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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1954)
Ml Ul Jl o)-; n rr I i !lj 1 ZJU U AJU In The' Indodiino Aid Cited Day's News . ' n rBAKK JKNKTNH t 8U11 aboard the Zephyr. The ten sion described In yesterday's In .. etallment of this series has relaxed. The Pullman conductor turned In with a, will and by mid-afternoon had everything straightened out. For those of us who were due to miss Pullman and hotel reserva tions because of late arrival In Chicago he sent sheafs of telegram's and in due course of time he had us all fixed up. To the Europe-bound delegation . who were crying gently but poig nantly Into their handkerchiefs be cause of the seeming certainty that they would miss their boat connec tions in New York he suggested that 4hey take a plane from Chicago which cleared the black clouds off . their horizon and left the bright sun, 01 nope sraning again. It's truly wonderful what a little thoughtfulness and courtesy and ' good old resourceful thinking and hard work can do in the way of solving mankind's problems. . To top it all off.' the railroad an nounced along about 4 p.m that dinner for everybody would be on the house. It seems that the Route of the Zephyrs which Is Western S Pacilio from San Francisco to Salt Lake City. Rio Grande Western1 fiom Salt Lake City to Denver and Burlington from Denver to Chicago has a deal somewhat akin to that of the hotel keeper at Yuma who . used to give everything free to the guests on every day that the sun failed to shine. Whenever the Zeph yr Is more than six hours late into Chicago the passengers get free meals on the company. It'a amazing what a free mcU, plus the Ironing out of all reserva tion trouble's WW 00 ror a gang 01 people who lor several hours have been low in their minds. We rolled into Chicago gayer than larks. If the trip had been an hour longer, we'd have been doing choral sing ing in the observation lounge. Incidentally, the California Zeph yr has a system of dining car feed ing that works like a charm. Come lour o'clock In the afternoon, the stewardess starts the rounds of the tram. She carries a pack of cards of different colors. There are so many cards of each color. To each passenger she gives a cnoice 01 am ner hour, starting at 6 p.m. and running to 8 p.m. Each card car ries a' specific table reservation. The net result la that you go to the dining car at the hour shown by your card and Instead of Waiting in line until everybody is grumpy and upset and to a foul humor generally you walk in and are seated without delay ana every thing goes as merry as a marriage bell. It's another example of what thinking and planning and organiz ing can ao. Out of this little Zephyr world of thinking and planning and Intelli gent organisation you plunge sud denly into the maelstrom-of con fusion and NON-planning that is known ea the Chicago transfer sys tem. For years I've been trying to find out how many terminal rail stations there. are in Chicago. No matter how many questions you ask you get a different answer each time. The answer that counts is that there are TOO MANY. It's a mess, no matter from what angle you tackle it. I'll give you an example. Coming into Chicago on the Burlington and going on east by the B.&O., you tip your porter on the liberal side, knowing that he can check your baggage clear out to the taxi stand or the transfer concern. Arriving ' there, you shed a dollar or more to the redcap, who gets a taxi for you or delivers your oaggage to the transfer outfit. Your taxi or the transfer llm ouslne then hauls you around three sides of the building contain ing the Union station and unloads -you at the B.&O. station. Where upon you collar another redcap and ' give him another buck or so to wangle your baggage through the f station ahd deliver It to the porter ' cm your car. Even Chicago, they say is com lng to its senses and is considering V the spending of some squillions of dollars to build a union station that .' people can get Into and get out of without going nuts. Vandenberg Eyed For Post Circuit Judge David R. Vanden berg ol Klamath Falls is one of .' the Oregon jurists under consider ation as a successor to United States District Judge. James Alger Fee of Portland; who has been ele . vated to the federal court of ep- . Deals in San Francisco. It was reported Monday that Judge Vandenberg Is the choice of group of Republican leadera who cited his 13-year record as a cir- .. cult Judge as ou t t and I n g in Judge Vandenberg refused to comment on the report that he Is under consideration for the federal , Judgeship. ? "Of course I would like very much to sit on the federal bench," i be said. "But I am not conducting :,' My campaign for the post." ' - Also under consideration for the Price Five Cents 14 Pages 0 Gales Hamper Search Crew JUNEATJ, Alaska Wl A Coast Guard landing party reported Sun day night the finding of only an empty lifeboat and p 1 e c e s of wreckage In its search ashore for possible survivors of the Canadian tugboat Chelan. The 148-foot tug, which carried a Canadian crew of 14, sank in a storm Thursday night ISO miles south of here. A lone body was found afloat Saturday In the cold waters of the Inland Passage near the entrance to Port Malmesbury. The body of the unidentified man was taken to Ketchikan. . The body was found by a fish ing boat about 15 miles from the sinking scene. Gales which whipped up 12-foot seas handicapped the searchers over the weekend. Snow hampered the search ashore. Because of the stormy eondl' tlons, the ground party had to go ashore several miles away and hike to the abandoned lifeboat on the beach near Cape Decision. - The big tug sank about four miles off the cape, at the entrance to Sumner Strait, after sending an SOS and an ominous one-word message: "Sinking." The cause has remained a mystery. The Vancouver tug was towing a 240-foot barge with a cargo of ore from the Yukon. The barge also was lost. The Chelan was towing It from Skagway to Vancouver.' r Wl 4 iff 5) 1 TALKING OVER EASTER SUNDAY happening, thii morning at the 9 o'clock photographer mapped them were William Sakach and Charles Ziegler; photographed et Kernel Auto Repair, Oregon Avenue end Biehn KLAMATH 7 ALLS. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL II, 154 'Unscrupulous Promoters' Blamed For Housing Abuses WASHINGTON Wl Guy T. O. Hollyday, ousted commissioner of the Federal Housing Administra tion, testified Monday he knew when he took office a year ago (Hit, "unscrupulous promoters' were active in -the home, repair toan field andTud- Wed -to stopjiwo, when liberal FHA mortgage their "abuses He told investigating senators he put through new regulations, effective last Dec. 1, and was sat isfied they "would go a long way toward preventing improper prac tices." Hollyday was the first witness at an inquiry by the Senate Bank ing Committee into reports of multl-mllllon dollar swindles in the government's housing program- When the committee convened. its first act was a unanimous vote to issue a subpoena to compel Clyde L. Powell, former assistant FHA commissioner in charge of rental housing, to testify at its inquiry. Chairman Capehart (R-Ind) an nounced that Powell had notified him, - 35 minutes before, that he would "prefer not to appear with out a subpoena." Powell resigned his FHA post on April, s, effective as of April 16. The resignation was accepted, but one week later the disclosures of profiteering and "fleecing" of home owners came to light. Housing and Home Finance Ad ministrator Albert M. Cole prom ptly ordered that acceptance of r the resignation be rescinded. This was dons over Powell's vehement protest. . The Questioning of Powell was expected to center on alleged vwinuiaiiB" wnich went to promo ters of apartment .bousev prlox to. insurance was grsncea co encour- age the building of large, multl family apartments for "middle In come" tenants. In 251 cases, Cole has said, the FHA appraisal was so much high er thRn the actual cost of , con struction that the promoters were able to pocket sums totaling 75 million dollars. .. ., As an aid to the Inquiry. Pres ident Eisenhower signed an order at Augusta, Ga., Monday permit ting the Banking Committee to ex amine income tax returns. By law. the Treasury Department must keep mcome tax returns secret, even from congressional investi gators, unless authorized by the President to disclose them. (Earlier story on page 2) Dickenson Trial Starts WASHINGTON Ht Cpl. Ed ward 8. Dickenson went on trim Monday at a precedent-making court martial at which he was ac cused of informing on his fellow prisoners of war while a captive in Korea. Dickenson, a short, dark youth of 23, glanced somewhat timidly at the nine officers on the court panel as the court proceeding got underway in a small, maroon-car peted courtroom at Ft. McNalr. Dlckenson'a Driae oi i n r e e months was among a score of spectators. The trial got underway siowiy as Col. Ouv Emery, a retired Ar my officer representing the Crack er's Neck, Vs., corporal, put the members of the court through rig orous questioning, as a possible preliminary to challenging them as fit members of a trial court. The key a u e s 1 1 o n raised by Emery was whether the - court members believed that under Communist pressure, a soldier could be held to blame for divulg ing more than his name, rank and serial number, as provided by mil itary law. 1 Col. C. Robert Bard, the pros ecutor, objected to this question on the ground that It was arguing the merits of the case. The court permitted the questions to be ans wered. Lt. Andreas J. Mollcr. who cited past history on the question of duress of prisoners, was removed from the court on a peremptory challenge by Emery. The attorney drew from two oi the court members a statement that if duress of Dickenson is proved and Is established legally as a proper defense, they would find nun not guilty. ' DirMMY DAYTONA BEACH. Fla. M Someone stole the torso of a stuffed dummy with a wooden head, William Flanlgan reported to police yesterday. The dummy war. part of a mechanical carnival game operated by a beach con cession. No. Ml 'if Swim Classes Have Openings Registrations are coming in rap idly for the beginning swimming classes to be held at ' Klamath union High School nataforlum, but there are still openings, according to Bob Boaney, iry para? and rec reatlon director. ., Interested persons should contact the Recreation Department at the city hall for registration for the classes, which will open April 20, sponsored by the Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, YMCA, American Red Cross, schools and recreation department. The classes are for nri-school am children who are at least three feet, eight inches tall, able to dress and undress themselves and who will accept supervision in the absence of their parents; and for elementary scnooi cnnaren in the first, second ana uura graae. Classes for adults have also been planned. Men will swim on the nights coinciding with swim class es for boys (each Tuesday and Thursday from April 27 through dune women win swim on the nights coinciding with swim classes for girls (each Monday and Wed nesday, April 26 through May 26). The fee per person for all Is 11.00 for ten classes, payable in advance at the Recreation Depart ment office at the City Hall. Class es are limited to 30 registrations per session, and there are four ses sions each night. Instructors will be supervised by Ella Redkey for the girls: Charlie Santo and Martin Lougee for the ooys. Easter Egg Hunt Held An estimated 2.000 to 2.500 chil dren took part in the filth annual 20-30 Club Easter egg hunt Sunday afternoon at Moore Park, and an estimated 2,000 spectators swelled the ranks. First prize winners were Peggy Lou Esllck in the girls' division and David Gillespie in the boys' divi sion, Peggy Lou's prize was a large piusn elephant; David's a wheel barrow (Junior size) full of candy. They are the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald O. Esllck, 626 McCourt Street, Pelican City, and the son of Mr, and Mrs. Lou Gillespie, 2020 Reclamation. Peggy Lou Is three years old; David Is two. Mllo Lepley was chairman of the Eggs were donntcd by the fol lowing Klamath Falls merchants, Oregon Food Stores. Louie's Oroc- ery, Roy Gooding Poultry Farm, Plggly Wiggly Store, Emll's, Big Y Market, Buy Low Food Center, Griggs' Superior Foods. Klamath Fans Creamery, Boo s Union Station, Polar Bear lee Cream, Monarch Tire Service, John Fernandez, Car-Ad-Co Company, El dorado Lumber Company, Elllngson Lumber Company, Klamath Basin Pine Mills, Klamath Lake Mould ing. Metier Brothers. Snangler Lum ber Company, Mcdo-Land cream ery, Safeway Stores. Prises were donated by Shaw's Satationery, Underwood's Camera Shop, Payleas Drugs. McConkey s Drugs, Bates Candy -Co.. Pioneer Tobacco, Telephone glli BT" T - 1 THE WATER STARTED FLOWING in th. main c.ne!. at 7 o'clock this morning when the gatet were opened to itart the ' spring season. More low will be sent down from "the dam, located near the Fremont, bridge, at all canal wo.k i com pleted. Mn. Ivan Boley aided by ion Scotti was en hand to do the neeeiiary lever turning. : ' '' Desperate French Face Dig Odds Before HANOI, Indochina Ml The French fought furiously Monday to hold back Vietmlnh assault troops stabbing toward the center of Dlen Blen Phu's fortifications from the northwest. The rebels were In a newlv menacing position after weekend fighting widened their break 1 in the northwestern Tim of the fortress- defense system. They cap tured a second outpost Sunday and filtered back Sunday night Into trenches on the main Dlen Blen Phu airstrip. vietmlnh pressure also was re ported Increasing against the southernmost strongpoint of the French-held plain. .Bayonet-wielding French Infantry. FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity! Fair Monday night and Tuesday. Low Monday night 25 high Tuesday 64. High yesterday .. 66 Low last night J. 34 Preclp In last 24 hours 6 Since Oct. 1 ....12.5J Same period last year 11.75 Normal for period 0.V5 BASEBALL SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 000 000 0011 5 2 Boston 000 200 OOx 3 8 2 Byrd, Gorman (7) and Berra: Nixon, Kinder . (9) and Owen, White (0). A 119 CROWD turned our fer Moor Parle. The WMttr" ' Dien Bien Phu men had driven the Vietmlnh from air field entrenchments for a tew hours Sunday. But the latest in filtration reestablished their foot hold in the shadow of the French headquarters bunkers, Just 600 yards away.. j. A terse . French itrmv commun ique said heavy . lighting in the sector still-raged Monday. French tanks and' artillery blasted at the Vietmlnh troops taking cover in trenches running across the north ern part of the airstrip. French Union troops charged , them In hand-to-hand encounters. French . armv spokesmen said thus far there had been "losses on both sides: An army spokesman, said the Vietmlnh. still . In the ' alrstiin trenches "were not in , consider ftble UrengUiM' iut they -were bitterly resisting attempts to dis lodge uiem. The spokesmen added that the French were continuing to bolster their defense barricades' in the northwestern corner of the fort ress and also those In the north eastern sector. French Union patrols moving outside their barbed wire barri cades on the eastern fringes of the fortress reported light clashes with the Vietmlnh. They said they found 80 Viet mlnh apparently killed by French Air attacks or artillery bombard ments. American civilian pilots operat ing Flying Boxcars dropped tons more ammunition, and war ma teriel into the fortress. the 20-30 tpontoi'ed children'! 5j,d wltK filet tunny dy ; , InSpscd) NEW YORK m Henry CUM Lodge Jr., U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Monday Be -China Is giving substantial aid to aggression In Indochina aad that -v ft is "unfit" to join the United Nations. . He gave' 10 reasons why " the -United states would resist any ef forts of the Chinese Communists to "bribe" their way Into the UJ. with promises of future good be havior, ... - His statement delivered at The j Aasoclated Press annual lrmchaon, --jr-significantly came only a week be- f fore the opening of the Geneva ' conference. . Red China will send representatives to the conference to discuss a Korean War settle- -menu t 'v "I can promise yon that the United States will steadfastly re sist au maneuvers by Vae Chinese i Communist regime and Its advo' ' cates to bribe. Its way Into the United Nations' on mere liinnlm of good behavior In the future." he said in a' prepared address, - In his 10-polnt Indictment of Red China, Lodge . said "It continues to support aggression fat Indoofaine, furnishing advisers and technicians to the Vietmlnh forces.'' This was Lodge's only reference i Indochina In his prepared text. Vice President Richard M, Nix- , ' on . stirred up a controversy last week by saying It might become necessary eventually to e B d American, troops to flaht m ado- china. .., ;.'.;v'-'s!":,-:'-'' . " The other-nine points 1 edge made against Red China were that: . ' " ," '..,. .: It opposed the purposes end principles of - the United atkn. it was an aggressor m ' Korea. It occupied "defenseless Tibet" It sponsors guerrilla, and sub-' verslva movements in Malay and throughout Boutheast Asia- 1 It committed urocitiea against American and other fighting to, Korea. -'...-j , It.stffl holds 39 American crril- lans "under barbarous coixii atone without cublished ch antes.' It "wilfully fabricated and ntra- llclzed false evidence- of enurioaai germ warfare charge' In a bate' campaign to blacken unrtee) States. It executed "millions of its eao tiva subjects, and forced other nuU Uoo into slaaIsfcpr.fV-' it "even stoops to an. ttiUraa tlonal extortion racket in squeal ing millions of dollars from over seas Chinese who try to buy. safety and protection for their relatives) at home." . KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS Sblfp-S . "Tar . Sum tl laillii 34 can': 10 Ttal Of lim 10,331 con 10,922 Eeitet Sunder f ' ' v federal district court appointment Is Circuit Judge Ralph M. Bolman f Oregon City. ' - I t '
