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'T-FRANK JENKINS
Hopeful note in the news:
U.Bk assistant secretary, of state
ratter Robertson and Admiral Ar
lur Radford, chairman of the U.S.
lnt chiefs of staff, are back from
tore and say they are confident
Korean1 peace negotiations will be
led. They also believe the re.
ease of Korean war prisoners will
accomplished on January 23
fithout trouble.
f That Is hopeful, if true, because
( Indicates that the commies can
ee no nourishment In continuing
le war In Korea, we must re.
tember that it takes two to make
k war and. (barring total defeat,
f one side) it also takes two to
TOP a war.
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Financial note:
There was - still a shade of
lUOTAMSY in the stock market
hen I New York exchange
t' Us morning following two
sra of advancing pricea. -.
TOia.' hog market opened at an
cttve pace in Chicago this morn
' lg. Prices were $1.00 to $1.25 high-
r, with an early top of $26.60.
laupHter cattle were steady to
IgtM IB the early trade. -
Why If that interesting enough to
rintt .-;
,We9r i if people are hopeful
noun tt bid up prices it indicates
bat think the country isn't
v wpot. personally, rm pret
awiie that what the people think'
do in this year of readjust-
Of our economy is more in
it than what the crystal ball
iri tell us.
ie livestock markets are par-
lularly Interesting at this moment
cause they are influenced by the
ay oi supply and demand and
6t bjr government subsidies. Hog
rices ve rising because fewer
lgs were born last year and as
b result fewer hogs are coming
a toe slaughter markets now.
lertt i prices are still within the
kage': that consumers are willing
I . and so pork is being
(IT -TJP faster than it is pres-
Being produced.
Tta4't a sound economic reason
C a . rise in prices.
jeady to higher when the market
pettto tn Chicago this morning,
pat also is interesting because it
ieana that at the moment supply
ftOd demand for beef are roughly
I balance.
H Fortunately for the cattle in
ttstry, Bo HUGE STORED SUR-
LUS, ojf beef hangs over the
(flUC'.There has been no cattle
Ib V.'The government hasn't
J Ting Up beef and stashing
K keep prices up. As a
tf prices are down and
ve been eating a lot of
snarently, we ate about
Billion more cattle and
fc 1953 than in the pre
war. i meat is far sounder than
f it away.
i the farm products that
oeen covered by subsidies.
P" lation is not so sound. The
W" aBent now has on hand, ac
Irtuiig to the latest figures avall
e, ; about five billion dollars
orth of these products that have
lea acquired in the course of the
yvermment's price support pro
ram; y
Tttti toconsumed surplus hangs
in the markets like a black
oud. ?
o far, we've been talking about
iljr and demand in the markets.
italk for a moment about
TICS In the markets,
-re is a surplus of cotton
ier big one. To prevent the
from swamping us, Sec-
Benson sought to cut cotton
e to approximately 17 mil
res. The cotton areas yelled
murder, and In response to
political pressure the sen
rkultural committee agreed
mlng to UP the permitted
acreage to a little over 31
.Ceatttned an page t)
1 LUCK W. 4U j ,U .IT 1 C... J L- xL.
French Bust
Up Attack
ByVietniinh
SAIGON, Indochina lH The
French reported Wednesday the
first serious clash with the Viet
minh invaders of Laos and claimed
the Communist rebels lost 100
killed, wounded or captured.
French losses were not given.
The French said their para
troops clashed with an estimated
battalion of Vietminh 30- miles
north of Seno, the village turned
into a French strongpoint Christ-
mUS TiaV nflo o VlalmlnU
- " uvuimiu uiv.aiuu
cut Indochina in two by a thrust
io me meaong Kiver border of
Thailand. , .
AMBUSH
The paratroops, adopting Vlet-
muui ittuus, amuusnea ine reDeis
in the jungles Tuesday. The Viet
minh alfin WAS itnripr fltta.U ffnm
French fighter and bomber planes.
v.. ...uuu A(5I4VQIB
and bombers hammered, for the
toth consecutive day ' at 'Vietminh
troops threatening to attack the
luiwucu jjiaui ui umn Aien pnu.
American-supplied B26s dropped
napalm bombs nn Vinf.mlnh frMin
concentrations and rear supply
uHaes ui ine area just norm of
the Laotian border.
French army sources reported
OnlV mitral nntlvitv irminrf i-iia
Bien Phu, the last remaining
French fortified position in north
western Indochina.
Brakevelt
Death Learned
A resident of Klamath Falls since
1026. GllKl.nf .Tnanh T)ab-a.,Ait
owner of the Wpsf iriomaih nMl
eery on the Keno Highway died
.mil. o at nuisiae Hospital follow
ing a brief Illness. He was 64-years-
uiu mm a native or .Belgium.
Mr. RmlrPVnlt pama tn th1B
try in 1910 and In 1017 enlisted in
the U. s. Army, serving two years
at San Diego training carrier pig
eons for the service.
He was identified with the lum
ber industry for 18 years in this
locality, and 14 years ago pur
chased the business he was operat
ing at the time of his death. He
also has farmed in flip Venn. riia.
trict for 10 years. ,
He was a mpmhpt tit fiapt-arf
Heart Church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Verna BrnlrpvpH Iflomath Valla.
one dauehtpr. Manmrlptp nalrpl
I veil, Salt Lake City; four sisters,
oerina siamDroek, Detroit, Mich.,
Eliza Pleters, Portland, Marie De
Roest and Emerance naluav. Rpl.
gium, and one brother, Alfons
Brakevelt, David City. Neb.
O'Hair's Memorial Chapel is in
charep nf funeral sprvfppc tn hp
announced later.
Ewauna Mill Site
Fire Threatens
City firemen were called to the
site of the old Ewauna mill at the
edge of Lake Ewauna early this
morning where a fire had started
near the boiler room of the old
plant.
The fire anparentlv started in
oil-soaked sawdust from an elec
tric cutting torch which was used
by workmen in dismantling the old
plant.
The property was purchased re
cently by the Modoc Lumber Co.,
from the Hercules Powder Co.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Partly cloudy and mild
through Wednesday night; cloudy
and cooler Thursday with occasion
al showers. Low Wednesday night
32; high Thursday 40.
High yesterday ..... 4
Low last night 27
Precis last 24 hours
Since Oct. 1 (.31
Normal for period - .4
Same period last year f.ll
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1954
Price Five Cents 14 Pa(t . Telephone 8111 .
Sale Lashes
Death Valley Scotty Dies
In Desert Castle At 81
Ending Legend Of The West
STOVEPIPE WELLS, Calif. (Pi
Death Valley Scotty died last night
in his beloved castle, a three-million-dollar
showplace la the desert
wilderness.
Scotty, 81, was California's most
famous prospector since the gold
rush, and the adventuresome and
mysterious tales of his gold strikes
were legion.
Yet the only treasure he Is known
to have come by was the wealth
01 his Itge friend and benefactor,
AiDen Mussey jonnson, umcago
insurance executive. Johnson kept
him in style.
Dr. E. Vasse Wallace, of Las
Vegas, Nev., said Scotty died of a
gastro-intestinal hemorrhage. Wal
lace said he had been treating
Scotty whose true name was Wal
ter Scntt for the past five years. ,
Wallace said he was summoned
yesterday afternoon - and found
Scotty in grave condition at the
castle, 173 miles northwest of Las
Vegas.
Hoyle Takes
RC Post
TOLELAKE Burton J. Hoyle,
manager of the Tulelake Experi
ment Station succeeds Hugh B. Mul
lin Jr., as chairman of the Tulelake
branch, Klamath County Red Cross
cnapter lor mis year.
Mrs. Mary Sweasy will serve as
secretary-treasurer and the Rev.
MarvJs J. Keyser will be home
service chairman. -.i--r.' , 1
' The Tulelake branch conducts
its own annual membership
campaign. This year's will open
March 1 with Mullin assisting" in
the drive.
Branch activities are coordinat
ed with those of the Klamath Coun
ty Chapter but are independently
operated and planned at the com.
munity level. -
The Tulelake branch has active
ly supported the bloodmobile pro
gram and sponsors the annual
trip to Merrill each year. Water
safety is also an important phase
of the program here with Tule
lake giving strong financial support
to the summer lessons. First aid
classes are given with Tulelake in
structors in charge. The branch op
erates on an all-volunteer basis.
Mullin has served the past two
years as branch chairman and has
directed two successful member
ship campaigns.
KLAMATH BASIN
POTATO SHIPMENTS
Shipped
Today
Sam Day
Lait Year
60 ears 57 cars
Total For Season
4762 cars 5578 cars
mS-M ,lBSt-6S
V. J. JOSEPHSON retired following 35 years of continuous service with the Great Northern
recently and last night was honored by e banquet held at Jen-Eds. He came to Klamath Falls
with the GN in 1928, served less than a year as cashier and was then named agent. He is
shown here (left) with Mrs. Josephson, E. F. Oviatt, GN superintendent, admiring the watch
which was presented the outgoing agent, d M. W. Fester, new agent. Foster, a GN man for
some 20 years, has bean in Klamath Mi tkmviHf Mme)nd was recently a telegrapher.
He said the colorful old desert
rat was conscious until the end,
and died quietly. Alv his bedside
was Mary Liddecoat, president 4f
the Gospel Foundation of Califor
nia, who had been Scotty's con
stant companion during the last
two years.
Johnson, actual owner of the cas
tle, conveyed the property to the
gospel foundation upon his death
about six years ago. He provided,
however, that ScoUy was to live
there the remainder of his life,
if he desired, and a suite, was
maintained for him, said Walter
Webb, business representative of
the foundation.
Scotty leaves a widow. Josephine
Scott, 71, who has been living in
Long Beach, Calif., for the last
18 years; a son. Navy Lt. Walter
P.' Scott, 39, who is stationed at
the naval air station at Oak Har
bor, Wash.; and two grandchildren,
Walter P. Scott Jr.. 13. and Kath
leen, 13.
Mrs." Scott told' a reporter that
she and Scotty had lived apart
during most of their marriage.
A free-handed spender and a
high-flying entertainer, Scotty be
came one of the legendary figures
of California's romantio history.
Indian Plan
Meet Called
CHILOQUIN With! an eve to.
ward a probable Indian-managed
reservation,-, an educational pro
gram is schedule at the Vouui
Center here Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
A panel of speakers will discuss
business opportunities In trie event
the reservation is turned back to
Klamath Indian government. Guest
speaker for the evening is Supt.
A. J. Diehl.
Mrs. Andrew Ortis will be
chairman of the session. Joe Mil
ler Jr. will discuss cattle raising,
Friedman Kirk forestry. Other
speakers, not named, will speak on
irrigation, farming and other sub
jects. .
A question-and-answer period
will close the program.
Tule Kiwanis
Officers Named
TULELAKE L. K. (Bud) Mes
is the new Kiwanis president here,
installed last night in a session at
the Sportsman's Hotel. He succeeds
Keith Templeman.
Wlllard Ward, lieutenant gover
nor for Dist. 15, handled installa
tion ceremonies and also ushered In
Lee Sonnenberg, vice-president,
and E. Webb Bowen, secretary
treasurer. New directors are Grant Long
more, Leo Roath and Stan Reed.
The Tulelake Kiwanis held Ladies
Night in conjunction with the Installation.
Italy
Rich Farm
Land Said
Inundated
LONDON W Winter gales
lashed the Adriatic Sea into a
boiling torrent that burst through
.dikes in the Po River delta of
northern Italy Wednesday freezing
temneratures put a thick coating
of ice over most of the rest of
Western Europe.
In pre - dawn darkness, the Adri
atic waters poured inland, 3 feet
deep, inundating five villages near
Rovigo, scene of disastrous floods
two years ago, in November 1951.
The waters gushed over hun
dreds of acres of rich farm land
and marooned shivering villagers
on their rooftops. Hundreds were
moved to higher ground.
In London, Berlin. Frankfurt,
Brussels and Paris workers went
cautiously to work along the ice
bound roads and streets, and hud
dled shivering in their warmest
winter i furs and woolens as tem
peratures slumped to the lowest
mark for over a year.
The Po delta floods followed
hard on the heels of northern
Italy's worst snowstorm in 15
years. It blocked hundreds of miles
of mountain roads and left scores
of villages isolated.
WINDS HOWL
The winter storm lashed the
whole north Adriatic. Winds howled
through Venice, piling up snow
drills in st. Mark's square, 'ine
gale ripped down a 50-foot high
bridge crane in the dock area of
Trieste. t .v , 1 v v
Freak weather hit' thg '"sunny1
French Riviera winter playground
for Eurooe's rich. There was six
inches of snow, at' the resort of
St. Raphael. u
Only in near-Arctic Greenland
and in Sweden, where the worst
blizzard in years swept Stockholm
over the weekend, did tempera
tures rise.
Rustler On
Wanted List
WASHINGTON Wl Chester Lee
Davenport, 31, a cattle rustler who
has repeatedly escaped from police
in . the Southwest, wrs added
Wednesday to the FBI's list of "10
Most Wanted Men."
Davenport made his latest break
last July 4 from the Oklahoma
State Reformatory at Granite,
where he was serving 25 years
for disarming and robbing an Ok-
lahoiha police officer in 1951.
ine fugitive is oi medium height,
stocky, and has brown hair and
eyes. He has a scar on his left
forehead, and a tatoo of a nude
woman on bis left forearm. He
often wears expensive cowboy
clothes.
He goes on the "Most Wanted"
list as a replacement for Thomas
E. Dickerson, convicted robber
sought for a series of holdups in
the Washington, D.C.. area and
captured by FBI agents at Verdun
ville, W. Va., on Dec. 21.
m
PAYDAY and big smiles wera in order at Superior-Troy
laundry this morning when the photographer caught Estin
Kiger and Anna Eccles at the desk.
Four Charged
Murder Try;
Case AHer 5
DETROIT m Charging four
persons with assault with intent
to kill and conspiracy, police
Wednesday cracked open the five
year old attempted assassination of
CIO president Walter Reuther.
Wayne County Pros. Gerald K.
O'Brien and' Detroit Police Conv
missioned Donald Leonard an
nounced the charges and the ar
rest of two of the four at 5:30
a.m. (EST).
'"I am convinced the shooting
of Walter Reuther In 1948 has been
solved," O'Brien said.
He said a -similar attempt on the
life of Victor Reuther, brother of
Walter In 1949, is still a mystery,
Arested were:
Carl Renda, 35, a key witness
at the Kefauver committee hearing
in Detroit.
Clarence Jacobs, 48, of Tecum-
sen, Ont., who once jumped bond
when accused of illegal entry Into
the United States.
Also named In the warrant was
Peter Lombardo, 50, already serv
ing sentence at the Terre Haute,
Ind., federal penitentiary.
The fourth person named in war.
rants issued Tuesday by Record
ers' Judge John P. O Hara, was
Santo (Sam) Perrone, 56, father-
in-law of Renda and a frequently
questioned suspect accused by the
Kefauver commltteee of being "a
gang-leading strike breaker and
enemy of . organized labor."
rerrone is oeing sougnt oy po
lice. O'Brien said he was con-
No Trust Here,
Also, No Teeth
GALLUP, N. M. Ml A Navajo
woman from Springstead trading
Post, Ariz., lost her false teeth
recently at a Gallup bus depot.
She advertised for the teeth on
a Navajo language program, offer
ing a reward. ,
Sure enough, a set was found.
Now the problem is that the find
er refuses to ship the teeth to the
loser until she sends him' the re
ward. The loser, declines to send the
reward until she tries out the
teeth.
Maybe it can be settled by the
time corn on the cob is again in
season.
Xmas Tree Fire
Touched Off
PORTLAND Wl The Hollywood
Boosters,- an East Side community
gro, was all set for its annual
burning of Christmas trees Wed
nesday night.
The burning came off all right
but ahead of schedule. Pranksters
got Into Holladay Bowl, where the
trees were plied, and started a fire
early Wednesday morning.
Within seconds a mountain of
evergreens was blazing. the
flames leaped skyward 100 feet,
Usually thousands watch the
spectacular tree burning. But this
time only a few firemen and po
licemen were on hand.
MYSTERY
LONDON UPI The Bank of Eng
land, lt was reported Wednesday
has given birth to twins. A New
castle business man who declined
to permit the use of his name said
two new one pound notes he re
ceived when he cashed a check
at his bank recently bore the same
aerial number R24A936968.
In Reuther
Police Crack
Year Hunt
vlnced Perrone was "in Detroit"
within the last 24 hours.
The warrant naming the four al
so had four "John Does" Indicat
ing further arrests in the assassina
tion attempt against Reutner,
... O'Brien did not give out full de
tails of the arrests and filing of
the cnarges. - a
, "We have evidence as to what
actually happened. : This is the so
lution but it may go further. There
may be other involvements."
The warrants against the four
men and the "John Does" con
tained two criminal counts. One
charged assault with intent to mur
der, and the other conspiracy to
assault with intent to murder.
The attempted killing of Walter
Reuther and the attempt also on
the life of his brother Victor a lit
tle more than a year later defied
years of investigation.
Each of the two CIO unionists
was shot at his home by a would-
be assassin who fired a shotgun
through the window.
Whether it was. the same man
on both occasions police could nev
er say.
Reuther was shot April 20, 1948.
Victor was shot May 24, 1949.
Walter lost part of the use oi
an arm as a result. Victor was
blinded in one eye.
At the time Walter blamed
'Communists, management or a
crackpot." Nothing came out of
theory.
Walter Reuther's top union Job
then was the presidency of the
CIO United Auto Workers. He is
still UAW president. ' Within the
past two years Walter nas also
become president of the CIO.
Bonney .Named To Combined
Recreation, Park Position
Another step toward consolida
tion of energies was taken with the
appointments of Bob Bonney as
park and recreation director; Bert
Stott as Moore Park superinten
dent.
The move was discussed at the
regular monthly park board-recre
ation committee meeting Tuesday,
and was accepted almost unant-
BOB BONNEY ,
mously by the group.
Formerly, Boniiey was employed
as recreation director and Stott au
park superintendent. The new ar
rangements will make Bonney re
sponsible for all park and recre
ation work aft an administrative of
ficer, is I nee the objective., are Uie
same. Stott, who has for many
years demonstrated an avid Inter
est in Moore Park and in animal
Heavy Rain
Falls Over
Coastal Area
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A normally mild winter day was
over Oregon Wednesday.
The northwest corner remained
unusually wet, though, and there
were patches of local fog in the
southern interior of Western Ore
gon. Nehalem. on the coast in nnrth.
em Tillamook County, suffered
Tuesday from river flooding and
umniius remained under water
Wednesday. And to the north, As
toria continued to be soaked by
persisting rain that in 24 hours
measured 2.22 Inches.
Elsewhere in the state the sun
came through the clouds in many
uicus. xemperaiures were moder
ate. COLDEST POINT ' .
Early Wednesday the coldest
point reported by the Weather
Bureau was Burns at 28 degrees.
In far Eastetn Oregon at Baker
the minimum was 36 degrees.
The rain was heavy northward
from Astoria. It slackened to the
south and Newport, on the Central
uregon coast, nad only .13 of an
inch in the 12 hours to 4:30 a. m. '
In that same period, Astoria had
1.10.
Nehalem's flooding stemmed r
from a combination of rain, wind
and tide. At the peak of the tide
Tuesday a high wind joined in
backing up the Nehalem River.
Water at that time closed the main
street and Just to prove lt could
be ' done. Ken Dillard. a logger.
scooted along it In his boat.
FLOODED
The store at the corner whern
the Coast Highway comes down
irom Manzanlta and turns on Main
Street, had 7 i2 inches of water
In lt Tuesday. But Wednesday lt
was dry again and there was no
water on the street.
Lowland farms, though, were
flooded and from Nehalem aoross
the river to the mountains waa an
unending lake. The rise was not
unexpected and there were no re
ports of livestock losses.
Nehalem Wednesday was getting
only moderate, intermittent rains
and the wind had lessened.
Canada-Cold
Hits Midwest
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northerly winds blew another
batch of arctic air from Canada
Into the upper Mississippi Valley
Wednesday and temperatures drop
ped below zero In 1 North Dakota
and Minnesota.
The cold air headed southeast
ward into northern sections of Il
linois and Indiana. However, read- -ings
in most other parts of the
country continued above seasonal
levels.
It was 8 degrees below aero
early Wednesday in Grand Forks,
N.D., -4 at Alexandria, Minn,, and
zero at Billings, Mont.
Light snow or snow flurries fell
through most of Michigan south
eastward through Ohio and West
Virginia and eastward through New
York State, Pennsylvania and
Southern New England. New falls
generally were 1 to 2 inches.
The only other wet spot Wednes
day morning was Western Wash
ington where rain continued. Falls
during the past 24 hours measure
nearly 2 inches at Astoria, Ore.,
and nearly 1 12 Inches at Seattle.
Skies were mostly cloudy over
tlie northern half of the country
and generally clear in the southern
half. ,
and bird tile, will have more time
and energy to devote to developing
the tremendous possibilities at
Moore Park.
Mayor Paul Landry, chnlrman of
the park board, says the move was .
made "In the interest of trying to
get more out of the people's dol
lar." Park and recreation money
will be kept separate, but equip
ment and manpower will be pooled.
Bonney's new position will be on
a trial basis only, for one year, be
ginning Jan. 1 with a (50 increase
In pay. His salary will be paid by
both departments, $300 from the
recreation department; $150 from
the park department.
Bonney came to Klamath Falls
Dec. 10, 1950, as recreation direc
tor. HighllRht of his career, he
says, is the successful bond elec
tion for the Municipal Swimming
Pool. Bonney has also done ex- '
tensive work In promoting planned
city recreation among young peo
ple and adults in Klamath Falls.
Hp considers the new Job consoli
dation 'a step forward, since
through closer cooperation and
collaboration between the recrea
tion and park departments, " the
city will be able to dispense bet
ter service to the community."
Primarily, the local recreation
program has been one of Improve
ment and development of facilities
to carry out a recreation program,
and utilization of other facilities,
such as the schools, at the dispos
al of the department.
The new park and recreation di
rector is also director of the North
west district advisory committee of
the National Recreation Assn., and
is on the recreation committee of
the governor's committee on chil
dren and youth.