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7 lTTifo)r?NS MIMMMfP p)fn) MUffittffi Hollywood r t- arir i ill Mr. and Mr. I.rrr Park of the film enlony alopprd fur dinner at l.e Pellran rafn 11 nlflit cn route from 'llnibrrllne Iodic whrre tliry had brrn for the aklliif. I liry conllnurd on tuuth lat nlflit. Parka, a muat ardent movie fan remember, played the lead In "The JoUon Hlory." He nai particularly Interested In the inland route from Klamath Kail to l.o Anirlr and wa advlaed by The Herald and New photog rapher. e uunerian, at . i ... oulh. We. alao aold Park, and hi. ttarrril, on Win Mllll aa vrM-r in rius Day's Jews Tmlfl afalari " j-a.. lly Kit AN K JKNKIN8 roll three day, in the nation 1 commodity market, grain price have been aklddlng. During the auino period, the dock market ha been exiierlenclng aympathetlc (Ink ing ell. Dora aomebody know aoinelhlng? Are we going to export irss grain lhan had been expected? Are world food prospect better than had been auploscdf Or U It Jul rase of Jitter? PIME will tell. But WATCH It. Our price lruclur la top-heavy. Something I going to hapiien aooncr or later. It could be a pries drop. It could be all-out Inflation, going through the wringer at the end of th. road. Either I possible. MKW type of navy ship ate In tlie wind. Home of them will be whopper. We're talking of aircraft earner UP TO 80.000 TONS. Our biggest comer now are 46.000 ton. The new one will be of "flush- deck'' type, There will be no island" at the tide to get in the way of Iht Wings of HIOOKIt plane. Bigger carrier plane ran- tout JIIOOER ATOM BOMBS PAR T II til. RT the me time, well build " "hunter-killer" destroyer to hunt down submarine. (Submarine, operating under water, therefore less vulnerable to atomic attack, could get enemy bomb-carrying plane within striking distance of us. He member the Jap ub that loosed a tiny Incendiary- bo mb-carrying plan over by Brookings?) WHAT doe It all mean? Well. If you lived In a dark forest and Die wolve were gelling bigger and tougher, youd want a BIGGER OUN, wouldn't you? HT Lake Succe.u (UN headquarters) th Soviet Ukraine (one of Mos cow stooges! accuse Britain of obstructing the ipllttlng up of Palestine between the Arab and the Jew. It' bunk, of course. The British are gelling out of Palestine bee use 1 the Holy Land potato got loo big and too hot for crippled Britain to handle. What alio did there waa to hand the torch to US. For nearly a century, while we were amall and weak, the British fleet backed u up after wa had talked bigger than our britches in the case of the Monroe Doctrine. The British leel that It's OUR (un now. WHAT Is Russia driving at tills " time? This writer's guess Is that Mos cow is merely following her regular tsctlc of trying to discredit us and the British at every opportunity. nONT write the British off yet. They're doing their recovery Job the hard way pulling their belts in and doing without what they can't produce. We're splurging high, wldi and handsome, bidding up the price of things that are scarce. We're having more fun. but the British may have less headache In the end. "TIIK British, uniortunaiely, are v handicapped by socialism which uends so much time dreaming up ways to divide things that It hasn't lime enough to produce things to divide. But they're doing without the things they can't afford, and In the long run that may overcame the handicap of socialism, Pair Of Blazes Do Little Harm Two fires In widely separated parts of the community were re ported in the past 24 hours. The city department was called out tit 2 46 p. m. Thursday to 901 Alameda hern a pips from a floor furnace had burned out. There was little drmnge. Tho residence Is occupied by George Webb. Tills morning at 0:30 o'clock, the county truck answered a call from the G. M. Alcorne resldenci at 4318 Bnrtlctt to check a firs In the liv ing room caused by a crack In th flue. Damage was estimated at 160, Visitors ..,r wne. known in pr.ra.e .... a. ..r,,y a. Low Mercury Promised For Next 24 Hours Old Man Winter, who la hitting back hard after a false spring forced him to take a back scat for several weeks in January, again promised sharp cold for the next 24 hours. His promise of a minimum of 6 above these part tills morning ma tured to the north but It was only 10 degree here at 7:30 a.m. He re peated a 8 above minimum for to morrow. Below sere reading came in from f'rrwent Lake whrre II was a minus 7: Kirk, mlnua 4; Lens, minus Z; Chemull. inlnuft 8: Mowlch, minus 6, the goulhrrn Pacific offlre here re ported. Coldest place In th state of Ore gon this morning was Austin In tsstern Oregon, with 18 below, but Sun Mountain pas to the north on highway V7 was not far behind. The ante patrolman there shivered a he took the minimum reading of II degree below zero this morn ing. It was straight sero at Odell lake on the Willamette pass, and 8 below al Mrarham on Ihe Old Ore gon Trail to Uw eat. No new snow fell in this section of Uia itate but the highway com mission said snowplow crew, which have been battling eight-foot snow drifts for 24 hours on tlie Shermsn highway and the north end of The Dnllrs -California highway, reported today both route might be closed If the wind drift any more snow over the roads. Th highway commission said If it become windy, both routes might close on five minutes notice. Koada to the north from here were sanded but motorist romlng Into Klamath Kail as Id all tilth way wer hasardou and chain required a there la prked snow and Ire. Snow and Ice will not keep ski fan at home this week-end. At Crater Lake national park there la an eight-Inch powder over a 80-Inch pack, the weather Is fair and so is the skiing. Forecast Is fair today and Saturday; Sunday, snow flur ries; temperature range, 8 to 18 to day and Saturday: 18 to 28 Sunday, light northwesterly wind today be coming northwesterly 20 miles per hour Saturday and westerly 20 to 28 miles on Sunday. CIO-IVA Calls Wage Session 8POKANE, Feb. 6 (Pi The In ternational Woodworkers of Amer ica (CIO) have asked lumber In dustry leaders In Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and California to meet In Portland February 18 to beglif negotiating wage and other revisions in current working con tracts, District President Earl Nlmi said today. Nltns said the union has ilven operators the required 60 days notice of Its Intention to reopen the con tracts. He said IWA headquarters In Portland announced lost month that the union would seek a wage In crease of 40 cents an hour. Includ ing a 7'ii-cent an hour health and welfare fund and six paid holidays annually. About 8000 workers In Inland Em pire lumber camps would be affect ed by the negotiations, Nlms added, January Warm Month January was an exceptional weather month, the reclamation bureau reported today. The average temperature was 34.9, the warmest January since 1940. Sunny days and cold, clear nights marked the month. There were 16 days without a cloud and seven days that were partly cloudy, leaving only eight days that were completely cloudy. The minimum temperature, which occurred on the 27th, was 13 degrees above; the maximum, 66 degrees, was recorded on the Wild end 24th. A total of 2.70 Inches of rain, the total for the month, fell during the first seven days of tho month. This was 0.71 Inches over the normal of 1.90 Inches. The greatest amount to fall for any one day of this period was 0.B8 Inch which fell on the 4th. The available storage In tho various bureau of reclamation reservoirs that serve the Klamath basin on February 1 of 1047 and 1048 Is as follows: , v , Feb. 1, 1948 Feb. 1, 1947 Upper Klamath Lako 234,200 Ac. Ft. 184,670 Ao. Ft. Gcrber Reservoir 20,930 Ac. FU 20,180 Ao. Ft, Clear Luke . 146,130 Ac. Ft. 203,230 Ac. Ft. WEATHER M. 'fb. ft Mlh. ...... I frpt IplUlUa laa! 14 kauri ... HlrMm i fur .I rr 4.11 Nril . " vrtrat .r Uiilfhl, ltitra htf rltHlnfii mttf. tmt9 law, A 4tfr, PltKK FIVK CKNTN Graiarket Drop Slowed NEW YORK, Feb. 6 117 Price of moat grain extended their allele downward today, but at a lower pace. At the ame time the stock market allowed tigiu of regaining 1U balance. Opening price on the exchange were little help In answering whether till week precipitate drop In commodity and tck price wa a temporary correction or a permanent change lit trend. But wheat failed for the flrat time 111 three day to drop the allow able dully limit at the oin!ng of the Chicago board of trade. And Hcptcnilwr and December onU con- tract even managed alight advance. Corn again tilt, It limit decline. Stock were no worse than mixed on New York exchange after losing around 11.600,000,000 In market value In two days. ; Buine other commodities held to HnwI1 .Ild .hhlMllh showing lgn - .,-, .,, ,;, IlllllrM ,. -rr.,11,. .wl tnlvrl at Krw York rnt. tonaecd oil wa uneven and soybean oil unchanged to lower. The commodity market were cluaely watched by those seeking to determine If the upward spiral In the coat of living might be at an end. Whether the bouaewlfe eventual ly would pay leu for a loaf of bread or A cotton drea depended on one prime factor: whether the break In price I a flaah ir e pan or a drclalve turn In the In. lion road. Tiie answer may com In the next few day. Wheat, considered a cornerstone In the national price itructure, crushed the permissible maximum drop of 10 cenu a bushel on Wed nesday and Thursday In Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City. Corn, In which acute weakness first de veloped, followed suit with the eight cent maximum fall each day. Junked Vessel Awash At Pier ASTORIA. Ore.. Feb. 8 (IPtA for mer navy hospital ship, ready fur scrapping, was awash al a pier here today, and was filling with water faster than crews could pump her out. The stern of the vessel, the former USS Refuge, sunk to the bottom. The s ilo wok not expected to cap-' ine snip was not expecira 10 cap , sire, but she was blocking the port of Astoria's principal pier, which usad for cram loading wu "''-" " "" "."'.' morning off Willapa Harbor. Wash as she was being towed from Olym pia. Wash., to Portland for scrap ping The Pugct Sound Tug and Barge ; company's tug Neptune managed to iow ncr on iiore. uui cu morning she began sinking at the pier. . By mid-morning, aespite pumping, the water waa gaining a foot an hour. A call went out tor more pumps from Portland and , other coastal points. The pumping crew expressed belief the vessel's bulkheads had given way, letting water filter through the engine room. The ship had been bought by Consolidated Builders. Inc.. to scrap at tlie Swan Island yard In Port land. Hypnosis Aids In Childbirth SEATTLE, Feb. 6 (Pi A 31 -year-old mother, delivered of a child while under hypnosis, said today: "It was wonderful." "I didn't feel a single pain and I don't remember anything about It." she added. The woman said site had found anesthetics unsatisfactory in giving birth to her other children. Dr. Louis Oellerman, Seattle psychologist who hypnotised her, told she would feel no pain until Saturday noon. He said she was "in a deep relaxation throughout the birth." Daughter Born To Lost Hunter A daughter was born Thursday at Klamath Valley hospital to Mrs. Ed Young of Macdoel, Calif., whose husband has been missing since last October 16 when he left Macdoel on a deer hunting trip in tlie Whale back mountain country of Northern California. The little girl weighed 7 pounds 14'4 otmces. No trace, other than the finding of Young's gun, was ever located by scores of searchers Including forest rangers who scoured the mountain country where Young was last seen. i ilJtruJ"liMifiiii iri-ii mini mini in k..,,.W .y-... AaiiJ q ' KLAMATH FAI.L8, OKKOON.-fW DIMM I', FtBIHlARY 1048 Telephone 8111 ! No. 1257 Rent Issue May Bring Stiff Fight WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 A bill to extend rent controls 14 months In greatly relaxed form threatened j to bring on an election year free- , for-all In congress today. , Some democrats moved to put more U'eth In It even before It reaches the senate for debate. Some republicans defended It as a de served break for landlords. 1 Chairman Tobey R-N. H.I called the full banking committee to a closed door afternoon meeting to de- clde what to do. The bill Is the product of a sub-, committee headed by Senator Cain ! (R-Wash.l. It would: 1. Permit unlimited t.j.su in rents -In cases where tenants and land- ' lords agree on leases running through all of IMS. i Z. Wipe out government restrlc-'. Hons on building of such things as'1 theatres and amusement parks. 2. Give local rem boards more say 1 over whether rent ceilings should be Increased or eliminated in their areas. - 4. Continue whatever controls re- j main through April 30. 1049. under the federal housing expediter. Cain said those who complained , that it Is a "sky's the limit" bill are off base. He said the only tenants who have to accept increases are w,, to nmtect those wno want eases to protect th" "r u" "P"9 30 He Mii even " should un f0r doubling the rent, some i tenant mleht be willlne to accent if they get "a complete redecorating Job, or a new set of furniture or a new refrigerator." r?tn said hnusl.ie official estl m.t, ,h.t l fino onn tenant ilened i jj.,. cent increases under the old u,, Anotner i4.ooo.ooo still nave; cninn to protect them, he j said, and the subcommittee bill j would leave these undisturbed. Storms Stall Plane Search HAMILTON FIELD, Calif.. Feb. S tip) 8tormy weather over the Sierra Nevada prevented six air force search planes from Joining a search for a missing C-4S plane which disappeared with two aboard on a flight from Tonopah, New, to Wendover, Utah. An air force spokesman said a C-47, a B-17 and four other planes were readied to take off as soon as weather conditions permitted. The Nevada civil air patrol al ready has been alerted, although no direct word has been received from U. Aboard the missing plane, which took off from Tonopah Wednesday morning, were Lt. Col. Charles M. Beatty of Colorado Springs, Colo., and T'Sgt. Raleigh Deane of Peter son field, Colorado Springs. Tlie plane is a small twin-engine utility transport iBcechcraft). The army spokesman said it was possible Hill field. Utah, would Join the search from the other direction. Pay Of Foremen On Skill Basis DETROIT. Feb. 6 itpyA new plan covering responsibility and com pensation of foremen in Its employ was announced today by the Ford Motor company. , Henry Ford II. president, said foremen, as Individuals engaged ex clusively in management functions, will be paid salaries determined by tlie skill of the operations they sup ervise. Ford said foremen will be classi fied Into six occupational groups. Periodic community salary surveys will be made, he added, to Insure that foremen are paid salaries equal to, or better than the going rate in the area of their employment. Late Spud Bulletin LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 (AP- USDAi Potatoes: 21 broken. 40 unbroken cars on track; arrivals, Oregon 3, California 2. Idaho 14. Utah 1, by truck 6: market slightly stronger; Idaho Russets No. 1-A, 6.30-5.50. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 (AP USDAl Potatoes: 2 broken, 7 un broken cars on track; arrivals, Ore gon 3; market slightly stronger; Klamath Russets No. 1-A, 8.65-5.75. Good (ivde Walah. who was supposed settle a basketball wafer last nlrht, i r v. o t'hi J I ...', V,;"-...jr: . .3 I , ,-M X.-. Vocational school rvmnaslunVa hardwood. Neslin's basketball team beat Walsh's quintet, 62 to 47. Note the pastry sailing off Into space at Ihe corner of the picture. George Asks Wife Swears Bridges Senator For A ? rM m a KiaAmUoi Captured Nag WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 tr Senator Tom Slcwort (D-Tenn.) 1 considering this proposition from a constituent named George: If the senator will get him f horse preferably mother" I norse-oeoree nas promisea o "vole for you when I get big." . Tbal w"' ,n l- "' - Oral Re wrote to Stewart alter i reading that the senator had ureed the state department to hang on to a number of coptured Hungarian horses as war booty. "Dear Tom." the letter said. "I read that you have some horses ' . i t.n .,. n n rmv nrr. j Mas. "I would shore like to have one." "Make it the fastest one you have." George added If possible a mother one, so it can have babies." Stewart did not give the youngster's last name. But George obviously is a pretty sharp lad. he told a reporter. Longshore Crew Quits Freighter LONG BEACH. Calil.. Feb. 6 If) A crew of longshoremen loading a Russian freighter walked off the Joo today when, a spokesman said, the vessel's officers refused to raise the American flag. I- W. Thomas, president of the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union local, said the refusal violated interna tional custom, and "we won't load hei until they get that flag up." There Is no maritime law. cover ing the situation, he said, but added raising the national flag in any port visited Is ar International cour tesy. Highway Won't Rename Route -SALEM. Feb. 6 lPr The Oregon highway commission doesn't want tlie highway between Lcwiston and Enterprise, Ore., renamed after Chief Joseph, chief of the Nea Perce Indians In the early days. But the commission said that il residents of the area get the ap. provnl of the Oregon Historical society, they will be permitted to place markers olong the route call ing the road the "Chief Joseph Trail." The commission said, however, the official name for the route will re main the "Lcwiston - Enterprise highway." Blizzard Kills Trapper Couple PRINCE GEORGE, B. C, Feb. (CPi Victims of a tar north storm, an Indian trapper and his son died I on a bllssard-swept trail 380 miles ! nnrtii nf hntf It was learned toriav. i n,h finon tn death. Word of the tragedy was brought to Fort Wave, 300 miles north of here, by Mrs. MacDonald Fgnnll. who trekked down the frozen Flnlay river with two younger sons, to re port the death of her husband and son, A third son suffered froien feet and was left at Weissner lake, 30 miles north of Fort Ware, and he wilt be brought here by plane for hospitAl treatment. Shot But Receiver Ducked to be on the receiving end of an ducked and the Die tossed by Sam it via wwiiiiiiiv iTibiuwwi SEATTLE, Feb. iPt The surprise testimony of the former wife of Harry Bridges. Pacific coast longshore union leader, brought a climactic close last night to a nine-day hearing of the legislative un- American activities committee Into communistic activity in Washington slate. Testifying behind locked doors. Mrs. Agnes Bridges asserted that her former husband was a member of the communist party. She said he had a communist party membership book which he concealed under the bathroom linoleum or in a slit cut above the door of their San Francisco home. 1 (Bridges repeatedly has denied party membership and in San Child Battle Opens HILLSBORO. Ore, Feb. 6 "-A fight between parents and grand- parents for custody of a 5-year-old girl was to open in Washington county court here today. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gereald L. Way, Seattle, seek to set aside adoption of their daughter. Con stance Ann, by the paternal grand parents. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Way. Hills boro. Each side has accused tlie other of taking the child illegally. In a previous hearing at Seattle in which the grandparents gained custody, they said they had cared for the girl since she was a few months old while the parents were separated. The younger Way asserts his wife and the girl lived with the grand parents while he was in the armed services and that he is now in posi tion to care tor the daughter. He is not expected to appear in court. Attorneys will represent him here. Land Acquired For Zinc Plant ST. HELENS, Feb. 6 IIP) $6,000,000 sine treatment plant, to be built by tlie American Smelter and Refinery company, is one of the probable new industries lor Oregon. The firm has acquired 55 acres ot county land at Columbia City for such a plant, and has been doing test work there. County officials said that under an agreement with the county, the firm must begin con struction by next January 1 or turn tlie land back. John Kelly, exe.utive secretary ot the Oregon postwnr readjustment and development commission, said the cost of the project-lf it goes j el,tire ta- Plus 100 cent re forward would be about S6.000.000. 1 fund of the unused portion. Nazi General Swings PARIS, Feb. 6 A war min istry spokesman announced today that Gen. Otto von Stuelpnagel, war time commander of German troops In occupied France, hanRed him self this morning tn Cherche-Mldl prison. Stuelpnagel, a 69-year-old bach elor, was under indictment on charges of "crimes URiilnst Inter national law." Including the exe cution of hostages. A spokesman for the army court which was to try him said he would have gone on trial early this sum mer. Brig. Oen. Jean Le Gorgull licr, who had been preparing the case against Stuelpnagel, said he was to have questioned the German general this afternoon. Stuelpnagel' cousin Hclnrlch, who replaced him here in 1042, was exe cuted in Germany in 1044 for par i 11-pound chocolate cream pie to Neslin splashed on the Oregon .Francisco last nignt issued a mimeo- : graphed statement charging his di vorced wife's testimony was Incom petent. ("That very same statement was j handed to Judge Edward Foley In the form of an affidavit when I was granted citizenship, and It was Ihrnm mifc hv thf 1uHff nn the :ground .neU hath no fury like a woman scorned'," he said.) Asked by Committee Counsel William Houston if Bridges ever had told her he was a member of the communist party, Mrs. Bridges re plied: "On many occasions." "Did they ever hold meetings In your home?" "Yes. x x x sometimes once a week, sometimes twice," she replied. Mrs. Bridges testified that party application blanks were kept In their bedroom, and that Bridges told her to stay In another room during the meetings. As Mrs. Bridges took the stand, Committee Chairman Albert Can well announced that during her testimony the hearing room doors would be locked and no one per mitted to enter or leave the room until she had been safely escorted from the armory afterwards. Airlines May Pay If Late i A I ST PAUL. Minn.. Feb 6 ii - i Northwest Airlines nroDoses to re bate five per cent of ticket prices when planes are more than 30 min utes late, effective March 15, under a proposal filed with the civil aero nautics board. Croil Hunter, president, said last night the refunds would apply to all domestic flights on a year around basis if approved. He explained that when planes are grounded short of destinations passengers would claim from stewardesses checks entitling them to a percentage rebate of the ticipating in the Munich bomb plot against Adolf Hitler. Stuelpnagel was the second war time German army officer to take his own life In two days while facing war-crimes charges. Oen. Johannes Blaskowltz Jumped to his death yes terday from a prison catwalk In Nuernberg. Germany. He was about to go on trial before an American court. Stuelpnagel was arrested on his estate In the French occupation zone of Germany December 12, 1046. He had been sought by the French since Germony's defeat in the spring of 1945. He was brought to Paris to be tried. The French press agency said the general was found In his cell short ly after midnight, hanged with strips of bedding. It said fruitless efforts were made to revive him. Shasta Mill Owners Say Cuts Forced REDDING, Calif., Feb. t W A slowdown and a controversy In th Northern California lumber Industry stemmed today from the state's drought-Induced power shortage. . More than 100 lumber mills wera affected from the California border north Into Oregon a Idled hydro electric generators caused the Pa cific Gaa and Electric company to cut power delivery to California Oregon Power company and tha Mountain States Power company. In Shasta county. California, at least one large lumber mill was closed Wednesday and Thursday. Production was resumed last night on a single eight-hour shift basis. The controversy was over whether the slowdown on the California side was voluntary or in part compulsory. Shasta county lumbermen were seeking a conference with FG&E Not So Here Controversy In the lumber In dustry to the south does not ex ist in the Klamath basin where mills are hard hit by the power shortage, Sam Rltchey, Copco district manager, said today. "Our operators in the Klamath basin and In Northern California have not qaestloned the Imposed 50 per cent power restrictions which went Into effect here last Wednesday. Our schedule Z, sawmill contract, is a surplus power schedule which means as It is stated In the contract: "In case of power shortage, lighting and power consumers operating under the regular schedule of the company as fixed by the public utilities commissioner at Oregon, shall have preference." Rltchey said Wednesday's schedule will continue her In definitely and until there is restoration of sufficient power to piace the sawmills back on a normal operating basis. ' "Lumbermen here are adjust ing operations here despite the difficulties encountered," Rltchey said, referring to off-peak oper ations now in progress. spokesmen to determine whether the lumber and mining industries were being discriminated against on power conservation. . A company spokesman In San Francisco said there was no change in Its policy of negotiating power curtailment agreements on a vol untary basis with individual cus tomers in cases where, achedulei could e adjusted without hardship. Blanket Slowdown In no case, it was said, would there be an Industry-wide, blanket slowdown. A. B. Hood of Klamath Falls, vice president and general manager of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber com pany at Anderson. Shasta county, ICntlunl ra t. Calaaaa tl Illness Takes I Local Matron Mrs. Helena Sandon, 79, mother of Mrs. Percy Murray of 812 Pa cific Terrace, died at the Murray home at 12:10 a. m. today following a lengthy illness. Mrs. Sandon, who has made her home In Klamath Falls with her daughter and fam ily since 1932, leaves a host of friends to mourn her passing. - In addition to Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Sandon Is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. C. M. Archer of Norwalk, Calif.. Mrs. T. T. Mackie of San Francisco, Calif., six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. R. E. Rooney ot Chippewa Falls, Wis., and one brother, L. L. McGilvray, Longvlew, Wash. Mrs. Sandon was born May 17, 1868. in Eagle Point. Wis., and for many years made her home In Cor vallis. Her husband. Michael San don, died there In 1923. Final rite will be held Monday from St Mary's Catholic church In CorvalUs. Mrs. Sandon was a member of that church. The Earl Whitloclf Funer al home is in charge. Kuhn Might Be In Soviet Zone MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 6 UPh German authorities speculated to day that Fritz Kuhn, fugitive ex bund leader, might have fled Into the Soviet occupation zone. They said Kuhn. whose escape from Dachau Internment camp waa announced Wednesday, might have reasoned lt would be harder to ex tradite him from the Russian sector than the British or French zones. U. S. constabulary units and Ger man police widened their search over Western Germany for the man who before the war led the pro-nael bund which flourished in the United States. He was deported In 1045. , Mardi Gras Has High Visitors NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 6 (P) Merry New Orleans, in Its second day of Mnrdi Gras make-believe, u ready for distinguished visitors from Washington and Mt. Olympus today. From Washington will come the nation's first lady, Mm. Harry Tru man, and her daughter, Margaret, who will christen a towboat named for her father. Tonight they are ex pected to attend the ball of the mystio club. Hermes, the mythical Greek god of commerce and travel, will come from Olympus to lead tonight' It float parade, baled on famous rulers of history. 0
