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Newspaper Page TextIE EL hk mm m m In TIi v lt-lnrnr ir nrr "i M Day's Jews ,J... ..: I Bf FRANK JENKINH rOR nnrly a week, the upper bracket brass al BrlUIn, Hit United Stales and Canada have been conferring in Washington on what to do U kfrp Britain solvent. Yesterday Uiry reached an agree ment on a Urn-point program lur dealing with Ui linnwdlala prob lem, llnllrd down. Dili U what the ten poinla amount to: enabling tha British to HELL MOKE GOODS TO 1)8 while at tha aama time BUYINO LESS OOODS ROM US. CO much (or yesterday. n.U morning. In Washington, tha International monrtary fund i which U an organization that trlra to keep Intrniatlonal currencies anmrwhara near In balanct I advUra dollar-ahort counlrlee to devalue their currenclea. K need be. to buoat their dollar-earnlni espurt." 1 ETS take Uiat out apail In an effort to tea what It nieam. If the BrltUh Iwhuea dullar short ant la tha bli worry of tha moment) 'devalue" their currency. It will mean that a liven number of dollara will buy more pound. For example: Tha Brituh pound la now worth tin round numbers, for easy ralcula tluni four paper dollara. That la to aay. II paper dollara will now buy three paper pounds. If the Brituh cut Uia value of their paper pound to three paper dollara. It will mean that 12 paper dollars will buy FOUR paper pounds. WHAT will that iot All rtfht, let's rt on with our rat -killing. At tha present moment Irljht or wrong, moral or Immorali one of Britain's chief ex porta to this country la Scotch whUky. The present value of a fifth of Scotch la about a pound, which means that lor II you aan now buy tin Britalni three bottles t fifths) of Scotch. If tha Brituh cut the value of their pound to three dollars. It will mean that for 111 you can buy tin Britain) FOUR bottles of Scotch. In other words, cutting tha value of tha Bntuh pound amounts to CUTTING Till PRICE of Brituh product sold In tha United Slates. ... THATS one aide of tha chip. Now let a turn It over and look at tha other aide. Cutting tha value of their pound will enable the British, by cutting t their price., to aell more goods to "ia. But, by tha aama token, r will RAIHR OUR PRICES TO THEM and so will prevent Ihera from buying aa much of our goods as they have bought In the past. That at to aay, the net result of It all will be that the Brituh will aell more to us, and we will sell lesa to them. e a THIS le the point you shouldn't miss: This arrangement we have bean talking about will cause us to buy and use more British goods and I.MS of our own. At the aame time, It will cut down our aales In Britain. Don't think wa won't howl when the system begins to bite. We'll howl like a wounded wolf. We certainly won't reluh seeing our Industries lay off men aa their aalea drop. e e " If we don't buy what the British aall. how era we ever going to get back from them what they already owe us? That la the 164 question Jtut aa It waa the M question at the end of World War I. We never did get back what BrlUIn and other countries owed us because we re fused to take payment In goods and our debtors had nothing else to pav with. The aame problem stares us In tie, face now. Klamath Bureau iTour Tomorrow Reclamation and other govern mini officials are expected In Klamath rails shortly before noon Wednesday to participate In a tour of the Klamath project of the bu reau of reclamation. Heading the group will be Repre sentative Michael J. Klrwan. D, Ohio, chairman of the house a p prnprlatlona committee, according to E. L. Stephens, Klamath project head. 'Lonely Hearts' Jury Hears Murder Story DOVER. Del., Sept. 13 W A wit ness testified today that lo-year-old Robert Brennan killed an elderly Virginian and then returned to the living room of hla farm home say ing calmly: "I finished Uie old man I shot half hla face off." The dramatic account came dur ing Uie aerond day of the lonely heart murder trial of young Bren nan and hla mother, Mrs. Inez Brennan, 46. The witness waa Mrs. Dolly Dean, 2H-yrar-old war widow who aald ahe waa a boarder at the Brennan farm when Wade N. Woolrldge, 87, Bedford, Va carpenter, was alnln last October in. I Mrs. Dean aald Wooldrldue, whom y Mrs. Brennan met through lonely tjieart correspondence, arrived at Yugos Dare Russ To UN Showdown BE! .GRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept, I (IV-Yugoslavia dared Russia to day to take her complaints against this country to tha United Nations. Moshe Pljatle, one of Premier Marshal Titos top-ranking spokes men, said In an article In the offi cial newspaiwr, Borba: "Yugoslavia will have nothing to lose." Pljadea blast, Is test broadside In the war of words between the Kremlin and Titos regime, was touched off by an article In the Russian foreign policy weekly. New Times, which had accused Yugosla via of duplicity In her dealings with nriiclibur Albania. Tito, has read Russia a lesson ; from her own history books, warn-1 log ha Intends to build soclalum In one country without coaching from i tha Kremlin. "Socialism In one i country" once was tha announced I goal of Premier Blalln. Fire Damages Big Pier At Atlantic City ATLANTIC CITY. N.J.. Sept. 13 i A i.KM.000 fire ripped through 300 fret of tha famed million dol lar pier early today. The well-known landmark, which Jut 1000 feet Into the ocean on the downtown section of the boardwalk, caught fire about 4:30 a m. A north east wind blew roaring flamea down tha beach away from boardwalk ho tels. The piers huge ballroom, near the shore end, waa destroyed. Twuted roof girders fell Into tha blase. Plre Chirf Rex Parley set the damage estimate at 1200 000. t toaeat t mr Winter Tha long pleasure palace wa closed on Labor Day for the winter. No one wa Injured. Waller Mer chant and hu bride ot three weeks. Florence, were helped down lad der to the beach by police from their living quarters about midway out the pier. Tha million dollar pier U the sec ond largest In Atlanuc City, next to the steel pier. Built In IN by Capt, John L. Young, Hie pier once was a wonder for ll alsa and construction. Thrown the years. It haa remained landmark of the resort. Dock Strike In Hawaii To Continue NEW YORK. Sept. 13 (JPv Peace talis In the Hawaiian dock atrlke have broken up In failure, and there la no sign today of early settlement. The UH mediation and conciliation service, however, stood ready to try to help again If the chance arose. Cyrua S. Chlng, chief of the aer vlca, announced late, yesterday that "the parties remain so hopelessly tar apart In their thinking that fur ther mediation at thu time would be of no avail" Spokesmen tor the seven strurk stevedoring companies and the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen a union oiamra eacn , other for failure to settle tne ua-day-old walkout during the five days of conferences here. Harry Brtdgea, president of the union, declared "the strike will go on." Not Running, Says Wallace NEW YORK, Sept. IS (A1 Henry A. Wallace haa decided not to run lor any office thla year. Hla course haa left the choice wide open for an American labor party candidate for U. S. aenator In New York at the November elec tion. Wallace s decision wa announced late yesterday by Rep. Vlto Mar cantonlo, slate chairman ot the ALP. 1 the farm October 11. On the next night, ahe aald: "We all had dinner and then he (Wooldrldgel went to the barn to look It over. "I heard a gunshot and I ran out to the porch. I aaw Bobby come back with a gun In hla hands, i asked him what happened and he aald: 'I shot the old man.'" Mrs. Dean aald the Brennan family Mra. Brennan, Robert, and sons Oeorge, 17, and Raymond, S3 burled Wooldrldue a body In the Brennan farm pig pen, want through hla clothra and poaaesaloua and kept most of Uiem, The Bretmana have aiso told In their statements, atate police aald of shooting Hugo Schula, 61, on his Concord, N. H , farm, bringing his body to Delaware for burial In the aame pig pen and then In the dump. aaaaKtV''.eVAy' jfo.SS' X.Vy' T?Zltu3timi'' U all lie "is PRICK FIVE Ct-NTH !! KLAMATH FALLS), OREGON. Tl KHDAV. f. FT KM Br. 11, IMF ' Telephone 1111 Ne. 277 tar. Mils Bhyeh, Kills &rl aaa.K . eSxsasssBBBSBsaaBieaasBtaieBaBBsaaaaBBB Judge Stalls 1 ! iprr Dan m i Give-Aways CHICAGO, Sept. IS oTi-Radlo give-away programs gut al least a temporary new leane on life today. Federal Judne Michael L. Igoe Is sued a temporary order preventing interference Willi such progranu until the Issue u settled In the fed eral court of New York. The federal communications com muslon had banned such progranu effective October I. Subsequently, the Columbia Broadcasting compa ny, the National Broadcasting com pany and American BroadcaxtLv company tiled ault In New York challenging the order. New York Neat Judge Igoe's ruling puts the l.Nue In the lap of the New York court. Until the point U settled there, the mushrooming glve-av, ay progranu can go their lush way. The Injunction waa obtained by Radio Features. Incorporated, a Chicago firm that produces syndi cated radio program. The firms claimed the order would cause It "lrre)arable damage. The FCC order listed give-away program as lotteries and made such broadcast a part of the crimi nal statutes. The three radio chaiiu have contested the legality of the order. Klamath Rent Control Ends 'Officially' The elty of Klamath Falls and the area rent olflce received of ficial confirmation today from E. Daryl Mabee. are rent director for the K la main defense-renul district, that rent control In Klamalh coun ty waa ended last rriusy. In the meantime. Mayor Robert A. Thompson announced Uiat the masa meeting for discussion of rent con trol here haa been cancelled. The hearing waa originally act for tomorrow night. Wednesday, but last night the city council moved the session up to September 31 to await government confirmation of the rubbing out of rent controls. Cold Wave Moving East By the Associated A cold front moved eastward across the plains atatea and high winds and rain whipped wide areas along the Middle Atlantic coastal region today. The maaa of cool air from North west Canada centered In the west ern Dakotaa, western Nebraska and northeastern Montana early today. Temperaturea throughout the region were below f reeling. Sklea general ly were clear, but there waa rain over much of the Midwest area. Storm warnings were posted from Nantucket, Maaa., to the North Car olina coast aa a wlnd-raln atorm moved up the Atlantic coast from Cape Hatteraa, N. C. The aouthern -atatea reported warm weather and temperatures along the Pacific coast were around normal. The mercury climbed Into the Mi In Texaa yesterday. Chinese War Flareup Seen CANTON, Sept. 13 lPI Big communist troop concentrations were reported building tip today 140 miles from Canton. Elsewhere In South China and In the air over red territory the nationalists claim ed auccesa. Army sources aald Red Oen. Liu Po-Cheng'a 14th army waa moving Into Klennan, Lungnan and Ting nan which form a 35-mlle aro 140 miles northeast of thla refugee cap ital. The troop movements were part of preparations for what w'aa ex pected to be a big flareup of fight ing In South and Central China, Sport Bulletin RK HOX WIN BOSTON, Sept. 13 Boston's runnerup Red Max gained a half game on the Amerlran league'a leading New York Vankeea today bv overcoming the aurglng Detroit Tlgera 1-4 before chilled aneeiators, II ' "V i I ." r J I THE JOB OF LANDSCAPING Kit Corson voy, known on the mops os the North Entrance, is well under woy. Lou Freeman, state highway inspector, is measuring up the pipe job in stalled this week by C. S. Whitcomb, left, contractor on the landscaping project. Al Tuss ing, helper, is in the background. The pipes are a port of the sprinkler system which will insure ample water supply for the layout. - Kit Carson Work Pushed As much work a possible Is being done before wintertime on Kit Car son Way roadside Improvement pro ject, but landscaping and finishing louchea will last well Into the sum mer of 1910. The parkway strip extenda along the recently completed highway on the northeast side. Objective is to make I' an attractively landscaped area, and the city park board la adding Its effort through coopera tion with the atate highway depart ment. The atate la doing the pre paratory work and landscaping, and later on. the park board will make the area Into a recreation park with tennis courts and other facilities to be added eventually. Right now, work I confined to laying pipe for the parka Irriga tion system and hauling In top soil. A pumphouse haa been built at the north end of the viaduct on Ala meda, and pipe has been laid across the canal to furnish water for the entire strip's Irrigation system. Planting ot gnus, shrubs and trees will be held over until next year s good weather. Contractor for the atate la C. S. Whitcomb of Portland. Fire Chief Akin Submits Resignation Fire Chief Hank Akin, veteran of 23 years service with the depart ment, Monday night advised the city council of his intention to re sign from the office. Chief Akin asked for relief ot dutlea October 1. Mayor Robert A. Thompson aald today that appointment of a new chief would be withheld pending civil service examinations within the department. In the event ex aminations are not completed by October 1. Assistant Chief Jack Corkery will lake over. Akin haa served as chief since the resignation of the veteran de department head Kleth K. Ambrose, on August 1, 1948. Akin Joined the department January 10, 1027, as hoaeman. On that aame day. As sistant Chief Corkery also Joined the organization. Akin haa reached the age ot retirement and aald that future plans will Include "some work and a Utile loafing." The council voiced appreciation of Akln'a kmr jreare of service. Dollar-Short Countries Advised To Up Earnings By Devaluing Currencies WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 day advised dollar-short countries to devalue then- currenclea to boost ; . , , close- Prt on the their dollar-earning export. in Ma Q"d at 13.25 a hun- Without singling out the British pound but with Britain dollar r Pun(" top grade Hann crlsis obviously In mind, the report was laid before the opening session cncD- today of the fourth annual meeting of the boards of governors of the The price has remained more or multi-billion dollar fund and World bank. Shortly thereafter, (noon. PDT the financial leaders of the 41 member nations were to hear an address by President off-the-cuff Truman. The report wa prepared by the tunda executive directors. It ad vice on devaluation was under scored In addresses by Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and Eugene R. Black, president of the World bank, at the opening session. 'Cireat Respect' Snyder said: "The vtewa express ed by the fund, as a consultant, are entitled to great respect." Black said of the need for a re valuation: "I do not underestimate either the complexities or the far reaching consequences of auch ac tion, but I fall to see how It can be avoided." It may be better for a country To Councilmen FIRE CHIEF HANK AKIN w v-The International Monetary fund to- constant lor three weeks. I to change an "unsuiub.e" exchange rate than to clamp on restrictions which "endanger it well-being '"f ncy." aald the report of the fund's executive directors. Although the document referred to all "deficit nations." Its effect was to spotlight the British prob lem and to add pressure to nu merous past suggestions for ster ling devaluation. Stilt Dose The impact was the greater be cause a cabinet level Brltlsh-U. S. Canadian conference ended yes terdsy with agreement ot a 10 point treatment tor Britain's dollar Ills without Including revaluation of the pound as one of the points. The pound's value now it $4.03. Its devaluation. In foreign trade, would amount to lowering the price of British goods. Many American officials have forecast privately that Britain must finally adopt that course, which so far she haa shunned. But officially at least, the finance and foreign ministers of the three nations did not raise the issue In the week long talks. Still Blast Injures Two PEORIA. Ill, Sept. 13 m An explosion in a alx-story atlll at the Hiram Walker and Son distillery plant early today shook nearby buildings and caused damage esti mated by company officials at 1500,000. In critical condition at hospital are Louie Schrader, 33. of Peoria, and Oliver Thomas, 33, of Washing ton. Ill, both atlll workers. With their clothing torn from their charred bodies, the two men staggered out of the atlll building Into the arms of firemen. Their bodies were burned by steam. Nine other men aome at work on the top floor reached aafety. Child Dies In Crescent Road Crash An 11 - year - old girL Barbara i jean Maynard, waa fatally injured ; last night at Crescent In northern Klamath county, bringing the county's 14 traffic death toll to nine. The girl wa pronounced dead at 7 20 p. m.. about 25 minute after the accident. According to Deputy Coroner Clarence Ward. Investigating the iarainy. tne girl was riding a bicycle north on the highway when she waa struck from the rear by an old model car driven by Robert Paul Oreenan. ' 21. Fatality Terrific Impact The impact flung the child body more than 0 feet and the smash ed bicycle, caught under the cat. was dragged aome 250 feet. Oreen an told atate police he did not see uw tin in the dark and did not realize he had hit anything until he heard the bicycle dragging. There were no eye-witnesses to the crash. State police aald Oreen an probably wa driving between 30 and 35 miles an hour in a 25 mile zone, but no prosecution waa planned today. The accident occurred right In the town of Crescent- across the highway from the Crescent hoteL Body Crashed An unidentified physician pass ing through stopped at the scene of the accident and pronounced Barbara Jean dead. Deputy Cor oner Ward aald her body was crushed. The body waa moved to Bend. Barbara Jean was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Errtn Chester Maynard of Crescent, and the youth, Greenan. la also a resident of Crescent. The automobile fatality, ninth in Klamath county this year, la the fust since August . $3.25 Barley Price Still Average High . Drlcv harvest In the Klamath at. fhlttDh nm In,- ' . I SSt.'SSSS'J i of buyers thi season were around I 5 . which waa last year ton j P- ....c.i prices quoiea toaay ranged a I?'10 t 0 3'20 hundred - wii quality oi me a usieo. at ai.6u a hun dred generally and oats at 2.10 to 32 50. depending on quality. One buyer here reported that most of the grain offered for sale this season has been of very good qusuiy. Potato digging will get off to . start about September 21. Tr S.XSPORTATION STl'DY WASHINGTON. Sent, IS (jV-Tht I White House made public today an order irom President Truman for a I survey looking to "a unified and: coordinated" federal program for transportation. He wanted a pre- limlnary report by December 1. I City Council Ponders Pedestrians' Safety Much concern was expressed by council members last night concern lug safely of pedestrian on city street. Discussion of the traffic problem waa brought to a head when Councilman Alfred Condrey asked If there waa not some way in which the city could assist local law enforcement officers In making the streets safe for pedestrians and school children. Although aome school districts have utilized school-boy patrola to assist children crossing streets, the local school board has hesitated in making use of this procedure, since by virtue of the Oregon law the indi vidual heading any auch organiza tion la directly liable for any claims ot damages arising from Injuries or death. Patrol Increased Police Chief Orville Hamilton stated he haa attempted to alleviate the situation by placing another Management And Labor Harmonize PITT8B0ROH, Sept. IS Mv Big steel started lining up today be. hind the presidential boards for. mula for peace in America's bssie Industry. There won't be any steel atrlke for the next It days and maybe none at all. The wage dispute that threatened to tie the nation In economic knots apparently la head ed tor a happy solution. President Truman la "highly gratified" about the whole thing. CIO United Steel Workers and six major steel producers agreed to extension of the atrlke truce a request of the chief executive. The truce expire at midnight tonight. It will continue to September 35. Workers Conceded The steel workers also accepted recommendations of the president s steel fact flndlne hnarrf even though It meant giving up a fourth round wage Increase. "The president la naturally high ly gratified." said the White House. "He 1 very much pleased with the way things have developed up to now." Republic Steel corporation of Cleveland, the nation's No. 3 pro ducer, waa the first to announce willingness to bargain pensiona aa recommended by the presidential board In a 10-cent hourly package not including wages. Then No. 4 producer Jonea and Laughlin Steel corporation of Pitta burgh followed auit. accepting the peace plan "as a bast tor col lective bargaining." Pensira titady J. and L. said It 1 prepared to undertake at once joint atudy of pension with the steel workera "in anticipation of bargaining on thu subject beginning March 1 next." "With respect to social Insurance benefits." the etatement added, "we will negotiate with the union for the purpose of reaching a mu tually acceptable agreement." The Wall street Journal at the aame time aaid only "a alight In crease In labor cost will result If the recommended social Insurance program la put into effect. The newspaper added that most steel companies now have aome form of group life Inaurance but lesa than half have company financed acci dent, sickness and hospital and surgical benefits. High Optimism Maurice J. Tobin. secretary of labor, predicted the steel workers' acceptance of the board flndinga will result in "national prosperity such aa this country haa rarely known." A top White House associate aald President Truman regard the agreement as a forerunner of wide spread peaceful settlementa in other industrial disputes. 'Miss' Won't Match Curves With 'Mrs.' NEW YORK. Sept. 13 UP-Elght-een-year-old "Miss America" aaid today she isn't going to match her curves against those of "Mrs. Am erica." Jacque Mercer. Litchfield Park. Ariz, wearer of the pulchritude crown awarded at Atlantic City, NJ, last week, told newsmen she isn't going to take up the challenge of Mrs. Prances L. Cloyd of San Diego. Calif. Mrs. Cloyd. named "Mrs. Amer ica" at Asbury Par's. NJ, last week end, has said: "111 match my shape against hers any day." But Misa Mercer turned down the dare. Tm not a missus yet. so ! I m not going to compete with her." Children Playing, Girl Killed CORVALLIS. Sept. 13 (Child ish play resulted today In the dealh from a skull fracture of three-year- ? f Sl".""' Corvallis. The child died In a local hospital without regaining consciousness af ter she waa struck on the head by i a row boat which had been propped against a tree. She. her brother Gary. 5. and other children were running up the keel of the boat when It toppled on the victim, atriking her behind the ear. traffic officer on supervision of pe destrian traffic In the business dis trict. Hamilton commented further that in most Incidents of crosswalk accidents, the blame can be laid up on motorists. He claimed, however, that there la a great need for edu cation of the pedestrian. Hamilton was backed up In thla last statement by Mayor Thomp son, who urged that soma form of traffic safety educational program be Instituted In the city. Along these lines, the mayor Intends to bring the subject up for discussion before session of the League of Oregon Cities convention next week In Sa lem. Further action on the situation was postponed until auch time eg the trallic aafety council, city engi neer, and chief of police make an extensive study of the problem and report back to the council.