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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.
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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.)
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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
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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
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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.
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) 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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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.
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THE DAY'S BUSINESS started early today as the Meet the
People photographer snapped Sam Neslin at the entrance of
his Main street store. .