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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1948)
IQfpfg KM JV nrr n l JV In J lm Hay's 3p liy FRANK JKNKINH UflTII Wltuouslii out of tin way, Prcaldtntlal politic center on Nrbraaka, whose primary will b hrkl next Tucaduy, ticveu Itcpuu Hi ana will be on Ilia Nebraaka bal Im Dowry, Hiaaaen, Tall, Mao Arthur, Warren ul Callloiiila, Van ' UnnlMin, anil rJpcakcr vl the Hume Martin. a . H KI'KK What happened In Wlacon tin, Dewey anil Btaateu will be the two bin acta of the Nebraska how. II Dewey cU rubbed uut again, and DUtutii'i atur ahlnc with a mowing elluliirute, It will be UiiilUcaul. That would live Htas rn a big lift. It, on the other hand, Dewey should knock down niual ol the pin In the Nrbraaka bowling alley, It Vtfiuld up lila alock materially, (Thai mixing the metaphor badly, but II Unl lar Iruiu Uie facta in Uie caac.l JffKEP Uila III Dlllld: Hit reaull oi the Nebraaka primary balloting will NUT . UK BINDING on the 1ft national con vention delegate to be choaen al the election. They can allll o to the conveiitloiia and do a they plcaae. The Nebraaka primary la only a (lonllrd and oillilal tlraw vote, B8 a matter ot fuel, our whole " reaidentlal primary ayatein l a lot of chaff. It waa worked out oiigmally to enable the politician lu reuin their grip on the political euiiveiilloiu. Under modern coudl Uuna. It la aa much of all absurdity a Uie electoral college ayilem. If we're going to depend on atraw Votca, Uie public opinion polta are much mure reliable. Theae poll (which measured Uie rlae ol HUuacil popularliy well ahead ol Wlacoiulni can really be made lulu an efficient and valuable modem tool If we can only keep Uie politician' hand oil Ihrm. HATHKfl emitting bit ot political aparrlng come out ol the Ne braaka elecUon. Tall, campaigning In Fremont (Nrb.i. tcllt an audience lie want a powerful air force. He U opposed, he taid. to umvertal military train ing. But, he added, he Uiinkt a temporary return to Uie drall may be neceaaary. Watted on the twill wlngt of tele type and radio, Uit ttmenl reached Uie ear ot Democratic Na- 1 tlonal Chairman McUralh in rort- k Mhxl tOre.i It r iled him. -If Tail knew Uia facta," he told hit hearer in Portland, "lu oertalnly would be advocating rather than op potiiig tuch meature ot American preuarednca a universal military training." ir Tafl (along with the real, of u doesn't know Uie facia about the threatening world alluation, It mutt be becaute the adminlalratlon haant told them to u or becauae we don't believe what Uie admlnialrallon ay. Either way It bad. If we haven't been told Uie whole lory, Uie admlnlttrauon (meaning the Preaidenl, hit cabinet, hi ad vlacr and hi appointee In the Variout departmental ha been negligent In It duty. It we don't believe what we have been told. It 1 a tlgn that we have no confidence In our leader. . The big Irason of thl In many way unutual political campaign I that we 8IMPLY MUST have lead era In whom we have confidence. Otherwise, the danger we face are appalling. TIIKKK 1 a dramatic' Incident In Europe today. Twenty passenger aboard a Caech pasaengcr plane en route from 1'raguo to Bratlslavla (In communist Slovakia) REVOLT, overpower Uie pilot, auballtule a Caech filer and land the plane at an American baae ki the American lone of Germany car Munich. Why? Well, they felt they HAD to get out of the grip of Uie communlai. Bo they took all the rlak Involved in revolting and kidnaping the plane. That ahow about aa plainly a anything could the lUle of af fair In once-free, now lave, Caechotloviikla, LOU CONFAB MOLALLA, April 8 W The Wil lamette valley logging conference I set for May 14-1A In Eugene. Floyd Blackburn, prrtldent, ald machinery dltplaya and ipeaker on logging topic are on the program. I nn rvi .f n Rv n r nowe mam wmmi h WEATHER Hit. .April II ( MIm, 11 lti'iiiuiiN U.I 11 r .... om NlrMm rr U t 1 I,it. rr T it N.rmnl IH1 Parti-).! l-lfhi hwr$) mr nmW flurrlM Unlibl to) ntr. I'HK K f-VK t'KNTN ! ..I.AM ATI! FALLH, OKKOON, Tilt KHIMV, APRIL 8, 1948 Telephone (111 No. 1311 CUM Head FFA Boys Bed Down Before A Busy Day i t ) xm v 1 i ( , I A Lv ------ ; -UWSJ i ? l ' r -j -wH aaHaaMM - ? H M - I : F N.1 v Ml, 1 . . x- C . v' tmtt 1V . i in artanil r, mi ..Htiir-W.tWw.a-i Hi I Urn II nil aTl a llll Theae lada are part of a contingent of tevrral hundred who arrived Wednesday and today for the Future Farmer of America alala convention at Oregon Vocational achooL They came for three jam packed dart of central. Judging, award and other highlight. Bill Hardin, upper left, of Ontario, had a bit of (rouble hitting the tack laat night, mainly becaute he'd Jutt get lettled down when prankiter would Jerk hi alreplng bag art the bunk, tipper right It freckled Vera Olton, another Ontario boy. who tpenl a few minute before bedtime reading what la In itore lor him on the convention'! official pro gram. Bv no mean ready for tleep waa the gang In the picture below. From left to right, they are Marvin Lorrnten, Hod Wlter, Hubert Wilton, Arland McDougal, Ken Welden, Don Wiley, Bill Stockhoff and Fenton Clahlrr, all of Dayton. Britain Eases Petrol Ration LONDON. April 8 (II Fuel Mill later Hugh Onlltkell announced to day all automobiles will be allowed enough gatollne tor 80 mile of pleasure driving a month, smiting June 1, This compiim with 370 mllea tin der the old bn.ilc rntlmi which waa linked la.st autumn. Since then, pleasure drivers have received no fuel. Continuance of the new plan de pends on a campnmn to dry up the How of 100,000 ton of gaaollne a year into the black market, Qnlta- kell told commona. Violence Mounts As Coal Strike Goes Into 25th Day PITTSBUtiaH, April I (IP) New vlolenco and mounting Industrial cutbacks today mnrked the loth day ot the soft conl shutdown. The total number of Idle workers climbed to at least 562.000, In Barbour county of West Vir ginia, a mine operator said he was beaten by roving pickets when he refused to clone his non-union mine. He was Hop Williams, co-owner of a mine near Junior. Thrro were; HO rni'lnnds of roving pickets. , , At .1 " nn Lew, W. Va a 110-pound wiillre.su dinvo off more Minn 711 rov ing conl picket when she said they becinno "too noisy" In the tavern wiiero sho works, She was Miss Betty Hogora, 33, who flourished a . .aa calibre revolver and emptied Uie fflnroom. 1 Railroad Co., the South' biggest aleel producer, announced at Birm ingham Its big Fairfield sheet mill will be Idled tomorrow. Two blast fin imces were banked yesterday by T.C.I. Tomorrow's action will In crease the district's Idle to about :4,(00. At Pittsburgh, the U. S. Steel cor poration, announced It waa losing 7000 tons ot steel production a day, Bethlehem Stcol said new pro duction cutbacks would Idle about 3000 to 14,700 employes at Lacks wniinn, N, Y, The bulk of the Idle were member of John L. Lewis' United Mine Work ers, whose 400,000 memben slopped work In the soft conl fields to buck up demands for pensions, About 36,000 anthracite miners stopped work this week In sympathy. Th oUier 137,000 wero In rolated The Tennessee Conl, Iron and (industries crippled by the continual ly Increasing conl shortage. At least 10,000 railroaders were turloughed together with 45,000 steel workers. Mood Charges Lewis With Unfair Labor Practices WASHINGTON, April (AV Joseph K. Moody, hend of the South ern Conl Producers association, said today he will file a chnrge of unfair labor practices against John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. Lewis already Is facing contempt action tor Ignoring a court order to end Uie 24-day-old soft coal strike. That order also directed Lewis and the mine owners to negotiate on the miners pension dispute, which touched off the strike March 16. UMW officials and operators, In cluding Moody, started the talks yesterday and continued them this morning. But a wrangle developed over Moody's authority as the president of the association to sit In tlm bar gaining conference. Afterwards Moody told reporters he has asked Attorney John C. Oall to proceed at once with a charge ot unfair labor practices against Uie union and It seven-man negotiating committee. Oall said lie expected to file the charge with the national labor rela tions board later In the day and ask NLHU Oeneral Counsol Robert Den hnm lo seek a court Injunction to force the union to recognise Moody ns an nillliorlred negotiator, ' Lewis waa not present during the skirmish with Moody, but his llou- terrains sulci he "might be here at any time." Moody told a new conference he thought Uie union committee was using the argument over his status "to make sure nothing happens at these conferences ' In the way of actual negotiations." Other mine operator were back ing Moody, Their spokesman, Charles O'Neill, aald they would "not tand for" the UMW trying to select the coal operators who are to sit In on the negotiations. In the meantime, there was no indication that Lewis Intended to comply with the court's back-to-work order despite the contempt citation that was slapped against him yesterday. Top government officials said Lewis Instead appeared to be dig ging In for a finish fight in the court. Retriever Trials Set One hundred and 10 entries have been signed for the second largest Retriever club trial In the state, to be held at Cove Point Saturday and Sunday. Elimination trials will be held Saturday and Uie finals Sunday and dogs will be scratched without hesitation If they hesitate to per form, in order to give each anlmnl a chance and keep the show mov ing. Over 400 pheiisiiiits have arrived from the Dnkotas for the trials and hava been put In pens at tho Tom O Dwyer place at 3429 Blsboc. Those birds cost around $4.10 each and will bo sold Sunday alter tho trials tor loss than halt price. MUSIC CONTK8T OREGON CITY. April S Ph Northwestern Oregon high schools will compete In the annual district muslo contest here Friday and Saturday. FFA Youths Convene At OYS For Meet lOVfl. April B fcleveraj hundred Oregon Future Farmers of Ameri ca arrived Wednesday night and today. Thursday, at Oregon Voca tional school for the 20th annual state FPA convention. Visitors are being housed In barracks at the school. The convenUon will continue through Saturday. Highlighting Friday's events will be Uie annua convention banquet at p. m. In the OVS banquet hall. Presentation of the Oregon star farmer award and Uie Earl R. Cooley keystone honor will be made at the ban quet. At 1:30 p. m.. Friday. O. I. Paul son, state director of vocational education, will address the entire convenUon, and following his talk, the stato farmer degree ceremony will be held. Hillsboro chapter of ficers will present state farmer charms. At 8:16 a. m.. Friday, will be the dairy cattle Judging contest. Judges are A. E. Street, chairman, and Harold Ewalt, extension dairyman of Oregon State college. District elimination In hog calling and agricultural spelling will also be held in Uie morning. Blast Kills Pensioner LOS ANGELES. April 8 Wi A lonely, frustrated old man blew him. self to bits yesterday with a crudely-fashioned bomb that wrecked the offices ot the state industrial i cldent commission. Four persons were Injured by the explosion. The man was identified as Charles W. Hunter, 65. who lost his left arm In an Industrial accident In 1927. The commission was pay ing him $6.57 a week disability and had under consideration his appli cation for a lump sum settlement. officials said. The deafening blast shattered scores ot windows, blew out a big portion of a wall in the commission waiting room, on the fifth floor of the California stnte building, and brought throngs from nearby build ings In the civic center. Police Investigators said Hunter detonated dynamite sticks that he carried In his trousers pockets. Wire concealed In his clothing ran from the sticks to a series of small bat teries and a plunger. Canyon City Has Cougar On Hoof CANYON CITY, April 8 MV-Want to bag cougar? Well, Just drive over to this Cen tral Oregon town and the folks will be very hnppy to have you go hunt ing. A full-grown anlmnl has been seen skulking on the outskirts of town for several weeks, drinking at the city reservoir and raiding Uie chicken flocks. It Is believed to be one that lost his toes In a trip last year and has difficulty In bringing down deer in the woods. Ashley Out But Raises Wage Issue By HALE HCARBROL'GH Carroll B. Howe, a state tuptr- ritor of secondary eduraUon and former principal at Henley, aald to day in Kzlem be would take the post of Klamath county school superin tendent July 1, replacing Harold Ashley aa chief administrator for Klamath county tchoolt. The post waa offered Howe by the County school board Wednesday. But instead of a simple replace ment as the board had In mind, Uie school system may be having two men drawing the salary of superin tendent until July 1, 1949. Ashley Charge During an extended board session Wednesday afternoon, Ashley brought up a point that Uie board waited a few days too long in ask ing his resignation and he might be entitled to demand Uie superintend ent's pay for another year. Ashley said he would take a teaching posi tion in the system, but was adamant in his belief that he had not been treated fairly by Uie school board and could hold out for his extra pay. Basis of bis contenUon Is the March 15 deadline by which teach ers and school employes In the county system are supposed to be told whether they will be aiked to sign contract for another year. A teacher who it not told by March 15 that his service are no longer needed presumably Is hired for an other year. Actually Uie school board asked for Ashley's resignation a few days after Uie March 15 deadline and the reslgnaUon was dated March 22. Ashley told the school board It was his opinion that since he wasn't told by March 15 that the board was seeking to replace him, he legally had a claim to another year at the Job, or at least at the salary. Rulinr Asked The attorney general has been asked for a ruling, but the school board apparently ts faced with hav ing to pay Uie extra salary. Ash ley's present pay Is $5250 a year, and if he goes back to teaching his regular pay would be around $4100. Disregarding that problem, the board yesterday voted to accept Ashley's resignation as superintend ent of schools, omitting an effecUve date, and offered the Job to Howe. Although not mentioned In the (CaaUaac an Paca II, Calnma S New School Head In Suits Filed HOUSTON. Tex., April 8 (fl Damage suits being filed against the federal government in connec tion with the Texas City disaster of last April are expected to near the $100,000,000 mark today. Officials ot the Monsanto Chem ical company announced plans to file a $50,000,000 suit, while seven other suits seeking a total of $5 20&.446 were filed here today. Some 60 other petitions totaling oxer $10,000,000 already are on file with the federal district clerk at Galveston. Deadline for filing the suiU un der the 1946 federal court claims act is April 16-17, one year after the disaster. The announced $50,000,000 Mon santo claim far exceeds the largest suit already on tile, a $10,700,000 pe tition by the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance company, compensation underwriter for Monsanto. A company spokesman said the suit will charge that government negligence in falling to Insure prop er handling of an explosive was re sponsible tor Uie disaster. I ( Carroll Howe, for many years head of the schooli at Henley In the county . system, has accepted the position of Klamath eoonty school superintendent. He will head a district as biff as the state of Connecticut. Czechs Force Plane Into US Territory MUNICH, AprU I W) Twenty passenger aboard a Ciech transport plane revolted and forced it flight into the U. 8. zone of Germany Tuesday, Czech authorities said to day. The Czech National Air Line plane, with 26 aboard, landed with out warning at an American baae near Munich. The plane waa en rout from Prague to BraUtlava, Slovakia. Act ing Ciech Consul Karer Dvorak aald the pilot was forced at pistol point to leave the control and was locked in the plane' toilet. A former Cseeh pilot who once flew with the British Royal Air force took over the controls. The plane doubled back on Ita route and headed for Germany. When the plane landed at the V. S. air force' fighter baae at NeubV berg the former RAF pilot aiked which of the passengers and crew wanted to tay in the American tone. Six person. Including the plane' original pilot and a woman, said they wanted to go back to Prague. Dvorak said he had Issued visa for their return. The six are billeted in Munich by American authorities and are ex pected to return to Prague soon, Dvorak taid. The other 2 elected to itay in Germany. Canada Has Rich Oil Find LEDUC. Alta., April 8 m Canada's newest oil field is bub bling up to expectations. . When drillers spudded In the first well of the big Leduc leld in No vember, 1946, they said: "It looks good." The bits chewed into the ground and on February 13. 1947, Uie well kicked in its first supply. From then on the drillers and riggers and tool men swarmed over Uie Leduc. They made it Uie start of the biggest oil exploration pro gram in Canada's history. Today there are 53 going wells in the Leduc field, located about 18 miles south of Edmonton In Uie western province of Alberta. The 53 wells produce a daily aver age of 5800 barrels. But Uie flow is held to 100 or 150 barrels a day under conservation measures. Canada Im port 90 per cent of her oil and is taking no chances. Estimates ot the Leduc reserve run tram 100,000.000 to 200,000,000 barrels. Some 12.000 acres have been proven In the Leduc area. Nearly all the big oil companies are spending a lot ot money in oil exploration. $725 Million Needed For Coming Year WASHINGTON, April 8 W President Truman aked eongre today for an immediate appropria tion ot $725,000,000 for expansion i the air force. The house appropriation com mittee, to which tho president' re quest waa directed, called a special meeUng for thia afternoon to con sider the request. It plan to report to the house next week a bill carry ing the new fund. The additional money Is for us during the fiscal year starting July 1. The president last week notitied congress that such a request would be lorlhcoming. It is part ot an ad ditlonal $3,000,000,000 to be sougue ' for overall defense purposes for ilia next fiscal year. Ol the $725,000,000 requested $195, 000,000 would be In cash and $530, 000,000 in contract authorizations for which cash must be furnished later, Bulk to Army The air forces would receive $315,-. 000,000 and Uie naval bureau of aero- nautlcs $215,000,000 of the new con tract authority. All of the lunds were earmarked tor airplane construction and pro-., curement. t The extra $3,000,000,000 asked by Mr. Truman for defense purpoteo for the new fiscal year would boost. Uie total defense ouUay lor the year to $14,000,000,000. The president' original budget In January called for $11,000,000,000. Secretary of Defense ForreaUu a scheduled to open the committee afternoon bearing behind doted door. The blgger-and-better air fore drive temporarily has shunted aside plans for universal military training. The aerial expansion program moved forward in both house and senate aa lawmakers sought to bal ance manpower and money demands and yet provide the speediest and most effective national defense. These were Uie developments: 1. The house appropriation committee hauled a $775,0O0,$ot -sir force bill onto the legiilaUve runway with assurance f re -Chairman Taber (R-N.V.) of faat takeoff. Taber aaaigned top. priority to this Item In the $3,--' OOe.OOe.Ooe asked by President : Truman to augment the $11,000, 000.008 already budgeted for da- f ense. The extra, sir force funds . are for aircraft purchase, research and development. -, 2. Rep. Claaon (R-Maao.) an nounced his armed services sub committee would begin hearing on legislation to expand the air force from 55 to 7 combat group. X. The senate armed service committee weighed s formal re quest" by Secretary for Air Sym ington for a 7-group air force. Member of the senate commutes confided after the closed door ses sion yesterday that they are con sidering linking the air force ex pansion with a temporary draft. They Indicated DMT action would be delayed for Uie time being. TO WED JERSEY CITY. N. J., April 8 OP) Movie Actor Roland Yountr applied for a marriage license yesterday to wed Dorothy Patience May, 40. Young gave his age as 60. The couple said they would be married here tomorrow. Stassen Yins 19 Delegates MILWAUKEE. April 8 WV-Harold E. Stassen was assured todays of 19 of Wisconsin's 27 national re-! publican convention delegates. His victory, which blanked Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, established him as a top contender foi the GOP presidential nomina tion. The former Minnesota governor, on the basis of nearly complete un official returns, swept all seven del-egates-at-large and won 12 district delegate races. Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur picked up. the remaining eight, Stassen had cinched 18 delegates when ballot counting stopped last night, but the outcome of the fifth (Milwaukee) district remained in doubt until complete returns wer tabulated today. In this district, which had as sured MacArthur of one delegate, a tight race between Stassen-pledg-ed Ralph P. Sproule and a Dewey stalwart, State Senator Bernard Gettleman, ended with Sprouls ahead on 26568 votes to Gettls man's 26,735 in the 305 precincts. An abnormally heavy vote In city piecincts apparently was offset by light voting in rural areas, election officials said. No estimate of the I total vote waa available. Soviet Marshal Vetoes Four Power Probe Of Air Crash-Vows To Protect Russian Air Zones BERLIN, April 8 m Marshal Vasslly D. Sokolovsky today blamed a British traffic violation for Mon day's British-Soviet plane collision. The Russian military commander said that unless he was assured British planes will observe four power fllfiht rules, he Intends to "take measures for the protection of the safety air traffic over the Soviet occupation sone." He turned down the Idea of a four-power Investigation of the crash, which occurred on Berlin's outskirts and killed 15 persons. He favored an Inquiry by a Soviet-British commission. Sokolovsky stated his position In a reply to communications on the crash from his British counterpart, Gen. Sir Brian Robertson. He de scribed the British version of the accident as slander. His letter was published In Tacgllche Rundschau, official newspaper of the 8ovlet military administration. Robertson aald on his return here this morning from Duesseldorf that he Intends to deal Immediately with the Russian reply. He gave no hint ol what he Intend to do. Arriving In Berlin at about the svne time was Maurice Couve de Murvllle. one of France's top dip lomatic negotiators. He la to meet ranking officials of the western al lies and many believe negotiations for a closer Unking o' the French sone with British-American tones are on top. The marshal's letter reversed the position he took Monday after the accident. At that time he expressed regret and assured Robertson the Russians did not Intend to Inter fere with flight down the allied air corridor to Berlin. The collision was between Brit ish European Airlines Viking trans port, which crashed In the Soviet sone, and a Russian Yak fighter, which fell in Berlin's British sec tor. The Russian flier, 12 Britons and two Americans were killed. The Russian-controlled Berlin ra dio aald last night Sokoloviky had promlifd to do away with Soviet eeret arreat and trial of German. He did so, It reported. In reply lo appeals from Communist Lead er Wilhelm Pleck and Otto Grote wohl, . The western powers have charged that thousands of German are be ing held without trial In Soviet-ton concentration camps. Diipatches In Berlin' socialist press thl morning laid s new wav of arrest against antl-communltta was being conducted In the Bul ton. ' I. t !','
