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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1949)
y MIW SLOTS li . . . Ml i n r a iy W- i . - .. -v weather 11 ' ' Ml 1 ty V"V J w-'rV"'V 1 I X yl V, ril 1 kjL VV-fcl "' r.n. .i Tkiallri rie , lap to K JMlWyu oj m imwO By FRANK JENKINS HERE'S the expected aftermath of tha Fourth of July. (On the morning after a two-dy holiday, all eolumnlsts'and dtUirlallnta are sup posed to writ splne-chllllng pieces bout what happens when we Amer loan lot down our hair and hava a good time. I rnckon II I don't fol low tha law ol tha trlba I'll be thrown out.) THE latait figure allow that ovor tha week-end (which began on Saturday morning and ended Mon day midnight! Old ptrwiu were killed In vloieut accldenU. It that bad In a nation that num bera In lla population somewhat mora than 140 million people? J WOULDN'T really know. I never u any good at mathematlca. I scraped through high achool algebra and geometry by tha akin of my teeth, and by aome atrange legerde ' main that I've never been able to rationalize I got paining gradea In enough more of the upper-bracket atuff to be officially alamped an "educated" according to the stand ards of my time. But I've never had (much confidence In my own figur ing. btlU, a I make It, 600-odd violent dratlia In a nation of nearly 150 million people In three day I a rauo of about four TO THE MIL LION I TF aumebody had told you last Frl day that your chances of aurvlval over the holiday week-end were 250. 000 to one would you have gone to bed and covered up your head and atayed there till Tuesday morning? I doubt IU You would probably have aatd: "The odds aren't ao bad after all." RS I read my Insurance company statistics, holiday week-ending lin t much more dangeroua than laying at home and hanging a pic ture with the aid of a alep-ladder and then taking a bath and going to bed. At any rale the actuarlea (the harp-pencil boya who figure the In surance odds) tell ua that falling from alep-ladders and alippmg in the bath-tub are among our riskiest pursuit. rr eerma that 39B persona died In 1 traffic fatalities over the long week-end. That la aupposed to give those of ua who survived a bad case of nervea. It "spotlights" for us the haaarda of life since Henry Ford thoughllesaly made tin Mxzlea so cheap that nobody could afford NOT to own one. . . , ... ........ According to my way of figuring. that la calculated risk of some thing Ilka two persona to the mil lion. Put that way. It doesn't look like a bad gamble. THE automobile la propagandised for us In Uiese days as the most rlangeroui instrument ever Invented by man. "Juggernaut" la a popular word for It especially around Ion week-end holiday a. The mere mention of It In print conjures up vision of crushed bodies and mashed bones. One trouble. I thin".;, lies In the act that almost none of our pro-. fesalonal statisticians la old enough to remember the horse and buggy osys. uia you ever, In a crowded street on a Fourth of July morn- (Continued on Page Two) Crews Bat lie Six Blazes OverVeek-End Fire fighting crews who had re n.alned on Huty over the holiday week-end had little time to bemoan the fact they had to work, busy aa they were squelching six flrea over Sunday and Monday. The six flrea, two of which broke out almost simultaneously Sunday, and four Monday, were all small. All but one burned In valuable timber country. While crews were fluhtlng grass fire near Ellingson's mill u which spread over 60 acres Sunday, tv lookouts spotted another fire in the timber near the Alexander ranch. Three of the four flrea Monday blossomed out at the Weyerhaeuser tinder pit In the Clover butte area near Clover creek and the fourth burned a small section at Klnga ctibln. All except the grass fire neai Klllngson's covered less than an acre but burned In Ponderosa forest land. Crab Fisherman Shot Down By Mystery Man In Plane CRISFIELD. Md July 6 (fl A Maryland crab fisherman was shot to death after a plane landed beside his boat at the Maryland-Virginia line In lower Chesapeake bay today. ' A witness said 'he plane bore ' markings of the Virginia state con- S servatlon agency. There Is a tense rivalry between J watermen of the two states, all hough (here haa never been any violence In . the neighborhood of today's shooting. The victim was Earl Nelson, about 60, a former chief of police here. Calvin Marsh, another Maryland crabber, brought Nelson's body ashore. Police Chief Albert Rich aid Marsh told this story: He was fishing a short distance Iway from Nelson's 26-foot boat when a plane bearing markings of the Virginia conservation agency landed close to tha vessel In the water off Fox Islands. 1 1 - -i "Tr r 1,11 v ' iyv" i . PRICK FIVE CENTS MSierfwdl Rallied 678 Killed Over Long Week-End By The Associated Preaa The worst accidental death tall In the history of (he nation's observ ance of Independence Day waa re tarded today. The National Bafetr council railed (he total "a. disgrace to a civilised country.'' I.ate tabulations showed a record tit persona killed in violent aerl denta during the three-day week end. The grim report on the nation's futilities showed 2M traffic derhs, ?45 drownings and 135 deaths in violent accidents. The country-wide survey covered violent deaths from 6 p. m. local time Friday tn midnight Monday. The toll this year smashed the irevlous record of .2S accidental deaths set during the three-day c.'lebratlon of the Fourth of July In 1H41. Last year, 571 deaths were re ported over the three-day period. Too Much Heat Millions took to the hlghwaya for resorts this year to escape swelter ing heat. Traffic deaths led the fig ures, while drownlnga fallowed. The National Safety council had esti mated that 29f persona would die In traffic mishaps. The council's president, Ned H. Dearborn, said In a statement today that "It Is shameful and disgraceful that a humanitarian and civilized nation must sacrifice more than 700 Uvea to celebrate a holiday dedicated to a free-secure and happy people." "Most of the trrulic deaths over the holiday week-end were due di rectly or Indirectly to cheating on traffic rules and to poor sportsman ship," Dearborn added. "A show-off attitude also was responsible for drowning deaths." This year's drowning tall broke the record 12 established In 1 944. The survey showed no fatalities from fireworks. The death toll was heaviest In Texas, where 47 died In violent accl denU. New York and Michigan each reported 4 deaths. Bishops Face Charges Of Collaboration PRAGUE. July S (At Czecho slovakia's Roman Catholic bishops were accused today by a government official of having collaborated with the nazla during the occupation. This Is one of the charges the government apparently Intends to press against the church hierarchy to break their resistance to com munist control. The communist re gime claims that the church leaders are "unpatriotic and waging anti state activities" because they refuse to negotiate a new state-church ac cord on government terms. The charge of collaboration with the nails was made despite the fact that the whole nation knows that Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, the nation's primate and leader of the church In its fight with the gov ernment, was a nazl prisoner In Lachau concentration camp. The collaboration charge against the Catholic leaders was made by Prof. Laco Novomcsky, commissioner of education tor Slovakia. He spoke at ceremonies commem orating founding of the ancient monastery at Devln, New Bratslava, The ceremonies were part of a long week-end of high religious holiday. A man left the plane and boarded Nelson's craft. There was a shot and the man reboarded the plane, which took off. Marsh climbed onto the Nelson boat and found the man still alive. He was : pronounced dead when Mnrsh brought him ashore, Rich said a quick preliminary ex amination showed Nelson had been shot In the hip and bled to death from a severed artery. The position of the wound Indicated Nelson had his back partly turned to the weapon. Maryland and Virginia Issue crab. blng licenses to respective citizens but it Is against the law to go across Into the other state. Chief Rich said It was possible Nelson's boat had drifted over the line Into Virginia waters but he reported that Marsh was positive that the plane was on the Maryland side when It landed. i i ii i i mi in " imw Mi in - 1 111 - MM t?4 j ' I - I rt- - ." XlLnr ,t v.. . QUEEN JOYCE COPELAND soys howdy to the spectators in then Reno Browne, Monogram storlet, waves os they head Saturday afternoon. I . - iwr at t 1... 4 r " TRAINER GLEN RANDALL puts the famous Trigger Jr. through intricate steps to thrill o huge rodeo crowd Monday. $50 MilJon Crop Damage Seen As By The Associated Preaa A scorching 43-day drought 'ap parently has killed or spoiled more than J50.000.000 worth of crops in the farmlands of eight northeastern atatea. Moreover, farm experts warn, the damage In the area's rich fruit, veg etable and dairy regions win soar to a vastly higher figure if rains do UUI. IUUIC ill lit, uaj,. The parched drought region stretches from Southern New Jer sey'a truck crop areaa up through the dairies and farms of New York atate, and then fans out over al most the whole of Southern New England. The drought, which has Inflicted Its searing damage for more than six weeks, comes from a sluggUh high pressure area that fights off potential rail-storms. Until that, high pressure area is; shoved aside, the drought will last. New Jersey's drought damaRe has reached an estimated $28,000,000. Loss In the po'ato crop alone ac counts for 14,500.000. And, along with the temperature, prlrea of fruit and vegetables have been climbing. On Long Island, the big potato crop haa suffered by $4,000,000 and truck crops are reported aeverely damaged. If rain doesn't come soon, the potato crop may be depleted by $3,000,000 worth. Storms that hit some parti of the state yesterday were described as a milium dollar rain." Scattered parts of the state got the slaking rains, while the New York metropolitan area was whipped by a violent wind and rain storm that brought destruction and death. The utorm, though, dropped little water on the baked land. New England'a drought area In cludes the vegetable, dairy and to bacco lands that stretrh from Southern Maine, Vermont, Mas sachusetts and Rhode Island to Con necticut. Professor Grant B. Syndcr, head of the vegetable gardening depart ment at the University of Mas KLAMATH FALLS, OKMiON.T! r KDA V, 1 Drouth Result sachusetts, said losses In New Eng land now approximate five to 10 million dollars. If there Is no real rain within a week. Prof. Grant added, the New England loss could approximate 30 to 40 millions. The Connecticut valley region, he aaid. Is In the worst state In his 28 ( yw's ,rprri,n(.P, It would take four to six Inches of rain," Prof. Grant aaid, to give much benefit The valley got only .7 of an inch rain In June Instead of Its normal four Inchea. Most crops, he said, are relatively poor In quality and yields. Tobacco is coming badly In the valley, Prof, Grant said, and onions are small and In poor quality. The famous potato-farming region of Northern Maine has escaped so far, because the area haa had fairly good rainfall. Lafcevew Pilot, Passenger Hurt In Light Plane Crash A Lakevlew man and a young Pordand woman were recovering today from Injuries received late Mondar afternoon In the crash of a light plane alongside the Lake o' the Woods road a mile west of the Pelican guard station. H. J. Rathe, 23, and Jennette Johnson, also 33, suffered severe facial cuts In the crash. Both were taken to Hillside hospital. The plane, a red and black Tay lorcraft, was badly damaged. It was owned by Greg Talntrr of the Goose Lake Air service of Lakevlew. Rathe said he had taken off from an emergency field near Rocky Point and made a 43 degree bank Just before the plane crashed. The light ship apparently came across the Lake o' the Woods road In an easterly direction, sheered off a mall pine, struck a fence post and plowed Into the ground. JULY I, 181 Telephone Tp Cmsboy .? asm.. x..a.-.-.,-3g' rnsTiwi the lead cor, her court follows, the kid's parade on Main street Reception Planned For Streamliner -Klamath falls 1s pUJinlng jui6e reception for the lirst Shasta Day light to pass through here on July 7 on an exhibition run. Opening with a streamline,4 breakfast at 7:30 a. m., the chamber of commerce has set up a fine pro gram for the morning. The breakfast, to be given at the Winem hotel. Is open lo the puo llc, and la a no-host affair. A spe cial prize will be award at 7:31. Vice President C. E. Peterson of the Southern Pacific company will be the main speaker at Hie breax fast. and Assistant District Passenger Agent C. O. Olsen will also speak. From the breakfast, the early risers will head for the depot where they will make a pre-opening In sertion of the new train. The train will be opened to the general public at (1:30 and will remain open until 11 a. m. Reservations for the Streamliner breakfast may be made by phoning the chamber of commerce at 5193. Jury To Get Hiss Case Thursday NEW YORK. July 5 P The perjury trial of Alger Hiss will go to the Jury Thursday afternoon. Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman announced today. A recess was taken until tomorrow morning when Judge Kaufman said there would be "a very lew minutes of testimony." Tne judge said that following testimony tomorrow the defense would have the rest of the day for Its summation. The government will sum up Its case Thursday morning. Then the Jury will have lunch in the custody of the U. 3. marshal. After lunch Thursday Judge Kaufman said he would deliver his charge to the Jury and that body would begin Its deliberations. The prosecution rested Its case today after Assistant U. S. Attorney Thomas F. Murphy failed In an at tempt to have the court reconsider Its ruling last week excluding test! money by a former wife of Gerhart Eisler. Rathe said It felt like the bottom fell out of the plane." Clifford Sargent of Fort Klamath aaw the plune go down and put In a rail to Sheriff Jack Franry who In turn railed Kaler's ambulance to bring Rathe and Miss Johnson fo the hospital. The lake road was heavy with traffic and many per sons saw the plane overhead just before It crashed. Raymond McNabb, coming down from the lake, was first to reach the downed plane. He said both Rathe and Miss Johnson were still In t e craft and that the pilot was knocked out. Miss Johnson was conscious and screaming but was able to get out herself. McNabb lifted Rathe out and stopped Sargent to have him call the sheriff. Rathe Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. HJsimar 8. Rathe of Klamath Falls and Is employed by the American Box company In Lakevlew. No. 20IS HugeCrovds Jam 3-Day Rodeo Here Buck Rutherford, hard -riding oiwboy of Nowata, Okla, was hand ed the all-around cowboy buckle for competition in the 1949 Klamath Basin Roundup following three days of fast riding and roping. The buckle was awarded by Char lie Rend s Saddle shop. Huge crowds swarmed the fair grounds during the three rodeo per formances. There wasn't seal In the house at the July Fourth after noon show, and the Saturday night and Sunday afternoon competition saw near-capacity crowds as top cowboys vied for the all-around title. Rutherford nabbed the average I monev in the Brahma bull riding. I and third money In the bareback bronc riding. Second, third and fourth In the i best average for the two bull-riding go-rounds went to Cotton Rosser, San Luis Obispo. Calif.; Geralo Roberts, Strong City, Kans.; and Wag Blessing. San Fernando. Calif j Baekaroo Billy Ward of Angel's (amp, Calif., waa the champion saddle bronc rider. He waa followed bv Casey Tibba, VL Pierre, R. D.; Roberts, and Carl Huckfeldt of Ok " i lnhoraa. San Jose's Duncan Brown rode the best two go-rounds tn bareback competition to grab high average in that event. He was followed by j Johnny Crethers. Ft. Worth, Texas; Rutherford, and Tibbs. , Dave Campbell of Reno. Nev . won high honors in the rough bulldog . f ing event. Lex Connolly, Tater j Decker and Cliff Whately finished I two, three and lour In the two go at round'dogglng averages. -?T Campbell's time for the two steer wrestling go-rounds was 15 seconds fiat. In the calf roping, Asbury SchelL Arizona, roped and tied In 33.4 for the two rides to nab top spot In that event. He was trailed by Homer Pettigrew. New Mexico; Decker and tddie SchelL Cliff Whatley of Texas and C.im McKinney of Arizona teamed up to arab top average money in the team tying test. Their two go-round time was 34.4 seconds. H. Ramsey-McKinney were sec ond, Asbury and Eddie Schell. third, and team Leon Smith-Eddie SchelL fourth. Calf roping for local cowhands went to Stan Johnson who hung up a 71.4 total time for his two rides. Pete Gale was second, Howard Curry, third. There was a depression In good team-tyera in the local area. Aa a csult, Joe McAuliffe and Johnson were the only two to finish with registered times. They rode twice for a Sg.4 seconds time. Cowgal Ann Curry booted her horse home In front twice In the nuarter-mile stock horse race, a contest for Klamath basin horses only. She nipped Tiburcio Alvarez Monday and edged In front of the Skyline rjnen entry on Sunday's s::ow. In the quarter-horse race. Alvarez und Bill Dingier staged two neck-and-neck races Sunday and Mon day, swapping first places. Alvarez von Sunday and Dingier came In fast In the home stretch to nip Al varez during the Fourth of July show. The gals grabbed the racing hon- (Continued on Page Two) SHasrt 5. ""ft?. TWO WERE HURT H. J. Rathe, 23, of Lakeview, and Jeanette Johnson, 23, of Portland, were injured yesterday afternoon when this light plane crashed just off the Lake o' the Woods road. They were brought to Hillside hospital. Sheriff Jack Fianey, left, investigated the crash along with itats police and forest tervice men. . 2 Dead, Woman Assaulted; Net Out For Killer SONOMA, Calif. July I (JPi Peace officers patrolled Northern California highways today In their i search for a man known aa liana to question him In a double slaying and rape in Jack London'e scenic I Valley of the Moon. I A woman clad only In a T-sh'rt j and bleeding from a beating fled hysterically down a mountain road yesterday to tell a picnic party of j the crimes. Officers who Investi gated found two men dead In the mountain home from which she had i fled. The two dead men evidently bad been clubbed with a four-pound : stone pestle once used by Indiana i j to grind grain. It waa found, bloody ' and hair-covered, outside the house. ! Chief Criminal Investigator Andy j I Johansen of the sheriff's office ; identified the victims as Pcr J. ! I Jc mien, 55. owner of the house and ! chief landscape gardener of the Sonoma state home; and Peter J. I I Flint, 31, newly-commiasloned mer- I t chant marine lieutenant of Rich- mond, Calif. i I Flint, member of a Sonoma valley ' family which dated from the days of 1849, waa reported a longtime friend I of Jensen. j Officers issued an all-points bul letln for a mystery man identified j to them only as "Hank." He last was seen driving Flint's ml Buick convertible. 1 In a serious, but apparently not ; critical condition in a hospital here ; was Mrs. Eva Paget oi neraeiej. Calif, 27-year-old mother of two Coal Miners Enter Pits, No Contract PITTSBURGH. July S Al moat alt of the nation's 4M.00 hard and soft coal miners returned to the pita today without a con tract at the end of their annual paid vacation. The work resumption started the first of an Indefinite number of three-day work weeks expressly or dered by John L. twis for miners east of the Mississippi. The short work-wee --order scrapped the United Mine Workers' long-standing "no contract, no work" policy. The new plan will remain in ef fect while negotiations between the union and the operators continue on a new contract to replace the pact that expired last Thursday. 700 Idle At least "004 of the SJ.OOt West ern Pennsylvania soft coal diggers were forced to remain Idle. Several producers were unable to resume production this week because an tlclp ,i!ng a mine shut-down under the old IMW policy they had given super' otendents and other supervisory personnel vacations. Some of tha e mines' key personnel waa scatter 1 from California to Canada. In other instances, repair work undertaken during the vacation period has not been completed. Many of the miners will be able to work again by next Monday. Lewis and the soft coal operators resume talks July 12 to try and reach a new agreement. The mine contract ran out June 30 while the miners were in the midst of their vacation. Lewis is set to confer with the anthracite (hard coal) operators for the first time at Philadelphia Thursday. BULLETIN NEW YORK. July S W Ez xard Charles, newly crowned NBA heavyweight champion, today signed to defend his title against Gus Lesnevich. former world light Heavyweight champion. In 15 round match at Yankee stadium. Wednesday, August 10. Harry Markson of Madison Square Gar den announced the match for the international boxing club. Ut : ear - ( v .. ts ?a -MUST 1 iff-' I j j, ,, , . V i I children. It waa her atory of being beaten and raped which led offlcera to the alaylngs. Two San Francisco picnickers, Constance Hoover and Margaret Smith, told police Mrs. Paget, wear ing only a T-shirt and bleeding from severe blows, came upon them and hysterically told them she had been raped. They rushed ber to Boyea Hprlnga, from where a highway patrol car too her to the hospital here. Mia. Paget to the wife of a service man, but the couple la eeparaiea h husband now is aomewnrr. 'he Esst, family members said. Pact Debate Opens Today In Senate WASHINGTON. Julv S IIP Sen ator Connally ID-Texas) today . opened senate debate on the Atlan tic pact with a plea for swift ap proval aa "unmistakable proof" that free nations will stand togrtbjr against attack. In the treaty, he said, "the free rations of the North Atlantic area lay before the nations of the world a noble declaration that no armed aggressor, no swaggering conqueror, no military despot shall Invade the North Atlantic area." The 20-year compact haa been signed by the United States, Canada and 1 European nations, but It must be ratified by a two-thirds senate vote before It becomes bind ing on this country. Fewer than a dozen senators are expected to op pose It. Connally. chairman of the enata foreign relations committee, urged his colleagues to stamp their ap proval on the alliance as quickly aa fusible. Consolidation Liberty most be preserved even though "purchased in blood. ho declared In his prepared speech. And he described the pact aa "an effort to coordinate and consolidate that doty upoa the group aa a whole rather than to leave each individual country the h titleless task of defend ing Itself. - - . But ConnaHy Insisted that tha treaty does not automatically com mit the United States to fight tn case an ally is attacked. He also made clear that no sena tor who votes for the pact will be bound to vote for the proposed SI. 130.000.000 arms-for-Europe pro giam. President Truman has not yet sent the arms plans to congress. Senate leaders have aaid It will be submitted after the senate votes on the treaty. While opposition to the pact has been slight, there are many senators critical of the related arms program. Connally told the senate that while the anna program and the p:ict "are not inseparable" he hopes personally that both will be ap proved during this session of con gress. Seventh Fence Is Last Straw SEATTLE, July 5 (Pi The sev enth fence in a running property line dispute was the one that Liought the feud Into the open. It sent Mrs. Ida Mittelberger, 73-year-old authoress, and her brother-in-law, Fred Whisler, to Jail. Mrs. Mittelberger put the heroine of her last novel in jail, but this Is her first personal appearance In those surroundings. She admitted helping tear down the fence on dis puted land between her property and that of R. C. Dillon. But she said Dillon himself removed six pre vious barriers. That is where mat ters lay today while the defendants, charged with malicious destruction of property, contemplate! the $250 bail each required to ga.n freedom. -i a t
