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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
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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.
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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 '.
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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
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