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By FRANK JENKINS
Wotmliigton:-
"Korea linn spelled out for tis
lite hard military (net Hint, Russia
linn JeL (Ightora as good a Amerl
cii'l hr.nl and III ready-to-flght
quantities that the U.S. cun nut
now iiiiiU.Ii nt- lrn.it In Korea.
"American air chief have drawn
this sobering lemon from the Ho
vlel's ability to throw some 700
high performance MIO-15 Jet Into
nor I henni Anln, apparently without
iwrlounly weakening Russian socu
lly at home or Russian ubillly lo
STRIKE AT EUROPE if that Is
what Russia wanls to do."
What doe) It mean?
War? , ,
Probably not. A fair giiew la that
It inenns we'll have to keep a lot
ol military strength In Korea. truc:e
or no truce. When the British ran
(he world, they kept military gar
risons at strong points more or leas
ll .m,ml th a lobe lbrllLar.
fi Singapore, Bur., and so on.
INOW Willi- wc ro ruiiiiMiK v"'
nr trying to. we'll doubtless have to
do likewise.
Don't act too much worried over
Riuuila'a PRESENT streniilh In
planes, Ifuns, tanka or what have
wlm t will count. In the lone
pull, If hoi war comes Is ABILfl Y
TO REPLACE ARMAMENT LOST
IN BATTLE.
Thin has been our tower of
strength In the two world wars Just
past. Because of our Immense ln
dustrlnl cnpnclly and our genius
lor muss production, we have been
able to manufacture new weapons
lor ourselves and our allies liwler
than our enemies can destroy them.
If we can resist a sudden as
sault (like Pearl Hnrbor, but on
a vastly larger acalol and keep
our productive capacity reasonably
intact, wo can lick ANYBODY In
the long pull IF WE HAVE LEAD
FRfl WHOM THE PEOPLE TRUST
AND WILL BE WILLING TO FOL
LOW.,
That brings up another thotight
and a most. Imoortant one:
Always In the past, we've been
able to ahelter behind somebody
else'a walls while we got ready to
fight. NEVER AGAIN, I fear, will
that be possible, We'ra the big dog
now.
It's OUR WALLS that OUR AL
LIES will have to ahelter behind
while THEY get ready to light.
I Another thing to remember!
' In the past, wars hsva started
slowly, generally speaking. I'm
alrald thal'a something else thst
has gone into lite umbo of trie past.
The nest war, In all probability,
Will COME WHAM I
1 We've got to be ready for It when
It oomci. :,: ' ,,.
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Mercury Skids;
Chemult -14
If you think 11 was cold here
last night you should have been
tip in the Chemult country , . .
Or maybe you shouldn't have been
tip mere, tor tne mercury at
Chemult skidded to a frigid 14 be
low zero.
In downtown Klamath Falls, a
new low reading for this winter
was recorded about 7 a.m., when
the mercury touched 4 below.
Previous low was 3 below on the
morning of Dec. 8.
If lt'a any comfort to you, De
rember of 1050 was the warmest
December here In 42 years . . .
And last winter's low temperature
ol 3 below was chalked up Jan, 39.
Overload Gets
Husky fine ,
EUGENE MVChurged with four
overload Violations, a Lane County
logging opera&s, was fined 11,218
In Springfield itistlce CourtVver
the week-end.
The operator, J. F.. Mnnn of Vlda
was brought to trial after his driv
ers had refused to pay fines and
one of them hud been jailed.
Judge Carl Lewis said this was
the first case In the county to be
.--, tried under n provision of a new
overload law which became ef
tcctlvo Aug. 2, 1951. The law holds
operators liable for overloads If
ithelr drivers can prove Innocence.
One of the drivers, Cecil Paul
Ray, said his employer loaded the
trucks and the drivers had no wav
of telling how much weight was
on the axles,
Mnnn pleaded Rullty. The Judge
suspended 9135 of the fine, f
Chamber Plans Annual Meeting Jan. 15
Annual Hlmint ,ntl,(
of Jilt
of Com-1
Klamath County Chamber
HIL1.MAN LUED6EMANN
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HUGH WII.HON, JK.
Tule Man Dies
In Air Crash ,
A young Tulelake man, Hugh
Wilson Jr., was one of 28 perilous
who died In the crash of an Air
Force C-47 plane agulnst a central
Arizona mountain.
Wilson, 21 and a second-year ca
det, at Went Point, had been In
Tulelake for the Christmas holi
days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Wilson, and left hero
Saturday by train to San Fran
cisco. , y
He was to meet with other ca
dets for the trip back lo West
Point, The plane left Hamilton
Field Sunday and crashed some
time Sunday afternoon. Aboard
were IS West Point cadets.
He wsa born in Ohio April 14.
1030 and with his family moved to
Tulelake In 1937 where he com
pleted high school In 1948. graduat
ing as valedictorian. The next year
he attended Mt. Union College near
Alliance. Ohio. His appointment lo
West Point was made by Congress
msn Claire Engle In 1950.
Hugh Wilson Sr., his father Is
associated with Earl's Msrket.
Local surviving members of his
family are his psrents, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Wilson Sr., one brother
Bill and a sister Judith.
No plans hsva been made for
funeral services.
Milk Rule
In Effect
' BAtEW-Wl New atate milk
regulations went Into effect
Wednesday by order of the State
Department of Agriculture.
The changes In Identity stand
ards define half and half milk as
containing at least 10 per cent
bullerfat. .
Vitamin A milk must contain at
least 2,000 vitamin A units per
quart. Non-fat milk must contain
less than half of 1 per cent butter
fat, and concentrated milk stand
ards are listed for the first time.
Milk licenses fees are Increased.
ReguUiavia are established for
farnTTKildlng tanks, and pasteuri
zation temperatures are Increased
to 101 degrees.
Permananent truck bodies are
required in milk transportation.
Oregon Has
Cold Weather
PORTLAND Ml Freezing tem
peratures continued to grip Ore-
gone Wednesday and the forecast
iu'lcl tic Portland area would get
some snow Thursday. It didn't ven
ture to say how much bclore It
turns to rain in the face of an ex
pected washing.
But Thursday morning may be
just as cold as Wednesday when
the airport minimum was 20 de
grees. Salem h. tl 19 degrees, and
both were records for this winter
In those cities.
The wnrmlnrr Is due Thursday
afternoon as clouds move In to
Western Oregon. East of the Cns-
cades, clcnr skies arc to continue.
The Orant County community of
Seneca had a reading of 24 de
grees oeiow zero on tne state High
way Commission thermometer
Wednesday. Meacham and Chemult
each reported minus 14, whllo Bly
had minus 8 and Austin minus 10.
Bnkcr was 10 below, too, and Burns
and Lakevlcw each reported 5 bo
low. nierce, sohedulcd for the Wlllard
Hotel. Jan. 6, 6:30 p.m., shapes
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POW Talks
Stalemated
In Korea
By DON HUTU
MUN8AN. Korea I Allied
truce negotiators Wednesday pro
posed releasing all prisoners of war
and displaced persons In Korea
with the guarantee no one would
be sent home against his will.
The Reds found the Allied pro
posal politically unpalatable and
voiced jmuieaiaio oojecuons.
The plan starts out on a man-for-mun
basis and winds up as un
ull-lor-all exchange, said Lt. Col,
Howard S. Levle, spokesman for
the United Nations Command.
Rear Ad. H. E. Llbby, Allied ne
gotiators expressed hope North Ko
rcan MaJ.' Gen. Lee 8ang Cho, Red
negotiator, would change his mind
alter he studies the complex plan
unci understands It.
The proposal Is Intended to pro
vide a compromise between the
U.N. mun-lor-mnn exchange of
prisoners proposal and the Reds all
lor all demand, and at the same
time provide (or repatriation of all
civilians who want to go home.
The negotiators on the prisoner
question meet again Thursday,
A U.N. Command communique
said the key to Its new "proposal
Is the principle of voluntary re
initiation for all POWs and civil
ians.' lite International Red Cross
would act as a sunervlslng agent.
The exchange of prisoners would
start on a man for man basil to
mar; sure the U.N. would get back
Its full quota of prisoners of war.
'When we have finished exchang
ing all prisoners of war left on
either side," Levle said, "then we
will get to the point where we
don't counl heads.' '..-
Tne U.N. holds about 120,000
prisoners to 11.000 held by the
Kcds. But at South Koreans now
in Communist armies would be re--classified
as prisoners of war
swelling the Communist held total.
NoSignOF
Plane Found
After almost a week of search
ing, there was still not a single
promising clue today to the where
abouts of a missing Air Force plane
that has not been heard from since
it was over Klamath Falls last
Wednesday, afternoon.
The lost plane, a C-47 transport
carrying cignt service men. ra
dioed the air port here at 4:17 p.m.,
last Wednesday, that lt was con
tinuing southward on a trip from
Spokane to the San Francisco Bay
area.
The plane has not been heard
from since. Bad weather hampered
aerial searchers for several days
bul for the past two days there
has been extensive aerial search
ing. 11,1111 11,1. mnvnlnn nrafltnallw all
searching was south of Klamath
Falls. Today, several planes
searched areas north of the city.
Reports front persons who said they
heard what is believed to be the
missing plane indicate the pilot
may have started circling after ra
dioing the airport here. Plane trou
ble might have caused the pilot to
go off course or decide to circle
for a landing here.
tne searcn is being made here
by on Air Force Rescue Team from
McChord Field, Tacoma, and mem
bers of the Klamath Air Search
and Rescue Unit. Capt. Ray Cos
tello, Redlands. Calif.. Is In com
mand of the search base at Mu
nicipal Airport.
"Weather
FORECAST Klamath Fall, and
vicinity and Northern California:
Clear and cold through tomorrow.
Low tonight, aero, high tomorrow
Low last night -4
High yesterday i 10
Preclp past 24 hour 0
Preclp alnce Oct. 1 g.JS
Same period last year 8.35
Normal for period 4.75
(Additional Weather en Page 10.)
up as the "most Important meeting
........ . . HCCOIU-
Jtt to retiring Chamber Pres. Ar-
.u v,VA nicaucil,
Two Northwest business and com
merce lenriern di-a ln l
- ...u vu mo UCill,
speakers at the meeting. They are:
Hlllman Lueddcmann, vice presi
dent and general manager of Pope
an Talbot Company, and president
Of thtt l7nal ' - ,. , T 1. ,
. , . ,,i,ov wwnn, uuiuucriiien a
Association; and Edgar W. Smith,
(jresiciein or the Portland Chamber
of Commerce.
The mnnHncr l lartlna mUI., -r
fair, for members and wives nf
both the Klamath and Junior cham
bers. ,
Tnr.lnrtf.r1 tn I1ia tM.rtfa,.4 1. il-
Jtinlor chamber's annual award to
the city's outstanding young citi
zen, Identity of the receiver of this
n.wnrrl .U'111 hA Immvn ,,l ,u-
.infrlnl snlrtnllnt, nm.u,AA .....i.
the award, is made at the dinner
meeting. :, . . , ,
Business and civic leaders have
Hllhharl 10SO Vlattli'a M..-.- -f
clsion" and chamber leaders are
reliving ior a record turnout for
the annual meeting,., , , , , ,
ThA "rirtnttilnii" ha. In rl. .uu
. .. --.-.. l.l.o ,u uu Willi
whether the county will continue
nnwuuiH: ii juiuuer' innustrv taae
and milPh nf Ita. mil ne,t,vl
sources to continue undeveloped.
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THE RISE AND DECLINE of the annual timber cut in Klamath county over the years
is shown in this graph. The large figures on the left refer to the cut in hundreds of mil
lions of board feet (1 equals 100,000,000; 2 equals 200,000,000). The feeling now is that
the industry has reached a leveling off place in the yearly amount of stumpage cut. -
Air of Defeat Based
On Fears Mot Facts
(This It the first of a series of
articles dealing with the present
and future economic condition of
the Klamath area.)
By HALE SCARBROUGH
For the past four years, a period
roughly coinciding with the discon
tinuance of a number of sawmills
In and around Klamath Falls, an
air of deleat has been all too dis
cernible here. And there really has
vhril nn rrln fnr 11, -
'KlumAth Tails brifce .-i'a 'boom
town, lt lsn t any more, but It can
be a good, solid business to Kn from
here on out.
In fact, the onlv cause for the
sinking feeling seems to have been
that several sawmills did go out
of business and Klamath Falls did
show a smoll drop (4 percent! in
population by the 1950 census from
the population of 1040.
By any other Index a settled soli
darity is apparent. Jobs are not
hard to get; home ownership is
up; bank clearings are up: retail
business Is experiencing an en
tirely satisfactory year; mortgage
foreclosures are very few; business
property brings good prices: farm
Incomes are high: and the decline
ol the lumber industry probably
has been halted.
For three decades the economy
of Klamath Falls and much of the
county was boxed in timber, and
when diminishing timber In the last
few years drove out of business
one mill after another a wave of
uncertainty bordering on panic
swept tlirough the town. Talk of
Klamath Falls' "grass in the
streets" future was cheap, but It
wasn't realistic.
For while the lumbering Indus
try was slowing down, the great
est agricultural boom this end of
Oregon has ever seen was picking
up speed.
The economy of Klamath Falls
today is the economy of the ranch.
The lumber Industry comes second.
The dollars put Into circulation by
one spend just as well as those
generated by the other.
The second place of the lumber
Industry, however, is still a sub
stantial one and the best thinkers
In the Industry believe it will stay
substantiol lor years to come and
mavbe even get better.
The leveling-off period for the in
dustry apparently has arrived.
For the next 20, 40 or 100 years
or possibly perpetually Klamath
county will be able to afford a
timber cut of about the sire of the
cut for the last couple of years;
an average of around 330,000,000
board feet.
Lumbering' In Klamath county
dates back to 1863, when the United
States Armv according to n book
lot called "lumbering in Klamath"
and written by W. E. Lamm--
Truman May
Tell Plans
WASHINGTON Wl A Demo-
cratio congressman quoted Presi
dent Truman Wednesday as say
ing he hopes to make known be
fore Feb. 6 whether he will run
again.
Rep. Hays or onio torn reporters
after a White House call that he
had pointed oiit to Mr. Truman
that. Feb. 8 Is the last day for
filing; of candidates for delegates
from Ohio to the Dcmocratio Na
tional Convention.i
He said Mr. Truman told him he
honed he would be able to work
out things so he would know what
he is going to do before Feb. 6."
In Ohio, the candidates for del
egates must name their first and
second choices for presidential
nominees.
Hays told reporters his own per
sonal support for tr ltpmlnatton,
in event Mr. Truwum decides
against running a gam,' will go to
Sen, Estes Kefauver of Tennessee,
brought a sawmill from Jackson
ville and located it near Fort Klam
ath (the military post).
In 1025. in the lumbering boom
of the '20s. there were 25 mills
operating in the county, and in
1942, during the war when every
saw that would cut was pressed
into use, the county bad 26 mills.
Those, remember, were virtual
ly all sawmills, cutting rough
boards and shipping them out lor
remiinilfnrriim. Richfc now t.hprp
art SI 'lunioer "operations in tmr:
county, but mors than half are
engaged partially or wholly In re
manufacture making a finished
product.
There are several sets of figures
purporting to show how much lum
ber was cut by Klamath county
mills over the years. They vary
as to the actual board foot total,
but show the identical ups and
downs from one year to the next.
In 1926. when 25 mills were wc:i
ing. the total saw Sor the year is
figured at 438.602,000 board feet.
In 1936, the worst year of the de
pression, it was down to 190.000.000
and a year later 280,000,000. By
1937 the cut was 698,000,000. Shortly
thereafter the prewar emergency
period began and the 1941 cut was
866.000.000, a tremendous figure
that was eclipsed by an 874,000,000
board foot total cut In 1942.
The total has gone down steadily
since that peak year. In 1948
(figuring 1947 as the year much of
the lumber industry saw the hand
writing on the wall) the cut was
383.000 000. In 1949 lt was down to
304.000.000 and In 1950 climbed back
to 324,000,000.
The figure for 1951 probably will
be just about the same as for 1950.
And if the thinking of some of
Uie top men in the industry is ac-
HST Pledges Shakeup For
Scandal-Ridden Tax Unit
WASHINGTON Wl President
Truman Wednesday announced
plans for a sweeping: shake un of
the scandol-ridden Internal Reve
nue Bureau.
He said the move is -one. of a
series of steps he plans to take
to protect the government "from
the Insidious influenoe peddlers and
favor seekers, and to expose and
punish any wrong-doers."
The Revenue Bureau shake-up
vJlll be In the form of a reorganiza
tion plan to be submitted to Con
gress. It calls for abolishing the 64
offices of District Collectors of In
ternal Revenue.
Most of these districts Include a
single state, but some of the large
states have more than one dis
trict. In place of the regional district
collectors, the reorganization plan
would put all operating functions
of the bureau under 25 district of
fices, each headed by a district
commissioner.
Field activities in each district
would be under jurisdiction of the
district commissioner.
The plon also calls for:
All offices of the Internal Reve
nue Bureau to be filled through
Civil Service except that of com
missioner of Internal Revenue
whose appointment will be by the
President and subject to confirma
tion by the Senate,
Establishment of "a strong, vig
orous inspection service completely
independent" of the rest of the
bureau.
Mr. Truman announced his In
tentions in a statement Issued short
ly after Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder had conferred with him at
the White House. Tax collection is
under the Treasury Department.
"Some persons in the Bureau of
Internal Revenue have betrayed the
publlo trust reposed In them,' Mr.
Truman's, statement said. "The
revelation of that fact has come
as a shock to all decent citizens. I
have directed that every effort be
made to expose and punish such
persons .i wherever .. they- may be
found."
i
curate the figure can be about the
same next year, and the next and
me next, on ior 20 years at least.
Timber in the county, or. more
properly stated, in the Klamath
cutting circle, is believed to be
sufficient to sustain an annual cut
of 330,000,000 board feet.
According to a forest service re
port ot 1947. commercial timber
in Klamath county amounted to a
little less than 14 billion board ieet.
and that estimate presumably yias
of theypes of timber at" that time
being utilized the various types on
pine and some fir. But since that
time, since 1947, a certain type of
timber of which this area affords
an abundance and which in the
past has been looked upon as trash,
has come Into prominence. That is
white fir. Weyerhaeuser Timber
Co. recently announced it will con
struct a hardboard plant to use
White fir in amounts never before
considered here.
Who knows but what the' county's
great stands of lodgepole might
someday become valuable to the
lumber industry in the way white
fir has become valuable? The St.
Helens Pulp and Paper Co. has
conducted experiments with Klam
ath county lodgepole which report
edly Indicate It can be useful in
pulp. Some day when firms like
the St. Helens Pulp and Paper Co.
have to turn to Klamath county
lodgepole as a raw material, they'll
do it,
A sustained cut of 330.000,000
board feet doesn't mean that much
very good pine, even here in the
pine country. It has to take Into
consideration types of timber and
even leftovers (such as Hercules
Powder Co. is using) which in the
halcyon days of sawing was left
as waste.
The President said it is his In
tention to make the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue "a blue ribbon"
agency.
Mr. Truman's move comes on
the heels of a Congressional in
vestigation which turned up charg
es ot skulduggery and some out
right bribery in the tax collection
service.
Scores of government officials
and employes were forced out of
their jobs during the hearings. Al
together, more than 100 officials
and lesser employes have been
fired or forced to resign fom the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. Three
district collectors of revenue have
been Indicted on charges of bribery
or fraud.
However, Mr. Truman told a
news conference on Dec. 13 that
his administration was wise to the
"wrongdoers' and would have oust
ed them even if there had been no
Congressional investigation.
At that time, Mr. Truman In
dicated he was preparing to set up
a house cleaning agency.
From all signs, Mr. Truman still
has in mind setting up such an
agency but has run into difficulty
getting the men he wants to serve
on it.
In his statement Wednesday, the
President said:
"We must rid the government of
any employes who mis-use their of
ficial positions for personal gain.
Equally Important, we must cor
rect any conditions which make it
possible for such practices to ex
ist." '
The president said the Inspection
service planned for the Internal
Revenue Service "will be alert to
the practices of the influence ped
dlois and fixers."
The new service, he said, "will
be thoroughly Inspected and con
trolled from top to bottom.'
' Under a general government re
organization law, Mr. Truman can
submit his plan to Congress and
lt will go into effect 60 days later
unless, meantime, the House or
Senate adopts a resolution disap
proving it.
Crater Phone
Line Still Out
The Crater Lake telephone line
was still out today, presumably
from heavy snowfalls In that area.
The loss of the line leaves the
national park virtually isolated by
communication lines, most f the
highways through the Dark area
are kept open most of the year.
Last week, the last time snow
depths were reported from the na
tional park headquarters, the depth
exceeded 100 inches.
Stranded
Motorists
Rescued
SALT LAKE CITY W Hund
reds of stranded motorists and
skiers straggled home Wednesday
as road crews gained in their
three-day fight to open snow block
ed highways.
The trek started late on new
year's day when a narrow one-way
passage was shoved through slide
blocked Daniels Canyon on U. S.
Highway 40.
That enabled crews to convoy
through 150 autos which had been
held in the eastern Utah towns of
Duchesne, Roosevelt and Vernal
since Saturday.
The State Highway Patrol also
reported some trucks carrying milk
bread and other supplies were es
corted east, relieving threatened
shortages in the snow-blocked
stranded Utah Basin towns.
Estimates placed the number of
marooned motorists in the towns
as high as 1,000.
Elsewhere in the mountainous
west, an undetermined number of
persons, including women and chil
dren, were at a road camp on the
west side of 10,850-foot Wolf Creek
Pass on the continental divide in
Southwestern Colorado. Tney were
Isolated when a 1,000 foot snow
slide blocked U. S. 160 on the east
side of the pass Sunday night.
In California, traffic moved again
over Donner Pass on V. S. Highway
40 between Reno, Nev.. and Sac
ramento. Hundreds of sports fans
bad spent new years in resorts
when the highway was closed.
Two Babies
On New Year's
Klamath Falls finally got Its New
year s oaoy two ot them m fact.
Early yesterday morning two ex
pectant mothers were in the hospital's-
'materntty department, "but
no bets were being offered on how
soon they would deliver.
Then at 10:25 a.m. the stork
wheeled in and presented a 5
pound 8'i ounces boy to Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Eldridge of 1820'i
Worden. '
The second New Year's Day
child was also a boy, who arrived
on the scene at 8:30 p.m. and
weighed 8 pounds 3li ounces. The
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Norman
House, 4304 La Verne St.
Sunday Work
Leads to Arrest
DANVILLE Wi Twenty nine
men, working on a pipeline pro
ject near here, have been arrested,
25 of them on charges of working
on Sunday, uommonweaun At
torney James F. Clay said.
Kentucky law for many years
has prohibited Sunday work ex
cept for certain activities essential
to the common welfare. But it very
seldom has been enforced in recent
years. V
New Check Idea
In At Prison
SALEM Wl A new system of
checking on prisoners at the state
penitentiary was being put into ef
fect Wednesday, Prison Warden
Virgil O'Malley announced.
O'Malley said the new system
is needed because the old count
system apparently didn't work. He
was referring to the fact that Ken
neth O. Smith, Salem burglar,
walked out of the prison Sunday
afternoon, and it was eight hours
before guards knew he was miss
ing. .
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TAKING INVENTORY this morning at Western Auto Sup
ply, 11th and Main St's., were: Irene Hatfield, 2234 Apple
gate St.; and Letha Smith,-1325 Sargent St.
Til MA A CltlMaW
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Still Lost;
Hunt Pushed
By The Associated IVesa
An Air Force evacuation team
reached the wreckage ot C-47
transport plane on an Arizona
mountainside Wednesday and found
the mangled bodies of all 28 oc
cupants.
First Lt. Donald C. Humnhrev
said the bodies definitely were the
19 West Point cadets, four crew
members and five other passengers
aboard the plane when lt disap
peared in a storm over Central
Arizona Sunday.
The plane plowed Into 7,000-foot'
Amer Mountain, 65 miles northeast
of Phoenix, and exploded.
"All aboard were killed instant
ly," Lt. Humphreys said.
"ine plane hit, exploded and
threw the bodies on the mountain."
The plane's wreckage was first
spotted from the air after a two
day search bv more than AO nlanen.
The wrecked C-47 was carrying
i west foint cadets, five other
passengers and a four-man crew
from Hamilton Air Force Base,
Calif., to Ooodfellow Air Force
tiase, rexas.
Meanwhile. In southwesteru New
York, the chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board said the Satur
day night crash of a C-48 nrm.
scheduled airliner does not appear
io nave oeen caused oy either
mechanical or structural failure
of the airplane.
Fourteen of 40 persons aboard
the C-46. belonging to Continental
Charters Inc., survived the crash
near Little Valley, N. Y. They
were rescued New Year's Day aft
er two days search.
Meanwhile, searches continued In
Alaska, California, and Newfound
land for three other planes mlrs
Ing since last Wednesday with a
total of 14 passengers. Another
hunt also is continuing in Arizona
for an F-51 Mustang which van
ished Sunday with one aboard.
Woman Leads
Red Air Raid
TOKYO Wl A "woMan pilot
hero" led the Communist air raid
on Inchon Harbor Wednesday, the
Pyongyang radio said.
The North Korean high com
mand said Red bombers attacked
Inchon and Kimpo Air Base, de
stroying 24 U.N. aircraft in the
Kimpo raid.
The Red radio broadcast s dis
patch from a Commumsrcorres-"
pondent saying "Woman Pilot Hero
Tae Son Hi" led the Red bombers
which "dropped every bomb over
the enemy marshalling yard on
the Inchon Harbor. All bombs got
their targets."
The broadcast continued: "After
recognizing the enemy weapon
warehouses " were wrapped in
flames, the woman hero turned her
planes's head to the base. All
bombers returned safely.", j
Chill Weather
Order of Day
By The Associated Press
The central and western sections
of the U. S. were chilled by a
mass of cold air Wednesday H
Temperatures under the zero
level were reported in ten states.
Cold weather followed a week
end storm into Northern California.
A reading of 30 above at the San
Francisco airport Wednesday morn
ing was the lowest for Jan. 2 on
record there.
Thermometers registered -S at
Susanville, and -6 at Echo Summit,
while Truckee with -18 had the
lowest mark reported in California.
Craig, Colo., had an overnight
low of -36. Vernal. Utah, had -35,
and Big Plney, Wyo., -29. t
The cold to the east was measur
ed by such readings as -23 at
International Falls. Minn., and -23
at Bismarck, N. D.
Sleet and freezing Tain fell on
a band of land that reached from
the Texas Panhandle northeast
ward through Central and Southern
Illinois and Indiana.
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