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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1954)
la Th Day's News ttr FRANK JKNKINH Washington: Crossing over thin aflarnoon through Uie tunnel Ilmt connects the Capitol building with llio aenata ofllco building' (It win mlnlim bloody murder outside) I passed Uib bronse plaqtlo that murks Uw apot whore the original senate chamber tood the oliam iuhm prantilant Adam do llvered lilo final addreae In lHWI end whtre President Jefferson too the Mill ol olllce t Uie beginning of Die neat year end again In 1BU0 lor hi aecond term. I wit on my wy to Uie beaull- nl rnmM In lha aanata office build- liitf ahara Ilia McCarUlV hearllia1 U In protirtu, and I couldn't help wondering wnai rresiaent Mnu nd President Jefterson end We Mut nt lha aviiitirfliiir PaWera would have thought It aome aaer In whom they had commence naa iniormea them that a century and a hall frnin tlutn a nroraadlnv auch aa Uie McCarthy hearing would be In proKreaa on Capitol Hill. I Imagine that Uie dlacloaure Aiild havi ahnrkfxl lham in funria- mentally that Uvey might have had to late to weir ueaa. lt me describe Uie phyalcal aa pecla of the hearing lu a llltle more detail. Imagine a huge and lovely room, walled with marble and flanked on the two longer ildna of ita rectangle by atately corlnth Ian columni. At each end la a fire. place with carved walnut mantela. 'Hie fireplace at one end la ciui It-red by newa cameraa on fined trlpoda. Over the other one, aup- portrd by a platform, la a tele vision camera, one of Ulrve used to catch every detail of Uie hear lima. 'Ilieae cameraa work In ayn chronlaaUon, Uielr eperatora Using earphones to communicate with each other. The camera that la ao placed aa to catch beat the detail of Uie moment grlnda away while Uie other two remain passive. To the right -of the tablre at which the actora In Uie drama all la a bank of equipment that would have ataggered the Founding Fa ther. 11 Include nine newarerl cameraa and aeven tripod cameraa, three of which are equipped with Big Bertha lelephoto lenaea of the type uaed by aporla cameramen to catch the detail of football game, baaeball gamea, horae racea, etc. I wouldn't know how many roving cameramen with falahbulb equip ment were are In the room. When ever a new wllneaa takea hla aeat they erowd around him, towering above him, aquatung down below him and popping flaah bulba at him from the tlanka. Imagine youraelf anting there, trying to give solemn teatlmony In a matter of tfrav con cern to Uie nation welfare In a bedlam like that, and you will get an Idea of how Uie rounding Fa ther would have felt If eomeone had told them a century and a half ago that auch a apectacle would be taking place on thla ipot In Uie year 1M. Counting haatlly on my finger, 1 totird up a total of 11 technician! taking oare of all the machinery while It waa In action. The papera ear It takei go of theee rruchanlcal wlrarda to get the plant m order and ready to go before the bearing atarte. In the mldat of all thla hubbub the principal! alt. Before each ta a microphone. There la the uaual complement of court reportera end atenographera. Between them and the crowd ta the tradltlna table for the preaa. There were H re porter today. Back of all thla and separated from It by a red cord of Uie type of Uie night cluba una to hold back the cuatomere from the food until Uie time cornea to let In a nw bunch of eiftera la the crowd. Thla apace ta packed a tlghUy with on looker aa human bodlea can be fitted together. It la Just poaaible Uiat a aardlne eanner could devlae a way to get a tew more person Into the area, but I doubt It. There are chalra In Uie onlookera' apace, Thoae In the front all on them, Thoae farther back atand on them. I ean't be entirely aure of thla atatement, but I'm reaaonnbly certain that thoae In the far rear atand on each other' shoulders alter the manner of acrobat form ing a human tower. Either that or they atand on the back of the chalra and prop tliemaelves on each othor. At any rate, Uie apace la Jam-packed. I'd like to add here that If you own a TV aet or even a radio and aro Interested aolely In getting a picture of what la going on at thla hearing that Is getting ao much while paper apace and ao much air time you need waste no time In envy of these who have managed to crowd In on the actual scene In Washington, You have been getting a far better understanding of It nil thsn those actually present In the room. All you miss la Uie sense of drama, that come from being actu ally on the apot where history Is being made. Here on the apot the confusion Is ao great, what with the whirring of the newsreel cameras and the pop ping of the flash bulba and the shuffling of feet and all the Teat of It, that those actually present can only hear a word from time to time when someone apeak more loudly and clearly than usual. But It'a a great show. I suppose It depicts modern democraoy In action. But I atlll can't help won dering what Uie thoughts of the Founding Father would have been If they could have been permitted to look forward Into the future and tee It actually happening,.' . . Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vlr.lnll.vi Fair Wednesday night and Thuraday. High Tharidajr 0 low Wednesday night 19, High yesterday 4 Low laat night 17 Preclp laat at hour 4K Inoe Out, 1 ! Kama period laat year l.t Normal lor peeled .. UM XflHTlfiTl jPlyJ Fries Five Cuts 83 Fagea jklles, - Main Aims Of Asian Policy Told WASHINGTON 11 Vice Pres ident Nixon said Wednesday "'ho major aim of this arimliilalra llon'a policy" Is to avoid commit ting American troops In Indoclilna or elsewhere, If possible. Nixon told the United Btntcs Chamber of Commerce, however, lliul Um Klscnhower administra tion will not resort to "a policy of weakness or Inconsistency" to achieve that aim. The 3,000 delegates to the Cham ber'a annual meeting applauded Nlxon'a assurance Uiat Uie gov ernment will avoid "If we can" the aeiidlng of American men "lo fluht In Indochina or anywhere else In the world." The only means by which the Communist conspiracy can be Ihwarted. the vice president de clared, la by Uie course chosen by the administration. This, he said, la a program of "power and firmness, strength and consist ency." "We realised that we couldn't do Uie Job alone, Uiat we had to get united action by the free world lo resist aggression," Uie vice president said. Tina, combined with "an ideo logical offensive" of email coun tries for Independence, la "the on ly eflectlve answer for defeating communism without a war," be aald. Jail Break Trial Halted Trial of Richard Roy Logan. 33, on a Jail breaking charge, was temporarily halted Wednesday In District Judge D. R. Van Vector' court when the prosecution was un able to produce the policeman who arrested the defendant. Judge Van Vactor explained that, under Uie law. It must first be shown that a defendant was lawfully arrested before he can be prosecuted for bresklng Jail. Police report show that Logan and Kenneth (Dusty) Wells, 35. supposedly sawed their way out ol Uie Klamath Falls City Jail on February 5. Until Uiat lime the Jail waa considered escape proof. Logan and Wells were serving Jail terms Imposed alter a hit and run accident. Logan waa aentenced for leaving the scene of an acci dent and Wella waa convicted of disorderly conduct. Wells la atlll ai large. Judge Van Vactor halted the trial Wednesday shortly before noon when Leo J. Mataon, ex-po- llceman, who waa supposed to have arrested Lognn, denied he bad made the arrest. The prose cution asked for time to locate the arreatlng olllcer. Wb Vt mm I DESTINATION FREMONT for Gail (left) and Evelyn Staf ford, who live at 817 North Fourth. The girls are students at Fremont School, where Gall it In the fifth grade; Evelyn in Jh.ilnf. . MBA KLAMATH FAM.r), OREGON, 11 '' Starvation, Floods Face Valiant French Defenders HANOI. Indochina W Vletinliili rebels conllued their assaults on battered Dlen Wen Pliu lo urlll Icry barrages aguln today amid mounting indications lliry may hold olf furUicr frontal asHuulls In holies of starving out Uie weary French Union defenders. Pelting rums of Uie spring mon soon turned tho narrowing mlle aquara norUiwcst Indochina lor ttcss Into seas of red mud, bog ging down movement ol all mech anized arms. But tho delcndera continued lo slug II out ami Inst Die artillery of Uie Communist-led at tackers. The feeling the rebels might de cide to sll out Uielr sickc ol Olen Blen Phu Waa strengthened today by a Viclminh radio broadcast de claring Uie start of Uie monsoon would Hood tho French Union troops out to the hands of Uie over whelming numbers ol rebels sur rounding Uiem. The broadcast aald Communist Oen. Vo Nguyen Clap had declared In an order of We day the French soon would be unable to stay In Uielr raln-lilled trenches. Olap was quoted: Pioneer Spud Firm Sold TULELAKE Bale of Uie pio neer potato shipping business In Uie Tulelake ares, Crawford and Wolfe, was announced today by Ival Wolfe, only remaining partner of the concern. Moso Crawford, who with Wolfe, established Uie business In 1834. died a year ago, and hlit share of the business has been held by bis widow. ... Mew owners of two large above ground warehouses on Highway 13b, north of town, and alt equip ment for Handling potatoes are Stan Brown and Dick McDougal of Ihe Northwest Produce Company. They will take over July 1. The new owner have used one of Uie warehouse buildings for , we past several seasons. Wolfe, who has farmed here since 1037, when he took up a homestesd, will retire from the buying and shipping business but will continue lo handle potato seed slock. Prior to coming to Tulelake, he farmed from 1913 between Mer rill and Klamath Falls. With Mrs. Wolfe he plans to spend some time traveling. They spent part of last winter In Lima, Peru, with a daughter. Dick McDougal, speaking for the new company, asld "Crawford and Wolfe probably averaged shipping 500 carloads of potatoes to msrkel annually during the time they were In business. They bulll up an enviable reputation, among growers, buyers, shippers, and we hope to live up to Uie high stand ard they have set." Enos Mosher, was Uie only other buyer In the area when Wolfo first established a business here. WEDNESDAY, ' II, IfM ' ' ' '" ' ' ' af -saaaaaaaaaaasaspei se. ,a! "When Uie French are obliged to leave their trenches and dug outsbecause they will be flooded that Is when victory will be ours." rKKHHURE 'Ihe forues defenders under Brig. Oen. Christian de Castries also face the threat of alow strang ulation by Uie ever-tightening grip of the Vletmlnh unless the French llnd some way to rellee the pres sure, such aa a thru, by outside column! hilling the urroundlng besiegers from the rear. llut We French continued to rein force the forlreaa defenaea by para chute drop. Despite the rains, the French reported more men and supplies were parachuted Into the Uny drop target. Although Uiere were violent ar Ullery duels between Uie opposing big guns, the French high com mand said Were wse no Important iniantry lighting last night or early today. Vletmlnh heavy mortar and 105mm. artillery pounded at all key Prench atrongpolnta. But the heaviest barrage were centered against We headquarter bean of the fortress. The French, firing American supplied 106mm. and 156mm. guns, blasted at rebel artillery emplace ments and strings of antiaircraft batteries In the low-lying bills two to four miles distant from the for tress center. BADIO REPORT A Vletmlnh radio report heard In Hong Kong said captured French troops were being held In "liberated" mea of northern Viet Nam. which border on Red China. "We've killed 70 French aoldler in We Red River district and cap tured 30 more, Including one French major." the broadcast aald. The French do not usually reveal their casualtlea tn the (tally clashes with the Vletmlnh in the delta centered on Hanoi. In Uie United States, a move was under way to recruit more American volunteers to pilot sir- lift planes in Indochina. An undisclosed number of Amer ican volunteer pilots were signed up by Ihe Pilots Employment Agency, an official of that organi sation in Teterboro, N. J., ssio yesterday. Asked how many of these already were in Indochina Hying We airlift of goods and mil Itary equipment under contract with the French, be aald: "All I can do Is to refer you to a report out of Indochina laat Sunday aay. Ing as pilots were flying the trans port planes." Officials of the American Civil Air Transport announced yester dsv In Hong Kong Wat one of lta pilots already flying for the French waa Injured by Vleiminn anuarr craft fire over Dlen Blen Phu. He was Identified ss Paul Robert Hoi' den of Oreenleaf, Kan., first Amer ican casualty of the Dlen Blen Phu batue. KLAMATH BASIN , POTATO SHIPMENTS atiPM Tr 37 22 10,44? 11,042 IIU-M . IHMI KF Host To State Christian Endeavor Convention; General Public Welcomed Elton Flshback, general chair man of the Stnte Christian En deavor Convention which opens tomorrow In Klamath Falls and continues through May 3, has re leased We skeleton program for the convention. Flshback stressed that leaders In youth organisations and the public In general are welcome to attend any or all of We various sessions of the convention. Convention headquarters are at the First Christian Church; Ninth and Pine Streets, where registra tions will brain Thursday at 3 pm. The program follows: ; Opening session at Klamath Union High school Thursday at 3 p.m.; greeting of welcome, the Rev, Richard Oraef, president of Klamath Falls Ministerial Associa tion; address of welcome, Sena tor Phil Hitchcock representing Oovernor Paul L, Patterson; spe cial muslo by the KUHS a cap- pcua cnoir directed by Andrew Lonoy Jr.; message by the Rev. Hartroll Cobbs, main speaker of the convention: benediction.. Friday, April 30: quiet hour services. a:4S a.m., the Rev. Wil liam Ainley aa leader for delesatea under 18 year of age at First Christian cburchi the Rev, Walter mm Telephone till No. 2827 Clash Chou En-Lai Urges Korea Settlement GENEVA UH Red Chins' For eign Minister Chou En-Lal de manded Wednesday that all for eign military bases In Asia be abolished and that all foreign troops be withdrawn. Chou Addressed Uie 19-natlon Ge neva conference after U.S. Secre tary of State Dulles had expressed doubts as to the value of negotiat ing with the Communists and re jected a North Korean proposal for unification of Korea. It was Chou's first speech, at a world wide diplomatic meeting of this kind. He and Dulles clashed sharply over Uie unification plan submit ted by North Korean Foreign Min ister Nam TJ. Dulles said We Nam Tl plan would put the whole coun try under "a Communist puppet regime." Chou supported Nam H. The Red Chins leader launched a atrong demand for an Asla-for-Asians program. In addlUon to calling for the withdrawal of for eign troops and bases, be urged the settlement of Asian problems by consultations among Uie Asian countries and by exchange of mu tual obligations. Chou ranged far beyond the problem of Korea which was up for debate, touching upon Japan. Na tionalist China, Oermany and dis srmsmenU Dulles celled on the conference to bsck up the IMS United Na Uons plan calling for general elec Uona In Korea under U.N. super vision. . Implementation of this program, he said, would require the Chinese Communists "to withdrew their forces of aggression and occupa- uon from Nona Korea ao Wat the United Nations can complete Its task tn an atmosphere free of menace. The aecretary of state said the United States does not wish its own troops to remain In Korea in definitely, but once before We United States bad withdrawn Its troops and this turned out to be premature. Dulles said the North Korean proposal for general elections, pre sented Wednesday "Is In essence we same ss that made in June 1950 as a prelude to the armed auack on We Republic of Korea." "Also." he added. "It Is strik ingly similar to the scheme which the Soviet Union presented at Ber lin last February for Uie uniflca- uon of Oermany. "The present Communist propos al on Korea provides that We freely elected government of the Republic of Korea, representing at least three-quarters of the Ko rean people, would be forced Into combination, on the basis of equal ity, with the Communist regime ruling a small minority of the peo ple In We north." He pointed out that the North Korean proposal also excluded United Nations supervision. The secretary of state declared no new plan Is needed for the uni fication ol Korea, since a u.N. commission is still standing by tor Wat purpose and still has Its di rectives from the U.N, General Assembly. Frutigcr as leader for delegates over 18 at the Klamath Temple. Workshops begin at 8:40 p.m. for the following: better meetings, devotional, how to do personal work, lookout, missionary, pub licity, recreation, song leading, stewardship, the art of leading a discussion, C. E. Union work, working with youth. The same workshops will be repeated at 10:30 with each dele gate attending a different one. Tho convention assembly will be held at 11:30; dismissal for lunch hour at 12:15. The convention will assemble again at 2 p.m. Discussion groups will follow at 3:45 on Christian courtesy; training for adulthood; life more abundant; C. E. In the local church, led by Dr. Tltu) Frasec, execuUve director of Uie Oregon 'Tempernnco League. Friday night, 7:30 p.m. session, will be held at KUHS with special music by the .Altnmont Junior High School olee Club directed by Mrs. Henry Moore; message by the Rev. Hnrtsell Cobbs. SaUirday, May I, quiet hour and workshops will be tho same as on Friday, At 11:30 will be an as sembly at First Christian Church and Uie Intermediate drama 11 nUon finals; lunch at 13:15. At SHIRLEY SUE TRAVIS Girl Yins Annual Elks Scholarship 8hirley Sue Travis, 17-year-old Malin High School' senior, won We coveted Elks scholarship for 19M- Announcement that the $1,000 award went to a girl this year was made by Paul Deller, chafe man of the scholarship committee far Klamath Falls BPOE Lodge, No. 1247, The formal presentation will be made during Uie regular lodge meeting, Thursday evening. May 6. The winner is we daugnter oi Mr. and Mrs. Lee Travis. Malta. The award is made on the basis of leadership, citizenship and scholarship. The cash, to be Used to further higher education, is presented In two annual checks fcr t&OO on the stipulation that academic results at Ufa end of the first year merit continuing sup port. Shirley won over a field of four finalists Including Ksy Robt nette, Henley; George Knight, KUKS and Florence Heck, Tule lake. Shirley Sue has been an out standing student at Malin High School and Is the third student in the history of Uie school to attain a straight "1" average in all sub jects. She will be valedictorian of her class this year; Is president of the student body, a position that has automatically made her Judge of the student court, held lor tjie first time hi 30 jeara by Shirley has rated ihe best ciU senshlp award through her four years in high school, is editor In chief of this year's high school annual, Mehema. published by Merrill, Malin and Henley high schools; Is a member of the Girl's Athletic Association drill team; has participated in the speech festival for We past four years, and sang in the girls' chorus. Andrew Street, principal of the high school, is senior adviser. Shirley plans to enter nurse' framing somewhere in the North west on her scholarship. Vet's Farm Units Offered SALEM Ut War veterans can apply for 176 farm units In Wash ington and Idaho, the Oregon Vet erans Department said Wednesday. Ninety-one of the farms are In the Columbia Basin project In Franklin County, Wash. They are priced at $854 to $8,984. Applica tions must be filed by May 20 with the Federal Bureau of Recla mation at Ephrata, Wash. Eighty-five farm units are being offered free in Uie Minidoka Irri gation Project, 40 miles east of Twin Falls, Idaho. Applications for both offerings are available from Oregon's coun ty service officers, or We State Veterans Department in Portland and Salem. 2 p.m., assembly at First Chris tian cnurch lor nign scnooi age ensemble finals and election of officers. A banquet at KUHS gym will be at 6 p.m.; assembly at KUHS at 8 p.m., music by the combined choirs of Mt. Lakl Community Church and the First Christian Church, directed by Charles Uhlig. Sunday. May 2, 8 a.m. assembly at First Christian Church and con vention communion service; 8:16. closing of the convention; 9:45, del egates will attend the church of their own choice, for morning serv ices. There will be Junior convention for children under 12 years of age on Saturday, May 1, at the First Presbyterian cnurcn. 'ine pro gram follows: Oet acquainted meeting, 10 a.m.; worship service, 10:35; Ju nior C. E. at work, 10:40, with devotional and recreation led by Mrs. Melvtn Brunson; lookout and missionary by Mrs. Ralph Henry. Junior memory contest, 11:35 a.m.; lunch; -song service, 1:30 p.m.; talk, "The Face of ' an Angel" by the Rev. Hartzell Cobbs, 3 p.m.: Junior Endeavor In Ore gon awards, 3:30; story tune, iv0; Xriendshlp circle, 3:45 p.m. MI Russia Proposes Aid For Wounded OENEVA IM Russia proposed Wednesday an Immediate meeting of representatives of French Un ion forces and the R e d 1 e d Vletmlnh to discuss evacuation of wounded from Dlen Blen Phu, We besieged French stronghold In northwest Indochina. It also suggested Uiat leaders of the Vletmlnh, who have fought Ihe French for more Wan aeven years, be Invited to participate In the Oeneva debate on peace In Indochina along with repre sentatives of the United States, Britain, France, Russia, Red China and the three associated states of Indochina Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, With the exception of the Vlet mlnh, We French have proposed the same list. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov advanced the proposal at a private meeting wlw French For eign Minister Georges Btdault, weir second in aa many days at the Oeneva conference. EVACUATION Bldault had asked that the evacuation of "hundreds and hun dreds" of wounded from Dlen Blen Phu be agreed before deciding on the nations which will participate in talks here on peace in Indo china. The wounded are under treat ment in dugout shelters of the In dochina fortress. Vletmlnh guns block French planes from landing were. The rebels hsve denied a request from the garrison com mander. Brig. Oen. Christian de Castries, for a brief truce to per mit evacuation of the wounded. Molotov's proposal was an nounced at a Soviet news confer ence by Leonid Sychev. Russian Foreign Office spokesman, He said Molotov. sympa mixing with the French view that evacua tion of the wounded should be de cided Immediately, told Bldault that "to facilitate a solution, the representatives of interested sides should meet, even in Geneva if necessary." DEMANDS RESISTED Oychev did not say whether Bl dault agreed, France has been re sisting Communist efforts to bring the Vletmlnh to Oeneva. The Soviet proposal came amid these other developments in Ge neva and abroad bearing; on the Asian parley: 1. secretary of state Dulles re jected North Korea's proposal for unification elections, saying u a scheme "designed to destroy the authority of We existing (Seoul) government and to replace It by a Communist puppet regime. He called for general elections under United Nations supervision. 3. In Seoul, a spokesman for President Syngman Rhee's gov ernment termed the North Korean plan, advanced Tuesday by For eign Minister Nam H. a trap and 'completely unacceptable." 3. Diplomatic informants in Lon don said the United States is urg- ng its Western Allies publicly to pledge help quickly for France in resisting Communist aggression. However, as outlined there would be no direct ultimatum to Red China. Britain and France have opposed an ultimatum. AGREEMENT 4. A reliable source said the United States, Britain and France have agreed there can be no cease fire in Indochina without safe guards to Insure that the military situation remains frozen during ne gotiations for a political settle ment. This source said there was no inclination on the part of either We British or the French to agree to a cease-fire wiWout some ma chinery for guaranteeing the pres ent lines. SENATOR PHIL HITCH COCK will give the addrett of welcome to delegates to the. Stat Christian Endeavor .Convention which will open tomorrow in Klamath FalU, continuing through M a y 2. Sen. Hitchcock will bs pres ent at the personal represen tative of Governor Paul L, Patterson. The opening ses sion will ba held at Klamath Union High School at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, with a greet ing from tha Rev. Richard Graef, president of tha Klam ath Falls Ministerial Associa tion, Around 1000 youths and d u 1 1 8 active In C.E. work all over tha itata will b In attendance. IBaaaaww LdL Both the French and British pre viously had been reported anxious for a halt to the fighting, even if It entailed aome risk. The United States was reported insisting on safeguards to protect the French military positions. U. S. military authorities have aald privately they believe any cease-fire would be very difficult if not Impossible, to enforce since guerrillas and troops of We Com-munist-led Vletmlnh rebels infil trate all the areas In Viet Nam technically held by the French. French Foreign Minister Georges Bldault and Russia' V. M. Molo tov pushed ahead, meanwhile, in their private talks on aettlng up a big power conference on the Indo Chinese conflict. State FisK Prospects Reported PORTLAND H The Oregon State Game Commission in a Wed nesday report said it expected about 300.000 fishermen at the states lues and streams this weekend. With tha Mj-amtlAft f 1-1. - ervotrs and their tributaries within national lorests of uie Cascade Mountains, all state waters open for trout fishing on Saturday, May Prospects hsve been brightened, the commission said, by the libera tion program which has put 700, 000 yearling; fish, all of catchable size, m state waters wis year. The liberation program Is still under wsy. - More than 80 per cent of the Western Oregon waters have been atM-k-Arf inri mmI hmwi.-, . era Oregon streams also have oeen. juosi or we stock lioerated In rafnhmv inri mtHhwut averaging to 10 inches long. All flH -vl-ntui 1. n-. 1 - wuh, mi cauls UVf been at least 8 inches in larigth. The mmmlmlmi aaM Imam Kaj been some misunderstanding on iae uijenuiBB, sua saia uus la ine situation: East and Paulina Lakes in the Newberry Crater southeast of Bend are ' eonsftxered" "hi toe Cascade Mountain area and hence those lakes do not open until May 38. Elk Lake and Crane Prairie Res ervoir are also among the waters closed until May 39. Within Uie Deschutes Nationsl Forest there are aome lakes which do open on May 1. These are Suttle, Blue. Crescent, and Odell Lakes and Wickiup and Rock Creek Reservoirs. Yeyerhaeuser CIO Stalled PORTLAND Ul CIO Wood workers and the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. were unable to agree Tuesday on terms of a new con tract. The union and Weyerhaeuser met under We auspices of the fed eral mediaUon service. Weyerhaeuser, which last year granted an Increase that set DENIAL Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany officials state that the fed eral meditation service has not been called in .on any Wey erhaeuser meeting with union representatives and waa not Involved in the Tuesday meet ing in Portland, . pattern for much of the Industry. . offered "no increase" in this year's negotiations, Al Hartung, union president, reported. The union, which has authorized' its negotiating committee to call a strike May 3, Is asking a 13 cent hourly increase, a third week of paid vacation and changes in job classifications. Mediators said no further meet ings have been scheduled ' etween Weyerhaeuser and the union. The Lumbermen's Industrial Relations Committee and other Portland area employer groups will negoU ate Friday. Several smaller groups also have scheduled meetings prior to the strike deadline. Pigg Retains J.C.0'Melll Arthur F. Plgg, 73-year-old night club photographer, has retained Attorney J. C. O'Neill to defend him against a second degree mur der charge growing out of tha shooting last Sunday of Roy Dur ham, 48-year-old bank Janitor, The shooting climaxed a quarrel between the two men, according to city police, over Uie affections of Durham's ex-wife, Eulah, 44. Police Chief Orville Hamilton announced that Mra. Durham and Mrs. BUly Little, 60, held as ma terial witnesses, have been re leased from the city Jail. O'Neill said Wednesday hla client will appear sometime next week before District Judge D. K. Van Vactor to make known wheth er he win demand a preliminary hearing. Otherw'-e, the accused slayer will be held without bail for the county grand Jury. Plgg ta to tha oounty JatU , i . . ' 4
