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Newspaper Page TextN M1 rxn mfjm if cren Am)o)07o)AT (Til 11 Tim j Day's km . . j . r By FRANK JKNHINH JN Washington IhU morning. Sli Hrrrelery Arhreun lietly opposes any rut In our projected billion and hull program to provide arms for Western k'urnpe. lit thla fig tire represent the absolute min imum needed I fur salely.l . P you lived away out In the woods, and tilt wolvea were a constant ntrniri, and you were the only one In tin neighborhood who could af ford to buy guns, you'd probably buy iuiu for your nrighburs, wouldu't youT Even If you had to cut down on anma of your l.KSrt rlHMKNTIAL M-ncliii to find Hie money. )1IK Ulk a lot about aecmlly In thru daya. I Don't KVKIl forget tliat the NO. 1 i FKOUItn Y Is preservation of our national rxlalrm. pHlHONAU Y, I think our mil- I llary coata art extravagantly , tl'Jali and rould b greatly reduced ; better buinru manaxemrnt Hut : tlial'a nrlllirr here nor Uirrr. Wevu j got to have adequate defense, no mailer what It coala. , ' PIIK papers are full of Ui Hilllsln dollar cruu and whet sill bap-1 pen If It lan I relirved. If you ve never paid murh attention to the complicated buaineaa of foreign ex change, thia thought may occur to you: ! Why don't we Juat print rwue do!- ; Ul and CIIVK KM TO THE ItltlTIMII? I IT un I aa almpla aa thai. form tl trade ran only be bal- atlced by EXCHANGE OK THINOH Monry 'dollars, ouuuda, kroner. lieaoe. alntyal la only the grease j that keeps the wheels moving. Only , THINGS count in foreign trade. The British are buying morel THINOH from ua than r buy flora ' thrra. That a where the rub coiuea. TF we print more dollars and gie them to the Brltlah so iney can buy more things from us. we'll aim- i ply be OIV1NU AWAY OUR BUB- j rtl'ANCfc and getting nothing In re- turn. ; 1 HNOTIII.K ahallow thought may1 occure to yuu: Why don't the British pay their bdle with gold' ... QNK good reason la Utat e already have moat of the gold In the wot Id. Tor yeara we. been buying all over the earth paying for II In r-APKH 1X31.1. Alls, which have been used to buy from ua the TIIINOri thai me have produced In our fartorica, on our farms, etc. i The net mult of all of It la that we have the gold imusl of It burled In the ground, at Port Knog anJ I elsewhere! and the people from t whom we have bought It HAVE THE THINGS. NOTIIFJl thought for you to muil in your mind: What good will all IhU gold do! u it the real of the world faila in : the future to produce enouah I THINOH to awap back to ua for the gold? Or If we rrfue to BUY the thlnia the real of the world producea? ... I COMB things to remember: " Only THINGS count. You can't eat money or wear It, or aheltrr yourartf with II. ALL trade mot merely foreign trade) haa to function aa a TWO WAY afreet or It won t function at all. If trade flowa ONE WAY too long, there will be a aurplua at one end and a vacuum at the other. When that happen, we have hard limes. 1 nr i "I I -Xifirx- h ; - V m ! (MA :! 1 STILL WALKING Pot Patterson, hired picket for local 220, AFL laundry and dry cleaning workers, continues to make his appointed rounds os the union's strike against A, D. Lam bert's Klomoth Cleaners passes the one-year mark. Lambert A watches from the door of his establishment. Forest Fire RipsThrough Pine Timber By The Aaaorlatrd Press A forral (Ire waa swrcplnr over four aquara mllra of the Malheur national fur rat today (Wednesday!, aa Orrgon awrllerrd In another day of heal. The blase one of nearly it aet by lightning en the Central Orrgon forrat Jumped out of rontrol yra trrday aflrrttoon and ale through a I by 4 mile atrip ef fonder oa pine, young Umber, anaga, and aagrbruah. Purrst auiervlaora rxjiected to rnntrol the blare by thla afternoon. Two thirds of It were alrrady flre trailrd, and 200 men anil six csier plllar tractora were working on the rest. J. E. Elliott, fire assistant for the forrat, headquartered at John Day, rrported the worst burning condi liona the forrat haa had In a decade. "The long aprlng and the dinight have Irft the woods tindrr diy,'' hr aald. Kmall Urea The other lightning. art fur on the forrat were email, and all had been controlled. A toe-acre alaah fire on l.ot rrrek In Cooa eounlv wa hreuihl under eonlrol laat nlthl after an all-day fight. The slate kepi alert atalnal fire haaarda again today, aa another day af high Irmperalurra and dangrr euale low tauaaldlllea prevailed. Itul Hie wind dlrrrllen gave hope le foresters. W hat Ihev feared ml waa a allir rasl wind that would aprrad aay small blase; and the lereraal waa for norlhwrat brreae. Tempetatures hovered In the nineties over much of Orrgun yea. trrday, and e niaiimum of loo waa reported by the alate forrat patrol at Oranta Pbmi. Mrdfaed and Ontario rerorded M: Klamalh rails It: Kedmond. Roaei barg. Burns and Pendleton II) alem. The Itallra. and r eiene. aa; la t.rande ga; and Peelland ga. Only the raaal was root, with tem peratures la) Ibe littles. Operator Of Tavern Guilty On Beer Count Char let l.lticUnv. oprrttlnr of Tiny uvern. Mm-ill Lakrvtr Junction, ftu ronvitrtsfd ymndtf rtemnun In twtlrv court on a mUulrmrMtior civane of artlinf brrr to minor. eVnteiK pemtpunrd until ThurMlity. Convtrtrd Hh Uirduy ai Orarff DarlifK (Sharp, barmaid at lha tavrrn. Thry tmc a prooablt fine of up to iauo I ''' and Mum Sharp mere arrujbfd of arllluc brrr to thrrc Klamath Union high athonl tun. I? and IS yean of aire, the niuht and early mornlnc of May 13-14. Tlrf-y denied nrrvint the minora. The tli-man jumic court Jury remmmended lemrnry. Both art free on I1&0 bail each. Portlanders Get Water Warning PORTLAND. July II 0P1 fort land la uaing more than 130.000 000 gallons of water day and houae holdera have been aakrd to observe alternate-day sprinkling. Olen Morrow, general managrr of the water bureau, aald the long, hot, dry spell is putting aurh a heavy drain on the water evatcm that pressure la falling off. There la plenty of water In the Hull Run reservoir on Mount Hood, however, he aald. iewf1" 77 u n, .. ,.. ui - i , . . . o h . - rKICR I'lVE CK.NTIf i- .--vVv ' KLAMATH KAI.LH, OKf.tiON, WKONKNUAY, ji ly h, 1M . .V1 ' Solon Says Soviet Yill Avoid War WAMIIINf.TO. Jul IS "ft A belief thai Rtiavaia will avoid war any lime mod was offered by Hen ator Hmer Thomai U-OkU. to dar "the underlying reaon" for rut ling appropriation for the armed tervire. "I think everyone agree right now that Hutwia hi In no rood It ion for another war. Thomas told a re pearler. "Not too cr.g ago, we were told we anlcht be bombed aav ! minute." Thorn a callrd a cloaed-dnor aea rvlon, tartlng at 9 a. m. KiTT to day, of a aenatr appropriations aubtommltlee to art on futida for the army, navy and air force for the next 12 monihi. Hlf Klaah T think e ran aafrly rut $1, ftoo.uoo.ooo and perhajM a lot more nut of thin bill ai It paaaed Uvi houne," Thoma aald. The hue approved juat under f liaaaaaa.aea N raah and roo tract authority for the armed aervkea In this blggent of alt regular ap propriation. OellheraUona of the arnate aub romm 1 1 tee ma y tab e several da vs and then thry will be rrvtrwed and subject to rbange by the full ll-tnember appropriations commit -tee before going o the senate. Meanwhile, the aenato drive to eul bark government spending and balance federal outgo with uwome offered a mixed picture. F.cromy r Harts suffered a set back late veaieeday whew the an nual Interior department monry bill waa approved by the appropri ations committee. It contained VUM.MW.ewa ruh, more than 154. Ot.eot abovo the llguro approved bv the house, and nearly 17 too con tract authority, or some MOM. more than the novae. (Contract authority permits a gov ernment agency to eon tract for pro)ecta, with the money to be ap propriated later . Klamath USER Project To Get $803,460 A total of M.0 was'reconi mend for the Klamalh reclamation project lor the current nscai year today by the senate appropriations committee In Washington. Reclamation officiate here aald the amount la "about what waa asked" for the orolecl here, although It la allghlly under the previous allow- anre br the house of M50.000. It is about equally divided In op- erallon and mainlenance costs and construction allowances. It covers considerable worlt already alarted such as the diversion channel en largement, channelisation In Lan- gell valley and some lateral develop ment In the Tulelake area, Thla appropriation la not con cerned with other proposed develop ment In the Klamalh area, such as Boundary dam which may be built on the upper reachea of Lost river That project la still In the picture as a flood control measure, and la un der consideration at the Sacramento and Denver USHR offlcea. AFL Laundry, Dry Cleaning Union Fickets Finish Full Year Of Picketing KF Shop One solid year of parading bark and forth along the 25-foot stretch of pavement before Klamath Clean ers, 431 Main, la the record hung up today by pickets employed by local 710 of the AFL Laundry and Dry Cleaning workers. And the picketing still goes on. It waa a year ago, on July 13, lleta, that the small union posted Its plckela on Main atreel to call attention to a grievance between the union and A. U. Lambert, owner of the establishment. . The difficulty started when the union went on an "extended meet ing" strike June 30. closing down all dry cleaning plants In town. The strike was settlrd July 9 on he basis of a 10-ccnt hourly y laiae and vacation concessions with all plants except Klamath Cleaners, Lambert did not take back his union employes, kept his plant open with non-union help and In general kept doing business at the aame old stand. He was put on the central labor council's "unfair" list July S. The union first planted lis pick eta at the shop two In front and two at the bark door July 13. An am billons plan, of photographing customers of the plant "for union - - i ' - y RESCUERS AID PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR? This picturtvtoken yesterdoy at the Susana pass Site of the tragic commercial airline crdsh shows rescuers plowing through heavy brush to aid survivors of the mountoin crash which -claimed of least 35 lives. Plane Yields 40 I Bombay; New Denies Fears BOMBAY. India. July U or The reln-eaaa.ee ndrrbntah ea Chat- kepar hill today yielded the eodiee f te ef the tl perssma killed yeater- ear In the flaming crash or a Koral ,)nUh RIM airiiBrr en oomDaj hihirid. Thirteen of the dead were Amerl- can ncwa correspandeiila. The bodies of all but one ol the correspondent ! r." """" "" c""- Hundreda et p e 1 1 e e ,In( through snonaoon tmlna ewnUnaed 'he search for five missing bodies. Luggage aboard the iU-fated plane ; aa ereu The plane, a Constellation, crashed on the sou-foot high hill while pre- ; paring to land at an airfield IS mtlea north of Bombay. Controller : of Airdromes Shumsnere Jung aald : the field waa "perfectly okay" at the time of the crash and that other aircraft had made takeoffa a short time before. The American consulate received Instructions from the U. 8. state department to have seven ot the bodies of the correspondents ere- use only" waa atarted then aban doned quickly when it became ap- parent that gome customers were going to put up hearty objection to being photographed Aa the summer of 1948 wore on and the strike began to sap the re sources of Local 1!0, the picket line waa reduced to Just one or two per sons, working five-hour shifts when ever the plant's doors were open. They stuck It out during summer heat, rain and sub-aero winter weather. The controversy gradually wore down to what it Is today, a "matter of principle" tl'i .union a principle and that of Lar.a.crt. The plant owl t on the anniver sary of the strike today said he nt ill hadn't changed his mind and figured he could hold out Indefi nitely. The union Is being helped out financially by Its International affiliate and likewise shows no sign of giving in. And the sight of pickets on Main street has become a familiar one. Klamath Cleaners happens to be one of the oldest dry cleaning es tablishments in town. It was atarted In 1W11 by Bob Robertson, who now lives in Gold Hill, and waa later taken over by Lambert! father. plot in Bodies At York Writer Of Sabotage mated at the request of relative I who want the ashes arm to them. ' , )a Hong Hama;, Mrs. Dorethv ; Brandon af the New Vera Herald Tribune, denied that ahe had re- , tmea i. kMrtl the Diane because , she had feared It woald be aabav ' taged. j 8ne uid ,h, wanted It made , -TPTT rr itlti i m not aospeet ! aaboUge." I j Manila ye.terdav. William R. Mathews, publisher of the Tucson. , , Aru uld Mr,. Brandon had , ,,,, nlm ,,,, wouidn t board the pl,ne ,t Batavla because "it's going : ; to be sabotaged as sure as you live. Mrs. Brandon aald In Hong Kong. however, that she and Mathews had . made BP their minds In New York, before the correspondents' Journey i had begun, not to make the return : i trip with the ethers. She told interviewer ahe and Mathews were i the enlv enea among the party who ' had planned te go north after the : Batavla lour. . Hot Veather Forecast Here Hot. lary summer weather Is still on the docket for Klamath people, most of whom are finding work dif ficult In this week's scorching after noon temperatures. Forecast for tonight and Thurs- rf.w I. foe fair weather with the I trm tm hlttll,g M , u ton,orrow. mercury aet a new season record Tuesday with the dnv's high at 92 degrees. Goverment fire weather forecasts, provided for use by the Klamath Forest Protective association, pre dict continued warm weather with the humidity low through Thurs day. Friday and Saturday. City Firemen Aid In Trash Burning ' The clly fire department Is happy to assist as much aa It can with burning off weeds and rubble around town, and urges property owners to contact the fire station before doing any burning. Firemen are doing considerable burning ot weeds In vacant lots around the city and will assist prop erty owners with burning if they can. It la not necessary to have a writ ten permit before burning trash or weeda, but It la required to call the fire station for oral permission. Crash Alaska Called Weak Spot In US Defenses : WASHINGTON'. July 13 ) A senate committee was told today that "Alaska is weak" and "Uncle Sam ia asleep In the north again." ! The statements were made by Fergus Hoffman, atatf correspond ent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who said he waa assigned to make 1 an investigation of the territory's defenses by lb Hearst newspapers. In prepared testimony tor the senate appropriations subcommittee handling funds for the armed serv ices. Hoffman said: "Military men are not exactly In the most favorable position to tell the public the plain truth that Alaska la in sorry shape, that de fenses are not what they must be to be what their name Implies." Hoffman urged that Alaska's de fenses be strengthened with more military bases, the military be given more money to provide troops to defend the bases it now holds and that a rigid perimeter warning sys tem be immediately established with maintenance there of forces sufficient to repel any intruder. WIN OREGON CITY, July 13 v The Oregon City American Legion Junior baseball tram defeated Stayton 6-0 here last night. Ditch-Digging Can Be Fun-lf You Hit It Rich CINCINNATI, "JiiIt 1J (Pi Whs save dltrh-aiggtng can't be fun? Mrn working en a down town building excavation here think It la. While digging yesterday, thry broke Into a long-forgotten wine cellar and discovered hundreda of bottles of that delirious fer mented drink. Some of the wine was more than log years old. "The best wine we're ever tasted.' they heartily agreed. The bottles bore faded lbela saying the contents were "In valuable for general debility, loss nf appetite, prostration and nursing mothers." The spirits, then about 75 yeara old. ahould be consumed three times a day," aald the labels. Old time Cincinnati residents said the cellars were part of the old Longworth Wine House which went out of business more than St years ago. WEATHER Klauia Vail. sa4 Vlelallr Cl.ar lar.sia TB. radar. M'lb .Ik a,a as. L.w uaigai as. Mas. IJ.Ir It) aa alia.J4 realaiuu.a lael 14 fea.ri S. Telrpheoe gill Cayse Fist Fight Checked As 'Possible' LOS AVGELF.R. July 11 lP Of ficial sources differed today wheth er a fight abaurd an airliner easaed it te crash and explode It aallea north of here with a loss of 15 Mree and Injuria le 14. A C-4fj transport operated by 8tandard Airlines snagged a wlng tip yesterday In the Santa Susana mountains In a fog and exploded on a steep canyonside In what civil aeronautics board inspectors aald was the worst non-scheduled flight accident In the nation's history. Jaaaea V. Peyton, regional CAB! chief, as id that a brief fight be-1 tween twe aaen nasaengera appar- j ently did not cause the crash. He made thia statement after talking te I asiTTrrora. Peyton aald the crash ! acenried an now and a half after the scran. Howerer, Capt. I R. PowelL chief pilot far standard, aald hie Investi gation eonvrceed htm the battle canaed the tragedy. He described the pilot of the twin-engine craft. Roy G. White, as highly skilled and careful. White waa killed. 8tanley Weiss, airline president. expressed belief that the fight 'may have contributed to the crash." Has pension Order Standard Airlines previously had been ordered by the CAB to discon tinue flight operations next week for violating retulationa. A half hour before the crash. Pilot White had radioed Lockheed airport at Burbank that he wanted police to atand by to arrest one of two men passengers who had been fighting aboard. He aald one man ' area badly beaten. The plane was inbonnd from New York. A aaaeeager. Mrs. Mary Settle ef Lang Beach. Calif, amis! ahe saw the fight (she aald ahe saw a swan hit the man next te him Jaat enee. Stewardess Vicky Zebdorf aald In a Long Beach hospital that ahe awed her Hfe te the tussle She j aald ahe tare np her seat te the i man who waa etrwefc. The nun In j that aeat waa killed. She aald the ' twe men had been fighting the day I before also. ! When Mrs. Zelsdorf saw they j were going to crash ahe threw a I blanket across her knees and abdo l men. Doctors said thla was her I maternal Instinct to save her un j born child, which they hoped to ' save. The stewardess was serious j ly injured. Normal Approach i CAB Chief Peyton arrived on the j scene- 90 minutes after the crash. He said the plane was making a normal approach for a landing at 1 Lockheed and waa on course, except I that It was too kr. He aald the t altimeter waa working and that i "there was no apparent malfunc j tlons of the engines or structural failure of the aircraft." t He haa recommended a formal j hearinr and aald investigation at '. the scene will continue aereral days. "I believe we knew what caused the crash." he aald, adding that the information would come out at the hearing. He declined to disclose the reason before then. Second Recall Petition On Elliott Filed PORTLAND. July 13 (IP) Two young democrat leaders have Joined ! Multnomah County Young Repub licans In sponsoring organization of a committee to work for the recall of Sheriff M. L. Elliott. Don C. Walker, president of the County Young Republicans, said a public meeting tomorrow night would name officers of the group di recting the campaign. A new recall notice, which must be followed up within 90 days with petitions bearing some 30.000 signa tures. Is planned. A recall notice filed Monday by two republicans was declared yesterday to be faulty. Walker announced after a con ference yesterday that he and Walter Dennis, president of the Multnomah County Younc Demo ! crats, John M. Winkler, first vice president of the Young Democrats of Orrgon; R. J. Burke and Max Donnelly. Portland republicans, were calling the publlo meeting. Neither of the two young political party members' organizations are to have an official part in the ac I tual campaign. Walker aald. "Some . body had to start It and we felt thla was the best way," he ex ! plained. Elliott still waa keeping quiet after an Initial reply to the rerll action In which he said he 'had only begun to fight" to stay In the office he took over In January. Plants Not In Line To Be Struck PITTmil ftCH. July 13 m The CO lolled Bteelworkera today ac cepted a presidential proposal te avoid a etael stria, for en daya. But Union President Philip Murray aald be woald call a strike tomorrow, effective af midnight Friday, against thoaa companies who declined Pres ident Trwman'a acopoaai, The walkout will be effective at midnight. Friday. July IS, aald CIO President Philip Murray. Murray said be had no definite information on which companies would be struck but that they ap peared to be the U. 8. Steel corp.. Republic Steel corp., and Bethlehem Steel corp- "a far as my present Information goes." Murray's telegram to Truman aald: -. . . We will eontinoe te work ander the terms of the eaUeetrre bargaining agreement not In effect for a period of fe days from July la, IMS. with respect to those com panies who likewise accept yenr proposal and agree te continue ep eratione during thla period . . , and to appear before the board (fact finding beard) ..." strike Call Murray told a newe conference alter the 'unions 170-man wage policy committee ratified acceptance of the presidential proposa. of his plana to call a sinks "sometime tomorrow" against companies op posed to the plan. Murray said a total of 315.00 workers In el steel company plants were now working under contracts which permit a possible strike. Oth er companies could be struck later. Murray apparently waa vnawarn that Wheeling 8teet and Yeauigs. town 8hcet Tab also hare re jected the sareaMent'i pripaaal far farCfinding board. M array aald eompanlfa which as cent the sareasdent'e mapaaal wonla be aaaed te eon tinna contract negs tia lions en the onion's demands for wage Increases, penal ana and an- Reds Loose Fresh Blast !At Mac Policy ! WASHINGTON. July 13 UP) Rut. : sis charged today that Gen. Ooug I las Mac Arthur and the Japanese 1 government are carrying on a brutal" campaign against the "democratic forces" In Japan. Soviet Ambassador Alexander ft. Panyushkin told the 1 1-nauon far eaatern commission also that American policies have brought the "Japanese economy to a state of total collapse." Panyushkin called on the com mission to rule that workers in Japanese government enterprises may bargain collectively and go on strike. Ms Arthur and the Japanese gov ernment have forbidden strikes on government enterprises. Panyushkin declared that all the Pacific allies but the United States favor giving strike right to govern ment workers. He charged the Unit ed States ha tried "by all possible means" to keep the commission from adopting a policy on this Issue. "Hot Shirt" Is Latest Prank CHICAGO. July 13 0FV-The lat est gag of the "hot foot" type I a new and perilous "hot shirt." Arthur Bard told police he was a victim aa he stood on a street cor ner last night talking with friends. Four youths, he said approached him and squirted lighter fluid on the back of lua shirt then tossed a lighted match on the wet spot He waa slightly burned on the back before he could rip off the shirt. His friends seised the can of fluid from one ot the boys, all of whom fled. Murderer Hides iOn Wafer Tower I LIMA. O, July 13 lP A War- ren, O.. murderer, trapped In an i escape attempt this morning, acaled a 130-foot water tower t the Lima 'state hospital. He still is there. Dr. K. E. Bushong. hospital su perln' dent, said he would 'alt nut the patient, Raymond Jutlla, 34. Dr. Bushong said Jutlla escaped a small courtyard at 9 a. m. today by scaling a wall crossing l m l and ascending a wall on the other side. As guards closed in, he ran to the ladder leading to the top os the tower and climbed the 130 feet in less than two minutes. Dr. Bushong told newsmen: "Jutlla will get elthet tired, hun gry or sleepy and eventually he will come down. We will wait him out." BULLETIN VATICAN t'lTY, July 11 IIP) The Vatican today decreed manr excommunication ax a In a f commn nlata. The decree waa issued by the sacred congregation of the holy office. F.xeommanlratlon enta off t'atholieo from participation In the eaeramente of the church and the society ef the faithfnl. )