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H fo) fl fnlM 1! M-fl fl fl "tF n i n n i M If Km: n I Price Five CenU 24 Facta" ; KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4. IKt" - Telephone 1U No. 2757 In The " . - 7 ,tA" . t'.'. 5 nv "my - - ,v &vv , ' r . ' 111.11 Y IHM - . - ' -..'.,-- V , - ! ' , f.j'rf'.j'r ju-'C u jsgsc .i-v- - v. &fjr ss&L' TfMEih. jvtV.""3'-. aW8AagB83s8toifig!!fe ' aaMT dmmm.lM Milieu J 2 orshippers " ; Captured Bv Bodies Of By FRANK JENKINS ' President Eisenhower at his news ' conference tells reporters emphati cally that he will not compromise one bit NOT ONE SINGLE WORD, he is reported as saying in -any way which would alter the traditional balance of power among the three branches of our government the executive, the legislative and the judicial. He added that ho is still -willing to endorse any Bricker amendment compromise designed to make it clear that NO TREATY SHALL CONTRAVENE THE CONSTTTU TION. That puts it about as well as it can be put, and I . think all of us ordinary Americans who just want o keep the ireedoms the Founding Fathers gave us and aren't in terested in the political shad ings and overtones of the Brlcker amendment feel exactly the same way about It. We want the traditional balance of power - mantained, but we DON'T want somebody to sneak through the back door in the guise of a treaty something that will torpedo our constitutional guaran tees. A British court in Nairobi, Kenya Colony, British Africa, has sen tenced to death one of the leaders of the Mau Mau terrorists. He calls himself General China and is re garded as the No. 2 leader of the anti-white organization. The No. 1 leader of the Mau Mau, considered the mastermind, was jailed for seven years last April. . , Before going off the deep end e bout the wickedness of the Brit ish, who took the black man's land away from him and now punish harshly- his leaders when they try to get it back, let's recall that In the 1870's we hanged Captain Jack and several other Indian leaders up at Fort Klamath and somewhat later we jailed Apaone cmet tier- onlmo and kept him in jail until he died. st..-ir.'L - . --' j Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. ; v, , Another one lor the book: The head of Portland's , school lurfch program (her name is Ann Brownlie) says the city's school cafctorins will probably soon be serving MARGARINE ONLY. Only one more shipment of surplus but ,ter is expected this spring, she says, and adds that most Portland schools will begin serving margar- ' ine when they run out of surplus butter. Comment? None! The situation is too absurd for comment. The senate agricultural committee recommends government regula tion of trading and speculation in coffee. A major aim of the bill that got the committee's OK is to head off any more spurts in cof fee prices such as the present one that has driven retail coffee prices ebove a dollar a pound. Personally, I think that cutting (Continued on Pate Three) Recovered MEW DELHI, India Ifl . The bodies of 341 dead, most of them women, nave been recovered at the site of the Hindu pilgrimage stampede at Allahabad. Newspa pers estimated Thursday that in all around 500 were killed and nno injured. The government radio disclosed the recovered dead Included 262 women, 404 men and 40 children. Three million frenzied ' pilgrims were Involved in- the crush Wednesday' at the Junction of the Oanges and Jumna rivers, holy waters to Hindus Many were washed downstream, A communique said the stam pede developed as a group of naked Naga Sadhus holy men headed back to camp with their elephants after bathing. The Nagas and the pilgrims came .togetner wnen (some) pil grims and one Naga were crushed. along -with a row of beggers sitting on the procession route," the statement said. SPEARS USED The communique did -not reply io an accusation mat uie Nagas, in order, to save themselves, ised the spears they habitually carry to fend off wild animals, but said: The pilgrims got the Impression the: Nagas were violent and there fore ran lor their lives, crushing to death the infirm, old, beggars and others who came . in their way." The deaths marred the great Kumbh Mela Festive!, one of the iioue.it in the Hindu religion. Is held at 12-year Intervals to cele brate the victory of gods over demons in a mythical battle the site. Prime Minister Nehru, who was in Allahabad for the festival, told n news conference the stampede was over before anyone In author ity coum do anything to avert the tragedy. He reported it ended with in 15 minutes. He said a contrib uting ractor was slippery ground, oue io an overnight drizzle. A MAJOR MOVING JOB was in progress this morning on the Lower Lake when the Herald. and News cameraman dropped by. Asphalt Paving Company was moving a big dragline from its former Palmerton Lumber site to a new location at Modoc Lumber, where the rig will be used in cleaning out the loading docks. A raft made up of eight big 32 foot pine logs supported the heavy equipment which was towed by small boats. Nation Fair Weather By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Light snow or rain fell in a few Midwest and Northeast areas but generally fair and comparatively mild weather prevailed in most parts of the country Thursday. ) Snow in the Midwest was con fined to Northeastern Illinois,' Northern Indiana, Eastern Wiscon sin and most of Michigan. Snow falls appeared heaviest in Michi gan with 7 Inches reported In Lan sing and 6 inches in Grand Rapids. Enow also fell over New York State and Northern New England and changed to rain along the Southern New England coast. Bos ton reported nearly a half inch of rain in 6 hours. Temperatures early Thursday ranged from in above in West Yellowstone, Wyo.,. to 71 above in Key West, Fla. . Br JACK BELL, WASHINGTON iifl Senate Re publican Leader Knowland (Calif.) said Thursday the final Senate de cision on the Brlcker treaty-power amendment 'may have to be put off for 10 days or more. : As the senate pushed anead with its seventh day of formal de bate on the hotly disputed plan, Knowland told newsmen he now was "not too sanguine" about get ting a final vote this week. That would mean putting it otl until the week starting Feb. 14 because there is an informal un derstanding there will be no Im portant Senate business next week when many Republican senators will be out of town to make Lin coln Day speeches. AGREEMENT TOKYO Wv Diplomatic sources said Thursday night the mutual security aid agreement between the United States and Japan will be signed at the end of this month after almost a year of negotiations. A MORNING SHAVE was being enjoyed by barbers Ben Angus and Curly Coon this morning at Jeff's Barbershop, 1010 Main. " . Bricker Plan Debate Goes On; Vote Not Expected Drop In Trade At Course High ' VANCOUVER, B.C. Ifl Lots of people drop In at the Point Orey Golf and Country Club, profession al Leroy uoldsworthy says. Hap pens every day. So Goldsworthy wasn't surprised when it happened again just at dusk Wednesday. Man came in. asked to use the telephone, made his call and left the way he came. By helicopter. The pilot was flying from Inter ior British Columbia to Interna tional Airport here, but couldn't land because the runway lights hadn't , been turned on. So he land ed on the nearby, deserted golf course, telephoned the airport to nip tne swucn and took on. i.ots of people drop In to use the phone, Goldsworthy says. Hap pens every day. CRASH LITTLETON-ON-SEVERN, Eng land I) A British turbo-prop airliner made a forced landing on mudbanks of the River Severn near here Thursday. None of the 11 men aboard was hurt. Knowland said he would try to get votes this week on all the im portant alternative proposals. These an be accepted or re jected by majority votes but final passage of whatever Is agreed up on as a constitutional amendment would take a two-thirds vote. Knowland sai it might be a good thing If a final vote is de layed 10 days or so. That would B've the country a chance to study the proposed amendment In its tentative final form and make its reaction known, he observed. Knowland said he Planned to hold a night session Thursday night, but would not estimate how late it might run. The weeks of maneuvering have split the Senate four ways and raised doubts In the minds of some senators that any constitutional amendment will actually come from the proposal by Sen. Brick er R-rh!e to limit the scope of treaties and to provide for con gressional regulation of other in ternational agreements. Atty. Gen. Brownell was asked at a news conference Thursday whether the administration would not be well satisfied to leave things "in status quo" that is to have no change in the Constitu lion. . Brownell replied that he was not the one to answer such a ques tion. He said President Eisenhow er had, "made it clear" the ad ministration has no objection to an amendment stating that no in ternational agreement may con tact with the Constitution. ,: KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Sklppti Tur 40 cars b-imt nt Lin Tar 21 eon Tul rr ' 'him 6965 cars mt-M 791 S can Former K. F Man Missing A former Klamath Falls resident, Fred R. Nell, now a resident of Ashland, is reported missing fol lowing a fishing trip on Smith river Tuesday. According to a story appearing in the Herald and News Wednes day, and bearing a Crescent City dateline, Neil and a companion Leonard A. Anderson, also of Ash land, were fishing in separate holes in the river about 25 miles east of Crescent City. They were to meet at lunchtlme, Anderson told Del Norte county officers, and when Neil failed to appear at the designated point Anderson started a search for him. After finding Nell's hat on the river bank and his fishing pole floating in the riv er, Anderson notified authorities. A sheriff's posse searched the area but no trace of the man was found. A telephone call to Crescent City this morning Tevealed that Neil had been fishing in a hole a. short distance above treacherous rapids and It is feared he may have fallen in the river and drowned. Nell is a cousin of Ray Loosley Fort Klamath, and a son-in-law of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Loos ley, pioneers of the Fort Klamath area. He Is said to be an ardent fisherman and hunter despite his age. He is said to be in his late 70's. A retired bookkeeper and ac countant, Nell is said to have lived here at various times several years ago. !fV .TV- 4 NEW PRESIDENT of the Past Exalted Rulers Club at the. Elks lodge is Ernest "Moon" Mullis, named to the post at the last meeting of the organization." "The : PER will conduct initiation , ceremonies at the big March ; 4 meeting. And that will also be the night of the an-' nual men's crab feed. - European Cold Wave Easing Up Rebel Force SAIOON, Indochina (A The : French High Command Thursday - conceded the loss ot tne important military ' post of Muong Ngol, guarding the approaches to the royal Laotian - capital of Lusnc Prabang. The command - said that forces of the Communist-led Vletminh rebels occupied the post in the Nam Hou River Valley as part of their advance along a o-mils iront.. . Muong Ngol is 86 miles northeast of Luang Prabang. In the same drive, the Vietmtnh captured two other French forts, one at Muong Sal, about 60 miles northwest of Luang Prabang. and the other at Ban Nam Bac, about 60 miles north of Luang Prabang. Muong Sal was considered import ant because of its airstrip .which the French could use as- an auxil iary airfield. 3 .-, , . ADVANCE .. The Vietmlnh -were- reported to be steadily advancing in the Jungle despite . the rain . of , bombs and napalm showered by French, air- craii. scores o rexugees irom ine combat sone were streaming .to- ward Luang Prabang. - - Earlier, tne French lilted ; meir blackout curtain on northern Laos operations to disclose the esUD- -llshment of an airlift to pump men ana supplies . nu tne threatened capital. - French fighter planes and bomb era had been reported strafing and bombing the . Vietmlnh column day and night. But the rebel tac tic of stringing out their men far apart m single me mad the tar get difficult. Action Asked For Big Four BERLIN Wl French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault - asked the Big Four meeting Thursday to ault deaUnar with detaUs and sian a movement wnicn win ner- mlt- its to- reedy:.Uia ,evi .we 4IUW UVfJKJIB. Bldault'a plea Was Inspired two days of .orossdr between So viet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo tov'and the Western Big Three in which the discussion covered the whole field of world problems without nailing down agreement of thought on a single one. The French diplomat opened the day's session, the tenth, with his appeal for reasonableness. Using Uie loglo of a lawyer, he tried to point out to Molotov all the errors he thought the Russian was mak ing in his interpretation of Western motives on German unification. . Attacking the whole problem raised by the nine-year-old divi sion of Germany, Bidault said: "It we wish to correct certain as pects of this situation we must first decide what they are, then propose remedies." "That Is why I ask my Soviet colleague to give his attention to the practical proposals which have been made to him or those framed by himself if he feels it his duty to prepare them," Bidault said in a 2,200-word speech. LONDON Wl r- Europe's coldest wave in seven years showed signs of thawing out Thursday but death and misery stalked the frozen plains and. snowbound mountains of Yugoslavia and Romania. Fierce blizzards, the worst in 24 years,, killed at least 14 persons in Yugoslavia's central province of Serbia. Most victims were , burled in snowdrifts. -The Yugoslav victims raised un official estimates of Europe's cold weather toll to . more than 300 deaths. Communist Romania ordered emergency measures - to meet transport, communication' and power breakdowns, Bucharest Ra dio reported acute shortages ot coal; - food ; and water in many Slightly warmer-weather spread islowly southward in Britain , and Germany, bringing relief from the great ii-aay rreeze up. normal winter temperatures were expect ed in most ot Western Europe by the weekend. '" - Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair throuich Friday with high of 48; low Thursday night 45. Hlfh yesterday 38 Low last niKht mH 16 Prcclp last 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 .t.W Same period last year .9.01 Normal for period 6.94 Farm Leader To Speak In $alem SALEM Wl Charles F. Bran- nan, secretary of agriculture in the Truman administration, and State sen. Richard L. Neuberger, Port land, will head the list of speakers at the Oregon State Farmers Union convention here' Feb. 11-13. Brannan will speak at the ban quet Feb. 11 on "America's Role In World Affairs." He will discuss the problem of farm surpluses and declining farm prices. Neuberger's topic will be "Be trayal of Public Power." Queen Has Tough Tour SYDNEY. Australia (1 Queen Elizabeth II left 150 fainting wom en in her wake Thursday and her handsome husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, had bobbysox trouble in another incident of the royal tour.. The women fainted in a crowd of excited Australians who broke police lines in Iron of a Sydney restaurant to get a setter view of the Queen as she entered to lunch with 670 representatives ot wom en's organizations. They were treated by ambulance crews. Teenage girl students staged a Junior mob scene during the Duke's visit to Sydney University. Blowing kisses and screaming, they surged through barriers and darted up for a close look. Genial Philip, officially on hand to confer with various educators, grinned ut them. Then police hustled the girls back into the crowd. ELECTIONS TEHRAN. Iran Ut The Iranian capital's three-day elections for a national senate wound up quietly Wednesday night with an esti mated 30,000 ballots In the boxes. Counting starts Thursday. Traffic Accidents Claim 38,300 Dead In 1953 CHICAGO Ml This is the tre mendous price the nation paid for accidents In 1053: Killed: 95,000. Injured: 9,600,000. The cost: $9,100,000,000. The bill was added up today by the National Safety Council. It noted that the 1953 accident death toll was 1,000 below the 1952 total. But it also noted that it was more than three times as great as the toll of American dead during the entire Korean War. The motor vehicle held Its place as the No. 1 accident killer. Traf lio deaths numbered 38,300. That was a gain ot 300 or l per cent over 1953. The traffic total wan the third largest in history, exceeded only in 1937 and 1941. ' ' Fatalities m borne accidents numbered 28,000, a decline of 1,000. Accidental deaths at work were unchanged at 15,000. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the council, said, "No civilized nation can long endure this tragic and disgraceful waste of man power and resources from acci dents that are avoidable." Thure were some relatively bright spots in the otherwise grim array ot statistics. The 1953 death Tate for acci dents ot all types was 60 per 100,000 population. That was Uie lowest on record. Nevertheless, one out of every 16 persons in the United States suffered a disabling injury last year. The 38,300 traffic deaths were recorded during a year when the number of vehicles on the road and the number of miles they traveled reached an all-time high. Thus, the death rate per 100 million vehicle miles was estimat ed at 7 the lowest rate on record. Traffic accidents resulted in about 1,350,00 nonfatal injuries. Falls brought death to 20,200 persons, 1 per cent fewer than in 1952. Burns cost 6,400 lives, a 4 per cent decrease. Firearms fatal ities rose 4 per cent to 2,450. Drownings Were unchanged at 6,800. Accidental deaths showed an in crease among the new generation victims 6 to 24 years old. There was nu change in the 25 to 44 age bracket. Decreases were shown for children under 5 and adults over 46. The estimated economic loss of $9,100,000,000 covers both fatal and wage losses, medical expenses, in surance costs, production delays, damage to equipment and prop erty. Last year, ended with traffic deaths on the upswing. The Decem ber total was 3.930. That was 6 per cent higher than In December 1952. The council reported that on tht basis of statl.il tea compiled by the slates traffic death reductions were recorded by 17 states in 1953. The states and the percentage reductions included Oregon 19, and Washington 14. At least 192 cities reported reductions. The council listed cities of more than 200,000 population which had lower traffic death tolls in 19M than In 1952. The Cities, with death and percentage declines given In that order included Seat tle, 13 and 25. The council also listed the safety leaders in the various population brackets on the basis of 1953 traf fic deaths per 10,000 registered vehicles. The cities included: 350,000 to 600,000 Denver and Seattle, 1.7 each;. Portland, Ore., 2.6. The leaders in the 10,000 to 25 000 class were Klngsport, Tenn., Walla Walla, Wash., and Long view, Wash.. They had no deaths. Hawaii Red Charge Denied WASHINGTON W 'UrginB prompt Senate passage of the Ha. wall' statehood bill, the Senate In terior Committee Thursday reject ed-- testimony that Communism In the islands has 'increased during the past few years," In. Its formal report to the Sen ate on the statehood legislation, the committee said it did not deny that Comrjunist activity exists in Hawaii,.' Just as in the. various stateai nuti .. .? - !, VW do contend (1) that ttie gen oral public in all strata of society In Hawaii have become far mora alert to the Communist menace during the past several years; (2k that Communist power -and influ ence have strikingly declined dur ing tne past few years; and (3) that Communism in Hawaii is no more of a threat to the present territorial government or the pro posed state government than it is in any of the existing states." . ; Warm Welcome Given Burglar SAN FRANCISCO Wi Two ban dits Invaded a Chinese laundry last night. Proprietor Song Lee, 37, effectively resisted the Intruders and gave police a clue which speedily led to an arrest. - Officers picked un Henrv Leong. 19, dazedly running through a va cant lot six blocks away, carrying hi his hand a .32 pistol. On his forehead was the unmistakable brand of the hot flat iron Sons was using when Interrupted. - ICEBERG - ST. JOHN'S. Nfld. Ifl An Ice berg was spotted 16 miles off this port Wednesday by a U.S. Coast Guard plane. Officials said it is exceptionally early tor bergs to be floating in this area. - " :- -' v . I SENIORS RUTH RALPH, daughter o Mr. and Mrs. Don Ralph and Leon Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Roberts, will represent their class at the annual Valentine Day dance sponsored by the Bonanza Parents and Patrons club. The dance will oe held this year Saturday, February 13. ,:,.-, - . .. ,. ,- . ? ft II si I h v. X ; 1 11 S3. 1 r 1
