Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, March 21, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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nut
KNKINK
I you feel about
tuch stirred up
ly-McCnrreii-ll.
tattle against
lOhleii, whom
Mr net noml
pmbaAtador to
Ml of Che three
M Bohlen tnms
(' young career
Jts Rulan flu-
m FDR's ln-
fcal simple fuel
dN.
feters In action,
ble people who
taruage 10 com
ech other. Iliey
a. nmi ana noin
ilk, Bohlen'i Job
mi Eiujiinn Wllal
Mylnir and to
jln Russian what
'policy maker. If
end able on Ike
.tntly think he is,
I he iiw l Yalta
W8TED him will)
fined him In the
ret agreement
aren't the way
' foreign policy,
h a logical conclU'
Vie exception of an
eernat named Ken.
tns to be our beat
dly on Russia. He
I 8TUDYINO Rus-
no reaaa roe nuv
terfeclly. That In
enportant. How are
tow what la going
: country unless you
t- tnat county a ian
npltie and perfect
rented by President
ur ambassador to
verhaot they were
cause ho know too
an. rouiuy inej
ohlen or the same
a refute t
I ike folic
of Ilia aec
refuse to eocept
following the
secretary of
(Omlaated Bohlen as
tr to Ruaala. Hit
fbvloualv to get the
urian available for
r important joo. '
me It la a QOOD
I have more respect
UEIsenhowtr'a mo
ilen bualneaa than
of McOarUiy and
(Bridges. .
Jarthy la an lndlvl
(la reasonably ap
a time that he Is
fllonljt. I must con
Jtan probably done
( good. By hammer
rat the commies and
Were and the pinkos
fceded In Infiltrating
Bt, and particularly
trtment, he aroused
pace of them. That
It. But he's a queer
tarren Is certainly an
Bid an exhibitionist,
told against senator
(personal and pros
unjustified prejudice
ho part their names
II know that Is silly,
bast worthy of note
toby, who la Bridges'
I who la also a sin
f somewhat narrow
(thinks Bridges Is all
losing Bohlen, and
4e to say so,
It at Issue la getting
Ufled man available
sador to Moaoow.
4d what It la today,
ilBLY Imporunt, .
JON, N. J. ln-A 32
f farmer and nine
his family lost their
ad-on highway crash
I they were on their
I weoklv shopping.
aedan was crumpled
with a trailer truck
i highway In Warren
aid It was one ef
Iflo accidents In the
Jersey.
tent were Clarenoe
I operated a M-cow
f rural Sliver Lake,
I, Alma; three daugh
h Joan, s, and Rose,
tpn, Clarence Jr., 1,
Rlsabeth, 7S, and Ms
rsce, 48, and Mary,
Raymond, the only
e family taken from
filed in a. Warren
KLAMATH
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WHIN THIS 110 MEISHT Rl jackknlfed and ovtrrurned on
tho hilltop curvo at Klamath Viaw Auto Court uit louth of
town ihortly after midnight lait night, traffic wet badly
narltd for houri. Sam Campagna, Portland, drivar and owner
of tha rig, would not allow It to bo moved until an iniuranca
adjuittr could Invaitigato. Until the rig'i tractor unit was
moved tho icy highway wa alm'oit completely blocked and
30 Airmen
OAKLAND. Calif. fat-A four-en-glned
transport plane crashed and
exploded In a ball of tire south of
here last night, killing 30 airmen
passengers from a Roswell, N. M
base and five civilian crew mem
bers. .
The plane, a Transocean Air
Lines D04, struck a hill nesr De
soto Just a few minutes after It
cleared for a landing with tile Oak
land Airport. Decoto Is the ares
of California's worst air disaster
50 killed in the crash of a United
Air Lines plane under similar cir
cumstances Aug. ii. 1MI. That
plane, too, was about to land.
Alsmeda County Sheriff's Capt.
Richard E. Condon at the scene of
the Transocean crash ssld there
were no survivors.
HEAVY DRIZZLE
Eyewitnesses tsld the aircraft,
flying through s drlsile. smashed
Into the hill, broke into bits and
then burst Into flames.
Mrs. Henry Andrade, who lives
only 300 yards from the crash
scent, aald she heard a crash and
then a series of explosions. She
ran as close to the burning plane
as she could. '
"I saw men with their clothes
on fire some on the ground
some trying to get up. staggering,
falling back into the flames.
Alameda County sheriff's of
ficers said bodies could be seen
burning within the portion of the
fuselage that remained intact. The
wreckage of the plane was scat
tered over a quartermlle radius
In the soft, newly-plowev Held
where It fell. .
The civilian crow Included two
stewardesses. The 30 airmen wore
from Walker Air Force Base. The
Air Force said tho airmen were
support and maintenance special
ists en route to tho Far East for
a tour of duty with the 600th
Bomber Wing. The wing's, loca
tion was not disclosed. . -
jr. Nine Members Of
y, Wiped Out In Car
kOn New Jersey Road
hospital early this mornlng-on
his eigntn oiruiuj.
Two men In the truck escaped
uninjured, They were the driver,
John scsrantlno of Scranton, P.,
and the owner, Lawrence Butler
of Dunmore, Pa, . '
Scsrantlno, daed and horror
stricken, was booked at stste po
lice barracks here on a technical
charge of causing death by auto.
Butler told police his truck was
following a coal truck going north
on the highway when the coal
truok put on its brakes and pulled
over to the right shoulder of the
road, .
Then they saw a car coming
straight at them, Butler said, and
Scsrantlno pulled across the left
lane onto the left shTOder to try
to avoid the oar. .
But the car also pulled for the
same (houlder, Butler reported,
and the vehlclet collided., ., ..
FALLS, OKEOON, SATURDAY,
At Beatty; Suspects Held
A young Indian man still uni
dentified at noon wu beaten and
stomped to death early this morn
ing in a nouse at seauy, ana two
persons are temporarily held in
custody at Beatty in connection
with the brutal slaying.
The man appears to be In hts
lata 30a or early 30s, and possibly
may not be a member ot tne
Klamath tribe. ,
Officers Investigating the crime
put two Indians, Francis Alvin
Hutchinson. 3D, and Ellen Foster,
M. 'In Jail at Beatty for question
ing.
The slaying occurred at Ellen
Foster's house, located back of
the Frank Schmidt store and near
the Jail, right In town at Beatty.
Apparently the victim died around
midnight or shortly afterward.
Blue Book
Draws Fire
bat.fm ii A legislative com'
mltiM is KOlim to confer with
Secretary of State Earl T, Newbry
to try to get the Oregon Blue Book
Improved. ..,
Ren. Francis Zlesler, Corvallls,
nromlsed that his Ways and Means
Subcommittee would look into the
matter after Rep. Monroe sweet
land. Milwaukle. launched a sharp
ettock on the book as -being
obsolete, carelessly edited, and
only of limited use. - ' -
THA hOOk COniHinillK 1UIU1IIIUUUI,
about Oregon and Its state and
local ' governments, is puDiisneo
every two years.- The next edition
WIH oe printea ibib nus ycm.
RuiMitland. cnllinir the Blue Book
" verv Inferior lob." said It Is
useless because It comes- out long
after elections, uonacouemiy, c
said, the current edition "has
hundreds of names of officials who
nn InncrAH are in office."
He asked that It be printed at
the end of each year in wwen
there Is a general election,
"Then, have been many criti
cisms made of tho Blue BookA"
Sweetland said,, "but none has had
.., tl-rt it is ed bv thousands
of people, but it is only of limited
"'sweetland aisb complained that
the Oregon state map In the back
of the book is almost useless.
"This map has only the federal
highways, and doesn't have Import
am cities on It. In my county, for
Instance, Gladstone, Milwaukle,
Molalla and Oak Drove aren't even
on the map." .
Hla remarks were made In
connection with a ai,000 appro-
Krlatlon for the Blue Book He aald
a wasn't opposing the appropria
tion, but that he Just wanted to
see If something could be done.
Rep. David Baum, LaOrande,
aald "there I" some Justification
In Mr. sweetland's remarks. I
suggest that he Introduce a resolu
tion outlining the Improvements he
thinks should be made."
MARCH II, MU
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tovaral can attempting to gat around wont Into tha ditch.
Campagna'i brother, Joo, wat aslee'p in tha cab't bunk whan
tho wrack occurrad. Nalthar of tho brother! wat injured.
Campagna laid ha want Into a (kid when he braked the rig
because an approaching car wat (kidding into the wrong lene
ahead. The freight van wa( loaded with produce. .
Reservation Officer Walt Wents
was called at 3:03 a.m. by another
Indian, Ted Barney, 33. who said
there had been a killing and that
he was a witness. 'XK "
Barney was quoted' as saying
that "they" were going to get him
next, and that he had run away.
Just who the "they" were hasn't
been determined.
Went! called the County Jail
here, and an FBI man and a
State Policeman went out to the
scene. They were gone all morning.
The dead man's body was found
on the floor of the Foster home,
clad in levis and rubber boots. A
flannel shirt had been pulled down,
and a bandanna was tied tightly
around his neck.
. He had been kicked and beaten
around the head, face and chest
until he was virtually unrecognis
able. There was a deep gash under his
chin, the mouth was badly lacer
ated Inside and several upper teeth
were kicked out. the right ear was
torn and the head was a solid
mass of bruises.
Dr.' George H. Adler, coroner,
said the beating the man took was
"the most vicious" he had ever
seen In his 30 years as coroner.
He performed an autopsy - at
Ward's Funeral Home and deter
mined that there - were no bone
fractures, that' a severe brain
hemmorhage was the cause of
aeatn.
Dr. Adler said it appeared to
mm mat tne man nad Been stomp
ed and kicked with hlnh-heeled cow.
boy boots. Probably, he. said, the
beating continued long, after the
man "was unconscious or dead.
Officers followed bloody boot
tracks out of the house over to
the residence of Francis Hutchin
son, and found Hutchinson In bed,
sieep or passed out irom drink.
His clothes were blood-ltalned. '
Mrs. Foster had . gone to bed
at her house. Asked if she didn't
see tne aead man on the floor.
tne woman said she did, but
thought he was sick.
Officers found two empty whisky
bottles in the house, another out
side, ana several empty beer bot
ties.
The Klamath Indians received
per-oaplta pay checks Thursday
DuEsih
MAUN BOY INJURED
Clyde Bashaw, It, was reported
serleualy injured in an aatemo
blle wreck H mile teata ef Malta
about 1:3 this a Mermen, A ear
driven by Jake Taylor, another
Malta teenager, went eat ef con
trol and sheared off aeveral fence
pests. The ear waa eeM e have
been ahatat completely tnaal
lahed. Young Bashaw received
emergency trealaaent at Malta
and was given a Meed tranafu
'n. He was. being kreaght to
Klamath Valley Hospital here at
: prose tune. -
No. tm
ft
American hts
. SEOUL, '(if Allied Sabre Jets
today shot . down five Communist
MIGs and damaged seven others
in the skies over North Korea.'
Two American pilots downed
their 10th MIGs and became dou
ble aces during the furious air
battles. ,
Capt. Manuel Fernandez jr.' of
Miami, Fla., and Capt, Harold I.
Fischer Jr. of Swea City, Iowa,
each raised his MIO destruction
score to 10, the Fifth Air Force
said. , -
Fernandez shot down two MIGs
this afternoon while Fischer shot
down one. ,
On the ground, there were only
sporadic clashes between mud
cakeM soldiers as . steady rain
soaked the 155-mile battlelronl
until near dawn.
Allied fighter bombers sliced
through clearing skies to strafe
and bomb the Communist front
and Just behind the Red lines.
Twenty American Superforts
blasted Red troop and supply
centers In North Korea during
darkness.
First Lt. Richard P. Guidrez,
from Louisiana, made two M1G
claims one downed and one dam
agedhis iirst of the war.
He got the first MIG and sent
flames streaming out of the Red's
tail pipe. Guidrez then went after
another MIO that was on the tail
of his flight leader and opened
up. With one MIO down , and an
other damaged, the Reds broke
off the fight and fled..
The Fifth Air Force announced
today that last week's air battles
resulted in five MIGs downed, one
probably and two more .damaged
In sky battles . that caught no
Sabre Jets. However. Red ground
gunners downed two Thunderjets
during the , week and - two more
Thunderjets and a propeller driven
Marine Skyraider were lost to
other causes. . -,
1111
Girls Stage Moor Riot
in California School As
National Guard Alerted
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (1 The
riot-ridden Los Guilocos School for
delinquent girls quieted to an un
easy tenseness during the night,
but Calitornia.Youth Authority Di
rector Hemaff . Stark called the
situation, a potential powder keg.
Police threw an all-night cordon
around, the school grounds follow
ing two riots In the past 34 hours.
Stark had received an okay from
Gov. Earl Warren to alert a com
pany .of National Guard troops
from Santa Rosa in case of an
emergency. But they have not been
ordered on to the school grounds
yet.
- Police said the 160 teenage girls
are still uncontrolled. Many are
armed with knives and broken
glass, officers added. .
School officials were overheard
commenting that the recent break
up pf a homosexual ring may have
incited the riot.
The ftrnt riot broke out at dinner
time Thursday when 16 girls,
Zapotochy
Takes Over
Czech Reign
' VIENNA, Austria '(ft Antonin
Zapotocky, ((.year-old former Na
si concentration camp trusty want
ed by the Dutch on war crimes
charges, was elected Communist
President of Czechoslovakia Sat
urday. Prague radio announced the rubber-stamp
Catch Parliament vot
ed unanimously, 311 to 0, to put
the one-time trade union leader
In the seat vacated Just a week ago
by the death of President Klem
ent Gottwsld.
Oottwsld, M, caught a fatal cold
at the funeral ef Joseph Stalin in
Moscow, according . to Communist
announcements..
The deputies, summoned Friday
to a session to elect a President,
learned only after they got Into
the hall- who was to be the nomi
nee.
Then It was announced the Cen
tral Committee of the Communist
Party and the Communist-domi
nated national front proposed .la-
potocay, a me - long revolutionary
and union boss who got only an
elementary education In his youth.
CHEERS
The announcement by Deputy
Prime Minister Vilem Slroky was
greeted by loud cheers, and Zap
otocky was sworn in within IS
minutes.--.. .. .
The supreme- Soviet, In Moscow,
had more notice when it was call
ed upon Just last Sunday to con
firm Georgt Malenkov as Stalln'a
successor as Prime' Minister. Mal
enkov had previously been chosen
by the higher echelons of the par
ty and government and had been
In office nearly 10 days when the
Soviet Parliament was called upon
w runner stamp mm-
The Csech Central Committee
also proposed to Zapotocky that
Vilem Slroky be the new premier.
Prague radio also announced the
Central Committee had appointed
Antonin Novotny to head the par
ty secretariat, another Job former
ly held by Gottwsld. Novotny was
madeia member of the tight - man
Politburo In December. 1051. The
broadcast disclosed to toe outside
world for the first time that be
has been a vice-premier, and said
he would keen that Job. -
. Zapotocky has been premier
since shortly after- the Commu
nists seized "Power in February,
1943, by threatening Eduard Bon
nes, the atlina and aginc Presi
dent, with bloodshed y: and forcing
mm to agree to an au-oeamuma
PORTLAND un Liouor by the
drink will be available in Oregon
by May 4 if Oov. Paul Patterson
signs the' DUl Which nas seen ap
proved by the Legislature. He has
said he will sign.
That was the report-Friday of
the State Liquor Commission which
met here to discuss enforcement
and administration policies.
The proposals included:
Establishment of three additional
liquor commission warehouse at
Roseburg, Grants Pass and Med
ford. Licensing as many is possible
of the state's olanned BOO liouor-
by-the-drink outlets to open for
business at the same time.
Establishing the policy that den.
slty . of . licensed premises which
cannot exceed one per 3,000 popu
lationwill be determined on a
state-wide basis. Some areas will
have more outlets than their popu
lations would allow . and others
fewer.- ;-
Decided that use of liquor bought
outside the state or use of illegally
distUled liquor, will be -punished
by confiscation of equipment and
revocation of licenses.-
Announced that applications for
licenses ms,v be obtained Monday
from the commission or from its
inspectors. .
Weather
FORECAST Khunath Falls and
vicinity and Northern California:
Partly etsndy through 8u!ay with
high ef 4. Lew Saturday night M.
High yesterday ............................ 33
Lew last night 34
breaking windows, overturning
tables and rlooina window soreens,
made a 'break for freedom, They
were all captured within hours.
Inmates who didn't participate In
the- riot and . supervisors were
threatened by ringleaders, school
authorities aald.
- In the second flareup the 15 girls
broke out of a maximum security
compound lust after noon yester
day. They wrapped sweaters
around their fists and smashed
windows,'' and .armed themselves
with eats silvers ana xnives,
which they took from the school
kitchen. '
Other girls broke out in groups
of two and three each, but were
aantured.
California Youth Authority offl-
eera aald thev would seek a court
order to ship six ringleaders to
tne Sonoma county jan ana an.
other t ti tha Nana state hospi
tal where they could be held In
maximum eocurityv
lis
Groo By Gloss
Du0nMay4
Outr m Craft;
7 fas
Br FRED HAMPSON
HONO KONG 11 A 43-foot sail
ing boat flying the American flag
and carrying two U.S. newa and
radio correspondents and five oth
ers was captured Saturday by a
cninese communist armed vessel
between Hong Kong and Macau,
the Royal Navy Observatory said
Friday night.
The craft was towed toward
Russ Chief
Resigns As
Secretary
MOSCOW W Prime Minister
Oeorgl M. Malenkov, new chief of
the Soviet government, has ' re
signed his post as secretary of the
Russian Communist party's power
ful Central Committee. A five-man
Secretariat, headed by former
Ukrainian party boss Niklta 8.
Khrushchev, takes over.
Tbe change was announced today
by Pravda,' the party's newspaper.
It said a plenary session, of the
Central Committee accepted Mal
enkov's resignation March 14.
The announcement made It clear
that the 58-year-old Khrushchev,
who gained a reputation for firm
policies in the Ukraine, will de
vote bis full time to the task of
administering the party. He wiu
operate under the leadership of
the committee's 10-member Pres
idium, which is still headed by
Malenkov.
FULL ATTENTION
The new setup will allow Mai'
enkov to concentrate full attention
on his post as prime minister.
The four other members of the
new Secretariat were listed today
probably in their order of Impor
tanceas: -..
Mikhail 8uslov. L former party
leader -in the . North Caucasus and
Lithuanian republic and . recently
editor-in-chief ot Pravda.
Peter Poepelor. ax-Pravda editor
who Ion headed the- Murx-Engels-
Lentn tnautnto a a, weaise; uwore-
dldau to too Secretariat.
Serron Irnstlev. . 40. veteran
party worker -and former. depaUy
In tne Moscow soviet.
Mystery Ace
Blasts Reds
SEOUL If) An American Sa
bre jet pilot who tiles against Com
munist MIGs under a cloak of per
sonal secrecy may become an
anonymous Jet ace.
For personal reasons, the pilot
doesn't want his name revealed
by the Air Force. -
He already has shot down three
more and damaged two already
a record that lew sabre puots
reach in Korea. !. : .-'
The only thing officially reveal
ed about the secretive pilot Is
that he files with the Fourth Fight
er Wing and that he has "30 or
40 missions" to go before com
pleting his combat tour. -
ouicers at tne wing say toe
anonymous phot is well Uked by
fellow fliers but his Identity is a
secret.
With two more MIGs, the "secret
pilot" will be an ace.
There has been - a nanaiui of
combat pilots In Korea flying
Sabre Jets and fighter - bombers
who have wanted to keep their
names secret.
s&ll.s
LITTLI STIVIN ICCLES had a bad cold thl. morning and hit
mother, Mn, Ivan Eccles, 3l)S, Vyhite, . brouqht him' down'
town to ( doctor. i ',-:..: :.';.-
Ab-sd
Communist controlled
ind. It milts west of
Kong, the Navy reported.
Tne crart was believed to be tha
yacht Kert, owned by U.S. news '
paper and radio correspondent Ri
chard Apptegate of Medfortf, ore.
A pp legate, accompanied by In
ternational News Service, corres
pondent Den Dixon left Hong Kong
Saturday morning en a projected
aim oay sau to aaacau. may
planned - to pick up International
Newt Photo Service . photograph
er David Cicero .at Macau for
the return trip.
Tne otner nve nasaeneers were
not Identified but reportedly in
cluded n reservist in the u. S.
Navy.
ii was' not immedlatelv clear
whether the boat -was on Its way
to Macau or -returning to Hong;
Kong at the time of captu.
was about five miles off Lantao
Island.
Lantao is six miles due west of
Hong Kong and along the main
route to aaacao, air mues cus- :
tant from the crown colonv.
EASTERN DUTY .
Apptegate came to Hong Kong
recently after covering the war in
Korea for several montha for the
United Press. He- resigned from
the news agency In Tokyo and baa
been representing the National
Broadcasting Co. here. ' - ' -
He purchased the Kert, a yawl
and was outfitting ft for world
cruise, t . .
Dixon and Cicero arrived In
Hong Kong from Formosa for n
holiday before returning to assign
ments in Korea.
The Royal Navy said lt obser
vatory on Lantao Island saw -the
sailing craft intercepted about
5:35 p.m. and taken in tow toward
Lapsamai, about 10 miles farther
west from Lantao.
The . observatory lost sight ef
the two vessels aa they neared
the Communist isle.
In New'Tork, spokesmen '.for .,"
United Press and the Internatlonl
al Newa Service aald they had been
unable so far to ascertain def
initely whether the two staff tpem
bers wen aboard the -boat.
Arnoia Dlbhttr UP day bureau-
Kart, M -t thki "'.
ney. aald h had cabled enteral
sources to try to detanune tt Ap
ptegate was Involved, out ao far '
had no further Information, v
Applegate, 37, has worked' for
the UP for it years, and former
ly was CP's Southeast Asia man
ager with headquartera at Salfroo.
He was in the Navy in World War
n. returned to the CP Row York
Offices, and went back to) ton Par
Sasv m tne tail of 1NI.V
Reed Prexy
States Policy
PORTLAND l If the colleen
differs from the business world.
that is well ana good, Dr. Duncan
S. Ballantlne told Reed College on
his Inauguration as Reed president
here Saturday.
"It is trie diversity or its pur
poses which makes a society dem
ocratio . . . The unity of. a free
people does not depend upon their
uniformity," he said. 1
"There is no more sense in a
society made up of identical parts
than in a football team composed
entirely of quarterbacks or left
tackles . . . If our oft-professed con- ' . '
cem for the individual means any
thing, we must be willing also to
accept individuality being differ
ent." '
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