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(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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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IT'S AN OLD AMERICAN CUSTOM Having coffee in it
morning. Arlene Hendricks pours a cup for a customer in
Main street restaurant. - .;. : .. i :
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