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Youth Panel
To Hit Air
Over KFLW
By ciillliig 8111 between 8:30 and
10 ). m. tanlKlit, Klnmnth rcnldnntH
inny (lurry "liulld llio Unnln" pun-
11 mciiilioi'H, brondcaHllDK over
KKLW, on the loplo "How Cnn
Vuuth Bext Contribute 'iowurd
Uulldlnii tho Bnnln?"
A iinncl ol iicven hoii been Helocl
I'd lor this work's brondcaM, four
nirinbrrit ol the younni?r w nd
thrro 11 I u I Lm
'rimv nre KUIIH enlom Mnrvln
Ncrm-lh nnd Svlvln- Hlllln. bolh 17.
ynrHildn; Tiilclnkp ncnlor Bully
Ilioinun; OT1 Htudvnt body PreH.
Lyle Houd; Mrs. Oeorwe Clitrk;
f'runclii Hklnncr nnd Don Blltcllllc.
I'roKnim llftienprK uro urKed to
purtlclpute by phontiiK III ciuentlorw
prrtlnrnt to the tonic to pnncl
inrinbcrff. or to the punrl at lurue.
'Ilils will be Hie eluhlh nuni-l in
Ihn "Build Uie Bualii," the Uilrd
one denllnir with youth and Kb
problems. Tho lorum 1 the climax
of nn exploratory atudv conducted
throuuh the Herald nnd Newn. An
uplnion poll wna published In InAt
'ihurndny'ii pupcr; readem were
asked to answer Uie queatlonx nnd
mall the lotm In. '
An uminl, KFLW Mitr. Bud Chnnd-k-r
will emcee the prnirrnm.
Introductory atntcmentA will be
made by each of the panel mem
ber!!, nnd becauao of pant mmv
Ijera ol tiuestlnns received, the
IriiKth of Ktalementa will be limit
ed to but n few minutes no more
nuen lnt can be asked durlne the
allotted time,
Champ Knifed
By Assailant
Jim Muloney. 48-year-old former
hcavywelKht flKhter, won reported
ImprnvlnK today at Klamath Vul-
ley Hospital lrom Kline wounns rc
reived in a brawl lute Saturday
nlKht.
Hla assailant, whose Identity hni
not been determined by City Po
lice, skipped out nnd was not lo
cated at noon today.
Muloney, working nt the Drift
wood, apparently had trouble with
the man curlier Saturday, and Uie
orKtimrnt wna renewed lutcr on nt
tlie Town Club. They went out Into
the alley back of the club to flitht
and the second man evidently In
troduced a knife Into tho tussle.
Maloney stiiKKcrcd out of the al
loy bleeding badly from several
Kcvcro cuts on his body and arm.
nnd n pntrolmnn took him to the
Knntccn lor emergency aid while
help was comliiR. At the canteen
torn towels were used to try to
slop the flow of blood nnd as n
tourniquet on his badly slashed
lelt arm.
Maloney wns taken to the hos
pital where It wns determined an
artery had been cut In his arm,
and Hint he had n long ash on
his rlKht side, another on his left
side below Uie ribs, nnd two oth
ers below that one. He reportedly
said at the hospital he did not
know who cut him.
Police Chief Orvllle Hamilton
said there sppnrently were no wit
nesses to the fight In Uie alley.
In his younger dnys Maloney
was near the top among heavy
weight fighters, getting Into the
ring with some of the best In Uie
Into 1020s.
Reno Robbery
Still Mystery
RENO Iffl Millionaire L. V.
Rcdflcld said Mori.lay tho burglars
who enrted off his safe with $2,600,
000 got cusjency "so hot they
might ns well light their clgarets
with It."
Most of the $300,000 In the snfo
was In big, old fnshloncd bills, in
cluding two $10,000 notes.
mo cccentrlo mllllonnlra Rnld
they would be almost impossible
to ensh: nnd so would $2,000,000 In
nrgollnblc securities. The balance
wns In distinctive Jewelry.
Police appeared more concerned
about tho Friday robbery thnn did
nedfield.
He once battled a brick swinging
footpad to protect $2,500 he'd lust
won gambling. The thug didn't get
tho $2,5(10 but sent Rodfield to a
hospital for two weeks.
Five people were picked tip in
Monlnnu Sunday night for "exam
ination nt Reno's request." But
Sheriff Jesse Hnrris nt Elko, Nev.,
said nil five were In Elko at the
time of the dnyllght burglary. His
officers spotted thoni, Sheriff Hnr
ris said, niter Reno police notified
him they wcro headed that way
after having been questioned nbout
gambling Irregulnrllles in Reno.
And the Reno pollco chief snkl
he didn't put out the pickup order,
and dldft know who had.
INKS
PORTLAND Ml A Portland
traction company driver died on
llio Job hero Saturday. But before
he collapsed ho pulled his bus to
llio side of tho street and turned ofl
the ignition,
Ho wns Lewis Adrian Hialt, 60.
11 veteran operator.
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FRANK STEELE.
Steele Seeks
Sheriff Post
Frank Steele, 50, filed for the
Democratic nomination for Sheriff
of Klamath County this morning.
He Is Uie second candidate to
go on that ballot. Murray (Red)
Brllton, who has been serving ns
Sheriff by npiioliitment since Jan.
IS, filed several weeks ago. The
lone OOP nominee so far is Depu
ty Dale Mattoon.
Steele, who Is employed ns Klnm
nth Falls Slrcct Department super
intendent, resides at 3704 Cannon.
He has two sons In tho armed
forces, one In Germany.
He has lived In Klamath County
1 luce May, 1934, coming here from
('eutraha, Wash., and for about
15 years was a railroader for
Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.
He liua been with the city about
lliroo years.
Steele is a member of the Moose
Lodge. Royal Neighbors of Amer
ica and Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Englnemcn.
In 1948 he won the Democratic
nomination for Sheriff from a field
of eight candidates for Hint party.
Steele's entry Into- the ncce lor
Sheriff provides the second locnl
contest on the Demo ballot for the
May 10 primaries. The other is
for the nomination for assessor.
Three Democratic candidates have
announced.
So far the Republicans do not
have n single local contest for the
primary. Filing deadline Is March
7.
Camp White
Work Slated
MEDFORD ITI Six million dol
lars worth of work to place Camp
White on a stnndbv basis will be
gin May 1, Sen. Cordon (R.-Orc.)
said Monday.
Cordon sent word from Wash
ington, D.C., that the Army had
notified him contracts for the work
would be awarded about April 15.
The Army snld there arc no
plans at present to activate the
enmp.
The plnnncd work Is to plnce It
In condition for use in case of
general mobilization in this coun-
The planned contracts: $4,298,
000 for utilities; $190,000 for roads;
$629,000 for a railroad spur: $27,
300 for a telephone and telegraph
building.
The remainder of the six million
dollars will be used to rehabilitate
present buildings and to acquire
ciiougn ianu to mnxc tne camp
about 1,300 acres in size.
The camp has been unused since
TTorld War II.
Former Cop
Faces Court
MEDFORD Ifl Discovery of
a sack of pennies burled in his
yard led to tho arrest of a former
Medford police sergeant.
The former policeman. Richard
H. Baisc, pleaded guilty Saturday
to iiiKing si.ouo in nickels and pen
nies from Medford parking meters
A steamer trunk, half full of
small changc, was found In the
Dnsement of the Bnise home, Po
lice Chief Clntous McCreadic. said.
Balso, though he was unable to
get rid of tho pennies, used the
nickels for purchases from distant
mall order houses, McCreadle re
ported. Sentencing of Balse was dclaved
until he could get nn attorney.
uni.se was employed in tne pub
lic works deportment. He had
transferred thcro from the police
force Jan. 1,
Weather
flurries Monday night and early
Tuesday morning, partlv cloudv
Tuesday. High Tuesday 36, low to
night 21. Northern California,
showers.
High Sunday 32
Low last night 22
Preclp Sunday J T
Prccln since Oct. 1 IE77
Normal for period -8.28
rerlnd last year 12,01
(Additional Weather on Page 10.)
SewtA
Lost Han's
Wife Flies
As Observer
By WALLACE MYERS
Aerial search for the Air Force
transport ilsslng with eight men
uboard was temporarily called off
by the Klamath Air Search and
Kescue Unit last night.
But. Mrs. Vernon Moe, wife of
tfte missing plane's co-pllol, says
she will stay here several more
daya. The attractive little brunette
came here Friday night to Join
Uie searcb for the lost plane.
Yesterday, Mrs. Moe made two
search flights as an observer. She
flew with KASRU Pilot Doug How
ser on morning nnd afternoon mis
sions over the area between Medi
cine Lake and Day, a small Cali
fornia town some 80 nir miles
south -of Klamath Falls.
Several other KASRU planes
were on the search yesterday and
they were Joined by a Modoc Sher
iff's Posse plane from CedarviUe.
Four of the Modoc posse men flew
In here to coordinate their efforts
with the KASRU. The quartet from
CedarviUe was Walter Lowe, Al
bert Turner, C. A. Hlronymous
and Mavnard Gooch.
BAD HEATHER
Heavy snow still on the ground
In the Medicine Lake-Day search
area caused last night's search
postponement. And today, more
snow blew In from Uie West, bring
ing a low celling that would have
prevented aerial searching anyway
A dream which Mrs. Moe hod
several nights ago was primarily
responsible for the search being
concentrated the past few days be
tween Medicine Lake and Day. But
since then, new clues to the miss
ing C-47 have come to light bolster
ing the possibility the big ship may
have come to grief In that area.
Two reports, of which KASRU
men here had not been informed,
were made within a few hours
after search was instigated for the
plane in late December. One re
port from MacArthur, CallL, a few
milctautlii. ot,Dy, said sV large
plane circled 1 that community
about dusk on Dec. 26 and then
headed north flylnir unusuallv low.
The report said the plane was fly
ing wiuioui ngnts. Tnat is signifi
cant because of the missing plane's
radio silence. The plane radioed
Municipal Airport here at 4:17 p.m.
lkc. iv, mat u was nymg toward
San Frnnclsco at 10,000 feet and
that was the last time the Dlnne
was ever heard from. If the ship's
cicctricai system failed,' it would
explain the dusk flight over Mac
Arthur without lights and also the
rati 10 silence.
A second report, by a rancher
lust north of Day said "a C-47"
flew over his ranch late that same
evening and headed northwest
through a gap In the mountains.
DREAM
Mrs. Moe herself doe's not place
too much emphasis on her dream.
She said her missing husband.
Capt. Vernon Moe, appeared in the
dream and told her they had land
ed the ship "at Day."
"I don't want people to think I
came here to join this search Just
because I had s dream," said the
courageous and pretty young wom
an. Wednesday evening.- Mrs. Moe Is
to be the guest of KASRU at their
meeting in the Pilot's Club.
BULLETIN
GAMBLING TAX UPHELD
WASHINGTON tfl The new
federal gambling tax weathered
a Supreme Court test Monday,
the high tribunal upheld a lower
court's refusal to rule on con
stitutionality of the new tax.
FREAK ACCIDENT
PRINEVILLE ti A Madras
housewife was fatally wounded
Sunday while she wos operating a
vacuum cleaner in her front room.
The victim of the freak accident
was Mrs. Henry Miller, 57, wife
of an Irrigation farmer. She died
of a .22-callber bullet wound at a
hospital here Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Miller was cleaning out a
front-room closet when the vacuum
cleaner knocked over a rifle In the
closet. The rifle fired, and the bul
let struck Mrs. Miller In the forehead.
French Airliner Crashes
Playground;
NICE, France Ifl An Air
France airliner crashed In an
olive grove near this Riviera fun
spot Monday, killing 37 persons.
including an American oanet
dancer and two French actresses.
A woman taken alive from the
wreckage was reported in critical
condition.
The four-engine plane had just
taken off from Nice airport. In
stead of heading out as usual over
the Mediterranean on tne fiignt to
Paris, the plane turned back,
It lost altitude, then smashed In
to bits in the olive grove, just
missing a group of houses where
20 famines live.
Airport employes said pieces of
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INTERIOR OF THE KLAMATH PACKING company, gutted by a Sunday morning fire.
Owner Frank Lowell estimated the damage at around $225,000. The packing plant was
located on the Old Midland road.
Greyhound Bus Strike In
Population Centers Hits,
Drivers Ask 40-Hour Week
8AN FRANCISCO Full im
pact of the Pacific Greyhound bus
strike hit commuters Monday as
3.500 drivers and other employes
stayed away lrom their stations in
seven western stales.
The bus line and the striking
AFL motor coach employes are
IN KLAMATH
Passengers on Pacific Gray
hound buses caught here by the
strike early Sunday morning were
transferred to trains, according
to officials at the depot here
Pacific Trallways buses are
still operating today north to
Bend and the Red Ball Line to
Lakeview.
deadlocked over the union's de
mand tor a five-day, 40-hour work
week. '
If granted, it. would establish a
precedent for the nation's Inter
state trjinsportatien industry,---.
Other union demands Include pay
hikes of 15 to 20 per cent.
The company offered a blanket
HST's Friend
Goes on Trial
ST. LOUIS WV- Neatly dressed
in a dark blue suit, James P. Fin
ncsan. personal friend of President
Truman, was in a pleasant mood
Monday as his federal trial began
on charges of accepting bribes and
other misconduct wnne ne was in
ternal revenue collector here.
TT S. nltrirt .lilrire Rlltaev M.
Hulen overruled a defense motion!
asking for a continuance. The first
panel of 28 prospective Jurors was
then called.
Ninetv prospective Jurors in all''i XKV"? .,ee oniLactf .."S
- " $ x" .i i
tion of a iurv. exnected to take all
of Monday and most of Tuesday,
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The government is allowed six
challenges without cause.
The defense is allowed 10.
A crand iurv indicted Flnnegan
on counts of taking $250 twice from
the Karol-Kell garment tirm once
"with intent to have his decision
and action influenced" in a de
linquent tax case pending in Fln
negan's office, and the other for
allowing the company to pav over
due Sociol Security taxes in in
stallments. Coos Bay Milk
Price up
COOS BAY iP Milk in paper
cartons and that is the only kind
available rose 2 cents to 25 cents
a quart here Saturday.
The increase, which provides for
a 24 cent price on milk on glass
bottles, was announced by Carl
Peterson, president of the South
western Oregon Milk Producers
Association.
He said 70 per cent of the In
crease woif.d go to producers.
Butterfat content of the 25 cent
milk has been increased 2-10ths of
one per cent to 3.7 per cent,
Peterson said.
American Ballerina Dies
sea gull's wings and feathers had
been found in the air Intakes of
the plane s engines, and this might
have caused the crash. Air France
officials In Paris could not confirm
this. The two left engines had
apparently failed.
Tho American ballet dancer
killed was Brooklyn-born Joan
Harriet Katzman, 21, who danced
under the name of Harriet Toby
with the Marquis dc Cuevas Com
pany. She appeared Sunday night at
Cannes in a ballet called "Del
Amory Y de la Muerte" (of Love
and Death).
Llse Topart, 24, and Mlchele
Verly, 41, wcro the French actres
4.6 per cent pay boost and said
that was' the maximum aUowable
under Wage Stabilization regula
tions. It also offered a cost of living
clause. It rejected the five-day. 40
hour week, asserting that would
cost Uie company. $11,650,000 a
year.
"it looks like tms is going u oe
long strike." said one union of
ficial.
The walkout began at 12:01 a.m.
Sunday. ,
Big population centers like the
San Francisco Bay region were
particularly hard hit.
In this area, which has 14.000
Greyhound commuters, many had
to drive to their Jobs or arrange
rides from towns which had no
other public transportatln.
Many communities however, naa
train, trolley or other bus services.
Pacific Greyhound Unes service
In California, Arizona, Western
Oregon and parts of Nevada, Utah,
New Mexico and Texas came to a
stop. The system carries an- aver
qf ftf .lon.ooo nasseneers daUy.-
In addition to adjustments in
working hours, the union asked
that long distance drivers be paid
$8.50 for each 100 miles, instead
of the present ti.zo. ana uiai pay
of the short run drivers be in
creased from $1.63 to $2.04 hourly.
Its contract expired March 1.
Dentists Ask
Higher Fees
PORTLAND Wl Oregon dent
ists opened their annual state meet
ing here Monday in rebellious
mood.
Thev delivered ultimatums de-
manding (1) higher fees from state
and leaerai agencies ana I auio-
mony for the state dental college.
State and federal agencies were
i ne canceuea June i. xae nouae ui
delegates to. the Oregon State Den-
tai ABeuiai nn men aiifrparjKi innL
higher fees be pegged to the cost
of living index, prepared by the
Bureu of Labor Statistics. Such
agencies as the state Industrial Ac
cident Commision and Uie Veter
ans AdministraUon were Involved-
The delegates also told the State
Board of Higher Education to re
consider Its recent decision keep
ing the dental school under Juris
diction of the University of Oregon,
The dentists want the. school to
operate directly under the State
Board of Higher Education.
The association said it would
start court action if the board does
not make the change.
The session, the 59th annual
meeting for the association, will
continue three days.
Schrunk Urged
for State Race
PORTLAND (fl Democrats are
urging Multnomah County Sheriff
Terry senrunk to run ior secretary
or slate, according to Howard Mor
gan. Democratic state chairman.
Earl Newbry, a Republican, now
holds the post ans has filed for
re-election. No Democrats have
filed ns yet
Schrunk said he did not want to
run for another office until he has
finished out his term as sheriff.
Near Riviera
ses who died. Eleven other victims
had British addresses. Others listed
their addreses In France or Italy.
The pilot, Theau Farrugia, 29, a
veteran of 4,500 hours flying time,
and his wife, were killed.
The plane was a ' Languedoc,
used in European and North Afri
can services.
Air France officials In New
York said it was the first fatality
.suffered by that type of plane In the
tlx years the company has used It.
The plane crashed at 9:05 a.m.
The scene was 150 feet from the
railway station at the village of St.
Auguslln, the last stop be.ore Nice
three miles away.
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Fire Destroys
Packing Firm
A fire of undetermined origin
Sunday morning destroyed Uie
Klamath Packing Company plant
on the Old Midland road. Frank
Lowell, owner, estimated the dam
age at around $225,000.
The interior of the plant was
considered a complte loss, includ
ing a $62,000 wing built less than
four years ago.
The tire was discovered a little
after 5 a.m. Sunday when Chi-Chi,
a dog owned by Dean .- Lowell,
awaked bis master with fourious
barking. The fire at that time
seemed to have started in Uie
plant's boiler room.
The County Fire Department
was called but could not save the
building.
Besides Uie equipment, about 50
dressed hogs and 60 dresses beeves
were lost In Uie blaze.
Lowell said there was not
enough Insurance covereage to re
build. The plant employed about 30 per
sons. . . . : : . .
Due Friday
The Red Cross Business Division
headed by Roy Murphy, is slated
to make its first report this Fri
day. Exec. Secy. Virginia Dixon
reported today. But already it's
totaled some $2000 of its $8500
goal.
Mrs. Dixon said 12 industries had
reported already, with the Swan
Lake Moulding Co. one of Uie first
to report 100 percent employe and
firm participation in Uie drive.
Klamath County's Red Cross
chapter has a quota of $25,000 to
fulfill this year.
Chains Needed
On High Passes
SALEM Ifl The Oregon High
way Commission warned motorists
Monday to carry chains in the Gov
ernment Camp. TiniDerune, warm
Springs Junction, Union Creek,
Santiam Pass. Lapine and Willam
ette Pass areas.
Each of those points reported
from 1 to 3 inches of new snow,
with packed snow on the roads.
All other points reported bare
pavement-
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RESTING UP AT The Earley Hotel this morning were
Southern Pacific railroaders L. A. Kiesel, engineer, and Lee
Hargrove fireman. ; '
French Beat
Vietminh
Drive Back
By LARRY ALLEN
SAIGON, Indochina Ifl French
forces turned the tables on thn
Communist-led Vietminh Monday
by staging a series of ambushes
on rebel columns which had In
filtrated the Red River delta In
Northern Indochina.
In one ambush, 35 miles south of
Hanoi, a Vietminh column was
blasted and 15 captured French
men liberated. The attack took
place near Phuly.
French land and air forces con
tinued vigorously to push back two
Vietminh divisions which made a
two-pronged drive against the delta
southeast of Hanoll.
Two big rebel ammunition dumps
were destroyed near Kesat, about
18 miles southeast of Hanoi.
The French High Command sold
its "operation Leap Year" already
had resulted In a total of 531 Viet
minh dead and 1,000 wounded.
. The fierce attacks by the Communist-led
Vietminh started -Jst
week 30 miles southeast of Hanoi.
The French High Command said :.
the Vietminh drove with 10,000
troops from the northern mountains
and with 4.000 from the south, at
tempting to Join, establish a foot
hold on the delta ricelands and
thus split French communications.
The rebels strongly resisted
irench counterattacks but finally
collapsed Sunday, a French spokes
man said. Tney withdrew under
fire of artillery, tanks and planes
dropping napalm bombs.
The French spokesman said It
was "impossible" for the Vietminh
to resume a large scale attack in
the delta. The French now have
the initiative and intend to ex
ploit it, he said.
Two Injured
In Accidents
Traffic accidents Sunday injured
two persons, putting one in Klam
ath Valley Hospital with, a broken
leg.
John Mlckelson, 39, of Richmond.
Calif., received the broken leg in
an accident north of Chemult on
U.S. Highway 97. Details of the
wreck were not learned here.
A rear-end collision on U.S.HIgh
way 97 south of Stewart-Lenox
junction resulted in a chin cut to
Shirley Smith of Klamath Falls.
She was passenger in a car driv
en by William T. Smith, 35, ol
Eugene. State Police arrested
Smith on charge of driving while -intoxicated.
He is held In the Coun
ty Jail in lieu of $500 bail.
Police said he hit the rear ol
b'' new car operated-by. Thornton
Douglas, 1919 Erie St.
Stassen Plans
Oregon Tour
SALEM Ifl Harold E. Stasser
entered Oregon's May 16 presl
denUal primary Monday with I
promise that he "will conduct at
extensive tour of the state in behal
of his campaign."
With the deadline for filing can
didates next Friday, Stassen Uiut
joins Gens. Dwight Eisenhower anc
Douglas MacArthur, both of Whort
were filed by petition.
Stassen's personal filing waj
brought here by Walter Roswi
berry, Portland lumberman.
Petitions to place Sec. Taft o'
Ohio and Gov. Warren of Callfor
nia on the Republican ballot alst
are being circulated.
Attorney General George Neunei
said he would have an opinion lati
Monday on whether Uie secretarj
of state should obey Gen. Mac
Arthur's request to remove hli
name from Uie ballot.
The opinion also would apply U
Taft, who has said he doesn't wani
to enter the Oregon primary.
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