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In The Day's Sews ' B? JENKINS Today's cloak-and-dagger note.' . Lavrenty Bert Russia's ex-boss of the grim nut dreaded secret pc Uce is said to be out of Russia. owing in some non-communist country and seeking political asy lum in the U.S. " like a pipe dream . . . Still. Trotzky got out when the go ing got bad and everywhere he looked he seemed he seemed to be looking Into the rifles of a fir ing squad ... But they GOT HIM IN THE END. t expect it wiUbe the same way with Beria. lor high stakes. The blue chips K ... . .. - wna uieir lingers are : THEIR OWN LIVES on one side and POWER OVER THE LIVES OF OTHERS on the other side. Me, 1 prefer penny ante and a .alckel limit. - Russia today proposes a new dis armament plan. This la the meat it: 1. Prohibit atom and hvrirnemn bombs immediately, obedience to w cnecxea By the UN security council WHERE RUSSIA HAS THE VETO. 2. U.S.. Britain. Russia. V ranee Ohina cut their military forces im , mediately by one-third with a fol lowing conference on reducing mil itary power of other nations 3. All countries to get rid of military bases In other nations. fRussia, being in the middle, has need lor few bases In other coun tries.) ' ' " . Put It to yourself like this: S'pose you were dickering with a guy YOU DON'T TRUST to nark all guns. You're pretty sure that If he agreed he'd KEEP A OUN HID OUT. In dealing with him,' you'd be pretty cautious, wouldn't you? We learn from the dispatches this morning that in a' pseech in Boston tonight President Elsen hower may reply to criticism of his administration by the Demo cratswho have been thown out and want back in. I suppose It's all right. You have to defend yourself when attacked. Otherwise . people will . construe your silence as confession that the charges are true and you have nothing to say in your, defense. But The REAL reply of the Eisen hower administration its critics wul be delivered In the form of DEEDS, which - require courage, foresight and great ability, and not in the form of WORDS, which are cheap and abundant end too often in these days mean nothing worth while. - ; If, by about this time in 1956, the Eisenhower administration has BROUGHT PEACE NEARER, has balanced the budget, so that each year we shall be PAYING OFF some of our debt .instead of annual ly adding to the total of it, has c necked tne creeping lever 01 in flation so wisely and fairly that EVERYBODY'S dollar Will " buy more things and has restored our fighting faith in the moral sound ness of our. country and our way of life Well - - In that event, the Democratic par ty's Presidential campaign in 1956 will be merely a TOKEN campaign, as was the Republican party's campaign of 1936. j If not " '' !''-'" ' ' i If President Eisenhower and his party have failed to bring about these things which the people want, or at least have failed to make REASONABLE PROGRESS to ward them . In THAT event, the Democrats Will come back into power in 1956. , For better or worse. ... Autumnal Chill Moves East By The Associated Press Y ! An autumnal chill which covered central United States Sunday spread east and southward today, to western Pennsylvania, Arkansas and central Texas. , Light showers fell ahead of the moving mass of cool air. , Temperatures early today ranged down to freezing in parts of North Dakota, but generally were in the 40s in the Northern Plains and in the 60s' elsewhere in the Midwest and in the West, But in . Dallas, Tex., where a record high temperature of 102 was recorded for the date Sunday, the overnight low was 77. The Day , ' President ' Eisenhower has ar . rived in Massachusetts where he will deliver a major address to ' night In Boston. Russia's United Nations delegate : Andrei Vishinsky has insisted that Communist demands for including , neutral countries in the . Korean peace conference be met, -.' . The Communists in Korea to day gave their long-awaited reply ,' to a demand for an accounting of some 3,000 Allied troops. The Reds told the UN command they never captured most of these troops. In turn, the Communists demanded an accounting of some 98.000 North Koreans and Chinese they said were captured by the Allies and are missing. The Allies Immediate ly called the reply totally unsatis factory and unacceptable." .,' The Allies In Korea have a sleek MIO-15 Jet fighter lor which the United States offered 3100,000 last February. The plane was banded over by a North Korean pilot who brought the Russian-built plane into an airport near Seoul. Russia calls on the United Na tions today to Impose without de lay an unconditional ban on pro- 30 Years Too Late Reader Ot Western Constructs Wort By OTTO ELUS , A telephone call from a trapper In Bly Friday sent State Police to investigate a report that a man "armed to the teeth" was setting up camp in the woods near the highway on Bly Mountain. Arriving on the scene authorities found the car, loaded down . with cooking utensils, guns, ammunition. blankets, lanterns and other arti cles. -. A survey of the surrounding area disclosed a small fort made of logs. Inside the fortress was a neat ar ray of guns, ammunition and the owner of the car, .. : Reluctantly laying down his shootin' arms" the man emerged from bis stronghold and told of ficers tnis strange tale: Name! Francis Charles Van Winkle, about 33, (No relation to the original Rip). Native of New York, and through Inheritance from an old estate, receives 31,000 WoBumtlmfodDsz-f Daughter Being l!t.ti WOMAN KNIFED ' By LYLE DOWNING i A 65-year-old Chlloquin Indian woman died Monday morning in Klamath Valley Hospital from three knife wounds alleged to have been inflicted by her 22-year-old daughter. The victim was Mrs. Mabel Barkley. Accused of the slaying is Wilma Barkley, 22, who was ar rested by Klamath Falls police af ter an 80-mile-an-hour automobile chase along Kit Carson Way. foiice cruel Louis Jones of cnilo- quin told the Herald and News that Miss Barkley attacked her mother with a butcher knife at 4 a.m. Sunday in their home. The daugh ter nact Just returned from a party, according to Chief Jones. After the stabbing, Jones aald, the daughter fled the scene in an automobile. Klamath Falls po lice were asked to be on the look out for the woman. , Four city policemen Charles Howard, Vaughn Whitmore, Jim O'Neal end Jack Tilman-went to the : north entrance of Klamath Falls. A few minutes after their ar rival, a, car driven by Miss Barkley appeared. The woman Ignored a police signal to stop. The officers gave chase. They said the woman was traveling 60 miles an hour be- rore tney succeeded in stopping ner. . . . A police report states butcher Oct. 5 Recess Set For Hells WASHINGTON HI The Power Commission's Hells Canyon hear ing, was recessed Monday until Examiner William 3. Costelfo," an nouncing his ruling, said he grant ed a two-week extension because public power groups opposing the iaano power Co. applications nave shown it would be justified. He added, however, the exten sion would cause "considerable in convenience" to Idaho Power Co. The hearing was recessed Aug. 7 after the company completed pre sentation of its case in behalf of applications to build three dams on the Snake River between Ore gon and Idaho.-It will resume with cross examination of company wit nesses. Costello said he was granting the recess "with the expectation that the additional time will be so used as to result in better pre pared and thus more expeditions cross-examination." Sheriff's Car Sold In Economy Drive; Now What? JASPER, Tex. W Jasper County Sheriff Thomas M. Mixon hopes to have an automobile again Satur day. The county commissioners sold the sheriff's car about a month ago In an economy move. They said they would allow eight cents a mile expense money but from now on the sheriff would have to provide his own car. Mixon said he didn't have money to buy a car.. But businessmen here started a fund-raising cam paign to get the sheriff back on wheels. . , in Brief duction of weapons. atomic and hydrogen Stock exchange sales at noon were 440,000 shares. AP 60-stock average at noon 101.0, up .2. Grains advance in early trading, although dealings rather slow. Hogs and cattle were steady to lower. Wholesale meat was steady to a little lower, An informed Washington source says Sen. McCarthy's Investiga tions subcommittee hopes to know within a few days whether Rus sia's deposed Kremlin police chief, Lavrenty Beria has escaped Rus sia. ... . , The American Federation of La bor opened its annual convention in St. Louis today with a determin ation 1 to kick the International Longshoremen's Assn. out of the Federation. In Lawton, Olcla., a lecturer who spoke in the town looked embar rassed as he placed an ad In the local paper for a brief case he had forgotten. The reason for his em barrassment: He is a memory ex pert who lectures on how to remember. pl a year tor sustenance. Not- caring for the toils of labor and being an avid reader of wes terns he decided to come West and help pioneer the Pacific Coast re gion. Arriving in Alturaj he purchased a car and all the equipment neces sary to face the rugged wilds of the West. ' ' Selecting a spot bn Bly mountain be immediately constructed his fortress, expecting momentarily to be attacked by "Injuns or var mlts." Suspicious of the yarn. State Po lice officers brought the man to Klamath Falls where further ques tioning did not change his story. Believing the man had been "born 30 years too late"- authori ties warned him mere was no open season on wild game and sent him on bis way. The psuedo frontier man stated he was headed for AUuras but did not reveal his next stronghold. knife was found In the car. Before her mother's death, Miss Barkley appeared In municipal court on a charge of reckless , driving. She was fined 3100 and sentenced to 30 days in Jail by Police Judge Frank Blackmer, Deputy County Coroner Clarence Ward said an autopsy was to be performed on the body of Mrs. Barkley late Monday. ... . Ike Address 8 P.M. Tonight ' KFLW will broadcast an ad dress, by President Eisenhower tonight at 8 p.m. The president Is speaking before a Republican Rally in Boston. Reds Deny inn P07s Listed . PANMTJNJOM Ul The Com munists said Monday they "never captured" most of the 3.41)4 allied troops from whom the V. N. Com mand has demanded an accounting and the Allies angrily called the reply "totally unsatisfactory and unacceptable." v At the same lime, the Commu nists demanded an accounting for 98,742 North Koreans and Chinese they said were captured by the Allies and are missfngtv. . The long-awaited: ;Red i answer Was to the Sept, 9 Allied, demand mat tne communists produce tne 3,404 men including more tnan 900 Americans or disclose what happened to them. , "Most of them have never been captured at all," said North Ko rean Lt. Oen. . Lee Sang Cho at a meeting of the joint military ar mistice commission. U. S. MaJ. Gen. Blackrhear M. Bryan, senior Allied delegate, promptly replied: "Your statement ... is totally unsatisfactory and unacceptable. None of the people listed have been repatriated. None have been re ported by you as having died or escaped. Based on statements emanating from your side, all were in custody at -some time . . . ' The men on the list were neither released nor reported dead, the U. N. Command said. They said 519 men already had been returned to the Allied Com mand and 380 have long been ac counted for in rosters submitted to the Allies as "released at the front, escaped or dead." As to the rest, the Communists said, some refused rtparlation but most, of them have never been captured at all." By persistent demands, Bryan got from the Communists a pro mise to lurnisn by nationalities tne number ot Allied prisoners the Reds nold who refuse repatriation. -a t to THAT HUNK of cement hold ing Vernard Eigate up came from the junction of Main and Twelfth Streets, where a itorm tewer is being installed. Vernard works for Asphalt Paving and lives at 2540 GeHle. Captur ft:.---' L ' m t. . a. 1 1 -rt5f 6 IT WAS A LONO TIMI AH whtn this pictur of th. eld Bonenia Hoiel wai tnappad. So far wo haven't boon oblo to identify any of tho psrtona pktyrad. But if onyono hoi a copy, ; KLAMATH Dog's ILife Improves Matin Mmws Prateei Uim From People" NEW YORK U) This is national dog week, and If you don't got tne idea, you not tne oog may ena up needing s, lawyer, , ; For as every year goes by, there are more state lawa and more Judicial decisions around tho coun try to protect the at miiiioa dogs Almost every state,': accord tag to the Gaines Dog Research Center, now mattes it a criminal ouense to kill a dog simply because he trespassed on your property. Just this year Arkansas Joined Body Found The body of Billy K. Nygren, 34, resident of Chlloquin and Klamath Falls for many years but recently of Areata, Calif., was found Friday, thus partially solv ing the disappearance ot the 60- foot sports fishing boat Shirley Ann, Nygren, with five others, "in cluding his older brother James Nygren and his nephew, Gary Nygren, were aboard vtne boat which vanished Aug. Si off Hum boldt bay in Northern California. The boat sent two- SOS messages about a man overboard and need ing help immediately, but no trace of the missing boat was found in over 26,000 square miles searched by the Coast Guard. Nygren's body was taken to San Francisco by the coast guard after a fishing vessel reported it 40 miles off Bodega Bay. The body was in -a life preserver, and was tentatively identified Friday night by a watch and wallet. Jerry Ny gren, the only remaining brother, flew from Eureka Saturday to make positive identification. The Nygrens are sons of Mrs. Pearl Nygren, manager of the In dian Art and Gift Shop In Chlloquin. She has been in California since the accident. She had lost a broth er earlier this summer in another fishing tragedy. Nvgren's body, is being sent to Klamath Falls and funeral serv ices will be held at Wards Funeral Home at 2 p.m. Thursday after noon. He is survived by his widow Barbara; two daughters, Linda and Karen, all of Areata; his father, Jim Nygren; brother, Jerry Nygren, both of Hoopa, Calif.; and his mother. Mi's. Pearl Nygren, of Chlloquin. Horse-Lovers -Marry A-Horse LANCASTER, Pa. UP) The Wed ding was strictly a "horsey set" af fair. Miss Doris Eileen Froff and Earl C. Enck, of nearby Ronks, ex changed vows yesterday while as tride "Falem" and "Smokey," their favorite horses. They've loved horses as long as they can remem ber, tliey explained. The bet man, the matron of hon or and the bride's father also at tended on horseback. TOT DIES SALEM OB Leslie Conner, 4-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Conner, died Sunday when she became trapped in her bed covers. 71 51." . Telepboae S1U MONDAY. SEPT. U. ItU FALLS, OREGON, several other states in making It illegal to "dump" or abandon dogs alone roads and other ciaces. In Maryland, you now can be fined up to 1500 and sent to JaU for year for the "unlawful kill ing, maiming, or poisoning ot the dos of anoth.ee persons.' or of ex- f posing poison er ground glass with tne-';inieni; nnr. . enair-De-. tans oy uogs." ; In Louisiana, not long ago, the state court of appeals ruled that the owner of a dog who runs into pedestrians wnue answering nis owner's whistle Is not responsible. Dogs, the . court ruled, have the same right as people to bump accidentally Into pedestrians. The California Court of Appeals has held it is not the fault of a Great Dime if he bowls over a small woman in leaning on her. Small women, the court ruled in effect, should know better than to let Great Danes lean on them. ' In New York State, It is a mis demeanor to clin a dog's ears. You also can be fined up to $1,000 and given up to a year in jail for starting a fight between dogs between other animals. And this law, too is on the books: A person who wilfully throws. drops or places, or causes to be thrown, dropped or placed upon any road, highway, street, or pub lic place, any glass, nails pieces of metal or other substance which might wound, disable or injure any animal, is guilty of a misdemean or." In New York City, you can be fined $10 and-or sent to the clink for 10 days for stealing a dog. in Huntington, w.Va., last month, a man was sentenced to six months in JaU and fined $10 for kicking a puppy to death. The man said the pup nipped bis son and hlmsell but the court held that was not suitable provocation. . While there are more statutes designed to protect dogs, some states hold that dogs, like people, snould live up to the letter of the law. . . ,. In Oulncv. Mass.. a trardener died, bequeathing $6,000 for the old e care of his dog. The state tax commissioner ruled that the dog must pay a state Inheritance tax. plus an apnual tax on any Income irom ine balance. Pacific Phone Pact Okayed PORTLAND W A new con tract between 5.000 CIO Communi cations Workers and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. was approved Sunday night. The agreement, which provides among other things for a weekly wage Increase of from $1 to $3, was described as otherwise essen tially the same as last year's con tract. . The wage agreement was reached late last month but the company and the union were un able to agree on provisions cover ing such matters as Job classifi cation and seniority. Terms of the settlement on these Issues are to be announced later, a union spokesman said. There have been several work stoppages by union members at various points throughout the state recently to back up their contract demands. The union ' and comnanv have been negotiating since July 23 on tne new contract wnlcn replaces one that expired Aug. 17. n.a : tar n n ... 11 1 QBDl 731 1 j v-i 8". or con rtmombor ny of tho eircumitancei, let u know, , photo from Hal Oglo Ns. Utt Ar7 .... :f .-'t-.fl x. 1 V i i V ,t'r ':--t-4l-ArASva! Aj mm CONNIE REEVES,.' 17-year, old daughter of Mr. and Mrs O. V, Reeves, was winner in the queens' elimination eon. test tor Merrill at the dance held Saturday night In the Merrill , Community . Hall. More than 1800 tickets were sold, breaking all past rec ords. Tho contest was spec tacularly close, with tho win. ner piling up Just 32 votes more than . the : runner-up. Connie was one of the first two junior princesses of tho Klamath Basin Potato Fasti, val, the other one ' being Martha Beasly (last year's Festival Queen). This was about 1940 and the same year that, Mildred Teare of Bonanxa was queen. Connie' will compete with contes tants from other towns at the Queen's Dance. Calif. Crash Leaves 10 Dead BAKER, Calif, ifl A flaming three-vehicle crash on a desert highway yesterday wiped out a wedding party in a crowded sedan and lelt a ton 01 10 aeaa in one 01 the worst traffic accidents in Cali fornia history. All nine persons In the wedding party were killed, including a young couple bound for Las vegas, Nev., to be married. The driver ol one a truck laden witn gasoline was killed and a sailor hitchhiking a ride with him was injured. The driver of another truck escaped without Injury. The crash created a ghastly scene of burning wreckage and bodies and tied up traffic on U. S. HlKbway 91 more than three hours. The accident occurred on the prin cipal route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, east of here. Deputy Coroner Edward P. Doyle said the dead were Identified ten tatively as: Thomas Oraham Jr., 24. and his intended bride, Jean Lindsey, 31; Claude Llndsey, about 45 driver of the car; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lindsey. about 36 and 23; Linda Lindsey, 4; Virginia Lind sey, 2, and Joyce Lindsey, 14, and the driver of one of the trucks, John J. Jones. 44, Las Vegas, Nev. Another body in the sedan has not yet been Identified. The sailor hitch-hiker in tne truck was Howard Heltfus, Valley- heart Dr., Sherman Oaks, Calif., who suffered head Injuries and had his clothes burned olf. ' J n n'. ' f vA I Man To Meet Scott Warren, prominent Klam ath Falls rancher and an active member of various groups dealing with production, and; mar keting of potatoes, has bean invited to wasnington oy tfonn . Davis, assistant secretary ot the Department, ot Agriculture, ' The invitation received by War ren reads in part;. f . j "You . aro invited to attend ft meeting of ' rerresenattve group from the potato industry to discuss. and advise with the production and Marketing Administration on potato marketing problems. Each of the other members of the group is also directly interested in mar keting potatoes. Growers, shippers, members of the trade, and others have been invited. "You have been suggested as an outstanding leader who is familiar with .potato marketing problems. You can make a real contribu tion to the success of the meeting. We hope that you can arrange to be present for all the sessions so that we may nave tne benefit or your views. "The meeting will be held at Washington, D, C. on October 33 and 23, 1963." Other spud men invited from the West are: Max Wilkes, Shatter, Calif.; Wlnslow B. Whlteley, Oak ley, Idaho; John Harkoff, Lyndon, Wash. With Warren these men will represent an area containing ap proximately one third of the po tato production ot the United States. .1. - -' ' When auerled about his opinion on quotas and marketing. Warren said, he feels that a return to sup port or quotas, or other type of blanket government controls, would set the West back and would be ruinous to potato economy here. Past government controls where potatoes have been; blanketed under one order, wheth er they be red, white, long or round have failed to help the western potato Industry, he added. Warren plans to leave here Oct. 6 and,' after spending some time in Canada hunting big game, will continue on to Washington for the meeting. -. .. 'Country Club' Government: Morse MIAMI, Pla. tin sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon continued his bit ter denunciation of the Eisenhow er administration In an Interview here Saturday. Describing it as a "county club government . .1. a double-talking. double-dealing government which has no feeling or regard for the little man," Morse said he thought the administration "has already lost the labor vote and the farm vote, and on Its record lt deserves to lose both these votes." "It doesn't make any difference what issue one touches under the Elsenhower administration, politi cal hypocrisy oozes out," he said. Morse was here under the aus plcles of the Israel Bond Organiza tion for an address at Yom Klppur services. . Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy throuah Tuesday. Slightly cooler. High 78 Tuesday; low Monday nlgbt 48. High yesterday 78 Low last night 62 Precip last 24 hours .... Since Oct. 1 .. 1S.81 Normal for period L 12.02 Same period last year 18.70 PMA Invites Local Spud DireciAciicn k-4s . By STEELING . GBfEM WASHINGTON Ul Housing A4- V minlstrator Albert MV Cole said . today the government may take mortgage credit la available to sustain . , reasonably . Iticb. home ' building activity. , ,. Cole's address, prepared for the " American . Bankers , Assn. it Its 78th convention here, was the first official acknowledgment ot govern ment concern and surprise over the bousing slowdown. Many build- : ers have blamed a shortage ot credit, ' . ..... ... .-. . New borne tarts tat August. Cole reported, were down to a rate of : 270,000 a year, not seriously below the 1.U7.000 in uez. But a warper future decline la indicated by e -drop in current applications for Federal Homing Administration - (FHA) mortgage insurance.- he said. ' .s. This may mean sotm difficulty - next year, the head ot the Housing and Home. Finance Agency went on. in : keeping residential coo- -structton tn to level consistent with a sound economy. He told the bankers: I submit to you the very serious reminder that if we are unable to maintain a reasonably high con tinuing volume of homo produc tlou which means en adequate continuing flow of mortgage credit we may be required to ' resort to some means of assistance to avoid unnecessary wrenches to oar entire eoonoiny. ... "On this somewhat sober note X suggest In sincere candor that tho - bankers weigh carefully the prob lem they share with hoosers. To. getner yon have too opportunity to demonstrate that private Indus, try can and will handle the Job witnout a return to airect govern ment action in the housing field." In Harmony witn tne -sound money" policy of the Elsenhower . administration, cole sain, tne nous, tng agency Increased Interest rates on FHA-tnsured and Veterans Ad- ministration guarawtend mortgage loans and took other steps to free the mortgage market from, federal jnterivntioii. - "A readjustment period was ex pected, and most certainly has . occurred," he declared. "Frankly, lt is more of a read. justment than was contemplated either in or out of government, and there are many housers and many bankers who express con cern about the present situation," . . Builders' organizations in widely spread areas nave complained of a shortage of housing credit. The national Association of Home Builders has forecast curtailed activity and layoffs In the con. structlon industry unless lenders make more funds available. ' : Cole said he realized that "eb normally high" demands for credit from many areas of the economy are competing with housing; he voiced hope that this pressure would ease in the near future. Ben. . Wallace F. Bennett R- Utah) called on the bankers to support and defend the adminis tration's economic policies which, he said, protect the average citizen and aim at "the greatest good for the .greatest number." - 1 Despite some protests ever boosts in Interest" rates, Bennett said In prepared remarks, the rates are now "more nearly nor mal than were the artificially low rates of the past 20 years." ' Wendell T. Burns, president ot the Savings and Mortgage Division of the Bankers Association and senior vice president of the North, western National Bank, Minneapo lis, said 1953 has been an important -year for the citizen who saves. . "No longer is he the forgotten man of the federal government,'? Burns declared. "The administra tion In Washington appears deter, mined to stabilize the dollar and to encourage an expanding econ omy without Inflation. ' 'importance is attacned to pro tectlng the value of the saver's dollar." - Another . banker assured the delegates that the "hard dollar" policy ot the administration will be eased promptly if a business recession should loom. - 2 Alternatives On Units Told Solution to the housing problem has boiled down to two simple al ternatives: - - . Either the City Council and tho County Court pass resolutions stat ing that tne units are suitaoie tor long term use In place and they will be sold; or, if the resolutions aren't passed, the units will be removed from the housing market. In the latter case, however, If by December lt appers undue hard, ship will be created for some fam ilies to remove by Jan. 31, a re quest for a short extension of time will be considered. This information was received by Mayor Landry Monday morning from Warren Jay Vinton, aqtmg Publlo Housing Administration, commissioner. 1
