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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1948)
WE LLULraU v La II ,TH' ( Day s Sews frga.a lly FHANK JrNHINK T-IIKUK la blood on tlie moon In Washington tllla lllol tllllil. Tho houtc u( rcptraiiitallvra armed Icrvlirt coiiiinlttcu rrroiiiiiii'iida In mnjollly report 1 1 in pitaange o( Ihn Aiulicwa hill tu droll men Irnin IU lo 311 for two yciua. The report miya: " lint committee bi'lli'vra tins Soviet Union uiuy now bo wilhnu tu rink a ahiiwilnwii Willi the United Btulr , , , To lurriiUll tilth ruali tlrcl lun by Jtiiaalnu leaders, tlila country ahould strengthen Ita ground and era tones through MANl'OWEIt umrr." The rnHit thru siltla: "A 70-groiip nlr lorcc la NOT a ubaUlute lor aclciilvo service.'' TIIK coiiunltlra hat 'J'S mriiibcra. 'fweniy-cluhl of tlirm voted to provide the inrn lo man the iim chlnra ul war. the other live (In armed and brounht In a minority report, III which Uiey aaaert: "Tllla (draft bill to provide tile ten to nmu the mnehlneai U a J-ltlKIHAM roll WAX. We do not believe thai a aound and adequate Urfciiae ayatem require the police atale inethoila ol COMPULSION." The minority retwrl coucludea: "Passage of Ule Andlowa (drafll bill would be one ol the innat tragic error thai could be couiuiittrd by cougrcaa ... 11 would be Interpreted by all nalloiu ot the world lo mean that Una country eapecia war." t K i t) add a word here on thla coin pulalon bualnraa. You're COMPKLLEU to pay your taxea, aren't you? HupixMr wur laara were on a vol nuteer baalt. How many people would volunteer to pay? TIIKItE would be aome. ot courae. Aa a matter ol (act, there would be MANY. Tito number would run into Uie inllllmu. 'Hie maaaea of our people are far more loyal, patriotic and KKALIST1C than the politician give them credit for. They know that war coat money. If our government called for volun tary contribution with which to fight a war. the rraixiuse would run una the blllloiu. HUT IT WOUI.ONT HE KNOUOIf. The way lo finance a war la by compulaory collection of taxea, tu thai the TRIM I' aa well aa the 1.I1IKKAL will have to do their aharr. Tlie way Ui provide the matiower la by mean of a draft, ao Uial those who hanif bark, aa well aa thoac who route forward and offer their llvet freely, will have lo do their part. All hituiry about that Icaaou. ' . WVKRYHOWY In congrcs knowt Uial la true allhoouh there are tome who refuae lo admit It. Tllla u the point: TIIKIIK AUK M-INKLESS HCH'I.S IN CONQItKHH WHO WOULD L1KR TO IXHKIE THE ISSUE OK A MANPOWKIl DRAFT UNTIL AFTfcR THE ELECTION THIS FALL. Hence the oppuallion lo the draft NOW. THIS minority report taya paaaajte of a draft bill now would be In lerpretrd lo mean that thla country "rxiiect war " That Isn't quite true. What It would mean la thla: America ex pert to be HEADY If war comet In apite of all we can do. If war haa to comr, It's far better to be ready Ulan NOT to be ready. WEATHtR wrATiim . i.. im.i i) ii ana I'rcnlplUiUti Isil II haura airtsin r'ar U tl l-aal tr l.ia Narmal ... artraall fair ritlCli r 'VK KNTfl Gas Curb Said Unnecessary LOS ANGKLES, My ft ofl Gasoline ratlonlmi now la totally unnecessary, Uie American Petrole um Institute Insist. Sneaking for the Institute, Pro ducUon Vice Prealtli'iit Jako L. Hnmon said yenlerday: 1 "Our stocks on hand don't In dicate the need for alien a riroatlo atnp except In Uie extremely un likely event of another war." He an Id any Iden of raUonlng now Indicates "striving In some .quarters toward federal control of the oil Industry." j Huch a hint was contained In a "house armed forces committee re port Thursday. Couple Held In Death Of Yreka Baby VIIIKA. May 1 Murder rhanea were filed here altortly before noon Friday agalnat Lawrenoe K. Itay, 24, Yreka Inauranre agent, and lilt wife, Donna, 24. The two are held In connection with the death of the couple'a 7-week-old ton, Lawrence K. Hay 2nd, whose badly decomposed body waa found early thla morning In the bedroom of the Itay home In Yreka. INHKItT "COUPLE HELD" Iloth are held without ball and late yealerday were arraigned be fore Justice of the Peace Clifford E. Duller. Neither hat retained legal cuuuarl. The baby had evidently been dead about one week. Officers said death waa apparently due to malnutrition. Young Itny, fonncrl, of Klumuth Falla, Is held In the county Jail. He la the son of Mrs, J, frank Adams of Merrill. Ilia wife, who It reported to have acted In a strungo manner recently, was taken to the Siskiyou General hoapitul for observation. Also being cared for at the hospi tal Is Victoria Ellen, lS-month-old daughter of the couple. Police ("ailed Murder charge were filed on Mr. and Mra. Hay on a complaint signed by Clly Police Officer Bill Wlnnop who, with other authorities, was called to Uie scene early this morn ing. tllarovery of the body waa made after Kay called a local physician about I a. m. concerning the baby. The phtalrlan notified authorities on arrival at the nay home. On being questioned by officers. Itay said he had known nothing about the child's death until Just before he called the e -lor. He said he had not been sleeping In the same room with his wife w ho had been In 111 health since the birth of the last child. Kay also told officers he had not seen the Infant for one week. City police suld Hay told them his wife kept the bsby In a bedroom with Uie door closed and refused to let him sea the boy. . Wife Questioned Under questioning. Mrs. Ray said she Uiouuht her child had been dead about one week. The young wife staled the had not been In the bedroom where the child was found, since she discovered the baby had died. She told officers she had stopped feeding the baby after It refused to eat. When aaked wny she hsd not told her husband about the child's death, .Mrs. Kay said: "I was scared." When asked what the was afraid of, she replied: "I don't know." An autoiisy was performed on the Infant's body this morning and specimens of the child's organs sent to the California state laboratory for analysis to determine Uie exact cause of death. No date has been set (or the Inquest. iji jV" '""" ' jl'sT'" ""jUsL """""" " ' '" """ ' ' ""' ' """ Mmmmmmm lO KLAMATH ' ;. HATLKIMV, MAV 8. JMS Telephone SHI No. 1364 - -a - . -,0 ..... ... - a I .1 - - Mills Fifth G ,V. . Award ; ; s""-: .- k I'l" .. v j II IJ I 'll ill 1 n : Russ-US Showdown Hinted As Possibility As Solons Push Plans For Defense By HOWARD DOHKON try should strengthen Us ground and W ASHINGTON. May S iP A ! sea forces through a manpower congressional committee said today f drafL And It added: It believes "the Horlet Union may j -A 70-group air force is not a suo now be willing to riak a showdown" ,titute for selective service." with the United Stales. ,. . . . aviic kimic aim iiuiuc nave Tolks Hore Isoaritli!' ' i"Wl ((' ' ' X tk.1t It GOVERNOR DEWEY To forcntall such a Hruh dcclilon by KuaiUn lrftdrn, the houic srnied errlccs committee said, this coun- Thr S100 Aillrr mward BrholanhiD for mUaUclankhlD went to 8-ror old vlollniftt F.thrl IavitU fifth trader at Mtllt. Ethel won over 24 hov cometuanu in ine ivi iin uanorium in mn. Yhite House Talks Slated On Railroads WASHINGTON'. May IPi Rail road operator representatives and union leaders were ealled to the White House for afternoon confer ences today in a drive to avert the railroad strike set for Tuesday. A White Home, official said there was no Immediate plan to bring then, together lor Joint discussions. Mills Fifth Grader Judged Winner Of Adler Scholarship This official explained that John r. Steelman. presidential assistant. so tar nas louna no oasis on wnicn A tiny little fifth grader from I mills liouiru ucr iiimj i.ir hearts of three Judges and latt j night walked off with Uie f 100 I Adler award scholarship. The winner, 8-year-old Ethel Leavltt. Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Leavlit, 1318 NimlU. She has studied violin for eight months from Frank 8. Long and the brief period of study, hand In approved expanding the nation's air arm from 55 to 70 groups over the next five years. But as yet they have taken no action on President Truman's request for a temporary draft and universal military train ing. Stinging Dissent The house groups lormal report accompanied by a stinging dissent 1 . ,Knl by a live-man miium?y-w -1 f"P conlirmed the top priority they ivc given au aeiense leg 1x1 anon McKay Hits Sale Of Land At Coos Bay PORTLAND, May 8 WV-A school between now and Uie June 19 ad journment date. The committee majority recom mended prompt passage of a bill by Chairman Andrews IR.-N. Y.) to draft men from 19 through 25 for two years' sendee. The committee 1 approved the measure 28 to 5 last Monday. The majority report's warning of possible Russian showdown inten tions coincided with a statement by Gen. Jonathan Wainwright that the Russians would launch an all-out war only as a "last resort." In a letter to republican congres- Misplaced Paint Proves Expensive TRENTON, N. J May 8 (Ti Hie stale of New Jersey today was out IB'JO because a can of paint was placed on the wrong side ol a fence. A highway employe put the can Inside a fence beside a rural road. A cow ambled along, ate Uie paint and promptly died. The stato awarded 620 to Parm er Stanley Roberts, owner of the cow. Russia Moves To Force US Troops Out Of Korea Ity BOY IIOlU'.ltTS 8HOUL, May 8 (iv-llussln moved today lo form the American hand In Korea as prn-rlccllnn red ter rorism hit Hooul, national capital and hcaduuiirtcrs of the American rone, for the first time. Lt. Clen. a. P. Korotkov, Soviet rnmniandrr of North Korea, an nounced "arrangements have been" made for tliri Immediate) withdraw al of his troops to "mnkr American troops withdraw from Korea si multaneously," Ills aiinouiiienicul did not name any specific dntn for the withdraw a! and was so worded as to leave some doubt that the Russians even Intended to gel nut at all. Simi lar proposals prcvlou.ily have been rejected by the llnltffl States. " Korotkov, former Russian com mander on the Estonian front, lnndo Ills niinnuncrmciit In a let ter to Klin Doo-bong, chairman of the recent north-south unity con ference In Pyongyang. The letter was broadcast on Mia Pyongyang: radio. The conference, dominated by Korean communists, urged both I'usslan and American troops to lcnvo tho country, i ' Kornlkav iiessetl sympathy with tho conference's demand and recalled Uial tho Soviet govern ment made the same proposal In the United Sttiles-Sovlet Joint com mission negotiations and before the United Nations assembly. Negotiations by the U. 8.-Sovlct Joint commission looking to the establishment of a Korean provi sional government broke down com pletely last year after tlie com manders In tho two rones were tillable to agree on practically any thing. At the beginning nf the discus sions, tho Soviets refused to con sult Korean leaders who had op posed the occupation. Tho IT, S. held nut for consultation with all Korean factions In establishment of the provisional government. After tho fallurn of tho Joint commission efforts, the Soviet North Korean commander last year proposed that occupation forces of both nations bo with drawn simultaneously, permitting the Koreans to organize their own government. Tlie U. 8. rejected tho plan and It was noled that tho Korean communist had developed an army of 300,000 men. South Korean moderate lenders have re peatedly warned that if the U. 8. gets out It will bo but R mat t or of days until that, army takes over South Korea. Action Bogs On Hawaii contestants and Uie winner. In addition to the scholarship, presented annually by Dr. George II. Adler of i Klamath Falls, tea promising young musician for the advancement of his musical studle. were three certificates of j merit for outstanding performance. I These went to Constance Lam I nropulos of Mills. Dlano: Patsv WASHINGTON. May 8 or. The : Young, Fremont Junior high, voice; senate insular affairs committee Jean Adams. Roosevelt, piano, voted today 7 to 5 to defer action Others competing were. Billy at this time on Hawaii's appllca- Huuser, Conger, piano; Paul Mun tlon for statehood. I son. Fainiew. alto horn: Florence Tlie motion to defer action on j Lampropulos. Mills, violin; Oloria a subcommittee report recommend- I Stolk. Mills, piano; Mary Ann Mim ing that the territory become the j son. Falrview. piano: Sue Ramsby, 48th stale was offered by Senator Fremont, piano; Beverly Hunt. Fre Milllkln iD-Coloi. The motion 1 mont Junior high, voice: Marlon has the effect of sidetracking the i Mulllns. Falrview. piano; Ronnie Hawaliun statehood measure for i iiersnocrger, Fremont Junior high. nana wiui uie oowmg ana execu- Str.man then Invited leader, of lion oi ine owing am or ihe three raU uniora Involved In the Stlska. won her Uie award. , dl,plltt lnd tne operator,. lpokra- Twenty-four student, both boy, mtn come lUfrnMn ,5 and girls, competed last nlghl In : mnule intervals, the KUHS auditorium. Judges were j At ,ne ouuwt at least lhe meet. Mrs. Mamie Olacomlnl of Merrill, wl ulce place ln oincrent iviia. ncunicr niiu v. Wal lace, both of Tulelake. Andrew Loney Jr. to bring Ulem (the management ; "jonai leaaeri urging the return ot and union) together." Gtn- """k'm MacArthur to testify Steelman spent more than two I on Preparedness plans. Wainwright hours during the morning with four j sa'd: spokesmen for railroad operators. , Revolution There was no announcement as to 'He MacArthur i knows only too progress U any ln these talks. lnal me Present enemies ot I nigs win laae place in I rooms. I The leaders of Uie three railroad announced ( brotherhoods were summoned for 1:15 p. m. (eastern standard time) and the management official at t :30 p. m. The rail f f iriala upon leaving the the morning talk with Steelman appeared cheerful. They referred any questions as to progress to tlie While House. One commented that "there Just isn't anything to say." Tlie strike of engineers, firemen and enginemen, and switchmen Is set for Tuesday morning. If it takes place as scheduled. Uie nation's trains will stop running. this session of congress. Piano: George Vlahos. Fremont, The statehood measure, already I clarinet; Ann Henderson. Roose n.ed bv the house, received a ve ' Plan.: """ Huodart. Roose- major setback yesterday when the ! veil, violin; Theresa Borgen. Fre- . ' .. mont lilnnn Kiillu fiMflwi, .......... senote republican policy commit- i 7,"' rr"' "--w. "" tec failed to put It on a list ol legislation for priority action at Uils session. Chairman Taft (R-Ohloi said action on the measure "was dis cussed at some length and not do cldcd." It later was announced that the bill was placed on a list of measures on which action "might be hod If time permitted." j Crowd Jams Music Show Fifteen hundred persons filled the big OV8 gymnasium yesterday as the first post-war all county music festival attracted many despite the return appearance of winter In Uie Klamath basin. Massed choruses, bands and dance groups went through their paces with tho ease of long practice and much credit was due Elisabeth Henderson, supervisor of music In the city schools, who directed the ambitious performance. The bands were outstanding, the dances colorful and gay and the chorus work was excellent as voiced uy the thunderous applause granted each number. Performers included student from the fifth grade through high school. Gerrue. Fremont, piano; Judy Had lcy, Roosevelt, piano; Florene Wam suid, Falrview, flute; Stewart Camp bell, Fremont, piano; Randall Blnk lcy. Fremont Junior high, boss clar inet: Lewis Frcdcrlckson, Riverside, clarinet. Knothole Gang Invited To Park Tonight Members of the Knothole Gang can sco tonight's scheduled base ball game between tho Mcdford Dodgers and Klamnth Gems far 9 cent and their Knothole mem bership card. This will be tho first oppor tunity of the season for Knot hole Gang admissions. Tho club sponsored by tho Gems com prises several hundred local youngsters who have applied at the baarooll club's downtown of fice on S. Bth for membership tickets. Later In the season several games will be set aside as en tirely free for the Knotholo Gang. Egyptians Hit At Palestine CAIRO. May 8 (Ai A communl que issued today by "command vol unteer. southern front Palestine" said Egyptian volunteers have pen etrated about 30 miles into the Holy Land. The communique said: "Our forces penetrated the fron tiers and held their posts without casualties. "Some forces rushed to the northern part of the front to help the Arabs repulsing a Jewish at tack t on Igaq Suweidan, sonic 50 kilometers north of the Egyptian border town of Rata. This help was successful. "The people of Palestine received our troops enthusiastically and shouted for Arablsm, Egypt and King Farouk." (The status of the Egyptian vol unteer force was not immediately clear. Volunteers from other Arab countries have been In Palestine for some time. (Unofficial Egyptian sources re peatedly have reported Uiat a third of Uie Egyptian army had been massed on tho frontier near Rata, which is on tho northeast Mediter ranean corner of the Slnal peninsula). Planes Readied To Haul Teams NEW YORK. May 8 m The air plane, apparently hero to stay, will hike over the Job of transporting major league baseball players Tuos' day If railroad service disappears because of a strike. Various airlines have been given tho names of road secretaries of the National league clubs by loop President. Ford Frtck, who also has Instructed his umpires to travel by air, If necessary. Wallace Backer Stabbed To Death CHARLESTON. S. C. May 8 iPi The president of Charleston's Wal-lace-for-President club was fatally stabbed yesterday at the local na tional Maritime union headquarters. Detective Herman R. Berkman said Robert New, port agent for the NMU. died shortly after a fight at the union headquarters, and that Rudolph Sirrlo, 49. ot the Seaman's home, was charged with murder. Sirrlo was treated for cuts on Uie arm. Berkman added. New organized the Wallace-for-Prcstdent group here. United tSates and our world desire first to accomplish U eir objective of the destruction of our constitu tional democracy by means of revo lution and civil war. "Their last resort only would be real war from the land, sea and air." The Bataan hero, now retired, said nothing to indicate he feels the Russians are ready for such action. But Uie house committee said re cent Soviet moves in Europe-uch as the-communlst victory hi Checho slovakia have convinced it that "Uie Soviet Union may now be wil ling to risk a showdown on the as sumption that the future can bring only a worsening of the Soviet po sition." This drew a sharp retort from the minority headed by Rep. Short (R. Mo.l. "This Is a program for war." de clared the, five-man dissenting group. "We do not believe that a sound and adequate defense system requires the police-state methods of compulsion." campaign for governor in Oregon today. State Sen. Douglas McKay. Salem, republican candidate for nomina tion as governor, started it last night with an accusation that the state land board had opened "the door to looting of the states Irre ducible school fund." ' He said ln a radio talk here that the board sold tidelands near Coos Bay last March for 81231.66, and added the board's own apprais er thought the property was worth at least 89000. He added. "The appraiser and Uie clerk of Uie land board told the board that it should not be sold because Its value Justified an annual lease of (225 a year." He commented It was reminiscent of early-day "political pirating of state lands." and said. "The gov ernor may be destroying established and far-sighted policies while he still maintains an appearance of doing a good job." Income from such properties Is used for Uie state's irreducible school fund. Anti-Crime Club Party Gets Rough LOS ANGELES. Mav 8 ifh Police Officer C. H. Hatter wondered to day whether to go ahead with his plan to form an anU-Juvenlle crime club. Hatter met with 50 students of Manual Arts high school last night to form the club when six former students of a rival high school, armed with liquor bottles, arrived. Bodies Of Babies Found In Greece ATHENS, May 8 M"! Athens' newspapers carried today a story attributed to official sources that bodies of 4.2 infants. apparenUy strangled to death, were found by soldiers in the Roumeli area. Roumell is in south central Greece where the army has been pressing a campaign against communist-led guerrillas. The story said the Infants belonged to women taken hostages by guerrillas. It expressed belief the babies were strangled to halt their crying, which would have disclosed guer rilla hiding places. 'Carpetbag' Rule Over Resource Hit Governor Tom Dewey of Ne York rolled Into the Klamath coun try today on his statewide em palgn for support for the republU can presidential nomination and he made this the place to demand competent government administra tion of development of the North west's vast resources. The Dewey party arrived at II o'clock by bus from the Rogue River valley, and went rapidly through a tight schedule. This took the New York governor to th Geary ranch for a look at a pri vate drainage project, to the court house steps for a chance to meet and speak to Southern Oregon Northern California people, and to Uie Willard hotel for luncheon Regional Men In remarks prepared for informal presentation at the noon appear ance. Dewey taid he believed in regional admlnittration by "men familiar with the needs and prob lem of the region and not by three boreaucrat sitting in Wash ington." He put In a plug for a westerner for secretary of Uie interior, charg ing that administration of resources by "carpetbag rule" had been going on too long. "I am always overwhelmed by the wealth of natural resources in tha Northwest." said Dewey. "I be lieve we should develop your rivers, reclamation. Irrigation and hydro electric power ln thi great western area. "The grazing lands, reclamation. Irrigation and much of the water power, navigation and fisheries have been under control of carpetbaggers too long." Vetoes Debate Before coming into the Klamath area. Dewey turned his back on a challenge from his single opponent In the primary race Harold Staa sen for a debate in Oregon on the campaign issues. Statsen hurled the challenge on a, radio program but night, but Dewey ignored it The governor's secretary, Paul Lockwood, said the debate idea was "concocted in Minneapolis out of thin air to provide an excuse for Stassen to enter Oregon ahead of schedule to meet the rising tide of Dewey sentiment here." Bulletins Radio Jackpot Pays Off HOLLYWOOD. May 8 oF The latest radio jackpot winner is Mrs. Ward S. George, wife of s disabled Oregon war veteran. Mrs. George, 32, of Lebanon, Ore., took the $20,000 prize offered by . NBC's "People Are Funny" last night for the correct answer Cairo, Egypt ' to a riddle that had withstood guesses for eight weeks. She bagged a three - bedroom Per capita payments to members house. $4600 in furnishings, a 1948 of the Klamath Indians will be sedan, a $2000 lot In Los Angeles distributed Frldav. May 14. "if all ' county, and a pick of a job here, goes according to plan," Superin- I Victory was particularly welcome Undent R. IL Bitney said thi ' to Mrs. George, she said, because her morning from the Klamath Agency. "We think we can get them ont by that time, but we'll be hard pressed to do it." Bitney told The Herald and News. Some 1.600 payments of $200 each are to be distributed. Only checks for minors will be withheld, and payments due the loan board will be deducted. . husband has needed to come to Cali fornia for his health. They had been working ln a Lebanon nursery. The program's riddle read: "Old chief wind bag, gloomy and gay; I'm one over others that lie in decay. Where can I be found? Upon low ground. That's all I will say." Mrs. George said she new Cairo lies on low ground. Colorful Dancers Fill OVS Gym At All-County Festival juj vis V H .atwaaieisaiwpps I : fn;Wif t '.fa "I. K & tEA S Im SL2l:l. ZLLliA I The first postwar all-county music festival attracted hundreds to the OVS gymnasium Friday despite the weather. This picture thow the. massed dancers In colorful dress aa they went through several folk dances on the big gym floor. Elizabeth Henderson, supervisor of muale In the Klamath county schools, directed the program which featured massed bands, choruses and dance. Student from fifth grade through high school participated. Evergreen iludle. k v
