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Newspaper Page TextS KIOTO CO'JHTY LIBRARY Ma FATAL 1 U Kil 6) Q frrrT if 8 ACMVS KLAMATH MI.I.M, OlIKfiON, II F.N DA V, A 11111, 21, 1053 Telephone 8111 No. 2515 u il VKISIH !L' Mr lr'.. Hill. Colo- K . ii m"v r- . .i llitl our not w iii'i"-- ilrfk llrtrl'iui ' '"" lm ml llw P"1" "'' l"r ninti to ras.rin t. .... , , , .,! r". . ... ....-i ..innate payroll-! . ,.' he Irrtllnu i'.uir, ir ni'v k imu- u Or I'd - "colof'l" ""U' Tl " dfXilor.ilo ml" Kn ... il.. l.ti itiiiltiir 11 bICK " " " . .-..K.ir-x, That "r taWMWil Indian. " '" L IK,! part ul llle great A, I'.wnrr. mill lllr t o ., lit, bring Mibdurd lihi n"i 10 ",v" "lr" li ii:wiv Kii t"r .' ihmi 'Pit pro-itlRYer v Brdiinr forrra were light- nnitol os nr mmi riflulrv FrlY nr iic L, inia u. ni'" '''; tor in t !f..'.nn-i-..- wailr. It '' ",,,r HO afllAWrn, ri") LltKt oldl and U I" 'If"' Hani lor control of Kan- MDcrlAllr Dliirr aim umI rlalhrs bloody. 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VOlKlX flir III. nl.ir.1nl rV Of that liilr, ,ut i rnr, - rmiici Dr Inn.. Tills ... '"unirv no Ionic KI1V trriiililn k....i . .. . ...t. I.." ,. V' "' ' I'tiiB lliu Willi m tlin door, ver Hurt In fhway Plunge iw?,''1 Khininth Fulls innn r til,, ," ""y I'"'!'"! "Ilrr ft "lhwny 97, 0rl 1 of M,l r,.i. nrnii,R i Ullhrnii'V !!",.E:.Sl'-'"'" of hi, r .. l"r w nd W car wh lt Ml m FVflli,u ., ""'"M dlli'li. Ho lii i l l""0' ,'"l""'-d. i."..." '""rl. hfld ln,.o r.n,l bchi "omplulnod or ohiwt IW'Brnrv '""mined In "opiiiil. m or K'mMh ' "J " aiiaaaaJt'i falJ fMaiHiaKai!iaaiiBaaV. ' . - ..a.a'-UttkM Still Poses Big Algoma Dike Break Level Stays Same AlKoma flood waters were still BlinbKL at a atandntlll tndai hut i I I lhpy are expected to rise at least! Kflfllf XTIII another halt-foot which would send IjllllW tjllll them ovrr old U.S. Highway el. " " af Th,. half-foot rise would mean an uuiiiuiibi w acies oi cropiana flooded and probably one or two ranch homes. The Hood water has now levelled ntt at tl, lal nl tlnn triamath lP k i I Lake. But the California Oregon II f" lUIUCi Allf I Power Company throuKh Klamath III I'IVjICi W I District Mgr. Bam Rltchey, said M i inrlo llntr ittnmth n-nnlrl tlmnri certainly rise anothe'r half-foot. William Nrnl Eoff's brother. The power company, through tts Wadr. has brcn located in Polls- nvcr power dams below the lake, ville. Ark., but the body which still i, charged with malnulnlng the poses a vexing mystery lor author-. lake depth at the proper level. Ilii-s hrrc Is to hhlpped back to Maximum level permuted Is 4143.3 ArkullKas tomorrow. I fer.t above sea level Rltchev ex- The body laid In Ward's Funeral ! plained that at this time of year Home here unidrnllfled for several ! It was customary lo allow the lake dav alter il was? found in a mea- ! to approach that level as near ,inu, rt, ih hi. v nnrh in ih. as possible. And the lake Is pres- Klamath Marsh area. Fingerprints cnHy more than half a loot below flnallt, irlcntiriorl lh Iwlv Ihrnnrh ' "'r iiiAiiiiunt. n umc wok buiiiciiujc iiiuis- i day night flooded 820 acres of rich police Uilitcrti w . - , , .m tr o an . FBI llle.i. Still puzzling ft mm m ACK FROM CAPTIVITY Th. first Am.rican POW s b rel.ai.d by th. Rtdi, Carl W. Km ircKauten, aidod by an MP lakei hit irit ita pi at a fraa man at Panmuniom, Hli homatown liiltd i Waihlngtoti H-9Kn, Nw Vwky , : -.v'. 'pZTv " wi Johnny rJlartin Released From POW Camp; Tales Of Death TJlarches Told Today TULELAKE A Ulagram from Major Ganaral William E. Bargln, U.S. Army, dated 5:09 a. m. Waihington D. C. April tl, raachad Mr. and Mrt. Elmtr Martin, Tulalak at 8:25 this morning, confirm ing an aarliar Aitociatad Pratt diipatch that their ton, Johnny had been "delivered by Communist forcet to United Nationt cuttody," in the weekend exchange of pritonert of war at Panmun jom. They had previoutly been notified unofficially by Attociated Prett late latt night. Mr. and Mrt. Martin had little to toy today, except an expression of ' thankfulnett that their ton wat at last back In American hands. Neither ever entertained any idoa that 23-yoar-old John would be among those tent back to United Nation lines. None of the lettert received from him tince Nov. 27, 1950, date of canlure ever mention ed any lllnett. He has been held at an undetermined place, "Camp 3" somewhere in Korea. The family hat been be teiqed .todav with telephone calls from all major papert of the West Coatf but they could add little to the Information that came from the Army. Thev are jutt marking time until their eldest son comes home. A tecond ton, Eddie, wat Inducted Into the tervice about two weekt ago. Bv noni'it r ki'nson t'Dfi-piviM vn.l.AOE. Korea Mi Accounts of Hntnnn-stylo death marches, spinl-stnrvntlon nnd cal culated hriltallly came today from tho second handful of Allied roI dlcrs returned liom Communist prison camps, Aim stories or many more nan- i..,n.,.1.i III IlllflJ .nlrilnr,, aim in Red captivity Indicated tha Com- munlM." do not plan to free all irk ana wounded as tncy naa agreed to do. Today's reports recalled the ahorkrd words "Incredibly smnll" iiilered two weeks ago by Rear Adm. John C. Daniel, the U. N. irucc ileleirate, when the Reds told him too aick and woundrd would be repatriated. The new development suKResled that the communists were lading once again on a aolrinn agreement. 8gl. waller H. Mitchell of Green ville, Tenn., said. "Thrre were quite a lew lell In the hospital at Hie Pyoklong camp. ... 1 would rather they had come than me. . . . They needed medical attention more." The .relumed prisoners said treatment unproved alter the truce talks sinrletl in July. 1951, but var ied slnrc with the ups and downs of the iii-gotlntlons. Death marches over rrozen high ways In biltcr winter weather wcro ri'iHirird by two American soldiers. Pic. Roger Herndon oi iiacasoi. ville. Flu., and Cpl. Orvlllo R. Mulllns ol Covington, Ky.. told of sepiualn agonies In 11)50 and 1951. iiprniimi was raptured m the frigid winter of 1950. He said some 40 American and Turkish soldiers perished In a nino-dny lorccn iiiairh north from Kunu. where Ihc U. S. and Division met disaster In November. 1950. " Of 100 men who sturtcd. only 60 arrived at the Red prison, he said, and related: "Wo wero not allowed lo aiop (or any cause not even to go to the lalrlno. It yoti did, you would havo to look out for yourself. "mm niDht 17 or us wero nut In n small room. Next mornliiir when I woke UP mere wore oniy iwo living." Herndon, wno nail a wowuira hand amputated by Chinese doc- inro nlnlll ,lnVS hPllim tllO march. said many died from pneumonia. lie sain an iney una 10 " lha march was "m 1 1 1 e t and cracked corn, ... one bowl a day." Herndon Just lnughed when asked ir Atinmni in indoctrinate him In communiam had worked. "I've novcr been so happy as to rcaoh freedom today," ho said. Mulllns loin of a marcn norm fen... Dunnovnnii In Annual. 1951. Just ns the truce talks wero be ginning. "wo passed iwe jeepuraos oi nnualaH Rnlrllera 't he nald. "Thev stopped us on the road and tried to get our guards drunk bo they would shoot u." Mulllns said the Russians were armed and In uniform. He said he knew the Russians wanted the guards to shoot because "they made motions." SrI. Mitchell said about 20 seri ous hospital cases wcro left be hind: "Medical attention was no good at all. Very lew guys got any." His story was confirmed by Pvt. Louis Kerksira of Byron Center, Mch., who contracted tuberculos is. "Some of the TB patients In my hospital were In worse condition than 1 was," he said. "The way I see It, they took me because I was in a little better shape and knew we would hit the press first." Treatment of the prisoners va ried widely from place to place nnd time to time. Pfc. Tibor Rubin of Long Beach, Calif., a Hungarian who spent 14 months In a Nazi prison enmp In World War II, said Red treatment was better Ulan the Nazis gave him. "The Chinese treated us much better I'm not Communist, but they did treat me better than the Germans," he said. Cpl. Pedro Herrcra of Mama dera, N. M.. said he was bayo netted In llio head by R prison guard but bin mod lt on a misun derstanding caused by the lan guage barrier. He wos captured in November, 1950. On an eight-day march north, he said, "the wounded died from lack of medical treatment. "Tho guards would take them off and give them hot water about ill) tho medlctno they had." He said that after the Initial atrocity Rtages, conditions In some of the camps Improved. Sgt. Albert L. How-aid ot Nash ville, Tenn., said Hie In the camps "was pretty rough nt first but Inter on It got pretty good when the peace talks started." However, the medleal treatment was still "only fair." Howard and Cpl. Harry Purvis of York, 8. O., agreed that more sick and wounded remain In prison camps. "I guess It's because ot the ride. They were too sick to come," Pur vis said. Purvis hnd a chest nnd stomach ailment. Howard hnd been wound ed In the hand and shoulder when oapturcd. "It sure feels good to be back with the good people again," How ard Bald. was found whvru it was. The body clothed except for shoes and under-! wear, was found almost Iwo miles ! from the nearest road. It was de cided death hnd been caused by "extreme exhaustion. ' Sheriff Murray iRedl Brllton said today he planned to have an exten sive search made of the area where the body was found. The sheruf Is particularly hopeful of finding the missing shoes. There was a flurry of excite ment here last weekend when II appeared for a time the body might be uial of Forrest Wright, missing Kallapell, Mont, pilot. Wright, his sister and her two small children have been missing since they took off In a light plane from Crescent City, Calif., early the morning of April 4. Wrlght'a sister and lather came here and exploded the theory the then unidentified body was that of Wright. Monday morning, the FBI identi fied the body as thai of Eoff. The last known address the FBI had tor Eoff was in Kent. Wash., In November 1951. Mortician Wil- lard Ward checked with the Kent police chief and through him locat ed Wade Eoff in Arkansas. : .!. Newell Camp To Be Closed Tha recently activated Newell priAon camp is tn the proces.i of tMJtnfr closed down," according to Ucoitte Davis. Chief Control Branch, Federal Bureau of Pris ons. A cutback In the budRCt for the coming period which will result tn a tack or funds for projects of this type was Riven as the reason for abandoning the camp which was opened In June ol last year. Some 60-70 occupants of the camp will be moved to other fa cilities, Davis niid. niter all work rehabilitating the site is com pleted. There is still some repair to be done on buildings and mis cellaneous work to be wound up. The bureau of prisons will re tain control of the property. No camp personnel currently qp the payroll will be dropped, but will be transferred to other positions, said Davis. A tentative date sometime in May has been set as a probable closing date. A caretaker will be retained on the site. the new Algoma cutoff. The add1 tlonal 450 acres and threatened ranch homes are between old 97 and the mountains, Water beeping through the old 97 fill has already covered a good deal of the 450 acres. Engineers were to check today to see If U would be possible to keep the seep age off with pumps so the 450 acres could be farmed this season. But if, as it apparently is going to. Upper Klamath goes up another half-foot, pumping would be fruit less, according to George Horne. Home has a Targe portion of the 450 acres as well as a store and tavern and his home in the threat ened area. He said the Tom Brown ranch home and another nearby were In the greatest danger of flooding. WAITING for work this morn ing was Tommy Stenltamp of the South Sixth First Nation al. Tommy just arrived from Bend to take on his new job. Oil Cartel Suit Filed WASHINGTON Wi Attorney General Brownell Monday Hied a major American on companies, civil anti-trust suit aciUnst five major American oil companies. charging; they had participated, to an tniernauooai ou cartel. , The eetlan. flint In h fafletal district court here. Is designed to suosutuie for the criminal anti trust Investigation Involving these live companies and others which former Attorney General James P. McOranery put before a grand Jury here last fall. Brownell proposes to drop the criminal Inquiry tor "national se curity" reasons. The grand Jury proceedlnir In volved more than a score of com panies here and abroad. Tuesday's civil action named as defendants: Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Standard Oil Co. of California. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc., The Texas Co.. and the Gulf Oil Corp. The attorney general said, how ever, that the defendant list may be expanded at some later date to include other oil corporations, domestic and foreign. Firms Okay Fast Time PORTLAND Daylight sav ing lime hours of work will appear In the pacific Northwest again this year, despite Oregon nnd Washing ton laws against the clock shift. A half-dozen Portland firms have announced they will change work Mints Sunday, when British Colum bia and many communities across the continent shift their clocks. State lnws in Washington and Oregon forbid official shifting of the clocks. But there Is nothing to stop Individuals or firms from opening nnd closing an hour ear lier. The Portland City Council will hold n hearing next week on changing city work hours. In Seattle the big Boeing plant announced Its work shifts would be advanced nn hour June 15. of feotlng about 30,000 employes. Some other Seattle firms were re ported ready to follow suit. Among firms to go on changed hours here Sunday will be Stand ard Oil and the Portland television station, KPTV. Several other Ihrns said they might go along, too, Smelt Run On In Sandy River PORTLAND , 11 One ot the largest smelt runs to reach the Sandy Rlvor In years was met Monday midnight by hundreds of dlpncttcrs, The run started Sundoy and con tinued througb Monday, which 1b a closed day. The river's banks were lined with net-holding fishermen when me season opened at midnight. both Dulles Asks Defense Try WASHINGTON w Secretary of State Dulles left for Paris Tuesday with a statement that the Atlantic Allies must press forward with their defense plans regardless of "recent soviet moves." "Nothing that has happened so far Justified any relaxation of ef fort nor any weakening of NATO defenses," "Dulles said. "Instead, there Is good reason to believe that the growing strength of the free world may influence the Soviet Union decisi vely In tlie direction of peace." Dulles heads a four-member group which will represent the United states at a planning ses sion of tnc North Atlantic Al liance, opening Thursday at Paris. The meeting Is expected to pro. duce a cut-back tn American con tributions to Western European aeiense. With Dulles were Treasury Sec retary Humphrey and Harold Stas sen, mutual security director. They will be Joined In Paris by Defense Secretary Wilson and Oen. Omar Bradley, Joint chiefs of staff chair man. ' The porty Is scheduled to reach Paris Wednesday morning. BULLETINS LIGHT VOTE A spot check of tlx precincts earry this afternoon by the Her ald and Newt showed that Just 56 votes had been east, indicat ing surprisingly light balloting on the swimming pool bond issue. There are 1436 total eligible voters In those six precincts, numbers 6, 10. 13, 22. 21 and 29. Of the 56 votes cast. 21 were from election clerks. The polla close at S o'clock tonight. LABOR BILL By PAUL W. HARVEY JR. SALEM uP) The Oregon Sen ate's Labor and Industries Com mittee recommended I la 1 Tl dav an amendment to the H.ttatv aaaaea .avtWeitazttnt bill that will ha mm nttiaeaaei t the' llimi, The action eotehened awpea that the lOO-day-old Legtslatare will 4- jonrn Tuesoay nicni. As the House passed the bin, would ban onions from picketing any firm In which the union was not recomlxed aa the bargaining agent. The Senate committee originally voted to ban picketing which Is done to influence workers to Join a union, but Tuesday voted 4-3 to add the House provision to the bill The Senate is expected lo pass It. Then it will go back to tne House, which probably will vote for the Senate changes. Commies Near Laos Capital HANOI. Indochina (.A The Communist-led Vietmlnh Tuesday drove to within 90 miles of Laos' royal capital city of Luang Pra- bang as French and Laotinn forces waited and hoped for a big show down tight with the invader on a broad plain. One Vietmlnh division which stabbed into Laos from the east along the coast of Annam quickly moved Into the little town of Xlengkhouang after it was evac uated by Franco-Laotian troops and civilians. Just 16 miles north and north west, on the big plain Des Jarres, rranco-Laouan troops, firmly en trenched and supplied by air with all available American-supplied weapons of war. waited for the ex pected Vietmlnh strike. The enemy has already overrun almost one-third of Labs' 90.000 square miles without serious opposition. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and Tlcinlty and Northern California: Partly cloudy tbrouch Wednesday. llifth Wednesday 70; low Tuesday night 35. High yesterday - 67 Low last nieht 33 Preclp last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 11.85 Normal for period 9.97 Same period last year ... . S. Carolina Liner Leaps From Rails By LATIIAN MIMS and ALLEN ALEXANDER DILLON, B. C. 11 A 17-Car streamliner toppled off Its rails near Here Monday night and smashed up Into a mass of twisted steel. Officials said at least five died. Three bodies were removed from the torn cars. Only one, the fire man, was identified. One newspaper reporter who made an early estimate of 10 or 12 dead said he had seen alx bodies. More than 129 Injured were rushed to seven hospitals In near by towns. Rescue sauads stood bv Tuesday as huge cranes tugged at the cars thrown about like matchstlcks. Passengers aboard the Atlantic Coast Line's Miami to New York Filer were pitched about shortly before midnight. General confusion f Howed. Those able to move grabbed clothing, pocketbookj, and bag gage. They rushed out through the frosty night, some barefooted some half clothed. Somebody built a big bonfire In a collard patch. Scorea huddled about the fire until they could get rides into town. Some of the Injured lay for hours pinned In the shattered cars of the Atlantic Coast line's fast passenger "si boast unampion. Skilled rescue workers -aiii from their beds used etvin. torches to reach the victims. Doc tors crawled after them. itrin first aid and sometimes operating oywv w iree uie injured. More than 25 ambulances, re cruited from far and wide In this Northeast South Carolina tobacco secuon, maintained a steadv u. rade to and from half a dozen swamped community hospitals. Part of the train caught fire and the burning oil, emergency lights and cutting torches cast a weird glow. The wreck occurred shortly be fore midnight, 2 miles south of Dillon, 12 miles south of the North i-aronna line and only about 25 miles from Rennert, N. C, where two CL passenger trains crashed uec. it), 1IM3, killing; 73 persons and Injuring 187. Roaring northward through the night, tne train carried an esti mated 300 passengers, many cat them vacationers retuilliaej 'rora a winter Id Florida, , , . i . - Thai sericmsly-lnlureo' engineer, B. B, Sweeney of Rocky Mount, "N.C, told Sheriff Pete Rogers he didn't know what happened. He said a freight train covered the same stretch only 10 minutes be fore the Champion derailed. The train's fireman, Charlie Hunt, also of Rocky Mount, died in his flaming locomotive. His body was cut out. with torches. Five coaches, seven Pullmans, two diners, two lounge cars and a baggage car comprised the streamliner. Eleven overturned and six remained upright. Dozens of passengers were trapped In the overturned cars. Joe Dabney of the Florence Morn ing News, one of the first reporters at the scene, said the five day coaches on their sides "apparent ly are full of passengers unable to get out." Mrs. Frank Htcken of Spring field, Mass., lay pinned in the wreckage for nearly five hours. She Joked with her rescuers until a doctor reached her with a hypo dermic. She was dug out Irom be neath a car at 4:12 a.m. and taken to a hospital. A surgeon was lowered Into one of the telescoped coaches to cut off the left leg ot a woman in an effort to free her. Dabney said: "In one coach 1 saw three people pleading for help. It seemed impossible that anything, could be left of the legs of any ol them. "Wonderful first aid assistance was given by several sailors who were In the seven passenger cars behind the locomotives." Darwin Gardner ot Boston who was In the last car, said: "There were three bumps and then lt sounded like an earthquake Just before we left the track." Philip McCabe, sailor from the Parris Island. S. C, Marine re cruit depot, reported there were four dead In his Pullman. Dabney said he counted six dead, one of them a Negro porter whose body was removed only after two men worked 30 minutes with axes. VISIT FONTAINEBLEAU, France Ml U. S. Secretary of Defense Wilson and Secretary of the Army Stev ens visited the headquarters of the Allied Air Forces in Central Eu rope here Tuesday. Then they took off on n whirlwind trio to French 14.22 1 and American air bases in France. US Carrier Planes Rip Red Lines In Heartbreak Hill Area; Buildings Hit SEOUL IAt U. S. carrier planes' today smashed Communist posi tions less than a mile ahead of Allied lines In the Heartbreak nnd Sniper Ridge sector of Eastern Ko rea. Ground-based U. N. warplanes struck deep Into North Korea, at tacking a Red airfield and supply lines. Only light patrol contacts were reported along the 155-mile ground front as another group of sick and wounded prisoners of war were ex changed at Fanmunjom. The Navy said planes from the carriers Orlskany and Princeton struck Red positions near Sniper and Heartbreak Ridge to break up a possible Communist probing attack. Eleven Okinawa-based B29 Su pertorts hit the repaired Taechon airfield 12 miles southeast of Ku song and the Namsi airfield in Northwestern Korea. Three Super forts unloaded their bombs on Sin gl, a supply base In the same gen eral area. U. S. Fifth Air Force Thunder- Jets and Australian Meteor Jets at tacked two Red supply and person nel buildup areas 20 miles north of Chorwon on the Central Front. Returning pilots said they flat tened five buildings and shelters, touched off four secondary explo sions among ammunition stores and started sx bg frcs. Nlghtflylng B26 bombers touched off 12 "very large" explosions and 50 to 60 smaller ones before dawn In a strike against a Communist vehicle assembly area southwest of Kllchu In Northeastern Korea, the Air Force said.