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LITTLE FELLER Tills Shetland pony, Just 13 days ok!
now, was born May 1 on the Sam Stewart place on S. 6th.
Fiery Object
Seen in Sky
What was probably a meteor
flashed a daallim path acrosa West
ern Klamath skies this niormnj
Alihouih but two persons rrpurted
serlni the tlrrv ky speeder, both
were respoaslble adults In widely
parntrd aections 01 tne city.
Kii. k innn who iirnt uhoned the
,i . l ,1.. -Hi,
llrrald and News about seeing the
cl))ecl, limed II at 1:12 a.m. Ho
Miid he law the brilliant ball nt
lire raclnit across the sky at he
looked oul from his Lakcshorc
Drive home. Long aald the object
disappeared below the mountain
line west of his home.
i ....... . nllluarl Miff.
l lew miiiwivn
ev. ibiki Kane, phoned that he also
'M uen audi an object at Itll
1t.ni. ,.
Morey. with a better view, aald
he saw the eky object burn out In
the Western heavens.
Both Long and Morey described
the fire ball aa appearing quite
large and leaving a long trail be
hind as It sped along.
Neither would haaard close es
timate of the object's distance al
though Long aald "It might have
been as far away an Medford."
U.S. Academy
Tests Slated
Rep. Lowell Stockman, Oregon's
2nd District Coneressman. will
have vacancies at the U. 8. Mili
tary Academy and Ihe U. 8. Naval
Academy to (ill for admission
July 1. 1953.
Bovt Interested and qualified
for tho appointments should write
to Congressman Stockman, House
Office Building, Washington, D. C,
lor further Information and lo be
admitted to the examination.
Applicants must be resident ot
the 2nd Congressional District,
must have reached their nth
hut not their 32nd birthday by
Julv 1, 1W3.
The Civil Service Commission
will conduct examinations Julv 14.
106.3. to aid In (electing nominees
lor both West Point and Annapolis.
MRS. HNYDF.R DIES
JONE6BORO. Ark, Iffl Mrs.
J H. Snyder, mother of Seoretary
of the Treasury John Snyder, died
at her home here Monday night.
Mrs. Snyder, 80 had been In fall
ing health for the past few yours.
forum Panel Nixes Park Board Switch,
Mayors Salary Increase, Favors Pool
By MALL ACE MYERS
A atriilght and tough talking five
man "Build the Br.sln" panel last
night ripped Into three city ballot
measures, tore them to shreds, put
them back together again and
came up with theso majority or
unaulmotia opinions:
I. We should voto yes for 1.5
mill lew to provido funds for con
struction of a municipal swimming
pool;
3. We should vole no on the
proposal to Incrcasn tho mayor's
salary from $170 to $600 a month;
3, We should voto no on the
Idea, of reducing Ihe Park Board
to nil advlHory body, transferring
most of Us authority to the city
Council.
Last evonlng'H edition of the
weekly Herald and Newa-KFLW
public cqivice forinn drew a flood
ot telephoned questions and com
ments. The overall tone of those
messages from the listening audi
ence iippenrrd to agree with the
panel decisions noted above,
The panel wns comprised of O.
D. Matthews, Snm Noslln, Russ
Mnrsh.ill, Bum Lnrkln and: City
Councilman Mark Smith.
Tho five men (.tillered (.round
lliei radio forum table several min
ute. nelore tho program went on
the) air at 8 30. By program time,
Ihe pnnelitei had doffed mats,
loosened collars and were well
'j'JV,'':?'-"
Council Bans
Use of Park
. . , .
Recreation Park he city s oll
ballyard off Owens Street, la to be
banned for public use until the
grandstand and bleachers aie
either made saleir lorn down.
Members of the City Council
mam um um nrcrcauon
Uepanmenl to do one or the other
ast nlulll directed the Brr.ilnn
i immediately, and lo not allow any
more use of Ihe paik until some-
thing is done.
Ksrlrr the Council had In -
nt rue led Ihe department not to nl -
low persons lo use the grandstand
and bleachers until repairs were
hiiub, win mm wichuii irvil uu
Burred Heart Using the field for
home hall game, keeping specta
tors off the' rotted and ramshackle
lands has been .almost Impossible.
No games were scheduled on the
field this week.
PIRCIIAHK OKKKIl
Sacred Heart has offered to buy
the properly, but since Recreation
Field was given the city lor recre
ation purposes by the Rotary Club,
permission of the donor to sell
has been deemed necessary. So
far Rotary hasn't given It's per
mlMion. City Attorney Henry Perkins has
ruled thai the city la liable for
any Injuries which might be re
ceived by spectators because of Ihe
condition of the stands.
Last night's Council meeting was
held on standard time, although
the Council a week earlier had
voted lo put Ihe city on daylight
time.
An ordinance changing the meet
ing hours of tile City Council was
necessary, since tlir hours are act
by charter, and It took two weeks
to gel 11 passed.
Next Monday Ihe Council goes
on daylight time.
Other action ol the Council last
night Included:
Approval of $58. RIO worth of
building permits,: the largest 123.-
000 for a new residence at 1M1
Van Ness by Oreer Drew, another
for a $20,000 apartment building
at 1038 Erie, by Klamath Valley
Lumber Company, and $10,000 for
a new residence at 3M0 Home, by
N. A. Welman,
Approval of a beer license for
the Hub Tavern, In the name of
Vina Yancey and Hurry Yancov.
Permission for VFW Post 1383
lo hold Its Buddy Poppy salt May
33-34.
Permission for the National
(Continued on Page 4.)
warmed to Ihelr subjects.
Bnttlo lines were nulcklv drawn
when Moderator Bud Chandler
polled the panel on the three Is
sues. The awlmmiim pool drew ap
proval all around the table; all the
participants except Councilman
Smith turned thumhs down on In
creasing the mayor's sulnrv: Smith
was ni.'o tho only pnnol member
who thought (lie City Council
should be voted most of the Park
Board's authority although at
times ttam Neslln mndo strong ar
gument lending support to the
councilman's stand that the Park
Board had too much authority.
Despite the unanimous approval
of U19 swimming pool lew, that
Issue came In tor qulto a going
over. Questions' from $ho auillcnco
sparked bristling exchanges across
the foi'tim tnble ci points of the
pool's site nnd tvne. Councilman
smith said that although tho City
Council had resolved to build the
pool on city-owned property in tho
11100 block on Main Street, he was
not certain tho council couldn't lat
er change its mind.
On the pool typo tiuestion (indoor
or outdoor), Snm Ncslln made a
big to-do over who should decide
thn type . . . "Will It be tho
people who are paving for the pool
or some polltlcinn," Ncslln wanted
to know.
Four of the five pnnellles (Nes-
II 1 '.. Jl". II K t V. m 1
" r lit ii i ' -'TmriM fcMMt'-iiimiM1 (V ' " 1 '"" n 'lri'"' ""' "" t- t rr ' " iriinn imi l
I Prlre Flu Cent-14 l-agea rvC"V .'I A Til FALI.'h, OHKfiON, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1933 Telephone Sill No. 2811
Wage
Gov. Adams
Coming To
Boost Ike
fly HALE HCAI'HHOroil
Otiv. Rhenium Adams of New
llain,ii:hlrr. whose slate touched . labor dispute. lively scheduled p. meeting here
off i-o KIsenhower-for-PreMdcnt -p,,,, 11Illon nnd 0f,,.red to Bo one I with the union's Northwest negotl
ooom, is scneduled to bun Into W()1.k 1( Klamuth Basin Pine I "thus committee on the strike
town laie this summon to e i Mills would agree word for word 'situation 'or Thursd.iv.
about (.orrallli.K some Friday voles i wlUi a settlement rrached earlier O. L- Irving of PIRC said the
for his mnn. !by ,llc un0I1 wttj, Weyerhaeuser meeting was "tentatively" set be-
The New Hamii.vhlre nolltlcal Timbe Comunnv. i cause he didn't know whether by
leader. atuinpliiK Oregon for Elsen-
nowrr. will appear at a itepubll-
can i. mv :ii I a li.ti u m in iii
Wlllard Hotel.
Ills party la to be met at the
north tnd of town by local Repub
licans and city officials.
KIBST TEST
The state of New Hampshire
held the first primary election ol
this presidential campalKn. and
nave Klsenhower a Kood malonlv
over 1 Is No. I opponent for the
OOP presidential nomination, Ben.
Robert A. Tafl of Ohio.
i Oen. DwlBht Elsenhower Is the
odds-on rholce to win the party's
.preferential vote here In OreKon
Friday
. , . ...
)AnnlKtr Wlow wbo u?d JNc."
iiuiuiiirc hi a t-in mwtuuara ill
Una presidential campaign Is
-
iUBV nla,u'
'l,,ruu"u uc ""cs-
Ur ls 8fn- E,""t Kefauver of
Tenneuee. Ihe Democratic aspir-
ant who beat President Truman In
'Die New Hampshire vote and so
ilnr has been beaten III only one
iMate primary,
fLORiDA
That wan last week In Florida,
where Ben. Richard Russell of
Georgia met and whipped the Ten
nesson. Kefauver, like Eisenhower. Is an
odds-on choice to win the Oregon
primary
He u scheduled lo arrive by
plane about 7 p. m. Wednesday
and Is to make his public appear
ance n an 8 p. ill. rally at Fre
mont School.
His i.pcech is lo be aired over
KFLW.
Koje Prison
Head Removed
SEOUL, Korea P) Brig. Oen.
Charles F. Colson was removed
Tuesday as commandant of Kole
Island three days after he maile
a sharply crltlclred deal wlih Red
prisoners of war for the release of
his predecessor.
The new shakeup In Ihe Koje
Command came less than 13 hours
after It became known Ihe Joint
Chiefs of Staff demanded Immed
iate and full clarification of cir
cumstances leading to:
Brig. Oen. Francis T. Dodd'sc23 a. 6ln Sl. wns recovered bv
capture by his Koje prisoners, and
3. Colson's promise concession!
to Communist POW leaders which
won Dodd's release Saturday night.
Oen Mark Clark, who became
Far Eastern Commander Monday,
was Instructed to send his report
to the Pentagon "by the fastest
menus possible."
Gen. James A, Van Fleet named
Brig. Oen. Haydon L. Boatner.
veteran front line Infantry com
mander from New Orleans, to take
over tho turbulent 80,000 man pris
oner camp.
lln, Mi.rshall, Matthews and Lar
kUD objected to increasing the
mayor's salary on the prlncipnl
ground:! that the best solution to
the city's needs would be a quali
fied t'ily manager rather than a
full-tlim. mayor.
Smith, while agreeing that tho
city manager plan might be ad
visable, said that he thought the
mayor's salary shcild be Increased
If tho present administrative setup
was continued. '
The Park Board matter was the
big target of Uie evening. Mat
thews and Marshall, both Park
Board members, voiced bitter op
position lo putting Ih6 board under
the City Council's thumb. Larkln
supported their stand. Smith ar
gued the Park Board had "entire
ly toj much authority" and Noslln
never did get arou:id to taking a
positive, stand . , , "I want to
think it over some more," he said.
However, In terse exchanges with
Marshall nnd Matthews, Ncslln
challenged their stand that the
Park Board should retain Its pre
sent sinttis.
Embers of an old municipal fire
were stirred at one point bv Mar
shall. Asked by Ncslln for some
specific reasons why he didn't want
t no -board 'a authority voted over to
the City Council, Marshall said a
big reason was because the Park
Board didn't want to "get caught
kowd Steps into Oil
Struck Klamath Mill
Refuses Union Offer
! The management ol Klamath
j Basin Pine Mill turned down a
proposed settlement with striking
; members of the CIO International
Woodworkers of America union
ivlonduv afternoon, and the nliinl
romnliui rinsed because of the
That agreement would give the
worker.i a 7' .-ccnl
hourly pay
i ., -Am i
..... '. .,m. ir.t,i Vhif. .in.
lerentlbl and eblabllsh certain
nualllicatlons lor th pay raise and
l-.olldov pay..
The union asked that the matter
of paynent for the 'lealtH and wel-
!'""' ''. be lil " 10 neiioll -
""' . . .... .
Hal GclKer of the IWA said
Bureau Water
Plans Feared
EUREKA. Calif. Ml Concern
over Bureau of Reclamation plans
to use waier 01 ine &iamam ana
Trlnitv Rivers was exDressed Mon-
day at a meeting of Ihe KlamnUi
River Watershed Development As-
soclation
Frank Jenkins, Klamath Falls,
Ore., publisher and association
president, told the session here
"Not only la the U. 8. Bureau of
Reclamation threatening to take
water from the Trinity River,
which would lto affect the Klnm-
atn, out tney are likewise tnreat
enlng to divert the Klamath
River."
The Trinity Joins the Klamath
in Northern California.
The bureau of Reclamation plans
would divert part of the Trinity's
flow eastward Into the Sacramento,
whose waters now Irrigate Ca.l
fornla'a Central Valleys. Bureau
plana also would divert part of the
Klamath's flow.
Water users In both areas are
protesting losing any of the water.
State Sen. Randolph Collier of
Yreka told the group he also har.
asked Congress to take no action
on the Trinity and Klamath pro
jects until the survey has been
completed.
Tile association seeks regional
development of the Trinity and
and Klnmath reflecting local needs.
Police Find
Stolen Car
A lfi? Ford sedan, stolen Mon
day morning bv two voung men
from Wentherford's Used f:nr lot
Slate Police yesterday afternoon,
on V. S. Highway t'7 near Chilo
quln. Police reported the car had run
out ot cas, and it is believed the
pair who took the enr out "for a
short trinl run" hitched a ride i
north.
No trace was found of the men
In n shakedown by police of
ranches in the Chilnquln area.
The district attorney's office has
Issued larceny bv bnllce charges !
against uie two uuinentiuea
thieves.
In the positlcn the Recreation Com-:
mission got caught in" several I
months ago. I
(Marshall was ailudlng to the
Sam 8mlth fracas. A heated con-
Iroversv over Smith's office ac-
counts culminated In Smith resign-
ing as city recreation director. The I
Recreation Commission battled
fiercely with the City Council but
the Commission, with only advi
sory powers such as Is now sought
for the Park Board, was powerless
to save Smith. After repeated at
tacks from rome council members.
Smith leslgncd lo become recrea
tion director at state boys' train
ing school at Woodi'Urn.)
"The Council," declared Marshall,-
"railroaded the best recrcn
tlon director we ever had out of
town nnd the Reorcntlon Commis
sion couldn't do a thing to pre
vent ." (Marshall added that his
remarks were not to be construod
as any reflection on the present
recreation director, Bob Bonney.)
It was perhaps the most excit
ing forum yet preae.nted in the se
ries, The panel members pulled no
punches.
Typical of their blunt stands on
the .'ssues wns Matthews' declar
ation ol the mayor's snlnrv Issue:
"There Isn't a mnn In Klamath
Falls worth $509 a month as may
or," he said.
the uulcn's offer rould remove
the health and welfare Issue as a
main cau.se of the work stoppage.
i ....,. ,,,.
! au""'" ,Kl
Mea.iwhile. the Pine Industrial
rtelntli.n CdmmlM h-itt tenia
,Thur.uuy the PiRC would be
uriiii.i
nlmts which were represented by
'M' wo'-r Qispuie De-
can have pulled out to make ln
divlduil settlements with their
local IWA unions, similar to the
one proposed between Klamath
, iin,in p mhi i,.i iwa's i-orai
lh.io
i Mo:ity workers cf Kclnlne and
soutnern I'aciuc piywooa plants
.r(. volfd lo strii-e unle.-s a dls-
nute over working conditions at
the two mills is patched up.
The AFL Lumber and Sawmill
Worken, union has representation
at the plvwrod plarts.
Flovd Hei.derson of the union
'aid iM per cent cl employes voted
to strike, but no dale was set for
it. The union claims an unspecified
contract violation by the
companies.
Brown Hands
In Resignation
The resignation of James L.
(Jlmi .Brown aa Principal of Klam,
atfi Unmn High. School 'was ac
cepted Monday night by tne kuhb
scnool ooarci, ana it may oe sever
nl weeks before a successor is
named.
Arnold Gralapp, school superin
tendent, said that a study of the
qualifications of persons already
on Die local school stalf for the
Job of principal would be made
before the search for a principal
wns turned elsewhere.
Gralapp said that he and the
school board commended Brown
for his work here in the past four
years and congratulated him on
his promotion.
Brown Is to go to Redmond as
principal of Redmond Union High
School and superintendent of the
district.
MISCELLANY
Other school board action Mon
day night included:
Orantlng a year's leave of ab
sence to Oeraldine Owsley, 7th
grade teacher at Ganger.
Acceptance of resignations ot
Margaret Alderson. Pelican 2nd
and 3rd grade teacher, and Ellen
Sullivan, Roosevelt music teacher.
Election of Ruth Lobaugh ol
Mills School as elementary music
supervisor and mutlc teacher at
Fremont, to replace Helen
Mueller, who is to go to Tucson.
Election of Marian Mclntyrc.
Lewis and Clark graduate, to a
primary teaching position, and of
Ruth Asmodt. coming from Yaki
ma. Wash., as music teacher at
Mills.
Setting Uie 8th grade commence
ment ceremony for May 37 at
Pelican Court.
Acceptance of resignation ol
Mrs. Edith Yancey f rom her
custodian Job at KUHS. She a
retiring
School Fund
Drives Curbed
In the future only two fund
solicitations a year will be allowed
to be carried on through Klamath
Falls schools, the School Boards
of District 1 and 3 voted Monday
night.
A committee composed of Marie
Stearns, Grace Johnston, Lucille
O'Neill and Doris Peyton, ap-
Pointed to study the fund drive
problem, recommended that only
"c Junior Red Cross and one
"c(1 fnd orlve- 5Uch s the
Community Chest, be allowed to
mnK0 solicitations " scnoois,
The decision also out a ban on
any pressure to have school chil
dren make donations to fund
drives, and that Uiere be no
competition from room to room
or school to school over how much
money is raised or how many
youngsters contribute.
Educational aspects of the fund
ralslng organizations are to be
stressed, rnthcr than the collection
of money, the boards deoreed.
Likewise, pressure to obtain con
tributions from employes of the
school districts will be banned.
"Wo bolleve these recommenda
tions are In accordance with the
American ideal of free choice,"
the committee reported.
THOUSAND HOMELESS v
MANILA m Fire destroyed
most of the business section of
Tuguegarno, capital of Cagayan
province, Monday night. The Phil
ippines News Service reported
damage was $1,500,000. About 1,000
persons were left homeless.
5 1
at. V
MRS. J. MARTIN ADAMS
Well Known
Matron Dies
Mm. Elinor May Adams, wife of
Dr. J. Martin Adams, died at Hill
side Hospital Monday night short
ly before midnight lollowing an Ill
ness of six months. She had been
a patient at the hospital seven
weeks.
A native of Merc?d. Calif.. Mrs.
Adams came to Klamath Falls In
19.13. and was married to Dr.
Adams, Aug. 4, that year. She was
born Jan. IS. 1903
'A graduate of Merced Union
High School, Mrs. Adams also grad
uated J rom nurse' training at
Highland Hospital, now- known as
Alameda County Hospital, Oakland,
Calif.
In Klamath Falls she was an ac
tive member of Fairvlew PTA for
seven years: charter member of
the Kl.imath County Medical So
ciety auxiliary and an ardent fol
lower of trapshooting and hunting.
Recently she donated trees plant
ed in Fairvlew park where a me
morial is to be established in her
honor.
Survivors include the widower.
Dr. J. Martin Adar.it: two daugh
ters. Sharon and Sandra: her moth
er. Mif. S. J. Lord. Merced: a sis
ter. Mrs. Ben He.ndley. Salinas.
Calif., and a brother. Alvin C. Pe
terson. Tuscson, Aiiz.
Time nnd Dlace of the funeral Is
to be announced by Ward's Klam
ath Funeral Home The family has
requested that no (lowers be sent.
Taf t and Ike
Race Tightens
By The Associated Press
The Taft-Eisenhcwer fight for
Republican presidential - nominat
ing delegates, tightened up a little
by results in Rhode Island and
Wyoming, swings Tuesday to West
Virginia
The weather was fair there and
a half-million ballots were expect
ed in a primary. Features, besides
hot nomination races for governor
and congress, were:
1. Election of 16-vote Republican
and ?0-vote Democratic delega
tions to the Chicago national con
ventions In July.
3. A GOP popularity contest be
tween Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio
I and former Gov. Harold Stassen
.of Minnesota, spiced by a move
ment lor write-in votes which can
not count legally iar Oen. Dwight
Elsenhower.
CONFIDENCE
Taft backeis. .with Ihe solid sup
port of the state orpunization were
confident of' capturing all 16 Re
publican delegates. Eisenhower
forces said they would consider it
a victoiy to elect even one Eisen
hower delegate.
In the preferential poll, Taft
looked like a shoo-in over Stassen.
Eisenhower people are asking vot
ers to write "Ike" across the
names of Stassen and Taft even
though such write-ins won't be
counted. Their avowed purpose: To
cut down the Taft r-ooularlty vote.
There was no Democratic prefer
ence vote. Candidates for the 30
vote delegation, except for one
supporter of Sen. Estes Kefauver
of Tennessee, kept silent as to
which nominee-candidate they
favored.
Officii, 11 v. delegations of both
parties will be unlnstructed.
TAFT LEAD
Conventions In Wyoming and
Rhodu Island Monday revised the
Associated Press tabulation of
GOP delegate strength to read:
Taft 343. Elsenhower 390.
In Wyoming Taft nicked up six
delegates against two for Elsen
hower. Four others were not com
mitted. But the general got all
eight of Rhode Island's votes when
the convention there balked at a
split with Taft.
Tho AP tabulation Is based on
concessions, pledges, instructions
and statements bv delegates will
ing to express a preference. Nom
ination requires (04 votes.
Strike
Truman Said
Ready To
Invoke T-H
WASHINGTON OP) The Wage
Stabilization Board (WSB) stepped
into the two weeks old oil strike
Tuesday by ordering a series of
Informal board discussions on what
to do.
The WSB, which had called in
representatives of more than a
score of oil companies and a coali
tion of striking unionists, held a
live-minute lormal session.
WSB Chairman Nathan L. Fein-
singer read a statement saying the
ooara would "explore ways and
means of expediting settlements of
the remaining disputes In the
national Interest" and would check
into scattered agreements already
reached In the field.
He said the board is of the
"unanimous opinion that disputes
siiu unresolved can be settled
through collective bargaining."
REFUSAL
The unions have refused to call
off the strike, which has affected
about one-third of the nation's oil
production, but agreed to attend
Tuesday WSB meeting.
When Feinsinger finished his
statement, J. J. McKenna, who
represents a number of independent
unions, said he didn't like the way
the board was going about the situ
ation and threatened to leave, say
ing be would be at his hotel "it
anybody wants me."
"Our men are not going back to
wort until we get a settlement,
McKenna said. "That's for sure.
However, McKenna stayed at the
WSB offices after O. A. Knight,
president of the CIO Oil Workers
and leader of the union coalition.
urged him: "don't pull away from
us now. .
study ' .... ...
Feinsinger said the board, in its
study ot ways to settle remaining
Disputes, would also spend the rest
of the day, and perhaps Wednes
day, exploring the status of col
lective bargaining negotiations now
in progress in the unsettled dis
putes.
About 90.000 oil workers In re
fineries and pipelines are on strike.
President Truman was reliably
reported waiting on the outcome of
the meeting before deciding wheth
er io in voce uie l-ti act s national
emergency provisions.
These include an 80-day court in
junction against continuing a walk
out.
The strike against pipelines, dis
tribution plants and 70 or more re
fineries has curtailed military and
civilian jiyuig in uus country ana
aoroaa. Motorists gasoline supplies
have become scarce in some areas.
AIRLINES
Commercial airlines reported
they were being forced to cancel as
much as one-third of their schedu
led flights.
At Quonset Point, R. I., the
Navy reported a one-third reduction
in air operations.
H. E. Fairweather, district su
pervisor of the Interstate Com
merce Commission in Indiana
polis, said truck lines would be In
serious trouble by Wednesday or
Thursday if the strike continues.
Locust May
Bring Famine
ROME Wl Giant locust swarms
are threatening the entire food
supply of agricultural countries
from Africa to Asia in the worst
plague for the future.
This was reported today by the
U. N. Food and Agricultural Or
ganisation (FAOl, which gave this
picture:
Tens of millions of desert locusts
have swept from their East Afri
can breeding place with dramatic
rapidity since the start of the year.
Vast areas of French Somali
land, Eritrea. The Sudan. Aden,
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Ku
wait, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Syria,
Iraq, Iran and Pakistan are in
fested. Present swarms are now breed
ing and "a new generation of
young locusts soon will be on hand
threatening the cotton and grain
of the Nile delta on one side and
the rice fields of India on the
other."
FAO estimated that between 500
and 600 million hectares (1.1 to
1.3 billion acres) of Iran, running
from the border of Iraq to that ot
Pakistan, are Infested with desert
locust eggs. That means a new
plague for the future.
So far the Iranian government
has been able to clean up only
one-tenth or this area. Both the
United States and the U.S.S.R.
have sent In aircraft and experts
to help fight the menace a rare
example of postwar cooperation
between the two rival powers.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Partly sunny Wednesday. High
Wednesday 68. .
High yesterday 70
Low last night ...... . 16
Precip last 24 hours
Since Oct. 1 .. 15.13
Normal for period ..10.2
Same period last year 14.17
U.S: Holds
Nation On
War Status
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, 11 Justice
Jackson said from the bench
Tuesday be will oppose handing
down the Supreme Court's deci
sion In the steel selinre ease un
til the eplnlna has been written.
This might mean a delay of
some time. Occasionally, to
speed action on a particularly
Important ease, the court an
nounces a ruling and hands down
the formal opinion some weeks
later.
By KARL BAUMAN
WASHINGTON W) Main argth
ments In the steel seizure case
wound up before the Supreme
Court Tuesday with the adminis
tration contending "we are at war"
and seizure of the steel mills was
the only way President Truman
could assure their continued oper
ation. Solicitor General Philip B. Perl-
man, in likening tne present inter
national situation to war, said the
nation's very existence is threat
ened. Scornfully, he contended that In
dustry's claimed fears of "irre
parable damage" from govern'
ment operation of the mills are
"a lot of fantastic hobgoblins."
John W. Davis retorted for the
steel companies: "our property is
taken away, our bargaining power
is by-passed." He said that was
real injury.
BRIEF '
Davis used but 10 minutes to re
ply to an overtime argument from
Perlman. Each bad been allotted
two and one half hours. Davis left
43 minutes unused.
Davis asked the Justices to up
hold the decision by U. 8. Dis
trict Judge David A. Pine that
seizure of the mills was illegal.
"We look to the Judiciary to hold
the balance between the powers ot
the constitutional functionaries," he
said.
After Perlman and Davis fin
ished the main arguments, the
court turned to side Issues.
The first of these was a plea by
Arthur Golaberg. general counsel
tor the CIO 8teelworkers, that the
court hand down Its decision at the
earliest possible date.
After that, the court was to near
from three of the major railroad
nrothernooas on wnat oeanng lis
steel decision might have on the
railroad seizure.
It was the second and final day
of oral arguments, before the high
tribunal on the momentous ques
tion of presidential powers under
the Constitution. ' ' ;
DECISION, 3 V.V.'VV'T ' '
When the court may hand down
a decision ' Is highly uncertain.
There is no time limit on how long
the court may take. " -
The administration contends that
Truman had not only the right but
the duty to tale over tne mills, as
he did on April 8, to maintain steal
production for the good of the na
tion. "
Davis maintains Truman had no
authority under the Constitution or
any law to seize ine mills.
He called Secretary: of Com
merce Sawyer, nominal operator of
the mills under government pos
session, a "mere trespasser."
When court reconvened at 11:03
a.m. (EST), Perlman had only 17
minutes left of the two and one-
half hours allotted him tor argu
ment.
But the Justices let him run over
time so they could fire questions
at him.
Much of Ferlman's time m his
first appearance Monday was tak
en up with replies to peppering
questions. .-
The queries irom tne Dencn oc-
gan again when Perlman. aiter
saying industry fears of damage
were "fantastic," declared there
was no intention to Interfere with
management.
Chief Justice Vinson asked whe
ther this procedure (of non-interference)
could be changed.
Perlman replied that "lianxiy it
is proposed to change working con
ditions," meaning wages prlnv
arily and called this "the only
tangible basis for their fears."
But. Perlman insisted, any dam
ages the company could prove re
sulted from this would have to be
paid for by the government.
AWAITING HIS birthday
with considerable anticipa
tion - is Virgil Rightmier,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Rightmier, Route 2, Box
450. Virgil will be 4, May
23. .
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