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Newspaper Page TextraM) ui Ininn Dav's Jens By FRANK JDNKINS A Washington dispatch says: "Congress today sent to the .Whlln 1 louse it IM47.730,7M foreign nilUliii v-cc'uiioiiilc bill providing laboul I 'a billion dollars Innn Umn President Truman requested." Personally, I'm Inclined lo think Ihul will) careful economy, upend inii ulha people's money aa pains tttklnvly an we upend our own, tvo nilulu b able to provide tin much nillllnrv and economic help lor Ui smaller mini an wo've been provld Ini lor (ho lamer one. There ba been a lot nl axlravaitiinco In our handling of our public expenditure!. Whai do vou llilnk about II' We HAVE to provide, help lor our Irlruclx In I he rent ol the world II we nanl them lo be strong enough lo help us In tho bin lob of aavlmt tho free world from be iijj cobbled up bv conmumlMii. WN HAVE to upend a vast amount mt money In bulldlna up our mill inrv alrenulh II we are lo convince Ihe communists that, we are too airoim to be tackled. .tli oommu nlsla aeem to reaped only force. And. ol course, we HAVE to pav Inlereal on our Immense public debt and we have to pav the carry hilt charges on the conllv wars of the pant. I Alt of llioso Ihlimi are unavoid able. But we DON'T have to be iecklou.lv exlravnimnt In the way we spent our inonov. Wine thrift and careful buvliu will io the lob fur u even belter than wa-to ex travagance Anolher one from Washlnitlon: "fha government lodav cut the lie of down payment" reoulred lor Ihe purchase ol new home. Hie reduction la expected lo pro- vlle a considerable atlmulua to the bulldlna of new houses. I mippow It will do luM that. But "might be at f'1'"': irallv Interesting to Point out that h" reduction of down oavmenP. on houaeVdoeanl provide anv actus newroowv lor home bulldlna. It merely provldea LESS ca.h and MORE debt. It mluhl be academical! Inter esunj to point out thai M l ll o- ...IK- nereuarv. In order to get ..,..,.! houe built, to na a law enabling us to use more debt . t. ... nttvinn for them, If we wanled to. we could save up the monev K1R8T and then use l to pav for Ihe housca when they were built. The scheme will work Julter wav. For .l. J ,,av a dollar down and week for 3 weeka for a 40 atll of . . .i rm A.t'(an HfiVII A. UOllftr a'w'e.eV ! for 40 wSeki' and at the N'C'iwn to the ..tore. lat oaah Ute oarreineaa null home wim vou. Either wav you will ;"" It worka the same way w" . . ... . i. . rtrAnHfiilher'a time. Awav um- ... ' lnaT people aaved up the monev FIRST and then used It to buv what thev wanted or needed. Now we prefer to do the Dtiving iirai aim f ? R"5-, work But look bick with quit . lot of env to the LOW PRICE8 thai nrandfather paid In comparison with the higher prlcea we oav now. The fact that Grandfather aaved the monev up first and then paid cash on the nail whereat " pre fer to do the buvlmr flrat and the aavlns afterward han aomethlng to do with the dliierence in '"V"- There la no auch thing you know, aa aomethlng for nothing. Escaped Con Murders rirukl N. Y. IAV- An escaped convict, making a desperate effort to aelie a getaway car, atabbed a S vear - old girl hostage to death Wednesday as police closed In on him. t , Hit by three police bullets, the eonvlct surrendered arid was taken to a hospital. His little victim, stabbed with a outcher knife aa her mother looked on helpless, died an hour later. The alaycr, Donald Snyder, S6 of Canaatola. N. Y., gave warning of hit desperation and cried: "If you come near inc. I'll stab Uie child." Alex Williams, 40, school bus driver and a special policeman. !tf ird to ucrsuude Snyder to release Jim chllcl, Betty Lou Arnold. As he talked he sidled up closer and fired, hitting Snyder. The ex . con then plunged the knife Into tho little girl's abdomen. Williams fired two more shots. and Snyder gave up the fight. Williams was the' driver of a school bus that brought Betty Lou home late Wednesday. The little girl, daughter of a prosperous hardware merchant, was crossing Uie lawn to Join her young sister and another child when Snyder emerged front behind a bush. He walked up to the house and told Mrs. Snyder: v "I'm an escaped convict. Tho cops are after mo. I'm not fooling. I want you to let mo In hero or I'll take your children." The mother screamed to tho children: "Run, run." two of thorn ran, but Snyder sol.od Betty Lou. Snyder, who wits serving a 3 Hi year term in Clrecn Huvcn Btato prison for auto theft, had escaped Tuesday. Putnam County District Attorney Fred A, Dickinson said a murder charge against Snyder would be presented to a grand Jury Friday. connncTioN Last night's Hornld and News stated National Comm anderlyear, Donald R. Wilson would speak be fore the American Legion Conven tion here, but gave the wrong date. Mo Is to be featured apenker of the convention on July 27, Instead of a moiith earlier as was erroneously reported. muse President Loses Bid For Power WAHHINOTON I A llouan coinmlllefl voted down 16 to 10 Thursday a propoaal that Presl dent Truman De einKiwered to eir.o and operate the alruck steel mills. It waa the first formal vote by any houe group alnce Truman went before Congress Tuesday and plended for Una power. And In anolher rrbull lo the President Thursday the Senate vot ed to requeal that he use Ihe Taft Hartley art In the steel atrlke. The benatn lacked thin provision lo the wane-price controla bill, which It panned 68 to 18. Senator favoring aeiture pow era lor the 1'rrMdcnt abandoned their fliihl to write It Into the wane - price bill, however. They aald they would propose It later In a separate measure. Hfi.uitr. The seizure question wai raised In the limine Bunking Committee by Hep. Dolling 1U.-M0. 1 who pro- tinned It an an amendment lo leg diitlou extending the economic; coulroln law. Hulling nmendmeiit wan a du plicate ol Ihnl oilered In Ihe Bun ale Tuesday by Ben. Humphrey ID. Minn, i and rejected by that body. Members reported nine Demo crats and one Republican support ed the seizure move In the House committee Five Democraia and 10 Republican were against IU One Democrat voted prenrnt and one Republican wan absent. IIOl'KK 'I be House group la working on : He made the statement In an ils own version of a new wage-lnwer lo questions put to him by com roll law to replace Ihe pre.v I membera of the New Jersey Ro ent one which expiree June 30. I publican delegation. The Senate battling over acizura Elsenhower also aald he did not power has been In connection with 'participate In either the Yalta or the Senate s own version ol con-jPoUdam conferences and that his trols legislation. advice waa not accepted on the Abandonment ol mis scrap clear- ed Ihe way tor the Senate vote on Ihe controls bill which conialna a provision Having the Senate ro- i quMUl tmu Truman use the Taft. Hartley Law In the present atcel crisin. In two duys of battling, the Sen ate had rejected by top heavy margins four separate efforta to give Truman the aeliure powera he asked. Two more wore pending Thtirv day but ware disposed oi In tills fashion i sntoni . r irai, oeii. vw , i.w. manager for Uie controla bill, an nounced he would not call up his amendment containing a compre hensive seizure plan. WHITE HOl'HE At the White House, a Union-management-government commit tee held a mealing lo discuss re ouentnv of a few atcel plants lo produce weapona lor U.S. troops Unhung In Korea. At lunch time, the members said there had been no decisions. There wss no Indication the ad ministration waa preparing to make any Immediate use of the Taft-Hartley Act s Injunction pro visions. A 17-man group, Including eight government officials, waa meeting with John R. Sleelman, Truman's assistant, to work out details of the steel-for-Korea plan. Secretary of Defense Lovett and Defense Production Administrator Henry Fowler led the government group. Industry waa represented by vice presidents of five major aleel oomanles, and the OIO Steelwork ers Union by three union leaders. Judge Carter May Resign By HALE SCARBROUGH An assumed business name for Carter's Collection Agency has bocn recorded here by M. A. (Nick) Carter who said thore Is a possi bility that he may resign as Dis trict Judge to go into the collec tion business. Carter said he Was coming to Ihe point where he would have to belter himself financially. Ho has been Judge of the Dis trict Court since It was established Aug. 1, 1U51, and waa Justice of tho peace for about six months be fore that, appointed to replace the lalo J. A. Mnhoncy. It was largely through Carter's efforts that the District Court was oreated, supplanting the old Link vllle Justice Court. His salary as District Judge Is (4,(00 a year, while five of the seven olhor comparable courts In Oregon pay the Judge 85,700 a year. 1.USI April carter requested inat the County Court and budget com mittee provide In the 1952-53 budg et for a salary of $5,700, so that the salary could be approved by the State Legislature. In that way, Carter Raid, he believed he could get the Legislature to start the $5,700 pay next Jan. 1. NO PROVISION However, the budget committee din not provide for the higher pay and notified Carter to bring his re quest' up again next December, Just before the Legislature meets in January, At thai time salary raises may be ankod for several county officers, but the money would not be arraiigod for In the budget so the raises, If granted, would not come about until Ihe next budget yenr, atartlng July 1, 1053. Carter aald he couldn't aee stay in on nt the (4.500 salary for. an other 13 months, until July of next In a brief supporting his reoucat tor moro money, he cited figures to show that the amount of work dono by the local District Court is considerably more than is dons bv the other courts that pay more money. Price Five CenU 14 Pagea Temp taft Ike Sees New Jersey Delegates NEW YORK - Gen. Dwlght D. Klaenhnwer aald Thursday he opposed ihe division of Germany unto separate rones at the end ol i the war and also waa against .Isolating Berlin. decisions taken there. A delegate asked directly wheth er the establishment of the line of demarcation between the Allied and Russian armies In Germany Wan Elsenhower's decision. orrosKD "I wan opposed to the division of Germany Into separate parts," he said, "that was one of the pieces of advice that waa not ac- cepted." Too delegate t then asked who did establish ihe-Kohea, and the isolation of Berlin as a partially Allied city within the Soviet Zone. "The European advisory com mission took these actions. Later I understood they were approved at Yalta. "As soon aa (he armistice was signed, we were directed lo get back Into our own aieas as rapidly as possible. We were forced lo re treat 160 miles after the war we hnd been attacking aa far down ae Leipzig and we had to go back to the line picked by the politi cians." CONFERENCES j The general also w as asked whe-; ther he Darllclnaled in the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. He said emphatically, "I did not. I parllct- pau-d in no political decisions of "I gave rny opinions voluntarily on one or two things, but they weren't accepted ' Earlier Gov. Frederick O Payne of Maine conferred with the candl- date for the Republican preslden - tlsl nnmlnmlnn Pnvne said he' thinks Elsenhower "can swamp the convenUon and swamp the elcc. tlon." The governor waa one of a steady stream of Republican supporters and convention delegates who have been calling on Elsenhower at his Columbia University home Utis week. Action Up In Korea SEOUL ID Allied Infantry and tanks Thursday seized a hill on the Western front In some of Uie hottest fighting this year. The hill west of Chorwon was captured after a 14 - hour battle during which Allied warplanes splashed flaming Jellied gasoline across uie unine.se position. In anolher fierce action about a mile to the West, Allied troops flushed dug in Chinese from tneir bunkers with flame-throwers. Some tanks rumbling Into action In support of the Infantry ran into Kcd minefields and were disabled Retriever tanks pulled them back to saiety, a front line omcer said. The stepped-up fighting broke out Saturday around Chorwon, 48 miles norUt of Seoul, when U. N. Infantrymen captured two high points. The Reds have tried un successfully every day since to knock the 'Allies back. The officer said' fighter bombers strafed,, bombed and fire-bombed Chinese positions on the hills throughout the morning and car ried their attack Into tho after noon. Both sides used tanks or self pronclcd guns, artillery and mor tal's, j No count was given, but Allied authorities said hundreds-of Reds had been killed and wounded In the six days of vicious fighting around Chorwon,''1 There was no Indication that the flareup was a curtain-raiser lo a Red offensive, threatened repeat edly bv . Communist hcgotlnturs .at the Panmunlom truce talks, Th U. 8. Fifth Air Force- says Its aerial snottors' have found no Indication of a Red buildup but cautioned that the Communists are good at camouflage and con cealment.. . , Pkk$ Ilk AN ALL-OUT DRIVE for free chest x-rays in the county is being planned. An initial planning meeting was held this morning at the Klamath County Public Health unit on Main Street. Attending were (1 to r): Bertha Parkhurst, State Board of Health, Port land; Dr. E. K. Dietsche, Klamath Medical Society president; Dr. S. M. Kerron, county health officer; Mrs. Margaret Lamb, state representative of the Tuberculosis and Health Association; Norman Wilson, president of the local chapter of the American Heait Association. , .' . Police Nab I I TaL jf lf AtlllO I ItlOr 1 J V VI III V I lllvl i A 14-year-old Klamath Falls boy 'with a flair for detail Is held In Ith' Juvenile Home today In con- nectlon with the theft ol a car from the Motor Man usee car ioi. iwi o. "". ..,, i. l ne car. a iimo uiosmouiie to.tii was stolen Wednesday night and the boy was picked up a short time later by State Police near Chemult. He admitted taking the car. He said that last Monday he went to the used cor lot and swiped the Ignition keys of that particular ve hicle and another one. and had dup licates made at a local key shop. i Then he returned Uie original kevs to the cars on the lot. Then Wednesday night he returned to the lot using his new key to drive the Oldsmoblle away. But be fore he left, he paused to take the licence plates off another car on (he lot and put them on the Olds moblle. He also had noticed, he told State Police, that the Oldsmoblle didn't have much gas. so he prepared a forged check In advance. The check for $15. was fomed on Dim bat Motors. .,'.. After, taking the car off the lot, the youngster headed north on US. 97,- stopping at Chiloquin to get (5 worth of gas and $10 change from his check at the Collins Service Station. Then he headed on north, bound; he said, tor Poulsbo, Wash., where his father lives. But the car theft here was noticed and also the check deal, so State Police caught the youngster up the highway. Men To WASHINGTON Ml The Army high command has told Congrnsa there wasn't enough manpower in Korea to control Communist riot ers at the Koje Island prison camps. The Army otficials said, too, they were not prepared for Uie out breaks. This was disclosed Thursday as the House made public a censored version of testimony given Mon day by Army Secretary Pace and Oen. J. Lawlon Collins, chief Of staff. '. '; They appeared before a House appropriations Mlbcominlltee Pace said that at one time 132.- 000 Communist prisoners on Koje were guarded by .between a.ooo and 3.800 South Korean troops, un der American supervision, The American Eighth Army, he Army Says Not Enough KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE Up Convention Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Partly cloudy with scattered show ers or thundersbowers Thursday through Friday. High bo to days 50, low Thursday night 30. Hlrh temp yesterday 49 Low last nirljt - 24 Preclp yesterday .41 Since Oct. 1 .15.73 Normal for period 11.51 Same period last yr 14.84 . .7, 77" n a . (AOUluunM w earner wn rage i.r Liquor List Turned In Petitions bearing 685 names sup porting the proposed constitutional amendment to allow liquor by the drink sales In Oregon have been turned In to Ute county Clerk s oi fice for checking. The petitions were circulated by H. P. Martin, 415 Walnut, and Alma Sweetman, 747 N. 9th. An organization calling itself the Buy Less than the Bottle Commit tee, headquartering in Portland, has proposed that the Oregon con stitution be changed to allow liquor sales by the uidlvidual glass. If enough signatures are obtained on petitions being circulated, the proposed amendment will go on the state ballot in Movemocr. The proposed amendment would allow llouor bv Uie drink service by licensed private clubs, fraternal organisations, veterans organi sations, interstate trains, and com mercial establishments serv ing cooked food. Handle Koje said, had to be prepared "to meet and match twice lis numoers in (he Communist horde fighting against it. -'.! ". r."We cn 111 spare the ihen for Jobs other than this critical assign ment and still provide a fair rota tion of troops which the American people rightly demand." He said the Americans were engaged In " major war" In Korea.- i The testimony showed also that subcommittee .officials . . supported a proposal, approved byf. President Truman, to invite military observ ers from five neutral nations to In spect the camp. Sen. Russell (D.-Ga.) originally suggested the Idea, and Ute Presi dent forwarded the plBn with en largements to the Defense Depart- ment Wednesday. 12, 1952 Sitter-.:--..- DUD Union Backs Copco Plans Public backing Is being sought for a resolution initialed by the local Butchers Union asking the Federal Power Commission to oratit a llranca .n lha fTallfamia 1 0regon Power Company to build 1 lts propose(j hydroelectric develop- ment on the Klamath River. The Federal Power Commission has scheduled a hearing on the Copco application for June 30 at the Klamath Falls Armory. The resolution is to be presented to the Commission at. that time. NEED CITED - It- sites- the need for more electrical power In the- Klamath area and past power shortages, and also sites Copco's published statements that Irrigation water users will be guaranteed first and full water rights. When the Copco application first was made several months ago, some opposition immediately arose because of fear that Copco might sometime demand and take water needed for irrigation. The power company has asked for permission to build a dam some seven miles downstream on the Klamath River from Keno, the first of a proposed development ot several hydroelectric plants on the river. The Butchers Union resolution requests that Copco be granted its license as soon; as possible. - COPIES OVT The union hopes to get the signatures of 3.500 Klamath County property owners endorsing its res olution have been placed at vari ous business houses here in town, and Earl F. Sweet, AFL union spokesman, said that copies would be furnished at Uie Labor Temple to any person or business house wishing to participate in backing the resolution. . The resolution is being circulated at the expense , of. the "Butchers Union. . , . i . : . I Down in State SALEM HI Employment in Oregpn in May was 30.000 less than a year ago, and (nbor disputes were listed as the chief cause. . The State Unemployment Com pensation Commission said 18,000 persons were idle because of labor disputes last month. The commission said there were 435,600 non-farm workers In the state In May. , Telephone (111 No. 2843 Old Law Bob Taft WASHINGTON HP SuDDorters of Sen. Robert A. Taft are laugh ing up their sleeves these days. It's about a rule Dut throueh In the 1944 Republican national con vention controlled bv the forces of Gov. Thomas E. Dewev. long Taft rival. The rule stimilates that only fseatlng contests affect-. ing delecatea-at-large mav be pre sented to the convention for settle ment. 1948 The rule was not stric'.lv ad hered to in the 1948 convention which gave the New York gover nor a second presidential nomina tion. But Sen. Taft has indicated he will Insist on its application at uie coming convention in Lnicago. If he does and Is upheld in com mittees expected to be dominated between him and Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower over 77 delegates from five Southern states would be re duced to embrace Just 18 dele- aates-iour eacn irom Georgia. Loulslna and Mississippi, and six roiof.aexas. ..,. Otherwise, the scrap would fake in the entire delegations from those states Georgia 17. Louisi ana 15. Mississippi five, and Texas 38 plus t two district delegates from Virginia... Eisenhower woula be expected to benefit more from this broader - field of contention, since Taft forces largely control the state convention and state committee machinery which are stmoo?ed ti settle district dele gate contests. DEADLINE - ' 'The deadline for filini notice of contests with the secretary of the national committee is 20 days or more before the Julv 7 convention opening. That Is next Monday, ac cording to committee officials None had been filed up to Thurs day, but inquiries of the rival slate leaders in the five states developed replies that their notices wiU take in district as well as at larse delegates, leavine a legal as well as oersonal batUe for Uie national convention. The Associated Press tabulation of delegates lists 464 favoring Taft to 391 for Elsenhower, 130 favoring five others and 208 uncommitted or in dispute. A majority or 604 wiU be needed to win. Thirteen re main to be selected, - - rx I f . aT '.i K . DOROTHY CLARK (left) is chief clerk at tha Klamath County Public Health Department, 1949 Main Street. Helen Majors (right) was a business visitor this morning. Mercury Skids To Chilly 24 A thorough frost slaoned down Klamath Basin farm and garden crops last night, but Uie full extent of the damage was not known this morning. Some fields Buffered more dam age than others; some reportedly came through In fair shape. Either way, the frost wasn't expected. Farmers reported their potato vines black and . flattened this morning after temperatures dipped to 28 in Tulelake, 39 at the Klam- am Airport and a 34 degree record ing in downtown Klamath Falls. TOO LONG . Despite moisture which provides some protection against- freezing. ihe fields were touched because the frost stayed on for - aeveral hours during the night. One iarmer sam it was several degrees below freezing near Poe Valley at mid night last night, and was still there at dawn today. Had the frost been on for a short time, according to County Agent Walter Jendrzejewski. dam age would probably have been very slight because of the mois ture. A total precipitation of .41 inches (in both rain and snow) was measured at the Link River rain gauge during the 34 hours ending at o p.m. yesterday. MEMORIES - ,' :. The freeze brought back mem ories to local farmers of June, 1949, wnen thermometers recorded below-20 temperatures and did ex tensive damage among grain, po tato' and other crops throughout the Klamath Basin. Some small larmers are still recovering from losses suffered during that freeze. Home gardens here In town suf fered varytngly, also. Some gar deners reported "nothing left" of Ihe plots today. COLD SNAP . ' x " j An unseasonal cold snap with sub-freezing temperatures and snow in some places hung on In the Pact lie Northwest Thursday with sum mer only a ' week away. Little Improvement was In sight for Fri day. ) The mercury reached a hlah of only 51 in Seattle Wednesday. Uie I lowest June Maximum there in 42 years. All-time records feU at Med lord. Ore., where it was 31. . The cold air. whipped bv winds no to 25 and SO miles an hour, was moving slowly eastward from the Pacific. - The weatherman said it will be Saturday before tempera- titra attwi- Kkflr titniA! nettmal The cdld peM wound-tip a week that started with a 0-degree heat wave. This warm air went into Uie midwest where It waa 101 In Omaha Wednesday. Other Western mini mums Wednesday included a 35. at Mt. Shasta, Calll.. 27 at Keno and 31 at Lakeiriew, Ore. . Death To US Soldier NUERNBERG. Germany i Pvt. Richard A. Hagelberger. 19. was sentenced to death by a U.S. Army Court Martial Thursday for the carbine slaying of two German civilians last Aprfl. The court found Hagelberger guilty Wednesday but recessed to decide the penalty to be imposed on the tall, dark-haired soldier from Chula Vista, Calif. The young soldier's buddy Pvt. John F. Vigneault, of Golfs Falls, n.h.. nad previously oeen sent- slaying on a road near Neustad of two Germans who gave tnem a ride after the soldiers had spent the evening drinking beer In a tav-. em. ;.. -. .-.,- m jaial A ,-: X