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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1954)
'QHBlL it : rn f(l UMllllM French Told At n Bermuda To Back EBC RECESS IN 'CONFESSION' INQUIRY Col. 'CONFESSION' Schwable, right, subject of a Marine Corps inquiry on his action in making a false germ warfare confession under Communist pressure, and his co-pilot in Korea, Maj. Soy H. Bley, second from right, talk with attorneys during a recess in proceedings at Washington. Bley, a witness, also was captured and like Schwable, signed a germ warfare confession. Attorneys are Col. Paul Sherman, left, and John H. Pratt, standing. (Story on Page 3) In The' ' Br FRANK JENKINS Western officials In Berlin report this morning that a secret warn ing by Prime Minister Churchill helped forge Western unity against Russia at the Berlin talks. They say the warning was aimed at wobbly France and that the gist of It was this: IF AMERICAN FORCES LEAVE THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT BECAUSE FRANCE BALKS AT OERMAN REARMAMENT, THE BRITISH ARMY WILL PULL OUT WITH THEM. Good old Churchill I He can al ways be depended on In the pinch es. Isn't It wonderful to have a man like that around? I hope he lives to be a hundred. Here la an Interesting statement on a VERY troublesome farm problem: "Continued high, rigid farm price supports could be DISAS TROUS especially In the case of corn." v; . Who do you reckon said that? I'U tell you, It was HENRY WAL LACE. He said it in the course of a speech in Dea Moines, Iowa where ne grew up under a nara headed, able, straight-thinking father, but later became about as fussy -In his thinking as anybody could be.' He seems to be going back to his early training, . Wallace' statement suggests a question: . WHY could continued high, rigid price supports eventually be disas trous to agriculture especially to corn? All over the Middle West,' the cribs are bulging with surplus corn from last year's crop. Because of high, rigid price support, the Mid west fanners are continuing to RAISE MORE CORN, regardless of supply and demand. The time must come when these accumulating surpluses wiU break the back of the rigid support sys tem and the bottom wUl fall out from under prices. Then there will be a mess. We saw It happen in the case of po tatoes and we're seeing it happen gain in the case of butter. Dr. Warren Weaver, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, says to day in a talk at St. Louis: "There Is a growing tendency on the part of some people to believe that anyone who has brains is sub versive." I I'm afraid, sir, you're letting yourself get a bit cynical. What you really mean, I think, was well put about a halt century ago by one of our leading humorists, in these words: "Too many of our people know too many things that am t so." A Belgian judge (in the town of Verviers) refuses In a minor trial to hear the testimony of a woman witness who was wearing trousers. He says he considers the wearing of trousers by women in as serious a place as a trial to be contempt of court. One question, Judge: Was the lady plump or slim? In a report of nasty weather over the country today, Including dust storms, blizzards, etc., the weath er bureau says every road In northwest Kansas Is blocked by heavy snowdrifts.' I'll risk a guess that In dry north west Kansas they aren't unhappy about that situation. The snow will melt into water that will go Into the ground gently, instead of dash ing away down the gullies and the creeks, with the result there will be more water in the. ground to raise crops with. Don't sell snow short. II Isn't pleasant, but it's EXTREMELY VALUABLE. French Rebels In Skirmishes HANOI, Indochina W French Union patrols from the fortress l Dien Bien Phu punched on Prl Jbv toward the surrounding Viet mi'nh, but only light skirmishes sere reported. The airlift-supplied fortress In a dusty bowl In northwestern In Jochlna has been encircled by the Sommunlst-led rebels for 90 days. A division of the rebels the iOBth moved away southwest last month In a drive that is now lulled northeast of the Luang Pra bang, royal capital of Laos. About 83,000 Vletmlnh troops still remain around Dien Biea Phu, however, and the French Un ion forces were trying to draw them Into battle. Day's lews INQUIRY Frank Wallace Backs New Farm Policy DES MOINES Ml The Eisen hower administration's advocacy of flexible farm price supports Saturday got some indirect back ing from former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace who inaugurated corn and cotton loans in 1933. Although Wallace did not speci fically mention the program Sec retary of Agriculture Benson Is urging upon a reluctant Congress, he said continued high, rigid sup ports could be disastrous, especi ally in the case of corn. Benson, seeks to revise' the ex isting rigid support law under which such farm commodities us corn, wheat and cotton are sup ported at 90 per cent of parity. Parity is a figure calculated to represent a fair price for things a farmer sells In relation to the price of things he buys.) Wallace, who has been living quietly on his farm at South Sa lem, N.Y., since his 1948 defeat as Progressive Party candidate for President, expressed his views in remarks prepared for the Nation, al Farm Institute here. "In the long run," he said, Mthe ever normal granary program, can be ' sustained only by a flexible price support system. This is es. pecially true of com." Wallace said no one can afford to be cocksure in talking about larm price , programs. Italian Cops Guard Embassy ROME UK , A bomb scare caused Italian riot police to throw a guard around part of the United states embassy property Satur day. An unexploded hand gren ade was found near the -embassy. A demolition expert, however. said the grenade appeared to be a dim. He dismantled it and took the pieces away with him. Then police, who had blocked pedestrians from approaching the area, relaxed their cordon and withdrew. Most members of Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce's small Satur day staff on duty at the embassy were unaware of the incident. Mrs. Luce was not in the build ing. Police said they could not ex plain the grenade's presence. They were summoned by an uniden tified passerby. . tlr I'M IP1111, piMJ f Y ..-J A PLASTIC BALLOON, similar to many to be launched Sunday, February.21, at the Klamath Falls Airport in the "Crusade for Freedom" demonstration that will conclude a week's observance of a program to carry news behind the Iron Curtain, is being held by Boy Scouts, a to r) John Hustead, cub pack No. 18; Tom Humble, explorer post, No, 142; Richard Norland, troop 3 and pretty Girl Scout Judy licFarlan, troop No. 27. The balloon launching is spon sored by Aerie No. 2090 Fraternal Order of Eagles. Price Five Ceats M rages Portlander Posts Bail In Murder PORTLAND tn George F, Sack. 67. posted $10,000 bail Frl- day night and was released as a material witness in the death of his wife Goldle, 56. Her body was found In a clump of bushes northeast of here Tnurs day. Multnomah County Coroner F. Floyd South said th9 body "defin itely has shown some evidence of poison having ' been administered or laxen. ' Sack was picked up ofter resi dents in the area reported tney had seen a car with his license plates near the spot where the bodv was found. Sack, under questioning, told po lice his wife had left the apart ment house they own last Tuesday for a shopping trip. He said she had $125 in a purse and wore two diamond rings. The purse and the rings were missing when the body was discovered. Sack declined to answer specific ally a number wf questions about bis background. He did say, how ever, that his first wife died in a fire and that his second wife was killed in a holdup. From Chicago it was learned that a Julia Sack, 27, was fatally burned toe nignt or June 1, 1923 Her husband, a George Sack, who was the beneficiary of a $6,000 life Insurance policy, Was held for questioning but later released. Then on March 16. 1925. a Mrs. Edna Sack, 24, was mysteriously snot to deatn in a taxicab in sub' urban. Cicero. Her - husband, a George Sack, also was wounded He said un.uoknbwri assailant had attacked them. ' Police doubted the story and Sack was charged with murder and brought to trial. Ho wbs represent, ed by the famous attorney Clar- ence Darrow. Sack was declared Insane, only to be released in 1932, The Sack who was questioned in Portland said he was a world War I veteran and that he had spent some time at a veterans' nospitai at Roseburg, -Ore. recently. The claims number of the man treated at Roseburg was the same as that of the man who was in the Illinois asylum. The woman whose body was found In Portland Thursday, the former Goldle Goodrich, was born at Dayton, Ore. She married 8ack In September, 1952, after teaching for many years at Great Falls, Mont. POST OFFICE CLOSED Postmaster chet Lengslet an nounced today that the Post Of- iice win be closed Monday, Feb ruary 22, for Washington's birth day. KLAMATH TiriSifl!s Gift VISITING DIGNITARIES, here for the conference of Legion posts and auxiliary mem bers, held at the Willard Hotel and the Veteran's Memorial building included several department officers. Pictured are (1 to r) Joe McDonald, Portland, department adjutant; Les Henry, Cave Junction, district No. 4, commander; George Shaw, Portland, depart ment rehabilitation chairman; Henry Van, Klamath Falls, vice commander, district No. 4; Carl Mosef, Portland, department vice commander and Dallas Nollsch, Portland, depart ment commander. .. .Picture by Florence Ogle Highway Group Gives Advice WASHINGTON IM-B u s 1 n e s s may pick up at Jails throughout the country if some advice given the White House conference . on. nignway -gaiety goes intoeiiaec. The advice: It takes jail sen fences, not fines, really to dls. courage drunken driving. Donald Slutz, managing director of Detroit's Traffic Safety Assn., told 3,000 delegates at their clos ing session yesterday his city had cut drunken driving cases by 90 per cent. He attributed the decline to Jail sentences for 60 to 70 per cent of drunken drivers. Sluts said appeals to business firms pointing out the hazard caused by tipsy revelers driving home from office parties had largely cleared up 'that holiday problem; Oeorge Hardy, a Kansas City, Kan., high school student, de scribed a student court plan that deals with traffic offenders too young for regular courts. The court imposes "sentences" such as a month s suspension of driving privileges. ...... And for enforcement there is front-page publicity In the school paper to any offenders who don't obey voluntarily. Eagles Launch Fund Campaign Demonstrating a successful tech nique used by the Crusade for Freedom to carry news oenina tne Iron Curtain, Aerie No. 2090, Fra ternal Order of Eagles, will con duct a spectacular balloon launch ing at the Klamath Airport. Sun day, February 21, 2 p.m. Announce. ment of the plan was made today by Andrew Klum. president. Large plastic balloons similar to those used in the crusade to carry messages of hope, truth and en couragement to Soviet-oppressed peoples of Europe will carry, en closed in the envelopes, smaller en velopes In which finders can en close a dollar for freedom. Finders of balloons are asked to contact the local aerie. The event here is one of many taking place over America al the same time under sponsorship of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. There will be a mass launching of 2.000 balloons at Springfield, Illin ois. In addition to members of the local aerie, representatives of com munity service, patriotic, civic, business, labor and youth organi zations ' supporting the Crusade for Freedom are Invited to take part In the ceremonies that will precede the launching. 811m Perkins will serve as mas ter of ceremonies, KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS hunt 0a? Ltt Ttir 50 cart 40 cor Tut ff Nun 1ra-M 7S87 car 1JM.M 8499 cart FALLS, r.,a:f SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1854 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy through Sunday with high of 48; low Sat urday night 30. . ;, -; y, High yesterday ....... 41 Low, last .night. Governor Asks Funds For Dam JVASHINOTON 11 A House appropriations subcommittee Fri day was asked to Increase ap propriations for The Dalles, and Chief Joseph Dams and to appro priate money for new power dams In the Pacllic Northwest. The subcommittee was given a letter by Oregon's Gov. Paul Pat terson, who said he also repre sented the governors of Washing ton, Idaho and Montana, urging hat enough money be appropriat ed for The Dalles and Chief Jo seph so that construction sched ules can be maintained. It has been estimated that the recommended appropriations for Chief Joseph and The Dalles, 27 million dollars, and t34.100.000, would result In a one year's delay In the two projects. C. A. Erdahl, Northwest Utilities Conference Committee chairman, and J, Frank Ward, managing dl rector of the Washington State Power Commission, Joined Patter son and also requested additional lunds to start new projects in the area. Warren Nomination Finally Given Nod By WASHINGTON I A Senate Judiciary subcommittee voted Sac urdny to recommend to the full committee favorable action on Earl Warren's nomination to be chief justice of the United State. Chairman Lnngcr ik-mui saia the vote to make a favorable rec ommendation was not unanimous, but he declined to disclose the vote. Sen. Welkcr in-Idiiho) a mem ber of the lull committee who sat In on the closed session, told a reporter however that the vote was unanimous. I know what I in talking about," Wclker said. A furlorn row boned up in tne suncommlltee Friday alter un checked charges against Warren, lornvcr Republican governor 01 California, were placed In the pub lie record. . The chamcs were placed in the public record on Lanor's order The four other members of the subcommittee disclaimed nny ad vance knowledge ol the pfn. Lanner said the full judiciary committee would meet next Wed nesday to consider Warren's nom ination, submitted to tne oenate by President Elsenhower on Jan. 11. Sen. Eastland (D-Mlssl. first to leave the subcommittee's ' closed session, said the five-member group recommended confirmation of Warren to the full Judiciary committee, without objection. But Lancer later told reporters ihe had voted "merely to refer Uus'vored it.' Indochina Aid Said Adequate 4 SAIGON. Indochina UP) II. 8, foreign aid director Harold Stas aen said Saturday he considers 30 1 American help for-' the Indochina ' war etiort adequate to. meet mis 'year's military needs, but that the smaller economic, social and tech nical programs should be expand. ed. U.S. military aid to fhe French and their Vietnamese alhs for the fiscal year beginning next June has been set at 781 million dol lars. The allotment for the econ omic, social and technical pro grams is 25 million dollars. Then there is 30 millions for projects the two programs have in common, bringing the total to 840 million. 1 "I believe that from a military standpoint," Stassen told news men, "the present program for the fiscal year is sufficient to back Gen. Henri Navarre's long-range plan for victory In the Indochina war." . This was a reference to the French commander's program (or taking the offensive in the seven-year-old conflict. It does not can for victory this year. Ike Nominates Oregon Lawyer WASHINGTON Wl President Elsenhower's nomination of C. R. Luckey, Eugene, to be U. 8. attor- ney for Oregon was approved Fri day by a Senate Judiciary subcom mittee. Luckey has been Lane County district attorney. Subcommittee to the full commlitee lor action." Lanuer said Warren's confirma tion had been recommended "by majority." Asked what would happen to the sensational charges made public late Friday, Langer said: 'They are all In the tile If the lull committee Wants to do any thing with them." Sen, Eastland ha a described tne charges as a "lot of rubbish." Sen. Watkins (R-Utahi also had denounced them as "a lot ol tom my rot." Langer said that when the full committee meets Wednesday, he would favor an open or public ses sion but this decision would be left to the members. Welker said the motion to rec ommend Warren's nomination fa vorably to the full committee was made by Watkins and seconded ay Sens. Hendrlckson R-N.J) and Hennlngs (D-Mol, , Both Deputy Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers and Asst.. Atly. Ocn. Warren Olney, In charge ol the Justice Departments criminal di vision, made statements to the subcommittee. Langer said these would be made public later. Welkcr said his understanding was that the entire record of Sat urday's session was to be made public. Kastiand, joining outer suoconv mittee members In denying ad' vance knowledge of Langer's plans to publicize the charges against Warren, said "I wouldn t have fa. No. 2771 DustStorms, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A big chunk of the nation's mid dle presented a patchwork weather picture today (Saturday), with the colors shading from dark brown to white. ' High winds kicked : tip heavy dust storms over the Midwest Fri day and were followed by heavy snow in some areas Friday night. That . accounted for,, the. : weird pattern. Western Kansas, Hit hardest by full-fledged blizzard last night, yesterday's duster, came in for a After a day of zero visibility be cause of dust, the ' snow moved in to knock out power lines and stall transportation.. TRAINS HALTED At least eight passenger trains were reported halted between Kinsley and- Garden City, Kan.,, after , automatic signal - systems were crippled by ice and snow. Scores of automobiles were ditched and abandoned. . Dust piled up to three Inches In streets yesterday and as the rain and snow moved in. mud balls and broken snow fell in some areas. A dust pall hung over all Texas early today except for the western tip. Low visibility reports included one-half mile, at Childress and Wink: three-fourths of a mile In the Beaumont area and one mile at Lufkin and Houston. Winds generally had calmed over Texas, although some gusts I up to 30 miles an hour were re- I nnrted. , , .- . . Tne dust moved into Louisiana last night. Bhreveport reported '' Yesterday's blowing , dust was heaviest in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, but also lapped over Into sections of Colorado and New Mexico. ' Lamar, ; In southeast Colorado, was hard hit when 65 mlle-an-faour winds knocked down power lines and an estimated two-thirds of the television antennas in the city. Winds in Colorado had died and the outlook for the weekend was for calm, clear and waxnt Condi. tlons. ' HIGH WINDS . i In Oklahoma, visibility In the extreme west and Panhandle reg ions still was cut to a mile early today as winds of 35 to 46 miles an hour stirred heavy clouds of dust. Gage. In northwest Okla homa, got two inches of snow and the eastern section got about an men of rain. Rounding out the Friday weather scene were two tornadoes, one at Pine Bluff, . Ark., and the other at Conroe, Tex. Five persons were injured In the Texas twister i and 10 buildings damaged. At Pine Bluff, six homes were wrecked and one child in jured. Tne weatner Bureau said tne dust storm was caused by a deep low. pressure over Oklahoma that was moving eastward. PliK Telephone Sill Blizzards Add Damage pi! fitlppi-A COUNTING THE MORNING CASH in readiness for the days business are Marguerite Egan and Grace Arnold, assistant cashier and cashier at Newberry's, 825 Main Street. - ' by Prime Minister Churchill that If American, forces were to leave the continent, the British Army would go with them-helppd forge Western unity against Russl in the Berlin Big Four talks. Western officials who reported this Saturday said the warning was at France. It was delivered during Churchill's Bermuda tsiu . In December with-President Eisen ' hower and French Premier Joseph Lanlel. ' ' - . .' ' The- Informants said Churchill let Lanlel and Foreign -Minister Georges Bidault know that unless France pressed, on to ratify .the project for a European Defense , Community ( EDC) , the West would be confronted with this choice: - 1. Either bring German resoure- r es directly-or Indirectly into the North Atlantic Treaty organization WATO).. ' 2. Or watch an American with-, drawal from Europe. : 1 - ' The aged British statesman sol emnly added that if the Americans were to leave the continent, Brit ain's troops would march out with them. ' f' ' ".'-v- : ' In that case, Churchill was said to have declared, West and South Europe, to the channel and to-tne Mediterranean, would e open, to the Red armies of .Russia and, its satellites. ' s ' The information, from persons with access to the records of the Bermuda conference, was that Bi dault and his sides were annoyed at first by the bltmtness of some of Churchill's remarks. Biaauit the time was pinch-htttmg for Lan lel, who was ill. One of the things the French reportedly resented: was what they considered . dis paraging reference by Churchill to the condition and einciency ox the French Army. : Bidault also expressed soma ap parent defiance when Churchill spoke of possible new arrange ments to bring German; - Into NATO. In a roundabout way, the informants , said. he , reminded Churchill that France still pos sesses a veto right in NATO Coun sels. The Implication was -that France a member of the TVrnerK can-British-French standing group of NATO would block Germany's direct entry into the alliance. But French cooperation .was evi denced by a pledge to continue Working for. the earliest possible ratification of EDO. This project for a. slx-jifttlon,' one-uniform army of Europeans would include it West German divisions. Eugene Students Safe In Fire EUGENE tn School officials Saturday surveyed damage caused by a fire which burned about half of a 32-year-old grade school build ing here Friday.- , au tne 458 pupils were marched from, the building in an orderly fashion and there were no reported injuries. . ., The fire was believed caused by an electric heater In a vacant base ment classroom. The fire made the entire building' unusable. School officials said they might send the pupils to another school which had been boarded up this year. The minus also could be transferred to other schools in the city. QUEEN HONORED HOBART, Tasmania IA The name of Cape Pillar, a landmark whose 1,000-foot cliffs cart be seen for miles, was changed today to Cape Queen Elizabeth in honor of the British sovereign s visit to Australia. fsf? t
