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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1954)
mm Mm. Tiro"Z7ej oal i ' '"Lll.Vsn HO MMJON, FRIDAY, AFBIL CI, MM TtlshM Mil No. Utl I ' i JEANNE PARKER, 83S Rose Street, secretary for Freder ic Lewion, accountant, was on her way to work this morn ing; when mapped by the 9 o'clock photographer. Child Neglect Charged Rita WHITE PLAINS. N.Y. Itl Tho Westchester Society ior tho Pre vrnuon ol Cruelly to Children Fri day charged In children court that Rita lluyworUi's two children were being neglected. : The society' brought a neglect petition belore Judge George W. Smyth. No deuila could be ob tained fropi Ilia cloned-door pro- ceeduige. Itlla la In Key West. Fla., wiui her Uilrd huabnnd, alnger Dick Mavmea. Her children by two previous marring, Rebecca Wellcn, t. and Yaainin Khan 3, are being cared (or here by Dorothy Chambers, a governed. . . Judge BmyUi ordered the ehll- dren put under "the protective custody ot the court." It waa not learned Immediately whether thui removed Uiem Irom the care of their governess. A hearing on the neglect petition waa tentatively set lor early next week. New Delay In Bodinet Trial Another legal roadblock was thrown up Friday to delay the trial ot Raymond J. Bodinet, ac cused ol a onrlor house holdtm, when defense counsel Hied a 'de murrer to the second Indictment which has been returned In Uie case. Among the points raised by De fense Attorney A. C. Yaden In support ol his contention mat In dictment No. 3 docs not contain Inota sulllclent to constltuto crime la Uie allegation that only one gun Is mentioned In Uie In dictment. It has been previously conceded that Bodinet and hla alleged ac compllsh, Edwin Coyle. were bout armed. Coyle waa alntn by a po liceman whom he menaced with a plrlol. ' Circuit Judge David R. Vonden birg. who listened to arguments on Uie demurrer by Attorney Yn- den and District Attorney Frank Aldernon, had Uil to any: "Thero waa some contusion In the first Indictment concerning guns. At that lime It appeared both men had a couplo ol guns. This tlmo Uicre Is only one gun mentioned." The court took the matter under advisement. Judge Vondenbcrg said he will rule on Uio demurrer next Monday. Bodinet waa sup posed to have pleaded to an armed robbery charge Friday but Uie demurrer hnltcd this action. Bodinet has been held In the county jail since January 8, Uie day of Uio holdup nnd shooting In Myrtle's parlor limine. Besides bo Ing Indicted twice, he has been arraigned Uiroe limes on an armed robbery charge, i Judgo Vandenberg also over ruled a motion tiled by the de fendant In an attempt to gain pos session pf an alleged confession to Uie holdup which Bndlnot Is sup- nosed to have made to District Attorney Aldernon. The court said Uie motion should not have been tiled until after the defendant had pleaded to Uio armed robbery charge. Burglar Walks Out With Register OAKLAND, Calif, Iff Mrs. Mar tha Jackson was n llttlo surprised yestorday to see a man carrying out the cosh register as she walked up to her husband's cleaning snop. In the back room, she naked "Ooorgo, when will Uio repairman bring back the cash register?" "What repairman?" ho should! and dashed out too late to re trieve the machine or 66 Inside. Brutal Red Methods Hit In US Note liRflUN W The United Slates accused Soviet Russia Friday ul puraulng deliberately outrageous and unclvlllted conduct by order. Iiur Uie murder l a Russian eml- grant leader In Weal Germany and Uie "brutal kidnaping" o( anothor In Berlin. Acllng US. High Commissioner Walter Dowllng made Uie charges Ui a letter to V. a. Bcmveiiov, Lflovlel high commissioner In Oer- many. Duwlliur referred to Die cases ol Nikolai K. Kliokhlov. Soviet crnt police captain who switched alclca alter being sent to the Amer ican roue ol Germany to kill a leading member ol the aiiU-Sovtct NTS relugee organtaatlon. and ol nr. Alexander Truchnovlch, a West llerlln committeeman of the group. who hnd disappeared April 13. Vouching lor his kiory, the U 8. 'Army unveiled Kliokhlov at a news conference Thursday and Bold he gave hlmsell up last Feb' ruary. Ho and two East Germans also In American protective cus- ftody tnld U.S. Intelligence olllcera they had been ordered to Kin a Key Russian member ot an anil-Soviet organltallon In Frankfurt, Khnkhlov said he came over to Uie Weat alter hta "wonderlul wife" annealed to him not to car rv out lh murder plot. He told correspondents thai it his story, was publicised, "the Soviet gov: eminent will not dare to kill my wile." who he aald waa atlll in Moscow with their 31-month-old son and her 14-year-old sister, Yoshida faces New Crisis TOKYO (l Japans Progres sive Parly was reported Friday night to be drafting lis own motion ot nootonlldenco agahul Premier Ntiiacru Yoshida further periling Cie live-year administration of Uie crusty old politician. The newspaper Aaahl aald the Progressives took their action aft er conferences with officials of Yosluda'a Liberal Parly. Non-confidence motions have al ready been demanded by the So cialists and a splinter liberal group. They are up for a vote Saturday. Yoshida and Tadao Onsa, au thoritative member ol the Progres sive Party, discussed Uie neces sity ot a coalition government ol Yoshlda'a Liberals and Uie Pro gressives under Uie leadership of Mamoru Shlgemltsu. , After Uie meeting, Oasa aald Yoshida declined an Invitation to meet with shlgemltsu as long as Uio Progreaalves Insist that Yo shida resign as Prime Minister aa Uie price of Uie Progressives sup port during Saturday's nonconfi dence vote. Yetbacks Sent Back Home One hundred and thirteen Mexi can wetbneks rounded up In the Klamath Bnsln during the past week by U.S. border patrolujien were on their way back to Mexico Friday. A series of raids on hobo Jungles, labor camps and basin farms netted the wetbacks. Operations ol tho border patrolmen were kept secret until all Uie Mexicans had been taken Into custody. , The raids wero oonductcd under tho supervision ot Patrolman R. G. Johnson ol Blaine, Washington. Other patrolmen who participated In tho wetback roundup wero A. L. Owen, John Vukellcli, Joe Knr- mer, Al Koenlg and Jim Bakarlch. Special Inquiry Officer Dave Caldwell conducted hearlnga lor all the bordct Jumpers. He was aided by Jack Qloslle, border pa trol clerk. '' Friday morning the Mexicans worn taken out of Uie Klamath County Jail and loaded on buses which transported them to Dorris. At Dnrrls other buses were on hand to take them to the Mexican border, According to Johnson, many ol the wetbacks arrested here wore "repeaters," Soma of them had mado several trips Illegally to the Klamath Basin, They worked on farms In this area until they were apprehendod and returned to Mex ico. Last tall the border patrolmen rounded up mora than. 300 wet backs la tola area, OD Weather FOKKCAHT Klamath rails and vicinity: Fair through Saturday. High Halurdy 70, low Friday night 33. High yesterday Low last night Preelp since Oct. 1 Same period last year . Normal for period ... 73 ... 3d . 13.37 11. Ml 10.04 Accident Calls Keep Police Busy Motorists hit Uie Jackpot . last night when six cars, one truck and one trailer house were involved In Uueo accidents near here. Two men were brought to tho hospital but only one received medical at tcnUon. Ho was not seriously hurt. Shortly before 6 p.m. a car oper ated by Donald Bruce Radke, 3041 Ablllne, turning left off South Riv erside on Ablllne, was struck In the rear by a car driven by Elinor Ruth Holland, Ul Pine Street, Neither driver or a pas senger In Uie Holland car, Owen Lee West were Injured. At 1:30 p.m. Larry Johnson. (711 Harlan Drive, traveling west near Adams Point, between Merrill and Malin, struck another car travel big In the same direction, glanced oil, hit a Dodge truck traveling east and driven by Mlllord Fus ion, R. 1. Box 7T, Malin, both car and truck wound up In the ditch alter each had rolled over once. Driver of Uio car struck In the rear by tho Johnson vehicle. Virgil Floyd Ysdon. nt. 3 Box 677. 4oli Oregon Slate Police; he had slowed down for a bay baler being towed In hla lane of traffic when the crash occurred. Johnson and a passenger Tommy Phlpps, were brought to the Klamath Valley Hospital by Kaler's Ambulance Service where It was found Phlpps was uninjured. Johnson spent the night at the hospital and was re leased this morning. State Police were also called to Investigate an accident near Al goma on Highway 87 about 7:30 where a trailer house being towed by a Mercury sedan, operated by Karl Gordon Crispin. Box 13, Win ston, Oregon, had slopped partial ly on the highway to repair a flat Ure, when a car driven by Charles Waller, 1610 Lookout, Klamath Falls, plowed Into Uie rear of uie parked trailer bouse. Walter told officers another car passed him as be started to pass the trailer house and crowded him Into Uie trailer house. There were no -Injuries. KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS IfclpBf TajaUy At me Day LaM Tear 46 core 24 con TeUI let Briion 10,487 con 10.984 cart u-M Itsi-ss 5 J 'V T-) I V " f,' "-'V i - ' -r 1 ORDIR-tOUND WETIACKS art (hewn as thay prtpirtd to leave Klamath County Jail for their homeland. U.S. border patrolman rounded up 1 13 Mexicans who entered this county illeg ally. Also shown at the extrema left art Patrol Clark Jack Gloslie and Patrolman R. G. John son Johnson (right), was in charga of tha raids. I Sk&DDfl(j Man Kills Wife, Takes Own Life A 31-year-old Klamath Falls lo comotive fireman killed h I a 37- yeur-old wife with a rifle Thursday night, notified his brother by tele phone of the crime and then shot himself In a farmhouse on Del Fattl Lane. The victims of the murder and auicide were John Rue Plerson and hla wife, Rosemary. Their two children, Deborah Jean, 3, and Sundra, 3, were In the house at Uir time of the shootings. When Plerson'a brother, Leland. reached the scene, he found little Sandra weeping beside Uie bodies ol her dead parents. Plerson called the sheriff and stale police. They were Joined at the house by County Coroner George H. Adler and District At torney Frank Alderson. According to an official report of Uie tragedy, when Plerson tele phoned his brother he said: "I Just aliol my wife I can't take It anymore. After a two-hour investigation, Sheriff Murray Brltton said he was unable to determine a moUve for the murder and suicide. Friends of Plerson, however, sold he had been out of work re cently and was worried about fi nancial affairs. Plerson had been employed several years by the Southern Pacific Railway. Dr. Adler announced there will be no autopsy or Inquest. He ssid three shots were fired and one of the bullets was found Imbedded hi a wall. Another bullet struck Mrs. Plerson In Uie chest, Plerson shot himself In Uie head. The bodies were removed to Ward's Funeral Home, V Aid to India Attacked WASHINGTON I Foreign Aid Chief Harold E. Stsssen says In dia should get 104 million dollars worth of American aid next year because of Uie "long-term struggle of which we are a part." This wss Stsssen's response Thursday after key senators at tacked India's retussl to let U.S. planes fly over Its territory In ferrying French troops to Indo china. Sen. Bridges (R-NH), chairman of Uie Senate Appropriations Com mittee which will pass on Stas sen's request for foreign sld for the fiscal year beginning July 1, said he was "a m a s e d and shocked" at the Indian action. "I Just want Mr. stassen to take notice ot this." Bridges said on the Senate floor, "because he comes to the Appropriations Com mittee asking for mora millions for India." NEW TUNNEL AUCKLAND, New Zealand Url Prime Minister Sydney Holland rode Uie first train Friday through a new 5 Vi-mlle tunnel built by American contractors to shorten Uie approach to this New Zealand capital. Si ii -. it c I : VatSlSiaiU-PTk DEATH STRUCK TWICE in Del Fa-Hi Lane. John Rue Pierton, locomotive fireman, and hit wife, Rosemary 27, were found (hot to death in their farm home. Authorities said it was murder and suicide. Sheriff Murray Britfon (left) and Deputy Coroner Bill Mills arc shown carrying one of the bodies from the house. ' McCarthy Throws Hearing Denouncing Sec. Stevens WASHINGTON Ul Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wts) threw the Senate Investigations subcommittee Into an uproar Friday by denouncing as "indecent and illegal" uie ac tion ol Army Secretary Stevens In monitoring a phone conversation with him. ' Testifying In the second day ol hearlnga into his controversy with McCarthy, Uie Army Secretary started to detail a telephone con versation he said he had with the Wisconsin senator last Nov. 7. Chairman Mundt (R-SD) ruled, after a verbal battle, that an Ar my employe Identified only as Lu cas In the testimony must come before the committee and awoar that he made a transcription of Uie phone call, , ; - Before McCarthy exploded Into action. Stevens had told Uie. com mittee, that McCarUiy-saJa to him on the phone that "one of the few things he had trouble" about with Roy M. Cohn. McCarthy's chief counsel, was O. David Schlne. STEVENS CHARGED Stevens had charged that Mc Carthy and Cohn sought by "im proper" means to get special treat ment for Schlne, a former com mittee consultant later inducted in to the Army. McCarthy has denied any thing improper. Stevens quoted McCarthy as tell ing him In uie phone call: 'Roy thinks Dave ought to be general and operate from a penthouse on the top of the Wal dorf Astoria." Stevens said that McCarthy "thought that a few week-ends off for David Schlne might be ar ranged, perbaps for taking care of schlne s girl mends." When Ray Jenkins, committee counsel, asked it Uie transcript of McCarthy erupted with a point of order. 'This is one ot the most Inde cent, dishonest things I have ever heard of. . ." McCarthy began. Jenkins started yelling at Uie same time that McCarthy was not making a point ot order and Chairman Mundt told the Wiscon sin senator to state It without em bellishment. "This Is completely Indecent to monitor a conversation without telling the person on the other end mat you are doing It," McCarthy said. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawaaXl- aUosaaaaaaasaaaaaaaaaaef ' "It is completely Improper. In decent and illegal under the law." McCarthy aald If the transcrip Uon were put into Uie record ver batim and was not merely a com pilation of notes tsken by some one who waa listening in, he would KF Flight Times Changed West Coast Airlines, Inc.. has announced a schedule change, ef fective April 36. Beginning Sunday, flight 44 will operate 2S minutes earlier. Flight 44 will be due out at 7:05 a.m.; arrive in Portland at 10:25 a.m.; airhra irrseatsle artr 13:03 i.m.- FUght 40. northbound, win de part from Klamath Falls at 5:30 p.m.; arrive in Portland at p.m. The flight terminates at Portland. Southbound flight 45 leaves Port land at 1:30 p.m.: arrives In Klam ath Falls at 4:49 p.m. Flight 49 departs from Portland at 6:30 p.m. and arrives in Klam ath Falls at 9:59 p.m. The new schedule makes it pos sible for travelers to spend almost eight hours In Portland, arriving at 10:35 a.m. and leaving at 6:30 p.m. The schedule change was an nounced this morning by Bob Moore, resident WCA manager. Origin Of Black Smoke Revealed Black smoke billowing sky ward in Uie south suburban area brought many telephone calls this morning as to Uie na ture of the fire. Several thou sand gallons of waste oil was being bumed by the Great Northern Railway, n e'a r its roundhouse. Poe Valley, Altamont Tie For First Place In Annual 4-H Club Contest Poe Valley and Altamont Ued with three cnamplon winners each in judging of the 4-H Club Spring Fair Thursday. Henley and Bly each had two champions. Poe Valley champions are Mar Ice BreiUiaupt, Clothing division "Sew, It's Fun." Michelle Brett, Clothing division "Teen Age Miss:" Norma Lyon, Clothing di vision 3. Altamont champion win ners are Helen Faulkner, Cloth ing division "Charmingly Yours' . Kay O'Donahue, Clothing 4 and Sharon Davis, Clothing 6. Henley took Uie championship in crafts, Joe Collins, entrant, and the poster contest, Terry Beyer, entrant. Bly took championships In Forestry 1, Oary Patzke, en trant, and Forestry 3, Bill Moore, entrant. Complete list of award winners from Uie first day ot judging fol low: Crafts: champion, Joe Collins, Henley, Blue ribbons. Lawrence Kaylor, Henley; Terry Beyer, Mid land; Chandelle Horsley, Midland. Red ribbons, Phillip Dixon, Ken neth Ollder, David Raynor, all ol Henley; Fred Cotlman, Crescent Lake. White ribbons. Brad Blofsky, Evelyn Hooper, Jack Mitcham and Charles Phillips, all ot Midland; Biuy Alberts and Mickey Ollder, Henley. Poster. Contest: champion, Ter ry Beyer, Henley, Blue ribbons, Margaret Heyden, Linda Kay Heyden and Charlotte Heyden, all ot Altamont, Red ribbon, Martha Into Uproar Testimony not object to Its being put in the record. Mundt upheld this point. In the upshot, the committee re cessed until 2:30 p.m. (EST) with the understanding that Lucas, the man reported to have made the transcript of Uie conversation. would be called then to testify as to whether It was full and com plete. Before Mundt ruled on the ad- missabUity of the telephone notes, Stevens had stated that he be lieved them to be an accurate ver batim report of the conversation. taken in shorthand at the time of the call. Joseph ft. Welch, special Army counsel, with Stevens, in response to a subpoena, had brought the transcription. But Welch demand ed that the committee formally vote to order ita production. He said there are restrictions under the federal communications act on disclosing monitored phone conver sat Ions. Stevens had been questioned on ly by Jenkins up to this point. The committee routing is for the counsel to ask the first questions. Then the senators take 10-mlnute turns. REPETITION Jenkins began with the day last February when Stevens took of fice and went step by step through his first meeting with McCarthy and their later relations. For the most part, this testi mony was a repetition of what he had said In a formal statement Thursday. He related that McCarthy pro posed to him last September, when Schlne was about to be drafted, that Schlne be given a special as signment to dig out Communists In the Army. Stevens said McCarthy aald he thought Schlne should be made a special assistant to Uie secretary. a special assistant in Army Intelligence. This proposition, Stevens said. was made to him in the Waldorf Towers apartment of S c h 1 n e'a wealthy parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Myer Schlne. He said McCarthy invited him to the apartment. Tubach, Poe Valley. White ribbons, Beverly McDer mott and Danny Heavllln, Fair haven; Janet Kay Owens ana Don Lee Owens, Llndley Heights. Forestry 1: champion, Gary Patzke, Bly. Blue ribbons, Donald Johnson, Bly; Ray Jackson, Hen ley Red ribbons, Terry Beyer, Henley; Jim Tucker, Danny Bran bam and Ben Pool, all ot Bly; Joe Collins, Henley; Danny Heav llln, Falrhaven. White ribbons, Larry Chance, Carl Pool and Danny Thomson, all of Bly; Frank Kahler, Falr haven: Jim Hall, Bly. Forestry 3: Red ribbon, Dick Relling, Henley, Forestry 3; champion. Bill Moore, Bly, Clothing, "Sew, It'a Fun": champion, Marlee Brelthaupt, Poe Valley. Blue ribbon, Linda Hey den, Altamont. Red Ribbons, Su san LaVrar, Falrhaven; Marilyn Mack and Sandra Roberts, Hen ley; Carolyn Strurk and Jacque line Ross, Poe Vallty; Darlene Schcrer, Keno; Beverly McDer mott, Falrhaven. White ribbons, Carol Uchwat and Carolyn Koehn, Poe Valley; Don na Freer, Lorraine Clark and Bev erly Schcrer, Keno; Janice Fried rich, Falrhaven; Janell Olais, Henley, Clothing, "Charmingly Yours": champion, Helen Faulkner, Alta mont. Blue ribbons, Sharon Kuns, Shasta; Lois Fundenburger, Joe Valley: Ann Taylor, Henley. Red ribbons, Jean Fundenburger, Poe Paratroops Arrive In Indochina By JOHN RODERICK , SAIGON, Indochina Ufi American-airlifted paratroopers Irom France began pouring into Indo china today as the desperate French defenders ol Dlen Blen Phu batUed new Vletmlnh attacks on their hard-hit northwest defenses. The first of a fleet of huge U. 8. Air Force CI 24 Oiobemastera touched down briefly in Saigon to day with 330 beret-wearing French iUmD-troOna Whn vmrm niahA n.r. of Parts' Orly Field Tuesday. ine tout numoer being ferried out by Uie American Air Force in the hurrv-UD move tn v. nin Blen Pbu was a military secret. "uvkcb irom fans said the Amer ican possibly would airlift 1,000 troops in JO planes. En route they were forced to detour from Uie direct Europe-to-Asla commercial route' to refuel at the British base at Colombo, Ceylon. India's Prime Minister , Nehru announced that his govern ment would permit no foreign troops to cross Indian territory, by air or by any other route. Dispatches from Colombo aald three of tat pinnt . irn.. , Globemasters landed there yester- ujr aua wo more came in today, Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, was their next atop before Saigon. Two hundred and twenty lump troops, wearing their character, lsuc berets, were aboard the lirat GlObemaster landed hr kw th. airlift's American crew. The reinforcements were sorely needed at Dlen Blen Phu, the be "Hww x rencn tonresa la north west Indochina where the Communist-led Vletmlnh are going all out for a maior vlrtnrv ,r the impending Geneva, conferenc. There today the rebel troops smashed azaln lntn defenses of the hiHninng French vuuu lujuess ana French conv munique said fierce hand-to-oand lighting was in progrer. . The brief . French communique did not indicate whether the con tinuing see-saw battle for the northwest defenses m ih .ri of the anticipated third mass try at overrunning the battered French defenses on the encircled plain. . The Vletmlnh were driven out of some forward points in the north west corner yesterday by fierce counterattacks.. .Tb.Prenoh claimed the enemy suffered "heavy losses." But the rebels came back early today with renewed attacks at this sector, trying for a, breakthrough to the heart and nerve center of the fortress' hrnMrifr. perimeter. Already, by a series of nlgTS assaults and furious nigging and thrusting, the Vietminn had man aired to draw their itMl rinv tighter around the fortress. They uive cui us giru irom a 'Droad 6-by-4-mile area to one sot mora than i, mile and a quarter across. The sudden Vletmlnh infantry assaults came yesterday after al most two days of intermittent raini, When th. .tin. .iM,wl fm. a time yesterday, American-supplied B36 bombers plastered the rebels dug Into a hill at the south eastern run of the fortress. The French claimed "probably several companies were destroyed. Pilots reported they blew rebels by the score out ot their trenches in the hill with 1,000-pound bombs. French army sources here de- Menken tAriftv's ficrhtjnflr . at nien Bien Phu as "bitter and furious." ' me French, Moroccans, For eign Legionnaires and Vietnamese charged over the top ot newly dug trenches to strike at the rebels ' with nana grenades ana bayonets. Valley; Ruth Born, Henley; Carol Baker, Altamont; Irene Strunk, Poe Valley; Jean Black, Merrill. White ribbons, Verla Lee Kott hoft, Darylene Storey, Sara West and Paula Kottholf, all of Merrill. Clothing, "Teen Age Miss": champion, Michelle Brett, Poe Valley. Blue ribbon, Mary. Welis, Poe Valley. Red ribbons, Margie Rodriguez, Henley; Janice Mar shall, Poe Valley. White ribbons, Joyce Farmer and Maxine Schcr er, Keno. Clothing 3: champon. Norma Lyon, Poe Valley, Blue ribbon, Margaret Heyden, Altamont. Red ribbon, Carolyn Garrison, Alta mont; Roxanne WUson, Malin. White ribbon, Gersldlne Woods, Crawford. Altamont. Bad ribbons, Sprague River. Clothing 4: champion, Kay O'Dopahue, Altamont. Blue rib bons. Sheila Kuns, Shasta; Bonnie Carol Relling and Martha Tubach, Poe Valley. Clothing 5. champion, Sharon Davis, Altamont. Champion award is a scholar ship to summer school at Oregon State College: blue ribbon award, scholarship to summer camp at Lake ot the Woods; red ribbon award, one half a scholarship to summer camp; white ribbon award, no scholarship. The fair continues today and tonight until following the Tal ent Night program which starts at 7:30 and Saturday until follow ing the style show which starts at 7:30. The public Is urged to attend.
