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By FRANK JKNKINK
tlNCLE JOK BTAL1N U 70 today,
and from all account they're
living him a whl ol a birthday
celebration. Present r pouring
In from all aid, and It take
WHOLE PREIOHT TRAINS to
handla them.
Seventy carloads of lift rolled
In from East Germany alone.
TJO you rackon Uncla Jo li gen
uinely pleased and touched? Or
la ha iut cagey enough to know
what It'a all about, and why?
VOU nevar can te II. Ht'a a imrt
old rooster, but what flattery
doaa to thn world conquerors
paueth all human understanding .
Ther la Alexander who I up
posed to hav sighed wistfully be
miw Ultra wara no mora worlda
t conquer. When ha got to Egypt.
Kit priest laid on lha flattery with
a trowel. They received him aa a
OOD. At tint, ha laughed scorn
fully. But In the and he fell for It and
decided ha waa a god after all and
ahould be traated aa auch.
e
QP court you hav to remember
Wlht Alexander waa atlU In hla
lata 30'e when he being work
ed over by the flattoreri. Hlalln U
. a hard-bollrd old bird of 70. I have
a notion that aa ha looka over the
mountain! of present that ara be
ing poured on him he just gruu
cynically.
FOR Ilia uul arven months, we
American hav been looked over
by the red-headed and according
lo all accounta good-looking Wel
lington eorrenpondenl of the Auck
land. New Zealand Newa a Mra.
Sidney Mnars, who wlUi her hus
band haa been touring the United
Stale. On the eve of departing for
home, the aaya In Beattle:
"Everybody her work a harder
than they do at home. They don't
hav to much fun. The farlllliea
tnr fun ar her, but you don't us
them partly because you all work
ao hard and partly because your
entertainment la to EXPENSIVE.
"At horn In New Zealand, every,
body can afford lolf. tennla and
awlmmlng clubs. It'a really a work
ing man a paradise"
e
JADYt Ladyl I'm afraid you'v
been seeing, but not understand
lull W en afford golf and tennla
and wlmmma. BUT BECAUSE WE
CAN A WORD EM WE DONT
THINK SO MUCH OP 'EM.
Th reason we go ao hard for
night cluba U BECAUSE WE
CANT APPORD 'EM. If dolnf
th thtnga w cant afford to oo
that give us the thrilling feeling
that we r getting somen her and
amounting to something.
That's on reason why w hav
to work ao hard.
Was Man Victim
Of Own Trap?
PORTLAND. Dee. 31 Pi Th
body of n eccentric Inventor waa
found yesterday In a small woods
rabm Which tn man had rigged
wiih a doorway booby-trap.
Chief Criminal Deputy Sheriff H.
Chrlstoffcrten said Pred Stern may
have fallen a victim to hi own In
vention. Th reputy described Stem
as a hermit-Ilk character.
Th booby-trap Involved a shotgun
in a floor pit at th doorway, aet
to release th gun trigger by a wire.
Chrlstoffersen used a pole to deflect
th gun muaxl and then found the
hell had been discharged. H aald
stern may hav been wounded by
th devlc and staggered to a cot
Prlc riv Cents Pagea aawl KLAMATH PALL. OKEC! ,XKHIMV, DECEMBER 11, IM Ttiephene till Ne, 11(2 ' f .
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Fail To
Find Youth
WALLA, WALLA, Dec. 21
(A') The fale of an 18 year
old elk hunter, missing for
six days, was still unsolved
today despite efforts of some
12S mountain-wise searchers
who have scanned the rugged,
snow-swept Black Snake ridge
sector of the Blue mountains.
The missing youth, Donald
McDonald, became separated
from a hunting companion last
Thursday. Sine then, temperatures
have hovered around the aero mark
Vandenberg Says Cut
West Europe Relief,
Close Call;
Fuses Die
EAHL KENT
Accept Franco Spuing Charge
r DETROIT nw. 1 l& riv.
The old boy that pulls the mer
curv UD and down In the therm ome-
and frequent shot s hav piled drift . tcr had quit a time of It last night.
up to tig feet high.
Electronic Aids
With the alx-score searchers re
porting only failure In their efforts
to trace down varied report of
rifle fir and other clue, two so
called "electronic bird-dogs'1 made
their appearance at th search
acen.
The devices wer brought her
from Yakima and Wenatchee by
their Inventors. The men declined
use of their nsmes and gave no
Information on their machine ex
cept that thry operate on radio
frequencies, rhe device ar de
signed to locai misting persons and,
they said, have been used success
fully flu where.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11 v-Senator Vandenberg iR-Mlch) called
today for continued economic and military aid to Western Europe, but
aid It should be on a "sharply reduced" scale.
Vandenberg. who wields great Inlluenc on republican foreign policy
stands, also told a news conference that:
1. The Communist regime In China should be recognised by this
country only when it demonstrated
It has control of that country and
will carry out the basic obligations
of International law. He aald Com
munist China does not now meet
these require menu.
1. Pull diplomatic recognition
should be granted to th Franco
government In Spain.
1. Th bipartisan foreign policy
Involve no "me-tooUun" on th
part of th republicans since it la
open to vigorous debate while de
cisions ar In til process of being
made.
4. The objective of the republican
party should be -to restore the
American system to aafe founda
tions before it is too late, and to
gear dependable program with na
tional solvency and individual free-
idom.'
Weatherman
Says Warmer
Cold Covers
Wide Area
By The Associated Press
Th winter season' official ar
rival Isnt untU late tonight but
there waa mncn wintry weather
over wide area of th country to
day. It waa onld from the upper Mis
sissippi and Missouri valleys and
th Central Plalita state westward
to th Pacific coast. The center of
the Icy blasta waa In the Dakota
and MlnnesJ'.s. Temperature In
North Dako.a dropped to 30 below
aero. Minnesota and South Dakota
reported readings of 10 below. The
mercury fell to below freetlng In
Arlaona to 31 above at Phoenix
and New Mexico 25 at Albuquerque.
According to the KPLW ther
rometer It was 4 above at T p. m .
( p. m II p. m. and at ( a. m.
But the official reading was 5 above
by CAA. At times the radio atalton
mercury recorded t during the 4
bovt hours but In any man's lan
guage It was cold enough.
Warmer
forecast warmer weather and It waa
warmer than the seasonil low of 1
morning.
Warmer weather, partly cloudy
through Thursday, with a low of 14
degree tonight, is the forecast. We
will wait and see.
The Oregon stale highway de
partment continued to warn mo-
j lariats that chain, ahould" be "car
ried if traveling over mountain
pass although there la no new
lanow In this district. All highway
are covered with packed snow
I which ha been aanded. There are
i spots of Ice on th Oreeiuprtngs
.and around Bend.
Pollution Rules
Laid Down
PORTLAND. Dec. 11 lav-The
Pacific Northwest pollution control
council laid down a set of "good
housekeeping" standards yesterday
for a list of Industrie to use In
disposing of waste material.
The council announced It had
adopted minimum standards It
would suggest to IS or 18 regional
Industries for adoption In their
operations to prevent stream pollu
tion. Attending the Uro-day session
were representatives of four North
west suites, British Columbia and
Alaska. The next session will be
held April It at Missoula, Mont.
The Michigan senator flew back
to Washington yesterday for a
briefing on International develop
ment before congress open.
For Stalin
MOSCOW. Dec 11 iiV-Russian
leaders hailed Joseph Stalin on hi
70th birthday today with a massive
celebration, and the Soviet leader
ship took the occasion to renew Rus
sian claims tnat communism and
capitalism can exist together in
peace.
Oeorgl Malenkov. deputy prime
minister and considered dose to
Stalin. soundeJ the peace keynote
In Pravda, the official newspaper
of the communist party, by laying
heavy- stress on previous state
ment by the prime minister that
peace was possible between the two
ways of life.
While Malenkov spoke of pear.
Molotov lashed out against the
United State and Britain, charging
them with preparing for a new war,
and with planning world domina
tion "with the help of any aggres
Ive means. Including the atom
bomb."
DETROIT, Dec. 21 (JP) Dy
namiters made an attempt to
blow up the CIO United Auto
Workers' headquarters last
night..
They failed, but only by a
hair's breadth.
A stack of 39 sticks of dy
namite, wrapped in tape and
colored Christmas gift paper.
was iouna at a siae statrwsy of
the union building.
Two fuse had burned to within
an Inch or jes of the explosives
befor they sputtered out, harm
lessly. Except for two night workers, the
union building was empty. How
ever, live were Imperiled in a
neighboring General Motor build
ing. Mere Mystery
A result, authorities wer con
fronted today with a new task in
solving mysterious act of violence
against the big auto union and It
leadership.
Within lea than two years would-
Woman, 2 Men
Gassed in Car-
Near Gilchrist
By BALE SCARBROL'Gll "
Two men and a woman died of carbon monoxide poison,
ing late last night, sitting in their car in a snowbank on The
Dalles-California highway seven miles below Gilchrist.
The men have been identified as Virgil Lee Johnson, 40,
of Gates, Ore., and Jack Virgil Friedley, 38, of Idanha, Ore.
The woman is believed to be Drucilla, Friedley'i wife. She la
about 30 years old.
Johnson, who has been working at the Briggj logging
camp near Diamond lake, was the driver. All three were in
the front seat of Johnson't
1940 sedan, traveling south
Kent Heads
Klamath
Jaycees
Earl Kent, Crater Lake creamery,
waa elected president of Klamath
county junior chamber of com
D erce at the regular dinner meeting
Monday evening In the Winema
hotel.
Robert Smith wa elected first
vice president and Bill Wemworth
second vice president. Cal Lamb
wa chosen secretary and Art Trie
bwasser treasurer.
Director
Directors chosen were Randall
Poster, John O'Neill, BUI Ganong
and Jack Hardesty.
The officer and director win
Uke office at th Joint meeting of
the Junior and senior chamber of
commerce to be held January It,
1930 tn the Willard hotel.
People Sick
Of Wars.
Says Truman
WASHINOTON, Dec II A
be assassins have tried to kill two , President Truman said today there
of the TJAWa, prominent Reuther; would never be another wr if th
brother,' peoples of the world, "sick of
,,', ,.,, , w .,, made to respond to our handclasp
aailant u April of 148. He almost .,h . .... K "Tl
Boy, Girl
See Lion
Kill Mother
THOU8AND OAKS. Cllf, Dee.
11 V With roar, a savage lion
sprang at a widely known woman
animal trainer and quickly killed
her while her horrified children
tried to save her.
Mrs. May Kovar Schafer. 42, wa fume from th exhaust sifted tnt
in the cage yesterday with the lion, the interior of the automobile.
Sultan, attempting to break him As near a state police can d.
into training. The powerful animal j termine. the car went Into th
unged at her. bore her down and I snowbank about 10:45 p. m.
bit her in the neck, Bering the At 11:15 a pacing motorW. un.
HH.VMf.fUa4 sU. -
Buddha AtUrk 'with th. .-,,. -.
uuiisitf., aiASLrijaau
from Bend.
State police at Crescent
said th automobile apparently
skidded on the Icy pavement, nosed
Into a snowbank on the east aid
of the road, whipped around and
came to rest with th rear end 1st
tne snow.
The exhaust pip wa stopped up
and the muffler wa cracked at th
oase. possibly from the Impact..
Fatal Walt ,
The trio sat In the car with th
motor running and heater on, wait
ing for help. Carbon monoxide
Her children. Michael Kovar. 18.
and May Kovar. 14, were watching
their mother, who wa working with
a chair and wh,p when the sudden
attack occurred.
The children, armed with .ihort
poles, rushed through the cage
door. But the beast, with Mrs.
Schaief necc in- hi Jaws, Ignored
their poking.
Michael and May and three-year,
old Sandra Schafer, who wa near
by, screamed for help.
Rudy Muller. 5. an elephant
trainer, ran to their aid.
"I grabbed up a pitchfork "and an
eight-loot lenght of pipe." th
and was unable to arous the oc
cupants.
He telephoned from Chemult to
the state police her and a natroU
man from Crescent arrived at th
stalled auto about midnight. The
two men and woman were dead.
Identified
Johnson and Priedley wer Identi
fied from personal paper. John
son operator s license gave his ad
dress a "c-o Emll Johnson. Oaten,
Ore.'' A paycheck stub from the
Briggs logging company wa In his
pocxet.
Priedley, sources In Bend report
ed to The Herald and News, was
th
j'frail man sud. "The lion wa very 1 an itinerant cook. He came to Bend
quiet. I stabbd at him with th
pitchfork with one hand and then
brought the pipe down on hi head
with the other.
lost th use of an arm.
Victor Reuther, the union's edu
cational director, lost an eye In a
similar shotgun attack last Msy.
Both of th:
unsolved.
Police immediately linked last
night's Incident with the attempts
on th Reuthers' lives.
There is "no doubt" of it, accord
ing so Inspector Joseph A. Krug of
the police specuJ Investigation squad.
One long-hold theory has been
that a vengeful conspiracy la afoot
against the Reuthers and th union.
An anonymous call to a Detroit
newspaperman led to what wa at
first a vain police search at the
union headquarters.
Later two union employes came
upon the wrapped (ticks of ex
plosive, tied up In gsy red and
white Christmas paper.
It was prepared. Krug said, by
"someone with a lot of experience
with dynamite."
choice but to stand ready In self
defense." he declared.
Carillaa Gift -The
president sooke at Arlinetnn
shootings still are ' carillon memorial to the war dead
from the American Veterans of
World War MNiPi. Allied diplomats
from many nations, and high rank
ing military and civilian officials
were in the audience.
It was only coincidence that Tru
man spoke on the birthday of Soviet
Russia's Premier Stalin and he did
not mention Russia by name.
But allusions to the Russian
threat to peace were plain and re
peated. They were clear, too, in a
oner aaaress irom Norwegian Am
bassador Wtlhelm Munthe de Mor-
genstieme. the dean of the diplo
matic corps.
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"TOY SHOP FANTASY" is the title of the beautiful and extravagant pro
duction to be presented tonight for the first time as Klamath Union high
school'! Christmas gift to the public in the KUHS auditorium. There is t
first showing at 7 p. m. for children of primary grades and their parents.
, Then tonight at 8:15 o'clock sharp there la a second performance for the
townspeople. The third presentation Is at p. m., tomorrow, Thursday. A
60-piece orchestra will play for "The Toy Shop Fantsy," including the
entire "Nutcracker Suite" by Tschaikowsky and other exciting music.
Costumes are glittering with sequins and sparkles, the background is new
and delightful and those who have seen these Christmas presentations in
the cast will do well to arrive early. The lift, (there is no charce). is the
combined work of the music, drama, arts, manual arts, as well as other de
partments and individuals. This Is but an small scent from "Fantasy."
In November and worked at
Bend cafe.
He and the woman, Identified only
as Drucilla. registered at the Owl
"That made the lion drop her and ! motrt ' Bnd November IS and
back up. Must have stunned him
lor a second because he sagged
back on hi haunches.
"But I didn't have much time.
Muller said. "Just (nought to pick
up .Mrs. Schafetv Then the Ilea
started for ms and the children.
- "I backed oat. inch by men. never
taking my eyes off the lion. The
children got out. Little May held
the door open for me and I got
out It was a near thing for those
youngsters. He probably would have
got them too."
Muller' said Mrs. Schafer. who
had appeared with Ringling broth
ers and Barnum and Bailey circus
for four years prior to the wax,
medley told the motel ooerator
they had been married November 1
17. Deschutes county ha no record
oi such a marriage.
Waitress?
!. .The- woman- to believed t. hav.
worked as a waitress around Bend.
She had only coin purse and no
identifying papers in the ear last
mgnt.
She and Priedley checked out of
the Owl motel Tuesday and the op
erator saia medley left owing hint
S30. State police at' Bend had
broadcast a pickup order for Pried
ley. wanting him for ouestionrnx.
Deputy Coroner Clarence Ward
was called from Klamath Palls and
the bodies of the three were brought
moved her arm as h stooped to in to Wsrd's funeral Home.
pick her up inside the cage but
was apparently dead by the time
he got her out.
Sun's Visit
Brief Today
So much to do and such a short :
time to do rt In! Today that familiar 1
complaint might w.el be Justified I
around town, the nation, or even
around the world.
Because today, December 11, Is
tne snortest day of the year.
The sun rose at 7:37 a. m. today
and will settle behind the hills in
the west at 4: p. m. giving only
S hours and 51 minutes of daylight.
From tomorrow on. the davs will.
begin to lengthen until days anM
night are equal on March 11 anew
rescn the longest day of the year,
June 11. Then the cycle begins again
toward the shortest day.
COOPERATION MEET
SALEM. Dec. 11 (Jh Representa
tive of 11 Western states win hold
a conference on appentlceship train
ing at Seasid-: May U to IS, the
governor's office said today. The
purpose of the meeting will be to
develop cooperation between labor believe they are sleepy.
ana management w train skuicq ,
workers. j ' GEORGE E. HALL
Negligence
State police here said the deaths
of the three could not be considered
highway fatalities but were caused
by negligence rather than an auto
mobile accident. Klamath county'
traffic death toll for the year stands
at 17.
State police said patrol officer
frequently locate person In stalled
cars who are suffering from carbon
monoxide poisoning and who simply
Shooting Hours
December It
. Open: 7:7 Close: XSt
I SILVER TON, Dec 11 () GeorK
; E Hall. 70. Portland civic leader
and advertising executive before ha
! retired and moved here four year
! ago, died yesterday. He organised
! one of the first advertising agencies
In Portland. The family moved to
I Oregon from New Zealand In 1880.
Overlooking $1
Cost $2000
HONOLULU. Dec. 11 iPl The
navy will have to pay out 82000
because congress overlooked appro
priating 81.
The 81 would have bought and
paid tor the Oahu Railway and
Land company's Pearl Harbor
branch, which the navy uses.
The 82000 Is the Hawaiian terri
torial tax bill on the line as private
property. Under a lease agreement
the navy must pay the taxes. It
th U. 8. government owned the
line it would be tax free. -
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EVEN IN HOLIDAY TIME the meter ets hungry. LidreJ
Putnam, Klamath Tails businessman, ia shelling out to thf"
docker before he goes to work.