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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.
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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.