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2- .... ti&tt Bmmmm Bks Amir h Speeding P ImmMhe tb I m. KLAMATH rAI.I.K, OKKtiON, FKIIlAV, RKFTF.MItKR St. 1949 WIATHER Hamalfc rails as VUlaHr' Pari. ,r alaaar Usar. fair UalsSI aa ta.t. Hit l.aa It. f.aar Is laal II. Hl(a aalarSar M. til (a.al HI IT Hla. ... riaalailaMaa laal 14 baara .. . a PRICK rive CENT KLAMATH rAI.I.K, OKKtiON, FRIDAY, BKFTF.MItKR T Stephen III I DON'T SHOOT BILLIE! Hunters hovt been on the prowl for venison in Colifornio since September 16 and here's o buck they'd like to put owoy in cold storage. But they better not. Billit is the property of the Weed, Calif., volunteer fire , 4 department. The firemen have raised him from o fown four 'years ago. Billie has a 36-inch horn spread 1 1 points on one side and 9 on the other. The buck nonchalantly munches carrots in a pen by the Weed fire house and watches hunters goby. Deer season here in Oregon opens at daylight tomorrow morning, with good weather in sight and good shooting the hope of the red-hotted army. Picture by Robert Garrett. Yrrkt luuTho Ctfslws By FRANK JENKINS TIP at Redmond th oilier day. U Louis Popish and Jack Ksieuer were riding home from a rabbit hunt. Popish in fingering a M caliber revolver. Suddenly, accord ing to Hassler, he dumped what apparently he thought was ALL the cartridge out Into hla hand, spun the cylinder, put the gun to his bead and aaid to hit companion: -Didja ever play the garni of Russian roulette?" Then he pulled the trigger. The gun went off. Popish died the next day In the hospital. THERE are times when It seems to me that what people will do (especially with gunai passeih all human understanding, a IKLAHO.MA the other day, for the "'fifth time, voted to" nay dry by tale law. A dispatch from Okla homa City say that aa aoon u the vote wen counted and the mull waa known "victory-flushed pro hibitionist proclaimed their Inten tion to make It literally dry." The dispatch adds: "The chairman of the victorious United Dry association. David C. Shapsrd. promptly announced a campaign for ridding our state of bootleggers and the evils of the whiskey traffic." f HOPE he means It AND MAKES IT STICK. We have many bad habits In this country and none of them is worse than our habit of passing a law. dusting off our hands and saying piously: "Well, that's that." and doing nothing effective to see that the law Is enforced. a a a THAT gets us back to Dorothy Lee. Portland's woman mayor. When she took over her Job. she went after the gamblers and brought In Charles P. Pray, retired head of the Oregon state police, a man of great sin cerity and ability, and told him to clean up the city. From all I can hear, he seems to have done a pretty good job of It. Anyway, a recall campaign was launched against the mayor and finite few people put two and two together and concluded that the gamblers are back of the recall. The other day Mrs. Lee came back from the East, where she had at tended meetings of the National As sociation of Chiefs of Police and the American Municipal association and bald in the hearing of reporters .vtoat the recall movement against , 'Continued on Page 2) Steel Strike Set; Parley Fizzles Out PITTSBURGH. 8ept. SO Pr-A government mediator trying to stave off a nationwide steel strlks at midnight said today "there Is no basic change In the positions" of big steel and. the CIO. William N. Margolta. assistant di rector of the federal mediation and conciliation service, msde the com ment to reporters after he had spent more than three hours talking with both sides. The negotiations, he said, will continue. He went Immedlstely to a meeting of union officials and said that he had another meeting with the steel companies set for this afternoon. Talks Secret Margolls refused to elsborai on what went on at the meetings. . j "The situation is too nebulous to give any statement," he said. Even as the talks were going on, the gigantic steel Industry was pre paring for the strike. From coast to coast furnaces were being banked. And thousands of Philip Murray's CIO United Steelworkers Jumped the gun In wildcat walkouts. Seven Die In Kansas City Blaze KANSAS CITY, Sept. 30 iV-A fast-moving fire roared through the Interior of a two story frame house In Northeast Kansss City early to day, killing seven persons and In juring four. Approximately 30 persons lived In the house, many of them seed. Many of those who escaped fled from the flames In their night clothes. The Red Cross Identified the dead as: Mrs. Florence Richards. 85, Mrs. Cora Andrews, fig, Owen Rich srds, 4S, who was blind, Lorraine Ellis. 17. Mrs. Myrtle M. Hershey, 25, and her two children, Myrtle Marie, 9 months, and Cletus M. Hershey, Jr., 26 months. Mrs. Ed Bayse, 60, the owner, rented part of the house to old-age pensioners and to the Hershey fami ly. She was injured. SP Engineer Dies in Fire At Dunsmuir DUNSMUIR. Sept. SO Carl J Summers, Southern Pacific locomo tive engineer, was found dead III his home here this morning a few min utes alter a fire had gutted his home at approximately 4 30 am. The engineer was said to be about 60. Firemen found Summers fullv clothed, lying on the floor face up near a bedroom door. Fir Chief James Lambert ex pressed the belief that the lire l.ad started In the bedroom and was caused by careless smoking. Wife Sous lit Attempts were being made today to locate Summers' wile, who was said to be on a hunting trip. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cool, who occupy a lower-floor apartment in Summers' home, said Dial they be lieved Bummers had not retired be cause they heard moving around upstairs in the early-morning hours. The Cool apartment waa not touched by the blase but there was some wster damage. Firemen's Version Fir officials advanced Ute opin ion that Summers had closed tn bedroom door and, when he smelled smoke, he opened the door and the full blast of smoke knocked him un conscious. His clothes were burned oft. Fire officials said he had been dead about 30 minutes. Mr. Summers hsd lived In Duns muir since 1910. employed with Southern Pacific all that lima. He msde the Dunsmuir to Oerber run. Funeral arragnement will b an nounced later. Minnesota Professor Named 'Scientist X', Commie Atomic Spy WASHINOTON. Sept. SO X1 Tti hnua un-American activities commute today named Joseph W. Welubeif, University of Minnesota professor, as til "Sciential X" accused of slipping wartime atomic secrets to a communist spy. In Minneapolis, Weinberg got out a statement saying "I am not the person" referred to In previous committee reditu ss "Scientist X " He also said he hsd never given secret .1 Information to any unauthorised I person. , torts BULLETIN Truman Threatens To Hold Congress Until "Dear Passed KANSAS CITY, Sept. 30 tP) President Truman conlronted Capi tol Hill opponents today with a new threat to keep congress in session until It enacts his entire "fair deal" program. And, If that course falls, he said the democrats "will win with that program" In 1960 and again In 1963. Fighting Words In fighting words, he sounded the keynote for democratic orators in next year's congressional cam paigns at a testimonial dinner for the party national chairman, Wil liam M. Boyle Jr. Boyle, like the president, Is a Jackson county Mis sourlan. The president, speaking last night at the end of a program in which a long list of talkers, Including Vice President, Barkley, preceded him also: 1, Promised to battle for meas ures to mine the country's Income to 1300,000,000,000 annually and es itablish "an Income level In th ouny of 94000 pr family per year" which he nald "Is not a pipe dream." 2. Hinted that Barkley, a frequent caller on Mrs. 'Jarleton Hadley of St. Louis, might be getting married soon, 3. Declared that the country needs "real, honest free press" worse than anything in the world. 4. Said that In these critical days of an uneasy peace, "It Is danger ous to try to go back" to the 1890 Isolationist attitude and that the country must "catch up with the moral spirit that will match the ma terial in which we live." Pledgee Battle The dapper, gray-haired chief ex ecutive, speaking before several thousand of the party faithful, de clared that his party will battle on for enactment of its 1948 platform pledges, "Now, I have told the congress and the leaders tn the congress that we are going to fight It out on that basis If It takes all summer and Continued en Pag 3) Tulelake Man Said to Have Killed Self TULELAKE A 36-year-old Tule- take logger walked Into - tavern here at mid-afternoon Thursday, or dered a glass of wster and advised the bartender and patrons that he Intended to kill himself. He died a short time lster In a doctor's office from whst Chief of Police Oscar Pederson described as self administered poison. The dead man la Lyle Wilmer Obermlller who has lived In Tule lake for five weeks. Chief's Account Chief Prdersen said th young msn. apparently despondent over family affairs, had gone to a local drugstore where he asked for a n elgth of an ounce of strychnine sul phate to "kill birds." The drug is sold for destruction of rodents and predatory birds. At 3:20 he entered the Duchess lounge and asked for the water, at that time announcing his Intentions of "killing himself." He then emptied the powder Into the water and drank the contents. The poison took effect Immediate ly and Chief Pedersen was a u m moned. He found Obermlller sitting on the running board of the Prder sen car and moved him directly to Dr. I. Spomer's office. Couldn't Revive Artificial respiration was given Obermlller by Dr. Spomrr. Chief Pedersen and Justice of the Peace George E. Long but death occurred at 5:15 p. m. The body was moved to Whltlock's. Chief Pedersen, who slio serves as county coroner, said the poison, self administered, was direct cause of death. The young man and his wife Alberts, came to Tulelake on August 28, from Eugene. Ore. On August 29, Obermlller waa Injured In an accident on a freight train. He was born December 14 1920, at Wrod River, 111, and survivors In clude the wife, an employe of The Smoker next door to. the Duchess his mother, Mrs. Emma Obermlller of North Hollywood, and his father, William Obermlller of Alton, III, kaavsaasJifi I t'mmlllee' Charge 4aa"aar I fsia.? I The committee recommended In 1 a report that the Jusllr depart ment prosecute Weinberg on clisrges he lied under oath In: 1. Denying communist party membership and attending young communist league meetings. 3. Knowing communist leader Steve Nelson. 1. Knowing Nelson's seers Isry. Bernstletle Doyle. Nelson, the committee says, "was engaged In securing Information regarding the development of the atomic bomb from Sciential X." Thsl waa back in 1943. the com mittee adds, when Weinberg was employed at the radiation labora tnry at llie University of California. The laboratory helped perfect tile A-bomb. Weinberg Denies Aa to the accusation of lying under oath. Weinberg said: "I have aiuays told the truth. 1 affirm my position." Weinberg declared also that he sa not working on a secret project and had no access to secret Infor mation at the time a committee re port sale) "Scientist X" gave a se cret formula to Ncton. The story of the Nelann-Bclanllst X case if an old one the committee first unfolded a yer ago. , But wl l th identity , of. Scientist X was believed widely known around .TdTn-" ir-Ttb th. Cuba, -j i" " n (an wit mill by nam. Net Weaving During the Intervening year It tried to weave around Weinberg a network of evidence to support It demands that he be brought to trial on perjury charges. Today's report brings out some of that evidence, based largely on In telligence reports and on state ments of security officers for th atomic project that they saw con tarts between Nelson and Weinberg and Bernadette Doyle and Wein berg The committee quoted what It said was part of a report from In telligence agents It didn't identity the agents regarding Instructions Nelson gave Weinberg. ' Spy's Orders "Th Instructions were." It said, "that Weinberg should furnish Nelson with information concerning th atomln bomb project so that Nelson could. In turn, deliver It to the proper officials of the Soviet government. ... "Nelson told Weinberg that sll o.mmunists engsged on the atomic bomb project should destroy their communist party membership books, refrain from using liquor and use every precaution regarding their espionage activities." Furthermore, the committee quoted testimony from James Sterl ing Murray, former security chief for the atomic project In the Ran Francisco area, that he and agents Harold Zlndle and Oeorge Rathman watched a meeting In Weinberg's home at Berkeley, Calif., from the roof of the apartment next door. 4 IMS Auto Kslallly WHAM! KANti! The red-hot, double-barreled, rip-snorlin', rootln'-toetln' base ball pennant wars were being fought en four fronts today with the National and American league crowna In th balance. In the American loap. the Boa ton Red bos temporarily, at least, recaptured the league lead when the peaky Philadelphia A's bashed th New York Yankees, 4-1. Mean while, .ever In Washington, the Hex were bopping th Henalers, 19-5. at th end ef th alslb. AI Che end ml Ibe f if Irs Inning In Chlraie thla allernooa, th bt. Leuls C ardinals' chsneaw In Hi National leal us were decidedly dim aa the Cuba led Ik tarda, t-l. Th Brooklyn Dodgers, wllh a half-gam hold on Ural place, war Idle. Nhould the t arda lose to th ( aba lodav. II would give lb Bums from Ch banks ml the (iowaaua In Halbuih a full gam la4 wllh only Iwe days mt th . season left.. 4 Final iwe days IB aeassw. Uaaamw and tsndav, finds lb the Brooklyn tackling Ihe Phils sod Boaioej squaring ell with the Yanks In New York. Hold year hats! Mao Named To Head China Red Republic By Th Associated Pre Mao Tie-tung, long the leader of China's communists, today was elected hesd of the new Red regime In Pelplng. The communist radio In Pelplng ; said Mao was nsmed chslrmsn oi j the "central peoplea government" I of "the peoples republic of Chins." 1 Mao will preside over a govern ment council which, previous broad I casta have said, will be the high est ruling authority. I I'nsnlmoua C hoir I The peasant's son, who heled to ; found the Chinese communist party I in 1931, waa elected unanimously by the political consultative conter enre. The conference, dominated by communists but Including non-communist representatives. Is setting up th new government In Pelnlng. The broadcast waa heard by the Associated Press at San Francisco. Man Killed In Crater Lake Wreck James Patrick Bowles, 33, of Benlcla. Calif., was killed outright early this morning when hit car missed a curve Inside the Crater lake national psrk snd smsshrd Into a pine tree. A companion, Bart E. fjitrada, 35, wss seriously Injured. Th la . pfj 4fe tallty waa th lOih this T year creditable to auto III n,u011 aeeldsnts In I II Klamath county. 8s) WT Til accident occurred on highway 63, th Medford highway Into the park, about four miles east of the rsnger atstlnn aoniellin between midnight and 3 a. m. A Chlloquln man, S. S. Bergdolf, came across the wreck age of the car at 3 30. Police Veraian State police called to the scene said the two men were traveling 1 west on the highway leading out of the park and apparently were mov ing fast on a straightway. Aa the automobile approached a curve it swerved and rolled onto rta side, then bounced Into a 10-Inch lodge pole. Th top of th csr struck th tree about six feet up and waa sheared off by the Impact. The car came to rest of Its wheels. Both men were throw u out, ap parently on the right side of the car. Bowles' foot wss caught In the door. Wreck Discovered Bow les was desd snd F-slrsds un- j conscious when Bergdolf, driving ! home I rum a mill across the moun lam. came by and spotted the wreck. He notified park rangers and Ksler'a ambulance waa railed Ut bring Estrada to Klamath Valley hospital. . His Injuries Intrude a broken teg aud he was suffering from shock and raposure. Bowies' body was brought to Ward s Funeral home. Estrada Is from CsllpaU-la, Calif., and had a Klamath Falls address, PO box 349. Bowles' belongings In dicated he had been working recent ly at Enterprise. Ore., but. his par ents reside In Benlcla, . .. .' N. Zeuf id Engine Crew Beats Off Berserk Man PORTLAND, Sept. SO (AP) A wild fijfht In tht cab of sppcdiriK loco mo tive brought death to a bur Berk brakoman early today. The engineer and the fire man were attacked by light ed fusees and beaten with a hammer an the Southern Pacific freight train, roared north through the night to Portland.. The brakuman died in a Salem hospital this morning, apparently of Injuries 'suffered 10 the fight to subdue him. He was Identified as Kenneth W. Hopkins, about 36. Portland. Engineer's Story Engineer Brent W. Campbell, S6, told this story to Detective Sat. Dan Mitola after bringing the 70- car tram here: Hopkins boarded the train with the rest of the crew at Eugene and remarked he was not feeling well. Later, while the freight waa on a siding for a passenger train, he i flagged down the passenger train. i Then he boarded the freight loco motive and introduced himself for Tokyo nose Convicted Of Treason BAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 30 iP) Stony faced, Iva Togurl D Aquino heard herself convicted of treason last night for telling American! troops their ship hsd been sunk in Leyte gulf and they were "orphans of the Pacific." j A somewhat reluctant federal I court Jury of six men and eix worn RECORD AHrlfSSMKNT SALEM. Sept. 30 lPi The assessed value of all property In Oregon Is $1,639,029,071. the sls'e tax commission ssld' today. That Is a new record. Lsst year It was tl,01,439.0:iS. , . RENT CONTHL 8ALKM. Sept. 30 VPi Oovernor McKay recommended today that rent controls In Lebanon be ended. Train Times To Change Southern Pacific West Coast trains will be discontinued October 2 and schedules for Klamath trains numbers 19 and 20 changed to meet passenger demand. The north and southbound Cs. cade train and the new fliiasla Daylight will operate on present time schedules, Klamath 19 will fill the schedule left open by West Coast number IB. It leave Portland at 9:!K p.m. and arrives In Klamath Palls 7:50 a.m. Northbound Klimalh number 20 will arrive at (he Klamath Palls station at 1:16 .as. Pelicans vs. Grizzlies Friday Night 8p.m. Modoc Field (Probable Starling Lineups) Pelicans Grizzlies No. Wt Player Poa. Player Wt. No. 60 I6S- Tom Schubert IE BUI Wines 1)0' 9 B 190 John Wllte i LT Dick Smith ISO 1 69 149 Dirk Petroldt LO Hill KlRht M 4 69 175 Keith Dnnahoo C Wayne Wiley 145 28 79 165 Roy Lundgren RO Joe KM well 1B0 32 97 180 Tom Abner ..RT Ted Mcllvenna 200 33 M 166 Doran Van Ltie RE Bill Allen 142 27 91 160 Bob McPherson Q .....r Stan Tanscnm 146 10 63 135 Oaynor Huck LH Harold Fowler 136 30 68 150 Joe Nichols v RH Sieve Lanlnovlch 148 18 A 176 Joe rvnielralrna . F Jerrtf Lanser 190 2 Ashland Reserves Les Zlmmerle S, Merle Deets 6, Louis Hsy ter 6, Vern Tenney 7, Wayne Johnson B. Csrrqll Oreen 11, Monte Roberson 12. Richard Reedy 13, Dale Landing 14, Carlos Van VleetlB, Rlcd Vest 18, Ted Weltnl 17. John Shepherd 19. Oerald Davis 20, John Austin 21, Waken Redblrd 22, Charles Redman 23. Kellh Bayne 24, Pat Bollee 25, John Clark 28, Dale King 29, Bob Ed wards 31, Henry Metg 34, Monte Wray 35. Klamath Reserves Rod Davis 86. Tom Qulnowskl 70, Al Hcrrera 71, Dick Allen 72, Kd Zaroslnakl 73, BUI Toole 74, Maynard Smith 75, Ron Dlmmlck 76, Bill Arnold 77, Don Allen 81, Jim DeChalneau 82, dene Carlson 84, Glenn Oliver 87, Don Taylor 90, Bob Botidnn 92, Dick Doege 93, Charles Bennett 94, John Elliott 94, Dave Todd 98, Dale Carr 99. Officials Al Llghtner, referee; Dutch Meyer, umpire; Al Simpson, bead linesman; Dr. O. L Wright and Joe LaClalr, timekeepers, Lewis Sends Some Miners Back to Work WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. W. Va.. Sept. 30 WV-One-flflh of the country's cost mines got orders to go back to work today. But the rest will stay out on strike. 'sldenl John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers told 80.000 an thracite miners and 22.000 coal dig gers west of the Mississippi to re sume production next Monday on their usual five-day week. Around 400.000 soft coal miners In the North, South and Mid-West will carry on the walkout they stsrted September 19 afler suspension of psvmenls from their pension fund. Their negotiations with operators are at a standstill and there Is no sign of a break. Hot Pineapple Barge Seeks Open Port THE DALLES, Ore., Sept. 30 IP) An orphan pineapple barge from Hawaii was looking again today tor a port, loser In another bout with CIO longshoremen. The Dalles port commission or dered the barge and Its S800.000 losd of pineapple to shove off to prevent, any further outbreak of labor vio lence. Strikers Happy Jubilant longshoremen asserted Uiey were making good their boast of six weeks ago when the pine apple left strike-bound Hawsl that thsy would mako the barge another "Flying Dutchman," destined to sail years without finding a port. Earlier the longshoremen's roving picket platoons balked the barge's attempts to find a Puget Bound port where It could unlosd. Prineville Spud Harvest Set PRINEVILLE, Sept. 30 P The potato harvest on 11,000 acres will get Into full awing Monday, with plenty of workers on hand. - A few growers expressed fiat, however, that the potatoes have not ripened evenly. , S'J J" r Meet the People . til ii i '.fcaWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaJa -JSasaW'!aaaas aaaaa a second time to Campbell and l 1 , jt ! Fireman Ben J. Mackowlac, 34, k " i ' 1 ; Portland. Q . -aaaaaaaJ Trouble HUrt Afler th train started, Hopkins begsn lighting fusees - warning flares wavina them In the sir and T l Dawawawv discarding them. The engineer or- I flaf If fl KbiVH dered him to a seat in Ui cab and I VnJV llVaJV told him to "Uk it easy." A Kai train Kwan n ni W . I r. speed after leaving Salem, Hopkins suddenly reached over the engineer s shoulder, Campbell said, and yanked Ihe throttle wide open. At the asms ume he Jabbed a lighted fusee in to Campbell s side. Attacks Engineer Campbell set the emergency brake and whirled around. As he did so, Hopkins attacked htm with the fusee, burning him about the left eye, neck aud abdomen. Mack owlac, the fireman, wrested the IBs front , Drakaawtii. Thea Hcpkina seized a hammer an brnu.ht in (h. .mllet .f i-tnA, ! beating the other two . '..Z. ""o with lu The fireman was days deliberation. A surprised , ww ,i..h .i.. hi !S!i,dl"PPOlnlInen,,!"10'- Campbell tlnTlly took th. hsmmer from the berserk msn and knocked him down. Burned Self "Oh I swept th courtroom. Ira Stale . Iva Los Angeles-bom and edu-1 cated remained as stole ss ah had ' during the 12-week trial. Hesd' h Hopkins deliberately bowed, she ssld nothing. No tears. : slioted his own hand into the llre Laier she told her attorney -I can't i b0- Campbell said, understand It." An appeal la I The fireman summoned polic planned. n0 tk Hopkins to a Salem hos October 6 wss set tor sentencing., P'ul where he died several hours Th minimum sentence would be 'tcr five years Imprisonment and a $10.-1 ooo fine; the maximum death. Rut the government did not ask the death penally. Foreman John Mann ssld the jur-! ors would have liked to acquit the 33-year-old woman known to OI's as Tokyo Rose, but "we did the only thing we thought possible under the Judge's instructions." One ('aunt Actually, she wss convicted on only one of the eight counts In the Indictment. That one related to her broadcast from Radio Tokyo in Oc tober, 1944, about the Leyte gulf battle. Keuklchl Okl. an official of Radio Tokyo, testified the defendant ssld "now you fellows hsve lost all your ships. You are rrslly orphans of the i Continued on Page 2) KF Man Fined Over License A Klamath Falls carpenter was fined 1100 In the Dorrls court of Justice of the Peace Clarence Mots chenbacher this morning when he pleaded guilty to making a false statement to procure a resident i California hunting license. I He Is Donald O. Kitterman. 29, 5413 Shasta way. Kitterman was arrested this j morning In Dorrls slier Invest iga j tlon by game wardens of both Call- forma and Oregon, Oregon state I police and a federal officer. ROBERT M. SLOSS, publisher of the Modoc County Record in Alturos, is a name to be reckoned with, but not to which he answers. He is much better known throughout the North ern California area e "Cop." '