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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1954)
1 Rnr?Ar : - t In The' Dav's Sews By FRANK JKNKINH Alter 30 hour of uninterrupted assault by lorres ouUminbtlii its garrison t least nix to one, tint Utile fortress ol Dien Bien Phu Hint hu held the oenler of (lie world spotlight lor no many weeks Idle to Ule commuuliti. It lull oowm 110 dsya alter ll original Investment by the com mies end alter 57 dy of more or leas continuous battle. During all Una period lla ground com munlcallona havo been cut and It has been supplied wholly by air. Tragic note- Hit Dten Bien Phu garrison nuinbera aome 14,000 men. Tney are now prlaonera of war. There was a lime In the world when that would not have been COM PLETELY tragic, lor these men would hate been honorably treated. Afler Korea, we know what they they face NOW. What they lace la grim. What does the fall of Dlen Blen Jhu mean? . It means that the communists can now go Into Oeneva with the status of VfCToruJ. Let's go bark lo our negottaUona lor a truce in Korea. We had lought the commu nists to a standstill. Even so. we hsd PLENTY ol trouble getting a truce that waa better than noth ing but lar from satlsfsclory. Alter Dlen Blen Phu, anyone who can foresee a aeltlemeni at Oeneva thai la even partially satlsfsclory to our aide Is an in curable opllmlsl. l.tt'a take a look at thu morn Intra comment. In Paris, Premier Laniel tells the French assembly ilhe lower and much more powerful house ol the Frenoh psrllament) that "Oie French reaction will be the reac tion of the VIRILITY OF A ,1S1K NATION." Thoae are bold words, bul they come ralner taut, n ino unui politicians hsd displayed any part n.rlinllm And th StatnUlS of the Frenchmen who have fought and died at Dlen men rnu haa Just happened would not have "T. ari ll,lnTlntf.r when deeds count more than aores. In Washington, House Speaker i,.tm AtMurthmm the, fsll Ol Dlen Blen Phu aa csuse of DEEP concern, and adds: "Unless the nations who believe In freedom unit quickly In support of the Dulles security plan, all Asia 1 threatened with communist dom instlon." Suppose the nations thst believe In freedom but are loath to light lor It don't unite. What then? Will we aund by ifnd permit all Asia lo lall to communism, or will WE do the lighting? Thai question Is a grim one. ll suggests anolner grim question: Why should we shed the blood of our sons to save the remaining nations of Asia from commu nism? Why not let them go com munist and stew In their own Juice? Take a look at this: We hsve set Jspsn up aa our bulwark In the East. There are 60 million J spa In an area no bigger than Oregon and California. If ihey survive, they must TRADE lor they can't support themselves out of their own resources. We aren't going to let them trade with ua to an extent that will sup port them. They'll have lo trade some where. Their natural trading; area la Asia. If ALL Asia goes com munist, the Japs will have to trade with the communists OR STARVE. How csn they trsde with the communists and FIGHT the com munist! at one and the same time? Putting It briefly, our Job Is to try to aa.v enough of Asia FOR THE JAPS TO TRADE WITH so thst they can remain strong enough to be our bulwark In the East. That's about the long and the abort of It. Portland Spud Prices Rise PORTLAND 11 Quality 'po tatoes brought stronger prices In Portland wholesale trading Friday, retailers paying 38 cents a hun dredweight higher because of the near-end of the old crop. Buyers for produce hotises sslrl the aupply in Deschutes areas was tight and little good quality offer ings were being shipped, As a result, some turned to the Klamath Falls market and met higher quotations. Quotations to retailers Friday; Deschutes Russets, No, 1-A, $1,90 to ll.to a hundredweight oft Job bers' floors; No. as, U to M cents a lo-pound sack. No. 1-A Klamathi went at $3, California Long Whites rsnged from Mis to 4.7 for nam! brawls. KLAMATH Price Fir Cents 16 Paxes 5 A USSON IN OMISSION from theio Klamath Union High School student! on their way to school this morning: Senior Ron Tomlin I left I hai graduated down to only piece of paper to "haul horn" al night end back in th morning: Sylvi Wilbur, freihman, carries a hug notebook bulging at th leamil French Resisiajree An Asia Called Free World Symbol WASHINGTON l.fl President Elsenhower said Friday the re sist snce of French Union forces si the now fallen lorlress of Dlen Blen Phu "will forever aland ss a symbol of the tree world's de tormlnsllon to resist dictatorial ag- giession. Tho President set forth hi vlrwa In ft mcsssite lo President Rene Coty ol France, released iliorlly alter the fall of the Indo china fortress was announced. It was a quirk follow-up to calls from congressional leaders tor uni ted acllon by free world nations to stem the Communist tide In Asia. Elsenhower said France has sul- LOY J. IARKER Lions Elect New President Loy J. Barker, Is tlio new presi dent of tho Klamath Falls Lions Club. Ed Dlttrlch will servo as first vice president; O. B. "Brick" Leach, second vlco president;- Ir ving C. Burke, lion tamer; Bill Mills, talltwlster. Two-ycnr direc tors eleolcd aro Jack Bothwell. Frank Blackmor mid Dr. Frank Johnson, , An Installation party Is planned for May 38. Musio for the dinner dance will bo by La Mnr Jensen. The club expects a number of members lo attend the stato con vention, June 13-14-15 at Coos Bay, KLAMATH BASIN POTATO SHIPMENTS klas4 Tsssr SI cart Sams bar i.mI Tisr U can TtUI tr Wtn 11.1 SI can 11,250 car lIM-tt ' llll-M Ml FALLS, OKK.UON, FltlDAV, M, If i uniu&i'V'-.vi fered "temporary defeats" In the pail." bul always she has trl umphed In the end to continue as cne of the world's lesders In sll things that tend to bring greater richness to the lives of men." "It Is time for our allies and so called allies lo stsnd up and Oil counted and atop quibbling, Een. Bridges (R-NH) said. House Speaker Martin (R-Mass) described - the bastion's lall as csuse of deep concern" and added In an Interview: "Unless the nations who believe In freedom unite quickly In sup port of the Dulles security plan, all Asia Is threstened with Com munist domination." Msrtin's reference wss to Sec retsry ol Stale Dulles' proposal lor a coalition to take "united ac tion" against the Communists in Southeast Asia. Republican Leader Knowland (Calif) told newsmen the "lerrlllc defease of Dlen Blen Phu may awaken the free world to the dan ger and menace of International communism and Inspire the need for a more adequate free world defense." Knowland, describing the defense of fortress as "one of the great est epochs In history," ssld lis capture by the Viet Minn was "ob vlously a setback, though It has been very costly to Uie Commu nist forces." Three Injured In Car Smash inree men were injured, one seriously, early this morning, when a car In which they were riding failed to ncgotlato the turn at the intersection of Airway Drive and Highway 38, six miles south east of here. Clinton Cobb, 3941 Lavcrne, a passenger In the car, was still In it aeml-consclous condition late this morning from a severe bump on the head, His condition Is as good as could be expected, ac cording to hospital authorities, Driver hf the car. Bob D. Free- man, 1533 Derby, and another passenger - Lcroy Boyd, 1103 Homcdale, were released from the hospital after receiving medical attention for cuts and bruises. According to Oregon Stale Po lice, tho Freeman car was travel' ing east on Airway Drlva about 3:30 a.m. when another car passed at a high rata of speed and Free man "opened up" In an effort to overtake the other vehicle, Blowing down Just in tlms to make the sharp turn, the first car saiaaeq arouna uie turn and con tinued on. The Freeman car "burned rubber" for 150 feet be fore reaching the Intersection but was unable to make tha turn, and crossed tha highway and rolled over into th ditch, officers slated Th ear was badly wrecked, IE 4am SI It No. 313 Dulles To Report On Asia Plans By JOHN M. IIIGIITOWER WASHINGTON uB-8ecretary of Stale Dulles has developed a two- stage program for organizing an anll-Communlst coalition In South east Asia and hopes It will produce provisions! arrangement In a matter ol weeks. Dulles Is due to hold a series of diplomatic discussions here shortly for the first stage ol negotiations. Officials said today It aeems cer tain to begin with a multlnation military staff conference. The military conference, and possibly additional diplomatic talks, would be designed to pro duce a provisional security ar rangement to alsnd until later second-stsge talks eventually re sulted In a formal security treaty. A minimum of five and s max imum of 10 or dozen countries could be represented In the first conlerences. Authorities said tne British have agreed to cooperate and they termed this a lorward step. Previously the Churchill gov ernment hsd withheld joining In Dulles' proposed "united acllon" pending elforts for an Indochina peace aettlement at Oeneva. Dulles conferred with President Elsenhower at the White House fir more than an hour Friday morning. He told newsmen alter ward that they had discussed Fri day night's speech. Asked about reports that he was working on what a newsman termed a compromise solution ol Uie Indochina problem, Dulles lunghed and replied: "There are so many stories that If I commented on them all I wouldn't havo time to write my speech." ' "'.'.. f Dulles will report to th nation by rsdlo and television tonight on Indochina "and on other subjects, notably tha Korean peace dead lock, with which he dealt at Oe neva last week with Allied nations and the Communists. . The broadcast Is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. EST. His 30-mlnule tslk will be car ried at the time of delivery by the ABC TV network and by NBC. CBS and Mutual radio networks. Rcbroadcasts will be carried by CBS TV at 11:15 p.m. and by ABC radio at 11. KFLW-CB.4 will rebroadcast Sec retary of State Dulles' speech to alghl, Friday, at C:30 p.m. Advance Information was that he would emphasize his and Presi dent Elsenhower's resolve de spite disappointments so tar to form a united front with friendly nations aimed at saving Southeast Asia from Communist conquest. Then, aides said, he will talk In the next few days with diplomats of a number of countries which could be Included In the alliance, particularly about the subject of military negotiations. Informants said it had not been settled just what countries would be Included, and they emphasized that the con ference la still only a proposal sub ject to revision. Indian Lumber Pay Raised SALEM ijl Oregon's Warm Springs Indians will get an extra K60.000 a year for their timber. Interior Secretary Douglas McKay ordered Thursday. The order follows complaints by the Indians that they were entitled to more money for their reserva tion timber. McKay said the Warm Springs Lumber Co. will pay $20 a' thous and board feet, compared with $16 It now pays. The Philip Dahl Co. will pay 318, Instead of the present 113. The Indians' complaint to McKay was made last March, and McKay sent three of his assistants to Ore gon to hold a hearing. The Increase Is necessary, Mc Kay said, because pine prices huve increased considerably since the last time the price for the In dians' timber was adjusted. McKay warned, however,- that tho Warm Springs increase isn't a pattern In cases involving timber sules on other reservations. Each case will be decided on its merits, ho added. Carnegie Board Names Sprague NEW YORK Ml The Board of Trustees of the Carnegie En dowment for International Peace announced Thursday that Charles A. Sprague, editor and publisher of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, Ore,, and former governor of Ore ton, has been elected to the board. ri i fn Q ji ' l&11dle?itfliibfci ESCORTE0 TO MURDER HEARING by Sheriff Murray (Red) Britton this morning from th county jail wss Arthur F. Pigg, right, held for th murder of Roy Durham on April 25. Hearing Held In Pigg Case - Br LTLE DOWNING Arthur F. Pigg. 73-year-ald night club photographer, charged with second degree murder, was pic tured as a gay Loahario Involved with at least three women during a preliminary hearing Friday In Dis trict Judge D. E. Van Vector's court. Eulah May Durham, 44-ycar-old ex-wlfe of Roy Durham, who Pigg Is aUeged to have killed at the climax of a love quarrel, testified the gun victim was enraged at the aged photographer for breaking up a romance with ' a girl named Thelma." Under cross-examination by De fense Attorney J. C. O Nelll, Mrs. Durham described the slaying of her ex-husband. O Nelil got an ad mission from the woman that she had not only lied to the district attorney but also to the police. SELF DEFENSE O'Neill Is attempting to show that Pigg shot Durham in self de fense. According to Mrs. Durham's ver sion of the shooting under cross questioning. Pigg had driven her and Mrs. Billy Little, 60. to his home a few minutes before the killings. "Billy and I started walking away from Mr. Pigg's house," he said, "when Roy appeared. Roy was fighting mad. "He said 'I'm going to get that Pigg for break, inir ud mo and my girl friend. Thelma. Pigg's been taking whisky over to Betty and Thelma." Earlier in her testimony. Mrs. Durham testified that on the after noon before the shooting; she and Durham drove around Klamath Falls and parked on a hill outside of town. There, she said, tney agreed to re-marry. She added "we were very happy about it.' EXAMINATION Under examination by Attorney O'Neill. Mrs. Durham said when Durham appeared near Pigg's home, he was "mumbling" about his girl friend. Thelma. "He was headed right for Pigg's anartmen t." she continued. "I grabbed his arm. Ho said he was going to get that Pigg. He was making a big noise and dis turbing the peace. I saw Mr. Pigg step out his door with a pistol in his hand. Then I turned and took off. A short distance from the scene ol the shooting. Mrs. Durham said she saw a strange man and burled her face In his coat. "I heard three shots and I was hvstorlcol." she explained. burled my face In this strange man's eoat " Mrs. Durham said she went back to tho scene of the shooting when police arrived. She was still on the witness stand when the morning session was recessed. Twenty Firemen, Die In Disaster RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil 11 Twentv firemen were reported missing; and presumed dead Fri day after explosions and fire wiped out powder and petroleum storage facilities on a smal Island in near by Ouanabara Bay. Eight other firemen were scrl- ously Injured In the disaster on the Island or Braco Forte, about eight miles from the city. The depot belonged to the Rto port ad ministration. Damage was estima ted at three million cruzeiros (1106,000), Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Saturday. High Saturday 89; Low Friday night 45. Ulgh yesterday Low last night . 43 . 13.0 13.35 Preclp last 24 hours . Since Oct. 1 Same period last year Normal far period .10.50 Ends Srike RICHLAND. Wash. Wl A work stoppage bymore than 10.000 un ion workers at the Hanford Atom ic Works halted Thursday night when the Atomic Energy Commis sion ordered non-union men to quit work. The workmen started their one- day walkout Wednesday evening in protest to appearance of five non union electrical workers at the 150 million dollar construction project. AFL officials announced later the men would stay off the jobs until the non-union workers left. The AEC capitulated Thursday afternoon and union officials or dered their members back to work on the swing shift. Milt Cydell. information chief of the AEC. said no decision had been made beyond ordering work stop ped by the Cisco Construction Co. of Portland. The 31 unions Involved had aimed their walkout at the Cisco firm and the Schultz Elec tric Co., a subcontractor of Pasco. The Cisco company has con tracts to build a $71,377 silica waste storage tank and 3479.000 worth of transmission lines and substations. s-in lv o. 1 & Mm. M x i' -J-t't THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON it th goal of pretty Shirley Sut Travtt, Malin hioh tchoot senior, winner of th annual $1000 Elk scholarship, rclv!nq her first check for $500 lt .night from L. A. Dragtr, xaltd ruler of Klamath Falls Lodg, No. 1247. Th ncona chtclr! for $500 will b ready at th start of th nxt year of school. Shirley plant to ntr niirio't training after preliminary work at the university. Looking on, Ss Andrew Street, principal of th Malin high school, who with Mrs, Street, escorted Shirley to tho lodg to claim rW honor. She it th daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L Travis, Malin, and th third student in th history f th school to win straight . I grades In all tubiacts, o , . Fort Submerged By Red Masses By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS Dlen Blen Pbu has fallen. Premier Joseph L a n I e 1 an nounced late Friday the northwest Indochina bastion "has been sub merged." A little fortress named Isabclle, site of the French Union garrison's mam artillery, was still holding out three miles south of the bloodied, muddied bastion that had epito mized the Indochina War to the world for 57 days. - One of the last orders Brig. Oen. Christian de Castries, the lanky commander in chief, sent to Isa belle was to fire on his own com mand post when the Communist led rebel riflemen finally cut through. There was no Immediate word as to the fate of Gen. De Castries, commander of the fallen garrison, nor that of Genevieve de Galard Terraube. French nurse and the only woman in the besieged fort. She had been decorated for gal lantry twice within the week. VAIN EFFORT Premier Laniel told the National Assembly counterattacks had been launched In a vain effort to block the rebels from making a juncture in attacks from the northeast and the southwest, but the defense ef forts failed. "The government has J"st learned that Dien Blen Phu has been submerged after 30 hours of uninterrupted combat," L a n I e 1 said. Laniel said "The French reaction will be the reaction of the virility ol a great nation." He added France will confirm Its instructions to its delegates at Geneva without admitting that the Dien Bien Pbu can change any thing. "France win recall to Its allies that during: seven years It has never quit defending alone a great region of Asia," Laniel told the Assembly. All the deputies In the Assembly stood while Laniel announced the fall of Dien Bien Phu except the Communists.-They remained seat ed. " Oen. Ho Nguyen Glap's rebel siege forces, bidding . for .victory before the Geneva conference started' negotiations tor an end to tho 7-year-old war, outnumbered De Castries' garrison by 4-to-l or more. . BIG LOSSES ' De Castries, was estimated on the eve of the showdown battle to have 14,000 men, including wound ed, at his command. These were Frenchmen, Foreign Legionnaires, Vietnamese and North Africans. There were a boat 1,000 wounded In underground bunkers of the fort. All efforts for a truce to evacuate them had failed. The fortress, situated in a broad fist rice nlain about six miles long and half that wide, was pounded by artillery and mortars during the long days of the siege. Each new wave of infantrymen hit off a bit of the original fortress until when the attack started dur in the post night, a field little bigger than a baseball diamond remained in which the defenders were concentrated. Defense of the little fortress was made difficult by the fact that all the surrounding hills were held by the Vietminh and, to the surprise of the French Union forces, they were strongly supplied with artil lery, for the first time in the more than seven years that they have been fighting the French. Beyond, that. also, they had anti aircraft guns which some French and American officials insisted were manned by Chinese craws, fuct never formally established. The end result was, however, that plans to supply the fortress with an airlift from Hanoi proved expensive and extremely difficult. Planes had to drop their supplies from a high altitude, so that much equipment tell Immediately Into Vietminh hands. the fortress at t p.m. (7 a.m.' PST). He talked with Vice Pre mier Paul Reynaud, M a u r t c Schumann,' secretary of state in the foreign office, and Rene Pleven, minister of .defense. They prepared the statement lead to the Assem bly just before 5 p.m. Only about 70 of the (37 deputies were In the chamber. At the termination of his brief announcement, the Assembly re ceased out of respect to the de feated. US: Pilots Killed In IndoYar SAIGON. Indochina HI A Fly ing Boxcar blew up Thursday on a supply drop ' mission to be sieged Dien Bien Pbu, killing its two American civilian pilot and the French crew chief. . One of the Americans, James B. "Earthquake McOoon" McOov era 33, of Elizabeth, N.J., waa one of the most famous and in trepid airline pilots in th Far East. Th Chinese Communists had held him captive for fire months in 1350 after he crash- landed in Red territory. The other American killed was Wallace Aboott Buford. 3S. of Og den, Utah, who narrowly escaped death 10 days ago when his plane was riddled by AA-ilr,- which wounded the American pilot With, him. ;.'' . .An official French Command . auntfmceroenL'saJoXiha cans of -the explosion was hot known but unofficial observers thought pos sibly it had been hit-by Vietminh: anti-aircraft, ; McOovern and Buford w e r among a group of some 35 U.8. civilians are paid $35 a flying; hour tired Maj. Gen. Claire Cnesnault's Civil Air Transport, who are Oytot the big- Boxcar transports the United States has supplied th French air force for the drops to Dien Bien Phu. . Working under contract to th French air force,' the American cvillans are paid $35 a flying: hour above their regular airline pay. More than 300 U.S. Air Force technicians are stationed at French air bases In Indochina, but their duties are confined entirely to non combat servicing of American air craft supplied the French. The CAT pilots began parachut ing the supplies Into Dien Blen Phu in March. Later the French announced they had ordered the American pilots to stay at 10,000 feet over Dien Bien . Phu, - to keep them away from the Vietminh fire. CONVENTION PORTLAND 11 . Younf Demo crats of Oregon will hold their an nual convention here Saturday, Party candidates for major offices will speak. More than 150 delegates are expected.
