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u
JV
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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
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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.
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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.