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Bj HUNK JKNKIN8
JJOVIET RUSSIA today denouncea
" th Yugoslav government end
charge Uiut Premier Marshal Tito
regime la more end more "throwing
In lie lot with the Weil."
WHAT don that mnT
" Well, there ere eome baslo facts
that we mut remember. The gov
ernment ol Bovlet Russia U a com
munist lo government. The govern
ment of Yugoslavia la 1 communistic
government. Marshal bulln of
Russia la communist. Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia la a communist.
Here la the difference:
Ruaala 'a BIO communism. Yugo
lavla la LI TILE communism. Btalln
la the big communist, and alma to
stay that way. Tito Is the little
communist and wanta to get bigger.
Ruaala wanta (and Intends) to run
the whole allow. Yugoslavia wants
to run her own show. ,.
WT.IAT It bolls down to la that men
4 like Tito constitute a threat to
Uie Ulcere dozen of big allot com
munist In the Kremlin whose pur
pose la to RUN THIS COMMUNIST
WORLD.
What Interesta us la the now ob
vious fact that ambitious communist
Iradrra are beginning to fight each
other for power.
MOTE No. 1 on thla screwball
11 world:
Dispatches tills morning Inform
us that the Huntord atomic plant Is
so closely regulated that not even
National Ouard and reserve air
force plunea can practice defending
It. (Not even military planea can
fly over Hanford.l
Bo the fllere of the two air forces
will pretend that the Umatilla (Ore.)
area Is Hanford and will practice
defending that I I I
VCREWBALL world not No. I:
In Astoria a Mrs. Dent Burns, a
cannery employee, waa called onto
the Job and given an hour and hall
to report, bhe waa late, and was
fired. Hlie put In a claim for stale
unemployment compensation, alleg
ing that an hour and a halt Isn't
enough time for a woman to get
dressed and get to work. The can
nery, her employer, aaya It certainly
IS trme enough, and tliat'a that.
So the a tale unemployment com
mission of the slate of Oregon will
now have to work out and hand
down a formal decision on how
much time an employed woman can
have to get dresaed.
A rra a complicated world we live In.
A thought that occurs to ua far
too seldom la that ALL THI8 COM
PLICATION COSTS MONEY. Thla
I wasted i cost Is reflected In the
price of everything we buy Just like
taxes. The more we have to pay
for the things we buy the leu our
dollars are worth.
RNOTHER reminder, In conclusion:
" Don't forget that If the lady wins
her case and get her unemploy
ment compensation (which will be
money paid for work that Isn't done)
the coat of that, too, will be reflect
ed In the price of the things we have
to buy.
The welfare state la wonderful, of
course, but It does cost monry. That
la a fact we too often forget.
Williamson Area
House Burns
CHILOQUIN. Aug. 12 A two
atory government house on the Wil
liamson river In Chlloquln burned
to the ground In a blaze which awept
the structure shortly after noon,
Thursday.
Origin of the fire waa not deter
mined. The house waa the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Miller, who
were attending a Klamath Indian
tribal council meeting at Klamath
Agency when the blaze broke out.
Only a few personal belongings
were aaved. The Chlloquln fire rig
fought the fire.
Until the 1920's, the building was
used a a government school, but
since then It has been used as a
residence.
Truman, Vinson Names On
Records As '5 Percenter'
Hearings Continue Today
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 !" Sen
ator Mundt (R-S.D.) told the five
percenter Inquiry today that MnJ.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan appeared to
have entered Into an "ingenious
plot" to fill a top army job.
This new turn In the Investigation
came amidst developments which:
1. Brought out the names of Mrs.
Harry S. Truman, Chief Justice Vin
son and other notables as reported
recipients of home freezers from a
company Hint has figured In the
senate hearings. The White House
an Id It knows nothing of the matter.
Vinson said he'll let the senate
Investigating committee develop the
mstler.
2. Prompted an announcement
that Vaughan, President Truman's
army side, hns Indicated he Is ready
to testify whenever the committee
wants to hear him.
The committee Is looking Into the
activities of so-called five-percenters
persons who seek out govern
ment contracts for others at a fee.
Vaughan's name has entered the
hearing on several counts mainly
as a reported close friends of James
V. Hunt, former army officer, sur
plus property sales consultant and
more recently a management coun
sellor. Todsy tha aommitU heard testi
PRICE FIVE f'KNTH
Vlk Inbspiitai Showdown Aske
, -,"' ' -.aa
: a w:Vi i n ,
WHERE 15 MET FIERY DEATH Rescuers scorch the charred and ripped wreckage of the
Greyhound bus in which 15 persons were burned to death whert it crashed into a concrete
bridge abutment neor Bloomington, Ind. Thirteen passengers and the driver survived the
crosh.
Judiciary
OK's Clark,
McGrath Jobs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 cP)
The senate Judiciary committee to
day recommended confirmation of
Attorney General Tom C. Clark to
be an associate Justice of the su
preme court. The vote was I to J.
The committee also recommend
ed to 0 the confirmation of
Senator J. Howard McOrath (D
R.I.) to be attorney general suc
ceeding Clark.
Chairman McCarran (D-Nev.) at
first declined to aay who voted
against Clark. Later he told re
porters that Senators Donnel (R
Mo.) and Ferguson (R-Mlch.) op
posed confirmation.
McCarran said he would report
the committee action to the sen
ate at once but would not aak
unanimous consent required to act
upon the hlgn court appointment
today. Unless aome other senator
dors this, and It Is accepted, there
will be no senate action on the
matter until Monday.
In addition to McCarran, other
senators voting for Clark Includ
ed: Kllgore iD-W.Va ), Magnuaon
(D-Wash). McOrath. Miller, ID
Ida). O'Conor, ID-Md.), Oraham
iD-N C i. Wiley (R-Wls.) and Lan
ger (R-N.D.)
Two committee members were
not preaent or recorded: Eastland
(D-Mlsa.) and Jenner (R-Ind.)
Ferguson left the closed com
mittee session before the action on
McOrath as attorney general. Mc
Orath also left.
HOPS HARVESTED
INDEPENDENCE. Aug. 12 W
The hop harvest Is under way In
this area.
A few of the yards launched
picking of early varieties this week,
and all the yards will be harvest
ing by next wrek. Growers said
the early crop did not appear as
heavy as last season's.
mony that Hunt's secretary deliv
ered to Vaughan's office in the
White House Inst spring a memo
randum from MaJ. Oen. Alden H.
Waltt on the fitness of certain army
officers to succeed Waitt as army
chemical corps chief.
No replacement was made at the
time.
Waltt on July 16 was suspended as
chemical chief by Secretary of the
Army Oordon Gray, along with MaJ.
Gen. Herman Feldman, quarter
master general.
Gray said In a statement that the
senate Inquiry had turned up evi
dence "which Indicates that Gen
eral Waltt Improperly furnished
personnel data to an Individual not
In the military service and who was
not. entitled to receive such data."
On July 7, Miss Mildred Ortmeyer,
Hunt's secretary, testified to com
mittee and army Investigators that
Waltt dictated a memorandum to
her entitled "Eligible officers for
appointment to chief of chemical
corps."
Senator Mundt (R-S.D.) ex
claimed: "It looks to rne like a sort of
ingenious plot to which Hunt, Waltt
and Vaughan have connived to cut
the throats of all the other officers
trying to get that Job."
l-aOW KLAMATH FALLS, OKP.GON, aUakftasaesM', A I GLUT U 1849
VP5 v
Rent Decontrol Issue in
Klamath Shaping Up; Some
Action Hinted By Monday
The subject of rent da-control In
Klamath Falls aeema to be brewing
towards the boiling point, and some
development are expected at nest
Monday'a rlty council setalon. It waa
Indicated this week.
After the city dada agreed to
piaeon-hole th probability of call
ing a public hearing at last week a
council confab, the matter bobbed
up again during a meeting of the
KlwanU club Thursday when a gov
ernment official was discussing fed
eral housing.
Bert Igl, ei-fhalrmen the elty
planning commission, changed the
general discussion when he aaked
Mayer Robert A. Thompson what
the elty of Klamath Falls wss going
Stewardess
Heroine Of
Air Crash
PORTLAND. Me., Aug. 12 ur A
pretty and plucky stewardess was
heroine of a Northeast Airliner crash
from which 27 persons escaped safe
ly last night.
Miss Patricia Donnellan. 23. of
North Qulncy. Mass, a rookie at her
Job, calmly herded the passengers
out a rear door a scant two min
utes before the plane was envoloped
In Hemes on Portland Municipal
airport.
The new. 1400.000 Convalr from
New York and Boston was a total
loss.
Captain Roderick Cote. 4001 Mel
rose, Mas., the pilot, said the pro
pellers of the twin englned plane
accidentally reversed 15 or 20 feet
above the runway "and we Started
to plop straight down..
"Then our landing gear collapsed
and the sparks began to fly."
The big plane slithered on Its
belly for several hundred feet in a
shower of sparks. Then the right
engine caught tire.
Shouting, "follow me." Miss Don
nellan led the way to the rear door
when she couldn't open the front
door the hydraulic system wouldn't
work and flames blocked an emer
gency exit.
Thomas Cllsh, SO, of Falmouth, a
passenger, said "all hands got out
Inside of a minute."
"That little stewardess was
grand," he said. " She did a grand
Job."
Baseball Scores
NATIONAL
(Seven Innings rain).
Philadelphia 100 001 02 ( 0
New York 000 000 00 S 0
Borowy and Semlnlck: Jones,
Behrman (61 and R. Mueller.
AMERICAN
BOSTON, Aug. 12 () Before the
smallest paid home crowd of the
season, 4014 fans, Boston's Red Sox
today dumped the Washington Sen
ators, 15-7, In the first game of a
day-night doubleheader. Roberto
Ortiz, who banged his first homer
In the opening Inning, drove In five
Washington runs and Vern Ste
phens, who rapped his 29th, drove
In five fur the Sox,
(Day game).
Washington ... 300 001 003 7 12 0
Boston 201 047 Olx 15 14 0
Scarborough, Oettel (5), Weltcrotli
(61, Gonzales (6) and Evans; Stobbs
and Tebbett.
(1(0 AY
....saw---
ajta..... . Kltk. ,
to do about the lifting of rent
ceiling a.
"If anyone Is Interested In what
the council will do about li, come to
next Monday night's council meet
ing." Mayor Thompson replied.
If l'a query apparently was
prompted by the fact thaC Ashland,
Salem and mora recently Medford,
In addition to other Oregon cities.
ban de-controlled rent.
The council as a whole aeema U
feel that It will call a public hear'
Ins of landlords and tenants necea
aary ander the law if the people
deaire such a meeting.
Councilman O. C. Tatuian said
that he didn't think the council
would make any move until It has
been presented with a petition, but
indicated that such a development
may be forthcoming at the next
council meeting.
The mayor couldn't be reached
today for comment.
Regardless of what the council
may deride to do, however, after a
public hearing, the final decision
resta with the governor of the atate.
It waa emphasised.
Bomb Blast
Wrecks Car Of
US Attache
PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, Aug.
12 tPt An American embassy offi
cial here reported that a-home-made
bomb had wrecked his automobile
early today.
The official was Capt John
Childs, assistant air attache at the
embassy, whose home Is Lewlston,
Me.
He said the automobile was un
occupied and parked In front of
his house at the time of the explo
sion. Nobody was injured but win
dows of buildings in the vicinity
were shattered by the blast.
Capt. Childs said he had parked
his auto in the street in front of
his residence at about 11:15 pm,
and retired about midnight. Some
five minutes later, he said, he heard
an explosion.
Childs said that Czech police ex
perts who Investigated found rem
nants of a fuse and pipe and metal
container In which the explosive was
packed.
"It looked like a home-made Job,"
he said. "I have no theories about
who might have planted it, nor do
the police."
Reporter Puts
On The Heat
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 P) An
enterprising reporter has dug up
some unusual data about New
York City's heat wave that the
weather bureau doesn't supply.
While the official reading atop
the Whitehall building in Lower
Manhattan stood at a record high
of 98.1 degrees yesterday, the re
porter went roving with a ther
mometer and recorded these tem
peratures: 103 degrees Inside a policeman's
shoes.
130 degrees on a tiled rooftop.
93 degrees In an alr-condltloned
elevator.
37 degrees In a plane 17,000 feet
above the city.
After a quick thunderstorm sent
the official temperature down to
81, the reporter said, the city was
as cool as a cucumber In fact,
cooler. A vegetable stand cucum
ber was 2.
Telephone gill
1
Kr Project
Included In
24-Unit Plan
A direct legislative move waa made
in Waahington today to force a
showdown on the veterana admlni
atratlon hospital Issue on which
hanre the fate of the VA hospital
at Klamath Falls.
An Asaoclated Treas dispatch aaid
that Rep. Rankin (U-Misa.) intro
duced a bill to direct the VA to go
ahead with construction of 24 hospi
tal projects. This measure would
reinstate a 16,000-bed program can
celled by President Truman when
he aent his budget to congress last
January. i
The AP dispatch specifically listed
the 200 -bed general medical hospital
at Klamath Falls as one of the
project In the program.
Klamath men who have been
active in pressing the hospital issue
aaid they were fully cognizant of
the fact that introduction of legia
lation does not mean, ita passage.
but they aaid they considered the
Rankin move a favorable develop
ment.
Truman Veto
Ted Case, county veteran service
officer who appeared as a repre
sentative of veteran groups here In
testifying before a congressional
committee) in Washington, said he
has recently received Information
indicating that President Truman
remained adamant in his stand
against the 24-hospttal program.
Senators and congressmen who have
tried to get him to go for reinstate
ment have had no luck. Case was
informed.
Case aaid he presumed that the
Rankin bill represents a direct legis
lative alternative decided upon In
view of the president unwillingneaa
to pnt the hospitals back In the
budget which he offered to congress.
The VA acquired a site oo the hill
bark of Hot Spring and spent sub
stantial auma In preparation of
architect's drawings for the struc
ture. Skull Eyed
As Clue In
Rice Slaying
A charred skull found at the
city dump and turned over to the
sheriff's office is being examined
this afternoon for possible Identi
fication aa that of Mrs. Jennie
Morrison Rice.
Mrs. Rice's body, without head,
arm or legs, waa found In the
Klamath river late last May and
her husband, William Howard
Rice, is now serving a life sen
tence in the Oregon state prison
for second degree murder.
Sheriff Jsck Franey said that
the skull he is examining Is that
of a woman, and a few strands
of red hair are visible under a
microscope. Mrs. Rice hsd red
hair.
2 Recommended
For Judgeships
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 UP
Senator Downey (D-Callf.) today
recommended to President Truman
the appointment of Edward P.
Murphy. San Francisco, and S.
Victor Wagler. Oakland, as federal
district Judges for Northern Cali
fornia. Both Murphy and Wagler are
serving as superior court Judges.
The two Judgeships for Northern
California were created oy a con
gressional act signed by the presi
dent August 3.
Youth Missing From
Summer Camp
NORTH VANCOUVER. B. C. Aug
12 (CPI Andrew Johnson, 15, of
Areata. Calif., missing for eight days
from nearby Deep Cove summer
csmp. Is believed by police to have
illegally re-entered the United States
a week ago.
Police say his re-entry is illegal
because the boy's entry papers are
still here.
Johnson Is ssid to have told a
resident here he was heading for
Texas. The bov had little money.
Johnson was one of a group of
American boys vacationing a few
miles from Vancouver.
Meanwhile, the camp director, Dr.
Mervyn V. Miller, and his student
nurse wife, Helen, are going ahead
with their plans to take the boys
north. The group are scheduled
to tail by Union Steamships to
Prince Rupert, B. C, on August 16.
HARVEST ON
HOOD RIVER, Aug. 12 W The
Gravenstein apple harvest was In
full swing today, with 12 carloads
of apples nearly ready for ship
ment. The Bartlctt pear harvest will
start nenrlng Its peak In the valley
next week.
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No. 2051
Tax Rate In
City Lower,
Rural Higher
Combined Levies
(Mlllare Rates)
1948-49 1943-50
Klamath Falls
Bonanza ..
Chlloquln
Malln
Merrill
1-U2-1
CU-U2
CU-CUH
General rural.
19.7
71.7
706
99.4
93.0
541
57.4
51.7
77.4
73.4
71.5
100.4
89.8
573
62 5
54.2
By HALE SCARBROl GH
.Village rate upon wrjich Klam
ath county property taxes will be
paid this fail declined a little for
urban Klamath Falls but the su
burban and rural areas have fig
ures slightly higher than for last
year.
Figure released today by the
county assessor office set the
combined millage rate which will
be applied to property within the
city limits of Klamath Falls at
77.4 ($7.74 per (100 of assessed
valuation) compared to 79.7 for
last year.
The decreased millage Is primar
ily due to the addition to the tax
roll of assessments on new con
struction and property Improve
ments. The immediate suburban area,
outside the city limits but in city
elementary and Klamath Vnion
high school districts, has a millage
of ilX compared to 54.1 last year.
The suburban area using county
elementary schools and Klamath
Union high school has a rate of
62.5. compared to 57.4 last year. In
creases in school taxes are re-
fleeted In the higher miuages.
The general rural ICU-CUH)
rate Is 54.2, up from 51.7 last year.
Merrill Down
Merrill city is the only other
area outside of Klamath Falls
showing a millage decrease. The
Merrill rate is 89 8 compared, to
93 0 lir the 1M8H9 fiscal year.
Bonanza' combined levy Jumped
from 71.1 to 73.4: Malm's from 99 J
to 100 4; Chiloquin's from 70 6 to
71.5. The Malin rate includes It's
cemetery and park levies.
Included in each combined levy
Is 15.8 mills for the county prop
er, millage for schools and for any
park, fire, drainage or cemetery
levy applicable.
The Klamath Falls combined levy
includes 15.8 for the county, 20.1
for the city and the .remainder is
for schools. Assessed valuation of
Klamath Falls property, upon which
the 77.4 combined millage is levied,
Is 514,39421.81.
The Stewart-Lennox area within
the recently organized fire district
has an additional four mills tagged
onto Its otherwise normal assess
ment For instance, property In
the general rural district iCU
CUH) and also In the fire district
Is assessed at 58.2 rather than the
54.2 general rural rate.
Total assessed value of taxable
property in Klamath county this
year Is (49.249.142.22.
The total Bonanza assessment is
(108.814.82 and the city of Bon
anza gets 19.2 mills of the 73.4
combined levy; Malin's assessment
is (184.252.80 and the Malin city
government gets 34.1 mills of the
100.4 combined levy; Chiloquin's
total assessment Is (290,183.40 and
the city of Chlloquln gets 17.3 of
the combined 71.5 levy; Merrill's
total assessment Is (370,006.06 and
the city of Merrill gets 32.9 mills
of the 89.8 combined levy.
Mac Declines To
Return To US
TOKYO. Aug. 12 (P General
MacArthur today declined a sen
ate Invitation to return to Wash
ington and testify on the foreign
arms aid bill.
The occupation commander In a
statement gave these two main
reasons:
1. He's needed In Tokyo "during
this moment of critical events in
the Far East."
2. The testimony wanted from
him concerns China, "which has
never been within the area of my
command responsibility."
On top of that, MacArthur said
that "my specific views with re
spect to the strategio potentiali
ties of the area embracing my Far
East command are fully on file
with the department of the army."
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON,' Aug. 12 (JP)
President Truman today nomi
nated Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins
to be chief of staff of the army.
Collins, vice chief of staff, waa
named to succeed Gen. Omar
Bradley.
Bradley waa nominated yester
day to the highest military rank
in the country chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff.
Collin waa born In New Or
leans, May 1, 1896. He was gradu
ated from the Military Academy
and waa commissioned a second
lieutenant, April 20, 1917.
Ha saw service in both World
Han,
Alaska Area
Feared Next
Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON, Aug. U (JP)
Gov, Ernest Gruenlng told con
gress todaf that Alaska la de
fenaeleaa and the territory eonld
be eapturrd tomorrow by a minor
scale airborne Invasion.
"If there la another Paarl Har
borand this time It will be a
far more serious disaster than In
1941 It shsll not be said that n
warning has been given," Gruea.
Ing said In a telegram to Senator
Hunt (D-Wyo.).
Hunt placed the communication
In the Congressional Record.
The governor gave his eatlmata
of Alaskan defenaes in appealing
to eongre to act quickly on a
(137.738,712 defense authorisa
tion. "I can state categorically."
Grurning aaid. "that Alaska is
defenseless snd that the territory
could be taken tomorrow by a
minor-scale airborne Invasion."
He aaid a report that congress
is deferring action at this session
on the territory's defense author
ization "appear to ua unbeliev
able." Hawaii To
Put Teeth In
Strike Rule
HONOLULU, Aug. 12 ) HawaU's
senate today worked on a bill that
would outlaw union interference
with government operation of docks
crippled by a 104-day strike.
The attorney general's office of
fered amendments clearing- up con
stitutionality of the proposed law.
If it passes the senate it will be
sent to the territorial house of rep
resentatives. Under the proposed law, strikes
and picketing against the govern
ment would be outlawed.
The bill is the outgrowth of the
costly CIO International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's union
strike In the Islands. The' union
seeks a pay hike from (1.40 to (1.72
an hour.
The legislature earlier authorized
the governor to seize the struck
docks for government operation.
The proposed law would ban sec
ondary boycott and union "hot
cargo" action against government
operations.
The 2000 striking union members
are expected to test the validity of
the law. If it Is passed, in an early
court action.
Territorial Governor Ingram M.
Stainoack has ordered the seizure
of facilities of seven struck stevedor
ing companies. The islands' govern
ment is now employing men to work
ships expected here from the Gulf
Coast.
Chiloquin To
Get PE Plant
Chiloquin schools will get a
physical education plant and other
work may be done at Bly, Beatty
and Bonanza as a result of con
gressional action today on a bill giv
ing the Klamath county school dis
trict (150.000 for capital improve
ments on schools attended by In
dians and white children. Only
President Truman's signature is
needed to complete authorization.
County Superintendent Carroll
Howe said that the largest construc
tion Job financed by this money will
be at Chiloquin, where the heaviest
concentration of Indian school chil
dren exists. He said that a badly
needed physical education layout
will be erected at Chiloquin.
Howe said that Congressman
Lowell Stockman and Senator Guy
Cordon did most of the work on the
appropriation bill In Washington.
Earl Whitlock Funeral
Home Sale Told Today;
Washington Man Buyer
Sale of the Earl Whitlock Funeral
home to Keith O'Halr of Camas,
Wash., has been announced by Earl
Whitlock, pioneer Klamath Falls
funeral director and business man.
Whitlock, who came to Klamath
Falls In 1905 from SUverton and
almost Immediately established a
mortuary, plans to retain his home
In Klamath Falls. He and Mrs.
Whitlock will travel considerably.
O'Halr announced that Al Mc
Donald, who has been with the
Earl Whitlock Funeral home for
the past 17 years, has been appoint
ed manager and funeral director.
The name has been changed to
Whitlock Memorial chapel.
McDonald has been active In
civic affairs, and O'Halr stated the
manager would have more time to
follow these extra activities in the
future.
O'Halr has owned a funeral home
In Camas for the past eight years,
and has been a licensed mortician
since 1928.
"I have known Earl Whitlock for
the past 20 years, and this oppor
tunity to acquire his establishment
is Just what I've always looked
forward to," O'Halr said. "This is
Just the size and type of business
I've wanted, and th lz and kind
Slash Will
Be Asked At
House Meet
WASHINGTON, Aug. It (O
Advocate of rutting President
Truman's (1.450,000.000 arms aid
bill gave up the fight In the houa
foreign affairs committee today.
They decided to make their aland
on the house floor Instead.
The bill Is duo to reach the floor
next week, after the foreign af
fairs committee vole on it Mon
day. Representatives Vorys (R-Ohio)
and Richards (D-S.C.i, who had
been spearheading the drive for
cut, told newrmen they plan no
further committee action but will
make their fight when the bill
comes before the house.
Their decision to toss In the
sponge In committee followed de
feat yesterday, by a tie vote, of
Richards' amendment to reduce the
amount of arms aid for Atlantic
pact nations to (580,495.000. and
rejection today, on a technicality,
of a similar amendment.
The amendment offered today
would have done it hv percentage.
Chairman Kee (D-W.Va.) ruled
it out of order on the ground tha
committee already had rejected tha
same proposal.
Peace Aim
Be for a adjourning until next
Monday morning, the committee
adopted several amendmenta de
signed to reiter4 the hope of tha
I. 8. for world peace and calling
on adminietrators of the aid pro
gram to bring about "unified di
rection and effort" in developing
defense plans.
Several amendments still must
be considered by the committee.
Another Vorys amendment would
prohibit the cor"xuction abroad
with United States funds of new
arms plant. It would psrmit only
standard U. S. arms to be sent to
foreign nations.
Both Vorys and Richard have
amendment ts charge at actual
coot or replacement cost the value
of any except surplus arm aent
abroad. President Truman has pro
posed that he be given broad au
thority to fix a value on such
arms.
Another amendment proposed by
Rep. Lodge R-Conn.) would au
thorize a (200.000,000 arms aid pro
gram for non-communist China.
A group of senators headed by
Knowland (R-Callf.) has been
urging that (175.000,000 of th to
tal (1,430,000.000 arms aid program
be earmarked for China..
Flying Tiger
Air Freight
Wins Okay
BURBANK. Calif., Aug. 12 (IP)
The Flying Tiger cargo line is frea
to push its expansion program into
43 cities throughout Northern and
Southwestern United States.
With a Washington. D. C, fed
eral court denying American Air
lines an injunction against tha
freight company. Flying Tiger
President Robert W. Prescott said
last night: "We're going ahead
full steam."
The line now operates daily
freight service between Los Ange
les. San Diego and San Francisco,
and Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit.
Cleveland and New York. American
had appealed civil aeronautics
board approval of the expansion
plan.
The line earlier listed Seattle,
Wenatchee. Longvlew and Yakima
In Washington state as among th
43 points it planned to include on
it transcontinental nights.
PASSES
MEDFIELD, Mass., Aug. 12 UP)
Mrs. Laura Brown Smith, 96, moth
er of the wife of Gov. Ernest
Omening of Alaska, died today at
her home. She lived here for 50
years and was the town's oldest
inhabitant.
of community I like to raise my
family In."
Mr. and Mrs. O'Halr have mad
their home at 1943 Logan street,
with their two children. Michael,
9, and Susan, 10. He is a member of
the Episcopal church and the
Masonic lodge.
Earl Whitlock' was born at Silver
ton, graduated from the New York
City School of Embalming, and was
connected with a Portland mortu
ary before coming to Klamath Falls
on August 22: 1905. In 1906, he
erected an undertaking establish
ment on the present site of the
First Piesbytcrlan church. Sixth
and Pine, and later erected the
present Whitlock: Memorial chapel
across the street from the church.
Whitlock was for many years
Klamath county coroner. He has
been active in the chamber of com
merce. Rotary club and Elks lodge,
and Is a past president of the Ore
gon State Funeral Directors associa
tion. Regarded as an outstanding
contribution to the Klamath busi
ness district is the Memory Oarden
which Whitlock established on Pin
street In honor of his mother,
Amelia Whitlock, who died In 1930,
The landscaped garden Is an at
tractive resting spot adjoining th
chapel and on the sit of Amelia
Whitlock ! old horn.
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