M Mil L ' X I Department Of Justice 1 Takes Over MrrjfirtilWVilrtiiirrWtoMWit-iAjtWiiiiiiift'ti Price Five Crnta 22 fages KLAMATH FAI.L8, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1052 Telephone gill No. 2710 Military area of the World War II - Japanese Relocation Center. Newell, la to be taken over by the -I'.S. Justice Department. March 1. Twelve families now living In var ious of the 40 bulldinga In the area have been notified to move ent by 1 f AIT7 SiA 48L rvMMi I ssMMsWWMi1llM. ItA Ship Feb. ZD. ' ' 'it )5 . . . The sea Iii The " " i inrrwv-miji iruLAAAAl.J By FRANK JENKINS London: Hie gullunl American freighter ' Flying Enterprise sank In Hie Moruiy Atlantic lodny alter a : mighty two weeks duel with the sea . . . Cuptum Kurt Carli.cn nd J'lrnl Mnte Kenneth Danoy of the tow tun Turmoil were munched Irom tho churning waters to wileiy. i An Uie doomed ship went under. : they lenped Into the Icy sea and i lour minute!! Inter were snaked U mletv by means ol a rope ladder ' thrown to them Irom the low tuit.) Tliun ends en epic that has ; Mirred us nil about as deeply as we ot thl generation are capable el being stirred bv nn Incident that endn hupnllv inMend ol tragically, i Hlnce 11 nun ended happily. I think il enn mid should be ld . that this dramatic tale o one men's courage end Integrity h done ell ol us an Immense amount , ol good. We foritct detail so easily that perhaps It mliihl be well to re-tcll the lule brletly. The Flying Enter prute, buttered by a terrlllo etorm, went out ol control, with heavy Iim (to starboard, as I recall the picture.) Captain Carlhen aenl hi 4D crewmen and hla 10 pasnengera olf to fiatetv in the bonis. lie himself, followlnit Uie tradi tion of the nea. atayed with lu ahlp. I fear the Idea prevails that hla stavlnu was a dramatic gesture. It wasn't. By the ancloil law of the xea. a Milp that Is ABAN DONED heroines a derelict and la the prize ol whomever can put line on It and tow It to harbor (or aaJvage. . r Captain Cerlacn atayctl aboard protect the property ol his owners. As long aa he alnyed aboard. It was NOT an abandoned ship. He was no dramatic gesturer. Ho wna lust a man doing his duty and living up to his responsibilities. Captain Carlsen did his duly handsomely. 11 la now, 1 should say. up to his employers to do ihclr duly as handsomely as he did his. Paraphrasing slightly the Par able of the Talents (Matthew XXV, they should say to him: "Well done. Ihou good and faith ful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few thlnga. Wo will now make thee ruler over many things." That Is to aay. Captain Carlsen did his duly loyally and well as Ihe caplnln of a alngle ship. His owners might now well and prolll ably to themselves make him a llecl cnplnln over many ships (If they have fleets of ships; aa to that I don't know.) He won his right to promotion the hnrd way. and I think most bosses will agree that men who win their promotion the hard way are apt to turn out well as man agers. I wonder If any sincere and de vout reader ol this piece has ever ound himself leaning toward the notion prcuched. by modern radi cals thnt profit Is a wicked thing. If so, I'd ndvlse him to rend again the PnYiiblo of tho Talents. Tho master, as you will recall II you're iiimUlar with Mnllhew, giivc to one of his servants five mlrntrt, to another two and to allll mother one tnlcnt. Then he turned Ihcin loose on Ihclr own with their capital. When he came buck and checked up on them, the one with five talents had traded and dickered Hind doubled his money. Likewise tho servant with the two tnlents. Ho wound up with four. But the servant with only one tnlcnt wns no enterpriser, Ho hnd no nerve. He wns afrnld to tnke a risk. So he went out In the bnck yard mid burled his talent In the, ground nnd when Uie master came bnck he dug It up and returned It (Continued to Page 4) Experts To Consider Problems Of Basin Youth On Radio Program Monday Night Are the voune Deonle In the Klamath Basin sliding backwards? Do the events of past months Juvenile delinquency and crime indicate a acgenerauon in the moral fibre of the younger genera tion? ; Who and whnb Is to btnme for the Increase of Klamath- County's Juvenile delinquency rate last year? i These and other questions rela tive lo the youth problem will be posed to a panel of seven experts Monday night, In the first of a new aeries of radio programs Jointly aponsored by the Herald and News and Radio Station KFLW. "Build the Bnsln," a panel discussion-type program, will have Its first airing on KFLW from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m, next Monday, Selected by newspapers and sta tin staff members as the most tnely topic to stnH this aeries on problems of the Klamath Bnsln Is, "How CanWe Better Build Tomor row's Citizens?" J was too much Shipment Of Spuds Slows Here The bottom of Ihe "pre-OPS" po- Into bnrrcl sua being scraped as Khuniith shipments dropped off to only 2B carloads yesterduy. Potato Inspectors today were ex pecting little work as a combina tion of weather and alower mar kets cut activity to a great ex tent. Yesterday there were 60 cars of potatoes reported out. Last Hutu r day there were 103. Potato men pointed to the sched uled rollbackNn spud prices and setting a celling at "100 per cent of parity" at 3. 65 for U.S. No. Fa, which works out at a loss ot about $1.66 to growers per hundred pounds of potatoes. The rollback announcement was made last week. No new sales have been reported since, though the cell ing does not become effective un til Jnn. 19. Most shipments since the announcement have been reported ly contract sales and sales made earlier at the 5 or belter going price per hundred pounds. Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture has okayed an Oregon - Cnlllornla Potato Marketing Agree. mcnt Control Committee recom mendation that "polenllnl" No. 2's (knobby spuds which enn be smoothed by trimming) for potato chips, some 150 cars have been reported purchased by the potato chip Industry In this area and have been shipped south for chip uso.. Hie Marketing Agreement Con trol Committee ha Indicated It will meet In Klamath Falls sometime next week to consider lilting the two-Inch minimum shipping regula tion now in effect. Orowers and shippers have be gun receiving the full Office of Price Stabilization rollback order. They pome to one clause In the order as a possibility for obtaining revision In the price cut: "It is expected that this regula tion," it rends, "will be effective for a relatively limited period, and If the price situation warrants will be replaced by a more detailed regulation or otherwise changed in Die light of more adequate infor mation," Such clause has raised hopes In some circles that a revision may be effected. The Oregon Potato Commission has announced It will ask a 75-cent hike In the announced celling. Square Dance Big Success The first communllv-wlrie dance, held last night at Fremont school, went over with a "bang". a iuiui oi persons partici pated in the unique nronrnm which set up two separate rooms one for beginners and one for advanced dancers. There were 150 beginners. The square and folk dance pro ject Is being sponsored by (he City Recreation Department under Director Bob Bonnev, It was initiated last night uni plans call for dancing to carry on every Wednesday night at 8 as long as there Is a demand for It. An Intermission Is called half way through the dance, with free refreshments offered. There Is a small admission fco to cover ex-, penses. 1 Otto Ellis, In charge of calling, called one dance and Mr. nnd Mrs. a. M. Anile called the other. . The committee on Ihe dance con sisted of Mrs, Otto Ellis, Mrs. Keith Cobo, Miss Peg Brundage nnd Miss Ella Redkcy. The panel of seven persons se. lectcd as most qualified to discuss this problem and answer questions from the radio audience are: Francis Mathews, Klamnth Coun ty Juvcnllo officer; Rev, . David Bnrnett, pastor of First Presby terian Church; Mrs. Dale Baxter, president Klamnth County PTA; Jim Brown, principal Ktamalh Union High School; Bob Bonney City Recreation Department direc tor; Beverly Eells nnd Rlchnrd Gentry, Klamath Union High School students. Format of the program will In cludo three minute discussions by ench panel member of the topic, "How Can We Better Build To morrow's Citizens?" Then questions phoned In by the radio audience will be presented the seven-member panel. The eroaram will be a direct broadcast from studios ot KFLW and unrehearsed. station Manager Bud Chandler will act as moderator of the hour- Crew a m mm Gallant Freighter ?s Up Two-Week Brfrfle With Sea; Captain Rescued OK liy The Anaoclated I'rui LONDON W The gallant American freighter Plying Enter prise sank In the stormy Atlantic Thursday alter a mighty two weeks duel with the sea. Heroic dipt. Kurt carlsen ana First Mate Kenneth Dancy of the tow tug Turmoil were snatched Irom the churning waters to safely. . Curlsen mid Duncv leaned over- board when It became evident the 0,7 11 -Ion freighter was going down under the crushing waves. The stand-by rescue fleet closed Idaho Growers Ask Ceiling Up To S4.67 BOISE, Idaho Wl The olflce of Price Slohlllaitlon was asked Thursday to boost the base celling price for Idnho poUitoes from $3.85 a hundred pounds to $4.67. A request for an amendment In the regulation was drafted at a meeting of potato shippers and growers. Harrv Yost, director of the dist rict Olllce of Price Stabilization, xniri that while he had not seen , he ct ,lon 'Siri u unit Km w mvi ... and will recommend some adjust ment." He declined to say whether the district OPS would recommend the full 82-ccnt boost asked by the growers. Charles J. Marshall of Jerome signed the petition for himself and about 14.000 other Gem state grow rt mnrl hhtnnera. - .. - it contended that' over a period of yeara Idaho potatoes nave en Joyed a differential over the price of potntoes grown bv other states us shown by U.S. Department of Agriculture, reports. Trial Stay Gets Okay A lurvless District Court trial was recessca snorny uciorn nuon today to allow Claire B. Gibson, proprietor of Idclla's Grocery, S. 0th at Wiard. to produce Invoices of beer purchases for one month prior to Kept. 13. 1951. Mrs. Gibson Is charged with sell ing beer to 19-venr-old Wilbur Oscar Pearson, 2023 Wlard, through one of her employes at the atore on that date. ..,.,,. Pearson this morning testified he bought a 24-can case of Olympia at Uie store. Mrs. Gibson stated she did not carry 24-can cases of Olympia. The complaint against Mrs. Gib son wns brought Nov. 6, 1951, and, signed bv a representative of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The trial was scheduled to re convene at 2 p.m. this afternoon with presentation of the beer pur chase invoices by Mrs, Gibson. He'll Have Lots Of Company, Too WASHINGTON lifl A Pitts burgh resident hns told Senator Mnrtln (R.-Pa.I he wants to re nounce his American citizenship and move "where there are no income taxes." The man, who said he has a wife and two children, asked Mar tin If he knew of any such place und how ho should go about getting there. He made up his mind, he said, alter making out his latest return. Martin's aides did not disclose the man's name but said the letter apparently was written In dead earnest.. long program with assistance from Announcers Floyd Wynne and Hank Henry of the KFLW staff. As vlsloned now, the program will be scheduled weekly. Other problems' facing the Klam nth Basin area ln. 1952 such as the water problem, future of Uie lum ber Industry,- the potato celling wrangle nnd others, - as they de velop will be presented on future programs. On page 13 of today's Herald and News a aeries of questions on the Juvenile problem to poll public opinion on "How We 'Can Better Build Tomorrow's Citizens? " Readers of the Herald and News are invited to fill out these ques tionnaires and send them by return mull to the paper or radio station KFLW so results of the poll can be announced on Monday night's "Build the Basin" program, A similar poll wilt be conducted In Junior high and high schools of the city and county. u;' y in. The tug Turmoil threw over lone ladder, and the two men climbed lo safety. They were In the water only about lour minutes. Carlsen refused to give up until the stricken freighter obviously was heaving her last. He had bat tied since the Christmas Day hur ricane to save his ship. His soli tary duel with the Atlantic began Dec. 28, after he ordered all hands lo abnndon the ship, which carried a crew of 40 and 10 passengers. Dancy Joined him last Saturday. The bltr frciahter thrashed about in Its final agony for 40 minutes and then disappeared. Aboard the British salvage tug Turmoil. Carl sen and Dancy, bearded and ex hausted, climbed Into dry clothing as the tug turned hurriedly In the direction of Falmouth, about 40 miles away. Associated Press reporters at the scene depicted the last hour of the Enterprise. For more than 24 hours the ves sel had been virtually on its side. At 3:08 p.m. (7:og a.m. PST) It became obvious to the U.S. Destroyer Keith, standing by, that tne Enterprise was about to go down. It and other nearby boats began the long-planned rescue operation at once. The motley assortment of ooats which had been scurrying about the freighter for days heaved close in to the writhing vessel as the Tur moil's lights Hashed the signal C-L-O-S-E." The tunnel of the Enterprise by this time was slapping the surface of the sea. The bow was consider ably lower than the stern. A Utile American flag still flut tered over the rear part of the superstructure. , The wind was blowing fiercely, pltchlnir the rescue tugs about like chips of wood. . . . v Watfr'-BQUred mto the funnel of the dying; JttrprtstV' ttf"' The two men leaped overboard, even as the Enterprise gave a heave to port and began slowly to keel over on her side. Part of her cargo worth more than a mil lion dollars was strewn about the surrace of the churning water in profusion. Soon other parts of the Enterprise began to crack, ar.1 more cargo was pitched, out Into the sea. By 3:34 p.m., the Enterprise was lullv on her side. Grimly. Carlsen and Dancy. clad In life Jackets ' and dripping with water, watched the Inst uasn from the tug. It was a gallant deatu. The rescue fleet saluted It. In the last few minutes the tugs sounded their sirens. Only the bow of the Enter prise was visible. At 4:09 p.m. flares on the surface of (he water near the ship were lighted, casting a weird light over the area as the Enterprise took her final lunge. One minute later the Enterprise was below the sea. ( Astoria Council OK's TV Loop ASTORIA lfl The City Council has granted L. E. Parsons per mission to operate a coaxial tele vision network In Astoria. Parsons said he would begin stringing cable Immediately. His network will pick up telecasts from Station KING. Seattle, and distribute them to local viewers. i . s V J, i fKV READY FOR BUSINESS at Neal's Fountain this morning ,were Donna Sproat and Neal Fife, who operate the lunch, and candy shop in the Lake Hotel building. ., -, Men Sought In Stormy N. Pacific SEATTLE ' Planes and ships Joined Thursday in' a desperate search of the stormy . North Pa cific tor 43 men wno took to the lifeboats late Wednesday from the crippled, ' leaking freighter , Penn rylvanla ' . Planes stapled scanning the area about 405 miles northwest of the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Mountainous waves and a tem perature of around 35 degrees brought grave fears for the sea men if they made it safely into the lifeboats under hazardous conditions.-. A U.S. Coast Guard patrol plane was the lirst craft to report from tne scene, rue coast Guard said its report at 6:40 a.m. PST esti mated Its distance from the Penn sylvania's last reported position at about 10 miles. The plane was -start ing down from 4,000 feet to a 500- foot, searching level. Then silence. The Coast Guard said radio com. munlcations normally were poor irom tow attitude at such a dis tance, about 800 miles from Se- attie. . , , Visibility was from zero to three miles at 4.000 feet. It was be lieved to be about five miles on the surface. A Japanese freighter also was due to reach the scene during the morning. A second ship, the Cyg net, estimated its position at 35 miles southeast of the Pennsylva nia's reported position, in a mid morning report. Planes also were sent by the Navy and the Air Force's Air lies cue Service. ' ,' irrse '"leaving now." ' late WednciJuy was. the .final message from the storm'-batteredi Pennsyl vania. It had reported Itself down at the bow so badly that the rudder rode out of the water part of the time. The crewmen and their officers left the split-open, water-logged Jinx ship at 4:30 p.m., PST. They apparently . preferred fighting mountainous seas and high winds in. their frail life boats to remain ing on the wallowing 7,800 ton ves sel. Four terse messages in the space of 25 minutes told of the dwindling hope after 10 hours battling the ele ments and the hopeless task of re gaining control of the ship which was down at the bow and ship ping tons of water through a 14 foot crack on its port side. Wilson Rites To Be Held Today TULELAKE Funeral services are being held at 4 p.m. today in West Point for Cadet Hugh R. Wil son Jr.. killed Dec. 30 In the crash of an Air Force plane in Arizona. Hugh with 18 other cadets was returning to West Point after spending Christmas with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, his par ents, a sister Judith and brother Bill are at West Point to attend services. Interment will be in the West Point cemetery. A SNOWFALL'S BEAUTY has oft been praised in verse and song and here it's personalized by Joan Haskin, 2036 Leroy.St., with the aid of the Herald and News photographer. Wind-Driven Snow Slows Travel On Basin Roads Crater Gets 21 -Inch Fall Called Off A public meeting for discussion of the Bureau of Reclamation plan to divert water from the Trinity river, scheduled for Friday at Eureka, Calif., has been postponed at the request of down-river pri vate Interests. The Bureau has announced a' plan to move some water of the Trinity into the Sasta dam-Sacramento river system, by a system of dams and tunnels. The Trinity, originating near Weed, Is considered a part of the Klamath river system and as such the diversion is being opposed by the Klamath River Watershed De velopment Association, an organi zation of interests along the entire Klamath river. However, the Trinity County Board of Supervisors has called a public hearing on the same ques tion for Weaverville on Friday, Jan. 18. KPCA Slates Bank Speaker Pres. Paul Mataon, Federal In termediate Credit Bank, Spokane, has been named speaker of the day for the annual Klamath Production Credit Association's meeting in the Klamath Falls armory Jan. 26. Notices for the affair will be In the mail Tuesday to KPCA stock holders 487 of them. The meeting, held under the di rection of KPCA Secy-Treas. Lee McMullen, is one of the biggest farm affairs 'each year in Klamath Falls. Last year 508 persons were In attendance at the meeting. An election to. fill the expired posts of Directors E. M. Hammond and A. R. Campbell will be held. The terms are three years each. Registration Is scheduled to get underway at 11 a.m., with an Ed-Mlller-furnlshed smorgasbord set for 11:45. "We want the stockholders and their wives especially to attend the business meeting," McMullen said. "In these critical times it is im portant they know how their as sociation stands." Bill Kittredge is president of the organization, and has been for the past 18 years. This is the third annual meeting since the associa tion was taken over in ownership by the farmer stockholders them selves. A. B. Robertson, vice president of the Production Credit Corpora tion of Spokane, will also be on hand for the affair. Rands Funeral Services Friday PORTLAND F) Funeral serv ices will be held here Friday for Harold A. Rands, 80 engineer who helped pick the sites for Bonne ville and McNary Dams on the Columbia River. With the Army Engineers here from 1928 to 1948, he also did the survey for the original Willamette Valley: flood control project. After retirement in 1948, he continued as . a consultant to the Corps of Engineers.: He died Tuesday. , . Fresh snow, whipped Into heavy drifts-bv high winds, slowed traf fic on. all main highways in this area today and some areas were virtually snowbound. State police reported all main roads open but said chains were necessary; some secondary roads were oiocKea oy arms. There were no school closures re ported but a few school buses could not get through. Crater Lake, which several days ago reported snow had surpassed all previous fall marks except that of 1948, had a whopping 21 inches of new snow in the 24-hour period ending this morning. Rangers said it brought the depth to 12 feet and tnat all lake roads were closed bv drifts. At Chemult. there was about a foot of new snow. High winds last night were re ported throughout the Klamath area but there were no reports of serious damage. Truman Farm Plan Puzzler By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON Wl Farm lead ers puzzled Thursday over a state ment by President Truman that a sliding scale in the price support law should not be allowed to penal ize farmers who increase produc tion for defense needs. They pointed out such a system Is not being used now. Consequently, they said they saw no danger to the farmer unless the administra tion, which has been against the sliding scale, changes its policies. Some saw in the comment, made In the President's State of the Un ion message, an indication the con troversial issue may figure in this year's political campaigns. Mr. Truman's reference to the scale was in connection with an appeal for a stronger farm price support system. Some observers said Mr. Tru man may have had in mind an oft- advanced argument that the mere existence of the sliding scale pro vision for minimum supports, whether It is used or not, serves to weaken the farm price program. The law does not require the secretary to use the minimum rates of the sliding scale except that he may not go below them. He has authority to set and main tain supports at the maximum lev el year In and year out regardless of the size of crop supplies. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vlelnilv nnri Northern California: occasional light snow mixed- with rain Thursday and Friday. High Thursday 32: low Thursday night 20. High Friday 3(1. High temp yesterday ' ST Low last night ..-... 20 Preclp last 24 hr , T Since Oct. 1 9.06 Normal for period ....-. .....5.27 Same period last yr. 8.60 (Additional Weather on Page 4) BLE AUXILIARY The Grand International Auxil iary of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is to meet Friday, 7:30 p.m., at tne noma of Mrs. Charles Johnson, 2005 Vine. Thousand! of Japanese were con fined in the camp for security rea son during ihe last war. since 1946, the military area or the camp has been leased to the ITulelake Growers Association. The association has used the area pri marily for a harvest labor camp and has sub-leased a few dwelling units. Several weeks ago. representa tives of the Federal Bureau of Pri sons inspected the camp but had nothing to say as to their reason. Rumors were plentiful here today as to why the Justice Department is again taking over the camp's military area. But there was no information available from authori tative sources. Most popular rumor waa that the- camp is to be renovated and en larged, apparently so that A may again be used for confinement. The vacating order, cancelling the Tulelake Growers Association current lease, was Issued by the Klamath Project office of the Bu reau of Reclamation. HIGHER UP Laton Stephens, manaorer of the local Reclamation office, said the order originated higher up and that ne naa no oinciai Knowledge a to the reason for it. . However. Stephens opined that the Justice Department was prob ably concerned only with whipping the camp In shape for quick use if and when needed. He pointed out that the last Con gress made funds available for such renovation work. ,r' oeverat months ago, there was seemingly fantastic rumor here abouts that the Newell camp might be used as a detention center for Communists party members. The rumor was strongly spiked by gov ernment sources In Washington. . uuring tne past war, approxl-, mately 20,000 Japanese civilians re siding on the West Coast, were con-. fined at the camp. . .. . , The military area of the camp now being vacated was used by troops and administrative person nel of the campv ,. . .v.. Crowd Seen At- A crowded hall is the expecta tion next Tuesday night at the Willard for the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting a meeting already termed the most important in the history ot the local inamoer. Tickets are on sale now at tho Chamber of Commerce office and by directors of the Senior and Junior Chambers, at $2.25 each. About 300 persons can be accom modated. The dinner Is to start at 8:30 p.m.. in the Willard banquet room; Principal speakers will be Hill. ' man Lueddemann. Pope and Tal bot, vice president and general manager and Edgar W. . Smith Portland Chamber of Cnmmern prsident. Also that nieht the Javnees am to announce their selection of Klamath County's outstanding Jun ior citizen of 1951. It Will be a toint meeting nf h Senior and Junior Chambers with wives Invited. A special "stag table" is to be set for men attend ing unaccompanied. NEW HOUSING HEAD WASHINGTON LB J. Gntf Arrington will become Oreeon di rector of the Federal Housing Ad- iiiuiiauuiiun Jan. if. The FHA announced here that he will succeed Albert L. Buchner, wno will resign to return to private business. Arrington has been his assistant. The Oregon headquar ters is at Portland. HERB HEMMINGSEN Hemmingsen Rite Saturday ' Funeral services for Herbert O, Hemmingsen, longtime Herald and News mechanical auperlntendent, are to be held Saturday at Sacred Heart Church when a mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Hemmingsen, 49, died ot the Inter national Typographical Union home in Colorado Springs, Colo., Tuesday . Funeral arrangements are under ' direction of Ward's, and the Rev. T. P. Casey will officiate. Vault entombment wlU take place at Mt. Calvary Memorial-Park. Recitation of the Holy Rosary la to take'place at Ward's chapel Fri day, 8 p.m.. and members of Oath olio Daughters are asked to be present, .... : . . " . : '