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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1954
FBI Seeking
Car Snatcher
WASHINGTON Wl A 32-year
eld ex-convict reputed to have be
come a kingpin In the car theft
racket Monday was luted by uie
FBI among Its 10 most wanted
fugitives.
He is Nelson Robert Duncan,
native of Chattanooga, Term.
The FBI said Duncan, many
limes in and out of prlran on rob
bery and burglary charges, naa
more recently recruited a car
theft gang built around his broth
era and varied assortment of un
rirwnrri rogues who had expand
ed their operations from the
Southeastern states Into tne popu
loim Midwest.
The FBI said it Is possible that
Duncan, customarily n e a v 1 1 y
armed, may be traveling at this
time with his wife ana inree smaii
children.
Of small build. Duncan has red
dish brown hair and brown eyes,
With a mole on his Ngni cnees
Ha went on the "Most Wanted"
list as a replacement for Alex
Bryant, convicted armed robber
arrested to Los Angeles Jan. 26
Spuds Back On
Lunch List
WASHINGTON I Potatoes
once again are qualified for the
government's school lunch pro
gram under an amenamenv io ine
cotton ana wneai acreage auui
menu bill Just signed by Presl'
dent Elsenhower.
When Congress in 1950 took
price supports away from pota
toes, its action also was construed
to mean that potatoes wouldn't be
eligible for the lunch program.
The Senate held that this was
not Intended and when the acre
age allotments bill came up. Sen.
Welker (R-Idaho) added an
amendment to put potatoes back
Into the school lunch and similar
programs carried out from tariff
collections on Imports.
Nation Enjoys
Mild Monday
; By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mondt-y was mild, for winter,
almost everywhere in the nation.
The extremes In the early morn
ing were Caribou, Maine, with
nine above, and Southern Cali
fornia, with temperatures Tanging
around Ban Diego's 69.
Between, the weather was pretty
much what you's expect for this
time of the year, or better. Freez
ing temperatures prevailed from
the central Mississippi Valley
northward and eastward to the
Atlantic Coast.
But California was due for lis
ninth consecutive day of a warm
spell that brought a record Feb.
7 high of 88 degrees at San Diego
Sunday. Southern California
beaches were crowded Sunday as
Los Angeles, too, had 88 degrees.
Light snow fell In parts of Mich-
Igan. The South Atlantic Coast
from Tampa, Fla., to Savannah,
Oa., had light Tain. Some freezing
drizzle was reported In the West
ern plateau section. Elsewhere
skies mostly were clear.
Search Continues
For Alabama Cons
BAY 'mINETTE, Ala. 11 Hun
ger forced the remaining three un
captured Atmore Prison escapees
out in the open last night but their
brief appearance only brought nr,r
ault and no food.
The trio apparently desperately
hungry, entered the cabin of an
aged Negro and demanded food
at knifepoint.
But the Negro fled, said High
way Patrol Lt. W. L. Whltten, and
his story pinpointed the search to
a backwoods area seven miles
north of here.
The deadly hunt now Is in Us
fourth day.
The three Ned Captnelll, Adrian
McCrandell and James Norton
Ouy are the only ones still nt
large of nine long-termers who
slipped away under Atmore Prison
Thursday night through an electric
al tunnel.
Brovnell
Airs Views
On TV Show
WASHINGTON OB-Alty. Gen.
Brownell says he raised the con
troversial issue of Harry Dexter
white's 1948 rjromotioo shortly
after an FBI espionage report
naming White was found last fall
among some iv.mi mispiaceu uuv-uments.
We found a great many evi
dences of slipshod work when we
came in," Brownell said on a CBS
television interview yesterday. He
said the report on White had evi
dently been "shoved In a drawer"
without evaluation.
In a Nov. 6 speech, Brownell
aid former President Truman
promoted White early In 1948 In
the face of an FBI report indicat
ing that he was under investiga
tion as a Russian spy. Trumon
replied that he allowed White'a
promotion from the Treasury to
the International Monetary Fund to
go thrown, so as not to Jeopardize
the FBI in its investigation. FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover testified
the promotion made it more diffi
cult to keep a watch on White.
white, shortly before his death in
19'8, vigorously denied being a
Communist or a spy.
Brownell was asked yesterday
why he chose the time and occa
sion of a Chicago luncheon to dis
cuss the case. He indicated he had
learned of the 1945 FBI report only
a short while before and said, "I
thouctht of the quickest way I could
to tell this storv to the American
people."
Finding of the 20,000 "missing"
documents was discussed also at
'House appropriations hearings,
made public yesterday, on the
Justice Department's budget for
the next fiscal year.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Warren Olaey
III, testifying Dec. 8, said the
department has undertaken a re
View of allegations against all the
Individuals named in the 1945 FBI
report which mentioned White. He
did not name any.
He said there were "amazing"
results from a housecleaning of
Criminal Division files last Sep
tember. None, or at least most,
of the material had ever been tu
he department's record branch for
recording. Many unanswered let
ters were found, some of them,
dating back 15 years . . .
Among otner tnings found was
the FBI report on Soviet espion
age . . . We still do not know
where lt came from. It was some
where' in this mass of papers."
Mine Union
Meet Slated
BUTTE, Monl. Ml Negotiations
for a consent election between
warring factions of the Butte min
ers' union No.l will open Thursday
under a National Labor Relations
Board field examiner.
Examiner Howard Hilbun Is ex
pected here to seek a settlement
of the controversy between mem
bers of the International union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
and a United Steel Workers of
America (CIO) group, which
bolted Mine-Mill Dec. 27.
Ernest Salvas. Butte administra
tor for Mine-Mill, said 100 miners
attended a Mine-Mill meeting Sun
day and voted to circulate petitions
urging an Immediate NLRB elec
tion.
The steel workers' group with
drew from the IUMM&SW in pro
test at what it described as Com
munistic leanings in Mine - Mill
leadership.
POY's Leave
For India
INCHON, Korea Ifl Eighty
eight prisoners who asked to go
to neutral countries and some
1,300 Indian troops Monday moved
under heavy protective guard from
Korea's neutral zone to a ship
leaving Tuesday for India.
Some SO south Koreans made
an unsuccessful last-minute plea
at the Inchon docks for the 88 un
repatriated Korean and Chinese
POWs to change their decision to
go to neutral countries. As the
POWs boarded landing craft head
ed for the transport Asturlas, the
Koreans .sang, chanted and made
speeches over a loudspeaker.
The prisoners, originally cap
tured by the Allies, refused to re
turn to North Korea and Red
China. Under terms of the armi
stice thev chose neutral countries
over South Korea or Nationalist
China, where some 22,000 fellow
POWs have been released. Two
chose Communist Poland or
Czechoslovakia. : ' '
The POWs will stay In ' India
pending arrangements to get them
Into the countries of their choice.
Except for the loudspeaker bar
rage at Inchon docks, the Indians
and POWs moved uneventfully by
train from the Panmunjom area.
The South Korean government
previously had threatened to shoot
Indian troops setting foot on South
Korea soil, but a few days ago
President Syngman Rhee approved
moving about 5.000 Indian troops
to Inchon by train.
American troops and ROK police
guarded the train route all the
way.
Some Indians will stay at Pan
munjom until Feb. 21, when the
Neutral Repatriation Commission
goes out of business.
Seeing Eye Dog
Protects Mistress
PORTLAND 11 A seeing-eye
dog, determined to protect its blind
mistress and not understanding
what was going on, bit a deacon
on the leg during a communion
service Sunday.
Deacon Mark R. Mayo said the
dog attacked him as he approached
the girl with communion at the
Mallory Avenue Christian Church.
The wound was not serious.
Drought Drys
Up Kansas,
Missouri
KANSAS CITY Wl Many con
munities In Missouri and Kansas, j
the states wracked only three!
years ago by devastating floods,
are faced with a very different
crisis today; they're drying up.
A merciless drought that lasted j
through the summer still shows no :
sign of abating. It's no longer Just
the preoccupation oi worried farm
ers, but has moved, quietly, into
the cities and towns.
The water shortage varies In j
acuteness, depending on locality, ;
but there are communities which 1
have little over a month's supply!
left. I
At least one, in fact, has Tun
dry Olathe, Kan., 20 miles south-1
west of Kansas City. The city's
supply Is due to be depicted today, :
with the level of the reservoir!
dropping below the intake pipe.
Trucks will haul water from a !
nearby lake while this source
holds out. then arrangements are
to be made for hauling lt from
Kansas City.
Dr. Warren A. Kramer, chief of
water supplies for the Missouri ;
Health Division, said many towns!
already have reached the crisis
stage, and there's no Immediate
rcliel in sight.
For Kansas, too. the outlook is.
glum. A. D. Robb of the U.S.
Weather Bureau in Topoka. Kan.. !
described the general situation as
"serious." explaining: "Good, gen
eral rains would be the only solu
tion. But our long-range forecast
doesn't indicate them."
Water for car washing and other
nonessential use has been banned
in some areas.
In Paola. Kan., pastors are offer
ing prayers for rain at Sunday;
services. Daily prayers for rain j
are being said at Ursuline College.
- Meantime, the town's water rate
has doubled, and officials say an
other hike is inevitable if Paola
as is likely will be forced to im
port water soon from nearby Kan
sas City. !
Big l.OOO-gallon water trucks are
hauling supplies to farm lands and
thirsty cities throughout northern
and central Missouri end eastern
Kansas.
Some 20 hauling companies are
engaged in the water trade in
Jefferson City, Mo., alone. The
state capital lies on the Missouri
River, so its own supply is ample,
and water, is being shipped out
in a 60-mile radius.
Kansas City likewise has no
problem, being on the Missouri
River, but south of the city, in the
La Cygne, Kan., area, many
smaller towns have only six-week
reserves left,
Springfield, Mo., has taken to
rain,
cloud seeding to produce
without results to date.
At Edlna, Mo., the Army recent
ly had to step to and build an
emergency pipeline to a nearby
lake to replenish the community s
reservoir which since then has
run perilously low once more.
Lamar, Mo., Is precariously get.
ting by on a well formerly supply,
ing an ice plant. j
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