mm M in in Tlit) iiiii Wf ATHtR .17 lly HIASK JF.NKINH nS llir.ie wuitla arc willlrn, the llrltlali urn pulling out of Pales tine. 'I ll" I'ulril Inr Jews have pro lulllird it new alum Ihn atiilo of Israel, Thrlr troops mIiiiiiI cmlmltlrd nil Din Inn ili'in, iraily lu defend, til ll new nliilct. Anil troopa Hit rueumped on the 0 Hl:U BIUK ol the Imt tier pre aiimiiuly irmly to iiiijvd In null HMAMII the in Jrwuli atule. fl lie Aruba lire doing a lot l muttering Into thrlr flowing brniiU. The Jews hi anylng reliillvcly Utile, but rg lingering the ti lininm of their rlllon.) THE real ul us, niiiie nr linn all over 1 the wnrlil, arc walling nervously tu arc what we ahull Are. Wo hojic we nrrn't wulrhiim another Mnrnjevo or uniitlier Poland. iWurltl Wur 1 got lu ahoolliui urt at Hiiidlevii mill World Wur 11 got lu thiKilliiK aiurt lu I'liluniti lien the right of thin Pulra ki tine business? T Where lira the wrong? TIium lire pregnniil questlona. but l.V answers to them are hidden III the mint nt mitltiulty. The Jews point out thnl I'ulcallne li their miceiitrnl home. True rnmiKh. Hut thrlr mircstora TOOK IT KltOM BOMKHODY KI.HK. The ArnlM nul the Tuika look I'nlejillne I rum Hip Jews. Tliry hnve held It lor no iniiiiv rrnturlra they now CALL IT TIIKIIM. Huch rr the bceiiiiiiniia of right and wrong Hurh la history. IK we could lei the Jews anil the 1 Arab! fight II out lo a finish we let a palnlul boll rome to a head before laming Iti It might be better for the world. What we fear. If that course la fol lowed, la lhal IUIHM1A WILL BTKP IN. If KiiMia steps In. we may feel thai we hare lo step lu. If both of tu tep In. we will be pro viding the making of another world war. That la why Palestine la making u all to nrrvuua. Log Auction Set June 14 l.AKKVIKW, May 14 Nearly HOOO.OOO board feel of Umber near Willow creek In the Bouth Warner region will be aold al oral auction by the Fremont national forest on June 14, It waa announced by Merle l,owdeh. auiiervlaor. Tlie aale will begin al 3 p. m. - The limber Includes an estimated J, 400.000 feel of live ponrirrosa pine, and about 3 .3110000 fret of white fir and dead poiuleroaa. The live pine will be aold at a minimum of 117.60 tier thousand, and the fir and dead pine will lie aold al not Iru than 13 30 per thousand. In addition, the purrhaarr must pay 31 renla per thousand for slash rilsposnl and 33 centa per Ihotiiuiud for aland Improvement. Too Big All Over For Phone Booth HOLLYWOOD, May 14 Ouy N. iTlnyi Cherry yearned today for hla home stale of Texaa where ihlnga In ncncrul and phone boolha III particular are bigger. When the D40-iund aelf-ac-knowlrdged "world's largrat cow boy and dlac Jix-kry" atrpiied Into a phone booth yraterday things were a bll cramped. Tiny Chrrry got murk. Me Inhnled enough to reach for a nickel, then callrd Ihr operator. "If you don't want me lo wear I hla phone booth home, you'd bel ter aend aomebndy quick," he ex haled to the operator. Police arrived. They removed the door and releiuied Tiny after 20 minutes. "I never had this trouble back home In Texas," he alghed. mi. u in s aim I'lii-lpllallan Ull al hauls . oil Miriam Mar la Sala ... 10 at l.a.l a( 1.11 Narmal lu B4 raraiasll ea'llr elatnlr lonlllil, eUarlrtc ealaraar. la I? I'llICK riVK CI'.N'IK KLAMATH FAM.S, OIIKOON, FRIDAY, MAY 14, IBIS Trlrphint till No. 1369 Jews Proclaim State Russians In North Korea Cut Off Power Supply To American Zone In South I tnrr navy power bargea came to the lly WILLIAM R. MOOIir. MKODL, May 14 ll'l, Kuaalan oreuparil North Korea eut off power lo the U. H. tone In the south today In a dlapula Intenalflrd by an Amrrl ean vlrlory In Monday'a South Korean Independence elerllon. Ainerlran authorities were ready, however, and wheela turned as uaual In occupied Installations. Two for- Mrs. Belding Dies After Short Illness News of the death of Mrs. Mollle HcUIIng In Ixiiig lleach, Calif., alter a moiilh'a lllnrns wua wired lo The Herald and News Unlay by her son, Don fielding. Mis. lidding came to Klamath Kails from Grants Pans with her son In 1UIB and remained here until 103 when she retired and moved to Long lieach. Altogether she taught primary grades In Ore gon schools tor M years and in many cases she took sons and daughters of former students through the flral grade. Her last claaj waa at Hot Springs school In 1B38. In IU4& she wrote her biography, "Mollle tickling's Memory Uook." which was considered one of the Uirre beat books printed In tlie West during that year. The edition was limited to 300 copies lor private distribution and la now a collector's Item. bhe leaves her only son, Don Beld ing, chairman of Uie board of Poole, Cone and Htldlng. national advertis ing agency, and two grandchildren. Don Belding Jr.. president of the William Caxton company, typo graphers, of Los Angeles, and Bar bara Uridine, a senior at Occidental college. Bhe will be burled beside her father, William P. Dowell, an Ore gon pioneer, In Ban Bernardino, Calif. Carrier Due For US Trip WA8II1NOTON. May 14 ! The globe-glrdllng aircraft carrier Valley Forge anon will put Into New York for a five-day visit. Accompanied by her two escorting destroyers, the W. C. Lane and Uie Lloyd Thomas, the 27.000-ton flat top has "shown the flag" from the China coast lo Norway. Bhe la now on her way from England to the weat coast. The navy announced that the task group will arrive In New York May 32 Maritime Day. After a five-day visit, the three ships will leave for Balboa and Ban Diego, where they are expected to wind up the round-the-world orulse June 11. Among the spots visited alnce leaving Tslnglao, China, are Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon, Persian Oulf Gibraltar, Bergen, Norwny, and Southampton. aid of auxiliary army units In pro viding needed electricity. A continued shutdown of power from the north which furnishes more llisn half the supply In Mouth Kurra would force rationing upon Korean factories and residences, U. H. offlclala warned. There have been temporary Inter ruptions of the power How from Uie north brfore. Consequently, no one In authority would say the current shutdown was permunent. North Koreana had sent an ulti matum over the radio at Pyongyang, K o v I e I occupation headquarters. They said the power would be shut off at noon today nnlrss a Kouth Korran representative was sent to nrgotlate over an old and disputed power bill. American authorities Ignored the ultimatum, saying they were not ac customed to negotiating by radio. The North Koreans charge the 1J. H. has refused to psy an old bill for power furnished front Japan's surrender lo May, 194T. Ths U. S. says It Is ready to pay. and has paid part a much aa possible un der the Hovlets' demand lor machin ery Instead of dollars. Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge refused to negotiate with tlie North Koreans. He Insists on drallng with the Rus sians, who say they have turned it over to the North Koreans. Easter Free In Shooting A circuit court Jury deliberated only 15 minutes Thursday afternoon before freeing William Jackson raster. M-year-old California ave nue grocer, of an Indictment charg ing assault, armed with a danger ous weapon. Easter admittedly fired a shot which slightly wounded Dick Oas klns. 1114 California, at the store last December, but maintained that he fired In self-defense and In pro lection of himself in his home. The shooting took place In a small living room adjoining the store room. The Jury of 10 men and two women took the case at 4:40 p. m. and reached a verdict while De fense Attor ' U. 8. Balentlne waa rending Into the record exception! lo Circuit Judge David R. Van denberg's Instructions to the Jury. Victor O'Neill served as Jury foreman. Skunk Pays Visit To Portland PORTLAND, May 14 At Some how a black and white furred ani mal got Into Portland right down lo the Intersection of Broadway and Washington the heart of the city. There II tried to cross against traffic lights and was killed. Its distinctive aroma remained In the vicinity two hours and crowds were thin In that area. Mandate To End Today; Troops Out By JAMKH M. LONG TKL AVIV, Palestine, May 14 Wi The state of Israel, first Hebrew nation In 2000 yeara, was born to day n a Jewlah declaration of In dependence asserting the "historic rlrht" of the Jews of Palestine to reconstitute their national home. The proclamation by the national council Is effective at one minute after midnight, when the Britain's 31-year rule of the Holy Land ends. The British high commissioner al ready has left Palestine soil for a British cruiser, and the British mandate government has left the holy city of Jerusalem. War Hlated While Jewish forces and soldiers of the surrounding Arab countries prepared for war. the Jews pro claimed their "right to a life of dig nity, freedom and labor." The declaration said this right was rec ognised by the United Nations. The Arab league,-, meanwhile, planned to set up an administra tion not a state of their own In Palestine to function with occupy ing Arab forces If and when Pales tine Is Invaded. (In London the Arab office de clared the termination of the Brit ish mandate had created a dis astrous situation In the Holy Land, but "will at least give the Arabs the opportunity which they have never had until now of reaisting the in vaders far to face and without the interventions of a foreign power which has hitherto given them its protection. The general secretariat of the Arab league has proclaimed a state of war existing with Pales tin Jewry.) Two Policemen Shot In Bold Robbery Attempt gjrrwamsj 1 vy r. r-.T! 3tv . ly Luavi tifirs 1 .ZisJ A Sun Francisco police Inspector attempts to get a statement from Bgt. James Erlekson, 31, (left) I while hospital technician X-rays Officer f'harles Fowlle .11 (right), The two policemen were allot when lliey attempted In Investigate the home of the general manager of a drug atora firm where two gunmen Were holding two families as hostages while they planned robbery of narcotics and money from two stores operated by the firm. Krirkson and another officer were surprised and disarmed aa they approached the house. The gunmen then forced the officers to their patrol ear and opened fire when Krlckson lunged at thrm. Fowlle waa struck In the neck, Krlckson In the stomach. A third officer ducked behind the police ear aa the gunmen escaped In another auto. NEA telephoto.' Watchman Is Ice Winner JUNEAU, Alaska, April 14 Iff"! A Juneau watchman who won $10, 000 In tlie Tenana ice breakup guessing contest yesterday said to day he may quit his Job and visit the United Slates for the first time In 40 years. Tony Marsh, IS. night watchman at Uie Juneau sub-port, was among those w ho guessed the breakup time on the minute 11:13 a. m. yester day. Marsh came to Juneau In 1908 from what now Is Yugoslavia. He hadn't been "outside" since. Two Juneau women, Mrs. E. L. Cecottle and Mrs. Selma Fors. said they would split their share of the prize money. The name of Mrs. Fors was on one of IS winning guesses. The two women, neighbors on the Glacier highway, said they were so surprised at winning they hadn't made any plans. Guessers won a total or tlM.OOO by predicting the exact time the ice would start moving In the Tenana river, near Fairbanks. The names of 11 Individuals were on winning guesses. Four other win ning entries were marked by com binations of persons. Aviation Industry Needs Time SPOKANE. May 14 MV-The avia tion Industry needs 18 months to make first deliveries for the 70-group air force ordered by congress, an In dustry spokesman said Thursday. Harvey Stowers, Los Angeles, as sistant to the president of Aircraft Industries Association of America, said at a Rotary club meeting that production problems multiply as air craft speeds Increase. Latest high-speed planes, he said, require vastly Improved power plants, refrigerated cockpits, thinner wings and other features which In crease production problems. Launches Oregon Campaign V1.: Nj :?i Harold IS tauten, candidate for republican presidential nominee, five a rapid-fire Interview with newspapermen upon hit arrival In Portland, Ore for another ipeakinf tour of Oregon. NEA telephoto. Six Plane Crashes Claim At Least 20, Perhaps 55- Lives Br The Asaoclated Press Six plane mishaps on four con tinents have claimed the lives of at least 20 and perhaps 55 persons. Best known among the dead was Lady Hartinffton, the daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy of Boston, for- mur '. n. lmniMinnr ui ixinunn.. Hht dla-rf nrmr Prlvu In Southern! the Engdahl On Klamath Trip Carl Engdahl. slate senator from Umatilla county, was In Klamath Fulls today In connection with his candidacy for delegate to the re publican national convention for trar second congressional district. Engdahl Is a Umatilla county farmer. In the senate, he was a close friend and supporter of the late Senator Marshall Cornett of Klamath county, and supported the Klamath Otcroo-Variational- school bill In the last session. As a mem ber of the ways and means sub committee handling the OVS appro priation. Engdahl took the step that revived it after disapproval. T will appreciate the support of Klamath republicans at the primary next Friday," said the Umatilla man. "There are eight candidates for second district delegate, with two to be elected. My name Is No. 30 on Uie ballot." Floods Gain In Washington CHEWELAH. Wash.. May 14 MP! Flood water crept higher in Chewe lah today in the first flood In the town's history. Mrs. Barney Dahl of t'.. Chewelah Independent said damage has been heavy but the flood has not ap proached disaster proportions. Water covering a section of main highway through town was 18 Inches deep, she said. Sandbags were protecting the city hall which was surrounded by water. Tlie greatest danger. Mrs. Dahl said, was that one of the three old dams two miles north of town might collapse. Nearly three feet of water is pouring over each of the three small dams and a flume connecting them is in bad condition. Several farm settlements In the area are under water. France with three others. Including Lord Fltzwilliam. the eighth earl of hla line. The other two were crewmen. Only one known survivor came through the six mishaps. Thirty-five were missing. The other crashed planes were In Belgian Congo. Saudi Arabia, Alaska, Massachusetts and Switzer land. African Crash A Sabena airliner which dis appeared yesterday over the Belgian Congo with 25 passengers and six crewmen was found wrecked In the African colony. The plane was a DC -4 on the Belgian Congo-Belgium run. The airline's office in Brussels said nothing was known of casual ties. A V. 8. B-29 Superfortress fell in Saudi Arabia. 110 miles northwest of Dhahran. The U. S. air force said In Wiesbaden. Germany, that nine bodies have been found. Four persons are missing and one sur vivor has been found. The plane apparently crashed Tuesday on a training run between Germany and the Asian airport '-.. Fighters Explode Two U. 8. air force fighter planes exploded and crashed at Anchorage. Alaska, yesterday. Both pilots were killed. The planes were In a group of four maneuvering four miles above. Both went Into almost ver tical dives and were blasted In a rending explosion about 8000 feet up. Three crewmen of an army C-54 transport plane were killed yester day in a crash at Northampton, Mass. The plane burst into flames during a rainstorm, dug a hole eight feet into a soggy field and splattered wreckage over five acres. Two Swiss fliers were killed prac ticing emergency landings at Lo carno, Switzerland. One was Maj. Piste Hltz, who helped rescue 12 Americans stranded 9000 feet up on Aguli glacier in 1946. Utah Governor Raps Republicans SALEM, May 14 (V-Utah's Gov. Herbert Maw told a democratic party rally here last night the West's gains under the new deal will be wiped out If republicans carry the November elections. Republican control of the national administration would result In vir tual halt of western reclamation and hydroelectric projects, he said. Maw was introduced by Lew Wal lace, Portland, candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. Weary Miners Continue Battle To Rescue Three Men Trapped In Water Flooded Coal Mine SHAMOKIN, Pa., May 14 (flV-Weary, grim-faced rescue crews clung today to the belief that three men entombed in a flooded mine 175 feet underground are still alive. Heartened by this hope, the rescuers some of whom have gone without sleep for nearly 38 hufirs manned pumps and reported they thought they were winning their battle against tlie water. Frank Arrlson, who kept an all-night vlgU at the water's edge deep down in the hole, came up at daybreak to report It had receded about eight Inches. He also reported that the tappings, first heard yesterday continued to resound sharply and clearly through 100 feet of solid coal and rock. Indicating that one or more was alive. Meanwhile, some 8000 free lance coal dtgftora and truckers laid down their tools In a work holiday until the entombed trio Is brought to the surface. The three men were trapped ' below the surface of the earth by seeping rain water two days ago. The three Charles Bashore, 43; Edward Heck, 42, and Peter Dor don, 36, all of Bhamokln apparently were unaole to escape to the sur face when an unusually heavy rainstorm flooded tha shaft they bought for Independent operation Just two weeks ago. Gordon is the father of two children and Bashore of four.. Time Change To Be Asked SEATTLE, May 14 A Seattle councilman said today all of Wash ington's cities and towns will be asked next week to adopt daylight saving time tor June, July and Aug ust. Councilman Alfred R. Rochester announced efforts to expand the daylight saving plan after informal polls Indicated the Seattle council would approve Monday an ordi nance to advance clocks one hour during the summer months. Rochester said a telephone check Indicated mayors of nearby Western Washington communities favored the plan, provided Seattle takes the Initiative. Rochester said mayors who ex pressed approval of the plan In cluded those of Tacoma, Bremerton, Klrkland, Renton, Sumner, Bothell, Olympia, Auburn and Everett. National Guard Ordered Out In Minnesota Riot ST. PAUL, Minn., May 14 (AP) Ths Minnesota nation al guard was called out today for duty at strikebound pack ing plants in Newport and South St. Paul, tcenei of strike violence. Governor Luther Youngtdaht directed the adjutant gen eral to call tha troops after mob raided the Cudahy plant in Newport last night, damaging the interior and carrying away 30 plant workers as hostages. Yesterday South St. Paul police were repulsed by pickets when they attempted to enforce a court order prohibiting mass picketing. Adjutant General Ellard Walsh said a "substantial task force" of the guard would get the strike assignment. Ha in dicated motorized and mechanized units would be dispatched to the two towns. The governor said he waa not proclaiming martial law but was calling out the guardsmen to aid civil authorities. He ha asked representatives of the union and management to discuss with him the merits of the strike solution. The call came about 12 hours after the mob Invaded the Cuda hy plant. (For additional details see full story on page 14). Lake Men Go To John Day LAKE VIEW, May 14 Several Lakeview men prepared today to move to John Day for Saturday and Sunday's convention of the Three Flags Highway association. Jack Mayne, manager of the chamber of commerce here and of the highway association, left this afternoon with Gene Favell for Bums, for a conference preliminary to the John Day meeting. County Judge J. R. Heckman of Lakeview, C. W. E. Jennings of Val ley Falls, and A. B. Wilson of Alturas, will go together to the meeting. Supervisor Merel Lowden of the Fre mont forest will go over to John Day from Bend, where he Is attend ing a forest meeting tonight. Dr. E. F. Auble of Alturas will fly to John Day from Sacramento, where he Is visiting. Manager Charles Stark of the Klamath chamber of commerce and Malcolm Epley of The Herald and News at Klamath will go to John Day after attending a US 97 meet ing at Bend tonight. . Steelworkers To Curb Reds BOSTON, May 14 Wi The ClO's biggest union, the steelworkers, to day barred communists from holding office. The nearly 3200 delegates changed the union constitution to keep com munists out of any local or Inter national office and to prevent them from serving as delegates or as members of any committee. The action came as the union's 14-man eexcutive board pondered the major problem of whether they should sign non-communist affi davits under the Taft-Hartley law. The major steel companies do not Intend to make new wage contracts with the union, if It does not com ply. President Philip Murray said yesterday. Only one or two delegates today opposed the constitutional change to bar communists from union of fice. Robert Ratner of Los Angeles asked: "Who Is going to be Judge of who is a communist?" The opposition was swept away, however, by a number of delegates who blasted, "crummy commies I " and "agents of the Kremlin." Senator Overton Dies In Capital WASHINGTON, May 14 OF) -Senator John H. Overton of Louisi ana, 73. died early today at Bethesda naval hospital. He underwent a serious abdominal operation May 5. Once a center of political con troversy in his state, Overton had been a member of congress since 1931. He was elected to the house of representatives that year to finish an unexpired term. Navy Asks MoreVork On Rockets WASHINGTON, May 14 (IP) Sec retary Sullivan asked congress to day to let the navy speed work on grided missile ships and a giant S5, 000-ton aircraft carrier. He testified before a house armed serticeai sobeommittee in support of a bill which would allow the navy to stop construction of 13 ships and divert approximately S3 00.0O0.004 to vessels of newer types. The 13 ships already have cost S497,000,000, Sul livan said. No Heatings As Sullivan described plans for putting a heavier punch In the navy's air arm. Chairman Andrews (R.-N. T.) of the full armed serv ices committee announced there will be no hearings on a proposal to pep up armed forces recruiting with cash bonuses. The navy wants to qolt work ess one battleship, the Kentucky, a large cruiser, the Hawaii, seven de stroyers, two destroyer escorts, and two submarines, Snlliran said. . , "Other ships have a higher pri ority because of the more immedi ate operational need for them la the event of an emergency," he ex plained. The Kentucky and the Hawaii are td be turned into guided missile : ships.-,. ---- ' f Andrews' stand pointed wp the possibility of a tng-of-war between hsnse personalities. It would deiav r even prevent boose vote est the draft. Troops Move j Toward North - MONTREAL, May 14 (CP) Harold Dingman, the Montreal Herald's Ottawa press gallery cor respondent, said in his column "In Canada's Capital" today that United States troops and supplies are mov ing through Canada to Alaska at a rate unequalled since the end of the war The troops are belt.' moved largely by air, he said, while supplies are belns sent by rail to Dawson Creek, B. C, and thence to Fairbanks, over the Alaska highway. U. S. army establishments at Fort Nelson, B. C, and Edmonton, key stops on the northwest air staging route to Alaska, have been enlarged since the first of the year, he said. American troops and officers In the north "seem convinced they are headed for combat service." Western Solons Blast Compact WASHINGTON, May 14 (P Four Pacific Northwest senators voted Thursday to send back to the sen ate Judiciary committee a bill to give congress "sanction to a southern states" education compact. The bill was sidetracked by a vote of 38 to 37. Republicans for: Dworshak of Idaho; Cordon and Morse of Oregon. Democrats tor: Magnuson of Washington. Republicans against: Cain of Washington. Dewey And Stassen Paths Cross, But Pair No Nearer Agreement On Slated Debate Topics By a L. LIVINGSTONE PORTLAND, May 14 (fl The paths of Thomas E. Dewey and Harold E. Stassen crossed today, but they were no nearer agreement on terms of a proposed debate. The rival republican presidential aspirants passed each other on the highway east of here as Dewey re turned in a charter bus from a state wide campaign and Stassen went out by automobile on a tour of his own. This momentary nearness was geographical only. On the proposed debate to which each asreed earlier Stassen still waa holding out for a publie platform discussion of all campaign issues. Dewey was In sisting It be a radio debate on the question of outlawing communism. Three dnys of discussion by their aides In Portland have failed to solve the problem. Week Left So the two rolled on tor their respective campaigns with only a week left before the state goes to the primary polls May 31. Behind the New York governor lay more than three-score speaking dates and nearly 2000 miles of travel. His voice was reduced to a hoarse rasp from laryngitis and constant speaklnr. He Buffered, by his own terminology, "a lousy head cold." His Schedule today In Portland, however, kept him on the move. He addresses a noon luncheon of the Oregon council of farm cooperatives, and tonight appears on a national radio network (Mutual in "Meet the Press"). Dalles Dinner Dewey yesterday toured along the Columbia river from Pendletoh, capping the day with a dinner and public rally at The Dalles. His reception at The Dallea had the trappings of a true presidential campaign. His bus and trailing motorcade was led down the Main of The Dalles hotel he was Intro duced Into the Celilo Indian tribe by Celilo chieftains In buckskin and feathered headdress. Stassen spent yesterday In Port land, mostly In rest before starting his wlndup tour. Dewey Ahead ' Each candidate had breakfast In Hood River today, but Dewey was aboui two hours ahead of Stassen, They also spoke from the same sits, the Hood River courthouse steps with Dewey again two house In ad vance. From Hood River Stassen was scheduled to go on to The Dalles and Klamath Falls. He will spend the next week backtracking Dewey's trail In tke campaign for Oregon's 12 republican delegates. At stake Is the psychological vales of victory In the last primary elec tion before the republicans noml nation convention In Philadelphia June 21, upon which are riding street by a band, and on the steps h!f h political stakes for both.