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Newspaper Page Text(Pi JV am a rmnTiM a la J he Day's Sip , y rilANK JKNKINM PMKItrH new wrlliklo In Uie 1 Italian eleuUon campaign today. Tile cuinniunlU, ill o( a audden, ere shouting: "For Trieste Mid coun- try." Home dispatches say It look llko Ilia beginning ol communist cam paign to cunvlitco Uio vulere It i Uio communist' Idea OKIOINAIXY lu ulve Uio city buck to llto Italians, If iu, III tribute Irani our op ponent to our skill In politic! cam paigning. HKRK'B a tip to Undo Joe: "Maybe you'd better nut tuiittle with u in nil eloclluti buttle. That' where we ahlne." t ANOTHKll word here on Trieste: The city ln't commercially lm porunl to Italy. 11 l linporunt to I yiiaoiltvli, Austria, Hungry and r iu back country generally. It servo iu the port lor nil Uil area, much as Portland sorvc as the port lor fee Columbia busin. It lie clear mound Uio upper end ot the Adriatic wit i rum Italy. Alto, It Isn't historically Italian, having been given to Italy In Uie selUetiionl that lollowed tin first world war, IT U important, ol course, to Hue 1 .la. From Uie port ol Trieste, ituuia couid lauiicn aubmarinea to prowl Uie AUriaUo. Warpianea oaaeo at I'rlc.ie coulu help In making uie Adriatic uiuaio lor nuu-iiiiawau nipping, iu Vugoslavia nanus, ir.wui would bo pracucally a Jtu aian city, lor Yugoslavia 1 a ltua.mil satellite. ANOTHER Uiought arises here: Suppose our aide wm uie Italian election. low aie we going hi ..i . uur uiomiM to deliver i runts? It u. ol cuurM, a Irco city, mumr Uie "urotecuon" ol Unileu NaUoiu. llut in a pinch, how United Nation, to protect Tric.ieJ Arrtii ail. it i J"1 muv " u,e International checkerboard. It could even be an embarrassing move lor u II we liad to make good on our proinle to deliver Trieste to the Italian. Ui return lor voting our way In ilia April elccuon. "I he whole business helps to mo .koUJiliiew ol our foreign policy " u,c P"1 or' situation. CPEAKINO ol politic. uir " new "draft Ike" move In Uie wind. Till time It oomc Irom Uio Democrat. It started with South erners who don't like Truman tfclvll rlghu" tand. From there H spread to unicaau. -cralio leador by lb name ol Arvey came out lor Kuieiihower. Ni.w a couple ol Roosevelt are beating Uie drum lor him. Elliott, at Hxle 1'ark. let go Willi a siaiemciu llut Eineniiuwer .huuld be a demo, riallc unity candidate to rally liberal, and cuilervauve III a pro gram ol American leadership to .ell democracy Uiroughout Uio world." Franklin D.. Jr.. .peaking In New York, ay Ike hould bo dralted lor Ui democratic nomination. The Roosevelu. however, are pllt. Jame, III Caliloriila. U out lor Tru man. Anna. In Phoenix, leu It be known In (airly certain term. Uiat ahe I "ag in" a military man a head ol our government. AND o It goe. The ilr.l principle ol politic I to latch onto some body WHO CAN BE ELECTED. The politician' Idea ol It U: "What elite matter.?" Wallace Hits -'Intimidation' NEW YORK, March 27 Ml Pre-lcli-nt Trunin's administration wna accused by Henry A. Wallace last night ol resorting to Intimidation tactic to alienee opposition to Its fin'ogram ' regimentation and Xiirparatlon lor war." frho third party candidate, apeak Iiil over a nationwide radio net work, declared that President Tru man "ct the pattern" tor the tao tus In his lit. Pau-lck' day peoch In New York. In that apeech, Mr. Truman din avowed the atipport ol "Henry Wal lace and Ills communists." "The men who apeak ol reigns ot terror In Europe are laat Introduce lug a reign ol 'error here at home, ' Wullnre aald, adding Uiat "Prcsl tlent Truman act the pattern when he branded Uie million who op pnae hit pollcle as 'communists.' "Such an ippeal to prejudice blot mil reaaon.' the lormer vice prosl dint asserted, "and unlcashca dan ni'rous lorcra ol hale that threaten the freedom and livelihood ot all Americana," WIATHER Mar. IMirrk . H Ml, l'r, lrluiln 14 kaaii Nlrram ra.r I 4.U ...... r e.l. M limit i.T rrr.ali r.rllir lttr, trw hew er. r .nw llerrla. ayH.r. fllICK flVK CKNT8 lC9i syOO KLAMATH FALLS, OltKCiON, BATUHDAY, MARCH tl. H Telephone Sill t No. 1301 ..v v - - -- . Water For 19figation Ample, But Storage Under Average In Big Reservoirs An ample aupply ot Irrigation water la Insured tor Uio Coming aeaaon, It wa Indicated today In (Igurea on reservoir conditions made public by the district olllce ol Uio reclamation bureau, Whllo the stonigo figures lor Upper KlamaUi, Clear lake and Ocrber reservoir was 11 per cent ol Uie lo-year average on March 24, reclamation officials staled that Uie current aturage plus anticipated inflow for Uie remainder ol the stream year promises to provide adequate water for all lands In volved. The most recent report of condi tions la based on figures obtained Board OICs Wage Boost WAHIII.NGTON. March 17 tA A presidential emergency board rec ommended today Uiat locomotive enflnrtn, firemen and switchmen should get a wage raise to 15', cents an hour, retroacUre to last Novem ber 1. The railway labor act requires the three brotherhoods to kerp working (or M days. After April 2g they will be free to strike If thry want to. The board, headed by William M. Lelsereon, made lis report today to President Truman. IJcsldes the wages, the dispute In volved 37 proposed changes in work ing rules. The brotherhoods hsd demanded a 30 per cent wage boost with a 3 per man dally minimum Increase. The board's wage proposal would give the three brotherhoods the same brnellta received by the train men and conductors the other two operating brotherhoods. The train men and conductors settled last No vember for IS!) cent, effective November L A 15 1 cent an hour raise amounts to HM day. Just before this week's new storm, which brought further Improvement to Uie situation. Hud Uie snowfall been lollowed by high temperatures and a rain, causing a quick runoff, reservoir supply would have bonc II ted even more than It has, Uie officials said. Available storage In the various UHlllt reservoirs on Uie Kluinalh project was a follows on March 24 : Acre Feet Acre Feet Now Upper Klamath Lake Clear Lake tierber Keservoir 2911.710 14&.K&0 24,72 IS-Year Average 410,100 200.000 51.000 Pheasants. Quail Suffer In Deep Snow A deep blanket of snow In part ; of Poe and Langeu valleys, Yonna valley and Dodda hollow Is bringing starvation death to quail and pheas ant In Uie region. Dan Llakey, Poe valley randier, reported today. Birds are congregating along the roads where Uie snorr is cleared but are unable to llnd anyUUng to eat. Many pheasants and some part ridges can be seen along Uie roads, hungry and In droopy condition. Llskey asked Uiat sportsmen Irom town bring out grain to spread In open places tor leed and added Uiat he would furnish grain to person stopping at his place tomorrow. The Klamath 8iortamen'a asso ciation last week distributed 375 pounds of wheat In Uie foothill country back ot Merrill and Malln. 8tatc police and federal grain offi cers scattered Uie grain In bare spots. They reported a lair crop of pheasant In Uiat country this spring. Patient Improves At Steel Swamp Mrs. Herman Vowel, Bteel Swamp ranch wife who underwent an emergency operation In the ranch kitchen Wednesday, Is showing steady Improvement, according to telephone information from the re mote ranch today. Mrs. Vawell Is presently under the care of a nurse and wife ot the manager ot a neighboring ranch foreman. She underwent aurgery Thursday, performed by doctors who flew to the snowbound ranch by plane. tSce picture on Page 3.) SCARri PARIS, March 27 (PI "Terror Reigns In America" said the bnnncr headline In the communl.il news paper Ce Solr today. In smaller tyiie, Just below: "Wal- laco proclaims," 474.2(0 MI.600 April 1. A comparison of the available storage on March 24, of this year, WIUi Uie average for the past 15 year period, reveals the following percentages: Upper KlamaUi lake 73 per cent: Clear lake reservoir 76 per cent; Oerber reservoir 48 per cent. The total average storage In all reservoirs on March 24 was 72 per cent ot the total average stor age. The maximum available storage on April 1, In each of the above mentioned reservoirs during Uie period Irom 1933 to 1047 Inclusive, wsa as follows: Upper KlamaUi lake 487AO0 acre-feel In 1940; Clear lake reservoir 302.820 acre-feet In 1943: Oerber reservoir 80.120 acre feet In 1940. The maximum available storage on April 1. during the period men tioned, wa Upper Klamath lake 300JWO acre-feet in 1945: Clear lake reservoir 14380 acre-fet In 1936: Oerber reservoir 23500 acre-feet In 1933. "Tlie present storage In Upper Klamath lake and Clear lake reser voirs, together with Uie anticipated Inflow during the remainder of Uie stream year. Insures an ample sup ply for all Irrigation requirements with a fair holdover for the 1948-49 season," bureau official comment ed. "While Uie storage In ; Oerber reservoir I approximately one-half of Uie average for Uie past 15 years. It 1 greater than that ot Uie same date In several previous years. In 1931 and 1933 the available stor age on April I. was 15.470 and 23. 960 acre-feet respectively. "The release from Uie reservoir, for Irrigation purposes, during 1947 was 26500 acre-fret. III considera tion of Uie anticipated additional Inllow to the reservoir, during the remainder of Uie stream year, and with application ot reasonable Irri gation conservation practices during the coming season It seems assured that the supply will meet the de mand tor all lands Involved." Carpenters' Union Aids Teen-Agers Lewis Delays Coal Hearing WASHINGTON, March 27 Uf) John L. Lewis forced a 72-hour de lay today In government effort to bring Uie soft coal strike to a speedy end. He brought President Truman's special Inquiry board to a standstill by falling to appear at.lt first hear ings yesterday. The three fact tinders finished hearing the coal operators' side ot the miner pension dispute In less than two hours. When Uie United Mine Worker' chief didn't show up, Uie board re cessod until Monday. The bushy browed Lewis was given until then (10 t. m.i to decide If he will appear voluntarily. Otherwise Uie board could force him to appear by getting a court order. Lewis stayed away, he Informed the board, to study "legal questions Involved." But his absence threw a monkey-wrench Into board plans to work steadily through the Easter week-end to speed a report to Presi dent Truman. That report must be In Mr. Tru man's hands before ho can seek a court order to halt the walkout un der terms of the Taft-Hartley act. Meanwhile the strike, Hearing the end of It second week, was paralyz ing Industry. Secretary of Uie In terior Krug appealed to Uie few coal mines still operating to dole their production only to essential con sumers. And Krug asked everyone to help save coal. Twn Mow FoatiirocStorf in The Hera,d & Ncws IYYU fieW realUreS Wlth Monday's Editions Blondie Chic Young' tremendously successful human interest cartoon strip about tho Bumsroadi Dogwood 'and Blondie, Blondi will b an addition to the funny lection of Tht Herald and News. They'll Do It Every Time Jimmlo Hatlo'l acidly humorous comic panel about things inevitable that everybody laughs about when they are seen cleverly depicted by cartoon. This panel will appear daily on the first classified page. , You'll enjoy these additions to The Herald and News' array of fine features. ; ; , t" T V" The Klamath Falls carpenters' union came to the rescue this week with an offer to donate labor to the Teen-Age Center's remodeling project. Doors were being yanked out and enlarged, partitions re arranged and other work done to the building donated for the teen-agers' use by Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Oliver at 228 N. Sth. From left are four who donated their services: Coy Malotle, Eari Goddlngs, D. Me (illllvary and C. F- Robinson. All except McUillivary are carpenters, and MeGillivary was just there to help out Several more carpenters were on the Job today. , Work Pushed On TAC Job Work was speeding along on the Teen-Age center's new headquarters at 228 N. Sth Uils week as the car penters' union donated labor to do Uie remodeling job. The building was donated by Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Oliver to be re modeled into a Teen Age center. Plans are lor opening in early Apl, Bill Procter, teen-age' director, aaid today. . Teen-ager will have use of Uie building's second floor over the Oliver offices. A kitchen and space lor dancing are available. Partitions are being torn out to enlarge rooms, door are being enlarged, a lire escape and lavatories added. Proceeds from the center's scrap drive now being conducted are going toward the remodeling and to start oil the center program. US Charges Russia With Using Concentration Camps WASHINGTON. March 27 MV The United States has charged Russia with smashing poliUcal op ponents in eastern Germany by throwing them into concentration camps without trial In a sharp note to the Soviets last night, the state department Turkey Bound Subs Readied WASHINGTON. March 27 W) Four powerful, long range sub marines are getting ready tor their last voyage under Uie American flag. DesUned for Turkey as part of American military aid, they are now at New London, Conn. No date has been set for their departure. Uie navy said today, but It has been gen erally understood they will leave some Ume next month. The subs Uie Boarflsh, Blue Back, Brill and Chub were built in 1944. and are rated among the navy's best. They have a top surface speed of 20 knots and a submerged speed ol about 10 knot. Eleven auxiliary vessels, also be ing given to Turkey, are waiting in the northern area lor Turkish crews. Some 350 Turkish officers and men are now being trained In this coun try to take over the ships. DELAYED SHANGHAI, March 27 P) Bad weather today delayed Uio takeoff ot the Reynolds exploraUon rlane on Its quest to find a peak loftier than MU Everest, earth's highest known mountain. County School Board Meets The county school board, meeting unofficially yesterday alternoon, took no acUon on Uie announced resignation of Harold Ashley, county schools superintendent, or on ap pointment of his successor. Carroll Howe ol onlem. first man mentioned to take Ashley's place, attended the meeUng In Uie county school office. Members ol the school board said that no acUon would be made until April 7, when the board meets otfl cially. One member, Harry Wilson ol Malln. Is out ol the state now. Ashley's resignation has not been accepted as yet and is expected not to become effective unUI August 1. Howe, lormer principal of Henley schools, is now employed In Uie state department in Salem. He said pri vately Uiat he would like to return to Klamath county "under certain conditions." Ashley said he would cooperate with any superintendent chosen to replace him. Tornado Looked Like Big Cloud Sixty-year-old Albert Sechman de scribed yesterday's death-dealing tornado at Coatesvllle as "a huge and very dark cloud coming low down." Sechman said he saw houses col lapse and rushed to Uie scene alter the storm passed. He said he saw the bodies of Postmaster Frank El lett and his wife In the ruins ot their home. "I could see strips' of sheet metal and silo staves whirling around high in Uie air like butzards," Sechman said. Crowds Pour Into Konnersreuth To Observe "Miracle" Of Tierese Neuman During Good Friday Trance KONNERSREUTH, Germany. March '27 (ffV-Therese Neumann. 52-year-old peasant, lay in an apparent trance In the bedroom ot her home on Good Friday. As It has every Good Friday since 1923, blood seemed to oose from her palms, hor eyes and. her right shoulder. i The woman, clothed In white, lay rigid, hor arms upraised. A priest stood nearby. Against one wall of the room wa an altar. Some 2000 Germans and Americans Journeyed to this little town near the Czechoslovak border to wlUiess the spectacle. 8ome thought thev had seen a miracle. Others said they believed science could ex plain it. . , The Catholic, church Is non-committal. ' A similar manifestation has been recorded In the story ot the life of St. Francis of Assist. Others since then have been subject to what has been called "the blessed stigmata." ' " Miss Neumann first attracted attention In 1923. At first the blood appeared every Friday. Last and this year it was reported only on Good Friday. Blood was visible to visitors within two yards ot the woman. Clint. Charles B. Fablng of Chicago, a Catholic chaplain, was among the visitors. Ho said tho Incident was extraordinary. The caso ot Thcrcse Neumann has been a matter ot controversy tor a quarter century. Her case has been discussed by psychlo research congresses and by scientists.' Just Bftor the end of the War an American chaplain from New Orleans, Harold Dlttmann, reported he learned the woman was ordered "removed" by the naala, but that when S. S. men aaw her In a trance they fled In panic, , Dlttmann said he had witnessed the Incident three times. . . . . ' . ; . .; '. said Russian-backed political parties in Uie former enemy country are "the new bulwark for a totalitarian regime" and added: I "Concentration camps are being ured anew tor Individuals unwilling to accept this totalitarianism." A diplomatic official, meanwhile. Identified two of the camps at Buchenwald where- millions per ished at naz! hands during the war and Oranlenburg. The American note was In answer to a Russian piotest that the west ern powers are splitting Germany and Europe in defiance of the Potsdam agreement Flatly rejecting that charge as Britain did Thursday the United Slates referred to moves it has teken with the British and Frencn to achieve Uie "pacification of Ger many and the economic recovery of Europe." and added: "It is not rhe.se steps which have led to the political cleavage of Eu rope as claimed bv Uie Soviet gov ernment, but rather prior actions of the Soviet government and a group ot eastern European states under Soviet 'r.fluence." Those actions, said the note, "have disrupted the normal frame work of the European community and Interferred with the progress oi recovery from the eftecta of the war " The American answer, signed by Assistant Secretary of State Nor man Armour, was delivered Thurs day to Russian Ambassador Alex ander S. Panyushkin and released soon afterwards by the state department- It was prompted by a Russian protest last March 6 Uiat U. S.British-French discussions of Ger many's future violated Uie Potsdam agreement, which provides tor four power rule ot Germany. Coafesville Is Hardest Hit Houses Blasted By IRWHN J. MILLER DANVILLE, Ind, March 27 (AP) Nineteen prson were known dead in Indiana today os bulldozers growled through the rubble left by a tornado in search of other vic tims of yesterday's wind. Cootesville, town of 350 persons in Southwestern Hend ricks county, counted 13 dead and three persons missing. Survivors searched in dread through the wreckage of 25 , homes and several business houses, expecting to find several ' more bodies. The Red Cross named 1 1 dead ot Coatesville, and state police said two other unidentified bodies had been removed ' from the wreckage. Danville, Hendricks county seat of 2000 population and 20 miles west of Indianapolis, was half flattened by the storm but listed only one death. Hadley, an unincorporated community between Danville ond Coatesville, listed . three" dead. A farm wife was killed In her home In Clay county, 40 miles southwest of here, and an elderly man was killed In his home near Portvllle, 20 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Many Injured Dozens of persons were Injured, several of them seriously. Thirty seven were listed as admitted to hospital. The twister apparently swept across West Central Indiana along a line roughly parallel to U. S. highway 40 and dipped down from time to time to crush everytiqg In it narrow path. The storm brought heavy rain and some wind damage to section of Terre Haute. Indianapolis and Anderson and to numerous rural communities along the, tine etni necting those cities. Red Cross disaster unit from Indianapolis and Terre Haute moved quickly Into Coatesville, which is about 30 miles west ot Indianapolis and SO miles east of Terre Haute. Cow Control Tightens Up SALEM. March 27 (AV-Oregon began tightening controls today on cattle coming from the California drouth areas. Stockmen said they feared cattle diseases would become a serious problem, and pointed out that of 12.000' Inspected - after entr? from California this year. SS82 failed to meet health standard. The state agriculture department estimated that another 12.000 en tered without examination. The 24, 000 total was about four times the normal movement into the state, the department said. State police were Instructed to re-, port all truck movements of catUe. The emergency board authorized $222,500 for hiring of three more veterinarians to check on cattle entering Oregon. One will work in the Klamath Falls region, another near Ontario and the third near Pendleton. It will give the state a total of six inspecting veterinarians. Liquor Stores Of fer Bargains PORTLAND, March 27 W State liquor stores offered a Saturday special today. - The liquor control commission said it was the start of a bargain sale on bourbons, rums, gins and cordials that have been selling slowly. The price was pegged only slightly above cost The commission also asked the civil service commission to authorize higher salaries tor store clerks, warehousemen and certain other employes. ChurchesSet For Easter Churches throughout the Chris tian world will Join tomorrow, Easter Sunday, In eommemoraUon ot the greatest event in the church's year. the resurrection ef the Saviour. Two Easter sunrise service are planned in the Klamath area, both by onng people a groups. The Kla math County IMC As Hl-Y and Trl-Hl-Y clubs wlU hold service at g:15 a. m. in front of Klamath Union high school, or, if weather la bad, hi the KUHS auditorium. Rev. H. J. Thorpe, pastor of the KlamaUi Lutheran church will give the benediction. Special music selecUona have been arranged, and the service will bo broadcast on radio station KFLW. High school student in the commu nity are Invited to worship with the group. At Tulelake, young people of the Tulelake Community Presbyterian church will meet at the D. M. Craw ford home. From there, they will go in a group to the peninsula, south of Tulelake at 6:30 for sunrise services. Breakfast Rev. Francis Chambers, assistant pastor, will give the message. After ward, they will return to the Craw ford home for Easter breakfast. Through Thursday of this week,, the Klamath Ministerial association has held Holy Week services In tlie, Ptae-Tree -theatre. There Ul be bo-' union service this year, but ail churches have arranged special pro grams for their own congregations. The Zlon Lutheran church will hold Easter services in its new edi fice, 11th and High. The service will be Uie first held in the new church. Although it is not completed, work has progressed sutticienUy for ser vices to be held there. Sacred Heart Catholic church will have its regular Easter program with masses Easter Sunday morning at (, 7, 8, 9:30 and 11 o'clock. Searchers Seek Missing Trio SALT LAKE CITY, March 27 W Workmen dug with bulldozers and other mechanical equipment into a huge snowpile today, still uncertain whether an automobile carrying three persons may have been buried In it. The avalanche of snow, rocks and trees closed the highway leading to the Wasatch mountain resort of Brighton. It trapped approximately a hundred skiers at the resort. WRECK KALAMAZOO, Mich., March 27 yPr A truck crashing broadside Into an automobile killed six persons, three men and three women, on a fog-shrouded highway near hero today. Shoveling The Big Snow At Lake 0' The Woods '"VI :.--".?v;: Caretaker Edward Morse Is shown shoveling snow off the roof of the C. E. Morrison house at ' the Woods, where five feet of new snow this week strained many a ratter. Morse reported today that weather at the lake has cleared and that yeaterday was warm and aunny. Morse, Glenn Lorens and im Howard spent a day shoveling, and the result Is that all roofs are out of danger and none damageo, Morse reported.