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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1949)
J ro) (ft Is n Is fo) JD TO LA A uTbu Dart Sews Br riUNK JKNRINH QUR BUI Secretary Achraou, talk tills morning lo the reporters In Wuhiiiuin, declines lo io Into any detail on the recent meeting in Pari of the foreign eccretarlee of Hrltatn. France mid the U. B. but 'emphasises" Hut complete urn nirnt lu reached on Urrman urob Irnu. ' Me added Hint he waa "greatly lniprawrd by tlia progrese Western Oermany U making In lla political reconstruction." DltlTAlN a Forelgu Secretary Bavin talka a llttla mora freely in Lon don, where ha talla an audienra that at Pari the Bit ThrM tUJJ.. BrIUIn. Franca) "dealt with probably ona of , (ha biggest questions of all tha In t ration of Oermany Into Western riviliiallon.'' Ha added: -Wa can only hep that tha result of these discussions will be THE BE pINNINO OP THE ENDINO OP 'l ME AOE-l-ONO PEOD BETWEEN THE PKENCH AND GERMANS." THAT would D something. Por eight or ten eenturle tha Oalllc and tha Teutonic tribe buh whackrd each other all over what wa now call Western Europe. Their wara In theaa long, long yeara Were waged much In tha manner of our Ameri can Indiana. We hava no direct record that Oielr war partlea took acalna In their forays back and forth, but they practiced about all lh other brulallllra known lo uvage warfare. The gut of It waa that they kept Europe In an uproar, with nobody on either aide ever knowing how long ha waa going to live. THEN alowly. very alowly. what optimist have called "clvlllsa tlon" succeeded aavagery In the parte of Europe Inhabited by the Teutona and the Oaula. Peudal lord took the place of tribal chleftalna. Peudal caallea aroaa where rude tribal hut had atood. But lh bush-whacking went on. Por centurle and centuries. At the beginning of the ISOOa Napoleon completely walloped Prus ala. which by then had become the nvarlord of the other Oerman autea. He rubbed the noaea of the proud Pruaalana humillaUngly Into tha mud and for a while i quite a long whllet It looked like Germany waa kaput. a T UT Napoleon ran hla meteoric course, cvtung craxler and eraater aa ha won battle after battle, war after war. and eventually hla career waa ended at Waterloo. Meanwhile, the German had been traveling the come-back traiL In iari iht larkle rrtnM aeeln and rubbed lh Prench noaea Into tht mud even more humiltaungiy man their own noaea had been rubbed three-quartera of a century earlier. That waa the time they took Alsace and Lorraine, and you know what followed that. TAME then, aa a consequence of vrhat hari inn before. World War I. THAT TIME WE GOT DRAGGED IN. With our help, tha French walloped the Oermana. Tha Germane ataied a Quicker come-back than before, and hell popped again In l:t. And again we were dragged In. once more, witn our help, the Germane were wal loped. Out of It came communist Russia and a worse mem than ever. PHE Prench and the Oermana have hn lh Hatflelds and the Mc Coy of Europe. Between them, they have ahed enougn numan oiooa to etaln the water of all ine aeven ae. t ma mil. AihMAii uarriedlv and cautiously and Britain Bevln some- what more boldly hint, tneir iruaing MiiM H hmiwht to an end. the i future of the world would be a LOT . tighter. (And the Prench and the Oermana. not to mention u. would be a lot nippier.) Ching Hands Coal Issue To Truman WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (AP) Federal Mediation Chief Cyrug S. Chlnir todav turned the deadlocked ronl (Maputo over to the White House) for action. Chink reported to John R. Steelmnn, Tregidcnt Tru man annuitant, that further attempt to get union leader John L. Lewla and coal operator! Into an agreement remd useless. After wring Hteelman at tha While House ha told reporter: "It la our conaldrred Judgment that further mediation at thla time would be fruitless." Chlng aald ha waa filing a writ ten report covering the coal cim with Prealdent Truman thla after noon. aneallona He aald It would not contain any recommended e o u r a a for White Home action but would Include a number of auggeatlona on what can be done. Theaa auggMllon were reported to Include establishment by Truman of a fact-finding board ouuide the y Taft-Hartley law with power to recommend tetliemrnt term. Another ugietlon wa reported to be ue of the Taft-Hartley law national emergencw provuiona, In cluding a court Injunction to bar a new coal ulrlke. The White Houne, however, ap peared willing to give Lewla the rrt of thli week to accept a fact-finding board like the one which helped aettle the tlrel strike. Electrical Left-Ri War Hotter PITTSBURGH, Nov. 16 P) The battle for the fuirds and member ehlp of tha united Electrical Work ers union, recently tossed out of the CIO, grew hotter and hotter today. Tha struggle waa pointed up by new court testa and by two direct appeals to the national labor rela tions board. One petition, filed by labor's new est organization, the CIO Interna tional Union of Electrical Workers, e ailed for collective bargaining elections at all major electrical manufacturing firms. Challenge It was a direct challenge to the left wing forces of the UE, who hava refused to admit the right of any local by no matter how large a membership vote, to secede from the parent group. They claim this would be a violation of the UE con stitution. Right wingers by the thousands, In a doscn states, hava voted for accession. In most cases they have Instituted oourt action to selr.e local funds or art defending similar suit brought by left winger. Second Chest Report Due , Thursday Noon Hundreds of Klamath County Community Chest volunteer workers today were on the trail of 666.541 aa they rounded up contributions for their second report meeting which will be held at noon Thursday at tha Wlnema hotel. After posting 10.05. or M per cent of their goal, on the big prog ress Indicator boards last Monday, workera throughout the county claimed they would not be aallifled with anything short of well over U per cent of their total goal at the meeting tomorrow. 'Hard Hitlers' Committee members art striving to get a many of their assigned firm a possible Into the ranks of Community Chest "Hard Hitters" and "Ooal Busters" and Oeneral Chairman Chrt Hamaker praised their effort and declared that suc cess In the appeal this year "lit erally hinges on the number of firms who manage to raise their production records." Hamaker pointed out that the I9S.M1 goal thla year is considerably more than waa raised In the un successful campaign last year and added that the goal must be rea lised If the 23 participating agen cies are to continue to serve the county without loss of efficiency. Aided I'nlla Agenclea which will share In the 65.541 goal Include the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts. Camp Plre Girls, Sal vation Army. YMCA. Klamath Palls Teen-age club. Chlloquln Teen-age club, Merrill Teen-age club and the It health, welfare and child - care agencies of the Oregon Slate Chest. Mrs. Hadley's Friends See Trousseau ST. LOUIS. Nov. 18 (IP) Mrs. Carleton 8. Hadley put her well guarded wedding trousseau up for Inspection today but only for a few of her friends, women with whom she used to work. The groom. Vice President Alben W. Berkley, at 111 hadn't arrived and a friend aald only Mrs. Hadley knew when he would. The women are from Washington university and the headquarters of fices of the Wabash railroad. Mrs. Hadley was a secretary to the chan cellor of the university and later to the general counsel of the railroad. Otherwise, Mrs. Hadley was busy opening gift, having fittings with dressmakers, and with other last minute preparations. She's going to a hairdresser tomorrow. She has forbidden photographs of the actual ceremony Friday morn ing. Only 34 guest and a handful of newspaper and radio reporters will be Inside the chapel of St. John Methodist church. Television cameras and newspa per photographers will be outside viewing the party aa It arrives and leaves. Wreck Victims Little Better Pour accident victims, reported In critical condition, showed some slight Improvement at Klamath Val ley hospital today. They are: James Floyd Barrett of Stewart-Lennox addition, suffering from a gunshot wound, George Kern of Eugene. Injured when thrown from a car near Williamson river bridge, Mrs. Edith Cole and her 9-year-old grandson, Edward, both or Chlloquln, Injured In a crash last Prlr Ptvo Cent II Page vara. J KL n&A&' OKF.CiON, WEDN'EHDAY, NOVEMBKtt If, 1M Telephone till No. 213i im Foir Child .... .... Truman OEC's $20,375,400 In Home Loans WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (AP) President Truman launched the public housing projrram today by approving loans tot,alin(r $20,375,400 to 108 cities for the planning of low-rent homes for a half-million persons. The loan -will finance) th surveys and planning for 134,500 dwelling in 27 state, Puerto Rico, and Wash ington, D. C. Truman's action was announced by John Taylor Egan, commissioner of the public housing administration. Ejran said loan contracts will be signed as rapidly aa possiuie wun we local hous-- mg authorities. The loans. - .f - T J - -r a,U. I,,, . T ' a-jL---.-'---: - .... . r j. 'irt" ' ,'t r -Vf, - A WINTER IN THE SOUTH is in store for these cattle shown here on their way to the load ing pens in Chiloquin. About 1400 head of cows were driven into Chiloquin from Fort Klamoth yesterdoy by the Hawkins Cottle company and J. C. Armstrong for shipment to Cilroy, Coiif., to winter. The cattle will fill about 40 railroad cars of which about 25 or more will be Hawkins stock. The bunch of cattle shown here were pictured just after thev had crossed the railroad tracks on the road into town. The Chiloquin railroad station is just out of sight on the left of the picture. The cattle were brought in in three different herds, one behind the other. ' . i, ' .-. Dog Dozt Humiliated Pooches Decked Out in Paris Frocks, Coats NEW YORK. Nov. IS lP The iwank Hotel Pierre opened its doors lo a doc show today about the doggiest dog show. In fact, that any body ever dreamed of. Among those present: A Welsh terrier wearing a coat from Paris, with a little white handkerchief peeling from the pocket. A boxer wearing a red raincoat with a hood, and waterproof leather boot to match. An afghan (name of "Jitter bug") wearing a green peaked hat with a bird ye, a complete bird on It, to say nothing of an em erald green coat with a deep fringe. Some 250 women, mostly from the social rrgister, plunked down $3.25 each for a bite of lunch and a close-up virw of these and as sorted other canine specimen. Well Spent' And Mrs. Olga Hone Rogers, president of Dogs, Incorporated, and chief - rounder - up of four - legged fashion models for the occasion, said their money was well spent. "This." she said, "la easily the greatest collection of champions ever seen outatde of a regular dog show. i "Every dog la a champion. In ternationally famous." The show It for the benefit of the New York Tuberculosis and Health assoclaUon. Doubtful Mrs. Rogers said, "do tile dogs like It? Mister, they love 111 You ran Just hear the lovely, dumb things saying, 'Isn't this fun? Look what they've put on me nowT" Blue Bloods' Shirts Last Four Years IPSWICH. England, Nov. Id tTt How long do blue-blooded English earls wear their shirts. Lord Cranbrnok told fellow-member of East Suffolk Standing com mittee his shirt lasted four years "but by that time most of the tall has been cut away to provide new collars." The commit Ire, which also In cludes a baron, baronet and two knight, wa considering how long local policemen should wear official Issue shirts bfifore the garment were classed aa In "a worn condi tion." Their decision: three years. Plain white rhlrt of average qual ity cost 4 lfll.20l in London's haberdasheries. BOND IUSt'E OK'd MILWAUKEE, Nov. 16 (Pi Voters In a special election here yesterday approved a charter revision per mitting a $200,000 general tax bond Issue. The fundi are for a aewage disposal plant and system. Frost Didn't Bootleg, Jury Decides . A 15-mlnute discussion by Jurors hearing the bootlegging trial of Rus sell Frost, 24. resulted In a not guilty verdict In circuit court yes terday afternoon. The Jury vote was unanimous on the first ballot in a whirlwind fin ish to the trial. The prosecution had rested It case yesterday mld-mornlng after presenting evidence Indicating Frost, a white man living on the Klamath Indian reservation at Beat ty. had made heavy purchases of whiskey at the state liquor store during the early months of this year. Charge Frost waa accused of selling a bottle of Cream of Kentucky whis key to 18-year-old Sim Riddle Jr. at Beatty May 30. Several defense witnesses were called, but only the defendant. Frost, was on the stand more than a few minutes. The youth denied making any sale to Riddle and de nied selling any of the liquor he boiiRht from the state store. He declared he waa In Klamath Falls at a movie at the time Rid dle said he made the liquor pur chase. Other defense witnesses tes tified young Riddle was In Chilo quin not Beatty on the afternoon of the day In question. Short Defense Defense testimony took less than two hours and both District Attor ney D. E. Van Vactor and Defense Attorney E. E. Drlscoll passed up their closing argument. The trial was presided over by Circuit Judge Edward H. Howell of John Day, recently appointed to the bench and rather Jittery In that the trial wa his first to conduct. After the trial Howell waa assured by the competing attorneys he had passed hla first teat with aplomb. Experience Judge Howell aald he waa glad to get the assignment of a trial here before making his debut at home, particularly since his first business at John Day may be a first de gree murder trial pending there. HowH la 34 yeara old and the youngest Judge on the circuit bench In the state. Commies Seek Nationalists' U.N. Position LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 16 f The new Chinese Communist regime In China has challenged the right to keep their seat In the United Na tion. The announcement yesterday ap parently was the first step by Mao Tze-tung's Red "People's govern ment" aimed at taking over the big power membership In the U. N. held by the retreating Chinese National ists. 'No Right' A Communist broadcast from Pelplng announced that the Mao Tae-tung government was sending a message to U. N. Assembly Pres ident Carlos P. Romulo declaring that Nationalist delegates have "no right to speak for the Chinese peo ple In the United Nations organiza tion." . While no formal demand wa made for ousting China's present delegation headed by Dr. T. F. Tsl ang. the Peiping broadcast said the Central Peoples government re pudiates the legal status of the Na tionalist delegation. Informed of the report. Tsiang said: "I will pay no attention to this." V. 8. Support The United States immediately re affirmed it support of the Nation alist delegation's right to sit in the U. N. The matter of Chinese representa tion la of importance to all dele gations. China Is a permanent mem ber of the security council and as such has the veto power. If the Communists ultimately succeed In ousting the Nationalist on this di plomatic front. It I assumed the Soviet debating position In the se curity council would be strengthen ed but the customary Western-led majority would not be affected. However, a Communist China dele gate might use the veto alternately with Russia. LA Killer Sought In Mexico l-OS AVr.El.Ff5. Vnv. in (AP) An international I manhunt waa nn tnrlav fnr a 66-year-old retired baker wanted for questioning in the brutal slaying of six-year-old Linda Joyce Glucoft. An autopsy, meanwhile disclosed details of the vicious brutality of the attack. The mutilated blanket-wrapped body of the Utile girl was found early yesterday buried under rubbish in the backyard of a neighbor's house where she wa last seen alive. In that house lived Fred 8 treble. 66. retired baker, at large in another child molestation case. Strobie, a police broadcast said. "1 believed to hare murdered" Linda Joyce. In Mexiee? A bus driver told police he drove a man resembling Strobie across the Mexican border. Police there launched a search for him. Officers at San Bernardino. 60 miles east of here, hunted for a man a Bartender identified as Strobie from newspictures and a mutilated finger. The man was re ported to have left a bus upon its arrival from Las AnW The child had been strangled by a man tie and her body hacked with an axe and stabbed by a ice pick, or similar., huwinnent. . Strangled Dr. Frederick D. Newbarr, county autopsy surgeon, said death . was caused by asphyxia from strangula tion. He found three sub wounds. two Of Which nenetrnteri th limoc ' Dr. Newbarr believes they were In flicted while the girl wa dying. Twelve slashes in her head pre sumably were made by a bloody axe ! found at the scene. One severed her j spinal cord. Dr. Newbarr said all were delivered after the girt was I dead. The surgeon found evidence j that she had fought back. Strands I of hair were in her Jagged finger nails. While Det. Sgu Bill Brennan said that all evidence pointed to rape, Dr. Newbarr said he fnnnrf nn sexual attack on the child. How I ever, he said microscopic test will be made to determine this. 'La orbing' Linda Joyce had been missing since Monday afternoon when she ran laughing out to play. Police believe she had gone to the home where 8troble was staying to play with his grandchild, Rochelle Haus man, six. Rochelle backyard, with its swings and teeter-totters, wa a neighborhood mecca for kids. But Rochelle and her mother, Mrs. Sylvia Hausman, were not home. Strobie was alone in the house. He was gone when they returned. t Strobie had been at the home of his son-in-law, Reuben Hausman, onl ya week. He had Jumped 1500 bail May 11 when due for trial on a moral charge involving a 10-year-old girl in suburban Highland Park. Strobie wife is In a mental institution. Search Hotter Search was intensified In Mexico as Strobie was known to have visited Tijuana recently and had friend there. Mrs. Olucoft. who had not known Strobie' police record, told police "he played with her, but he was so sweet and kind to her. He liked to give her candy." Police desciiber Strobie a five feet, five and a half Inches tall, weighing 140 pounds, with gray hair, brown eyes and ruddy com plexion. There was a cleft In his left Index finger. He waa dressed in a blue gray ault and brown shoes. the first to be made under the long-range housing act approved this summer, are preliminary to later financing ar rangements which will permit the start of construction. 2-Year Span The housing development launch ed today are to oe undertaken with In the next two year. Funds have oeen reserved for an other 100 local authorities which In tend to take part in the first two yeara of the public bousing pro gram. The legislation provides for about 810.000 units over the next six year. Chicago First Chicago led the list of cities with 21.000 dwellings proposed. New York was second with 20.300, but New York's preliminary loan amount to I2.1S0.000. considerably higher than the $720,000 approved for planning in Chicago. Other sizeable approvals Include Los Angeles. 10.000 dwellings: New Orleans 5000; Baltimore 6000; Pitta burgh 5000: Washington D.C. 4000; Norfolk 3000: and Newark 3500. "Approval of these loans mean that these local housing authorities may now take the first concrete steps toward building good new homes for low income families," Egan' statement said. Lean Limits The size of the preliminary loan is limited by the number of dwell ing unit allotted to the locality. The present authorizations average .about $151 for each dwelling. When the final federal-aid con tract are signed, they will specify the amount of the development loan and the annual federal subsi dies required to provide low rents tor the families occupying the com pleted project. Errol Flynn Engaged LONDON. Nov. It iPi Film star Errol Flynn Is engaged to marry Romanian Princess Irene Ohlca. friends of the couple said today. The 20-year-old princess, slender and brownhalrrd, la the daughter of the late Prince Jean Ohlca who was killed In a plane crash 12 yeara ago. She lives in Pari with her mother, Mrs. Ebl Donescu, who has since remarried. The couple met about six months ago In Pari through mutual friends while twice divorced Flynn wa on holiday. Guam Battens Down in Path Of Typhoon GUAM. Nov. 16 lPI This Ameri can base in the Pacific battened down today for a monstrous ty phoon with 150-mile winds which is roaring up from the southeast. Weather reconnaissance planes said the center of the typhoon, with 360-mile radius, was expected to hit' Guam Friday. Sixty-mile winds are expected to howl across the Is land tomorrow afternoon. Shut-Down Island activities were practically shut down. Schools closed. Island er: prepared to take to the moun tain caves. Pan-American flight were can celled. Marine, navy and air force planes left for Iwo Jima, Wake, Kwajalein and Manila. Cot were set up In the naval gov ernment headquarters building, which will become a typhoon shelter. US Protests Nationalist; CommieActs WASHINGTON,' Nov. 16 (AP) The United States is protesting to the Chinese Na tionalist government against a Chinese warship's firing on an American merchant ves sel. Secretary of State Achesort told a news conference today that an immediate protest is being made against this endanger ing of American live. Acheson also declared that Chi nese Communist treatment of American Consul General Angus Ward at Mukden presently remove any possibility of considering rec ognition of the Chinese Communist government. He said some progress la being made In efforts to obtain the release of two ECA officials held h. rh Communist regime In Northern Korea. Russia In response to an Amer ican request la taking up the mat ter with the Korean Communist authorities. Acheson said. Acheson discussed the Far East-'' ern situation after first sumnwu- uig ms meeting in Paris last week with the British and French foreign ministers and hi subsequent trip to Germany. Main Interest The far Eastern issue dominated the question and answers' . which followed hi prepared statements. There wa the case of the "Flying Cloud." the Isbrandtsen Steamship company's vessel fired on. and re portedly hit several times, by a Chi nese Nationalist warship. The Chi nese Nationalists have declared blockade of Communist-held China ports, but the United States haa re fused to recognize the blockade. City's Carriers Strike Stopped WILMINGTON. Del, Nov. 16 oP A strike today halted the Wilming ton transit system, leaving Dela ware's largest city without buses and trackless trolleys. The walkout hour was 3:50 a. m. Actually the stoppage started some time earlier when the last "owl" bus wa garaged. On strike were nearly 300 operat ing and maintenance employes of the Delaware Coach company, which said Its daily fares average 110,000 riders. The stoppage was called by divi sion S42, Amalgamated Street, Electric and Motor Coach Employe (AFL) after It members voted 260 to S to reject the company's offer of a f 1 v e-cents-an-hour wage Increase. Big Port Hope In Newport NEWPORT. Ore.. Nov. 16 (JPi Newport thinks It soon will became an important shipping point, ful filling a dream of a half century ago. Officials of the Yaquina Bay Dock and Dredge company reported to day that numerous Inquiries from valley shippers held promise of a definite shipping role for the new ly unproved port. Dredging and construction of a pier opened Yaquina bay to ocean going vessels. The first one, the Norwegian freighter Falkanger, put In hen Sunday. That, It It hoped, will be the forerunner of many. Meet the People -tr - V ; . I .a " 1 ti,!'l T.) SERVICE STATION people meet a lot of folks, including th Meet the People photographer. Thi introduces Wally NoroV wall, a Main street service station employe. 1' 1,
