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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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