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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1948)
fo): JU Co)r EM WEATHER Mai. itvtt, Iltl . . IT Mill. . rrrltlUiln Utt 11 hunt. . Rlrtant rir ( 41 I.atl ytmr ... Niml THICK HVK i:MH Frock-Coated Gentlemen Honor Elks Of The ' -ay Nineties' mi irtnmirr - -- -ihVb t i - .' J -- " (i. W. "Mil" llnu.lon light Kxallrd Hulrr Charles Htmj'i "sregar" u the officer of thr local Kiln lodge drraard In frork raats. spata. and hamllr-bar mouilarhr pinr In typical "iay Nlncllc" fashion after Ihry had honored Klka of thai era al "Old Timers' Night" In the lodge last evening. In thr picture are I back row) ('. K. Clllniorr. I.ou Itrairr. Jack llrandun: arcond row: Krrd (ilovrr. John Schubert, Kxallrd Ruler Hnn;, K t. Mullls. John Van Durrn; below: ( harlra Mark and U. W. Houston. Disgusted Americans Pack Up To Leave Australia SYDNEY. Australia, Feb. 20 111 One hundred and fifty-seven Amer icana arrived Unlay to start a new Ufa In Australia. Others already here are iielllnv ready to leave bitterly dlsnpiKiintrd. T) now arrivals, who came on the ship Marina Phoenix, made up rht biggest party of United Htule x-aervlcemen with wives and chil dren to reach Australia under the Don Cossacks Slated Monday Members of the Klmnatli Com munity Concert association are look ing forward to the concert Monday night when the General Plntolf Don Cossacks pHar on the Peli can atAgt al S o'clock. Tills la the second aptearance of the Don Cossack singers In Klam ath Fulls and Ihey are returning bv popular request. The chorus was orgunlwd In 1P28 In Prague. Official founding of the chorus took place under high pa tronage of I he president of C'M'c lm Slovakia, Thomas Masaryk. and 1 Edouard Penes, minister o, foreign, n! 27 IliissHiiirTrmn'0 tile ?! "'r.'".'"'." .'"K mi rivrr infill in rwiuiiirrii i.umih and Is directed by Nicholas Kostru- knff The ehnrim ninde lis flelmt 111 Vienna In 102(1. and Its Hulled . States debut at Hun Francisco's COM World's Fair In 1930 No tickets will be sold at the door, and as usual, admittance Is by I membership only. Manufacturer Says 'No Soap' " WEHTPOHT. Conn., Feb. 20 i,Vi Miss Vivien Kellems, Westport in dustrialist, said her firm today stopped withholding federal Income taxes from her 3B employes. She said she was going to do 11 In a talk last Friday before the Los Angeles Rotary club. Today was the first payday here since Unit speech. Blie hns offered to fight the Issue out with the government in the courts. Plenty Of Housing, Says Solon, But None For Rent WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 M'l-Sen-ator Cain (R-WnslD told the senate today "there Is no actual shortage of housing. There Is merely a des perate shortage ol housing which Is for rent." He apoko as tho chamber began considering a bill to continue rent controls 14 months beyond February 29 with some changes from tho present law. The measure was writ ten by the acnnlo banking com mittee. Benator Tnft iR-Ohlol acting re publican leader, told the senato he hopes to have the control bill pnsscd by Monday at tho latest. Cain said ho Is willing to bow to the eommlltco'a decision to con tinue controls but believes "the orig inal controls have driven many homes out of I lie rental market, Earlier, Senator Flanders (fl-Vt.) and Brlckor (R-Ohlo) predicted the senate will approve a one-month emergency extension of tho present law. . The house bunking committee already has approved extending the r&iSi ml L - , ii II .nm,., KLAMATH aAnUlrd-mttjtranu scheme. Under this plan the AUAirullnn govern ment pays 40 per cent of the pu. vi rtue money. Koyul Thayer, 4B. veteran of two I World wars, was one of the dis illusioned Americans. He said In an Interview he would return to the U. 8. Immediately. He told a reporter costs of living were much higher here then he had been led to believe. He said a booklet on the subject given him in San Krnnclwo. his home city, was "way out of line." Thayer said his trip (o Australia to buy a chicken ranch already had cost him 1 1 MX). Mrs. O. It. Pierce, formerly of , Seattle, wrote a bluer letter to newspuers here this week regard ing the exerlence she and her husband have had in trying to set tle In Australia. She said In the published letter they have become "discouraged and disgusted" by housing conditions. They have spent "thousands of dol lars for nothing." she added, and will return to America next Mon day 'Rlglil now your government has j representatives In the 11. 8. A tint- i lug young men and couples to ml- Knur nere. si c mi mis.. ...m.,.,. . . W. sha fed 1 m,r du y , K 1-S avoid' i hrek nnd disaimnlnimrnla they . , .. "lld ,,rrr " 1 0 flflfl Vftltc lVVV w . Sure Hit Hard DALLAS, Tex.. Feb. 20 il'i Thir teen thousand volts of electricity "sure hits hard" exilalmed Olenitis The'-33.ycar-o,d Da.las plumber received the terrific shock yesterday while working on a water tower, 100 feet abovo the Southern Methodist university campus. His physician lale last night said he was in a "much better condition" than when first taken to the hos pital yesterday. Clai'dy was Rlandlng on a narrow catwalk, lowering a slcel measuring tape to a worker on the ground. A gust of wind whipped the tape against n 13,000 volt power line. Clard was treated for deep burns on his hands, legs nnd chest. exist Ins law through March. The houso llrclf will vote on this meas ure next week. i Flanders nnd Brlcker nre mem bers of the senate banking com mittee which wrote the 14-month bill. Both voted for It. although Urlrkcr says he did so reluctantly. The Ohloan told n reporter he prefers u months extension so con gress can lako another look nt eco nomic conditions before deciding about continuing controls for a longer period. "llesldrs, I don't think much of the scimtc committee's bill," Urlcker nntd. He lidded he Is thinking about offering nmcndmcula to put back In tho bill two provisions knocked out In committee. One would end rent controls in nny men wlinro a census showed 2 per cent of the dwellings for sale or rent were vacant. The other would permit landlords to Incrcnso rents 15 per cont if they could show thnt their costs had gouo tip 30 per cent since tho start of controls. -jO JaV inAV, rt.BituAKY zo, LaLonde Joins Sheriff Race Names of sheriff candidates for eiwh flutter if hnlh hntlrlft nre llsL- cd at the county clerks office a 1 lh( lrnln rA.d.dte filed his Intcn- tlon to run for the office al noon today. R. A, Smiley" LaLonde Is the 10th man and the third democrat to enter the race. Lulondc Is sawyer at the Modoc ' l umber company, and ha been de feated three previous limes In run ning for sheriff. He la a Mason and member of Modern Woodman. LaLondo had several' years' exiierl ence as a member of the Klamalh Palls police department, resigning t , Grain Ration Bill Pushed WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 A I bill to ration grain to w hiskey n.ukcrs through October 31 ad- vnnred a step in the senate today. The banking committee approved the measure unanimously. It made by T , 1' indusiry should be allotted noVss than 2.500.000 bushels of grain a p..-.. .on.. at least 6000 bushels a month. The agriculture department said the industry Is using 8.200.000 bush elr a month at present. President Truman has asked re- nowal of the grain controls. They plred January 31 after the house banking committee killed a senate- I approved bill which would have i 'T'Zt!' Prospects 'or house action on the new bill are 11m. Rep. Wolcott IR Mlch.i. chairmen of the house banking group, snld yesterday he has no plans for early consideration cf the legislation. This Pair Really Has A System OKLAHOMA CITY. Feb. 20 V Ballet Dancer Ionise Fornnca likes to bring houses down, Her hubby, Tom Clclnnd, prefers to put them tip. Louise Is part of the road show cast of "Oklnhomn," which hns re turned for a spell to Its spiritual home. Tom Is n bricklayer. So far the Clelands haven't had nny enreer trouble. For 25 months Tom tins fallowed his little wife mound the country not as a wnn derlng minstrel, but as a wnndcring bricklayer. "Whi-n wc nit a new town I Just get a Job tor a week and start laying bricks," he snld. "It's ensy with nil this building going on." He Is giving dnlly mntlnee pcr formnnccs with n trowel this week on a brick wall of the Citizens Stnto bnnk. Stnndlng room only. Late Spud Bulletin LOS ANGKLES, Feb. 20 (AP U8DA) Potatoes: 24 broken, 37 un broken cars on track; arrivals, Cali fornia 3, Florida 2, Idaho 15, Utah 2, Oregon 1, by truck 5: cnrlnt sales, few Rales, Idnho Russets No. 1-A, $5.15-.2n. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20 (AP USUA) Potatoes: 13 broken, 18 un broken cars on track: arrivals, Cali fornia 1, Oregon 4, Idnho 1; market bnrnly steady: Klamath bakers, U. S. commercial, $4.75; U, S, No. 2, $4.00; Idnho Russets No. 1-A, holdover, $5.35. 11)48 Telephone 8111 Trojans Spill Favored Five Academy Scores 49-47 Upset Over Gilchrist As County Tourney Opens KhlUhrM'u Grlzllm wtniirm haiid down in the county high ehou Imnkrlliall lrjcur nclirdulrd pUy drupiwd out of thr champioiihhip brack ft enrly In the county tournament at AlUmont icym today, lofting a touch one to Kacrtd Heart Academy 40 to 4? In one overtime period. The TroJ.ini, firth-pUcc flniOirr during the rrgular season, had to come from far baik to nudjjr the (irlzzlie, In the second came thli morninf Jlrnley'a HoriirU K-orrd a 36 to 32 victory over the Malin Muktanxt. That Im wai a tlcht one. ThU aftrrnoon Merrill i taklnji on Bly and Chlloquln i playinc lioiianva. then tonlKht thr scene shift to Klamath Union high school gym for a pair matt nine the winners or the morning and afternoon tilts. Losers play at Kt' tomorrow morn i nr. Late It a My Kacrrd llrart's tMo-point ousting of lite (rlzxlles can hardly miss being the high point of the entire tournament. The Trojans were down ll- at the end of the first quarter and dropped even farther behind early in the second. Hut late In that period the Trojans started . . ... . ., a rally to catch up. , Pilot Dies In Crash LONO BEACH. Calif.. Feb. 20 Veteran Test Pilot Latham A. iSilmi I Perretl. 42. sacrificed his life to save two companions and prevent his ex- ! on that way the rest of the game. I WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 UP) CIO pcrlmenuil plane from crashing in I Jack Narey smaller, boy In the president Philip Murray today a populated area. I KanJe- was the outstanding player Pleaded Innocent to charges of vlo- He was test-flying a three-engine out-faking Gilchrist defenders in ; toUn the Taft-Hartley act's ban Northrop Pioneer yesterday when, i bail handling and lurking under his : "eainst union political expendi a company statement said later, a , wn haicet m rtnmn in tttn.ni.,..r. ; tures. structural failure developed and the I e..nj ni ii. .. i Co-pllol John Atkinson. 28. and G. P. Hetzel. 30. chief of Northrop alr I craft's test section, were with him. "Perrett ordered Atkinson and Hclzcl to ball out and, In an effort prevent, uie airpiane irom cri. Ing In a populated area, rode the ship down to such a critically low altitude that when he was finally forced to abandon it, he was too low to save his life." the company staiment said. Atkinson and Heucl parachuted to safety with seconds to spare. Seven Mile Sale Slated I Working up appraisal data on the 80-mllllon foot Seven-Mile proposed ! timber sale has occupied the Klam i ath district office force of the Rogue ! River national forest this week. I William Bates, assistant in charge of timber management in the Med I ford office, Don Stoncr from the same office and Bob Leavengood. ; fnceu-r frnm tlnlnn Preek were In Klamath Falls to assist with thisN work. Seven-Mile area is located west of Fort Klamath and south of the recent Big Lakes Box company cutting area. Preliminary estimates of the sale arc for 80-mlllion feet to be cut at around an annual rate of 14 million feet. Because of the size of the sale, approval of Chief Forester Walts of Washington. D. C. is required before the sale can be advertised which will nrohnhlv be in about 60 davs. John saralnson district ranger for the j Rogue River natlonnl forest service advised todav. . Local timber operators have re- I quested bidding by auction or by sealed bids but no decision has been mndc to dnte which method will be used. GOP Slips Into Democratic Ranks WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 lPl By a slip of the tongue. President Tru man put a inmous republican In the ranks if democratic pnrty heroes. It enmc at the windup of Mr. Trum.in's Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner here last night. His prepared text ended Ailh a sentence that the politics ot Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson nnd Roosevelt were good enough for him. Mr. Truman decided to ndd first mimes to the punch line. He got nlong nil right until he came to Roosevelt Then he pronounced Theodore Roosevelt when he obvi ously meant Franklin D. Snow Forecast For Klamath Area Snow wns forecast for tonight in the Klnmnth basin nrea and fresh snow 'vns reported in the higher elevations this morning. Three inches of ne snow was reported at Odell lnke on tho Willamette high wny, light snow on Sun mountain of The Dnllcs-Cnllfnrntn, nnd nil stretches were being sanded. The minimum temperature this morning wns 23 degrees, with a mnxlmum yestcrdny of 47 degrees. PLAY BANNED AMSTERDAM. The Netherlands, Feb. 20 (It Amsterdam bunned to day a play nbout Jnn Plrterszr.oon Cocn, first governor-general of the East Indies nnd founder of the Dutch colonial empire. The author of tho piny hns Coen sny "each dead native is one enemy less," No. 1208 Bill Pickett plunked In a long shot ; dustrlal and domestic users and sei and added a free throw to make the ting up of a power administrator. score 22-22 at halftime intermission: Tall John Reid, Gilchrist guard, hit two foul shout at the start of ; the third chapter and put the Grizzlies ahead, but Jim Manning scored a free throw and Jack Narey tinned In a long football nans to give Sacred Heart the lead. It went 1 at cnd of )ong pas5es ume after time. Narcy scored 20 points, bui John Reld of Gilchrist wasn't far behind with 19. Missed Throw win. n ir. .h i.. .. .... .,.. ... 11, c Ul lUUI ICI running out. two free throw com pletions by Sacred Heart and one by Gilchrist tied the score at 46-all. John Toomey. Grizzly guard, missed his chance to win the game by failing at a free throw Just as the official Ume ended. BUI Pickett and Jim Van Tassel nailed foul shots to keep the count even In the : overtime and Narey paid o iTS' y: I ror Sacrcd fri Qllchrlst. I ne second game of the morning was antl-cllmax to that, but a good ; their motion tc dismiss the tndict gnme. nevertheless. n-ent that :he ban against unions Malln jumped off to a 10-2 lead making political expenditures cer mldway of the first period and ; tulnly cannot bar unions from tak looked determined to upset the fa- j Inr sides politically in union news- vored Hornets, but they reckoned without Ben Sheppard, Henley guard. Sheppard was hitting them fiom outside the key and pulled the Hornets up close enough for Rich ard Adams to take the lead on a set shot, 14-13. Malin never led again but was 8lu".v o.sc several urnra nail time score was 20-17 for Malin and the third quarter was 24-23. Slim Phil Anderson sparked the Mustangs In a last-ditch rallv that had Malln looters on the edge of their seats, but the taller Henley boys managed to control the bail and stifle the effort. ...j ., ,. u. ju., t st.?rt the game, was Walin's high - pointer at lght. Ben Sheppard had 11 for Henley and Clarence Adams nine. College Congress Slated March 3 WALLA WALLA. Feb. 20 ii The third annual Pacific North west College congress, with repre sentatives from 44 colleges and uni versifies In the Northwest, will con vene here March 3. The meeting, which will continue through March 6, will consider a variety of world problems and hear national authorities in several fulds. Invitations have been ev tended Publisher Henry R. Luce, Ei win Canhnm. editor of the Chris tian Science Monitor, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, t j address the gnthcrlng. Discussion groups will consider such problems as enforcement of United Nations decisions, the Mar shall plan. Movie Producers Mayer, W anger, Singers Durbin, Morgan Top Big Money Earner List For US In 1947 WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 Mt Two Hollywood singing stnrs outrank nil songlcss performers on a new treasury list of big money makers dominated by movie people. Film Executive Louis B. Mayer as usual mnde more thnn any of the nctors and actresses. Deanna (really Edna Mac) Durbin, who drew $262,875, and Dennis Morgan (ronlly BUtnley Mornerl, with $261,000, struck It richer than luscious Lana Turner and he-man Clark Gable on the new tabulation. Maver. who hns been topping these money earner lists for most of tho last decade, wns No. 1 ngntn with $502,571 paid him by Loew's. Inc., during the 12 months ended August, 1948. , Miss Durbln's and Morgan's earnings were for 12-month periods ended in late 1946. Singer Durbin ranked No. 3 on the list and Singer Morgan No. 4. Movlo Producer Walter Wangcr placed second with $282,900. The movies accounted for more thnn two-thirds of the 195 persons listed. Onblc, drawing $229,687 for n 12-month period ended with October, 1945, nnd Miss Turner $226,000 for the same period, could do no better than loth nnd 12th place. The best anyone outside of the movies could do was a tie for sixth. It went to Business Executives Andrew Jcrgens and Joseph D. Nelson of the Andrew Jcrgens company, Cincinnati. They got $225,000 apiece. Uncle Sam's Income taxes take a big bite out of net Incomes. For instance, singlo persons without dependents pay at the rate of $407,897 on $500,000 a year and $191,772 on $250,000. California j Threatened By Drought SACnAMF.NTO, Calif., ftb. 2 lPl (ovrrnor U'arren today proclaimed about two-thfrda of California aa a drought area. lie declared an emercencr in the llveatoek industry exista In 2S coun liea. Main purpox of the action ia to enable itockirrowera to negotiate with railroada for lower freight ratei on cattle and feed. The llvealock industry is threat ened with severe financial losses unless some means of alleviation are provided. Warren said. i Range Change i Lower rates are particularly need ed to ease the large scale shlpmcnLs j of livestock "to undcpleted range and feeding areas outside the state and heavy importations of commer- ' clal feeding stuffs from without the j state." ! The area designated is roughly all i but the northern third of the state. Lack of rainfall in California has I posed other problems. I In the San Francisco area, lowered I water tefcervoir reserves has brought I about power curtailments on a small 1 scale. Governor Warren has Indicated olher tep a contemplated throughout the Stat such as adop- tlon of daylight saving, possible . , ,Hct to hoth m. CIO Head Says "Not Guilty' j Murray's attorneys then moved u" cnarge De aismissea. rney '. argued that tne ban violates free ; dem of the Dress and la unconstl- ! tutional. i Judge Alexander Holtzoff set February 27 as a tentative date for argument of the motion in TJ. S. district court. He set March 22 is the date for Murray's trial in case the charges are not dismissed. v Murray also entered an innocent plea for the CIO itself. The CIO was indicted with Murray. The indictment charges that the CIO News, a union newspaper li i nanced with union funds, carried endorsement written by Murray tor a democratic congressional can- ' didate in Maryland last July. i Murray's attorneys claimed In ! papers. Murray put up $1000 bond guar anteeing his appearance for trial. Bridges Get Ultimatum WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 iPtTht i CIO has ordered Harry Bridges ei- I ther to disavow Henry Wallace's j third party or quit as CIO regional ! duector for Northern California, ;t ! wns learned today. ! Bridges is one of the CIO's top 1 Tw , shoremen's and Warehousemen's union. He recently led a losing fight in the CIO executive council against CIO adoption of a policy opposing Wnllace's third-party, bid for presl dint and 'avoring the Marshall plan for European recovery. A group of CIO unions, represent ing about 1.250.000 of the CIO'S claimed 6.000.000 members, indicat ed they wanted to support Wallace and oppose the ERP plan. The ultimatum to Bridges wns served in a letter written February 13 by Allan Haywood, CIO vice president and director of organiza tion. No reply has yet been re ce'ved from Bridges. FILES SALEM, Feb. 20 (At Circuit Judge Martin W. Hawkins of Port land filed his enndidacy for reelec tion today. Other filings: John I. Sell, The Dalles, republi can, for state representative. New Minister John A. Cos tell o (above). 56- year - old Dublin attorney, was elected prime minister of Eire after parliament defeated Ramon De Val era's bid for reelection. Cmtello was supported by a five-party co aJltion, He is a leader In the Fine Gael (United Irish) party. KUHS Students Hit Log Train Three Klamath Union high school boys en route to the Pelican, Medford basketball game at Med, ford late yesterday afternoon, mira culously escaped death when their cat struck a logging train on the Greensprlngs highway near Weyer- acuser Camp 6. Most seriously injured was Bill Carter Jr., 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Carter of 821 Mitchell, who suffered gash over the eye and the tendons In his left leg were severed above the knee. Ha Is at the family residence after, tteatment last night at Hillside hos pital. Driver of the car. Bob Plass. IT, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Plass. 2424 Radclifle. Miffered minor chest hurts, and the third occupant of the car. Glenn Cooper, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cooper, 910 Hanks, has a leg Injury. According to the father of one of the boys, the three left here about .3A mlrriav iffannvin i H a t Vi approached the railroad cross- ing the driver observed a flagman signalling at the point where the train was in operation. Bob Plass applied his brakes but the brakes failed to hold and the car crashed into the train, telescoping under the logging flat.. The car was demol ished. The boys were brought back to Klamath Falls by a member of the train crew and treated for their hurts. Europe Feels Grip Of Cold LONDON. Feb. 20 (PV-Southern England. Western Europe and Scandinavia experienced the cold est weather of the winter today. Cold and snow drove marauding packs of wolves down from the Sila mountains in Southern Italy. In Northern Norway, wolf packs raid ed cattle herds, causing such losses that military olanes were sent out I to shoot them down, The frigid weather will continue j and still lower temperatures are n I prospect, weather forecasters said, ; In the big cities of Germany au- , thorities opened warm public warm- ; b tal Hiese quickly filled with cause of the fuel shortage. I Paris was covered with snow for th" 'irst time 'his winter, I Elk. cut off from food by the ! snow, wandered into the streets of Norwegian towns and villages. 497 Tubers aitu .'" - Mm la imi WgsmCi.iiili i i I lliiinlH"' 'I' Mrs. Cecil Llneback trlee on a $497 fur coat with the help of Sidney Zlotnlek (right). Washington furrier. Meanwhile Llneback (left) dls plavs potatoes he delivered to Zlotnlek In exchange for the eoat. A radio announcer, In a "commercial" for the furrier, remarked that "there la a sheared beaver coat you can get for 497 potatoes." Mneback heard the announcement, bought that number of spude and delivered them to the ltore, Civil Rights Program Is Revolt Cause WA8IIINC.TON. Feb. 29 WV About 50 Jemocralie congressmen from II southern states formally declared war today on President) Truman's eivil rights program. They met and adopted a resolu tion pledging "co-operation" with southern governors opposing tha president's program for antl-lynch, anti-poll tax and anti-segregation legislation. Rep. Colmer of Mississippi, chair man of the group, said a resolution of opposition to the president's pro gram was adopted unanimously. The southerners met behind closed doors of the house banking committee room. , , 11 Slates These states were represented! Georgia. Florida, Alabama, Ten nessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tews, Louisiana, North Carolina. South Carolina and Virginia. r. But not the entire nfrmun'Mp of each delegation was present. For ei ample, only Rep, Smith was there from Virginia. ,' The group authorized Colmer t appoint a committee representing each state "to cooperate" with tha southern governors. For themselves, the congressmen pledged to 'oppose to the finish the enactment of any such legisla tion" as that proposed by the presi dent. Truck Blaze Kills Driver GRANTS PASS. Feb. 20 (JP) Mystery today surrounds the cause of a butane tank truck explosion and fire which burned the driver to death on Pacific highway a half mile south of Grants Pass shortly before midnight The driver was charred beyond recognition but Sgt. C. R. Borgman of the state police said that the tank belonged to the Domestic Gas com- ... pany of Roseburg and that the scheduled driver was Lowery ,Alan Coulter, 28, of that city, f I v The fire was in the njuure of a hvje blow torch, shooting a " spray of white-hot flame 20 to 40 feet from a ruptured tank valve. ' State police quoted William Trot ter, nearby resident, as saying the truck left the highway before the blast occurred. They said that a check with the Roseburg company 1 officials disclosed the truck was scheduled to leave Gold Hill with a full load of gas. . , The scene of the fatal blaze was a few feet off the highway in one of the few areas along the approach to Grants Pass which is not thickly populated. . Rescue Effort Ends In Death NEW YORK. Feb. 20 WV-A fuel company worker's efforts to save a . schoolboy failed last night as both died under 20 tons of coal cascading Into the hopper of a Brooklyn coal yard. The youth was identified as Timo thy Schempp, 13, and the man who died with him was Jack Apollo, 32. Apollo was working in the yard when he saw the boy perched atop a load of coal about to be dumped from a railroad car into the mouth of the hopper. Apollo scrambled up on the car. But at that instant the load was released. It disappeared into the pit with a roar, carrying Apollo and the boy with it. Buys Fur Coat
