"I Won't She
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WORKING TOGETHER Members of the Klamath Air Search and Res cue Unit and the U.S. Air Force have been working as a single team on the search for the Air Force C-47
which vanished with eight men after flying over Klamath Falls, Dec. 2 0. Above left, "Pappy" Newlun, veteran KASRU pilot, talks things over with S-Sgt. Robert E. Luckie and
Capt, B. M. Fletcher, of IMtnllton Field. Center picture shows Lt. D. A. Fitzgerald, McChord Field, KASRU pilot Ed Scholer and KASRU Pres. Vic Douglas checking an aerial map. The
picture at the right shows S-Sgt. R. G. llatlett donning a pack with the aid of Cpl. H. P. Mulholland. Both men are based at Hamilton.
IjlTlic
By FRANK JDNKINS
Yddlprdny, In th cournc of the
comliiKly endlciu wrniiKlo that by
courtesy w term tho Korean arnil
wtlca negotlnUons, our nlde told the
commlrii thai wo FINALITY AND
IRREVOCABLY REJECT Ruiuila
member of a "neutral Hiiper
vlnory commliuilon" to police n
armUtlce In Korea In the event bii
armistice nhould bo nurrcd upon.
Today North Korean Conimunlut
Colonel Chanu Chun Ban replies
bluntly: "I hereby declare that our
Mdr will KTKRNALLY RKJKCT
YOUR OPPOSITION TO RUSSIA
and will continue our rejection un
til you withdraw your unreason
able objection."
Query:
Do you reckon we're Rolnir (o
find out, after all these ycani,
what really happens when an lr
reMiblo lorca meets an lininovublc
body 7
Or Is It Just more talk?
By the way
What do you think would happen
In this cuuntry If our upper diplo
matic and military ' brass-hould
negotiate an armistice In Kumii
and then should ACCKPT RU8HIA
as a member of Uio "neutral" com
mission to suiervlso and Inspect
such an armistice?
I'd like to think that we'd ALL
vole aualnsl ANY administration
that aitreed to such an absurdity.
In fact, I DO Uilnk to. I'm going
to no on thlnklmr It.
But I wish I could be SURE of
It. We stand for so muny silly
Ihlnss In campalxn years that wo
might even stand lor that.
Tho University of Notro Dame
tsoulh Bend, Indlanu) Is apparently
watching Its financial p s and q s.
Its vice-president In chariie of
business affairs noticed a while
back that many students were not
drinking all their milk at break
fast, so he boueht smaller milk
glasses, The new glasses went on
the tables this morning and tno
students promptly got mad and
SMASHED THEM.
I suppose we'd a' well caption
that: "This Modern World Noto"
and let It go at that.
From Reno:
"Burglars entered tho home of
a millionaire Investment broker yes
terday and made oft with a unto
containing noma 2, 500,000 ( 2't, mil
lion dollars) In cash, Jewelry and
negotiable securities. They left bc
,hli!d another million dollars In
securities packed In a suitcase,
detectives reported."
Miffed by the published esti
mates of the value df the loot, the
broker said:
"The amount should not have
been given out becnuse II will only
arouse curiosity.
" W-o-o-l-l-M
I'd say that IP HE HAS PAID
HIS JUST AND PROPER TAXES
he's quite correct In IiIh complaint.
He has a right to own that much
property, nnd If ho chooses to do so
he has a right to keep lt In a tin
can on the shelf over tho kitchen
sink.
Thin Is still a free country FOR
THOHK WHO HAVE PAID THEIR
TAXES. .
Red Cross
Drive Opens
Klamath County's Red Cross
clrlvo got off to a fast start to
day official opening day of thin
year's drive with a total of $4543
already collected, Exec. Secy. Vir
ginia DIxou reported this morning.
Business division was leading
the field with a total of $2002 al
ready reported. Advanced gifts has
bucketed a total of $1304, Industry
a total of (878.50, rural $308.50
and special groups $55.
No figures were nvallablc from
the residential areas today, though
reports coming In indicated a good
response from that division.
Thin year's drive quota Is
S25.000.
s DIKS
NEW YORK Ml Keats Sncod.
iVho was executive editor of The
Wew York Sun from 1043 until it
itvas merged with Tho New York
JWor.Vl-Telegram, died Saturday.
Ilo waa 72. years old.
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Paul Reynaud Takes Over
As New French Boss; Some
See Major Shakeup Coming
By CARL IIARTMAN
PARIS I Paul Reynaud, the
financial wizard who led France In
her fall before the Germans, aot
on 10 a quicK start ualurduy In his
first attempt to head a new kind of
rreucu poM-war govcritmcnt. , ,
There were Indications that If he
can win office he will net 1111 a
Strong Cabinet of technicians and
start a thorough-going shakcun of
the unstublo French political svs-
torn.
The 13-year old veteran politician
won the unanimous support of the
members of Parliament in his own
loosely-organized Conservative par
ly, tile Union of Independents and
Peasants, That virtually assured
him of 103 votes In the National As
sembly. Ho needs 313 to bo con
firmed as premier.
Full support of the party was of-
Prisoner Says
'Worked Over'
Police Chief Orvllle Hamilton
this morning said he would Inves
tigate fully the claim of a prisoner
Uiat he was "worked over In the
Jail by two officers yesterday aft
ernoon, ono of them named John
nie." In Municipal Court Uils morning
Jessio Trujlllo, 30, of Dexter, Ore.,
complained to Judgo Robert Elder
that he had been slapped around
and Utat his ribs hurt. Judge El
der said, "We'll soon find out II
that's true."
Trujlllo, arrested Friday for vag
rancy, was taken to the Chief
and two other prisoners brought
Into to see If Uiey would verify
TruJIllos claim.
Rudolph Chcraldo, arrested yes
terday for being drunk, said he
was still too drunk when Trujlllo
was taken from tho drunk tank to
romcmbcr anything.
Pcto Bocard, a trusty, who for
some unknown reason had been
placed In the drunk tank, said he
only hrartl an officer ask Trujlllo
when ho was going to leave town.
Hamilton quoted Bocard an saying
he didn't hear or see anvthlng un
usual going on outaldo the cell.
Hamilton said tho Inst time Tru
jlllo was In Jail Jan. 20, he claimed
being- sick and asked to be taked
to tho hospital.
Curfew Violations Lead To
Jail Terms For Two Youths
Two-18-year-old youths received
five-day City Jail terms on vag
rancy convictions (being out after
hours) In Municipal Court today.
Four tuvonilo boys, apprehended
nt 2:30 a, m. by City Police at
Esplanade and Michigan with the
other two, were turned over . to
juvenile authorities for investiga
tion of Inking a car from Jucke-
lnnd Truck nnd Snlcs Servlco Inc.
used enr lot last night.
Johnny Junior Hawkins, 3153
Lodl St., and Wnyno Byrd, 315 E.
Main, pleaded Ruilty to the vng
rancy charges,
Hawkins Is currently free on
$1,000 ball from District .Court
awaiting grand Jury Investigation
on charge ol entering a motor ve
hicle with Intent to steal.
Hawkins was one of tho four boys
accused of nttempting to steal beer
Dec. 0, 1051, from Western Whole-
nalers, 1003 E. Mnin. The other
three Involved in Unit charge got
Hp," Says Lost Mr hm Captain's
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON,
fered to Revnaud "for the forma
tlon of a government of national
union, demanded by the country
and necessary for tho safety of
tno iranc.
Reynaud forced a devaluation of
Uw frano in 1U38, when he became
finance minister in a situation
much like the ono that laces
France today:
A mounting debt both Inside and
outsldo the country, a drain on Uic
gold reserves of the Bank of France
and a heavy re-urmamcnt pro
gram.
Reynaud laid out a full program
of high-level financial and political
conferences Saturday. His most Im
portant visitor of the morning was
ex-Prcmicr Kcne Pleven.
In a chat with reporters after
ward, Pleven strengthened the Idea
that a Reynaud Cabinet would
make thorough-going changes In
tho French political system. Roy.
naud Is known to be partial to the
men. A "national union," Cabinet,
emoracing all parties but the Com'
munlsts, might enable him to do
tnih.
O rd I n a r v Frenchmen greeted
Reynaud's return to high politics
with mixed emotions. Many have
not lorgiven him for his World War
II role which nut old Marshal Phi
lippe Pctaln In power to co-operate
witn mo Nazis.
"Anrlol calls on Reynaud the
gravcdlgger," screamed a banner
line on the Communist paper,
L'Humonite. "He will bring in De
Gaulle Just as he brought In Pe
toln." But others conceded Reynaud his
reputation as a financial expert
which France needs now.
Friends soy Financial Wizard
Reynaud has a plan to deal with
the emergency. If ho has. lt will
need to be a good one.
France Is so near broke that
caretaker Premier Faurc had to
borrow another 35 billion francs
(70 million dollars) Friday from the
government-owned Bank of France
to pay current expenses.
Weather
FORECAST: Klamath Falls and
vicinity fair thraiich Sunday, high
40, low 17. Northern California,
few scattered light showers Satur
day night, snow In mountains:
raider Saturday night.
High Friday ,, 35
Low last night 15
(Additional Weather en Page 4)
two years probation In Circuit
Court, two of them, Sheldon Aber
crombio and Kenneth Lowry have
had their probations revoked and
are In the County Jail,
. Tho four Juveniles accused of
taking tho car from Juckelands
were held In the City Jail over
night and questioned further by
Juvenllo Officer Frank Mathews
this morning.
Mathews said complaints would
probably be filed in Juvenile Court
against the four for taking an
auto without the owner's consent.
Byrd was in Municipal Court
Friday morning and fined $10 on
pleading guilty to charge of viola
tion of the basic rule. Officers said
ho wns speeding on Mnin St.
Thursday night.
Friday Judao Elder told Byrd he
didn't want to see him back - In
court again, and if he were to
come buck he wouldn't get off so
easily.
SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1S52
IUI
iru
GENE BAILIE, local photo
shop operator, was snapped
by . the 9 o'clock camera
man as today's special.
Korean Tank
Battles Flare
SEOUL im United Nations tanks
Saturday rumbled into action on
the muddy Korean war front for
the second straight day.
A tank-Infantry - raiding unit,
backed up by Intense artillery fire,
hammered Red targets south of
Pyonggang on the Central Front
for more than an hour at dawn.
Chinese artillery and mortar fire
damaircd two of the tanks. The
Tanks were pulled back to Allied
lines.
That brought to 12 the number
of Allied tanks destroyed or dam
aged Friday and Saturday.
Allied fighter bombers balanced
off part of this loss Saturday after
noon. The Mustangs and Marine
Corsairs caught a camouflaged Red
tank convoy north of pyonggang
and destroyed Uiree and badly
damaged six.
Pyonggang Is the apex of the
"Iron Triangle," once a Commu
nist troop staging area.
U.N. infantrymen fought off a
company of charging Chinese In
darkness near Chorwon on the Cen
tral Front In the small hours Satur
day. Maher Pasha
Flees Office
CAIRO. Eavot HI r- Prime Min
ister Aly Maher Pasha resigned
Saturday and reliable Informants
snid Ahmed Nngulb Al Hilary Pa
sha, 80, an Independent, has been
appointed to succeed him.
Manor rasna s resignation came
lust as new talks were to have
tnken nlnce aimed at settling
Egypt's bitter feud with Britain.
Stalking grim-faced from an hour
long Cabinet meeting, he Informed
reporters that ne nad quit, nut
gave no reason.
Hilaly Pasha, one of Egypt's top
Jurists, has a nation-wide reputa
tion for honesty, firmness and in
dependence. For years he has been
an active nationalist lenaer. ne
had been a member of the majori
ty Wafd Party, but wns expelled
last November after testifying that
the Wnfd government had author
ized telephone tupping.
it-. t
No. 5754
L
Loss Said
Well Over
Two Million
RENO. Nev. U) Bumlars en
tered yie home, of a millionaire iuj
-'esimcni oroser rnaay ana maae
off with a safe containing some $2,
500.000 in cash. Jewelry, and nego
tiable securities.
They left behind another million
In securities packed In a suitcase,
detectives reported. .
The theft was discovered by the
broker. L. V, Redfield, and police
when he returned home from an
afternoon luncheon. His watchdog,
described as vicious by friends,
was In a bedroom happily munch
ing a hambone taken from the re
frigerator. Redfield and Police Chief L. R.
Grecson both refused to estimate
the loss, but a report released by
District Attorney Jack Streeter
showed these figures:
Currency: $300,000.
Jewelry; Between $50,000 and
$100,000.
Negotiable securities: Between
one and two million.
Miffed about this estimate, Red
field said: "The amount should not
have been given out because it
will only arouse curiosity."
Police are seeking a dark green
pickup truck believed to have been
used to haul away the 500-pound
safe. '
Redfield and his wife have lived
in the three-story 15-rooih house
without servants the past seven
years. Redfield, 54, moved to Reno
18 years ago from Los Angeles
where he made a fortune dealing
In oil stocks.
He was described by a Reno busi
ness associate, who refused to be
identified, 'as "the shrewdest man
In the financial world today." He
said Redfield owned vast amounts
of real estate and commented "this
(the burglary) won't hurt Red
field." Probationer
Gets Term
Fred Lee Tledtka, 28, of 5055
Harlan Dr., given two chances to
go straight, tripped up a third
time and is bound or five years
In the State Prison.
Tledtka was brought into Circuit
Court Friday afternoon on viola
tion of probntion (writing an $8.50
fictitious check).
He wns given five years proba
tion In January, 1951, on convic
tion of obtaining money by false
pretenses and given a second
chance when be broke tho proba
tion last July.
Tledtka told Judge David R.
Vanrienhnror he had been maklns
$14 a day working at a local mill
and could give no reason lor writ
ing the bum check.
Giles French,
Telephone 8111
Seat. Visits Klamath County
Giles French, intent on getting
to Congress, Is In the Klamath
area now to get a first-hand
irllmnso of problems he'll be ex
pected to wrestle with if he Is
elected.
French, Moro newspaper publish
er and veteran of tne Oregon
Legislature, is seeking the Repub
lican nomination to Congress from
2 Americans
Injured In
China Riot
HONG KONG WU-Two American
government officials were among
a dozen persons injured Saturday
as Communist-led riots erupted in
Hong Kong's teeming Kowloon sec
tion. U.S. Vice Consul Robert Ballan
tyne, Tulsa, Okla., and Jack Watts
Leach, Oklahoma City, U.S. In
formation Service officer, were
stoned by rioters as they strolled
tnrougn Kowioon.
Ballantyne was hit in the fore
head and one stitch was required
to close the cut. Leach was less
seriously hurt. The rioters grabbed
cameras both men were carrying.
The mob dragged the unidenti
fied driver of a British army track
out of the cab then set fire to the
vehicle.
Two other Britons were given
first aid treatment at Kowloon Hos
oital. Several other foreigners were at
tacked, but not seriously hurt., "
'"Trie "rioting- followed a" "brief pa
rade oy an omciauy estimated
4,500 persons who had gathered at
Kowloon station to greet a cmnese
Communist "comfort mission.'
The demonstrators began rioting
after covernment officials refused
the Red delegation Dermission to
enter this British crown colony.
Windows were broken and two pri
vate cars overturned.
Some members of the mob car
ried banners reading: "The 100
years' debt is not paid yet. No
matter how they try to hide it we
will remember lt."
This was an obvious reference to
Britain's acquisition of Hong Kong
in 1841.
A tense quiet returned to the
area after 40 minutes and the gov
ernment announced that "normalcy
was restored."
Police mobilized tne coionys
1.500 "special constabulary volun
teers", presumably as a precau
tionary measure.
Kennel Club
Plans Show
The annual Klamath Kennel
Club's AKC-sanctioned non - point
local dog show has been scheduled
for Sunday, Mar. 9, at the County
Fairgrounds, Club Pres. Forrest
Albert announced today.
Purebred entries mav be made
by calling 2-1456 or 4356, or may
be made at the door up to 12:30
p. m. of the show day. Papers
are not necessary.
Albert said the show serves a
double purpose: to stimulate local
interest for the forthcoming Big
American Kennel Club show here
Aug. 31 and to provide proceeds
for trophies for that show.
A special trophy donated by Pe
kinese Breeder Anna Young, Port
land, will be presented best local
Pekinese. Mrs. Helen Maring,
Portland, will be show Judge.
Adler Files
For Coroner
Dr. George H. Adler today filed
for re-election as County Coroner,
a Job he has held for years.
He will seek the Democratic
nomination and probably will be
the only candidate on the primary
ballot. The Republicans have not
put up a candidate.
- The job of coroner Is paid on
a fee basis and the duties include
Investigation of violent deaths. The
term Is four years.
Candidate For
the 2nd District, the seat being
vacated by Lowell Stockman.
He probably Is the strongest and
most experienced of the three Re
p ulican candidates for the Job.
The others are State Sen. Sam
Coon of Baker, who has served in
the Legislature one session, and
Lt. Ernest Frederick Hlnkle of
The Dalles, an Air Force officer.
French has been In the Oregon
By WALLACE MYERS
Attractive young Mrs. Vernon Moe, whose husband was
co-pilot on an Air Force transport which vanished in this 1
area Dec. 26 with eight men aboard, says Captain Moe had
premonition that his flight would run into trouble.
And three nights ago, Mrs. Moe had a dream in which
her husband talked to her and mentioned a "landing at ,
day." At that time, Mrs. Moe said she did not know there
was a small town named Day which is in the search area.
When Mrs. Moe did learn of Day, Calif., a small timber
town 80 air miles south of Klamath Falls, she came here to
confer with Air Force and Klamath Air Search and Res
cue men conducting the search.
Mrs. Moe, a petite brunette, and her brother, Bart
Whistler, arrived here from the Moe's Vallejo home last
night. Doug Howser, KASRU pilot, talked to Mrs. Moe lasf
night and agreed to fly her over the Day area tomorrow
morning.
This morning, this reporter, had a long talk with Mrs.
Moe in her hotel suite. The tiny brunette, her bobbed curls '
still tousled from sleep, said she had not given up hope her
husband was still alive. '
"I won't quit hoping until I see something definite
"with my own eyes," she said calmly.
Bus Strike
Set Tonight
SAN FRANCISCO 11 Rnme
3,500 Pacific Greyhound bus driv
ers and station employes were
making preparations to strike at
midnight Saturday night in seven
western states after wage and
hour negotiations bogged down Fri
day. ' The AFL Motor Coach EmDloves
Union informed its members a
strike seemed inevitable and made
arrangements to stop all buses at
station points at midnight if nego
tiations tail Saturday.
Federal Conciliator Omar Hos-
kins met in two emergency ses
sions Friday with company and un
ion officials but no progress was
reported.
The walkout. If carried out. will
disrupt service for approximately
100,000 bus riders in California,
Oregon. Nevada, Arizona, - New
Mexico and parts of Utah ana Tex
as.
The union is asking a five-day 40
hour week, plus pay increases for
both long and short distance driv
ers. The company has offered a 4
per cent Increase on a two-year
contract that would tie wages to
the cost of living index.
Tornado Rips
Tennessee
FAYETTE VILLE, Tenn. Iifl
Red Cross workers, highway pa
trolmen and national guardsmen
probed wrecked homes and busi
nesses and poked among twisted
trees and a snarl of power lines
Saturday looking for more possible
victims of Friday's savage torna
do. The late afternoon ripper left al
least two dead in this South Cen
tral Tennessee town. The Tennes
see Highway Patrol estimated 150
were hurt or burned In the sub
sequent rash of fires.
As heavy clouds scudded low
overhead in the gray dawn, Patrol
Chief W. T. Shelton said, "I don't
see how this sort of a blow could
strike and kill only two people.
"There's no telling how high the
toll would have been had lt hit
early in the morning when the peo
ple were asleep."
Shelton said he had heard esti
mates of damage ranging up to
four million dollars, but added it
was impossible to gauge accurate
ly the extent of destruction. The
business section was raked, but not
hit squarely by the tornado. Shel
ton said 100 houses were destroyed
or damaged. -
Congress
Today
Legislature since 1935.
His visit here Friday and today
was to obtain Information about
tho water and agricultural prob
lems of the upper Klamath Basin,
and he said he would make sev
eral trips -here before the May 16
primary.
Klamath County represents the
largest single block of voters In
the sprawling 2nd district. :
Wik
One hope that the lost c-47 might
be found was dashed yesterday.
Ed Scholer and George Wardell
made a tough ground search on the
slopes of Ash Creek Butte after
Scholer had made a perilous Bkl
plane landing on a ridge high on
the butte.
In leaving the ridge late yeater
day, Scholer had to take off on a
steep slope with strong winds ren
dering his rudder control useless.
SEARCH OFF
An Air Force ground crew was
flown here yesterday from Ham
ilton Field with the intention of
searching this same area but that
search was cancelled this morning
after Capt. B. M. Fletcher bad
conferred with Scholer. The of
fleer said he felt lt needless to
again search the area since lt
was apparent Scholer and Wardell
nad made a complete search.
A B-17 was to come here from
Hamilton this afternoon to return
Captain Fletcher and three men
to their base.
Mrs. Moe said her husband's
foreboding about making; the iU
fated trip was so strong that "he
spent some three hours trying to
get out of making the flight. , ,
,. "Fo.r one thing, he didn't like
the ship (No. 8142)," she said.
"The last thing he said to me
when he left the house was 'Well.
I ll be seeing you if that old bucket
of bolts holds together'," she said.
Captain Moe was Capt. John
O Dells co-pilot on the . flight
which left Travis Field In the San
Francisco Bay area Christmas
night. Moe and O'Dell's mission
was to fly two Air Force men to
Great Falls, Mont., for special
air schooling. v
ROUTINE FLIGHT
They left Great Falls
early the morning of Dec. 26.
In a routine stop at Spokane, Moe
and O'Dell picked up five "Aerial
hitchhikers" (all servicemen! and
took off for their home base at
Travis. .
At 4:17 p.m., that afternoon, the
ship radioed CAA at municipal Air
port here that the flight was pro
ceeding on course at 10,000 feet
above Klamjth Falls. That was the
last time the plane was ever heard
from.
Since then, Air Force and civ
ilian flyers have totalled search
hours believed to have made this
the biggest single plane search
in the nation's history.
Not a trace has yet been found
of the missing ship and it's eight
passengers.
But at least one person, the pretty
little wlfo of Captain Moe, still
think the men might be alive,
possibly holed up In some moun
tain fastness. .
That's why she's hero ... why
tomorrow she is going to fly over
some of the search area herself.
FIIIK
- Chimney sparks and wind result
ed in a fire at the home of George
Norman, 2051 Erie St., Friday aft
ernoon. City firemen said small damage
was done to the roof of the resi
dence. -
Gun Club Shoot
Klamath Gun Club inem
, bers will hold an Oregon
Journal telegraph shoot to
morrow, 10:30 a.m., on Its
.Wocus range.,
Thirty-five clubs In the
state are . entered.