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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1949)
IP fo) WIT la fo) in rul A 1 1ii.TI Cay's s Br FUANK JKNKINS PHIS oi comra from Buenos Aim (capital of Argentina): "An a mat warrant waa out today fur Allllo Callaneo, ousted member cf the Argentine chamber of drpu tiM and on of PreMdent Juan U. Feron'i moat outspoken critics." WHAT'S It all about? Well. In " Ilk this: Cettaneo got up on th floor of tha Argentina parliament and made the aUtement that Prroldenl-DlrU-tor Peron has mad himself KICII IN OFFICE. Catlanco la a mem ber of tha parliament. Aa luch, he has Immunity from arretl. ft Mr I hi,. tv, t CCS lilf Price Five Cents 14, Fsgr KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, TIEBDAY. DECEMBER IS, 14 Telrphane Sill Ne, J1S5 j - : r i g i iL III By a vole of (6 to 1, they EX- TELLKD HIM FROM PARLIA- HKNT VEHTERDAY. That cooks Immunlly goose. Now they're areklng him with warrant on rhargea of ahowlng d Urn pert to the dictator) president and he'a run Din for cover to aava hla akin. ill la reported to have got eafrly xer tha border Into Uruguay, an adjoining country.) yHAT of lt Oh. Ill Just another esse of what happen! when too murh power getj Into too few handa and remalna there too long. BND Ulll on la from Cludad Tru " Jlllo, In the Dominican Republic, down In the Went Indira: "A pedal congressional rommlt tre today Hurtled drmanda by Prea ldent Rafael Trullllo tor authority to DECLARE WAR on any country harboring thoae Pl-OTTINQ TO OVERTHROW HIM ." JIOW about that? Well.TruJIIlo (pronounced Tru-tie-yo) la prealdent of the half an Inland that la the Dominican Repub lic He claims that Cuba and Guatemala have aided revolutionary rnnaplratnra who want to Invade the Dominican Republic and take over the government which would In volve throwing Trullllo out of office. Bo he wants power to declare war on Cuba and Guatemala or any other country that might harbor malcontents seeking to depot him, TruJIUo, as prealdent. BOAIN, I'd say, It's a raie of too much power placed In too few handa. If Trullllo should Hart at tacking Cuba (a big Island dose at hand) and Guatemala (clear over In Central America) It would create a kit of ruckua In the Western Hrmis there which already has plenty. When you start putting too much power In too few hands, you never know where It all will end. pOR that matter, when you start a war FOR ANY REASON you never know where It all will end. Japan started a war against us at Pearl Harbor, and we promptly de clared war against Japan and for good measure we declared war aealnst Oermany at the same time. We fought them and licked them both. Now me have Russia on our necks ' enf It looks like JAPAN AND OER MANY WILL TURN OUT TO BE T HE BEST FR TENDS WE HAVE IN OUR IMPENDING BTRUOOLI WITH RUSSIA. It's a strange world. rfe? n MOUNTAINS OF PACKAGES Claude T. Shoup, Klamath Kalli Doslal clerk, sort! package! received Monday at the parcel post window as early Christmas mailing begins. Postal officials expect heavier mailing this year than at any previous Christmas rush. Oregon Safest Maternity State PORTLAND. Dec. 13 W"h-Oregon was the aafeat state In the nation for women at childbirth In 1MB. the aula health office reported today. Dr. Harold M. Ertckson, head of the office, said that tha maternal mortality rata was four-tenths of a per cent In 1000 births. Only IS mothers died In 34537 births, he said. Timber Strike Threatened In Pensions Fight Letters from the AFL lumber and sawmill workers head quarters in Portland have been sent out to all the union's 14 district councils urging united action ny some tsu.uuu members in the Pacific Northwest in demanding $100 a month pensions. The union k being primed for a strike, if necessary, to back up the demand. The pension question, following a pattern set in the steel industry and moving into the uifi ii.ij..e I automobile industry, covers For New York U.S., iuloQirDQ Mecair uelatiDOiruS IBireak PoDDitf Buigars Get Warning On 'Indignities' 4 Die, 23 Hurt In Plane Crash WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (IP) A Capital airliner wandered off a radar path leading into fogbound National airport last night and crashed in the mud of the Potomac river, carrying four of the 23 per sons on board to their death. The 19 survivors an amaz ingly high number for a plane crash were taken to the hospital at Boiling air force base, located nearby. Many were badly hurt. Oovernment officials laid plans for a prompt Inquiry Into the cause of the crash. Dead The dead were Mrs. William Chertow, Brooklyn. N. Y.; Neville Laaslter, a government employe who lived In Arlington. Va and the pilot and co-ptlot. W. J. Davis and Lloyd L. Porter, both of Alex andria, Vs. The bodies of Davis and Porter were recovered from the partly submerged wreckage hours after the crash. Workers hacked away at the fuselage through the night to get at the two bodies, which were visible In the water-covered cockpit by the light of rescue lsmps. Navy and air tore men who sped to the scene In crssh boats credited a number of factors for the high rescue rate. High on the list were luck and the relative calm of the .survivors .most -at them service men going home to spend Christmas. GOPs Charge Demos Using Scare Tactics To Push Health Plan WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (IP) A republican cry that the Truman administration is trying to "scare" the people into backing a compulsory health program threatened today to upset a political truce in congress' study of low income families. The protest came from Rep. Rich (R-Pa). He aimed it at testimony by John L. Thurs ton, assistant federal security NEW YORK. Dee. IS ! New Yorkers were uiged today to refrain from bathing or shaving during Fri day's experimental "water holi day." CotnmtMloner Stephen J. Carney, water department head, ssld super efforts to conserve water atlll were necessary despite rains last night and today which provided .500.000. 000 gallons of wster or about five days supply. TRAFFIC DEATH OLYMPIA. Wash.. Dec. IS 11 Traffic killed an average of more than one person a day on Wash ington hlghwaya and atreets this year, the state patrol said today. B Monday the death toll for the year had reached 40. which was 11 leas than for the same length of time in IMS. z"" ay' 4 , i both the fir and pine regions of Montana, Idaho, Washing ton and Oregon. Including the Klamath basin district council here. Union spokesmen In Portland said they would demand quick action fiom employers In setting up a pen sion plan. No Pensions Right now there Is no pension set-up In the lumber Industry here or In the Pacific Northwest, but many mills have voluntary health Insurance and group Insurance plans covering their workers. There has been no Immediate re action to the pension question from lumber Industry employers and the Pine Industrial Relations commit tee here said there had been no move to open any existing AFL con tracts here. Contracts In this area between the lumber Industry and the AFL have no uniform opening date. Pacts with the IWA-CIO expire April 1. Minimum In Portland. Kenneth Davis, LSWU secretary, said the union wants an employer-financed pen sion system with the contribution amounting to not less than 10 cents per hour. In this area minimum wages paid by the pine Industry are tl.42' an hour for sawmill work, $1.40 ofr box factory employment. 25 Said Killed In Crack-Up KARACHI, Pakistan. Dec 13 (Pi All 21 passengers and a crew of four were reported killed In a Pakis tan transport plane crash last night 45 miles north of here. The list of casualties was not yet confirmed but It was reported that two Pakistan army generals were among the passengers. The plane, a twin-engined DC-3 crashed in desert country. It was first spotted by aerial searchers ear ly this mdrning and rescue parties were sent to the scene of the crash. FEPC Front For Civil Rights Tilt KEY WEST. Pis, Dec. IS (P) Key presidential advisors said today that the admlnlstraUon's civil rights battle In the election-year congress will be centered behind the FEPC bill. This measure, designed to pre vent discrimination against Negroes and other minority groups In em ployment practices. Is one of sev eral anU-dlscriminatlon measures President Truman will again pro pose to congress In January. They say It probably wlU face tougher opposition In congress than any of the civil rights measures but that organizations opposing discrim inations Insist upon fighting It out on wis una. otner measures, like tha g, aril-poll tax and aim- administrator. Thurston test! fied yesterday that three children In every average Ameri can classroom of 30 pupils "are destined to spend part of their lives In a mental hospital." Rich, In a statement of his own. called Thurston's testimony "one of the most shocking statements to be made In the program to social ize this country." He added: "It smacks of, errorism and Is direct ed at the parents of the millions of school children In the nation." HerlallTstteei He charged that the Truman ad ministration, "determined to social ize the United 8tates. has used every trick of propaganda and du ress to put over the main plank of its socialistic program social ized medicine." Senator Sparkman (D-Ala). chair man of the subcommittee of the house-senate economic committee By The Aseeelated Press Diplomatic relations be tween the United States and communist-led Bulgaria were near the snapping point to day. In Washington, Undersecre tary of State James E. Webb yesterday called In Dr. Peter Vou- tov, top Bulgarian representative. lor a still warning. The United Stales charged its minlat"' in Sofia has been subjected to a series of indignities. Articles in the Bulgarian press said the U S. state department and Minister Donald R. Heath deliberately lied in denying the minister had never seen Triacho Rostov, former vice premier, who is tha central figure in tne current purge trial. FW. Charge Kostov. with 10 co-defendants. Is charged with plotting to make Bul garia subservient to vrhi Tito of Yugoslavia, arch-enemy of the Soviet Union. The charges against the 11 said the plot was motivated and encouraged by British and American intelligence. A newspaper article signed by the political department of the Bulgar ian foreign office recently accused the U. 8. government of engaging Searchers Following Fresh Trail KELSO, Wash., Dec. 13 (P) Fresh, faltering tracks today spurred 500 searchers in tha hunt for Ruth Aberle, 18- year-old Girl Scout,, missing two days. Sheriff's Deputy Costa Watts reported this morning on his return from the rug ged, rain-sodden search area six miles northeast of her, that three men had found comparatively fresh tracks about midnight They appeared to be only four to six hours old, he said. Sheriff C. W. Reynolds recruited fresh hunting parties at dawn to speed the tracing of the tracks . found by Fred Binkley and Dick Tabor of Longview and Dave Keller ' of Kelso. Bloodhounds, withdrawn during the night, went back on the Job. , 'Faltering' . . Watts said the fresh tracks were picked up only a mUe and a half from where the girl disappeared 8unday. -Whoever made them was faltering." he said, "as there were spots where the person stumbled and fell In crowing over logs and through the heavy underbrush." The region Is overgrown with vines, brush and dripping ' ever greena. A snow blanket gives slip pery footing. There are numerous beaver asms In the marshy area Into which the tracks led. Watts said, creating ap prehension should they be those of the missing high school girl. Woods men had thought It unlikely aha could have survived the first night . when the thermometer dropped be low freezing. It was close to freez ing last night. TI'k and ot snu-Tynchlng, Uar proposals cost President Tru. man four Southern democratic states In last year's election. Senate Majority Leader Lucas has said he will make the FEPC. bill the first order of business In the senate after congress reconvenes in January. Advisors here concede the move wlU lesd to a filibuster and the chances for passage are not bright At the same time, they argue that the very fight will help democratic congressional candidates In closely contested districts. They say concentration on an anti poll tax bill or the anti-lynchlng bill might draw a little less fire but that there waa nothing In the past history of the senate to Indi cate either of these 'could be passed. before which Thurston anneared as h spying and subsenice activity the first witness, took a different ",un oiiiciai representatives, oosition. - 1 Scant Defease He ssld he didn't think Thurston At So"tm' T. Defense COLD UP NORTH? Lee Garee, (left) and LaDene Von Wag oner, both of Miami Beach, Fla., can't believe it as they L frolic on the beach at Miami in bright, sunshiny weather with the Merwiry at T4 tfrf. Can't Remember Robbing Bank SPOKANE. Dec. 13 UP Jack John Anderson said In federal court yesterday he had no recollec tion of attempting to rob the Coulee City branch of Seattle's Natioanl Bank of Commerce. The government contends that Anderson forced tour bank em ployes to He on the floor last Au gust 3, then pocketed about S270. Although ha was carrying a gun, the prosecution said, he was overpow ered later by the bank workers. Anderson said he recalled stop ping at a bar near Umatilla, Ore, some time before August 3 but had no recollection of subsequent happenings. School Men Visit New Henley Unit Principals of Klamath Falls ele mentary schools, along with Super intendent of Schools Arnold Oralapp, Supervisor Onrry Robertson and KUHS Principal James L. Brown, were guests of County School Su perintendent O. B. Howe spent Tues day morning at the newly opened Henley school and at Peterson school, now nesring completion. The Klamath school, executives are Interested in the new features Included In the two structures which embody the latest developments of school facilities. Morse Says Oregon GOPs Against More Federal Jurisdiction WASHINGTON, Dec. IS () Senator Morse (R-Ore) said before leaving for another trip to Oregon that republicans In bis state agree with him that the party should meet "head on the democratic program oi assuming more ana more national jurisdiction over problems that can be handled oest by the states." Oregonians, he said, are not opposed to a "reasonable" program of federal aid to states In health, A education, housing, road construe' was using the figures on the mental health' of school children "for the purpose of scaring us into a social ised medicine program." T naturally expected Thurston to testify In fsvor of the program." Sparkman told a reporter. He not ed that Thurston Is the top aide to Federal Security Administrator Os car Ewlng. who Is quarterbacking the administrations health Insur ance plan. Challenge Sparkman said the testimony challenges the committee to take notice of "a very serious condition that exists In this country It should Inspire us to do a little digging to find out what the true facts are," be contended. Earlier. 8parkman and the other three committee members attend ing the hearing had denounced with equal severity reports that there were "political implications In the low Income inquiry. 'We are trying to get information for the good ot the country and not for the purpose ot building political ammunition lor either party,' Sparkman said In reference to the reports. He did not identify them. tion and similar fields. "But they rUhtly Insist," he added In an Interview, "that administra tion of such problems be placed solely In the hands of the states." Again! CVA Morse said he found In a month's tour of Oregon that the people ot his state oppose President Truman's proposal for a Columbia valley ad ministration in the Paclflo North west The agency would be admin istered by a board ot three appoint ed by the prealdent "I found that In regard to the CVA Issue the people agreed with me, generally, that we should not tske away from the people a voting voice In determining the policies which are to be adopted In develop ing the river resources of the Pa clflo Northwest," Morse said. "I found the democrats will make a great mistake If they think the people ot Oregon are going to ac cept the pending CVA bill aa a satisfactory solution to the need of greater coordination of state and federal agencies charged with de veloping sound power construction. flood control, reclamation, wild life and land utilisation programs In the Pacific Northwest. "They have no Intention of turning over to three executive appointees any such economic and political power as would be given them under the CVA bill." Hoover Plan Morse said republicans of Oregon "generally agree with tne" that the recommendations of the Hoover commission on government organi sation should be adopted by the re publican party as "the republican policy." "If the republicans did that.'' Morse said, "then the democrats for once would have to go along with the republicans. Morse said he Is convinced that Oregon republicans generally sup port his opposition to the adminis tration's "compulsory health Insur ance bill. "They think that this bill, more than any other test." he said, "of fers the key tesr to members of congress, 'on the Issue of whether or not they are willing to vote to stop placing more and mors power over the economy of the country In the hands of ti.e executive branch of the government." And. Morse, added, his month's speaking tour of the state had con' vlnced him he can be reelected. 10 SHOPP'N&y, tfFT i Lawyer Lubea- Dukmedjier had vir tually nothing to say in del Rise of his client My task as defense lawyer for Traicho Kostov is quite difficult" he said. He praised Bulgarian au thorities, who. he said "broke the hands of the traitors." Seattle Hunters Found Drowned STANWOOD. Wash. Dec. 13 Ht Two missing Seattle hunters were found drowned near here at 7:30 a. m. today. The two men Richard M. Bog gess, 38, and Howard Marl, 42. had been sought ince their overturned boat was found Sunday. The boat had a bole in the bow, and of ficers expressed the belief the two men were thrown overboard when the boat nit a submerged object In Hst slough. The bodies were located this morning at the Junction of the slough and Port Susan bay. But townspeople refused to five up. An estimated S00 took part, many continuing through the night In groups of 25 and 30 they moved through the woods, their flashlights searching the brush. There was no Christinas rush at this Southwestern Washington city. Streets appeared deserted as all available men Joined in the hunt Tavern stools were empty. Theatres reported nearly all-feminine audi-, encea.' ,.o Some women were In the search too. The girl's mother. Mrs. Wil liam Aberle, took part Sunday night. Sent to a hospital later to rest, she slipped away to rejoin the search. Other women took over an aban doned togging camp and began making coffee, which was trucked In 10-gallon cans to the searchers. Haven?. There were .other abandoned camps and cabins in the area. The father, a fiber company employe. expressed hope the girl had found one of these. He said Ruth was not a girl to get panic-stricken, but feared she. bad little woods lore. ' He said she was easily confused as to direction. ar dprobably would not have ex perience enough to follow a ridge or creek downhui. One deputy sheriff said that If tha girl fell and hurt herself she may never be found alive. Two bloodhounds were brought into the search last night but then value was doubtful In the region of rain, sporadic snowfalls and slussh. Dedication Of Power Plant Slated The huge Toketee Falls power plant of The California Oregon Pow er company, will be formally dedi cated in Roseourg on Thursday. Governor Douglas McKay will throw the switch which will official ly bring the new supply of power to consumers In this area from the gigantic undertaking on the North Umpqua. Copco's North Umpqua hydroelec tric project has been under way since 1947, when a road was cut Into the canyon for actual construc tion. Electric power from Toketee, first ot eight new generating plants In the vast project will be chan neled Into the company's transmis sion network when the switch is thrown. Speakers Oovernor McKay, Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power admintstra tor: Albert S. Cummins. Copco pres ident Rep. Harris Ellsworth and others will address the guests as sembled for the ceremony at the Umpqua hotel in Roseourg. Going from Klamath Falls to the Important dedication will be Sam Rltchey, manager of the Klamath district; Bert Hall, director of the company: Prank Jenkins, publisher of The Herald and News, and Mayor Robert A. Thompson. Part of the progiam will be broad cist over eight radio stations In the Copco service area. Station KFLW will carry the broadcast from 1 to 7:30 p. m. Thursday. Dedication of the project and switching ot tha new power from the Toketee plant Into the power company transmission , : (Continued on Pag two) - Meet ihe People assasssaajeaasesssjej IT'S AN OLD AMERICAN CUSTOM Having coffee in it morning. Arlene Hendricks pours a cup for a customer in Main street restaurant. - .;. : .. i : r
