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Newspaper Page TextpyWy.?'-l?,'t,,rT'!') i"1 wvn,wp" 'Tf''HF"l".j a i ,1,1 MmtQ!mmmFm,T'wm Hand ! a -- -' --.--tv- a.-.-- 0Q0-' A iiltv , ii mi in ill i-;L ' . ; fSTii'K l"V HUNT KLAMATH FAI.I.H, (IHKIiON, HATIIKUAY, ' ,aV V . Telephone SIM No. 1307 -S . fAS. f ;. t PMHST Moves On (Soa! Tie ri - I ' -A I Lr ', . 1 :.. . mm lly (HANK JKNKINH DOTH liutuwi ul congress pass him! D Pirnldrnl Truman tlil muriiliiii sign bill lu triid tlx billion dol lars I mom i to hl) foreign i.ttlun lhat oio friendly lo us. An ho sign, the president u,': "Till. I iiiumi'iitoiM ocnuilon In tile world'. ciirnt (or enduring peace." Secretary of Slate Marshall adds In ft aeparnle .utlrtnrnl that the r .lulling initrk. " historic lep In the foreign policy o( llil. country." THAT limy be true. II WII.I. be true II ecrybudy In , - America realize and acecpu that we nieirly du.l off our hand and miy merely dtut of four hand mid nay complacently: "Well, that's limit" what has been done will amount only lo squandering .IX billion dollar, more. What remain, lo be done If till. Mur.hnll plan, or European recovery planwhatever we choue to call II 1 amount, to a hill of bean. I. lo pro vide tractor, lu plow the Held, no that crop, can be raised to leed the huiutry people, of the couutrlr. we want lo build up. To provide ma chinery o that the lactone, can atari milium out thine. thec pco pin can ue. Tangible iHiiiko like thai will IIM.P. II we merely .tart a iieulle rain ol check, lo falling like .'iiuuna over lhr.e couutrle. all we will accom plluli will be to rktend uur lutlle and debauching WI'A .y.iem of the aua lo Hie world at large. Dollar, won I tuiu the trick. It will take HAUL) WoltK a. well. 9 TIM III Seattle tin. morning. 101-year-old Lunetla Duncan take, a look at our "younger generation" and turn, pcvilmlstic. Hhe ay: "Everybody living loo f..t. Not wurking hard enough, loo much tune on Uleir hand.. That's no good. All they Uilnk ol la dancln' and hnuligi." THE old lady'. perieciive, ol courw, U badly cockeyed. Hack In lhe day. when .he wa. young, you raited garden or you went hungry 'w green vegetables. ("You split kinilhni and chopped wood or you got cold. Now you phone the grocery .lore for your green., and you Jiggle the thermostat on the Wall to get your heat. The machine nuw doe. what laboring human back. ued to do. pKNKHALLY .peaking, II. grand. u Human being, wore given brain, to thai Ihey could Invent machine, lo do the woik for them. That , the dif lerence between human being, and animal.. HUT WK HAVE TO KEEP THE MACHINES RUNNING. II we re going lu make enough thing, for ourselves und ul the mine lime make ENOUGH MORE T II I N U 8 lo gel our friend, lu Europe and elsewhere back on their feci we ll have lo keep lhe machine running early and late. We'll have to produce more than we ever pro duced before. Olhcrwuc. the Marshall plan will be a monumental (lop. IN Berlin today, we're giving the 1 Russians tit fur their lal. They underuiok lo Hup our .upply Irani, coming Into lhe city. They anld they wouldn't lei u cro llieir gone. To day we ahut Ihem out of a railroad adiulnl.lrntlon building that they have been using In OUR ZONE OF BERLIN. What doe It meun7 It's another counter-move on the 'checkerboard. We .ny to them: "OK, If that's Uic way you wunt It; but two can play the mime." . CILI.Y? Childish? I No-o-o-o. When you're making drill wllh tomebody to buy a house, you TEST HIM OUT. You want to know the lowest price he'll lake. He wanla to know the hlghml price you'll pay. Bo he tenia you out. Thnt'i whnl wa and the Kiihsliins are doing In Berlin. n""EflE ' difference, however. The differenro In that In lhe case of us and Kiwaln blood will flow and men will rile If anmrboriya foot all p.. Armed Guards Board U. S. Train In Germany Til r i i ' ; . - ) L C . 1 V i Pilot Tells Of Spotting Mystery Sub Lewis Puts Actions Up To Miners WASHINGTON. April 3 V Prrflidrnt Truman today rlirectrd Attorney (irnrral Tom f'lark to wrrk court order to rnd the three week roal iitrike. Clark received his (n.Mructioi from Mr. Tniman in person at the White Houm. The president acted shortly after Jfhn L. Iwi sent a me.sa(!e to the nearly 400.000 idle miners tell in them to do as they pleawe about returnintr to the pits. Lewis disclaimed any perwinal re bpoiulbility for the walkout. Mr. Truman aho released the re port of a three-man fact finding board on the depute. Iwis Blamed ne board's report blamed Lew ft Individually for earning the walk 01 1. It xald: "We find independent action was taken bv the president of the United Mine Workers of AmcrlcR 'LewiM in the form of communications to the officers and members of the United Mine Workers of America which inducted them to take con certed action to ston work in all th mines of the operators signatory to the agreement of July 8. 1947." The report added: 'We find the stoppage was not Independent action by miners act ing individually and separately. "Their stoppagr has precipitated Life Sentence Met ed Out ! -- Here On Morals Charge Klamath-Lake S Iff . I '7TZ, f I. : 0' A rM "' 4. ' V. Ii. milllary nollrr carrying automatic weaponi board an American military train at Ilrlmstedl In the llrltltli iiinr of Western tierniany Jut Urlure the train entered the Kuuian rone en route to Berlin. The train turned bark by Ituulam because l S. official! refuted lo allow them lo Innpecl contenta at rara. it I Gem Carl hpaalz retires July 1 h chief of staff of the L. S. air force and will be succeeded by Gen. Ifoyt 8. Vandenberg (above), nephew of Hen. Arthur M. Vanden berg (K-Mirh.), chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. kWwllillM I Elmer John Wllaon. 38-ycar-old , wntence "which but long enough 1 it.iint.r u liit hua cm f fa,MjtH Immnml fnr Will ' rclutioni with al leaat two wnaU Wllaon uV nrrenled lal Monday glib., aged II and IS. today aa ; (,y Jack Franey, deputy slierlff, on aemrnced to pend the rei of his information received from the girl no.mk. Aiaaku. April 3 ii' Ait , nie in tne uregon itate peniteu- Dy ue juvenile department, unidentified itibmarine a.i seen f tmry. AUo up for aentence today, but cruinlng eaard IS mile.i aouth of rtie IIlau a),,.ar.a before Circuit ! more fortunate. Aubrey Mooney. Kuka Inland hi the Aleutiun rhnin , JlKli, jjvlll i Vandcnberg tl)l j 21. for violation of probation, on Marrh 0. an American pilot told ; nmrnliifi mid ah.0 admitted al- Mooney -u put on probation here Interviewer here today. ; tempting to attack three other little lnat May for grand larceny and was Cnpt. Robert tl MrNnry Jr. of : R iri within the pa.u few months. ! recently picked up In Hood River fortinnn. tire., me pum. nnoi- .,,,,,, r lhl(s(. cdrcn i,, re- for petty larceny. jMirted Wilson'a aclloiu to JudRe ' Judge Vandenbcrg said he de VandcnberK J cldrd ngninM sending the navy vet- WiUon. asked If he had anything erim lo prison, preferring lo let lo aay before aentence was MMcd, : him out with an Amended proba ed by Martin Sheridan of the llav- tnn Cltotie ai Mtylne he circled the ftiibmarlue and had it In virw fur six to elghl minutes from an alti tude of SO feet. The black conning lower was clearly visible, he said. Sheridan, now touring Alaska, anld McNary lold lilm his C-47 co pilot, ('apt. C. Kennedy. Fresno. Calif , and his engineer. Sgl Hid liwrence. Chicago, reported sltrht Ing through rain sounlls a black object, at first Ihounht poaslblr a rock. On Inspection. It proved to be a sleek apiiearlng submarine which submerttrd ns they circled it, Mc Nnry reiwirted. Last week Secretary of the Navy John I.. Sullivan reporter) that sub marines had been seen off the American coast. Klska. taken by the Japanese fol. lowing the attack on Dutch Har bor but evacuated shortly before nn American force landed there In August. 1(143. lies well out on the Aleutian chain and Is some lino miles southeast of Russia's Kom mandorskt Islands. launchrd Into a rambling IS-mln-tite account of his unhappy marrted life, charging thai his wife had been unfaithful to him on numer ous occasions. He continued his talk until Judge Vandenbcrg re minded him that his wife's actions had nothing to do with the case at hand, Wilson's relations with the 15-year-old girl. The Indue told Wilson that the law allowed him to give a life Eighteen Mines Seen Off Coast SEATTLE. April 3 cTV- Ulst rlcl coast guard headquarters reported today the sighting of 18 floating mines along or off th North Pa cific coast In the past I uir days. Four of the drift lug menaces have been destroyed. Officials said It was the grenlesl Invasion of free float Ing mines since Into In 11147. when Trnns-Paclfle storms brought doiens of them lo Oregon and Washington consul waters. The most recently reported mine was reported flontlng off Vancou ver Island enrly today. Mine Leaders Mum On Order PlTrsHUROH. April 3 1V1 Sur prised United Mine Worker leaders generally withheld comment today on John L. Lewis' message to strik ing miners that they can go back to work "If they please." In West Virginia, however, a union source who declined use of his name, declared: "From what the miners them selves tell me, they won't go back until this thing Is settled. Nothing has been settled and I think the miners still feel the same way as thry always did." One operator source In Western Pennsylvania entered an optimistic note, saying. "1 think we'll be working Mon day. The young fellows probably wlil go back. They have been res tive for 10 days. Dy the end of the week I bcllcvo we'll be working pretty good." Tax Pavers Put On Notice That Cut Recalled In Security Demands May Be WASHINGTON, April 3 (PI Somo 63.000,000 taxpayers, now fig uring how to use 4.8O0,OO0,O00 they got In tax relief, were, put on notice today to expect a swift tax boost If national senility demands It. The tax cut whs put Into law yeslerday as congress, by an over whelming vole, overrode President Truman's vein. He had said this reduction In federal revenues "would undermine lhe soundness of our government finances nt a time when world pence depends upon the ' alrength of the United Stales," ' Hut House Bpcnker Martin (R Mass.) snld: "If defense needs Increase beyond vwhnt has been outlined, we. would, of course, lake nny necessary steps lo keep a balanced budget. Tlx congress wilt provide adequate fundg which, If properly spent .will give. ', us full protection." And Rep. Knutson (R-Mlnn.), author of the tnx-slnshlug bill, added: "Should an emergency develop lhe congress will lake such alciis as are necessary because we do not propose lo loleiHle a return to deficit spending." In the showdown between con gress and I ho president yesterday, tho house passed the tax cut 311 to 88 4ft more Hum the two-thirds majority required to override a veto. The senate rang up B 77 to 10 vote 18 to spnro. Deserting; the president to vote for the reptibllcau-bnrked bill were 82 house democrats and 27 senate democrats. The government printing office Immediately got the signal to start the presses rolling on new forms for reduced tnx withholdings. These go lulo effect May 1. This Is the general tax picture now : 1, The 52.000,000 Income taxpayers gel reductions, effective last Jan uary 1, ranging from 100 per cent In the lowest Income tax bracket to S per cent lu tho highest brack ets. About 7,400.000 low Income per sons were removed from the tax rolls completely, 2, On May 1 withholdings from nil wages and salaries will be re duced. And next yenr millions of taxpayers will gel refunds from the government on tho overpayment of taxes between January 1 and May 1, lion order. "If Hood River 'author ities! have evidence to send him to prison, let them do It," the Judge snld. Four persons Indicted by the grand Jury were arraigned this morning and all took time before entering a plea. Willis Glen Plgg. 23. and Norman Priest. 21. both held for contribut ing to the delinquency of minor guis. are to enter pleas Tuesday morning. They are represented by Attorney U. S. Balenline. William Jackson Easter, held for assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, and Richard Gray, indicted for negligent homicide, w-ere given until April 17. Easter Is represented by Bnlcntlnc and R. F. McLaren and Gray Is represented by Attor ney Orth Sisemore. Yesterday afternoon Archie De Witt. Indicted for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, was also given until April 17 to make his plea. Upset Boat Seen At Sea McCHORD FIELD. April 3 IJPI A cnpslzed small boat with two or more persons clinging to Its side has been sighted off Seaside, Ore., by a civilian pilot, air rescue of ficials reported today. The position of the bont was given as 15 miles south of Astoria on the ocean side of the Tillnmook light, the report received bv McChord field officials said It believed that two or more persons were clinging to the craft. Air rescue offlclnls said the coast gunrd hns been notified and Is pre sumed to bo senrchlng for the bont. which wns too fnr from shore for Its occupants to swim in. It will tnkc an hour or more to get sen rescue equipment Into serv ice here and It Is not yet certain whether McChord plnnes will par ticipate In rescue efforts. Meet Slated Representatives of the Klamath chamber of commerce will go to Lakeview Monday night or Tues day to attend a conference on the forthcoming hearing of the state highway interim committee to be held here. The conference, last before the hearing, will be held Tuesday morning. It will be in the nature of a rehearsal of the two-countv presentation before the highway committee. Jack Maync of Lake view will be moderator for the re gional groups to appear. Manager Charles Stark of the Klamalli county chamber Is ore- , paring a brief on the chamber's part of the presentation. Stark is also helping the Fort Klamath grange In connection with lu statements on the west side Upper Lake highway. Several Klamath men ate ex pected to attend the annual meet ing of the Lake county chamber Monday evening, remaining over night at Lakeview for the Tues day morning conference. Teachers At Portland Meet The Klamath Falls public school system is well represented at the Oregon Education association con ferences being held in Portland this week-end. Supt. Arnold L. Gralapp left Thursday night to attend the ses sion and others there Include Joe LaClalr of the audio-visual educa tion deportment. Harold Palmer of the KUHS commercial staff, An drew Loncy Jr., director of music education in the city schools, and Freda Erflc and John McMnnus of the music department; James Scott, Fremont Junior high instructor and officer of the association. Loncy. Miss Erflc and McManus are taking part In a music panel and several others are also on the week-end program. Solons Rush Draft Action ! WASHINGTON, April 3 rP, j Chairman Uurney (K-f. D.I said lo i day the senate armed services com ! mitee hopes to have draft and unl j versa! military training legislation on the senate floor before "the end of next week." I He made this announcement as i the committee closed three weeks of ! public hearings. On the final day: Historian Charles A. Beard said In a statement that UMT would "violate every liberty to which our nation as been dedicated" since it was founded. Lloyd H. Reyerson, professor of chemistry at the University of Min nesota, declared: "The most frightening aspect of this current proposal for universal military training is that it betrays the fact that those in control have not yet grasped the significance of scientitic warfare." Another top-flight scientist. Dr. Henry D. Smythe. chairman of the j department of physics al Princeton university, ana author ol tne army s Smythe report on the atomic bomb, testified also. He suggested that an auxiliary scientific corps be estab lished. Such an organization, he said, should not be military in nature be cause "scientists are not soldiers and shouldn't be allowed to play at It." Red Officers Turned Back At Building By LYNN IIKINZKRI.INO BERLIN. April 3 Wf The U. S. army, counter-attacking Russian restrictions In Berlin, turned back two Soviet generals and 30 other Russians today from a railroad administration building the Russians occupy in the U. 8. sector of the city. Fifty U. 8. military policemen barred entrance to all but the 11,100 Germans employed In the building. Some Russian officers remained Inside the offices, and the American guards permitted the Russian to bring food for them. The railroad building, near the border of the U. S.-Sovlet sectors, has been occupied by the Russians under a 1045 agreement. Similarly, the Russians occupy the Berlin radio station In the British zone. The American guards bore sldearms and carbines. Col. Frank L. Howley. head of the U. 8. military government In Berlin, said the American move was made because Russians in recent nights sent guards to the buildings after nightfall. The Russians claimed a new guard had been put In the buildings because of reports that criminal German elements were planning to destroy records there. Red Protest Soviet Gen. Alexander Kotokov protested that the American move frightened Germans In the neighborhood and Inconvenienced Russian officers. Gen. Lucius D. Clay ordered a roadblock across a thoroughfare leading to Potsdam, home of many Russians with offices in Berlin. The block was set up at 11 a. m. and was to remain In force until 3 p. m. Only vehicles coming from Potsdam were stopped. The first Russian car to approach the block turned back before reaching It, and Oerman civilians said the Russians were stopping all Berlin-bound Soviet traffic. No explanation of the roadblock was offered by U. 8. authorities. The Russians two days ago set up blocks between their sector and the three western sectors, but the blocks were removed the same day. The roadblock, however, created much less stir than the U. 8. mili tary guard around the Soviet railroad building. Russians drove up to the building several times. They brought food and cigarettes for the Russians Inside. On each occasion, the Americans inspected the basket! of food and sent them in with a German policeman. Train Arrives A 56-car train arrived bearing military government supplies for U. 8. forces and dependents in Berlin. It was the first such train to arrive in several days. British forces have received three trains In the last two days. The supply train passed the Russian checkpoint at Marlenborn without Incident. The Russian official there merely glanced at the train commander's papers and waved him on. Under a recent Russian order, freight trains, either military or civilian, may move Into Berlin upon presentation of documents. The Russians demand the right to inspect freight trains leaving the city and both Incoming and outgoing passenger trains. They have claimed Berlin is being "looted'' by the western zones. After the Russian order to restrict traffic was announced, Clay ar ranged to bring in American supplies by air. Thirty-five planes arrived from Frankfurt yesterday, and more were flown today. If freight trains continue to come in. the food shuttle by air can be discontinued. Berlin has about 25.000 soldiers and civilians of France, Britain ana tne united states. Of these 8575 are Americans. Flights Planned Russian authorities advised U. 8. air force officers they plan night maneuvers over the Soviet zone with large numbers of fighter planes, and asked that any planes which might be flying to Berlin from Frank furt be warned. The food flights so far have been made in daylight. An authority said U. S. headquarters had sent a note to Soviet headquarters In an effort to ease the Berlin situation. The gist of the note was said to be: The Americans will clarify their position U the Russians will do the same. The conflict has reached a point where it is difficult to solve be cause of the prestige Involved. Germans are watching with interest and anxiety the struggle for power among their conquerors. Postal Receipts Show Gains Postal receipts for both the month of March and the spring quarter of 1048. showed gains over the same periods for 1047. March receipts for 1948 mummied to $10,78.1.77. n gain of :iOI)f).no or 18.674 per cent over Mnrch 1947 when they totaled $18,(183.87. A Rain of 5(i!)7.l)2 or 11.121 per cent, wns shown bv lhe 1048 quar ter's tolnl of Ii0.l:i0.00. over the 1047 spring quarters receipts ol $51,23114. School Board To Meet Wednesday The county school board Is sched uled to meet Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. In the county school office to pass on the resignation of Harold Ashley as superintendent of schools. The board may also name a suc cessor to Ashley at Wednesday's meeting. Ashley announced several days ago he was resigning and Car rol Howe, former Henley principal. Is believed to be a probable choice for the Job. Truman Signs Foreign Bill WASHINGTON. April 3 uP President Truman today signed the history-making $6,098,000,000 foreign aid bill into law. The president in a statement said the signing 'is a momentous occa sion In the world's quest for endur ing peace." His action came as the administra tion was at work turning the legis lation Into a barrier against com- Ununlsm In Europe and Asia. In a separate statement. Secretary of State Marshall said the signing marked "an historic step in the for eign policy of this country." The vast program, center piece of the government's "stop - riussia" strategy, is designed to rush Ameri can goods and money to 16 western nations, with extra funds including military aid for Greece, Turkey and China. The Soviet Union and Its satellites in turn have proclaimed their in tent to wreck the recovery effort. The urgent effort to start the new flow of American goods at once arises from the state department's desire to reassure Western Europe that economic help Is on the way and to bolster anti-communist forces In the April 18 Italian election. Ready for action by the president in addition to the bill Itself was an executive order creating a tem porary European cooperation ad ministration to run tite European recovery program the first thirty days. After that the ERP's own ad ministrator will take over. DIES SEATTLE, April 3 (D W, E. (Bill) Brown, 63, general freight and passenger agent for the Alaska Steamship company, died here Fri day. He had been with the line since 1022. During World Wnr II he was as sistant Paclflo Const director of the war shipping administration, with direct charge of Pacific Northwest operations. Muddy Streets Prove Too Much SEATTLE, April 3 (Ay-The city council, bombarded recently by complaints over muddy streets In suburban areas, ventured forth yes terday In a large council car to inspect a proposed West Seattle paving contract. What followed was in the classic pattern. Their car mired down and had to be pulled oujt by a city truck. Dancing Proves Dangerous Here BERKELEY. Calif.. April 3 Wl Two University of California stu dents danced themselves Into the hospital today. It was 1 a. m. Everyone was having fun at the Zeta Psi fraternity house. Then Jay Richards. 21. of Berkeley Hills, and his partner. Phoebe R. Nichols, 19, San Francisco, either tripped or Just danced their way though a partly open French door. They tumbled 15 feet down a con crete stairway. At Cowell Memorial hospital, the unconscious Richards was treated for a possible skull fracture. Miss Nichols suffered a broken collar bone. Injured ankle and brain con- Fir Workers Get Pay Up A wage settlement granting CIO fir workers in the Northwest a 1214 cent hourly pay increase, retroac tive to April 1, was reached by ne gotiators in Portland this morning after an all-night session, and IWA-CIO will meet with the Pine Industrial Relations committee here Tuesday. The Portland agreement must be accepted by employer and union groups, but that is believed a for mality. The raise will make the fir industry minimum wage $1.45 cents an hour. It Snowed In Corvdllis, Too CORVALLIS, April 3 UP) Cor vallls residents looked out of the window this morning, looked at their calendars, and then were forc ed to believe their eyes. Yep. it was snow all right. The Oregon State college weather -bureau officially listed the fall as .6. and said it was the third time In the 57-year history of the bureau that snow was recorded in April. The other times were in 1911 and 1933. Sub-Freezing Weather Brings Highway Warning Haircuts Boosted In Alaska Shops ANCHORAGE, Alaska. April 3 (Pi Haircuts Jump from J1.50 to S2 here Monday. But civil aeronautics administra tion officials refuse to let it stand their hair on end. They Issued this economic-ton-sorlal directive to employes today: "Employes are expected to main tain a nent and sanitary appear ance but ... no question will be raised over the extension of normal periods between haircuts to five or six weeks or longer provided there Is no interference In an em ploye's general efficiency." Sub-freezing weather throughout the mountain districts as well as the Klamath basin brought a warn ing from Oregon state highwaymen to drive carefully over the passes. Fresh snow fell on Sun mountain, the Willamette pass, Hayden and Quartz mountains last night, cover ing an Ice slick that had formed during the night. Highway officials here said a three-Inch fall was reported on Hayden mountain of the Green springs, a similar amount on Quartz mountain of the Lakeview high way, with a one and one-half inch fall on the Willamette pass and Sun mountain. Minimum temperature here Fri day night was 16 degrees, but at the state highway shops at Alta mont the thermometer registered 13. It was 12 at Crater Lake na tional park Saturday morning. The U. S. weatherman forecast cloudy with snow flurries for the week-end. A light snow was falling and a mild south wind blowing at Crater Lake park Saturday morning. Rang ers said a fresh fall of four and one-half Inches during the night should make for good skiing this week-end. The snow was of pow der consistency and fell on top a two-Inch powder which covers a depth of 144 Inches. Saturday morning was the cold est morning In weeks with the min imum at degrees. Travel was good during the week. Chains are re quired from Annie Spring to the rim. The Lake a' the Woods road Is open but travel Is definitely dis couraged. The roadbed is rutty and cars will only cut up the road which Is fast draining. Jack Dutcher, one of the opera tors of Lake o' the Woods resort, came down Friday night. Dutcher said the snow Is about two feet deep in sheltered spots, but deeper In the open. Eighteen Inches of Ice with that much snow, covers the lake. It was snowing lightly when Dutcher came over the road with the grader operator. County graders have cleared the road to the south end of the lake but have encountered difficulty as the snow pack Is wet and very heavy. Dutcher said the resort would open May 1. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Neely and family, who have win tered at Mcdford, will go to the lake next week to remain for the season. Neely operates the resort with Dutcher.