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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1951)
U.S. PDoime, IFored mi 4iiiii. Itullooii I'arnile Saliirilav Injlic..'......,.,!.,..,.,.,! -'-. S'-i-: t ,, ; i : 7-; v ' lr FRANK JKNK1NN President Truman How uu from Florida yesterday lo make polit ical speech Hi Washington last muhl in Uie course ol which bo salcl "1 vrnture to predict that there In itolng to bn more money aprnl Hi trying to defeat the Democrats party next year than hen ever beiore been pent In any election in me history ol the republic. It could be. These are daya of Man, wide and handsome spend Inn. It la my personal sues, how ever, that If the Republicans arjend TOO MUCH as Our Harry aaya they art going to, II will boomer ana on them. I don't know how you feel about It, but when I aee aomebodv aoend- Ina too much money to gel elected to ollire my Inclination la to vote against nun rawer than for mm. I think it will work Uial way In nesi year a election. Incidentally, Harry trio VP from Florida and return coal the taxpayera somewhere around I3M0 I ve forgotten the exact amount, nut it waa figured up by some congressman in Washington yes lerday.) :,.. -.. .. . , T He rami lib IB hla neraanal lan which costs around too an Itmir to operate and Uie trip up and sack toot nulla aeveral houra. H'a luat possible, you are, that he spent more taxpayer money to make his last night's speech than ANY PRESIDENT In the history or ine republic ever spent lor similar purpose. From Washington: "Announced battle casualties In Korea reached 100,171 today. The defense department's weekly sum miry, reporting an Increase of DM last week, sent the totsl over the loo.ooo mark , . . "In 16 months ot fighting In Korea. American combat lossVs have lar exceeded the 80.000 sul lercd from Pearl Harbor Day lo l he end of 143 In World War II. 'I he tola! for that year, which saw hitter fighting In the Southwest Pacific, In North Africa and oiher spots around the world, wss only ni.wu. ' Korea Is a 'notice action" on a rather staggering scale. Isn't It? More from Washington: "General lloyt Vandenberg said lodav the allies' complete air su periority over Korea Is now being seriously cliullcngcd by the MIOs, but so far Uie situation Is In hand. "The air force chief of staff Vandonbergl told long and grim news conference that possible seri ous potentials exist. Among these, he tinted I he fact that OVER. NfOHT CHINA HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MAJOR AIR TOWERS OF THE WORLD, l ie then sdded: "Under the ground rules rstah. VMied at the outset of the Korean war, It la impossible for us to giiin air supremscy because for reiuioiia that we all understand we have fallowed a policy of not at tacking the strongholds of enemy sir power directly across the Ynlu river In Manchuria." You'd belter look a little out, general, A famous five-star com mander was called home In dls- (Conllnned on Fag 4.1 iDON PHELPS, 2129 Ebcr Join, may have been antlci , ))ntlng tomorrow's holiday nhnn lha no m a a m n n ( ivi.vaa. tiiv v n iii v i a in a ji snapped him this morning as Phelps was en route to his v?ork at Rcnie Jewelers. ';LrL- Pelican Pele Christmas Windows To Be Unveiled Tonight; Huge Parade Slated Saturday Tomorrow may be Thanksgiving but lor Klamath folks there will be a preview of Christmas tonight with the unveiling of Christmas windows in downtown districts. Official Christines season, though, won't gel underway until Saturday morning when Main street will see perhaps the great est of all Klamath Christmas pa rades ever presented. Mora than 10 giant balloons and novelties aa high as IS feet and ss long as as will be featured in Battle Loss Figure Hits 100,000 - WArlHlNQTOrf. fW Announced DA battle casualties In Korea reached 100,176 today. The defense departments weekly ummsry. reporting an Increase of 940 since Issi week, sent the total over tile 100,000 mark. By com parison, VM. combat casualties In the first year of tills country s participation In world war two were M.OOO. Of the 6(0 new battle casualties reported today. 150 were killed outright In sotlon: 763 were wounded, and 36 are missing Following Is a summsry of the reports, covering casualties whose families received notification through lssi Friday: Last In- New Week crease Total Killed In Action ..... 15.001 Wounded 71.642 Missing 12.583 Total MJ26 Battle Deaths (X) 16.606 Current 150 15.192 "JOT 73.404 SS 13.830 t&O 100,176 167 Itill Missing Y . .10.6.16 .15 10.171 X) Includes killed In aotion. 1,636 fatally wounded and 164 dead, originally reported missing. (Y) After deducting from gross totsl 1.391 returned, 174 known cap lured and 164 known dead. Following Is a breakdown of the casualties by services: Last In- New Week crease Totsl Army ... 81,160 836 81.9W Navy 1.139 It 1.143 Air force 910 6 916 Murine corps ... 16.027 95 16.122 American families have been told of some. 22.000 casusltles among their men since Oen, Matthew B. Rldgwey first offered to talk about an armistice on June 30. About seven out of every ten American battle losses have been suffered since the Chinese Reds poured across the Manchurlan bor der Into the then virtually-won Korean battlefield a mile more than one year ago. The 70,000 VB. casualties re ported since the .Chinese entered the war Includes nearly 8,000 of the 12,500 American listed at one time or another as missing In aotion. This missing figure has been re duced to a current torsi ot around 10,800, Among these are the some 6,500 Americans reported by Col. Jamas M. Hanley, chief of the wsr orlmes section of the U.S. "in army In Korea,- to have been killed by their captors. General Ridgcway has without using figures authen ticated Hanley's report. But the general asid the deaths nave been reported to the. families concerned. KF Business To Shut Down Klamath's business district will be Quiet tomorrow as merchants and businessmen observe the Thanksgiving holiday. Most all stores but a few inde pendent groceries will remain closed tomorrow, along with banks, postofflce, city hall, liquor store, courthouse, and city and county schools, which will be closed Fri day also. The Herald and News will pub lish a rogular edition Thanksgiv ing day. However, all Herald and New offices will close at 1 cm. the parade, along with Mr. and Mis. nanta cisus. Merry cnrtsl n:i( the KUHS marching band and other music groups. Main street decoration-hanglng has almost been completed, but City Engineer E. A. (Taxi! Thom as says Uie city street department doing the work. Is having trouble hanging the decorations on aide streets. The engineer hss asked that no cars be perked on 6th, 7th. 8th end 9th between Pine and Klam ath streets alter midnight for the next three nlghla so the work will be facilitated. Beginning November 30 and con tinuing each Friday until Christ mas, stores will remain open un til 9 p.m. for the convenience of Christmas shoppers. The balloon parade, being put on bv the Olant Balloon Parades. Inc.. of Newark, N. J., Is sponsored bv the Klsiimth Merchants association The parade will Include balloons such as a giant Christmas slock ing, giant dragons. Ice cream cones,, candy canes, and novelties such aa big-headed clowns, dolls, lollypopa and others. Psrade time la 11 a.m.. with the parade assembling at Modoc field and moving down Main street to 2nd, end then will return lo Mo doc field along Klamath avenue. Canada Cold Front Coming By the Associated Press The coldest weather ever record ed so esrly in the season numbed areas In the east and southeast today, but warmer weather was forecast for Thanksgiving. The temperature dipped to rero at Phlllpsburg. In the mountains of central Pennsylvania, and the highest reading In the state was a frosty 22 above In Philadelphia, It was live below aero at Kane, Pa., and one below at Ridgway, Pa. Zero cold also atung the Saranao Lake region In northern New York, while Elmtra. In southern New York, shivered In eight above. Buffalo, N.Y., recorded 14 above, Burlington, VI.. 13. and New York 26. Newark, N.J. had an all-time record low for the date of 24 four degrees under Uie previous mark set in 1933. 7V freezing weather extended to Uie south, with Atlanta record ing 26 and New Orleans 38. Augus ta, lOa), had a record low for the date, of 19. But It looks like ' a cold and snowy holiday for many Western areas, coin air lrom Canada spread southward over Montana and North Dakota today. Temper atures were far below treealng. Light anow fell In Uie plains states. Temperatures also were below sea sonal levels In the far west. Superiority In Air Fails WASHINGTON. (Al - Oen. Hoyt Vandenberg aald today the Allies' "complete air superiority over Ko rea Is now. being seriouslv chal lenged by the Migs but' so far uie situation is in hand." The air force chief of staff told a long and grim news conference Uiat possible "serious potentials" exist. Among these he listed the fact that "overnight China has be come one of the major air powers of the world." Vandenberg added that the Pel- plng regime obviously has attained that status "as the direct benefi ciary of another power possessing the essential .Industrial and tech nical . resources that Communist China itself lacks." He did not mention 1 Russia by name. Vandenberg, Just back, from the Korean war front, also said: "Under the ground rules estab lished at the outset of the Korean war. It Is Impossible for us lo gain air aupremecy" because "for reasons that we all understand, we have followed a policy of not at tacking the strongholds of enemy air power directly across the Yalu" river In Manchuria, . By Ueds, StaHH Missnmig Fries Five Cents 3 Pages CCioig Truce Hopes Brighten As Communists Come Up With Ambiguous MUN8AN. Korea, Truce hopes brightened today when Com munist negotiators submitted a cease-lire plan ol their own that could open the way for a Korean armistice by Christmas. It was similar to a United Na tions plan lor creating a Duller wine along the present lighting line to lasc eueci u an armistice la signed within 30 days. A U.N. command communique referred lo the resemblance as su perficial. But the command's official spokesman, Bug. Gen. William P-1 Nuckols, said If the Red plan ' "means what we think It means . . , then I think we are very . close to solution" of the buffer zone question. I The point in doubt was whether I the Communist proposal means; "Uiat troops will be withdrawn : from the buffer zone after an arm-1 lstice Is signed" ss the U.N. has! proposed. I Alter the Communists submitted their counterproposal at Panrnun-; Jom at Wednesday' two-our truce! session, allied negotiators tried to determine whether the Reds con templated an immediate or delayed withdrawal from a bufler zone to be created along the present lront. At the close of the session MaJ. Gen. Henry I. Hodes. heading the U. N. subcommittee, told the Red delegates "we will present you with the necessary revisions to clear up this proposal" at Thurs day's meeting. U is set for 11 a. m. At Panmunjom Nuckols' said there were traces of fundamental dlflerences between the Allied and " prepoaiia. we said the Com. munisi pian contained "rather am- France Asks U.S. Backing WASHINGTON. im An urgent request from France for fast dol lar assistance from the U.S. today heightened the possibility that the aaministraUon may ask congress early next year for a special for eign, aid appropriation. Britain Is In about the same economic plight as France. In fact, almost all this country's European allies were described bv authorities as requiring considers ble helD 'o maintain their delense production and their scheduled contributions to Oen. Dwight D. Elsenhower's Western European military force. Officials told newsmen that with in the next few days the U. S. government will probably make final decision on how much help the French need. Estimates range from t20O.OO0.OO0 to (400.000.000. That would be direct assistance aside from the dollars the French may earn from American troops stationed In their country and from American expenditures for mili tary Installations there. France has told the United States, according to these Informed sources, who may not be named, that Its anticipated dollar earnings are such that It will have to cut imports and reduce its defense op erations unless special help is forthcoming promptly. Port Crime Probe Starts NEW YORK, WV-The states of New York and New Jersey are teaming up for a drive against waterfront crime and racketeering In the port ot New York. Conferences have been held be tween Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and New Jersey Gov. Alfred E. Drlscoll on launching the first concerted two-state cleanup along the piers. Dewey ordered the New York state crime commission last night to make a "sweeping Investiga tion" on a port-wide basis. Dewey said he wanted to root out "racketeering, organized crime and restrictive practices which have Increasingly over the past SO years hamstrung the port of New York." Dewey said he and Gov. Drlscoll are engaged "in the process of working out a bl-state cooperative effort which will be announced when the time comes." At Trenton, N.J., Drlscoll said Dewev's order for a commission Investigation was "good news," and he told ot recent conferences with the New York governor. Members of the New York crime commission and. a number of New Jersey police and prosecuting of ficials have been Included in Inter state conferences. . The state crime commission, an Investigatory body, does not have the power to Indict or prosecute. Dewey's announcement did not mention any Individual or group targets of the waterfront probe, BIG MEAL 8ALEM, UU Inmates ol all slate Institutions will get turkey and ail the trimmings tomorrow. KLAMAT' V AEGON, diies Plan For Peace bluuoua and vague phraseology. " I But at a later brlellng for the i press In Munsan he said: "I am more optimistic than I 1 have been for some time past. I "The basic point at Issue Is when . the bufler zone will be cleared of troops." I Under questioning of Hodes. North Korean Ma). Gen. Lee Song ! Clio aald "the troops will be with drawn after the agreement Is signed." Icy Streets Send Cars Into Spins Icy pavement this morning caused on iraiim imiirai nn it U. s. 1 Klamath river'bridge and a near muss. A 1938 siudcbaker coupe driven by Louis L. Bell. Concord. Calif.. crashed through a guard rail on the south eno of the bridge and almost dropped into the river. Bell was not Injured, state po lice reported. The investigating officer stated Bell said be started to skia, put on his brakes, clipped the fender ot an unidentified car and then crashed through Uie rail. bhortlv alletwards. the officer stated, ; a' "car traveling north slowccf down on seeing uie accl. uem. when It accelerated again, the car skidded sideways down the bridge Into the path of two on coming freight trucks. But the cur was straightened out Just in time lo avoid a major accident the stau patrolman stated. Slippery streets in town sent many motorists this morning mer rily spinning to work, but no acci dents involving Injuries were, re ported to city or state police. Yesterday afternoon an OTI stu dent, 30-year-old Harold E. Rooo Jr., overturned his car in a ditcn in the 300 block on Old Fort Road. Roop was taken to Klamath Val ley hospital by Kaler's ambulance and then to a doctor's office. He was reported not injured. In municipal court this morning Roop was fined 650 on charge of reckless driving. Check Cashing Warning Given Local merchants this morning were Issued a warning by the dis trict attorney's office to be careful during the coming shopping season in cashing customers' checks. Dlst. Atty. D. E. Van Vector emnhaslrrd that caution In this re gard would save merchants a lot of monev and the district attor ney's office a lot of work. Before accepting a check for any purchase. Van Vactor said, a mer chant should ask for positive iden tification from the purchases. If that i not available. Van Vactor added, a check should be made with the bank on which the check is drawn to see if the customer has a bank account, with those nrecautions. the dis trict attorney concluded, the sea sonal rush of bad. no account ana sv hwir will be stooped at their source and also the seasonal crime wave. Spud Shipping Pace Fast Shipments ot Klamath potatoes continued at a fast pace this week with no shipments falling below the 76-car mark per day. Tuesday alone saw 87 ' cars shipped outbound to market from here, according to ine state Depart ment nf agriculture inspector's of fice here. To date this season 2555 cars have gone to market. Last year at this time only 1734 cars had been shipped. Favorable potato, prices, report edly exceeding the $4 per hundred wpicrht' mark In some sectors, are considered by experts as the most likely reason for the last-stepping spuds uns year, Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and northern California: Cloudy with occasional showers or snow flurries tonight.- sunny to morrow, after early morning fog. Low tonight 29, high tomorrow 46. Precln last 24 hours :-. .11 Preclp since Oct. 1 .....3.18 Nims nerlnil last vear .6.36 Normal lor period 2.2! (Additional Weather en Page 4) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1951 Tan Scandal Professor Says Comic Books Not Harmful to Read EAST LAN8INO, Mich, iPh A Michigan State college pro lessor vno spent six months reading comic books concludes, "they're not so bad." Dr. Morton Malter, assistant professor of education, read through 10.440 pages of 185 com ic books as part of a researcn protect. His report: "General aUacks on comic magazines are unwarranted. It is not true that they are dom inated by crime, sex and vio lence and 90 percent of them would be acceptable for publi cation in newspapers." The proiessor said that by percentages, adventure, animal antics and western stories out number love. detecUve and su perman stories. Advertising had the greatest single percentage 15.7, with westerns second with 11. "Good" comic books, the pro fessor concluded, "greatly out number the unacceptable ones." BULLETINS OPERATION 1 SACRAMENTO, I Gover nor Earl -Warren underwent an operaUon at the L Diversity ot California hospital today for re moval of his appendix' and a number of abdominal adhesions, the governor's office reported. He la a candidate for the Repub lican nemlnatloat for president. NO OIL . msenflsmTiw is GuhIih, Chapmaa today turned down the' move oy t- uora ana outers U get oil-rich submerged coastal lands In exchange for old gov ernment land scrip. L I a d a Swarta. eight-year-old daughter of William Swarts. a woodcutter In the King Cole area, was brought te Klamath Valley hospital early this afternoon for treatment ot a gunshot wound in her left hand. According to state police. Swarts said he hung a loaded XI automatic in the tenthouse resi dence, and the girl apparently discharged It accidently while working In the room. A bullet entered at the base ot her thumb and came out a finger on her left hand. Po Rescue Work Pushed MILAN. Italy. IAV-Rescue work. ers saurred efforts today to clear marooned towns and villages in the Po river delta oetore uireai ened new flood crests could roll down Italy's biggest river. Steady rains at the headwaters of the Po and along many of its tributaries in northern Italy in creased fears of new dangers in the area, where 100 have lost their lives in the past week and thou sands have been made homeless. Working around the clock, rescue teams, including British and Amer ican army units from Trieste, fought tricky currents and swirling debris to remove 8500 persons from the town of Adria and nearby vil lages. Allied headquarters in Trieste said the British and American de tachments were being reinforced. At Mantova, about 60 miles east of the provincial capital of Rxivigo, the center of the disaster area, the Po was reported rising grad ually. So far. however, trie flood level in the delta area below was dropping. Officials hoped the rain waters would run off before they reached the stricken delta. THREE-WAY Malin elementary school's cleverly designed new addition (above) was the center of attraction at last night's Malin Parent-Patron "meeting. The new unit, through ingenious space use, offers adequate auditorium, gymnasium, cafeteria and kitchen. It was designed by Morrison and Howard. At last night's meeting, talks were made by , County School Supt. Carrol Howe and attorney William Ganong Jr. A skit was offered by Mr. and Mrs floy Anderson and uie v w auxiliary presented ine scnooi wim a nag. Telephone Sill No. 2667 Bay City Mint Boss Quits Post WASHINGTON. IM A house ways and means committee was called into session today to weigh a report on Its Inquiry into rumors ; that its chairman. Rep. King (D Callf ), once sought to influence tax cases. . - , King has denounced the rumors as "malicious and false" and di rected his subcommittee to Investi gate them thoroughly. While It did so. he turned Uie chairmanship over to Rep. Combs (D-Texasi. The group heard nearly a dozen witnesses, during two days of In vestigation, and wound up the in quiry late last night. It issued no statement, but Its chief counsel, Adrian Dewind, told newsmen: "Relevant tesUmony to the alle gaUons of tax case mishandling . . . will be released in verbatim form in conjuncuon with a report.' The subcommittee, which has been inquiring into the widening reports of irregularities and scan dals in the naUon's tax collection service, meanwhile received oossl. ble grist for its mill from news papers In two ciUes. FIX SOUGHT In St. Louis, both the Post-Dis patch and the Globe - Democrat charged that Ellis N. Slack, acting head of the justice department's tax division, sought to interfere with a grand Jury inquiry Into tax fixing there. - In San Francisco, - trfe 'fcamlner reported that "someone high in Washington" has ordered an inves tigaUon inside the internal revenue office there to find out "who let the cat out of the bag." - San Francisco collector James Smyth and six ot bis aides have been suspended on charges of In competency and two other em ployes have been fired outright. The Examiner quoted Charles E. Davies, San Francisco head of the treasury department's intelligence unit, as saying he "received orders to conduct such a probe and ac cordingly set up such an assign ment." He would not elaborate. One angle which the King sub committee has been inquiring into is the outside business acUvities of tax collectors. The superintendent of the San Francisco mint, also an arm of the treasury department, resigned yes terday rather than give up a pri vate Insurance business. He is George B. Gillin. The treasury said Gillin, who held the $10,800 a year post for three and a halt years, will step out effective Nov. 30 rather than relinquish his private business. Victim Of Kidnap Better ' PORTLAND. L4t Doretha Linn, wounded Monday night as her ex- husband used her as a shield from police bullets, was reported mask ing "remarkable recovery" at Good Samaritan hospital. Thomas G. Reames. 26, the for mer husband, today faced kidnap ing as well as assault charges. James E. McKillop signed the kid naping charge. He and Miss Linn were forced by Reames to leave their office Monday and accompany him on a ride which led to her apartment and then to the shoot ing affray. Reames' father, Charles . W. Reames, Medford attorney, told police- be would defend his son in court. The son's bail is set at $25,-000. II X'?' .tifi. -i - i Diplomatic Cargo With Lost C-47 BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. I Hungary and Romania comalalned officially today that a United Biam army cargo plane aim missing after being fired on by the satellite border guards Monday crossed orer their territories illeg ally. Notes were presented to the American mlssiona In Budapest and Bucharest, even aa U. 8. planes prepared lo aearcb ever Yugoslavia for the missing C-47 transport, which disappeared Mon day with four crewmen and diple maue cargo aooara. The two eominform countries maintain a tight control all along their borders with Yog oalavla. The notes were presented after American tnqulrlea were mado concerning the whereabouts of the plane, whose pilot had radioed hi base at Munich Monday afternoon that he had been fired upon by the border patrols of the two coun tries and had turned back weit ward. .. NO DAMAGE ' The pilots reports, aa disclosed by the U.S. embassy In Belgrade, did not mention any damage from the shooting. . Bad weather - hampered the search. Fifteen V. 8. air force planes were poised at Trevtso in Northern Italy, at the Juncture of Uie Italian, Austrian and Yugoslav borders, ready for the word that would send them over an area of 7008 square miles, much of it craggy mountains and wooded bills. The plane, carrying a general cargo- for the embassy here, was last reported somewhere north of Belgrade at dusk Monday, with its gasoline running low. Jt was at tempting to retrace Its route back to tdlne, near Trieste, In the hope of refuelling there. Premier Marshal Tito's govern ment gave the search planes per mission to fly over the Northwest part of Yugoslavia, an area pre viously forbidden to foreign planes which had been confined to several well-defined air corridors ever the country. . xugosiav border gnaras reportra seeing the plane Monday near both the Hungarian and Romanian bor ders, far off its scheduled route. Belief was expressed here tnat in pilot mistook the-Drara river for the Sava river, which it was sup posed to follow. The V. S. embassy here said the pilot probably rea lized he was off coarse when ho waa fired on, and then turned back westward. Hut last' report to his oase near mniucn, uermany. waa that he was low on fuel and unsure whether he could make Venice for an emergency landing. - A search waa also directed over the northern Adriatic Sea, en the possibility the pilot may hay come down In the sea. . Road Report ; Shows Snow ' .. SALEM. W The state highway commission's daily road report: Government camp and Timber line snowing lightly, packed snow. plowing, carry chains. 1 to 3 Inches new snow. .,-., Warm Springs snowing lightly, packed snow, plowing,-carry chains. Sisklyous spots of ice. Ochoco snowing lightly, spots ot ice. 4 inches new snow.' Bend spots of ice, trace ot new snow. Santiam Pass spots of Ice, I inches new snow. McKenzie Pass packed snow, plowing, carry chains. 4 inches new snow. - Lapine spots of ice, 4 Inches new snow. ' - ' ' ,; . Willamette Pass snowing lightly packed snow, well sanded. Chemult, Klamath Falls spots of ice. ,. . , Bly packed snow, sanded. Keno slush, pack breaking up. Meacham slush, pack breaking up. Baker 'snowing lightly, pack breaking up. Burns packed snow.' plowing,' chains rcotiired. 1 inch new snow. SHOOTING HOURS November 22 . Open 6:36 . Close 3:48 vuttsama"! '. .'I
