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i mi mu m . .. . r lBjh. KLAMATH FALL!. OREOON, WEDNEIDAT, OCT O MB It, IS4S TdiftiM 1111 By FRANK JENKINS BUM! A today t UN headquarter la Nw York) renew her demand far t world-wide etiuua ef all weapon, from atom bomb to lr planee and artillery, from battle, hlpo to bayonet. Undar the Ruatlan proposal. EACH NATION WOULD REPORT ON ITS OWN WEAPONS, WITH NO PRO VIBION FOR OHKCKINO ON THI TRUTH OF THE STATEMENTS. THAT la Rustle' Idea of armament control. It U Ruula' Idea of INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ATOM10 WARFARE. 1 ITS put tt bluntly: J Under auch aytteni. we eue lueet thai Ruula would lie about her preparation for war. Evtrybody Im would toll lha truth. Then Preaumably Whan Ruula waa all aat. whan aha knew from lha raporU that aha waa Incomparably batter prepared for war than anybody ala. aha would wada In to conquer tht world for communism. PHIS la fundamental: International control of srms menta. INOLUOINO ATOMIC ARM. AMENT. can work only If everybody hae eontldanca In tht integrity of everybody aUe. Nobody haa any confidence In Russia's Intafrlly. a UHT not? " HKRE'B WHY: To the communist tha and Justl flea tha meant. II yru are a com munUt. you can lie. eteal and cheat and atlU o to whatever under com munUm paaaea for heaven. Aocordlnf to communUt standards. THE MORE YOU LIE. STEAL AND CHI AT THI PURER AND HOLIER YOU ARK. That la to tay: If you Ue, ateal and cheat, and Vy dolnf ao mislead your enemlea ao that they will be placed at a disadvantage while you are placed at an advantage, you're eerrtni your cauat In tha moat affective way poe aible. How can you make erreemenu with people Ilka that? Tha aruwer la that you sen't YOU have two alternatlveel I. You ean fight I. You can aurrwoder. v TH this country, wad better quit fooling .around and fact tha I una mental fact that wfvt lot to whip i.mI.m am atimmder to It If wt'ra fotnf to whip communism. wt'd be tier quit pipe-areeming eoou voting evaryooay ncn happUy aver afterward without work, and ret down to business. 25 Dead, 100 Hurt in SA Train Wreck BUENOS AIRES. Oct. II V-A raaort-bound passenger train craahad Into a freight Jut outalde the bit Prealdent Peron terminal hart late hut night, killing about 16 peraona and Injuring about 100. Tha accident, tha wont tinea train eervlcee were nationalized two year ago, occurred on tha Oeneral Bartoloma Mitre line, a half mile out of tht Peron terminal. Fall Shock Moat of tha eaaualtlea were In tht aecond claaa aectlona of the pat eenger train, which took the full brunt of tht collision. Many of the flrat clata aectlon, however, were allghUy Injured. Prealdent Peron and hit wife, Evlta, and cabinet mlnltten hur ried to tha Men. Tht paaaanger train, bound for the rummer retort of Tlgre, had left ha atatlon aeven minutes be hind schedule. PRICK rIVI CENTS No. tIM mm ytikib$IBM (Eky Pigem Markets Closed NEW YORK, Oct. 12 MV-Seeur-Ity end commodity market throughout tht United Statea went cloaed today, Columbua Day. Murray Sees Steel Strike Ending Soon By The Attaclated Freea Philip Murray. CIO prealdent, predict the aleel etrtke will end toon with a union victory In the fight for free pentlona and Intur anre. "I atture you that before very lent we will all be happy," Murray aald In a fighting eddreae at Youngntown. O. It waa hit flrat talk of a prp tour to take him to eeveral of the nation 'a steel centers. There waa no reply from Induttry to Murray'! optimum or to lilt chargea Induttry had forced 454,000 of hit men to atrtke. The U. 8. conciliation errvlce went ahead eettlng up erparete meetlnga with union and top Induttry leadera In an effort to break lha atrlke. Tht tint teuton la tcheduled with Beth lehem Steel corporation tomorrow at New York. John L. Lewla and toft coal oper ator? went back to contract talka at Whit Sulphur Sprints. W. Ve, tt tha coal atrtke continued In Ita fourth week. Conclllatora aald a cruia la' near. Street Jobs Nearing Completion Street work In Klamath FaUa la rapidly approaching completion with winter Jutt around tht cor ner. Paving on California between Ird and Upbam started today. 11m lob la about SO per cent complete with sidewalk yet to be Int tailed. The Wall atrcet Improvement Job. from Etplanada to tht b rid re. will probably be ttntthed Friday. In time to handle traffic for tht Klam ath Medford football game. City Engineer Taxi Thome aald today. Tha Wall atrttt bill la ellll blocked off. CVA Hearings In December WASHINOTON. Olt 11 (API Chairman Chavea tD-NMi of the tenate public worka commute an nounced today It will hold no hear Ingt In the Pacific Northwent be fore December on President m man'a proposal to create a Colunv bit vallev adminlttration. Tha cotnmlttaa conducted hear ing here earlier th's year on the proposal. It had been proposed that other be arranged In tha area thlt month or In November. Chavea aald thlt will be Impossible. "The hearing In the field will be held, definitely, but I cannot an nounce any dale until soma tuna in December." Chavea told a re porter. Seattle Flames Take 3 Lives SEATTLE, Oct. 12 (An Fire In a two-ttory Ballard apartment house brought death to three person ahortly before midnight last night Six other occupant fled to aatety. The victims were Jack Srhaura, 70; hi wife, Caroline, about (7, and Carl H. Rappe, about OS. Mr. Senium .and Rappe died In the flame. 8chaum wa dead on ar rival at tha hospital. 'Wondsrful Life' Sweet Little Old Lady Holds Bible, Brags of Crime Life BERKELEY. Calif., Oct 13 OP) There a tweet-faced little old lady In Jail her who brag about crime tha way most women her age talk of tewing or knitting. She waa booked at Mr. Francl Worthlngton, 71, wanted at Lan alng, Kta, for violation of parole from the Kansaa atatt Industrial farm for women. Looks Back Closing well-thumbed Bible yesterday, tha reminisced to re porters: "You know, my dear, I'm one of tht moat accomplished pickpocket In tht world. In 40 year I have stolen clot to half a million dol lars. . "It'll been a wonderful life," she signed. "Travel and fun. Tht police art all auch nice gentlemen and my Bible comforts me." Mrs. Worthlngton wag plucked oft a train her and "Invited" to pend 60 dayt in tha Berkeley Jail. Judge Oliver Youngt gavt her that much time en a vtfrtnoy eharge. Police Inspector I. F". Parker aald the grandmotherly woman had been arrested 24 time since 1010 on charge ranging from shoplifting to arson and grand larceny. Southern Pacific agent aald for year she criss-crossed tht country on varloua train, picking a pocket here, robbing a store there, reading her Blblt tverywhere. . 'Pleasant' At Lansing, Mr. Etta Beaver, superintendent of the Industrial farm, aald aha remembers Mr. Worthlngton as a "pleasant old ledy" who never caused much trou ble but bragged a lot about her record of crime. In her Jail cell, Mr. Worthlngton commented: "I've had auch fun. Tht Lord used to alt on my ahoulder and aay 'Don't do that when I'd steal, but X Just couldn't pay attention. "And I get auch comfort from my favorite Blblt passage: Tht Lord la my shepherd; I ahall not want I never have wanted, either.' THIS IS A HAMSTIR! The tiny little animal it owned by Mrs. A. L McCullough who it manoger of the transient harvest comp at Ma tin. This is only one of a hutch of SO hamsters which Mrs. McCullough is raising tor pets. Scientists have long used the hamsters for ex perimental purposes, first found in 1930 in Syria by Hebrew zoologists who dug one out of a burrow ond brought it back to the United states. Gl Suicide's Wife Admits They Robbed CHEYENNE. Wyo., Oct 11 0P An 11-year-old air force soldier from Ashland, Ore., whose apartment wa tilled with robbery loot, shot him self yesterday because ha feared police were doting In, Police Chief Fred Schmoker aald. Sch cooker Identified tht soldier aa Pvt Robert Eugene Bunch, who enlisted last December and waa to have been graduated from bate training school next week. Looting Beglna The police chief aald Bunch' 1-year-old wife told him they atarted long evening walk after the became pregnant and on them they began a aeries of house burglaries. "Sine I was alwaya hungry, I usually went to the kitchen and got Into the Icebox and ate and then I'd help Oene carry tha Huff home." Schmoker quoted her as uylng. Police aald they found In tha apartment loot from 10 Cheyenne realdencrt Including ilx rines. sev eral revolver, clothing, costume Jewelry and an WOO diamond ring. Bus Roulette Schmoker said Mrs. Bunch told him that one night her husband asked her it she ever played Rus sian roulette, put a cartridge In every other hole of a revolver, spun tha cylinder, pointed tne gun at her and pulled the trigger. "Heav ens, it didn't go off," she said. Minton Takes Justice Oath WASHINOTON, Oct. 12 MV-Sherman Minton took the oath as a Justice of the U. S. supremo court today In a White House ceremony. Minton, a former democratic sen ator and "New Dealer" from Indi ana, was sworn In by Chief Justice Vinton. President and Mrs. Truman and scores of other notable were present Tht ceremony took place on the porch Just outside Truman I office before around 400 persons standing In tht rost garden. Hunter Lost, Reports OK Ronald K. Curtis, owner of tha Eaat Main cafe, reported lost In the Four Milt lake area since 1 p.m. Tuesday, called hi wife at 1:40 a m. today from a ranch near Rocky Point resort Ha wa unharmed. Curtl wa hunting with Joseph E. Frlesen of Klamath Falls. Frlesen returned to Klamath Fall laat night to form a aearch party but Curtis had called In before tht aearch could be organized. GOVERNOR'S WIFE DIES ST. LOUIS. Oct 12 (JP Mrs. Ingram M. Btalnback, wife of tht governor of Hawaii, died her un expectedly last night following brain operation performed Monday. She waa M. 'School Bus' Violation Draws Fine The first conviction on a violation of Oregon's new "school bus" law waa meted out at Justice court yesterday. Oeorgo Willard Hansen. M-jmr-old butcher who live at S3 Divi sion, waa charged with failure to atop while meeting a school but. Tht violation occurred last week, and a John Doe warrant waa Issued at tht time. Hansen appeared la court yester day and paid tha $10 fine levied by Justice of tht Peace J. A. Mahoney. Siskiyou Picks Medical Head. Hospital Staff YREKA The board of supervisors meeting here Tuesday appointed a medical director and a medical ad ministrative staff for Siskiyou County Oeneral hospital at Yreka. Those named will take over their dutlea January 1, 1960. Named aa medical director wa Dr. Albert H. Newton of Yreka, for many years county physician. Tht two outside medic art Dr. Eugene Martin of lit. Shasta, and Dr. H. L. Vldticksen of Weed. From Yreka were named Dr. Donald Meamber and Dr. R. F. Schlappl. Supervisor W. A. Barr of MU Shasta voted against Dr. Newton's appointment on the ground that he believed a director should be elected by tha administrative staff but other supervisors over-rode hit opinion following considerable dis cussion. Arden Fugate Reported Hurt Arden Fugatt, Oregon State col lege atudent wa reported aa aerl ously Injured In a wreck two miles west of Albany Monday night ac cording to an Associated Press story received here today. The story said Fugatt wa In an Albany hospital aufferlng from an arm fracture and possible Internal Injuries. He Is the son of Mrs. Jennie Fugate of Merrill and the late Arden Fugate, well known Klam ath county rancher. Fugate and Eldon La Verne Edwards war operators of two cart which met head-on and both men were hospitalised, Fugatt being tha more seriously Injured of tha two. Mrs. Edwards escaped with minor hurts. Mora Medals . Ready For Distribution 8ALKM, Oct 11 (XV-Somt more World War II medals now art ready for distribution, and veterans can get them from their own branch of the service, the state veterans da part mint aald today. The medal! art tht prt-Ptarl Harbor medal, American theater medal. Victory medal, European-Afrtcan-Mlddlt East medal, and the Aslatio-Paclflo medal. Tht marina also are Issuing tht navy occupation and China service medal. Gl Hits Silk To Escape Plane Guards NASHVILLE. Ark, Oct 12 (V-A daring young aoldier named Pvt. Howard A. Shineman nurjrown thrf dubious distinction of being the first military priaoner t f parachute irom a plane. Records on this sort of thing trip tutlly are nlL Tha 23-year-old Clinton, HI. war veteran dived out of a C-S2 Com monly known a a "Flying Boxcar" at about 3000 feet over South western Arkansas yesterday after noon, me plane waa carrying a crew and 10 military prisoners from Forbes air force base at To pe ka. Kas, to Clarksdale air force base, Shrevepon. La. SJ Bet The spectacular break waa en glnered. Shineman said, to win a Is bet he doesnt expect to collect and tor a thrill. He said ht did not Intend to escape: but had planned to report to Clarksdale on nit own. It also (1) earned Shineman brief freedom five hours of trudging five miles over unfamiliar and mud dy country a hunted man. and 2I created quite a commotion In these part. Sheriff Arthur E. Hicks of How a r d county and a "courthouse friend." as he wa Identified, cap tured tne young fugitive by follow ing rumors of a man In uniform cutting across fields and roads. Shineman wa brought t the county Jail here to await military authorities. Smeolh a Silk" Shineman said his fast downward trip wa "smooth a silk." He suf fered only a scratched finger. . The Barksdale public information officer aald the plane was flying about three miles east of Nashville when Shineman suddenly rushed past one of the guards, pushed out a rear door, and Jumped. That was about 1:30 p. m. 'Bull' Slaps At Army s War Policy WASHINGTON. Oct 12 fV-8alty Fleet Admiral William F. 'Bull I Halsey scoffed at tha air forces' big B-3 bomber today at a "selge" weapon. He aald It can't atop an enemy and likely would never atop anything except bullet from fight er plane. Oriazled and gray, Halsey waa be fore the house armed service com mittee aa the navy put Its top tea dog of the last war Into its fight agaiiut a military policy that cuts down on tht navy and build up a big B-3 bomber force. King III, Fights Backing Halsey up with a state ment wa Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime chief of naval opera tions who Is 111 but still punching lor the navy. Halter i general argument wa that the need In event of war will be for fast -planes which can har ata an enemy's armies, knock out bridge and disrupt his traruport He aald that by-paasinf the armies and hammering at urban center far to the rear would not atop an army. War Pistnallf U military history shows on thing. Halsey aald it la this: "Selge operation have never suc ceeded against an enemy while that enemy pneswaed troops In the field which could attack the besieging forces." Sliding Scale OK Poses 2o Capital Figta WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (AP) A ' sliding-, system of government price supports under major farm product won senate approval today. After week of angry argument that eplil party linea, the aenatort seat the so-called "price stabilisation'' act back to the house which haa adopted a different plan. - Paasag e was by voice vote. Another bitter struggle between the senate and house over what's best for the farmer especially during ths Tl950 congressional election year now looms. And an apparent disagreement be tween President Truman and two of his chief senate lieutenant threaten to cloud the Issue for tht democrat rn next year'a campaign. Both the areeUipl awl Vie Fnstdent Barkley are aaai a favor eeaUnwaae ef the wartaat level ef f area ftie prep bow est- East Germany In Ited Bed BERLIN. Oct 12 (V-East Ger many. Soviet Union new eat att aint, pledged through It commu nist government today to give un swerving loyalty to Russia. The communist prime minister. Otto Orotewohl, made the pledge as be and hit cabinet were unanimous ly confirmed by the people cham- oer as ue new soviet zone republic. The 400 member ot the chamber by a similar unanimous vow five day ago had aet up the new tut and prohibited Germans in the east sone.foom voting tor at least anotner year. Reds Crumble Nationalists HONQ KONO. Oct 12 ( Na tionalist defenses In South China crumbled today before fast moving communist armies. Red elements were reported with in 38 mile of the tottering pro visional capital at Canton. The gov. ernment fled to Chungking, far In the interior. Thousand of evacuee Jammed Hong Kong. Hard Driving Pro Nationalist reports here aald communist roops had entered out lying suburb northeast of Canton Hard driving Red columna under Oeneral Cheng Kent (truck toward the city on all northern front. There haa been no sign of re sistance from tht five Nationalist armies supposedly lined up to de fend Canton. IRRIGATION BID BEND, Oct 12 Bids on re pairing a pipeline for the Grant Past Irrigation district were opened by tht bureau of reclamation office here yesterday. The lowest of tht nlnt bidder waa P. S. Lord, me chanical contractor, Portland, with an offer of IllJ.MO. Cupid Loses To Politics NEW YORK, Oct 12 MV-Mayor nuuam u uwyer says he got poli tics on his mind, not romance. For a long tune, specuieuon ha persisted that OTJwyer, a widower, might marry Miss Sloan Simpson xormer model and now a fashion consultant He la and she Is Ir. her 30. Reporters yesterday plied him with question about possible matri mony. "I will discuss that after the election.- ODwyer said. "Whv da ou ask that when everybody's agoa; oer the outcome of tha election?" ine mayor is a candidate for re election Kovemoer s. Idaho Hunters Snowbound MISSOULA. Mont. Oct. 12 ( Reecu workers reached tht first of about 100 snowbound big game hunter In a rugged Idaho wilder ness area 100 mile west of here to day. "It look like the emergency It over." said Lolo National Forest Supervisor E. H. Myrlck, director of rescue operation. "We expect to have tht road open to tht rest of those hunter can get out of the region lata today." Tht rescue crews, carrying food and fuel, report no serious hard ships were suffered by tht sports men, who had been marooned more than it hours. MISSING J son Elizabeth Spongier (above), 27-year-old movie bit player who is report ed missing since October 7. Police spurred search after her ripped handbag was found in Griffith park, in Los An geles, Calif., with a puzzling note inside. Nagef Seen Returning For Sentence ' William Henry Nagel. who tat hit final appeal from conviction of a morals charge here, probably will come back to Klamath Falls for re sentencing. District Attorney D. X. Van Vector said today. He la free on SM00 cash bond and she cash la held here. 2-Year Seateate Nagel was convicted on a chare of contributing to the delinquency of a minor over two year ago and was given a two-year prison sen tence. But be appealed the convic tions to the state supreme court and finally to the U. S. supreme court, remaining out on bond. The U. S. supreme court refused to accept the case for review. Senator Anderson (D-NM), form er secretary of agriculture, 1 author of the senate' bill and Democrati Leader Luaac (HI) backed It Back In July, the house voted to retain SO per cent of parity price support under cotton, wheat, rice, tobacco and peanut during ISM. The house also retained present support under a long list of other commodities. Parity as a price ealcwlaled at (ire faraaera a fair rettra la terax af tsuaga they mat bay. In patting the variable support biU today the senate followed a pro diction mad tola morning by Sen ator Lucas. Lucas gavt hi forecast to report ers after a brief conference wlia President Truman. Ha said at tha same time that be now aeaa no chance for congress to adjourn by Saturday night For 1860. tha support level under tht Anderson bill would be SO par cent of parity on those basic crop under production or marketing con trol. After 1(60 the support on i these crop could be dropped te aa low as Ta par cent The procedure will be for the su preme court to Issue a mandamus ordering Nagel to appear In Klam ath Fall for re-sentencing on a cer tain date. If he does not appear the bond will be. forfeited and a war rant Issued tor Nagelt arrest. Circuit Judge Orval J. Millard of Cc.!j!iTt!:es 159-R. Sfc's; Only Cruises PORTLAND. Oct 12 V-A young couple fell .aa estimated lie feet down the sheer face of 2Sa-foot high Rooster rock in the Columbia river gorge yesterday and suffered only severe bruise. - Til ate Joe fall a lone aa I live." mumbled Shirley Jean Aml carella aa rescuers lifter her and her husband, Joseph, into aft am bulance. The husband regained conscious ness after sheriff' deputies hsd eased the man and wife down the rock in wire rescue baskets. Knocked Out "Something hit me on the head that's an I know," he said. His w'.fa reported falling rocks had knocked him out and he fell. Their safety Grants Pass presided over the triati rop napped ner off the rock face and will have to come back to pass sentence again. Nag-1. a minister and North west director of the National As sociation of Evangicals resides In in Portland. Portland Workers Gel Holiday PORTLAND. Oct 12 (flV-Clty of fice workers have today off. It waa not planned, but it's legal - The city council intended to fol low the lead of the state and Mult nomah county in ruling Columbus Day no longer a holiday. But the members realized too late that they had failed to repeal the ordinance declaring the date a legal holiday. and sh landed on a rock ledge. Her brother, Sherman McClure, low man of the roped trio, managed to hold on and came down saiely despite a leg Injury. He wa struck by a boulder. A motorist, Mrs. May Lawrence Bjtler. Hood River, witnessed the fall from the Columbia river water level highway. She wa also Injured by a rock while standing on the road to flag down a sheriff's pa trol car. A sheriff's deputy wa hit on the hand oy a falling rock. TRl'MAN CHOICE WASHINOTON, Oct 12 UP) President Truman today nominated Rear Adm. Merlin O'Neill to be commandant of the U. S. coast guard. Football Ducats Going Fast A sell-out for the Pellcan-Medford football game Friday night on Mo doo field wa virtually assured at noon today when only 160 reserve ticket were left at tht chamber of commerce. In the neighborhood of 750 rtatrvt ducats were sold since Monday when the ticket first went on sale. "Between two and three thou sand" general admission tickets will be told at game time, KTJH8 Ath letic Director Joe Peak announced. r Meet the People T A WELL IARNED MINUTI to himself Is being enjoyed i f Borber E. W. Tippery, who Icons bock In ths borter ch' r to peruse ths mogozine section M ths Orvgonlevt.
