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No. Z708
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Day's lews
Br FRANK JENKINS
Washington:
"Congress reconvened today for
n election-year session certain to
be studded with controversy over
Issues ON WHICH POLITICAL
FORTUNES WILL RIDE In next
November's voting."
One of Urn handicaps of our svs
tein, It aeems to ma. U tint
EVERY OTHER -YKAR "there- Is
ml election on which political for
tunes ride, and o the members
nf our congress are kept so- busy
figuring out how to be re-elected
tlml they have too little Urn letl
fr constructive, iatemaiilike leg
islation. There Is the Issue of governmen
tnl economy, for example. Every
clear thinker known It In one of the
giave.it problems confronting us.
Yet Washington dispatches by
well Inlormed writers during the
pu.it week or o have been re
llrctlng the belief that at the km
mod of congress Uial Is Just begin
ning there will be a lot ot talk
about economy, but nothing much
will be DONE ABOUT IT.
Why?
1 think the answer Is that con
gressmen and senators who are
coming up lor re-election this year
Htill think the best way to win re
election Is to go on spending free
ly, even If that means going on
spending beyond our Income.
Wouldn't It be wonderful If we
could have a congress made up
ol men who have searched their
souls and alter the search have
said flullv:
'Win am I? What are my PER
HON AJj fortunes and my PERSON
AL well-being when compared with
the wcllaro of my country?
"So
"As long as I remain In office
"I shall disregard my PERSON
AL interests and within the limits
ol the ability that has been Riven
to me I will vote Invariably for
whu t my conscience and my Judge
ment loll me Is for Win best, In
terests of my countr."
. 'i
I'm afraid we modern ftiienvare
Vslntr sight of the SUPREME. IM
PORTANCE of congress. : The
Founding Fathers were under no
ilrhslons as to Its Import. nee.
Within the limits of the conttttu
lion as Interpreted by the supreme
court they gave to the congress
Immense power to shape the des
tinies of our country. ,
Among other things, they ap
pointed congress- as the KEEPER
OP THE PURSE. By wise uie of
lis power as keeper of the l'urse
congress can exercise complete
control over any spendthrift admin
istration. ;
But when CONGRESS pulls the
purse's wide open and scatters lis
contents hither and yon, there (can
he no such thing as b wise and
sound economy.
- i ; .
Elmer Manning
Found Dead
" AGENCY LAKE Elmer Man
ning, about 40, was discovered dead
curly this morning In ht cabin
here. I
Death was believed from natural
causes, but State Police and Cpun
ty Coroner Dr. George Adler ere
Investigating late this morning. -
The body was discovered by, Joe
Bottle, delivering eggs to the cab
in. Ho notified State Police, at
Klamath Falls.
Manning had been a longtime
trapper In the area and Just- re
cently started operating a fishing
and boating service. .
Names of survivors were not .Im
mediately learned, although frlnnds
say Manning has a mother In Port
I" ni I nncl a sister living some
where on the coast. t -i ,
Allies Lose Positions
Ji u"r''""'"y wwnyyv w'rwyw twinHue
I
Reds Bring
Tanks Into
Big Battle
Spud Market
Still Brisk
Despite Cut
By MAC EPLEY JR.
Potatoes were being shipped at
a high rate today, despite the fact
prices will be rolled back by OPS
order on Jan. 19, lopping up to
11.55 off the fanners potato sell
ing price and knocking an estim
ated 82.000,000 off the basin's farm
income
Yesterday the State department
of Agriculture shipment certificates
showed 65 carloads of potatoes
were shipped outbound to market.
Saturday the count was 103 one
of the highest days of the season.
Potatoes last week were selling
at $5 and over, with shippers sup
plying the sacks. The OPS cutback
calls for No. l's to sell at J3.65,
with the grower putting out an
other 30 cents for sacks.
A general "we wuz robbed" at
titude prevailed among growers
unci handlers alike. In Boise. Idaho
shippers had followed up an earlier
Idea by a Klamath handler and
suggested a two or three week
"shipping holiday" In protest
against the price ceilings.
Klamath Growers' fres. tianaaii
Pope. Merrill, and Roy Snabel,
Prineville, chairman of the Potato
Marketing Agreement Committee,
were scheduled to be in Boise
today to attend a meeting where
plans were to be drawn up to fiRht
the price rollback.
BIG LOSS Sr.t
To date 5645 carloads of an es
timated 10,500-car crop have been
shipped, records show. There are
an average of 360 sacks per car.
With each sack losing the $1.55.
total losses would amount to well
over the S2.000.000 mark. However,
an undetermined number of the re
maining potatoes have already
been sold at earlier Quotations.
The OPS regulation allowed
Idaho potatoes a 20 rent premium
over Klamath and other Western
potatoes, making the Idahoans the
highest priced potatoes in the coun
try. The OPS explained that pro
visions were made in the rollback
order for areas where unusual con
ditions had produced poor crops.
The possibility of lowering the
size of marketable potatoes from
the present 2-lnch minimum (as
set bv committee regulation) to
l'j-lnch minimum or "peewee'
size would put more potatoes on
,019 market in order that farmers
can make up for their losses.
Such a plan is to be discussed
at a meeting scheduled nere ior
Jan. 15-16 by the Oregon-California
Stassen Says
Bid 'His Own'
MILWAUKEE W Harold E.
Massen said Tuesday his bid for
the Republican presidential nomi
nation would be on his own and
not "a shadow campaign for Gen.
Elsenhower."
Stassen told a press conference
that Elsenhower's statement that
he would be available If drafted
for the nomination "clears the air."
"I believe that the Tightness of
my decision to run and enter most
of these primaries Is borne out
by Gen. Elsenhower's statement.
My campaign for nomination and
election will proceed."
The former Minnesota Governor
said he would enter a full slate of
30 delegates pledged to him in the
Wisconsin preferential primary
April 1. He expects to complete
the slate by Jan. r.
H, Hemingsen
Death Learned
Herbert C. He mingsen, 48. for
mer Herald and News composing
room foreman, died this morning
at International Typographical Un
ion Printer's Hospital at Colorado
Springs Colo.
Hemingsen went to the hospital
several months ago for special
medical treatment. He had been
111 about 18 months.
Survivors include the widow,
Lola Mae. and a daughter. Marilyn
of Klamath Falls; his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Hemingsen Eu
gene live brothers and three sis
ters. Hemingsen was born Jan. 5. 1904
at Hutchinson, Minn. He came
West to Eugene at the age of 15
with his parents.
Hemingt.en started in the news
paper business in Eugene, coming
here in 1932 to take over super
intendent's job of the Herald and
News mechanical division.
He was married in 1929 at Eu
gene. The body will be shipped here
for funeral services and burial.
Time of the services wil be an
nounced later. -
By JOHN M. IIIGHTOWKR
WASHINGTON, MP) Britain's
recognition of Communist China
was expected to come up Tuesday
in the globe-girdling talks between
President Truman and prime Min
ister Churchill.
The President was expected to
tell the Prime Minister that this
country's non-recognltlon of the
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
SEOUL, Korea ( United ' pmiin Mnrlietinir ABreemenr Com
Nations Infantrymen won. then lost Imlttee. according to Secy. William
two Important objectives Tuesday Peterson.
in tne battle ol siisi Bulge, a bitter
fight to recapture ground taken by
the Reds Dec. 28.
The U. S. Eighth Army com
munique, reporting this, did not
Identify the Western Front objective.
! Gambler Faces
Federal Jury
Mariners To
Hear Forum
Recognition By
British Irkes US,
Defense Plan Laid
U. N. elements took one after
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company and the other after a 10-! "k" f.",' sttt unm;rturbed ; and Oliicer Mathews, the meeting
minute engagement with a Red ; &""?.vC'el.1h, ,?L mf0 m. will be opened to questions from
force of undetermined size. T"eid"v s,'L ?r0,ef 1 u?" 0 V,1: the floor.
Circuit Judge David -Vandenberg
and County Juvenile Officer Fran
cis Mathews are to speak and an
swer questions in a Juvenile de
Ilnquincy forum here Thursday eve
ning. The event is the monthly meeting
of the Mariners Club, a Presby
terian organization of young mar
ried couples. The meeting is to
start witli a potluck at the First
Presbyterian Church at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday.
State Sen. Phil Hitchcock Is to
serve as moderator of the forum.
Following short talks on the juven-
Gambler ile situation by Judge Vandenberg
RKCAPTIRED
However, the communique said, 1
two comunist battullons suDpnri- j H,
I lined for a federal court jury its
i contempt of the senate case against
Because of widespread interest
. in the forum, the meeting has been
? v-i hi. o.. Mrfrt mum 'opened to visitors regardless of
ed by two tanks or self propelled ,,,, onlv Ocaionallv lnge- Pcrsons attending, other than
guns recaptured the first objective Slinked h s eves at V S Attorney ' Sues,s- re required to take a food
in a one hour and 20-minute clash Slylel J Lane lold Julge S idlh and table service.
Hiiu smiKic nun uniuiiiun leiuo ter j Rya amj tne jury wnal
Taft Claims
Assurance
Of Victory
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON I Sen. Taft
(R.-Ohio( claimed Tuesday that if
all the pledges he now holds are
translated Into voting strength he
will win the Republican Presiden
tial nomination.
That was the Ohioan's answer
to the statement of Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower that he Is a Repub
lican and would respond to a "clear
cut call to political duty" but would
not personally campaign for the
GOP nomination.
Eisenhower supporters Jubilantly
heralded the statement as assuring
the general's nomination and elec
tion. HOLD MAJORITY
Taft told a reporter he believes
this makes Elsenhower only a
"draft" possibility. - adding:
"If all ol the pledges we have ob
tained from all over the country
can be translated ' into delegates
when they are chosen, I believe we
have more than half of the con
vention votes."
The GOP nominating meeting, to
be held in Chicago early la July,
will have slightly more than 1,200
delegates, with more than 600 votes
needeoy for- the -nomination, ivone
of the delegates has been formally
chosen vet.
Taft said he always assumed that
other candidates would be seeking
the nomination and that "General
Eisenhower would be one of them."
STAY ON JOB
He intimated he had expected Ei
senhower to doff his uniform as
commander of the Worth Atlantic
Treaty Organization NATO Forc
es and return as a civilian to cam
paign. But Eisenhower said at his Paris
headquarters Monday that "under
no circumstances will I ask for re
lief from this assignment in order
to seek nomination to political of
fice and I shall not participate in
the pre-convention activities ol oth
ers who may have such an inten
tion with respect to me."
Chinese Reds Is a firm policy, hard
ened Dy tneir intervention in Ko
rea.
He may suggest that on Irritant
could be removed from British-
American relations if London's rec
ognition of the Peiplng government
were revoked.
Thorny Questions of Iranian oil.
Egyptian demands for withdrawal
of British troops from the Suez
and the problem of security against
Communist aggression in Southeast
Asia, notably muocnina ana Ma
lava, as well as progress on the
organization of a Middle East com
mand also were believed to oe on
the slate for the White House ses
sions. Two final meetings were sched
uled, beginning at 11 a.m. and 5
p.m. EST and lasting about 80
minutes each. A Joint statement,
reporting on accomplishments, was
due to be issued Tuesday night.
Churchill showed up four min
utes late for the morning session.
He climbed hurriedly from the
car that brought him from the
British embassy, gave a quicn
"good morning" to reporters In the
White House lobby and walked rap
idly into the Cabinet room where
the sessions are being held.
HEFTY HIJINKS Dr. Robert Wood tackles a tricycle at
Kreniont School with instructions from Gene Woods. The
two men were at the school in connection with the Lions
Club traffic safety program.
'Stay Put Carlsen Nears
Safety With Battered Ship
-BULLETIN-
the second in a one hour and 30-
! minute fray.
U. N. Troops Just missed re
capturing the ground, a small, bnld
hill west of Korangpo, Monday.
They fought through heavy Red
fire to within 30 yards of the po
sition before they were thrown
back.
PLANE HIT
A Russian-Built Mlg-15 was dam
aged Tuesday in a 20-minute fight
between 17 U. S. F-86 Sabres and
about 100 enemy Jets over North
west Korea. It brought the three
day ' total of Mig casualties 10
seven knocked down and 13 dam
aged. Allied losses, of any have
not been announced.
WITH THE FLYING ENTER-.
PRISE CONVOY IPi Heavy seas
forced a temporary halt Tursday
night In the slow progress of the
battered Flying Enterprise toward
safe harbor. .
By LEONARD I.KDDINGTON '
WITH THE FLYING ENTER
PRISE CONVOY I Capt. Kurt
"Slay nut" Carlsen rllmhrd (he
slanting deck of the Flying Enter
prise Tuesday and shouted out
Jubilantly "everything is okay!"
Ills hurricane wrecked frelirhter
hid begun veering erratically at
the end of Its thw ropes Tuesday,
forcing a slowdown, but the rescue
tug Turmoil steamed on at a walk-
Ing pace. The safety of Falmouth.
England, harbor was only SO miles
less than a day away at 12:30
p.m. 4:30 a.m. P.S.T.
The sky was overcast. The sun
pierced through but only occasion
ally. The sea was rougher but it
was sllll good weather for a Jan
uary day.
"There Is nothing to worry
about," Carlsen shouted to the As
sociated Press tug Englishman rid
Ing along 10 to 15 yards away
from the crippled freighter.
As he spoke the Atlantic lapped
onto the sloping.maindeck. Carlsen
Ignored the sloshing water.
('arisen wore a thick beard. Ile
was dressed In blue denim trousers
and a navy-type short coat with
now shapeless khaki hat like
a story-book picture of a merchant
seaman. .
U.N. Backs Up
Western Plan
PARIS Wl The United Nations
Political Committee approved 51 to
5 Tuesday night a program author
izing the U.N. to call on regional
forces of such groups as the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization, if
necessary, to combat aggression.
The Soviet bloc voted against It.
India, Indonesia and Argentina ab
stained. The committee then adjourned
without voting on a Russian resolu
tion which would have had the ef
fect of bringing the Korean truce
talks before a special high-level
meeting of the Security Council.
The 60-nation committee had
voted earlier to reject a Soviet de
mand that the U.N. Collective
Measures Committee be abolished.
Uie government expected to prove
Lane reciien tne n cnaues u
the indictment accusing Costello
of contempt in his appearances be
fore the Kefauver Senate Crime
Committee in New York last year.
The prosecutor said the Indict
ment Included eight counts alleg
ing refusal to answer, questions,
and three charges of default.
He said the default counts said
that Costello had left the com
mittee hearing room without per
mission, and on one occasion nsd
appeared, but refused to testify.
Lane snld the Questions Costelio
refused to answer included the
defendant's net worth, his indebt
ness, and whether he owed sums
in excess of $10,000 to single in
dividuals. Klamath Man
Suffers Wound
Pfc. Jack Giffln Jr. has written
his parents here, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Glffin, that he has suffered
a wound in Korea.
The soldier's father said his son
wrote that the wound was about
the face and would require plastic
surgery. He said he could give no
other detolls.
The father snld he had written
his son's commanding officer and
requested more information since
no official notification of the
wounding had been received.
Private Giffln attended Fremont
Junior High School here and worked
In the woods prior to enlisting.
The Glfflns reside on the Mid
land Road.
Congress Convenes Today, Faces Controversial Issues
lift I a it to n nsvsi Ormn. ....
By WILLIAM F. ARROGAST
WASHINGTON lPI Congress re
convened Tuesday for -an election
year session certain to be studded
with controversy over Issues on
which political fortunes will ride in
next November's voting.
The banging of gavels In Senate
and House signaled the second
meeting for the legislators who
make up the 2nd Congress elect
ed In lflSO. They recessed their
first session last Oct. 20.
Vlco President Bnrklcy, presiding
In the Senate, and speaker Ray
burn (D-Tex.) In the House called
the chambers Into session prompt
ly nt the stroko nf noon.
only about half of the House
members were on hand, but the
Senate roll call showed 70-odd of
the 06 Senators nresent
Many of the Issues they wrestled
with last year confronted them
again. Dominant ones are defense
spending, universal -military train
ing, economic controls, and foreign
aid.
Out of how they deal with them
will come records to go before the
voters in next fall's election of a
President, vice-president, 435 House
members and 33 senators.
The real kick-off for tho new ses
sion will come Wednesday when
President Trumnn will deliver his
Slate of the Union message to a
Joint Senate-House meeting.
Tills will lay down In at least
broad terms what legislation Mr.
Truman wants from the session
and lay the basis for scrapping be
tween supports of his program and
us critics.
Aside from legislation, some oth
er politically potent Issues are
shnplng up. One is Mr. Truman's
proposal to send an ambassador to
Uie Vatican.
Just before Congress recessed
last October, the President pro
posed the name of Gen. Mark W.
Clark as ambassador and asked
legislation to permit Clark to serve
without giving up his military rank.
Tills- touched off a country-wide
controversy. Congress quit without
taking any action on the Presi
dent's request. Mr. Truman has
said he will renew It.
During the recess, six new House
members were named. Republicans
making the new line-up there stand
this way: Democrats 231, Repub
licans 201, Independent one, and va
cancies two.
Sen, Wherry of Nebraska, Re
publican floor leader, died during
Uie recess. Meeting Tuesday, Re
publican senators chose Sen. Styles
Bridges of New Hampshire to take
over the leader's post.
Wherry's Nebraska seat was
filled by appointment of Fred 'A.
Seaton, also a Republican, by Ne
braska's governor.
Leaders are aiming to wind up
this session by next July's political
conventions, but many legislators
expect that actually It will run
until election time,
picked up one vote In the process.
Ike Backers In
California Form
SAN FRANCISCO W A North
ern California "Volunteer for
Eisenhower" committee was or
ganized Monday, headed by Wil
liam A. Hewitt of San Francisco.
Organizers said the committee is
affiliated with the Eisenhower Club
national headquarters in New Jer
sey and is working with the Eisen
hower Volunteers of Southern California.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Partly cloudy with few snow flur
ries Tuesday and Tuesday night.
Increasing cloudiness Wednesday
with snow by afternoon. High both
days 30. Low tomgnt id.
High temp yesterday
Low last night : 13
Preclp last 34 hrs .01
Since October 1 . 8.99
Normal for period 5.14
Same period last yr 8.59
(Additional Weather on Page 10.)
Slick Streets
Cause Wrecks
Two minor car accidents result
ing from icy driving conditions
were reported by City Police this
morning.
A rear-end collision on E. Main
about 5:30 p.m. yesterday Involved
vehicles driven by Billie D. Cham
ber, 1863 Arthur and Robert Blount,
2130 Holabird.
On Washburn Way about 8 a.m.
today, a 1947 Studebaker pickup
driven by Elon O. Foster, 829 Jef-
terson, was nit by a 1B40 Desoto
Sedan operated by Lawrence C.
Beeney, 41, of .1428 summers Lane.
Beeney was cited by Police for
failure to yield the right of way.
He posted (25 bail for court ap
pearance tomorrow morning.
Kef auver Gives
Portland Okay
PORTLAND (Pi The Kefauver
Crime Investigating Committee
gave Portland a clean bill . of
health and apparently no srecial
grand jury will be called here to
probe crime conditions, federal
law enforcement agents said Mon
day. U. S. Attorney General McGrath
recently ordered grand juries in 93
cities throughout the nation in a
new crackdown on vice and crime.
Ground Sprayers
Slate Meeting
The first annual meeting of
Ground Sprayers, Inc., has been
scheduled for Portland Jan. 10, ac
cording to Pres. Erie Parker Jr.
Meeting place is the Multnomah
Hotel.
The group is an educational or
ganization to further interest in
ogricultural chemical application.
On the program will be some of
the state's top chemical experts,
as well as experts in other associ
ated fields. Election of officers will
also be held.
School Safety Program Launched Here
The children's traffic safety pro
gram sponsored by the Toketee
Lions Club in cooperation with city
schools and Police Department,
was launched here today.
The initial session, something of
tryout, was held at Fremont Junior
High School with fourth graders
as subjects.
Chief Instructor was Police Sgt.
Odell Olson. He was assisted by
City School Supt, Arnold Gralapp,
Fremont Principal Lowell Kaup,
Dr. Robert Wood and Gene Woods,
the latter two of the Lions Club.
An attempt was made to make
the floor of the school auditorium
gym resemble a traffic intersec
tion. Strips of canvass denoted
crosswalks and the city's portable
traffic signal was used. But white
lines in the floor's tile floor were
confusing and additional work, will
be necessary to make -the "Inter
section" actually resemble street
crossings,
Some 25 youngsters participated.
Fifteen of them rode tricycles and
the others were pedestrians. Tri
cycle "drivers" who ran red lights
or failed to give proper hand sig
nals were penalized by having to
give up their vehicles to pedes
trians. Observers this morning were of
the opinion that once the confusing
floor markings were corrected, the
safety school would be of great
benefit to youngsters.
The program will be continued
at Fremont until the setup Is Im
proved and will then be moved to
other schools.
The 15 tricycles were donated by
various business firms and pur
chased at cost.
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TRAFFIC SNARL City Police Sgt. Odell Olson straightens
out some young "drivers" at the Lions Club safety school.
The drivers are (1 to r) Kurt Schmidt, Mary: EUzabeth
Knapp and Ronald Yoder.