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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1954 PAGE FOUR FNAk WALL bTREET NEW YORK l The stock mar. ket declined Tuesday with only scattered support putting in an ap pearance. The fall went on down to around 3 points at the worst, but most changes either way were small. Trading was moderate at an es timated million and a hall shares. That co n1 paras with 1,810,000 shares traded Friday when the market was down slightly. " v; Grains a v PORTLAND GRAIN PORTLAND Itfl No trans actions. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO OP Hog receipts were stepped up sharply Tuesday as compared with the previous ses sion and prices dropped 25 to SO cents lower. Most choice 160 to 230 pound butchers sold at (25.75 to $2ti.25. Choice and prime steers moved at S25.50 to $27.00, the top, wilh most good and choice types 120.00 to $25.00 and utility to low grade offerings $14.00 to $19.60. In an active trade slaughter lambs sold 25 to 50 cents higher with choice and prime grade: bringing $21.75 to $23.26 while good and choice types were $20.50 to S21.50. Salable receipts were estimated at 0.500 hogs, 10,000 cattle, 500 Tuesday's car receipts: wheat calves ana z.auo sneep 35; barley 6; flour- 27; corn ,11 oais 4; niill iced 10. CHICAGO GRAIN CHICAGO liB Soybeans soared nearly 10 cents a bushel to tno highest prices in three years In active dealings on the board of trade Tuesday. Buying in -soybeans ' In part re flected strength .In soybean oil and mciil. The meal was quoted at $81,00 to $82.00 a ton in Ihe cash market, a new peak for 1954 and up about $10.00 from the start of the year. Wheat also was quite firm, al though not matching the gains in soybeans. All new crop wheat fu tures set new seasonal higlis on bavin? attributed in part to re ceipt of more dust storms in Uie winter wheat belt over the week end. Wheat closed 1U-3U higher, March 2.16, com higher, March 1.51 Mil oats i lower to J higher, March 75, rye 1 to Hjj higher, March 1.18'i, soybeans 4' i 734 higher, March 3.3e-3.36'-i, and lard 2 to 25 cents a hundred pounds higher, March 16.92. Wheat Open High Low Close 2.14 !2.16S. 2.14 2.10 2.15 ? 2.18 2.15?, 2.17 V, 2.11 2.14 2.11 2.13 , 2.13 2.17 . 2.13 K 2.16 2.17 2.20 2.17 2.19 ?, Mar May Jly Sep Deo Potatoes CHICAGO POTATOES CHICAGO ifl Potatoes: Ar- rivals 335 on track 429; total IT. 3. shipments lor Friday 853; saiur day 663; Sunday none; Monday 462; old stock market slightly weaker; Idaho Russets $2.90-3.10; bakers - $3.75; new stock market about steady; Florida round reds 12.20. IDAHO FALLS W (USDAV Potatoes: market dull; Russets No. 1-A, 2 in mln, 25-30 nor. cent 10 oz and larger 1.70-1.90: 30-40 per cent 10 oz and larger 1.90-2.05. Sixteen cities, arrivals 1316, on Indian Said 115 r Dies In South KOMATKE, Ariz, im Alex Tash quintli, Pima Indlnn who claimed to be 116 years old. died yesterday In his one-room adobe home near line. He was the last of Arizona's "Long Hairs." He had kept his hair long in traditional Indian defiance of the whiles, and even refused to have a doctor treat a fractured leg which ho suffered three weeks ago when ho fell out of bed. Oregon Ironworkers . Return To Work PORTLAND Ml A week old work stoppage at the Schmitt Steel Co. ended here Tuesday when AFL Iron Workers returned to their Jobs. Union officials said workers voted to accept a company offer of an 11 -cent hourly wage Increase which brings their pay to $2.05 an lour. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK PORTLAND Ofl-(USDA) Cattle salable 300; market fairly active, mostly steady; two loads good- choice 926 lb led steers 22.50; small lots commercial-good 950 lbs 20.00 utility-commercial grades mostly i4.uo-is.uo; one lot commercial- good light heifers 18.50; loud com mercial grades 17.50; utility-com mercial neuers mostly 11.50-17.00 canncr cutter cows largely 9,00- 11.00; utility grades 12.00-14.00: commercial tiws scarce: utility- commercial DUUS 14.50-16.00. Calves salable 50; market Quot able steady; good-choice vealers .3.00-28.00; prime grades to 30.00: good-choice heavy slaughter calves 10.UU-23.UU, Hogs salable 300; 'market fully 25 lower following weak to 25-cent lower close .Monday; choice 1,80 235 lb butchers 29.00-50; choice 29U-300 lbs 27.00-28.00: sows scarce choice 325-550 lb salable around 23.b0-25.50. Sheep salable 300; market about steady; few choice-prime earlv atom and wooled lambs 20.60: large lots No. 2 pelt 20.00 with above 110 lbs at 19.00; good-choice feeders salable 15.50-16.50: good- choice slaughter ewes salable t.00- S.00. Judge Postpones Sentencing Men Sentencing of two San Ouentln Prison parolees, who pleaded null- ly to bogus check charges here, was indefinitely deferred Tuesday by Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg. - . . The defendants, who were brought back from the California prison last week by Deputy Sher iff Dal Reed, are Lee Maxwell and Edwin Hooper. Judge Vandenberg said he would not pass sentence until he receives FBI reports on the two men. It is expected their attorney, George Proctor, will make a plea for pro bation. The check charges were filed here before the men were sen tenced for similar oflonses In Cali fornia.. They served 27 months in prison.' MBnlclMl Ceari Gilbert K. Hood, vagrancy, $100 and 30 day. ' Jamea W. Georl, - vlolauoji basic rule, hearing 4 p.m Dean Georfe.arunlc, SaO or 10 dl.va. Blaine Jt, Uelvln. vagrancy, 9100 and 30 daya, Ray Jarkion, drunk, ' S20 or 10 dayi. ' Robert Z, Henderson, drunk, SIS ball forfeited. Henderson R. Young, drunk, $19 baa) forfeited. Delbert Horlon. drunk, 919 or 7'.s days. Lindsay Pompey, drunk, 919 or 7',i days. Fedel Chavez, drunk. 915 or V.i days. Ray Beck, drunk. S13 or 7!s days. SLITS Blanche M, Hemphill vs. Bert C. Hemphill, suit for divorce George H. Proctor attorney lor plaintiff. wua oiamaKcr vj. uiarence JO jeotl Stalnaker, suit for divorce. U. S. wciiuim ,iwiner or piaimiu. Navy Man Testifies Pentagon Employe Called! neo By oenaie tommjnee At Hearing Sled Dog Sets New Pulling Record WEST YELLOWSTONE Wl A sled dog owned by Al Holten. Santa Rosa, Call., pulled 2.100 pounds of freight 25 feet yester day and claimed a new world's record. North American Dog Derbv of. flcials said the previous record was 1,800 pounds, set eight years ago other Dec. 8, In Nome, Alaska. WASHINGTON -IIP A Navy lieutenant testified Tuesday he was brought, to his "wits" end" by Incessant Communist efforts to force him -to make a germ war fare confession while he was a Communist prisoner of war In Ko rea. Lt. (JG) Andrew L. Rlker III, 25, said he didn't- confess. He appeared In a Marine Corps inquiry into the conduct- of Cnl Prank Schwable, a Marine flyer who did sign a false bacterlolos-l. cal warfare confession. The 45-year-old 8chwhi after his release that he was j lorcea oy months of brutal mis treatment to sign the statement. Schwable was captured in .Itilv 1952 and Rlker the following Nov- emuer. Rlker, whose home Is in Man. cnester, conn., said he persisted in his refusal to confess In mitr of ten hours a day of constant hammering. I don t know how lono T have kept it up," the tall, hand some young naval officer said. "It only lasted a n-eeb- nr and a half." 'Before this crillirur u-a rnrm Rlker said, "I broke down crying uiuii b mow wnai to do. "I wouldn't be ashamed of rh.t interposed the president of lie court, MaJ. Gen. Henry D. Lln- scolt. . . - The four-member tribunal ic i. Ing to determine whether charges should be filed against Schwable Rlker said the Reds kept telling him they knew the United States had spread disease germs over civilian areas behind the Commu nist lines and promised he would be taken to n POW camp and re- ..;vrrt u, iunner questioning if he nuuui, ne naa taken part. T didn't know anything about germ warfare," Riker said. "I didn't want to admit something I hadn't done. Maybe it was stupid pride or something." . ay the time ,the Communists ve "P- said. "I was at my He added "I told' Uienv they could go ahead and shoot me." Riker's testimony appeared to conflict on one point wilh what Ihe court was told last week. . A succession of witnesses testi fied Friday Schwnhi. highly nervous-and one said he did not seem to be In his "right mind" when he was carried in a. irucic irom one POW camp to an- 1U32, By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON Ijf) Sen. Mc. Carthy (R-Wis) Tuesday developed testimony that a woman he said now handles "top secret" mes sages in the Pentagon code room was a dues-paying, card-carrying Communist In the late 1940s. And. in the course of it, he .let fly another thrust at Secretary of the Army Stevens who has accused the senator of "abusing" Army officers while investigating al leged "Communist coddling" by Ihe Army. Assuring himself that a plain clothes "representative of the Ar my' was in the hearing room, McCarthy called the man forward and asked him to tell Stevens think he was grossly misadvised" In making the accusation. McCarthy added: "I don't think Bob Stevens wants to protect Com munists in the Army any more wan any mcmoer ol wis commit tee does. The story of the Pentagon code room employe was developed in this fashion: Mrs. Mary Markward testified that while serving as an FBI un- Reds Asked To Ease Barriers BONN, Germany tfi The Western high commissioners want to talk with the Russians about easing restrictions on trade and travel within divided Germany. They outluied their ideas in sim ilar letters Monday night to So viet High Commissioner Vladimir S. Semyenov and his Berlin rep resentative, Sergei Dengin. They proposed negotiations for the re moval of wnat they called "un justifiable obstacles" set up by the Russians between East and West Germany and East and West Ber-Un. Acting four days after the wind- up of the Berlin Big Four I'oreign ministers conference, which dead locked on the. Question of German unity, the United States, British and French commissioners sug gested elimination of such things munists in its ranks as: The Red border death zones. street barriers, red tape on west erners' travel In East Germany, the Communist system of controls on goods, the barriers to free cir culation of books, newspapers, magazines and films. Rikcr said, however, he noticed dercover Informant In the years 1943-1949 she knew an Annie Lee moss as a Communist Party mem ber. . . V . McCarthy said this Mrs. Moss is,- as his subcommittee under stands, now working in the Army Signal Corps code room "handling top secret messages." Subcommittee Counsel Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr said there was no doubt, from other Investigations, that It was the same Mrs. , Moss. They told re porters Mrs. Moss is a Negro. iscan announced to the subcom mittee that Mrs. Moss' attorney had advised she was 111 but would appear as a witness at some later time. Cohn said records shower! that Mrs. Moss was appointed a "com- inunicaticrj clerk" in the office of the chief signal officer on Dec. 19, 1950. and "has been there ever since.'.' An Army description of her tob at the lime of her employment. Cohq said, showed that her duties included the receiving of mes sages from all over the world, in cluding those in code, and determ ining if they were in the proper equence and if they reached their proper aestinntlon. McCarthy said ha understood that Mrs. Moss, when called to testify, "will claim she Is not a member of the Communist Party low." He also said: "There is nothlne in the . record to show she ever broke with the party." Rt-cesning the hearing until Wednesday. McCarthy said five persons whom Mrs. Markward could Identify as members of a Communist Party cell with Mrs. Moss would he called to the stand at that time. He added that he assumed they would "take the. fifth amend The present hearings shape up as a preliminary to the apperance Thursday of Secretary Stevens with McCarthy over the weekend. btevens, returning Tuesday from a visit to Valley Forge, Pa., told reporters he did not want to "add anything to the situation" in ad vance of his face-to-face meetlnc with McCarthy Thursday on the-" Army's handling of alleged Com- TV Idea Used To Catch Thief PHILADELPHIA Pi De termined to catch the thief who had been taking bread from a de livery box outside his stare, - gro cer Gregory- Yaroschuk camou llaged himself wilh a green blan ket that blended with a nearby fence. The viyil paid off yesterday. Armed with a revolver, Yaroschuk lumped out as the thief started taking the bread and nabbed lib man just like on the TV detective drama that gave him the Idea. nothing unusual about the colonel's behavior and saw nothing to make him question Schwable's mental capacity. In response to questions. Stev ens said he was not aware of any' Communist working in the Pentagon coding room. The hearing was the first In which Democratic members of McCarthys Senate Investigations subcommittee have participated since they quit the group in a row with McCarthy last July. Present Tuesday were Sens. Mc Clcllan ID.-Ark.) and Jackson (D Wash.). The third Democrat, Sen. Symington (D.-Mo.) is out of the country. ( Funeral r.ivsNs Funeral services for Howard W. Glv cr:?; i who dled ' February 19 will Uke place from Ihe chapel of Wards Klamath Funeral Home Thura oay. February 25, at 3:30 p.m.. Ihe rJL" Mi..C,"'?" "U l"' First Baptist Church officiating, Commitment serv af Park lnlermenl ln Klamath Memor- . . M1TCHKLI. .Funeral service? for Daniel Lee Mit chell. 70, who died here February 21. p'Ke ,rim "if ch"P' Ward s Klamath Funeral Home, Thursday. Tjmne-..f ,,h.7 Ashland. Oregon Faith if. ?1 ,olclatlng. Commitment serv ice and Interment In th. m... Kry. Aahland. at :att p.m. ' TODD Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clytt Todd, reorusry am Iioipiuu. a boy weighing a lba. a WOOD-Born t Mr. and Mrs Joe Wood, February 22 at Klamath Valley Hospital, a girl weighing 10 lbs 3 OS. MTLLIB Born to Mr. and Mr. Les tar Miller, Februry 22 at Klamath Val ley nospiiai, a gin wee"", , . "jACOBSON Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence H. Jacobson. February 22 at Klamath Valley Hospital, a girl weigh ing 7 lbs. 3 or. n-wrs-r Rnm tn Mr. and Mra Michael OKeefe. Februry 22 at Klam ath Valley Hospital, a boy. weighing 9 lbs. 12'i oz. OTTOMAN Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Ottoman, February 22 at Klam ath Valley Hospital, a girl weighing 1 lbs. 4 oz. Weather The five-day outlook for Western Oregon Generally sunny with no precipitation through Sunday. High 55-62 and low 30-35. The five-day outlook for Eastern Oregon Generally sunny with no precipitation through Sunday. High 50-55, 10W 22-33. Grants Pass and- Vicinity Fair through Wednesday. Patchy early morning valley fog. High 62 Wed nesday. Low Tuesday night 32. Northern Caluornia Fair through Wednesday but local morn ing fog. Mild afternoons. Winds near coast northerly and 10-20 miles an hour. Baker and Vicinity Fair through Wednesday. High of 50 Tuesday and. 52 Wednesday. Low Tuesday night 25. Western Oregon Occasional hk-h cloudiness but otherwise sunny and warm through Wednes day. Patchy morning fog In val leys. High temperatures both days 52-62. Lows Tuesday night 30-40. Winds olf coast southerly to south easterly moderate, increasing a little Tuesday night and Wednesday. Eastern Oregon Partly cloudv Wednesday. Continued warm witn highs both days 48-90. Lows Tues day night 25-35. Russians Use Red Army Day To Herald New Cold War By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst Tne warm wind of rcasonable uess from the East faded per ceptibly Tuesday with the Soviet celebration of Army Day. It looks as If the Cold War will become colder and colder now. The mild tone of Soviet leaders which has marked all celebrations since the death" oi Stalin fadea By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 24 hours to 4:30 a, ni. Tuesday Max. Mln. Prep, Baker Bend Eugerfe Klamath Falls Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pendleton Portland Airport Roseburg Salem Boise Chicago Denrer Eureka Los Angeles New York Red Bluff San Francisco Seattle Spokane .49 26 60 29 55 34 55 32 60 33 57 36 57 3 . 52 25 50 37 56 35 60 32 - 55 31 s 51 31 SO 41 .10 54 26 55 45 87 57 60 34 77 41 68 41 50 39 42 34 Speaking Contest Held In Fort Rock FORT ROCK Tlie. Boll. Con servation Speaking Contest, spon sored b; the Fort Rock-Silver Lake Soil Conservation District, was held February 18 at the Fort Rock Grange Hall. Contestants were Jim Corbln, 10, and Zelda Emery, both I nth graders at stiver Lake school: Max Mattls, 12. seventh grade and Teresa Ward, 10, fifth grade, ort Rock school. The contestants covered a great deal of the field of conservation. Two of the students gave specific outlines of special fields, while the other two covered a brief ouU line of the major conservation fields. Topics were well prepared and presented, and gave worthwhile Information to those present. Speaking first was Jim Corbin on the topic. "Democracy in Conser vation." His subject was "Ponder osa Pine Conservation." 2lda Emery spoke on "Democ racy in Soil Conservation." Max Mattls spoke on "Democra cy at work in Soil Conservation." Teresa Ward had as her topic, "Democracy at Work in Soil Con servation." The judges for the contest were R. C. Newcomb, Portland, geologi cal survey: Dorman Turner, Lake view and Robert F. Hartley, Klam ath Falls. The first prize, a leather ziDDered loose leaf binder, went to Jim Cor- nin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Cor bln, Silver Lake; second prize: a pen and pencil set, went to Zcldn Emery, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Emery of Silver Lake. Jim Corbin and Zelda Emery are the students of Mrs. Esther Bur ns. Max Mattls, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mattls and Teresa Ward, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Ward and students of Mrs. Anne Sloan, both placed third. The prizes were donated by Ericksons Stationery store of Bend. Japanese Scientist To Tour Texas DALLAS, Tex. W-Prof. Naoiti Kumagai of Japan, probably that country's foremost geophysictst, arrived here yesterday to start a Texas tour and said he was un happy he missed last week's se vere dust storm: "I am Always the student of un usual soil formations," he ex plained. into pronounced saber-rattling by Russian Military leaders hailing the 36th anniversary of the ReJ army. II Soviet tactics at the Ber. ' lin four-power conference sue. gested a retreat into the belllger. pnr.a nf the ftnlin an in . - .u, uuj IKv display greatly bolsters that Un presslon. ' The tone of the Army Day cele Oration indicates: . 1. The present post-Stnlln gov. let leaders have achieved a way of life among themselves which offers prospects of relative stabil ity at the top. 2. From now on, SoVlct propa iranda can.bn nynppinrl im the way for another failure in In- leiuauunai negotiations, this one at Geneva in April when Far East tensions are to be discussed. 3. The Soviet government will be able to makn nn, nlnHlw . KM1U5 on the consumer front for some time to come. Therefore, the fierce enemy outside the door is Deing revived. , Contrast what vrnrcl.ni i tlllery M. Chistyakov said Tue! uny witn tne propaganda line of last March, just after Stalin died and there Was Uncerlninlu al tb ...j nv I41C top of a regime facing a bitter struggle for power. .Last March 21, Moscow Radio's foremost commptitittnr n . i . Leontyev, declared there were ail sorus or possibilities tor collabora lion between East and West u. ' announced: "The posslbllitv. nf cooperation was manifested still more vividly during the war t against Ihe Fnseisl uin m.. Soviet Union, the U.S.A. and Brit ain narmoniousiy cooperated in that wnf ae ulllnc " Tuesday Chistyakov said that la World War n, "Reactionary circles In the United Slates anil Britain trecherously held up the opening of a second front in order to weaken the U.S.S.R. and save the Fascist aggressors from com plete defeat." , This was a return to a theme of ihe Stalin era, and it was sur rounded by statements of other military leaders warning the West about , "newest weapons" In the hands of Soviet forces and the "invincible" soviet Union. Vatican Concerned Over Pope's Health VATICAN CITY Wl Pope Pius was reported Tuesday ex periencing renewed difficulty in taking food and anxiety Increased over his health. - Vatican sources said that the 77-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church has had more dif ficulty during the past two or three days in taking food. The- Pontiff has been sufferlnir for mure than a month from a gastric ailment whose nature has never been definitely disclosed, If it is definitely known. Baby Listed As 'Valuable' CHARLESTON. W. Va. tfi When jailers came to that part of Dan Cunningham's commitment slip calling for. "valuables," they hesitated an then wrote: "One baby." Cunningham, 25. was arrested yesterdav on a drunk charge. He was pushing his infant sin ln a stroller, and arresting officers also brought the child to the jail. A short time later, the baby was released to his mother. Ranchers Feed Supply Highway 299 ALTURAS . offers all types of Automatic Baling Wire and Twine Guarantees to satisfy or your money back No Tax Our overhead is small and our prices are low Order now no payment until haying season Call collect, 7891 Alturas. Train, Car Smash Kills Two Persons OREGON CITY I A South ern Pacific freight train smashed into an automobile at Barlow south of here Monday night "killing two persons. Iugar Bion Johnson. 62, nf Bar low was killed outright. Charles ess Chick, 13, son of Mr. and Mm. Garland R. Chick of Barrow, died a lew hours later at an Oregon City hospital. Johnson v. as driver of the car. Biggest Liar Awarded Prize DENVER in-A radio station here celebrated Washington's Birthday by awarduig a prlre to William E. Murphy of Denver for the biggest fib submitted by hope ful liars. Murphy's story concerned Paul Bunyan's little brother Calvin, who built the world's biggest rallroad the IJA!st spelled out. that's Ireland, Jerusalem, Australia & Southern Indiana. In keeping itn the holiday. Murphy won a cherry tree froin a ocal nursery and a hatchet do nated by a sporting goods firm. liirovrst PHILADELPHIA IA1 A police rar .lopped the llg-zngging c,r oil a Philadelphia street and oue uTShJij !""" "outr;. the heel. His explanation: My cirl hd hiccups and 1 w, trying to scare her out of them " Why gasoline is a real bargain today CHAIR'S Memorial Chapel 'UNtftAL SIRVICIS 'OR AIL INC0MIS , NON.OINOMINATI0NAI SMVINO AU RUIGIONS Klamath Falls Mitne 3451 TWO facts lie behind the low price you pay for gas oline: oil companies work constantly through re search to improve product and keep price low, and they compete intensely for your patronage. That's why Standard opened the West's first petroleum research laboratory 32 years ago-and invests about 6 million annually in research today. One result you see here. Thanks to competi. tion, gasoline prices (aside from taxes) have risen only 20 since 1925 . . . less than half as much as practically anything else you buy. But there have been other benefit for you, too. Research, moti vated by competition, has resulted in a stead ily improving gasoline. Two gallons of modern gasoline do the work that required three in 1925, and this improvement has paved the way for lighter, more efficient car engines that give you more power, performance and economy. Compe tition and research have lev! tn In,- m a ... tion service, as well, and to the world-wide search that has discovered the largest known oil reserves in America's history. Last year alone, Standard Oil Company of California invested $225 million in exploration, new oil wells, and improved facil ities to keep pace with our competition. The net res-ilt to you is far better gasoline at prices yhich make it one of the real bargains in your oiuujr uuaget loaay. 1 ,ii , 7Syeu rwy aAradU STA NDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
