nil
mm
mm
ITQ-'U
un
u
fUlfi
In The T ; "
Day's lews
Br FRANK JENKINS
Weary and outnumbered French
Union forces are continuing today
their desperate defense of belea
guered Dien Blen Fhu . . . Nearly
every hour, the French have had
to face heavy Communist attacks
... These heavy thrusts have
carried the communists to 'within
a mile of the fortress' center . , .
In the stand-or-dle battle, the
greatly outnumbered garrison has
been launching desperate counter
attacks for the past 48 hours.
Some three years ago, it was
OUR BOYS IN KOREA who were
facing myriads of communist Chi
nese pouring over the Yalu river
from Manchuria, The situation is
the same now as It was then, ex
. cept that It is the Frenchmen who
are holding the line.
If they are trampled into the
bloody mud, communism will have
gained face In Asia. If the com'
munlsts are stopped, as they were
In Korea, communism will have
, lost face in Asia as It did in Ko
lea
That's about the long and the
short of it.
Recurring thought:
If the FRENCH GOVERNMENT
were only as good as these French
men who are selling their lives so
dearly In Indochina, the free world
would be a lot saier,
3rave Question:
Is the situation in Asia getting
better or worse?
V -Well, If we were still Involved
in a battle to the death in Korea
while the French are Involved in
their battle for life in Indochina,
the situation would be WORSE.
I think we can all agree on that,
On the home front. Senator John
Williams of Delaware offers this
statement:
"The lawmakers in congress who
support major tax cuts this year
must be equally willing to back an
equivalent increase in the national
debt limit ... It should be made
clear to the people in this election
year that any tax cut not offset
by a decrease in spending must
be paid for with borrowed money."
In this screwball election year
fall election years are screwball)
that practically rates as man-bites-
dog news.
It may be that in all the ruckus
you've forgotten tins donn wimams,
nv wav nf rpfrflshinor vour memory,
he's the small-town grain dealer
nhn hv enmn freak Rot elected to
. the U.S. senate from Delaware in
1946 and promptly started Jn. apply
ing to his new job the same hard
en HaH cnnclhln millR that had
made him successful in the grain
business in ms small nome town.
You will perhaps recall that one
Year he sent in a check for his
' inmnm tax And not lonir after-
mm ant Inmnpd to PAY AGAIN.
He started sleuthing in a quiet
way and in the course of time,
n,ith vprv 1itt.1 hitln from anvbodv.
he turned up some nasty scandals
in fna intarnnl revenue bureau.
As a result of his dogged, quiet
Bever-say-die work, the scandalous
situation in the internal revenue Bu
reau got a badly needed airing.
If we had fewer high-powered
orators, ready to blow off at a
moment's notice in any direction
that promises VOTES, and more
quiet, efficient ex-grain dealers in
our government, we'd probably
be a lot better off.
One thing I'm reasonably sure
of is that we nave loo mucn giam-
. an ehnwmatlshin in Our KOV-
ernment and too little hard com
mon sense.
Truck Loses
Tiff With Cow
Operated by Alayious Vincent
Monsel, 2669 Rndcliffe, a pickup
...t ,, .haHlv rinmacred about
9 p.m. Friday, when it collided with
a cow at tne imerseuuuu ui ou,i.
T.nnA and HiffhWaV 66.
The driver reported to Oregon
State Police that the cow walked
onto the highway in front of him
and that he wns able to slow down
Ato about 30 miles per hour before
.tvitrlno. IhA animal
The pickup was towed away but
"bossy wanted on unaer ue, uw
power and was last seen in a field
adjacent to we oascunu
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Mostly cloudy with a few
showers tonight; '"
showers Sunday. High Sunday 60
l . nn1rnt 3S.
High yesterday
1A laat nlirht &
ICTTTB WRITERS
TOKYO (At Two high-ranking
in .Tnnan'a wartime Im
perial Army have turned from the
sword M poevry lur .,.....
nni r RiicnvA and Col. R. Ku
rimoto write love letters, In Eng
lish or rrencn, ior a ice.
m-oif fates 43 cents for a let
ter of routine emotion; 55 cents
for extreme passion.
Mo Rn Ceats II Tmtn KLAMATH FALLS. OBEGON, ' j' " TelepUue 8IU , . No. 2807
- : :
Q ( win !
- I in. i : ' IV . ; J muswmtmitiL 1
KLAMATH BASIN
POTATO SHIPMENTS
Tidal Wave M
Rebels Maeh
LOUIS KALINA, acting mayor of Malm, longtime fire chief and owner of Kalina'i, Malta's first
mercantile store, shows the latest 1954 chapeau, worn by volunteer firefighters, to the Gover
nor and Mrs. Patterson, during their Malin visit to the fire hall.
t?W'0k If
w.!hJii."...
TULELAKE REPUBLICANS met for chat with Mrs. Paul Patterson when the Governor's car
stopped at the M. A. Bowman office in Merrill. Seated II to r I Mrs. Joe Cox, wife of a Tule
lake sheepman and rancher, and daughter Barbara, Tulelake; Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. O. V.
Reeves, Reeves Hardware, Merrill. Standing, Mrs. Bill Nelson,: whose husband, member of a
pioneer family, also farms at Tulelake. ' '
Sam Dtr
I.att Ttr
SnfVBtS
35 cars 24 ear
tui rn '
1707 ears 10.738 ear
1IU-M
Ike Plans For
Message Told
WASHINGTON Wl President
Eisenhower will visit with the
American people Monday night via
televslon and radio to talk about
their "fears" and "concerns."
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty announced the
plans Friday, indicating at tne
same time that one of the topics
will be Communism in America.
Hagerty said Atty. Gen. Browu-
ell will go before the TV cameras
and radio microphones Friday
night with a talk related to the
President's. Brownell is to discuss
a legislative program to deal with
Red subversion.
HBKerty said the President will
tell the people Monday nigm mat
he has asked Brownell Jo give
them a detailed report on what
the Justice Department and the
courts have done toward "break
ing up" the "Communist conspir
arw in our countrv."
Hagerty Indicated, too. that the
President would also touch on fear
of Russia, anxiety over economic
conditions and other foreign and
domestic problems.
Eisenhower is expected to de
vote only a passing mention to the
hydrogen bomb. Recent American
hydrogen tests in the Paciflo have
caused ripples of alarm around the
world.
The NBC, CBS and ABC tele
vision networks possibly Joined by
Dumont Will carry the President's
talk from 6:30 to 6 p. m., pst,
The NBC, ABC and Mutual radio
networks will broadcast the speech
at the same time. CBS radio will
carry It from 7:30 to 8.
Hagerty said Brownell will speak
from 6 to 6:30 p. m. PST, Friday
and will discuss the activities of
the Communist Party above
ground and underground and the
working of Red front groups as
well.
One official source said the
Brownell speech "might" contain
new charges about Communists in
government before the-Elsenhower
administration csme in, but that
was not certain.
At a meeting held here yester
day between a PIRC employers
committee and an IWA-CIO ne
gotiating committee, the employ
ers committee reiterated Its re
fusal to recommend cost increases.
The employers again rejected
the union demands for (1) a wage
Increase of 12' , cents per hour
across the board, (2) standardiza
tion of job names, titles,' and
pay coupled with a job analysis
and evaluation program to be paid
ior by employers, and with future
centralized union control, and (3)
a third week of vacation Twlth pay
after five years seniority.
Union Demands Rejected At
Latest Meeting With PIRC
Sack Indicted
By Grand Jury
PORTLAND I A county
grand Jury deliberated a day and
a half then indicted George P.
Sack, 5T, Friday on a charge of
slaying his wife "by placing her
in a closed trunk compartment of
an automobile whereby she was
asphyxiated.
Back has denied all knowledge
of how bis wife, Qoldie Sack, 66,
died on Feb. 16. Her body was
found Feb, 18 under a bush In the
northeast suburbs of Portland.
Sack had reported her missing the
night before.
Sack also has refused to discuss
details of his past life. But it is
known that two previous wives met
violent death in Chicago in the
1920s. The first died in an apart
ment fire. The second was shot to
death in a laxicab. .
Sack was accused of first degree
murder in the shooting but was
declared insane. He spent seven
years in an Illinois mental hospital
but was released in 1932.
Sack also was questioned about
the disappearance in Washington
State in 1939 of the man from.
whom he rented a small ranch,
The man was never found.
GOVERNOR AND MRS. PAUL PATTERSON, stopped for a
brief visit at the Mt. Laki, Community Church, enroute to
Merrill end Malin Friday morning, where they visited with
groups of supporters and friends. The tour took" them through
the farming area of the southern part of the basin. The trip
followed breakfast at the Willard Hotel attended by chairman
and co-chairman of the Klamath County Central Committee,
the Klamath County Republican Club, the Paul Patterson for
Governor Committee and Oregon legislators.
: . .. r
Governor's Visit To Basin
Ends With Dinner Speech
HANOI, Indochina W) The
defenders of Dlen Blen Phu beat
off wild new Vietinlnh attacks
Saturday. They held the Communist-led
rebels at bay a mile from
the heart of the besieged dust bowl
fortress. - .
French counterattacks, backed
by tanks and heavy artillery fire,
shattered every Vietminh mass as
sault trying to crack the key de
fenses of the fortress, where many
fighters have gone for five days
without rest
(In Paris, the French News Ag
ency said Vietminh regulars who
invaded Cambodia Friday, captur
ed two cities Voeune Sai and
Siem Pang and were heading
on tor Stung Treng, on the Me
kong River.)
A brief French communique said
repeated Vietminh attempts last
night to break through the last
ditch defenses had failed. In tidal
waves of Infantry, braving mur
derous French fire, tne commu
nist-led rebels had pushed to with'
in a mile of the fortress' center
in some places.
The outnumbered French union
garrison clung desperately to a
narrowuig paicn. oi irencnes,
bunkers and barbed wire. But they
were in grave danger. The posi
tion's outer defenses were wrecked
all its fortifications riddled by
Vietminh artillery which poured
in endlessly.
Vietminh casualties soared as
their Communist commanders
hurled a human sea of attackers
against Dlen Blen Phu, trying to
engulf It for the first major Red
victory in the Indochina War, A
French army source estimated
that the Vietminh have lost 20.000
killed or wounded since they swept
down on the fortress In mld-Marcn
The French claimed 7,000 ot those
were killed.
The French have not announced
their own losses.
(In Paris, where such informa
tion is sifted and released, officials
said the defenders of Dien Blen
Phu had suifered "heavy" losses,
but light by comparison with those
ot the enemy.)
The most serious tnreat to tne
fortress loomed in the northwestern
sector of the dust bowl plain,
where the Vietminh hold one posi
tion for launching attacks. It waa
feared a massive charge from,
there and a break through might
carry the attackers into the key
center area.
Heavy and violent Vietminh as
saults raged throughout the night.
increasing in tempo in the early
hours before dawn.
But French guns hammered
them back. The French command
said its position was substantially
the same as last night,
Governor Paul Patterson, ac
companied "by his wifet made a
brief tour"oT"the Mrflin - Merrill
area yesterday prior to making a
talk before the combined Klwanls
and Rotary clubs at? noon and a
political address last night at the
Willard Hotel attended by the pub
lic at large
A breakfast started the day off
when the governor met with Re-
Mrs. Colvell
Killed In
Road Crash
An' overturned olckuo truck.
swerving to avoid striking a cuw
on the East Langell VaUey Road
about 7:16 p.m. last night, took the
life ot Mrs. .Anna Marie (Billie)
Colwell, wife of Robert D. Col
well, Lorella. A daughter, Margar
et Ann, 18, riding with her moth- '
er, was only slightly injured.
jure, uoiweu, was witnin a mile
ot her ranch home, returning from
a shopping trip to Klamath Falls,
when the tragic accident hap.
pened. It is believed she died al
most instantly from multiple head
and cnest injuries. Her daughter
received only slight scratches on
one knee. .
She was the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. John Francis Burke Sr.,
Merrill pioneers. Her husband Is
the son of Mrs. Dan Colwell, Klam
ath Falls, and the late Mr. Colwell,
whose Barents
Klamath County were among
Klamath Coun-
5
Commissioner George Walker of
Portland, of the Federal Media
tion and Conciliation Service, pre
sided over the session. ,
STATEMENT
C. L. Irving, employer spokes
man, said: "Tnere has been no
change In the economic picture fac
ing the lumber Industry that would
cause us to agree to recommend
an Increase In labor cost. Rather,
the reverse is true. Price and real
ization indexes have continued
their steady drop. Increased costs
would Increase unemployment,
Commissioner Walker recessed
negotiations, subject to call. Indica
tions are that no meetings will be
scheduled until after the 1WA
strike vote is tallied on April 16,
IWA members have been voting
on "authorizing the Northwest Re
gional Negotiating Committee to
call a strike in the event it be
comes necessary to secure a set
tlement nf the points In negotia
tions." The voting is to be com
pleted by April-10.
MILLS INCLUDED.
In addition to Klamath Basin
Pine Mills in Klamath Falls, 14
lumber companies in southern and
central Oregon and northern and
central California are represented
by PIRC In current negotiations.
Irving said PIRO committees
had met with L&SW-AFI, commit
tees in Bend and Medford last
week. In both cases, employers re
jected the Idea of a wage Increase.
Kalpine Plywood Company, Oil-
Christ Timber Company and lum
ber companies in the Lakeview,
Central Oregon and Rogue River
Valley areas are Involved. Wage
rates are the only issue raised by
the A PL fcr area discussion.
Previously, a PIRC committee
had taken a similar position In a
meeting with the Northern Cali
fornia District Council, AFL. The
California session, held in Red
ding, slfects lumber operations in
Willow Ranch, Alturaa, Canby,
Dorris, weed and the Yreka area,
in addition to woods and sawmill
employes from the Feather River
and Sacramento Valley regions.
Geary Seeks
Speaker Post
PORTLAND Wl Rep. Ed Geary
of Klamath Falls said Friday he
will seek the office of House speak
er at the next session of tho state
Legislature. -
The- announcement was made
after Geary returned from a two
month vacation tour of New Zea
land. Earlier Geary said he would
be "available" for the post. Fri
day he said he had decided to wage
an intensive campaign for n.
State Rep. David Buum, La
Grande, also is a candidate for
the speakership Baum says he has
28 written pledges, mostly from
former members running for re
election, Thirty-one ot the 60 votes
In the House are required for election.
Tax Men Rule
On New Cuts
WASHINGTON Wi The Rev
enue Service said Saturday it is
up to the individual merchant to
decide whether to pass on to a
customer the excise tax reduction
on installment payments made
after Maroh 31.
The excise tax on "luxury"
goods such as luggage, Jewelry
and furs dropped from 20 to 10 per
cent on April 1. This was part of
a billion dollar excise reduction.
The Revenue Service informed
its field offices the new law ap
plies to installment payments
made after March 31, as well as
to new purchases. '
Asked if a mercnant must pass
any refund along to the public, the
Revenue Service spokesman said
there waa no such obligation and
that it was a matter to be settled
between the merchant and bis customer.
The spokesman pointed out that
Congress specified that sellers of
admlsson or transportation tickets
and payers ot manufacturers taxes
could get refunds only If they
showed they had made a refund
to buyers of their goods or serv
ices. . -.
publican representatives from the
Klamath County Central Commit
tee, the Republican Club and the
Patterson for Governor Commit
tee. ' Representatives Hank Semon
and Ed Geary were also present at
the meeting.
. Following the breakfast the
party left for a tour of the Mer
rill, Malin area accompanied by
Joe Klttredge and Elmer Leinler
and Wyatt Padgett.
Patterson talked briefly with
constituents at the M. A. Bowman
office In Merrill, and paused again
to discuss farm problems and out
looks with a group gathered there.
JOINT MEETING
Returning to Klamath Falls the
governor addressed a Joint meet
ing of the Klwanls and - Rotary
clubs, where he said:
"The age of the Pacific is here;
future history will be written
around the Pacific, not the Atlan
tic." The governor said that because
of this Westward trend, Oregon
must prepare itself to assimilate
the people that will eventually
come as resources of the Far East
turn populations here for a place
to live
He credited the Oregon Develop
ment Commission for its attempts
to interpret the resources of dif
ferent parts of the state in terms
of the needs of industries consid
ering locations here.
"New industry," the governor
said, "will take the peak off em
ployment In August and raise the
February low, thus providing
year-round employment."
TOURIST BUSINESS
He looks forward, he said, to an
increase in food processing and
to additional new manufacturers
from the East who will settle
close to the new markets being
provided,
Governor Patterson cited the
importance to our economy of the
tourist industry, ' but encouraged
(Continued on Page Three)
Famed Pilot
Dies In Crash
PARIS Ml A.French Jet fighter
crashed Saturday at the Mulen-
Vlllaroche Airport within 165 feet
or Duncan Sandys, Britain's min
ister of supplies, and Rene Pleven,
French defense minister.
At the controls of the plane, a
French-made Mystere IV, was the
famous test pilot Col. Constantin
Rozanoff. He was killed.
Sandys arrived in Paris Friday
to attend an air demonstration of
France's latest model Jet fighter.
Sendys and Pleven went to the
military airdrome, about 35 miles
southeast of Paris, to watch the
demonstration.
Razonoff, 49, was the first
French pilot to break through the
sound barrier in a French manu
factured Jet.
Sandys is Prime Minister Chur
chill's son-in-law. He is married
to Churchill's eldest daughter, Diana.
Rozanoff, who piloted the Mys
tere TV to a speed of approximate
ly 837 miles an hour last October,
was made a grand officer of the
French Legion of Honor in 1953.
At the opening of World War IT.
he was commanding a fighter
group. ,
He left the armed forces' in 1946
and became a civilian test pilot.
STUDENT RIOT
CAIRO, Egypt I , Police
clashed Saturday with thousands
of stone-hurling student demon'
stretors clamoring against Egypt's
revolutionary council and demand
ing the return of parliamentary
government, -
The police finally broke up the
riotous demonstration with tear
gas bombs,
March Water
Figures Told
March was a wetter month than
usual this year with a precipitation
figure of 1.25 inches as compared
to 1.15 last year and a normal
figure of 1.17, Total precipitation to
date in the stream year figure
from Oct. 1, 1953 to April 1 oi this
year was 11.86 inches as against
a normal figure for thlsperiod of
9.42.
Mean monthly temperature last
month was 37.6 degrees compared
to 38.5 for March ot last year and
an all-records figure of 39.3. High
est reading for the month was 81
degrees on March 5, and the lowest
was the 18 degree reading on the
lllh -
There were 12 clear, eight partly
cloudy and 11 cloudy days during
the month.
Reservoir storage figures show
Upper Klamath Lake with 433,400
acre feet, down 500 from last year;
(lerbcr with 73,110, down from
77.140 last year, and Clear Lake up
with 319.800 feet as compared to
aw,630 last year -
ty's first resi
dents. Mrs. Colwell
was born Octo
ber 26, 1915. She
... . . graduated from
Trafflo Fatalities Bacred Heart
For 1S54 caeray ana en
. tered nurses'
training at St. Joseph's Hospital,
San Francisco, where she served
on the staff following graduation.
She - was married in St. Augus
tine's Church, Merrill, January 31,
1MB to Robert (Bob Colwell. The
family lived on the-Dam Colwell
home ranch at Merrill tor several
years, later moved to a ranch en
the Keno highway and in 1947
bought a stock ranch at Lorella.
Mrs. Colwell was a member of
St. Francis Cabrini Cathollo
Church, Bonanra, of the altar so
ciety and of the PTA. She was
active in other youth groups, in
cluding 4-H clubs and contributed
generously of her time and ef
forts to community service. .
Surviving are her widower; one
daughter, Margaret Ann, 13; two
sons, Dan Francis, 11, and John
Donald, 9, all of Lorella; her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Burke
Sr., Merrill; four sisters. Mm, Max
(Victoria) Naylor, Tulelake; Mrs.
W. D. (Patricia) Dingier, Henley;
Mrs. Leonard (Rita) Matson and
Mrs. Patrick (Mary) Kossman,
bolh of Klamath Falls; also two
brothers, John F, Burke Jr., Tule
lake, and Tech. Sergeant, Alex
ander Burke, Westover Air Force
Base, Massachusetts, who Is flying .
home for the funeral service.
Recitation of the Holy Rosary
will be at 8 p.m., Sunday, April 4,
at O'Halr's Memorial Chapel.
Requiem mass will be Monday,
April 5, 10 a.m. from St. Francis
Cabrini Church. Final rites and In
terment in ML Calvary cemetery.
i?y I 4 'J
IN TOWN PC tMOWNG thi, momin w $Sro f
( f California.. The- uVf 4
t - ? A and Mflin Streets