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Newspaper Page TextI fo) re 1 rui M Jw-Miall' W-l.i MM lly HIANK JICNKINH H DIHPATCH from Washington " thla niurnlnii Irlla u tlml Pical dent Truman's flat nniiounrciifciit that ho la a candidate for rcnuinl luitKili spikes the In m h of rrljclllnii di'inocrula II ml Ihry can find an ulhrr mull wliu mlulil brut lilm al I ho convention, Hi'liuUir (Jonrifo, of Orn Kin, pula II Uila Way: "Moat ulruuicriiltcl party mem bers In public lift) wliu mluhl be acceptable lo both wliuia of Hip purtyi owe Mr. Truman aouicthiiiit, mul frw with imtlonul alntmo waul to bull hruila Willi a iroaidrnl In u nomination flitht." That la auunil political Ionic. T1I1H writer, reading the ncwa Unit day by Utiy gruwa more threaten In la convinced Ihul tho tmcallun ua to whether wc ahull have demo cinl or n republican Ha uur next president la lading rupully lulu tlio btickifruund. Whul we mutt 1 1 ii v r la a man who etui handle wlitil la perhupn the hurdral and iiiiniI ditnitcruus Job wo ve evrr faced. DEI'UKHKNTATIVE ANOICI.L Inu asked I'tcaldeul Truiimu In a let ter to atop ahlpmrnu to Ituaala of II Itellia which could Increase ItUa ala'i mlllUry atrciiuth. lie makes the letter public lu Wmhliuiloii Uiia uiornliitf. In It. he anya: "The people of tuy district i.Mull Doiuith county are urouiird over the pruHiam of Die government to ifivc aid to Ituaala Uilouull auch ahlp menta ..." Ilia liifinKiiitlou, he Miy, la Unit during January nnd Febiuury we exported lo Klliuila large ijuuiilltlra of lubricating olla, mining inachlu ety, nutoinoUllea und puru, con aiructlun machinery, nluiiiliium aul plmte. mrul wuiklng machinery and Industrial machinery. lie Hilda: "I Ululcrnlund that the glrutcr part of these auppllca la of H nature Unit will materially naalat Russia In her war plana. If our ptottiam tuiilrr the MalslMll plan la lo be rtfiiiUc. tllrre acrllls lo be no Jllntlf liibie reitMiii why we should cuuiinue to irnder thla aid to KHAiia " TIIKHK can be no driiylnii that Ifeople. nol only in Multnomah county. Oregon, bill generally over the oouutry are becoming niuuacd over these ahlpmenta. Thai la a raa of mo Itittlnct of the public. There are tlmea tuaually nmea of atrcsa and danger) when tur niut instinct of the public la mora dependable tlinn the fine-spun reasoning nf diplomuta and ulhcra in offlciul pualilona. Til la aume altuutlon arose when we were ahlppllut acrap ateel lo Jtiuin. We were told then, aa now-, thai Japun u a "friendly" country and Unit only harm could come of refusing to ell to her. JIM the mai Instinct uf the people WAS AOAINbT IT. Al Pearl Harbor and alterward. this mas Instinct of the people wu lustlllcd. Thera la no record of the number of American buys whose Uvea were ended by fragment of thla anine aleel coming buck from the muulea of Jnp nulla, but It muat lmve been lu rife. IN Washington this mornlmt. there waa a significant passage of verbal arma. The aenate foreign? relations com mittee la conaldcrlng a bill to help China "to undertake a vlitoroua pro gram of aelf-help." Representative Vorya. of Ohio, la trying to tack on an amendment extending economic help to Jupnn, Korea and the Ityukyu Inlands. Representative Marcnntonlo, of New York, (who follow the com miinlal line fiillhfully. whethrr ur nut he la a member uf the purty Jumixvl to hla feel to attack the bill and Vorya' proponed amendment ua a ''"program In defense of Wall Street." To protect "big bushiest and Jnve.iturit." ho aiild, "we're murchlng Siilll seven leiiguo bixita toward war." Ho went on In thai voln for 35 mlnulra. lU'preaenlatlve Cox, of Oeorgia. took one minute to deliver this reply to Marcnntonlo: "How long, I wonder, must mem bers of this body all hero and henr assaulted from day to day tho gov ernment wo love, nnd by people who would rip from tho wall Hint aymbol of liberty that hiuigs ubovo the speaker's rostrum, nnd who would run down the flng nf tho Stars nnd Hlrlpes that proudly floats above the Capitol and run up In Us atend the flag of tho hammer and sickle?" QriATOniCAI,? A Utile bombastic? Certainly. But It shows the ten sion that Is building up. WEATHER ! IM.r. h mi ua Mill. I ''IplullMii la VI haura . aa alrvaitl tar In U1 . 9 At Last at a.lo Narmal S.hl iMiarailt l air Unllil an4 Hal aid. I'UK ; ftK CI.NIS KI.AMATI' rfVrP .a((JON, FltlDAV, MARCH U, IHf Telephone gill No. 1300 Etftchen Surgery A Lonely Elcanch Saves 28-year ODd Woman's Life Lonely Ranch Where Kitchen Surgery Saved Woman's Life ThU air plrlurr m made today by Wetlry ;urirrUn, ihuwlnc tn ow-iurroundfd Htrel Hwamp ranch whrrc turji-ons Mvrd ranch lure man'i lfp In rmrrgrnry oprrallan. Hud Arnold, who flew tlir doctor In yraterday. at Hying plane when the picture was made at 11 a. m.. today. Vrt mow prevrntcd a landing with photographer. Kanrh hout e at upper left center. New Clutch Developed WASHINGTON. March It tA'A nrw magnetic clutch for automn bllea and other machinery haa been develofied by a government engi neer. The national bureau nf standurds taid today 'lie clutch. Invented by Ji rob Riiblnow of Its terhnlcnl atrfff. features "high efficiency, smooth neraltnn. long life and sim plicity of construction." The new mechanism differs from t It e conventional "dry - friction" clutch which brings gears more or Iim lulu direct contact and "fluid" clutch-which mnkea one gear churn oil which In turn rotates an other gear on the same principle as a water wheel. Rnblnow's "mngnetlc fluid" clutch cc lines the first gear to turn In a fiuld containing steel particles. Tr.ey become mngnettred and turn the aecond gear. The principle can be adapted to "no-shlft" ojieratlon In automobiles, the bureau said. II also can be used on such ma chinery as printing presses, rndar antenna controls, range finders, gun dhectlon controls and highspeed electric computers. Truman Sticks Leaves, v Rebel Demos Out On Limb WASHINGTON. March 26 lv- , ceptable to both wings owe Mr. Tru- Presidenl Truman's refusal to be pushed aside left balking democrats with ebbing hopes today for agree ment on an opposing candidate for the presidential nominal Ion. Senator Oeorge iD-Ou told a re porter he thinks Mr. Truman may have made it Impossible for rebelling Dixie democrats and northern anti Truman forces to back a single, strong opponent. The difficulty, the Oeorgia sena tor said. Is Uial most purty members In public life who might be ac- Literal If Nothing Else HARTFORD, Conn., March 3(1 IV: The Hiirlfurd Internal revenue office notified a woman that the ninount withheld from her wages cqunllcd exactly her 11147 Income tax. Therefore, she was advised, she owed the government nothing. night bark came a check from the wniniin. On the line reserved for the amotuit was written "None." Late Soud Bulletin I.OS ANOKt.ES, March 38 IAP UHDAi Potatoes: 20 broken, fh un broken cars on trnck; arrivals Kansas 1, Oregon 1, Cnllfnrnln 3, Idaho IB: (I curs arrived by truck; market, steady; Idnho Russets No. 1A !i.:iS-MiO. SAN FRANCISCO. Mnrrh 28 (AP USOAi Potntoes: 12 broken. 8 un broken cars on trnck; nrrlvnls California 1. Oregon 3. Mnlne 2, Kansas 1, Nevada 1, Idaho 2; no sales. Lewis Shuns Coal Meet WASHINGTON, March 26 ijI'i John L. Lewis, although asked to appear, did nol show up today at the first public meeting of the presi dent's coal strike fact-finding board. When the meeting opened. Board Chairman Sherman Million asked If the coal operators were present and ready to proceed. Charles O'Neill spoke up for the oiierators. He Is lender of a ten-man delegation. "Is there anybody here from Uic United Mine workers, who expects la speak tor them?" Judge Minion asked. There was dead silence. Mlnton had told reporters in ad vance dial If cither side fulled to respond to the Invitation to attend the hearings the Inquiry board would Issue a subpoena, enforclble by the courts, to rcqulro appearance. man something. And few with national suture want to butt heads with a president In a Domination fight, he added. Unless the president later' decides to quit possibility Oeorge did not rule out the senator said he doesn't see where such a man will be found. Mr. Truman told his news confer ence yesterday he Is In the fight to the finish. "It will be very difficult to nomi nate anybody else, unless the presi dent himself decides that it Is best for him to step out," Oeorge said. As an example, Oeorge said he thinks most of the southern civil rights rebels would be glad to have Chief Justice Fred Vinson head the ticket. And he guessed that Vinson, a Kciitucktan. would get an okay from northern democrats who are kicking about the president's stand on Pales tine. But even If Vinson were willing to quit the court. Oeorge said he doesn't think the chief Justice would do so unless the president approved. The same situation applies in greater or lesser degree to others who have been mentioned, the sena tor said. Meanwhile, the president's ex planation of his Palestine stand I seemed to have made some headway with those who have criticised his policies on thai score Police Wear Out Theft Suspect TACOMA. Mnrch 26 M'i Thir teen policemen armed with riot gtnis and tear gns senrched a 11 story dotfntown Tncoma building for two ' hours this morning seek ing a man reported to have been seen prowling the premises. He was finally found lying on nn office cot exhausted from run ning up nnd down the building stairs as he eluded the policemen. Derelict Mines Move On Coast SEATTLE. March 26 Wi Dere lict mines are being sighted oft the Washington-Oregon coast on the average of one a day, district coast guard headquarters said today. Two explosives reported yesterday Increased the totnl to 25 for the fust 25 iayi of March. Only two woro soon in February, 10 In Jan uary. Ten of the Japanese mines seen this month have been destroyed. Latest reports placed one mine off Vancouver Island and a second 13 miles off Tillamook head. Canadian nnd coast gunrrl vessels were to seek them out today. Russian Ship Clears Port JERSEY CITY, N. J.. March 26 dpi The Russian freighter S. S. Chukokta. loaded with Industrial equipment, sailed from the Clare mont terminal today, and another Soviet vessel came In to take lu place. The Chukokta was picketed Sun day and Monday by members of the Hudson county chapter. Catholic War Veterans, protesting shipment of machinery to Russia. . ' Loading of the vessel was held up several hours when longshoremen refused to pass Uie picket line. $ Passes Plane Takes Doctors To Steel Swamp Hurgeons who flew into the anow Isolated swamp country south of here late yeaterday performed an emergency operation In the ranch house kitchen that apparently saved the life of Mrs. Herman Vowell. The 28-year-old woman, whose husband Is the foreman of the W. C. Dalton holdings In the Steel swamp section 30 miles southeast of Malin. was reported in excellent condition today. Mr. Vowell was with her husband and his brother Ray. at the ranch. She had been 111 for several days but at II o'clock yesterday morning her condition became critical and she lapsed into unconsciousness. Vowell placed a call to Mrrvyn Wilde of Malin who railed the Shasta Cascade Flying Service in Klamath Falls and arranged for the use of a ski-equipped plane. ."Bud" Arnold, flight instructor for the service, flew the M-horsepower Piper Cub to Malin where he picked np Ur. Jack Martin. It took 45 min utes for the plane to take off from the snow covered field just two miles from Malin. It wss only 15 minutes before they landed in a snow-covered hay meadow near the ranchhouse. Woman L'nconscious Dr. Martin found the young wo man unconscious, suffering from in ternal hemorrhage due to an ab dominal condition. Dr. Martin then summoned Dr. Raymond Tice of Klamath Falls who assembled 100 pounds of sterile equipment from Hillside hospital and met Arnold at the' Klamath airport. They flew back to the ranch and surgery was performed immeditely. Before Dr. Tice arrived. Dr. Martin had ad ministered plasma to reduce shock. The woman was placed on a kitchen door laid across two small tables In the kitchen. A piece of stove wood was used to elevate her feet. Arnold, the pilot, doubled as anesthetist There is electricity at the ranch and with the aid of two electric lights and a flashlight held by Ar nold, the operation was completed. Kitchen equipment, such as the stove and sink, were also used. (C.nll.aci .a Pact S. Ctlama SI v v yjjjw 0$ t - . E. R. "FAT" LONG E. R. Long Passes At 58 Everett Rupert "Fat" Long. 58-year-old Klamath basin grain grow er and long time resident of this city, died suddenly at Hillside hos pital at 8:30 a. m . a few hours after he was admitted for treatment of a heart condition. Mr. Long had not been in ill health. He suffered a heart attack and was moved to the hospital at 1:30 a. m. He died while eating breakfast. He is survived by his wife Janice, 1545 Eldorado, one son, Murel, 1965 LeRoy; his mother, Mrs. Mary Long of Fort Rock. Ore., one brother, Ruben Long, also of Fort Rock, and one sister. Mrs. Leston (Anna) Llncbaugh of Silver Lake. A young grandson, Lynn Long, also survives. "Fat" Long, as he was known to his scores of friends, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Long of the Christmas lake area in Lake county. They were among the first settlers of that section. Alonzo Long died some time ago. but his widow lives with a son at Fort Rock In Lake county. In 1928. Mr. Long moved to the Klamath basin and had consider able stock holdings. Later he trans ferred his Interests to grain and he and his son Murel just recently bought considerable acreage In low er Klamath county Just north of the California line. Mr. Long had been a member of the Klamath Falls Elks lodge. BPOE. for more than 25 years. Final rites will be conducted by the Elks, and the Earl Whitlock Funeral home win an nounce the services. Mr. Long leaves a host of friends to mourn his passing. Thirteen Die Over Wide Storm Path OKLAHOMA CITY, Mareh 16 m A hit and miss tornado bounced acroas Central and Eastern Okla homa last night, leaving at least 13 persona dead. The storm hit mainly In farm communities, striking near Welum ka, 75 miles east of Oklahoma City, Eugaula, 40 miles east of Wetumka, Boynton, 20 miles south of Mus kogee, Checotah, a few miles north east of Eugaula, and Salllaaw, about 20 miles west of Fort Smith, Ark. The tornado first was reported at Tinker field. Oklahoma City, about 6 p.m. Eighty-four planes were destroyed or damaged there by the twister. It moved gradually eastward, finally hitting Salllsaw, near the Arkansas border, about 11 p.m. It was the second storm within a week to do major damage at Tinker field. Listed as dead were: Mrs. Woodrow Htringfellow and her three weeks old baby. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harris and three of their daughters, all killed near Wetumka. Donald Shropshire, 17. Eufaula. Ola Rogers, 34, and Commodore Rogers, 77, McClanahan mountain community. Three dead at Lenna, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cox and David Hardin, lH-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. BiU Hardin. Mrs. Suingfellow and her baby were killed when their home about three miles south of Wetumka was flattened by the storm.' The String fellows' six-year-old daughter was found soon after the storm In a nearby field. She was unhurt but her clothes had been torn off. The five Harris victims were burned to death in a fire which followed the storm. Travis Watson, Wetumka postmaster, said bam was blown into the Harris home near Wetumka and apparently a stove In the house overturned, set ting the structure ablaze. Wetumka has a population of about 2700. Eufaula's population is about 2300. The search was continuing for additional storm victims. Late Donations Boost RC Drive Fund To 47 Per Cent A sudden spurt In donations gave the Klamath County Red Cross drive a shot In the arm as the total thir noon reached J 14 300. about 41 per cent of the county goal. Jack son county still is far ahead with 71 per cent of its quota already in. Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars repre sentatives have donated their time to canvass areas not previously con tacted in Uie city. On the list of 100 per cent con tributors are: Fremont school Cornier school Mills school Crescent Lake school Roosevelt school Riverside school Fellcnn school Klnmath Union high school Henley school Hotel Hollv Uhllg's Electric Miller's Department Store Van Fleet Electric Btore Lynn Roycroft. Insurance Landry company Redman Insurance Qtinlity Food Store Hardy's Men's Store Herman's .vlen's Store Arcnde hotel larkln Insurance Art Needle Shop Dlmbnt Motors Klnmath Billiards East Side Electric . Fust side Appliance Carole Lee Bakery Patterson Furtnlture company Klamath Production Credit John Sandmeyer. Insurance Pine Street Marker Louis R. Mann company Craig's. Inc. The Eaele Spencer's Buster Brown Shoe Store Hans Norland. Insurance Jerry Thomas. Insurance Kohn's Flower Shop VanDoren and Kellstrom Ooeller's Wallpaper and Paint Store. Rollln Rodolph and company The Herald and News and KFLW Burke and Konschot The Olass House Hanviile Grocery Rolling Pin Donut Shop Paul Lee. Insurance Don's Mens Wear Smith. Bates Printing Crater Lake National park J C. Penney Chilcote and Smith Palmerton Lumber company Pioneer Tobacco company Model Shoe Store Western Auto Simply company Sundown Tent and Awning com pany. H. M. Munsell Whytnl's Arthur Simmons Loy J. Parker Special donations hnve come from the Daughters of Italy. Loyal Older of Moose. Women of the Moose. Fraternal Order of Eagles. FOE auxiliary, Herbert Applegate auxiliary and the Catholic Daugh ters of America. Export List Tightened Up wssiuriiiTOB, Marcn 26 iP) President Truman today slapped tight controls on exports of air planes and airplane parts, classing uiem wnn otner war materials. The White House made public a presidential proclamation revising. eirectlve April 15. the list of things which cannot be shipped from this country except under special license. It designates as munitions such thiilgs as small arms and machine guns and fire control equipment and range fineds as well as aircraft Congress members have been clamoring for tightened export con trols since It was disclosed earlier this week that some airplane en gines, sold by the government cs war surplus, were eventually sent to Russia by private buyers. Heroes Stick To Fishing VANCOUVER, Wash., March 28 WV-Three brothers, who lost their legs to save their shipwrecked moth er, sister and small nephew from freezing, said today they were going; back to commercial fishing again this summer. Sitting in wheel chairs here. Wil liam Skonberg 27, Daniel Skonberg, 25. and Arthur Skonberg, 21, de clared neither the three days they spent marooned on a frozen Alaskan island nor the loss of their limbs would keep them from their fishing jobs. Shipwrecked New Year's Eve be tween their home at Chtgnlk, Alaska, and Kodlak, four Skonberg brothers and a cousin put a canvas around their mother, sister, and 7-year-old nephew, and held it down with their feet until their feet froze. Tthe other brother, Andrew, 19, j and the cousin. Berg Larsen, are in a ocuiue uuauiuii. Here to be fitted with artificial limbs, the three elder brothers said cheerfully, "Yes. we'll fish. We're fishermen, and we hope to be back in Chijtnlk for the fishing season. That's about June." Survivor Of Sewer Cave-In Tells How It Feels To Be Buried Alive PORTLAND, March 26 (PI How does It feel to be buried alive? Joe Harmeier, 50, who survived a sewer cave-in here Wednesday, wrote for a newspaper (the Oregonian): "It seemed to me that every thing happened kind of slow." A workman on a sewer project, the cave-in first pinned him chest deep in sand. Then a dirt bank toppled down. , "I could feel the dirt come up around my shoulders. Then it was around my chin, past my mouth and over my eyes and finally over my head." he wrote from the hospital where he is recovering. "I suppose it happened a lot faster than I remember It, but I was still breathing, real quick, all this time. After the dirt got over my head. I still kept trying to breathe, but it got shorter and shorter as the pressure built up to keep my lungs from working. "I never did pass out. When it got to where I couldn't breathe any more, I was ready to give up. About that time I could feel them working over my head, pulling out the dirt, but I didn't think they would get me out in time. "I thought of my wife, Anna, and the 31 years we have been mar ried. I didn't think I would ever see her again. I got two boys, Don, 30, and Dale, 28, and I thought ,tt would be nice to see them again before I went . . . "About that time they uncovered my eyes and I could see again. Then my mouth was uncovered, but because of the pressure on my lungs, I still couldn't breathe. That oxygen tan oxygen mask and tank were used) probably saved my life, but If they hadn't uncovered my ribs as soon as they did, even the oxygen wouldn't have helped." Other workers estimated Harmeier was burled 30 minutes. Another worker, Ed West, 46, was killed In the cave-In. Nation's Military High Command Outlines Future Defense Plans lly Kl.TON V, FAY Al' Military Affairs Itrporler WANHINOTON, Mareh 26 il'i Al.isHn, this rouniry's guardian oul luisl Hsitlrisl attack over the Pole, la miitinrd hv only 7000 soldlcra and perhaps fewer limit ItIO fighter lil.ines. The plan is to add 8000 soldiers. This wna n pnrt nf the military Jili turn sketched for congress by the luilliin's high cnmmnnd In Its re quest for more men and moro money to bo rendy "If wnr comes." Not nil the plrtiiro wna dark. Srirelnry of Defense Forrestnl snld "Mils Is nn counsel of despnlr." But. there acre, grim touches. Like Forrestnl's declaration that "nr. n sliiclly mtllliiry mutter" Auieiicn lu.ist halt Russian expan sion. And like the nssriilnti nf Sccrc liiry nf 'Ihe Nnvy Sulllvnn: nlilis Sighted "lleeently sulininrlnes nol be longing to any nntlnn west of the 'Iron curtain' have been sighted off our ahores." Ktilllvan didn't say where or whose submarines had been sighted. Itut hla meaning appeared clear Iti'asla's. And Inter another nnvy official said Ihe three hud been reported i seen In Ihe Pacific, line waa 200 miles off Kan Francisco, one off the Aliiillans and a third In an Island group 800 miles nest of Hawaii. An American airplane whether mili tary or commercial wasn't clear ninrie tho report Irom the Aleutians. Merchant ships reported Ihe other two Instances. In the ease nearest San Francisco the Identification of the oli ec t Hlghted was not positive. Thoro wna drnmn nnd suspense, too As when the doors to the senate mined services committee, were bnrrrd to the public so members could lirnr from Orn. Omar Brad ley, army chief of staff. "Specific data as to the strength nnd deployment of the armed forces of other countries" presumably Russln and her satellites nnd the nnn-commiinlst. nations looking to this country for protection. Forrestnl earlier had gravely cau tioned tho senntors that they must "assume the responsibility for any disclosure here which, however In formative, might adversely affect tin trend In Western Europe or ptejudtre the safety of our fighting men or the safety of those who pro cured the dntn for us." Conflicting Views The full day of testimony pro diued some conflicting views among the military chiefs themselves de spite unification and the recent I.'ey West meeting to thresh out all ditngrcements. I Secretary of Air Symington told Ihe senate armed services commit tic that B-29s, equipped with a re fueling service, could tnke off from si'ch points ns Alnska or Labrador, "bomb any part of Russia and re turn to American bases such as the Philippines, Okinawa, Alnska or Labrador," On the other hnnd. Secretary of the Army Roynll snid: "In ense 'if any reasonably pos sible war, no part of the Central Eurasian land mass could be ef fectively reached by strategic bomb lug from bases on or near the North American continent or from buses In Ihe Philippines. .... Even fii.m any of the Atlantic Island na tions or from Japan or Alaska, fre quent and Intensive strategic bomb iiii. could touch only fragmentary parts of Central Eurasia." t There has been widespread speculation that Russia Is moving a bty part of her heavy industry east of the Urals. In Central Eurasia.) Not Decisive Symington added to his testimony about passible B-29 strikes ngalns. Russia that such attacks "would nol be decisive" unless bases near er the targets became available." General Bradley presented this tble to show the deployment of tho 542.000 men now In the army and how they would be deployed under expansion to a 782,000-mati at my: Itecom Treaent mended Far East ; 127.000 136.000 Paciflo 9.000 9,000 Alaska 7.000 15.000 Europe 96.000 93.000 Trieste 6.000 5.000 Caribbean 14.000 14.000 United States 284.000 510.000 Air force tables made public were in terms ot units now on station. The expansion of total air force personnel from 364300 to a recom mended 400.000 would not make more groups available. But It would permit them to reach full strength and to provide otner needs such ns Increased nlr raid warning net works. (A B-29 group presently consists of about 27 planes: a light bomber group, about 45 planes) a fighter group, about 72 planes. The alia of the non-combat groups, such at troop carriers, varies widely.) The air force tables disposition of American strength Included! Alaska, one tighter group (about It planes)) am rescue squadron.