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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.
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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?.!
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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,
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SHOOTING HOURS "
.. (i December 14 , 't
Open t:5S a.uu Close 3:35 p.m.
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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.
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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. , .
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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."-
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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
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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. .
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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. . ,