.TUESDAY. ' APRIL 20. 1954
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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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."
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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?.' . : .
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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.
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