By FRANK JENKINS '
Barry Truman, addressing an
audience in New York City:
"I don't think there is any neces
sity for a depression." -
But, he adds:
"' "The recession that started on the
farms last spring has already
spread to the city streets and a
depression could da likewise." -
' It could If everybody lost his
nerve and got scared and crawled
in a hole and pulled the hole in
alter mm.
I don't think we're going to do
that.:.,
President Eisenhower says:
"We don't have, to listen to the
prophets of gloom who say we're
going Into this or that kind of stum
ble or fall." .
Nor, for that matter, do we have
to lend an ear to the Pollyannas
who proclaim that come summer
we'll have it all out of our sys
tems and will be going great guns
again,
- The truth, I think, lies some
where between these two extremes.
Here's a point to remember:
We haven't gone as far down
YET as we went in 1949. when we
first began to readjust to a peace
economy after nearly a decade of
war boom. That one was stopped by
the war in Korea and we went on
Into another war boom. Another
shooting war now would of course
bring still another war boom,
Rather than face another war
boom, I think most of us would
prefer to tackle the Job of re
adjustment to a pet,je economy.
' I know I would. i
Since the BIG ONE that began
In 1920 and hit Its tragic bottom
about 1932. the professional dock
ers who chart our economic pro
gress (or the alleged lack of it) cite
two recessions. The first started
in 1937 and petered out in 1938. The
second began in 1949. We were
yanked out of it by the Korean
war.
Think back over those years. Do
you recall that you went ragged or
sot hungry in either of those per
lods? I don't recall- any .such
thing and a .glance back over our
business records indicates that we
didn't suffer any grievous injury
at either time. We slipped back a
little in volume, but we came out
of it without serious trouble. I'm
Inclined to think that was the
general experience of average peo
ple and average business in
1937 and again in 1949.
It Is the speculators who get the
shivers when a recession appears
in the offing. The speculator buys
low and sells high and in tne eco
nomic sense that wealth Is created
by the application of human labor
to natural resources he creates lit
tle wealth.
I'm not sneering at the specu
lator. In a free economy, he prob
ably serves a useful purpose. He
has a shrewd and accurate know
ledge of supply and demand in
whatever field he operates. He
knows when to buy and when to
sell. That is how he makes his pro
fit.
But. in general (the "short" sell
er in a bear market is an excep
tion) the speculator profits most
in a period of rising prices, so,
naturally enough, his teeth begin
to chatter when he senses (or nears
people talking about) the approach
of a period oi declining prices,
This is the point:
Maybe at this moment in eco
nomic history when prices, after
rising steadily for a long, long
time, appear to be topping out on
the rldste and possibly starting
down the slope on the other side
it Is the speculators who are doing
the bulk of the talking and the
greater part of the shivering about
the "recession."
After all, we must remember that
constantly rising prices are not
an unmixed blessing nor is a per
iod of reasonably falling prices an
unmitigated calamity. Prices
r CAN get so high that peoplf will
no longer pay them, wnen tnat nap
pens, productive business suffers.
Queen And Duke
Take Day Off
SYDNEY, Australia W Queen
Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edin
burgh slipped out a side entrance
to Government House for a day
off from official engagements to
day. Only a handful or their en
thusiastic Australian public caught
up with them.
The royal couple drove to the
harbor and took a barge trip to
a palatial private home on the
waterfront before lunch. Hunlreds
meanwhile milled about the main
entrance to Government House or
followed rumors about the pair
Diana for their holiday.
The summer heat took a heavy
toll among- the spectators around
the cathedral where the Queen at
tended services yesterday. Nine
hundred persons Including many
children collapsed and were given
first aid in the cathedral chapter
house. .
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Labor Heads
Eye End To
'War' Moves
By NORMAN WALKER
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. I The
AFL Executive Council appeared
headed for a showdown today in
a split among top leaders over a
plan for settling territorial wars
between rival AFL unions.
The council, opening the second
week of a winter resort meeting,
without showing any outward
signs of the split but leaders never
theless were reportef far apart.
The AFL convention last fall dir
ected the council by resolution to
establish some kind of machinery
for peaceful settlement of Juris
dictional leuds, or scraps Between
unions for the right to nave work
ers perform particular types of
work. '
Such arguments over work rights
have been the principal source of
dissection between AFL unions for
decades. ,
AFL President lie orgs Meany
was reported pushing a plan to
submit such disputes to a neutral
board for binding decisions'. How
ever, Dave Beck, president of the
teamsters union, the AFL s larg.
est group with nearly 1V4 million
members, was reported opposed to
any plan to make sucn tindings
mandatory.
Beck aims to double his union's
membership within five years and
is unwilling to set any fences up
against his organizing new mem
bers in fields which other unions
may claim 'as their own juris
dictional province.
Bemnd the Meany-Beck feud,
which leaders have kept from flar
ing into the open, is a baslo con
test-between the men for political
supremacy within the AFL. Meany.
however, was regarded as having
more solid support within tne coun
cil. Beck became a council mem
ber only six months ago.
Another prooably controversial
problem due for consideration to
day is an effort to set up standards
governing union health and wel
fare funds.
The AFL chiefs were reported
considering establishing a set of
rules because Congress is prepar
ing to launch a probe of union
handling of such multimillion-dol
lar trust funds.
French Kill
111 Vietminh
HANOI. Indochina 11 The
French conceded Monday the loss
of Attopeu, a key Laotian village
in central Indochina, but claimed
a successful fight far to the north
in the Red River delta, with 111
of the Vietminh enemy killed and
72 captured.
A communique said the French
withdrew from Attopeu three days
ago, and a battalion of the Communist-led
Vietminh occupied the
town. It Is In Laos, 280 miles
north- of Saigon.
The town has long been a garri
son for French and Laotian troops
Because it is at an Important
crossroads 70 miles east of Pakse,
a big French base on the Mekong
Kiver.
In the fighting in the north,
French mobile groups, spearhead
ed by tanks, drove against a Viet
minh regiment entrenched In three
villages. The enemy losses were
chalked up In the initial stages of
a hard-fought battle, the French
sola.
ELECTION
SEOUL W South Korea's Cab
inet Monday set May 10 as the
date for election of a new national
assembly, a government source
said.
Spray Research Program May Result In
More Grass
BURNS ( Much of Eastern
Oregon's sagebrush-covered lands
might become much more valu
able for grazing because of two
years of spray research conducted
by the range and livestock experi
ment station here.
The station announced Monday
it has found that "big sagebrush
can be controlled easily" by spray
ing lt with 2. 4-D or 2, 4, 6-T.
Orass production on these lands
can be doubled or tripled by a
single spraying, provided good
grazing methods are used in the
years after the spray is applied.
The work, wblch began In May,
1952, "clearly points out the place
of chemical spraying as a means
Of regaining the grass-sagebrush
relationship found by the pioneers,"
NEW BUS ROUTES of the Klamath Bus Co. are shown here. Effective Wednesday, Feb
ruary 10, the revised schedule provides two different runs: bus No. 1 covers Shasta
Way first; bus No. 2 covers Altamont and Summers Lane first. Bus schedules are posted
in the buses or may be had by calling 3713. Fred Joslen, owner of the motor bus line,
announced the change as a plan to give riders more and better service and at the same
time make a considerable cut in the daily mileage on city runs. (Story pn page two.
M.L.
Dies Sunday
One of the city's best-known In
surance representatives, Maurice
Logan Johnson, died at the fam
ily home, 672 Conger Avenue, Sun
day, February 7. He had been 111
for some months but had been at
his office. 434 Main street Friday.
He was 67 years old.
Mr. Johnson came to Klamath
Falls In 1913 from the San Fran
circo bay area. His birthplace was
Newburry Port, Massachusetts.
He served as a 2nd Lt. In World
War I In the engineering corps In
France. He was county ta collec
tor here for several years before
going into the Insurance business,
and prior to that was in railroading.
Mr. Johnson was a member of
Klamath Aerie No. 2090, Frater
nal Order of Eagles; Klamath Falls
Lodge, NO. 1247, BPO Elks; pell
can Post, No. 1383, VFW, Post
No. 8, American Legion and the
40 et 8.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Alice R. Johnson, one son, Fred
erick C. Johnson, both of this city
and a daughter, Mrs. Margery Ma
honey, Portland.
Funeral arrangements will be an
nounced later by Ward's Klamath
Funeral Home,
Jet Bomber Crash
Kills Three
UPPER HEYFORD. England I
A U. S. Stratojet atom Domtjer
crashed and exploded while com
ing in for a landing here early to
day, killing all three crewmen.
The six-Jet 600-mlle-an-hour B47
ripped Into the woods about a mile
from this American air base In
central England.
The names of the crew, all mem
bers of the 22nd Bomb Wing from
March Field, Calif., were with
held. The wing arrived here six
weeks ago on a 90-day training
mission. ,
For Eastern Oregon's Range
Dean F. E. Price of the Oregon
Agricultural Experiment station
said.
Spraying cost 83 to $4 an acre,
which is as much or more than
the land Is worth.
But lt really pays off In increased
grass production, and should make
the land support many more cattle.
The experiment station, financed
by the U. S. Department of the
Interior and Oregon State College,
used a 40-acre plot. It found that
more than 85 per cent of the sage
brush can be killed by spraying
In May.
The plot was sprayed in May,
1953. In the 1951 season, before
spraying, the grass production was
280 pounds per acre. In 1952 it
increased to 30S pounds, and In
ft
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German Jews
Comeback In
By TOM STONE
FRANKFURT, Germany UH
German Jews, oppressed and per
secuted under Hitler, are making
a steady recovery in postwar Ger
many.
Prospects of the 129,000 ' Jews
now in West Germany are the
brightest since the Nazis unleashed
a reign of terror against them 21
years ago. More than five million
died in Hitler's campaign. Most
were East European Jews, Home
300,000 were German Jews.
The Central Council of Jews In
Germany estimates there were
600,000 Jews in Germany when
the Nazis took over. Those who
Roseburg Man
To Face Charge
ROSEBURG Ifl A circuit court
Jury will be sworn in here in the
case of William Cory, formerly of
Roseburg, who is accused of being
an habitual criminal.
Cory, serving four years in tne
state penitentiary on conviction of
belnir an ex-convict in possession
of a weapon, refused to answer the
charge at a hearing here Saturday.
Now lt is up to a Jury to decide
whether Cory la the man named
in the information agpinst mm,
charging conviction of six felonies.
If convicted on , the habitual
criminal charge, Cory faces an
additional prison term of irom 10
years to life.
Cory's most recent conviction
was the outgrowth of a November,
1953, escapade In which he was
accused of five crimes including
kidnaping. All the charges were
dismissed in a preliminary hearing
except the one accusing him of
Illegal possession of a weapon,
Circuit Judge William J. East
Saturday turned down Cory's ap
peal -for a new trial on this
conviction. Cory's attorney said the
decision would Be appealed.
1953, the grass production soared
to 728 pounds. The plot was grazed
each August.
When the sagebrush Is killed, the
grass has a much better chance
of growing. The increase in grass
production amount to a ton on
each four or five acres.
After spraying, the grass output
can be maintained by proper graz
ing methods and range manage
ment.
The experiments were conducted
by Donald Hyder, range conserva
tionist at the experiment atatlon,
Hyder aald aerial spraying Is the
cheapest method. He recommended
against spraying lands covered
with little sagebrush, because the
soil on such lands is so poor lt
wouldn't grow good grass. ,
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New Germany
remained and survived once again
are back in business and taking
part without fear In the coun
try's social and cultural life.
There are 400 Jewish lawyers in
West Germany. Three Jews are
in the federal Parliament, some
350 Jewish merchants own busi
nesses, the Association of Jewish
Trade reports. The Jewi&n worn
ens Assn. of Germany boasts 2,000
members. Almost 200 Jewish stu
dents are at German universities.
A Jewish newspaper claims a cir
culation of 48,000.
It a a far cry from tne nays
when Jews were stripped of their
citizenship, removed from office,
deprived of their businesses ana
fired from their Jobs.
The West German government
pays compensation to Jews who
suffered under the Nazis. Their
confiscated property has been re
turned. They get preferential treat
ment for Jobs and housing.
A government survey estimates
380,000 German Jews live abroad.
They were among the thousands
who fled Germany after "crystal
Night" on Nov. 9, 1938, when SA
men stormed and burned Jewish
shops, homes and synagogues. The
less fortunate died in Nazi extermi
nation and concentration camps.
Conspicuously absent from tne
Jewish scene today are children.
For example, the government sur
vey shows, of 250 Jews who live
in Hannover, only 11 are children
under 13. There are two between
14 and 19.
Farouk Property
To Be Auctioned
ROME Uft Ex-King Farouk says
anybody who buys his art objects,
postage stamps and fancy Jewels
at the Eevptian government auc
tion starting this week may have
to go to court to keep tnem.
Egypt's revolutionary govern
ment seized Farouk's fabulous col
lections after lt deposed him in
1952. Bidders from all over the
world are already flocking to Cairo
for the sale, which starts Friday.
A statement issued by Farouk's
secretary from his home-in-exile
here said his lawyers had advised
the ex-King all sales of the art
objects and other personal property
of him and his family would be
illegal.
"His majesty reserves the right
to take legal "action against all
who acquire the property," the
statement added.
Yamhill Ship Lock
Used Last Time
McMINNVILLE Wl Five small
pleasure boats Sunday made what
was probably the final trip through
the Yamhill River Lock.
The lock, built In 1900 between
Dayton and Lafayette, was closed
because of lack of commercial
Irafflo In recent years.
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Issue Still
Big Hurdle
By PRESTON GROVER
BERLIN (A The Big Four for
eign ministers moved back to Ber
lin's Western sector today, trying
in secret session to solve some of
the world problems they couldnt
settle in open debate. -
Their first secret meeting this
afternoon was called for discussion
of Russia's demand for a world
disarmament conference and for
a Big Five conference on world
problems that would give Commu
nist China official status as a
major world power.
The ministers also were due to
discuss how and when to take up
the question of an independence
treaty lor Austria. .
The three Western ministers
were reported determined to con
front Moiotov with a three-point
program:
rOINTg:
1. They will meet with Red
China only for discussion of such
Asian Issues as Korea and Indo
china,, and only if the. Pelpbig
regime demonstrates good faith by
cooperating first in a Korean
settlement or else stops arming
the Communist-led Vietminh reb
els in Indochina.
2. The Big Four must fix
deadline for their trulUesa discus
sions on Germany, unless Russia
is ready to modify her demands.
3. All international attempts to
bring about world disarmament
must Be within the United Nations.
Moiotov had proposed such a con-
lerence o Bold- outside- the Inter
national - organisation. ,r so Red
JCnta jbouM attend, - ,
The conference moved out
East Berlin, where lt met last
week at the Soviet Embassy, in
the wake of evidence that the 18
million East Germans again are
stirring to a low boll against the
Red occupation. - -
Western agencies with thorough
Information networks in the East
said 300 to 600 Germans had been
Jailed in-the past week for speak
ing out openly against Soviet For
eign Minister Molotov'a proposal
to unite Germany on the hammer
and sickle pattern.
East German secret police were
on a full alert, but the 300,000-man
Soviet occupation army was re
ported going about winter activity
as usual,
The discontent hadn't a chance
of upsetting the Russian occupa
tion, but lt gave a challenging
answer to Molotov's pioture of East
Germany as a happy land, "free"
to vote in elections for a list of
Red-picked candidates with no
questions permitted.
In their first two weeks of debate
the four ministers had agreed on
absolutely nothing. No one in the
Western camp could say Just how
they would stop the oratory long
enougn to pernaps narvest some
small gains. - -
Ships Okayed
For Storage
ASTORIA im The Maritime
Administration has approved use of
mothballed freighter fleets here
and at Olympla. Wash., for storage,
The plan was advanced some
time ago by" Pacific Northwest
grain growers who are concerned
about lack or storage space, -mere
weren't enough elevators to store
all of last year's crop and with
a new crop on the way, the prob
lem had become acute.
Capt. E. E. Thorne, superintend
ent of the Maritime Administra
tion's reserve fleet at Astoria, said
dredging of the fleet basin had
been approved.
Dredging of the 12-foot-dcep
basin is necessary because when
loaded the ships need a depth of
28 feet. Cost of the project was
estimated at from 1750,000 to
million dollars.
This would be cheaper than
towing the fleet to Puget Sound
in Washington where deep water
moorages are available.
Port of Astoria officials said they
understood the Department of Agri
culture wanted to use aooui iuu
ships here and 35 at Olympla in
the storage nroiect.
If the bids for dredging are caned
soon, the grain could be moved to
the ships, beginning In April. That
would allow grain handlers to clear
their elevators before the next
harvest gets underway.
MEAT SALE
PARIS I France Is nego
tiating to sell 8,000 tons of meat
to Czechoslovakia, the Agriculture
Ministry said Monday. The min
istry said lt also is studying the
possibility ot selling another 1,000
tons of meat to Russia.
.DICK DUKRELL, 727 North
Ninth and a freshman at
Sacred Heart was in line
for the nine o'clock photo
grapher's lens this morning.
River Still
Holds Engine
MAUPIN. Ore. ( Railway
officials think they have located a
huge dlesel locomotive unit which
plunged Into the Deschutes River
last week after crashing into a
landslide.
The bodies of two men, engineer
Ernest Barton of Portland, and
fireman Earl Sutton of Wlsnram,
Wash., are believed imprisoned in
the 126-ton engine. '
Divers have not been able' to
enter the river because of its swift
current. On Saturday an electronic
device that indicates the presence
of metal was swung out on a boom
over the river. It registered at a
point about 200 feet downstream
from the scene of the crash.
Workmen, using probing bars,
were swung out over the area and
they reported they had found
Scrapings of paint similar to that
used on the Spokane, Portland and
Seattle engine.
A freight car, loaded with canned
goods. Is believed to be about 300
feet downstream from the dlesel.
6P4S officials reported Sunday
they probably will have to build
a coffer dam to set the engine out
of the river. The dam would cut
the current so divers could attach
cables to lift the engine off the
river floor. I
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair through Tuesday.
High Tuesday 48; low Monday
night 22.
High yesterday . -. .. 38
Low last night - , I9
Preclp last 24 hours
Since Oct. 1 .. ,. 9.78
Same period last year 10.26
Normal for period ....................'..-7.15
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BEAT CHILOQUIN was the word being given to Mrs. W.
B. Hescock (right) this morning by Mrs. Blaine Brattain as
the two Fort Klamath women mapped plans to best their
neighboring community in the forthcoming Bloodmobilo
visit. The mobile unit will be In Chiloquin on February
. 10th and keen competition is already shaping up in the
contest between Tort Klamath and Chiloquin. Mrs. Hes
cock represents the CI club and Mrs. Brattain is chair .
man of the Fort drive, ' -
-' By OVID A. MARTIN" v
WASHINGTON 11 Secretory
of Agriculture Benson said Mon
day he believes a "big majority"
of the Republican members ot
Congress and some Democrat fa
vor the administration's, new farm
plan. .-.
The GOP- farm chief told a
news conference he is confident
the bulk ot the plan will become
law, It features controversial flex
ible price supports for major
crops, to Teplace the present man.
datory high level price props.
Benson said information reach -tng
the department from farming
areas indicates increasing support
for the program President Elsen-
hower laid before Congress last
month. He aald the administration
will give whatever help Congress
may ask in drafting new farm v
legislation, but that lt will not use
"high pressure methods" on the
lawmakers. ...
Newsmen tossed many questions - -at
the secretary about the pres
ent big dairy surplus and admin
istration plans for dealing with, it,
but got little concrete information.
Benson said he hopes to make ao .
announcement possibly , within 10
days-on dairy support 'prices for
the . new -marketing , year tawinning
April 1, and also possibly plans
for disposing of a current surplus
of 260 million pounds of butter,
270 million pounds of cheese and
449 muuon pounds of dried milk.
At present, dairy products are
being supported at SO per cent ot
parity. Parity is a standard for
measuring farm prices declared
by law to be fair to farmers la
relation to prices , they pay. --
-roe secretary said ne would not
favor offering . surplus butter
abroafV at lower prices than those .
chart 'd domestio consumers.
The secretary said his depart.
ment is studying plans which
would encourage farmers to use
land diverted from surplus crops
to the production of rubber and
drug plants. He said there Is need
for this country to Increase Its
production of rubber and drugs in
event of anetner war,
Benson said- the administration
plans to continue the present agri
cultural conservation payment
program under' which subsidies
are paid farmers tor carrying out
recommended conservation prac
tices. He said plans now propose
an appropriation of anout 196 mil.
lion dollars the same as this year
tfSr 165. This item was, not in.,
eluded in the' President's" recent
budget report." . , ,
Ike Supports
Church Move
WASHINGTON (At - President
Eisenhower has given his support
to what Be -called "a movement to
Increase our awareness of God In
our daily lives."
He took part yesterday in a
radio - television broadcast spon
sored by the American Legion as
part of Its "Back to God" pro
gram. - -
Earner the president and' Mrs.
Eisenhower attended special Abra
ham Lincoln services st the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
sitting in the Civil War President's
pew. .
In his brief broadcast talk, El
senhower said the history of Amer
ica snowed tnat tne nation in
times ot trial turns "to God tor
hew courage and peace of mind."
He reviewed Instances of religious
Influence In American affairs, from
the Mayflower Compact to the
World War n instance of four
chaplains going down with a strick
en transport after helping others
escape. ... :. .
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