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Newspaper Page Textmm gHHBB Crrax .,, oP I " PRICK MVK CKNTN KLAMATH FAI.I.H, OIIKUON. Till HHDAY, FKIIIlUAl VU Telephone Sill No. 1274 t- i VI JVL Czech AitUmln MitfK-kr (at mlrrophon ), communist drputy and hmd of Cxertt I'rad, thr nation'! trade union rongrru, rr ail a drdaraUun In lit National tltratre in lragur, whlrh Inrludrd a plrtUe of work aluiipair. (ana hour, February 2i. Ontrr forrground la Coiuinuniit Prrmlrr Klrmrnl Ciottwald, and right ft.rrgroiii.fi1 la Karri Otrata, hrad of the government planning rommlanlon. (inttwald latrr took over control of t'crrhoalnvakla when Trraldrnt fcduard Brnra ylrldrd to It la drmanda, tioltwald formed a new mb.net mart up almoat wholly of his supporter. lu'l'lic lf FRANK JKNKINH T1IK United States, Hriuill and Franc, acting Jointly, oondrmn M a "disguised dictatorship of com munist'' the nrw government Juit Ht up In Cxrtiioalovakla. They My Die reds selird power "thrauiih crisis rllf iclnlty mid deliberately Instig.iied;" that ilia crisis "served as a cover lor tha lua of 'certain methods' already tested In other place," and add that as a remit Csechmlovakla haa suffered "suspension of the trca exercise of parliamentary Institutions and tho establishment of a disguised tile katorahlp of a single party.'' J THAT la all true. Bui diplomat, unfortunately, can't speak plain ly. Tliey conceal their meaning In a fog of words. Let' put II bluntly: The cominunui method, when grabbing another country, la to atlr up a rurkua. Under cover of the ruckua, they bring In Uuuii and auong-arm men. When tha time la ripe, they 8KIZE POWKR BY ARMKD FOUCE. The uattrrn la plain. BUT keep tilts clear: In each country they are gunning for, the communists K1KST find rnniclrnrelesa men who are hungry for power at any price. Working through lhee .stooges, they ac complish their purpose. That la the KEY to Ihelr system. yllEHK la a lot of trouble In this 1 world. Much of It perhaps MOST of It trucks buck to the Itch for prraonal power. JtLriO, we shouldn't forget tills: " The FOUNDATION for whin has happened 111 Chechoslovakia and elsewhere 111 Eastern Europe was laid at Ynllu, where we and Uie British (through our represcntutlvcii) su-crd to tho Stcltln-Adrlatlc line, o, vhlch the Elbo river In Oermnny la a part, ns the western boundary of Husslnn Influence. Moscow la merely collecting on what we bar gained awy then. At Yalta, we nppciiscd Russia, aj We are paying tho price now. Apiieiiscmenl seldom pays. BS the Palestine pokor gets hotter by the hour, there are signs that wa are trying to let go of It. After f-n(lnud on lt s, Column t) Ex-Naval Officer Found Strangled In Hotel Room NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (IT All ox navnl officer, traveling under or ders from tho nnvy department, was found strangled In his ransacked West 671 h street hotel room yester day. Tho 35-ycnr-old victim was bound hand and foot and strips of a bed sheet wore knotted around his neck. The man was Identified ns Harvey Hacbcrlo, Fulls Church, Va a ci vilian employe of the navy's photo graphic division nt Anncostla air station In Washington, D. C. Tho navy nnld Hncberle served as Its contact man with commercial studios filming training movies. Tho victim whs bound In a version of I lie old Chinese strangle knot, polleo said. Haeberle's liumls and fret were lHshed behind him Willi strips of sheeting. Ills belt and anolher piece of tho torn sheet were twisted about Ills neck, Tho disordered holol room Indicat ed that llneberlo hnd put up a floret strURgle for Ills llfo beforo being overiKiwerotl. Tho victim's siilleiiso hud been opened and Its content scattered. Haeberle's wallet was missing and Leader Reads Declaration , & Most Fun Since The War" Says Sergeant At End Of Unauthorized Plane Flight BALBOA, C. Z.. Feb 26 JP Ap r.arrnlly It Isn't very hard to fly a B-n. Two American sergeants, accused of taking the unauihorlud 1700 mile Joyrlde In a Plying Fortress across some of the roughest ter rain In the world, said today they didn't have much trouble on their little Jaunt, although neither had ever been at the controls before. M Hgt, Olru V. Woods of Mun cle. Ind., and 88gt. Theodore 8. Havena Jr.. of Washington, N. J., ar r:ved at U. 8. Caribbean air com mand headquarter last night from Caracas, Venezuela, where military Hall Takes To Thumb Again 8ALKM, Feb. 2 P - Governor John 11. Hall became a hitch- hiker for the third time last night when his state-owned automobile broke down 10 mllca north of Salem. The governor said the lights failed rtiirlm raln.lnrm when he was en route from Portland to rtnlrm. When asked what he did, the governor said: "First I cussed that car out from one end to the other. Then I hitch-hiked a ride two miles Into Brooks, Then I phoned for the slate police to come and get me." The governor said he rode into nrooks with a guard who works at the Salem alumina plant. it Hobo Basket II Getting Richer SPOKANE, Feb. 2(1 (Ft The "Hobo Basket" left Spokane H5 richer. The basket started riding the rods In Birmingham, Alabama, en route around the country to collect contri butions of railroad employes to the March of Dimes campaign. Spokane waa Its 64th stop. No exact total of contributions received by the basket Is known as donations are turned over to local March of Dimes committees. The basket left Spokane for Wish ram and Bend, Ore., Ihen for Cali fornia. tho pockets of his suit had been turned Inside out, Polleo Commissioner Arthur Wal landcr snld robbery apparently was the motive for tho slaying. The body, clad only in shorts, was found by a hotel maid. Dr. Thomas A. Gonzales, chief medical examiner, expressed belief that Haeberlo had been dead since Tuesday night, Tho victim, a lieutenant assigned to navy educational film work dur ing the past war, was a former resi dent of Lancaster, Pa. Ho was graduatod from the University of Minnesota In 1D34 and entered the navy In 1042. Engineers Don't Seem Very Clear ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 2(1 (1 The shortest street In St. Joseph Is Long street. It Is 110 feet long. But there's another Long streot In the olty, too. It's about the same length as Short street, but none of tho three Is a block long, That's what olty engineers, who measured them, reported, authorities said they landed the B 17 Monday after a flight across the Andes from Galapagos. They can be charged with misap propriating army properly, an of fense which carries a sentence of up to five years In prison. But apparently they weren't greatly worried, said Woods: "This was the must fun I've had since the war!" Both said they had observed pllols In fllghu Woods In 17 mis sions over Europe, Havens with the alrforce In New Guinea and It looked pretty easy So, Instead of servicing Onlapagos' one plane for a possible mercy flight at daybreak Monday, the two sergeants said they- set off for greener pastures. Woods said he handled the con sols the whole way Just did every thing he had seen pilots do. Up to 15.000 and 20.000 feet they look ,ne bomber, headed for Waller field on the Island of Trinidad. ! " he had planned to set A"wn tl,e I"111" lld W- "Wc"' nrre we " ' 11 dldl, t 1ul,e worlc I out u,nt Wl,h ""'V 500 - 1" of gasoline left. Woods sat ! dowl ' Caracas. ! Officers of the Caribbean com- j ! mand said they were astoundrd that ' two untrained men could fly the fnur-englnrd plane over the Andes, but It didn't seem hard to Woods and Havent. Woods said he even made most of the flight on In struments oecausc of thick weath er. He knew how to read a radio compass, he said, but the automatic pilot wouldn't work so the whole trip was flown manually. They made no attempt to establish radio contact with the ground. Kids To Get Fill With 7 Circuses HUGO, Okla., Feb. 26 IPY The kids will see seven circuses In this not-so-large oil town on April 1 and that's not April Fool, either. " It will be Uie second annual circus roundup that comes when seven carnivals and road shows combine to say good-bye after wintering here. The star of a mammoth parade and stadium show will be Hollywood Actor Joe E. Brown, now on tour Willi the atago play "Harvey." Brown will be In Dallas at the time and will take leave from his celebrated rabbit role to fly here for tho festival, Hugo haa about 6000 people, but last year the first of the combined shows drew six times that number of spectators from all parts of the southwest. Russians Take Over Six Times As Much Territory During And Since War As Nazi Germany Ever Took ny The Associated Press Before Hitler's Germany went to war. she reached out and took control of more than 100,000 neighboring square miles and upward of 28,000.000 people. During and since the war, Russian and communist rule have spread over more than 680,000 square miles and more than 110.000,000 people to the east and west of the Soviet Union. Hitler and his nazis won mast of their territory by sending In troops or by threatening to do so. Russia and communism got theirs by occupying it in most cases to drive out the Germans by winning concessions from the western allies, who needed Russia's help In the war: or by the methods of communist parties In neighboring countries, with Czechoslovakia furnishing the newest sample. By these methods, Russia Iihs annexed more than 240.000 square miles and 24,000,000 people, reaching on the west into Germany and on tho east Into Islands north of Japan, Russia's friends, the communist parties of other countries, have used various methods to win political control. In general, tliey have won a bridgehead In government through strength at the polls and gradually, through prossure of different kinds, whittled down the oppo sition until they gained control. In tho war and postwar years, at least seven countries have passed under such communist control, They take In upward of 440.000 squart miles and nearly 87,000,000 people. al V I I T . S 1 Reds In Complete Control Of Czechoslovakia; Purge Planned In Minority Ranks PKAGL'E, Feb. U IIV .'terho sluvakla Is completely under com munist control today and the way Is clear for transforming the re public, modrllrd at birth after the linlted Htales, Into a copy of Kov let Kusala. The pattern for the minority parties will be to purge thrlr ranks of all persons who hare fallen In fo communist disfavor. Communist aympathlters now are In control of those parties. The weapon is there the charge of conspiracy against the govern ment by "agents of reaction." This waa provided by Communist Pre mier Klement Oollwald himself. Now In complete control of the press and propaganda outlets, the communists have all means at their disposal to drive home this campaign, The nation fell under complete Reds Step Up Mukden Drive NANKING. Feb. 2 (P The mounting fury of Chinese commu nist assaults near Mukden was re garded today as probably opening a direct attack on that Manchuiian metropolis. Dispatches from Mukden aald the battle for the suburbs of Slnmln. 30 miles west of Mukden, reached a high pitch with government reserve air power thrown Into the fight. Slnmln proper fell to the reds yes terday. Smmin was one of three main de fense points in the steadily weaken ing government-held area of Man churia. Chiang KaJ-shek'i com manders divided their armies among Mukden, Slnmln and Tlehllng, In dustrial railway city to miles north west of Mukden. Pro - government dispatches to Pelplng reported the communists also had penetrated Tlehllng sub urbs. Savage fighting was reported at Penal, coal center 35 miles south east of Mukden. Military observers described Muk den's situation as "desperate and rapidly approaching the hopeless stage." They saw little chance that the government could scrape up enough reinforcements to change the tide without dangerously ex posing vital areas of China proper. Ashland Water Plant Okayed ASHLAND, Feb. 26 A bond Issue to construct a water filtration plant and auxiliary reservoirs won the ap proval of Aililand voters by a 2 to 1 margin In a special election Tues day. Balloting hi one of the largest special elections ever held In this city totaled 750 for the measure, 367 against. Construction of the (270.000 filtra tion plant will probably begin soon, in order that it may be completed before the winter rains. Work on the auxiliary reservoirs likely will start in early summer. Alaska Highway Opened To All FORT ST. JOHN. B. C. Feb. 26 (Pi No red tape barred tourist progress today along the Alaska highway. The ro.id Is open to all comers. A Royal Canadian mounted police detachment as removed from Blue berry yesterday In accordance with last week's "open road" announce ment In Ottawa. The mountles were stationed there to check travel ers' credentials. During the war only military and civilian vehicles connected with the war effort were allowed on the highway. A Joint U. S.-Canadlan board handled travel permits. communist domination last night. The communist parly, largest at the last election but still a mi nority in the parliament, has achieved a cabinet made up of its members and trusted sympathizers. Only a semblance of the old seven party coalition Is preserved. Students Held Columns of Czech students at tempted to march to Hrdcany pal ace last night to see President Eduard Benes, who capitulated yesterday to communist demands after holding out for almost a week. Police arrested 50 of them. One student said the police used rifle butts to push back the march ers who reached Palace square. More than 10,000 students had gathered In the square before Charles university In a counter demonstration to a communist rally. Several thousand of them reached the Palace square but were dispersed there by police. Criticism of the government has disappeared from the Czechoslovak press, which, up to Monday night, had been earning outspoken com ment on the nation's political crisis. Efforts to reach President Benes for an interview have been un availing. The communists' next goal is to win the cominr election and a ma jority in parliament, where they now hare 38 per cent of the seats by themselves and 52 per cent with their allies, the social demo crats. Strategy In the meantime was to tighten their grip on the country by putting down opposi tion. The election date has not been decided. Up until this morning there has been no censorship of the Associ ated Press. Other foreign news men also appeared to be working without restrictions on what they wrote. Information was hard to get, particularly, about police matters. But that condition existed before tha change in government. City Dickers For Land The 8500 economic "and highway survey of Klamath Falls and Klam ath county on order from the firm cf Hahn. Campbell and associates, Burlingame. Calif., started today. James Campbell, partner of the f'i m. Is here to do preliminary work on the survey, gathering material which will be correlated In the company's offices at Burlingame. The survey is being undertaken financially by the county court, city council and chamber of com merce, and is to Include an eco nomic report of the county and trading area, street and highway planning for the county and also for the city. A preliminary report on high way plans is to be completed by the time of the highway Interim com mittee's hearing here April 12. No Takers For Leap Year Deal DENVER. Feb. 26 (Pi Justice of the Peace David W. Oyler wonders today if "the ladies really know a bargain when they see one." He's had no takers whatever In his cut-rate offer for leap year mar riages, he said. At the start of the year Oylcr volunteered to perform the wedding ceremony for $1. provided the ulrl told him she had done the pro posing. VA Man Succeeding Patrick Kllhy In the veterans administration office, fed eral building, Is George Reed as contact representative. He came here from Corvallia where he held tha same position with Oregon lltaio eollera. f v 5 - ' 17 ,1 1 4J One of the five finalists for tne 1948 (Sweetheart of rJigma Chi at Oregon Hlate college, Corvallia, is pretty Janice Bilyeu, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. I). Bilyeu. of Klamath Falls. Janice Is a fresh man at OHC. The sweetheart's name will be announced at the an nual sweetheart ball Saturday night. Kennell-Ellis. Wreck Victim Critically III The condition of Arthur Werner, 27-year-old Ralph L. Smith Lum ber company brakeman, remained precarious at the Alturas hospital, word from Alturas advised late this morning. Werner suffered critical steam turns In the explosion of a logging train locomotive early Tuesday morning, six miles south of Canby. Killed in the explosion were Mike Link. 56. engineer, and Harold Mil ler, about 21, the brakeman. Fourth member of the crew which had pulled the logging train to a siding, was C. H. Parsons, locomotive fire man, who was blown from the cab and walked three miles to the Big Lakes camp to get help for the in jured. Link and Miller died later in the morning at the Alturas hos pital. An Inquest will be conducted at Alturas on the return of District At torney Charles Lederer, who waa In Southern California at the time of the blast. Frozen Lot Sale Probed The"" property m!x-up over the sale of a number of Hot Springs lots by the city which were supposed to have been withheld from sale, is being investigated at the city hall , today. i Office workers are checking on ; records to determine whether the jlota were ever released for sale by me city council, ana ore looxing up the names of persons who bought the lots. Sixteen lots located along the parkway sector paralleling the site of the north entrance highway are those In question. All but five of the lots hare been sold. They were voted three or four years ago to be withheld fron sale by the city coun cil for possible re-zoning and to await a decision regarding construc tion of the north entrance route by the state highway commission. Councilmen early this week asked for names of people who bought the lots and an Investigation regarding whether the lots were released or were still withheld at the time of sale. Phone Service Restored Here Service to more than 3000 cus tomers of The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company was rein stated at 10:30 o'clock last night after phone users In the south sub urban area were without communi cation for 16b hours. Telephones In the area went out at 6 o'clock yesterday morning and local crews were dispatched to the S. 6th street sector Immediately but were unable to locate the source of trouble. A crew was brought in from Roseburg and the wet underground section of the big 1100-twin cable was located at Martin and S. 6th at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Manager Charles Seavey said. Crews had to dig up a section of Martin and S. 6th for a length of 30 feet before all repairs were made. In the meantime, special lines were established by the tele phone company for both Oregon state police at Altamont and CAA at the air station. Farmer Shoots Friend, Self MALTA, Mont., Feb. 26 (Pi County Coroner Wtlford Bell said last night William Beske, 68, shot and killed Olte Jeglum, about 60, In a Malta saloon, then turned an ancient pistol on himself. Bell said both men probably died Instantly. Both were farmers near this Northern Montana town. The coroner termed the tragedy murder and suicide. Police Chief A. W. Pray said the two had been playing cards in the tavern. When Beske went to a rest room, Jeglum followed, Pray ex plained. Four shots were heard. The shooting wipes off one of two criminal cases on the district court calendar here. Jeglum was to ap pear for trial next month on a grand larceny charge. He had been accused of stealing 15,000 from Beske. Weyerhaeuser Closes Dovn Until Monday Southern Oregon customers of the California Oregon Power com pany will not feel the effect of tho electrical supply shortage except In the continued slowlng-down of clocks, bat neighboring towns la California came under California's emergency "dlmont" this morning. The power company will be forced to reduce Its service Into Cali fornia drastically, asking for voluntary residential-use declines In power consumption, and the California public utilities commission's emergency order probably will hare teeth In for Industry. Right now mills and other big power users In Northern California are on unrestricted schedule, but Sam Rltchey, local Copco manager, said that company managers In Tulelake and Alturas were In the com pany's regional office in Medford today being briefed on effects of the California emergency declara-4 tlon. Mills probably will be put on a short supply again. Here in Klamath Falls the Wey erhaeuser Timber company, one of the largest pine operations in the country, was closed today for lack of power, but not because of the California drought. Turbine Out Weyerhaeuser manufactures its own power but at 7:30 a. m. its turbine went out of operation and workmen are tearing it down look ing for the source of trouble. Manager Ralph R. Macartney has advised both day and night shift employes that the plant will be down until Monday at least. Employes will be told by press and radio when the mill is ready to start running again. This Is the first time in the his tory of Weyerhaeuser's local opera tion, begun in 1928, that the tur bine has failed. Weyerhaeuser is unable to buy power from Copco because of Uie shortage and is forced to close down. Tulelake, Dorris, Macdoel, Can by, Alturas and all other nearby California towns are now effected by the "dimout" order. For the most part the "dimoot" is voluntary, but the state PLC has ordered all lighting for night sports reduced M per cent. The emergency may extend imtll falL N'o Restriction Any such night activity in Klam ath Falls will not be restricted since there is no like order from the Oregon PUC. There has been no request in this state even for voluntary curbs. The only apparent effect of the "dimout" here is that Copco is continuing to operate on a power frequency of 59 'i cycles rather than 60. That makes electric clocks register only 59 'i minutes per hour and lose six minutes a day. The slowdown has been In effect for three weeks and probably .vill continue "until the California drought is broken and power sup ply returns to normal. USBR Gets Survey Okay Official notification to proceed with reclamation investigations on the Klamath Indian reservation haa been received at the district office of the reclamation bureau here, apparently putting an end to an issue that became controversial last year. At that time, the Indians in coun cil session put the bars up against reclamation engineers who wanted to go on the reservation to gather information for the mountains-to-the-sea land and water surrey of the basin. Later, the Indians voted to permit the investigations, but the agreement was not immediately signed by council officials and the investigation has been held up. This week, the bureau office here received notice from both the recla mation headquarters and William L. Zimmerman Jr., acting chief of In dian affairs, that the investigation con now proceed. C. W. Birming ham, engineer in charge of the in vestigation, will probably conduct studies on the reservation in the coming spring. Late Spud Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26 UP) (USDA) Potatoes 13 broken, 12 unbroken cars on track; Oregon 9, Idaho 3, Maine 1, California 1, Mex ico 2 arrived; market dull; Idaho Russets, No. 1A J5.55. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 tP) (USDA) Potatoes 27 broken, 31 unbroken cars on track; Califor nia 4: Idaho 14, Utah 1 arrived, 8 cars arrived by truck: market steady: Idaho Russets No. 1A, 85.10 to $5.25. Southern Demos Block A nti -Lynch WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (P Southern democrats, aided by a rule technicality, blocked house Judiciary committee action today on antl lynchlng legislation. But they still faced prospective defeat In the committee tomorrow on this Issue which Is backed by both President Truman and the repub lican majority. The bill, which would let the fed eral government step in and pros ecute anyone who takes part In lynching, was approved yesterday 3 to 2 by a Judiciary subcommittee. It was scheduled to get action today by the full committee, with approval virtually certain. But the committee was still de liberating when the house met at 11 a. m. Southern members cited a rule against committee sessions while the house Is sitting. So Chair man Michener (R-Mlch.) adjourned the committee meeting until tomor row. , Petition Circulated For Truman A petition to put the name at Harry 8. Truman on the Oregon democratic primary as candidate for president of the United States to now being circulated In Klamath Falls. The petition was originated by the "Re-Elect Truman" committee of Portland and sent to leading democrat here by the committee'! secretory, June Bredemeier. President Truman is expected toi be the first choice of the demo cratic party for election, bat as yet baa not become a candidate for nomination In the primary of any state. j It Truman's name Is put on the primary ballot and wins the Oregon democratic nomination, the state delegation to the party nominating convention In Philadelphia would be pledged to vote for Truman as long as he hoi reasonable chance of being nominated. Names of 1000 democratic voter are necessary to put Truman's name on the Oregon ballot by peti tion. The republican party already ho two aspirants for the vote of the Oregon nominating delegation. Torn Dewey of New York and Harold Stassen of Minnesota. City Survey OelltMtliga u Tl tflek V ejiaiid luuaj The city is completing negotiation for the- lost remaining piece of property on the park lite near Link river. With the latest piece of land, the city will own a sector from Center street to Link river, and from Mala to Klamath avenue. The old Hampton property Is that now under negotiation. Money for purchase of the park property wo voted In 1945 In a special levy amounting to about $80,000. Mayor Ed Ostendorf said today that purchase price of the property has come to approximately $10,000 under that figure because of dona tions of property to the city. What 1 left from the purchase is being considered for use to Im prove the lend, the mayor said. Additional funds to develop the -park are being asked in 1-mlU park levy to be on the May ballot. Pile Driver Men To Stav On Job PORTLAND, Feb. 26 (P AIT. plledrtvers won't take a "fishing trip" instead of reporting to work Monday at McNary dam. Talk of going fishing arose over what some believed to be delays in arbitration of wage Issues, but Union Secretary George D. Griffith and Lee Stoll of the Portland labor management committee Issued joint statement last night saying the men would stay on the job. The statement said they were con fident early settlement would be reached In the union's demand for 25-cent hourly pay increase. BUS FOUND SEASIDE. Feb. 26 UPy Kids at Wheeler won't have to walk to school after all; their school bus ho been found. The big yellow bus disappeared from the Wheeler school. Two day later it turned up in Seaside, 21 miles away. Law Proposal When the committee doe get around to voting, approval of the measure appears certain. Repub licans hold a 13-12 edge In tha committee and only four of the democrats are party rebel against Mr. Truman's program of "civil rights" legislation. Chairman Leo AUen (R-Ill.) of the house rules committee told re porter the bill will be cleared for early house debate as soon a It got over the Judiciary hurdle. Southern opposition to the meas ure ha centered around the con tention that It Invades states' rights. Furthermore Dixie representative cite a drop in the number of lynch Ings as evidence that they ore elimi nating the problem their own way. Senate republican leader are speeding action on a companion measure. Senator Ferguson R Mloh.), chairman of a senate Ju diciary subcommittee, said he ex pect to have a Mil ready kite this, week or early next week.