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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1949)
fo) M in mm Mggej A InTlio Day's news .. ..... Iy FRANK JENKINS MP it Lebanon, in tin Willamette vallry. Uiry'vt Juat urtllrd main what mini to be a burning Isaue In the modem day wlilrli l belter, a hurte's Irna or a main lrg7 Th horaa won. IN this particular caw. a 84-yeei-old man allowed In public Dial lir could outwalk a lx-yer-old hure over a 15-mil coura. 'Ilia hurt' friend railed ln bind, and Ilia contest a ataged at Ilia Lebanon race track. Two hundred people. In cidentally, paid muiiey to ace It. Wlirn I'.ma waa railed, Uie horse iu 14 milra ahead. F1IIH Imrae v. nun buauirh ha been grtung a lot of attention up III tliat part ol Un slate. It a tat leu, al 1 recall It, when a trhg-u4 kni Individual farther down the vallry made hla biega Uiat he could out pull a liura in a luu-ol-ar. The partisan of tha hura and the partisan of the man put It to afihe teat. The hoi a won in a walk They tried It again. The horae woo again. a f how tha people down that way accept the Lebanon teat a final and concede that on pure brawn a hor la belter than a man. It palna ma U ee people In modern day Oregon atlll debating an Iaiuc that waa aetllrd drriaivelv when the tirat man lamed and broke Uie Ural florae and put him to woik pullitu a load. Then are Uie iaaur that were aettled then: I. The hor la ttronger than Die man. 3. Ilia mat la SMARTER than the hnrae. . Hoiauaa he la amarier. man EVER rUNCE haa been making the horse do tha liaid work It Ml juat that. THE BMAHT MAN NOT MERELY MAKftH THE DUMB HOIUiK IK) THK HARD WORK UK MAKES THK HOKME LIKE IT. Her ta how It worka out: a IS nia name atate, centurie ago. the hoiao waa free and independ ent. He did aa he pleaaed. He called no man maater. Ilia deatiny waa what ha rhoo to make It. He wan dered anutii. He waked no man a permiaaion to do what ha wanted to do. BUT While he waa free, he waaii': aerur. He waa never aure what hu neat aeaaon paalure would be like Maybe It would be good. , Maybe 11 would be bad. Whru It waa bad. he either got thin or he moved an to better paalure on the other aide of the horiaun. Moving on to belter paalure involved making decialotu on hit own account and abiding by the result. a m MAN came along and PROMISED 11 HIM SECURITY IN THE FORM Or PLENTY OF ORA.S8 ALL HIH LIKE. All ha had to do to obtain Una aecurlty waa to give up hta freedom and let the man 'be the boaa. Thereafter tha man would provide him with graaa .n aummer and hay In winter and would even build him a barn in which to eat hie winter'a hay In comfort. Tha horaa fell for It. like a ton of brick, and haa been falling for It ever since. The net reault ta that ha la just a beast of burden. a a I wtah our frlrnda up along the WU lamll would give It up that a horaa la ttronger than a man and begin to pay aomo attention to what happen because tile man la SMARTER than the hnrae. The amart man promiaed the dumb horaa aecurlty and plenty of graaa. end to get It Uie horse gave up Uia right to run hla own life. A lot of amart politician are mak ing glittering promises to u dumb people that If we will give up the right to run our own livta Uiry will guarantee ua plenty to eat and a tivernment-built houae to do Uie eating In. If we keep falling for their prom ises, we'll wind up where the horse did Uiat ti to tay, the time will .com when we'll be doing all the Vard work and the amart politicians will be having all Uie tun of run ning our Uvea for ua. That'a what we need to be think ing about. To Heck With Semantics, Just Try Housewife's Easy To Do Face'Saving Tactics DENVER, July 3S (in Scientists who've been mulling aver "the Ionics nf confusion" and allied subjects got Ihe straight clnpe yrsterdny on how husband and wife can argue peace fully. A Denver housewife. Mr. Betty lee Jncnbs, told the experts llwt a simple application ot semantic does the trick. iNo, ynu can't go out and liny a bottle at the drug slore.l Mrs. Jamb brought Ihe third enngreas of semantics down from out of the clouds over Denver. At least Dial's where Ihe average Den verlle thought It hi been Ihe past tour days. Semantic Is a science. Webster's tllctlniiary define It as "The sci ence of meniilnga inf wordsl a enntmstrd with the phonetics, the aoiind (of wnrrisi." Seven hundred experts from North and South America and Europe have been amusing themselves and confound ing outsiders wllh their Intellectual hl-llnks here for Ihe pnst four dny. Mis. Jsrnhs put some enilhy logic 7 into ins congress. Negotiations In Hawaiian Strike Stall Honolulu, July JS Mi Failure of wn cmplover-uiilon conference rallrd by liov. Ingram M. Hlalnnark today tightened the dradlork In the M dav Hawaii duck atrlke. The governor eUrniptrd to crark the Impaaae befure he gore before a apcnlal araalon of the Irglalalure tumurrow. He will aak lor powera to erlie the dork and hire civil arrvlre levrdorea. Ilolh aldra In the alrlke oppoae that. The meeting In lolanl palate yra trrttny led to an Infnnnal wage offer by Henry Hrhmldt, a leader nf the CIO International Iongahoreinen ' and Warehousemen's union. Km- , plovera turned It down. I Meanwhile, there waa watchful ' Inlrrrat In announrrd plan of the j nenunlnn Hawaiian Mrvrdorr. Inr., to load the Ural outward tauo of I utar alnrr Ihe I III longahorrmrn quit work In the lalanda' alt puru May I. No Vlolrnre "There wont be any violence." aald tkhinldt. He predii led only a akrlrton picket line at the pirr. Hut he waa "pretty damn aure' the AKL jrrewmrtt won t go back aboard the ahlp - the I llimlan freighter Hteel ( Hver They walkrd oil last week. I 11. WU official here and In Kan ' Kranriaco declared the ahip would be labeled 'hot" and wmild liol be ' unbailed on Ihe weal coat by union ' atrvrdmea. Normally, the a u g a r I would go to the Ameiican Hawaiian i Huiiitr Co. irfinrry al Crockett, ! Calif.. It ma go elsewhere I Hawaii I bulling wllh 1I1.0 Ion I of auiar valued al ua.OM.to and j atared wherever Ihe mill ran find a drv place Including theatre lobbies. Hie II. WU haa been trtklng to now.1 liaigahnreinen'a wage from i II 40 an hour. Employer offered a i 13-renl Incrraae. They onr ae '. cepted the 14-cent figure recom ! mended by a fart finding board but I the union rejected that. Car Falls Off Jack, Injures SOC Teacher ! An unuaual accident, occurring ' when a car fell off a Jack, brought ! aenom injury Haturday evening to ' N'nrman H. Hawk. Southern Oregon college faculty member, on the ; Kourmile lake road weal of Lake o' I Uie Wood. Hawk la ihe ton-ln-law of Mr. and Mra. Arthur Porter, 119 Pine elreet, Klamath Kail, and waa on hu way i to the lake to meet Porter for a flailing exruralon. The car developed a broken pruig : on the rough road. Hawk Jacked It ! up with a bumper Jack and waa under the car when It rolled off the Jack and fell on him. breaking hla pelvia. Hla mother. Mr. N. L. Hawk, waa with him. and the falling car (truck her, raualng g minor hurt. Hawk waa taken lo Medford I hospital, and doctor aald he will recover. He I the huaband of the former Phyllu Porter of thla city. Everyone Howls When SP Freight Whistle Sticks Indignant Klamath Falls real denU kept Ihe telephone wires busy and eren the city's dogs act up a bif howl sthen a whistle sturb an a Kouthern Pacific freight lo comotive about 7 a'clock Hundav morning and continued lo "blow sleepers out of bed for approil matelr 33 minute. Telephones at The Herald and N'ews, radio stations KH.W and KKJI and Ihe ISP station were deluged with Irate calls. After Ihe noise had continued without abatement fur about 10 minutes, the canine population derided to lend their bit of har monising, bP officials aald that with the advent of dlesel power, such whistle-sticking disturbances will come to an end. She Isn't exactly a novice In this semantics business. She has a cou ple of college degrees. Hut her main occupation, she emphasizes, Is bring a housewife. On the hiisband-and-wlfe subject, she told the congress "we need to take a lesson from Inbor-mnnsge-ment. They have developed skills in communicating with each other. 'That's semantics.) Husbands and wives can do the same thing." She sslri man snd wife nerd to develop "fsie-ssvlng devices and ')iitllng-on-lre' trrhnlque." Mrs. Jacobs' piittlng-nn-lre meth od sounds like a semsnllrlired ver sion of the old "count 10 before you say anylhlng" philosophy, she sug gested tlist "It you get angry about something Just before dinner, put It -on-lce until after dinner. Or un til 8 o'clock. Or better wait until you're out driving sometime Inter." On the subject of fnce-savlng de vices, Mrs. Jacobs explained: "You allow the other person to under stand wherein he I wrong without making him admit It." CKKf HVt ( INK KLAMATH rALLH, OKI; (.ON, M O.N DAY, J1LV 14. 194 oil PARK DEDICATION Picture showing port of fhe audience ond the speaker's rostrum ot the dedication of Jockson F. Kimball memorial pork ot the head of Wood river yesterday. John Houston, standing on platform, presided at the exercises. Jackson Kimball Honored Boston Bay Sunday When Wood River CL:n frach Memorial Park Dedicated 7,.;? U Jackson V. Kimball, pioneer In I forestry and forest protection In the ' Klmmalh raunlv. mm.m honored vea. lerday In the dedication of the area around Ihe head of Wood river as the Kimball Memorial park, a pro)- eel of the state board of forestry. Approximately 10 persons galh- ered In Ihe pine-studded area for eserrtsea sponsored by ihe tort Klamatti Women's club, which M- lotved kirn hrtrfrU Ik. W4ul I pool that atarta the rlvor an Its way I : at Ihe foot of sua asoaotaia. The dedicatory address wsa made .. i il KUhI' r Mra Op Pag,.' ' tJrZFu&ZlrE. The For. Klamath Women", club Kimball's memory and Introdttred a.1. .u.. Mm I l Kimkall mho wa here from la Jolla. t allf, for .... . ., ..ni ...1 Mr Kimball was active u veara aio In Ihe preparation of the original suir forestry laws whlrh msde pos sible the establishment of a stale forrst In the Wood river area, of wh'rh Ihe Kimball recreation area la a part. John Houston, maater of ceremo nies. Introduced other speakers. In- eluding l.vnn Cromemlller. assistant t slate forester; lean Paul Dunn, Oregon State college school of for- j rstry: hen a tor Phil Hitchcock, rep- j resenting (governor Douglas McKay; j Albert Vteendanger, representing i the Keep Oregon tireen organlxa Direct Air Service For Klamath Asked The Klamalh county chamber of commerce went on record favoring direct air service between Klam- ath Kails to Portland and San Fran- the causa si a hearing of the civil aeronautics board In San Francisco next Monday. This decision was made during a Monday morning meeting of the executive commute ot the chamber. Stale Senator Phil Hitchcock and Chamber Manager Charles R. Stark will represent Ktamsth Fslla at the CAB hearing. A recent petition to the CAB. asking for Klamalh Falls Interven tion at the, hearing was granted. Siaik said, and tins will be second on the docket to present argu ments for adequate air service. Winston Purvlne, Oregon Tech director, told Uie chamber's execu tive committee of Uie need for find ing students part-time work. The matter was referred to Ihe OTI committee for study and action. Rent Rule Won't Apply In Oregon SALEM. July 35 (PI The Chicago federal court decision holding that Ihe federal rent control law la un constitutional won't have any effect In Oregon. Thomas MrCall, secretary lo the governor, anltl that Governor McKay feels the decision won't have any force unless It Is upheld by the United States supreme court. The government has appealed. , Governor McKay's announcement today that he approved decontrol of rents In Eugene enme after he heard about tha decision. That Indicated the governor feels the frderal rent control law, whlrh lets the gover nors decontrol rents In local areas, Is sMIl valid. MrCnll said tills feeling I shared by Attorney General George Neuner. a !- i ' lion, and Malcolm Fplcy, managing ; editor of The Herald and News. ' Th La. Ik nalrf Lrihula In Kim. ! i ball's memory and emphasised the ' ; value of selling aside such places as that at the head of the river as j beauty and outing spots for the enjoyment of Ihia and future gener- j ations. Kpley discussed the history i of the Mood river area, and Crone miller described the backeround of alat fortaln tlin. Entrrtarnnaent lealwre. harlwded number by the -Houae brothers ' artet and vocal solos by Dorothy .. . . netlson or sort Klamath- aiMoaa. ' "bers served CrraiW. coffee and Ice I Mrs, now available for pic- nlea and outing. Ilea near old I S tl ' lno Oregon MS) north of Fort eUaaaalh junction. Search For Slayers Still Draws Blank TACOMA. Julv 35 o A four- state dragnet for John Edward 1 Bailey, a veteran pilot, said "at I Summers. 33-year-old ex-convlct j the time the ship was doing ap snught for the double slaving of an proximately 13 knots, elderly Tsroma couple, continued to i CtBU Charles E Stevens. SO. draw a blank today. i skipper of the wrecked boat, who Summers, whose most descriptive , tutlmi . questionable fracture feature Is a two-Inch scar on the !. .JrVr. - -i -tiHnt bsck of his left hand. Is charged with first 'degree murder for the shooting of Howard EaMry. 63. and his wife. Elisabeth, 7, in their home here July lfl. Federal bureau of Investigation agents entered the rae over the ; week-end In belief Uiat Summers j had driven the Easley car Into Ore- ! gn in violation of the Dyer act. ! I The Portland motorist In whose said he bousht It from a man an swering Summers' description. That was Friday. His trail ended several hours later after he rode In several taxicabs. He told one driver he was going to Seattle. He gave his destination lo another as Snn Francisco. Both stories appeared to be part of an elsborste cover-up lo throw pursuers oft the trail. Here Is A Breakdown On Administration's Plan To Spend Arms Aid Funds WASHINGTON, July tS lP Here la the war the admlnlitra tlon proposes In spend the $1,454,000,000 arms aid fund: . All) TO NOR1II ATLANTIC TREATY fWNTMES 1. Fqulpment. delivery expenses, terhnicsl and training assistance I I. Assistance to stimulate Increased military production All! TO OTHER COUNTRIES Equipment, delivery expenses, technical and training assistance Emergency fund ... Administration ..... Total I 1.450.000.000 Aside from the North Atlantic part countries, the nstions It pro poses to aid Include Greece and Turkey, Korea, tha Philippines and Iran. This waa not broken down In the proposed military aid bill nor In analysis furnished by the state department. In addition to tha appropriations asked, the lex lals tlon authorises the president lo use up lo 1100.000,000 In government fund to finance contracts for arms lo be paid for In rash on delivery. Official aald the primary purpose of this provision Is to help Laltn American nstions get munitions In this eountry. - t mils une B08TON. July 25 The coast guard today probed a cran In which a freighter sliced a pleasure boat In two. leaving one dead and 19 j injured strewn on harbor waters. Mrs. Mary Di Giovanni. 43, of Wallham. a (Jaweiiger on tha M- I 1001 Cao.Il cnmer Marie ! t""L, Th c'?Ll " fiT" " two- by the bow of the United States lines' American Veteran. In- hminrf from Phlladclphla. 1 W.tnesse. ss.d both were head- P the m.in ship channel in Penect weatner , the collision. at the time ot I Thousands of 8unday excursion- Isu watched as their vessels helped rescue Ihe M Mane 8. passengers i snd crew, tossed in a dazed con- ditlon In the big ships boiling . wake. I Coast , guard, navy, police and ! private craft combined In prompt efforts which probably avoided a i major disaster. Only the bow of i the Marie S. remained afloat. It ' was later towed to port. Cspt. Lawrence B. Adams ot ! Brooklyn. N. Y.. msster of the ! freighter, si.rt Capl. I. Clarence Bailey, harbor pilot, were on the bridge at the time of the crash. see the freighter until It was too late." Bike Rider Dies At Farewell Bend MEDFORD. July 25 i4 William R. Wright. 28. former Medford po liceman, was fatally injured on the his motorcycle went out ot control. Police said he crashed head-on into an oncoming car, which had stopped when the driver saw the careening cycle. The driver of that car was Murlcn F. Burton. Salem, whose wife and child suffered cuts and bruises. The accident occurred at Fare well bend, near Union crek. I.I50.IMO 155,000,000 SOO.5gO.0IMI 45.000.000 10.970.0M Fire Eater Involved In Kidnap Hoax RKD BM KF. Calif.. July M tJH The "abduction ancle" ftulrd omewbal today In the rate ot lo youths armtrd here after trans porting two juvenile glrla from Bend. Ore. T he prtftoner, J. B. Rirb and .Norman Retta. are in the Tehama count r gUil chargrd with burg ..try and armed robber r al balem. Ore, where the warrant! ' were Uard. They were found alrep In a ear tn a eountry road near here, hheriff Jamea N. l-'roome reported Rich bellijerently aaid: "If we had been awoke it would have been different. There would have been a couple of dead cop pern around here." They threw the car keys away when arrested. Just to show their annoyance. Froome raid. But they offered no real resistance, although armed with a pus ml. dirt Held :j5 Both are carnival workers Investigation indicated, bad the two gins about a week ago Bend. Ore. The girls, aged 14 and U. are in the county jail here. Their parents came for them last night but the sheriff refused to re lease them. Sheriff Froome sav Ri.h talked quite a bit last night, and. during the Inquiry, it was brought out SALEM. July 35 iPv Oov. Douglas anmuiuinirai mat it a that one of the girls had helped McKay approved today the removal ' "t T J100!!.'! the men repaint the rtolen car In of rent control to Eugene I rrkAtar anoenberg of Michigan, which they were traveling. Last week he approved decontrol : I". Zn?" 1 J!l.''?.' Rich, according to the sheriff, j of rents In Ashland. He now Is IL ,Z .2" also claimed to have been Intimate comidenng decontrol In Medlord. ' 14.71 with the girls, but the girls deny but he .aid he h nn t r-.t.i I J'"? . rm 't?Tm-: ' this. Whether other chargea will be ; filed against the men had not been ' decided, (sheriff Froome waa going to confer Ister today with IBI wa wno qneauoned Rich and Betts. They were andeeided whether file Dyer and Mann act charges. rroome said the 22 pistol the man had was stolen from a Salem borne in the allewed burglary. Yeaterday was Betts' 21st birth- d,?- RlctV 201 Rich, when arrealrd. gave hi. 111111111 1111111 address as Klamath fall. Ore. He WIIIIIJJ II VI It wss a fire-eater with the West f I f (oast shows playing In Klamath f arMsOH flit Falls early In July and left h' 1 lafll I iCU Ull show here after receiving bnmsiw " "warn was during a performance. j I He and Betts have been under suspicion of burglary here. andl also are believed to have robbed j and stolen a car from George Sellsworth Fuller of R.ckre.11 Thursday night and later to have stolen a car from Linn Long of aVrrS ilMMI were arrested near Red Bluff. Coal Company Boss Blasts Lewis Plans WASHINGTON. July ii i.?i - George H. Love, president ot Uie Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal com - psny, todsy denounced John ! Lnta mrer-uay mur wrra in luc cosl fields as "confiscation" of pri vate capital. He was seconded by Senator Rob- f An elderly Klamath man. Steve j courthouse May 28 to confess ha ertson iD-Va), who called the cur- i Kovch. is said to be recovering fa- j killed and dismembered his red tailed working program announced vorably from injuries received when ! haired wife. by the United Mine Workers last I he was struck by a car Saturday ! The torso of the woman was found June 30 a "bold, overt act to con trol production and prices." Harry M. Moses, president of U. S. Steel corporation's coal subsidiaries, said "severe damage" to the coal Industry and national economy could result from the power exer cised by Lewis' miners. The three spoke out as the senate banking committee launched a full scale investigation Into the opera tions ot the coal Industry and the activities ot the UMW. "t want to find out the extent and trend ot the economic power ot unions." Robertson said In -a state ment at the outset of the hearing. President William Oreen ot the AFL himself a one-time coal miner accused Robertson of using the Investigation "to pi op up the totter ing Byrd political machine in Vir ginia and to bolster its union issue In the current gubernatorial cam paign." Aegegn Temblor Fatal For Two ; ISTANBUL. Turkey. July 25 m ! While unofficial sources put casual ties much higher In Saturday's ! earthquake on the Aegean coast, the j semi-official Anatolia News agency repprt'.-d last night two persons killed and four seriously Injured. The Greek ministry of public or der announced In Athens that two persons were killed and 48 Injured on the Greek Island of Khios, 12 miles oft Uie Turkish coast, by the earthquake and the accompanying storm. The tremors shook Izmir, Turkey's second largest port, where consider able property damage but no loss of life was reported. WIATHER KUntalh fall an4 Partlf !) Iki ftllF Ik) t 7, Mifh UeJar 1: U UMigki 4 U 44; b.ck Tal4tr Mn. limit tit .11 Mia 44 rrMiilttUM tl kti 4 Tflrpbon 1111 W alkinq Horse Bests Man Over 75-Mile Course LEBANON. July JS (V-Jal In ease yon ever want ta settle an argument or win a bet on tho unjert a horse can outwalk a man. The question waa aettled here last night with a six-year-old sorrel gelding finishing 14 miles In front of the "Walking Man of Oregon" In a 7S-mile walkalhon at Lebanon Meadows track. Big fled, owned and ridden by Ralph Hmith. Linn county ranch er, covered the distance In 14 hours and 4g minute. The horse took an early lead over Hiker Paul Mmlth. M-year-old Mill City resident, and steadily widened the gap. They atarted together at t a. an., before nine pretators. About 201 paid to see the fete sponsored by the Hanliam Wranglers. Smith. ho wslked In a trans continental walking contest in the esrlv 2t. still had 14 miles to go when the horse finished. Smith didn't wslk them. McKay Okays Rent Curb End For Eugene I fjl eLLIlJlZlltZ W . -."7 ' ucroiiuu. I recommendation. The governor emphasised again tnriav thai feela K .twiiiH j- j wpt ctty reoommendaUons - hther rent control ahmilri ho ended. The governor's recommendation . goes to tha federal government. ! posed foreign arms aid would ap which Is expected to go along with proach l.&!5.0O0.0OO, the state de- the governor. ara niHiTlaWTn IllUIIIUIII ,M ' 'e cttys unimproved "f"" J" ' TtJlSSZ " ""Z J". ',7 th .Ltfirntie, of road "a, been oiled, six miles with UM) o oU pnM by the city and approximately four miles with the use of crankcaae oil supplied by service stations. The oiling project has cost the city In the neighborhood of 12000. ' City Engineer B. A. Thomas said. i With the installation of the oil ! storage tank, the city will have a supply of oil next year, with plans of storing It this winter. Last I winter the oil had to be thrown sit because of havlna no storage faci'mes, Thomas said. , i . . , ' CCIOeist VlCt171 Said Recovering afternoon. Kovch is in Klamath Valley hos pital. The 68-year-old man was waiting to cross highway 97 near Van's motel, when he saw a car, driven by Ingvald Anderson of Ala meda. Calif., approaching. He apparently started to cross, then stopped, and then started again, walking Into the path of Uie on coming car. No chargea were filed. Kovch lives at route 3, box 1054. He was moved by Kaler's ambu lance, and his condition is not con sidered serious. Federal Judge Rules 1949 Rent Control Laws To Be 'Unconstitutional' Today CHICAGO, July 25 (PI Federal i of Its powers to other government District Judge Elwyn R. Shaw today held the entire 1949 rent control law unconstitutional. However, his ruling does not mesn that all rent controls are now off. A government attorney said an Immediate appeal will be made to the U. S. supreme court. William 8. Kaplan, chief Chicago attorney for the housing expediter, said the law will be "administered and enforced" pending appeal. Judge Shaw held Uiat In Inserting a local option clause In the act, congress had abrogated Its wartime powers. He said the whole law Is Invali dated by a clause permitting states and other governmental divisions to end controls In their territories by local option. Judge Shaw held this provision was unlawful delegation by congress Chief Keeps Close Eye On Expense WASHINGTON. Jul. M MPl President Truman railed wn cen gresa lodar to approve awlftlf a Sl.4Ag.Q00.Me foreign anna pro ram. He aald It la needed beeause friend ly nations In We tern fcorope and elaewhere need to build up their defense against the danger of K us ual! aggression. The chief executive, evidently hoping to counter the demand of ' some aenator to trim down tho cost of the proposal, tald hi recom mendation cover only "the most pressing current need for military j aid." Barely an hour before he sent a special me.4age to the lawmakers pleading lor aw. it approval of hta program to meet "the most press ' lug current needs,' Mr. Truman penned hu signature to the ratifi cation Instrument of the Atlantic pact. He called Ihe treaty ratified only last Thursday br an It to 11 sen ate votewa historic tep toward n world of peace, a free world, frea from fear. "But it only one alrp." he aaid In a etatement issued at the White Hoorse signing ceremony. "Wt must keep ourselves morally and materially strong. Wo muat play anr part In helping to strength- ea freedom everywhere." : That waa the theme of hla arm aid message lo congress, j By stressing what he called "tho I moat pressing current needs." Mr. 1 Truman obviously waa hoping to short circuit demands In congress for a less ambitious program. Rift Coming Two republican senators who have , played an Important part In draft. i U1 ,nl """"" bi-partisan for. f"y aa served advance no.' ; (rati strategy can take shape nn- , dw ,n. Atlantic part. And Senator , Dalles ol New York, a top ad riser i ; i . ! called tho tt.iM.tM.oo figure -loo , hir- wtor. k .frH th - I ate. Actually tha value of the pro- partment disclosed. That extra value Is In "exctwr XJ. 8. nuuiary stocks, proposed to be sent to America's friends abroad I with no charts other than the coat I of getting It ready for use, and f handling. About S454.Mg.tM worth of ouch material, tho department estimated, I can be provided with only about I73.M.aoa in rehabilitation coats charged against the program. Rice Faces Judge, Gets Life Sentence Stolid William Howard Rice. 43. heard himself sentenced to life Im prisonment this morning In circuit court. He had pleaded guilty to a second degree murder indictment in the torso slaying of his wife. Jennie Morrison Rice. Before the mandatory sentence was passed. Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg asked Rice it he had any statement to make. Rice replied: No." He has steadily refused to disclose any ot the circumstances of his wife's death since he came to the tn Uie Klamath river the day be fore. Her head, arms and legs have never been located. Rice has not told where, when or how his wife died, but the district attorney's office was prepared to prosecute on evidence Indicating Mrs. Rice was killed at the family home on S. Rogers the night ot April 9. Rice probably will not be taken to Salem and the state prison until Friday or Saturday. He has asked tor a few day to dispose of property here. i agencies. The opinion was issued In an action by Tlghe E. Woods, housing expediter. He sought an injunction to restrain the Shoreline Coopera tive, Inc., Chicago, from evicting II tenants. The Judge dismissed th petition. In his written opinion. Judge Shaw said that congress should hav merely set a new expiration date If It wished to continue the old rent control act In force. He announced a week ago that he Intended to find Uie 1949 act illegal. At that time, he said, It waa not certain whether he would throw out the entire law or whether only the local option clauss could be held Invalid. John P. Lullnskl. assistant U, 8. attorney, said an Immediate appeal of Judge Shaw's ruling will be taken to th supreme court. i
