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- HANOI. Indochina (Jl Communist-led Vletmmh troops drove to ward the heart ol the biff French the rebels threw In thousands more troops. The .rebels bombarded the dust bowl fortress with artillery shells before they launched their new series of attack. As the violent battle rounded out Its second day, the French high command In Saigon announced that a battalion of French and Viet namese paratroopers had Jumped onto the Dien Blen Phy airstrip to reinforce the, French Union gar rison. ' Other reinforcements were air lifted from Hanoi. The French high command in hand" and were holding solidly against the "very violent" febel attack. A French spokesman predicted the fighting would last several days. . . - i . A three-hour cease-fire interrupt ed the fighting yesterday morning while both rebels and French car ried their dead and wounded from thu battlefield. The French claimed at least 1,000 rebels killed in the initial assault Saturday night and early yesterday, and admitted their own losses were "appreci able." - , .'-... The fighting resumed at noon French-held plain in the heart of the Thai tribal country. Then, as they had on Saturday, wave on wave of screaming, guble blowlng rebel troops surged for ward against the bristling barbed wire barricades ringing the French positions. French mobile artillery, tanks, mortars and heavy machine gun and rifle fire cut down the Viet minh by the scores. Fighters and bombers roared overhead, mowing a wide swath in the ranks of the wildly charging rebels. - The . legions of Communist lead er Ho Chi Mlnh appeared making an all-out effort to give the French a major setback before the Big Four and Communist China meet In Geneva, Switzerland, April at to seek a path to peace In Indo china. . The French for their part hoped to decimate the ranks of the best rebel divisions and perhaps thus break the back of the Vietminh forces. The fighting was described as the most savage yet in the seven-year-old Indochina war. The French have staked their hold hi the hilly Thai country on Dien Blen Fhu since last autumn, when they seised the plain and abandoned other towns In the northwest. U. &'." supplied war equipment was flown in from Hanoi, 178 miles to the cast, to build a formidable defense sys tem, ring- of bunkers, trenches and gun emplacement around an airfield. The Vietminh encircled the for tress, entrenching from 33,000 to 46,000 troops in the surrounding hills. Making up this force were the four best trained and equipped of the Vie tm inn's eight regular divisions. More than 100,000 coolies packed in supplies mostly from Communist China over mountain trails. French fighters and bombers harassed the besieging force with out letup day after day, and there were some patrol dashes. Finally the Vietminh closed la last week with mortars and guns as big as 106mm, cannon. Some of the rebel plat!, submaaolnefuns anaV hurled ' bamboo spears as . they dosed in lor hand-to-hand, flghtinc. Two French outposta wen over powered. The - defending force, taster French officers, was mad na of French paratroopers,. Foreign Legionnaires, North. Africans)' end, Vietnamese.. . ' In south Indochina, the French captured, the Important Vletmtah. port of Quinhoo,. 2SO milea aorta east of Saigon, a communique announced yesterday. Avoiding fight, the rebels fled ahead of tho amphibious assault. They swaes a ted the civilian population,'- ' troops dug foxholes and trenches only (00 yards from the center of the French position. Late Saturday : afternoon the rebels lunged out of the bills by the thousands, cascading against acres of barbed-wire. They stepped up the wild assault from several directions during the night desdite the sweeping tire of French mobile- artillery, tanks and machine guns. - The rebels apparently counted on their numerical superiority to overrun the French positions, Soreaming Infantry fired rifles, "" v.,cao w U1CU ruu Monday night after seizing a strong point to the north. They lost 1,600 killed to furious lighting. The savage rebel o n s 1 a u g ht gained ground despite French re inforcements dropped in by para chute to help the bard-hit defend ers of the last French Union out post in northwest Indochina. Cien Blen Fhu is 175 miles west of Hanoi. The Vietminh attack on the be sieged fortress began Saturday night. The defenders held them off throughout Sunday. But Monday salgon said - Iwtnnf I heavy rebel Dom- forces had tlx m AiTVWUl HOflUt a a strongly fortified, rrke re Cents 14 Fages In The' Day's lef s By FRANK JENKINS . This modern world: The navy plans to give the pub lic a guarded look at two new airplanes that take off from the frround vertically frnm a "ra'reri back" position and when landing back slowly down to the ground tall first. Navy sources say this morning that photographs, but . very utile jniormation as to capa bility and construction of the radi cally new planes, will be released on Wednesday of this week. Well, I reckon ANYTHING is possible in these days when through basic research man' is mastering the secrets of the unl All I wonder is will MAN HIM SELF be able to keep up with it ail? . -More modern world: In downtown New York this morning, a police emergency wag on roars down the street its siren screaming, and pulls up . at tne edge of a crowd. A cop jumps out and addresses a man who seems to be the center of it all. "what's it all -about?" he demands. The man reaches in the side pocket' of his topcoat and pulls out the first two or three feet of a BOA CONSTRICTOR. "Here," he said, "take him home to the kids." The cop declined. "Oh," he muttered,. "It's you, Is it?" . . The man's name Is Treffllch, and he runs a big . pet Stan, .Jl. little girl had opened a box In his es tablishment. Four boas escaped Trelfllch, went out and recap tured them and stuffed them In his pocket. 1 -i A crowd gathered While he was doing it and the rest of the story followed including the emergen cy call to the police. : , Trafflich has a habit of keeping some of his monkeys at his home. He lives on the top floor of an apartment building. One night one nf thft mnnkevA wanted a drlnr. It picked the lock of its cage, Then It picked the lock on the door of the room In which the cage was kept. It then went to the bathroom, turned on the water, got a drink and went away, ' leaving the water running full tilt. Eventually it drenched every body in the five-story building and heck was to pay. Trelincn's insur ance covered the actual loss. There was a time when boa con strictors and , monkeys stayed down in the tropics, and peo ple who wanted to see Uiem went Where they were. Modem progress Is scattering them all over the world. ' I think there must have been a time when NOBODY IN THE WORLD wanted a boa constrictor as a pet. . Even that is changing. There Is the little boy up in Hood River who found a contain er filled with a deadly spray so lution. As little boys will, he open ed it. Some of the spray concoc tion spilled out on bis legs. By the time bis parents could get him to the hospital, HIS HEART HAD STOPPED. They put him in a resuscltator and gave him artificial respiration for 17 hours and by skill and good fortune brought him back to life. He is still unconscious this morning, but the doctors say he is out of danger. There was a time when we took care of the needs of the soil by . crop rotation and stable manure tnat we put on'oy nana wiui pitchfork. We picked the potato bugs off the vines oy nand. All that Is changed. Now the CHEMIST is the big man In agri culture with occasional results like the story-with-a-bappy-ending up in Hood River. ; .. It will turn out all right, I'm sure. IF MAN HIMSELF CAN KEEP UP WITH IT ALL. But I can't help thinking we need to devote more care and thought to the problem of conditioning mod ern man to the modern world. . VETO ... . NEW DELHI, India H) A Foreign Office spokesman said Monday published reports that In dia has refused visas to U.8. re placements for the Kashmir cease fire mission are "not factually cor rect." The spokesman added, how ever, that one American applica tion for a visa has not yet been approved. KLAMATH FISHIN' WASN'T BAD SUNDAY when Wilbert Anderson, Poe Valley, (left) and Bill Fisher, Langell Valley caught two Rain bow trout on the west side of Upper Klamath Lake, The largest weighed SVl pounds.. At right is Dane Fishery who says he Water Effects Ore. SALEM Wl The U. S. Supreme Court Monday said the federal water power act docs not super sede state laws on water power use of navigable -streams and Oregon state engineer Charles IS. Strtckiln said that has a direct bearing on the Oregon Pelton Dam controversy. The decision would indicate, he said, that Portland General Elec tric Co. couldn't build Pelton Dam on the Deschutes River on the basis of Its permit from the Federal Power Commission. The dam was blocked by the State Hydroelectric Commission because the State Fish Commission objected. "The decision," Stricklin said, "Is in-line with the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which ruled a few weeks ago that ..Oregon's state water power laws take precedence over leaeral law. Monday's decision by the U. S. Supreme Court was 4-3 on a Niagara Falls, N. Y., dispute. MARY MAUCH of 803 Lin coln was on her way to work at Riekys this morning' when the nine o'clock photographer ' happened around. nming FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH IS. M54 1 1 Ground Broken For Sixth Street Shopping Cenier Ground ws broken today on the first unit of the Town and Coun try Shopping Center, to be built by Harry R. (Bob) Waggoner, on 'the site of the former Alta niont Auto Court and Trailer Camp on S. 6th. ' The first unit will provide for six shops on a 100-foot frontage next to the Thrift Variety Store, completed some months ago by Waggoner, also owner of the ad joining Suburban Drug. The original construction Is designed to determine type of architecture and approximate cost of construction. Pumice walls Rogue River Plan Pushed WASHINGTON Ml Two Oregon lawmakers proposed legislation Monday to authorize construction of the Talent Division of the Rogue River Basin Reclamation Project in Jackson County, Ore. Rep. Ellsworth (R-Ore) said bills to accomplish this were being intro duced by himself and Sen. Cordon (R-Ore). ' The project would provide Irri gation water for about 18,000 acres as well as flood control and 10,000 kilowatts of prime power. Princi pal reservoirs would be at the Howard Prairie and Emigrant sites. The bill would authorize Congress to appropriate $19,900,000 to meet projeot costs plus whatever addi tional might result from Increased cost of material during the con struction period. Actual appropri ation' of money to start work would await further congressional action. The measure provides for repay ment of the project's irrigation costs within a period of 69 years. Revenues from the sale of commer cial power would go first to rcpny costs allocated to the power facili ties including interest, and then to that portion of the lrrifralon allo cation which is beyond the ability of water users to repay. Easter Seal Work Pushed Members of the Degree of Honor, national fraternal order, stuffed en velopes to be mailed In the annual Easter Seal Sale drive for crippled children. Mrs. Ruby Bell, 69 Pine Street, chairman was assisted by Zella Barrett. Cliff Barrett, Betlle Barrett, Donna Barrett, Grace Bell, Elizabeth Chastain, Mrs. N. D. Cox, Emma Derrah, Dorothy Derrah, Emma Hoffman, Ola Lekley. Bertha Weaterholt and Mrs. Z. J, Powell. Envelopes . are to be In the mall isn't quite six, trying hit luck with Dad's pole. Scores of ardent' 'anglers braved a chilly breeze to drop their hooks in the lake over th weekend. , ."' . ' ' and Roman brick and glass tile walls will be used, Waggoner, stated, in these first units. Angelo.Doverl is-the contractor. Flans for the center, that when completed, will accommodate 35 to 50 separate, business and serv ice establishments, were drawn by Howard R. Perrln. Construction will progress as rapidly as details will allow. Flans for the big shopping cen ter were announced by Waggoner, January 20. The development will having parking space for 100 cars at a time with no parking strips to be further than 100 feet from stores. Sidewalks are to be cov ered from the weather. - More than 100 inquerles have been received, most of them from local firms, interested In branch operations at the center. Store space is to be let to retail and service firms on a low mini mum lease with a percentage of business clause. -. . - Suburban Drug has been In business two years, and Thrifty Variety opened last September. Local Woman Seeks Office A last minute filing In Salem Friday, puts Mrs. Dorothy (Frank! Lowell, on the primary ballot in the May election for state representative on the Demo cratic ticket. Henry Semen, Incumbent on the same slate, filed earlier. x This will be Mrs. Lowell's first venture Into politics except for her off Illation with local Democratic groups. She Is currently secre tary of the Klamath County. Mrs. Lowell has lived in Klam ath Falls for 20 years, is a member- of the Business and Profes sional Women's Club, the Toast mistress Club and tho Christian Church. She is co-owner with her husband of the Klamath Pack and Lowell's Lockers. She is the moth er of four children. Dean, mar ried, of Klamath Falls; Dorothy, out of school; Wilms, a freshman at KUHS and Kenneth, a first grader. ' In announcing her candidacy, Mrs. Lowell said, "I will go Into ollice with an open mind, and If elected my decisions will be based on the will of the majority of the citizens of Klamath County." KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS flblWS 39 cart Sunt Df Ltt Vtsr 54 can Far fcalea 1111-51 tW cars 8861 cars Telephone Sill No. 215 Klamath Man Faces Charge PORTLAND ! U. S. Marshal Harold Sexton said Monday that a federal Indictment charging U. S. Balantine, Klamath Falls, with falling to moke Income tax returns for 1950, 1951 and 1952, bad been returned by the grand Jury, He said Balantine had appeared before U. S. Commissioner Bert Thomas at Klamath Falls and was released on $750 bail. Both Balantine and Thomas were out of town on Monday and unavail able for comment. Bay Area Cops Nail Crap Game SAN FRANCISCO ' 11 It WHS one of those "floating" dice games known to the cops but harder to stop than the income tax col lector. So, yesterday," Police Inspector Frank Ahem and his vice squad borrowed a pie delivery truck. They drove to the vacant lot where the dice were in action and piled out or the pie wagon before the game's ; lookouts could . holler "such -crust." Seventeen men were arrested and SI, 100 seized. Grand Jury Indicts Eleven Persons In Saturday Meet Eleven persons Indicted by the Klamath County Grand Jury were arraigned Monday before Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. The indictments were returned at S p.m. Saturday. Among those arraigned was Ray mond J. Bodinet, 31, alleged rob ber, accused of complicity in a holdup January 8. at Myrtle's par lor house. Defense Attorney A. C, Vaden - asked the court for addi tional time to study the indict ment against Bodinet before enter ing a plea to an armed robbery charge. Judge Vandenberg set the case for pleading on March 20. Bodi net Is held In the County Jail In lieu of $10,000 bond. Others arraigned were: Alfred Junior Carter, charged with manslaughter, Carter is ac cused of the Christmas Eve slay of Cruz Unzueta, railroad worker, In front of the Pastime Pool Hall. Attorneys E. E. Drlscoll and F. K. Puckett were appointed by the court to represent Carter. His plea will be heard on March 22. Raymond -Eugene Lovelace, 21 accused of a holdup at the Loggers Club In Bly, was given until March 20 to decide upon a plea. Attorney J. C. O'Neill was appointed t re present mm, James Wesley Ambrose. 51, charged with issuing a check with insufficient funds, will enter a plea Cleanup StoaTO Prop : ATLANTA W-A amaU army of soldiers, airmen and civilians to day formed a cleanup task force in the wake of weekend tornadoes which killed eight persons in cen tral and west .Georgia and did mure than zt million dollars damage- to property.- , , Three separate twisters whirled out of the night Saturday and car ried their lethal force into Macon, where three died: to a rural area near the central Georgia city, kill ing three others; and to Lawson Air Force Base, adjoining Ft. Ben- ning, where two more were killed. Four of the dead were children. Seventy, persons were. Injured and 21 hospitalised. The tornadoes slammed into toe same general areas where similar storms auiea is ana- puea up asm age exceeding W million. leas than a year ago. The return visit or tne south- land's spring scourge came a few flours arter ' toe weswer- jiureau lifted, a tornado alert. , West Oeorgla was hit first. What Midwest Has Cold Yeather By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "The weather was fair but chilly over - moat of the , nation Monday. . Except along the Pacific Coast, where readings Tanged in the 40a and 50s; the northern twtxthlrds of the country had. freesmi tem peratures. -" l S - , It waa cool but: relatively calm far workers cleaning up in Qaorg la after three weekend tornadoes. and . tbunderstrornj i that killed eight persons, injured TO, -caused more than M million dollars of property damage and dumped as much as three -inches of rain; . The chill extended clear aoross the country's midsection It was only 48 early Monday at Browns ville, Texas on the Mexican bor. der. But It was a bit warmer, on the ' Northern Plains - which had sub-serd readings Sunday In. the wake of last Frldsy'a snow storm. Light snowfall was-virtually the only precipitation early Monday and it was confined to an area extending - from the Southern Oreat Lakes area southeastward to Virginia and Northeastward to the Canadian border.- Knight Pledges Dope Crackdown SAN FRANCISCO Wl Ooy. Goodwin J. Knight told a Cali fornia television audience Sunday ntaht that the biggest narcotic smuggling operations in the United States are centered In the port of San Francisco, and he said California Is going to get tough about it. Knight said he would sign any law denying probation' to dope peddlers, which the legislature may pass In Its current special session. - He said heroin arrests have risen 500 . per cent in the Los Angeles area in recent years, and aoo per cent in San Francisco. on March 22. His court-appointed attorney is ueorge rroctor. Olenn Hasklns, It, charged with burglary at the Chief Theater in Chlloquln, will enter a plea on March 20. He Is represented by Attorney Oeorge Proctor. Eugene Bearshears, 24, entered a plea of not guilty of a charge of petty larceny. He Is accused of stealing parts of a rock crusher belonging to the W. B. Miller Con struction Company. Trial was set for March 25. . His attorney is Donald A. W. Piper. Attorney Edwin E. Drlscoll, asked for additional time to enter a plea In the case of Eugene U Durant, 31, charged with passing a forged check for $9.80. Judge Vandenberg set January 27 for pleading. Claude Lee Thomas, 21, arrested by railroad police for alleged theft of a case of tomato Juice from a boxcar, Is scheduled to enter a plea on Wednesday. Rayford Martin, 35, and Edward Corrlgan, 36, accused of burglary at the Lost River Tavern, Merrill, will plead to burglary charges on March 30. They are represented by Attorney Oeorge Proctor. Judge Vandenberg anointed Wil liam Oanong Jr, as counsel for Oeorge Bevel, indicted en a for aery charge. The arraignment was deferred until Oanong la able to appear in court. Sterts - Icri. ..' appeared to be the largest of the tornadoes tore a path 600 yards wide across the air base near Co lumbus. The powerful winds over turned several . giant C119 Flying Boxcars. Eight of the 35-ton craft were destroyed and this contrib uted heavily to the 20-million-dol-lar damage estimate - at Lawton Field and at Ft. Benning, the na tion's largest Army base. . . . Dead at the air base were KNOAPORS Id The bodies of at of 33 persons who died in the- - flaming crash of a British Constellation airliner here Saturday were burled aide by- aide Monday In Slnaanora'a Bldadart cemetery, Other arrangement were made for the three Americans killed. One of the Americana, Michael Shathln, (0, Asian representative lor Warner Brotnera rums, was burled at the Jewish cemetery by office associates. 'A representative of the D, S. Consulate Central was present. Shathln is survived by a married oaugnter, Mrs, juua cnridder, of Reno,, nev, The other American . victims were Grant F. Olson of Fort Podge. lows, vice president end director sf the- W. A. Sheaf fer. Pen Co., and Robert Ddgar Matsont 62. of" Minneapolis, Minn.,' general superintendent of transportation for the Northern pacific Railway The coffin containing Olson's body was brought to Bldadari Cemetery for the mass service but was . -not burled. U. S. consular authorities said a Roman Catholic service would be held ' for him Tuesday and the body flown home Wednesday.. Officials said Matson's body would be cremated and the ashes flown; to his home. - Bodies of the lone Canadian victim, Alexander James Wood, 73 of Montreal and the five Indian and Indonesians killed In the crash also were to : be cremated. The plane owned by the British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC) burned fiercely for some time after It struck the Xallang airport runway and somersaulted. Seven of the nine crewmen aboard es caped. Air officials flew from London and Sydney, Australia, to investigate) the crash. . Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; Considerable cloudiness with a few light showers through Tuesday; possibly snow flarrlea Monday night; rather windy, mgn Tuesday 43; low Monday night 35. High yesterday -- 45 Low last night 3S Precis last 34 hours Since Oct 1 ; H-37 Same period last year .......lO.lt Normal for period S.7S MEDAL NEW DELHI. India u.s, Ambassador George V. Allen flew to Darjeeling Monday to present a replica of the National Geo graphic Society's Hubbard Medal to Tensing Norkay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Mt. Ev erest last year, ' Victims Of Fatal Crash Laid To Rest 4 HARRY PEARSON. RESERVATION FARMER, (leffl reeelve. Department of Interior award for conservation practieei n hit farm. The presentation was mad by S. B. Murray, Port lend area eoniervationitt, representing Douglas McKay. .v.; : ; " :S On ; less C:rnJ - month-old Linda Joyaer, daughter of Bgt. 1.0 and Mrs. James T. Joy-. ner, and Airman S.C. Bobby T. Robinson, 22. of Dublin, O. The baby died when several hug Bin der blocks tumbled from the roof of her parents' two-story bona and crushed, her in . her bed. Twin tornadoes took parallel paths through tho mason area, wree nours later ana so-oinrea for most of the dead stal injured. Macon hospital still nou 19 snr sons and 3ft others war dlmtilaaeil alter treatment."" r-.,.'.-; r . ' The Macon dead were -mecah-old Dorothy Ann Lockhart, Gilbert Robinson, and Austin Hogan. The parallel twister Hlled Irene . Wat laoe, 11, and Lorexuv Wallace, a, when It destroyed a farmhowao1 ta rural Liaella. Sam. Emory waa killed when another farmhouse eokv lapsed near Centervllle. - i Macon police estimated damago at three million dollars ta Bibb County. Rre Razes Agency Wzz2 KLAMATH AGENCY The first serious residential tire in oyer li years occurred- lata Friday night whan- the Jack Shoemaker- hoots waa partially destroyed by a fire that 1 thought to have been caused by defective wiring. - t - Mrs. Shoemaker ana thetr Wreo small children wars awakened by neighbors who ssw to smoke opan their return treat sott sooaerva Uon meeting- about 11 p.m. Shu maker, conservation worker, had also attended the Chlloquln meat tag and arrived shortly tbsraater. Local flra equipment, extinguished the blase. The kitchen,, dining- room, bed room and shed of the 7-room house were gutted and the remainder of the bouse damaged by -smoke and water. No estimate has been mads on the loss. - . ; -.'' ' The Shoemakers had moved into the house, which- is government- owned, less than three months ago. They Indicated that they carried no Insurance on personal belong lags, until It can be determined whether or not the house will be re built, they are being housed at the club. !, i -: : Honesty Pays' Off For Worker In Portugal new YORK Wl A Portuguese tthni-or- who said he was Da Id S4 too much while helping dig a auk- way almost 30 years ago, la tes ting back the money that he triad to repay to his old boss. Edward O. Jonnson, onicuu w an engineering and contracting firm, reported a letter had coma from Manual Vlelra Concalo: say ing he had worked for the firm In 1925 or 1926. -Concalo, who now lives in s vil lage near Oporto, Portugal, eon-. tlnued, "And wnen l ten your em ploy I received, by error, payment of an extra day at $4 approximate ly. That is why I am sending to you the equivalent amount in es cudos to repay my debt. Please accept It." Johnson said Concalo enclosed 100 escudos, which the firm sent back, asking that he accept the money "as a present fgom us with our appreciation of your great honesty." v :-. if
