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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1949)
fo) I 1 ' ii ir ii ii "n 'w i ' 1 ' "' I' i By rKANK JKNKINI HINESB Communist Leader Mao Tie-Tung announces In Felplng today (hi establishment o( the "People's Republlo ol China." In making the announcement, he aayi: "Internationally, t mual unite wllh all countries and peoples lov Itil peace and freedom, FIRST OF ALL THE BOVICT UNION and the new Lwmoc ratio countries, so that we will not Hand a loin In our struggle to safeguard Uia fruits of victory." IN order to understand wnat ha U driving at, we mint remember that In the communlit jargon a "democratic country" la a commu nlit ruled country and ONLY COMMUNISTS love peace and ficedum-all others (especially the US I art warmongers. a WELL, IhaH that, 1 " At least, we kuow no what theaa Chlnex eommuuWs ara.Ttiey are COMMUNISTS in the full sense of the word. They take their ryea from Moacow. Sf7. eve PltOM London thu morning cornea thu algnlf leant dispatch: Britain's Labor government faced political crista In Ita own ranks today. Trade unlnni threat ened to revolt against higher prlcea resulting from money devaluation." That la to aay, Die Brliuh unlona threaten to demand higher wagra. If they get higher wear. Britain 1 production eoata will rise and ALL THE ADVANTAGES REflULTINO I FROM DEVALUATION Or THE POUND WILL BE LOST. There la no euch thing, you are. a something for nothing. tliHY the higher prlcea resulting i from devaluation? It a thu war: When wa buy the new 13 M pounds to pay for tha thlnga wa ! buy In Britain, wa set mora pounu for our dollar. When tha British buy dollara to pay for tha thlnga they have to buy from ua Hood be ing tha moat important) they get FEWER dollara for their depreci ated 130 pounda. Depreciation of lha currency U a gmfa that euta both ways. Again, you aee. there to no euch thing aa aomethlng for nothuig. S of thu morning. JJ countries, " following Brltaln'a lead, have de valued their currencies to a greater or ka extent their purpoae. Ilka Britain a, being to gel a price ad vantage In erllint their goode to tha United Btatea. a That raise thu question: Why don't wa depreciate our dol lar? a a PHm It tha only answer I can think of: What enduring good could come out of debating tha only Bound money left In tha world? fECRKTARY of Commerc-i Sawyer, talking to Portland bualneaa peo ple, aaya ha thlnka our national economy will perk up and Improve i Continued on Page Twoi Gaming Ban Spreads; Lake Man Charged - A Lakevlew cafe owner haa been charged with Illegal possession of a gambling game, tha flrrt arreat made In the current drlva to do up slot machine and other forma of gambling In Klamath and Lake counliea. Biate police arrested Robert Oliver Bursk, 44. operator of the Westslde cafe located on tha wait outskirts of Lakevlew on highway M, and confiscated four merchandise-paying punchboarda found on display In hU place of business. Bursk U due tor an appearance before Justice of tha Peace Tom Parrel! at Lakevlew tomorrow morn ing. He faoea. If convicted, a max imum fine of (290 or 90 days In Jail. 4) Prliea Taken .- In addition to lha Illegal boards, atata police took charge of tha merchandise prim. Including two rifle scopes, two flashlights, two 3.1 rlflea, two 30-30 rifles, g 13-gauge ahotgun, camp axes, hunting knives and boxes of candy. Burak aald the boards and merch andise had been placed In his estab lishment by a Klamath Falls distributor. Klamath Armory Becoming 'Big Top' For Shrine Circus Some 200 persons of g dosen and a half different natlonalltlea, ranging all tha way from Csech to Chinese, have become a part of Klamath Falls' population for the rest of the week. Thoy are not some sort of a United Nattnna delegation, aa g roll call would Indicate. They are the personnel of Polack Brothers cir rus, which the Klamath Palls Rhrliis club will present In tha Klamath armory Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Following Its arrival from Seattle, Ihe circus took over the armory to day and aet about transforming Its Interior Into g modern, streamlined "big top" for the sis performances to be given here. Hlirlnrrs Busy Meanwhile, Clarence Humble, general chairman, was busy coorrll . nstlng final preparations of ths UtMU" ' - -, o t ti 1 1 fKICIC FIVK CENTS lm KLAMATH FALLS, OHKGON, tYKDNEHIMr, HKPTF.MBKK II, 1MI ' Telephone till No. MM HIST AsEts Steel T&me hitmmm OC&E Strike Peace Move Scheduled By IIAI.E HrAffllHOt'OH Ttie first open move to aettle the Oregon, California and Eastern railway atrlke now 24 day old haa bean made In the aetllng of a dale for resumption of negotiations between railroad offlcera and tha trtking order of railway con ductor. t. K. Manlon, Great Northern gen eral chairman for thu area who alo aervea a president of OC&K. haa announced he will come to Klamath KIU Friday for meet ing with O. W. Lange, vice presl dent of Ihe conductors union. Meeting time waa aet fur I in. and Lame aald the aeuion prob- ably would be held at the Wlllard hotel. ;, Oprralar Manlon will come from hU office In Beatlle. Tha OCA I U owned Jointly by lha Soutliern Pacific and Oreat Northern but u bring oper ated by ON. Southern Pacific offici ally haa kept hsnda off the atrlke which haa Idled tha &-mtle road since August 2. and the Friday meeting will be the first undertaken by the Oreat Northern. Lange haa been In Klamath Palls since the strike started. Conductors of the Klamath Fsllt- to-Bly freight Una went on strike' after negotiations with the company era deadlocked, bringing out all 13 operating employe of the short road. No train has run on the OCA: E 1 nice the strike data with the ex ception of one manned by non-union ON officials and employes which worked one day. The dispute concerna six claims of the union aaallut the carrier, concerning mostly Interpretation ol phases of Uia exuung contract with the company. Lange aald the mone tary aire of the points of friction waa only -(O0 or 17000' National Intereet The national railway mediations ; board haa also token notice of the i I vl k aa aiiirf haa Mftawa-ens taa aa mm t a e at I atrlke and haa offered to assign mediator to the task of bringing tha company and union together. Lange aald, however, no media tor would coma here unlesa the re opened discussions with the compa ny got nowhere and mediation waa Invoked. The atnke. although of little con sequence when compared to ue-upa on larger roads, haa caused con siderable Inconvenience to persona employed by OCAB as well at to shippers along the line. Weyer haeuser Timber company la the blggeat patron of the line and the strike halted Ita flow of logs from Weyerhaeuser camp ( to Uie mill here. Lumber firms on the track have been Inconvenienced In ship ping as have grain growers with loading points on the line. Forest Fires Show Increase 8AI.ICM, Sept. 21 (PI The num ber of forest Urea on slate and pri vate lands In Oregon this year waa about three times the number laat year. Deputy Stale Forester Oeorge Spaur aald today there were 91 flrea up to September 1. There were 3M In tha same period last year. Spaur aald Ihe Increase was caused by tinder-dry lorests during most of the summer. ' He said there still Is some danger of flrea in high mountain areas, but aald he Isn't very much worried bout It. Spaur explained that the smoke which la over much tof Oregon Is caused by fires aet In slashings, aa well as In areas where they are purposely set to reduce fire hazard. Shrine cjub for the circus, receiving close cooperation from his co chairman, Charles Yorkeland, and heada of hla various committees. Members of the Bhrlne club, who for the past week have been con ducting an Intensive advance ticket campaign, were being urged to re double their efforts on the "home stretch" by Sanford Brlby, advance aale chairman, who la also tha club's secretary-treasurer, and by Ernest Marllelh, chairman for out-of-town aalrs. O. E, iTommy) Thompson's com mittee completed the distribution of donated tickets to children whose families' budgets, according to the committee's findings, would not per mit them to see the circus. These youngsters, coming from all over the county, will be entertained at tha matinees. Meanwhile, coupons (Continued on Page 1) ii mitiii.suauawt n a mumm mini n mi I s e wi at nisi isim tasa.a.aaataasat.sasat ' VV t'tO : ! ;i - p v PROUD AS PUNCH is Roger 2036 LeRoy, who is receiving ot the Presbyterian church. Or. observes the ceremony os Roger hos the bodge pinned on ' of Scout troop 16, sponsored by Socred Heart parish, accumulated a record of two years perfect attendance at troop meetings. His brother, Nicholas Jr., 16, won the Eagle award two years ago. The Eogle oward now joins 24 other merit bodges on Roger's uniform. He is a student at Fremont junior high. Hollywood Shakedown Racket Charged; Girl Victim Lures Employed LOS ANGELES. Sept. 21 i Pi ! Charges of a former Hollywood ac- tors agent that "hundreds ot thou-1 sanda ot dollara" have been wrung from lu victims by "a ring ot pros-j mute extortionists' were on file to-1 day in superior court, A transcript of the testimony of Psul R. Bchrmann, 41, was filed; yesterday by District Attorney Wil llam t. Simpson In support ot a I motion that the witness be declared . In contempt of court lor refusal to I answer questions before the grsnd I Jury. HI. allegation, that the extortion i "innocent victims' were made In a memorandum which Bchrmann Identified as his own and which! Simpson read to the grand Jury. j "There exists now and has for some two or three years past a ring of prostitute extortionists who work under the direction of Mickey Co hen and who derive their Immunity from arrests and prosecution from the police and the district attorney's office." It said. Oambler Mickey Cohen, now on trial In municipal court on a' charge of disturbing the peace by cursing police, officers who called at his home recently, commented on the testimony: "Utterly ridiculous, stupid and not worth a n s w a r I n g. Anyone who knows me knows that I never mix In anything of that kind.' No Names Asked by Blmpson tor the nsmes of the prostitutes who operated the shakedown racket, Brhrmann refus ed to answer. He declined also to name the "Innocent victims" of their oprrat Ions, , declaring ha had turned the Information over to "the federal government and the t gover nor's! crime commission." Blmpson named several women, Including Lila Leeds and Vlrkl Ev ans, whom he did not Identity, and asked the witness their reputations. "Their reputations are that or prostitute extortionists," Brhrmann replied. He refused an answer to the dis trict attorney's request tor Instanc es of the extortion ring's activities, saying he would not produce his notes "because the district attorn- Alan Long, 14-year-old son of the coveted Eagle Scout award F. Cecil Adams, (left) president of Modoc area council. ey'a office .light steal them." Simpson then read from Behr-I manna memorandum: Booty t at j "Mickey Cohen received 60 peri cent of shakedown money received by his prostitute extortionists. They retain 40 per cent and divide It iV10?! ?L ltt " prt1u,!ri en down lor S7S.0OO and therealter for S500 a week.' It happened that a sound record maoe oi an incioeni in which the asserted victim parUcipa- ' TZ 7 h, "Z S75.000 snd the additional 1500 a week was exacted when It developed that the women had retained the master recording. Bchrmann testified he had'gath ered his Information in his efforts "to fight crime and to fight official corruption in the various law en forcement agencies.". Superior Judge Robert H. Scott said he will rule next Tuesday on whether Brhrmann should be held in contempt. If he is, Simpson said. It "means Bchrmann can be locked up until he performs." Ingrid Makes Divorce Move NEW YORK. 8ept 21 (P The .Iniirnnl-Amerlean said todsv that Inorlii nersman'a lawver haa flown ! to Los Angeles to discuss divorce plans with the screen star's htts btnd. Dr. Peter Ltndstroin. The newspsper Identified the law yer as Monroe E. McDonald and said he had come here trom Rome representing both Miss Bergman and her Italian director. Roberto Rossrllnl. who have been linked ro- mantlrally. McDonald was quoted as telling The Journal-American that h e hoped Dr. Llndstrom would not op pose the ulvorce action. "Ingrid Is absolutely firm on that point." McDonald was quoted as saying, "and her decision Is Irre vocable. But her first and last words before I left were, 'Don't do anything to hurt Peter.' Mr', and Mrs. Nicholas Long, j of ceremonies held last night by his mother. Roger, member ' . Chamber Plans Better Mail j Express Move Members of a special committee i met at the chamber of commerce ot fleet yesterday to look into the effect of expected train and plane schedule changes upon mall and ex press services m tbe Klamath area. Alter some deliberation the com mittee decided to contact the Port land and San Francisco chambers to determine if they would support the local chamber in its drive lor better mail and express services. A report ot the committee t meet ing will be read at the chamber executive's luncheon today. Tralna Discontinued According to Charles Stark, chairman of the committee, the north and southbound West Coast train will be discontinued, and a slower northbound will be substitut ed. It will pass through Klamath Falls early In the morning. No det inue' time is yet determined. However the Daylight, Cascade, and Klamath trains will continue to run as scheduled. United Air Lines will go on win ter schedule next weeg, running one northbound and one southbound plane through Klamath Falls each day. The northern flight Is sched uled st 13:50 pm. and the other at 4:3i pjn. Members of the committee be sides Stark are E. H. Thompson. A M. Hattan. Frank Eberleln and Russell Griffith. Rich Uranium Ore Reported In Northwest By The Associated Prea A uranium content well above government-set mlnimums for de velopment has been reported found in ore concentrste taken from de posits above 8almon lake In North- em Kittitas county, Wa-h. ' Tli- announcement Wat made yesterday by Homer A. King, an executive ot the Big Dome Mining company, alter receipt of report from the metallurgical division of the U. S. bureau of mines office at Bait Lake City. The report Indicted the ores con tain two pounds of U-30S a ton. Ocvernment mlnimums are a qusr- I ter pound a ton. New 6-Day Strike Wait Requested BIXLETIV WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -, I'nitrd MUlea Kteel ecrporaliea today accepted President Tru aaan'a reajoest far a new six day atrlke trace and agreed to bar gain with the tTU eteelwerkere onie. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 uP j President Truman today aaked a ' new six-day strike truce In the steel dispute j The president also asked that the steel concerna and the CIO steel workers union resume collective bar- I gaining on their own. j He said federal mediators wouid be available to assist them. j Cyrus Chlng, mediation chief, an- nounced Truman's new truce re-! quest ! Walkout Scheduled The present truce runs out Satur day midnight and the union U pois ed for a walkout by Ita 1.000.000 members at that time. The president asked that the truce be maintained until 12:01 ajn. Sat-! urdav October I In the "national In- I terest." j President Philip Murray of the steelworkers adtHsed Chlng that the union will decide on lu reply to Tru man's request at a union wage-pou- i cy committee meeting at Pittsburgh tomorrow. Bureau Water In Klamath . Off Oct. 1 Water win be shut off In canals i ,h' the recall mesxagea merely and ditches controlled by the KUam- ww Intended to assure the prea ath project, bureau of reclamation. ! """ of a quorum. 2IT members, on October 1. i . Republicans followed through L. Stephens, project manager. announced today that It will be nec essary to shut off the Irrigation wa ter In all laterals of the project Including the entire Tulelake divi sion, on the date set. Construction work on the Lost Ri ver diversion channel necessitates the rebuilding of one section of the -C" flume. This work will require par oi tne iiume to be removed in I esiaousnmem. tne in- order to bridge the enlarged diver- tnor department, the foreign ero sion channel near the Henry Semon ' non,le recovery program and some ranch at Henley. i miscellaneous federal agencies. r., , . . I There Is a chance that new labor Construction Deadline ! legislation may b. pushed In view Oeorge Stacy, contractor on this i o: current developments In the coal jua. must ouua a considerable con crete structure to hold the canal Hum- T, I. . i i . , . , 1 - coeiikuu turn i iic aev on the Job October 1. Stephens pointed out. to assure completion during the fall so that possible winter floods j cm-imri wic auuciurc or the land adjacent. In Langell valley it will be nec essary to shut off the wster from Clear lake and Oerber dams In or der that the channel construction be ing done by Charles Hover may pro ceed rapidly enough to finish this Job ahead of winter floods. It la hoped that with this advance warning. Stephens advised, any Ir rigators who plan to require water before October 1. may have their wants satisfied and still allow con struction work to go on without In terference by the Irrigation wster. . v ,.:m ; -'4'. f . -y t" iiltim . i ,a.iti tiiriiwiaii t-tioat ia.aawaiMiaaaitaitiaaaiai.Mi waata i ii r JJ,"A" RACER TAKES TO THE. AIR Shorty Londis, midget roce driver from Telford, Pa., toke the aerial route as his car tore into the guardrail during the running of the feature event at the Hatfield, Pa., speedway. Londis' cor flew into the air, plunged over an embankment and turned over twice. Londis was unhurt except for bruises. Driving by at right is Joe Adler, Philadelphia, who hod to swerve to ovoid eollision. Worlcers Demand Hikes In Wake Of Devaluation LONDON, Spf, 21 (AP) Worktrg threatened crippling stnket in Britain and France, key Marshall Plan nations, to day in the wake of a world wove of cheapened money. The British labor jovernmant faced political crisis in its own ranks, with trade unions threatening to revolt against higher prices brought on by the devaluation of the pound. France got a grim warning that it may face "insurrec tional strikes" within a month unless it approves pay in creases. The warning came from Albert Bouzanquet, secre- ftory of the Force Ouvrier Sports Bulletins CARDS BEAT BL'MS ST. I.OITS. Sept. 41 (Pi Joe Garagiola singled with the bates loaded and none eat us the ninth Inning to give the St. Loots Car dinals a I I victory over the Brooklyn Dodgera today. The victory In the opener of the vital three -game series aaaved tbe league-leading Cardinaki 2S games in front of Brooklyn, The two teams will aaeet again to night and tomorrow nlghL Lefty Max Lanier held the j uatigera to live hits aa be bested Don Neweombe in a thrilling pitching battle that went down to tbe very wire. Neweomke waa reached (or eight, including three in the ninth. House Back To Work; Heavy Slate WA8BINOTON. Sept. il im House members return today from : a month a vacation, with enough j unfinished businesa on hand to ! krep them here tbe rest of the year. I They probably wont etay that ! long. -Around November 1" la the j target date of congressional lead- era for final adjournment, j Despite mesMwee aent to demo ; cratle members last week by parry leaders, the bouse doesn't plan to transact any major businesa this Week. PtrtV srjokesmen evnlainMt : wttn messagea to their own mem- bers reminding them that the re cess that starter! on August 2 ends at noon today and that democrats had been told to be on hand at that tune. Fonda First While a dozen or more major bills furnishing almost S20 000.000.000 ' have top priority. They finance and ateel industries. i a a S LllsTlOCr 5tslKe , i TlsTCClt 111 BC VANCOUVER. B. C, Sept. 21 il A strike threat hung over the Brit ish Columbia lumber Industry to day. The policy committee of the Lumber Inspector's union recom mended last night that the union's 280 members reject a conciliation board report and request a strike vote in support of demands for a 35-cent-an-nour wage boost. The union will meet this week with the International Woodwork ers of America and the longshore men's union, seeking their support of its action. (workers force), a group of (some) 1,500,000 non-communist trade unionists, who he said may even join forces with the communist-led group, the gen eral confederation of labor. In talks on strike policy. More countries followed the de valuation lead aet Sunday by Brit ain. Luxembourg, her economy tied to Belgium s. cut her franc by 12J4 per cent, the same aa Belgium. I Portugal cut the value of the aa leudo 15 per cent in relation to tha I dollar. Thu brought to 24 the na tions in the devaluation parade. West Wool Hit "PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 21 11 Tha Western Wool Handlers asso ciation wool sale collapsed today as buyers, fearful of the pound de valuation effect on prices, cut their offers or withheld them. ' Only two lota In the morning's two-million-pound offering received bida and ownera refused to sell at tha prices quoted. Bida were sealed and prlcea were rot made public, but Roy Ward, general manager of the largo Pacific Wool Orowers. cooperat ive, said he understood they were 15 to 20 per cent down from price paid September 1 at the associa tions Billings, Mont, auction. Potato Price Quoted $150 Hundred, FOB Market price on No. 1 locally grown spuds today was reported at S2 M a hundred pounds, f. o. b. cars with the buyer furnishing the bags. Spud digging- ss fust beginning In this area with the bunt of the harvest expected to start wltkin the next 10 days, and a total crop of around 7000 cars Is anticipated. Field run potatoes, including everything but culls, are priced at 12 a hundred, f. o. b. cars and with the buyer furnishing bags. Conaamer Coat Those prices are what the grower is paid, and today at least one local retailer was offering new Klamath grown spuds at $3t a hundred pounds to the consumer, a disparity In price to the grower and to the housewife of 11.19 a hundred pounds. A study of potato statistics shows that only once In the last sue years, starting in 1943, has the total car load shipment of spuds from the Klamath basin dropped below . 10.000 cars. That one year was 1947 when Just 7264 cars were shipped. I The total this year probably will ' be about the same as 1947 or slightly lower. According to the county agent's office, income from potatoes has not dropped below sg ,500.000 In those six years. In 1946 the total value of the crop was figured at 18 620.000. The highest yield ever recorded here came In 194a when the aver age was 443 bushels or 265.8 pounds , per acre. FLED, RETURNS BOSTON. SepL 21 iJP Henry M. Blackmer, 80. Colorado million aire who fled this country 27 years ago to escape testifying In the Tea pot Dome scandal, arrived here to- I day by plane from France, Immlgra- l Hon officials reported.
