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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1948)
!Mf5(5 1u.TIm ' 1 IT n i inn Br ritANK JKNKINR URNRV WALLACE wants U) talk " PKACK with Uio RuuIaim. He thliika U' t shame wo don't da mar of It. Ill Portland tlx other nllllit, h told till hearerai "In Uio past two weeks, the Rus- alans hove twice aald they want to talk about a pence to end Uila cold war. It la peace which can bj made wllhuul sacrificing a alnulo American principle or publlo In tereat." niD you ever undo norma with a " allekcr? If ao, you mut remember that he u alwaya ready, even eager, to talk trade. The way he put It up lo you, you Jual couldn't loae. He made you ashamed ol any baae uaplcluiu aa to hla Integrity that might enter your mind. Hut If you made the trade aid It turned out that the horae waa balky you were Just atuck. You wiahed than you had been a little more suspiciuus wuiia uiere waa iuu Ulll. "4 When It woa TOO LATE, you could think of a lot. of Uilngs that OUOIIT to have Upped you off to the kind of pcraon you were dealing with. JJKRE ' U a word of advice to Henry who really lan't a com munist, ilea Juat a aap. (Aa llila writer recalls It, alter the lapae of many, many yean, Henry U exactly the kind of aap who alwaya got badly atuck In a horae trade back in the daya when horae trading waa a regular business.) Teal Uieaa Moacow sharpers out a little, Hank. Oet 'am on record with aometlilng unglble. Put It to 'em aomething like Una: "My people are atuplcloue of you, Joe. They have a notion that you and your crowd aren't to be trualed Bo they're hanging back on me. If we're going to make a deal on Uila 'end the cold war' busineas, you'll have lo convince) tlieae Americana that you're on the level. "Why dun'l you GET OUT Or CZECHOSLOVAKIA! Turn thla beautiful and progreoalve and demo cratic little country back to the librrty-loving people who built It. Oet out. bag and baggage. Take your acerel police with you. Call olf your communist doga. Bay you've made a mlatake and are carry and that hereafter their country la thelra to do with aa they plcaae without any Interference from ouuidera." BNOTHKR thing, Joe. " "Quit bedeviling little Finland. My peaple are atrong for Uie Pinna. Tliey odmlr 'em. Amerloaiu al waya admire people who pay their bills, even If paling makea the akin lip. Theae Pinna have alwaya paid their honeal debta lo ua. even when they had a lot of precedent for beating ua out of what they owed tie. "Olve Finland a real break. Oet out of there too." 'NO while you're at It, If you really want to make a peace deal witli ua, quit atlcklng your note Into the affatra of Prance. The Prench are good people. If they WANT communism, well and good. They'll vole for It But If they don't want It, quit trying to force It on 'em. "If you'll do all theae Uilnga, In good faith, and live up to 'em, Uie American people will get back the confidence they once had In you. Then we can do bualneaa. People who have confidence In each other can alwaya get along together. "If you'll do theae Uilnga, Joe, and MEAN It, I think I can make a drill over here. But If you OONT well, I might even loae confidence In you myaelf. After all, you know, I'm an American." i e TRY It out, Hank. If your friend Joe will meet you halfway In aomewhat the manner here Bug gealed, It will be wonderful. You'll have aaved the world and will be quite a guy. But If you keep on working to make peace RUSSIA'S WAY, regardlpaa, you might keep getting yourself In deeper and deep er bill you'd wind up where Bene dict Arnold did, 1 , CONTRACTS OK PULLMAN, May 86 VP) The Washington State college board of regenU has approved two contraoU totaling 138,509.49 for construction of buildings at Wenatchee and Pull man, acliool offlclnla anld today. WEATHER Man. (Mar ll SI Mln, a rrfHelullan lal S4 htura....Tra(a Slrtain year tm Sal Iliftft Narmal IS.ee l.aal ftar 7,t raraaaall shtwara, I'KICIi F'VK CUNTS mm m mil . , , . . - I fo) JV la KLAr&-ft -6. OKKfiON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1046 .-JpV-O ; -. ; Telephone 8111 No. 1370 ' trr. .fV Ms ftmtefie Mm . . ,i Judge Duncan Rules Thai Income Tax Surplus May Be Used To Pay Expenses Admits Fires Louis Lopes, M-year-old railroad section hand, told sheriff's drputlea that he haa act a score of fires In the Los Anselte area which caused damage eaUmated at 12.0O0.WX). Two Theatre Chains Merge In S join, etatement yesterday, Oeorge Mann and Robert L. Uppert ot Ban Francisco announced a mer ger of the two theatre circuits bear ing their names. Approximately 61 tliealres are Involved In the deal. Mann's houses Include those In Klamath Palls. Eureka, Ukleh. Marysvllle. Woodland. Dlnuba, Ar eata, Fort Bragg, Porluna and Hraldaburg. Among Uppert's Interests are the atrea In Medford, Aahland, Weed, Yreka, Sacramento. Fresno. Cor coran. Sanger, as well as a number of drlven-lns. The merger will not affect the operation of the Klamath Falls theatres In any way. It was an nounced. Present personnel and operating policies will continue. Fliers Parachute From P-38 Blast FOREST OROVE, Ore.. May 28 (XI Two airmen parachuted to safety near here yesterday as their plane caught fire In midair while practicing stunts for an air circus. Both of the stuntmen were un injured In coming to earth. One came down In a walnut tree. The plane shattered In an explosion on a field nenrby. . Pilot Dick Martin reported he had ordered his companion, Ed Nllund, of Hlllsboro, to ball nut after one of the two engines on the wartime Pursuit P-38 piano burst Into flnma. He brought the plane to a lower elevation, hoping to . crash land, but then decided lo Jump to save his own life. The plane was one of several as sembled here for the Ralston Air show, Inc., a flying circus group that plans a tour of northwest cities next month, I $236 Million Building Plan Fund For USBR Gets Approval WASHINGTON, May 26 A carry over Item of 12,449,303 for the Kla math project was Included In appro priations for the reclamation bureau approved by the house appropria tion committee today to cover the year starting July 1, The committee approved a record 1310,731,870 for reclamation con struction. This, with oarry overs of 26,168,3(10, will permit a total build ing program of $230,800,130. As It voted Uie big outlay for rec lamation work, the cnmmlttca warn ed Hint the reclamation bureau must find ways and means of cutting con si ruction costs and put them Into effect. ' i "The committee admonishes the bureau of reclamation that rising rnats of construction of Irrigation facilities without corresponding benefits lhaf can he translated Into rrpsymeni anility is threatening tne rlflure of reclamation as si federally financed program," Its report said. "The committee will expect from the bureau next year full report on an effective lower project cost construction program to achieve ef fective results." Outlining Its policy on reclama tion development, the committee emphasised that Irrigation benefits must continue to be the primary aim of the program. "Development of hydroelectric power Is Incidental to Irrigation and la made as a means of financially aiding and assisting such under takings , , "The bureau of reclamation should not use Its power and authority or funds entrusted to Its care to con struct power facilities that are not essential to carrying out the pur pose of the reclamation laws. It Is unsound ..." In addition to the Klamath ap propriation, the committee approved an $887,205 Item for the Deschutes, project, Deschutes work Includes reconstruction of the Ochocho dam, where flood conditions are said to threaten the town of rrlnevllle,) . HAI.F.M. May 26 IIP) Circuit Judge George K. Duncan ruled today that Income tax surpluees can be uard to pay current slate expense. He dismissed a cose brought by Charles A. Sprague, Salem publisher and former governor, who sued to prevent the tax communion from carrying out Attorney General Oeorgo Neuncr's opinion that the Income tax aurplua revenues can be used to pay suite expenses. Appeal Keen Mprague la expected lo appeal to the elate auprrme court, which will be ashed to rule before Its summer recess begins early In July. The tax eommlaslon needa a ruling by July because It makes Its annusJ state tax levy during that month. The slate Income tax was passed In IMS, and It contained a settlor, Uiat lu revenue must be used to reduce property taxes. Judge Dun can's opinion holds, however, that after the state property tax has been offset, as well as other proper'y taxes for which the legislature hss provided shall be offset, then the rest of the Income tax money can be used to pay for legislative ap propriations. Big Deficit "" " The Income tax surpluses now amount to (35,000,000. If the sur plus money were not used, then the stale would have a $5,000,00 deficit In lla general fund by the end of the current blennlum on July 1, l49. Judge Duncan's opinion said: "This court Is of the opinion that by the provisions of the Income tax art, the revenue therefrom In excess of transfers, allocations and refunds required by the act becomes surplus In the general fund lo be used to offeet the estimate of expenditures for the ensuing year which the lax commission Is required to make.1 Fire Rghtiiig School Ends Actual. problems In forest fire lo cation and control provided by Monday's lightning storm, were worked by the group studying fire prevention and control methods In a three-day session this week. Wednesday concluded the course sponsored by Klamath Forest Pro tective association for KPPA per sonnel and other Interested groups. The three fires started by lightning which were reported Tuesday morn ing In adjacent forest lands were located by compass and mopped up within record Ume by Uie group, using wet earth for control In place of water. The course Included classes In lo. cation and control of small fires on Uie Tuesday's program and these actual fires same at a convenient Ume for practical work. Use of water equipment was studied this afternoon with equip ment borrowed from the Oregon Vocational school and Uie program was concluded with a class In dls trlct policy. Alaska Posts 'Undefended' SEATTLE!. Mav M to Tn m,nl of war "Russia could take over many airncicis in Alaska at any time," be lieves itay srannaman, national commander of Uie Veteran nf p. eign Wars. Just returned from a flying tour of U. S. defenses In Uie territory, Bramiamnn said he found a "de plornble condition." "You can't defend an Important airstrip wlUi a company of en gineers," he said. "Armv strateuv now henitn nt lethargy on Uie part of congress and uie complacency or the American neonle anema in hA fn In tVi- t. staiis effect successful landings and then try to bomb them out," he ex plained In discussing Uie possibility of a war with Russia. Search Launched For Wife Slayer VANCOUVER, B. 0.. May 28 (CP) Provincial police l,puosday Issued a warrant charging 32-year-old Percy Jean Baker with the hammor and tourniquet murder of his waitress- wne Aima Joanna.' Simultaneously, the search for Baker was accelerated. Border points wore warned to check United States bound trains and automobiles. The body of slender Mrs. Baker, about 30, was found In her blood soaked bed Friday by her three children, she had been struck on the head with a hammer, stabbed with a pair of scissors and strangled with the hammer handle and a piece of cloth, applied In tourniquet fashion. Exchange Of Publications To Be Free By EDWIN hllANKE BERLIN, May 28 (-The Rus sians notified American authorlUrs today they are ready to come to a suitable settlement for free ex change of publlcatlona between Uie Soviet and V. N. sonea of Germany. MaJ. (ien. Oeorge Hays, I). S. deputy military governor, said the luting of an American Ban on Movlrt-llcensed publications "de pends on whether the Kusaixne give ua guarantees to remedy the situa tion." He said that ainee the ban went Into effect a week ago. there have been reports thst Soviet au thorities are relaxing their Inter ference. Col. Gordon E. Textor, head ot the American Information control division, last week banned the Im portation of Soviet-licensed publica tions Into Uie American xone in re taliation for wholesale confiscation and other discriminations against American-licensed publications In Uie Soviet zone. Letter gent In a conciliatory letter today, Lt. Ocn. M. I. Dretivln, Uie Russian deputy military governor, asked his opposite number In Uie U. S. tone, MaJ. Ocn. Oeorge Hays, to rescind Uie prohibition. "I can tell you." the letter said, "we hope to come to a suitable setUemrnt by which every possibility of Infringement of procedure for exchange of papers will be ex cluded." Directive No. 5S of the silled con trol council provides for the free exchange of publications throughout tiermany. Textor charged the Rus sians violated it. The U. S. deputy commander of Berlin, W. T. Babccck, declared last night, the Russians seized 200 Oer mans at Oranlenburg; outside Ber lin, on May 16 and transported them to Saxony, where the Rus sians are reported to be operating uranium mines. GOP's Vin Tariff Fight WASHINGTON, May 28 (if) Amid democratic shouts ot "gag rule," republicans won Uie first major test for Uielr tariff bill today when Uie house voted to bar any amendments, The vote was 212 to 158. Republi cans voted solidly to bar amend ments; democrats solidly to permit them. That means the house must take the bill "as Is" or reject lt outright And Uie vote forecast It will be taken "as is." Democrats had fought for Uie right to propose changes. With this test out of the way, Uie republican leadership drove for passage of Uie measure before nightfall. It would extend the re ciprocal trade act tor one year and put congressional checkretns on the president's tariff-making powers. Secretary of State Marshall has said Uie republican measure would shake the foundations of America's foreign economic policy. The ad ministration asked a three-year ex tension of Uie present reciprocal trade act without change. Riding High Too High j3E3? , , : if 'WVi-sT V ' , V- ' I Mr f Swollen by spring rains and melting snows, the Willamette river rose three feet above Its 11-foot flood stage at Portland, Ore., and woa sUII rising. Here the steamship 88 Utrecht of Java Pacific Lines is riding so high at her moorings that loading the ship Is extremely dif ficult. NEA telephoto. Wallace Ends Oregon Tour Yith Further Blast At US Foreign Policy, Business COOS BAY, Ore, May K MV- Henry A. Wallace left Oregon today after a two-day presidential cam paign tour In which he criticised U. 8. foreign policy and warned that capitalism saust plan for peace., The third party candidate sold here last night that progressive cap italism and peace are the hope of America. He added that he be lieves In capital and has had more profitable business experience than either Gov. Thomas E. Dewey or Harold E. Stassen. Wallace said that large businesses should be required by the federal government to perform certain duties for the general welfare. He said the details could be worked out by Uie president's economic ad visory council. He IdenUfied large business as those doing an annual business of forty million dollars or more. NAM Accused . The candidate accused the Na tional AssoclaUon of Manufacturers of contributing to the high cost of living by defeating price control. "Scarcely no one has held the name up to the scorn to which it is en Utled," he asserted. In outlining the basis for his third party, Wallace predicted that a business crash, probably by 1951, could be prevented only by planning for peace. He urged an end to tne 'cold war and diversion of the Israel President Visits Truman J 1 money it costs to produeUve peace time effort. .. Repeating his earlier theme be fore campus groups at Eugene and Corvallis. Wallace said a war with Russia cannot bring a better peace than could be achieved by settling differences at Uie conference table. "Any peace which could come as a result of fighting," he said, "would be worse than a peace which could be won by discussion. The third party candidate drew a murmer of booe on the Oregon State college campus when he spoke favorably of the Potsdam and Yalta agreements. A student asked what assurance there would be against further Russian-!. S. talks resulting in another Potsdam or Yalta. "What was wrong with Potsdam and Yalta? I think we did weU there," Wallace replied. There was no further discussion ot the question. Wallace Is scheduled to speak to night at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. (for. i .'! W 1 O.Vil V v . kw (TP Road Work To Start Soon Clear warm weather has been the go-head signal for state highway crews to start at least two Jobs which have been held up for weeks because of wet roadbeds. Oiling will start on Uie seven-mile stretch from Mac's store to Midland next Tuesday. This road Is known as Uie Lower Klamath secondary high way. During the oiling period of between two and three weeks, the road will probably be closed except to residents of the area. A crew will start spreading rock and oiling on a 15-mile Job on Uie Bonanza Poe Valley - Matin road, a U, S. secondary, with the completion of the Midland project. Dr. Chalm Welsman, president of Israel, presents Truman with Tarah, or Holy 8croll, during a visit to the White House. NEA telephoto. Mountaineers To Honor War Dead SEATTLE, May 26 VP) Moun taineers will attempt an early-season climb of Mount Rainier Me morial Day to place a wreath atop Uie 14.402-foot peak In honor of mountaineers killed In World War II. The ceremony Is to call attention to the Mountain Cabin Memorial association's drive to build cabins throughout the state as memorials to mountaineer servicemen. The Dartv of climbers will h larf by Ome Dalber of Seattle. ' Daily Mirror ' ' Manager Dies NEW YORK, May 26 0P1 Robert H. Johnson, ST, general manager of the New York Dally Mirror, died last night after a heart attack suffered as he dined with his wife and two friends at a restaurant. He was a member of the Hearst organization for 27 years. - United Nations Fails In Effort To Bring Peace By MAX BOYD CAIRO, May 2 W Authoritative Arab sources said today the Arabs refuse to halt their shooting war against Israel unless the state is abandoned and the Jewish army disbanded. Even before the United NaUons security council deadline for s cease fire (9 a. m. PST), indications came from Arab capitals that the world organization had failed again to achieve peace In the blood spattered Holy Land. While Jewish military leaders braced for a stepped-up Arab on slaught in Jerusalem, Israel's provisional government informed the security council It is reconsidering its previous willingness to comply with a cease fire. This, the Jewish government said, la because the Arabs have undertaken a drive to win a decision in the battle of Jerusalem before the deadline. (At Amman, Trans-Jordan, an aulhorltaUva source Bald the Arab league has rejected an unconditional cease fire for Palestine). The Arab league's political com- A mlttee reconvened this morning In I Amman, Trans - Jordan, to draft conditions for Arab acceptance of the security council's plea for a truce. These conditions are be lieved to Include an end to Jewish immigration, dlsbandment of the Jewish array and return by Uie Jews of Jewish-occupied Arab ter ritory. These are considered certain to meet Jewish refusal. Prisoners Taken The Cairo newspaper Al Assas, organ of Premier Norashy Pasha's party, said Egyptian troops in Palestine took 1500 Zionist prison ers in the occupation of Delr Suneid, 23 miles southwest of Tel Aviv, during the Egyptian drive up the Palestine coast. In. Damascus, high Arab offi cials conferred at Uie palace of President Shurkrl Al Kuwatly of Syria. Al Anram, Independent Cairo newspaper, said the EgypUan gov ernment hod Informed Uie UN Uie cease fire order was unacceptable. Haganah, the army of Israel, said unidentified planes gave Jeru salem its first air bombing in his tory yesterday afternoon. There waa no confirmation from Jeru salem or in Arab capitals. Blits Seen Associated ' Press Correspondent Carter L. Davidson said the Jews Inside Jerusalem expect an Arab blitz designed to give the Arabs a victory to bolster presUge at home and abroad. The EgypUan army said its forces entered Iraq Suweidan, de scribed as a control point for com munications between the northern and southern Jewish setUements. It is 27 miles south of Tel Aviv and 10 miles inland from the coast. Inside the old city of Jerusalem the Arabs dynamited four addi tional buildings In the Jewish quarter, possibly burying many Arab Break Demanded LAKE SUCCESS, May 26 OP) A big power spokesman said today a demand may be mode for a world wide diplomatic break with the Arab countries if they refuse to accept a Palestine truce. The prospective move was re ported by the delegaUon of a major power as the 9 a. m. PST deadline for Uie security council's Holy Land cease-fire demand neared without any official acceptance or rejection from the Arabs. Reading Matter Proves Big Issue CHICAGO, May 26 WV-Marjorie Johnson, 20, a stenographer, likes to read the classics and wanted her husband to read them, too, she told Superior Judge Edwin A. Robson. But, she testified yesterday in her suit for divorce, be persisted In reading only the comics. They quar reled over their reading preferences, she said, and her husband, Raymond L., a stock clerk, struck her. Mrs. Johnson was granted a di vorce on grounds of cruelty. Reds Blamed For Treaty Talk Failure WASHINGTON. May 26 UPS Secretary of State Marshall today blamed Russia for the latest failure of Uie allied powers to negotiate an Austrian independence treaty. . Completion of Uie pact, he In dicated, would be a test of Uie Soviets' expressed desire for a bet ter International relations. ' Marshall also told a news con ference the United States has formally proposed to Britain, Prance and Russia that a conference on internaUonal navigation of the Danube river be opened in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. July 30. The conference was provided for In the Balkan peace treaties which became effective last September. On several Palestine questions Marshall provided very UtUe In formation. He said that he knew nothing about Uie possibility of a United States loan to Uie new state of Israel except what he has read In Uie newspapers. Longshoremen Slate Strike r SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 UP) Harry Bridges' powerful CIO Inter naUonal Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's union said today it waa going ahead with plans for a Pacific Coast strike June 15. . -"The next time we will meet in-; .' negotiations will be after the men ' are out June 15," said an ILWU statement. An employer announcement, how ever, said Uie controversy "appeared to be headed for a presidential board of inquiry" and a possible 80-day cooling off period. The ILWU and employers both conceded, that conciliation of their contract dispute had collapsed. The Waterfront Employers' association tWRA) anlrl th rhlpf tal!A hlrvkinff peace was tiie hiring hall. The hiring hall dispatcher under the present setup is a union member. The WEA wants this changed; the union wants no change. Benes Said Gravely III LONDON, May 26 UP) An official Csechoslovak diplomatic source said today President Eduard Benes la "gravely ill" and is not expected to recover. The informant said Csechoslo vokla's president had two strokes recently. Benes haa been 111 for a number of months. A spokesman for the Csechoslovak embassy would make no formal comment on his condition now, beyond saying that the state of the president's health la "very serious.". Deadlock Looms In Convention, Darkhorse May Get Nomination By JACK BELL Associated Press Political Writer New signs pointing to a conven tion deadlock In the battle for the GOP presidential nomination turned up today. Harold E. Stassen, one of three major contenders who have been matching claims for top delegate billing, added the latest forecast. Before he took off today on a seven-state swing to scrape the sup port Barrel again. Stassen said lt has become apparent that nobody is going to be nominated very early In the Philadelphia balloting. Support Claimed Bowled over by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey In the Oregon primary last week, Stassen bounced back to claim at a news conference yesterday that he still has more first and second choice support for the nomination than either Dewey or Senator Rob ert A. Taft Needless to say. Taft and Dewev backers dispute that vlgoroualy. But even In their camps there Is private acknowledgement that if someone doesn't give way and that fairly early In the balloting a dark horse, rather than any of the three. Is likely to get the nomination. Stassen Insisted his chances are good, despite the prestige and 12 Oregon votes he lost to Dewey last Friday. He contended he has enough first and second choice strength In sight so that lt "adds up to a pos sible nomination." In this connection, the former Minnesota governor said nine of his backers were among Uie 12 actually elected as delegates in Oregon. The 12 are bound by law to sup port Dewey as long as he Is a con tender. But after that, Stassen said he will get the nine votes. ; . j Texas For Taft ' Texas republicans went for Taft yesterday in one of the wlndup state meetings before the national con vention opens June 21. - The Ohio senator picked up 36 of the Lone Star state's 33 votes Dewey got two and Stassen one. Later in the day, Texas democrats decided their SO delegates to the July convenUon should be Instructed to fight President Truman's civil rights program but to support the : party nominee, whoever It might be, James A. Farley, former democratlo national chairman, predicted at Minneapolis yesterday that Mr. Tru man will be nominated on the first ballot, ! .,-. The republican convention In Texas brought these totals of dele- ' gates pledged, favorable and claimed without dispute for the three top . contenders: Dewey 146, Mtassen Ml, Taft 61. It takes 646 to grab the nomination. Only S3 GOP delegates now re main to be chosen, Including Cali fornia's 53 to be named In a primer June 1. v (
