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; By FRANK JENKINS .
Zeke Walton, assistant manager
of the Umpqua hotel at Roseburg,
sprung this one on me yester
terday: ' ''If you live In Roseburg, don't
spray your roses with Black Leaf
40, It has a nicotine base, and
deer love tobacco like a lumber
jack: loves snoose. If you put
Black Leaf 40 on 'em, the deer
will come in and eat your bushes
down' to the ground."
'I know what Tm talking
about," he added. "They've done
It to mine time and again."
Zeke ought to know. He's some
thing of an authority on deer.
They seem to hold him in high
esteem.
Several years ago, when his
position at the Umpqua was some
what less exalted (be was a room
clerk then, as I recall it) he was
registering a customer at the
counter when a deer came walk
ing down Jackson street (Rose
burg's Main Street) and glanced
In. .
Impressed by Zeke's hospitable
manner. It decided to come in and
put up. The fact that the door was
closed didn't deter it. It crashed
through the glass and brought up
in front of the room desk.
It might, of , course, have
emelled the tobacco in the cigar
and cigarette counter, but per
sonally I think it's Zeke's per
sonality. I never heard before of
deer being victims of the tobacco
habit.
Did you? I'd be Interested In
knowing if I'm Just behind the
times on deer's tastes.
Speaking of animals coming to
town to see the sights, there was
the time the bear came down from
the mountain and was strolling
along North Ninth street In Klam
ath Falls when the neighborhood
dogs tied into him. The bear
promptly shinned up a tree, and
in due time somebody came along
with a 30-30 and potted him and
hauled him home In a pickup truck.
It always seemed to me like an
abuse of hospitality. The bear was
obviously having himself a time
as a casual tourist.
' Then, there was the time when
the worshippers at a Klamath
Falls church came out at the end
of the Sunday morning services to
find a Sedan parked In front of
the building with a badly bashed
top. The only clue to the dent was
a 20-pound salmon lying beside the
car. It was rather badly bruised,
which led to the conclusion that
it had fallen out of the . sky and.
janaea on we car.
Row come? The concensus, af
ter an animated discussion, was
that some fisherman,' flying home
after a successful trip to some
salmon stream, had spilled It out
of his plane . as he was passing
over town. .
That calls to mind a family liv
ing In the Fall Creek district,
some 30 miles up the Willamette
from Eugene.
The woman of- the house went
out to the barn one evening to
gather the eggs. Hens, you know,
have a yen for making their
nests in the mangers. The lady
reached Into a spot where, she
' knew by experience, a nest was
located. Just as she thrust her
hand in from one side to pick
up the eggs that were expected
to be there, a cougar thrust in
its paw from the other side, also
looking for eggs it expected to be
there. Fortunately she grasped
the cougar's paw with her fingers
instead of the courgar grasping
her hand with Its claws.
The upshot of It was that she
went out of the door at one end
of the barn at high speed and at
about the same time the cougar
went out of the door at the other
end, also breaking the speed lim
its? r
Oregon Is still a fascinating
place to live, In suite of the fact
that It Is one of the most rapidly
growing states In our Union. I
hope we never reach the point
where we've grown clear away
from such contacts with nature In
the raw.
Vietminh Push
Fresh Attacks
HANOI, Indochina m The
French army claimed Thursday
Us tanks and mobile units killed
28 Vietminh rebels In a fresh
clash in the southern sector of
besieged Dien Bien Phu.
It was the second time In three
days the French had reported a
battle with the Communist led
enemy inside the southern perim
eter of the northwest Indochina
fortress. They claimed 175 ,enemy
dead In a big clash Monday.
Intensive fire bombings by
American supplied planes con
tinued meanwhile to take a heavy
toll of the rebels digging in
around Dien Bien Phu for new
mass assaults on the fortress.
Even Flying Boxcar and Dakota
Transport planes were used to
lettlson blazing jeiuea gasoline
bombs on the enemy.
In the 13 days of this first ma
jor battle of the seven-year Indo
china war, the French estimate
more than 15,000 Vietminh troops
have been killed and wounded.
More than 3.000 killed and B.OCKTj
wounded were believed lost in the
first wild frontal assaults by the
rebels.
Mo rna Cents 28 Page
AEC Weapon
Production
Stepped Up
WASHINGTON Wl The Atomic
Energy Commission plans to step
up this country's production of hy
drogen and other atomic weapons
at the behest of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
This was disclosed Thursday
with publication of testimony by
the AEC chairman, Lewis L.
Strauss, In telling a House appro
priations subcommittee Why the
agency wants $1,342,000,000 for the
next fiscal year. ...
K. D. Nichols, general manager
of AEC, also told the group there
will be further weapon tests, in
addition to the recent one in the
pacific.
Strauss said AEC's program has
been increased "as a result of a
restudy by the Jqint Chiefs of Staff
of the nation's weapons require
ments." The chairman said operating
costs for fiscal 1956 are expected
to run 42 per cent higher than this
year, adding:' . '
"Substantially all of the increase
occurs as a result of increasing
uranium procurement and expand
ing the production of weapons and
weapon materials."
Strauss and Nichols testified
March 8, a week after the awe
some hydrogen explosion in the
racixio and just before the AEC
head left to witness further tests.
Strauss told the House noun
steps already have been taken to
expand production of H-bomb ma.
terials "to meet military require
ments estaousnea oy the Joint
Chiefs of Staff."
Egypt to Hold
Free Election
CAIRO, Egypt tm A tense
meeting of Egypt's ruling revolu
tionary council ended Thursday
with a public announcement that
the military regime wouldhand
over all government powers to a
jreeiy elected constituent assem
bly on July 24.
The surprise announcement of
tne impending end to the military
regime provoked speculatlon-as to
whether the army's secret- "free
officers" movement would, carry
out lis inreais to start a new rev
olution if the wav were onened
to the restoration of politicians of
the old Farouk regime. ,
The council met amid growing
reports of differences between
President Mohamed Naguib and
other members.
There were unconfirmed reports
ot lncreaased resentment against
Naguib from young members of
uie council. Cairo streets were
completely normal, however.
Vice Premier Gamal Abdel Nas
ser's aide, Maj. Amln Shaker,
denied reports published abroad
that a state of emergency had
been newly proclaimed In Egypt.
The state of emergency clamped
down on the country following the
Cairo fire riots of Jan. 26, 1952,
never has been lifted.
One of the points of difference
within the revolutionary council
reportedly 1 is that Naguib has
urged an Immediate end to the
martial law in effect since then.
Nasser and other members of the
military opposed any Immediate
lifting of martial law. Its raising
nan oeen promised before the elec
tions scheduled for July.
W. M. (IIUl CASE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, of tht National Potato Council, Waihinqfon,
D.CM I center I was the principal ipetker at a ipud masting in Merrill Wadnatday night.
Louie Lyon, Halt) Malin rancher, and diractor of the National Potato Council and Troy
Quails, prntident of the Klamath Potato Growert Atioeiation, .4 Story on page II)
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH ' Telephone (111 No. M K 'J SJ) "ZJ-S , y
Warnings of Reef if
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Asst. Secretary of state Bpruui'
uraaen leswiecr xuursaay inn
far as he can judge the State De
partment is still filled with "stole
Interventionists,' collectlvlsts and
do-gooders."
In the witness chair of the Sen
ate subcommittee on internal se
curity, Braden said these people
are "doing the same thing" to Sec
retary of State Dulles that -they
Aides Face
MOSCOW W The newspaper
Trud charged four members of the
U.S. Embassy's military staff
Thursday with spying on Soviet
airfields and other Important In
stallations on a rail trip from
Moscow to Vladivostok.-
The embassy . refused to com
ment on the charges. -
Trud,: the trade union newspa
per, claimed the alleged espion
age was revealed in military in
telligence reports the Americans
left behind In 'their, compartment
on the Trans-Siberian Express. It
said the chief conductor found the
papers at the end of the run.
The documents, it continued,
"constitute an Intelligence report
on the main towns and stations
between Moscow and Khaba
rovsk," an industrial and trans
portation center of 300,000 persons
north of Vladivostok on the Man
churian border.
'Special attention was paid to
airfields, radio station. Industrial
plants and the like," Trud said.
The four accused by the paper
were Lt. Col. Howard L. Felchlin,
Maj, Walter McKlnney, Maj. Mar
tin J. Mauhoff and 8-Sgt. Eugene
Williams.
Trud published what lt said were
photostat copies of their papers and
commented:
" "If tba above-mentioned persons
would like to get back their docu
ments, -wnicn evidently were ior
gotten In the rush, they can do so
by calling at the porter's office."
McKlnney is now away from
Moscow on leave. The other three
refused to give their U.S. address
es and would only repeat what
embassy counsellor Ellm
O'Shaughnessy had said: "We
have no comment to make."
U.S. Ambassador Charles E.
Bohlen was not available to news
men. Oregon Papers
In Trade Deal
PRINEVILLE Ufl A three-way
newspaper deal in which Monroe
Sweetland, state Democratic
national committeeman, becomes
publisher of the Milwaukie Review
was announced here Thursday by
the Prinevllle Central Oregonlan.
E. A. Donnelly, who has been
publisher of the Review, becomes
publisher of the Central Oregonlan.
The deal was arranged when
L. R. Batman contracted to sell
the Central Oregonlan to Sweet
land. Sweetland then used that
contract In arranging a trade by
which he got the Milwaukie paper
and the Milwaukie publisher came
here. Both are weekly newspapers.
WASHINGTON l Formerly
US Military
Red Charges
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James F.
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.ed no names but
were in the depart-
m- .' he became assistant
seer, i in 1945 and frustrated
his re), .ated attempts to sound the
alarm about the Communist dan
ger.
They were easily led," the for
mer diplomat said, "and were the
puppets of w.knowns. We now have
the names of a few such as Hiss
and White."
This was a reference to Alger
Hiss, convicted of perjury for de
nying he gave secret Information
to a Communist spy ring, and the
late Harry Dexter White, one-time
assistant ' secretary of the Treas
ury whom Atty. Gen. Brownell has
said was a Soviet spy.
Braden did not blame Dulles for
the situation he said exists In the
department. He said Dulles Is pre
occupied with a large number of
highly, important -problems which
require immediate decisions end is
so busy he has been unable "to
ugni."
. He said Byrnes was unable to do
anything about it either because
he was away so much attending
International conferences. ' -
m response to questions, Braden
said that "by and large the same
people" are in. the department
'doing the same thing."
Asked if there were not a change
now under the new Republican ad
ministration, Braden said he could
not see it although he was not In
the government.
He said that when he came te
Washington some time ago to try
to get action on Guatemala, only
something Insignificant" w a a
done. The State Department has
accused the Guatemalan govern
ment of playing the Communist
game. .
Braden is a mining engineer wno
was appointed ambassador to Col
ombia in 1939 by President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and later served
as ambassador to Cuba and Ar
gentina. ,
CampYhite
: WASHINGTON 'tm Rep. Ells-'
worth R-Ore) wants the House
Appropriations Committee to
recommend funds to add up to 200
or 300 -beds to the Camp wnue
Hospital at Medford, Ore. '
His request, made to a subcom
mittee earlier this month, was
disclosed with publication of
testimony Wednesday.
The Camp White hospital, which
bad 2,500 beds In World War II.
was scheduled to be torn down and
junked after the war. Under legis
lation by Ellsworth, it was. turned
over to the Veterans Administra
tion which now operates it as an
814-bed domiciliary home without
general medical and surgical beds.
"Our feeling," Ellsworth told the
subcommittee, "is we need 100
general medical and surgical and
probably 200 of what might be
called convalescent beds."
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Fair Thursday night;
partly cloudy with few snow flur
ries In Cascades Friday. High
Friday 43; low Thursday night 25.
High yesterday : 41
Low last night 23
Preclp last 24 hoars Tr.
Since Oct. 1 U.79
Same period last year -11.65
Normal for period 9.15
U.S.Army
Accused By
Contractor
FRANKFURT, Germany W .
An American contractor, leaving
by military plane Thursday for a
wasnington grana jury nearing,
threatened to crack open what he
called "a great conspiracy to sab
otage the U.S. defense program
In Europe." .
Robert E. Bowen, 36, formerly
of Spokane, Wash., declared he
has "enough photostatic evidence
to result in the court-martial of
at least five Army officers."
He asserted many more officers
would be Involved if the investigat
ion Is carried through to the end.
Bowen told newsmen he be
lieved the conspiracy was partly
Communist Inspired, "but I can't
prove this."
"But I can prove tne conspira
cy," he said.
U.S. Army in 'Europe head
quarters at Heidelberg said Bowen
would appear before a federal
grand jury In Washington at S
a.m. Friday.
The Army declined to comment
on Bowen's charges, or on his
statement that the hearing was
being held at his request.
Bowen said he had been trying
for more than a year to get either
a congressional hearing, or a
grand Jury hearing.
"I wrote to everybody except
Sen.' McCarthy," Bowen said,
"and I have nothing against Mc
Carthy." Bowen added' he had written
dozens of letters to James B.
Conant, U.S. high commissioner
in Germany, and to Oen. William
M. Hoge, commander of the U.S.
Army in Europe.
The Army said Bowen's letters
had been received, "acknowledged
ana appropriately acted upon."
Bowen said he had written to
a number of senators. Including
John W. Bricker (R,-Ohio) and
Warren O. Magnuson (D.-Wash.).
He said he believed Magnuson
had been instrumental In arrang
ing the grand Jury hearing.
Bowen was arrested In " the
French zone of Germany in Bent-
ember 1952 on a charge of noa-
.sesslng classified , documents in,
eluding the entire defense con
struction program for West Ger
many. A spokesman for the U.S.
attorney's office in Germany dis
closed Thursday the charge had
been dropped. He said the docu
ments , "were not really secret."
'Bowen was a contractor," the
spokesman said, "and he had to
have the documents In order to
submit bids."
At the time of his arrest. Bowen
charged he was arrested only to
detract from an Investigation of
alleged fraud and bribery Involv
ing the Army's building program
In Germany. '
More than 30 German contract
ors were arrested for questioning.
Concrete results have never been
announced.
Bowen Is chief engineer for a
Swiss firm. Consolidated Engi
neering Ltd., Zurich, that has de
signed construction projects for
the - Army. He said tie hopes to
prove that the "whole conspiracy
cost the U.S. government 30 mil
lion dollars In delays, higher costs
and kickbacks."
Police Probe
Beatty Death
After he finished digging a
grave, Floyd Mallory Wilson, 24-
year-old Indian, died a short dis
tance from the Piute Cemetery at
Beatty, the sheriff's office re
ported Thursday.
The badly battered body was dis
covered by passing motorists
sprawled beside a logging road
Wednesday morning. A post mor
ten examination conducted Thurs
day at Ward's Funeral Home by
Dr. George H. Adler, Klamath
County coroner, failed to reveal
the cause of death.
Blood samples taken from Wll
son's body were sent to the State
Crime Laboratory at Portland for
examination.
According to Sheriff Murray
Brltton, Wilson had been drinking
heavily before he took the grave-
digging job Tuesday. The sheriff
said he also received iniormaiion
that Wilson had engaged In aeveral
fist fights In Beatty Tuesday morn.
Ing. It is believed he had been
dead for more then 18 hours be
fore the body was found.
Investigating officers say it's
possible that Wilson may have
died from over-exertion as a re.
suit of his grave-digging activities,
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SUNNY DAY SMILES on the way to Fairviaw school this morn,
inq. The young students are Alice Pfefferle, Jackie Rogers,
and Linda Smith. . ' . ; .' ";
Costly N.Y. Wildcat Dock
Strike Said Creaking Up J
DEW YORK Vfi The AFL coni
tended Thursday that a rival un
ion's 20-day. dock strike that has
cost an estimated 216 million dol
lars la "falling apart"
More men were reported going
back to work. , ,
And the possibility that the
strike might spread to other .east
coast ports failed to materialise.
The AFL 1 International - Long-
shoremens Assn. (AFL-ILA) said
4,000 of its members crossed pick
et lines of the rival ' Independent
Latest Potato
PORTLAND (fl The chairman
of the Oregon-California Potato
Marketing Agreement Committee
said Wednesday he opposed tne
government plan to buy a limited
amount of 1953 crop potatoes.
The government said lt would
buy some potatoes at prevailing
market prices for distribution to
welfare agencies and Institutions,
and also would pay 35 cents per
100 pounds for potatoes diverted to
starch or potato flour plants.
"I'm sorry to see them come In
at this stage of the game. If the
government bolsters the market
now, when a lot of growers are
wondering what to plant on acres
diverted from baalo crops, lt will
result In Increased plantings and
bigger surpluses next summer and
fall," said Roy Snabel, Powell
Butte, chairman of the Oregon
California Marketing committee,
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DAYS UNTIL THE "
LOODMOIILE VISITS
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OVER-EXERTION from digging grave may have csuted the dtsih of Floyd Mallory Vrtl
ton, 25-year-eld Indian, Hit body wat found on an hoisted logging road thert dittanca
from tho ctmatary where ha had been working. Sheriff Murray Brifton it shown with tht body.
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ILA and went to work, compared
with 3,600 Wednesday. '
The old ILA,' ousted, from the
AFL for . harboring racketeers,
struck in what has been known as
a wildcat walkout In a jurisdiction
al dispute with the new AFL-ILA
tor control of ; the waterfront.
Capt. William V. Bradley, pres
ident of the old ILA, Wednesday
gave official endorsement to the
strike. It was this that led'to be
lief that ILA locals in other ports
might strike in a snow of, ILA
strength.' ' ' :: - : '.- ;a :
But there were no reports
Thursday of Walkouts In these
ports that have been getting In
creased business7 because of the
New York tieup, ... '.'..
' Tugboat men -In New York, af
filiated with the ILA, also con
tinued on the job.
City officials said 27 of 66 ships
berthed In New York City piers
were being worked Tnursuay,
compared to 28 of 68 Wednesday.
John Dwyer. chairman of the
AFL-ILA port commttee, said the
number of men working present
ed " a much brighter picture."
'The longshoremen are not
fooled by Bradley's phony attempt
to pull the mob's chestnuts out of
the fire," Dwyer said. .
Bradley had said that ILA men
In the other ports wanted "to go
out" and that "we'll have a Job
keeping the other ports working."
C. o. xegneii, airecior 01 re
search for the State Chamber of
Commerce, said the strike had
cost the nation's No. 1 port 275
million dollars In lost business
and that the figure would rise to
half billion If the walkout con
tinued another 10 days.
The walkout by members of tne
TLA ousted from the AFL last
fall for harboring racketeers has
been staged In defiance of a fed
eral court Injunction. Contempt of
court proceedings are pending.
The ILA blgn command report
edly hopes to escape possible Jail
terms or fines lor contempt lor
endorsing the walkout by contend
ing that the strike is a "no con
tract, no work" action and not a
defiance of the federal court In
junction Issued March 4, the day.
before the walkout started. .
'V.V.AV
Over Area
Br THE ASSOCIATED PUSS '
March- storms, with rain, snow
and strong winds, swept wide
areas of the country Thuraday
after seven damaging tornadoes
struck areas In Oklahoma and Tex
as Wednesday night,
. Wet weather was, reported to
nearly all sections of the country.
A deepening storm which centered
over Southern Iowa brought wide
spread rains to the -rdidcontinent
and eastward through the Great
Lakes region to Pennsylvania, i
Thunderstorms xtanded from
the storm center southward
through Missouri, Oklahoma, East,
ern Texas end Arkansas. Five tor,
nadoes hit in Oklahoma and two
struck Texas communities. '
There were no fatalities report
ed from the twisters but damage
at Tulsa alone -was estimated at
f 100.000. Threes' of the Oklahoma .
tornadoes were' in farm comma
nltles and a Cfth was near Shaw
nee. The Texas twisters ware at
Honey Grove hv the northeastern
section and .near Albany In tho ,
northwestern part of the state. . t
Snow fell-tn the Northern Plaint
and headed into tho North Central
region with falls tip to Inches
forecast for the Dakotas and fronv
2 to 5 Inches for Northern and
west Central Minnesota. . '
Showers also were resorted in
the Middle Atlantlo atatea and in
California.
While wet weather was general! .
over most areas, dust storms were
reported from Central Oklahoma
southeard Into Western Texas, t
Mostly mild weather prevailed
over the country except for North
ern horde? states; Temperatures
ranged from the teens in Montana
to the 70s m southern parts of
Texas and Florida.
Some early morning tempera
ture leadings included Denver at;
Butte, Mont., 17; Dallas 64: La
redo, Texas; 7;- Miami 72; Nash
ville 69; New 'York City ,45;: Los
Angeles 50; Seattle 40: Omaha aad
Chicago 43; Des Moines 40; CI eve- '
land 47; St. Louis 58 and Mil
waukee 40. ;!,-';, , :' -,' , ;iv4;
HONEY GROVE, Tex. On At
least seven tornadoes last night
and early today boiled from a Una
of thunderstorms extending across
north Texas, 'Oklahoma and into
Arkansas. :. -j- ; t i . :
None waa of major violence, hut
areas from, 100 miles south X
Abilene, Tea., to Fort Bmlth, Ark.,
were buffeted.-: i,:;,. ' ;.'
WntHl hit In iha:. unmirtfw
where damage was estimated at
1100,000.-. . : . . V .
No one was reported killed in
the twisters, but George D, Frank
lin, a drive-In theater owner, was
crushed to death at Argyle, In
north Texas, when a wall he was
trying to brace toppled on him'
during a windstorm.
Five tornadoes were reported an
Oklahoma in the state's southwest.
north, central and " northeastern
sections. Three of . the Oklahoma
twisters brought heavy damage to
as many farm communities; an
other tore1 up trees and outbuild
ings just south of Shawnee s busi
ness dlstrlot, and. the fifth Tipped '
through Tulsa..
The Texas tornadoes struck at
Honey Orove in the state's north
east section and near Albany m
the nartbwett. , Damaging storms 1
also tors across Fort Worth, Mc
Klnney . and section . east of
Throckmorton, Tex. .. .
The Tulsa tornado snapped tele
phone poles, uprooted trees, and
destroyed sue light planes at the
Brown Airport Two of the planes -
could not ta found.
NEW HELICOPTER
BRUSSELS, ' Belgium Ml Sev
enty-year-old 'Prof. Augusta Pic
card says , he .. plans to . build a
"submarine helicopter" to explore
medium sea' depths. He called the
new device a rneeescaphe and said
lt would have ,a plexiglass cabin
topped by a rotor with several
blades.' , 'tv '
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