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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1948)
f - - . . I'MK.'K FIVE L'F.NTH p The New tnnDDy B Fall, sweeping skirl topped by crisp while blouse of the Gibson (ilrl variety of another day. were worn today by aulte a few women em ploye of the California Oregon Tower company. The fashion waa ao wldeapread that The Herald and Newa photographer (ot wind of it and pooed the New Look wearera alone a Martin. Eva Kaa Briscoe. Nan Taylor l u Uo By FRANK JKNKI.NH TODAY is Chinese New Year when an old year eiula and a new una begins. Shanghai dispatcher say "the troubled nation elbowed Ita worries aside and celebrated nulslly." The relebraUon Includes fireworks, whistles, clamorous beating of drums and cymbal and lusty thumping ot washu.bs. HI. I. in all, II Is M it should br. One of the most fortunaui things about this life la that "hope springs eternal lu the human breast.'' If the lime ever contra when how la tone. ALL WILL BK ClONE. TIIKHE 1 a sour note, however. 1 We read that EVERYBODY STOPPED WORK and mil down to the best ntrnl thai rould be af forded "which," the dispatch adds, "wasn't much." If people stop work at every op portunity, how are we going to OET MORE which la what we all want? QNE mote on China, before we u quit: This Is the "year of the rat." Wo are told from Shanghai that "the Chinese earnestly hope It will be better than the hut, which wan the year of the pig." Nobody lovrit the tat. Still, he gets out mid hustles. 'Inking cats, Imps, .23 rlllrs and poison In Ills stride, lie rocs ahead mid docs bus iness. The pig, by preference, rata everything that Is fed to him and geta fat and lazy. , lis n fair guess that the rut will SURVIVE, no mutter whut happens. CENATOB MORSE aays 111 New York todny t where, as frequently happens, ha made a ccch that IC'Qntlnard an !! t, Caltms II .ii'iiiiii1rijiii'n'i i'ii'" ' ' ' Soft Coal Operators Rap Government Work Proposal WAMIINUTON. Fro. 10 ll'i Cyrus 8. China, chief federal labor tnuilltilor, said last night tho gov ernment won't permit soft coul shutdown this spring. Members of the Southern Coal Producers association were still yell ing "foul" today. They said Citing has practically handed John L. Lewis n loaded gun If a strike Is what the United Mlno Workers has In mind. "Lewis comes Into the lU'Botln lioiis with an nco In the hole," pro tested Raymond Bnlvntl, a West Virginia mine official. . "If wc cannot get logclhci' and his demands are such that we can not concede them, the government would step tn and grant Lewis wh.it he wants. "Ho knows that the only way the government ran get coal Is to give In." Chhiff said flatly the nation "will not tolerate a coal stoppiine." If a strike develops, he told the Southern Producers nt a dinner meeting, "tho government will step In." Ho added: "In that case, It will-be sellled k i Kr ir k? i ii i II 11 1 u jf i n n iv lgs. KLAMATK, FAI.I.H, OHMION, TDKHIMV, rKHIilJAHY 10, 1114$ Telephone Dill races Look Worn By Fair Members Of Copco Office Copro counter. Left to rlfht, Helen and Violet Richard. Jesters Reign As With Mardi By KRIk) KREKOER ' NEW ORLEANS, Feb. I (Pi New Orleans went on ita annual Mardi (iras bender today, celebrat ing a modern version of the world's oldest surviving festival. The iwople dressed in lanta.-llc costumes, staged gaudy parades, clambered over one another to see the costumes and parades, danced In the streels. The pre-tireek Shepherds who started the business 1000 years ago might have been a bit surprised if Agency Timber Goes On Block Seated bids on an estimated 10. SOO.000 board feet of timber, prac tically all pine, are being received at I lie office of the superintendent at Klamath Agency. The timber stand Is known as Knnott unit No. 0 and is located on approximately moo acres of land wlihlii the Klnmnth Indian reserva tion. It is a much smaller sale than several made by the tribe In the past year. Bids will be oihmicU at 3 p. ni. March 2 at tho Agency, and each bid submitted must be accompanied by a check for $10,000, made pay able to the special disbursing agent, Klamath Agency. The purchaser must agree to cut and remove the limber by April 1, 1040. Minimum bids which will be con sidered are $14.50 a thousand board fret for sugar and Pondcrosa pine stumpage, $10 for Douglas fir and Incense cedar, and $4.60 for other types of merchantable limber on Uie stand. by somebody who does nut know as much about the situation as you do." Lewis already has taken what ninny coal operators regard as n possible first step to end Ills present contract April 1. Hn has notified the operators n dispute, exists over his proposed $100 a month pension for miners OH or older who have 20 years ot service In tho pits. Under tho Taft-Hartley net, a union desiring to pave the way for a walkout must give 60 days notice. The government can still stall off an actual strike for another no davs by using other machinery tn the act. Joseph E. Moody, president of thn Southern Producers association says many operators believe Lewis will "drop thn other shoe" around March 1. Chlng offered the operators little consolation. He said It Is up to the producers and Iwls la make their own agreement, The conciliation service will help If asked. But the government will not stand by while a strike cripples the nation's Indus-Ity. For MrC'lure. June Sel.trom, Jacqueline EllUelm, Patay Beck, New Orleans Cuts Loose Gras Bender To Wind Up Fete they had chanced upon the scene. Hut nobody would have noticed them what with folka disguised aa decks of cards and aspirin bottles, gypsies and convicts, apes and bal let dancers. Those Shepherds used to cut a goatskin Into strips and whip each other about this time of year. They figured 11 was a good way to make the pasture grow better. ny T.r.uu. ...... ..... .u...., . festival waa cnanscu mio me ors.r. , of European carnivals. The French carnival celebration of Mardl (jraa, with the orgy strained out was Im ported Into New Orlrana about 120 years ago. Today Madrl Gras Itself Shrove Tuesday, i day of fun before the Lenten austerity winds up a car nival season that started on twelfth night. January 6. The festivities thus far have included a dozen public parades and several dozen balls. The tiling became a general spree on this final day. With all business stopped, the people crowded the Lincoln Day Program Set A brief program is planned for the Lincoln Day banquet at the Wlllard hotel Thursday evening honoring Governor and Mrs. John II. Hall. Those arranging the dln nei meeting have made It possible for the governor, who pays his first visit to Klamath Falls since taking office last October, to Rive his ad dress and meet with Klamath folks after the banquet. Mrs. Don Zumwalt will lead group singing In. "God Bless Amer ica." and the Rev. Frederick C. WlNsenbach will give the Invoca tion. While dinner Is being served, the Barber Shop quartet, will sing under the direction of John H. ?.h.rn.! Lincoln Day. I04R. ' and a WW book will later be presented,, the governor end his wife containing names of those who attcj tne teB planned for Thursday at t)le pej. can party room, and thgj, W,0 were guests at the dinner . Governor Hull v,, be available for appoint menUsThur(iday after. noon from 3 to 5 m m nt Ms suite In the Will(r)li lt n. nottncod today. , Good brief Whai Relief PORTLArj,Di PcD 10 ,fl.,Tlie prices of sv ,.ral tootl ltcms dropped In so. rotRll 8torcs today, but no Oi ,uld urc diet whether the ti j would last. Flour was down about j cents pound, lnrd 10 cents a nound, sugar 36 rent a 100 pounds, Rn() some pork cuts 10 cents a pou,n(( In a number of stores. Chcrso and chicken prlceL however, went up. V Transit Force Lona downtown streels for the last pa radca. Many thousands of men. women and children were in fancy costume. Traditional climax of the affair was the parade of mulc-drawn floats led by Rex, king of carnival. Rex, thia year, was Dr. Alton Oensner, internationally known surgeon. His queen waa rlizabeth Lee Nicholson, debutante daughter ( .. k p v,-,...,.. M 1)e llmt president imea-Picayune Publishing Nicholson. company, and Mrs. Search For Plane Grows troutdai.e ore Feb in ,j- Military and civilian planes based here and at The Dalles today re sumed search for a pilot missing on a flight from Kcnnewlck, Wash., to Oregon City. Oregon national guard planes from here Joined three McChord Held planes and Oregon search and reacut unit planes from The Dalles hi covering the presumed route of Billy Guy Holllday. 25, Richland, Wash., who left Kennewick Satur day and did not reach Oregon City. Paul Sanger, Kelso, Wash., area co-ordlnator of the Washington search program, aided In direction o' the hunt. Yesterday he flew through the Columbia gorge and another plane searched the area north of Oregon City. Two planes flew over the route from Kennewick tr Tho Dalles. Improving weather conditions to day were expected to aid In the search. Visibility was poor on much ol the route yes totoyT' VS A McClvstTtlcid radio truck Vas l ero to&,y ,() a coast guard raUo trlf!i was reported en route to Tiw Mallcs. """" to vWtWen in police launches to a his stcp-fnther and his brother at Gladstone, near Oregon City. He was reported missing when he did not return Sundoy with the rented plane. Radio Workers Tie Up Cable NEW YORK, Feb, 10 il'i Strik ing communications workers, em ploying "filibuster" tactics, tied up the counter ot the Mackay Radio and Telegraph company In the basement concourse of Radio City for three hours yesterday. Crowding around the counter, 19 strikers pushed bulky messages' at the three clerks on duty. One offered a copy of the U. S. Constitution for transmission. Another handed over the Bill of Rights, and still another Ve Declaration of Independence. The strikers were members of the American Communications associa tion (CIO) and the All America Cable Employes association, an In dependent union. No. 1260 k-Ud u Drivers Set Midnight Deadline PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 10 Philadelphia's three million trolley, bus and subway travelers braced themselves today for a transit strike set for midnight. The walkout which would result in Philadelphia's third major trans portation tleup In five years was approved b a majority of the 11,000 members of Local 234, C'lO-Trans-port Workers' union, employed by the Plliladelpnla Transportation Co. The contract between the com pany and th union expires at the lime set for the strike midnight. Door Still Open Union President Joseph B. Dough erty, who announced the strike vote after a ma&s meeting of union mem bers last night, said that negotia tions with the company still might avert a walkout. A PTC spokesman at the same i time declared: "The door la still open. A transit strike with Its disastrous conse quences to everyone must be avoid ed." The strike vote came shortly after Clarence Tolan Jr.. president of the Philadelphia chamber of commerce, urged the transit workers to re consider their demands for a wage increase and remain on the Job "in the interest of sound economics." Negotiations broke down last Thursday when the company and the unin failed to reach an. agree ment on the union's demand for a 1 40 cents per hour raise. Dougherty i said the PTC countered with an i offer ot six more cents an hour. Motormen and conductors at pres ent mr paid Si. IT an hour as two man cars and 11.70 per hour on one man operations. Maintenance work ers receive from 94 cents to 11.48 an hour. Guerrillas Blast Salonika SALONIKA, Greece. Feb. 10 UP) A large force of guerrillas fired 12 mountain artillery shells into this city this morning, killing four per sons, an official announcement said. The dead included a British sol dier who died In his billet in the heart of the city, when a shell ex ploded. Two British soldiers In the i same billet were wounded. ! Two women and a man also were I killed and nine other civilians were I wounded. i City officials said the rebels fired wnicn. nss a popuia tlon ot about 100.000. from a point live mites to the north. (Press reports reaching Athens said the air force had found the rebel band and had straffed It. (These reports said one of the shells struck the Mediterranean ho tel, headquarters of the U. N. special commission of the Balkans, cutting oil communications and shattering windows.! Ship Blast Injures Three NEW YORK. Feb. 10 tAV-Police headquarters said three crew mem bers were Injured in an explosion In the engine room of the 6190-ton tanker Richmond today off the Statue of Liberty. There was no In dication the tanker exploded, police said. Earlier the coast guard had re ported a tanker exploded In the upper bay. s were a New Jersey lut-pital. police said. Tile fire department said a blase resulting from the engine room explosion s'as extinguished before extensive dam age was done. Jobs For Young But Not 4one James Chlumsky. 58. of Klam ath Annex, who told police that Jobs ate for young people, Is In jail today awaiting a court hearing on a charge of vagran cy. City police arrested Chlumsky yesterday afternoon in a Main street tavorn where he allegedly was panhandling, and the man told them he thought young per sons should get first try at any available Jobs, therefore he didn't look for one. Police also said that Chlum sky was suspected of having the sideline of 'urntshing liquor to Indians. The arresting officer recommended SO days in tht hooscgow. Ostendorf To File For State Post Ed Ostendorf, mayor of Klamath Falls, today announced he would be a republican candidate for nomina tion aa state representative from the 32nd district, Klamath county. The county ha two sea Is In the lower house to be filled and Ostendorf la the second republican candidate to come forward. The other I Carl Stelnselfcr, who announced several weeks ago. So al though there may not be a contest in the May primary, there will be one In the November general elec tion. Three In Race Henry Semon, democrat, has al ready filed his petition of candidacy : lor representative, so there are now three persona officially in the run ; nlng for the two posts, and possibly I more to come. j Ostendorf la finishing off his four ! year term aa mayor thia year and said he absolutely would not run for I mayor again. He la a long-time real i dent of Klamath Falls, haying come I here in 1S27. Ostendorf was the Dodge car dealer here until 1041 when he sold out to L. L. Lombard and planned to retire. But the war came along to break up retirement plans. He was OPA director here for a time and then waa elected mayor in 1044. He la a Shrlner. Mason and Elk, chamber of commerce member, past president of Klwanis and director of the League of Oregon Cities. Ostendorf said today he has not formally filed his petition of candi dacy, but was writing to Salem for hia filing papers. Two Ships In Distress NEW YORK. Feb. 10 (Pi Two freighters radioed today they were in serious trouble in extremely rough seas 804 miles east of New foundland. Rescue vessels sped to their aid. The ships were the 7176-ton Pierre 8. DuPont, operated by the U S. lines under charter from the federal government, and the 3535 ton British ship, the Clunepark. They were reported to be 90 miles apart. The DuPont. a war-built Liberty ship with a crew ot 44, sent an SOS saying; she- had a crack in her hull a lid as taking water last. Later she messaged she was holding her own. The freighter Henry Baldwin was rushing to the aid of the Du Pont. Capt. Eric K. Eriksen. 45. of Brooklyn, Is skipper of the stricken ship. The Clunepark radioed her rud der had been damaged in the heavy seas. The nearest rescue vessel was the freighter John Fiske. Both rescue ships were expected to reach the damaged vessels in mid-day. Biggest Birthday Party Blows Lid SHANGHAI. Feb. 10 UP) Today marked the world's biggest birthday party. More than 450.000.000 Chinese became a year older with the ad vant of the lunar new year. The troubled nation elbowed its worries aside and celebrated noisily. In Shanghai, there were fire works, whistles, clamorous beatings of cymbals and drums and lusty thumping of washtubs. Everyone stopped work. At home, the Chi nese sat down to the best meal they could afford which wasnt much. The lunar holiday celebration lasts four days. On the fifth the god ot wealth days Chinese shops will reopen. This is the "year of the rat." Chinese hope earnestly that it will be better than the last, which was "the year of the pig." President Truman Congratulates New ' svTNs.v-1': () : 0 A'. ? v ' y-Z-j j 4f lM-i Mn,.i.M..niii .aAsasssssaf lasrssiasMwwanawKwawaaUa At ceremonies at the Pentagon building, Washington, D. C President Truman (left), congratulate General Omar Bradley (right) after he took oath of office as army chief of staff. Retiring Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower (center), wearing a third Oak Leaf Cluster for a Distinguished Bervlc medal, presented him by the chief executive, look on. Announces Mayor Ed Oatendorf today pro tected himself Into the race for ttate representative from Klamath county, seeking the republican nomination. Red Official To Be Ousted WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 I1P The Jutlce department today an nounced the arrest for deportation of John Williamson, labor secretary of the communist party in the United States. A department official described Williamson as "the most important figure In the communist party against whom the Justice depart ment has taken action thus far. The department said Williamson, a member of the communist party's national committee, "has been pos ing as an American citizen for many years, whereas he is an alien." FBI records shoved he was born in Scotland 45 years ago. Immigration service official and FBI agents took Williamson inu custody this morning as he was leaving his home in New York City. He was taken to Ellis Island and held there without bond to awatt deportation proceedings. Williamson has represented him seJ as a native of California, de partment officials said. He claimed, they added, that he was born there in 1902 or 1903 but that his birth records were destroyed In the San Francisco earthquake and fire. No Change In Mill Set-Up At 1 o'clock this afternoon The California Oregon Power company advised The Herald and News that no change in the existing off-peak schedule of sawmill operations here was in sight It was hoped that by today saw mill operators would be advised that sufficient power was now available to return all operations to a normal basis. Sam Ritchey, district mana ger of Copco, said early today that he had not been instructed to change the schedule in effect since last Wednesday when power supply from The Pacific Gas and Electric company In the south was cut oft to Copco. Considerable moisture has fallen in Northern California but weather would have to moderate in order o increase the flow which, in turn, would supply power from PG&E back through the transmissions lines from the south to Copco. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10 (IP) (USDAi Potatoes: 7 broken, 21 unbroken cars on track; arrivals, California 1, Oregon 2, Idaho 2, Maine 1: market firm; Klamath Russets No. 1-A, 5.75 to occasion ally higher. LOS ANGELES. Feb. 10 iPI (USDAI Potatoes: 25 broken. 28 unbroken cars on track: arrivals. California 3, by truck 14; market slightly stronger; Idaho Russets No. 1-A. 5.50: Deschutes 5.S5. : L i h , Livestock Hits Skids For 2nd Day NEW VOKK. Feb. 10 (P Cottoo and grains led a new and fast re treat on the price front today. urocery aiorea and wholesale markets gave wide recognition to the tumbling prices aa the break became general, pulling stock mar ket prices down to $1 to $3 a share. Prices on the wholesale meat n.arket at Chicago were down aa much as $4 a hundred pounds to day In an unusually quick reaction to yesterday's livestock declines. Cotton was down as much aa JK.95 a bale, only five cents below the dally allowable limit. Grain Down Grain slammed downward with the sharpness that characterized last week's drastic fall. Livestock was telling at yester day's lowest prices. Cotton waa down $2.65 a bale. Even butter, which had been at record high re cently, skidded. There were scattered reports ot further declines In cost-of-living items. Less than an hour after trading opened in the Chicago pita all de liveries of corn were down the dally limit of eight cents a bushel. Drain had staged a one-day rally yester day. Wheat and oats dropped rapidly and several deliveries hit the dally allowable decline of 10 cent and six cents, respectively. Lard dropped the 200 points al lowed in a day's trading. Hog prices were at yesterday' lowest quotations at Chicago as suppliers put only 5000 hogs ' on sale. The trade had expected 15,000 would be available to purchasers. At New York, stocks were lower ah along the line and cotton prices fell more than $1 a bale In early dealing. Optimism Feared Consumers were hopeful of mtat bargains after yesterday's sharp drop in livestock prices, but econo mists warned them not to be too optimistic Bacon, ham and steaks were trigged a little lower in many stores. Retail prices on flour, lard, sugar and bread also were down in some shops. But the entire movement waa on a relatively small scale and there was no cermlnty that it waa per manent. ' Some chain stores began cutting retail prices yesterday when live stock nose-dived as the grain max ket rallied and got back on It feet after last weea's break. Hog prices fell to a top of $22.25 a hundred pounds, the lowest since January 6, 1947. Cattle skidded as much as S3 a hundred pounds. Lamb dropped as much as $1. Slayer May Be Trapped BEAUMONT, Calif., Feb. 10 VP) Possemen using walkie-talkie radio beat through the brush ot the San Gorgonio mils today In a search' they hoped was closing in on Uie holdup-killer of pretty MarJorio Winn, 17, Redlands high school girl. A hundred or more sheriff's dep uties and special officers system atically searched gullies and ra vines, believing they had the fugi tive blocked oft in Lamb's canyon. They figured hunger might force the hunted man to attempt to break through the ring of search ers. Miss Winn was killed early Sun day morning. She and Jame Sloan Jr., 18, of Redlands, Univer sity of Southern California fresh man, were returning to Redlands from a rodeo in Palm Springs. They stopped briefly along a highway, Sloan said, when a thin-faced man suddenly opened the car door and demanded money, then fired one shot when Sloan started the car. The girl died a short time later at a nearby farmhouse. Chief Of Staff
