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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1949)
WW MM I SI HI SI JV nn Jl luTlie ... "ay's km By FRANK JKNKINM MAO TZIC-TUNO, boa of Chines nmmunlim, arrives In Moscow slier a Un-day trip on Uii Turn eliberlan railway and heads lur the Kremlin lor a talk with Blalin. WHAT do you reckon Uiy Ulkrd " about? Wall. Mao la now tha ruler ol 450 million Chines. Hialln U Ilia ruler ol 300 million Russians, plua lit mllllona In lh salellli stales that an under Russia's thumb. When two man itoldlni thai murh powar gel together lor a ulk, you can bri your boluim dollar Uial what tliry ulk about un i to ba lor tin irnrral loud o( humanity. MAO. by lha way, la aaid to have I broughl la carloads o( Hi to 1 ftalin and otlier bif whaal Soviet leaders. Tha fllu Included rara hlttnrtral and art object WHICH MAO" COMMUNISTS HAD LOOTED PROM THE PEIPINO PALACE AND MUHtUMI UKRE In lha middle of Ui Clirlat maa season, that aounda pretty muih b ynu and me and others I our commoner kind. Imparled aa wa doubtless are, we couldn't brim ourselves In the point of tak ing care of our ChrUlmaa Hat with lifta wa had looted from some body else. That U because we ARE Just rommnn. everyday people. Tha Big Onea have been doing II Maoa way ever since hlstnrv bcasn. They ao out and LOOT IT PltoM HOME BODY THEY HAVE CONQUERED and then give It aa a fill to some body Uiey want to make a deal with to go out and conquer some body etae. In world-conquest circles, that haa king been known aa statesman- ahlp. TN ootulderlni ail tha aspect ol tha iltuatlon, w have to J member Dial lha II carlnada of "rare historical and an oblecu" which Mao looted from the Peipint palace and muieum to (Ira to Htalln and hit gang had probably been given to the Pelpiiif liulltu llnn In the llrat place by aome other royal looter who looted litem from aomebody elae to five them an Peipinf. "Die peira ol history are full of Incidents ilka thai. 18 Jogjakarta, Jan, a new nation la bring born. It la the Indo l, hralan Republic. Ita flrtt prealdent, Dr. Soekamo, la being Inaugurated today at Jogjakarta. Ha haa led his people In a succeuful rebellion against Dutch orerlarcMhlp. end the new nation will be a PARTNER, ant a vassal, of the Dutch. Great things can come ol II all. TREAT Ihlnfa will coma of what la happening down there UN LESS THE INDONESIANS ARE THINKINU MOKE OP THE PRIV 1LEOKS THAN OP THE RE SPONHIUILITIE8 OP 8ELP-OOV ERNMENT. It self-government la to work, reapoiuUblllty miut o hand In hand with privilege. PHIS aeenu to ba history day In the news. Porty-aix yeara ago today, at Kilty Hawk. North Carolina, WU bur and Orvllle Wright made lha firat successful flight In a heavier, than-alr. power-driven machine. THE Wright Broth era wer of roura immensely proud on that day 4 yeara ago of what they had aocompllahed. Do you reckon they would have been aa proud of It If they had known that direct deacendant of their Invention would be uaed some four decadea later TO DROP AN ATOM BOMB ON HIROSHIMA? I aometlmea wonder. Price Plve tenia 14 Pagra -O-l KLAMATH PALLM, ORKUON, a) ATI RbA Y. DKCEMBER IT, IMS Telophaa III! N. IlH J "V laaant.-.r CARS CRAWLED AT A SNAIL'S PACE this morning on highway leading into Klamath Falls and even on city streets-ai Ire and snow covered pavement. There was a pile-up on the stretch leading around the lake below Lindley heights early this morning and sanding crews did a Rood job on the roa d bed to untangle the maze of cars. Cars appear halted in this shot, but they were just barely rolling townward at 10 o clock. California Solons Bury Hatchet Over Lobbyist Control; Welfare OK In Bag HACRAMENTO. Dee. IT 'A' The California legislature declared a temporary tear In the battle aver lobbyist control today and turned la ether Isaacs af the special erealon. Shorn of all reference to what lawyer-leglslatora should or should not do, Ihe Warren administration proposal to regulate profcuaional 'advocaiea" rested uncertainly In committee. Debate will continue Monday. Bills ta untangle the welfare sys tem snarl awaited probable paaaaga In both hensee. Senate sponaara were ready ta eall op mraaarea aimed against aei offendrra. The aaaembly paaaed a similar art yes leeday. Early action en a St.M0, sea appropriation la aid overloaded school districts was likely. The drive waa on to gel home in lima for ChrUlmaa by tlx middle of Yheelchairs Prisons For Gotham Thugs NEW YORK. Dec. 17 Pate carved Ita own penalty lor two con feaaed holdup men. During a Brooklyn holdup In No vember. 147, George Del Toro. 21, waa aliot In Ihe spine by a police man. Pedro Hrrnandet, 31. was shot in Ihe groin after a holdup of a taxi cab driver In September. 14M8. Yesterday. Kings County Judge Carmine J. Marasco held temporary court In a hospital prison ward where both men are paralyied from the bullet wounds, and will be con fined to wheel chairs for life. The Judge told them: "I am convinced that no matter how severe my sentence might be. It could not compare to the pun-1 tshmrnl that Is already yours. You are faring a living death. My sen tence Is the Ume ynu have served here, less one day." 'Good Luck' Chain Letter Breezes Into Klamath With Promise, Threat To Writer Bv HALE HCARBROUGH Chain letters, Illegal or not, are being circulated again. Thla time In tha guise of an pMUe of good lurk rather than the send-a-dlme letters of a tew days agc which promised a re- Pelton Ranch Sale Told Tha ISOO-eera Pelton ranch, lo cated Along tha Crater Lake high way above Fort Klamath, waa sold yesterday to Jack McAuliffa, prom inent Port Klamath cattleman. Purchase price was not disclosed. McAullffe had leased the ranch for 14 yeara prior to the death last year of Mrs. Josephine Orth Pelton and her will stipulated that he be tlven first option to buy the ranch. Sale waa mada by helra of Mrs. Pelton, Including Henry W. Orth and Ella Cotchett, brother and alsler of Mrs. Pelton: and the following- nlacea and nephews, John J. Wilkinson, Emmett Blsemnre, Orth Slsemore, Jerry Slsrmore, Margaret Knelling, Eleanor Robertson and Dorothy Barnes, Shooting Hours Dee. 1 Oeeei ... 1J RMII Cleat .I 1:2 m. turn of about twelve hundred bucks for each dime spent. The salea talk la the same, though. One circulating In Klamath Palls promises the recipient good fortune a-plenty if he crosses out the top name on the list, adds his own and malls copies of the letter and list to 12 friends. Bad luck of an Incalculable na ture will be the reward for those busting the chain, "Thla chain of good lurk waa sent to me via United States dis patch within the last 73 hours. It was started In Africa by a Prench pftlcer undrf Oeneral De Oaulle and Is going around the world for the first time. "The person who breaks this chain will surely receive bad lurk. Don't keep this letter. This must be mailed within 7a hours of your receipt thereof, "A private in The Philippine army won first price In the sweep stakes for complying with this chain. Pranklin D. Roosevelt was elected for the third time as Presi dent of the United States after he mailed hla letter. Captain Romero, who broke the chain of good lurk, died 73 hours afterward. Detective Segudad Vllllnlutrn . . . who laughed at this chain met Instant death In an accident (July 14, 104SI. "Instructions Cancel the first name and add your name to the list. Mnke 13 copies, Do not retain thla letter." Some people will sign anything. next week. Both the assembly and ei,ate decided on the Saturday meeting; and there waa a chance ol Buiulay work, loo. Talk persisted thst the legislature would recess rather than quit for good Wednea day or Thursday and return In January. The ornate rulea committee voted ta delete Ihe enUre ercMoa af GoT ernor Warrrn'a lobby control bill barring lawyer legislators from pleading eaaea before stale boards and eammisasona for pay. Senators Thomas P. Keating R, Sun Knlarl. and Oeorge Hatfield Ki, Merced county, won out over con-lawyer members of the com mittee by arguing the present pro visions were too broad and ahoutd be covered by a separate bill. Other amendments were adopted but none made major clsaagra In provialopa requiring Jar- hire lot) by rats to register, tell how enesth they spend and how nndee penalty af possible prison eentencre. Hank Btrobel, Salinas, secretary lieaurrr of the Associated Farmers of California. Joined In the attack on the legislation declaring the state would need a "gealapo" to enforce it. "It's a reflection on the whole state of California," he testified yes terday. "Ita not going to accom plish what you want to accomplish." And Associated Farmer Prealdent Philip Bancroft. Walnut Creek. aaM: "Thla Mil would not get Mr. Ramlah (llejaor lobbyist Arthar H. Samlahl or any af those ethers. I don't know If be peseta eat any anoney kat If be does he certainly daeaa't do It before witness.'" Identification Of Body Fails A last attempt here yesterday to make certain Identification of the body of a man found south of town lust 8unday fell through yesterday and the body Is to be shipped to the University ot Oregon medical school at Portland. The man waa tentatively Identi fied from a social security card as Ernest Smith. 119 Yrsler way. Se attle. He apparently had blown his head and hands oft with a charge of dynamite. Claude Yates of Flrrbaugh. Calif., who believed the body was that of a brother-in-law named Ernest Smith, was here yesterday but de termined the body waa not that of his relative. Ward's funeral home reported tha body would be sent to Portland, In accordance with a state law, and would be held there for 30 days. The body of a one-armed man found floating In Lake Ewuana De cember 1 has never been Identified and haa been buried In the county plot at Keno. Attrntpta are still bring made to ascertain the Identity of the body through the numbers "874" stamped on an artificial left arm. Friendly Poker Game Leads To Much Confusion SAN PEDRO, Calif.. Dec. 17 (l You never know what a friendly little poker game may lead to. Oeorge Waters told police yester day that: He won S1600 from one Prank Billings In an Impromptu poker session. Billings paid him with a SM00 check, for which Waters forked over HO" in cash and a 4ii0 check. But Bill! '.as' check bounced. Waters went looking for Billings, found him on a street and asked what he Was going to do about the check. Said Billings: . "Why, there's nothing wrong with that check. Lemme borrow your car and I'll go to the bank right now and get your money." Reported Waters to police: He'd now like to find his S400. the $400 check, his new automobile and Billings. NEVER AGAIN PORTLAND, Dec. 17 fP Ber nard Blasdrll, 14. Isn't going to de liver his paper route by horseback any more. The Journal carrier took to a horse after his bike tire Went flat. The horse ahled from a truck, fell Into a hole, and Bernard tumbled unconscious en tha street. Chinese-Russ Friendship PactSeeiv MOSCOW. Dec 17 0PV A Chinese- Soviet friendship pact appeared al most a certainty here today follow ing the arrival of China s Commu nist Leader Mae Tia-iunf In Mos cow last night. Some observers speculated that the subject of tha pact already may have been Introduced when Mao and Prime Minister Joseph Stalin met last night at the Kremlin, soon after the Chinese leader arrived from Pelplng on the trans-Siberian railway. The two countries also are ex pected to work out trade and mutual assistance agreements during Mao'a urst visit to tne soviet capital. On his arrival at the Moscow railway station Mao spoke Imme diately of hia admiration for Sulln and of stronger ties between China's communist government and that ot Russia. The most Important taska facing them. Mao said, would be fulfilled thanks to Ihe correct International policy of Stalin. Ana tnese tasks, ne said, were the strengthening of the peace ironi. me struggle against the war mongers, the strengthening of good neighborly relations between China and the Soviet Union and the strengthening of friendship between the Chinese and Russian peoples. There Is Too A Santa Claus! NEWPORT. Ore. Dee. 17 iaia $300 check signed by Santa Claus went through the hands of a meat nrm ana two banks before anyone questioned 1L It started with Dom Domniasee asking WlUIca Bruce, a trocar here, what he wanted for Christmas. Bruce aaid $300. and Domnissee wrote a check for that amount. He signed it Santa Claus. Bruce gave the check to a Swift & Co. salesman, who sent it on to the firm's Portland offloe, where Brace's account waa credited for the payment Then It cleared through two Portland banks onrf came back to the Bank of Newport, on which It was drawn. This bank notified Bruce that they found no Santa Claua account and Bruce would have to make JUUO. Bruce gave the bank $300. Now ne intenda to have the check iramea. Kejsar Case Appeal Slated By Attorney An attorney lor Jamas Kelsar, convicted Wednesday night on a drunk charge after hot trial tn municipal court, said the eorrrte- tton and $36 fin probably will, be appealed In circuit court. A civil suit against several mem bers ot the city police) department Is also probable. U. 8. BalenUne. who with Mark Simons, represents tha 47-year-old carpenter, aaid the drunk count conviction would be appealed- That way Kejsar will still be defendant in the case but further hearings will be taken Into circuit court, Kejsar presented no testimony at hla municipal court trial 44, Use questions put to various polio Of' ticera by Attorney Mark BMmana to' d lea ted that. Kejsar will claim be waa given a sever can un. warranted beating after Tllf November 30. Five nolle officers teattflad Kejsar resisted arrest and two. Charles Currier and Tom Gordon, said they had to hit the husky carpenter "dozens ot times' . with aapa In an effort to subdue him ao he could ba taken into custody. Six officers were at th scene on Pine between 3rd and 4th be fore Kejsar waa placed in a paddy wagon and taken to jail. He waa treated at Klamath Valley hos pital for injuries received in th fray. KF Plastered With Snow As Storm Strikes A storm swept Inland early this morning and left snow and Ice in the Klamath basin. Street and highways were slick ss a mirror and cars operated at a snail's pace. Sanding crews were on the highways leading Into town and chains were advised thou planning trips out-of-town. By mid morning sun broke through the overcast in Klamath Falls and snow waa turned to slush. The forecast is tor colder weather, possible snow flurries tonight but clearing tomorrow, . Folks that go out for their Christ mas greens on 8unday will find plenty of snow In the woods and were warned not to drive off th highways without chains. In town today city police reported rash of minor traffic accidents due to the slick streets but there were no personal Injuries. A high wind whipped through Tulelake at 3 o'clock this morning, tearing down some of th town'a Christmas decorations and bringing a fresh Inch of snow. The street trimmings were back In place this morning in prepara tion for th town's big Christmas treat for the youngsters this afternoon. Dry Friday Builds up NYC Water NEW YORIC Dec. 17 W) New York', bis; "dry Friday" cut water consumption by 170,000,000 gallons compared with last week'f daily aver age, city official! reported to day. Despite yesterday's all-out conservation effort, water storage in the city'i big res ervoirs continued to. drop. Even so, officials were proud of the amount saved in the 24 hours. Edward J. Clark, chief city water engineer, said th 8, 000,000 New Yorkers had succeeded in turning "the clock back 20 years." The consumption yesterday, 798,200,000 gallons, was about equal to ' the amount used on April 27, 1928, Clark pointed out It represented a decline of 140 000.000 gallons in comparison with th "baa week" of last October 3-S, considered a normal week before, eonsanratton meaauree began. But nature continued to look tha other way. Thar' was no "Baca Sniies- - th "dry Friday" savteg. waicr stores utitn reservoirs want aWwa a .000 .000 gallons yesterday. Skimpy tub batha. ejulck dhowars, stubbly faces, on bar dishwashing during to day, an thee - contri buted to- yesterday s record. It was a water holiday , . '. dry Friday ... or it you want -to go along wtta.th Sag. "drtday. "Hag Sainss Water meaala, aawarawtlr aaeaav ssSmi ky tisa Mae eery1 eafleel at all a maara ill " Them they eriajil ajsaar fleajen ' aad h.S a' Mm k a aa aaaswew wwvsasra BB9WW m water btaf wa ealebiats.' Th faaal Itgwwa wow't e kssawa tar aaraaaa a Sal later sassy. Two ee.ee, rsBaai ftrwra wa eagiy i '"in I baaaat a 17 bias a ef she .... HIGH I. Q. Breezing through four years of college in 30 hours by passing 14 place ment tests at the University of Chicago, 17-year-old Joseph E. Nelson proved on the basis of . the tests that he already has-the equivalent of a col lege education. Nelson, for mer student at Institute Gio vanni in Rome, Italy, will skip :ollege and go into graduate work in mathematics. . Th best. part of th earing was that it waa an extra, aavtng en top of th 171.000.O00 gailotas th city baa already manacwd ta trim off ita dally water budget atoot thr ahort SjT began twa wasks aao. - That grew a not aavtnc yester day f about S7SMSJM gallons. which, at not-ao maaiy leaarula abort abs swlhi aw Una; goal of 'MV w famrfiti -H Mr Tffcrt m ft tet Crater Lake Buried Under 22-Inch Snow Twenty two inches of fresh anow cv top an eight-inch pack brought Crater lak Ita first real brush with winter, rangera reported thla morn trig, A total of 30 inches ot anow Is on the ground, greatest depth of the season, but skiing this week-end will be only fair aa it la not packed. Chief Ranger Louis Hal lock advised. Roads have been kept open and th rim road waa expected to be dear early thla afternoon. .A light south wind and continued anow. with chilly temperature, was the park report this morning. A minimum ot 19 degrees waa record ad In th early hours.. Motorists planning to enter th park- Hhi- week and- are advised chains must be put on at the bound ary. , i . - ; th ttr away I lulu wtshaa raHiaeag st0 th btf aawtasj thaw aorr th arisliaa . The water holiday passed without (- broken -water main or bad fir but almost at -th stroka of mid night s four-alarm r Was .broke out in -a Harlem factory aad' swept through the building. But even .the. fir aVparlment saved city water. It moved a fir boat . Into th nearby Harlem rtvwr and ran hoas linet a block and a half from th boat's big river pumperr to the fire seen. Saaafl Gaaa 'Th day'a saving- meant another -' (Continued on Pag Twrr Radld Tvfeif Plan Fast Time Push TORTLAND, Dec. IT (ff Pacific Korthwest radio men Intend to work for daylight sarin time in Western Washington and Oregon next year. They reached this decision here yes terday, in a resolution passed unan imously at a district meeting of the National . Association ot Broadcast ers They asserted British Columbia to th north and California to the south would be on fast time next summer. The radio men also urged uniform dates tor all cities to make the clock change-overs. This Must Have Been Quite a Game fo Watch GARDEN Crrr. Kas., Deo. 17 (pi a fiery hawk set off a 40-acr grass fir near her yes terday. The burning bird, some say It waa an eagle, swooped down on the Caspar VenJohn farm. It milea eaat ot here, and touched oft a roaring grass fir. Eigh teen men fought the flames before they were brought under control. Where did th fir com from? Art Jones, who reported th af fair, aaid th hawk or eatl "set down on a high power line and wham, It tea than war ablaie. Extension Of Peacetime Draft Seen WASHINGTON. Dec. It (V-Ad-minlstration leaders definitely win ask an unwilling cone-rasa to extend th peacetime draft for three more yeara. -... It was learned today that Secre tary of Defense Johnson and Sec retary ef State Acheaen will urge th extension at the next session as a necessary part of th all-out de tens against communism. - Th present act, paaaed by a re luctant congress in IMS, is due to ejplre Junes. On congressional source, who asked that his- nam not be used, said th selective service extension "it number on item en defense legislative musts." ' Johnson already has. informed eongresa that continuation ot tha draft machinery Is "essential to na tional aocurity." .- He ha asked an' annuals fund f $11,700,000 to operate th 'nation wide system of registering and classifying youths: from II through IS years. BULLETINS TACOMA, Dae.' 11 (JFV-41 ! deteadaat ta the - Tsusaa maa rape ease today reserve maataawm aanUaeaa af St yean aa th ati ret cemetery. Saaliauoa were paaaed by Jadge Max Charek of Jeffersea-Clailaaa Mat ef th defwdaass, aaaa f wheaa are ta Shear early sfs war fotmd gwUty of the tape ef . Mrs. Mars CaarHosy asaatsHy-MI Ta- Th. Mth, Harry Cartel il. wa feeatd gwUty ef alternate rap. KOMX. Ga. Dee. 17 (TV The deep aewtbe first saaas elrll lights trial asaal tastay.aa a SnlaraH of HbtrlaJ for th ta;Ded eoeja ty cowdaarai i iimii, ef neggtag aWMsi .MecVsMLaV BT-13 Hits Near Fall River Mills The mangled bodies of two young Washington State col lege students were found thit morning in the wreckage ot an army surplus plane in a rough, lava bed wilderneat) 12 miles north of Fall River Mills, Calif. The bodies were identified as those of Tommy Dye, 24, of Clearwater, Calif., owner and pilot of the plane, and Robert Watts Finch. 22. of Phoenix, Ariz. Their BT-13 single-engine plane disappeared on a flifht south from Pullman. Wash., yesterday afternoon. Dye and rincn leti Kullman at 12:30 and were to have landed at the Kiamath Falls airnort about 4 30. United Air Lines rerjorttvf this morning to CAA that a BT-13 passed over Klamatk Falls at 4:06 d. m.. makins no attempt to land. At tnat time there was a 3000-foot - ceiling. The plane carried enough gas to keep it in the air un til about 5:30. - At 5:45 Ranchers John East man and Leo McCullv told author! tie at Pall River Mill tby heard a plane drone low over their home and Mrs. McCully aaid ah heard a crash soon afterward. Ground parties searched th area, last night and then resumed tha mint north of Fall River MUat thla morning. Sheriff John Balma-a office in Redding announced that the wreckage of the plane bed been found shortly after 10 a. north of Olenburn, a town eta milea north of Pall River MIO. Beath Of Klaaaath The plane crashed apororlmaMf 75 airline miles south of TParaath Palls. Young Dye had been working tor hla doctor's degree in aoesotogy at Washington State. He wa a graduate of Pepperdlne college, Los Angeles. Dye spent 3S wieaiihr ke the air force during the war as a flight officer. Pinch was aenlor in mechanical.' engineering and formerly attentat Phomx conegeV- . -A Dye bad advertised far a aaaaie rer tar the Cbrletaaae flight swath Ihrawgh a temps awllethi hoard aad Finch aaanrered th ad. WSC- officials leagued. -' ' They bad intended t follow . eeane free Psdlmaa to Klamath Fane via WaBa Walla. The DaBea. sWdasead aad Bearer Mars. They telephoned a flight plan to CAA la Walla Walla. The CAA here alerted other points at 8:30 last night when the plane waa overdue here. United Air Lines reported this morning SV had seen the plane come over. -The wreckage was sighted at about 10:30 a. m. by a ground party Just as a plane flew over (Continued on Page Twelve) Meet the People O 13 .i ! p BERT HOGLER Is on the business end of a t"5v as he lendi a hand at the First Methodist church when tie upper story is. being finished for use of Sunday school classes, . 1
