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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1953)
fnW7 n fnifnifpR own pr rrrL i Jti .-, ! The Day's Jews ," Br FRANK JENKINS Russia shoots down an American , bomber.' she claims It was violat ing Soviet territory in Siberia. We y it was 40 mUes out at sea, international waters. So (presumably to balance the record) Russia claims we shot down a Soviet passenger vplane just before the Korean shooting (topped. She claims the passen ger plane was clear up in red China, ijiorth of the Yalu. We claim It was down in the war ion in North Korea, far south of the Yalu, and had no business to be there. Did you ever hear one small boy say to another: "My pop can lick your pop." In such cases, the second small boy (to have his dignity) retorts: "He can NOT!" Whereupon the : first s.b. comes back with: "He can TOO!" 'TVnd so on until both small boys feel that they have complied with the amenities of the situation and have saved their faces. I hope this latest Russian-Amer-lean spat ends ijbthe same way. ' War has changed quite a lot since the days of King Arthur's Round Table, hasn't it i : : hf - As thy is written,-the question of boosting our national debt ceil ' ing from i 275 billions to 290 billions is being considered, behind closed doors, by the senate finance com- .mlttee. We're about out of cash and owe a lot of bills, and it looks like we'll have to borrow some more. In order to do so, we must have the permission of congress, which Is the keeper of the purse strings. " There 1 a way, of course, whereby we might avoid borrow ing, we- could kite checks. We i could hold our. bills on the desk unpaid, we could stall off our creditors. 1 After allnobodv can petition for bankruptcy for Uncle Sam. And nobodv can rsue the old ppntlemnn i without Ills consent. So his assets , art safe from attachment. His fi nancial! condition Is pretty well known bv this time, so rumors about his credit being shaky won't nun mucn. It isn't unlikely that by the use of fthese and other methods the old boy could scrape through. i'm not too certain, though, 'but If I were an Industrial tycoon and the manager of one of my plants that had, got Into flnnncia' trouble followed i those methods, I'd fire him. s In fact, I'm pretty sure I would, tt would be far better for my business if he wemV-to;-the tank and arranged an up in his line of credit so that the temporarv cri sis in the affairs of the concern could be handled in a business like manner. Secretary of the Treasury Hum phrey feels that way about, it, for he says this morning: "If the cell ing isn't boosted to 290 billions on what the government can legal ly owe, the government mav not be able to meet its payroll or pay its bills. That might cause a near panic." It is obvious, everything consid ered, that raising 'the debt limit is the businesslike way to handle the situation. But the public's business unavoidably involves pol itics, and when politics comes In at the window sound business methods are apt to fly out of the door. You must have observed that the chief opposition to raising the debt limit in. the present pinch comes from Democrats, whose main Idea is to put the GOP's in the hole. So, In view of the f act that the Democrats were exceed ingly free spenders when they were running the business, It may be assumed that the tears they are shedding over Republi can extravagance are crocodile tears. Still-' ' One can hardly blame them for tak'ng. advantage of the present wofcjerful opportunity, to put the Republicans in the frying pan and watch gleefully while they sizzle. In the heat of the campaign last year, the GOP boys got too enthu siastic in their promises to stop spending and cut taxes quick. They would be quite a little happier now if they had been Just a little cagler then. Personally. I don't think it will do the Republicans any harm to be fried a little in the economy pan. We still ARE spending too much. And, with a little more po litical courage and sound business sense. It COULD be stopped. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Sunday with occasional thunder storms In vicinity. High Sunday 86; low Saturday night 52. High yesterday 85 Low last night A vear ago in Klamath Falls was somewhat hotter, 86 during the day, 57 at night. Famouit llean Dry lt Time in 105 Years ST. LOUIS l - F,r.ftt'nf ' soak beans the night before would be a minor mistake for most cooks but it was a tragedy m speck's Confectionery yes- teTne"'owners had a hard time explaining to customers why thev couldn't have bean soup, a Friday tradition at the down town restaurant for 105 years. V. -' i NEILS J. NIELSON Neils Dead at 67 Neils J. Nielsen, resident of Klamath Falls since 1943, died July 29 at Hillside Hospital following a week's illness. He was a native of Rushville, Neb., born July 13, 1888. His home was at 2037 Arthur St. He lived .for some time in Pop lar, Mont., where he war married March 13, 1929 to Regina A. Per eau. Since living here, Mr. Nielsen has been employed by the Klam ath Lake Moulding Company. , Surviving are his widow; daugh ters Opal Marie Barrett, Klamtah Falls, and Mrs. Norma Hutche son, Iowa City, la.; two brothers A. C. Nielsen and Herman Niel sen, Missoula, Mont.; five sisters, Mrs. Albert Jensen, Issquab, Wash. Mrs. E. A. Lindquist, Granyon, Wis.; Mrs. H. Franks, Rushville, Neb.; Mrs. Elsie Hansen and Mrs. Nels Wooder, Marquette, Neb.; also three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Monday, from O'Halr's Me morial Chapel with the Rev. Wil liam S. Stone of Sacred Heart Church officiating.. Final Tites and interment will Be in mi. uaivary Cemetery. Ao Area Slates 'Open This year's. Held day, at the Klamath experimental area, w-heduled for. Aug. 3. is to be an "ones house.'Vaays A. E. Gross, superintendent for the area Pro ject, visitors win oe snowii wuuuu the station as they arrive. Those attending will see agricul tural research work adapted for Southern Oregon Including aiiaia and lotus variety trials, alkali soil reclamation, and deep drainage. The tours will also1 stop at crop rotation areas and an,- experimen tal orchard. ' 1 - Morning sessions will be con ducted at the main experiment sta tion west of the Klamath Falls airport. Gross says the afternoon tour will include a visit to the muck soil experimental area near Worden to observe soil fertilitv studies and forage and cereal trials. Union Sued In Lumber Strike TACOMA Wash., W Damages of more than 1500,000 Were asued by the St. Paul and Tacoma Lum ber Company Friday in a spit that charged a striking union with vio lating a "no strike" clause in a contract. The suit was filed in U.S. Dis trict Court against the Internation al Woodworkers of America (CIO) local 23-9 of the union and officers of the local. ' . ; The lumber company asked that it be reimbursed for damaies amounting to $20,000 per day for the duration of the strike plus oth er special damages "estimated at this time as $500,000." The strike started July 25 after a dispute over working conditions. The clause on which the suit is based states that "during the life of this agreement, no strike shall be caused or sanctioned by the un ion and no lockouts shall be en tered upon by the employer until every peaceable method of settle ment shall have been tried " The ''company also alleged that strike action kwas taker, without first complying with mandatorv provisions of the Taft-Hartley act requiring certain notices. Fred Matson, union secretary, said the local "had complied with all the prvlsions of the so-colled p strike clause more than a month ago." Pistol Pellet Pow-Wow Brings 6 Cops, Fine YONKERS. N. Y. Maynard Campbell, air pistol in hand, walked into a sporting goods store yesterday. A passerby thought It was a holdup and called police. Six cops raced Into the store with drawn guns, surprising both Campbell and the clerk as they discussed air pellets. The 32-year-old Campbell was fined $5 in City Court for violating a law against carrying weapons I mat look like the real unng. 'Absolutely (Hrfovohed Mash Rescued Flier Jisr By STAN CARTER TOKYO I "It was absolutely an unprovoked attack, 40 miles from Russian territory," said the co-pilot of. an American B50 shot down at sea in a Russian Jet attack off Siberia Wednesday. Capt. John E, Roche, today di rectly contradicted Moscow charges that the big bomber and its 17 man crew were over Siberia near the Red naval base, Vladivostok, and that the Americans fired first. Roche told a news conference: "We were definitely 40 miles from Russian territory. Our navi gation is almost Infallible. It was visual, Loran and Q13 (radar). We weren't any closer than 40 miles." Roche, 28, said a MIG jet with Russian insignia flashed in and blasted one of the bomber's four engines. Then so quickly that It might have been a different. MIG an engine on the other wing was snot up. The right wing fell off and the big plane crumpled into the Sea of Japan. The crew was ordered to ball out. Roche, of Washington, D.-C, was the only crewman rescued by U.S. ships. rrlca Five Cents M rages , KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, l5l Telephone 8U1 No. POYs Start MUNSAN W -r- The Communists today Informed the Allies they plan to hand over 400 Allied captives dally beginning 9 a. m. Wednesday (7 P. m. Tuesday EST). , The Reds said they will deliver the Allied POWs in groups of 100 eaoh hour for 4 hours each day. . The Red Chinese .Peiping radio said earlier- the first Allied pris oners released would be ' non-Kc-rean" sick and wounded, includ ing Americans and British.. The U. N. captives "are about to start moving" down toward Pan munjom, the Communist radio said. A V. N. spokesman said North Korean Col. Lee Pyong n presented the Red schedule this afternoon to U. S. Army Col. L. C. Frieders- dorff. The colonels head the teams negotiating at Panmunjoin on de. tails for "Operation Big 3witch." The Wednesday starting date had been announced several days ago, but this was the first disclosure of how manv Allied prisoners would be handed over dally and wnat time of day the exchange will be gin. - Red newsman Wilfred Burchett of the Paris Daily L'Humanlte told Allied correspondents outside the conference hut he believes sick and wounded prisoners will make up the bulk of the first exchange. The Reds have said they hold cbout 500 disabled Allied prisoners. The Communists said they hold 12.763 Allied prisoners, including 3,313 Americans. The Allies are handing back about 7,000 Reds. At the announced rate of ex change, all Allied POWs should be free after 32 days. Truce terms set a limit of 60 -days from the signing last Monday for comple tion of tne traae. , DRESS BAN MILAN Italy UPI ScRntily-clad tourists were warned Sa "rday bv Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster. Arch bishop of Milan, 'to stay away from his world-renowned, many-splred cathedral. In a letter published by L Italia. the archdiocese's Roman Catholic newspaper, the Cardinal told tour ists not to ener the cathedral in shirt sleeves, shprts or scanty dresses. Taft To Get Transferring Wednesday In Capitol Since General WASHINGTON OB Sen. Rob ert A. Taft will be honored with a state funeral in the capltol Mon day, with President Elsenhower an other dignitaries Joining in the ser vice. The Senate, in which Taft served as majority leader, invited the gov ernment leaders to take part and the White House said the Presi dent, "of course, will attend." The services will be in the ro tunda, at 11 a.m. EST. The last state funeral held In the capltol was for Gen. John J. Per shing, July 19, 1948. Jack Martin, administrative as sistant to the late Senate leader, announced the decision for a state funeral was reached at a confer ence In the office of J. Mark Trice, secretary of the Senate. A little later. Sen. Knowland fR- Calif.), the acting majority leader. The U. 8. ff& ' rtment pro tested the Russia and said it ha j$ tlon some of the 18 ott - oeen saved by Russian lowever, Roche said he K it any Red craft in the k. Crew meu. a of rescue planes which scoured" the area said they saw several Russian PT-type, boats which may bave picked up other crew members. . Roche said the American destroy er Picking, which plucked htm from the sea on the pre-dawn darkness Thursday 22 hours after the crash had stopped a Russian "trawler or tug boat" and questioned .the crew, but saw no indlcat'nn that It had any survivors aboard. "It must have been about 8:16 Wednesday morning when It- hap pened," Roche said. "It was 6:20 when I hit the , water and my watch stopped. "I was sitting there relaxed . ... it didn't enter my mind at all we might be attacked. We'd been la that area before and never seen any MIGs., It was international waters. - -V - "' "I had Just lit a cigarette wben our No. 1 engine was hit and caught JACK LINDSAY, Melin, surveys the banged-up truck that killed- hit' father-in-law, hrlei Elmo Turner, last night en the SteteKne road, Cecil Moore, 15, driver of the pickup truck, wet not held. ' Knowland May Keep Taft Post WASHINGTON W Even thouah the death of Sen. Robert A. Taft may give Democrats a one-vote margin In the Senate, Republicans today appeared assured ot control at least until the congressional election In late 1954. " And ' youthful Sen. William F. Knowland of California, who was selected by Taft to take over the heavy duties of Senate Republican leader, appeared likely to retain this post. , - Continued Republican control of the Senate through leadership posts and committee chairmanships rest ed on an announcement bv Sen Morse (Ind-Ore) and attitudes of Democratic Senate leaders. Morns and the Democrats left no doubt they would not challenge the GOP hold this session or the next. First State offered a resolution scheduling the memorial service and it was lm mediately approved unanimously by the Senate. The list of guests to be invited Include all House members, mem bers ot the cabinet, the chief Jus tice of the United States and as sociate Justices of the supreme court; the Joint chiefs of staff, and the commandants of the Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Martin said Mrs. Taft and the family had consented to the state funeral and that burial would be at Cincinnati, Taft's home town. Tail's death Friday from can cer, continued to evoke expres sions of grief and praise. Taft's body will be brought to Washington Sunday from New York, where he died, and will He in state In the historic capltol ro tunda. The public will be permitted to fire." Roche said a gunner on the B50 fired back at the first MIG a three to five-second burst of machine gun fire but he- did not know whether the MIG was hit. "No. nobody issued an order to fire. No order was needed. We were under attack," he said. "I never saw the second MIG at all. It got our No. 4 engine 45 seconds to a minute after the first attack on the No. 1 engine. - "I feathered No. 4 and looked out. There was a hole through the prop about that big (six inches across about the size that would be made by cannon fire). ' "We were at 20,000 feet, heading 95 degrees almost due east. "Capt. Stanley Keith O'Kelly of Topeka, Kan., rang the alarm bell to bail out. The right wing came off. ... "I was thrown forward Into the nose." "I pulled myself up and climbed, back Into the cockpit on my hands. "The engineer -r and navigator, .were gone. They must have al ready bailed out. The plane shook. You could see daylight through the aircraft. . , Woman Shoos Two Children From Canal Bank Two little boys, aged about two and four, didn't have a chance to fall into the A Canal last night near the bridge across Main Street on the road to OTI because an unidenti fied Klamath Falls woman, pulled them back from the edge of the water and sent them scurrying home toward Hillside Avenue. Several children have in past years, lost their lives in this canal that travels through the city. The concerned resident urges that a closer watch be kept on young children while the canal Is full during the summer. The banks are covered with high weeds and a child could be hidden from searchers. Funeral Pershing view the body from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., EST, on Sunday, After the memorial service, the body will be taken to Cincinnati for private funeral services and burial on Tuesday The services for family and personal friends will be held at 11 a.m. EST in the Indian Hill Church. Burial will follow In the church cemetery. Forest A. Harness, Senate ser geant at arms, announced that Vice President Nixon, Senate and House members, supreme court Justices, military Jeaders, diplomats of otn er nations all scheduled to attend as well as "many of the public for wnom there are seau available He said it has been requested that no flowers be sent. However, his announcement add- ed that any offerings should be in the form of gifts to "appropriate charitable organizations. "I dove, out past the nose wheel. I amelled smoke and looked up to see if my chute was on ' fire. It was open and there .was nothing wrong with -it.' Then my. feet touched the water.1 . -v. "I was about 75 feet from the wreckage of the plane.1 The wuter all around the wreckage-was on fire. I swam backward to get away from. It. . ;'' "I had on my Mae West (life Jacket). I found a .mattress and used It as a raft. - "I heard .somebody holler. I started - swimming , toward the sound and found Capt. O'Kelly. We stayed .together for the next 1114 hours until we spotted a B29 flying over. "I fired my flares and marked the area with sea marker dye. I kept backing up, to keep out of the dye. I was 75 or 80: yards away from ' Capt. O'Kelly when the B29 dropped a lifeboat. .. . "O'Kelly was a .little weak, I think. ; ... . , "I swam to the boat. It was 150 or 200 yards from QTCelly. I climbed Into it. I had cramps and was violently sick. I couldn't move. I never got a chance to get to Mar, State Line Wreck Fatal Charles Elmo Turner, 52-year-old retired farmer, of Malin, was killed instantly Friday night when hit by a pickup truck while walk ing along the Statellne road. Driver of the truck, According to the state police was Cecil Clay Moore, 15-year-old Tulclake boy. He was not held. The boy told investigating offi cers that he did not see the vic tim until It was too late to avoid striking him, He declared Turner was walking in the center of the highway, police said skid marks of the truck Indicated it had remained on the right side of the road until It was brought to a stop. The Moore boy was absolved of blame. The Impact of the crash hurled the victim about 20 feet. The left front fender of the truck was badly damaged. Turner's body was taken to Ward's Funeral Home In Klamath Falls. He is survived by his widow and four children, Charles E. Tur ner, Robert L. Turner, Dorothy Lindsay and Evelyn Duncan. Tur ner had been a resident of the Ma lin area since 1945. He came to the Basin from Tennessee. 125Susoected Dopers Nabbed PHILADELPHIA 11 Nearly 100 policemen and detectives In a long-planned raid last night ar rested 125 suspected narcotic ad dicts. Police said it was the biggest roundup of suspected addicts ever undertaken in Philadelphia. Four physicians were on hand to examine those arrested in pool rooms, restauranls, apartments, taprooms and other places sus oected as hangouts for addicts. pushers and suppliers of narcotics. O'Kelly after that." Roche said he did not see anv other crewmen, but after they had been in the water about a half hour, he and O'Kelly beard some body yelling. - . "It was so far away and we were- weak. We had no way of recognizing the voice," he said. Roche was bruised and cut about the neck and head by the first ex plosion In the plane when he was thrown Into the nose. A bandage was on the right side of his head. His right eye was swollen, and his neck was bruised, Air Force doc tors said the Injuries were minor. Roche - said he believed the en- gineer and navigator and probably toe gunners parachuted. He said he did not see any ves sels of any kind until he spotted the Picking, almost 22 hours after the B50 was shot down "I got the Very pistol out of the hatch In the lifeboat and fired a shot (flare)," he said. "I was skep tical about signaling. I thought it might be the Russians and I Wouldn't have much chance. - "The Picking came and got me out of the water." Fails; Two Women Free By LYLE DOWNING Charges against two young worn. en who were alleged to have worked a clever ruse on the 3. C. Penney Co., to obtain 32'i in mer chandise, were dismissed late Fri day In District Court. . - ' - -District Judge D. E. Van Vactor ruled that District Attorney Frank Alderson, who was handling . the prosecution, had failed to prove the defendants Laura Jackson and Myona Jackson were guilty of anv crime. -. The women, who were represent ed by Attorney J. C. O'Neill, were ordered released. They had been held in the County Jail li. lieu of $2000 bond each since their arrest July 18. Attorney O'Neill told the court that there was no evidence that the defendants had committed lar ceny from a store as charged. A complaint was filed asalnst the women by the district attor ney's office after they were al leged to nave faked a phone call to the Penney store to establish credit. A woman noslne as a Klam- atn Indian Agency official Is sup pose to have called the store and asked for credit in the amount of $150. be extended to each of the women. When the defendants uDDeareri at the store two hours later, thev were alleged to have used the ali ases, Joann Christy and Janet Don nelly. Harold C. Buck, assistant manager of the establishment tes tified they signed the bogus names to charge clips. The ruse was discovered when the women bought more than the amount authorized in the ifhone call. Buck said he phoned the aaon. cy and found out that the call he had .received earlier was phony. The state's case collapsed when It was shown that a clelk car ried the merchandise trom thp store to the defendants' automo bile while Buck was checking uiih the Indian agency. Defense Counsel O'Neill nointpd out to the court that this proved larceny was not involved In the case. It was reported that the case may be Investigated bv thn rnim. ty Orand Jury. Solon's Son's Draft Day Set WASBASH, Ind. Wl A congress man's son whose draft determent created a furore last month has been told to report for induction Aug. 26. John V. Beamer Jr.. 24. m of Rep. Beamer (R-Indi, was granted an occupational deferment by Se lective Service headquarters In Washington a month ago. The Wa bash County draft board charged Influence had been used to delay Beamer's Induction and resigned. Rep. Beamer and his son denied the board's contention, snying it was politically motivated. The de ferment had been requested bv Proctor tt Gamble Co., for which young Beamer Is an Industrial en gineer in California. Arthur Thompson, chairman of the new county draft board, an nounced yesterday Beamer would be inducted. More nap Claim Red Transport Hit Monday WASHINGTON Wl The United ' States Saturday rejected Russia's protest that American pilots snot down a Soviet plane. Instead, the State Department Said, . Russia, bears the responsibility for sending the plane into "The Korean rone of hostilities." The Russian protest, handed to U. S.-Ambassador Charles Bohlen In Moscow Friday, -claimed the plane was destroyed and 21 Uves were lost when four U.S. Fighters attacked It over Chinese territory north of the Korean boundary last Monday, about 10 hours before the cease fire became effective. The United States replied Satur day that the attack by a U, 8. fighter plane under the U. N. com mand actually occurred "inside Korean territory approximately eight miles from the Yalu River." This it said, was in the Korean combat zone. ' " The U.S. reply was Contained in the U. S. Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow.'1 The State Department released the text of that note plus an unofficial translation or the Soviet note. There was ho denial on the part, of the United States that the big Russian transport, an IL-12 type aircraft, had been destroyed by fighter fire. In fact, the incident at the time. The Issue raised by the Russians, was over where the attack occurred. ' : They delayed filing their com plaint for four days. This led Slate Department officials to speculate that perhaps the Russians were seeking to divert attention from another plane shooting Incident of last .weanesaay. , In this case the United States charged that an Air Force B50 was shot down off the Siberian Coast and that the Soviets picked up survivors trom The sea. ' . A : note to ' Moscow Friday pro tested the incident and asked in formation on the rupposed survi vors. The Russians claimed, in that case, that the bomber violated Soviet territory. In the note on the IL-12, the United States told Russia thlsna tlon "can only, deplore the loss ol life Incurred in this Incident." Food Articles v-Mrs. Zola Vincent, foods writer who lived for 18 years In Oregon, will write a food feature called "Feeding The Family for. readers of this newspaper begintilng next Thursday, Aug. 6. Formerly foods editor of the New York Journal-American and of Pa rents' Institute group of maga zines, Mrs. Vincent now is realiz ing a long-time desire to again live on the Pacifio coast and to write about Oregon-grown products for Oregon readers. The new feature, "Feeding The Family" will appear regujurly and will deal with nutrition in simple terms in relation to better health and diet for all the family. Rec ipes and suggestions are kitchen- tested and perfected and include only such ingredients and house hold supplies as are readily avail- , able at local stores and at rea sonable prices. , Information contained in the weekend market report Is careful ly garnered directly from tho Stato Agriculture Department, dairies and other sources enabling the reader to make the most of sea sonal home-grown good things. We believe that all women read ers, and perhaps some of the men, will enjoy Mrs. Vincent's lively, practical, common sense approach to feeding the family, Oregon style. AY 120 CALIFORNIA we found Fred Stemler home working over his yard. Fred, incidentally, is the spokesman ; (or the 1200 Block Island Im provement league. They plan to install a sprinkling system end lewn at their own expense. f( f '' v , . ' v'S ' t , i . Sit' X n ' . v In- , ' " 1 jj A r S 1 t j f h , i i, , I,
