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Newspaper Page Text111 l'hs :tefp II V I HANK JI.NKINH JHIDAYB inuvos on the checker- board loaves no ilimlit Hint we nt it lol or alore by IUly. We've apparently added Krllrcn, Hiimnll lund mid Libya Hornier Italian loliinlca in Atrium to the candy Italy will irl II aha vote against commuiilMii 111 April. THE offer to give luly back lhee African colonies, which won stripped from lirr by Uio pence treaty, was apparently made by frame. II Ulc oiler was nude by France. It may be taken lor granted that we and the Urltlsh are agree able to It. In Hie present tlckllah slate ol allium, Hie U. . ItilUiln unit France P't working pretty much at a team. t P1IKIIK U a counter move on Hie other aide ol the board today. Yimiulavia oilers to uivt ur 11KK CLAIM TO TKlKBTIf II Italy will ulve her Oorltln, an ALL- ITALIAN city some 30 or 4u mllci norUi ut Trlrale. Iu-.ly norm the oiler, Au Italian pokcomah In Kome : "It la clear Uial Italy call not accept the arparallon ol a part ol Italian !leh bartered tor another purl ol Italian Ilcall." VI II AT lira back of till proponed horn trade? Ill hard to y. Tins much i Verlaln: YuucuiUvIa HtuMu'k slooijei toiildn l have propiued the deal It Russia werrn t aiireeable. It must be kept In mind that both our Mile and the ItUMlaiis want to win the election In ltuly. That ug grila Hie thouiihl that between now mill Hie lllili ol April theie will be a lot of dickering bill nullum much In the way of brain move thai can I be taken back. T1II8 mulil be a good time to gel Trie.ite clear 111 our mlndJ. ll waa all Italian city. The Yugo tlava wanted It. Huuia waa Inclined Ui favor anything Yugoalavla waul ed. Ho. In the horse-trading In volved in the making of the "peace' Uraty with Italy, our tide finally cuinpioniiaed by making Trieste and a Miiall terrltury around the town a "lice" area under Hie ftKuornhtp and control of United Nullum. Thai la Ita present ilatiu. Yugo alavia, you tec. It thrllltly proposing to wap something that 18NT Utile) lor auiiiethlng that la ALL Hal)'. Hlit couldn't le In a deal Ilka that. ,1V you II take a look at your map, you can aee readily enough why everybody wunta Italy. II la a long, turn pcuimtila thrusting out across the Mediterranean nearly lo Africa. It haa been militarily important aver tuice modern men have loughl wars. Il alill It. RNOTilKIl wurd about this Trieste biuineu. . Yesterday, after the Trieste pro posal had been made. Italian Pre mier de Onspcri and hia foreign minister. Counl Hfonu, allowed themselves In Rome. Ureal crowd! gathered, roaring "Viva Trieste." Thc.ie nationalistic feelings are hard lor ua to understand, lor we've never brrn whipped In a war and had territory tuken from us. Trieste to Italy la like Alsace and Lorraine to France. It'a a aacred caue. You never can tell what people will do lor aacred causes. Our Trieste oiler could ao excite Uie Ilallana Unit many of them who otherwise would lean toward communism might vule agalnat Uio coiniinnil.itii In the hoe of gelling Trieste back. TN Lincoln (Nebraska) today, a Representative Miller, addressing a hfe-publlcan meeting, says: "Most of Tiie American Heel Is 111 Hie Mediterranean AND HOME OK Till: SHIPS AUK PROPERLY K.tlUIP I'KU WITH ATOMIC BOM 113." VU'he navy Issued a prompt denial, ..fliis only a lew ships are In the Mediterranean and NONE carries an atom bomb.) MILLER Is obviously one of these dangerous loose talkers. What lie nays amounts to brandishing a gun. Tho old law of the West was never to brandish a gun. If you're going to use one, PULL AND SHOOT. Otherwise, leave It alone. Lingvo) lyiyJlKI U u IblnJiyjiyj . . . , . , f-fyrfj sf u ' niumi inmii i.iiiiiiiii-.i-;jja juf a i;ia pt !) ay.-t-Tjj, yy 'fm mw V 'lrwmtgwam n imamm . iiim. i u - inwa .0 -- r ' .. 4,gjt MmmtmA Jj . , , i laiafi 1 1 A A-- - -iriiiiiiiMliiiirrii "i ' ( " , 'ft .A. ... .. . , , si SI j r . : . ..... . a . . . j-a. v. it: ' x t .'. a , KLAMATH FAI.I.M, UIIKtill., TVrMUHY, IVlAIll 11 1" iririiiuina alii nirnw. g I ! f! ' ' t congress Speeds European Mid Old Man Winter Has Last Fling In Klamath Basin r ww til y-v: p I 1 1 1 w im i 1 1 ii i ig ! nam in a , A AlII'XDON KKLMBAtlilt Kennell-Kllls. Navy Denies Story About Atom Bombs ;ueart Attack lUSlllVCTflV M.rrh 25 Up I IIVUI I 111 IMVIl Takes Life Of S. Brumbaugh Nine Inches TottedUp For Klamath WASHINGTON. .March 23 Pr Both branches of congrews teamed ur today in the race with time to speed American dollara on a global mission against communism. The house turned to debate its l..2O5.0O0.0OS single-package bill carrying military as well as eco nomic help for Europe and Asia. And in the senate, the $275.000 000 fund to supply Greece and Turkey with arms and military know-how Leaded for Dosslble pa.ssage by mchtfall. In its woke was another tc give China $463,000,000 for both civilian and combat use. Speedy Action The goal is lo lay the whole set cf bills before senate and house conferees by late next week to work ou'. a single legislation weapon tor the cold and warm wars alike. f The nrime obiectlve is to have the whole foreien assistance plan i last and Mr. Brumbaugh and Alex written into law well ahead of the ander were returning to the office! April 18 Italian elections. j when the car skidded in the snow Some congress members have been ne" "le m 1 Heavy, wet mow blanketed the Klamjih area today, forcing closure of all county district schools, causing widespread interruptions of power service anil making highway travel hazardous. From 9 to 11 inches of anow lay on the ground at Klamath Falls thla morning. Blankets of varying depth up to II Inches at Merrill were re ported from the valley areas, while still deeper snow fell on mountain passes. California Oregon Power company reported a "mesr of trouble" on both major ana distribution lines, but service had been restored generally through the region by noon. Worst break was on the trans mission line eaM, which went out at Dairy one to heavy anow. Service to Bonanza, Sprugue River, Beatty Bly, Lakevlew and other points east was off and on from midnight, and there was a continuous four-hour outage on mat line that ended at 10:12 am., when service waa re instated. Copcn's canyon transmis sion lines were out momentarily at neiaon ummoaugn. pron..- :Uon , dty Then vm many nent Klamath Falls architect and distribution and house-line dlfilcul for the past 12 years a resident of j ties throughout the area, this city, died suddenly near his Clisses Off home in the Pine Grove district Harold B. Ashley, county school shortly alter 8:M a. m. today. Death sV.rtnifdAal!t?." lfi" was attributed to a heart attack. Mr. Brumbaugh had put chains on his car to traverse the lane lead ing from hut home to his offices, formerly the old Pine Grove school house, and had returned with W. J. Alexander of Sacramento, engineer for his firm. The family had break- V . ..' . tf , . . iC 9 4 ' Just Stick With Us And Watch! LOS ANGELES. March 23 iPc There's 'a new uplllt mnvemenl go ing on In Southern California. This one concerns eartluiuakcs. Dr. James Gllluly. geology professor at UCLA, suys Hie uplift ranges be tween 20 and 40 Inches a century. That scents like very Utile uplift. Bui, explains Prof. Ollluly: In 200. 000 years a split second III Infinity Ml. Baldy, a bush league moiinlalu In Ban Bernardino county, would be as high as Mt. Whitney. U.S. Shuns Trieste Swap WASHINGTON. March 23 tVi A inert tnii otflrinls turned ft cold shoulder todnv on YiiRtxslnv's ofor to "ipmlo" TricMf for the nearby Itnllnn try of Oorizln. Dlphmvwlr ninhni Itlcs pointed nut that the fiee territory of Trieste does not belonn to YiiKoslavin nnd tlierefoic Is not hers to put up for bnrRalnttijr. Thla official made plain that while ihe. W(stein powers arc alert to what the Soviet Union nnd Itnly have to any nboul the disputed trcn, rt, hravy uiow which lUrtrd falllnr rarly last niRht. kept up until noon today Ira vine nlnr inches at mow in Klamath Falls. In tome nearby rommunltitif the fall waa reported even heavier. Bureau of recla mation official tut id the anow was of exceptionally heavy water con trnt. Above. Irfl. Terry O'SulUvan. younr aon of Mr. and Mr. Bob O'Sullfvan of California avenue, stands under a branch which Is heavily wrichtrd with the white stuff. Kijcht, above. I,rs Writ lit, manager of the Klamath Falls liquor store, clears the way for expected customers at the "tireen Front (trocery" on 8. 5th. Typical is the snow cap worn by this hydrant even to the drops of water which seeped from the mound. Miners Reject Government Proposal To End Walk-Out WASHINGTON. March 23 IPi-i The committee termed the gov The United Mine Workers today re- . ernment proposal "grotesque." jicted a government plan for end- j citing's proposal, which was ac iiH' the soft coal walkout. Cyrus cipted "reluctantly bv the mine Citing, federal conciliation chief. , onerators yesterday, called for crca piomptly went to the White House j t!on ot a jBct.finding board to In vestigate the dispute over miners' pensions that touched off the walk ot'ts. However. Lewis would have to send the miners back to work be fort the plan would go into effect. Tlie UMW committee advised Chine it felt the proposal was made to "aid the coal operators, who have d'j-honored their (worki agreement and to further defraud the bene flrlarles of the welfare fund." Therefore, they said, they could demanding even more positive ac tion. And on of them. Rep. A. L. Miller tR-Neb l hinted yesterday it might be forthcoming. Miller told an audience of fellow republicans at Lincoln that most of the American fleet is In the Medi terranean and 'some of. the ships arc properly equipped with atomic bombs." But the navy In Washington came out with a quick denial. "Rep. Miller must be misinform ed." it said. 'The navy has only 14 combatant ships in the Medlterran ear and none ol-thcmcarrles an atrmic bomb. , Miller had said: "It is bit opinion that if Tito starts a drive on Trieste or into northern Italy or the Russians try to push us out of Germany, as would see atomic bombs dropped in side of 48 hours. And I would so rctommend." Demos Block Tax Cut Bill WASHINGTON. March 23 P! Democrats today blocked republican moves to send the $4,800,000,000 tax slashing bill to President Truman immediately. But it will go to the president by nightfall tomorrow on an over whelming vote. The democrats could block a vote not recommend Its acceptance by j today because, under house rules, it the mine workers. i required unanimous consent to con- j sldcr the measure. They would not agree. . So republicans decided to get from the rules committee a "rule" allow ing it to come up tomorrow. That committee decides what the house the j shall consider. While blocking a vote, democrats TROOPS IN TRIESTE. March 2;i iVi Fresh detachments of llrlilsh military po- they nic utillolv to pay much atten- llce have moved Into the tense tiou lo the opinions of Marshnl frontier area of Trieste. It was an- .Tllo's resume. nounccd officially tunighl. Joseph Grew Speaks In Favor Of Draft Revival WAHHINQTON, March 311 Joseph O, Grew told senators today that America must remain strong so countries overseas will choose our aide nnd become our nlllci. Grew, former U. S. ambassador lo Japan, urged the senntc armed ser vices committee to movo speedily for passage of limited draft and uni versal military training laws. America cannot afford to face some fill me day when II will stand alone tvlllmul allien, Orrw Mild. (Jliiiltninii Giirncy ilt-S. D.i re liiii lctl Hint 10 uf the 13 members of the senate cnmmittco arc convinced bujh measures are an absolute necessity, The committee la holding hearings on tho proposed laws. Grew was a diplomat In Germany before World War I, nnd was in Japan prior to World War II. lie, referred to the present as "Ihls serious If not critical moment" In world affairs. An linimri ant result In startlna UMT now, Grew said, would be Us "Important psychological Impact both tin aiimc.Hslve-intiirlod and on peace-minded nations abroad." Grew appeared on behall of the nnliniial security commltlt'c ul which ho Is a nallniiiil clinlrmiiii. Oumey nnd nine of his cnllengiies were tho only scnalois present yes terday during a 60-mlmilo meeting behind locked doors Willi Secretary of Sliile Marshall. Secretary of De fense Forrcsinl and Sccrolary of the Army lioynll. The group In cluded Senator Morse ol Oregon. Most of what the three .sccitIiiiIcs said remained cloaked In complete secrecy. But Gurney did report when the session broke tip: 1, The United Slates has drawn no line, and does not Intend In draw one, ns tho final limit for Russian expansion. 2. There was a great ileal of gen eral, rut her than specific, discussion of the "generally critical nnd progressively more serious sltiiallnn In Europe." That has the miction to the sug gestion ny Fnn.iiMi Minister Stunoje Slmlc thr.t Yugoslavia would con sider stn rct del ing Its claims to Trieste If given in return the stratc. glc lUiltan city of Uorlzla which lies to the north Slmlc made the proposal at. Bel grade shortly after sending formal nctcs to the United States, Britain and France protesting their pro posal for a change In the Italian jvnee Treaty to return Trieste to IttMy. Tho Yugoslnv notes, how ever, did not commit Tito's gov ernment lo ncceptnnce or rejection o' the three-power proposal. Trieste now Is under Untied Nations super vision mid protection. This Runaway Was Really Bad KIRKVILLE. In.. March 23 ili When i team belonging to Clarence Thnmns nnd sons ran nwny with a load of hay several things happened, none of them good. The team ran Into a light, pole. It snapped off. A live who fell on one of the horses. The horsj was elcctro culert nnd the hay caught fire. The Thomases saved the other liorso and part of the hay. to report the union action. Chlng's move apparently was the fltst step toward invoking the Taft Hartley law to halt the ntne-dny-old strike which has crippled rail road and steel mill operations. Under the law, President Truman is empowered to set up a board o' Inquiry. After tne board reports, tlie attorney general could ask for the Injunction. Creation of the bonrd was urged bv Senator Ball iR-MInn ). chair man of the senntc-house "watch oop" committee on operation of the Taft-Hartley act. Ball talked lo reporters after the group met to study the coal dispute. 1 li imihni7jvt Ihnt he u-nc Kiwnlc- Inr onlv for himself m urging the i Trnnnpr tHch ci'crgcncy action. 1 urf -6UI The committee li.,4 not lieen lii- i Weather conditions halted fc.imed when the moot Inn ended ! search today for Claude Everett thnt UMW had rejected Ching': I "nsKins. rviamain rans trapper, belabored the bill tn lloor speeches, plan for ending the strike. Ball said 1 disappeared last Wednesday Rep. Monroney (D.-OkhU there had been no "direct action" to ! nttrr leaving home to run his trap shouted: settle the dispute and that the com-! n,,cs lne marsh area bordering "At this moment when democ- tne cinuiiiiii river. ; racy is in great peril we are asKect State police searched the a res to reduce taxes. Before the year is last week-end nnd continued drag- I out congress will draft the sons of ging in the swamp and nearby canal the mothers of this country. We had yesterday but were torced to cancel I better draft the dollars now and operations when the storm broke, keep taxes where they are." I Weather Halts highway. Several neighbors were as sisting the two men in shoveling the snow away from the machine when Mr. Brumbaugh slumped to the snow. He died instantly. Sheldon Brumbaugh was a native of South Dakota, born July 20. 1904. He was married to Catherine Gay lord tn 1942 and they tu.ve one son. Alex Gaylord. Other survivors in clude Mr. Brumbaugh's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Brumbaugh of Cor vallis. The senior Brumbaugh is a member of the Oregon State college faculty. Two daughters by a former marriage. Ann and Katherine Brumbaugh." liv-tn 'Oregon- 'Ctty. and there is one sister, Madeline Brumbaugh of Evanston, 111. Outstanding Artist Mr. Brumbaugh was recognized not only in Oregon but throughout the United States as one of the out standing young artists in the field of modem architecture. His designs of modern structures, both business houses and residences, are featured in national architectural magazines and his Cove Point homes, some now under construction, were dis played Just recently In New York at a nation-wide art and architec tural display. A year ago last June. Mr. Brumbaugh purchased the old Pine Grove school, remodeled the building and established offices there. He lived not far from the office. He was a member of a well known Oregon family, his father. Professor Brumbaugh, hnvintr held the chair in psychology and phil osophy for many years at Oregon State college. For several years after coming to Klamath Falls. Mr. Brumbaugh was affiliated with the offices of How ard Perrin. architect. He entered business for himself several years ago. Final rites will be announced later by the Eorl Whitlock Funeral home. all county schools this morning be cause of the difficulty of moving school buses over country roads. City elementary schools and Klamath, Union high school reported "busi- (C.ntlBUe4 an Pag. . Caiama S) KU Coaching Problems Left To Later Date No action was taken last night by the district 2 ( KUHSI school board on basketball or football coaching problems at Klamath Union high school, although coaching assign menu for next school year came to the official attention of the board. School Superintendent Arnold Gralapp said that one member of the board. Scott Warren, was ab- sent from the meeting and that the t board wuild rather tackla the mat. ter of coaching assignments when all members are present. Another meeting was called for Wednesday. March 31, when the school board holds Its inspection of school facilities. Ed Ryan, Pelican football coach for the past two years, sat In on last night's meeting to explain that it is his desire to remain in Klam ath Falls. There has been consider able talk, that Ryan would be re placed next season. Action on Ryan's contract was delayed until March 31. Wayne Scott, basketball coach, who has announced his intention of leaving Klamath Falls after this school year, has not turned In an official resignation yet, Oralapp said, and has until March 31 or pos sibly later, to inform the board of his intention. The board is now wo-ktng on sal ary schedules for next year and when it notifies the teachers and coaches as to the amount they are offered in pay, the question of re newal of contracts will come up for final decision. mlttee will meet later to decide Its course. The government settlement pro posal was turned down In a letter sent to Ching by a three-man UMW committee which received the offer yesterday. John L. Lewis. UMW president, dltl not sign tlie rejection personally. Pope To Appear On Easter Sunday VATICAN CITY. March 23 UP Pope Pius XII will appear on the balcony of St. Peter's basilica at noon Easter Sunday to give his blessing to the faithful. The cere mony will be broadcast. Late Spud Bulletin . SAN FRAKCISCO. March 23 (7P) (USDAi Potatoes: Old stock, 7 bro ken. 13 unbroken cars on track; California 1. Otegon 4 arrived; new stock, 2 cnr on track; Florida. 1 arrived: mrrket steady; Idaho Rus sets No. 1-A, 5.40-50. LOS ANGELES, March 23 OP) (USDA1 Potatoes: 23 broken, 39 unbroken c&rr on track; Idaho 10, California 4. Oiegon 2, Kansas 1 arrived; I cars arrived by truck; Idaho Russets No. 1-A 5.25-50. Farm Dope Leak Told WASIIiNC. TON. March 23 i.4'i Rep. Aiuircscn iR-Mlnn.l said today highly aerrrt Information "leaked" from tin agriculture department last September and as a result certain persnm "made tremendous sums of money" speculating In fats nnd oils. Andrcseii tnnde the statement when ,i house committee opened hearings on speculating. He said the committee, vhlch he heads, would develop lne stoty. George A. Parks, an official of the deiiailmont ol agriculture's fats and olis dl'islct . was In the witness chair.. He tcsttllrd that there was a "leak" r.f Information shortly be fore the department made n public announcement September 10 ot a huge Increase In the allocution of fnts and oils for export. Exports allocutions of lard for the Inst quarter of 1947 were lti crensed from 3h.000.000 to 70.000.000 pounds. The market price of lnrd Jumped up ti to 8 cents a pound. Parks sa:tl the department in vestigated "rumors" of a leak nnd made a report on its findings. But, he snld, ' tho report dltl not reveal the source of the leak." Stanley Woodruff Resigns Post As Principal Of KUHS; Harold Ashley Quits As County School Superintendent Two major Klamath school ad mmlstnttors disclosed their resigna tions today. Stanley Woodruff, since 1942 prin cipal of Klaninth Union high school, piescnted his resignation to the school board Inst night, staling thnt fri health reasons he would like to be returned to his old teaching assignment tn science. This morning, Hnrold B. Ashley, county school superintendent, re ported thnt he had sent notice of lili resignation to Ed Gowen, chair man of the county school bonrd. to be effective nt the end of this year. Ashley has been superintendent since August, 1941). when he was ap pointed upon the resignation of I'red Peterson. Neither board lius Indicated whether It has anyone definitely In mind tor the positions left vacant for next yenr hy the resignations. Ashley gnvc no renson for his de rision, nnd snld his plans are In di finite. He has been in the schools here for more thnn 20 yenrs, hold ing positions at Keno, ifort Klnm nth nnd Altnmont, nnd wns clerk four yenrs before becoming super intendent. Woodruff's rtslgnutlon was ac cepted by I he bonrd last night with "sincere regret." City Superintendent Arnold Gra lr.pp snld today: "I am expressing my own sincere I Union high school. He has done ex- I Woodruff was recently elected pres- rtgrct and the deep regret of both ceptionally fine work as principal i itHnt of the HlRh School Principals boards. In accepting Mr. Woodruff's of the high school, one of the larg- ! association In the state of Oregon resignation as principal of Klamath 1 est outside the city of Portland. Mr. School Heads Resign jajBBBB W..: aBm4 &.sVaifc!'- Wl , t . c.iji Stanley woontarr rrlnelpal, Kl'HS. 1 HAROLD ASHLEY and was most deserving In line with hi- fine work as administrator at KUHS." Woodruff's resignation from till present post Is effective June 30, 1048. He goes Into the general sci ence assignment on that date. Woodruff became principal of KUHS when Rolla Goold entered the navy in 1942. Other business to eome before the boards last night had to do with teacher salary schedule. Howard Holt, chairman of the tenchers com. mlttee on salaries appeared before the boards and presented recom nifndutlons tot salary schedules for the coming year. The bonrd mem bers were supplied with the sched ules of Oregon citlea In first clnsi (Klamath Falls schools are In this classi, nnd will study the compara tive schedules with action to be taken at an early date. Board 1 announced that bids on the $100,000 Mills school auditorium will be called within a 10-day pe riod. It was also announced that Conger school work Is progressing. It Is likely that Conger students now In the sixth grade at Roosevelt will continue there next year, but no further classes will be sent to Roosevelt from Conger.