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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1949)
fo) u JV H Ji Br FBANK JENKIN pOIJTlCAL newe from London t 1 "Prime Minister Allien turned down demands (or a general par liamentary elecUon thla fall and derided that hli Labor government would rid out Britain s economic crisis." WHAT doaa It meant " It meant UlU: Attlee thinks tor at least hopes) that BrIUIn'a financial altuallon mill bo better next spring than It I now. If that turn out to ba true, hia party's chances of winning will ba belter next yeer than they would ba now. W mint alwayi remember that Ui ALL partiee In AIX countries BTAVINO IN POWER IB MOKE I IMPORTANT THAN ANYTH1NU ' ELBE IN THE WOULD. TN our own country, both major partita iDemocratlo and Repub lican) ara all churned up over what to do for the farmer. There art two tactlona In congress, and those tactloni cut arrow party line. One wanta to guarantee farm price at permanently huh level. The other wanta to guarantee pit tea at a high level through nnt year WHEN 1IIERB WILL BE AN ELECTION and then lower the guarantee. The house hat pawed more or leu permanent "high parity ' law and the senate haa passed a law providing high parity for 150 and eliding (downwardi parity after that. Prealdent Truman la aald to be all for tht permanent high parity law. fT amount to thla: Our politician In Wellington are out to BUY THE fARM VOTE Tlia Democrat. BE I NO IN POWER NOW AND WANTINO ABOVE KVERYTHINO IN THE WORLD TO STAY IN POWER, want to buy the farm vote Immedl ately. Tht Republican want to put the Democrata In a hole now, ao that they can buy the farm vote later and OCT INTO POWER. That la the altuallon In a nut ahell. Wlien understood. It helpa lo explain tht political Juggling that M going on in WahingUin theec day. e e BAD? li certainly la bad. When any country reache the point where pressure group can puh tht government around and make It Jump through boopa, that country'! better day art ending and IU bleaker day art coming around tht corner. Rome proved that (or u fully acme It centune ago. QL'R congrwu haa reached the point where It la willing to paaa law to vote ua all rich now and to paia other law to penaion ua all later. Tht TRAOEDY of It la that moat nf Hit member of congrraa know that thew things won't work. Knowing that they won't work, they atlll vote (or them In order to keep their Job and stay In power. Rome reached that cynical point. Having reached It. ROMS BE GAN TO DECLINE. Borne half a doarn centurlea later, Rome fell and tht Dark Agea followed. TT Isn't a II thla situation had crept up on ua without warning. A century and a half ago. Lord Macauley, the great Brltih his torlan and political philosopher, aaw It coming and warned ua of It, Not In then words, but In effect, he aald to us: Your American system, which Is the beat tht world haa ever seen, will work until tht time comes when pressure groups arise and make the discovery that through (Continued on Page 3) 3J inw WEATHER ajSjuig Fell, .at Vlahalivt gale Svtar r..ca fHSar. Hta mt S. Law t.alkl SS. BJlfk rktor et. a. m. ni as siia. se rrarlasdaa Is at kaara . PBICE MVS KLAMATH FALLS OBEOON, THI RHDAT. OCTOBf.E U. IMt Telethon 1111 Ne. tin u u Gliding Smk ' hm Bali Air Force To Have Its Innings WASHINGTON. Oct. 11 m The house armed services committee agreed today to hear the air force next week In reply to the navy's biller criticism of IU B-36 bomber program. Secretary of Defense Johnson also will testify then. Chairman Vinson iD-Os) and Sec retary Johnson held a long coher ence thla morning. Afterwards Vin son announced the schedule for the nest phast of the committee In quiry into military policy. Big Names Vinson said that beginning next week the committee will hear Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower. Oen. Omar Bradley, Secretary of Air Syming ton and air lorce officers. Then, he added, "Secretary John son will give the committee and the country" hit views. Johnson, as civilian boas of all tht armed services, la caught squarely In the croas-firt of the angry con troversy over military policy. Harsh Werds He alio haa come in (or harsh words from soma congress mem bers because, by executive order, he has cut back appropriations that the lawmakers made for tht navy. Vinson publicly accused Johnson yesterday of makuig "a grandstand play" by economising on navy funds. He said tht committee "la lo havt a lot to say about this." Medford Game Sellout Seen At noon today there wert leas than 50 reserved tlcktu left at the chamber of commerce for tht Klamath-M t d ( o r d game Friday night on Modoc field. A sell-out for the annual high school grid classic was assured. Pre-game activities will Include a rally bonfire tonight, Thursday, at 7 p.m. on Conger field. Tht public Is invited to Join the enthusiasm and Mayor Robert A. Thompson wll act aa master of ceremonies. Parade Tomorrow Early Friday afternoon a gala pa rade will be staged on Main street by Klamath studenU. The lint of march will Include (loau, marching groups, (he KUHS band. Pep Pep pers, stunts, the K club and other lealures. Klckoff time for the Pel-Black Tornado game la t p.m. Friday. '. ! .. v TRAPPED IN DEBRIS Miss Coyle Keen, 20, of Frostproof, Flo., her face contorted by pain, awaits rescue from wreck age in which she was trapped when 80-mile winds, toppled the Sheridan hotel's 60-foot chimney in Minneapolis. The masonry crashed through the roof of the three-story west wing, where the girl had a room. She suffered heod cuts and a possible fracture of an ankle. She was enrolled in a school for airline hostesses, '90 Percent' Champions Spurn Senate WA8HINOTON, Oct. 13 (rV-The house today refused to accept the senate's bill to set up a flexible sysum for (arm price supports. It stood by IU own measure continu ing the present program of M per cent of parity props for major crops. After wteka of debate, a coali tion of senate democrau and re publicans yesterday pushed through on a voice vow tne lam support bill sponsored by Senator Anderson (D-NMi, former secretary of agriculture. Opposite Optimises They substituted IV for the one- year continuance of wartime-level price supports voted by tht house In mid-July. Leaders 01 we coau Uon said they are confident the house will accept the senate ver sion eventually. Pann-minded house members talked equally optimistically about forcing aerators to take their one year extension of existing price props at least for 1950 year when all 43& house members and more than one-third of the senators must fact) tht farmers and other tnim Both tht senate and house bills 4 peg thJ -posed price supports to percentages oi pariw a price for a farm product deemed to be fair to tht farmer In re lation to the cost of things he hat to buy. Diphtheria Shots Rushed To Medford Chiang's Forces Flee as Commie Troops Approach HONG KONG. Oct. 13 (AP) Telephoned report from Canton laid Nationalist forces tonight abandoned the South China city. Plans for all organized resistance ended within the provisional capital. Entry of communist troopa is now awaited. Gunfire was reported around North station, about three miles north of Canton. The source Nationalists, ' Red guerrillas or regular communist troops was not known. Perhaps aooner than expected. Canton suffered th same fate as other major Nationalist cities which have faller. to the communists , . , . II with little or no resistance. Shirley I em pie $ Marriage Goes On Rocks A POE VALLEY FIELD, which escaped heavy summer frosts, is yielding out at an average of 450 to 475 sacks of Klamath Netted Gems. This is considered one of the top fields of the entire Klamath basin and planting was done this spring by Karl Dehlinger and Duane Blockman on 30 acres leased from Rex High directly across from the High residence on the Poe volley rood. Certified seed was used in the planting and these fine spuds, heavy and of good contour, were being picked yesterday by Madeline Glenn, 562 Leland drive, one of the picking crew on the acreage. Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Scotsman DUNDEE. Scotland. Oct, 13 iP) Lord Boyd Orr says he will use the money from the IMS Nobel peace prise, nearly S23.000. to promote peace and world government. "The Important thing in the world today Is to get the nations to co operate." ne said last night. Boyd Orr. a bushy-browed Scotunan. be- j Edwards. 50. lleves wars can be prevented by creation of s world federal govern ment and oy raising more food to prevent hunger. Farmer The Norwegian Parliament's No bel committee announced the award last nlRht. Boyd Orr la a food ex pert and practical farmer. He for merly headed tht United Nations food and agricultural organiratlon. The prir.e, awarded from a fund set up in 1896 by Alfred B. Nobel, the Inventor of dynamite, amounts to 156.289 83 Norwegian kroner S21. 889.301. It la awarded to persons deemed outstanding In promoting peace among nations. Jury to Get Commie Case NEW YORK. Oct. 13 m The government's cast against U high U. 8. communists neared the Jury today when the governments com pleted Its summation shortly be fore noon. Federal Judge Harold R. Medina'! charge waa expected to take about two and one half hours. Tht 11 communist, who form tht communist party's American pollt uuro, are charged with conspiring to reorganise the party In 1945 to teach and advocate, tht violent tvtruirow of the government. HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 1J m Rhlrley Temple's SBarriage is the rocks, her . attorney an nounced today. The 2I-yrar-oid actresa and John Agar have separated. At torney (ieorge Btahiman said, and he It drawing up divorce iwpers. He said the gronnda hart not been determined. A close friend, however, said she probably will charge mental cruelly. There is no career trouble,' the friend said. The blonde an-time child etar. whe In recent years has made a comeback aa an adult, married Agar, alsn an actor. September 19, 19U. Their dangb. ter, Linda, waa born Jannary M, IMS. RoydYfooIever Lost Hunting. Finds Yay Out The South China city sprawls out on the left bank of the Pear river. It is an old and shabby trade center 111 miles northwest of Hong Kong. ' with a population of nearly 1.000.- 000. The Nationalists aet up their capital there last spring after they quit Nanking. A million Cantonese waited, tense ly, nervously, for the tranaltisti net iod. Communist troops last wert re ported driving directly down tht. Canton-Hankow railroad to within y 30 miles of Canton. .' Aa yet. Hong Kong haa heard no report of Nationalist resistance. In stead, 80.000 government troops la the Canton region face Isolation by encircling Reds and by insufficient shipping to escape to tht sea. The British amassed traona near the border se pars ting British Kew leoa territory and China nrstor, km they did Ml expect treadle. Tht Nationalist government fled to .Chungking. Acting President Li Tsung-jen left by plant for KawU lin In neighboring Kumgst province where an army of tome 230.000 has been salvaged out of recent set backs. LI has been feuding with General . lssimo Chiane Kai-iheic anri that c waa specuaiuon mat he might x go on to the new refugee capital. t Attlee Turns Down Fall Bd!of Test ; Two Bodies Found; Rancher Surrenders, Saying 7 Hurt Them' TOLEDO. Ore.. Oct. 13 I Pi The bodies of two brothers wert found sprawled beside a bushy trail northeast of here last night after a middle-aged rancher told the sheriff "I hurt them Dead of bullet wounds were Melvln Longyear. about 25. and his brother, Charles Longyear, about 22. Held In the Lincoln county Jail without charge Is Norman Homer ards. 50. 8herlff Tim Whelp said Edwards telephoned him at home shortly after t p. m. yesterday and said he wanted to see him. The sheriff drove to his office and there met Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. 'Them or Me' "Get the coroner and an am bulance and go up the Slletx river and get the Longyear boys," Whelp said Edwards told him. "I' hurt them about noon. You'll find them if you go up the trail on Brush creek. It was either them or me." The Sheriff with Coroner Frank lin Parker and 17 men set out In dark and late last night came upon tht bodies In tht Nashville district 40 miles northeast of here. Whelp said that Edwards, after making his initial statement, de clined to comment except to say that one of the Longyear men waa armed. Who Killed Them? The sheriff said he was consid ering the possibility that although Edwards had turned himself In. he did not actually fire tht fatal shots. He did not elaborate. Although there had been tome dispute between the Edwards and Longyear families for a number of years over a property boundary. Whelp said, then waa no known evidence of major friction. Three Klamath Tails drugstores late Tuesday pooled their sources of diphtheria antl-toxln and rushed it to Medford where another ease the city's eighth was reported to day by Dr. A. Erin MerkeL Jack son county health offcer. Two children have died of the dis ease, a teen-age boy and a teen age girl. The -latest person struck Is a 17-year-old aunt of the girl who died. Precautions Floyd Woolever. Si-year-old vet eran deer hunter reported lost In the woods south of Bly. walked In ! to Bly early this morning few minutes before a search party of I I friends would have started looking I for him. , , . He had been lost, spending tht I night in the woods., but at day-4 into BIv " " Wl . Failed To Ketnrn LONDON. Oct. 1J iTt Prime Woolever, who reside at 227( Al- Minister Attlee turned down today tamont. was hunting yesterday with demands for a general parllamen- Levi Stevens. 1330 Worden. an old tarjr election this faU and decided mlng ,-,niaa-. "d that his labor government would Owen. 1804 Portland, lo the Robin- . . . ,. , . , " , son springs area. He had left camp ride out Britain economic crtsl. at daybreak yesterday and did not ! Tne announcement that there return at dark. i uld be no early election was - UIUL4I OUIICUICUI IB W quiet 'disturbing effects on trad and industry" earned by widespread speculation of a vote this fall. , Election Any Time The labor's government's five year term runs until next July. Un der Britain's constitutional system. His companions reported to state police he wa missing about 8:30 last night. This morning a party of about 65 men. many of them employe of the state highway department where Woolever Is employed, headed out toward Bly but Woolever came In before the search was started. Boys Die Beneath Overturned Piano CORTLAND, N. "Y.. Oct. 13 W Doug Stebbins, 4 and hia brother, Roy. 3, were crushed to death yes terday when an upright piano their mother was moving toppled over. The children had been playing Mothers here, who havt learned , on the living room floor In their U.S. Pushes Strike Peace Negotiations By The Associated Press Oovernment-prodded negotiations to end the 23-day-old coal strike continued today despite another blunt refusal from the United Mine Workers to renew their contract for two years. UMW Vice President Thomas Kennedy saya the union Is willing to "continue In these meetings un til we gel a contract." Steel Scene The government's conciliation di rector. Cyrus S. Chlng, hoped to get leaders of the ClO-Unlted Steel workers union and Industry officials back at the bargaining table. Chlng planned to meet today with representatives of the Bethlehem Steel company In New York. Tilt two strikes havt made Idle nearly 900,000 workers and con tinuation ot the work stoppages threatens to Idle additional thou sands. New Book NEW YORK, Oct. 13 OP) Ernest Hemingway's first book since 1M0 will be published In March, Charles Bcrlbntr a sons announced today, of the diphtheria condition in the valley city, were urged not to be alrmed but there are certain pre cautions which can be taken, local doctors observed. A great percentage of Klamath Fall children have been innoculat ed against diphtheria, many even before school age. If the innoc illa tions were given at an early age. doctors suggested a booster shot ot toxoid, or administration of the Schick test which permit the doc tor a well a the patient to learn whether or not the child remains Immune. Kerron Away Dr. Seth M. Kerron. Klamath county health officer, was in Oil Christ today on a preventative health project and could not be reached tor a' statement. An excellent school program nas been carried on in Klamath Falls, It wa observed. In tht innoculation against the dread disease. Those interested here observed that the Medford cases may be the result of some single source such a milk, or an Individual carrier. Diphtheria Is a contagious disease and simple precautions may elim inate danger. Anti-toxin was being flown Into Medford for Innoculation of school children there, and the appeal to Klamath druggist was met Instantly. home. Their distraught mother, Mrs. Andrew Stebbins. ran a quarter ot a mile before she found two neigh bors to help ber right the piano. The boys were pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. the prime minister ha authority to call an election at any time. . Attlee announced that he would not advise King George to dissolve parliament this year. General elec tions In Britain are precipitated by dissolving the parliament. Precedent Attlee's announcement set a pre cedent. It is the first time a prime minister has used an official statement to say "no" to an elec tion. Ever since Britain devalued the pound from $4.03 to M 80 on Sep tember 18 there haa been a rash of predictions that Attlee might ask an early vote of confidence from tht people. 2 Die in Poker Holdup Attempt MUNCIK. Ind, Oct. 13 MV-Two men were slain and fivt others were wounded, one seriously, early today when two gunmen attempted to hold up a poker game In a downtown cigar store. The gunmen fled after firing more than a score of shots at the 10 men who, Police Chief Harry Nel son aald, were playing cards In the rear of the store. Nelson Identified the dead man as Theodora Raines, 43, a Muncle res taurant owner, snd Dtwey Wills, 64, aa unemployed laborer. Meet the People COFFEE HOUR in this country is getting as traditional at afternoon tea in England. A fellow just hos to have his coffee, as evidenced by the enjoyment of the brew on the part of Willii Robinson.
