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An these words lire written, the
hunrrino court linn Just ruled (bv
a voir of tlx to three Uint Presi
dent Truman'a ncliure of the nleel
induitry won unconstltuUonal. The
m Unity oplnlim asserts Uml:
"The President's power lo Issue
the mature order must Mem cither
from an act of congress or from
the ruiwlllutton Iticll ....
"The founders of this nation en
trusted the lew making power TO
THK CONOKKHS ALONE. In both
liood end bad limes."
The opinion tnkrs note of the ar
RUiiirnt that other President with
out congressional authority have
taken ponicmlon of private busi
ness enterprises In order to nettle
Inbor disputes and then adda thnt
"even If linn be true rnnttrena hn
not thereby lont Iti EXCLU81VE
ron'ititutlonnl authority to make
lawn iicceiwarv and proper la carry
"Ml the power vetted by the con
tlutlon 'In Die iiovomment of the
filled Ptatea or any deparlmont or
bfljeer thereof.' " J
It concludea:
"It would do no ood to recall
the hltlorlcal evenU. the fenfn of
power and the hope of freedom
that lay behind their cholre. Such
a teview would but confirm our
hnldlnn that this selxure order can
not etnnd."
It la a historic decision. It nettle,
otire and lor all, the rontentlon
thnt the Proaldrnt hnn INlIEUENr'l
nowrra not apelled out In the con
atltutlon. Thl doctrine of Inherent
powers imackt of the ancient
doom a that the klni could do no
wronu.. If the kins could do no
wronu. It followed that he could
not be. restrained by the parlia
ment or the people.
That made the king the DESPOT.
It had been freely predicted that
the court would dodne the lanue of
the constitutional powers of the
President. '
It didn't.
It met the Issue squarely, holding
thnt private property can not be
seized without due process of law
and that due process of law re
quires action by congress and by
congress ONLY.
It seems to me that Is a chal
lenge to congress to get busy as
statesmen and patriots, rather than
aa politicians seeking re-election at
any cost Including the oost of
puwyfootlng and doing nothing that
will mnke anybody mnd In an elec
tion yeur.
Congress can meet thnt challenge
In two wnyn by standing pnt on
the laws It has already panned or
bv pHsnlng other and presumably
better laws.
I Mippose the division in the
court will surprise you.
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tlnjj Pri
' decision written by JUSTICE
nnd concurred In by Jus-
Prnnkftirter. Douglns, Clark.
Jnc'knon nnd Burton, It wns dis
sented lo by Chief Justice Vinton,
who wns Joined In his dissent by
Justice Reed nnd Justice Mlnton.
JiikIIccs Blnck. Frnnkfurter,
Dnimlns nnd Clnrk hnve been gen
erally tngged ns New Dcnlors nnd
Ihiix'loro Inclined to follow New
Denl reasoning, which hns lenned
toward the tl'eorv of nnra-ted
power for tho chief executlvo, Yet,
In the flnnl pinch, when tho time
came to ACT finally nnd Irrevoca
bly, they held to tho older and
more conservative construction of
the constitution.
Chief Justice Vinton hns been al
most universally looked upon as n
mltldle-of-the-rond conservative, nn
hns Justice Reed. Onlv Justice Mln
ton, among the three dlsxentcrn,
ncled as ho wfts generally ex
pected to act.
That1; I'd nv. It a hopeful sign.
It encourages tho belief that you
can't tag men Willi b lnbol nnd
rxnect them to not Invariably ns
the Inllcl malls for. In great emer
gencies, GREAT men tend to for
got Inhels nnd to, act ns statesmen
nnd pntrlots,
Meanwhile, events move swiftly.
Within n matter of minutes niter
the milking public of the supreme
court's decision, President Murrity
r .aI1h n nntlnmvldo strike.
In Issuing his strlko call, lie asks
the steel compnnles to ronumo col
inniiv bargaining, but announces
that bis Union still stands on tho
tornlti or. uia wngo huiuiiikhmuh
boartf; I . ,
What the stool nompnnios will do
remains io be seen, ,'
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JOE L.CLAIR
Radio Forum
On Defense
Setup Here
The Klamath Basin could con
ceivably be subjected to a dli.as
lerous emergency at any time,
either natural or man made lire.
flood, earuiquakf or atomic bomb.
If disaster strikes, what can we
do to protect ouraelves?
Tonight's "Build the Bnsln" for
um will mull over how the BnMn
stands on Its own feet In fnce of
drastic emergencies. A panel of ex
perts has been assembltd to dis
cuss the topic, and as ustinl the
participation of the listening aud
ience Is urged.
FANKL
On the pane Is Joe !. Clair
director of the Klamath County
Civilian Delcn.it program; Rev.
Qordon Anhbee, Bonanta active In
the R,1 Cross, heading plana and
operations In the civilian defense
plan and veteran "of the Home
Guard and Air Raid Precaution
service (ambulance service) during
the Natl bliU of London In the
early part of World War II;
Oeorge Conner, head of the com
munications dlvlMon of civilian
defense; Vance P. Hnwley, Civil
Aeronautics Administration airways
communications station chief here;
MaJ, Clifford L. Sanders, head of
plana and training for the local
battalion of the Oregon National
Ounrd, and Ross Rnglnnd, chair
man of the Tulelake civil defense
program.
QUESTION
Topic for the forum Is "How can
we best protect the Klamath Basin
In event of an emergency?'
Listeners may question the panel
members merely by phoning Bill,
the Herald and News, and placing
their query with the switchboard.
Three phones will be kept open to
Insure ease In getting questions In.
Weather
FORECAST: Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California
Fair with variable high cloudiness
through Tuesday. High Tuesday 75.
High yesterday ..
Low last night ..
Preclp last U hrs.
Since Oct. 1
Normal for period
Same period last yr.
LYNN PROPST (above) 320
South Rogers Street, Klam
ath Falls postal clerk, iss
shown at his postoffice win-,
dow this morning. -
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MAJ. CLIFF SANDERS
BULLETINUsun Park
IKE RKTf KING
WASHINGTON I The Army
aald Monday Gen. F.laenhower
will retire Tuesday at his own
request and will stop drswlng
hla 1K.7UJ a year In military pay
and allowances.
Accidents Kill
8 in Oregon
By The Associated Press
Oregon Monday counted eight
deaths in tho long Memorial Dny
wctx cna.
Three died In traffic Occidents,
four drowned and one was the vic
tim ol a heart attnek while fishing.
Tntllio victims were:
Jsmrs Mumhnll Hill. 36. Port
land, killed Friday when his csr
lilt nn overpass abutment near
1'ortlnnd.
Cllllord C. Aldrlch, 24. stationed
nt the Portland Air Bnse, killed
Saturday when car In which he
was a pasienger went out of con
trol and crashed' near Portland. .
Gtorito S. Perraull, about 35, of
Oakland. Ore., killed Sunday 12
miles north of Roscburg when his
car ran off Highway 99. His wife,
Nnouil, suffered critical Injuries.
Drowning victims were:
James McCulloutth. 24, Portlsnd,
drowned Friday while swimming
In nn Irrigation ditch near Harper
In Eastern Oregon.
Rolnnri Campbell. 17. Sweet
Home, drowned In the South Snn
tlnm River 35 miles east of Lebn
non Sunday, while fishing.
Mclvln A. Green. 23. Portland,
drowned Sundnv when a homemade
boat overturned In the Columbia
Slough.
Gary Lnrson, son of Mr. nnd
Mm. Elner F. Larson. Medford.
missing nnd presumed drowned
Sundnv In the Rogue River.
The heart nttnek victim wns Rus
sell Coder. 65. stricken while fish
ing near The Dalles Snturdny.
Rescuers Get
Marooned Dog
PORTLAND Wl An airdnle dog,
marooned, lor two days on a nar
row ledge of a Multnomah Falls
cliff, wns rescued 8undny by Sher
iff's Deputies and nn Oregontnn
photographer.
The dog fell over the cliff Friday
while chasing a squirrel. Her
owner. Phlllo Pohl, Portland, tave
the dog up for dead and returned
home.
But employes nt the lodge below
heard bnrks nnd whimpering Snt
urdny nnd the dog wns spotted on
n ledge t quarter of the way Jown
from the top of the cliff.
Runners couldn't got down to the
ledge. 8o Sunday morning sheriff's
deputies nnd Kirk uroun, ur'-gon-Ian
photographer, climbed 450 feet
no the lace of the cliff. The llrst
350 feet thev climbed Dy jrope. me
Inst 100 feet they had to dig Into
the clllfslde.
They loworcd the dog by rope
to her master who wns wading
below.
Oregon News
WomenWin
OMAHA MV Three Orcfron
newspaper women won nntlminl
awards nt the nnnunl meeting of
tho Nntlonnl Fcderntlon of Pross
Women here Rnturday.
The three, members of the Ore
gon Press Women's Association,
are: '
Marlon Lowry Fischer, of the
S a 1 0 m Cnpltnl-Journnl, who re
ceived first place for a womon's
department In a dally newspaper.
Elisabeth Snlwny Rynn, Oswcko,
second plnco for mi edllprlnl which
appeared In a dally newspnpor, tho
Oregontnn.
Mrs. Theresa H. Cox, second
place for a news nlcturc taken by
n woman and published in a .icws
papcr the Prlnevlllo Central
Oregontnn.
Margaret Thompson Hill, pub
lisher of tile Pnrkroso Enterprise,
nnd president of the Oregon group,
attended the meeting.
OREOON (IKOWTIt
PORTLAND IB Oregon's popu
lntlon hns gained about 3,100 every
month since the 1050 census nnd
now stands at 1,500,000, the Stalo
Board of Health estimates.
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Price Five Cents U Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1952 Telephone Sill No. 2835
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Plane, B Bodies Fomm
Peak Scene
Of Disaster
By WALLACE MYERS
Mangled and charred bodies of
eight servicemen were removed
yesterday from the wreckage of an
Air Force transport plane rhich
had smashed head-on Into a Lax-
I sen National Forest peak.
High on snow-crusted Crescent
Crater, an (.600-foot mountain, this
reporter worked with an Air Force
rescue team yesterday ns the book
wns closed on one of the greatest
serial searches in the nation's his
tory. The story began Dec. 28. An Air
Force C-47 took off that day on a
(light from Spokane to Its home
base. Travis Fetid, in the Snn
Frnnclsco Bay area. Aboard were
three crewmen and five passen
gers. All were service men. The
live passengers, ironically tnnuh.
were "aerial niiennikers" . . evrv- :
Ice lrion ' hitching a ride buck to
their bane after Christmas leaves.
The flight wag apparently tin
eventual from Spokane to Klnmath
Falls. At 4:07 p. m., that afternoon.
the c-47 nude a routine radio
check with the Civil Aeronautics
station at Municipal Airport hers..
TU .1 ..... .11.. k, , I. . T
radio report said the Dig snip was
heading south at 10,000 feet and
would check next at Whlttmore,
Calif., at 5:17 p. m. There was no
hint of trouble ... but alter mak
ing thnt rndlo report here, the big
ship and its eight men vanished.
A few hours later, the aircraft
was officially reported as overdue
at Travis Field and uie Kiamain
Air Search and Rescue Unit here
immediately went to work.
Tho following morning, nn Mr
Force rescue team flew In here
nnd established a search bnse. An
other Air Force lenm from Hamil
ton Field established a similar base
following the C-47's disappearance,
there were heavy snow squalls nnd
visiDiutv was practically zero.
When die weather did finally break
enough to allow aerial searching,
there were nn estimated loo plnnes
flying search missions from fields
tnrougnout me souinern uregon-
Northern California area.
Position of the shattered plane In
dicates that It flew directly n.to
tne mountains lace. The impact
must have been terrific. The entire
fuselage of the big ship was splin
tered nnd pnnenked so thnt the tnll
assembly rested agnlnst the plane's
nose. The ship's nose went between
two nugo rocks against wnicn me
wings were crumpled.
This reporter reached the wreck-
Inge a little ahead of the Air Force
party ycsierany. ai nrsfc glance, ll
was hnrd to believe thnt even rem
nants of eight bodies could be
Jammed Into such smnll space.
Persons over -a widely scattered
men reported thnt they thought
they had heard or seen the miss
ing pfane the evening It dlsap-
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Plunge Fatal
To Mrs. Sloan
Funeral services for Madge
Sloan, pioneer Klnmnth Falls wom
an who fell down a flight of stairs
to her death Snturdny night, are
to be conducted Wednesdny, 2 p. m,
from O'Hnir's Memorial Chapel.
Mrs. Sloan was 65 years old, a
native of Jnckson County.
Saturday night she and a group
of friends were playing bridge nt
the Elisabeth Rnmbsy home, 521 N.
5th, whem Mrs. Sloan had to leave
the room. She opened a door lend
ing to the cellar stairs and In the
dark pitched headlong down the
stairs, '
Hrr skull wns fractured. She
lived only a few minutes after Uie
lull.
Mrs. Slonn wns the widow of Al
len Slonn. who died scvernl years
nao, and resided at 17 Pine. She
tnuttht muslo and some of her pu
pils were to bo presented in a
recltnl Wednesdny night.
Sho had lived In Klamnth Falls
for many years, attended the Uni
versity of California and taught for
some time nt Marysvllle, Calif; -
Survivors Include a daughter,
Rosemary Elllngson. Baker; a
brother, Porcy Clapton, Berkeley,
Calif., and several -nephews and
nieces.
DISASTER SCENE On the steep, snow-covered slope
mountain rests the battered and blackened wreckage of
in which eight servicemen died.
Pests Overrun
Barley Guards
TULELAKE Grasshoppers
counted at thousands to the square
yard broke over the first lines of
defense thrown around some 25.000
acres of premium brew barley
southwest of here, nnd grasshopper
control experts plnn to throw a half
dozen mash-spreading planes into
the battle today.
The hoppers have been hatching
along the south edge of the fields
for Uie past two weeks, but late
last week began moving into the
sprouting fields.
Where the hoppers hnve been, the
barley isn't any more. As one T.ile-
lake farmer said, "They are devas
tating." The insects eat the Plants
almost to the ground.
IN HAND
Grasshopper Control Specialist
Sam Smith, In chnrge of the locnl
control operation, said the situation
Is still in hand though extreme
measures must be taken to hold
the scourge of hoppers bnck. He
snld where ground rigs have been
used to kill the pests millions of
hoppers nave already died.
The control project is being car
ried on under the joint cooperation
of several governmental agencies
involved and farmers whose lands
ore to be protected. Since many
of the insects are hatching and
migrating off government lands.
tho farmers are putting up only
about 40 per cent of the 525.000
requested to carry on the Job.
The protect will cost about SI .03
per acre, Smith reported.
He said several thousand dollnis
worth of bnrlcy hnd been destroyed
so far, but if measures are taken
soon enough he said redrilling of
the barley may be sufficient to re
place the damage.
PRISONERS
Smith reported n labor shortage
developed last week nt the mixing
plant near Newell, and prisoners
from the Federal Prison Camp nt
Newell were assigned to nsslst L. P.
Fox is superintendent of the camp
wntch Is Doing revamped tor pos
sible detention for subversives and
possibly to house model prisoners
from federal prisoners.
E. R. Slmlnlskl ts captain at Uie
camp.
The entomologist snld thnt pres.
ent mensures may set bnck the
cyclic grasshopper populations by
10 years. Plans may Include n pro
ject to clenr up hopper lnicstaiions
quite a distance bnck from Uie
fields.
About 125 tons of poisoned brnn
Is to be used In the bnttle agnlnst
the migrating hoppers. As ninny ns
tnree insects per square men imve
been counted. At the rate f one
hopper per square Inch there are
1296 grasshoppers to the square
yard.
KESSEI.R1NR GETS LEAVE
BONN. Qermnny 0e The Brit
Ish hnve given former German
Field Mnrshnl Albert Kesselvlng
a week off from his war crimes
life sentence to visit a sick rela
tive. The Jailers wouldn't say who
or whera the relative was, i
At Forte.
Six Injured
In Collision
Only one serious highway acci
dent marred the long Memorial
Day weekend In the Klamath area.
Six persons were injured In vary
ing degrees Saturday afternoon in
a head-on collision In Crater Lake
Park a few miles above park head
quarters.
Four of them were brought to
Klamnth Vnlley Hospital by Kaler's
ambulance:
Mrs. Grace Holmark. 63. Seattle.
the most seriously hurt, fractured
left knee, possible fractured left
arm.
Her husband. Leon Holmark. 69.
head injuries.
Norris McAtee, 80. Oakridge,
bruises and head injuries. '
Mrs. Margaret McAtee, 31. pos
sible nose break.
Two of three McAtee children
were shaken up nnd were given
first aid treatment by park rangers.
The two cars crashed on a curve.
'The people were taken to park
headquarters by rangers ana put
in the ambulance.
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BIG DAY Lakevlew was Southern Oregon's fun capital Saturday as the city s new
"Community Swimming Pool" (above) was dedicated. Prominent r persons and officials
from throughout the state participated in the dedication. There was also exhibition swim
ming and diving by a troupe from Portland's Multnomah Athletic Club and music by
the Lakevlew High School band.
of a Lassen National Forest
an Air Force C-47 transport
Mishap Takes
Child's Eye
Darlene Brown, 6-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Brown, 2437 Orchard, lost her right
eye as the result of a gunshot ac
cident at Gerber Dam late Sunday
afternoon.
A bullet from a- .22-cal. rifle, fired
by another child, struck Darlene
near the right eye nnd penetrated
behind the eye, coming out at the
bridge of hr nose. r
Her father said the gunshot was
entirely accidental.
He said the rifle was discharged
by children playing in a car and
that Darlene was standing six or
eight feet away from the car on
the ground.
The little girl was put in a car
and brought down to the Swan Lake
junction where she was transferred
to Kaler's ambulance and brought
to Kiamath Valley Hospital.
At the hospital today she was re
ported out of danger, but the sight
of her right eye is believed per
manently lost.
Union Calls
New Strike
Immediately
WASHINGTON W The Su.
preme Court ruled (-3 Monday
that President Truman's seizure
of the steel Industry was unconsti
tutional.
Within minutes CIO President
Philip Murray called a nationwide
strike of his 650,000 Steelworkers.
in a historic decision striking
down bard Truman's claim to vast
lnnerent power under the ConsU
tuion, the high court upheld the
ruling of U. S. District Judge Dav
id A. Pine that the President acted
Illegally in seizing the steel mills
April 8 to head off a strike.
This meant the government must
obey Pine's orders to turn the mills
oacK to tneir owners.
it also meant tne Truman ad
ministration could not carry
through its promise of wage In
crease to the steel workers wmle
the mills were under government
ownership.
Monday's high court decision
was written by Justice Black. Chief
Justice Vinson and Justices Reed
ana Mm ton dissented.
OPINION ,
Black said for the court ma lor-
ity:
"The President s power to Issue
the seizure order must stem
either from an act of Congress or
irom me constitution itself.
There is no statute that ex
pressly authorizes the President
to take possession of ororjertv as
he did here.
Nor Is there any act of Con
gress to which our attention hut
been directed from which such a
power can fairly be implied."
in nis aisseni, umei justice Vin
son contested the view . that Uie
President's ' only recourse in an
emergency is to await "Uie final
passage of legislation x z x to copo
with threatened disaster."
under this view," Vinson said,
"the President Is left powerless
at Uie very moment when the need
for action may be most pressing
and when no one. other than be.
is immediately capable of action."
. Repercussions of the high court's
decision vera swift.
Murray's strike "call came less
than 45 minutes after the black"
robed judges read their opinions.
And even before Uie CIO bead
acted. Uie steel workers we
streaming out of the mills.
iney pegan walking out or three
Youngstown, Ohio, plants by 11:3
a. m. .'half an hour after the
court began Monday's momentous
session.
Picket lines formed at the Gary,
Ind., and South Chicago works of
Uie U. S. Steel Company at the
same time.
A National Production Authroitv
spokesman said KPA probably will
reimpose ai once lis emoargo on
steel shipments to consumer goods
manmaciureis.
On Uie floor of the U. 8. Senate.
Sen. Hickenlooper (R.-Iowa) read
a news Ucker report of th decision
to nis colleagues.
"Hooray!" exclaimed Sen. Tobey
(R.-NH).
On the point of Uie Constitution.
Black said:
"The order cannot properly be
sustained as an exercise of Uie
President's military power as com
mander in chief of Uie armed
forces, xxx
"Nor can Uie seizure order be
sustained because of the several
constitutional provisions that grant
executive power to Uie President."
In issuing his strike call, Mur
ray at the same time asked the
steel companies to resume collec
tive bargaining.
.uut Murray also made clear mat
the union still stands on the terms
of Uie Wage Stabilization Board
(WSB) recommendations of a 28
cent an hour "package" setus-
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