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THE world, aa nearly u one rrl
Jurtg Irom the dlapauhes Hits
morning, la 111 a badly unset state,
with everybody dlanallaflrd Willi
things lliry ar end ainliiK llinu
different.
Ho far aa I ran e. people are
dlacusalng everything bill WoKK
1NO HAHDMt AND MOllK KK
MCIKNTI.V. PltODUClNU MOKK
(IIMJDH TO UK HOLD AT CIIKAH
Ml I'HIl'KM. OETITNU AI.ONO
WITH KACII OTHKK IN A HI'llUT
or LIVE ANU la I LIVE AM) Wv
MUVINU 1IIK UAUUIUW TO
TKAUK HO THAT KVr.KYltODY
CAN KVVAP WHAT UK HAH Kilt
W HAT THK OTHKK PKLLOW HAH
VJN AN kVtN UAMIli whlrll U Uie
'only true measure ol prosperity.
t M aliald Uiat uuul at urgm lo
Uiluk aluni those lines Ihe world v
troubles will keep ou multiplying
lusirad of diminishing.
THK Philippines, South Kuira and
what u If ll ot Nalloiuli.t China
are proposing a Pacific Iruni anaitin
(.uiuiimnim Uj be brought alxiul
by ntraiia of a political and eco
nonuo (but NOT military) alliance
of tilt anu-communial countries.
Let's put It Hit way;
Buppos Chl!ig iwho unUouoleUly
haa iteat ability! could hold Uie
Uland of Formula and a part of the
mainland of Mouth China, Suppose
he made this area an uland ol Iree
dom and Individual oppurtunlty in
Aia.
In the cuutae of Uoie. word of
what waa happening- would keep out
It would be a powerful paychologlcal
influence. People all over Asia
would aay: Tnat must be a good
plate to lite. X want to o there."
THE trouble with Nationalist China
aeema to be that Uiere haa bren
too little of that curt of thiug. Over
the year, the common Chinaman
- 'in Nationalist China) got the Idea
that he might be better oil undec
communum than under govrrumcm
as provided by the Natlonallal
Kuorointang pally.
That, more than anything ele.
eiulalua l tie eoll.'jue of Uie NaUon
. elist government and the successes
f the Chinee communists.
QVEfl here, by way of fixing things
up ao Uut everything will b
houy-Uitsy and nobody will ever
have any more problems, we're talk
ing about a new farm pnreis
under which consumers will get
lower pricea and farmera will get
more money.
The program, a Washington dis
patch explains, "proposes that many
crops aell at what the market will
pay and then payments to the
farmer) would be made In rash
FROM THE TKtAHURV amounting
to the difference between Uie aver
age market price ot a crop and the
governments established support
price."
In other words, let the farmer
tell for what he can get and let
the government make up Uie dif
ference between that and what he
OUGHT TO GET.
e
bOY, how I'd Ilk lo run a ham
burger aland Oft Uiat ban is I Id
aell hamburgera ao cheap Uiat every
body would buy from me, and all
. I d have to do would be to aend
r Uncle Ham a bill covering my losses
and my eipected profits
Daylight Saving
?etition Grows
PORTLAND, Jul 12 Day
light saving time advocates said to
day they were within IMO namet of
aurcess.
Lee Btldd Jr., state daylight aav
mg time eommlllc chairman, said
Billy IMO slgnaturea were needed by
Kaiurday to halt a alate ban on
fast time.
Petitions calling for a referendum
en the Icstalature'a itamtard time
bill, which nutlawa daylliiht time
earept by Uie governor's decree,
need 1A.02II signatures. The vote
would come In November, MM.
Denton County Fugitive
Captured At Roadblock In
New Mexico After Long Hunt
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M . July 11
ITV-William Hilly Hnynea, cap
tured after a four -day manhunt,
waa brought her tndny by the Pill,
who said he admllled pert Ic. puling
In the Cnrvallls, Ore., Jnll brenk.
Oftlcera said he confessed help
ing break Into the Hrnlon county
Jail June 4 to release Marahall Huff
lallaa Richard Howard Hnlli, It
did not say who the nlher man who
engineered t lie break was.
llaynra, 30, will be arralgnrd here
nn frdernl auto theft charges.
He waa captured, unarmed, at a
filling elation In the lonely cow
country last night, when he slopped
to gaa his car near a road block. H
bought a bottle of pop, and, aa he
left III store. Rlate Policeman Al
Hnlhawny ordered "hands up."
Planking Hathaway and sur
rounding the list Ion with levelled
ptatnla were sheriff and border pa
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National 212 002 000-7 12 5
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d fraud Ih National trtgur 11 la 1 today In 't and wobbly
allBlar gam at :bbu flrld that ar rrrarda for arorlng and virora.
Ih game aa llyd a for approklmatHjr 34, Mf faaa.
Iht Amrrlran Iragurra got mtt tm a four-run lad In Ilia ftrit
Inning n Ihrr htta and a rouplr of error, then prorrdrd ! blow
Ihr Irad In tltrx framra aa tht National hit Mr I Parnrll af Boaton
and Vlrgtl Irurk of DHrolt bard.
Hut tha Junior rlrruit kin rvgalnrd the Irad In thr top of the
fourth off the pilrhlng of I too Newrombe, Rrooklyn Nrgro. r.ddle
Jooat of thlladrlphla alnglrd lo right with two on bate to drive In
the payoff run.
Man Mtulal of the Cardinal and Kalph Klner of the Piratea
rapprd home rum In the National league raue.
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Harry Mesner
Injured By
Rolling Logs
Harry Meaner. M. long-time
Klamath lumberman, la In Hillside
hospital suffering from sever leg
Injuries sustained when he waa
caught between two loga late Mon
day afternoon.
Meaner has a crushed right knee
and other leg Injuries. He la also :
suffering from shock, but hrpital
attendants said he waa resting bet
ter today.
The accident happened In Squaw
valley east of Hllderbrand wher
Meaner a logging company la work
ing on a Job. Apparently the logs
were being unloaded when two
slipped, catching Mesner as they fell.
Meaner was with Big Lakes Box
company until three years ago when
he and Marlon Reynolds, also a for
mer Big Lakes man. formed a part
nership In a private logging con
tracting firm.
Hiss Case Won't
Be Reopened
WASHINGTON, July H ( The
house un-American activities com
mittee decided today against re
opening the tliiui-Chambers can
"at this time."
But It left the way open for dig
ging Into it once more after Alger
Hlia Is tried again In court on per
jury charges.
The committee also said that It
definitely will make no Invesilga
llon of the way Federal JuriKe
Hamurl II. Kaufman handled I lie
original Hlra trial In New York.
trolmen. Hnvnes gave up without
resistance. Ills revolver was found
In the car.
The Up of his whereabouts came
from a man by the name of Wells,
who aaw llaynea In a store. Then
later a mnUirlst reported seeing
Haynes. Roadblocks were set up.
llaynea was wanted by federal,
slat and county officers. He had
been charged with Billing In a Jail
break last month at Corvallls, Ore .
auto theft and was wanted for
questioning about a Utah post office
robbery.
Marshall E. Huff, whom Havnea
reportrdly helped escape from Uie
Benton county, Ore., Jail June 4, la
In Jail at Albuquerque.
Haynea waa tracked through the
mountains three days. He slliied
past the dead-tired offlcera yester
day, and stole the sedan in which
he later waa trapped, Beaslry said.
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"JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT"
Soys Multnomoh County Sher
iff Mike Elliott in answer to
recall demand.
Elliott To
Fight Recall
Move, He Says
PORTLAND, 'July 1 tn Sheriff
M. L. Elliott, declaring that "I've
Just begun to fight," took up the
gauntlet today against an attempt
to recall him from office.
A formal recall petition was filed
late yesterday, charging Uiat Demo
crat Elliott had misrepresented hit
qualifications during Ins campaign,
and that his conduct since had
proven him unfit for the sheriff s
Job.
Attorney Maxwell Donnelly and
Press Agent Don Hammttt both re
publicanswho filed the petition,
called a public meeting for Thurs
day night to plan Uie recall cam
paign. The young republicans of
Multnomah county promised to help.
"Recall? No." said the embattled
sheriff. "We have Just begun to
fight."
He charged that the recall cam
paign came "from the republican
controlled press and radio, which
has prrsmiird m? continuously . . .
I know that public opinion la op
posed to recall of either Mayor Lee
or myself because e have broken
up the organised gambling operated
under the pay-off system of the past
years."
The young republicans organlra
tion added Ita recall petition to the
movement agaln.it Elliott today. The
petition waa presented o the dis
trict attorney for review before ac
tual filing.
KLAMATH fAl.l.H. ORKGON. Tl'KKDAV,
4
FREIGHTER AGROUND Spectotors on Seattle, Wosh., beach gather for a look at 7000
ton freighter, Joel Chondler .Horns, which went aground after hitting the ferry Enetai (left)
in o dense fog. Neither boat was seriously damaged and the freighter, inbound from Son
Fioncisco, was pulled off by tugs ot high tide. Two women on ferry were knocked down
ond bruised.
Red Blockade
Civile. dj:h
j i ana dciiiii
Trucks Again
BERLIN. July 12 i Russia"
-little blockade" of Berlin piled up
trucks at Hclmstedt again today.
Truck traffic to tins four-pow-r
city. 100 miles Inside the Soviet
aone. was banned for the third dsy
except fur tour trucks an hour al
lowed lo pass over the Autobahn
superhighway! from Helmv.edl In
the Bnsh tone.
About 600 Berlin-bound Oerman
trucks were tied up Una afternoon
at the Hclmstedt checkpoint on the
Soviet son frontier. Six British
army trucks, however, were cleared
quickly by th Russian outpost.
There haa aa yet been no Rus
sian explanation, although the
Soviets had told Uie British they
would aend a letter today setting
forth the reasons for th new re
strictions. An Indication of what the ex
planation might be was given In the
official Soviet army newspaper
Taeglich Rundschau.
The paper printed a dispatch from
the Soviet-licensed newa agency
BPD quoting Informed circles to Uie
effect that Oerman truckers going
to Berlin through the Russian aone
had frequently left their prescribed
routes to buy foodstuffs with west
marks which are banned In Russian-occupied
Germany.
Truman Asks
Steel Workers
To Wait Action
WASHINOTON. July 12 (Pi Pres
ident Truman today asked Uie CIO
steelworkers to hold off a threatened
! strike for 60 days while a prnl
j denUal fact-finding board looks In
I to their wage-pensions dispute.
I The request was dispatched to the
: union's wage policy committee,
meeting In Pittsburgh. The com
mute waa reported on the verge,
when the request arrived, of or
dering a walkout this week-end.
! Union President Philip Murray
said the steelworkers would decide
tomorrow what reply they will
make to the president.
Th president said a fact-finding
board notably one which waa not
connected In anjTfay with the
emergency provisions of the Taft
Hartley act would be named In Uie
next tew days.
Mr. Truman sent a telegram to
the top officials of U. 8. Steel cor
poration and five oilier major steel
producers as well as to Murray's
union.
Drought Plagues
Most Of Europe
LONDON. July 1J (PV-A drought
plagued Europe today from Scandi
navia to the MrdUerranran.-
Franc had temperatures up to
101. Electric power was cut by lack
of water for hydro-electrlo plants.
Water was short In Paris but
Frenchmen Insisted all fountains
operate Thursday-Bastille Day.
Belgians feared loss of hay and
potato crops. Frankfurt, Ocrmany,
reported an unprecedented heat
way. Copenhagen registered Bi
llot for Uiat Danish city and ran
short of beer.
Th mercury went tnto the upper
Ma In England, and lawn sprinkling
waa curtailed. London stockbrokers
smashed tradition by taking off
their vesta.
Jl'LT It, 14
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jOregomons Killed Aboard
KLM Plane In India Crash
Thirteen American correspond
enla lulled today In the crash of a
Dutch airlines plane near Bombay,
India. Included several men well
known to Oregon newspaper readers
and In Oregon newspaper circles.
George Moorad. 41. waa on the
trip aa a commentator lor. KG W,
Portland, and writer tor th Port
land Oregonian. Charles t.ratk. 4.
foreign editor of the Christian
Science Monitor, began hu news
paper career at Astoria. Fred Colvtg.
Id. a former Medfurd resident, waa
editor cf the Mltortal pag or the
I Denver Post.
) All three graduated from the Uni-
versify of Oregon school of Jour
! nalism.
Moorad came out of the Eugene
I Frost-Nipped
Spuds Given
Good Chance
Prom the blackened, droopy fol
I lage of potato plants throughout
1 the Klamath basin, new green
growth la new showing and the
i present outlook for the frosted
i fields ot spuds Is that they will
make a good recovery, with a nar
rower margin of loss than at first
expected.
The story about grain la some
what different. Frosted grain Is
gone. It doesn't recover from frost
damage and can only be used aa hay
i or straw. Extent of acreage actual
I ly ruined by frost has not been es
S tlmated. Farmers and agricultwlsts
! have been giving the crops a chance
! to show their damage before giv
ing out any figures.
Secretary-Treasurer Lee M 'Mul
len of the Klamath Production
Credit association, with some ot the
company directors. Is making a field
survey throughout the farm lands
today. Tuesday, and his report Is
expected to give as accurate a pic
ture of the crop situation as pos
sible before harvest.
Yalkout Grows
As Britain
Seizes Docks
LONDON. July 1J P Defiant
dockers by the hundreds Joined a
wildcat walkout today as the Brit
ish government seised the strike
crippled port of London.
Th cabinet assumed virtual war
time powets to break up the stop
page officially blamed on commu
nist agitation.
The army and navy sent 2380 sol
diers and sailors to the wharves to
unload food.
But the strikers, who numbered
10.2SJ yesterday, were joined by an
other J72 men today. Fewer than
13.000 ot the 35.000 who make up
th London dock labor fore report
ed for work.
The national dock labor board
said 137 ships wcr idle and eight
undermanned.
Mounted policemen were ordered
Into The Thames waterfront area to
enforce a state of near martial law.
Strikers showed resentment as
the government took over dockland
under th emergency act of 1920.
Many who had stayed on th Job
ever sine the unofficial atrlke be
gan June 27 walked off after a series
of meetings at th various dock
gates this morning.
WEATHER
Klsaulfc rails as Vlalallt Salt
tsSsr Ikrsefk WaMaar. Mlt
taaar . Law Saslkl St. (
W.a-aaaSar tt.
Mas. lisle III a Mia W
rraclelUlaaa lest tf kaara e
Telcpbea 111!
No. TO4;
school In 18J0. spent five years tn
' China, served as correspondent for
Tune and Lite tn China. In 1H1
' he becaros Peclfic area director of
; public relations for the American
i Red Cross, then covered the Cuad
' alcana! landings for the Saturday
Evening Post. He covered other
i Pacific action tor Columbia Broad
casting system. In 1946. he Joined
the staff of the Portland radio
I station, KOW. as foreign affairs an-
alyst and commentator. ,V
He was" bam" In- Pot .land and
' graduated from Lincoln hlah school
j there. Survivors Include the widow.
two sons, and his mother, Mrs.
i Elizabeth Moorad of Portland.
I Cratke began his newspaper
career on his father s paper at As-
ton a. He went to Uie Monitor In
1 1927. served as editorial manager
. in Berlin during the rise to power
! of the nazl regime. In 1937 he was
1 made foreign editor of the Monitor,
i He made many trips abroad and In
1946 made a survey of Germany
; under the occupation that won him
. the Sigma Delta Chi award tor for
eign correspondence Uiat year. He
, had worked on the staffs ot the
i Detroit News. Portland Oregonian
' and Oregon City Enterprise. Two
! years ago he was the featured
; speaker at the Oregon press con
iference at Eusene.
Colvlg was raised at Medford. He
' graduated as a Phi Bet. Kappa at
. Oregon In 1936, worked for the
United Press for a year, and then
I went to the Oregonian. His news
career was Interrupted buy combat
duty In the Pacific. On his return
! to civilian life, he went to the Den-
ver Post to organize the editorial
i page and serve as editor ot Uie page.
1st Through
Truck Leaves
For Klamath
LOS ANGELES. July 12 The first
cargo truck to link Klamath Falls
and Southern California with regu
lar through-service motor freight
ing under federal sanction was dis
patched from here last night by
B M. Stewart, president of West
Coast Fast Freight, which is inau
gurating the service.
The truck was loaded with crates
and boxes ot merchandise for Klam
ath Falls business houses.
The West Coast service Is sup
posed to cut 24 hours off previous
circuitous truck routes. It provides
for over-the-road freighting be
tween Klamath Falls and points
south of U 8. 50 connecting Sacra,
memo and San Francisco.
Scheduling calls for J-hour de
livery from Los Angeles to Klam
ath Falls. Peoples Warehouse com
pany In Klamath falls la Uie West
Coast agent in Uiat city.
Rent De-Control
Issue Studied
By Th Associated Press
City councils of Salem and Eu
gene voted last night (Monday) In
favor of decontrol of renta In their
areas.
The Salem action was a reversal
of a vote on the same question be
fore th members two weeks ago. At
Eugene, where University of Oregon
students swell the town's popula
Uon and housing problem each
school year, the vote for decontrol
waa f to 1.
Th recommendations will be sent
to Oov. Douglas McKay tor con
sideration under provisions ot th
federal rent control art.
Fight Precedes
Susana Smash
Nevsmen Killed
Bombay
ROMBAT. Iwdia, nly It Pl
Thirteen American eorrespondenta
and 12 elhcr persona died today Jn
Use crash of a KLM t'ansteilatien
groping through monawaa rain
atonns toward a Bombay Island
airfield.
The American reporter were re
tar nine home from s tear f In
donesia sponsored tr the Datrh
gwrerneoenL It waa the accamd
Sabotage
Feared
MANILA. Jufe 12 (yf William
R. Matbewt, Tucson. Arnu pub
lisher, aaia) lodar Mi as Dorothy
Brandon of the New York Herald
Tribune bad refused I return
aboard the Ill-fated KLM alana
that crashed near Bombay for
fear It would be aabotaaed.
Mathews, who arrived here
aboard a Pan-American plane
from Bangkok, Slam, ajueted Misa
Brandon as saving the plane
would be "sabotaged aa sure aa
jronr life."
8 far no evidence that tha
plane waa sabotaged haa been aa-
Mathewa said aiembera of the
' American newspaper groap had
reaaeated permission frosa India s
: Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal
j Nehra for the plane I retara by
way of India.
Th Arisonaa as id Miss Braa
; doa expressed fear beeaaae aaoat
I " 1Ud0" -"- i that . fight among pan,ra had
i arakea oat near Riverside. Calif.
I tragedy to befall planea of KLM He said h wanted police aid aa eaoa
! I the Ksyal Dutch airline! withia aa the alana landed and he rc
' three weeks. The Constellation that . aaeeted prrmiaajoa to set dowa al
; carried th reporters to Indonesia , Barbank haa tea of the eaatoaaary
, crashed on its retara trip to Earope. destination. Long Beach. On
killing u persons off Bart, Italy,
Juno IL
The correspondents killed in -
eluded Charles Oratke, foreign
editor of the Christian Science
Monitor, and hro Pulitzer oris
winners H. R. Knickerbocker and Tentj-five minutes later th r
S. Burton Heath. ; von pune crash waa r
I . A fourteenth American killed was j oy Vsn Nuys police.
Lynn Mahan. reprrseneauve ot a Bodies Identified
j New York public relations company. I n,. first two bodies idenUfted)
I The others killed were 11 Dutch ' mm ot Joe Freeman, Los An
crewmen. Including the general op- i lt4- and Kr,nk Conway. Albany,
eratlons manager of KLM at Kar- . N Y Freeman's body was thrown
, acru. Parkistan: 17 other Dutch- j,' (Frt (rom the fuselage.
( men; two Chinese and one Rnton. j Ei(btea persona, still aliv kal
I Fond badly asaagled. were taken Irons lb
Thirty-three bodies had been re- TOllt The arsa and leg at oa
covered by nightfall, approximately wanua flU , after ah had been
14 hours after the crash. I A -i,brr.
I The plane strack a rocky hilltop
while aparoarhing the Santa Cruz
I airfield. 15 miles north of Bombay,
j It hit a hill near Ghatkoaar. a the
I (Continued on Page 2
I..O
'PEN-FRIEND' Eleven-year-old
Kirsten Poulsen, suffering
from a rore stomach ailment,
arrived in New York City,
aboard the Swedish-American
liner Stockholm, en route to
Yuba City, Calif., for treat
ment. Kirsten will be the guest
of o "pen friend," Rosemory
Whitney, daughter of a phy
sician, who invited the Danish
girl to visit her in Yuba City.
Rosemory's father. Dr. Ro
mayne Whitney, who plans to
poy Kirsten's round trip fare
and all expenses, will ottempt
to bring relief to the girl from
the pains which have been af
flicting her for five years.
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Susana
, LOS ANGELES. July It lP As
! unscheduled commercial airliner
i with 44 persons aboard crashed and
I burned near the summit of anl
Hosana pas today 26 minutes after
I Pilot Roy White radioed that a
I violent fight had broken aut among
i sssengera.
sheriff J. Howard Durley of Vra
t tor county said lg passengers had
been reasovesi from the wrecked
; plan aliv and that th death list
', "probably will number 2 persona."
; Survivors said the tight started
'after a male passenger becam
hysterical while the big airliner was
coming through a storm. Another
passenger appeared to have quieted
him when a chance remark on thd
cause of the hysteria precipitated a
slugging match.
While the fight was going on. ona
of the stewardeasea warned: 'Fasten
your safety belts; w are going into
a cloud bank."
Plan Explode
Within a matter of seconds, sur vivors
said, Ui plan had crashed
with deafening roar of exploding
gasoline.
Fir destroyed Uie pilot's cab.n
and the crash left only on wing and
the tail.
Th plane belonged to Trsns
NaUonal Airline and waa represent
ed locally by standard Air Lines)
II was one f the cat rat trans
csntioeaul flights, which carry
I passengers for fill instead of th
JUL
aaasengcr waa badly beaten, aaia
j whit, who did not giv th cans
' of the battle.'
j ynnu said the f leh'.ing passengers
1 gwore u,,, mer joing to contlnu
i u,. .,. in. t on land.
By the time rescaers reached ana
spot, foar miles from Santa Suaaaak
aaaa highway, five persons had
fought their way from the barning
dp oris to a fire-esjalpDient road
yards away. On girl la this group
hsd lost a foot. It had been tora
ff at the ankle.
Most of the injured were taken to
Newhall hospitaL
The plsne spparently scraped th
side of a 200-foot hill In a box
canyon with a wingtip a id then
pancaked and caught fire.
Ambulances came from every litU
community In this sparsely popu
lated section ot the San Fernanda
valley. They raced at breakneck
speed, up the tortuous dirt road ta
the scene, quickly loaded aboard th
Injured who had walked or been
carried the 300 yards from the burn
ing airliner, and headed back dowa
the one-way road.
Tw hours after th accident, am
bulances aUII were earning back,
snaking retara trips, but this time la
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Tokyo Rose
Trial Drags;
POW Tale Told
8 AN FRANCISCO. July 12 (fl
The defense in the Tokyo Ron
treason trial Is trying to show thai
war prisoners' messages were fea
tured prominently in on program
broadcast by radio Tokyo.
Mrs. Iva Ooturi D' Aquino. 33. Log
Angles naUve, Is charged with trai
torously broadcasting discouraging
messages to American troops In th
Pacific during th war.
By cross-examination of a former
Japanese lieutenant colonel, Shlget
sugu Tsunelshl, the defendant'!
counsel sought to back up this con
tention: That Mrs. D'Anquino was
told th "zero hour" was to be a
prisoner of war program, for im
proving to lot of American POW s.
The trial was Inching along, slow
ly and laboriously, through qucs
Uonlng and cross-examination.
Defense Attorney Wayne Collins,
In an hour-long tilt managed final
ly to get Tsunelshl tn acknowledge
the program began with POW mes
sages which the senders hoped
would reach their families.
Tsunelshl kept Insisting that the
program was directed to American
troops, not the homeland. At on
stag he aald he thought the mes
sages were read on another pro
gram, 'The Postman Calls."