,000,000 cut in President Truman's 39.700, . .000.000 budget ; r ; : ; The 10 committee democrats filed a statement saying the republican backed bill presents a "threat of deficit spending for fiscal year IMS. and a substantial risk to our fiscal solvency, national security and ful fillment of our. International re sponsibilities." ' i Hoijse debate on the election year tax battle will begin tomorrow. A vote is set for Monday, j . Folsom Files For President MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 28 ( The South had a man today who would like to be president Got. James E. Folsom of Alabama. Folsom, 39-year-old former in surance man from the small, mid Alabama town of Cullman, an nounced yesterday he was a can didate for the democratic presi dential nomination. In his announcement, Folsom, who has been governor just slightly more than a year, said President Truman was "not running" either the party or the nation. 4l A estimated property loa of M0O0. Jo I
