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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1949)
Mflflfo) fo)Afo)( fo) Cay's m Br MANIC JKNKINH MODERN political not: 1 H. II. Blallard of PorlUnd llln hla candidacy today for Ilia Demo, crallc nomination for congress from the Third Onuoii District whkh U Multnomah county. UK hu PLAN. Ha calls It mallard's Community Center Plan. ThU la It: I. Rrturn to wartime prlca con trol. 1. Pay aach drprndant adult 1100 a month, I. Pay aach dependent child 125 month. 4. APPROPRIATE 100 BILLION dollar from tiik reucKAL TREASURY. UI8 plan, ha says, "would aolva tha question of llvlnf from tha cradle to lha grave." It certainly would If wa could all l dollar bllla. Personally, I don't think Id Ilka tha taste of them. Whai'a mora. I don't think they'd ba vary nourlahlni. Besides Met of tha dollar bills I ara ara dlrly, and I don't Ilka dirty food. to If I lived In Muluiomah county Id vota against Mr. Htallard be rause what ha promises doesn't aound interesting to ma. I t CTALls birthday celebration wound up with a big to-do at lha BoUhol theater In Moncow. at which Mao Txe-Tung. bow of tha Chlnwa communUta, waa tha flrat aprakar. Mao described Btalln ai TTIF TKACHER AND FRIEND CP THE ENTIRE WORLD. Ha dram bad tha Hovlet Union aa THE WORLDS BULWARK. OP DEMOCRACY AND PEACE. QI.D MAO certainly knowa how to lay It on with a trowel, doesn't THE China Mall (published In Hont Konc. which la Brltlth ter ritory) aaya Mao want to Moscow to diaciiaa with Btalln these three aubjerta: 1. Unification of communlat China Under ONE leadership. 2. Whether to carry tha commu nist campalan Into French Indo china and Burma. 1. Whether to demobilize tha greater part of hla five million Chlneae communist troopa. S to Point No. I, we can assume that Mao wanu to be the big bou of China 400 million people. - Tha bit roua. Id tnav, la wneih ar or not ha will TAKE HIS OR DERS PROM STALIN. Tito might have put notloni Into Mao'a head. WATCH tha other two polnla " especially No. 1. If Mao ahould atart demobilising hla five million communut troopa. H would probably mean that World War III ta to be deferred. If he keeps them under arms and starts moving Into Indo-Chlna and Burma, It could mean that communism li going after ALL OP ASIA NOW. That could atart something big. Navy Eyes Red Threat To Formosa WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (VP) The navy dlxc-losed today that It If considering a further strengthening of the Pacific fleet. This would be in addition to the recently ordered shift of two cruixeri, the Juneau and the Rochester, from the Atlantic to the West coast. It follows published reports that another carrier and a number of submarines are due to make simi lar shifts. Replying to a reporter a question aa to whether the navy plans any further atrrngthenlng of Its Pacific forces in addition to the announced cruiser transfers, a spokesman said: "Tills problem U under considera tion subject, f f course, to Internal and external conditions." The spokesman did not specify the conditions that wa lit affect the navy a decision. B,g Factor Obviously, una important Internal factor will be the amount of money lha service h for ship operations. And ruternaily, an Important ele ment Is bound to be the conflict that thus far hai put CommunUta In command of virtually all of Chi na's ports, except British-controlled Hong Kong, and driven the Chinese Nationalists to the Island of Formosa. During and since World War II. the Chinese Nationalist acquired a considerable number of light naval vessels. How many of these are still In their hands and baaed on For mosa It uncertain. Some are being used In the Nationalist blockade of the communltl-held port of Shang hai. In which American merchant ships have been fired upon. Invasion If the Nationalists still have lha bulk of their navy and It remain loyal. It Is credited her with being able to repel an Invasion of Chines Communist. On the other hand, If substantia! element have gone over to the Reda or go over to them In the future, that would ease the way to Invasion. For China'a navy In recent year Included not only a cruiser, destroyer and escort vea el but scores of landing craft. 'Flying Saucers' Info Scheduled INDIANAPOLIS. Dee. 23 it Thorn "flying saucers" first re ported two years ago In the Pa cflc Northwest are the real thing. Radio Commentator Prank Edwards aald last night. He added, however, that they "are not of this world." Edwards, referring to the gov ernments continuing Investigation of the report, aald he would offer more detail Monday In a Mutual network broadcast from Washington. Hope Entertains Santa Clauses HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 32 ( Ever wonder who plays Santa Clau for Santa Claus? Bob Hope, of course. Some 67 81. Nick 'a, of the depart ment store variety, were the co median guests last night for din ner and cocktails. "Nobody ever does anything for these boys." Hope explained. AH 57 showed up In costume after their 1 ng day's work. Quipped Hope aa he looked over the mats of beards: "Looks like a white Christmas.' ALBANY ANNEXATIONS ALBANY. Dec. 22 P) Two sub urban areas rejected annexation with the city In special election Tuesday, but an unofficial ballot count Indicated four other were merged. eae MMKavaaaawaaaaFwamiB t-mmmmmmmmmmm TOURNAMENT OF ROSES QUEEN Meet the queen of the 1950 Tournament of Roses. She's Marion Brown (above), 19, of Temple City, Calif. She's a blue-eyed blonde, is five feet six inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, and attends Pasadena City college. ' I ; Price Mve Cents II Page KLAMATH PALLS, ORKCiON, TIIL'KHOAY, DECEMBER 21, IMS Telephone Sill No. 113 mmm Men m- Pvtsks of iiigioiiB f - wirw v. " CHRISTMAS CHEER was distributed to patients at Klamath Falls hospitals yesterday when Santa Claus and Capt. Al Longden of the Sal vation Army paid visits to both Klawath VaU ivy auu iiiiisiuc; uuiiujf uic aitcinuuu. itiis. l,uwuic uuci&uii, pretty patient at vaue, the recipient of a gift from bearded St Nick. No Clues In Detroit Blast Try DETROIT, Dec. 22 OPv The FBI moved in today to have a look at tne dynamite plot against the CIO United Auto Workers union. It marked that federal agency's first formal interces sion in what the big labor union calls a "terroristic cam paign." At the same time Detroit police disclosed they were without any aound clue to the or igin of Tuesday night' defective dynamite plant at union bead quarter. The FBI, acting under tha civU right law a well as other federal regulation, was ordered to investi gate by Attorney General Howard McOrath. Cnpreeedcnted The government's intervention wa unprecedented in. the UAW fTrYa IrmlhlM T Thi came a the union guixdedT"'" mu 'nftIDn- BULLETIN EARTHQUAKE? A blast or possibly one of the earth tem blor known here in re cent years rumbled and shook windows over a wide area in and around Klamath Falls just before noon. Residents of Stewart addition reported they heard considerable noise along; with the shake and the noise seemed to trail off in to the Greensprings. The shake was report ed by several residents of that area and was al so felt by emploves at Weyerhaeuser Timber company, but they were unable to determine its direction. Persons living; on Al tamont, Homedale. Har lan drive and California avenue also reported the movement and noise. The time was just at 11:55. Heavy Fog Blankets South Basin A heavy ground fog, the con sistency of white pea soup, blan keted the southern section of the Klamath basin and chilled the local gentry with Its 4 above aer temperature this morning. The fog was extremely heavy In Klamath Palls proper, but was re ported aa far east as Bly, beyond Keno and south throughout the valley. It lifted around 10 o'clock. There was no new snow In the district except on the Willamette pasa where a one-Inch fall was re corded this morning. Roads Driving conditions were generally good over the passes today. 8 pots of Ice were reported by the state highway department in the Bend sector, on the Qreensprlngs and on the Lakevlew highway In the Bly district, there was packed snow except where the highway rar through exposed areas. Coldest point In the area was at Tulelake where a minimum of 4 below aero was reported. It waa 1 below at Bly. a below at Oerber dam, 3 above at Clear Lake, 6 above at Keno. 7 above at Chllo quln. a warm M above at Chemult and fairly balmy at Odell on the Willamette highway where the mercury went no lower than 32 above. Schoolboys Fight; One Hospitalized A Junior student at Klamath Union high school was under med ical care at Klamath Valley hos pital today, treated for head and eye Injuries received early yesterday In a fistic encounter on the wav to class. Lee Smith, 18. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Smith. 3618 Altamont drive, has skull Injuries, cuts about the face and head and serious eye Injuries aa a result of the fight. Neither city police nor the Juvenile office had been advised of the In cident at noon today and no action had been taken against other itu denta Involved In the quarrel. The fist flRht occurred shortly after the Altamont bus had let the students oft en route to class a aliort time after 8 a. m. After the f tpht, young Smith went on to school but later relatives called and took him to the hospital where he was treated and dismissed. He was re admitted to the hospital at 10:30 a. m. yesterday and x-ray of the skull mad at that time. Grateful Villagers Sharing Gifts With Luckless Neighbors 8HALLMAR. Md Dee. 23 ov-The spirit of Christmas burned brightly In this Utile mountain town today. And it Is spreading to other poverty-stricken communities of the mountain area. All but a few of 8hallmar'i 300 residents were utterly destitute a few weeks ago. There has been no work In the community since It only mine a closed down in March for lack of 7oman Auto Gas Victim Identified A woman who, with two men, died Tuesday night In a stalled car on the highway south of Gilchrist, haa been identified as Drucllla Mc Kinney, a resident of Idanha, Ore. State police aald they learned that the woman left her husband at Idanha three week ago and went to Bend. Presumably ahe Joined Jack Virgil FTtedley, 39, there and wa registered a man and wife with him at a Bend Motel Male Victims Frledley and Virgil Lee Johnson, 40. also did In the automobile of carbon monoxide poisoning. Their car was stalled In a snowbank. Frledley was a resident of Idanha and Johnson is from Gates, Ore. although he had been employed by the Brlggs Logging company near Diamond lake. The bodies of the three are held at Ward's. None has been claimed. MRS. JANE BANCROFT BOSTON. Dec. 33 ( Pi Mrs. Jane Bancroft, once noted sportswoman and principal owner of Dow-Jonea company, publishers, of The Wall 8treet Journal, died last night. 8h was 72 years old. 2 SHOPP'NgA.yy LtfT BuyCRisrMAsSeALS, orders. Thin, scantily clad children be came faint In school for lack of food. Some families had subsisted for weeks on a diet made up main ly of potatoes and apples. Then the plight of the town and Its 80 children leaked into the out side world. Relief Soon trucks loaded with food and clothing started bumping their way over the narrow mountain road to Shallmar. The packages were sent from all sections of the country. Hundreds of toys arrived and the malls brought letters from each of the 48 slates. Many contained a coin or a check. More than $3000 1 on hand now. It will be used to assure hot lunches for the children. In all. S'i tons of clothing and foodstuffs have been sent to Shall mar. That would have been enough to carry the community for a long time. Spirit But Christmas is coming and many families of nearby Maryland and West Virginia communities also have been facing a cheerless Yule. So Shallmar is dividing its gifts with less fortunate neighbors. Seventy neighboring families have received Shallmar food baskets In the last day or two. The children of 30 tamillea have been clothed from Shallmar stocks. Many toy are being repaired by the men of the town. They will be sent to mountain home where Christmas stockings would have been empty. Shallmar has given so much that there la Just enough food left for the week-end. But this Is a big week-end. The folka here are glad they have had a chance to spread the spirit of Christmas. its doors and boosted it rewards total to nearly a quarter million dollars. Neither in the attempted assassi nation of UAW President Walter Reuther, nor that of his brother, Victor, did the FBI Intervene. - News Tip The Detroit Times, one of whose reporters was "tipped" to the in tended dynamiting. Invited his anonymous telephone informant to call again on a promise of "abso lute protection." Reporter Jack Pickering, who got the call, wrote a story beginning: "PERSONAL. To the man who phoned me Tuesday night to say that UAW headquarters wa being bombed." The story went on to say: "You sounded like a man who didn't want fellow human beings to die whether you liked them, hated them, or didn't know them at all. "I don't know, naturally, what your part was in this, but your part didn't include wanting to kilL You're a different kind of man... You're a different kind of man . . Protection The pledge of "absolute protec tion" then was made. The tipster was urged to "call me. contact me in any way you choose, at any time, night or day, anonymously or otherwise." Thirty-nine wrapped sticks of the explosive were planted in a card board box at a side door of the UAW building. - Turkey Prices Down Little; Coffee Holds Be The Aaaadated Press Turkey prices declined two to six cents a pound In most places this last week before Christmas and were about 20 cents cheaper than the all-time highs of last yuletide. aronnd 57 to 58 cent a pound In many highly compeUUsagWw Meals Cranberries were mostly un changed from Thanksgiving time. And holiday menu planners looking for something besides turkey for the main course found hams, pork loin roasts and rib beef roasts cost ing about the same a a week ago. Prices of many fresh veire tables for the menu aide dishes were a little lower this week. Nuts for turkey stuffing, fruit cakes, mince pies and the nut bowl were so abundant that the agricul ture department Included them among the most-plentiful foods for the pre-Christmas week. Raisins were on the list. too. Oranges were being widely fea tured for holiday fare with some California varities as much aa 15 cents a dozen cheaper than a year ago. Top grade eggs continued their long seasonal price skid this week, dropping two to 10 cents a dozen as production continued high. .ietail coffee prices edged slight ly higher In some stores. W. F. Williamson, manage of the Nation s' Coffee association, said shoppers can expect to find coffee staying at the present level or somewhat higher for a long time. Japs Camp Before Red Embassy TOKYO, Dec. 22 () Rela tives of Japanese war prison I ers held by the Russians dent-1 onstrated in front of the Sov- let embassy for several houri today and tonight but finally drifted away shortly after 9 m. By 9:45 p. m. all of the es timated 200 who had camped arouna Doruire outside in bassy gate were gone. The bedraggled squatters broke I un alter eight spokesmen were ad-1 mitted and returned with word that I an unidentified Soviet mission of-1 flcial had told them to com back I December 28. TanaeasBata The demonstration followed da. I nunclatlon by General MacArthurl of Soviet 'callousness" In refusal I to account for some 378.000 prisoners I who lure been listed aa "missing"! since the Japanese surrender in I 1845. I The supreme commander of the I occupation announced he had asked Washington to begin negotiationa for an Investigation by a neutral nation or by the International Red Cross. It waa one of Mac Arthur's strong - en attack on the Russians. It waal the aftermath of a Russian walkout I yesterday from the four-power al lied council for Japan. The Russian I walked out repeating in a letter I tneir old charge that the United I States wa fostering a revival of I Japanese fascism. gusamma' Mac Arthur said the letter showed I l callousness of hypocrisy I can I rot fall to denounce." He termed it I a smokescreen to distract attention I from the repatriation Issue. W. J. Sebald, head of the occu pation diplomatic section, earlier had termed the letter "unadulter ated twaddle." The Japanese crowd around tha Soviet mission became clamorous at times. Once Russian guards pushed them back when they attempted e enter the compound. The delegation went to the em bassy to keep what Its leaders said waa an appointment made last week with Soviet officials who prom ised answers to questions on re patriation. , . 8aU. Tear i , jVtass-tlr -vnesst own rlSouc- atfrcTThe Cornell V ee(i. guards refused them entrance and said the Russian officials they asked to see were unavailable. MacArthur latest and strongest blast against the Soviets highlight ed an Intensified American cam paign on the repatriation question. Sebald told the council yesterday, after the Russian walkout, that probably 374.041 of the missing Jap anese prisoners had died in Soviet prison camps. He read a lengthy account of the Russians treatinx nrisoner brutally In "disregard of humanity." ehtctanee Of this MacArthur aald today: "I can well understand the re luctance of the Soviet member yes terday to listen to so grusome and savage a story In all its harrowing barbarity. It could well chill and sicken even a hardened old soldier. ELECTRIFICATION HEAD CHICAGO. Dec. 23 (flV-Dr. P. D. Sanders. Richmond, Vs., was elect ed chairman of the National Farm Electrification conference today. Reserve Drill Pav Stopped WASHINGTON. Dec. 32 0V-Th army is cutting off all drill pay for 78.464 enlisted men and officers in 3868 of Its reserve training units. The order goea Into effect Janu ary 1 for at least six months. Army officials disclosed the ac tion today. They said a tremendous Jump in the number entering tha paid drill program has left tha army without enough money to eon tlnue the payments. BOAT BURNS LONO BKACH. Calif., Dec. 23 (i The fishing boat, St. James, burned and sank today after the two coast guard ships tried all night to put out a stubborn fire in the fuel tank. The 8t. James' crew of 12 wa evacuated safely to another fishing vessel and brought Into San Pedro, Baby Slayer Condemned To Death FRESNO. Calif.. Dec. 32 UPi Paul Montes Gutierrez, 25-year-old cotton picker, was convicted yes terday of first degree murder In the rape slaying of 17-months-old Josephine Yanez. The verdict of Superior Judge Ar thur C. Shepard. who heard the case without a Jury, waa without recommendation, making death penalty automatic, e Judge Shepard also ruled that Gutierrez was sane. 'Vicious' Peace officers called the Novem ber 20 "the mwt vicious murder ever committed In Fresno county." Gutierrez admitted taking the child from her parents' car, but said he remembered nothing after falling with her. Jowphlne, daughter of ranch worker Jos Yanez, 29, and his wife, Teya, 22. disappeared in a brief In terval when neither parent waa In the car. Searchers found her almost nude, violated body hours later smoth ered in the mud of a cotton field. Shooting Hours December 23 Opent 1:88 a. av Cleaei 3.:3 p. aa. Meet the People j . ( ...... Ja;y:-':, asaaJf'' " "' " I ", " " a 'w- -v - i . ' - - -. DOWN KLAMATH'S ICY streets trods early morning workei Joe Reading, Klamath Falls druggist, who runs head-on lnt the Meet the People snapper,
