Wffi
ms
rai
In The-
Day's lews
By FRANK JENKINS
Washington:
"That well-atoekcd counlor of
surplus fnrtn products Undo flam
not up two yeara ago In IrtliiK on
llin appearance of a burnil(n base
ment cider a shoppers' rampage.
In abort, It In nearly EMPTY re
llrcUnu a heavy volume of anion
' aoine stocks for possible luturo
emergencies."
t I'd say that If wo're going to
... tinker wllli Die free enterprise
V system buy Inn and storing nmi-
. perishable crops In period of aur
plus production against a time of
- inline acnrclty Is about as good a
.. achenie aa can be devlacd.
. Joseph had Ills dream of the
i aeven lal cowa and the aeven lean
; cowa a loiur time uko, but what
i It meant then win about the annie
aa whitt It incana now. Thul la to
. any, human experience over the
; centuries Indlcutea that periods of
fcaytlrun production aro pretty upl to
.follow periods of. fat production.
, 'In thu perlodn of lean production
, litoied up aurpluaea from tlie
perlodn of fat production come In
handy.
v Tlutt calla attention to Uila little
dispatch from I'orUund Uila morn
' Inn:
"Idaho potatoea climbed 60 centa
on the Portland murkel yesterday
to a pew hlKh of n a hundred
weight. Oregon Russets ab0 went
up 60 cent, and wero quoted at
8(1.00 to 0.16."
It Bounds wonderful for the
potato (irowcr and ao far aa tills
year la concerned It If wonderful.
Hut It portondH a probable head
ache lor next year. Fabulously hlnh
prices for potatoea (or any other
IierlMiable crop) almoat Invariably
jrltiK two thliiKa to pass:
I. INCKEA8KD production,
a. LOWEKED consumption.
Hence tho next year headache.
While we're on Uila aublcct of
prlcea, here are aomo (Inures from
Washington:
According to a department of
agriculture report, (ood coot now
reprcnenta 3(1 per cent of the aver
age family's dlapoaahle Income
("disposable Income" la an econo
mists' term meaning tho money
ou have left over alter paying
your tuxes
In II'M, the D of A aaya, food
cost also reiiresenled 28 per cent
of your disposable Income. It rep
resented 27 per cent In 11M8 and
1IM9 nnd 28 per rent In 1047. But
away back In 1946 food cost rep
resented, on the average, only 26
per cent of average disposable In
come cr EXACTLY the same as
now.
Let me tell you ft secret about
this atuff that la handed out by
' our federal government bureaus.
It la all politically slanted, n u
' 'zloesn t aound good for the anrmnia.
I- (ration In power. It Just Isn't hand
ed out. All good wusnmgton re
porters are fully aware of this all
, uatlon.
The purpose of this particular
handout, lor example. Is to say to
you AS A VOTER that In spile of
all the nasty cracka about Inflation
that ore peddled by the wicked
Republicans who are trying to get
back Into power the cost of eating,
In proportion to your total Income,
Is exactly tho same as back In
llHfl, before the 1310 Inflation got
under way.
In other words, Mr. Truman and
his Fair Dealers have seen to It
that your wages have been raised
Just as much as the cost of your
loot has been lipped.
If you are a worker, whose
wages havo been raised over and
over, or a business man whose
prices hBve gone up year after
year, these figures about the cost
of your food In proportion to your
total income are probably not far
oil the facts.
But If you are a widow or an
orphan, relying upon a legacy, or
a RETIRED WORKER living on a
pension, or tho holder of one of
these policies under which you re
tire at 60 and live the lite or
Riley on your insurance check that
Is delivered every month by the
postman for tho rest of your life,
you belong to another breed of
cats.
In that event, the cost of your
food (along with the cost of, all
your other necessities) has gone up
fantastically while your Income has
'l STOOD STILL, It's the widows and
I ( the orphans and the pensioners and
the Insunuico policy and annuity
v, holders nnd such that are being
rooked by tho spenders who are
responsible for tho steadily spiral
tjig Inflation, f
' If you have followed the figures,
you are aware that people living
on fixed Incomes of tho sort here
i described are very, very large In
number.
They are tho VICTIMS of our
politically-Inspired Inflation.
'QUAKE
TAIPEII, Formosa Wl A new
aeries of earthquakes struck Hun-
lien, 7B miles south of Talpch,
Thursday. No dnmngo was reported.
Mate Of Tugboat Joins Captain Aboard
Crippled Freighter As Storm Builds
LONDON lPI The first mate
of Ihe British rescue tug Turmoil
Friday sticcoedc-! In boarding the
Flying Entorprlse to Join Capl. Kurt
Carlsen on the crippled American
freighter,
Tho U.S. 'dostroyor John W.
Weeks radioed that the tugboat
man "managed to get aboard over
tho tnffrnll of the Enterprise and
Is now standing by with Capt, Carl
sen." Tugboat Capt. Dan Parker was
quoted as saying he is "confident I
can get tow rigged If we got a
break In the weather."
- The message from Iho Weeks
skl fog was cloning lit and the
wind had Increased to 28-32 knots
at times, ...
Carlsen has been alone ori the
Flying Enterprise since last Satur
Pries rira Centa It Paiea
More
I0,M,000
ItS.MO.OOO.
7,JJ4,4000
"W,4,JM
THE PHENOMENAL RISE in value of crops raised in the Klamath Basin is shown in
this chart, dating back to 1929, prepared from figures compiled by the County Agent's
office. The year 1947 was the peak, until 1951. Compilation of figures for 1951 have
not been completed, but the guess is that 1947 will be surpassed. '
Shift
(Thl, U the third of a aeries
of articles dtacuasing the eco
nomic present and future of the
Klamath area.)
By HALE SCARBROUUH
When we apeak of the Klamath
Basin In connection with agricul
ture, common usage has taken It
to mean not only Klamath county
but Uie northwestern corner of
Modoc county, Calif., and the
northeastern corner of Siskiyou
county, Calif.
County and state lines arc polit
ical and not economic boundaries.
Farming and ranching cattle,
spuds, grain and the like have be
come In the past few years the
No. 1 economic property ol what
we csll the Klamulh Basin, sup
planting and actually outstripping
the lumber Industry. The growth
of agriculture In Its financial worth
to all the people of this area has
steadily Increased since the first
spud was planted here, but It ac
tually replaced lumber as Ihc No.
1 Industry seven or eight years
ago. In the latter yenrs ol tho war.
The" transition was so slow that
persons who sang the blues while
sawmill after sawmill was going
out of business evidently didn't
realize what was going on.
Tho year 1B51 probably will be
by some pretty good estimates
the greatest agriculture has ever
seen here, on the basis of dollars
and cents.
When the annual survey of the
value of crops produced In the
Klamath Basin made by County
Agent C. A. Henderson Is com
pleted In a couple of months, the
grand total figure probably will bo
around $40,000,000.
That Is a good cut above the
provlous high figure of $30,016,000
for 1047 tho year the barley went
for $6 or bettor and potatoes also
got up to $5.
Neither commodity reached those
unit figures Uils year but In the
aggregate, the total, farm - and
ranch income is goltu to be higher
Uian In the 1047 banner year.
Tho answer probably can be
laid to beef cattle. There were In
1061 more beef entile pasturing in
Klamath county than ever before
70,000 head and the price was so
high that beef was tho only locally
raised commodity over which a
government celling was placed.
For tho last couple, of days those
articles have dealt primarily with
day, the day after a wild Atlantic
storm broke his ship and knocked
her over on her side. The freighter
has been listing at 60 to 80 de
grees. -
His crew of 40 and 10 passengers
were taken off, but he decided to
stick with his 396-foot ship nnd her
cargo, valued at more Uian a mil
lion dollars, and protect the own
era' rights in the ship. The vessel
Is owned by tho Isbrandtsen Line,
New York.
A message at 11 a.m. from, the
Weeks said the Turmoil had mado
five vain attempts, In worsening
weather, to get a towllne aboard
the Enterprise.
The 2:30 p.m. message from the
destroyer Weeks said the list of
the Flying Enterprise, around 60
degrees Friday, had Increased
"very slightly.", But the fioighter
KLAMATH FALLS, OKI
r
Planes Join
to Ranch Economy
Rapid in Basin Pic ture
lumber and also primarily with
Klamath county. Some timber pro
duced In Klamath county la taken
outside for sawmllllng, and by the
same token logs trom outside the
county (even as far away as the
Philippines, in the instance of Pal
merlon Lumber Co.) are brought
here for sawing. With much ol the
far northern timber area of the
county theoretically Included in the
working circle of Bend rather than
of Klamath Falls, the timber going
out roughly stands off that being
brought In.
But In dealing wiUi farming
county or stale boundaries -count
for very Utile.
In 1950. the last year for which
a definite figure is available for
the value of crops produced, the
Klamath Basil) total was $29,624,
585. Of that amount, according to
the county agent's office, 32.4 per
cent or about $9,598,000 stemmed
from the California portion of the
Klamath Basin.
The ratio has been running ap
proximately that way for the past
several years two-thirds of the
total produced In Klamath county,
one-third produced In Uie comers
of the two California counties.
And Klamath Falls by reason of
Its size and location Is the business
hub of the Klamath Basin agricul
tural district regardless of political
boundaries. The lion's share of the
Klamath Basin farm income Is
spent right here. A bad year on
the ranch means a bad year on
Mnln street, Klamath Falls.
While agriculture was replacing
lumber as the No. 1 Industry of
this area, the city of Klamath
Falls was losing population. The
peak year for population here Is
considered 1947, and the 1950 cen
sus showed an overall decline from
1040.
But a facHhat ties in tightly
Is this: farming doesn't provide as
much direct permanent employ
ment as lumbering. A very large
ranch can be operated with a very
few people.
Farming, of course, provides
considerable secondary employ
ment In kindred enterprises (pock
ing, shipping, storage, equipment,
feeds, seeds, etc.) but not so
much directly on the ground.
The Klamath Basin has now
about 2,000 ranches. And that num
bor Is getting smaller raUier than
larger. A few years back a count
showed 2,300 farms and ranches.
was "still buoyant and riding sat-
Capt, Parker said he would' con
tinue efforts around the clock to
get a towllne aboard the freighter,
wallowing 300 miles west of the
southern tip of England. ' ,
LONDON Wl Lloyds of London
made Capt. Kurt Carlsen a 7 to 2
choice Friday to reach harbor with
his broken freighter Flying Enter
prise. The ' famed Insurance v brokers
quoted a premium - of '30 guineas
($88.20) for each 100 pounds $(280)
of coverage to reinsure the freigh
ter aaglnst total loss.
That means Lloyds gives Carl
sen about 70 chances to make It
against 22 to lose his shin or In
horse-player odds, something like
7 to 2.- . ...... .
4MIDAV, JANUARY
VO.MO.OM
The number Is getting smaller by
consolidation. But the point is.
very large number of those farms
and ranches are one-family opera
tions. Outside help Is needed only
during particular seasons.
The transition from a lumbering
economy to a ranching economy
probably can explain in part why
Klamath Falls lost population In
the past lew years.
The rise of agriculture Is plctor
tally shown in a graph accompany.
ing this article. The figures arc
those compiled by the county
agent's office and date back to
1923 when the value of all crops
produced In the Klamath Basin
was $2,837,500. The rise has been
steady except during the tough ae
presslon years of 1931-32, and spec
tacular since World War II.
Farm Income for 1951 probably
will be three times what it was
in 1941. a wartime decade ago.
That rise certainly gives the lie
to talk that Klamath Falls hasn't
a future. This town may never be
a metropolis. But for years to
come It can be a prosperous com
munity. Careful husbanding of the Klam
ath Basin's resources and daring
expansion of its possimimes tne
outlook can become even brighter.
Warren May
Widen Scope
SACRAMENTO. Calif. 11 Some
of Gov. Earl Warren's supporters
soy he will enter the Wisconsin
primary election to broaden his
campaign for the Republican presl
dental nomination.
It's purely a guess. Warren has
given no hint. However, he is
known to be considering entering
the Wisconsin primary April 1 two
months ahead of California's on
June 3.
The governor also has been urged
to go on the Oregon ballot May 17.
Warren backers say:
Wisconsin would give Warren a
national showcase as a presiden
tial candidate.
There. If It came to a showdown,
he'd have a good chance of beat
ing Sen, Taft (R.-Ohlo) or Harold
Stassen, former governor of Min
nesota.
The dangers are obvious. A de
feat would tarnish Warren's ree-
ord before the national convention
in July. By keeping awav from
other states, he would still com
mand California's 70 votes as a
healthy starter.
Agents Nab
Dope Suspects
NEW YORK m Federal nar
cotics agents and local - police
swooped down on suspected dope
peddlers and addicts In several of
uie nation's major cities Friday.
Raids In New York City, Buffalo.
San Antonio, Tex., and Detroit
were staged simultaneously. Offi
cials called It "the biggest roundup
of suspected dope peddlers and us
ers ever staged in some areas
More arrests are expected.
Approximately 50 persons, some
oi mem saia to oe major iigures
In Illegal sales of narcotics, were
seized in New York City.
4. 1962
No. 2705
Force Nov
Biggest In
Coast Area
One of the largest Air Force
search teams in Northwest history
was based at Municipal Airport
here today as search for a lost
Air Force transport was intensilied.
The missing plane, a C-47 carry
ing elBht service men. has not been
heard from since It disappeared
while flying high over Klamath
Falls Dec. 26.
Since the day following the
plane'a disappearance, three big
Air Force ships Irom McChord
Field, Taopma, have been based
here for the search. Yesterday,
lour more ships, all C-45s, were
added to the base.
The Air Force team now con
slats of 44 men under the com
mand of Capt. Ray Costello. With
yesterday's additional men and
ships came Capt. Russell Uhlman,
veteran search and rescue flier,
who is now serving as Captain
Costello's top assistant.
in saauion to tne Air force men
and planes, members of the Klam
ath Air Search and Rescue Unit
have been aiding In the search.
The lost plane, carrying three
crewmen and five "aerial hitch
hikers'' disappeared while on a
flight from Spokane to Travis Field
in the S.in Francisco Bay area.
At 4:17 p.m., Dec. 26. the plane
radioed the airport here that it
was flying southward on course at
10.000 feet. There was no hint of
trouble but that was the last time
the plane was heard from.
Bad weather has hampered the
aerial search and snow squalls this
morning kept KASRU's light planes
grounded.
Any hope that there may still
be survivors has almost entirely
disappeared. Survivors would al
most certainly have been able to
attract attention by this time.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Red- Bluff this morning said
another Arti.'Force-clvUlan search
base operating there was also be
ing hampered by bad weather.
Dimes March
Starts Here
The 1952 March of Dimes drive
was in full swing In Klamath Coun
ty today with volunteer workers
blanketing the county.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis is aiming for a
"pay-as-you-go" level this year af
ter four years of going In the red
aiding polio vlcUms and financing
research to combat the dread di
sease. Mrs. Alice Vitus is directing the
Klamath campaign again this year.
Her volunteer crew consists of:
Klamath Falls, the Quota Club;
Malln. VFW: Fort Klamath, Mrs.
Patricia Hescock; Crescent Lake,
John Hnlvorson; Cascade Summit,
Clayton Sharpe; Henley, George El
liott; Beatty, . Frank Schmitz;
Keno, Mrs. Nellie Mason; Oregon
Tech. Bob Smith; Merrill. Mrs. Iva
Kllpatrick; Dairy, Don Rice; Che
mult, Mrs. Hope Brader.
Contributions may be made In
two ways, either by putting coins
in the "iron lung" cannisters in
business and public buildings or by
buying tickets to the annual March
of Dimes ball which mark the late
former President Franklin D. Roos
evelt's birthday. The Klamath Falls
ball is to be held at the Armory.
Jan. 26, with music by Baldy's
Band.
Pointing up the need for polio
aid funds, Mrs. Vitus said that dur
ing the first 10 months of last year
nearly $7,000,000 was advanced lo
cal chapters by the National Foun
dation from the Epidemic Aid Fund.
This year, the drive Is to be con
ducted for an entire month rather
than two weeks as in previous
years. "We are trying to reach a
larger number of people than ever
before ... we need everyone's
help," said Mrs. Vitus.
Campaign headquarters for the
county are at the Guide Printing
Company, 12th St. and Klamath
Ave.
Postal Receipts
Up In Klamath
Postal receipts at the Klamath
Falls Postofflce totalled $271,758.21,
Postmaster Chet Langslet an
nounced today.
He said the totals were a gain
of 5.931 percent over 1950 when
receipts totalled $256,540.62.
Receipts 10 years ago, In 1941,
totalled onlv $156,115.78. Since 1940,
Langslet points out, receipts from
the Klamath Postal division have
increased almost 80 percent.
Telephone 8111
Hunt
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Considerable cloudiness and occas
sional snow flurries Friday. Fair
Friday night. Increasing cloudiness
Saturday. High Friday 27. Friday
night 5.
High temp yesterday 21
Low last night . 17
Preclp last 24 hrs T
Mince Oct. 1 8.85
Normal for period 4.88
Last year, some period 8.47
(Additional Weather on Page 4)
Spud Ceiling
To Be Set
On Jan. 18
WASHINGTON W) The gov
ernment plans to put a price celling
on potatoes Jan. 18, Ben. Welker
(R.-Idaho) said Friday.
The Office of Price Stabilization
announced last week a celling or
der was being considered to stop
the steady rise In potato prices.
Welker and other western sena
tors met with Price Stabilizer Mi
chael DISalle Thursday, protesting
any regulation of potato prices.
DISalle said a suggested freeze
Is "a possibility." He said it was
prepared on a stand-by basis when
potato -prices were continuing their
sharp climb late m 1951.
The delegation proposed that the
Industry advisory committee would
be called In to work out details of a
final price order while the freeze la
in effect.
DISalle said the problem, In
working out an order. Is whether
celling would be set at present
prices or at slightly lower levels.
Agriculture records show that a
year ago the average spud price
was about 89 cents a bushel, com
pared with $1.93 two weeks ago.
The average national price was
listed Dec. 15 at 105 per cem oi
parity, which Is the price level de
signed to give the farmer a fair
return for what he .sells In rela
tion to what he buys.
U.N. Claims
Planes Sent
To N. Korea
By OLEN CLEMENTS
MUNSAN. Korea;Pi The Com
munists made seven objections
Friday to the six-point Allied plan
lor exchanging prisoners of war
and rejected a new U.N. appeal
for an Immediate trade of sick
and wounded prisoners.
In a nearby tent at Panmunjom
Allied truce negotiators asked- for
an explanation of reports that the
Communists are shipping crated
warplanes into North Korea. They
also accused Red China of releas
ing soldiers of Korean origin from
Its armies In 194S and 1950 to form
the Cadre of the North Korean red
army.
oninese Maj. Gen. Hsleh Fang
said there was nothing wrong In
this. He labeled the crated plane
report as "ridiculous rumor."
Hsleh, in turn, accused the Allies
of . holding behind their lines
through intimidation with the atom
bomb some 500.000 North Koreans.
Both subcommittees reported no
progress toward an armistice. Both
agreed to try again Saturday at 11
ajn. (8 pjn. EST Friday) In Pan
munjom. Penny Postal
No Good Now
Penny postcards Just aren't, but
Postmaster Chet Langslet says not
many Klamath Falls people realize
it.
The penny pasteboard went out
of official existence as a postal
media Jan. 1 by act of Congress.
However, Langslet says the post
office has been swamped with the
old cards which are being returned
postage due to the senders if there
is a return address.
Government postcards now cost
two cents, according to the new
law. and to any volume over 50
purchased an additional charge of
10 percent is levied.
The Post Office Dept. has point
ed out to the public It did not
Initiate or advocate the new postal
regulation.
Storm Eases
In Rockies
By The Associated Press
The Rocky Mountain area began
shaking off the effects of a five
day seige of snow and sub-zero
temperatures but icy weather still
gripped some sections of the na
tion. In Southwestern Colorado snow
drifts were 80 feet high in spots.
Highway crews fought their way
through the drifts to rescue 14 per
sons from shelter houses on snow
bound Wolf Creek, Pass.
Ice glazed roads slowed travel
and disrupted communications In
parts of Texas, Missouri, Illinois,
Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexi
co. Six persons were killed on North
Texas roads and 250 long distance
telephone circuits were reported
out of commission.
In Southeast Missouri, ice prac
tically paralyzed some counties.
The ice storm knocked out long
distance telephone service In ap
proximately 20 towns, some elec
tric power lines also were down.
Gamblers Tell
Of Big Income
PORTLAND Iffl Eight Oregon
tans who hold Federal Gambling
Tax stamps, reported gross Income
of 81,566.60 in paying their first
months 10 per cent tax oi siao.eo.
That was reported Friday by the
Portland offlte of the Collector of
Internal Revenue after getting
authority from Washington, D. O.,
to release the Information. Earlier,
aides said they could not give any
Information to the press In the
absence of Hugh Earle, Collector,
who Is In the hospital for a minor
eye operation.
v
V fv.vw -
ORVAL ETTER (above), sec
retary of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation, Berkeley, is
to be a speaker tonight at
a Universal Military Train
ing forum at the Congrega
tional Church here. Other
speakers scheduled are:
Charles Hahn, Modoc
Toastmasters president; the
Rev. Edward Landers,
Church of the Brethren;
and Frank Jenkins, Herald
and News editor and pub
lisher. There is to be an
open discussion with the
audience participating. The
meeting is open to the pub
lic. .
U.S. Spooky
Over Red's
Suggestion
PARIS m The United States
expressed grave concern Friday
that a new Russian move to bring
up Korean armistice negotiations
to the United Nations Security
Council might break up the talks
now going on at the front.
U. S. Delegate Benjamin Cohen
told a news conference that the
U. S. could not understand why the
Soviet Union had made such a
proposal at a time when truce
talks in Korea appeared to be
making slow but sure nrocress.
Cohen said -the U.S. . was Deci
dedly and unqualifiedly opposed to
a. Russian resolution calling for a
special high-level Security Council
meeting to aiscuss now w hi uie
armistice taiKS. .
The proposal, he declared, could
not fail to have a bad effect on
the talks at Panmunjom. He said
he wondered whether the Russians
wanted to settle the Korean war
or reopen it.
The effect of the resolution intro
duced by Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishlnsky, he declared,
might well be to delay or disrupt
the talks now going on.
u tne soviet union irunns it can
help push them to a successful
conclusion, he declared, they are
no doubt in touch with the Chinese
Communists and North Koreans
can work through them.
Allies Retake
Christmas Hill
SEOUL IB Allied infantrymen
stormed through heavy mortar and
small arms fire Friday and re
captured prized Christmas Hill on
the East-Central .Korean oaiue
front.
Communist troops had attacked
and won the hill after dark. The
assault touched off a see-saw fight
that lasted, throughout most of the
night,
The peak had changed hands re-
neatedlv since Chinese troops
seized it on Christmas Day. The
hill is west ' of Mundung valley.
Along the rest of the 145 mile
battle front, patrols of both sides
probed and fought minor skirmis
hes. The weather was milder alter a
week of bitter cold.
ft Mlu
TODAY'S SPECIAL was snapped at the J. W. Kerns Com
pany, 734 S. 6th St. Joe Overton (left), 2915 Homedale Rd.,
is shop foreman. Robert (George) McGhehey,. 1902 S. River
side St., is foreman of the tire shop,
February
Date Hinted
For Walkout
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. Wl The
CIO United Steelworkers Friday
postponed their threatened nation
wide strike for 46 days but warned
they will walk out In late February '
if the government can't settle the '
steel contract dispute. j
Cheering delegates to a special :
UBW convention approved a rec-,.
ommendatlon of the union's top
strategists that the work stoppage
oe neia on to give tne wage Bia- :
billzatlon Board time to suggest a
settlement. '
The convention's action delays
the strike deadline until Feb. 23 or ,
24. Tho board has scheduled a pro-
cedural meeting in Washington .
Monday. The first full drers hear- -ing
session will be either Tuesday .
or Wednesday. i
The WSB will attempt to draw up j
a recommended settlement accept- i
able to both sides in the union's
fight for an 18 ',i cent hourly wage
increase and other contract con
cessions. The final vote on the USW strike
postponement was preceded by an
attack on the Defense Production
Act. The assault was made before
the convention by President Philip s
Murray of both the USW and the
CIO. Murray said:
"We have no effective price con- i
trol hi the United States of Ameri
ca. That fact is not subject to suc
cessful denial. (Michael) DISalle
(chief administrator) admitted
that.
"The facts have demonstrated ,
the ineffectiveness of the present 1
price control system. It is hypo-;
critical of the U.S. government to
suggest to the consumers of the "
U.S. that there Is an effective sys- ',
tem o price control."
Atom Bomb
Still Okay
WASHINGTON' Ml . - Wiiuton
Churchill can get assurances when
he reaches Washington, if he so de
sires, that the United States will :
consult Britain before ordering any
atomic oomoing irom air bases in
England.
' The' Prime Minister voiced con
cern soon after' the Conservative
election victory that Britain might
not be told in advance. He said in
his Guildhall speech that an Ameri
can atomic attack from the East
Anglla ah- bases would put vul
nerable Britain in the very fore
front of World War in.
American authorities said Friday,
it has been well understood from
the start that the bases would be
used on a partnership bos'.s.
Atomic issues are . expected to
come under earnest discussion be
tween President Truman and 5r.
Churchill hv their four day series .
of meetings starting when the Prime
Minister arrives Saturday. Offi
cials think it is possible that
Churchill and Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden wUI press lor re
vival of the more generous ex
change of atomic information
which was in effect in wartime.
The U. S.. Britain and Canada '
were carrying on negotiaUons to
this end until the Klaus ismu
Fuchs spy disclosures virtually
shelved the whole idea two years
ago.
Minister May Be
Cleanup Choice
PHILADELPHIA (flV-The Even-,
ing Bulletin said Friday President.
Truman asked Dr. Daniel A. Poling
to serve on a three-man board for
rooting out corruption in .the fed
eral government.
The Evening Bulletin story said
the proposal was made to Poling!
about a week before Christmas,
when the President summoned the
Baptist minister to Washington, y
In Washington, the White House,
declined comment on the report.
Agreement
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