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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, If 41 PACE FOUR Waterways Funds Asked WASHINGTON, March. 10 W The request of army engineers that the senate add $131,0OC.UOO to the record waterways program as ap proved by the home. Include re storation of IIOM.OOO tor Pacific Northwest project. The recommendation was made yesterday as a senate appropriations subcommittee opened hearings on the flood control and rivers and har bors program lor the year beginning next July l. The largest house cut which the engineers asked be restored was $10,000,000 for the McNary lock and dam In the Columbia river. ' Others included: Flood control tall in one state' : Oregon: Detroit reservoir. $500,000 Dorena reservoir, $500,000; Lookout reservoir, $2,000,000. Flood control project In more than one state: Oregon: Coos Bay. $1,000,000: Co lumbia river at Bonneville. $300,000. Rivers and harbors project In more than one state: Columbia river between Vaneou ver, Wash, and The Dalles. Ore. $200,000; Columbia and Lower Wil lamette rivers, below Vancouver. Wash, and Portland, Ore, $154,000. CARNIVAL By Dick Turner Devin Leads Seattle Race SEATTLE, March 10 MV-In the closest mayoralty election of the city's modern history. Mayor Wil liam F. Devin appeared today to have been returned to office for a . four-year term. Unofficial returns from the city's 657 precincts gave Devin a lead of 1594 votes over his opponent, Allan Pomeroy, former assistant D. S. district attorney. Unofficial totals gave Devin 66,614 votes to Pome roy's 65,020. k Approximately 1600 absentee bal lots remain to be counted. Although admitting that "Mr. Devlin's election Is Indicated. Pomeroy refused today to concede possible defeat. "Because of the vital Interest of my supporters, we are conceding nothing until the very last vote Including absentee ballots is counted." Pomeroy said. Six incumbent councilmen seek ing reelection also were returned to office. They were Mrs. F. F. Powell, M. B. Mitchell. Robert H. Harlin, Alfred R. Rochester, David Levine and Frank J. Laube. Two bond issues $4,000,000 for street lighting and $2,500,000 for additional park and recreation t facilities also were successful. Morse Asks Quick Action On ERP HAMILTON, N. Y- March 10 VP) Congress should adopt the Marshall plan within the next 10 days. Sen ator Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) said in an address at Colgate university last night. Morse said that although the Marshall plan "does not guarantee that we will win the peace," it Is "our first line of economic defense against the dangers of a third World War." Speaking in the third of a series of Colgate university lectures on human relations, the Oregon senator said he would support Senator Van denberg (R-MichJ "in opposition to any amendment which seeks to weaken the plan." On politics, Morse said ha be lieved the republican party would win the presidential election by the people "voting the democrats out, more than voting the republicans in." COML ! ST MtA MIVKf. MC. T. . HQ. & a T. Oft. 3-10 "No crackers with the tea. waiter en never knows when on will want to whistle!" Second KU Music Concert To Be Given On Thursday The second of the Klamath Union high school music department con certs is to be given in the high school auditorium this coming Thursday at 8 p.m. Featured in Thursday's concert will be the high school symphony orchestra and the a cappella choir. The orchestra is playing a very pretentious program which will contain such numbers as "The Slavonic Rhapsody" by Fnede mann and "Ballet Music" from "La Qioconda" by Ponchielli. The a cappella choir will sing five numbers, one of them a recent Fred Waring arrangement of a negro spiritual "Ol" Moses Put Pharaoh In His Place." Incidental solos during a cappella reminiscence will be sung by Roy Larson. Douglas Barker, Athena Lampropulos, Rae Canada? and Cecil Phillips. Special numbers on this program include Catherine Blanas, soprano. whose selections are "Ah Love But Day" by Bach and "My Man's Gone Now" by George Gershwin. The boys' octet, a group that has been extremely popular this year, will be heard In three numbers. Instrumental ensembles appearing on this program will be the string quintet, composed of Charles Bright man. Marilee Crawford, Donald Quick. Neil Olson and Maurice Dorr man: the horn quartet, Doug Dry den, Lois Hibbert. Don Mclntyre and Jim Griggs: brass sextet 2. Gary Smith. Bob Peuoldt. Jim Griggs, Ronald Sterland and Bob Fisher. Two unusual numbers are Included In Thorsday's program. The first a "Tyinpanl Concerto" with brass en semble accompaniment, featuring Ruth Krauss and the drum ensemble composed of David Coske, Leonard Wash. Charles Norland. Ed Mc- Cracken and Ruth Krauss. The concert will start promptly at 8 o'clock and tickets may be obtained from music students In the high school. ChennaultAsks Military Aid For Chinese WASHINGTON. March 10 (A MaJ. Oen. Claire Chennault told the house foreign affairs committee today that military aid to China would help stop "Russian aggres sion'' In Europe. The former commander of the "Flying Tigers" said failure to pro vide aid to China "will Inevitably set the stage for World War III." The "Flying Tigers" were a vol unteer force of filers, mostly Ameri can, who fought with China against Japan before Pearl Harbor. At 57. Chennault Is retired from the army and heads a commercial aviation concern In China. He flew here to testify at the committee's hearings on the administration's re. quest that congress vote $570,000. 000 for aid to China. Chennault's 35-year-old Chinese wife accompanied him to the hear lr.g. Chennault argued: "China's enormous population could furnish almost unlimited manpower for military operations If properly trained, equipped and sup pled. At least the fact that they could not be dominated and trained as slave labor by Russian masters would be of utmost value to us as an asset." Chennault read a 13-page state, ment. but has Shirk as the one to have been bribed. The complalnb said the games were to be located in a proposed .ambling club within the limits of Walla Walla county. March, who has been engaged ID private legal practice at Kelso autre leaving the attorney general's office In September, was released at Olympia on his own recognisance. He said he was "dumbfounded" at the charge which he said he at first "thought was entirely a gug." BILL I1KAVII) WASHINGTON, March 10 i.in The senate public works committee app.oved without change a bill pre viously passed by the bouse calling for a $300,000 Improvement 111 post office facilities at Portland. Ore. It directs the federal works ad ministrator tn hilV nr fMiriottin m site, make plans for a new postal Four Korean Police Killed SEOUL, March 10 U1 The U. 8. army today n-ixirted four Korean policemen were killed, three Injured and two nilulng In a renewal of outbreaks In South Korea. The army said the IncUlenla were part of the series which began Feb ruary 7 and cost B0-old Korean lives and sabotaged communications. American authorities blamed rom-munlM-lUM'Ireil groups attempting to force the Unltril Nations election commission to quit Korea. The latest attacks occurred Monday. building and remodel the existing main post office. The UN commission meanwhile adopted the national voting law ol the Korean Interim legislature with a view of recommending Its use for the promised election oi a national assembly from Mouth Korea. Entry to Russian-occupied North Korea has been refused Hie commission. The mum change considered III the Korean law. said a aKkrmun. would lower the minimum voting age from 11 to 20 yean. uUl-doiiiliialed "popular front," vtw) for weeks have been rlmrglnf that the church la Improperly and IMe gaily Intel veiling In Klllne. The Pope's speech, Die rnt forth-, right political pronouncement yet, placed Ills liersnnal pi entli lujtiaraly behind the effort of Italy's cardi nals, blshoM and priests to mobilise Catholic voles to defeat the left In the coming parliamentary election. Pope Out In Open On Italy Issue VATICAN CITY. March 10 .41 Pope Plus XII. In his annual t en- . ten address to the Koine clergy, told ! them today It Is their right and duty ! to Impress upon Catholics "the ex traordinary lniKrtance" of Italy's elections April 18. I This la considered the pontiff's I reply to his critics In the commu- lurn those no-ioiiger-ud ar ticles Into cash now I Herald end News Want Ads are Inexpensive and bring quirk resulta. F.W.BERTRAM JKWKI.KK Wotch Repairing fit MAIN Two Nabbed In Bribe Case WALLA WALLA. March 10 Mft A former state official and his legal client were charged In superior court tocay with conspiring to bribe two Walla Walla county law en forcement officers. The two accused men are Shirley Marsh of Kelso, former assistant state attorney general, and Roy itmignton of Bremerton. They were arrested yesterday by V.alla Walla County Sheriff A. A. Snick, who said they would be re turned here today. One of the two counts filed by Prosecuting Attorney Albert N. Bradford accused the men of con spiring to bribe Bradford Into not enforcing the gambling laws of the state with respect to operation of various gambling games and de vices. The second count Is the same. YOU CANT WIN I STERLING, 111., March 10 iP- R. C. Bailey reported today to the Sterling police that a spare tire and some clothing were stolen from his automobile. 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