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Minn o iw 'A(in(Sf5! " iff MRfR ' ' f ' . KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. . f . NlJ , M It . , .:-. Viefmiifc tfqcfc$. Stacker, r... . h 3 7 ByfcCourt i .S ill iii;ilLIlil IMIJ By FRANK JENKINS Prime ; Minister Churchill re fuses again thto morning to ask ' the United State to bait Its hydro- Ken bomb test In the Facmc. ' Just before h spoke, Clement AUee. leader of the Labor party, ' had called on him to make an Ira. ' mediate attempt to arrange a Big Three meeting with President Ei senhower and Premier Malenkov to ease world fears. AUee said the H-bomb tests menace peace. Churchill replied that U.S. e perimenta with thef hydrogen bomb have Increased the-chance of world peace rather thanY Increasing the ihnM nr wnrlri war. Nobodv loves a hydrogen bomb. but does anyone really believe that II we quit making and improving this dread weapon Russia would dult also? t ' I'm afraid that before we can . . work effectively with Russia to ward world peace we shall have to convince her that WAR DOESN'T tf PAY. So far, war has paid off tor, the Russian communists. - It is by WAR hot or cold that they have been enabled to fasten ' their grip upon a disturbingly j Jarge area of the world. I doubt If ' the communists have much faith i In their ability to compete In a 1 world at peace. c i War either hot or cold Is (their dish. 'i J Scanty moisture reports from Mhe southwestern wheat belt gave a little early strength today to the : wheat market, but failure of pre dicted exDort business to material' 1 ize removed some of the buying Incentive and the early gains soon "; melted away, t It's pretty hard to get around : supply and demand. t The potato, over the past . SO ! years oners a railiei' startling ex- ample of the close relationship i between supply and demand. , In 1924, potato acreage in the i TJ.S. was 3.1 millions, average ; Meld was 123 bushels per acre and fthe total crop was 384 million i bushels (a bushel of potatoes weighs 60 pounds.) The 1924 price averaged 69 cents per nusnei. 1 1 This low price was discouraging, land in 1926 the acreage fell to 2 8 millions, yield per acre fell to ; 105 bushels and total yield fell to . 290 million bushels. ? The .price ROSE TO $1.70 PER BUSHEL. ..! . In 1932. U.S. potato acreage was 3.5 millions, average yield was too , bushels per acre and total produc tion was an nilMfUirbushelsY The price dropped to 38 cents per bush el. i i In 1933 acreage dropped to 3 4 millions, yield per acre to 100 bushels and the total crop fell to 343 million bushels. The price rose to 82 cents per bushel more than double tne price for the year before. In 1935, the potato acreage was ; S.4 millions, average yield per acre was lot) bushels, the total crop was 378 million bushels and the average price for the year ' wns 59 cents per bushel. The next year 1936) acreage dropped to 2.9 millions, yield re mained stationary at 109 bushels per acre, but total production dropped to 323 millions. The average price rose to $1.14 , per bushel approximately double the 1935 price. . ' ' There Is the story of supply and demand. When the supply rises above demand, the price tobog : , gans. When demand rises above supply, the price soars. 1 The conclusion seems to be rea sonably clear that If potato prices (are to be supported, potato ? acreage will have to be CON STROLLED. There seems to be no middle ; ground. (Final Word On -Sears Slated Washington W The Sen ate investigations subcommittee i Monday scheduled for Tuesday a showdown meeting to determine 4 whether Samuel P. Sears will re ' main as its special counsel for the '.inquiry into the McCarthy-Army row. - 6en. Mundt (R-SD), who tern 'porarily replaced Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) as chairman of the subcommittee, told reporters "sorely there will be an announce ment of some kind" after Tues day's meeting. ; He said the purpose is to explore tbe pledges Sears ; already has given thajt he can and will be .neutral In the hearings, i The announcement followed a closed door meeting of Sears, Mundt. Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) and Sen. Symington (D-Mo) in Munrtt's office. i McCltllan and Symington de clined to eiuborate on Mundt's an nouncement. e Mundt , said Sears was before them for "Just about three min utes." ' f KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS May tail Tnr ; 44 con , 17 con fatal Wf Scm f 9751 can 10.75S cm llll-U By IARBY ALLEN ' ' HANOI, Indochina Wl The French high command announced today the' defenders of Dlen Blen Fhu bad lulled "more teas 1,000 Vietmlnh troops trying' anew to smash their way into the heart of the besieged fortress through its northwest comer. . Heavy .fighting .raged In that sector or uie piain as tne communist-led rebels battled to widen the gap against a strong French Union counterattack' supported by tanks, artillery ana war planes. Churchill Backs U.S. H-Boirib Test LONDON IB Prime Minister Churchill declared Monday the Soviet Union is "very much closer on tne heels of the united States' in the development of the H-bomb than they ever were with the A- bomb. Churchill said the H-bomb "Is now in large scale production, I believe, in the U.S. Wet also be lieve, that to a less degree, and possibly In less potent .form, it is in large 'scale production in Soviet Russia." He made the statement in a House of Commons debate in which he again refused to inter vene against American H-bomb tests in the Pacific. He said the tests " increased the chance pf world peace rather than the chance of world war." INFORMATION Armed with non-s e c u r lty H- bomb Information supplied by President Eisenhower himself, the iN-year-old Churchill told a tense, Jam-packed House of Commons "We do not - know what the So viets are doing inside their vast lands." - He said "I shall make no predic tion today,'' but added: . "The Soviets, were well behind the U.S. even before 4he American hydrogen explosion of March 1 but they were very much closer on the heels of the U.S.. in the de velopment of hydrogen bombs than they ever were in atomto nomas. Churchill took issue with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who told the Commons earlier that development of the H-bomb would not-"in itself prevent wars." Churchfll appealed against what he called "hysteria ' and said:- "I must repeat that I shall not ask the United States to stop their series of experiments which will go on throughout April." - Churchill said "nothing could be less helpful to us in our problems than panic and hysteria, especial ly when the actual physical re sults are all favorable to the free world." He declared: PROBLEMS- - "I also believe we have time, though not too much time, to con sider the problems which now con front us and the whole world and talk them over in their new pro-J portions." Churchill mentioned only what he called public and private dis cussions "with our friends and al- ' Churchill accepted in principle Laborite calls for a high level meeting with President Elsenhow er and Premier Malenkov but said ."we must see what happens" at the forthcoming Geneva confer ence, set for April 36 to discuss settlements In Korea and Indochina. The nigh command said the de fenders plugged . every breach made by the Vietmlnh In the north western defenses and the. rebels left their dead dangling in the barbed wire barricades. . Thousands of the wildly scream ing rebels drove Into French posi tions In the northwest sector short ly .after midnight. , After tank and artillery fire, the French Union Infantry clashed in bitter hand-to-hand fighting with the Vietmlnh. Within two hours the counterattack had clo.sed the breach and had driven, the Viet mlnh back. Every message that reached the French command in Hanoi' from the.fortreas commander,. Col. Christian de - Castries, recounted that his , men's morale was "sky high" and that hopes of an even tual victory were mounting. : French squadrons roared over the masses of rebel troops through out the night and -early today, plas tering them with 1,000 -pound bombs and fresh barrages of lire bombs. V- There was no mention of any attacks by the Communlst-led le gions in other areas around the beleaguered plain. The rebels last night pulled their forces a quarter of a mile back from the heavily assailed eastern and southeastern defenses of the French-held plain 175 miles west of Hanoi. A French spokesman aatd then he doubted the Vietmlnh could mount another heavy assault with in 12 hours but emphasized the at tackers' pullback of 400 to 600 yards could in no way be called a retreat. ' . ".' "It's merely a slackening of their line, probably for - regroup ing. The battle Is far from, over," the spokesman added. Today was -the sixth day of steady attack by the Vietmlnh in a renewal of the Infantry assaults first launched at the fortress March 13, then broken off three days later. Authoritative French sources es timated the Vietmlnh had lost 21,000 killed and wounded about halt their original' attacking force In three weeks. But the fortress' defenders French, Vietnamese,, North Africans, Foreign Legion naires and Thai tribesmen were still outnumbered. The French kept up their airlift of parachute supplies and rein, forcements to the garrison. They planned to land hospital planes marked with red crosses about noon today in an effort to transfer wounded from Dlen Blen Phu to Hanoi. The plans for the mercy flights were broadcast to the enemy. Neutral observers and watch from a plane circling' over head. The Vietmlnh - hit yesterday at the northwest and southeast de fenses and for the first time at the southwest sector of the fortress. " The French said again the rebel charges were met with withering fire and repeated counterattacks. At one point on the southwest the defenders counted 200 Vietmlnh dead, their bodies hanging from the still-holding barbed wire de fenses. The French also announced that the Vietmlnh Invaders Into the kingdom of Cambodia had taken the town of Voeune Sai, 30 miles inside the border. . SPIES ARRESTED SEOUL in South Korea's army counterintelligence corps said to day 28 Communist spies have been arrested in the past two months -0 of them in one espionage ring. The announcements did not report meir fate. District Attorney Frank , Aider- son came under fire from mem bers of the County Court Monday who said they are considering the possibility of employing a special prosecutor to handle . criminal cases In Circuit Court. Two members of the court, Judge U.' E. Reeder and E. W. Gowen, told the Herald and News Monday that a "deplorable situa tion" has developed as far as pros ecution of crimes is concerned In Klamath County. ; . ; "The County . Court Is . gravely concerned over the apparent in ability of the district attorney to efficiently prosecute criminal cases," they said, Ooven also said the situation was last discussed Friday.' He said there is no attorney known to the court who would consider the job of special prosecutor for less than $600 a month.. ";' -: "We had a line on one lawyer who has experience in a district attorney's office," Oowen added, 'but he wouldn't take the- job as i subordinate to Alderson. He wanted to be boss." Records in the office of Circuit Court Clerk Charles DeLap show that In the past three - months among the cases scheduled - for trial, three were dismissed, four resulted in not guilty verdicts and one defendant was found guilty. During that period $2,757.94 was paid to Circuit Court jurors a&d witnesses. When questioned concerning criticism leveled at him. Alder son said he had "no comment." He added he may make a state ment later., Monday morning Alderson was engaged In another circuit Court legal battle. The Indictment against Rayf ord C. Martin and Edward Norman Corrlgan, charged with a burlgary at' the Lost River Tavern la Merrill, was attacked as illegal by Defense At torney F..,K.- Puckett andGeorge proctor. The defense lawyers told the court that the Indictment does not set forth sufficient facts to constitute a crime under the law of Oregon.' They moved for dis missal of the Indictment shortly after Alderson called his first wit ness in the trial, Kenneth C. Kllno er oi Merrill, proprietor of the Lost River Tavern. Judge David R. Vandenbenr ex cused the Jury to near arguments by opposing counsel. It was ex pected he would rule on the dis missal motion later In the day. NATIONWIDE FAME cam to the "What Fours," Klamath Fll$ SPEBSOSA quartet, pictured during 1953 in an' issue of the Saturday Evening Pott. Thil It the same mouitachad lour. They will vocalize in support of the show at the pelican Theater, April 10 and will sing at the Invited, tional "Afterglow," at the Willard Hotel, when Klamath Falls is host to visiting quartets. Left; to right, Mart Ferebee, Banny Loftsgaard, Johnny Houston and Onay Ftudd. - SPEBSQSA Song Fest Saturday Pasco Acreage To Be Awarded WASHINGTON UP) Ninety-one farm units, composed of 7,600 lr rlgables acres, some 15 miles north of Pasco in the Columbia River .Basin Sunday were an. nounced as being for sale by the Bureau of Reclamation. Veterans who served between September 1040 and July 1962 will have preference - for the farm units, which range In size from 43 to 135 acres and in , cost from $1,205 to $8,684. The Bureau said a 46-day filing period for applications will start Monday, with applications to be submitted to its Ephrata office. T WV if 1 'A "AM a-. :'r J rrr.-:.,li.ita.ai-.'3S.i,'iii.i.B full HtlNCI DW. owned by Dale Wast, Merrill, was named grand champion of tho Aberdeen Angus Show held at tho fairgrounds Sunday Handling the bull 1$ Ira Saudart. On tho loft it Yon Robbins, who judged the animals. . .:' It's conna be a hot-cha night when tho song birds of the west coast gather at the Pelican Theater for "that musical round. up," the ' seventh annual get-to gether of quartets of the Society for . the Preservation and En couragement of Barber Shop Sing ing in America and the Minstrel- Ade, at the Pelican Theater, Sat urday, April 10. ; This year's show, will bring black face comedy to the audience for the first- time, according U John H, Houston, show director, with some of the best end-men In the Klamath country to build up tne crescendo oi gags and musi cal numbers, i The show will be one of the most ' colorful - ever attempted. Houston said, and numbers will bring In new voices, new faces, new acts, ; -.Fght -quartets" are scheduled to appear. Some have been-favorites in past years. Some are new to SPEBSQSA audiences, - Benny Loftsgaard and John Houston, will direct the big chorus numbers. . Designed to keep the audience in stitches, the repertoire of the blackface supporters will Include the "Daratown Strutter's Ball, number. New local talent slated for this number Includes the Schults sisters, Barbara, Mary and Joan, Ty and Karen Keller and the Tulealres, all of Tulelake. End men In the Mlnstrel-Ade will be Slim Perkins, "Smiley" Durant, Jed Murphy, "Mose" Murphy, Louis Stewart, "Llght- nln' " Rudd, Dave Carmen and "Deacon" Shepherd. Darkface so loists will be Carl Hagel, baritone and Sherman Carter, bass. Dr. Harry Fredrlcks is "Mr, In terlocutor." A few good balcony seats are still available at Derby's Music Store. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; Partly clndy Monday night and Tuesday. High, Tuesday sa. low Monday night 16. ' . High yeilerdky ,,,,,..,,., ... .. M Low last night .......... .M Precis last 24 hears .... Since Ool. 1 !.$ Same period last year 11.66 Normal for period .-.J.54 S.F. Agents Ike's Speech Plans Told WASHINGTON HI President Eisenhower will address the na tion Monday night, and was re ported prepared to "clarify" ques tions raised at home and abroad by disclosures of the awesome power of the hydrogen bomb. The . President discussed his speech, to be carried at 6:30 p. m., PST, by major radio and TV networks. In a forenoon confer ence with congressional leaders, Afterward, Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate Republican leader, told reporters! , 'The' President will dwell on the concerns that various people have over developments in the world including the hydrogen bomb. "The speech will certainly clari. fy some of the questions that are in people's mind at home and abroad." The White House Indicated the President will expand on hli March IT news conference ' re. marks about "fears" from without and within and calling for renewed 'initn in tne destiny of America," Elsenhower said then "the world is suffering from a multiplicity of fears" Including the men In the Kremlin, "what unwise investiga tors win do to us here at home" and the possibility of depression. KLAMATH BROADCAST The president's speech on Inter national and domestlo problems will be broadcast by KFLW over the CBS Network tonight from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Dial 1450 on your radio. Merrill Stockman Winner Of Aberdeen Angus Awards Grand and reserve champion awards, four blue ribbons and two red ribbons were won by eight animals from the Dale West Block Angus herd Sunday, at the Aber deen Angus Show at the fair grounds. Pure Prince DW, was named grand champion bull by Judge Von Rohbins, Hansen, Idaho, and Zara mer DW carried off reserve cham pion honors. Both bulls were en tered by. the Merrill stockman. In the female class, Waugaman Erica 40, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blagglnl, of the San Jeronimo Ranch, Cayucos, California, was named grand champion -and Miss Blackbird J of HR, consigned by Harold aad Oda Rankin, Her mis ton, Oregon, won reserve cham pion honors. A small crowd attended the judging Sunday in a steady drizzle of rain that broke into heavy show ers Intermittently, and on one oc casion sent' handlers under cover at the edge of the show ring to avoid af drenching; ' Blue and red ribbon award win ners in the senior yeartlng bull class went, to B. Elleenmere of 8V, consigned by Carl 8. Ham mond, EUia, California and Ban dolier Prince JF, owned by J. F. Oulick and Sons, Buhl. Idaho. In the Junior yearling bull class, blue ribbon winner was Lucky Earl of Lazy F, consigned by Dr. Frank A. Freeburger, Medford, and the red ribbon award went to Jeronimo Protector L7, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blagglni, Cayucos, California. Dale West's Reserve Champion Zaramar DW, was also the blue ribbon winner In the summer yearling bull class and the red ribbon went to Meadowland Eston 28, shown by Meadowmere Farms, Deer Park, Washington. Orand champion bull. Pure Prince DW. alone In his class aa senior bull calf, added another rue xiddod to me Daia west win ners, Another award went to the Blag glnl's of tho San Jeronimo Ranch, when their Orand Champion Waugaman Erica 40, took the blue ribbon award In the Junior year ling female class. Second place red ribbon in this class waa won by Belle 3 of Laty F, consigned by Dr. Freeburger, Medford. - Two of Dale West's heifers won the summer yearling female awards when Blackcap Empress DW, won the blue ribbon and Ethelda Erica DW, carried off the red ribbon. In the senior heifer calf divi sion, entries by Fentress and Mary Kuhn, Boise, won both places when Green Pastures Margie Baby, was awarded the blue rib bon and Orecn Pastures Blackcap, captured the red ribbon. Reserve champion female. Miss Blackbird J of HR, consigned by the Ranklns from Hermlston, also won the blue ribbon In her class ss a Junior heifer calf, and another Dsle West entry, Barbara DW 8, took the second place red ribbon award. . . In the last class Judged, Dale West's Blackcap DW 6, took first place In the summer Junior heifer cslf clsss and the red ribbon went to Black Bessie of FV 4, owned by Morris Doty, Cassel, Cslfomia. t Sunday was the opening day of the two day regional show . and sale, sponsored by . the Pacific Coast Aberdeen Angus Associa tion. Sale time wss set for 1 p.m. Monday, when 17 -bulls and 41 females re auctioned off by Charles Adams,. California auc tioneer. . ; At S in Sunday evening a social hour was held at the Willard Ho tel for stockmen and their guests, followed by banquet at 7:10. Breakfast for the MUas was hw the Yacht CI o snorn lng and waa well ettv vis itors and wrvee of H& Seize Huge Dope Cache WA8HINOTON tfl Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Ansluurer announced Monday the seizure In can Francisco of "muuons of dol lars" worth of heroin which ha said was smuggled In from Com munist China. . Eight persons were arrested in the raid Sunday. - ine commissioner said the illicit, neroin seized wsa brought to the United States for. the most part by merchant seamen who got It at a gamming emporium operated in Hong- Kong by a man Ansllnger names aa Judah Isaac Ezra, 62. nnsiuiger aaia in an announce ment from bis headquarters at the Treasury here that Ezra waa for. meny "a large trafficker In nar cotics on- the West Coast." and that he-had been sentenced in IBM to It years in- prison lor a nar cotics violation, . . ... , . Arulinger said Ezra was" deport ea at ine eca or ma prison term. He said it was expected that Ez ra will be prosecuted In San Fran cisco. Ansllnger did not say whether Ezra had been arrested yet. Treas ury aides said sn indictment against Ezra would be sought at nan rrancisco and that It was ex pected he would be returned ta uus country through extradition proceedings. - Ansllnger said federal narcoUca agents nad seized, or purchased as evidence, six pounds of nure heroin "worth millions of dollar. in tne illicit narcotics market." He said "the source of the her oin was . . . Communist China." Ansllnger gave this account of how the heroin was brought to the united states: Merchant seamen who fre quented Ezra's establishment, a combined hotel-restaurant - dance hall-gambling emporium, obtained the heroin from Ezra and smug gled It Into the United States for the narcotics dealers taken in the raid Sunday, In most Instances the heroin was brought Into the country concealed on the persons of seamen. Ornately carved Ori ental camphor wood' chests with specially built compartments were also used, . . One of the dealers arrested In San Francisco operated a florist shop and made bis deliveries of heroin disguised as boxes of flow ers. - WASHINGTON (A Seentar ' of State Dulles told Congress Men aay mat the Chinese Communlata ' are "coming awful close' In h dochina to the direct aggression which he has said might produce massive retaliation. ' ' Dulles made this statement ha fore a House Foreign Affairs Com -mlttee after' saying freshhr vert. ' fled information showed that new Communist rid a r-cont rolled XI millimeter - antl-a lroraft guns, which are bringing down French planes over Dlen Blen Phu are operated by members of the Chi nese military establishment"" . Tne secretary, . testifying- on next . year's foreign aid program, also 1 said a Chinese general with "near y a .score of Chinese technical advisers," la stationed ' at staff ' headquarters of Vietmlnh forces attacking the French fortress. ' "If the Chinese -Communists ar firing antlalroraft guns doesn't tnat mean the 'active participa tion" you were reported to have : said would bring retaliation on the Chinese mainland?" Dulles replied that if the quea Hon referred to a speech be made In St, Louis last Sept, 2 "I said that If the Chinese sent their Red armies into Indochina it would be. apt to produce action which rrugW not bo confined to Indochina, - "Technically they have not dona ', precisely tho thing I defined. "They're coming awful close to ''- . -., ... . Dulles earlier had said the Chi nese Communists are "not open ly, blatantly committing new aa gresston" In Indochina, "but they re only saving themselves from that charges by technicalities." Ha called the things they are doing "rather BRunous." The secretary added that the Chinese Communist "claim they are not aggressors because Ha Chl-Mlnh (tho Moscow trained reb el leader) is a patriot seeking In dependence from the French" and they are helping him. CKTNE8E GENERAL "They said the same thing re gardlng Korea," , he coinmeiittd. uuues named tne Ctunea gen oral at Vietmlnh headquarters a Ly Chen-Hou. : . , , - Reciting Information' that bo said had been verified Just betore he came to the capital, Dulles said "a considerable .number tf If , tnUIlmotfir radar-eon trolled' anil aircraft guna which ''are ataottnf through the clouds to bring down French planes are operated by members of the Chinese military establishment." . - - , s . This waa the first official state ment that Chinese Communist are taking combat role ta the bitter Indochina struggle." Answering questions by .Rep. Bolton (R-Ohlo), after he conclud ed formal testimony on nest year's foreign aid blU, Dulles also said: "Numerous other" Chinese Com munist technical advisers are operating at division level with tba Vietmlnh forces. , Approximately 1,000 trucks are "all driven by Chinese army per sonnel" and about half of them have come across the border from Red China since March 1, -. , FREE NATIONS URGED Earlier Dulles urged free world nations to rally behind the French union defenders in Indochina to teach Communists they cannot smash freedom by "massive, sui cidal assaults." . . The need of the hour Is soli darity on the part of the free world," he said, "and notably on the part of all those nations which have a direct and vital stake In . the freedom of the area. "The governments of France and of the associated states ought not to feel that they stand apart In an hour of supreme trial." His plea was aimed at a Dud- get-slftshmg Congress growing ob viously Impatient with some Eu ropean allies. i fttrmS ANOTHER TICKET this BwmirtO motorist was city traffic patrolmga; IV '
