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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1948)
o umU IMliW MftlMm ymm InSU I' il'IlO eswjpyrT"",'",w"7'" Br ritANK JKNKINH THE new wire today carry one of Uiom 1UU iUrlM that warm tin cockle of hew editor' heart. Wo at Uif profession tirm them "freaks," and we like Uicm because they rv M pepper In On hash, maklnc it more palelablc to tin cull customer. II starts off: '"lti United State may send en expedlUunary fore of lough alley cau abroad to kill rau pilfering Europe food rraervea." It end up with Uil tongue-in-cheek "punch" paragraph: "Only back alley brawlera would be drafted for the rodent hunting Junket. Pedigreed cata aren't wanted Jiut the toughles." THE proposal comes from ie a A,-rl,-Mti Kallna KtirlilLV. whose orealdenl read a piece In Uie London Dally Mirror auggeatlng more or leu facelloualy Uiat because there aren't oat enough 111 Europ Uie rau are oilaylng hob with stored food aup plie. Accepting Uie challenge, Uie cat aoclrty prexle came up wllh a scheme Ui moboIlM here an army of a "million healthy and vigorous work cata for rat Mlrinlnutlun duties overseas." As a quickie starter, ha added, we ought to rush off a tuken task fore of soma 6000 shork-lroup felines to go to work In strategic areas such as docks and warehouses. TT8 funny, of course. But 11 has lis serious side In thai It is a good example of our wand wavlng mood. We all know how to put Europe back on Its feet without wrecking our own economy. This surefire method of helping a needy neighbor can be summarised In Just three) words: "Work like hell." That would turn Uie trick. We all know II would turn Uie trick. But we don't want to do It that way. It la the hard way. and for generations our politicians have been pleading with us NEVER to od anything Uie hard way. "Just leave It to ua," they've been telling1 us, "and we'll war the right wand at tha right tune and evcryUUng will be lovely and tha goose will hang high and nobody will have to gel a callus on his lilywhlt hands." Tor years and yeara. we've loved H. But all of a audden our basic American horse sense Is org Inning lo hint to us that like the victims of Circa, wa r about to bo turned into puts and sent to the slaughter riousfk Siren aongs are beautiful lo listen to but 1st time Uiey nearly always lead tt someUiIng Ilk that a ' , WK'M following of courses in the " footstep of our progenitors. Aa far hack aa w have any record. human being have sought the easy' way. Always we've wanted a wand waver. Aa a matter of fact. II goes farther back than the whiten record. The story of Circa the Siren come from the Odyssey, and tha Odyasey goes farther back than Uie written word Into tradlUon handed down from father to (on. You will recall, If you haven't forgotten everything you learned In school, that Clroa. alter leading her listener along with her siren song unUl It was too lata for them to turn back, changed them Into pigs. But AFTER THAT Odysseus came along with a maglo wand herb that had been given to him by Hermes and turned them all back Into men again. No hard, degrading work, you tee. Just a blta or so off tha maglo weed and everything was hotsy tony again, That's the way we still want It. ess JT might bo worth while here lo record why cats are scarce In Europe. They've been eaten. Hungry European learned clear back In 1945 Uist cat meat won't kill anybody and has certain nour ishing quantities when put In a lew, , That' Uie kind of world we're living In, $7,500,000 Slander Suit Filed After Anti-Red Meet SEATTLE, Jan. 2D IP) Testimony by a former woman state legislator that she had been threatend by former Congressman Hugh DeLacy when she announced her intention of leaving the communist party, and the filing of a 11,600,000 libel and alander suit In connection with pre vious testimony highlighted devel opment yesterday a the legisla ture' un-American activities com mittee continued It parade of wit nesses. The wltnea, Mr. Kathryn Fogg, who once represented the state at a national communist party conven tion, said DeLacy "put his finger under my nose" at a 1040 picnic and warned: "Kathryn Fogg, we made you and we'll break you." She said he also had been threatened by Lou Bass, a commu nist party officer, that "I couldn't quit the party. He said If I did that they would testify that I was a member In good standing," Mrs. Fogg was one- of several witnesses who charged DeLacy with being a communist party member or sitting In closed party meetings. She and others also testified .that the party had started gaining con trol of the Washington pension union and tha Washington com monwealth federation In 1038 and never relinquished It. M 1 lr;jri(,MMMi JLZ iA 1. - - -T.,ln,...l PKICK t'lVC C'KNTH '-89 K' O ' (K(i()N. 1 llTltKDA Y, JANUARY 20. 11)48 Telephone 8111 No. 1250 a A-iO ' n n p r0 t ffk n r??v it, n mm Republicans Push Tax Cut Measure, Rift Appears in Demo Ranks Over Proposal WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 1.1V The liouse voted today to consider the . 500,000,000 tax-slashing bill under procedure burring any changes. Democrats cried "gag " The vote wus by voice. The opening of debute quickly developed a wide break In democratic ranks on President Truman's tax propositi. Rrp. Knulsoii R-Mlnu., author of Uie OOP bill. Invited democrats to drsert the president and help override his expected tax bill veto. Hep. C'nx (D-Oa.l told Uie house Unit for democrat to offer the president's 140 per person tax reducing plun (with u corporullon excess profits tax to make up the revenue loss "would be not much more Uian a piece of foolishness." While Uie procedure voted by Uie liouoe allows no amendments democrats will get one chance to offer a complete substitute for Knut son's bill. Cox Uild his party mrmbers Uie president's proposal luuin't a chance. He proposed Uiat the democrats rally behind a proxul by Hep. Dough- lU-N.C.i to trim the republican Oceanside Spud Test Postponed Oregon's field day at the Ocean sld certified potato seed test plot Is again postponed, tins time in definitely. Plant were badly dam aged by a frost Wednesday night, rrosl again last night was reixirted from Los Angeles. A report from Oceansld Indicates Uiat Inspection of test planted potatoes may not be possible for Uiree or tour weeks. Tagging requirement for Oregon certified russet seed have been re laxed lo permit Immediate tagging for out-of-state sal. Taagtrt of certified seed for local us will depend on, thorough bin In pecUona. It will be necessary to ex amine several hundred tuber tor presence of net necrosis. . InfeeUon Low Absence of necrosis In seed lots Is a good Indication of low percentage leafroll Infection. Percentage of nci necrosis In tuber 1 less reliable than test planting as a quality measure. Seed growers, however, cannot wait another month for Information regarding Ugglng eligibility. Com mercial growera have been Impa tiently waiting for Oceanside results. Permission to tag cerUfled russet teed will have to depend on best quality measure available now. At best, Oceanside result will be late. It la possible also Uiat late Inspection may encounter additional. dlfflculUes and not ne enureiy aaus factory. 'Snake-Like' Job Joins Saucers LA ORANDE, Ore.. Jan. 29 lP) In addlUon to eaucora and a flying man, a "snake-like" object may be skimming through the sky. Leo C. Bryant, La Ornndn music teacher, said today he had seen one "about 100 feet long and about Uie proportions of a pencil. It was trav eling due en.it over the city at about 2000 feet altitude and was going at about the speed of an airplane. It seemed to be made up of disc-like sections saucers maybe." Hie $1,500,000 libel and slander action was brought by Jerry J. C'Connell against Louis Budenx for statement made by the former communist leader in testimony pre sent Tuesday. O'Connell, former Montana congressman and atorm center In state dcmocrntlc ranks, ask 1760,000 In each of two causes of action. In other outside developments. Atty. Oen. 8mlth Troy and State Patrol Chief Herberg Algco said nt Olympla they would take no action on a telegraphed request by the Washington citizens bill of rights committee that the use of state patrolmen at the hearing be stop ped, "A far as I'm concerned the hearing I being held on state prop erty by a leglslnUve committee," Algeo said. "The committee chair man asked ua to put a couple of patrolmen In there to keep order and Hint's Just what was done and will be 'done." Mrs. Fogg testified that she was on the board of both the pension union and commonwcalUi federa tion and In the legislature during the time of her communist affili ation. She later broke with the party, she said, "because they don't believe In democracy or pretend to practice It." bill from 6.800,000,0oo lo around t4.0O0.OOO.0O0. Knuuon argued Uie full $6,600. 000,000 Is needed to help taxpayers meet Uie high coat of living. "Do not be misled again," Knul son told the democrat In a pre pared speech leading olf debate on Uie measure. "If there ever was need to en courage production lo combat In flation, It Is today. t.'rgrnl Nred "If there ever was a need to pro vide relief to Uie Individual Income taxpayer from Uie oppressive war Income taxes which are stilling In itiative and preventing business ex pansion. II Is today." Last year President Truman twice vetoed bills by Knuuon. who is chairman of Uie ways and means committee, to trim taxes $4,000, 000,000 a Ji'iir. Enough democrats held the pnrty line In congress to uphold Uie president. Knuuon argued Uiat the presi dent himself lias been "amazingly inconsistent" on Uie tax Issue. Mr. Truman has given every sign Uiat he will veto any measure along Uie lines of Knuuon'. Instead, he has suggested a $40-a-pcrson "cost of living" tnx cut. To balance this, he asked $3,200,000,000 of new taxes on corporations. Before Uie debate begun. Speaker Martin IH-Miuuu said an lucome tax cut Uiis year Is in the bng. He conceded it might not be as much as Uie $6,600,000,000 provided In the Knutson bill which came up today. But In Uie end, Martin told re porters, Uie republican congress will override a presidential veto "of the lax bill we send to Uie White House." Allowance Up For Vets Eyed WASHINOTON. Jan. 29 UP) House republican leaders are lay ing plans for quick action on legis lation to raise subsistence allow ances for veterans In school and permit higher pay tor on-the-job training. Rep. Allen R-Ill ), chairman of the rules committee, told reporters Uie house will act "soon, perhaps next week." He said he had asked other leaders to Join him In bring ing up the bills under a suspension of rules, a procedure limiting debate and barring amendments. Similar legislation already has passed Uie senate but has been held up by Uie rules committee for sev eral months. Allen said he acted Independently of the committee, but has since been assured that other mrmbers favor the bill. One would raise the niontlily sub sistence allowance for single vet eran to $78 and give married vet eran with one dependent $105, and those wllh two dependents $120. Single veterans In college now get $65, and married veterans $90. Alley Cats May Be " Drafted" NEW YORK, Jan. 29 W) The United Stntcs may send an expedi tionary force of tough alley cats Abroad to kill rat pilfering Europe's food reserves. That, at least, Is the proposal of Uie American Feline, society which, heeding a plea from the London Dally Mirror, suggested yesterday that nil army of 1.000.000 healthy And vigorous work cat be mobilized here for rat extermination duties In Europe, Society President Robert L. Kcnrinll. who conceded that the operation still Is In the planning stage, suggested that a token task force of some 5000 felines bo packed off as soon as possible. They would be released In dock areas and near food distribution centers. Kendall said only back alley brawlers would be "drafted" for Uie rodent hunting Junket. Pedigreed cats arent wanted Just the "toughies." sw ray dome He Named The WiN net ' "'' 'Win -J." " : I : ' All . I . ?..', l r.' lii ii nut.,-, irnim in i in m ii inn ii mi - Hnnwiii ifumnti i mi Name of Klamath Falls' Far West league baseball team will be the "Pioneers," the sobriquet suggested by Howard Dunn, 4748 S. 6th. Dunn Is pirlured receiving his $100 award from KH.tV Sportscaster Don N'eal at Inst night's baseball banquet at the Millard. Leading the applause below Is Walter Mails. (Story on sports page). Irish Stew Issue Enters Whisker Vs. Hemline Battle SWEET HOME, Jan. 29 tJP) Bearded plotters of the Order of Whlskerlnoes admitted today they are not certain whether they have won the first battle in a war against the lower hemline of milady's new skirt fashions. Wives of some of' the stalwart band of 76 have staged a retreat from Uie kitchen and left their whisker-sprouting spouses holding pans and dlshrags. The campaign against longer Waterfront War Rages In Swatow HONO KONG. Jan. 29 (F Chin ese press dispatches today reported a battle royal among rival water front factions at Swatow with the workers using home-made hand grenades, Iron bars and stones. A considerable number were re ported injured. The fighting grew out of a dispute between transporta tion coolies and warehouse workers over trespassing the other's territory. The city's entire police force took two hours to quell the outbreak, the dispatches said. Swatow Is about 180 miles northeast of Hong Kong. Bomb Explodes At Long Last SUNNYSIDE, Wash., Jnn. 29 .'! A 50-pound navy skip bomb which had been rolled down a steep hill, loaded Into a truck, placed on a dining room table and then moved outside, finally exploded yesterday but with a navy bomb expert on hand to supervise the detonation. Deputy Sheriff Ralph Kiihns said the bomb, dropped Intact on the Zlllali bombing range during the war, wns found by two boys, War ren Everett and Lloyd KollwlU. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 (P) (USDA) Potatoes: 9 broken, 14 unbroken cars on track; arrivals. Oregon 7: market steady; Klamath Russets No. 1-A, 5.15; Long Whites 1-A, $4.45. LOS ANOKLES, Jan. 29 Ml tUSDAi Potatoes: 16 broken, 17 unbroken cars on track; arrivals, California 4, Oregon 1, Idaho 5, Utah 5, by truck 10; market slightly stronger; Idaho Russets No, I-A, $4.90-5.00. Baseball Team i i skirts and bustles, that the "Whis kerinoes" say were all right for grandma but lack the eye appeal needed to snag and hold her grand son, started some time ago. Businessmen and loggers of this community, hearing that lengthen ing hems were dictated from Paris declared their Independence of lor eign fashion tyranny. Taking their cue from patroits of 1776 they re cruited 76 revolutionaries and Is sued a warning. The wives replied .that sort of freedom was fine for men, and con tinued to buy 'em longer. They brought home "Gibson" blouses, skirts of tent-like proportions and chattered of bustles and other bits of yesteryear attire. The patriots decided it was time for action. A council of war on what the wires disliked most about men broueht a vote for beards. What kind? Any kind! Someone asked how long? And It probably was Cliff Cannon who thought of let ting them grow until St. Patrick's: Day March 17. Under $30 penalty for shaving, the "Whlskerlnoes" now boast more brands of chin chops than ever bothered any one of their grand mothers in her day. Mutton chops, van dykes, side burns. Lincolns, nrophet types and trimmed and un kemnt varieties are In verdant glory. Right now. however, the initial victory the retreat of the wives from the kitchen Is not so glor ious. The husbands celebrated by cooking Irish slew. In honor of the patron saint of their war, but Irish stew, and Irish stew and more Irish stew In prospect has taken the gusto from the celebration. Stanford Prexy Dies In Gotham NEW YORK. Jnn 29 oT) Dr. Donald B. Tresldder, 53, president of Stanford university nt Palo Alto, Calif., died last night In his suite at a mld-Mnnhnttan hotel. Police attributed the educator's death to natural causes. The body wns removed to the Bellevuc hos pital morgue and a medical ex aminer said It would be determined today whether an autopsy would be performed. Dr. Tresldder arrived In New York last Friday to attend a meeting of the Association of Amerlcnn Uni versities' policy committee of which he Is chairman. He had planned to go from here to Washington and return to California on February 9. Vz Cent Up Given 4000 AFL Group A 7 ii centa-an-hour wage in crease for 4000 lumber and logging workers in the area covered by the Klamath Basin district council of the AFL was agreed upon today by negotiators for the union and em ployers represented by the Pine In dustrial Relations committee, Inc. The new scale, if accepted by the local unions and individual em ployers, will make the basic wages in logging and sawmills $1.37 'i, and in box factories, $1.35. Recommendations of the negoti ators were forwarded today by both the local district council office of Uie union and the PIRC. K. A. Gordon headed the union negoti ators, and C. L. Irving represented Uie PIRC In the discussion, which has been going on since early January. Effective January 1 Vnder the negotiators' agreement, the wage Increase would be effecUve as of January L The Increase would be paid only to employe on the payroll on Uie date the recom mendation Is accepted by the local union and Uie individual employer, and workers hired subsequent to that lime. The manner of applica tion of Uie wage increase to piece workers will be handled by local negotiations. Ordinarily, recommendaUon by negotiators in such - cases are ac cepted. The increase cover work ers in Klamath Falls, Lakeview, Rogue river valley. Weed, Yreka, Sprague River, and some of Uie operations at Aituras and Canby. The boost amount to 60 cents per day per worker. They total up around $2400 a day for the entire group. ( Funeral Ship Sinks At Last BOSTON, Jan. 29 UP) The army funeral ship Joseph V. Connolly went adrift from a tow line today off Cape Race, Nfld, and sank, the coast guard reported today. The ship, previously ravaged by lire, was under tow for New York. The coast guard said Uie towing hawser slipped off a towing drum on Uie commercial tug Curb. Almost immediately, the coast guard said, Uie Connolly disappeared from the cutter Acushnet's radar scope. The Acushnet was accompanying Uie Curb. Earlier .the Acushnet said, it was noted heavy seas were flooding the Connolly's after hatches. A whole gale was blowing and heavy snow squalls were prevailing when the Connolly disappeared, the coast guard said. Police Check On Runaways Three teen-age boys were reported Dy ponce to nave run away from their homes here last night and are believed to be heading for Portland to Join Uie coast guard. Two of Uie youths are 16 years old, tha other 15. One left a note to his parent saying he was fed up with school. Wednesday afternoon late Sheriff Lloyd Low and Deputy Juvenile Ol ficer Faye Blackmer located a W year-old girl who had left home and was walking toward Lake Harriet up the Lake o' the Woods road for a solitary camping trip. The girl was equipped with hunting knife and one match, scarcely enough gear for a camp at Uie snow-bound lake. She was re turned home. Used Car Men Swing To Right PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29 JPh Phlladelphia used car dealers got together and voted thumbs down on such trade names as "More Money Mnx." "The Smiling Irishman," and "Top Dollar Joe." Names like that, the dealers solemnly agreed In a resolution last night, are not in keeping with Uie industry's "desire to maintain a dignified atutude in 11 trans actions with the public." MISTAKE PORTLAND, Jan. 29 (P) Patrol man John Hatch stepped from the Jail building last night carrying a number of arrest slips and a letter to be mailed. When he returned to the record bureau he had the letter but not the arrest (lips clerk were waiting to file. A post office employe retrieved the record from tht corner mall box, , No End Seen To St. Helens Meat Battle ST. HELENS, Jan. 29 lP) New "bargains" were promised by butchers here for the week-end as the meat price war rounded out It fourth week with no end In sight. Ernies Peterson, partner of a store that opened January ft and who claim to have forced prices downward, said, "We're making money." Jack Sapplngton, who offered free ham earlier this week, said he couldn't see any end to the price dash spiraL He aMed he would Just a soon stop the major lose leader item, however. His specials yesterday featured three pound of hamburger for $L Hi atiffest compeUtor yester day waa offering pork roast at 45 cent a pound, pork loin at 55, sirloin and rump beef roast at 49 and round steak at 59. Other market operators, not en thused about the price eutUng wave, agreed It waa still In full swing. There are nine meat market In the city. Buyer started flocking Into the Columbia river community, 25 mile from Portland, last week end when the war was In It third sensational week. ' Peterson said hi shop was buy ing animals from farmer and having them custom slaughtered. This, he explained, permitted the price drop at a profit. "We're doing all right," he added, "With the volume we're getting we're making money. This can keep up s long time and we won't complain." Mercury Hits Seasonal Low Overcast skies, following on the heel of a seasonal low record of II degrees above zero chalked up early this morning by the U. S. weatherman, brought a frown to Klamath brows which have been se rene and slightly smug this past few weeks as the basin has basked in unusual January sun. The barometer at noon today showed a steady but not drasUc drop for the past 24 hour but was leveling off. In the meantime the forecast was for "cloudy weather, snow flurries tonight but clearing; Friday." . The Oregon state highway com mission reported the first snow In two weeks Is expected to fall to night In mountain passes, with rain expected on other routes. Ski enthusiasts are hoping for stow at Crater Lake national park where skiing has been poor the past two week-ends. Only a fresh fall of snow to cover Uie ice encrusted trails and slopes, would make ski ing possible this week-end, rangers reported. GM Insurance Plan Blocked WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 VP) Federal Judge John Bright today issued a temporary restraining or der in New York City barring Gen eral Motors corporation from put ting an employe insurance plan in to effect on February 1. The court's action was announced here by the national labor relations board. Robert N. Denham, the board's general counsel, requested Uie order, contending Uiat GM had failed to bargain on Uie insurance plan with Uie CIO Auto Workers union. Den ham charged this was an unfair labor practice. Judge Bright gave GM until February 3 to say why it should not be- barred permanently on the plan. A hearing will be held then to de termine whether a permanent in junction should be granted. Denham told the court Uiat GM was attempting to place Its own In surance plan Into effect without bargaining with Uie union as Uie firm had agreed to do in Its present contract. British-Iraq Crisis Has Foreign Office In Dither LONDON, Jan. 29 (P Britain's government worriedly eyed the Mid dle East today, fearful of a crisis In their relations with the Arab states. Officials conceded that recent riots in Bagdad reflected a serious British miscalculation of popular Arab opinion. The riots were in protest against a revised British Iraqi treaty . of alliance. Some Informants said Uie British may try to retrieve lost ground by proposing slight modification of the treaty, which was signed January If It has not been ratified. The government of Premier Sallh Bey El Jabur, which negotiated Uie re vision, quit Tuesday. The treaty would permit British troops to enter Iraq In event of war and would allow the British to use Iraqi airfields. There was some hope that a new Iraq government might - be formed which would be able to convince the people the treaty Is In their best Interests. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevln had expressed hope Uie British Iraqi treaty would be one of a system of alliances to form a Brit Distiller's Ration Ends Saturday WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 OP) President Truman Baked congress today to extend until October $1 hi power to control na of grain, say In the present shortage "Jeopar dizes the national security." In a special message to congress, Mr. Truman recommended Uiat hi authority over grain be extended under Uie second war power act "with respect to allocation and In ventory control of grain for the pro. ductlon of ethyl alcohol regardless of the use to which the product 1 to be put." ' The message was read to thi house. The senate was not In ses sion. Try Killed Mr. Truman acted after a house committee shoved aside his request for legislation providing a tempo rary extension of controls which would affect the amount of grain allocated to distiller for use In whisky-making. The power to control distillers' use of grain will end Saturday, The president's message was re leased after a White House confer ence with Secretary of Agriculture Anderson, Mr. Truman called attention to congress to the gravity of "a crlU cal shortage of grain which threat ens to become even more serious during the next few months.1 The president said the situation 'can not be solved" by voluntary agreements within Uie Industry. He submitted a proposed measure) for Uie conservation of grain giving controls over its use for production of ethyl alcohol, "Including but not limited to distilled spirits and neu tral spirits." AFL Moves Against Reds - MIAMI. Fla.. Jan. 29 UTWtha AFL executive council Av every indication today it meant to take advantage of anil -Soviet activity around the world by setting up a rival labor organization to freeze out uie Russians. The Soviet trade unlona'are mem ber of the World FederaUon of Trade Unions, in which Uie CIO also is a participant along with representatives of labor groups In a score of other nations. The AFL never would Join, asserting the WFTO. is .jocnmunUt dominated" because of overwhelming number. A three-man committee within the council is working on a new policy statement which might go so far as to scuttle the AFL' tradi tional opposition to universal mil itary training, and reverse it his toric stand on Uie theory Uiat U. S. youth must be drilled for defense. The committee plass to report Fri day. President William Green told his news conference here yesterday that in addition to the organization of an inter-American federaUon of labor among 17 nations In this hemisphere, Uie AFL planned to ap peal to labor groups in Europe, Asia and elsewhere to rival Uie World Federation of Trade Unions IWFTU. France Yetoes Franc Recall PARIS, Jan. 29 IP) A government bill to confiscate franca from black marketeers was rejected by the na tional assembly's finance commis sion today. Premier Robert Schuman's gov ernment sought to withdraw all 5000 franc notes In circulation, and ap parently to confiscate those obtained illegitimately. The bill was rejected when the finance commission failed to give It a majority approval. The vote was a tie, 20-20. The government demanded a sec ond reading. The bill will go to Uie national assembly with an unfavor able report if the commission main tains its stand on the second read ing. ish-Arab bulwark against Uie spread of commulsm In the Middle East. But the trigger-quick temper of Uie Arabian man-on-the-atreet pro vides a touchy problem. An illustration of Arab national ism was given In London yesterday by an unidentified trans-Jordan of ficial. He said: "If Uie people of the Mideast bad to choose between being Arabs un der communism and being subject of a foreign Imperialism, whether British or American imperialism, unquestlonlngly they would select communism." A Moscow radio commentator heard In London gave Uie Soviet reaction to Uie Iraq question. The broadcast said Uie Arabs regard the treaty as a direct menace to na tional Interests and an attempt "of the Imperialists to continue their old colonial policy of enslavement of the peoples of Asia and Africa." In Baghdad, former Premier Sallh Bey El Jabur was reliably reported to have fled the city. A secret police Informant said he bad gone to Hllla, 00 miles south of Baghdad, to the tribes of his father-in-law. Crowd marched through Baghdad, crying for his head. ,
