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plIKUK urn straw In tllr wind
iimilti today. They urn ut dll
frrcnl color. Tin y wcm lo he blow
li ill In a allglitly dllfcrciil direction.
PKNHION III Hrrllll rr KOttlr w tin t .
I Irrc l Imw the easing came
about:
Yuu will m ull that when lie Itua
alalia Ihlcalcncd lu flrr ua UUl III
Hit city by clioklnn f( our mil unit
highway tmnapori wo uml Uip Urn
lull announced Uml we'd send atulf
Hi by Dir. Whereupon tlir ituaaiau
atiinouniril tlicy wuiilil liulil lighter
lihuir inwirtivcra uvrr Berlin.
A email dialled. Ill some way or
oilier. Russian lighter plane col
lided with Hrlllah transport. All
person In bulli planet died. '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
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(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
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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."
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