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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1949)
fo) nn JU fa nc Br ft'MANK JENKINS PAUL HOFFMAN, . boas o( our Marshall plan to gal Western Europe tack onto IU feet, warned the government and the peoples of Western Europe tlM other day to HHOW RKHULTS early next year In urumotliii free trade by knocking down national barrlera and erasing couplet money controls. Uooda In Uie big Wealern Euro pean market, he eaya. mint move freely acruaa the many national buundarlea like trade between Uie 4S atalea of Uie U. B. Failure to achieve economic unity, he addi. meana "disaster for nallona and poverty for penplea." J1K conclude! : t -It may be hard to get inure aid tf,'ia from the U. B. cungreM unleaa Uie' Manliall plan couiilrlee ahow more williigiirta to Join In a eingle economic unit." I rrg put It Una way; If we of Orrgon had to crua an International fronuer every lime we went to California, or Nevada, or Idaho, or Washington all of whoa bordera touch oura wouldti'l make much buaineaa progreu. When you croaa ail International frontier, all your poaaeMlona have to be overhauled and checked for tariff dullea. iAIm for pistole or bombs you might be carrying to knock oil Uie ruler of Uie country you are entering.) What happened even In Uie nurnt unrestrained dava of Uie Callfurnia "bug" atatlo i lan't a caution to what happrna when you rroaa a European International boundary. That un l all. Every time you croaa an Inter national frontier you tackle a new kind of money. Even learning to buy Uilnge with the new money la quite a chore. When to that you add a atrange language, you're apt. to be up a tree without knowing Jutt how to get down. e UERE on the Pacific Coejt to apeak of only of ONE geograph ical area of our country trade, travel, vultation all of the thlnga for which people move around move almmt aa freely aa the air. The people of one elate buy the producta of other elates with a minimum of trouble and red tape They viait back and forth without hindrance. The mult la TRADE AND COM MERCE on an uninhibited acale. WHAT Hoffman la telling Wealern Europe la that until It gala to atiiig business In aomewhat the .Vay we do It la going to be a prob lem child and Uie umt may come when we'll get tired of aolvlng lie problem and PUTTING UP THE CAHH for the eoluilona. The advice he la giving Uiaae countrlea la good advice. Vishinsky Says let's Be Friends' WASHINGTON', Nov. 8 (AI) Soviet KortMRii Mill iliter gayi Itumiia and the United State ought to lie better friendg. The honor jfuent at a glit- icnnif Miviei emiiHuiy re. ception laxt niiflit. VUhiiiAky talked informally with news men on this general theme but put hla specific observations "on uie record." Hla general line: The common feeling of RUMlan-Anierican friend ahlp haa fallen asleep but aome day It will awaken and confound the enemlea of freedom. rrlrndlr Smiling amiably. Vuhliuky ahook handa with more than a thouaand diplumau, congreiuimen, newnmen and other gurala. They Jammed the embassy fur Uie annual celebration of the anniversary of the 1917 revo lution which awept the bolshrvlau Into power In Russia. Vulmuky came from Uie United Natlona general assembly session at New York for Uie occasion. He had a private 14-minute talk with Bee retary of Slate Achraon In the aft ernoon, ahortly before Acheaon left by plane for Uie Big Three Weatern foreign minister' meetlne at Perls. 4B- I KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. raice FIVE CENT NOVKMRI.R (, 14 Telephone gill Ne. 2IU LA Man Held 's Death In Child' Kidnap LOfl ANGELES, Nov. I The aherlff'i office today detained a Loa Angelea man for questioning In the IMS kidnaping and alaylng of tx-year-old Rnchelle Olukkotrr. Lt. Vic England aald the man la Nlchnlaa Meyers, 40. and added Uiat he will be booked later today on suspicion of kidnaping and sus plrlon of murder. It would be the firm aurh booking in the history of the case. England declined to announce any ether drtalla In tha caae. The little girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Oluakoler. a baker. Waa taken from near her home Feb ruary 19, 1044. Almost two years later, on November (, 1947. her skele ton waa found In a ravine In ad Joining Orange county. The child's parents Identified the body from a signet ring and bits of ruothlng found nearby. '! te kidnaping touched off one of this area's biggest manhunts but no traces were ever uncovered. Early Yule Mailing Advised Early mailing of Chrtatmaa park-1 ages and greeting carda la advised by local poat office oil lets la as pre eeaaon mailing gela underway arroaa the country. Postmaster Burt E. Hawkins aaka that all oulgouig packages be mailed early thla year. He explained that Uie Southern Pacific rallraod haa taken off one of lis trains and also Uie air lines have reduced the number of flights out of Klam ath Falls. Thus mall shipments are double on the present departing trains and flights. This same condition Is present In other cities and the earlier Christ mas mall la sent, the more certain that deliveries will be msde. Hawklna aald Indications seemed to be that the malls will be ex tremely heavy this year. Some In structions for mailing are to pre pay postage fully on all letters and packages. Stamps may be pur chased In advance to ease walling In crowded lines. Plain and com plete addresses on carefully wrapped and tightly tied packages will Insure safe delivery. Strong, durable containers are advised. Site limits are 100 Inches on length and girth combined and 70 pounds weight for either airmail or fourth class. Christmas seals are permitted on the outside of pack ages and perishables should be plainly marked. The pent office advlaea that greet ing carda should be sent first class because they can be sealed and any message can be sent. Also fsster deliveries Is Insured tor first class mall. and Bruce Binkley. COMMUNITY CHEST assignment kits were checked at a big meeting of the small business declared it was merely a social call, envision or tne winemo notei or mia-onernoon vtonaay as workers gatnerea to receive ma Trure : teriol in the 1949 campaign. Left to right, Jeon Parker of the Chest office, Don Phelps I urn lor aoout tnree hours, the Eaat-Weat Cold War went Into a stale of suspension. Under a heroic sise oil painting of Qcnrrallastmo Stalin. Uie envoya of moat of the American and Weatern European nations which have rejected com munism chatted briefly with Vishin sky and with Soviet Ambassador Alexander 8. Panyuahkln. The ambassadors Included Brit ain s Sir Oliver Franks. Henri Bon net of France, and WUhelm Munthe da Morgenatlema of Norway, dean of the diplomatic corps. The ranking American deplomal Ic official was Jamea E. Webb, under secretary of atate. Record Shattering Dividend Declared By General Motors Chest Drive Catches Fire; Good Reports Elections Test 'Fair Deal' Today By Tha Associated Press President Truman'i "Fair Deal" program came in for a major public test today, at the hands of an estimated 5,500,000 New Yorkers voU ing on the election of a U. S. senator. : The bitter contest between Senator John Foster Dulles, republican, and former democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman far overshadowed a num ber of other contests and Issues In scattered elections across the na tion. The two men, both prominent public figures, campaigned hard to Christ Role Not For Former Nazi OBERAMMEROAU. Germany, Nor. g ii The little village of Oberammergau turned down a former nail today for the role of Christ In next year's perform ance of the world-famed Passion Play; The Judges. consclsUng of the village council, a committee of resident and Uie parish priest rejected Alois Lang, 56-year-old former nazl sympathizer, for the part. Instead they selected Anton Preislnger, a 17-year-old Inn keeper, to play Christ. Lang, who played the role of Christ In the last performance of the Passion Play in 1934 said be Joined the Nazi party to avoid persecution and financial ruin because a woman reported him for a minor violation of regu lations In the sale of a cup of coffee. The play, which attracts thou sands of Christians, Is uie result of an ancient pledge of the vil lagers after the black plague swept through Uie Alpine village In 1833. BLOODY BALLOTING MANILA, Not. S p Presi dent Elpldle Qulrine held a slight lead ever two opponents In to day's bloody election In tbe Phil ippine. (ivnllre marked the election In many areas. Twenty-two persons were reported killed and 17 wounded by nightfall. Disorders were widespread. The 65 Ml Klamath County Com munity Chest campaign Is definitely "catching on fire." Campaign Chairman Chet Hama- NEW YORK. Nov. 1 iV-One of the biggest cash dividends In ker baes this bold statement on American history will go to General Motor stockholders on Decern- I thete facts: ber 10. The first three big firms to turn It totals more than U 90.000 000 M. With other psyments already 'in reports were far ahead of IMS made thla year, lt will bruig the company a grand total of dividends production figures and one of the for 1049 to more than one-third of a billion dollars. trio still Is Incomplete. . the resl- Thia Is an all-time record for Oenrral Motors, and financial circles Identisl division held a "kick-oft" said It probably is an all-Ume record, meeting yesterday mat suu nas foe the United mi. campaign leaders gasping at its Th. mrv amino, -.h J Oikimliude, . . four districts of the whirh haB a rit vain. nf ntft TYm 1 "auKl sicuai uuuai aicrv I OC&E Strike Parley's End Seen Today Parlrya aimed at reaching a tlemenl between employes of Oregon, California and Eastern rail way and the road's management T,,u'- atock closed here yesterday before , the company announcement at sooia'i a share. The year's divi dend will be go per cent of the par value and almost 12 per cent I of yesterday's price. Stork I'p ' General Motors opened today on the Chicago atock exchange at ,171.75 a share, up tiiO. Later the stock added still more to Its quoted Chicago was the only stock should com. to an end today. ; others closlnV for eUans railway union source aald this J R,.cUon to the newt on the New morning. York stock exchange will be delayed The talks have been going on for UIU" tomorrow, since the exchange several days at me Wlllard hotel I ciuseu woay ior uie general eiec- set- the and what is expected to be the final one was underway today. Director James M. Holoran of Washington. D. C. a railway mediator. Is han dling Uie meetings between officers of Uie order of railway conductors and I. E. Manlon, president of OCA.-E. Manlon Is general mansger of the Orrat Northern with offices In Seattle, and ON currently oper ates the 65-mtie OC&E. The road's conductors and brake men were on strike for over a month recently, from the latter part of 8rptrmbrr to early In October when the employes went bark to work to submit the strike Issues to mediation. O. W. Lange of the order of rail may conductors snld he thought the point of friction between the work ers and the carrier would be sat isfactorily settled today. tlon. lngs within the past several days. First Montgomery Ward and company was the first firm in the commer cial division to ring the campaign bell. Chet Morris handled employe solicitation and produced more than three times as much from his fel low workers In the store than ever in history. He credited a payroll-de-d'xUon plan for employes with the amazing production record. Estin Kiger. committee worker In the public service division, went to town with his own firm this year and the result was that Superior Troy Laundry more than doubled last year's giving and went far over 100 per cent of Uie firm's quota. Klamath Ice and Storage compa- ! fill out the unexpired term of former j Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-NYi I a "new deal" stalwart who resigned : because of 111 health last July. Got. Thomas E. Dewey appointed Dulles to serve until the election. Head liners Wagner's term will expire In Jan I uary. 1951. Ordinarily a race for such a short term would excite ' little public Interest. But the sta ture of the two candidates plus their clear-cut definition of Issues has projected the scrap into a pre 1 view of the 19S0 campaign where ;the control of congress will be at ttak There also will be Inevitable com parisons with 194a. when republican : Dewey carried New Jfork in. his ; losing presldaoUAtottunDalgn agaioat Truman. I Lehman, 71. embraced the "fair deal" for his campaign and stumped vigorously for Truman's program. I 'Fair Deal' Hit ! Dulles. 10 years Lehman's Junior, has hammered awav hotly at Tru imsn's domestic policies. Observers predicted that 5.500.000 I of the 6300.000 eligible voters would go to the polls. The election for I mayor In New York city, where a NEW YORK, Nov. t OPi Cot. Thomas E. Dewey, asked for his forecast an the outcome ef the New York state elecUon when he arrived from Albany to vote to day, replied: "I never make any predictions any more. Signs Point To Indian Summer's End 8 now whitened Hogback and 8tukel mountain above Klamath Falls during Uie night and towns people shivered In a minimum of 39 degrees at 11 o'clock this atornlng. . Minimum this morning waa 36 de grees at a. m. bu Uie mercury raised but slightly during the fol lowing hours. The barometer was falling slightly before 12 o'clock noon and lt looked like an end to a beautiful Indian summer. Cloudy today and Wed-1 nesday with light rain tonight and -occasional showers Wednesday, was Uie weatherman's forecast. Only sa Inches of ram fell within the past 24 hours but it has been such a long, dry season that the small amount of moisture appeared to Klamath folks to be much more than lt was. Gardens were damp ened and lawns wet down by Uie late Monday afternoon ram. Four inches of new anow fell on Uie Willamette pasa according to the Oregon atate . highway department i but travel was going through witn- out difficulty and packed snow spots were w ell sanded -by highway crews early this morning. 70,000 Idle Affected By New Pacts 'PITTSBURGH, Nor. (AP) Repumlic Steel and the CIO United Steelworker todar signed a pension and insurance agreement which i ended a 39-day old strike of 45,000 union employes ; against the nation's third I largest steel producer. The agreement provides: . Insurance R e p n b 1 1 c's ; present contributory insur ance plan is continued but ' with Increased benefits. Employes 1 will continue to pay three and one : half cents per hour and the com ' pany will pay two and one-half ; cents per hour. i Pension The plan Is an exact , replica of the Bethlehem agreement.' Setup Employes reaching the age of j who have 25 years' service will re ceive a minimum pension of I10O I a month Including social security. . Emnlovea 65 ven nM with is a years' service will receive propos- uuuaiw pensions. The agreement was signed by CIO and Steelworkers' President Philip) Murray and by E. J. Magee. actinf director of Republic Industrial rela tions. W " LttS MAKING PLANS FOR VISITING DAY at Folrhovtn, th. student council at Fairhaven has been active this week, American Education week. From left to right the council is Frankie Foganello, Ann Kimsey, Ted Turner, Laura Taylor, Ceraldine Loomis. Donna Lee Mahan. orvin jpoiairvg, svtyrna Leitike ana uanna l Burke. The San Francisco exchange still I nT itn AndT Collier sinking in the was open, however, when word of Uie announcement hit the tickers yesterday. The price shot up Imme diately $2.82', a share to 71.7i The new dividend will be paid to $ocki holders of record November 17, and spurs, turned In well over 100 per cent of the company goal and Klam ath Ice employes were not Included in the partial report. Women Rally Mrs. J. W. Pincicrr and Mrs. Oregon W"',.be i4 ?S V" 'r common j George H. Clark, co-chairmen of Uie amen, rreierrea siorxnoioers will get regular dividends. Earnings Zoomed The huge dividend comes from record-breaking earnings recently reported by Uie company. Sales for the first nine months this year to uted 14.158.000.000 (Bi. well over a billion dollars more than the com parable IMS figure of t3.43S.000.000 IB. The net profit for the first nine months of this year was $502, 000,000 (Mi, compared to 327, 000.000 tor the same period last vear. This year's total dividend will be t351.664.OO0. . State Jobless Record High At Post War SALEM. Nov. S i Oregon now has 45,100 men out of work, which la the worst November total since pre-war days. The total Is 64 per cent more than year ago. and state unemploy ment compensation officials feared this winter's total might eoual th of last winter, when 1.000 were out i of work. Willamette Bad Nine thousand men were mAMmA ! to Uie jobless rolls during October, am' halt of them were In tha Wil lamette valley area from Eugene to Orrgon City. . The unemployment commission blames the Increasing unemploy ment on slackening activity In lum ber and logging, food harvesting and processing, and construction. Increasing unemployment waa re ported from all of the cltlea except Bend and Baker. Biggest Increase During October, the Marlon-Polk county area had the biggest In crease In Jobless, from 1500 to 3750. The Eugene office waa almost as bad. It reported 4060 out of work. residential division of the appeal, proved In no uncertain terms yes terday that the women of Klamath Falls are going to accept nothing short of complete success in the (65.541 community chest drive this year. At least 200 women volunteer members of the division Jammed their way into the Wlnema hotel for Uie kick-off session and uie women Immediately began their door bell ringing tactics. County Chairman Breithaupt has held four meetings with the various dl'tricts Into which the county has been divided this year. Randall Pope and his Merrill cohorts. Ivan Ottoman and the Matin workers. Bill Lorens and Chiloquln cam paigners, and Mrs. Jerry Sisemore and Fort Klamath solicitors have already held kick-off meetings and Emtl Wells will meet with Poe val ler volunteers at 7 o'clock this eve ning at his residence. Fine Spirit Breithaupt says that he is meet ing with a fine spirit throughout the county and predicts that he and his volunteer solicitors should have no real trouble In securing Uie til. 500 county quota. Judge J. A. Mahoney and the members of his small business di (ConUnued on Page 2i Bang- Shooting Hours November I Open: t:il a.m. t'loaei 1:44 pja. hot three-cornered race took place, and Albany. Binghamton, Buffalo Syracuse and Utica were expected t" contribute to the surge of voters. In the New York citv contest William CDwyer. the democratic incumbent, had Uie backing of Pres ident Truman. O'Dwyer predicted victory but so did his two ma tor opponents. Newbold Morris, the re publican liberal fusion candidate. and Rep. Vlto Marcantonio, Amer ican labor party. New Jersey, another state that went republican In 1948. was Uie arena for a statewide battle pre dicted In advance to be close. The fight was between republican Gov. Alfred E. DriscoU and democratic State Senator Elmer H. Wene for a four-year term as the state's chief execuUve. The only other gubernatorial con test has attracted little out-state Interest. Virginia voters are regarded as certain to name democratic State Senator John S. BatUe over repub lican Walte Johnson. In California On the Pacific coast, Cailfornians In the 5th district (San Francisco) have a three-way race. John F. Shelley, democrat and president of the California Federation of Labor (aFL) has the advantage of the heavy democratic registration. He Is opposed by Attorney Floyd J. Cosgrove. republican, and Charles R. Garry, another democrat who ran on Uie Wallace progressive Ucket last year. Czechs Free U.S. Official LONDON. Nov. g W Samuel Meryn of the U. S. embassy, ac cused of spying In Prague, has been freed from prison and ordered out of the country, the official Ciecho slovak newt agency reported to night. Meryn was arrested October 21 by Czech security police. I The Czech news agency Ceteka, I In a broadcast from Prague, said I Meryn had asked the president of I the republic "to be released from I prison by way of pardon." '0' Blasted; OSC, Suspect EUGENE. Nov S (V-The Ore gon "O" has been partially blasted from Its legendary place atop Skin ner's butte, but lt will soon be completely restored. Art Johnson. University ef Oregon student body president, said that plans have not been formed as yet for restoration of Uie concrete school letter, since the damage was not extensive. However, he promised that Uie "New O" will be "better than ever." Police partols made a three-hour starch of Uie northern portion of the city early Sunday following a 5 a. m. explosion that awakened residents throughout the city. A section of the lower right corner of the "O" had been demolished by dynamite, leaving a gap about four feet long in the 25-foot high letter. The only clue that might Indicate those responsible for Uie vandalism was a new layer of wet paint on portions of the "O." The paint, the police reported. Is an orange color, and so applied that it forms an "OSC legend. Agreement was reached in one hour and lS-mlnute session In Mur ray's office. Another Signer Earlier today the union signed an agreement with the nation's No. 4 producer. Jones At La ug hi In Steel corporation. That settlement, too. was In line with the Bethlehem Steel pact. It ended, the strike of 25X100 workers. Vice President Thomas F. Patton of Republic who is also the firm s general counsel, said the RepubHe agreement Is effective at S pm. EST today. Republic Steel, with a total ot about 75.000 employes, said approx lmately 2000 employes will be eli gible for retirement on January L, aitnougn retirement will not be compulsory. Third Agreement The agreement, third to be signed I among the country's largest steel producers, makes provision for pen sions above the lira a month min imum. tf . , . .. , , : Those payments are computed by taking I per cent of an employe' average annual earnings for the ten years preceding retirement and mul tiplying that by the number of years of continuous service with tha company. Lewis Cancels Coal Union Policy Meet CHICAGO, Nov. 8 (A?i John L. Lewis abruptly called off today's meeting with his United Mine Workers policy committee without explanation. The union chief sent word to the committee that he is "engaged" and that he will not be able to meet with Uie 200-man group until 10 am. tomorrow. A meeting had been scheduled tor 3:30 pjn. today. Speculation Lewis did not say with what he is engaged but there was specula tion that he might be seeking sep arate meetings with Individual em ployers. His proposal that Gov. Adlai Stev enson sponsor a conference of Illi nois coal operators and the union was rejected by the Illinois governor. BULLETIN SHOTTON SIGNED BROOKLYN. Nov. t Oft Burt (Barney) Shotton, who led Brook lyn U a pennant but lost the World 8 cries to the New York Yankee laat season, waa reap pointed Manager at the Dodger today. Meet1 the People aaj t . k ill? 1 COLD WEATHER this morning made people heat conscious and Charles Shotwell is busy making winter installations ot the heating plont.
