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W, and it U whis
IffSwSone ot several
fepTmats who stayed
"XiS.flM the Japanese
K'was signed in Aprli
I . i.na nnt sinned
t?, and so this
", .official status. A
Sjo source says 32 ot
remaining were inW
Srs, which Is a polite
reged to have
our side with his
f have spirited him of
r .... i0. (fininawa is
b wrci
Latere ve can go over
F" iiure. In it.
En, we may Ihid infor
Vm will reveal to us
tin ct Soviet espionage to
fcaji. Here Is speculation
liti Bistovorov's aid we
k m to crack the biggest
Lit spy ring in' Asia.
lilieryhush-husl! tor thes
L Russians face. 'a rugged
IJefiisTroUky, for exam
ijjlsaevlks finally GOT
SlInKo. There Is Igor Gou
ith Isn't his real name)
I ltd up and flew the Rus
(m In Onada. That was
Cjan ago, and the Cans
fut slill guarding him day
I tha mmmimiot
tin are gunning for
as tin are
Volly, I 6opi
bone Rastovorov
us the inside story ot
Tito sold us the "simple
t retainers" bill of goods
jolt of which we broke poor
im id opened the doors to
Onanist conquest of Chinft.
fi lot safer if Chiang, with
I itemed faults, still . ran
iitstad of old Mao.
tainnatkm of Ihe whispered
i muslin spokesman ac
Ita United States of kidnap
Umm In order to PHO
f4e Soviet Union.
IPBOVoKE Russia?
1(0' Not list!
Lu?e ever deliberately
b l ami? ...
W 4 provocation, our air.
waoooca the shooting down
WIMjritha-.fliglit of oth
I leaned an American
tnr international waters
istcoait of Korea on Jan
1 tf to our story, the bomb
War escort REPELLED
& shooting one of them
or and sending It crash'
Cbt tea.
. timas ev
rtbimiw ever? time ft
KWOs uacks ub hereafter,
RUj dire we'll sain .treat
I AH, which has RE-
for tbose who are strong
u wen as just and
fi Uolher fnVnsnnfc liftlo
te news, it has to do with
flura of honor ior the
liner Gothin whtnt u
61 husband from New Zea
'Anstralia. ,
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fn warships and the New
w macn Prince.
M this is written
line trim n - k...t
1063 in tr ihm -vi-.. in.-
J tormy seas.
. i Zealand cruiser, its
T completed, turned bacfc
Personnel could
to tbft hilar j 4t..
C - " "u we ny-
signal that was
IV-.yo"". It read:
"AIN BRACE."
1 MdHlonal British naval
L u r " i rum ior
f Mooniii" crew,
"Wd to be BAD, of
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crew aa had just
mi-., swrmy waves
message to you
Kfe"h the wind and
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'0 tor'"' 4 thrUl '
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J1 Sale
Wrongs
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Fries Fin CentiH-U Fsfea
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1954
Telephone 8111 No. 2765
1
A SliNNY DAY; A SHIISIY MOUNTAIN and von have all the m'aklnes for a beautiful oleture- This one. taken from a noint lust south of Modoc
Point, shows MtPitt looming up over the frozen expanse of Upper Lake.. One of the- largest lakes la the West,. the recreational potential of this
body of water has yet to be tapped. - - - ; . ,i J ..'J '.y.-M. . :; ; '": '' - By Don Kettler
Cliill Grips Area;
Train Service Out
LONDON Wl The worst winter
1c seven years turned Europe into
one vast Icebox from the Urals to
the Mediterranean Tuesday
spread misery among- the homo
less In the big cities, and covered.
the play resorts of North Africa
with snow, - .. .-
Trains were stalled. Rivers
turned Into giant Ice ponds. Over
worked electric lines broke down.
Hundreds of villages were cut off.
The weatherman said even low
er temperatures were on the way.
Already,, more than 45 peonle
people have died. '
In North Africa, many parts of
Morocco had their first snowfall hi
35 years. Near Meknes. three feet
of snow was reported and the hills
around Algiers were Ice-capped
Lonaon naa its coldest mgm In
seven years with the temperature
tumbling to 23 degrees for 12
hours running. ,
CUT OFF ,' ' . . '".
Nearly 100 villages were cut oft
by snowdrifts In the Italian High
lands. A howling windstorm with
gusts of hurricane force lashed -at
Triesttt Injuring at least seven
people.
Public "warmlnsr rooms were
opened in Frankfurt, Qermany,
and Paris, and shivering homeless
jammed the Paris subway stations
to escape the Ireezlng winds.
German officials predicted the
Rhine River would be frozen solid
from the North Sea to Switzer
land by the end of the' weelf if
there is no let-up.' At Lorelei Jt
was already frozen tor more than
three miles. -
Two Danish planes flew a ton
and a half of food into the island
of Julst, where 400 children were
marooned at a rest camp.:
The lowest February temcera-
ture In 30 years 7.5 below zero
was chalked up - at Basle,
Switzerland. The Netherlands had
Its coldest night of this , year with
1.4 degrees below. . - ...
Vietminh
Push Huge
Offensive
HANOI.. Indochina W Vietminh
attacks in five separate sectors
shaped up tuuay aa ' parts .of - a
general offensive apparently aimed
at overrunning enough territory to
give the Communist-led rebels a
powerful talking point for ending
wie muocmna war oy negotiation.,
A new invasion of Laos threat--'
ened Luang Prabang. the - royal
Laotian capital. Ho Chi Minn threw
virtually all bis eight regular di
visions trained and equipped by
Red China into the winter earn.
paign. . - i
The war sicture looked ' llks
this: :;
BORDER HIT
V.
Five Groundhogs See Own
Shadow, Says "Official"
Lodge; Winter To Stick
QUARRY VILLH!, ' Pa . (fl There
was sad news this Groundhog Day
for optimists hoping for an early
spring.
Five different groundhogs, each
proclaimed by the finders the "of
ficial'' weather forecaster, poked
noses into the chill Lancaster
County air and promptly sourried
obck into Durrows lor anotner nap.
That, announced hibernating;
Gov. Charles Hess of the slum
bering Lodge of Groundhogs,
means six more weeks of winter
weather.
The groundhog sighting and the
resultant forecast all were part
of the annual funfest in this south
eastern Pennsylvania, area, start
ed nearly a half century . ago.
The tradition is -that when the
groundhog sees his shadow more
winter is on the way; no shadow
ana you can count on an early
spring. . . :.',; .,
Hess fixed the official time of
the first sighting at 7:39.20 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time, noting
proudly that five separate squads
made- similar reports within, a
space of 3 14 minutes. ! .
"Entirely due to our adontion
of radar, radio and other modern
search and renortlng gadgets." he
said proudly. . v
in Allentown, the sun broke
through and Mr, Groundhog
glimpsed his shadow once to add
more support to the more winter
forecast. But ''unofficial" reports
from the Grundsow Lodge Numma
Ains under der Lechau (Ground
hog Lodge Number One on the
Lehigh) said the groundhog Was
"confused" because of the mild
ness of the day, ......
There will be: no official an
nouncement from this lodge until
late Tuesday night after a dinner
and other funm&lting.' Then the of
ficial verdict will come, probably
six more weeks of winter.
While the -."wigwag" squads and
"radar" companies recorded
Brother Groundhog's reactions -for
posterity, fellow members back at
the lodge conducted their own ex
ploration. Hibernating Governor
Charles F. Hess pulled the switch
that supplies the "Juice" on their
"atom machine.!' , --
Two unnamed lodge members
who volunteered to fit themselves
Into the "atom-powered" machine,
were transported back Into the
past 10,000 years to see what the
thickset marmot of that era did
on groundhog day.
They will submit a full report
at the annual dinner tonight.
- LORD FINED
NEWCASTLE, England Wl
Anthony Fairer, who has just be
come a lord, was fined 10 shillings
($1.40) Monday for getting as
drunk as one. Farrer, 43. suc
ceeded nine days ago to the title
held by a cousin, who died. :.
J Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity!- Fair through Wednesday.
High Wednesday 45; low Tuesday
night IK.;,,--. MiXi.
High yesterday .......... ...
Low last night
Preclp last 24 hours ....
Since Oct. 1 :
...:..3S
;....
.9.78
Same period last year
Normal for period
........6.83
Stromboli Spits
Out Lava Again '
' MESSINA. Sicily IB-A new erup
tion of the island volcano of
Stromboli, ' where- Italian- Film
Director Roberto Rossellinl wooed
and won Ingrld Bergman, poured
lava hissing .into the Tyrrhenian
ISea today,- The red glow could be
seen In Sicily, 40 miles away. -Many
of . the 700 fisherfolk of
Stromboli took to their boats when
the blowoff ripped three " new
craters . In the northwest side of
the cone yesterday.' -But they -returned
at- sundown, .confident the
eruption was no more serious than
several others in recent years. - '
Rossellinl courted Miss Bergman
on the island in 1649 while direct
ing her in a film called "Strom
boli." . . - , j - - -
EXPLOSION
.V TOKYO: 11 A. gas explosion
in a coal mine . sduth of -Tokyo
trapped' 21 mlnersj Tuesday, kill
ing at least four, Kyodo News Agen
cy reported.
Dulles Lashes Molotov's German Stand
BERLIN ' (Vi Rer-rptnrv nt
State Dulles told the -Big Four
foreign ministers conference Tues
day the Soviet bloc and Its one
man rule is the real dano-er ' to
world peace, not the Western de-
lensive alliance.
This was the American states
man's answer to Soviet Minister
Molotov's charges that the West
ern powers are promoting war in
trying to unify Germany within
the family of Suropean nations.
In stinging language, Dulles
hurled -' Molotov's own words
spoken after the loa NaiWlom-
munist partition of Poland flack
at him. At that time, with Mos
cow and Berlin In a bnotv.mmerv
Partnership, Molotov called it "not
oniy senseless but criminal" for
the Western nations to war against
Hitler, . . v
MolotOV. In . fhalenrlnv h
Western world's motives about
peace now. Is Just as wrong today
M he was then, Dulles asserted.
The secretary led the Western
broadside against the, Russian: as
a retort to Molotov's unyielding
position Monday. Molotov had
stressed that Russia would settle
only for a neutral Germany un
able to have any link with the
West and saddled with Commu
nist Influence. .
Said Dulles: " -
"Perhaps Mr. Molotov would ad
mit that he then (in 1939) made
a mistake we all make mistakes.
That fact should lead us not to be
so confident of our Judgment that
we throw across the table accusa
tions of criminal intent." . -
Dulles - said Molotov had "ac
cused us yesterday of being the
enemies of peace." '
"The greatest danger to world
peace," Dulles said, "lies In the
fact that In some cases a vast
military establishment can be
made to attack by the' decision of
single nation, sometimes by the
decision of a single man. That is
situation that la understandably
terrifying."
He left no aouov uiei ne was
talking -about- the monolithio .So
viet regime. ,- ' 1 ' ' 5
Dulles lit Into the Russian's de
mands for East German Commu
nist participation in an all-German
deal and declared the Soviet
Zone Red regime has been im
posed on 18 million helpless peo
ple. What more proof does one
need, be said, than the fact that
a million East Germans have fled
West since the last so-called East
Zone "elections" In 1950.
"In the Eastern area -there is
an armed .force of 260,000 to keep
order," he continued. "That is one
guard for 80 persons, in West Ger
many there is one policeman for
330 persons. Does this shocking
discrepancy prove that the East
Germans freely accept the .order
that their rulers Impose?"
The essence of Soviet proposals
for Oermany Is that the Big Four
should accept- the East German
regime as a principal instrument
for solving the Oerman problem,
Dulles said, but "we can not accept-that,
position."-
: ;-. '. -, ----- ' ' : ;
Spud Growers Meet Today
To Discuss Advertising;
Basin Group Hosts; Event ;
A Joint macing of tlie advertising
committees three potato grow
er groups anu representatives of
the . Oregon Potato commission was
called for this afternoon for the
purpose of working out advertis
ing plans for the Central Oregon
and Klamath Basin growers.
Klamath Potato Growers, asso
ciation Is host to the meeting. Its
advertising committee Is composed
of Chairman Louis Lyon, Malm;
John Degnan, Merrill; Troy Quails,
Merrill; Bryant Williams, Henley;
LaVern Haskins, Bonanza; - Vern
Berry, Henley,' and Earl -Wilson,
Malin Walt Jendrzejewski, county
agent, serves in An tjdvieory -capacity
- ;
Members of the Central Oregon
Potato Growers committee are
Chairman H. W. Steelhammer,
Robert Beasley, Orville Buckner,
Walter Merrltt, Ben Evick and in
an advisory capacity, Kessler Can
non, Gene Lear, Bob, Duncan. and
Jack Ross.
. At its January 11 meeting, the
Tulelake Growers Assn., named an
advertising committee to work in
cooperation with the other , two
groups in an attempt to work out a
joint advertising program. The
committee Is- composed of Glen
Arthur, chairman; Wendell Schey,
Lowell Kenyon, Russell McFall
and Dan Crawford. , '
; The Oregon Potato ' commission
appointed a committee of three of
Its members to meet -with com
mittees that have been named by
grower groups to discuss ways and
means to - expend Oregon potato
advertising funds to the best ad
vantage for the potato industry in
the state as well as the general
economy of the state. Members of
Morse Predicts
Adlai Victory
OKLAHOMA CITY W "If the
Democrats can free themselves
from the domination, of - the ixle
crats and nominate (Adlai) Steven
son, he would beat Elsenhower as
badly as Napoleon was beaten at
Waterloo," Ben Wayne Morse of
Oregon said Monday. .
Here to address a meeting of the
Oklahoma City chapter of Ameri
cans for Democratic Action, Morse
said, "If the election were held
next week the Democrats would
win bath the House and the Sen
ate. There Is nothing to indicate
the double talking Elsenhower ad
ministration la going iu ouange be
tween now and November." I i
The senator also said that what
he termed large campaign contri
butions made by thr Oklahoma
oil industry amounted to-bribes.
this committee are Chairman E.
O. Lemler, Klamath Falls; vice
chairman N. L. Welgand, Powell
Butte, and Dudley Sltton, Vale. .
According to Ben Davidson, ad-'
ministrator of the Oregon Potato
commission, "No official action
has been -taken other than to allo
cate 115,000, which were set up
oy motion as being 16,000 from tne
Klamath District, $6,000 from the
Central Oregon district and $3,000
on a statewide basis.
"There has - been some ' rumor
that the potato commission would
be willing to expend some of these
funds for an - individual operation
of promotion,"- Davidson con
tinued, "which Is not true. -The
commission can only use funds on
a commission basis on statewide
projects in this instance. However,
if a producing area or district is
represented by An association,
funds can be allocated by the com
mission back to the association for
use in that district as has been
designated by the grower associa
tion." -
Diesel Wreck
Held By River
MAUPIN; Ore; Ifl The swift
waters of the Deschutes River con
tinued Tuesday to hold the bodies
of two trainmen who died in' a
Monday freight train derailment.
: Fred Devlne. Portland commer
cial diver, after a study of the
river which 1 races - through rock
canyon walls at the wreck Scene,
said the strearrY'-was too-swift'to
attemnt dlvliur for the bodies.
,-. &-X. Moor,,..vJcA' president -of
tne opokaiie, -jforunna si aeattie
Railway, whose train it was; said
fl,a Una nuuiM'-lha -la.wl. ha.A-a
further efforts Were made' to find
the diesel engine In whioh the bod
ies may be imprisoned. - -
With a derrick operating at each
end of the derailment, the line is
expected to be cleared for traffic
by 7 a, m. Thursday, Moore said.
Once that is completed, efforts
will be directed toward finding the
engine and the . bodies of Ernest
H. Barton, 49, Portland, the :en
glneer, and Earl T, Sutton, Wish
ram, Wash., the fireman.
Moore said that while It was not
known precisely where the engine
lay on the river bottom, a refriger
ator car- had been swept 600 feet.
downstream,. ,
MiSd Weather
Said Coming
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fair and mild weather a good
chance for the ground hog to see
his shadow continued Tuesday
in nearly all sections of the coun
try. ' -
There were a few cold spots,
Northern New England, the North
ern Great Lakes region and In sec
tions of the Rockies. , Legend has
It that there'll be six more weeks
of cold weather If the ground hog
sees his shadow. If he doesn't win
ter is on the way out.
But It was like winter in Maine
and New Hampshire Tuesday with
sub-sero readings. One of the low
est marks was 9 degrees below
zero at Houlton, Maine.
Only a few wet spots were re
ported. Light snow fell In Southern
New England. Light showers hit
sections of Kentucky, Texas and
Washington. There was fog west
of the Rockies, with the heaviest
reported in the -Northwestern
states.
Temperatures Monday ranged
from a nigh of 69 at Thermal,
Calif., to 12 above at Caribou,
Maine.' . .
'- WRECK ., 1
SEOUL Wl The. Army said
Tuesday the toll of Sunday night's
train wreck south of here was 66
killed and 1 hospitalised, ,
KLAMATH BASIN, V,
POTATO SHIPMENTS
, shipped . . . 2 aim. dt'V
Tod.r ; , Lut Vw"
t 32 can vt- .-.;.,, ,-0 ears -
Total for tftl.a; ' '
19M-M ISSt'lU
480 eors 7221 eon
- 1. Vietminh Division No. 308, de
tached from Vie siege of Dlen
Bien Phu, crossed the border from
northwest Viet Nam Into northern
Laos, overran French-garrisoned
Muong Khoua after a 30-mile ad
vance and headed on toward Luang
Prabang, 85 miles to the south.
3. In central Laos, a war thea
ter for six weeks, other rebel
troops battled French forces in the
Mekong River area, north and east
of Thakhek, a town the Vietminh
won during Christmas week and
then gave up without a fight.
3. Three Vietminh - division in
cluding No. 316, a heavy Weapons
outfit called. -the Iron Division.
maintained pressure on Dlen Bien
Phu, the heavily fortified plain
where the French keep a toehold
'buttle. Thai mountain country at.
Labs' 5back" .doorstep. ...
4. Two hundred nines . to the
east, troons of Vietminh division
No. 330 Infiltrated the Red River
delta, the key defense bulwark of
French Union forces against the
sweep of communism Into south
east Asia, and opened -attaoks on
guard posts in the Ninh Binh and
Nam Dinh sectors. . .'. i
5. In the southeast 'Viet Nam.
rebel resistance stiffened against
-r-rencn anve to oust tne viet
minh from. the. rich-coastal strip
of 320 miles between Cap Varella
ana-ivaiio. y. '
SLIM CHANCE T K,';'X
But the Vietminh soldiers, with
all their strength In the Red River
delta and with the aid of perhaps
iio.ooo irregulars and guerrillas
who have infiltrated the delta, ap
peared to have no chance of smash
ing tne tens of thousands of Frencn
Union defenders or seizing any sig
nificant number of the 1,200 forti
fications they man, .',.,,
The Vietminh seemed to be seek-
ing instead to put as much territory
as possible under their Red flag;
before the spring rains to convince
the war-weary French a negotiated
peace Is the best way to end (he
seven-year-old conflict. ,', .
'I
JLZ
7
9
A CHECK AGAINST THE COLD WAS GIVEN this morning
when Byron. Smith, 640 Roseway Drive, tightened up
Gary Geiger'i Jacket, Gary Uvea at 711, Ro8ev- , ,
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