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Newspaper Page Text- Day's to lly FRANK JICNKINB In Hit mew that confront us lo (Inv with our Kraut steal industry hhut down at r moment when we wore straining every nerve to wet rekdy to tiolond oursohrrs If wr Khuiild coidp Int'a ice II we can find ANYTHING In Uie sltuallou that makes senao. Let's ittnrt with Judge Fine' do olslon, In which he says; "There Is no express grant of power In tho conntltutlon author i.lnir the President to direct thin selrure. There In NO GRANT OP POWER (rum which It (the set rtire) can reasonably he Implied. There In NO KNAOTMENT OF CONGRESS authorising It." So, lie suys, the volsuri wee Il legal. Blnoe It In Illegal, II muni not be allowed to aland. He lliero Inre direct Unit the steel Industry be hunded back to IU ownora. The strike, which closes down the mills, follows. Congress, Judue Pine' went on to aay In his decision, could pans a Isw Immediately to protect the na tion from this thretitoned disaster (meaning the strike). "But," he added. "In the absence of audi a law I believe that the contemplated strike If It came, with all Its awful Msiille. would bo !f u Injurious to the. mitaUO Uian the I VflMurv which would flew; ,,ro1" '"tiinoroui ludlclal recognition that there Is some basis for thU claim to UNLIMITED AND UNIJB. HTRAINKQ- EXECUTIVE POW Kit." llore, In lt larger sense, la what Judge Pine Is aaylng to us: "This Is a government of LAWS nut a government ol MEN." In the absence of law. he Is tell till us. MEN must not be allowed to ORDER BY DECHEE that this or that shall be done. In that way Ilea deapollsmaooncr or later. That la the burden of Judgo Pine's decision. I hone It stands. 1 hope that when H reochc the supreme court which Is the court ol last resort, beyond which Uiere In no appeal aave the appeal to rOllCE It In upheld In clear and plain and definite language. There has been much talk In re rent years that we are lending to ard a government bv men and away Irom government bv laws. . It has seemed to lot of us that ttr.la Is true. If so. It Is a DAN GEROUS trend. Judge Pine's decision forces the tuue. I admire his courage In nut ting It to the test. hni imril mnre. I There haa been harsh criticism of Pre-ildent Truman for his ban tiling or this critical and dangerous steel situation much of II. I think, justified. But let S HO forget uiai unnrr the conntltutlon congress holds both power and renponnlblUtv that are w.hmI in the uowors and the re- uxmslbllltles of tho President. This , sled situation was awn i no in mo making. At any time during these 4 month, congress could have Stepped In. It could have handled the problem Itself If It thought the I'rcsid-ttt was making a mesa of It. It didn't. It chose to stand off to one side and carp and cilllclse and DO NOTHINO. If blame la to be Disced upon President Trumsn tor what hss happened, It can not be denied that equal blame mull be placed upon congress. There In much tnlk lodav that congress In going to DO BOMt THINO about It. Whatever congress noes now. It seems to me, will be In the nature of locking the door of the stable after the horse has been stolen. Congress has done nothing to be proud of In this steel situation that has suddenly become so critical and so dangerous. More Cities Eye 'Daylight' By The Aasoclaled Press Portland went on daylight time by council proclamation Wednes day ana uiree otner normwesi cit ies lined up swiftly In Uie parade. Still others took a fresh look at the situation which stemmed from Oregon Gov. McKay's decision that his state Simula not nave tarn time. That decision was a week age and promptly most radio stations tied to networks went on daylight lime anyway. Then Industries and shops In the state started changing their hours to gel the added evening aayngnt hour. : Portland's city council Tuesday .Tiwlalmed daylight time. It al ready had Its 3,100 employes com Ins lo work an hour earlier. Roneburg, Kolso and Longvlew city councils JJtimpcd right In and Iho two Washington cities mndo It effective at 3 a.m. Thursday nnu Itoneburg nt 3 a.m. Sunday. Tho : Oregon 8tate Orange promptly put attorneys at work con sidering whether the grange could no to court to put Portlnnd back In the standard time zone. , In the opinion of Attorney Gen eral George Neuner, Portland's ac tion Is legal because It Is voluntary. He said that Wednesday, adding sn Individual could do anything ho wanted to do to the hands of his clock and presumably a corpora tion could also, Mnny Porthindern found the state of daylight time an unpleasant ex perience. . The Portland tmctlon company didn't catch up with the chango and there was a windy rainstorm In progress while hun dreds lined the curbs at bus stops, waiting for busses that weren't op the wny. Gordon Btcclo, traction company president, nald things would bo bet tor Thursday, , v By Thursday, some other cIlloK woro expected to have taken their stand on whether to go with Port lnnd In Joining Senttlo, Olympla, Everett and assorted others in day light time. Vancouver, Wash., exMcted an afternoon decision Wednesday. Medford, though, decided against atiiy change In the clock. Mayor d(L. Flynn and a committee of businessmen recommended that eivteryone gd to work an hour earli er Instead. Seizure Reversal Brings iukk Steel Shutdown lly I I) (IlKAGII WABIIINOTON mi Federal Judge David A, Pine formally or (lured the government Wednesday to give the Million's steel mills back Ui their owner an a wlldllre strike cloned the billion dollar Industry down tight. Government lawyers Immediate ly moved to appeal fine's action and seek a higher court reversal of the Judgo's ruling Uml President Truman's April 8 selxure of the alrel Industry lo houd off a walk outwas Illegal. Aotnsn the rintloii, virtually all the OliU.000 iiiemhoiH ol tho CIO United Bteclwnrkors ol America were leaving their John In history t aulckenl shutdown of the vital In untry. Pine's formal order restraining the government from "continuing Iho sclr.uro and possession" ol the steel plants came less than 3 hour , alter he (1) ruled Uie President's Giant Plane Vanishes, 50 Aboard RIO DE JANEIRO. Braall I One of Uie biggest air hunts ever made in Brasll got underway Wednesday for Uie lost Pan-Ameri can Strstocrulnor which vanished wllh DO persona abound Tuesday while en route to New York. The nearch area embraced a vast 330,000 square mile area of unex plored Jungle, dry plateau and riv er basins, manv of them wllh sand barn lhat might afford suitable landings. Tho nine crewmen and 10 pas sengers were Americans. PATKOLK Pan American oflUlsls eald 27 plane of Uie U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Brazilian Air Force and commercial alrllnea wore patrolling a wild rectangular area running 4n0 miles went from Bnrrelrnn to Xavniitinn. Uienco north to Snnlar em on Uie Amnion and east to Delem on the coarl. The luxury two-deck plnne was last heard from at 1.30 a.m. Tues day when It made radio contact with Barreiras. nearly MM miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. II then reported its position as 340 miles went of Hnriolrnn. The U.S. Air Force in Welling ton announced that 17 planea, rang ing from B-Vs to a helicopter, had been ordered Inlo Uie search from k.- . .... ,H D.,. DlnA tit, till Air .Rescue Service and the Strateglo Air Command. -..,., . BASK A search pane wss net up at Brlem under Uie coordination of a Hrnilllnn Air Force olflcer. The I' S. force was commanded bv Mai. Richard B. Olnev nl Ranicy Air Bane in Puerto Rleo. The Brazilian Air Force dtspsicn- ed three U-I7n. a C-7 IrniiMioit and nevern mini! n -aplnnen wmcn would be uneful In searching along Uie rivers. The double-decked Boeing Blrnto- erulner was Uie first plane of Its kind to be reported missing. It la powered by lour 3.ioo-nor:iepower engines. Cancer Unit Leader Named Mrs Keith OTInlr has been named new commander of Uie Klamath Counly Cancer Society, replacing- Ann Laurent who re signed when she moved sway sev eral months ago. Mrs. O'Hnlr has been serving an education chairman of the cancer fund drive that gets underway here next week. She will serve as head of the local group for the rest of Uio year. ' .V. .'. uaASJW " V.,.-'. . .' V Mi V If V- ;f ' LEAVE FOR JUAREZ Actress Shelley Winters and Ital ian actor Viltorio Gassman pictured as they boarded a piano in Los Angeles for El Paso, Tex., and Juarez, Mex. Gassman hoped for a quick Mexican divorce so he and Shelley can wed "in a few days." , seliure action unconstitutional and (ill deuled what he called Truman's claim of "unlimited and unre strained power." Assistant Attorney Oenoral Holmes Muldrldge representing the government an Wednesday's order wan Issued, told the Judge hln ac tion would cause "Inculculablo" damage. Baldrldge anked Pine, a Demo cratic appointee of the late Frank lin D. Ituonevelt to postpone Die clfoctlvo date of hln glvc-back-lhe-mllltt order. Pine reluned to do so. With Pine's ruling the Until step at the level of hln court wan serv ice of the order on Hccretiiry of Commerce Hnwyer custodian of tho mills for the government. Immediately linldrldgo filed no tice Uie order would be appealed. Presumably this will be done In the U.S. Court of Appeals and then taken to Uie Bupreme Court as quickly aa possible If Uie appeals 0 Ml Serais imb .ai.irir'f' iisiaaaiMiaei Pries Five Cents tt Pages Timbermen Deadlocked On Issues There was no ehsnee on the five. Late lumber strike from this morn ing, according to the Associated Press hi Portland and both labor and management representatives here In KlnmaUi Falls. About 40.000 lumber workern throughout the Norihwcnt walked olf their Jobs vcntcrduy, among them i'ii employes .of Car-Ad-Co I "! Kltuiuilh Baaln Pino Mills to I Klamath Falls. One local spokesman for the lum her Industry nnld there were re ports Uinl the Fir Milling and Plan- Hug Company In Ashland had set tled at n 7'i cenUi per hour In- crenne with the com met extended another vesr A similar negotlstlon usn reported comoleled , between the union and the Red Blanket Lumber Company of Eagle Point and Prospect. In Klamath Fn!! picket linen wero established In front of the two mills. (A nlory by lisle Resrbrough backgrounding the strike Issues In published on psge 7 today.) Sports Bulletin POSTPONED Thursday's Oregon Tch Shasta JC gam at Recrea tion Park hat been post poned because of threat ening weather, Oretech Coach Art Kirkland an nounced early this after noon. The game will be played next Monday. (Early story In Sports Section.) Motorist Killed Mear ikmimlt court allows the ruling to stand. The steel companies undoubtedly will appeal themselves If the high er court ruling goes against them Pine's Injunction wag a tempo rary one, to remain In efleet "pending a final hearing grid de termination of the case." At the White House Presidential Secretary Joseph Short ssld Tru man was keeping In "very clone touch with the situation" but de clined to ssy whst possible moves were under consideration. "Is there a speech or message to Congress In preparation by Uie Prenldenl?" a reporter asked. "I can't tulk about this matter at all," Short said. Asked whether there mlfht be aomethlng during the day frtin the White House, Short ssld bo could not answer that question. He was asked specifically whe ther the President might Invoke Uie Taft-Hartley act but declined lo -joino KLAMATH 'yi-'isisJ'rtJ FLOOD WATERS FROM MOUNTAINS Melting snow east of Salt Lake City, Utah, pour along an emergency sandbag canal built along 13th South Street (above). Part of the dike gave way, pouring a new flood into an area already under water. The make shift canal was intended to carry water through the flood area into the Jordan River. City workmen and volunteers are pictured as they pile sandbags along the street. Oil Workers Go on Strike DENVER to About half the nation's oil workers went on strike Wednesdsy while localised negotia tions conUnued in an effort to break Uie threat to defense, industry and transportation. The walkout over wages and working conditions ended months of fruitless bargaining and govern ment attempts at settlement. Taking part Immediately were dependent union members In re fineries, pipelines and distribution plants. Union officials estimated 44 per cent of the nation's refinery capac city was cut off. They hinted u spread of the walkout If,, a speedy settlement Isn't reached. Only spot shortages of gasoline for trucks and autos threatened immediately. Slocks are at a sea sonal high. But Joseph A. Lentz, Denver regional mamtger for Con tinental Oil said If the strike con tinues long enough, "we'll all be walking and Uien they'll setUe it." Railroads, anticipating tho long threatened walkout, have stockpiled Diesel iuci. rue smua re reported a two - months supply; the New York Central enough for 30 days Industry and utilities also have built up stocks and some are ready to mviicn irom on lo coal. Supervisory personnel helped keep natural gas flowing to the Midwest and East Const but both were threatened with up to a 50 percent cut in gas. The most optimistic notes came from the West Coast. Workers were told lo stay on their Jobs as a key part of the Korean war offorfr. And negotiators moved toward a com promise on workers' original de mands for a 25 per cent hourly wage Increase and Improved shift aittcrentiais. Wind Brings Dust Clouds High winds closed visibility around Klnmnth Falls to six miles yesterday as it raised a cloud of dust over the Bnsln, and gusts were still rcnchlng above Uie 40-mile per hour mark Uils morning. The CAA reported yesterday's wind velocities registered along the 30-mllo mark moat of the after noon. During the night Uie wind apparently drooned down a little. picking up again today. discuss this. Top Stabilization officials told newsmen they did not know what the government would do nest In sn effort to maintain steel produc tion. Roger L. Putnam, economic stab ilisation director, hinted there might be a White House conference on the situation later In the day. But he and Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall both said they had not been In touch with President Truman on Uie matter. Nathan Felnslnger, chairman of the wage fitabillzatlon Board, told reporters, "all I know Is what I read In the papers." With the vast steel Industry shut ting down, the government slapped an embargo on shipments of steel from warehouses to producers ol civilian goods and to foreign coun tries. The National Production Author ity Issued the order within two ,o ) M 1 v i i w I I y v I I w i FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Candidate's Corner Prom now unUl Just before the May 16 primary election, the -Herald and News will open an editorial page column to personal Words of various local candidates for public office. The column will be called "The Candidates Speak" and each per son contributing Is asked to tell a little about himself and state his qualifications, alms and as pirations toward the office he is seeking. v Contributions should be mailed or brought to Uie Herald and News editorial department and should not be over 150 or 200 words In length. Prison Riot Chiefs Moved ' JACKSON. Mich. Wl Riot lead ers Earl. Ward and "Crazy Jack" yatt were removed Irom troubled Southern Michigan prison Wednes day for trying to Incite a new revolt. Warden Julian Frlsble said the two were taken in manacles from the prison in deepest secrecy short ly alter miaiugnt. "We're going to keep them out of the way until things get quieted down," Frlsble said. Eight Yankee Airmen Killed TOKYO to Eight American airmen were killed In two trans port plane crashes In Southern Japan within 12 hours, the Far East Air Forces said Wednesday. A C-48 transport on a routine Investigational flight crashed Into the rim of Mt. Aso, 550 miles southwest of Tokyo Wednesday morning. -Lt. Myron F." Hancock, a heli copter pilot from Brownstown, Ills., reached the scene shortly after the crash. He said all crewmen were dead. A C-110 cargo transport hit a ridge Tuesday night on an instru ment approaoh to Ashlya Air Base on Kyushu Island. FEAF said Its four airmen wero killed. Names of all ciewmon wore withheld. ' hours of Pine's decision In a move to conserve the supplies on hand until It Is determined whether they will have to be diverted from civil ian to military use. Outside of the courts, one further course was open to Truman: To Invoke the Taft-Hartley law. Philip Murray sought to nip such a move In advance, saying the un ion already has complied with Taft-Hartley provisions. Murray declared the strike would continue until the workers get a contract along the lines recom mended by the Wage Stabilization Board. Judge Pine strongly Indicated In Tuesday's decision that the Presi dent should invoke Taft-Hartley, which requires an 80-day coollng off period before a strike can start. Truman has refused so far to use the Taft-Hartley act, on the ground that the union already at his re questhas postponed Its strike well nn il APRIL 30. 1952 Cool Weather Slows Flood SALT LAKE CITY to Cooler weather halted rapid melting of snow In Utah's mountains Wednes day and gave hard-pressed workers a cnance lo prepare lor new iiooa crests later. Many areas remained flooded, however, and damage will be high, in Provo, Central Utah community, the city commission considered de claring-a state of emergency. More man lw residents livuig along rrovo Kiver nave asued lor pro tection against a flood threat. Deer Creek reservoir at the head of Provo Canyon is expected to be filled to capacity within a few days. After that Uie fuU flow of the river will course down the can yon. In Salt Lake City flow of aU creeks entering the city dropped materially. Parleys creek, major threat to further flooding, was flowing at a rate far below the peak of Monday night. Water level In Mountain Dell reservoir dropped a foot overnight. reducing now over the spillway from more than 300 second feet to only 60. Box Company Men Walk Out GRANTS PASS Ifl The 100 workers at the Rogue River Box Company plant here walked out Tuesday morning as Uielr union. the CIO International Woodwork ers, struck over contract demands. then at noon they walked back. Morris Milbank. mayor and head o! Uie coniDanv. Uie only malor ciu opernuon here, said the com pany agreed to give the workers any benefits won by the union when agreement finally is reached throughout the Norlhwcst, and the workers then returned to the Job. Weather Klamath Falls nnd Vlcnlty and Northern California. Cloudy and windy with a few showers Wed nesday. Partly cloudy Wednesday night and- Thursday. Nigra both days 50, low tonight 33. High temp yesterday .1 Low last night ....... . 41 Preclp yesterday .... 0 Since Oct. 1 ... 14.31 Normal for period 10.21 Same period last year 13.87 over 80 days. But In the light of his declaration that all-out production of steel must be continued or the defense pro gram will break down, he may have to use the law he opposes In the event Justice Department lawyers fall to suspend or upset Judge Pine's ruling. The 60 year - old Judge, after weighing opposing arguments since last Friday, declared in his 14-pago decision: There is no express grant of power in the constiiuUon author izing the President to direct this seizure. There Is no grant of power from which it reasonably can be implied. There Is no enactment of Congress authorizing It." Pine said Congress could pass a law Immediately to "protect the nation from this threatened disas ter" Uie steel strike. But In the absence of such a law the Judge said: Telephone 8111 No. Z807 Driver Dies Under Car After Upset Death of a Prospect man about 7 pjn. Tuesday In an accident on U.8. 97 near Chemult ended 165 days In Klamath County without an automobile fatality. Last county traffic fatality was on Nor. 16, 1851. - - : Alvtn R, Kaxjala, 33, wag crushed to .death under the rolling 1851 Hudson he was driving. A passen ger.' Lauchlin H. McCollum. Pros pect, was also thrown clear of the car, but not injured, according to state Pouce. Witnesses told officers of the Gilchrist patrol that the car was traveling at a high rate of speed. m It failed to make a left- I hand curve, one-quarter mile south of Chemult, 1952 skidded along the shoul Khunatb der about 228 feet. ' - At Fatality that point, officers stated. the car rolled,, throwing both men clear. The car rolled upright, Its wheels passing over Karjala's body. The body wss brought to Klam ath Falls by Kaler's ambulance to Ward's Funeral Home. At this time last year eight per sons had died from auto accidents in Klamath County, the first oc curring Jan. 2. In 1950 four had died in car wrecks during Uie same period, and five in 1949. FISH COUNT ' PORTLAND to The upstream fish migration at Bonneville Dam: Chinook 1,085, Jack 10, Steelhead 41. k ry? """ i ON THEIR WAY to get a little learning this morning, Jknmie Watson, 529 Torrey St., and Paul Fields, 541 Mt. Pitt St. were snapped by the Special photographer. Both lads attend the Pelican Grade School.' I believe that the contemplated strike It If came, with all Its awful results, would be less Injurious lo the public than the Injury which, would flow from a timorous Judi cial recognition Uiat there la loint) basis for this claim to unlimited and unrestralnted executive power Truman, In directing Secretary of Commerne Sawyer to take over and operate the steel mills, had said ha was acting "by virtue of the au thority vested in me by the con stitution and laws of the United States, and as commander In chief of the armed forces." Industry comment was alow, but one spokesman, President Clarence Randall of Inland Steel Co., said, "everybody knows my position, which was that the seizure was entirely unlawful." It was Randall who made the Industry's first bitter response to the seizure announcement early this month. Near Sweep Slashes Taft Lead Br BELMAN MOBI.V , BOSTON WV-Oen. Elsenhower's popular vote total passed the 229,- . 000 nark hi the Massachusetts primary Wednesday, and a near sweep of the delegate elections virtually closed the gap between him and Sen. Taft in their nation wide race for the Republican presidential nomination. It was almost a shut-out by Eisenhower, his most convincing primary victory1 of any to date. Along with his overwhelming count in the Republican election,.' Eisenhower also got a big Demo cratic vote, big enough to put him in secono. piace oemna ceo. &e fauver. of Tennessee, the expected , winner. When reporters gave him, the figures, at an airport in Frankfurt. Germany, the general grinned, and saio, la inai gooa?" OVERPOWERING' Later in Paris, he said the results were "an overpowering sort of thing. It has begun to look kind of serious." Massachusetts bag 38 GOP con vention votes, and Eisenhower Wednesday has 29 of them as a, result of 27 victories and two pre viously allotted by agreement. Taft won one delegate and also 1 got two by agreement. The other six presumably will be uncommited at the nomination convention In July. Elsenhower's nation - wide dele gate total .moved up to 265 as a result of the added delegates. Three more for Taft put his tally at 268, although his managers are claim ing 305. The figures, compiled by the Associated Press, are based on delegates pledged, favorable, or publicly committed to the two leading Republican contenders for trie nomination. . . DIMENSIONS A popular vote that smashed all records In Massachusetts put these dimensions to Eisenhower's victo ry: 1. His GOP write-ins alone were more than all Uie votes cast lor all other candidates, both Repub lican and Democratic. 2. He was running nearly 130.000 ahead of Taft, and he bad nearly 69 per cent of the entire Republi can vote. 3. In a number of cities and towns, he led both the Democratic and Republican tickets. In Boston, Kefauver topped him by 5.835 to 5,081. He beat Taft In the capital oy avi to 6,ii.