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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1949)
Ul wm Jl 1) JV rpnr win Day's tavs By FRANK JKNKINR H ROENTINA till light Hid welches n while 25 natlona devalue thrlr money an avenue of 30 per cent In relation to tha dollar. Then ha devaluca HER MONEY 44 PER CENT In relation to tha dollar. II POST-ORADUATI court In eco. nnnilca Un't required In order to liiura out Uiat what Argentina ta dictator-ruled country) hai done I to VOTE HKRHF.I.F AN ADVAN TAGE IN HH.I.1NO OOOU8 TO THE UNITED STATES. ' THERE la another little quirk to the Arientlne deal. I mm KLAMATH FAIXH, OKEOON, MONDAY. OCTOBER I. lMt Tstesheaa delation .lion to IK ay. I to aell Her peso U devalued MORE In delation to Ih dollar than In rela tion to tha pound aterllng. Tliat U Argentina la more anxioua goods to Uia United States than to Britain. But wait. You haven't heard tha whole lory yet. By depreciating her pew mora In relation to Urn dollar than In rela tion to tha pound. Argentina make It easier lor her people to aell In the United Slatce and to BUY IN BRITAIN. ! What the wanla la dollar. Once , ha acta the dollar he can spend i away them anywhere In Uie world. By WEATHER tliull Falla Vlalaltrt rale tr.afb Witt MMaJtMl feira mfh iwa re; law Ualftl Mi klfk leaaSar el. Mai. (CM I. . 1 Mia. a rraaaaNaMaa ImI M kaafe e fKICE riVE CENTS KLAMATH FA ILK, OKEiON, MONDAY. OCTOBER I. : till No. 2M Train Hits Bus; 17 Of 22 Die mm Ra strike saA ONTARIO, CaW.. Oct. I ifi-A raring passenger train ripped Into a VS. air tore bua at a crowing hut night, killing IT ol the 22 oc cupants. Eleven of the dead were military or civilian personnel from March air bane; five were membera of ttie Ontario Hottest' club a tervlre or ganisation the other wat the chtp erone, Mra. Ruby McLaughlin. 45, mother of one of the dead girls, Jutulta McLaughlin. II. Chief Deputy Coroner Edward P. Doyle aald only five, Including twin tlnlera lining In different parta of the bua, escaped alive. 'Mangled Wreckage' Acetylene torrhca finally cut the mangled wreckage from the battered locomotive, and the nieana of her drlaycd-pane deal In j train headed eail more than lour International finance, ano nouca m noura aua, aell more goodi at lower prlcea In The bua came from March air Hie United Slates and BUY for atlll , force base. 40 milea cast of here. ana carnra miuiary ana civilian lower prlcea In Britain. Thua ahe would have her cake and eat It too. a AUR first Impulse la to be proud W of our dollar because It U some thlng that everybody wanta. When you have aoniethlng everybody wanla. It la uaually anmelhlng that la pretty good. Our dollar 18 good becaua It la aupported by heavy production of thlnga. But don't let yourself be fooled by all thla ranlkaboo about money and IU -value." What It all meana la that for yean we have been tell ing more abroad than we have been buying from abroad. That la to aay. our commerce haa been pretty largely a one-way street Over the years, we have been telling more to other peoplea than we have bought from them. They have been tending ua their money III return. That I the long and abort of It. Itrfltf la haa hannened: il . ., , i i lea, tome mri 1 1 1 1 1 r , . . v ... ...... thlpplng our goods to the people of other countries. Tlicy have been hipping ua their money. THEY NOW HAVE OUR OOOD8 AND WE HAVE THEIR MONEY. personnel and girl frlenda home bound from a day at the beach. No one on the btu waa unhurt, but no one waa Injured aboard the train. the Union Paclflc'a Pony Expreu caalbound to Chicago. The railroad aald the train wat traveling 10 milea an hour. Engineer Al Hall de clared "I didn't are a thing' before the crash. 'Look Out!' Survivors Included Omega and Marqulta Pearce ll-yrar-old twtna from Ontario. Omega received a broken ankle, Marqulta cuta and bruise. She aald alia waa altling on the rear teat with Charlea Plevnlak. "I heard a acream: 'Look out I The neat thing I knew, tome men were picking me up." Marqulta aald her alter waa tev eral trail up In the btu. Nearly a mile of the railroad right-of-way tome SO milea eatt of Loa Angelea wat ttrewn with bod- tyfp mi ' - ' e . f. ' ' T r - - - v R0OE-VT i"3J m. -I l nh.1' W 1 Any ee Peso's Value! Heavily Cut In Argentina BWKNOB AIItfcH. Oct. 3 fV Ar gentina today devalued her money per cent In relation to the dollar. The effect waa to make the U. 8. dollar bring 0 per cent more pe tot than II did before for travelers and for certain aervlcea. The ratea for exporta and Import were re aligned leu drastically. The rate waa fixed at nine petoa to the dollar, compared with the old rate of 4 815. The peto waa devalued to 26.20 to Uie British pound Uutead ; of the old rate of 137. Impurta tilopped Thla South American nation alto a impended all Importa al least tem porarily. The Central bank put Into effect the reshuffled exchange ratea. It alto taaued a 30-page list ol lleuu which can be Imported but aald the method of asking lor import per miu will be aet up later. Th peto adjustment were or dered Saturday by the finance min Ittry In view of the devaluation of currenclaa throughout the world touched off by Britain'! cheapening her money. a f t-.. I .. -. 1 - To date, 25 nauoru have devalued CAMPAIGNING FOR student body offices ot Fremont Junior Truce Voted While Case Is Mediated Striking conductora of the Ore grn. California and Eattern railway voted 11 to 2 jre.uerday to return to Five Die in First Two Days of State Deer Hunt Season Klamath county's first hunting fatality was record ed here early Sunday morning, second day of the 1949 season, when a Eugene hunter waa killed by a com panion's bullet. Dead i Frank Lee Balcomb, 32-year-old lumber inipector who wu hunting in the Hone Glade sector of Riverbed Butte on the edge of the Klam ath Indian reservation and about six miles north west of Weyerhaeuser Camp 6. Sheriff 8 officers said the bullet was fired by Harry Obenchain, 40, prominent Bly rancher who was aif m nuss mess member of the party. Obenchain told investi gating officers that he fired at a buck at about 10 o'clock yesterday morning, work pending the outcome of nego- j and then ran 50 vards ttatinna artth fh- nattrm-t n-Hi 1 ., . . . tlon board which haa taken Jurtadlc a0Wn 8 thickly WOOded Uon of the 38-day-old atrike. I draw where he thoup-ht tho ""puea. ne aaw a move' a. W. Lange. representing the j i mangled. tlnce Briuin ttarted Uie ball roll' lug by cutting the value of the pound from 4 03 to $20 on Sep tember 18. Moil of the devaluation! In Brit- am and the other countriea have . been by about 30 per cent in re- lation to the dollar. What Argentina haa done U to cut I the value of her money aharply in ! relation to the dollar but only mod- dccapiutad and many , eralely In relation to the devalued Torchea were required to 1 pound. high hit o peak todoy.as signs and slogans filled the halls. Election day is Wednesday. David Mathis, candidate for vice president, tries to take a drink and at the same time read a poster put up by one of his opponents, Marjorie Shreeve. cut one body from the bua wreck- mm. T rrs tpell that out. What It amount to la that they can eat. wear and thrlter themtelvea with the OOOD8 they have been getting from ua but we can't eat, wear or thelter ouraelvea with the MONEY we have been getting from them. So, you ae, they have been get ting the beat of the bargain. Senator Sees Farm Unions Try by Labor WASHINGTON. Oct. S MV-8en-ator Rnbertton (D-Vai aald today organized labor haa tried to In fluence farm lot Mat ton In order to draw farm worker! Into unlona Administration leadera promptly denied It. Thla latue waa Injected Into de bate ai the aenale took up a com promise farm bill drafted by Sen ator Anderson (D-N.M), former aec retary of agriculture. Labor feat The bill would Include Uie coat of labor aa part of the formula for figuring parity payments. Ander son aald labor coats would Increaae aubaldy paymenta to farmers by about t per cent. iPar.ty la the price dealgned to give farmers a fair return on their cropa In terms of what they mutt buy.) Robertson told the senate the In clusion of labor costs In the parity formula "Is part of a program to organise farm workers In unlona." 'Of All Sod Words Life Termer Freed Long Enough to Hear His Music BIQ 8PRINQ, Tex., Oct S W-A life term convict stood In Uie wings of a stage yesterday and cried. He was hearing for the first time his musical history of Big Spring. Frank Orandttaff, on a six day furlough from the Tennessee slate prlion, then slipped quietly Into a front row seat. But minutes later he waa pushed to the atage the cen ter this time to receive the ap plause of hundreds. Tha one-time piano sslpsman In West Texas, a man described as having unusual talents, waa given a warm, heart-felt ovation, for a work composed In a prison cell. Orandstaff'a Canute, "Big Spring," was sung by a male chor us, as part of this West Texas town's 100th birthday celebration. "I'm happy, I'm very happy," was all Orandttaff could say. "Ves, It sounded Just as I thought H would." The new rates apply to Uie trans fer of money to and from Argen tina for travelers, profits and for services. The rates ao not apply to merchandise exported or Imported. Baker Deer Hunters Get Cougar, Bear BAKER. Oct. S IPi Hunters who bsgged deer over the week-end don't need to feel to set up about It. Three hunters here came In Sun day with the following prey: one buck, one cougar, one bear and one coyote, all from the Big creek area of Baker county. The humeri were Tloyd Williams and Truman Carter of Baker and Jay Carter of Ordnance. Jay Car ter, who shot the cougar, will col lect a fifty dollar bounty. Honeymooner Dies in CNW Flier Wreck AMES. Ia.. Oct. 3 tPi Ernest were 80.000 anthracite (hard coal) j Rurgs, 35-year-old Oakland honey mooner, waa Kiuea ana lour oiner persons we-e Injured severely here today when the stresmllner City or San Francisco left the rails. A coach filled with sleeping pas sengers on the westbound filer was sheared open. Five cara were de railed. All of the Injured were on a coach which left the rails and was ripped open aa It Jack-knifed Into a box car on a aiding. Broken glasa bag gage and seats which had been torn from their moorings flew through Uie coach. The coach's side was ripped open for a distance of about 30 feet and the coach Immediately behind It scissored off the tracks as the crack Chicago and North Western passenger train came to a stop within 200 yards. Committee OK's Minton WASHINGTON, Oct. S W The senate Judiciary committee today approved the nomination of Federal Judge Bherman Minton of -Indiana to be an associate Justice of the supreme court. The committee voted nine to two to send the nomination to the senate for confirmation with a favorable recommendatloa Approval came after the commit tee reversed a previous decision to call Minton before It for question Ing. AFL Charts New Demands For Labor Br The Associated Freaa One hundred two thousand ot John L. Leu' coal miners w e n-t bark to work today, but 400.000 re mained on strike aa did 513,000 CIO steelworkers. There was optimism voiced that settlement of the 156-dey strike o I 2000 CIO longshoremen at Hawaii may come soon. Tension relaxed in Detroit's auto Industry as CIO auto workera planned to apply the Ford settlement pattern to Chrysler and other manufacturers. Meanwhile, as the AFL conven tion begsn at 8t. Paul, Minn, the federations officers recommended shortening of Industry's work day and work week aa an Immediate economic goal. The United Mine Workers sent back to their1 Jobs today by the terse hint from union headquarters I Uiat their Idleness "la not now vital to the pending wage negotlaUons' diggers In Pennsylvania and some 22.000 soft coal miners west of the Mississippi. The UMW battle cry of recent years, "no contract, no work." ap parently waa discarded for a lim ited application of "no pension, no work." attlFmYT meet" PULLMAN. Oct. 3 ( Beef cat lie growers gathered here today from throughout the Northwest for the annaul beef cattle type confer ence sponsored by Washington State college. "Happiness Is a town named Big Spring," he told a crowd estimated at 2000 persons Just before the pro gram In the municipal auditorium began. "Everyone here has gone out of his way to make my atay here one to be remembered." "You need not worry about me while I am here," he aald In a low, emotion-choked voice. Shine Phillips, the druggist who wrote the book, "Big Spring.? that Inspired Qrandstnff to compose his music, Introduced the convict to the crowd. "We hope (or further freedom for a man of such splendid talent, per sonality and background," Phillips aald. OrandsUtf wu sentenced to life In prison when convicted as an ha bitual criminal, mostly for petty larcenies, small thefta and forgeries. U. S. Justice Y.O. Douglas Gravely Hurt YAKIMA. Oct. 3 iPv Justice Wil liam O. Douglas, one of the lead ing liberals of the U.8. supreme court, was Injured gravely yester dsy In the Csscade mountains he loved aa a boy. He suffered 13 rib fractures and a punctured lung when his frightened horse fell and rolled on him. His chances of full recovery, how ever, appeared excellent today. Doctors attending htm at a Yakima hospital said his condition waa not critical. The stamina gained from JUSTICE DOUGLAS an active, outdoor life away from his Judicial duties stood him In good stead. Good NighC Doctors said the Justice rested well throughout the night and got some sleep despite the obvious pain of his Injuries. The 50-year-old Jurist responded well to blood transfusions and emer gency treatment given on his arri val from the accident scene, 77 miles away. But for several days, his doctors said, the danger of pneumonia will be acute. As soon as his Improve ment permits, further examinations are planned to check against the possibility of other Internal Injuries. Mrs. Douglas, who waa In the east, and their daughter, Mildred, a student at her father's alma mater. Whitman college at Walla Walla, Wash., are on their way here to be by his side. Douglas, mentioned frequently as a possible democratic presidential candidate In 1952, was hurt on the (Continued on Page 2) Junior High Youngsters In Politics Thirteen Fremont Junior high students are getting their first sweet taste of politics aa they campaigned today for student body offices. A general assembly with speeches by the candidates is slated for Tuesday at I p. m.. followed by an all-day eectlon Wednesday. Named by the nominating com mittee for oKlce are. president, James Craig. Jack Prock and Sara Stewart: vice president, David Mat this. Msrjorle Shreeve and Pa tricia Taylor; secretary. Patricia Collins. Sylvia Oerber. Ann Hender son and George Knight; secretary treasurer. LaRayne Weed. Rudy Westln and Donald Williams. Posters and signs, cards and cam paign enticements were being cir culated In the school where all eighth graders In the city system are atudents. Order of Railway Conductors, said that the 65-mlle Klamath Falls-to-Bly road would be lu service aa soon as equipment can be assembled. The road may be In npersUon within 24 hours. Dispute Items The road has been Idle for more than one month, due to dispute over pay claims, pay for an Injured em ploye and rest periods between hilts. Lange reported developments this morning after a telephone call to M. C. Anderson, an assistant to the vice president of Great Northern railway In St. Paul. The OC&E Is owned Jointly by Great Northern and Southern Pa cific but ia currently under man agement of ON. Request Honored The national mediation board had asked that the workers go back on their Jobs while mediation la In pi ogress. The striking employes agreed to the request yesterday at a meeting In the Winema hotel at 1 pm. Continuance of operations on the road will depend on the outcome of negotiations, Lange said. He added that it was not known when a mediator from the national medi ation board would arrive in Klam ath Falls. Seattle Store Blast Reported BULLETIN SEATTLE. Oct. 3 (IP) At least Ix persona were injured, tww er three seriously, in the explosion arf a boiler at the Sears and Roe bock main atore today, attendants at the store infirmary reported. SEATTLE. Oct. 3 iPr Police re ported today several persons hsd been Injured In an explosion at the Sears and Roebuck main store In Seattle's south end. First reports to police said a boiler had exploded. Several am bulances dispatched to the scene, while officers gave first aid to the Injured. '. Vandenberg Under Knife DETRIT. Oct. 3 The De troit Times reported today that Senator Vandenberg (R-Mich) was taken to the operating room of Uni versity hospital In Ann Arbor for lung turgery. The Times quoted surgeons as saying the senator would be under the knife for two to four hour. The senator entered the hospital for a checkup early last week. The nature of his illness was not dis closed. . Demos Drop Civil Rights Hot Potato WASHINGTON. Oct 3 t.1 Democratic congressional leadera and President Truman agreed today that congress should put off consid eration of civil rights measures un til the session starting in January. Senator Lucas ot Illinois, demo cratic floor leader, said after a con ference with the president that "it seems doubtful that a prolonged dis cussion of any civil rights bill at this session would be helpful." Lucas aald a fair employment practices commission measure probably would be the first to be considered in January. Texas Braces For Hurricane CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex, Oct. 3 iP) A 100-mile-an-hour hurricane moved slowly toward the industrial studded Texas gull coast today. All along the crescent shaped coastline from Corpus Christi to Galveston, about 250 miles, prepa rations were made for a big blow late today. Tides already were running high and torrential rains drenched the whole area. Nearly four inches of rain had fallen at Galveston. BoDibera Moved Corpus CruisU site of the big na val air training center, ordered schools closed. Thirty-five four-engine bombers took off In a rain squall for a sale haven at Good fellow field at San Angelo, in West Texas merchants were busy boarding up plate glass windows. Low land dwellers were ordered away from the coast line. ment In the brush to hli left anri on investigation, found the body of Balcomb. A 3t-34 ballet had crashed through the left aide ol Baleomb'e head Death Is thought to have been in atantaneoua, Balcomb had come from Eugene to hunt with the Obenchains and was a guest at the Frank Oben chain place, along with another Eu gene hunter. Henry Cook. Also in the Dartv were Chart.. Rose of Marysville. Calif.. Floyd Waters of Med ford and formerly of Klamath Falla. Don Rice, Van Thome. Chester Berman, B. Frank Douglas. aU of this city, and Mra Harry Obenchain. Deuglaa and Berman had Joined the group early Sunday Bandar. others had been banting through eat the pening day, Saturday. The dead hunter wore a red hat and a blue and red plaid shirt, of ficers said. Charles Rose left the scene of the accident Immediately and notified authorities from Weyerhaeuser Camp 8. Two houra later officers reached (he scene and conducted an inten sive Inveaagatian. It took caaaider aale time to pack the body out ef the - heavy Ttnnh to the waiting bean and ft waa then brought to Ward' In Klamath Falla. The re mains will be sent to Eugene. Balcomb la survived by hi wife and six-week-old daughter in Eu gene. Officers participating in the Inves tigation were Deputy Sheriff Willis Pankey of Bly. Deputy Sheriff Mur ray Britain of Klamath Falls, Stat Police Mark Sullivan. Deputy Coro ner Bill Mills was called to the scene as welL The toll of human life in the third day of Oregon's deer hunting season stood today, Monday, at five: three deaths from bullets and two from over exertion. In addition to the death of Frank Lee Balcomb of Eugene In Fat tern Klamath county, another hunter waa slain Sunday when his compan ion fired at a deer. Dead wa How ard Thomas Breen. 37, of Talent Breen died near Gold Hill from a shot fired by Robert Fisher. 22, Gold Hill. Jackson County Coroner Carlos Morris said Fisher told of the two men separating and working along a mountain ridge. He h a d fired across a meadow at a deer, Fisher said. The third gun victim waa El ( Continued on Page 2 China's New Red Regime By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Oct. 3 MP) Russia ha finally broken with the nationalise government in China to give the diplomatic nod to the new red regime there. At the same time ah I accused the western allies of trying to aput oermany by setting up a separate government In their tones. The recognition of communist China waa announced yesterday In a note to the premier of the Cen tral People's government at Peiplng from Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Oromyko. Another Slap Another Soviet note, delivered to representatives of three big westers powers in Moscow, rapped the crea tion of the West German govern. ACT OF AGRESSION' CANTON. China, Oct. 3 (jPI Soviet reeegnitlon of the Chi nese eaaamunlat regime la "not only an aet ml aggreaalen against China but also a threat to peace and security ef the Far East," Nationalist Foreign Min ister George Yen declared tonight. ment at Bonn. It charged the U. 8, Britain and France had broken Big Four agreement to try to regain political and economic unity of Germany. Diplomatic circles ' here felt the note indicate that Russia feels the time is ripe for the creation of some kind of German administration ri valing the western government at Bonn. These observers said that creation of such an authority In Eastern Germany would make the western powers' position In Berlin extremely precarious. Four-power Berlin, lying in East ern German; would almost cer tainly become capital of such a set up, they said. Romania Obeys Meanwhile, Romania Joined the parade of Soviet-style "people's de mocracies" in scrapping her friend ship treaty with Yugoslavia. Poland. Bulgaria and Hungary already have followed the lead of Russia in de nouncing their alliances with Pre mier Marshal Tito's regime. (Reports from inside Yugoslavia say tension Is mounting among the people, as Tito's cold war with Rus sian - led cominform reached Its toughest stage yet There were un confirmed reports In Belgrade that Tito was shitting his troops from Western Yugoslavia to the eastern borders facing Hungary and Ro mania. (Associated Press Correspondent Alex H. Singleton reported, how ever, there, appears to be no fear In Belgrade that actual war is lm- minenL) 1223 EXECUTED ATHENS, Oct. 3 (Al The or ernment reports today that 3150 per sons have been sentenced to death since June 1, 1948, for taking part In Greece's communist-led revolt and 1233 have been executed. World Series Facts By The Associated Pre Contenders New York (AL) vs. Brooklyn (NL1 Place At Yankee stadium Oct t-S; at Ebbets field Oct. 7-1 and (if necessary): at Yankee stadium Oct 10-11 (if necessary). Time All game at 10 a. m. (PST) except Sunday when they start at 11:05 a. m. Odds Yankees favored at t to to win series. Radio Mutual BroadcasUng system. Probable Starting Pitcher Ed Lopat (lS-O, New York, vs. Preacher Roe (15-6), Brooklyn. Clark Death Ride Probed LOS ANGELES, Oct 3 UP) The civil aeronautics board was inves tigating today whether the -plane which crashed In a busy midtown boulevard, killing Crooner Buddy Clark, may have been overloaded. Five others. Including Sam Hayes, top west coast NBC -newscaster, were Injured In the crash Saturday night. The plane was returning from the Stanford-M I c h-l g a n football game at Palo Alto when Its gas supply ran out. James N. Peyton, regional CAB chief, said: "Two-engine Cessnas of that type usually carry a pilot and four pass engers. This plane was carrying five passengers." Clark, 38, was a top recording and radio artist In recent years, he starred on his own NBC program "The Contented Hour" and previ ously on the "Hit Parade." Meet the People " MV A- ! ri- PACING THE PAVEMENT while he waifs for the stork to arrive at Klamath Valley hospital is George Demetrokos, Klamath resident who encountered the Meet the People pho tographer early thii morning. fit 6
