Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, March 16, 1954, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text! I n nnrnrnrv nnh nn n 5 Tnni ji ji ii nnnn-M i : n i n r cj r fv it mi i hj r i-m h I'V.'l i-J : r1 ivi Mil a n r1 r1 r1 aS r. H ,J ' i . -.v ma ii iiwi ill W H u - i - i ' . l I . i .. r - i .? - . ' 'i.i. 111 i . . i i . . . " ; Day's tors flffll s ii. i r .T1 A By FRANK JENKINS I'd like to sketch briefly for your Attention today two pictures. One ol them Is the fortress vil lage of Dien Bien Phu. It sits In H clearing in the hot Indochina Jun kie. It Is completely encircled, and sets Its supplies wholly by air. The surrounding Jungle is crawling with - communists. v In this fortress village a little . band ' at heavily outnumbered Frenchmen has been waiting for months for THE DAY. The DAY v finally came. It opened with a v crashing barrage from modern ar .;. lillery supplied by the Chinese com ; munlsts. As the barrage slackened, an assault was launched by thous " ands upon tens of thousands of o screaming, howling, bugle - blow ing, whlsUe-tootlng savages.: - They came In waves, with the rearward waves trampling upon the . bodies of the forward waves. These FRENCHMEN are' standing fast and mowing them down. But when one savage falls, two more take his C-. place. And so it goes through the , bloody, terrible hours. ; Now for the other picture. ' It is a section of the Seine river In Paris. The glamorous Left Bank of the Seine. Facing the storied Seine Is the Chamber of Deputies, Vf where the French parliament holds forth. A little farther down is an other lovely building housing the Trench ministry of foreign affairs the Qual D'Orsay, so called from the name of the handsome avenue upon which it faces. - " Back of It is the splendid Hotel des Invalides, which hodses the gloomily magnificent tomb of Na poleon. A little farther down (with the Champ de Mars ' in between) is the Eiffel tower and across-the river is the Trocadero. Across the Seine from the Cham ber ol Deputies is the Place de la Concorde, Paris' most noted square. Facing the Place de la Concorde are the fabulous Tuilerles Hardens and above them on the Seine's Right Bank is the fantas tically lovely palace of the Louvre. In these dreamily beautiful sur roundings, reflecting the glory that WAS France, the GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE liolds forth. As a government, it is unbeliev ably futile. It is made up of good ness only knows how many parties (only goodness can know, because the number changes almost from month to month.) No ONE party can ever control the government. It takes a COMBINATION of par ties to bring about any semblance of control.. And the parties shift around in their policies as the wind- biownsanas ol thfdesert shift from day to flay. The government of France Is a government of party hacks, be cause In unhappy France the PAR- Ti oonwois uie shak. it is only by party favor that any French man can get into the government. And . Mark this This so-called "government" of France bows and scrapes and kow tows to the COMMUNIST party of r rance oecause tne communist par ty of France is larae and discip lined and knows exactly what it wants. The communist party of France is an Integral part or the world communist party and it Is the world communist party that is back of (Continued on page i) Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and Vicinity: Clearing Tuesday night partly cloudy Wednesday with high or s; low Tuesday night 26, High yesterday 43 Low last night 23 I'reclp last 24 hours - 0 Since Oct. 1 11.37 Same period last year . Normal for period ...10.70 .... 8.82 GYPSY Klamath's distinguished visitor Saturday, gives- his approval to th plans for tha I9S4 Easter Seal sale, scheduled for March 18 to April 18. The annual sal of Easier Seals , provides funds for tha Oregon Society for . Crippled Children and Adults.. Chairmen ef tha drive is Mrs. Fred Wedam, right, who will be assisted by tha sponsoring club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, represtnted in tha picture by Barbara Osborn, left.. Gypsy it - tha' star of tha movie, Gypsy Colt. " ' " ' ; . ' " .....''.'. ' .', frlaHwCoilt-U Fna , , mMAW '" , ,, i DK, MKH U, MM , Tihitue 1111 Hi. 11 , X - j j fo) 2) Americans French War HONO K0NO t Twenty-four Americans of the Civil Air Trans port (CAT) Airline, aided by six other - American air operations men, are keeping at least 10 U.S. Air Force CUB flying boxcars aloft in Indochina as the war rises to its seasonal crescendo before the spring rains. ! Acting Manager Lew- Burridge or CAT said he assumed CAT crews were flying . supply drops, and possibly parachute troop drops In the battle of Dlen Bien Phu. , Burridge said he was not en tirely certain about tills because the French themselves are flying about IS C47s on the same routes that CAT crews 'fly. ! - Burridge said as near as he knew there were-12 Cliss on '.loan- to the French, at Haiphong Airfield, from which CAT is staging all the flights. Nine or 10 of the planes are operational. . He- said it is hoped to Increase the total number of planes to 16 and to keep at least 12 operational constantly. , The CAT crews are made up of American pilots and co-pllota. At present, U.S. Air Force per sonnel, aided by the French, are doing the maintenance. Burridge said a plan was being discussed whereby CAT would take over at least enough of tne - maintenance to permit the withdrawal of the American Air Force men., , , Dock yorkers NEW YORK l The Army began hiring dock workers under civil service rules Tuesday to load transports and cargo ships tied up at its strike-bound bases, but the response of workers was slow. - An hour, after the usual time for the start of the day shift, only 65 of the 400 men needed at the Brooklyn Army base had been pro cessed, screened and put to work. An Army spokesman said the men still were coming in, but very slowly. He said none had been hired at Staten Island, where 350 dock workers are needed. He' also said none had been reported hired at Jersey City, N.J. About 500 persons demonstrated at the entrance to the Brooklyn base for half an hour- Tuesday be fore police lnterferred. No violence was reported. Several pickets took up posts at the entrance. A few hundred members of the rival AFL Longshoremen's Union and the old International Long shoremen's Assn., demonstrated in front of four piers at the Bush Terminal In Brooklyn. .... Police emergency squads, mounted police and patrol cars were called, and separated the two factions. Two AFL automobiles were overturned, but there .were no reports of injuries. . Flying In Army Hiring Mm EiiteirfiDM Tra f mm Want To Get Of Your Work? Then Head For The Cable By SAM DAY . SAN FRANCISCO IIP) Wanted: one -dozen practical psychologists, wining to- work up a, dally sweat. and able to bang out "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits" on the gong of a bouncing cable car. ' , , .. That's the unofficial way the re cruiting department of America's unique municipal-, transportation system the San Francisco cable cars states Its manpower requirements;- . ! During the' next year the law of averages will reduce the staff of operators by 10 or. 12. The city wants replacements who- will be true to a spirit of transportation that goes back-80 years. Since 1873 the little wooden cable cars have been rolling-up and down the dizzy hills of San Fran cisco. They now. delight hundreds of- thousands ot tourists each year. The cable cars- are Jerky, .un predictable and tough to operate. They get their power from an endless steel cable that runs , un derground at a steady nine miles an hour, propelled from power house. -, ! - In Just one -year the cars got into 531 collisions, clipped 48 pe- Yar Powers Outlined ' WASHINGTON in Secretary of State. Dulles said Tuesday that President Elsenhower, has author ity to retaliate against an enemy attack on Paris or London, without specifio congressional war decla ration. Just , as . he has power to retaliate against an attack on New ur w. vwh ; j-ii mines , saw tne president nas such authority under the North At lantic -Treaty which embraces 14 countries .from Canada through Turkey and under the inter-American defense- treaty covering all the American nations. At a news, conference, Dulles defended his: policy of deterring possible new -Soviet aggression by building up . massive power ot re taliation in me united states. He said that uncertainty on precisely wnen. wnere and how the United States would -retaliate Is the key to tne- success oi tne policy. His remarks appeased to be partly in reference to a speech here Monday by Lester. B. Pear son, Canadian foreign minister, who. said Canada and other North Atlantic Treaty countries would expect to be consulted before the American government adopted any aecision tor -instant retaliation against any foe who might break the cold war Into open conflict. Sports Bulletin WAITKCS SOLD ' CLEARWATER, Fla. Ifl The Philadelphia Phillies Tuesday sold first baseman Eddie Walt kus to the Baltimore Oriole of the American League, for a price reported "well In excess of the waiver price." " mm. I i ift A Dana Out Car Office destrlans, . tossed 53 startled pass engers to the street, and cost the city 887,215 In accident claims alone. - Yet today, despite the - money they manage to- lose,, the cable cars have a- guaranteed lease on Hie In the city charter. "One good reason they stay Is the guys who operate 'em," says an instructor. '.'There, used to be a time when the first thing we looked for in a man. was at least 185 pounds. and plenty of muscle to go with it," explains Instructor James Gubbins. "But nowadays the ac cent is more and more on psy chology." - Gubbins and the otner instruct ors are sensitive-to the fact that the average passenger wants more than-just an ordinary Tide for his 15 cents. He also wants entertain ment. It takes about 14 days to teach a student "grtpman" to handle the tools of his trade the levers and pedals which connect the car- to the whirring underground cable. But It takes years to learn to han dle the tools with Just- the proper blend of skill and showmanship. Dozens -of times on each run, the grtpman has to connect the car and release it from the cable manipulate the footbrake and the gong, and cry out warnings to the passengers who- cling precariously to the outside footboards and Jostle at. his elbows., Gubbins says some recruits let the Job - go. to -their heads. They get to grandstanding and joking with - the - passengers, and - soon flunk but on their accident ratio. The average veteran la happy If he can. bang out VJtogle Bells." But inanv ...an operator wistfully recalls the exploits of Alexander .NtelMnr-in gripman ei. wt oiq Nielsenr.tha grtpman f. the old school, who won a citywiae gong- rihslnir contest ' in 1949. Nielsen warmed up with the "Shave and a Haircut" tune, then clanged off "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" and "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo."- He won the prize with his rendition of "The Drum Corps March." If you think It's easy, sometime on ' a one-note Slaying Eyed CHICAGO (fl Police rotfhded up underworld characters Tues day for Questioning In ' the gang land style slaying of two. ex-con victs, both ,ldeniuiea oy ponce as notorious hoodlums. Bodies of the two slain men, Paul (Needlenose) LaBrlola, 37. and James S. Weinberg, 53, were found Monday night atuffed Into a trunk of a 1954 gold colored sedan. The car was In a vacant lot on the city's northwest side. Police said the car was owned by the Cook County Licensed Bev erage Assn. ' and that both men had been associated with the or ganization. , . , LaBrlola and Welngberg had both served prison terms and in the last 20 years had been picked up by police scores of times for investigation.- - Drought Threat Feared In Duck, Goose Numbers SALT LAKE CITY tfl Drought may cut into population of migra tory wateriowi in tne racuic uoast area, a regional conference was told Monday.. The report was given by John E. Chattln of Portland, Ore., bio logist for the U.S. Fish and Wild Hie Service, at a meeting attended by biologists from game depart ments ana leaerai agencies in uie Western states. Chattln eald the winter inventory of migratory waterfowl -along the Pacific flyway showed a healthy increase over the population year ago. But he said a sizeable reduction could' result if nesting conditions this spring are not good Threat of drought in many areas hints at poor nesting conditions, be adied Chains Needed On Mount Hood i SALEM If) Motorists should eairy chains at Government Camp, Tlmberline and Santiam Pass, the Oregon Highway Commission ad vised Tuesday, - There is packed snow on the roads at those points. New snow reported amounted to 7 inches at Tlmberline, 6 at San tiam Pass. 5 at Government Camp, 3 at Willamette Pass and Klamath Falls and a at Siekiyoa Summit, try it gong. . . . . f Gangland Max Factor Threatened With Blast . LOS ANGELES Ml An FBI gent, made Up to look' like make up manufacturer Max Factor Jr., helped trap an unemployed man accused of trying to extort 830,000 from Factor under threat ot blast ing him and his family with a time bomb. Wendell Martin Ringhous, 47, of Northrldge, father, pt three chil dren, was arrested yesterday us he picked Up a dummy bundle ot money in an orange grove in Son Fernando Valley. . The arrest climaxed ; week-long negotiations by letter, telephone and a newspaper ad and marked the third time the package had been planted at spots designated by the would-be extortionist. The first two times he apparently hud been frightened off. , Last Thursday night Factor, head of the cosmetics firm found ed by his father, his wife Mildred and their son Donald, 19. left their Beverly Hills mansion after a man telephoned that a time bomb was hidden In a wall. : Another eon, Mark, 15, is in. private school. The- FBI quoted Ringholz, who came here last November from Cleveland, Ohio, as saying he se lected Factor after reading about him in "Who's Who." Ringholz was swiftly arraigned before U.3. Commissioner Howard Calverley and held under $10,000 bond on a charge of using the malls In an extortion attempt. His preliminary hearing will be April 8. Factor said Be received the first extortion letter last Tuesday.. He waa tola v place an ad in a nawv paper,, bundle up, SJ0.00: in small bills and await vfurther Instruc tions. He notified the FBI imme diately. Last Thursday, following publi cation of the ad. Factor was told over the telephone to drive to a vacant lot in nearby Reseda in a small red British sports car and leave the money behind a small white fence. An FBI agent, disguised as Fac tor, carried out the instructions with a dummy bundle of money. After- the delivery was made. Factor got another telephone call shortly after midnight Friday tell ing him a time bomb had been planted In his home and was set to go off at 1:30 a.m. He was told that If the would-be extortionist re ceived the money, he would get a phone call disclosing the bomb's location along with instructions on bow to disarm It. A search failed to uncover any bomb. FBI agents watched tne package behind the fence for 24 hours. No one tried to pick it up. They re trieved it. They took It to a park in Santa Monica Sunday after an other phone call but again It was not picked up. - Yesterday Factor received a special delivery letter and a tele phone call telling him to place the money on a white sheet he would find in a certain orange grove. His impersonator drove the red sports car to the grove and the money was placed on the sheet. Several FBI agents were hidden in the area. Minutes later, the FBI sa ,d. Ringholz walked into the grove and picked up the package. He was arrested immediately. Agents quoted him as saying nis family knew nothing of the plot, that he was deeply In debt. Klamath Singer Draws Praise The Ous Lampropulos family of 203 E. Main, lias recleved a letter from Wilfrid Pelletier, dean of con ductors at the Metropolitan Op era House. New York City, which indicates the Interest being shown in Miss Lampropulos' work. In part, the letter reads as follows "During my visit In Seattle last January wnue acting as guest con ductor of the Seattle Symphony Or chestra, I had the opportunity and pleasure to near your daughter, Athena, sing. "She has a very beautiful voice. In fact, a voice to make an inter national career. Ybur daughter has certainly all the qualifications to make a first-class career and anould be encouraged to do so. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS , tla Sami Oar TT . Lul Uit I. A3 ears 0 cart mi-M t24 IMS-tS 97a eon ' FRANK SCOTT was pretty discouraged at tha snow and tea on his windshield this morning, but it all earn off finally. Frank lives at 1503 California and works at Soars. ' ; Youth Poisoned By Spray Still Hangs In Balance HOOD RIVER, OreWI The condition of a six-year-old . boy poisoned Saturday by . a deadly fruit tree spray solution remained critical Tuesday. ' - ' . The child, Michael Ogden of Odell, Ore., still had not regained consciousness and hospital attend ants said "he certainly Is no Spud Cellar Rentals Set The SS) potato-Bins In tha fule iac drawers Association spud cel lar will be rented to members' in good standing on March 24. Appli cation forms are available at Cliff Jenkins' office, Tulelake Growers Association, and must be filled out and returned by March 20. Each bin holds 15,000 sacks and rents for $150. Half the rental must be paid by April 4, the second pay ment to be made when the potatoes are sold. - -. . i Membership in TGA stands at 105 paid up members as of last week. Ninety-eight growers, . rap- resenting 5,300 acres, have voted yes -to the question of whether or not the potato marketing order plans be carried through,-Twelve growers, representing 83 - acres, nave voted no.-TUA directors have set a figure of 80 per cent survey coverage on 8,800 acres with 8 per cent of the growers who grew 74 per cent of last year's crop vot ing yes- belore the Bureau of Mar kets Is asked to set up the order. Those who did not attend any ol the meetings may secure complete Information at the TGA office,- Seen Any Black Panthers Lately? LOS ANGELES W Police were asked to be on the lookout today for a black panther, two honey bears, two monkeys and a pair of pigeons. Wayne Roberts, who Identified himself as the owner of an animal show, said ho was driving his menagerie to Arizona when his truck developed engine trouble In MM Angeles. After tlxlng the motor he got back Into the cab and drove non stop to Hie border. He looked In the back, he said and-Hie menagerie waa gone. in amaau , .' ,jja" 1 THE NAVY'S NEW LOCKHEED XFV-1 vertical faleoff plana reitt on auxtliarv in thaorhrantal position of a conventional plana during special fatf operations.' Tha small Vhe4 'wraiutfaa from tips ef tha four-part tail era mad when tha aircraft operates In Its normal r vartleal position. Powered fay a turboprop engine tha craft it underoeinej flight at IHMi Air Force Base, Calif. '"'"',' .. ' tit'' better." He was given' artificial respiration through the night. The boy was poisoned when ne spUled a bottle of TEPP. tetra ethyl ' pyro phosphate, - which Is mixed with water to kill fruit tree pests. .Tne chemical, wmcu. pene trates the human skin and attacks the respiratory system, soaked his pants and got on his legs. Heart-beat and : breathing had stopped before he arrived at the hospital here but were restored. However, his Ufe has continued to hang in the balance. . ,'' . The solution which poisoned the boy Is so potent that only a half pint of it ,1s mixed -with 100 gallons of water for trea anravlnk. Doctors bare said It has been -on the-market about a year and has caused the death of several persons who hand led it carelessly. .- , . . The chemical, plainly labeled by Its makers as; poison,-is handled with rubber gloves by most orchnrdlsts. They use masks when spraying with it. Michael, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Ogden Jr., who live in the Odell fruit-growing district south of here, found the pome on a neighboring rancn. . The doctor caring for the boy has received many reports of simi lar poisoning and treatments for It, Army chemical Corps spokesmen at Edgewood, Md who offered their .old, said action of the ohemi cal is similar to "slight nerve gas" and that the Corps has done researoh and made reports on IW Pacific Coast Wettest Spot iiy mr. associated press More rain fell m the Pacific Const states Tuesday but skies were clear over moat all other sections of the country. The rain belt in the far west extended from Northern Califor nia northward through Washing ton. The only other wet spot was In the northern Appalachians where light snow flurries were re ported..' - ,.- Generally pleasant late winter weather prevnllcd over most of the country. However, It was be low freezing early Tuesday from the northern - Rockies eastward through the northern plains, the upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Val ley and the northern and Central Atlantic Stales. , , i lirtoRsbls' ' '"' By LASKY attXEM" HANOI? mnnnnma) un tag, Vletralnh shock troops surged, . Tuesday to witntn-a. aau nuta oa , -toe- heart of the Stan! Stem Hut fortress, then faltered and fail back under sheets of fire from the French garrison, paokintt their dead and wounded with. them. . -. Masses . of . the Communist-tad rebola staged the attack from too encircling hills in a striving rain, firing rliles. pis tola and' macbio- -guns and throwing grenades , and spears, ' ' - -, .' ' French-manned American guna tore wide gaps to their ranks,: A French army spokesman said .. thousands. of tha rebels war cut down,-' ' ' : . " Unofficial estimates of tha Tkrt, mlnh dead and wounded In tha four days of battle fot the wire , ringed plain, In a strategic sector -ot northwest Indochina, rose to bo tween e.uoo and b.oot; , -i Broken, bullet-riddled bodies ot rebel dead dangled like aeareerowa on the barbed wire as tha outnum bered French Union forces sought desperately to keep the Plain out ' ot rebel' hands.-- -' .-';.- . ' It waa' the- most savage battle of the seven-year Indochina war. . Early today the outcome certain to have a major effect on the) Geneva ; conference next month as s'Jll in doubt. ,-.t h ;i ,e,t Tha -fighting which Began Bat. , urday ' afternoon raged furiously through last night as thouaanda wildly screaming - comrnimlat ion rebels, backed by artillery from . Communist China, charged repeat edly into' the bristling, American, armed-, defenses of tha-; fortress plain. .. , , .','.;; '.... The . rdoowile fanatio rebel charges over tha mounting bodies of thalr own dead raaenkhwd tha Communist onslaughts on. United Nations troops In the Korean War. ' For the first Urns In the long Indo china war, the Vletmlnh aband oned their guerrilla tactics for an all-out frontal assault. . ; to the first 4 rwurs of fighting, tha Vletmlnh wrested two northern -and. 1 ' northeastern strong-potato from tne French union oerenoers. . But the French - high .command said' the . center , of the Vletmlnh- encircled plain, waa still . intact and tha balance of tne outer par meter, .also was arUn holding, . .They predicted tha defenders would hold until tb rcbela had worn tnemseivea out. Tna rrenen sald'tber' rm -knied" 3,000 attack ing . Vletmlnh "end wounded aa many more. They admitted "ap preciable" losses out of their own garrison of French, Moroccans, Vietnamese. Algerians, German Foreign Legionnaires, i and- That tribesmen;'; ; ; . 'i. The Frenck lh Saigon predicted (Coatlnaai en yagaO ; Feels Quake BEATTLE 11 A m'Ud earth tremor waa felt at 7:M a, m. Tuesday In a wide area from Ta- coma to Seattle. Prof. Frank .Neuman, . hi a f seismologies at tha University of Washington, said It apparently centered 15 or 30 miles south of the campus seismograph. He said most of the reports seemed to come from Kent' and the area, south of Seattle. There were very few reports of its being felt in SeatUe itself.:; .-v A: iProfesior Neuman described It aa a "weak" earthquake, of about Intensity. 4 or ft on the Meroalll scale, , ( l r "That would mean," he said, "that It would be felt, by most of the people near Its center, but it would not be likely. to causa dam age." ' ' r . ,: He skid the center appeared to be about 36 miles from where the damaging quake of 1048 was be lieved to have centered .south of Tacoma. ' ''.,.. . Professor Neuman said. the tre mor was of about mlnuts's dura- lion. There were no damage re ports. , ... ,'"' I & 'h Washington .-.,.