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Newspaper Page TextFITS i 1 l ( JiMrtt 0 U U Lrx 1 u MS See picturct and ttory, InTluv Br FRANK JENKINS IS those words ere written, tome " thing Interesting It under sy up In Seattle, whore the American A MrltUim of University Women la holding IU tut biennial contention. A collet woman Inn the Old South (Lynchbun. Virginia) u pro posing to the AAUW thai It chants IU by-lawa to permit admission membership of qualified colored women. She says: 'Shall ho art now memben o( thla auocUUon. not br virtue of birth or social puaition. but by virtue of a collete detree, prove leM than a llllnt to work lor practical edit rauonal enda In tlie fellowship wl'.h other holder! nl degrees?" UOTI that the Isn't ASKINO FOR ' A LAW. She seeks VOLUNTARY notion. And don't overlook, Uw lent that the oomea from Uiat pert ol our country where the race problem It ever-present in a practical, person-lo-person wty. There IS a chance, you we. that thla prickly laau In our national life can be aettled ultimately by tolerance end individual fair think ing. WHILE you're about It, you might contrast the tolerant propoaal of thtt Southern woman with what happened In 8k Loula yesterday. A new awlmmlng pool had Just been opened In city park. In 8t. Loula. segregation hat been lite I ruatom el moat at long aa there ha been a city there. But BY LAW aeaTecatlon wat forbidden In thlt new pool. A BURIES Or FIOHTS FOL LOWED. At the peak of the ruckus, an esti mated crowd of between 4000 end Moo waa at the trene. Eleven per-1 torn were Injured two of them terioualy. recline It ttlll runnlni high, end police forcet htve been gnubled to prevent new outbreak!. The mayor, frightened by what happened, rescinded the non-segregation order. I rrs put It thla way: In St. Loult, an attempt to cure by law RIOHT NOW an ancient evil that can be cured permanently only by tolerance, falrneu and decent human sympathy haa precipitated riot that will ttlr angry passions and Inflame Intolerance to an extent that fill pnatpone tor a long, king time (Continued on Page Two) Day'ste Acheson Heads For Senate To Report On Big 4 Meet, Will Urge Quick Pact OK WASHINGTON, June M m HecretarjF of State Arheson heads for the senate today to report on the Parla foreign ministers meeting and probably to urge apeedler to ll on on the Atlantic pact and a related arms program. Arheson 's return from the Paris ireetlng yesterday was followed by an appeal from President Truman for "no slackening" In vital phases of American foreign policy. In a statement Issued after a meeting with Acheson. Mr. Truman said: "It must be frankly admitted that despite tha forward looking pro gram ipontnred by the western powers aa a basis for unification (of Oermany), little progress wat made." The result! of the meeting, he prided, "reveal the correctness of the policies thlt government haa been following In our foreign af fair. "The resulta again underline the necessity of pursuing these policies with calmness and determination, as wiv uiiij auiv niau w inv eniau- ll'hment of conditions In the world where peace and freedom can live and endure." Administration leaden art known poget 17 and 18. $55,500 Suit Filed Here In Accident Case Mra. Marie K. Campbell, of North Richland, Wash, filed lull here Tueaday agalnal William Ooen. local tnauranee agent and administrator of the Ray Joaeph Paiteeuw estate for damagee totaling 155.500. Mra. Campbell waa eerlotuly In jured In aii automobile accident last January 39, on highway M aome 17 mi tea north of Weed, which took the Uvea of two others. Including Pai teeuw. According to Mrs. Campbell, claims are baaed on the fact that ihim 1200 per mouth office work er, and the estimates the lose of future income at gso.ooo. Hospital bills, aha says, amounted to lO00, and damage to the automobile wat I. - - - - Alleged Injuries of the II-veer-old woman Include a fractured skull, fractured note, fractured right shoulder, five fractured ribs, frac tured pelvu and leg fractures. Mrs. Campbell charge In her complaint that the accident resulted from negligent driving on the part of Patteeuw. She was riding In an other car which collided with that operated by Patteeuw. Her attorney! are Vergeer and Samuel! of Port land. Gotham Brewery Strike Settled NEW YORK. June M 0PI The r'ty't big brewing Industry ttarted humming again today after settle ment of an M-day strike. The C700 strikers began reporting for work last midnight, and local brer waa expected to be In full tup ply by tomorrow. An estimated 1.000.000 barrels were freed for quick delivery to the c'ty's I1J3J drinking spot! and U.ISS beer-licensed grocery stores and drliratesaena. Terms of the settlement Included a pension plan financed by the em ployers and a pay Increase of 2 a week across the board. Under the new contract. Inside workers will receive a basic ITS a eek, driven 172 and truck helpers tn. The union's original demands In cluded a pay Increase of $8 50 a week and a 35-hour week. to have been concerned during the four weeks Arheson wat In Parti about the congressional timetable for action on the pact and the pro gram to re-arm Western Europe. For thlt reason It wat expected that Acheson would carry forward the theme of the president's state ment In his closed-door talk with members of the senate foreign re lntlont committee. Tomorrow he will meet with members of the house foreign af fairs committee. And at a newt con ference later In the day Acheson will have hit first opportunity to make a detailed public ttatement on the Parla meeting. Mr. Truman'i summary of the four-power Paris session noted that "genuine progress" wat r.iade toward completion of a treaty to give Aut trla complete Independence. The president called that "very gratifying" and added that he hopes the treaty may be signed before the end of the year. At for Oermany, the president declared, Russia's refusal to recog nise the progress which the western powers have made In setting up a democratic government In their oc cupation tones made real progress toward German unification "Impossible, FKICK FIVE CENTS l Northeastern States Hit By Blazing Weather; Crop Losses Mount; Fire Feared Br Tha AMorUUd Trrw A June brat wan In th union's N'tKthrMirrn vUm slulrd mn to 4my amid a grawliif frr af myIoim dnmag im farm cropa. The long dry aprll no hear? rain In thrra week InUnalflrd tha haxard a Clrra la. tha hrartly waodrd arraa of tha New England Hlatra. New Yorti and New Jersey. Na InnnetflUt relief from tha nn eaaonable brat appeared In proa ptrt, Temperatures film bed tnla the M'a arr tha parched arraa yester day. In Mauarhuaetu alone, tha hot, dry weather haa cauaed an eatt mated S.000.000 damage to cropa. Hay and vegetable cropa have suf fered the most damage. John Chandler. MaaachutU agriculture commissioner, aald the aerond hay crop a scorched and "Juat lan t Lake Front Classification To Be Changed Legal document changing the anna claaaifiratlon of the frontage of Upper Klamath lake are being prepared this week by City Attorney Henry Perk int. City planning commltMon mem ber met Tuesday night to dtacuaa detail of the change, which mil reclaaAlfy the lake front from a No. 3 rraidenttal tone to a 3-A marine one permitting construction of cer tain types of marine taaulUUons. An ordinance revising the build ing code and bearing stipulations of the new son will be presented to the city council probably next Monday night . The planning commUxlon haa en deavored to combine features of a residential and recreation tone which will permit development of the lake front as a recreation area. Previously any marine installations would have to be backed by unan imous consent of property owners In the area before construction. The new ordinance will stipulate that each building and construction )ob In the area covered by the 3-A classification be individually Inves tigated before permission to build Is granted. Polio Epidemic Spreads In Texas 8AN ANClfXO. Texas. June 22 ift Right more polio patients were In San Angelo hospitals today. Texant were warned the disease Is Increas ing over the state. "We have reports of 107 caet for the week ending June It." said Plate Health Officer Dr. Oeorge W Cox. "That'i too many. There were only 7 the week before." At San Angelo fire persons were dismissed leaving U cases under treatment. Cox said the total number ot cases of polio this year la 670 from tt counties. Last year during the same period there were 503 rases Horn 69 counties. BULLETINS 1'IIICAGO, June U (-Pi Jersey Joe Walcott of I'amden, N. J outweighed Kssard Charles of Cin cinnati, in , pounds te Ills., at today s formal welgh-ln for their MBA-world heavyweight cham pionship bout at Comlsky park to night. (:Je p. m. Klamath time.) BKR1.IN, June II i The western Berlin railway strikes, decided tonight to restore Inter tonal freight movements to nor mal without railing off their walkout. The anion announced that workman would report to the west Berlin marshalling yards tomor row morning to make the tech nical preparations for untangling the chaot brought by five weeks strike. By Friday freight trains from west tlermsny to Berlin will be moving through the yards and to ward the unloading stations, the anion said, WAHIIINGTON. June 11 The senate today turned down a proposal to let the government eelte struck planta In national emergence labor disputes. The vote waa aS-27. MKMPHIH, Tenn. June tt ( A 46-paaeenger Amerlcsn airliner erarked p shortl) after taking off from the municipal airport today. At least II persona were Injured, - O - f growing " Farm officials fear a milk j sliortage later as well as other dam I aging e(i ecu to the dairy industry because of damage to hay and pas ture land. I in Sew York aisle, where no aub- stantiaJ amounla of rain have fallen atnee the end of May. the drought waa described as "serious" by agri cultural eiperte at ( ornell aniver stly. borne communities In New York have takeu sicps to conserve water. A ton of water filtration equipment as flown 'last night to Gaspot in western New York Irom Providence. K. I , to treat water irom an im pounded creek dam. The village's aaicr supply Irom wells has dwin dled 30 per cent. Scattered showers fell in parts of the state. 1 he danger af forest fires prompt ed liov. Paul A. Dever of Massa chusetts t ban banting and fish ing la the stale forests, effective today. A baa en smoking and aot d ar cam pf ires haa been ordered In forests of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. The mercury bubbled to 95 at Boston. That also waa the top mark at Philadelphia. New York felt just as h?i fciUi a top of M. And It was only one degree lower at Albany and Syracuse, N. Y and in Washington and Harri&burg. Pa. Both the M at the Baltimore air port and M In the elty were highs for the year. One person died and nine others were treated for heat prostration. In Detroit, some l.,toe auto workers were Idle for the sec ond straight day yesterday bv "heat strikes' at the Chrysler and Kaiser t'raser planta. Detroit reported hot and humid weather, a top of M. Fire Destroys Fruit Storage In Medford MED FORD. Ore, June 23 il Fire swept through a half-block-long fruit storage building today, destroying all of the structure ex cept Its brick and concrete walla. Some peart were In the building bul the amount wat In question. Damage estimate awaited iiuoec Uon of the ruins by H. B. Murphy, manager of the Pinnacle Packing company. The structure was known aa the company a plant No. 4. The fire, which broke out shortly after 2 a. m . laid a pall of smoke over the entire city. No other buildings mere endan gered but an overhead conveyor spanning railroad tracks to snother of the company's plants was char red. The building hi no windows and fire department ladders were too short to reach the top of the will-. Firemen played vater Into the sir and It cascaded down Into the build ing. Murphy said the plant would be rebuilt and might be In operation by August 1. He and Reginald Par sons. Seattle, are principal owners of the company. Cause of the fire was undeter mined although tt was thought a smudge pot used to marm a refrig erated railroad car might have been responsible. It's Christmas In Pennsylvania LANCASTER. Pa., June 33 Passernby on Penn square today stopped, blinked and stared again. With the thermometer at 85 on the hottest day of the summer to dbte workmen were hanging Christ mas decorations along King street. And tonight colored llghta will lllu minate stars, tinseled wreaths and iJtWIes of Santa Claus. The unseasonable show stems from dissatisfaction last. December with this Eastern Pennsylvania city's Yuletlde trimmings. So a con test for a new design waa held and a winner selected. The test 'onight will seek public reaction to the new display. Gas, Coke Users Gel Rate Slash SALEM, June 33 (P) Customer! of the Poitland Oat At Coke com pany today got their third rate re duction since the first ot this year. Public Utilities Commissioner Oeorge H. Flagg allowed the com pany to reduce ltt rates because of the falling price of crude oil, which It used to manufacture the gas. The total reductions to far thlt Scar In the price of gat total II. 3.13.000, or 14.4 centa per thousand cubic feet. Today't reduction, which it effective with all meters read next Saturday, totals I339.M7. KLAMATI1 FALLS. OREGON, WEONKKDAt'. JUNE tt. ISIS ecretis iff u. iveJ RIDE 'IM, COWBOY Cent Rombo of Shondon, Colif., i about to give out with a big "Oof!" os he weathers this four legged hurricane to win the 1949 California rodeo crown during the four-day rodeo ot Salinas, Calif. Gene is present International Rodeo association champ, too. Second Petition For Writ Of Habeas Corpus Being Prepared By Evans Counsel vtlon for a writ of hsbeat corpus designed to get Leonard Brant out cf the 81skiyou county jail was being prepared at Yreka today by J. Everett Barr. attorney for the S j ear-old former Tulelake cafe oper ator. Evans Is charged with murder and conspiracy to commit burglary In connection with the March 3. 1M. El Rancho Tule roadhouae robbery and slaying of Charlie Twlpg, tavern nlghtwatchnun. He wat bound over to the Ctll fornia tuperlor court after a pre liminary hearing last Friday at Tulelake. It waa petition for a writ of Slot Machine Tax Action Slow In City Things are pretty much at a eianasuu in me ciiy t conMuerauou of Imposing a tax on slot machines. City councllmen. discussing the proposal Informally several days ago, turned the project over to the city legislative committee for study and a thorough going-over before any definite steps are taken. Letters have been sent to t Slot I of the Oregon cities which tax slot machines asking for lnfermitton about their Individual revenue bills and tax measures. Among other cities In the state which tax slots are Pendleton, On trio. Hood River and St. Helens. Mayor Robert A. Thompson said that no official discussion Is being held by the committee until answers to the Inquiries are received. RED VICTIM laszlo Rajk, 40, former minister of foreign affairs in Hungary, was de nounced as an American spy and arrested. The accusation come from the official news paper of the Hungarian work ers (communist) party, Held Safe i truest -Tt"' babeaa corpus filed by Ban which. although denied, forced the prose cution to hold Evans' preliminary bearing. Barr said the second petllior would contend that Evant it unduly detained in Jail because the transcript of that hearing does not contain sufficient evidence to show that Evant committed a public crime. The preliminary hearing resulted In Evans being named the "brain" c' a plan to rob the roadhouse, a plan made several months before the March S robbery. Testimony that the original plan was made by Evant wat given by Tom Allen, San Quentln convict. Alien, Marvin I Moon) Morris, a Folsom convict, and C. E. (Red Milhom. a Klamath Falls city po-. lice man. are Jointly charged with 1 the murder and conspiracy. Mllhorn It held in the Klamath county Jail and aa yet Sisklyov county authorities have made no I move to take htm Into California, either voluntarily or by extradi tion. District Attorney Fred Burton of Siskiyou county is out of town at tending a convention until June 29. Attorney Barr will ask that hit petition for a writ of habeat corpus br returnable before Superior Judge James M. Allen Monday. Compass OK, S But Bear Cub Better, Faster FORT LEWIS. June 22 " The men from company A. 162nd en gineers battalion, Oregon national guard, were right proud of the way tney had found their way Into the wild depths of the Fort Lewis reser vation with a compass. That't what they were supposed to do. That forest It mighty big. backless and easy to get lost tn without a compass. "It's going to be mighty tough finding our way bark to headquar ters." Sgt. Jim Sargent, squad lead er from the Portland police depart, ment. commented with a note of pride. Then they sighted a little bear cub. At one man the squad arose and departed those parts In a ca dence faster than anything found In an army manual. Every man was on his own and nobody consulted a compass. But every man arrived back at camp unerringly. The cub? It ran the other way. LAST CHANCE PORTLAND, June 33 (IP) Last chance negotiations to head off a strike of AFL bakery truck driven g -t under way here today. The 325 driven carry bread front Portland'i major bakeries to city retail outlets and to upstate towns. Employers were reported to have acceded to demand! for a $5 weekly raise to a li minimum, but other undisclosed points were in deed lock. The strike wat scheduled to begin at midnight. WEATHER KUaulfe falls aat vMallri rale latar areata Tharsesy. nio totar 11. Law laalttl IS. Milk Tkaistsr as. SUa. fjaaa Sll It Mia 4! tsillel!a last S4 haars e Trlepbene 1111 No. 2Mt Production Rate Said Satisfactory WASHINGTON. June tt JPi Walter J. Williams, predaetiea manager for the a t a m I e energy commtestnn. said today "the teear h of the country as far aa making raimbe It tonteluM It OK." Hit remark at the congressional investigation ef the A EC waa a Strang htsvt that A-bomb eatpst ss at a rate considered satisfactory trv those concerned with It Tke rate la a closely gsuurded secret. Williams la a former army officer who waa assigned to the atomic project when the military controUe-4 It during the war. He continued on It when the present civilian com mission took over tn 1M4. He said the army did a "remark able Job" In organizing the project and accomplished Its task of get ting "atomic bombs to help end the war." Of the commission s accom plishments, he had this to say: In Coast Hands "We have nothing to be ashamed of. If you take It on balance. I believe If we were permitted to tell the public what has been accom plished, that the people would feel the program It In good hands and that the security of the country at far at making bombs la concerned tt O.K." The senate - haeae atomic earn mittee at Investigating charges of "incredible mismanagement" saade galnst the AEC and he chairman, David E. LUienthal by Senator HtrtrnlooecT (S-Iowa.) William wat called, to the stand fee tjneaUonlng about the engineer ing experience of Frank L. Creeden. fortaer banting expediter, who tt sew (ieneral, Electric company official at tn Arc Stanford (Wash.) project. GE operate the project, Fred C. 8chlemmer. manager of the AEC Hanford office, had testi fied that Creetion It manager of the CE design and construction depart ment and receives 136.000 annually In response to questions from Hlckenlooper. Schlemmer said Cree oon. an engineer, la responsible for all construction at Hanford Includ ing the building of atomic piles, or 1 urn sees. Hlckenlooper eaeamented at ewe point that the Dn Font company, which formerly handled the Han ford opera lion, had tent a corps of technlciana there at a eort te the gerernment of "renghty" I4e.g He did not elaborate. Boy Critically Injured When Hit By Auto Little Nell O'Connor, aged 4. of 5511 Altarnont, wat critically injured early thlt afternoon and wat rushed to Klamath Valley hospital for surgery. The tot assertedly waa struck by a car while standing at the mailbox in front ot his home. Details of the accident were not Immediately obtainable. 8tate police are In vestigating. Little Neil was Uken to the state police office by private car and then to the hospital by Kaler'e ambu lance. He wat reported to have a severe gash between his right eye and hairline, laying open the scalp to the bone. Typhoon Death Toll Set Near 737; Property Loss Soars Into Many Millions Bv FRANK L. WHITE TOKYO, June 33 Wi Tne welfare ministry today counted 137 dead and 10M missing In the furious typhoon that swept Southern Japan. Figures differed on the death toll, however. Police said S3 perished. Property and shipping damage soared Into the millions of dollars. Included In the misting were 131 Jtpanese who may have perished when the vessel A boa Maru found ered off the Southern Honshu coast. An American and one Japanese were rescued from the ship. The others wt,-e feared lost In the turbulent seat and high winds. Most ot the missing are fisher men In the Bungo Strait between Kyushu and Shlkoku, both large southern Islands. The Japanese marine ttfety botrd listed 11 fishing boats sunk and 67 wooden fishing boats missing. The largest vessels In trouble were the 3500 ton freighter Koel Maru, aground off Fukuoka on the wttt coast of Kyushu, and the 3000 ton Klie Kawa Maru grounded on Solons Blow Up Over Hot Housing Row WASHINGTON, June II UFr- punch swinging encounter between M-year-old Rep. Sabath (D-Ill.l rnd Rep Cex (D-Ga.) took place en the bouse floor today, touched off by dispute ever the admtnlstratlon'g housing bilL An eyewitness. Rep. Walter D fa.l, aald Cox, who Is In his M'a. slapped Sabath In the mouth and knocked off hit glasses. He said Sabath countered with a one-two right and left to Cos t faee before they were parted. The unbilled one -rounder came during a quorum call to get more members to the floor for the start ot the debate on the housing bill. Walter said tt began In an argu ment over whether Sabath would give Cox time to talk. There had been a bitter previoaa debate, with Sabath Jumping en the "real estate lobby" and pleading with the hovae te help "deserving American eltrsens" who are crying for noosing." Then came the quorum call That stops business and reporter! In the gallery over the chamber went out side to write. The scrap between Sabath and Cox tent them ruining town taut to the floor, where Wal ter told them that this happened: bitting Down Sabath was sitting down at a table when Cox came up, leaned over and asked for 10 minutes to make a speech. Sabath, as chairman of the ruiea committee, la portioning out time tor debate over what rule the hous ing legislation shall be considered under. Sabath told Cex be didn't bare that aineh time. Cox called him a liar." Them, Walter went on: "Cos slapped bins in the meatti and knocked off hit glasses. Sabath jabbed bun back, a right and a left te the face. A pah- of beauties." A boot then. Rep, Oelaney (D N.T.I Jumped In between themwltb has SM pounds. Cox Walked away but came back In tare ee three mln Mea. . Sabath motioned him off with hand and a crowd of congressmen gathered around to stop any furth er tut swinging. .Neither Sabath nor Cox would leave the floor to talk with report- i en at first. w "as ocr a one ox tne leading foes of the housing measure. He waa the only one to make a speech against It at a democratie caucus yesterday. Thlt waa a party ateeting that voted 147 to I to tapport a low rent pobuc housing program bat only after trimming It from the l.bM.eM nita In seven years asked by Presi dent Trnman to tlt.tot to be fceilt In six years. At the members kept coming In to answer their names and to resume debate. Cox went over again to where Sabath waa sitting and tha two conferred with plenty of ges tures. Cox moved away and tat down laughing. Whether peace was restored wat not clear to onlookers. The trimming down the demo cratic meeting agreed In yesterday weald eat federal subsidies for low rent boosing from a top of 4S. ot.Ot a year te S30.se.!a. Newbry Sits In Governor's Chair SALEM. June 22 Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry was acting governor of Oregon today and will keep the Job for the rest of the week. Governor Douglas McKay Is at tending the national governors con ference In Colorado Springs, Colo, and will return Saturday night. The next two In line of succession to the governorship are Senate President William E. Walsh, Cooa Bsy, and House Speaker Frank J. Vtn Dyke. Medford. They left by pltne last night for Washington, D. C, to attend congressional hear ing! on he projosed Columbia val ley authority. rocks near Karatsu on the Southern Kyushu coast. All crewmen of the Koel Maru were ashore. Most of the dead were reported from Inland tea porta t the south ern Islands. Reports to the welfare ministry indicated approximately 3000 homes were destroyed and 4000 damaged severely by winds that reached 3 miles an hour. - Eighty-nine homea were washed away by floods which plagued tha storm itrtcken area. Some 38.000 more homea were damaged slightly. 8o far there has been no call for national disaster relief. No Americans have been reported Injured In the typhoon which swept near the big American base on Okinawa Island. ' The typhoon today waa sweeping out Into the tea of Japan and will tpend Itself on the Asiatic mainland If It does not veer Its course. Nstlonsl rural police stid com munications were poor but thai most points had been heard front lata today.