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rui ru 1KB la MI MM 0 , By HUNK Jt.SKINH tf you want further IrHllinnny on ' the disturbed and iiiircrUIn kind of world we're living In, tuko a look at Itouutti, Coloiublii, Houlh America. Homi'lhliitl provocatively Intoienl Inil In ll'ilnu uil there. Juat what It In, Oil writer doran'l kimw. An tliran wunl nie wrlllrn, this la about ull Hint meets the rye: We were holding a tiulle - the America - a K a I u a I comiiiunum meeting. On the surface, ull accuicd nmy. (everybody waa aiculiiat roiiimu num. Nobody wanted uny C'mmIio alovnklna In the Western Hemisphere, everybody mIU an in riumnit word. Then Wham I There was a rrvoltitlon on the doorstep. IX last nlitht, nun buttle tailed In Uie treet of Ilmiolu. A din jmlcl lobvlonoly pretty heavily cAiaurvdi any llila morning: "As dawn came. KHima allll roamed the atreeta, acltluii new Urea. Mhoot 11 iu broke onl ojkii uil Ic nlly, but by 0 fill. Ht waa vetllnit llitht by then, ami audi affaire thrive better 111 darkneaa Ulan In daylight i the atreeta wero alinoat deserted, Tho-ie who remained iked around the re main III the looted, burning shops ... No Jiollcc or troops' weie aeen on the main atreeta . , . Apparently they atlll were i-onlincd to the area of prealdciilliil palace." At last account tin morning, delegates to this Ninth tntcrnaltonul Conference of American Htalea iw ho, aa previously atated, were fix Imi everything up lor pence and quiet III thla part at Uie world) were ciMiieit up In their headillartera, facinif a ahorugo of food. Hrcrctury Murhall rciNirted by telephone to WoahlnKluu lual nliihl that he and hla ataff are all nllvc and aafe. UOW did It all atari? That la pretty badly confuted. It tecliia lllat aomebody auiSAal luted a leader of the liberal party. Thereutkiti, the hbcrala arote In aud den revolt. They niailo provreaa enough to be able to act up what la called down there a "Junta" (a Junlu la a aort of provisional government'. Hut later accounta assert that Uie coiuenallvea iheaded by a alrong man preaideut named feren are "regaining control of the altuatlon." I'realdenl I'erea tuya the COMMU NIHTe) alarled II all. Diplomatic re port reaching our atate department Uila mornliik aay the commuulata (there are aald to be about (oou of thrin in Colombia i "apiear to be abettink the revolution and helping attempt to provoke a atrike." nLOMATlC official In Waalilug Mon are aald to be "scanning'" BiiiU report "to determine Jtiat what role the communlai are play ing" In the ruckua. Thu writer hai an Idea Uiey are doing their damdeat along the general line of hell-ralslng. Hituatlnna auch aa Uiat are made to order for Uielr purposes. PHIS writer haa another notion. It teenu quite probable that the communlai big ahot In the Kremlin are chuckling today and saying to each other: "Well ahow theae American how to come over and tart flre.i In our front yard. We'll lei 'em know we ran atari flrea in TIIEIK front yard." TT'S a sasly met. It ought to help to leach u that Una atruggle for aupremacy between the forcea of freedom and Uie force of slavery In which we are now In volved I no caauul backyard game of marble for fun. lit for keep. If we're going to win It, we've got to be good. Search On For NG Plane PORTLAND. April 10 IPi An Oiegon national guard plane ap parently crashed late la.it. night or irlv today In the clnud-rovered Southwestern Washington hills north of hero. The A-'J(1 attack bomber with three Portlander aboard disap peared In the same area In which an army C-s7 crashed last month with the loss of eluht lives. On a routine fllitht from McChord field. Wash., to Portland. It last re ported bv vdlo at 8:1(1 p m. when some minutes south of Toledo, Wash. The twin-engined plane had enough fuel In stay nlnfl until 1 m. today, but no further word wns heard. Other airports In the aren snlri no plane had attempted to Iniid. Aerial search started at once. A plnne from Longvlew looked over the hills, 20 miles north of here, where the C-47 struck, but fog pre vented good observation. McChord field sent two radio Jeeps and a weasel to aid senrch. WIATHM Maa (April SI 4ft Mln ritclpllallttli laal SI hallfa .. SUaam aar la Sala I.aal raar ...VIA Narmal tarai'aali Snaw llwrilaa. I'll I (K K'VK Of.NIH GOP mmjjHiiifjmmmmmmmmniwmm aaa nuinijua s'l'-'S.'iw."'ii)fiia iiii n;rvggj " "" " m nai n u . i aisiwusa I ag9 - .PPaUM, OIIKGON, KATCRfMY, APKII, ID, 1M Telephone Sill No. 1313 " .n'&o Comigiriss Vetoes Controls Vic Livingston, Redmond, Named Star Farmer Of Oregon At FFA Meet Here Vie Livingston of Redmond wa named Star Tanner of Oregon at the laigeal Future Fanners of America bunquct ever held In the atate. The banquet waa held at the Oregon Vocational achixil Prlduy night and approximately 800 KI'A member and 100 gueat were aerved. Llvlugnton received Uie award on hla outstanding accomphxhinciitt In agriculture during the putt your. Art Pom, slate PKA treasurer, made the presentation. 'Hie Karl R. Cooley Keystone honor award went to Ullverton KKA chapter and waa accepted by Hob llarnea. president of the cluiiter, from Jack Orcnz, district vice presi dent. Piesldllig al the banquet was De Lane Try, atate PPA president with lister Drmmln aa loastmaster. llunorary membera were given a special Introduction al Friday's banquet. Red Action Expected In Trieste Deal HAHIIINfiTON, April 10 ll'i Nome apeetaeular Ituaalan act In llifluenee Italy's election to expect ed by American offlrtala after the bruaque western auigeatlon that Ituaala make up her mind about Trieste. The United States. Britain and Prance yesterday asked the U. 8. 8. R. to take a aland without fur ther delay on their proposal to turn the disputed city back to It aly Moscow has kept silent since the plan was advanced unexpectedly March 20 and quleklv accepted by Italian Premier De Gasperl's anll cnmmunlst government. With nntr elehl days left before the crucial Italian election, the western power asked the fiovlets lo meet In Paris eaHv next month to work out the Trieste transfer details. It would mean revision of the Italian oeaee Ireatv which went Into effect last September. Moscow mlKht hope to win Italian votes for communism by accepting. But some Bnvlct action more posi tive and spectacular then falling In step with the western oowers Is considered far more likely by au thorities here. One such action could be a Rus sian offee to give up the M0O.IMV0. Me. In Italian reparations granted In the peace Ireatv. The other new er renounced their reparations claims when the naet was drafted. Moscow has given no advance hint If such a strike has been de cided on. Rut In seeking to onen negotiations for a (rnde agreement wiUi Ttalv Issl week Russia Insisted the reparations question b taken up. Other awards won at the conven tion Included the following: Parliamentary contest Enterprise KKA chapter, first; Ontario, second; Newbcrg, third. Are Welding eonlnit Melvln Mil ler, Hlherlon. first. Oold certificate wluuera: Pat Davis, Pendleton; Dunne Hayes, Myrtle Point; Merle Marshall, Oregon City; Dud Ruther ford. Forest Grove. Ullvcr certificate winners; C. Rusiiell. Oervuli; Duvld Guile. Union; R, Oleson, McMlnn vllle; Ken Miller. Oretham, Kmery Cameron. Adrian; Vernon Ham mack, Knlerprlte. Acetylene Welding Vernon Zc alou, Milton; first. Oold certificates: Alvin Lush. The Dulles, and Ken Lewis, Pendleton. Hllvcr certificate: Hilly Water. Lakevlew; Garland Kottrrs, Ontario; Charles Thun, Can by. Crop Identification Curvallla, first: Malm, second; Redmond third; Hlllsaoro. fourth. Individual wiiinrr receiving gold certificates: Ken Rlhl. Amity; Vernon Hulet, llltlaboro: Jim Swift. Redmond; Cliff Buillh. Corvalll; John Caateel, Amity. Silver certificates: Melvin Van Demelln. HllUboro; Richard Dodlc, Independence; Carl Riijnus, Malln. Tool Identification d. Mcttlck, Oervala, flrtl. Gold certificates: Charles Milton. Roseburg: H. Snider, Katacada; Ancel Reisch, Molalla; Kay Olrod, Salem. Silver certifi cates: Ted Judd, Ore-sham; Cecil Kill, lleppner; Ken Vandyke, Forest Grove: Joe Cribble, Molalla; Don ald Coleman, Malm. Chapter Secretary books Robert (Oallaiis aa Fat S, t tlima I) Retriever Trials Open Here Today Klamath's first AKC-llrensed dog trials, sponsored by the BhaaUt- Cuscade retriever club, opened this morning at Cove point on Upper Klamath lake, with the running of field trials for Junior stakes and non-winners class. Bitterly cold wind and snow whipping across the trial area slowed up proceedings, and han dlers were apprehensively eyeing the Icy wster which their dogs were to battle in this afternoon's water trials. Some 28 retrievers competed In the junior stakes, for dogs less than two years old. and the non-winners' event saw about 40 retrievers competing. The open all-age stakes, usually considered the highlight of dog trials, will begin tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. Thirty-nine entries have been registered for this event. Field trials will be mn In the morn ing, with water work scheduled to strt n the afternoon. The field trial dinner will be held at the Winemn hotel banquet room tonight at 8 o'clock. Outstanding Woman Chosen Russians Move To Hamper US Flights Into Berlin BERLIN. April 10 (P American and British officials said today the Russians have proposed banning of commercial flights to Derlln In move to hamper air communica tions of the western powers with the German capital. The Russians were also moving to interfere with telephone and telegraph communications between the western powers and Berlin, the officials said. This was the latest development In the apparent move by Russia to forro the west em powers out of the Oorman capital. The Russians already have Imposed road and rail Paraguayan Police Scotch Attempted Communist Coup ASUNCION, Paraguay, April 10 M'i Paraguayan pollen announced loday they had scotched nn nt l"tnpled communist coup. They said II was coordinated with similar moves In other rniinlrles alined at Interfering with the Inter-Ameiicaii conference at Hogoln. Colombia. Police said four comintinlst lead ers were arrested and rifles nnd hand grenades were seised. (Tho communist party has been inlawed 111 Paraguay since tin middle of 11)47 when the govern ment nccused romiiiunlMts of Riding the rebels In the civil war. Police said n radio transmitter has been captured and that. 8000 copies of plans for a revolution wero Helped. A police communique said n plan for revolt Included at I neks on police stations nnd telephone exchanges simultaneously throughout the country. Foreigners nnd govern ment officials were to have been n.ssnsslnntcd. The plotters were anld to have planned n new government of mili tary men sympathetic to the liberal febrrrlslR parly. restrictions on the western allies In Berlin. The Russians have proposed a number of "Mr aaiety regulations" covering nir traffic over the Russian xone corridors. British nnd Amer ican officials said these are designed to restrict air travel between the West mid Berlin. In addition to banning of com mercial flights to Berlin, the Rus sians seek to bar night flying nnd limit training and engineering flights. Berlin Is a terminus of the American Overseas Airways trnns Atlantlc flight. At present two planes a week fly to Berlin nnd the nlrllne had planned to Increase Uie flights to four weekly, starting next month. British and American officials said the Russians have also refused to renew permits authorising their signal corps crews to supervise nnd maintain telephone nnd telegraph lines to Berlin passing through the Soviet Entie. The present permits expire April 18. The Russians said they will take over supervision nftcr that date. Tho Americans hnve maintained a crew of five mei nt Weimar In the 8ovlct lone to supervise nnd repair cables carrying nil U. 8. tele graph nnd telephone communica tions with the American cones. Meanwhile the Russians nnd British took steps toward a two power Investigation of the nlr crnsh over Berlin which killed 18 persons last Monday. mmmmwmmnf t im a i i iiawuiy yjtiwwyii. mwrpmmf'T.7l If Mn. lawTence French, Irft, rerrWine from Mrm. Mutt Kohn the annual award from the KoropUmlit club for outstanding public and community contribution on the part of an individual woman. The prnrntalion waa made at a dinner lait night (See story In society section I. Mrs. French's major work has been in connection with Camp Fire OirU. Pilot Dies In P-51 Crash ANCHORAGE. Alaska. April 10 MV Tho flight leader of a groii of P-M flghcTS wiu killed wester day when engine trouble sent his plane crashing Into Cook inlet, near Fire island. His body was recovered from the wreckage by n barge crew. Air force authorities at Elmen dorf field, the squadron's home btse. withheld announcement of the flier's nnme pending notifica tion of next of kin. Navajos To Work On Oregon Farms PORTLAND. April 10 (1 The destitute taya)os . may ivors: . n Oiegon farms this summer. A regional director of the fed eral employment service said some already have worked in California fields, and up to 20.000 will be avail able for farm jobs this summer. The director. Fay W. Hunter. San Francisco, suggested they could be used In place of Uie Mexican labor Imported In recent years. Council Pleads For Regulation WASHINGTON. April 1ft tJPi ! New Inflation warnings from the' While House again ran Into this blunt retort today from the repub lican congress thumbs down on federal controls. President Truman's council ot ! economic advlaers raUed the alarm. In a "guns or butter" economic report, the council analysed the Im pact on the nation's economy 01 (6,000,000.000 In foreign aid spend ing, the 27-day-oId coal strike and a proposed $3,000,000,000 outlay tor defense. Then the president's ad visers urged: 1. Administration power to say how scarce products will be dis tributed, plus Indirect manpower controls to steer workers Into rital Industries. 2. New taxes to cover future boosts in federal spending for military preparedness. 3. Enactment of the "standby" price, wage and ration authority asked last year by Mr. Truman, as well as power to control bank and consumer credit. The reaction of Rep. Wolcott iR.-Mich.i, chairman of the house banking committee, where most of such legislation would originate, was cold. "It seems unnecessary. he told reporters, "to restore any controls until we see the impact on our econ omy of the military spending and foreign aid. Paul G. Hoffman, economic co operation administrator, said yes terday that voluntary methods are preferable to federal controls. Borne "fringe" controls might prove neces sary later, Hoffman said. The council ot economic advisers, headed by Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, called for a -systematic and vigor ous discipline" to meet the pressures on the economy. Its quarterly report was made public last nieht by the White House after it was presented to the cabinet. 100 Americans Narrowly Miss . Renewed Battle WASHINGTON, April It UP Approximately 100 American clUiem) were removed to safety from embassy offices In downtown Bogota today and 10 minutes later shooting began again In the aren. This Information came in a dispatch delivered her through th, state department from American correspondents In the mob-battered capital of Colombia. The dispatch filed at 11:39 a. m.. in Bogota reported that the down, town atmosphere In general waa quiet but that an nlr of ancerlalnly prevailed. ERUPTION FEARKD This feeling waa due at least partly to fear that the funeral for ' the assaaalnated liberal leader whose shooting started the revolution yesterday might bring n new erup-1 , tion of violence. The rescued Americana had taken refuge In the U. 8. embasiy offices in two buildings on opposite sides of (he street. They spent a day and night of peril aa shooting rioters invaded their street, and fires broke out in the buildings. Within ten minutes after they were safely away, shooting started up again around the building. Colombian shot A Colombian was shot dead by soldiers on the very spot where one evacuee had stood, because he failed to obey their commands. Most of Uie Americans had not had sleep or food. They were taken to their homes. The Colombians first cleared streets of the ares with rifle tire of the last vestiges of last night's drunken mobs. Then troops arrived with a bus and trucks for the Ameri cana. The dispatch said that the evacua tion took place dramatically while the area was surrounded by 100 troops with rifles nt the alert plus an armored truck bristling with machine guns. (An earlier report to the state department had spoken of tanks In the evacuation, possibly in confusion with the armored truck.) Snow Falls At Crater Lake Crater Lake national park had 82 Inches of new snow in a week, from April 2 to 9. making Uie snow depth now 165 Inches. Snow was still falling Saturday morning nnd more snow Is predict ed. The temperature Saturday morning was 22 degrees and Uie maximum Friday only reached as high as 28 degrees with a minimum of 13 degrees. Roads are clear to the rim but chains are required for motorists at Annie 8pring nnd recommended before that. Skiing is fair and expected to be excellent when the trails are pack, ed down. One bear wns reported by park rangers to be out of hibernation for a short time this week. Eisenhower To Stay Out Of Politics WASHINGTON, April 1 (jvi Gen. Dwlrht D. Eisenhower sail today he "meant every word" in his statement of January 23 taking himself out of the presidential nomination picture. The retired army chief ef ataff talked with reporters as he left s conference "ti defense with Presi dent Truman. , , Asking for a direct statement oa the presidency, Ike said he did not talk pollUcs with Mr. Truman. Ha added: "I made up my mind to say nothr tug more. I wrote a letter and meant every word of It No Mora Talking "I told my aides they could da the talking from now on. I'm not talking any more. I find it doesn't do any good." Eisenhower in a letter to a New Hampshire publisher last January 23 aald he could not accept a prest dential nomination. He said his de etsion to "completely" remove him self from the political scene was "definite and positive." That letter was written at a time Ike wns being mentioned proud? nenUy for Uie republican presiden. uai canaiaate. Since then Eisenhower has-been talked of tor the democratic nomi nation. " ? " The general, who takes aver as president of Columbia university In June, was In uniform as he called on Uie president for a 30-minute talk. ; He said Mr. Truman wanted to discuss with him Uie "general lay out" of the nation's defenses and the subject of "balance" of the de fense program. Sunday's 75th Anniversary Of Canby Massacre Recalls How Army Man Marked Spot With Cross By MALCOLM EPLEY Sunday, April II, marks the 75th anni versary of the Canby massacre, sanguinary highlight of the Modoc Indian war of 1872 73, that drew the nation's awed attention to the rugged Modoc lava beds near Tule lake. A lonely wooden cross, held upright by a pile of stones, stands today ot the scene of the massacre, exactly as it was placed there 66 years ago by Lieutenant John S. Parke of the United States army. This weotherbeaten monument, easily ac cessible from the west side Tulelake road or from the Lava Beds road by way of Newell, is worthy ot a pilgrimage by those aware of its significance and interested in the Indian war that made the most stirring chapter in the history of the Klamath country. The story of the war and the massacre has been often told, but few may know how it happened that the cross was placed there on a windy September day in 1882. Lieutenant Parke thus marked the spot on his second visit to the lava beds. Fortu nately, the lieutenant was a writer of no poor ability, and after making two trips into the historic area, wrote a complete account for the Historical Section of the Army War col lege. A copy is owned by Don C. Fisher, pres ent custodian of the Lava Beds national monument. Parke first visited the lava beds in 1880, just seven years after the end of the war, going into the area from Gillem's bluff on horseback. (It wos wild, unsettled country then, with no roads such as are available to the modern traveler). The lieutenant was ac- . companied on the trip by John A. Fairchild, whose ranch was 22 miles west from the lava beds. On that occasion, he first saw the scene where Ceneral E. R. S. Canby ond Dr. Elezear Thomas were killed at a peace con ference with the Modocs. Parke himself gives a graphic account of the meeting of Indian leaders at a council tent with the peace com missioners, which included Canby, Thomas, a Methodist minister; L. S. Dyer, Indian agent, and A. B. Meacham, Indian superin tendent. This occurred on April 11, 1873. Al though warned by Frank Riddle ond his squaw, Winema, that the Indians intended treachery, the peace commissioners went out fo the tent a mile in front of the army en campment near the present entrance of the Lava Beds national monument. In the course of the in terview, they were attacked; Canby and Thomas were killed, and Meacham was wounded. Dyer escaped to the army camp. Winema, who had befriended the whites throughout, was present at the conference as on inter preter, and a shout by her, probably a false warning that soldiers were coming, saved ttie lives of Meacham and Dyer by frightening the Indians away. if J 'K si.. 0NtfnsW. KPX: J." Ji-v.4,iaI.v..i jr m f K-rw-.k.: ,,la.A fv ; i , , ... f , r. Tr Canby Cross, as It appears today. The fair sightseers are unidenti fied In this familiar postcard view. Lt. Parke, on his first visit in 1880, wai tremendously impressed by the significance of the scene of this incident. He found ther an old board, with an inscription almost oblit erated by the elements. He wrote: "It wos with a feeling of awo that I stood on the spot to still and quiet then, which now is seldom disturbed by human footsteps, and on which few eyes ever rest save those ef tome wild bird as he wings his flight orer its bloodstained rocks." " The army officer recalls his second visit ' as follows: "My second visit to the lava beds wo prompted by a desire to see that the exact locality of these stirring events, and especi ally the place where the council tent stood, should be so marked and when this historic place comes to be visited by the interested ond the curious, it may not be of such un certain location as to be a matter of specula tion and discussion, but that the visitor may say when he visits this spot, This is whera Ceneral Canby and Dr. Thomas were mur dered by the Modocs.' "Accordingly, on being ordered to Fort Klamath in 1882 on some temporary duty, I took advantage of the opportunity and asked permission of the department com mander, Ceneral Miles, to go a little out of my way on my return to headquarters for this purpose: As it involved no serious loss of time, nor expense to the government, my request wos granted. "I stopped at Fairchild's on my way, hoping he would accompany me as ne had done on my former visit, but he was on the eve of departure for Yreka and could not go. He gave me every assistance, however, and his carpenter made me a cross for the monument I was to erect. I had It made from lumber about six inches square, twelve feet high, with arms of four feet. "We conveyed this in two pieces, on the backboard, to the top of the bluff overlook ing the lava beds. Arriving there lote In the afternoon, we gave the cross a priming coat with some paint we had taken along, and the next morning took it to the base of the bluff on our shoulders. "I put up the cross, applied another coat of paint, piled the loose lava rock around it to one-half its height, put the following In scription on it: . " 'GENERAL CANBY, USA, WAS MUR DERED HERE BY THE MODOCS, APRIL 1 1, 1873"'. J
