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'I lie British llieu ald Uiul lierrallcr lliey wimlil KHC'UltT Ihelr tiuiuixirt plunea Willi (milter. We followed Willi a similar statement. 'Hie situation thlu created lu tltkllah one. fHK Russians, backed duwn. ThU miirnlnu they publicly and officially exiiew regret lor the "un lurtuimte" crash, and tlielr com mander uu Uie ground promise the Hrlllah thai In the future allied planea will have unllllKtrred access tu Hrrllll. The Urlllali aay I he Russian re sponse, la satisfactory and cancel plana fur assigning lighter eacorta lo their freight-carrying planea. We tnlluw tlielr lead and ao tar ulay our planea are ctiniing and gums ftum Berlin withimt escort and wlllioul interference. WATCH II. ll could be Imiiienaely Important. 11 rould mean nolll. Ins al all. Mill II diva aeem lo mean Hal AH OK TODAY the Russian aren't ready lo aiail ahooiuut. Tiiiiiorruw. o( course, will be en oilirr day. What the aittiatlon will be llieu. no one can al Una moment ay. "rilKHK la one inure point. 1 llillii.li field Marahal Lord Mont lomery I "Monty "I. chief ol the llrlt Uu Imiierial general alall, arrives Ail lierlln. confer Willi Uie Brltiah, j'merlran and French commanders, and later annoum-ea thai he la to DINK tonight with Manila) Sokol nvnky. the Russian commander III Ciermaiiy apparently at Sokolov aay'a invitation. ll inighl mean much. It might mean little. Yuu will remember Uial at ALL llic toiclgu inliuairra and other conference at wiiuii Molo lov tu inking Iho hide oil ui dur ing the day he d wine and dine with our people al night, apparently aa liappy aa a kitten. Budi are International relation!. FINLAND annouiK-ea thla murnlng thai her delegation to Moscow haa agreed with the Russian hrgoll alora on the conlcnla o( Uie Kua-ainn-propoaed treaty of friendship and mutual assistance. Under the treaty, II la Mini. Finland will relulu lier ikiDUchI lndeieiideiice and will 11 anllnaad an l'aa 1, Catalan ai Finn-Russian Pact Signed Iltil-SINKI, April 6 lA'l A rill-nlsli-ltuaslaii liicwlslilp and es auuiuce treaty wiu algned 111 Moa cuw tiKlity, Flnulah otflclaln an nounceil. Ui tiilla were lint available liniiiedlnti'ly. lnlorined quurtcra aiild the Fins ill retain their polltlcnl lndeienl ence uml will give ho new biiaca to the Rovlet Union on Kliiulah aoll under the tr eaty a terma. IrafHJiT MONDAY, APIUI, ft iM , Telephone Rill No. V.0 nans CIO Lumber Workers Get Pay Boost A lentatlre wage aelllement lln lliuuaanda of IWA-C IO lumber and aawnilll workera III Oregon and Northern California pine llidilllrr a U'-renl hourly par Inereaao waa reached tmlay by negotiator of 'he Pine Indualrlal Kelatlnn eommltlee and International Woodworker of America. The ll'cceiil figure follows the pattern ael earlier III Portland aa settlement of the lumbering Industry with fir workera. Hallflratlon of Ihc union member ship and of employer la nercsaary lo mil the settlement Into effect. I'uy scale for 1WA lumber workers now will be about 1144 mi hour. American Federation of Labor union leaders have asked Hint their con tracts with the pine Industry be re opened. The ArL settlement, reainru several weeks ago ana eiiective Jan uary I. was for a 7'-rent Increase. Mediators Wltnraa The IWA-rillC agreement reached thla morning was signed by .net Irving of Uie Pine fndmtrial Kelatlnns eommltlee and A. F. Hiir tung, 1WA vice president from Port land, with two federal mediators, M. C. Oarst and Oeorge V. Walker, as witnesses. The ISS-rent raise k retroactive lo April I and as In full settlement of the union's previous demands for a pay Inrrease. paid holldaya and a health and welfare fund. Plece-workera will also get an In crease commensurate with I lie hour ly boost, the application left to local negotiations. The wage Increase will not be paid lo any worker whose employment I terminated before April 37. unless the worker applies for Uie back pay by May 16. Members Foiled The IWA will begin Immediately polling Its membership on accept ance or rejection of Ihc settlement and the vote la due to be turned In to the IWA regional office In Portland by midnight April ii. On April 21 Uie union la to notify the P1KC whether the selUcment Is okayed by Uie workers. No termination dale waa aet In the agreement but both the union and the riltC reserve the right lo re-open contracts for further negoti ation. The settlement effects workers and the pine Industry of Uie Klam ath Basin. Northern California, Mrdtord. Ashland, Itend, Prlnevllle and other pine mill operations in the two states. This Guy Is Really Stuck LOH ANUULfcS, April i,V You might say that Raymond Bobbin Is in a rut, except that he's In Jail, In stead, awaiting another trial. KlKhleen months ago he went to finn 4ucuiln prison because a woman detective In a drugstore caught linn steuling a box ol cundy. Bobbin served his sentence and came buck to Los Angeles. He re turned to the same drugstore. The sumo detective. Mr. Klva Bnrtlett, arrested him again. She snys Bob bin was making off with a 14 box of chocolates. 4 US Moves To Bolster Defenses In Strategic Arctic Islands WASHINGTON, April 6 Mv-The I'nlted rttatca moved directly today tu bolster this country's Arctic, defense and Indirectly lo strengthen Norway's hold on alralegle polar Islands. lite direct action was signaled by Joint army, navy and air force plan to restrict for all hut military use a etrlng or Aleutian Island. Thine stretch out III a fog-lirouried line toward Itusslan-held Kam chatka and the Kurlles. They also cover the approarhea lo Dutch Harbor, which the Japanese attacked along with Pearl Harbor. Action on the other front enmo In the navy's announcement Unit a U. 8. citiiicr task force, will visit the Norwegian port of Bergen, April 311 to May 3, on a "goodwill mission." Moth moves were described officially ns "routine.'1 Hill behind the "routine" label wus this background, 1. Aleutians Secretary of Defense Forreslal revealed two weeks ago that Alaskan defenso forces consist of only 7000 troops and less than 100 fighter planes. At the same time, navy officials reported that one of three mystery subumrlnrs said to have been sighted In the Pacific was spotted off the Aleutians. Troop Increase Present plans call for an Increase to 16,000 In the number of lioois nuinnlng tho Alaskan outpost, but there has been no public statement tin what additional air strength la scheduled for that area, However, tho armor! services Indicated furtlior expansion Is In prospect In their federal rcglstor nollco yesterday of a public hearing In .Innenti, Alaska, May 4, on plans to restrict the Aleutians men, A spokesman for Secretary of Defense Forroatnl said the whole matter was aimed at ,regularlr.lng', what already la going on. There, waa no official Indication hero of what la going on. But Mcchort field 111 Washington sUilo disclosed last Friday that i!8 C-IWs riylng boxcars are making "routine" flight to Alaska. i 11. Norway the l.avy's announcement yesterday of the "good will" fjnilso focused HttenUbn anew on Scandinavia roportcdly under Russian pressure, Included !n the task force are the a7,000-ton Essex class currier, Vnlloy Forge; the 6000-ton anti-aircraft cruiser Fresno; and four destroyers, These vessels are now on the last leg of a world cruise, Confer On Red Restrictions aa-- .... r -" ! ., v l , . . (ien. I.uelua D. Clay (left), American military governor in Ger many, and his Brltiah counterpart. I.U (ien. Hlr Brian Kobertaon (right), are in Merlin to diaeuaa what action would be taken against travel re striction Imposed In the Soviet sone separating Berlin from Western German monea. Red-Dominated Italian Labor Group Calls Strike ROME. April 6 fv-The coinmu-nlsl-domlnatcd Italian General Confederation of labor called a nationwide general strike today for April li alx days before Uie Italian national elections. The confederation charged that the Mafia (Black Hand', with polit ical support, was responsible for the killing of 3b Sicilian labor leaders and said the strike was being called In protest. Earlier, executive committee mem bers of the confederation said the strike specifically would be a pro test against the disappearance of Jews Cut Down Six Britons JERUSALEM. April 6 1,1V-Jews In military and police uniforms killed six British soldiers and stole arms In a raid on a British army ramp south of Haifa today, authori ties In Haifa announced. The slain Britons included the commanding officer of Parries Han nah ramp. A Jewish source In Jerusalem said the underground Iigun Zvat Leuml carried out the attack. Haifa police said the attackers overpowered Uie sentry at the gate to the ramp, about SS miles south of Haifa. The sentry was forced Into a guardroom, where he and three others were stood against a wall and shot In (he back, the po lice said. The raiders were In the camp about 30 minutes before making good their escape. Police said they made off with an iingtmned but armored half-track vehicle. Thousands of cheering Jews wel coined the first large food convoy lo get through to Jerusalem In 10 days. Flflv trucks made the dnngerous run through Arab road blocks to get food to Jerusalem's 100,000 Jews, whose rations are running danger ously low. Coal Strike Spreads Today POTTSVILLE, Pa., April 6 P The soft coal sltike spread today to the eastern Pennsylvania an thracite field. Miners reported but refused to work at a dozen collieries In this section and the nearby Ashland district, A preliminary check show ed nearly 6000 men Idle. John Eagan, of Pottsvllle, a board member of district 0. United Mine Workers, said the stoppage "appar ently Is In sympathy with the bitu minous miners." "It's something the men decided themselves," Engnn told a reporter. "There hasn't been any order by the district, and Uie district has not sanctioned the strike." Operators said they had no ad vance warning. Edward A. Lynch, personnel di rector of tho big Philadelphia and Reading Coal & Iron company, aald he hnd "no Idea of any grievance. The stoppage, he said, came "with out warning" to the company. 1 Placldo Ruauto. a Sicilian commu nist labor leader. Rlzzulo disap peared three weeks ago. Police have offered k reward lor Information on him. II Pouolo, official organ of the government party, said today In terior Minister Mario Scelba Intends to assign 400.000 poll watchers to keep the peace at Italy's April 18 elecUons. The Christian Democrat news paper reprinted an Interview with Scelba carried In a Turin news paper. Scelba. the story said, announced the government has measures ready to deal with any eventuality. He urged all Italians to vote without fear. The Italian clergy has been out spoken in urging Italians to defeat the communist In the election. Violence continued to crop up. Dispatches to Rome newspaers said a priest was seriously stabbed in Rocca Palumba, Sicily, by an unknown attacker. It waa Uie sec ond such attack In three days. An other clergyman waa stabbed to death at Let, In Sardinia. Police, anxious to avoid a strike, have offered a reward for Informa tion about Uie missing Sicilian labor leader. mm Armed Force Confab Held Delay Cause WASHINGTON. April lPt Operators OK Dicker With Lewis WASHINGTON. April I tVPi Obeylnf a court order, toft coal op erators ofOrrd today to mret with John LL Lewi on Die mine penmitn dikpule. The operaton proposed a confer' ence at 1 9. m. (PtST), Jut three hour after the offer waa made. There waa no Immediate Indira- tlon whether I sew Is would accept or reject, A court order Iftaued Saturday by Federal Judxe Matthew McOuire under the Taft-Hartley act required the operators to act. Hlrfke F.nd Ordered The court al.o directed Lewi and hia United Mine Worker to end the -day-old soft coal nrlke nd mgumh accommodate spectator., Tueake May fie Site Of Land Drawing TULELAKE. April fr-Chances are Kood that the next bureau of rec lamation homestead drawing, which will probably be scheduled for next December or January, will be held here, according to Ray R. Best, regional director of the bureau of reclamation, who met with members of the chamber of commerce and the Tulelake Merchants association recently. He stated that he would make that recommendation to Uie bureau headquarters at Washington, D. C, and urged that Interested organiza tions and Individuals also petition reclamation officials to that effect. Consideration had been given to having the March IS drawing here but lack of time to prepare for radio broadcasts cancelled the plan. The American Legion hall Is large negotiate the dispute over pensions for retired miners. Lewis ha given no hint whether he will bow to the order to end the trike. which spread todar to the Hopes faded today of having either Pennsylvania hard coal field. temporary draft or universal mili tary training bill ready for the en- ate this week. The operatora' proposal was signed by aeveral leading mine owner. The walkout In the anthracite , field, apparently In sympathy with "We'll be lucky If we get a bill ; the soft coal digger, caught gov. by Jhe flrat of next week," Chair- ' eminent and even union officials man tiurney IK.-M.D.) told report er after a closed door session of the senate armed services commit tee. Ourney said Uie change In plans for speedy action results from a de cision to call in the heads of Uie three armed services for separate sessions this week. Ourney said demands of some senators for an immediate Increase In alrpower had closed down his legislative timetable. Air Expansion Some senators are demanding that the United States air force be ex panded Immediately to a 70-group program Instead of the 55-group now Included In administration plans. "We plan to call up the air forces first," Ourney said. "Later we will hear from Uie ground forces and Uie navy." "The size of the air force Is one of the questions that must be de cided before we send a bill on to i uie senate." Ourye said. Ourney said the committee also faces these Issues: 1. A demand that all veterans o World War II who served at least M days be eliminated both from draft and possible service In the national guard or reserves. The original administration pro posal would subject veterans to draft If they had served leu than IS month and were not member of a reserve unit. t. A demand that the top limit or required registraUon be lowered . from 45 rears. The chairman said some senator want to limit the registration "from lg Tears to 30 or In the 30V by surprise. No Comment One federal attorney expressed belief it may speed court action against John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers for ignoring a back-to-work order In the soft coal walkout. There was no comment from the White House. Presidential Press Secretary Charles O. Ross told re porters he had not heard of the anthracite strike until it was men tioned al a mid-morning news con ference. The first inclination of the gov ernment had been to allow Lewis a little more legal rope before asking a court to fine him and his union In contempt in the soft coal dispute. he stated, and a 80-day notice on the next drawing will give ample time to prepare for broadcasts. On the suggestion of A. A. Roden berger. It was decided to Invite Merrill and Malln to assist Tulelake In putting on a program for the drawing. Army Paid Tribute Today WASHINGTON, April 6 iPi The nation paid special tribute to the men of lta army today Uie 31st an niversary of America's entry Into were to lead Uie country's obscrv World War I. President Truman and his cabinet ance of Army Day by reviewing a parade here of special contingent of soldiers, sailors, marines and na tional guardsmen. Across the country high ranking figures of all Uie armed services were to speak at civil gatherings. For each occasion the theme was the same preparedness through in creased manpower. In his St. Patrick's Day address to congress President Truman used this phrase to set a keynote for pre paredness now "We must be pre pared to pay the price of peace, or assuredly we shall pay the price of war." Vancouver Miners To End Walkout NANAIMO, B. C April NT) Vancouver Island miners were to re turn to work today, ending an 84-day-old coal strike. An agreement between the United Mlneworkcrs of America (CCD and CAnadlau Collieries (Dunsmulrl Ltd. was signed yesterday. It called for a $1.70 dally wage In crease, adjustment of pay conditions for holidays, and an Increase of from three to flvc'centa a ton in wolf are fund assessments. Maintenance men on duty since the January 14 work stoppage will be paid the wago boost retroactively. The district's miners, who had sought a $2 boost, voted 64S to 301 In favor of accepting the leaser sum, Ed Boyd and William Urc, union of ficials, said. Steel Mills Close Plants PITTSBURGH. April 6 HP Out put of the big United States Steel corporation began to reel under im pact of the soft coal shutdown to day. Meanwhile. 7000 anthracite miners struck in sympathy with the 400.000 Idle bituminous United Mine Workers. Inaugurating Its first heavy cut back of Uie walkout. "Big Steel" closed two rolling mills, three more blast furnaces, and 17 open hearths at lu Pltuburgh-Young.stown works. This means the loss of 4000 tons of steel dally, a corporation spokesman said. The Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, U. S. Steel subsidiary, now has seven blast furnaces banked and 31 still operating in this region. In Maryland, the Bethlehem steel company ordered lay-off of 3200 workers at Its Sparrows Point plant. The firm has three blast furnaces and eight open hearths Idle there. Two Decatur, 111., steel fabricating plants cut back their working hours by 20 per cent. A truck mine driver was beaten and four truckloads of coal were dumped when 40 or SO men halted operations of a coal-loading ramp at Cumberland, Ky. US Soldiers On Parade In Trieste TRIESTE. Pre Territory, April 6 frn Five Uiousand American sol diers carrying full field equipment paraded through the streets of Trieste today to celebrate U. S. Army Day. They marched a full hour along the city's scenic Adriatic waterfront. The troops, representing the U. S. force In the free scno, were accom panied by American tanks and motor vehicles. An estimated 100,000 spectators lined the three-quarter-mile route applauding and shouting "Vive America." Pacific Campus To Lose Bee Tree FOREST GROVE, April 6 M The bee tree a landmark on the Pacific university campus since tho school's founding will not be around for the school's centennial next year. The tree waa cut down becuuse "It was a menace to the campus," Business Manager Ralph Slumu said. The hollow tree was a favorite of Tabltha Brown, founder of the school. Supposedly she kept bees there at one time. Later It became a favorite campus trystlng place, Hoffman Up For ERP Post WASHINGTON, April 6 (Pi President Truman awaited today Uie formal acceptance of Paul G. Hoffman before naming the Stude- baker corporation head to direct the European recovery program. Hoffman returned to Washington today from Japan, where he went with "Undersecretary William H. Draper Jr., to make a survey tor Uie army. He was expected to contact Mr. Truman during Uie day. Lunch eon with Army Secretary Royali at Uie Pentagon was on Hoffman's program. White House sources said privately that Hoffman is Mr. Truman's choice to head Uie multi-billion dollar pro gram to stop communism In Europe. Presidential Secretary Charles O. Ross would not confirm that Hoff man will be appointed. He did tell a news conference that Hoffman is returning to Uie city. WiUiout waiting for tills last step, Uie president last night directed Uie reconstruction finance corporation to turn over at once Uie Jl. 105.000, 000 advance which congress authorized. No Red Planes Seen Over Berlin FRANKFURT, Germany. April 6 OPi The pilot of Uie first American plane from Berlin this morning said he didn't see any Russians. "We saw no planes at all." said the pilot. Lt. Bernard Knight of Seattle, Wash. "The weather was so thick we couldn't hare seen them if there had been any. We were in the soup from five minutes after leaving Berlin until we landed here.1 Snow Covers Klamath Area, Blocks Roads Snow which alternated In blizzard and lazily falling style, covered Uie Klamath basin Monday night but came down In full force In the mountain passes. The Oregon state highway department warned motor ist of slick roadbeds and advised chains. Cars coming Into Klamath Palls late Monday were stalled for con siderable Ume on Sun mountain as eight Inches of new snow on an icy slick made traveling hazardous. One motorist reported a trailer across the road and a number of heavy northbound trucks held up. Chains failed to bite Into the snow on higher stretches. Buses were running on schedule but drivers of Uie heavy vehicles said it was "very slick." Sanding was going on with state highway crews working on Sun mountain. Willamette pass. Hayden mountain of Uie Greenspringa and Quartz mountain. Temperature ranged from 23 down to 20 degrees In the Klamath Falls vicinity, 14 on Sun mountain, 16 on Hayden. Caretaker Ed Mors of the Lake 0' the Woods Summer Home Own. ers association advised The Herald and News Tuesday morning from Harriman lodge that it bad been snowing at Uie lake since April 1, and at least another 12 to 14 inches had fallen in the last 24 hours. Morse advised that no cars at. tempt the trip to Uie lake. The snow was heavy over Uie week-end and the two bulldozers operating for Klamath county were forced to cease operations Friday and Satur day. They started up again Tues day morning and were working to ward the Jackson county line on the east side of Uie lake. Precipitation for the stream year to date was 9.63 inches as compared to a normal of 9.36. Last year at this time it was 7.09 Inches. Maxi mum Monday was 41. Montgomery To Confer With Soviets BERLIN, April I MV-Field Mae hal Lord Montgomery, chief sfth Brltiah Imperial general ataff, con ferred with the three western com manders In Germany here today sal the Berlin erlala. He planned dine with the Ruaalan commander tonight. Tension eased somewhat after tha Russians' publicly had exm-esscd official apology for the crash of a Soviet fighter with a British trans port plane yesterday which coat IS lives. Montgomery arrived todav b plane. He will dine tonight with Marshal Vasslly D. Sokolovsky, tha Soviet commander In Germany. Montgomery said he had every In- tentlon of keeping the date, ar ranged before the plane Incident. He said 8okoIovsky "la an old friend of mine a very old friend." Conference Held Montgomery went from the Galoar airport to British headquarter to confer with Gen. Sir Brian Robert son, the British commander, and his staff. Gen. Luclu D. Clay, tha V. 8. military governor, Joined the conference. Later the three went to Gen. Robertson's home, to be Joined by Gen.. Pierre Koenig, the French commander. In London, British Foreign Secret tary Ernest Bevln told the housa of commons Britain is pressing for an Immediate investigation of the plane incident. Bevln said of the western dispute with the Russians In Berlin: "If there 1 good will, it I cap able of eolation." The Soviet commander promised the British that allied planea In the future would have unhindered access to Berlin. Answer OK British of t Ida iV-said Uie Russian response was satisfactory and Im mediately cancelled plans to assign fighter plane escorts, beginning to- -day, to all air transports coming into Berlin. The United Stateav fol lowed the British lead. U. 8. and British planes flew In and out of Uie city today without escort Tension In Berlin eased off some what. The official Russian account of yesterdays crash Incident said the Russian fighter plane hit the Brit ish ship as it was trying to land. The official British account quoted eyewitnesses ai saying the 1 ighter pilot was "frolicking" when he hit the British plane. The British plane, carrying 14 persons, including two Americans, crashed In Uie Russian zone of the city. All aboard were killed. The bodies lay In Uie wreckage nearly 12 hours before the Russian com mand finally gave Its consent early today for their removal. The Rus sian fighter hit the ground in the British sector of the city. The pilots body was removed four hours after the crash. Law Smiles As House Entered OKLAHOMA CITY, April 6 0P1 For all his judicial power. State Su preme Court Justice Nelson Corn couldnt even spring his baby grand son from imprisonment last night. Like uncounted thousands of other tots. 15-month-old Robert Baxter Case wandered into Uie family bathroom and accidentally shot the bolt Justice Corn delivered several opinions through Uie door with no results whatever. AWARD SAN FRANCISCO. April 6 (. Crooner Bing Crosby today will re ceive a presidential certificate of merit "for outstanding fidelity and The Habeas Corpus acUon was meritorious conduct in aid of Uie finally carried out by Fireman Del war effort" at Army Day exercises bert Gee. who did a second-siory at Uie Presidio. Job while Uie law smiled. Draft Boards Ready To Go COLUMBUS. O., April 6 (AV-The first batch of 18 to 25-year-olda may be drafted within 90 days after con gress enacts a proposed emergency selective service act. Major General Lewis B. Hershey said today. The wartime director of selective service told interviewers nation wide draft machinery will be click ing soon after the draft becomes law. Hershey estimated SO to SO per cent of the personnel active on se lective service boards during World War II will be available again. However, he predicted some dif ficulty in hiring clerks and renting office space. Hershey, here for Army Day ob servances, expressed doubt many fathers would be drafted under the peacetime measure. He said: "We went pretty easy on fathers during the war and I Imagine few,, if any, of them will be taken under this peacetime measure." i Wade Crawford Presents Proposal To Congress To Forestall Payment From Fund For Schooling Wade Crawford, leader of liquida tion forces on the Klamath Indian reservation, has presented a state ment to congress which he hopes will forestall an anticipated move by Forrest Cooper of Lakevlew to ask an appropriation of S30.000 to pay tuition of Klamath Indian chil dren attending Klamath county public schools. Cooper is counsel of the Interstate association of public lands counties and is Interested In obtaining pay ments for Klamath county In lieu of direct tuitions from Indian chil dren. The money vould come from tribal funds. The tribal general council recent ly upheld a recommendation by Crawford that no tribal money be paid to the county for schooling, for reasons of double and triple tax ation. Previously a suggestion hnd been made that the Indians pay the county about S90.000 supposedly duo toi bark tuitions. , Crawford's statement to congress recalls that the Oregon supreme court has ruled that Indian chil dren may go to public schools tn the district In which they live, and he nuotes figures assertedly proving that Klamath county la not out nearly as much money for Indian t education as Cooper would be try ing to collect Total cost of Indian education In this county for 1947 was $41 ,215.30, Crawford says, while the county recovered $24,323.60 from the Indian bureau and from the state of Ore gon. Therefore the county Itself Is out $16,951.70. rather than $30,000. Crawford also argues that the Klamath Indian tribes' treaty with the United States guarantees the Indians an education and "as long as congress holds the Indians as wards of the government, lt should live up to the agreement and the Indians should not have taxation without representation . . ." The December 31 school census showed 12.532 children of school age In Klamath county, of which only 239 Indian children are attending county schools. Crawford argues that many Klamath county resi dents of other nationalities are not tax payers yet their children attend public schools, so that further tui tion payments assessed the Indians would be discriminatory. In view of the county school cost record, Crawford says he feels that Cooper "Is cold-blooded and has his fingers In the grab-bag because the Klamath Indians have a little money left ... lt Is my firm belief that Mr. Cooper Is using his posi tion and Influence, directly and In directly, with Congressman Stock man and Senator Cordon to take away from the Klamath Indians $30,000." As for the claim that the Klam aths do not pay taxes which even tually wind up In school funds, th same as money from other taxpay ers. Crawford points out that some Indians pay personal property taxes, some pay Income taxes and that In directly Indian timber which has gone to local lumber companies has furnished the county hundreds of thousands of dollars In taxes. "If you take tribal funds now for Indian education, the Indian Is be ing taxed double and triple." Particularly the excess taxation would be evident In the case of somo 96 Indian children who are now going to private or government schools and paying their own way, Crawford says. Crawford charged that "there are people In this county who are op posing liquidation of the reserva tion that do not want the Indians on the tax rolls, and at the same time are trying to take tribal fundi for school assessments." t
