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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1949)
mm iui GIF rpnnrmnn u Tluw w w Civ's Jews By FRANK JKNKINR TUB remnants o( tin Chinese na tlonallst government abandon Biainlmid Chln lo the reds and re tire to the fortified Island of for. muse ... In Bulgaria, thecommu nil government la trying alleged 1KA1TOKH TO COMMUNISM lid Old iunih-cU are "confessing" In the customary and to u mystifying manner ... si Lake Succesa United Nations U wrestling with the prob lem of what to do with China's membership now that the commu nist havt china lu their grip. DO, hum. Kinds dull, Isn't II? Ut a ahlfl over to Iht price of Coffee, and why. TIIE National Coffee association U kimIIii. ml Hurt Halnn 111 Tlnrlda, and quite a few of Ita mem Jarra are picking on the hotuewlfe a the villain In the coffee drama. They aay when the price bounced at began to buy by the caae In atrad ef by the ponnd. Thla buytni bulge, they allege, kited the price ul! higher. Tliry mutter In their brarda that if he II Hop hoarding the price of Java will level off. e WKL-L-L-L- - - " Market reporta tell ua thla morning that coffre piicea have STEADIED, and many storekeepers awert that coffee aalea have dropped below normal aa consumers START V8INO UP EXCKHH SUPPLIES they bouKht during the (care a few weeks ago. e TIERS Uie aearch for the villain n In the coffee plot ahtfta to Braall. Borne of our U. 8. govemment offl eiala think the nratlllana may have EXAGGERATED the effect of tlielr drouth and alarted jacking up the price of raw coffee mora than the eiluation Justified. Braatllana. you know. DONT VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS, ao He politically eafa to point the fuiger at them aa the culprit. ATI1ERS (that la to aay. other gov w ernment offlclalal at thla point put the finger on our old friend the SPECULATOR. dl aeema, ac cording to their atory, that a while bark It looked like the price of coffee might OO DOWN, ao a lot of naty tradera "sold short" (mean Ing that they contracted to deliver rnffre later at a lower price.) But the price went up. and the rush to cover" lock market language for going into the market and buying J the coffee you've contracted to de- Jrver) aent the price Booming iky. ward. "Thar. too, It- relatively aafa politically, aa everybody knowa there aren't enough "speculators" to awing elecuons.) a a . wote: I Up to date, nobody haa paid any attention to ftgurea ahowlng ware drinking about three tlmea aa much coffee aa we tued to drink back In the olden golden daya. When I waa kid In high achool wrestling with elementary economic and later on a atrtpllng In college going Ui the mat with tougher and huher-up economic, that quaint theory prevailed that prlcea were (Continued on Page Five) Bus Ambushed, Seven Killed MANILA. Deo. t M") Seven per aona. Including four children, were killed last night In a bunt of gun fire that atruck a bua near Upa City In Batangaa province. . . Responsibility for the ahootlng hay not been fixed. A Herald cor respondent who witnessed the In crow fire between constabulary men and unidentified dissidents. Conalnbulary Chief, Brig. Oen. Alberto Ramoa denied the constabu lary waa Involved. He said the bua was ambushed by political dlsst denta battling constabularymen In Batangaa province. Two Strikes End; Others Threa An mi .law - -11 ras.ee tfja-t KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER I, IMt Telephone flit Ne. tlM By The Aei"a The nation only major strike, Involving gome 17,000 workers in nine aluminum Company of America (Al cos) plants, was over today but in New York City a wage and hour dispute threatened a pre-Christmas transit slow down. Alcoa's nlno plants began opening today after a set tlement which gives Its CIO United Steclworkers wage adjustments, pensions and Insurance. The agreement, reached yesterday, provides fioo monthly minimum pensions, Including social security, and social Insurance bene, file. The atrlke began October 17. The threat lo slow down New York's transit farlllllea came from the CIO Transport Workera union. The union told the clty'a board of transportation that unless It acted "very promptly" on demands for higher wages and shorter hours there soon would be "a serious dis ruption of service." I'nlon Rebuffed Mayor William O'Dwyer. however, rejected the unlon'a demands and told the TWU not to engage In any slowdowns. John L. Lewis awaited fresh ign era after having negotiated contracta with coal operators representing an annual production of 7.340,000 tons of fuel. Most of his miners took their flrat day off under the new three day work week. Lewis ts trying to use the short work week as a lever against oper ators still holding fast against his contract demands. Operators who signed with Lewis have returned to a full five-day week. Lewi predicted "additional tonnage will sign" soon. Oak Ridge Peace At Oak Ridge, Tenn.. a four-day strike of construction workera on the government's giant atomic pro ject ended. R. W. Cook, manager of Oak Ridge operations for the atomic energy commission, said "It looks Ilka a wholesale back-to-work move ment" No official reason was given tor the walkout, which Involved about 3000 workera. It waa understood, however, that It waa In protest agauui the use of non-union work are by one contractor. . Ward, Staff Believed At Tientsin WASHINOTON. Dec. .) The state department received advices to day Indicating that Angus Ward and the American consulate group from Mukden may now be at the North China port of Tientsin. A message from the U. 8. consul general at Tientsin aald the group's special train had paxid Tangsan. Based on the timing of the mes sage, atate department officials figured the Ward party of 20 should have arrived in Tientsin about I a.m. (P8T) today. Ward, a career diplomat and the American consul general at Mukdrn, has been a virtual prisoner there for mora than a year. The Chinese reds refused repeated requests for transportation out. Fi nally they throw Ward In Jail and 'kept him there for a month on what the state department called "trumped up" charges of beating and Insulting two Chinese in a wage dispute. A "people'a court" then ordered him "expelled" from the country. - Wr lAlYATIOM ARMY ,. - - oo it IV- p. ( EVEN THE TOTS GIVE Eddit Fsrnlund, 4-year-old son of ) Mr. and Mrs, George Fernlund, Bonanza, is dropping his L contribution In the Salvation Army's Christmas kettle, Fred vSchreite'c, blind Solvation Army member, is en duty with the kettle. , , ( CIitfraiis) AiirDiifleir Cpafik-IUp 1Mb IMIddd Indians Ask Agent, Clerk Be Removed By BILL JENKINS Meeting places on the Klamath Indian reservation echoed to complaints and re quests yesterday as tribal members gathered to lay problems before William Zimmerman, assistant com missioner of Indian affairs, during his tour of the area. Biggest issue of the day was the tribal demand that R. H. .Bltney, agent, and George Bmlth. chief nerk, be transferred from their present posts. A resolu tion waa filed by the council last August asking the transfer and charging that Bltney had "failed to cooperate with the Indiana, had spent too much, had failed to turn over records on the tribal herd and bull pool and had been consistently rude to the members of the tribe." ('barge Smith waa charged, In the ssme resolution with "going out of his way to enforce regulations, thus putting Indiana to great experue and em barrassment over individual monies." Much of these same complaints were voiced at the hearings held yes terday at 8pra tie River, Bealty and ChlloQuln. ... The Chiloquln delegation, tfaa almost unanimous vote, demanded that agency employes. Bltney and Bmlth, be excluded from the meet ing. The motion waa made on the grounds that the Indiana would not speak freely In I hell presence, Bltney and Bmlth left without protest, but Zimmerman pointed out to those present that the action served no purpose. In many ways defeated their (the tribe's) alma and was not "wisely thought out." Prolesta Individual protests made at the meetings almost all centered around the question of funda and the handling of the children's money. Most Indiana expressed the belief that the curreut rules and regula tions were being too strictly en forced, that they had been outmoded by advancing times and that they could no longer live on the amount of money allotted them. They .were dissatisfied with the amount of money paid them, felt that funda ahould be available tor emergencies and that more flexibil ity ahould be allowed In the Inter pretation of the rulings. Zimmerman and Bltney replied to there charges that It la not the duty of the local agent to make the laws and regulations, only to enforce them. The rules are made by con gresa and can be changed only by an act of congress. Funds Flexibility Zimmerman expressed himself as being In favor -of certain changes In the present regulations which would bring about a more flexible (Continued on Page Five) Two Insane Escapees May Be Near Here Possibility that two escapees from the Oregon atate Insane hospital had come Into the Klamath area and possibly moved on Into California waa raised today with recovery of an automobile stolen from Salem. The two fugitives are Marlon Wat aon. ai, and Robert Melvin Burr, 33, both criminally Insane and con sidered dangerous. Four men broke away from the hospital at Salem the night of De cember 3. and two have been re captured. C" The car recovered here la a 1B3T Dodge aedan, bearing Oregon license 333-868, and waa reported stolen from Uie vicinity of the state hospi tat December 4. It waa abandoned on s aide road off the state Una road below Worden, Just inside the Ore gon border. Apparently thi car waa abandoned Sunday night or Monday. It waa brought to Klamath Falls by atate police to be examined for fingerprints in an effort to deter, mine whether Burr and Watson drove It here. Search for the fugitives haa cen tered in the Willamette valley and Portland. Officer and Captive Killed in Portland Escape Gun Battle PORTLAND, Dec. 8 (AP) A handcuffed prisoner grabbed a special patrolman's gun early today and in the ensuing struggle both men were fatally wounded. Aaron Robert Ball, 39, a special patrolman for nine years, died in a hospital. His prisoner, Louis C. Fugent, 46, surprised while prowling a tire shop on S. E. Powell boulevard, was dead on arrival at the hospital. Ball had handcuffed Fugent's arms behind his back, then turned to a telephone to call the tire shop manager. Britain Eyes Today's Vote As Key Sign BRADFORD, England. Dee. S Pi Britain watched a special election to fill a vacancy In parliament to day for signs of how the political wind may blow to the general elec tion next epruig. Voters of the South Bradford con stituency one of four in this wool en mill city of 25.000 are electing a new member of the house of com mons. The former la bonus member, M. P. Tltterlngton. died recently. ' Bread Iasoee The focal campaign bag been toughs on bread national 4sme labor versus conrereatlves with laborlte Prime Minister Clement AtUee and opposition leader Win ston Churchill both throwing their personal weight Into the battle. Just before the polls opened Att leea party sent War Minister Eman uel Shlnwell to the bleak mill town to stump for Uie socialist platform of full employment, benefits of la bor's health and social services and fair shares for alL The conserva tives sent depu'y opposition leader Anthony Eden up to attack the ris ing cost of living caused by devalu ation and speak against nationaliza tion of industry against socialism in general. The labor candidates wife, 43-year-old Mrs. Doris Craddock, died this morning shortly after the polls opened. She fell ill six daya ago while helping her husband In the campaign. This is the first election in Eng land since the government devalued the pound at the peak of a economic crisis last September. Liv ing casta have risen slightly since then. Conservatives hope the hard- pressed constituents will turn to them for a letup In austerity. Fugent, identified by Detec tive Rudolph Bouwman as a former convict with a long police record, backed up to Ball, pulled the patrolman's gun from Its noisier and fired. The men struggled through three rooms aa Ball sought to wrest the pistol from Fugent. When be final ly got It, he fired aa Fugent made a break for the door. Fugent fell mortally wounded. Ball ataggered Into the street and collapsed. Detectives said the atory of the struggle waa reconstructed from brief questioning of Ball before he died and from evidence at the scene. Police aald they believed Fugent had been associated earlier with Charles Couam, shot to -death No vember IS as he attempted to enter a veterinary hospital across the street from-' the scene of today s shooting. - - - . - . . - New Potato, Vitamin Rich SEATTLE. Dec. S P A new va riety of potato which may increase greatly the nation's supply of vita min C waa described here today. Dr. Kenneu Beeson, director of the VS. plant, soil and nutrition la boratory at Ithaca, N Y, told of its development at the laboratory. The new spud haa not been named. He said In an Interview it la suited especially for growing In the Northeastern states, but that the aame vitamin-producing; quali ties can be in-bred in potatoes In other regions. I'NMERRY CHRISTMAS LONDON, Dec. 8 W The Chris tmsses are not so merry to day. A burglar entered the flat of Mrs. Phyllis Christmas and stole 14 (39J0) she had saved to buy Christmas presents for Diana, 8, and Richard Christmas, 7. Fair Sex Fairness Women Are Here to. Sidy Forever more, Thank Heavens! By ARTHl'R EDSON WASHING TON. Dec. 8 WP What la the matter with girls? Why Is It that when girl babies are born, the average congratulator congratulates as If he really didn't mean It? And why is it that the proud father sometimes acts aa If he were embarrassed about It all? There's no reason for this. I have wound up a little research project, and can faithfully report: Women are here to stay. Right now there are 800.000 more females ta census bureau word, not mine) than males In the U. S. High Places Eight women are In the house of representatives, and a ninth will Join them In January. Margaret Chare Smith R-Me) Is a senator. And at least one other woman, Rep. Helen Qahagan Douglas tD-Callt, wants to be a senator too. Mrs. Smith has said she thinks It would be nice for the republicans to run a woman for vice president. She was too shy to mention names, but I don't think she meant Mrs. Alben W. Barkley. Women fill all sorts of lesser posts. They are truckers, glass them In Janurary. Margaret Chase blowers, cops, printers, mall car riers, tanners, a teamfltters, em balmera and Western Union (you'll excuse the expression) boys. Look where we'd be If there were ne women. Without the little dears, we would have no Mother's Day, no beauty, pageants st Atlantic City, no grass skirts, no bobby sox, no mothers-in-law. True, the picture has another aide, s brighter side. , If there were ne women, Al Jol- son couldn't sing, "Mammy!" ad vertising men would have to think of some way to peddle their beer and cigarettes besides running pic tures of cuties, and calendar makers would have to give up on that Indian lady In the canoe. Good! Still, the women are definitely with us, and I, tor one, am glad. Yet . When Margery Ann checked In 12 years ago. I was conscious of some condescending remarks. Especially from those who had spawned boys. When Evelyn arrived nine years ago. so did the Jibes. When Judith appeared four years ago, the Jibes turned to hoots. And then, over the week-end. the doctor broke the news this way: 'Well, It's another girl." (short pause). "Heh, heh!" Let him laugh. Susan was wel come. We haven't had much of a chance to get to know her, but she looks aa It she'll be a wonderful girl 14 SMOPP'iW UK tits ti.so fr Wreckage round Near Valleio VALLEJO. Calif., Dec. 8 (AP) Bodies of six adults and three children have been recovered from the wreck age of an airliner, a ground party radioed today. The radio was intercented by the Benicia police depart ment. Chief of Police Vin cent Warren of Benicia said. The ground crew said the plane had not burned but the wreckage was spread over a wide area. The California Arrow Airways plane crashed last night In hilly country shortly after a takeoff from the Oakland airport. The scene was placed at six miles from here and about two to four miles from Benicia. Ne isnliai The sheriff's branch office here aald It waa unable to confirm the number of dead but that there were no survivors. In Benicia, the rescue operations ere watched through powerful field glasses by Mrs. Elizabeth Pel tier. She telephoned he Vallejo Tunes-Herald that the ground crew drove within a mile of the wreck age. , - Passenger - At BurbecJc, Calif, the civil aero nautics board listed these passen gers aboard the plane: James S. Oarnett, pilot Meade Dillon, eo-puot. Susan Devore, atewardeas. Mrs. George Batchelor and son, Pat, Torrance. Mrs. Elsie Kimball and Infant son. Pasadena. (In Pasadena, John Morrison aald his daughter, Mrs. Marian Kimball, and two son, Leland III, I years old. and John Wesley, 1, were aboard.) A Mr. Fighey. Laguna Beach. Atom Probers Trail Russ . Shipments WASHINGTON. Dec S ( House probers are on the trail of more wartime atomic shipments to Rus sia shipments number 4 and 5. They have reason to believe per haps 500 pounds of uranium com pound reached the Reds around July of 1944. And they think they may be able to spot proof that the Rus sians got 1000 grama of heavy wa ter. The un-American activities com mittee also la trying to find out Just what former lend-lease officials William C. Moore and James P. Hoopes had to do with shipment number two back in the spring of 1943. Why? It wants to know why Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, boss of the atom bomb project, was reported to have approved the shipment when Groves said he didn't. The committee is exploring, too, an idea that the Soviets might have side-stepped the lend-lease adminis tration to get some atomic materi als elsewhere. e But xcept for some checking on Items like these by the committee staff, the latest atomic explosion on Capitol Hill apparently has Just about subsided until December 19. Moore, Hoopes, and former Vice President Henry A. Wallace may be witnesses thea Wallace Chanee Wallace will get s chance to deny under oath what Groves has already denied for him that Wallace put on pressure and overruled Groves to get atomic materials for the Sovi ets. Eallace has termed this "sheer est fsb-lcatlon." It was a radio commentator, Ful ton Lewis Jr, who said Wallace was the source of pressure. Wallace telegraphed the commit tee that "I would like to meet my traducers face-to-face before your committee at the earliest possible moment" Oroves. now retired, told the com mlttee yesterday that the late Har ry L. Hopkins, White House adviser and lend-lease expediter, didn't ap ply pressure on him either. Red Bloc Fails To Defeat U. S. Authored Plan NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (AP) The United Nations as sembly today called on all the wortd to- keep hands off China and to respect her treaties. The assembly also de cided to keep a continuing watch over the Chinese prob lemand Nationalist charges of Soviet intrusion by re ferring it to the year-round little assembly. ' The hands-off policy was initiated by the United States1 with four other powers as co- sponsors. Nationalist Chins, had urged strong action con demning Russia as an ag gressor and urging all nations to re frain from diplomatic recognition of the Chinese Communists. The Chi nese delegation, however, agreed to shunt the problem to the little as sembly after St became apparent It faced -certain defeat on Its own reso lution. - i Mar pels The quick disposition of the Chi Mori, delegates had expected the de bate to continue throughout the day. This made adjournment of the 194S assembly by tomorrow virtually certain. ' The assembly put over until to morrow Its fipal action on a committee-approved plan to make Jeru salem an International city, a pro ject that haa failed in the last two years and la opposed by the occu pying powers, Israel and Harhemlt Jordan. The assembly adjourned at U .31 a, m. after meeting only 37 min utes. It will meet again at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow when lt hopes to clear Us calendar. Ne Rasa Men ties The American plan also sponsor- ad by Australia, Mexico, Pakiataa, and the Philippines made no ape-' cifle mention of Russia. The five-power resolution waa ap proved first by a vote of 22 to 4, with S abstaining, and many of the 69 national delegations absent. Chile challenged the vote on the ground that no quorum was present. On the second ballot the proposal waa ap proved by a vote ef 46 to with no abstentions. The negative votes were cast Bf7 the Soviet bloc w r-y -': BuyCRisTMAsSrALSi 'LUCIA BRIDE' Norma Free man, 20, of Chicago wears a crown of six lighted candles ofter being chosen "American Lucia Bride" or "Queen of Light" in New York. City. She and four runners-up will. fly to Stockholm, Sweden, ' to par ticipate in the Christmas holi day Santo Lucia festival. The festival is held in honor of Lucia, a Sicilian girl who was burned at the stoke for witch craft in the year 304 A. D. TRAFFIC DEATH PORTLAND, Dec. S MV-Pedes-trian Gustav W. Leach, 79, Portland, waa Injured fatally last night when struck by s ear southeast of the city. It's Up To You, M'lady BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Dec. S (O "Bare your bosom lady, but do lt coyly." That's fashion advice from Maru sia. whose spring and summer col lection for 1950 la bosom-accented, but more subtle than the daring plunging neckline of last season. The dresses which have deep center slash, also have exaggerated collars of huge revers which may be pushed up around the throat or draped around the shoulders. In other words, you decide yourself whether to cover up or reveal, and how much. Another demure bosom-baring de vice was illustrated with the deep square decolletage. As much or more of the chest Is visible, but it doesn't have the seductive look of the vertical plunge. Two Wreck Pa, "v ' ' :N I IslsbSf- . RnedS25 Two soldiers involved in aa acci dent which injured sir. and Mrs. George C. Rice on highway 97 north late Wednesday morning, were charged with traffic violations, brought to Justice court at Chiloquln and fined S2S before going on their way to report to a Tucson, Arlxv air base. . - Arrested by state police were Pfe.. Raymond A. Pox and Pfc Harold O. Watson, both of headquarters, Seattle air base. They were drivers of two coupes, one of which at-' tempted to pass a sander on the crest of a hill, crashing into the noruiDouna nice car. In Hospital Mrs. Rice, mother of Don Rice lev hosn'ital with Injuries but her condition was reported good today. Mr. Rice, who headed Klamath Ita in fiMri mmoun here for a, lowing treatment for cuts and bruises. Kermit Sheets of Klamath Palis, whose car was following the Rice machine and plowed Into the rear, suffered a hand cut. Another sol dier, Pfc. Otto Pfeiffer. suffered minor cuts and bruise. Pfc Robert Graham was uninjured. Meet the People mmmLWWV - - " "aWaTsssssalaMSffsjaja)a ai iillniliei win iai laasew iasaBBBBBtaBBBBBBBBwaaam h.;V. I ii THE DAY'S BUSINESS started early today as the Meet the People photographer snapped Sam Neslin at the entrance of his Main street store. .
