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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1952)
j awl g rA w ryWin -WiTs """ lly FRANK J1CNKINB Rumple oi what' wrong with the World: The central committee of the Soviet communist parly (In Mou ld w) oMeied KroetliiKN today to North Koreans lor COUIIAOKOUB l.Y REFKNUINO THK IN. DKPUNDl'INCm AND TUB FHKI1 DOM OF- THMlrt MOTIIKRIiANO AGAINST FOIlHllON AOOHlfia BOItB, That' purs propaganda. Like niont puro propaganda, lf flnlly liilno front beginning to end. Originally, there was NO North Korea. There wnit no Huilth Koron. It wim nil JUHT KOHICA, Then the lluKalnn dime. In. They colli' mlinlxed Korea as lur south llii) 38111 parallel. Then At the pycholoilcit moment The comminuted North Korean! moved AH AUOKF.BHOH8 Into South Korea to make communists nut of the South Korouu or kill I hem off. After that When .the A00REB80R North Korean found they couldn't hack It and wero laklm a licking Ttie AOOHKHHOIl communist Chinese moved In and Joined the ACIOIUOBHOll North Korean In (iKKreimfva war against Uio South Koreans. This la Ui point: At NO lime have the North Korean been defending the free dom and Independence of their motherland. From Uie atari, they've been waging aggressive war against their brother Bouth Koreans, " The atatement of the central committee of the Soviet communist parly la a PUKE AND UNADUL TERATED UK, put out In the hoiw that II It ! repeated often enough 11 will eventually be believed. Here, I think, U what U happen Ins: In Uitt modern world, which haa n of communism, the tech niques of falsehood are being per fected far more rapidly than the technique of truth. Aa a result, wg are approaching Pie point where NOBODY believe ANYBODY. f How can vou run decent world If nobody any longer believe any body? How can you have PEACE In a world In which nobody believe anybody? How can you have prosperity and good aound bualneu If nobody la any longer willing to take any body' word lor anything? Tor a long, long time, I've had the AWFUL feeling that I can t believe anything our government tells ua. It haa aeemed to me that we have been told only what our government wanla u to believe BO IT CAN HANDLE US la the way It want to handle it. Maybe J m rong. Bui I cer tainly have that feeling. A la a KICKIN1NO feeling. It rob one of ail hope and faith. How can you get anywhere if you can't believe and trust your leader? That' why 1 hve been for Ike from the atart. I have the feeling that I can TRUST blm. In part. It I baaed on hie record which haa been oultandlngly good. In part It la INSTINCTIVE, But Whatever the reaaoni lor II. It la a HOPEFUL feeling. I WANT to have hope. I'm beartalch and bone-weary of doubt, cynlclam and frustration. I want to follow some body I can believe and trust. That' why I'm going to vote lor Ike. State Declares Report Secret WArTHtNOTON 11 The State Department Mid Friday that the controversial official document on Korea cited by Ben. Wayne Morse inf Oregon Is tiil a top secret ' (document In department flies. Morse, who bolted the Republi can party earlier this month, quoted from the paper Monday to show that Dwlght Elsenhower, the Republican presidential nominee, had recommended the withdrawal of American troops from BouUi Ko ra three years before the start of the Korean war. V fiRE BETWEEN THE WALLS .agasaaMMStXaaa ., i douttd by city firtmtn yaitarday ftcrnoon. Firemen said damage was slight, Investigation Starts In Westbrook Case WA8IIINOTON m A "top-to-bottom" Investigation waa under way today Into a government deal to buy nine million dollars of tung sten, already the center oi a poiui cal storm causing rough word on boih nidus of the Atlantic. Dcfimso Mulnriula Administrator Jess Larson who signed the con tract and then canceled It aa chief buyer of critical goods for the gov ernment told a news conference yesterday he la heading the Inves tigation. Larsen said one thing he want cleared up Is why he wss not given an unsigned' letter-contract which disclosed Urnl the tungsten deal involved a o Per cent ice to three men. Court Hears Jailbreak Tesfimdny It was John Brandon. 30-year-old federal prisoner, who slugged brier- man Kcttennerg, turnkey at the County Jail, the night of Oct. 31 when two nrlsoners escsrjed from the lockup, according to testimony heard In a District Court examin ation this morning. A preliminary hearing for three young men charged with assault, armed with a dangerous weapon, In connection with the break was being conducted by District Judge U. H. VaiKtenberg. They are John Brandon. 74- year-old e-sallor who waa being held here for transfer to McNeil Island federal Prison; Robert (Bobby) Krai. 19. held on a mor ale charge; and Don ittelchardt. ii, neid as a deserter Irom the V. 8. Marines, bl liHKNDtll Brandon and Krai got out. but surrendered to Sheriff Hed Brltion a few hour later. Kettenberg waa hospllsllzrd for several days by the Injuries he received during the escape, and appeared In court today with cuts and acara on his head and both eyes' blackened. Tn gl-t ol his testimony was lhat he had opened the door to the Jail tier on the second floor to let two trustees In, and ssw Bran don In a corridor Just bevond the door He testified that he remembered Brandon hitting him In the mouth with his fw. and from then on things were h-.y. but lhat he knew hi beaVy ring of keys hsd been taken away from him and that he waa hit on the head with them. Kettenberg said Brandon waa the only one of the three defen dant be could remember being In the corridor. An Indian prisoner, Ollbert Nel son of Modoc Point, testified that he watched through the door of the Jail bullpen and aaw Brandon h'l Kettenberg on the head with the key ring and kick him In the cheek.. . ' ..-. . He gald be heard Brandon call eut to eomeone: "Are you going?" Then. Nelson tesillled. Krai cam out Into the corridor and Krai and Brandon went downstair. BEICIIARDT In neither man' testimony was there any mention of Relchardt, but District Attorney Frank Alder son hss Indtcsted he believed Relchardt assisted In planning the break. Another .prisoner. Ivan Wllcher, gave the courtroom a laugh when he was testifying to the happen ings of the night. Wllcher related he was a trusty asked by Alderson If anything un usual occurred . there lhat. night, he replied: "Well.no. I don't think o . . . nothing but the Jail break." It waa Wllcher and another trusty who brought Kettenberg out of the corridor after the Jailer had been beaten, and spread the alarm after the break. .Weather' FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California! Partly cloudy with a few brief shower In nearby mountains to day. Fair tonight and tomorrow, with Increasing cloudiness lomor raw. High both day lew to night n. High temp yesterday 57 Law laat night . la Precis' yesterday . Sine Oct. 1 .. .14 Normal for period .. I, a Same period last year ...!. t (h Superior Troy dry cU.ning .iiiiiPlJMljyiinwii i il il m in in n .wiwiiwiiii. mn J One of tbe three. Col. tawrence Westbrook, wss fired Wednesdsy night ss a Democratic Nstlonsl Committee official. Democratic Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell or dered the dismissal. The new York Herald Tribune story called the case "the biggest S per center desl ever exposed In Washington." NO EVIDENCE Lsrsen said he hs found no evi dence thus far of "wrongdoing or iiuiuence" in nia agencies in con nection with the contract for tung sten, a scarce metal used In steel production. Ho said' he will publish II minings and, u mere aopears lo be wrongdoing, will refer It to the Justice Department. Westbrook, it research and devel opment engineer and former Army man. had been the Democratic committee's llsison with members of Congress since Isst Jsn. 6. Re cently he hsd been working r he Texas slate campaign for Democrstlc national ticket. WDniuruu. v.iu his xidikiu 11 bune from Dallas he hsd done noth Ing wrong. He blamed the contract cancellation on an International group which he said wanted to sell nirsteglc materials to the United Hiales at a higher price than his client, a Portuguese firm cslled Companhla Atlanllca. One member of this rival group, Westbrook said, was Brig. Gen. Tom B. Wilson, European director of the Defense Materials Procure ment Agency headed by Larson, 8TATEMKNT In London, Wilson Issued a state ment last night saying Westbrook "has talked himself Into a law suit." The statement ssld In part: "I have been Informed tliat I have been mentioned In a state ment given to the American press by an individual named Westbrook as having been associated with an 'International gang' formed for the Durnose of electing Oen. Elsenhow er and cashing In on the United Slates government program for procuring strategic and critical materials. "The chsrge Is a vicious and unmitigated He." Wilson said be does not know Westbrook and hss "no stake what ever In the outcome of the pending elections." Oen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, the Republican candidate for president, said In a speech at New York City yesterday that the case b the "sort of crookedness (that) goes on and on In Washington." Joker Fires KU Bonfire Klamath Union High School stu dents were angrily seeking a fire bug today. For days, spirited KU student roamed the alley and trash heap gathering acrap wood for a bonfire. The big blase waa lo highlight a pep rally tonight before the KUHS - Orant Pa grid gam Yeaterda. boxes. crates and board were piled Into a email In flammable mountain along aid Kit Carson Way. Then, later last night, came the treacherous firebug who fired tne big woodpile off ahead of time. City firemen were called and tried valiantly to save the rally tire itaek but when the flames were subdued a goodly part of the wood was in ashes. . But there' still enough wood for quit a blase and student were busily engaged today In gathering more. The bonfire will be touched off again tonight, 7:30, and there will be guards posted todsy to keep tbe firebug away. KF Leads In Traffic Safety ' Klsmath Fslls this year contin ued through September to be one of the nation's safest traffic cities. From Chlcsgo todsy, the Asso slated Press reported the National Safety Council listed Klsmath Falls as one of the three cities of comparable size In the U. S. which hsd not hsd a traffic fatal ity during the first nine months of this year. The other two cities In the 10,- 000 to 35.000 population class which mstched the Klamath Falls record were Klngsport, Tcnn., and Ven tura, Calif. The Safety Council said the na tion's September traffic death toll waa tire per cent lower than In the same month last year. How ever, there were only four week ends In this psst September ss compared to fire In September, 1951. and 1.400 persons were killed In traffic accident last month. iraAvyiiwi V"" plant en Kl.m.th'Av.nua w.l fa Cents Page KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1952 Telephone till . No. 2960 &.. .... .. .: .... CLEAN SWEEP 7 T,wo all-Important football battles ar billed for Modoc Field here this weekend. Tonight, the Klamath Union High School Pelicans square off with the defending itata champions, tha Grants Past Cavemen. A win forth Pali would cinch the District 6 championship for tha home team. Tomorrow evening, tha nation's No. I junior college combine, the Boise College Broncot, tsk tha field against Oregon Tech's Owls. Tha Broncos, being considered for tha Junior Rosebowl, face perhaps their toughest foe In the high-flying Owls. A win for tha Owls would focus bowl attention on them. Kickoff time for .both games is 8 p.m. , Yilson Says ODM Political CINCINNATI I Former De fense Moblllter Charles E. Wilson ssld Thursday night the moblllso Hon aaencv was allowed to become subject to duress on the part of organised labor "clearly for polit ical reasons." He snoke at the dinner meeting of the Cincinnati Post of the Amer ican Ordnance Assoclstlon. Wilson quit as defense moblli- ser lsst March after a dlssgree- mem with President Truman on settlement of the steel wage-price dispute. Wilson saia ine unite or in tense Mobilisation was founded on broad and complete grant of power by the President to the di rector. . The fatal mistake was when the President withdrew that grant tn time of crlsl and test as repre sented by the steel strike." Wilson said "ni President of the United Slates should be able to endanger the nations' economic health or It ability to defend It self by his own act or nis isuurc to act In a crisis." He described the Korean war as a sacrifice of "human lives ton a sickening scsle and yet We are told, olticially, that we are not at war." Wilson said "that Is technical distinction without meaning, . par ticularly 'to the bereaved family or to a wounded man." , Allies Assault Triangle Hill SfiOUL Wt' United Nations tronni strueirled toward the crest of Triangle Hill In a cold, slashing rain today after twice losing the vital Korean Central Front position to Chinese human wave assaults. But at nightfall the Chinese still held the crest and the Allied Infan trymen pulled back from the close qusrter hand grenade fighting. Ksin ciouas ciearea snn a waxing moon shed a soft, pale light over the death filled ridges. Allied gloom over the loss of Triangle was eased slightly late Friday when about 175 survivors were found of three unit cut off on Triangle. Some were badly wound ed. Their comrades had made an epic death stand against the on- rushing Chinese hordes. AP Correspondent John Ran dolph reported from the front that Red machine gun lire stalled the second Allied counter-thrust In mid afternoon about 160 yards from the muddy crest, ' . ' . SHOOTING HOURS. NOVEMBER 1 '. Open .i:.:....:..:..;...i:09 Close 4:01 Payroll Deduction Plan Said Locally Successful By WALLACE MTEB8 Another striking Illustration of the success of the payroll deduction pian lor support 01 community service and welfare work has been revealed at Klamath Community Chest headquarters, ' Employes of the U.S. National Bank branch here have made a chest contribution totalling 70 per crm more wan las year s amount. Only other contribution already made to the chest this year by employes of a large firm came from Palmerton Lumber ComDany wuraers wno usea 10 payroll de duction Idea to Jump the amount of their contribution 60 per cent aneaa oi last year. Moie than 30 firms In the county employing IS or more employes are In various stages of setting up the payroll deduction clan. If anything like the amount of In creases In giving come from em ployes of these other companies. uic cnest nas a good cnance oi reaching Its goal here for the first Police Take Kidnaper FERNANDINA BEACH. Fla. Wl James Francis Htl and a prison mate were recaptured at nearby Yulle Friday and two of the eiaht persons they kidnaped during an all night race through Florida were ireea. Hill, 31, and his prison pal, James Douglas, SO. were nabbed at a roadblock on U..S. Highway ii, ruuui 4u mnes norm oi jacs. sonvllle. with them as captives were an Air Force man from Tampa. Pfc. Robert H. Tarrh of MacDIU Field and a young woman. Miss Marilyn Cummlngs of Wlnlield. III. The des- peradosswere driving the couple's tar wiien naiiea, ' Their fantastic escanade hetrnn Thursday With Hill fnrclnir Jimmv irisn oi auiiaio, n. x., to drive him to the prison camp near Bar tow. Fla.. where Hill held guards at bay with a pistol and set four men tree. The four were Douglas, Hubert Ounn. Robert Key and Richard Schmidt, All have now been re captured. Hill was the last of three men sougHt for a two-day kidnap dash through Oeorgta and Tennessee during which they held 20 persons ai one lime or anouier. Virgil LeMay, 15, was the first captured and Charles Hopkins, another prison mote of Hill's, was arrested In Jacksonville Tuesday afternoon by an FBI agent who recognisen him at the post office. Both LeMay and Hopkins said Hill was the ringleader. His kid nap victims ssld Hill called him self a "three-gun maniac. " The Oeorgla and Tennessee vic tims were robbed but not harmed. p2 10 Ftei la time In several years. Under the payroll deduction plan, wage earners may contribute to service and welfare organisations by having a few cents deducted from their payeiperiodlcally. The Community Chest Campaign Committee In pushing (or the pay roll deduction plan this year de cided there would be no home-to-home solicitation as In previous years.Thls means there will be no Instances of a worker being solicited at his work and his wife solicited at home. As a mat ter of tact, workers will not be directly solicited at all where the deduction plan Is used. Funds col lected through the . deduction plan are administered by committees of employes who decide how much to contribute Now that larger firms are fa miliar with the plan, the Com munity Chest Wage Earner Conv miuee. neaoea oy Ernie Taylor and Charlie Mack, is turning Its attention to smaller firms. They point out that no firm Is too small to use the plan. One men's cloth ing store, for Instance, with only live employes, put the plan In ef fect several months ago. The plan Is not for the Com munity Chest alone. It Is to be used lor all worthwhile causes. At Palmerton the fund haa been drawn on to aid employee unex pectedly hit by some tough luck. There was the emDlov whn was off Irom work with an Injury when his wile was seriously stricken with an umess requiring special medi cal treatment. The welfare fund committee decided to aid the un fortunate family and did so with money from the fund. Prisoners End Illinois Riot CHESTER. UI. W Convicts ended their four-day rebellion at Menard State Prison Friday and released their seven hostages be fore Gov. Adlal Stevenson carried out plans for making a personal appeal to them. The rebel convicts capitulated after an ultimatum was delivered by Michael Seyfrlt, state director of publlo safety. Seyfrit told the Insurgents, wh.o had been bottled up in the prison's east cell block since Monday, that unless they surrendered heavily armed state troopers would cut through the cell house doors with torches and "use whatever force Is necessary to restore order." After releasing their hostages, the 339 convicts marched back to their cells. Just before this, a loudspeaker had been set up in the prison yard and Gov. Stevenson was expected to Issue an appeal or an ultimatum to the convicts. ( (Earlier story on page 6) COMMUNITY CHEST The chest supports vouth service oqen cies with 2,962 boy and girl members in Klamath County. - n it111 n id f ra Parties Due Modem day Halloween Is noth ing like the old days, but It's prob- aoiy tots more xun to ail persons concerned. Some 2.0W Klamath youngsters today were being treated to school Halloween parlies sponsored by more than a dozen fraternal and civic service organisations. And tonight Instead of the usual trick and treat business, a goodly number of youngsters will act as "Friendly Beggars" and collect household articles for needy fam ilies overseas. Of course, there will probably be little old fashioned skulduccerv mixed In with the rest. There probably always will be. Under the direction of the City Recreation Department, the school parties started last night with a party at Mills school. Conger school has a party planned for this evening under the sponsorship of the Toketee Lions Club, and at KUHS tonight after the Orant Pass game a party Is being sponsored by the Moose Lodge aryf the Parents and Patrons Club. The Moose are pro viding chape rones, and all teen agers In the Klamath Basin are invited. This afternoon the Rotarv Club and PTA are putting on a party at Fairview School which last year drew 575 persons: The Jaycees and Exchange Club are putting on a party at Fremont with the PTA which last year drew 235; VFW and PTA are putting on a party at Pelican School which lost year drew 400. The 30-30 Club and PTA are put ting on a party at Riverside where none was held lost year; The Kiwanls Club Is putting on a party with the PTA at Roosevelt which last veer drew 190. Knights of Columbus and the Sacred Heart Mother's Club are putting on a party this afternoon in the Parish Hnll at Sacred Heart. Last year 175 participated. Keller Refutes Knockdown Ambulance operitor Jim Kaler today angrily denied he was knocked down by a berserk pa tient in Klamath Valley Hospital early yesterday morning. Kaier naa answered a state po lice call to pick up a man In jured in an automobile crackup on the Oreensprlngs. At the hospital, the Injured man who had been un conscious, came to as he was be ing prepared for admittance and began resisting efforts to garb him In a hospital gown. Kaler said he was assisting the nurse when the Injured man sud denly swung on him, landing a stiff punch on the back of the neck, Kaler says the blow was a tough one but didn't floor him as reported In the Herald and News yesterday, The Injured man. Identified by police aa Clarence Hamilton, Beat ty, was later allowed to don his clothes and leave the hospital. Kaier said if the man had struck the nurse as hard as he did him the nurse might have been seri ously injured. Vliite House Denies Any VarShakeup WASHINGTON (ffl The- great campaign debate over sending South Koreans into the line to re place American soldiers In Korea, mushroomed like an atomic ex plosion today, billowing out to To ayo and faris. At Its vortex, the heat of the word battle brought a White House denial that Oen. James A. Van Fleet to being relieved as Eighth Army commander and, from secret Pentagon files, a mass of data showing: 1. Van Fleet's request that South Korean force be doubled from 10 to 30 divisions was opposed as premature by Oen. Matthew B. Rldgway, then United Nations com mander in Tokyo and now su Sreme commander of North At ihtlo Treaty forces In, Parts. RIDGWAY SHAPE UT A SHAPE spokes man said Friday that Gen. Mat thew B. Bidgway will make ao comment on the debate over Gen. James A. Van Fleet' plan to torn over the defense of Ko rea to the Southern Koreans, "That's politics," he added. 3 Rldgway's position was up held by the Joint Chiefs of Stall anci secretary oi uetensa Loveit. 3. Th TJftfn Department ssts It has been carrying out a long- range program to turn over the defense of Korea to the South Ko reans as soon as leaders can be trained and seasoned In combat. 4. oen. Mark Clark. Rldgway's successor in Tokyo, has pursued this program and has submitted a longer-range proposal for fur ther expansion, now being studied at tne pentagon, . PUBLISHED The New York Daily News nub. llshed story today saying Van Fleet was being relieved for writ ing a letter quoted tn a campaign speech by Oen. Dwlght D. Eisen hower, the Republican candidate for president. The. News said tha official or ders are to be kept secret until after the voting next Tuesday. The story added that Van Fleet's suc cessor In Korea will be Lt. Geo, Maxwell D. Taylor, now Armv de puty chief of staff for operation and administration. At Detroit, where President Tru. man's entourage was campaigning for the Democratic ticket. aide said: 'President Truman haa nnt fired Oen. Van Fleet and has no In tention oi iiring mm." Earlier, the Armv and Hplmu Departments and Clark's Tnkn headquarters denied receiving any orders from the White House to relieve Van Fleet Neither Clark nor i Van Fleet, who was ques tioned at Seoul, would comment, A spokesman for Van Fleet said be does not plan to comment. EISENHOWER Elsenhower, on a radln-televi sion broadcast from New York- Wednesday niehL read nart nf Van Fleet's letter in support of his con tention that Republic of Korea troops should man their own front lines as soon as posslhle. The letter, dated Oct, 10, was addressed to Mai. Gen Orlandn C. Mood, Van Fleet's former chief of staff now In Washington, with a copy to Mrs. Van Fleet. The (Continued en Page GORDON (SCOTTY) FRAS ER, ipacial agent for the Fire Attociation Group, Portland, tried .the bird hunting her 4) ii ,.,,.,-,..., ,,... ' '"'V ' ' m : - ' K ',..r, t - , " I foday.
