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Newspaper Page Textr' fo) Em 0) u fo) uTbo- Cay s Ie.w Br FRANK JENKINS T11K Moscow praM um to town today on On big reception held last night aa a part of tin OPKI ClAL celebration of Stalin's 70lh birUiday anniversary. The big blng took piece In tin Willi Hull of the largest of all the Kremlin chambare. Present wr Uie highest Soviet minister, member ol Uie Supreme Soviet and thou specially honored persona who hold Uie order ol Hero of Uie Soviet Union and Hero ol Socialist Labor. Preient alu at the illtlerlnf af fair were well known tliure In Soviet science, art and literature, marshal, e n e r a I , Journalist tKuMian Journaluta are Uie trained seal kind, wlio bark when th mas ter speaks) and delegations from A lortUn countries. e e UfHKRB waa Ivan Ivanovlch, the Russian oommon man? Oh, he waa out In the cold and anow shivering and slaving and lolling TO PAY KOR ALL THIS POMP AND O LITTER. That wher th common man alway wind up when too much ower 1 beld In too lew hand too Auto Union Warfare Investigation Pushed Under Secrecy Cover DETROIT. Dec. 23 (IV) A secrecy lid was clamped today on the investigation of the dynamite bomb plot against the ClO'i auto union Both the FBI and city police shielded their efforts to solve Tuesday night's mysterious plant of i powerful e plosive at me international union s neauquaners. y Defects in the bomo prevented us explosion. FBI agents, ordered into the case from Washington, pro- acceded without comment. As a painstaking search for frit five Cent IX P- KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER U. 149 Telephone ml Ne. 313 ..p pow lollf. i IN WasliUiglou, D. C, thl morn- UK. Representative Mack, Repub lican congressman from Ui iuii ol Washington, ran Into Charlie Walkins. who handle Pacific Northwest new lor the Associated Pre. (Charlie prowl Ul hall ol th Capitol and th houa and sen at olllc bulldlnt In aearch ol Northwest lawmaker who are In Ui mood to ay something that mliht mak new. When Uiey y IL Charlie wire It out her for cumumpuon by th home folk.) Mack ld thl morning to Charlie "The main effort ol th coming teuton ol congress SHOULD BE TO REDUCE THE PKEHENT WA8TEKUL AND EXTRAVAGANT FEDERAL BPENDINO BY ABOUT TEN BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR." That aounded OK to Charlie, and a lew minute later th atufl waa coming oil our teletype. f DONT know Repreaenlallv Mack 1 personally, but I'm In complete agreement with hie tatement that aotura ought to nick about ten Billion dollar oil th federal gov ernment (pending. Congrea could DO IT. too. If It really wanted to do. Th wis .'minding lather md con m the KEEPER OP THE PURSE TRINOS. Until congress approprtatea th money, NOBODY CAN SPEND IT. If congrea refuse to approprl aie, th administration can't ipend. flOBODY know all thl better " than Charlie Watkln. who to a new hound, and a good one, and so when Representative Mack got thane winged word off hi chest Charlie tost no Um getting them onto th wire. I'M all for Congreaaman Mack propouL But I wonder. I wonder what he would do U aomeixxiy propoaed to reduce the federal (pending by tome million of dollara IN THE STATE OP WA8HINOTON. That's wher th (ho would be gin to pinch. QNE trouble with our congress I that It member (re against recklrna federal (pending EVERY WHERE EXCEPT IN THEIR OWN DISTRICTS. AOREF.ME.NT BALTIMORE. Dec. 13 oV-The dsn In whitewash on th windshield ot a used car labeled It "A Steal." Brmebody agreed. The cat disap peared from th lot laat night. Tavern Case Jury Fails To Agree A justice court jury tailed to agree on a verdict yer-urday after noon and a misdemeanor charge of selling liquor to minor again! opera tore of th Spot tavern, 2320 8. 8th, probably will be dismissed. Th can ha been pending since early spring. Defendant are Wil liam Llndy and Walter Olbson. tav ern ownerr, and th accusation waa that Oary Dawe. former high school athletic star, wa served beer at th Spot, May 13. Deadlock After about four hour of testi mony and two hour ot delibera tion, th sla-nun Jury could not reach a verdict. I'notflclally the vote waa reported to be three to three. A retrial Is possible but I Im probable eince the prosecution' main witness, Dawe. la attending Oregon Slat college and will re turn to achool after th Christmas holidays. The district attorney' ol llc has not lormally dismissed Uie cast. Wrong Man Dawea testified yesterday he waa erred beer at In Boot but waa un able to point out Walter Olbson as having been present at the tavern at th Urn. Instead he pointed to Art Olbson, brother of Walter, who waa also In Uie courtroom. Art Olb son run th 97 supper club. The tavern operators denied they sold beer to Dawea or any other person under 31. Dawe waa IS at the um of the alleged aale. Jury Jurymen hearing Uie trial wer Fred W. Coler. foreman. J. R, Hols gang. Harry It. Lamphesr. J. U. Martin.' Hlitard PctnelL and Ger ald Baker. Attorney J. C. O'Neill defended Llnrty and Gibson. Lost Youth Search Futile WALLA WALLA. Dec. 33 oPi Search parties, bunUng for an 18-year-old youth who few of them even dare to hop may be found ll4, wer straggling back horn to day. Some wer giving up the aearch; others, doggedly deter mined, planned to return to the rugged Blue mountain area south east of here. Th youth. Donald McDonald, dis appeared tight day ago during an elk hunt. Rescue parties have combed the snow-swept black Snake Ridge sector since Sunday without success. On two occasions yesterday, hopes of the tiring posse soared when they cam across a trail believed t- be that of the boy. Each Ume. rowever, th lead petered out In a deep anow, -hrrlff A. A. Shlck (aid last night It waa poulble that melting anow might uncover new lead. He said he expected to tend more men Into Ui field today. clues continued, police took further steps to protect union ists and to guard against any further attacks. The nature ol Uie precautions waa undisclosed. To reveal the step taken would be to defeat our purpose." aald Fo lic Supt. Edwin Morgan. (iuard After Uie attempt on the live of Walter and Victor Reutlier, police guard were placed at the brothers' home. Th CIO United Auto Worker lo bought an armored car for Walter Reuther, their president. Welter wa shot and seriously wounded In the spring of IMS. A year later Victor met a similar fate again from a shotgun marksman In ambush. At hi pre conference In Wash ington yesterday President Truman commented on Uie dynamite plot. Truman denounced It as out lageous. Communists Michigan communit party took Issue with reiterated theories that communists might be at Uie root of Uie UAW-CIOs trouble. Rruther. an arch enemy of com munists, has said so and certain police, too. Pone Invites Return To 'True Church' VATICAN CITY. Dec. 33 i" Pop Plus XII pleaded today for union within the Roman Catholic church of all ChrlsUsns to oppose Uie advance of militant atheism. The pope' addreas. hi annual Christina mesag,jv directed to th whole world. He tpok on the eve of th 1950 holy year which he aald "must be decisive, especially for Uw longed for renewal of the modern world." Waiting ii faculty Increase Six new instructors were granted Oregon Technical in stitute at a meeting yesterday of the Oregon state board of education in Salem. Director Winston Purvine said today that appointment was approved by the board due to the considerable in crease in enrollment at OT1. Winter term figure now stand at 714. Probably the most Important ap pointment waa that of Dr. Oerald E. Cosgrov Jr., Detroit. Mich., who report to the school January 1 a pathologist In medical technology. Improvement Dr. Cosgrov visited OTI on two previous occasion and hi Joining the faculty a supervisor and In structor Improves the status ot graduates leaving Ui course, Pur vine said. Other Instructors appointed were: Mervyn Evans of Jacksonville. Ore., refrigeration servicing. Albert McVey. Klamath Fall, drafting and surveying. Oeorge A. Harper Jr, Portland, gurumi thing. Vernor Harless, Taft, Ore, gradu ate assistant Instructor In baking. Rowland Ulrich. Klamath rails, gradual assistant In accounting and business management. John Howard was advanced from the position of curriculum supervis or to Uie rating of supervisor of instruction vacated by the rtsix na tion of John Dunn, now at Van port college, Portland. Schedule Switch The board approved standards of hour and service for Instructor and supervisors based on profession al practices In other schools. In structors have been working on an eight-hour day program similar to that of Industry Purvine aald. Change In the new plan provide for a variable work schedule daUy and for the supervising of extra cur rlcular acUvltles In evening hours. It also provides for summer school attendance during the achool sum mer vacation which will Increase The pontiff expressed the hope by degree within the next three this holy year would welcome also j yeara to a two-month summer va- the great return to th one true ' cation. B-50 Crash Takes Lives Of 11 Men SAVANNAii Ga., Dec. 23 (JP) A flaming air force B-50 bomber crashed in a dreary river marsh last night, killing all 11 airmen aboard and scattering and burying bodies and wreckage in the muck. The big bomber had just taken off from Chatham air force base here when it went down on the bank of a branch of the muddy Savannah river. The crash was only seven miles above the city, but it was so inaccessible it took rescue parties hours to reach it by boat. if 4 The first persons to reach the scene were forced back by flaming gasoline, floating i on the water. The flames were ! visible for mile. Col. Frederic E. Olanuberg, com manding officer of Chatham field, identified the plane. He said It took off at 9:13 pm. on a training flight to El Paso. Tex. It crashed about five minutes later. The plane had been In service at Chatham for a year or a year and a half. The B-50, an Improved ver sion of the B-29 Superfortress, has a wlngspread of 141 feet. Is 99 feet long end weighs 125.000 pounds. The air force describes It as a more powerful version of the B-29 which bombed Japan. Difllcnlty Population Tops 150.000.000 Mark WASHINGTON. Dee. 33 ftp) Tbe United States aopalstlon faaa eraaaral the IS.. mark, Th ermaa bareaa today Wl snatral the population, growing at a tae.as - . month dip, reached 15,I834) M Naveaa ber 1. Thl waa a 3.133. Increase in the first 1 months ml 1S4 and a gain of 1MM.IM since the last full census April L ISI. Rain Making Test Said Successful LOS ANGELES. Dec. 33 OP, A noted aerologiit today claimed suc cess for a new artificial rainmaklng method which tie says would have prevented New York City's current water shortage. Dr. Irving Krick. official weather forecaster for the Norma nay lnva-'-n. disclosed results of large-scale rainmaklng tests In Arizona con ducted by his American Institute of Aerologlcal Research. The new method works from the ground, up much like smoke from a chimney. Another artificial method. The crash site was less than two a , .. miles from U. s. highway 17. which 'irplan. GE also pioneered us of church, awaited over Uie centuries . . . with good reason. He aald "men are anxious about the effrontery with which Uie united front of militant atheism advances, and the old question I now voiced aloud: why are there still aepara-Uons?" fi ii p-i wyigiiia iwpravsswsMafssaawasasawrary" !M s aa,11 lias. . L&.ftm iA-L. swil'Sw'swsl aasiaaiw t FREEDOM THEIR XMAS PRESENT Mrs. Elicla M. A. Kra mck holds her jail-born baby daughter, Joeena, 5 months old, as she greets her husband, Joseph, after thq 25-year-old niothor had been freed from the women's reformatory at Framlngham, Mass. Another woman had confessed in a Worcester, Mass., court to having passed the worthless checks for which Mrs. Kramek had served nine months of an in definite sentence. The mother had cared for her boy in the reformatory. . 2 Youngsters Buried Alive WICHITA PALLS. Tex., Dec. 33 iPi Two tiny boys both five died late yesterday under dirt and debris apparently pushed over them by a bulldozer as they played In a shallow gully. A forlorn dog. playmate ot the boys, led to the discovery of Billy Rogers and Donnle Tolten and end ed a search by hundreds along the banks of the Wichita river. Search The two little boys had been sought five hours. The bulldozer waa owned by Billy' father. It was being used In a leveling Job being performed by his construction company. Sheriff Hammet Vance said the boy wer apparently covered by the bulldozer. They were believed to have been coverd about 3:30 or 4 p. m. Billy's body was found under a foot of dirt at t:50 a. m. At 10:10 p. m, Donnle wa found under two feet of earth. The bodies were found about IS feet apart, approximately a block and a half from Billy home. Sanday Schl The board approved by concen sus, not by vote, the application of th OTI Inter-demonlnaUonal Bun da school for use of the guest house for services each 8unday.' Leader of the school Is Mrs. W. P. Templln. wife of a Klamath Pall Baptist minister. The group began Its meetings In a student' apart ment and has' grown to an enroll ment of 35 children. Purvine aald. Purvine, who attended the see s' in, reported a balance of 136.244. 50, unexpended budgeted funds for the first quarter, July 1 to Sep tember 30. 194. Icy Waters Flood City PRINCE GEORGE.' B. C Dec. 33 (CP) Icy waters from the Nechako river swirled through Prince George streets today, backed up by an Ice Jam. As flood waters rose six Inches overnight, sawmills closed, and some householders In the mill dis trict fled their homes. Damage al ready totals at least 175.000. tynamite was used in efforts to divert Ui flood waters from Indus trial sections, and In the residential district 300 homes are menaced. More than 300 men are Idle today, and the Jobs of hundreds of others are threatened as Uie water ad vances Into Uie mill district. SACRIFICE The Duchess of Sejwia -;above), wife of Don Jaime De Bourbon, told news men at a conference in Paris that she would "renounce" her marriage if it will be an obstacle to her husband in his claims to the Spanish throne. The duchess said her hus band, who does not read the newspapers, is not yet aware crosses Uw river Just above 8avan nan. But It could only be reached by small boats guided by boatmen who knew the river. The crash waa only a few miles fiom Uie spot where a chartered air liner crashed January T, 194S. kill ing IS and Injuring 18 Puerto Rican on a night from Newark. N. J, to their home. Yugbs'Tito Reassured By Truman silver iodide seeding of clouds from planes. Krick saya Uie ground smok ing method Is much cheaper. Smoke' The Krick tests utilized mobil stiver Iodide "smoke" dispensers lo cated strategically as to wind di rection. He estimated that Uie meth od quadrupled the Arizona test area's rainfall during a two year period. The testing area lie south ward of Plagstaf f. Wrnslow and Hoi- brook and north of Prescott. He did not divtase, size of .ha are tut aald that each dispenser was capable of affecting precipitation In an area of some 340 aquar miles. at Koenigsberg, Germany, and is a former opera singer known as Carlotla Tiedeman. WASHINGTON. Dee. 33 oV Prom President Truman to Mar shall Tito, a major target of Soviet threats: The United States is op posed to aggression against any of her decision. She was born i0"00- - jrus is ine worn iruman nas Instructed Oeorge V. Allen, his new ambassador to Yugoslavia to pass on to the Tito government. Allen is due to leave for Belgrade Dec 38. Pleasure i Tito has been under heavy pres sure from the Russians since his break with Moscow more than a year ago. There has been specula tion that sometime the Russians might try to break his power by means of guerrilla warfare. The United States and other Western nations have given Tito economic and political assistance since he stormed out of the Soviet camp. But there never has been any official statement of what this country's policy would be in the event of a Soviet-communist attack on Yugoslavia. 2 Railroaders Die in Wreck NEW YORK, Dec. 33 MV-Two railroad men were killed last night In a train wreck that blocked rail service to Long Island for hours and stranded commuters In massed thousand at Pennsylvania station. 81x trainmen wer Injured, one critically. Normal service was not restored on . the Long Island railroau until about midnight, six hour after an empty passenger train smashed Into the rear of another at Long Island City, Queens. Marooned Jam-packed throngs of com muters, estimated at 25.000 to 30.000, wer marooned at the height ol the rush hour. Not a Long Island train moved out of Penn station for three and a halt hour. Then only partial service waa restored, Motorman Walter Bhelton and Conductor John Orltman on the rear train wore fatally crushed. West Eyed For Air Base Site PORTLAND, Dec. 23 " The air frrce. seeking a site for a West Point of the air, la looking over Western cities. Including Portland. - Army engineers disclosed this yesterday, saying they had been asked to make a survey of sites In this area. Needed are at least 9000 acres of land within 50 mile ot the city with access to railroads, high ways and airports. Buy Cmstmas feALsf Shin Burns, 42Eseane BOSTON, Dec. 23 (fv-Squirming out ot portholes and struggling through smoke-fUled companion ways, 40 crewmen and two steward esses escaped In nightclothea early today as explosions and flames wrecked Uie midship decks of Uie moored Norwegian freighter. Fern Bay. One crewman suffered bums and the ship's captain made his way over a cargo boom to safety In the 4 a. m. blase which caused loss estimated at "between 1 100 .000 and $500,000." Flame ate through the five-deck superstructure, of the 10-months-old 8000-ton vessel, out of Oslo. Norway, which arrived here recently from Port Said after a voyage to Far Eastern porta Auto, Train Hit; 4 Killed PANA. HI, Dec. 23 (i Two youths and two teen-age girls were killed and a third girl was seriously Injured last nisnt In an automobile freight train collision near her. Coroner Earl J. Baker of ChrisUan county said the 10 year old car crashed Into a New York Central freight train. '. Baker said the five young people wer returning to Pana after driv ing a third boy to thl farm home, about a mile from the accident scene. The dead, alt of Pana, were Identi fied as Herman Becker, 20, driver of the car; Jonn Hill. IT: Barbara Havrllka. It, an Delores Potchkes, 18. , Taproom Shows Yule Spirit OAKLYN, J. J Dec.1 33 IffV-A bar In Oaklyav today displayed thl ign: "This taproom will be closed at p.m. Christmas Eve go horn and give your children break." Innocent Man Gets Freedom COLUMBUS. O, Dec. 23 ( Ad absolute pardon was granted today to a 38-year-old man who has been ' Imprisoned 1 h Ohio penitentiary I since Novemner 28, 1948 because ;of i a mistake. - . . uov. rrank J. Lausche. issuing the pardon, oraered the Immedi ate release of Ralph Eacbes of Richwood, Ohio., The governoi. after extensive in vestigation, found that Eaches was convicted, by ru'take, of a grocery store robbery which" occurred In August. 1948, a' Marlon, Ohio. ; - Mistake Eaches, identified by witnesses as one of two men who held up Ui store, was sentenced to 1 to 35 yeara In prison. Earl D. Bircliam, now awaiting electrocution In Uie Kentucky state prison, said that he and Charles Hunter but not Eaches robbed Uie store.. Yesterday's 'Quake Came From Blast The explanation of yesterday's earth-shaking blast which was generally interpreted as a temblor came from Floyd Somen, con' tractor, today. Two boxes of orer-age dynamite were exploded at an old gravel pit on the Lee Holliday place on Uie Keno road. "The explosion," Somen said, "was greater than expected,' a sur mise that ranks as the under statement of the year. Forceful The blast shook the ground and rattled windows all over Uie Stewart-Lennox area and was reported from as far away a California avenue. Homedale and Harlan drive. - The - California university seismograph registered an unidenti fied disturbance at 12:02 p m. The blast here occurred at 11:55 ajn. Somers said Uie only damage re sulting was a broken window at Uie Henry Newhouse residence near the blast scene. . Outlook For Future Promising WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (ff) Christmas shopping showed signs today of taking a lata spurt that might carry it to a close finish with last year's record winner. i It seemed to be in harmony with the optimism over the jriation's business outlook which was expressed by Pres ident Truman at his news conference yesterday. Truman didn't elaborate. - The federal reserve board renorted that a surge of buy ing at the mid-December point shot department store sales ahead of the same part ofboomtlm 194a for the first time in month. Extra Pay And 1949. striving at being th 12th consecutive year to hang up a new Christmas sales high, pack ed one big advantage: It has an ex tra shopping day over last year. incu this Christmas fall on Sun day whereas It came on Saturday Ul 1948. Th reserve board, compiling re ports from aU over the country, an nounced department store sales last week forged one per cent ahead of the same week of 1948. That was a sharp Improvement over Uie department store record of a six per cent lag behind last year for the period from January 1 to mu-uecemoer. Retail Sales Government figures showed, too, that over-all retail sales have bet tered the department (tore record throughout 1949. holding to within one and one-half per cent of 1948 a rr-ord for Uie period up to December. Money in circulation Jumped 8132.000,000 In the seven-day period ended Wednesday as consumers, gearing up for the final splurge, drew cash from their bank ac counts. Merchants were going harder aft er business, aa advertisement blos soming in newspapers made clear. Some (tores, in Washington and ewhere. aald their dollar intake already has set a new record. Credit Officials credited the 1949 buying wave chiefly to high level consum er income, which was right up to U4aV at- a total approarhiny 8312,- 000,000.000. Another factor, they noted, wa liberal credit, bolstered now by an ticipation of a 12 .800 .000.000 shower ' government Insurance refunds to Vetera as scheduled to begin next month. - Consumer -credit in general and tristallment-plan'crAllt stood at his tory-making highs of well over 817,- 000.009 and 10.000.000,000 Kept lively, - - The- reserve board's department store report pointed to the greatest buying pickup last week In the Mid west and South. The weakest show ing waa In Uie heavily populated Eastern seaboard area, - ' . Truman Home For Yuletide KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23 m President Truman flew in today for a white Christmas at the family home In nearby Independence, Mo. His personal plane, the Independ ence, arrived at 12:42 pm.. four hours and five minutes after taking oft In the rain from Washington, DC. Kansas City wore the traditional Christmas Icing three Inches ot snow that sparkled In the sun. ' . At Fairfax airport to meet th uiesident were Mrs. Truman, who arrived several days ago: his brother, I J. Vivian Truman, and bis sister. Mary Jane Truman. Meet the People AP Editor Heppt's Wift Dies MENLO PARK, Calif.. Dec. 33 VP) An extended U.Hiess yesterday took Uie life of Mrs. Myrtle Heppe, wife of Ralph H. Heppe, business editor of the Associated Press in San Francisco.' In addition to her husband. Mrs. Heppe la survived by a son, Rich ard, now living In' Lot Angeles. .- Shooting Hours December 24 ' Ofsmt 7:8 .Closet 3:19 KFJI ANNOUNCER Alan Abner holds for tense moment st the fights before giving out-with the ring antics over the air.