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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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