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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1954)
.TUESDAY. ' APRIL 20. 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THRTS N '!'" 11 i 11 0 :0 ;P o n L t :) U 1 D S Defenders Aided By Air Drops HAftoi, Indochina lid The thousands of valiant delenders of Uien Bien Phu-tranm-ri hv mrr. chug hosts of Communist - led Viet Jmiih troops received Iresh irength Irom the skies today. American-supplied Dakotas and lying Boxcars, piloted by Ameri can civilian livers. awcoDed low through curtains of fire from rebel artillery and antiaircraft. hntterieR to parachute tons more ammuni tion, food and war material of all types into the long besieged rrench Union bastion. . Despite cloudv. rain-laden skie: which forced war planes to curtail radically their assaults on rebel positions, fighters firing rockets and heavy machine euns tried to knock out the Vietminh's antlalr- crnlt Runs. They cave cover to the low-flvlna transports dropping more supplies for the garrison, battered by two all-out rebel assaults since March 13 and constant local Vietminh at tacks In the intervening weeks. Constantly pressing In on the Y shaped French chain of defense. the legions of Communist Ho Chi Minh by today had ringed the shrunken fortifications with trenches and dugouts 1,000 yards or less from the fortress' main barriers. . c tJThe rebels over the weekend cap tured two more French outposts on the northern arms of the "Y" to further ring in the garrison. The French Union defenders fought back with renewed fury in their never-ending effort to deny the Vietminh a motor victory be fore the big powers meet next Monday to talk about peace in Asia. There was little fresh word from the fortress 115 mile west of Han oi today. The French high com mand said only that the situation last night was "relatively calm." . Burmese Capture Rebel Outpost RANGOON, Burma (fl The Burmese, army announced today It had captured a key stronghold commanding a supply route Into southern Thailand from Karen reb els and their Chinese Guerrilla al lies. The army said troops operating in the southern Tenasserim coastal strip had seized the town of Myaw adi as part of a drive launched early in April to clear the area' of the rebel tribesmen and the Chines?.' . : . '.sin i siftfy? Pacific Coast Rail Rates Sub SALT LAKE CITY Wl Shippers third higher than they would be if PEGGY LOU ESLICK, 3, first priie winner in the fifth annuel 20-30 Club Easter egg. hunt, elaimt her award from Milo Lepley, right, chairman of the event, while daddy, Gerald G. Es lick, center, stands by to help carry the load. Boys' division winner was David Gillespie, .2. year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Gillespie. i .- ' i Pock-Marked Windshields Still Baffle Authorities and utilities commissioners Tues day were expected to continue their assault on railroad Irelght rales which they claim discrim inate against Uie west and hinder Its development. : They were to testify at the sec ond day of an Interstate Com merce Commission hearing which opened Monday. Railroad representatives were present and cross-examined wit nesses, but thev said they do not plan to Introduce direct testimony until the hearings move to unicago alter other sessions at Los An' srelcs. San Franciisco and Seattle . Witnesses as the hearings opened contended that rail rates to and from the Mountain-Pacific territory, embracing all of eight Western states and parts of three others, are .-, aimroxlmately one- recent reductions had applied equally to the entire nation. The hearings are the result of the freight rate reductions ordered several years ago by the ICC which did not affect the Western sections. Railroads have filed a proposed now schedule which they say would restore charges to the approxi mate relationship that existed prior -tc the reduction without change to the Mountain-Pacific area, . Most of the testimony Monday concentrated on the thesis that the lutes which shippers In the Far West must pay are not compar able with those charged elsewhere. ' Robert Crandall, rate clerk of the Utah Public Service Commls- sion, presented figures comparing ject Of CC Hearings the effect s of the proposed rate tt.U per hundred pound, uncef VANCOUVER, B.C. 11 The! case of the pock-marked wind shields Is continuing to baffle Ca nadian motorists and scientists alike. As reports of the mysterious windshield blemishes spread from British Columbia to Alberta and leapfrogged Into Ontario, the B.C. attorney-general's department was reported preparing to throw the full scientific weight of the B.C. research council into the mystery first reported m the Pacific North west United States three weeks ago. Adding to the mystery, described by Police Chief Walter Mulligan of Vancouver as "95 per cent mass hyjterla,": was the sudden shat tering of two pairs of eyeglasses in Vancouver Monday. Chief Mulligan's hysteria theory was supported by Dr. Gordon Shrum, head of tile University of British Columbia's physics depart ment who examined samples of windshield dust turned over to him by Vancouver police for testing. Dr. Shrum said he could fine no trace of radio-activity and no trace of anything else one would not regularly expect to f lnd In scrap ings taken from a windshield. How ever, he had no comment for pub lication when, later In the day he found the tiny pits all over the windshield of his own late-model automobile. Chief Mulligan said it was his belief "that mass hysteria is play ing a big part In all these rumors.' He added: This is the time of year , when dust, sand and bits of gravel be gin to be thrown at cars from the car ahead. These particles natural ly scratch windshields to some ex tent." ' ' His comment failed to impress members of his own traffic force who reported seeing; pit-marks ap pear en their windshields last week-end while a grayish-ash was noticed' falling on the city. Large numbers of motorists In B.C. and in the Pacific Northwest United States have blamed the ash for small pock-marks, described as ranging from the size of a pin- head to, a 10-cent piece, appearing on their windshields. Army. Searches For Korean War Dead INCHON, Korea Wl Army teams sailed from Inchon harbor today on a - 3'2-month search of 200 Islands In the Yellow Sea off western Korea for remains of United Nations men killed during the Korean War. Graves registration teams will search all islands in a 900-square- mile area under U.N. Command control between the 37th and 38th parallels. . CHINESE DELEGATES' TOKYO lyfl Red China's del egation to the Geneva conference, headed by Premier Foreign Min ister Chou En-Lai, left by plane for Switzerland Tuesday, Felping radio reported. Helps Ye Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry Mo longer be annoyed or feel tll-et. teeth.PA8TEETH.en Improved alka line (non-exld) powder, sprinkled on youi pistes holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable. Avoid erobsr ressmencsused by loose pistes. On rASTEETB lodsy at snydnig counter. RICKYS JEWELERS We're Still Tradin' WATCHES STARTS THURSDAY APRIL 22nd changes as contrasted with pres ent costs. 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