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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1947)
ws mm mm .. - . ; rprp 6: MM lly MIAIvK JKNKINN ANKW t'uiil agreement In signed today by John L, Lewi end t majority of III mine operator!. It la conaldcrrd probnblr ttmt those who haven't signed will alien wllhln lew ilnvi. A WnafiltiKlon dlapnlrh thla morn Ink Biiyn : "lrur Uio workria, It menu I Hp highest pny III history null the niilil l wuik 'when willing Hnd Ijlr.' For the public, It inrana high rr rim I prlcra mill poaalhlo Iras conl production under a shorter work day provided In Ihe cuntmct." T1IUH miuilirr lioiw Ihnl lower pi Ices limy be near ru a Jolt. Illglit'f conl price will presumably inriin hlghnr 'ccl prices. The price ut nlrol enlera Into nrnrly nil the things we vtnnl end nrrd wurst An prices move up to meet hlitlier wuuc rosla. the tilitltrr wngca lute their buying power. J Hint l whul we cull the lulls- lnuniy cycle. We hv wen II III iieiellon hi mat. oy now pretty well how It work. 1 Vn IN. Uicac days when the nrwa U i.oivriaallv dlaiuibinii. we scan Die horlum lor sumi'ihlng Unit tan be interpreted ai encouraging. Alxiiil tin only encouragement common, ordinary iwople can Hnd In the conl settlement la Die lacl Uinl It availed a an Ike. The aliort ngna and the illalorlloiui thai would linvo lollowed uroloiMttd conl strike would have been even worac 'llmt waa the gurl Hint enabled lwla to compel settlement on in. teima. t LgwlM, In hi" uwuMiit ol victory, la bitter end cynical. Me aya the Republican parly lias "sold out to finance and mduauy" for cam paign contribution. He adda with a aneer: "One think about a Re publican eonireaa; They at ay bought.'' ... HE any Ihe new oval ul atiree inenl will be "Inuweatuuj ' be muse it U "", '" " nmotlated aline the tuiuaile of what he lerma the 'Tall alave law.'' The agreement lurlt provt that the new lajxir law lain a alave law. It coutallia. aa NKOOTIATMJ. a clause providing that the mmera are required to work only when willing and able" Thai la to any. they ' can null AMY. TIME THKY I'l.KAHK without notation ol the contract. l.abor, you retain in Ihla new contract, uewilieied since the pauuue ol Ihe new biw. Ita funda mental rlghl to work only whrii It la willing to wmk Bo LrK' billng ciuck about "slavery1 la lemieiau eaiiliiglaw by me contract wnitn himaelf waa able to outain. PKHU Is a bit uf ucounuiemrnt a In the noma front news wcisr. Chevrolet aiuiounccs this morning that Ita SOO.OUOth unit lor 1W7 came off the aaaemWr Hn" yeeterday. Ijut yer. Cheeroart aUdei'l reach the Kali million mark unlil mid Nnvembar. Alter all, PKOOUCTIOK la about ak that ean cure oir acarctty trouolea. You muat have noud Ikal you now gel eamllne and tirea with out much trouble. Boili Iurt near lea have biw cHwraling wlih little In lerrupuoo for more ahan a year. TVIK etock market, wbloh la a d( lan a a(1 oeeita baroeneier Uwl reitiateri how people leel about biulneu developinenu. KKS UP AUAIN Ihla morning. loMowing Uu coal aeltlemenl. That la to ay. people leel that unlnlerrutited ooal production la a lavorable dollara and cenu developanenl. t i IT Uke Bucceaa Ihl. morning " (where the aecurlty council ol United Natlnni la In arlom Rus aln'a Oromyko iiaya xrnernl arma ment reduction. If II la to work, nrnal be linked with ABSOLUTE prohibition of atomic wenpona. II object nR nl n to the American plnn which provide for International In dinvtlon to Imure that no nation will 8KCRETLY arm for atom war fare. a THAT ound like deliberate play 'for D;i,AY. What we all fear la thut Ruaaln winu lo arm heraelf for atom war while PREVENTING U'onllnetd e Tata I. :elama 4) svV ..jaaS K One of the most familiar 9 O'clock sights arutind town Is the Klam "th Garbage company staff collecting the previous day's refuse. Caught , ny ine oeanra lens mis morning I U . iHk UI.U..- n .nu m m, n m trmwwtwrfttm i. n- Victim Of Fiaht Dies In Hospital Melvln Laraen. 13, who waa in jured In a fliht early Monday niuriilni on Oman avenue, died al Klamath Valley hoapltal ahortly alter laat nililnlghl, and hla allcgrd aaaallanl, Wayne Addlaon Fetlera, IJ. la held In Ihe county Jail, booked for dleordefly conduct. . A lelony charge ol aaanult and battery waa placed agnliut Keltera yeaterday afternoon, before Lnrarn died, but thla morning Dlatrlct .At torney Clarence A. Humble "u Id Unit a more aerloua complaint would be filed agalnal the man. Krarlureil bkull Lai aril received a badly fractured akull and dninuge to hla bruin dur ing the lluhl, alli'Ki'dly when Ket tera, wearing a pmr ol hlgh-lirclcd rowboy boola, kicked him Keltera, hla wile and other wit now rnmle aiiilernrnla to the dlatrirl attorney yralerdny allernoon. The light look plare, at r'etlera' realdrnre, 2301 Oregon,' and police arrived on Ihe arene about 1:30 a. in., Ui find lararti unconacluua In the roadway In front of the houae. He waa taken lo the hoapltal and died without regaining eonerlpua neaa. ' A phyalclan iwrlormed a brnln operallon on lArnrn yenlcrduy uller iKKin. removing blood clota and aev ernl plecea of broken bone from the wound. Arreated at Hrene KetUra waa arreated al the arene and It waa a city police officer. H. N. Adklna. W'ho algned the aa anult and battery complaint agnlml him. Illalrlrt Allornry Humble aald thai the only actual eye wllneaa lo the fray waa Mra. f'etlera, and thai UMder the law ahe la a privileged wllneaa and doea not have lo leallfy agalnal her huaband. He aald thai apparently Ihe fight took place out aide the houae, and that two other paVMina called aa vrllneaaea were ln alde the houae al the lime. An aut'ipay probably will be per formed on Laraen today, but Hum ble aald that an Innueal may not be celled. Melvln Laraen waa an employe of the Hum ranch at Hprlug lake, while Frtlera luted hla occupation aa horaemnn. The dead mun'n als ter. Connie I.arrn of KUenaburg. Waah.. and brother, Ole Ijiraen of Portland, were noli I led Inat night and were due lo arrive In Klamalji Pallt today. The body la at Ward e. Bus Strike Still On . P6RTLAND. Oie.. July IIP The Pacific Trallwnys bua strike continued today with neither aide ntportlng any move toward settle ment, t. Harold Oathrs, blulnesa agent for trie drivers and aliup men, aald Die awunn mi a letur prior to Ihe strike which was willed al midnight July j. oee w aruiiraie or 10 mrei . any Mane. He said there hnd been no aeaawer from the company. M. P. Hoover, company president, waa al the headquarters al Bond and the offioa here reported he had advised It laat night that no nego tiations were an prospect. The firm's buses run lrom Port land to Salt Lake City via Dulse and also run between a number of Central Oregon cllles, Including Klamath Palls. Local Man Spots "Flying Saucer" Another report by a local man who claims he auw discs In Uietky wss received todny. Koacoe Lilly, 3803 Frieda street, said he was al the fairgrounds Fri day and ssw two discs, very high up and going nt an extreme speed. Ne described the onjects ss about the slse of a waahlub, floating along In a flat position. Lilly said he culled Ihe attention of several persons to the sky ob jects, and all agreed they appeared to be discs. 1 mat. i s t. wnite ne noisien a bsrrei aboard i,i , . fninni, i PRICE FIVE CENT i tase . -.v If ' (J 1 Thla picture ahowa the lira! pitch In today'a All-Blar tilt. Pitcher Ewell Blackwell of Ihe National league totsea the ball to Third Baseman George Kell. the American league's flral batter. Kell fouled the first two pilches and then struck out swinging. Umpire, Is Jocks Cordon. Arrow Indicates ball. , AP wirephoto. Americans Edge CHICAGO, July S The American league, pecking away with an elght-hll attack and ringing the brll with its pinrh-bltlers, continued IU All-Mlar maatrry of Ihe National league by eomlnr from behind foe a 1 to 1 victory before a standing-room crowd of 41,123 at Wrigley field today, Johnny iain, lop pitcher for Ihe Boston Braves, was Ihe loser, while frank Hhra of the Yanks got the decision. - Haln started hurling in the seventh with Ihe score 'knotted at 1-1, gave up two hits and eommllted Ihe only arror of the game, a costly wild throw which let Bobby Uoerr get to In lid base in time lo score the winning run on Sam 8 pence's single, Joe Cronln started Hal Newhouser for the Americans and Eddie ver chose Kwell lllackwell. Joe UiMaggio got Ihe first hit of the game i f, BtarkwH, ln o,,,, lnn(nf ' .. . or lllsckwell gsve up a run. In the fourth Inning Harry Brerhcen of the Cardinals went to pilch for the Nationals and gave up a double to Ted Williams and a single lo lxu Boudrrsu before getting the Americans out. The Nationals did the first dsmsge In the , fourth Inning. Frank Shea, sensational New York Yankee freshman hhrler from' the Pacific Coast league, went In to pilch for the Americana, got by Dixie Walker and Walker Cooper but Johnny Mise, big New York Giants' first base man; drove one of Shea's slants Into the fifth row of the right center bleachers for a SHO-foot homo run. The blast unnerved Shea a moment and he walked Enos Slaughter, first pass of Ihe game, but retired the side on a force out. Joe Gordon of Eugene, Ore., slsmmed a long double to left In the American side of the fifth frame, but died on base. The Nationals con tinued to touch Shea in the last of the fifth, but didn't score. Marty Marion punrhed out a single and Andy Pafko duplicated before the aide was retired. A pinch-hltter psid off for American Manager Joe Cronin In Ihe top of the sixth. Luke Appling, aged White Sox Inflelder, re placed Buddy Lewis and drilled a single lo left. Ted Williams Cafeteria At OVSToOpen The cafeteria at the new Oicrfon Vocational school at the marine barrncks will stnrt operation on Thursday or Friday of this week. Henry Swlsegood is the cafeteria supervisor, and todny wjis rushing arningemenut for the first servlnRS of meals. The dining room at Uic BOQ building la to be used for the cafeteria. Staff members and work ers on the plant will eat at the cnfetcrla at the beginning, and students arriving for the classes Starting July 15 will be accommo dated for mcnls at the new eating hoti.se. i 8wlscnood will also serve as In- .itrtictor for the cooks and baking classes. ' State police who will be at the School enmpus next week for a state Kollce school will ent at the guest ousc. Referendum On Fag Tax Okay SALEM, July 8 ( The referen dum petitions agninst the two-cent cigarette, tax have sufficient signa tures to prevent the tax from going Into effect nnd to put it on the Oc tober 7 special election bnllot, Dave O'Hnra, chief of the state elections division, said today after a recount of the signatures. Salem Merger To Await Court Action- SALEM, July 8 (Pi Merger of Salem and West Salem will await a court test of a 1947 law which per mits merger of cities In different count Icsofnit where those cities have a common boundary. The court test will be to deter mine whether Salem and West Sa lem, which are aennrnted hv the Wlllnmette river, have a common boundary ,inrier terms of the law. Petitions for the mnrner were re jected Inst night bv the West Salem city council In nrdor to pave the way j for the court suit. I 1 aii..i.. .mil i . f jMf KLAMATH KALI.8, OHKOON, TUKHDAY, JULY I, 1M7 Passes Wirephoto Shot Of First single, but neither Newhouser Circus Train Jumps Tracks; One Worker Killed; Animals All Saved HUBBARD', Neb., July 8 (P Eight cars of Clyde Beatty's 15-car circus train were derailed In the early-morning darkness today, killing one circus worker and Injuring Tit least six. The accident happened on the northeast outskirts of this village as the circus billed as "The World's Greatest Wild Animal" show was en route from last night's Sioux City, la., showing to an engagement at Norfolk. Neb., tonight. f Benity himself was one of the first out of the wrecked train. He assigned several of the elephants to dragging away torn ties and rails and pulling ln replacements.- His cargo, he said. Includes the "largest, fiercest mixed group of savage Jungle-bred male and female tigers I have ever handled." But the animals, most of them ln the fore part of the train which-stayed on the tracks, did not escape their cages. A number of the performers Jumped to safety as the train began to leave the tracks. ' The animals took the accident calmly although some of the 40 Hons and tigers roared a bit and the elephants trumpeted as they went about their strange task of dragging rails and ties. About 560 feet of the single-track rail line was torn up. . Coast Guard On Hunt For Ship SAN FRANCISCO. July 8 WP The coast guard began a search to day for a Russian tanker, the Apslinron, overdue on a voyage from Petroplnvosk to Son Pedijo. Officials. of Amtorg, Soviet trad ing agency, reauested the search yesterday when they were unable to radio the vessel, which was due at San Pedro July 6. Const Guard Cnpt. S. P. Swiee good said he did not believe the ship was In trouble, explaining the ves sel Is slow and may hnve been de layed, lis radio mny be out of com mission, he added. One-Way Streets -In Portland OK'd PORTLAND. July 8 &) A sys tem of one way streets for downtown Portland traffic had endorsement today of the traffic safety commis sion. t , . The commission said the plan, proposed a yenr ago'by City .Traffic Engineer Fred T. Fowler, was the mast economical .and desli able method of relieving traffic conges tion and accidents. Pitch In Big Game Nationals, 2-1 slapped another one-bagger,' to right field, sending AppHng Is third- Joe UiMaggio hit into a double play but Appling came across with the first American tally. Soore 1-L Harry Brecheen of the Cardinals tava' bp that run.. . I..'-- . ' '' ' " .- " " Johnny Bain came In lo pilch for the Nationals in the seventh, with Bruce Edwards catching. With one out Bobby Doerr singled sharply to light, then swiped second, sliding in under Edwards' throw. Trying to' pick Doerr off second. Bain's throw hit Bobby in the leg and bounded Into center field. Doerr went to third and an error was marked against Sain. Buddy Bosar struck out and 8am H pence, Washington outfielder, went to bat for Shea. K pence took two strikes, then singled lo right center, scoring Doerr witji the tie-breaking run for the Americans. Score, 2-1. ln the last of the eighth frame Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians robbed the Nationals of a score. With one out, WiUard Marshall walked. Phil Cavaretls. fanned and Joe Page of the Yankees was waved in to pitch to Johnny Mlie. Page Is a lefthander. Mile drove a single to right, sending Marshall lo third. Phil Mas! went In to run for Misc. With a chance lo get the Nationals back Into the game. Slaughter bounced weakly to Doerr for the third out. The Americans went down In order in the ninth, and the Nationals came up for their last chance. Page fanned Whitey Kurowski, Peewee Reeee walked to put the potential tying run on base. Eddie Stankey hit to Bobby Doerr who executed a beautiful throw to Boudreau to force Keece. Schoolboy Rowe. batting ' for Warren Spahn, ended the game by fouling out to Tommy Henrich. . The win was the tenth in 14 All-Star game for the American leaguers, and wss a pitching battle through and through. Only Ted Williams and Johnny Mise were able to get more than one hit. Shortscore: R. B. E. American - 00 Ml 1002 S t National - - v0 100 0001 t 1 Indian Riots Take 3 Lives CALCUTTA, July 8 (Contin ued Hindu-Moslem rioting claimed three more lives todny, bringing the official toll of casualties since early yesterday to 28 dead and more than 141 injured. . Unofficial reports of the casual ties ran as high as 50 dend and more than 300 hurt. . Police and the military finally brought the situation under control after using tear gas and firing into the milling rioters. Trams and buses ceased operat ing on most routes while the riot was on, and many office workers stayed sway from work to avoid passing through streets. Hood River Police Chief Drops Dead . HOOD RIVER, JUly 8 W) How ard F. Hollenbeck. 43, Hood River chief of police for the las'; six yeors, died In the Hood River hospitnl to day following a heart attack. He was stricken ln the oolicc sta tion Inst night as he was about to leave for home. (Telephone till) i lilJeasias'e as GagnonGets Forgery Jolt MEDFORD, July 8 W) Louis T. Qagnon was under an Indetermin ate prison sentence of not to ex ceed three years today on his plea of guilty yesterday to a forgery charge. Judge H. K. Hanna was told by District Attorney George Neilson that Gagnon had given a tax driver a spurious check for 1160. accept ing $90 In change and was to have gotten the rest of the change the next day. Neilson also said that Gngnon was wanted in other coast cities, including Klamath Falls, on forg ery charges. The man was arrest ed ln Kl.imsth Falls several weeks ago and turned over to Medford police. Flying Saucer" Reports Continue To Pour In From States; Mystery Unsolved By The Associated Press America' "flying saucer" Jar reeled on today. Stiff necks and goggle eyes were the order of the day. aky watchers was a new profession. North Carolina Joined the disc parade. For the first time the discs were reported whirling through the at mosphere over A5heville ln western North Carolina and over Greensboro and Raleigh in the north central portion. As report continued to pour In from all over the nation tabulator ran the tally of stales ln which the saucers had been seen to 44. Ob servers In the District of Columbia and Canada also said they had sighted the mysterious objects. The only states whose skies were still clear of the discs were Nevada. Mississippi, New Hampshire and Rhode- Island. Explanations. Take your choice: They were radio controlled flying missiles sent aloft by U. S. military scientists. Or they were merely light 4 No. 1977 GOPS Beat Back Demo Substitute WASIILNGTON, July f tlPy-Th bouse paaaed today the republican backed bill to cut Income taxes by $4,000,000,000 annually for 43,004,000 taxpayers, beginning January L The vote was 303 to 112, or more than the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto. It goes to the senate where ap proval also Is forecast. Th. action, which may encounter another presidential veto, came after Speaker Martin (R-Masa.l, personally appealed to the house to pass the bill by such a decisive vote "as to persuade the president that the people should have this delayed Justice." 8am Measure The measure is Identical with one vetoed by President Truman June 16 as "the wrong kind pi tax re duction at the wrong ie." Ex cept that the effective date la changed from July 1, 1047, to Jan. 1, 1848. Congress leaden expect to have the revised bill on Mr. Tnnaaa'i dealt before the we ends. The house passed the bill after the republicans beat back a pro posed democratic substitute that would have reduced taxes bv 13.- 370.000.000 and removed 4.000,000 low-income persons from the tax rolls completely. Chairman Knutson (R-Mlnn.) of the house ways and means com mittee shouted at democrats op posing the bill: "For 1 years you voted for every appropriation bill, and only now, when we are trying to give relief te the harrassed taxpayers, do you studdrnly remember there is a pub lic debt. "The president aaya In effect we ean p hare tax reduction and let the people spend their own money. Ne, he - says, that would be Infla tion. Tax redaction Is not Infla tionary." He contended that taxes can be reduced by $4,000,000,000 and a 15, 000,000.600 payment ean be made en the public debt next year. Phone Hearing In Second Day SALEM. July 9 0P Traffic ex penses of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company in Oregon are up 307 per cent from 1040. F. D. Tellwright, company vice president and general manager for Oregon, testified today before Public Utilities Commissioner George H. Flagg. The hearing, in Its second day to day, is oh the company's application for $3,249,000 ln annual rate In creases. Tellwright said the Increased ex penses were caused by a S3 per cent Increase In the number of calls, in creased wage rates, and a 300 per cent Increase ln the number of em ployes. Tellwright said maintenance ex penses have Increased 313 times over 1M0, while expenses of the company's commercial department are up 203 per cent from 1S40. Bulletin ROS1VELL, N. M., uly 8 WPI The army air force here today an nounced a flying disc had been found on a ranch near Roswell and is in army possession. Lt. Warren Haught, public in formation officer of the Roswell army air field, announced the find had been made "sometime last week," and had been turned over to the air field through cooperation of the sheriff's office. "It was Inspected at the Roswell army air field and subsequently loaned" by MaJ. Jesse A. Marcel, of the 409th bomb group Intelli gence office at Roswell, "to higher headqusrters." The army gave no other details. reflected from wine -tanks of Jet- propelled planes. Or , , No one knew for sure. The world inventors congress post ed $1000 for delivery of a flying disc to the exposition which opens ln Los Angeles on July 11. Could they be spotted by radar? A spokesman for the army air forces said in Washington that no attempt-had been made to spot the spinning, flying, whirling, stationary discs because there was not enough equipment to blanket the nation.' Lt. Col. Harry W. Schaefer of the Wisconsin civil air patrol announced ln Milwaukee his group planned to conduct a series of mass flight In hopes of learning something about the flying objects. , Searching for an answer, Caspar W. Ooms. the patent commissioner, said he did not think .any of the 3.000,000 patents on file In his office held the explanation to the saucers. PORTLAND, Ore., July 8 UP Th Oregonlan said today that MaJ. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, ehlef'ef the Miners Get Highest Pay WAS HINOTON, July I An agreement averting a nationwide soft coal strike waa signed today by John L. Lewis and a majority of ' the bituminous operators. In announcing the signing, Lewis ' told a news conference that H I "reasonable to assume" the entlra Industry will accept the agreement within a few days. More than half of Lewis' .400,009 United Mine Workers are covered by agreements thus far signed by northern commercial operators, steel companies and mine owners ln the West and Midwest. Highest Pay ,,r"T the workers. It mean the highest pay In history and the right to work when "willing and able." For the public. It means higher coal prices and possibly less conl production -under a shorter work day provided In the contract The miners originally were ached, uled to return to the pits early to day at the end of a 10-day vaca tion. But they stared away pend- ' Ing word from Lewis that the wage agreement completed last night had been formally signed. As soon as the various operator signed. UMW headquarters sent out the .signal for the back to work move ln those operators' mines. ? Some 8tU! Out Still to accent the naf nrm Hu . southern operators, who refused to participate In Industry-wide negoti ations, ana scattered operators in the Midwest and West. Combineo. they represent sllahtlr mnr than 40 per cent of total soft coal pro duction. , Iliac tuaimr that law. Lewta s. eused the republican party of "sell ing oat ua nnanee ana industry" for contributions to the 194ft con. greaslonal campaign whleh gave H control of congress. -une thing about a republican congress." Lewis aald, "they star ' bought." Moose Confab Slated Here Member of the Moose lodae front all sections of Oregon will gather in Klamath JPalls this week-end, July 11, 12 and 13, for the annual Moose convention. Klamath mem bers are at work on plans for the , three days. The armory will be the center ol ' activities. Meotings of the state as sociation initiation and entertain. nt comnuiues wui also be held at .. the armory. Members will purchase tickets for the banquet and other festivities at tha trmnrr tutu. day.. " . - Each 'member of the Klamath Fails lodge Is urged to bring In at least one new member. The deadline ' for the membershln drive Is Julv it The Corvallia lodge has written that , its softball team will be here to challenge the local Moose team, and at least one other ball club 's ex pected. numerous out-of-town bowling; teams of both men and women of the Moose win be on hand to play local bowlers. . Moat 'nnr will be on Saturday. Water Use Hits Peak Water consumntlon reafhivl ' - high. so far this season of 7,450,000 gallons on July l, but the figure is expected to go still higher before summer's end, according to the California Orpffnn Pnmr mmiwiv The figure exceeds the 1946 sum mer hlgn which was 7,417,000. - The consumption slacked up over the 4th of July week-end when most people were out of town, and the total 24-hour consumption on July 4 was only 6,100,000 gallons. Monday, when the temrjerature continued Its recent heat streak In the 80's. there were 7,040,000 gallon of water used. Indian Heads To Talk Fund Slash PORTLAND. Ore,. Julv 8 WPI Superintendent from Indian reser vations In five western states today discussed the coming SO per cent reduction of administrative forces. E. Morgan Pryce. head of the In dian agency here, said the cut had been ordered because of reduced appropriations. He told reporters that figures on the number of employes to leave the payroll would be available at the end of the session. The superintendents from Oregon. Washington, Id:ilto, Nevada, and California also were to discuss a housing program for Indlik veter ans ana neeay iamiues. AAF material command, told H flatly that the "flying saucers" are not the result of experiment by the armed services. ' "Neither the AAF nor any other component of the armed forces ha any plane, guided missile or other aerial device under development which could possibly be mistaken for a saucer or formation of flying; discs," the newspaper quoted Twin ing as telling it by telephone from Klrtland army atrbase, Albuquerque, N. M. It continued Its quotation: "Some of these witnesses evidently saw something but we don't know what. We are Investigating." Meanwhile, air - national goard squadrons flying from Portland, Boise and Spokane base patrolled. Pacific Northwest skie late yester day, landing after sundown without observing any of the object. Col. O. Robert Dodson, command ing the 123rd and 116th squadron, said camera equipped planes would take the air twice daily from the three field. . In History
