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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1951)
HS1 TOMS! taswiiBf . b Srtuls; luis Kraft ; : : . , : J.. :. President Plans 2V ; - v rv . v - IV -A a i - NOBODY IN HIS (OR HER) right mind runs around in weather like this in clothing like this, not even on a col lege campus. But the photographer thought it would moke good picture so he drove Frances Nixon, Oregon Tech commercial art student from Rogue River, (standing) and Phyllis Hoyoz, medical-dental, Lakevicw, out into the snow with a commandeered sled. IpJJbf -j V" f "rK":-;'; Bf FRANK JENKINS Washington: President Truman promised al his new conference, thin morning) whet he culled CONTINUED DRASTIC ACTION to clean noun In the government, Allowing him self to be quoted dlreolly at one point on the scandal In the tax collecting and tome other agencies, he aald; "Wrongdoer have no haute with me. no matter who they art or bow ul they are." When the aublect rame up. (he President declared wllh firm em phula that hi administration AL. WAYS HAS ACTED SWIFTLY TO ELIMINATE WRONODOERS from li rank and will continue to do o. Ha went on to say he haa been firm Hunter lor clean govern- ment ver alnee his first elecUon to publio ollica In 4a, . It aald (Mr diulnUtrattoa wat iu la caudle, who ha been ac cused of taking tavor from per on Involved In tax difficulties , with the government, LONO BE - VOAK ueh rhartteR were made bv the house way and meaiu tub- committee investigating; the tax acandala. Caudle'a resignation would have been exited even without the com mittee' Intervention, the President added. . , With an apparent air of confi dence, the President aaya he does not expect the recent wave of scan dal to be an Issue In the 1052 presidential campaign, The President made It plain (hat whatever he Is doing he Is doing ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE and at a time of HIS OWN CHOOS1NO. He aald, with reference to the clean-up program, that HE CAN'T BE PUSHED INTO DOINO ANY THING BY ANYBODY. . What do you make of It? Personally, I'd my that away back In the early 1600'a a French man by -the name of Francois Rabelais put It about a well as It can be put when he wrote these biting aivl cynical lines: "The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; "The Devil was well, the DEVIL a monk was he." For a moment, at least. Our ' Harry Is worried. He cut his care free, sport shirt vacation on the ,. warm Florida benches a week short and dashed back to Washing ton.T . .. , -; : . -Why?.! ..' ' .. These mink coat and sucker money scandals are beginning to BITE. The boys are beginning to ), say to him: "See here, chief, this '. Is reaching the point where It ain't i funny; no moro. The yokels aro be f ginning to listen to this talk about I' corruption In' high placos. They I might get all stirred up and I THROW US OUT NEXT YEAR. "It's reaching the point where I something hns to be done about It, and it's up to YOU to do It." I XI tcould bo serious, too, Quite . serious. ! We the people have been saps y for a long long time. In the psst 1 couple of decodes wo've swallowed a fubulous amount of demagogery v and bunk beonuse 7 I, Vfi had lost all faith In the Ilopubllcnna, who rind HELD TOO MUCH POWER TOO LONO, and had made a mess oi things, 2. In the early years of Uie New Deal even those of us who. dis agreed with the New Dealers' eco nomlo and social theories never , doubted the PERSONAL HONES- TY of the Nev Dealers themselves. BUT ! These things Unit have been hap i pening In Washington are caus ' Ing us to begin to doubt. We're ' finding all this mink coat and hush ' money business hard to reconcile wllh INTEGRITY in the upper echelons of our government, K we continue tn believe that, (Continued on Page ) ' SHOOTING HOURS " .. (i December 14 , 't Open t:5S a.uu Close 3:35 p.m. ... .. - Jsa Water Tank Collapses, Four Oiled . mi.it.inr f xt ! A 75O,00O-gllon water tank collapsed oeioro aawn, xwra tour person and caused damage estimated In millions here today. Olvlng way with a deep rumble, the tank loosed flood through the business district about 4 10 a.m. The cause was not determined. DEVASTATION Water up -to waist deep spread devastation over an area three blocks wide and. In a lessening degree as the distance grew, a quarter mile long. The scene was likened to one hit by a bomb.- Two business places. Uie city warehouse and about IS homes, mosUy of adobe, were laid waste. Another establishment, motor firm, was damaged by water. Pieces of threo-elKhlhs-mch thick uteel from the tank were scattered over city block. Rescuer, Including quickly mo bilised national guardsmen, recov ered four bodies and there were no reports of any person missing. The last to be found, a boy S or 4 years old, was under 240-foot section ol the tank. VICTIMS The dead: Deal Elliott, about 80: a Mrs. San Miguel and her smaU son; and Steve Oallegos. about 14. Damage was centered in a sec tion containing homes of Spsnu n Amertcen families and some busi ness houses. Veterans Bid On Tule Land Some 380 veterans both men and women cast bids yesterday at the municipal airport for Uie heart of Uie Tulelake basin bottom lands, 7306 acres In the League of Nations and Frogpond areas.' Total receipts (cashier's checks for the down payments for one year on each lease bid upon) amounted to $1,423,740.59, accord ing to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Agriculturalist Dave Bunger. TULANA TILT . The lease areas are adjacent to the controversial Tulana Farms lease, subject of recent protest by Tulelake farmers. The Tulana lease was originally Included In yesterday's bid openings, but final decision on whether that area will be opened to veteran bidding or the Tulana lease extended Is not oxpcclcd until next Tuesday. Papers were last reported In Sacramento In the office of Re- g tonal Director Richard L. Boke, ureau of reclamation. The Tulnna area would have added 18 more units to the 09 on which bids were accepted yester day. The units rango In site up to approximately tou acres. NEAR RECORD Yestorday's number of bids re ceived at the bureau office hero wrs among the largest In the his tory of the Klamath project on leases of this sort, reclamation of ficials reported. - There were several women bid ders among the 380, Bunger re- portca, out tney,. line an uie men, were veterans. Based on Incomplete tabulations today,. Bunger reported the aver age bids would be around 0 per acre, and the highest was about 106. .... No names were released todnv. but Bunger said the final Hat would be released probably next Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and northern California: Fair today through Friday with morning fog. Ills today 33-, Low tonight 10. High Friday 35. Low last night ' 1 High yesterday 28 Preclp last 24 hours t Since October 1 - 5.75 Normal for period 3. M Same period last year 7.SS (Additional Weather en Page S) rriee five Cent 34 Pairs KLAMATH FALLS, OBECON, . THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1051 Telephone Sill Ne. 26S7 BULLETINS RECALL CAIRO, P) Egypt an nounced tonight the recall of her ambassador to Lon don because of "British ag gression" In the Suez canal tone. ABOLITION WASHINGTON, (P) Ten college presidents studying what's wrong with sports decided unanimously today that post-season football bowl games should be abolished. . . t Get-Together Dinner Slated A a-rl-arauatnted dinner honor Ing new Chiloquln Industries Is scheduled for the Bronco room at Old Fort Tavern. Fort Klamath, tomorrow,. 7:30 p.m. The dinner, arranged by Chilo quln Mayor William Lorenx, Is to honor Tulana Farms' Williamson river operation, the Jack Kellum sawmill and Chiloquln Forest Pro ducts, Inc. Owners of the latter firm are to come from Albany and Lebanon for the dinner.' Tie Klamath chamber of com merce Is to be represented by a large delegation. Besides the mayor. Chiloquln is to be represented by the city coun cil, school board and others. Blonde Named 'Rose' Queen PASADENA. W The queen of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses January 1 will be blonde, blue-eyed Nancy True Thome. Her selection was announced today. She's 17 years old, a Junior at Pssadena City college. . The 43rd queen of the tourna ment was chosen from among 3000 students. Nancy has a B-plus aver age, majors in mathematics, plans to enroll In Stanford to study arch itecture. Her measurements: five feet, six Inches; 124 pounds, bust 34, waist 35 hips 35. - She's strictly an outdoor girl and Is an excellent sailor.' She owns a dinghy which she pilots on Balboa oay, . uaes to ski, swim ana piay badminton.' She admits she also likes to duck as many household chores as possible. Although born In Pasadena, Nancy never has seen a rose bowl football game. 8he gets In free to Ihls one between Stanford and the University of Illinois, after presid ing over a tournament parade that may attract as many as 2,000,000 persons. Dragnet Fails To Trap Ross BALTIMORE, UP) George F. Ross, 27-year-old accused police killer, burglar and dope addict, ap. parently had flown the coop today, evading the most Intense manhunt in Maryland history. FBI agents and slate notice offi cials said they were satisfied the dapper, little scar-laced hoodlum had left the area. mow ne got out or where he went was anybody's guess. A nosse of 100 FBI men anil an state troopers failed to flush him from the suburban countryside around Elllcott City where the search began late Monday , night when Ross fired on two countv offi cers who surprised him sleeping In car stolen In Ohio.: The only thing police were cer tain of was that Ross, wanted for slaying of Cleveland Tratfio Patrol man Forney L. Haas last Satur day, had been In the area. His fin gerprints were found on a (flash light discovered in the woods Tues day morning, . . Late Shopping Hours Friday Praotlcally all of the downtown Klamath Falls retail stores will be open Friday night until 9 o'clock to accommodate Christmas' shop pers. . i The stores will also remain onen Friday,:. December 21,. until, that nouri. , . '..-... . I S r" i . :. - ." VA, JIMMY GETS HIS MAN-Jimmy Jones (right), 8, knew just what to do when a man wearing a green scarf forced his parents to drive to the super-mart which Jimmy's dad manages in La Canada, Calif. Jimmy feigned sleep, then phoned the sheriffs office. - Deputies were waiting when they arrived and wounded James Monroe Rudolph (left), ; 34, Placerville, in the legs, back and neck when he tried to flee. -i He is suspected of being the "green scarf bandit" ; to other holdups in Reno, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sacra mento and pther,cities. r, . . , -y. .cs.s-i Elreac! and Water Makes ' By HALE 8CARBROUGH ' Angry citizens seemed to be the feathers for Police Judge Bob Elder today, because he sentenced a Mexican to 10 days confinement on a bread and water diet yesterday. . Elder pleads extenuating circumstances. ' ' The Mexican In question, 44 - Photons Chide Waiting Man WASHINGTON. Wl Press pho tographers chldTd the grey, sharp faced man as they all waited for planeload of hlgb-ranking govern ment officials. - 'We're missing the Eszard Charles-Joey Maxim fight broad cast." the photographers said. - The man adjusted his spectacles, looked at his watch and grinned: . "I'm missing Margaret's broadcast."- - Then Pres. Truman went to greet the officials. State Secy. Acheson and Treasury Secy. Snyder, who came home from European con ference last nlghtt The photographers got their pic tures, Charles won the heavyweight fight and- Miss Truman gave an other of her soprano performances. Airliner Lost lit Ground Fog ' LONDON, W Ground crewmen at London alrporf had to grope through pea soup log lor two hours last night before they could find a big Air Francs- plane landed from Paris with 39 passengers. ' Within seconds after, the French plane landed, swirling mists cut visibility to 15 yards and the pilot was ordered to keep his ship on :the taxi-way. 1 For " the next two hours live search parties In . coaches, tractors an a fire truck equipped' with a two-way ' radlq. ' hunted lor the plane. . ' , Finally the fire truck driver, us ing the radio, found the craft and guided the coaches to the passen gers. . , The rescued travelers, had to wait several more hours for their' baggage the luggage trucks als got lost. 4 .... .., , . . .. , .. , But the long delav wasn't too' bad. One passenger, returning from her Paris honeymoon,, explained "We drank champagne and played cards." " THRKK KILLED ' WATERVILLE; IAV-A South Da kota "Flying. Farmer" and his fa ttier and cousin were found dead' In the wreckage of their light plane in a wheat field near here yester crash were Arnold iAsmussen, 25,' Onlda, S. D., the pilot; his father, Roy. Asmuseen,-S9;. and his. cousin, Gene Asmussen, both of Mansfiehd o Hot warming up the tar and gathering year - old Francisco Montanes, pleaded guilty to vagrancy. . He was Jailed Tuesday night af ter he was found loitering In the city hall washroom on the ground floor where considerable work Is going on. Montanes said be went into citv . nau tooting ior uie men's room, but police and Judge Elder figured that wasn't his entire idea, since Montanes bas a rec ord of petty theft and the like, OLD TANK He spent Monday night sleeping In the old Jail drunk tank but wasn't jailed lor that. Montanes reportedly has been In Klamath Falls about five months. and in that time has been in Jail six times on drunk and va urancv charges. A theft in which he admittedly was Involved last September was not prosecuted.. Elder said twice he had re leased Montanes from Jail to go to work, but he didn't stay with it. Once he was "floated ordered to leave town but dldn t. STRONG HINT The bread and water sentence. Elder said, was to try to Impress Montanes that he should Quit Klam ath Falls before ne gets to- be regular ' at the .Jallhouse. like some others. He Isn't the only man on bread and water. Carl Johnson. 51. also serving 10 days, has been in the city lockup more than 300 times. Judge Elder said, over the years, and Eugene weeks; bo, an Indian, has been In 152 times. He's also serving 10 davs currently. A bread and water diet at the Jailhouse Is just that, except that a full meal Is served every third day. Elder said his object primarily Is to persuade against using the Klamath Falls Jail as a winter home. Food bills, he said, cost the taxpayers around $800-900 a month now. Morse Wants More Planes LOS ANGELES, . W When con gress reconvenes Sen. . Wayne Morse (R-Ore) will light for a 150 group air force. An air force of that site Is "vital to the defense of America against Russian attack," he told the-Central Labor Council here yesterday. "Back in 1947 I supported a 70' group air force, but this was whittled down to 48 in the Interest of economy. I call It false econ Stew omy," he said. Texas Ace Bags 12th Red Plane SEOUL. Korea. IB American Jet pilots won history's biggest all Jet victory today. They bagged 13 Communist MI G s. probably knocked down two others and dam aged one in two sloshing air bat tles over North Korea. Four of the MIGs went down be fore the blazing guns of America's notiest jet ace. Maj. oeorge A. . Davis Jr.. Lubbock. Tex. In It uys Davis has bagged 12 planes, Including nine MIGs. un uie ground, a series or mmor battles flared today aa Allied in fantrymen carried the war to the Reds for the second time in 24 hours. NO LOSSES The fifth sir force said none of the Sabre jets was shot down, but one ran out of fuel, caught fire and crashed. A helicopter rescued the pilot. Heavily outnumbered - Sabres knocked down four MIGs and dam aged one in a morning battle over Sinsnju in Northwest Korea. - wine more MIGs were destroyed In the afternoon. Pilots reported two probables. Sixty-four Sabres were matched against 145 MIGs in the two bat- ucs. Davis bagged. two planes. in each fight. - ... v IN THK MIDDLE '. " -"Yeah. I . went up twice today, he said.' "We were- fust north of the Sinanju river when we saw a night of about 60 MIGs. I just led my 12 planes into the middU of them." . This was the second time Davis has bagged four enemy planes tn a single day. On December 6 he shot down three Communist TU-2 bombers and a MIO. His first two jets were destroyed November 28. lie aaaed two more December 5. Oregonian U.S. STH AIR FORCE Knrra Ui A Grants Pass, Oregon jet pilot, Lt. Alfred W. Dymock, Jr., shot down a Communist Jet plane over miu auey today, uymocx now has two MIGs destroyed and one damaged l wee MIGs made a doss at us -nortnwest oi sinanju at about 24.- 000 feet." Dymock related "I lined up one of the MIGs and chased it lor a couple of minutes. I caught it in a climbing turn and fired a burst that must have nit right in the engine. For a me ment the MIG seemed suspended in mid-air. I was closing In on it very quicciy, out managed to give him three more bursts. As I nulled over the miu, uie puot balled out." Iranians Roar For Premier TEHRAN, Iran, ( Some 30.000 nationalist supports or Premier Premier Mohammed Mossadegh massed before parliament today and roared "death to the enemies of Mossadegh!" The crowd ap peared menacing, but broke up later without violence. Inside the parliament building, the majlls (lower house) discreetly decided to postpone until Sunday s public meeting originally sched uled ior today instead uiey met in secret session. Watchful police and troops lined tne nuge majns square during tne rauy, announced as a Demonstra tion against "British Intrigue." v However, most of the threats and vilification were directed at Iran- Ian opponents of the aged premier who led the successful fight to na tionalise Iran's British-controlled oil Industry. , More than a score of trucks, filled with troops bearing ritles and machine guns, blocked the main gates to the majlls. Weather Bad For Skaters Weather and the elements just don't seem to be able to get to gether, and consequently Klamath youngsters haven't- been able to don their Ice skates at the Moore park rink yet. City .Recreation Director Bob Bonney' reported today "It's a slow process. It freezes during the night, then- warms up during the day. We're making headway, slow ly but surely, though." Bonney did hot say 'When the rink would be ready, however. In order to maintain a good skating surface, the freezing pro cess must be carried out thorough ly. Earlier, heavy' snows had to be removed from the rink. 'Drastic Action' To Curb (rooks ", WASHINGTON,' (P) Pres. Truman today promised, what he called continued drastic action to clean house in the gov? "' ernment. ; . He indicated he will set up a special agency to fight cor ruption, possibly tomorrow or Saturday. . . ' Allowing himself to be quoted direttly at one point on hit SPITES RELATIVES Mrs. Thelma Snyder, (above), a Long Beach housewife tes tified in court that she had deliberately gambled away $15,000 at the gaming ta bles in Las Vegas, Nev. She is accused of converting to., her own use most- of theJ 916,500 from the estate of an aunt - She testified she deliberately lost the money so there wduld not be any for her relatives to fight over. . ;- Man May Get Warm in Jail SCR ANTON. Pa.. W An alarm summoned firemen to downtown Scranton. There they found Ed ward Humphrey, 40,. leaning un steadily against .the box. wny did you souno. tne alarm?" Deputy Fire Chief Mar tin Laney asked. lI was cold and wanted to pet into a place nice and v.arni, Laney said Humphrey replied- Lahey suggested that Humphrey should have gone into the taproom on the nearby corner. Ill have you understand. Humphrey answered, "that I never enter sucn places. Today Humphrey was charged with, intoxication and ringing a false fire alarm. . fl - !r:( "l A DATE with the dentist today brought Janice K. Brown. " 6, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Brown, downtowi . this morning.- They live at 5600 Harlan Drive. Janice hat, ' a tooth to be filled. tne scandals in tne tax col lecting and some other agen cies, Mr. Truman told a news conference: . . ,- .- y Wrongdoers have no house r.i.l urith tnA via. mittar .Yulir they are or how big they are.7 r trwr In response te. Questions, "the president aald ne has no plans to fire Atty. Gen. J. Howard Mo Grath or Democratic National Chairman Frank McK limey. Several Republican members of congress have demanded, the dis missal of McGratb as a result of disclosures In the house Investiga tions oi tax scandal. Chairman King D-Cal!f of the house group has pubUcly said he oeueves t. Lamar caudie, assis tant attorney general In charge of the tax division, was unfaithful to bis public trust. mt. iTuman lired caudle last . month. v McKinnev has come under ' lira because of the disclosure that be made a S68.000 profit on SIMM investment In a tractor firm head ed by a man whoso wartime gov ennent ordnance contracts, were sharply criticized by Mr. Truman, than a senator. BIG CROWD Mr. Truman's news conference. always well-attended, drew an ven. I ..va.ik. wuu usual abWIBUItllUB IVJ reporter who ancicipaiea ne migsit annotlncfl nnm rirAmctttn ontim. In connection-wiUt the newest cumIos- ures. '.-';, . .. 'a J When the sublect . came lini tlb A president1 declared-JamW-towi! .r phaais ,that his - administration !' - -ways has acted swiftlto- eBinIofq'.? wrongdoers Irom Its ranks and 41 v. continue to do so. - i . He said his administration-' did exactly this, through tta loyalty boards In the case of Communists who were found to be working for the government.: :' . , These were brought "to trial and convictions were obtained by the attorney general just as thev should have been,- despite a great deal of ballyhoo - to the contrary, 1 the president said. EARLY ACTION 1 He declared that the public offi cials recently fired including Cau dle U were being investigated by . the executive branch of the gov ernment before their names turned up in congressional Investigations. He said the administration was wise- to Caudle, who has been ac cused of taking favors from per sons involved in tax difficulties with the government, long before such charges were made by the house ways and means subcom mittee investigating the tax scan dals. . - , Caudle's resignation would have been asked even without the coirt mittee's intervention, the president added. A reporter expressed surprise at this, recalling that McGratb, who was Caudle's boss, told the house investigators only last Tuesday that he personally never had. any. Sus picions against Caudle. . ,
