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SCOil Co 2007 283i'lLJ 17 CaUP SHADES OF GRANDPA'S GOATEE! Truman Promises Prompt Tax Veto BOTH ADMIT THEY AIMED TO KILL TOT Shades of Grandpas coatee! From dawn today. 'til Sept. 7, closing day of tho 10th agricultural district fair Siskiyou county gents can-discard their razors. Except, of course, the dandy type who prefers a fancy trim. Some of the boys reportedly already have been practicing on the more elegant of the 49 tonsoriai styles, with a covetous eye toward winning a prize.

The Whiskcrino cont sponsored by the Yreka Chamber of Commerce is the kick-off feature plugging the annual three-day fair which gets underway Sept 5. The committee in charge of the stunt means business, too. Foil to grow a beard, and you may be tried in "kangcroo" court and tossed In the hoosegow. Or fined. Or both.

The fair this year is going western, and one day will feature a '49 theme. Secretary-Mana ger Stuart Waite staled today that preparations for the big show are going forward satisfactorily. Considerable improvement has been made in the fair buildings and in the grounds. Parking areas have been enlarged and cleared. Before the opening date a fire protection system will be installed in the main building and the bams will be given a fresh coat of paint.

Daily News MONDAY, JULY 14, 1947 Six Die in Georgia Camp Riot Number of Vacationers in Areas Of Marble Mountains Increases BODIKS OF FOUR of the six Negro convicts killed In a bloody riot at Glynn County prison camp, Anguilla, lie in yard of the ramp following masa aliooiing. Eight others of a group of 27 disgruntled prisoners suffered wounds. The rebellion occurred as group returned from a highway detail where Ihe men hid refused to work. Aim Tiii-iiimto) SENATE VOTE INDICATES TEST TO FAD. WASHINGTON, July 14.

(U.R) By a CO to 32 vote two less than necessary to override a veto the Senate today passed the revived Republican income tax reduction bill and sent it to President Truman who has promised a prompt veto. Barring a switch, which appeared unlikely, it seemed cor tain that the Senate would sustain the presidential veto when the showdown comes within the next few days. The House, which sustained the original tax veto, was expected to override this time on the basis of ils vole last week In passing the revived measure. The Senate vote on passage today found 12 Democrats joining NO SPECIAL SESSION WASHINGTON, July 14: (U.R) President Truman and. congressional leaders agreed today that a special session of Congress will not be necessary this fall.

Mr. Truman also promised to help speed the adjournment schedule by sending his veto message on the new tax reduction bill to Congress promptly. 48 Republicans in favor of the tax reduction bill. Voting against were 30 Democrats and two Republicans Sens. Wayne Morse, and William L.

Langer, N. D. Without a single deviation, the vole followed the lineup indicated in advance by private polls. Counting three absentees, the Senate was aligned G1 to 34 for approval of the bill. When the veto test comes, the ailing Sen.

Robert F. Wagner, N. is expected to be absent. If all other 94 senators were recorded on the basis of today's vote, the vote to override would be 61 to 33, two short of the necessary two-thirds to enact the bill Into law over the veto. Except for the effective date Jan.

1, 1948, instead of July 1, 1947 the Mil In the same as the one which Mr. Truman vetoed last month. His veto wss sustained in the House by a two-vote margin. This time, the House is expected to override the President on the basis of its 302 to 112 vote in passing the revived bill last week. That was 26 voles more than the necessary two-lhirds majority to oyerride.

The new bill completed ils second tour through Congress after the Senate rejected a scries of amendments, including one to increase personal exemptions from $500 to $600 a person and another to apply to all 48 stales the so- Lake and Meteor Lake with Bernard Davidson, who distributed his cattle in the area. At Sky High Lake they found about 40 vacationers and about 60 saddle and pack animals. At the Cuddihy Lakes there were about 45 animals and 25 persons. There Is a definite need for sanitary improvements in the high area, he said. Such facilities will be installed as soon as funds are available.

He stated that feed matured nearly a month ahead of schedule this year due to the lack of moisture. Stock were permitted to enter high country on July 1. James and Zink started from Kelsey Creek and came out above Somes Bar. ATHENS, July 14. UJ9 Greek More than 500 feet of colored forces have routed ah attempted movies of the Marble Mountains invasion by 1,000 guerillas from Albania, Greek government sources claimed today.

A government spokesman said the guerillas, which reportedly had neared the Greek town of Konitsa, were fleeing back toward the Albanian border after Greek reinforcements were flown to the area. Communist newspapers in Athens, however, claimed that the guerillas had entered Konitsa. The government also announced the arrest of 3,100 more leftists in the Athens-Piraeus area, making a total of nearly 6.000 who have been seized since Wednesday. In the latest arrests, 1,100 persons were picked up in Athens, 1.000 in Pintles and another 1.000 in the surrounding area. A Greek communique reported i that the Greek of Konitsa, 10 miles from the Albanian border, was attacked and nearly captured by a lightning thrust of 1.000 guerillas who assembled on Albanian soil.

(Greek sources in London claimed large bands of guerillas were massed In the southwestern tip of Albania, ready to drive down the Greek coast Among the guerillas, these sources said, were upwards of 20,000 Albanian Moslems. GREEKS BOUT INVADERS FROM ALBANIA were also taken last week by a professional photographer. He was taken through the area by A1 Crebbin, forest resource manager. Pictures were taken from Kelsey Creek into the Cuddihy Lakes, Wooley Creek- and Big Elk Lake, James said. Dunsmuir Police Hold Suspect In Bar Stabbing Dunsmuir police arc holding William F.

Dickerson, a Negro, as a suspect In the stabbing of Enrique Alamos in a Dunsmuir bar early Friday morning. Dickevson was arrested Monday by Dunsmuir Police Chief A. B. Cottar and held in the City Jail there on an open charge. Alamos, a dishwasher in a Dunsmuir cafe, was brought to the Siskiyou County General Hospital about 3 a.

m. Friday, where Dr. A. II. Newton performed an emergency operation.

Dr. Newton stated that the weapon used penetrated the liver and gall bladder. A long, pointed instrument, probably an ice pick was used by the assailant, according to Chief Cottar. The stabbing occurred, Cottar stated, when Alamos became 16 Nations Form Aid Plan Staff YREKA, CALIFORNIA PARIS, July 14. (U.R) Sixteen European countries tonight completed the organization of a general staff to work out their common recovery with American aid under the plan of Secretary of Stale George C.

Marshall. At a 90-minute private meeting in the French foreign, office, the working committed of the con fcrence on European economic recovery worked out the final details of the organization which before Sept. 1 will draft a blueprint of the recovery plan. The conference proper was expected to end tomorrow, making it one of the shortest major International gatherings of its kind in history. The speed of tho proceedings was prompted In part by Indications that Russia was lining up a rival bloc In eastern Europe, composed of Ihe countries which iMiycotied the Paris meeting.

The working committee, on which each delegation is- represented by a junior member, met late today at the foreign office to put the finishing touches to the organization. Approval by the final plenary session tomorrow afternoon was expected. Only two questions remained for settlement. They were the, membership of the new organizations executive committee, which will direct the entire work, and the membership of four technical committees on food and agriculture, power, iron and steel, and transport. involved in a dispute over a card game.

Robert Bedford Succumbs Robert Radford, 72, a native of Mrs. Lucille Medlin, 22, Hugh Gilreath, 26, were tenced to 20 years each in the Oregon State Penitentiary at 2 p. m. Monday by Circuit Court Judge Orval J. Millard in Grants Pass.

Under Oregon laws, they may ask for a parole in seven years. Neither showed any emotion but stood up calmly to receive the sentence. They both pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill Mary Jane Medlin. The child was found behind a Weed dance hall on June 14. The pair will be 'taken to the penitentiary on Wednesday, District Attorney W.

F. Johnson said this afternoon. They both refused to be repre-sented by counsel. The pair, in separate arraign mentg in circuit court Friday aft emoon, each waived grand jury indictments and pleaded guilty to assaulting and beating Mary Jane and conspiring to kill her. Gilreath confessed to District -Attorney W.

F. Johnson that he beat the tiny girl mercilessly on June 13 and 14. He told Johnson that he expected her to die wltcn lie left her behind Weed dance hail aliout 1:30 a. m. on July 14.

He denied steadfastly that he criminally handled the child. (Physicians who examined her in the Siskiyou General Hospital on June 14, when she was brought in from Weed with a blackened right eye, bruises, cuts and whip marks over her entire head and body and with a badly swollen and cut left hand, stated that she had been criminally handled. They said she had not been raped.) Gilreath had denied he beat the child from June 23, when he was arrested in Grants Pass, to July 10, when he made the confession. Mrs. Medlin and Giircatli both admitted to Johnson that they had planned for weeks to get rid of Mary Jane lie cause there were too many kids around- They both con eased to mistreating and beat-a ing her.

The pair, who lived in Selma, as man and wife from July, 1946, to the time of their arrest; also confessed that Mary Jane did not eat like her half-sister Leoma." They said they did not deliberately starve her. (Mary Jane was Buffering from malnutrition when found and put on a high caloric diet when brought to the hospital here.) Mrs. Medlin gave birth to A son, James, a few hours before Gilreath took a bus for Weed with Mary Jane. She signed adoption papers for James when he was 13 days old. Two- days laler she gave away'her daughter, Leoma.

Gilreath was James father. Leoma was the daughter of an unidentified soldier. Mary Jane, 2, In stilt in tho local hospital but her fattier, Virgil W. (Bill) Medlin, 26, of Portland, may have her If he so desires, District Attorney Fred IV. Burton said Monday.

Burton has asked Portland police and Modesto police to locate him. Medlin is a former Modesto resident. lie is now a Portland truck driver. A woman claiming to be Gil reaths deserted wife has written Grants Pass authorities asking, Is there any way I can force (Continued on Page 2) and sen- country and has had an extreme ly detrimental effect on building housing ln this country. Selfishness in this matter of producing homes for families of this country, particularly homes for the veterans of World War II, is breeding bitterness and I hope it will not be condoned by the Congress or by you and; as governors.

Gibson advocated state and federal subsidies if necessary to provide homes for the 800, IHM married veterans he said were living doubled up with oilier families or in trait: era and rented rooms and the 2,000,000 veterans In needing major repairs. He said homes should be built in the country where the green-grass can tickle the bottoms of childrens feet. He added that adequate housing will do as much as any single thing to' promote' and preserve hippy families without which no country can long exist. Gibson spoke after two other governors attacked federal usurp ation of states rights as they opened, the VOLUME 70 No. 195 U.

S. Arraigns TwoinTheit Of Bomb Data WASHINGTON, July 14. U.fi) The government today moved ahead with plans to prosecute two former Army sergeants for the souvenir, theft of atomic bomb data, confident it could do so without exposing any secrets. First step was the arraignment of two ex-GI's Earnest W. Wallis, 34, who now operates a photographic studio in Chicago, and Alexander Von Dcr Luft, 24, Princeton University stud t.

Both were ordered held in $10,000 bond on instructions from Washington. Wallis, who is charged with having obtained some 200 atomic photographs, was arraigned at Chicago. His hearing was continued until July 24. Von Dor Luft, Air Forces veteran accused of taking atomic data, was arraigned at Pittsburgh. A hearing will be set at a later date.

Both men were arrested Saturday by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI said it had reason to believe that no other outsiders had set hands on the secret data obtained by Wallis and Von Dor Luft at the Los Alamos, N. atom bomb plant while they were in the Army. Tho charge against Wallis and Von Her Luft removing and concealing documents carries maximum penalties of $2,000 fine and three years In prison. Wallis attorney said none of the pictures ho obtained at the Los Alamos plant had anything to do with the formula for making the atom bomb," and that many were previously-published pictures of the Bikini atomic bomb tests.

Von Der Luft protested that he merely took secret atom bomb papers as souvenirs to show my children 20 years from now. He said no one could tell how to make an atom bomb from them." Nixon, 78, a life-long resident of Siskiyou County, was stricken Thursday and taken to the hospital. Pallbearers were C. J. Luttrcll, Ben J.

Richardson, Paul Denny, Charles Johnson, Fred Mcambcr Sr. and Thorne West. At the time of his passing, Nixon was serving as a deputy in the sheriffs office. He previously had served as postmaster of Yreka and had held several elective and appointive positions in the county. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Girdncr's Funeral Chapel.

Fire-Fighters Sign Up Here First volunteer firc-fighters registered Monday with the California State Employment office at 115 South Oregon Street, in response to a call issued Friday by National and State Forestry officials here. Registration will remain open all week. Because of the imminent fire hazard, and the need for prompt action once a lire starts, George S. James, supervisor of the Klamath National Forest, and Roy Neil, state forest ranger, must immediately recruit crews when fire breaks out The list of volunteers will aid greatly in speeding fire suppression, they state. BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE Some Inside City Limits.

Some Outside City Inquire J.F. Wetzel 638 NORTH STREET City to Give Static Tests Residents of Yreka may have their electrical appliances tested for radio interference free of charge C. R. Jensen, city radio interference Inspector said today. Anyone having reason to believe that their vacuum cleaner, mixer, electric razor, refrigerator or other appliance may be producing static are asked to send a i card to Jensen at the City HalL Jensen stated that he will test the appliance and inform the owner whether a filter is necessary.

If one is required, it can be installed at a small cost Masonic Head To Be Visitor Most Worshipful Grand Master John R. Moore, Glendale, grand master of Masons in California, will pay an official visit to Howard Lodge, No. 37, Monday evening. The announcement was made by Basil Ray, master of Howard Lodge, who stated that the lodge would open at 8 p. m.

Refreshments will be served following the meeting. The third degree was conferred on Ivan N. Swlckard at a special communication of the lodge here Friday evening. Frank Swickard, Los Angeles, father of the candidate, presided as master during the degree. FUNERAL HELD FOR NIXON Funeral services for Robert J.

Nixon, 78, who succumbed in the Siskiyou County General Hospital Friday afternoon, were held in St. Marks Episcopal Church at 2 p.m. today. The Rev. William called community property pro- T.

Holt, officiated, and burial was i which permits a married in Evergreen Cemetery. vision Fla The measure would reduce in-MninMofiSk un Come taxes 10.5 to 30 per cent. in ml 'II woul(1 save taxpayers an call-hd, ln 111 mated $4,000,000,000 a year effect-since 1943. Only known survivor iVe Jan. is a brother, Charles R.

Radford, Mr. Truman said in vetoing the Modesto. original bill that it was the Funeral arrangements are kind" of tax legislation pending. I at the wrong time. Refresher Shot (Aem Teleidutio) WILLIAM L.

KAISER, discharged Capitol police in a fired two shots at Sen. Jolm W. Bricker in ilia subway Iwkc-ment of the Senate office building. Kaiser told police ho wanted to refresh Broker's memory. Mental Check To Be Given Bricker Foe WASHINGTON, July 14.

(U.R) William L. Kaiser, discharged former capitol policeman who fired two ineffective shots at Sen. John W. Bricker, Ohio, Saturday, today was ordered to a hospital for mental observation and examination. The order was issued by Municipal Judge Ellen K.

Ready when Kaiser was arraigned on charges of assault with Intent to kill and carrying a deadly weapon. She continued the case for 30 days pending Kaisers examination. She instructed officers to turn Kaiser over to Gallingcr Hospital physicians for observation. Kaiser, a native of Columbus, Ohio, was held without bond. Judge Ready explained she was denying bond because of the nature of her order.

The case against Kaiser was disposed of for the time being in less than two minutes. Bricker, Republican vice presidential nominee in 1944, was not in the court room. He had offered to appear and testify if police so desired. The shooting took place Saturday morning in the cavernous underground subway that runs between the capitol and the Senate office building. Kaiser fired two shots at Bricker with a .22 calibre pistol.

He mined both times. FINAL DECREE A final decree of divorce was granted Fred Borgnis on July 9 by Superior Judge C. A. Paulsen. Borgnis charged Ruth Borgnis with cruelty.

21 Persons Die As Airliner Falls in Swamp MELBOURNE, July 14. U.R Civil Aeronautics Authority investigators probed the tangled undergrowth of a thick coastal swamp here today in an effort to learn why a war surplus DC-3 airliner crashed, killing 21 persons and injuring the other 15 passengers aboard on a chartered flight from New York to Puerto Rico. Hospital attendants said only two of the injured were in critical condition. The body of one of the dead still remained unidentified. The plane with ils two crewmen and 34 passengers aboard loft Newark, N.

Saturday night and was to have landed at Miami for refueling before making the over-water hop to San Juan yesterday. The crash occurred just eight miles short of a Navy landing strip at Mel bourne, on the coast 160 miles north of Miami. The pilots, Henry lleim of Houston, and Roderick Paul MaeKennon, Dnlina, N. were Instant ly killed but survivors said both engines fsiled before the big skyllner crashed through pine trees and ploughed a 200-yard trail through the Jungie-liko bog-lsnd. The ship had been in radio contact over Jacksonville, 170 miles north of the crash, scene, and reported no mechanical failures.

It took super-powered military trucks and water buggies two hours to inch through the flooded brushland to reach the plane. Then began the grisly task of bringing out the 15 survivors and bodies of 21 dead. NAVY SCHOOL WAITS WASHINGTON, July 14. (U.R) Chairman Leo E. Allen had said today the House rules committee will defer until the next session of Congress action on a bill to establish a Navy postgraduate school at Del Monte, Calif.

Ross Neilon Post 122 Drum Bugle Corps DANCE Montague Auditorium AUG. 2 Music By Cascadians Southwest Line, Yreka Furnish Subject for Life Picture Story Vermont Governor Lays Shortage Of Homes to Real Estate Lobby couple to split income for tax via Eureka. The two-minute stop made lor discharge and embarcalion of passengers was illustrated by shooting over Phil Weinzlngers shoulder as the plane taxied to a stop. It showed passengers leaving the DC-3 as Weinzinger started to roll a cigarette. As he finished and lit It, the plane door closed and it swung about for the take-off.

Weinzinger is equipment operator for the Klamath National Forest Pictured by Life Photographer John Biennis, San Francisco, were Vivian Parry, Yreka, who left on the 5:3 southbound plane for Hutchinson, Km, and Mrs. M. Center and Mrs. Elldla, both going to San Francisco, Other Yreka ns who frequently make use of Southwest Airways were also on hand to assist Life representatives. They are Mrs.

Maxine Manl, Barbara Randolph, Myrtle Kelty, State Sen. Randolph Collier, Albert Wedin, J. Everett Barr, Ralph McMurry, District Attorney Fred W. Burton and Johnnie Hite, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Margot Hampton Shore, Life researcher, accompanied Brennis.

Robert S. Terrell, public relations officer for the airline, also was present. Life magazine sent a photographer and researcher to Yreka by Southwest Airways Saturday to get a picture story of operations. Yreka was selected as the most typical air line feeder station after a survey of the three Southwest Airways routes. Southwest was selected as it was the first feeder line certificated in California and is also the largest such line.

It was certificated about a year ago, according to Richard S. Day, manager of the Yreka station. The three routes traveled by Life representatives before Yreka was chosen are the Southern Division Los Angeles to San Francisco; the Valley Division San Francisco to Medford via Sacramento, and the Coast Division, San Francisco to Medford SALT LAKE CITY, July 14. (U.R) Vermonts 46-year-old governor, a former Army colonel, today lashed out at Ihe "selfish real estate lobby as one of the main reasons for Americas housing shortage. Gov.

Ernest W. Gibson, a Republican, made his attack in an address to' the 39th annual conference of American governors now in progress ln Salt Lake City. Gibsons criticism came only a few weeks after Democratic President Truman, in reluctantly signing the rent control extension, also severely criticised the real estate lobby as contributing toward inflation. Gibson asked for a full-dress congressional Investigation of the real cstato lobby and suggested that slates investigate excessive building costs in a joint effort to bring purchase price of homes down to where veterans can afford them. The Vermont executive, who was wounded in World War and won elevation to the rank of colonel, said- the lobby is in truth a very thing for our FOR SALE: Semi-Foothill Ranch Bordering on Scott Vcdley.

860 acres fine for cattle or dude ranch. Will carry 125 head of(cattle year round. Over a million feet merchantable timber. Plenty water. See MISS TYLER 106 8.

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