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Newspaper Page TextD nir Id El mm In The' Dav's Dews By FHANK JI.NKINH I've Junt finished rcudlnir tlie statement given nut ior publication by Winnie unci Iks alter they had finished Uielr session and Blr Wins ton hud taken oil lor a visit In Canada. Speaking candidly. It la duller Uian dishwater aa It was Intrud ed to bo. Ths spicy kind of state ment we'd all gel a kick out o( readlnic would rock the boat and this If no tlnio lor boat rock ing. At noon yetlerday, church Ill broke the atraln of the heavy Wlilla House cuntercnooa by going out to lunch at the National Press Club. He waa prevailed upon to ay a few words, and amonii other Uilngs he expressed hla peraonnl belief Uial a plan lor "peacelul co-exlatence" with the Soviet bloc can be developed. He called lor patience In our re lation with Kussla. along with a "cool, friendly examination of what the Ruaalana want." It'a pretty good advice, ir, but I think that AS OP NOW this la what the Ruaalan want: They want the world with the Ruiulan flag- flying- over It and the communist brand of the hammer and eickle permanently burned Into Ka rump, I'd aay that before we can reach th desirable stage of "peaceful-co-existence" wltli Ue Sovleta that you mention we'll have to convince the men In the Kremlin that thry JUST CAN'T HAVE THE WORLD WITH THE SOVIET BRAND BURNKD INTO ITS RUMP. Convincing them ol that la our preaent Job. It' a big Job, But once we gel them convinced that WE CANT BE TAKEN It will be com paratively eaay to Injure out a way to get along with them In the world. But aa long aa they think they ran take us, they'll keep on try ing. What ' going on In Guatemala la ailll puuling Including the hid den boll trick the commlea appar ently tried when President Arbent resigned In lavor ol a Junta thai seems to have been rather heavily loaded with communists. The anil communal crowd. It o w e v e r. re fused, V tall for It and are holding out ft ' elimination of all commu nist In Vrncea In Uie capital. I stilt hope the anil-communists down there (who seem to have han dled themselves rather well so Jen turn out to be 'Oualemalan PATRIOTS who are ready to fight and die If need be to Iree their country of communism and KEEP IT FREE. If the apread of communlam Is to be checked, there must found somewhere In the world some na tion that la ready and willing to riOHT FOR ITS OWN LIBERTY. Guatemala might be that nation. Anyway, It's worth hoping. At the moment, it will have to be agreed, the world la a rather grim-looking spectacle. The farther one looks, the harder It Is to see a bright spot. Wait a minute. Do you remember the general reports from the valley of the Rio Grande about this time a year ago? It waa so dry that every thing waa cracking open. BUT NOW THE RIO GRANDE IS STAOINO THE B I O O E S T FLOOD IN ITS LONO HISTORY You never can tell. State Highway Delays Listed SALEM W Delaya on five ma jor highway routes In Oregon were listed Monday by the Oregon State Highway Department In Its weekly roaa report, tney were: Central OrcRon Highway U. 8. 9ft and OK V d 1 mJa rr. nnnalHinilm. abort sections gravel surface, some wnat rough and dusty. Columbia River Highway U. a 10, Big Eddy four miles enst of The Dalles, construction, minor de lays. The Dalles-California Highway U, 8. B7. La Pine north 13 miles, construction, possible minor de laya. Paclllo Highway U. 8. M, Med lord to a point five miles north, construction, possible minor delay. Coast Highway U. 8. 101, three miles north of Oardlner, five miles construction, possible minor delay; Port Orlord-Oold Beach, construc tion from 2 to 14 miles south of Port Orford, possible minor de lays. Ancient Egypt Mummy Found SAQQARA, Egypt Wl Top ugypiian arcneoiogiats said Tues day the ruined stop pyrnmld re cently discovered In this burial ground of early Egyptian Pha raohs was that of Sekelm-Khet, a ruler of the ancient third dy nasty. . The alabaster sarcophagus In the pyramid' main burial chamber was opened Sunday but waa found to be empty. The announcement of the Pha raoh's name waa made by Znkarla Oonelm, the discoverer of the pyr amid. Speaking to the Egyptian Premier Oamel Abdcl Nasser and a group of newsmen touring the area, Oonelm aald tlio ruler's name appeared on the covers of aeveral Jars found In the pyra mid's chambers. its 14 Pages Price Five Cents 14 Pages Klamath Basin HONEST, THE FELLOW DREW IT TOO Merchants' Fun Week WEDNESDAY June 30 1 p.m., 7lh Street between Main and Pine, bathing beauty review and fashion show. Chiang, U.S. Pact Planned TAIPEH, Formosa Ifi An In fluential Talpeh newspaper, aald Tuesday President Chiang Kai Shek and Oen, James A. Van Fleet have agreed tentatively on a mutual defense pact Unking Na tionalist China and the United 8tata. There was no confirmation from any source. The usually well-informed Unit ed Daily News said: 1 Chiang and Van Fleet had agreed on a pact which would leave the Nationalists free to at tack Red China and would not com mit the United States to support such an attack. 3 The United States would agree to proleat major offshore island bases such aa Qucmoy and the Tachcns. Qucmoy, near Red-held Amoy, lies across Uie Formosa Straits. The Tachcns. northern anchor ol the Nationalist Island chain, lie roughly 300 miles north of For mosa. Since Uie outbreak of war In Korea Uie U.8. 7th Fleet haa pa trolled waters around Formosa to guard against Red Invasion. However, It hss not guarded Uie offshore Island bases, many of which lie almost within range of Red guns, Tlie Dally News said Uie tenta tive delenae pact has been sent to Washington for final approval, -" r . Impact Of Lumber Strike Felt On Western Cities Br Tim associated rRisss Tlie Paclllo Northwest lumber strike, now In Its second week, con tinued with no apparent change Tuesday and lls impact on com munities and lumber prices began to grow. Typical of what was happening In areas where economy Is geared to lumber was this report at Olym- pla by Peter R. Qiovlne, Washing ton state director of employment seourlty: "During the past week alone, about 1,000 workora who were laid oft as an Indirect result of the labor dispute, filed claims , , . . These included persons employed In cafeterias, on log booms, tugs, In trucking and other occupations closely allied with Uie lumber In dustry but not Involved In the dis pute." At Eugene, one of uie country's major lumbering centers, mer chants expressed fear for the fu ture If the strike Is prolonged, but reported no dropofl In business thus far. One union spokesman said that a great number of men are on regular paid vacations, thus defer ring some of the strike's economic effect. Tlie heavy vacation period is the Inst- part of June ana ine first part of July. The Southern Faciuc Railroad which laid off 390 men at Eugene and Portland, reported Eugene car loadings In the first week of the strike off only 30 per cent In KLVrjijjV,KOON. TUKHDAV, JUNE Rounds WHO DREW MY GUN, LONG TO DRAW. Rodeo Big Names Arrive Big names In rodeo are already congregating at rodeo headquar ters In anticipation of Uie three-day show slsted lor the weekend. Mel Lsmbert, well known rodeo announcer from Salem, arrived late Monday night. He has been an nouncing rodeos since 1938, and will keep local audiences Informed on the "who" and "what" at each of Uie three shows here. Show time Is 7 p.m. Saturday evening ( family night, when chil dren under 16 will be admitted Iree with one paid adult admis sion), 7 p.m. Sunday evening and 1:30 p.m. Monday. Cowboys at headquarters this morning included Ross Dollsrhlde, Lakevlew boy. who Is now world champion bulldogger, and Bub Oatzman, Wnterlord, California, recognized as one of Uie best pick up men In Uie United States as well as a champion team roper and all around cowboy. Books will be open at the fair grounds at noon Thursday lor en tries. At noon Saturday, July 3. all re maining rodeo tickets will be translerred to the fairgrounds for sale. Until that time Uiey may be purchased at rodeo headquarters In the chamber of commerce build ing. Huge Fortune Left To Charity CHICAGO 11 Nearly five mil lion dollars was left to charity by Mrs. Mary F. Southwell Worcester, 93, her will filed In Probate Court disclosed yesterday. Mrs. Worcester, who died June 20, was survived by her husband, Charles H., retired president and treasurer of Uie Munlslng Paper Co. stead of Uie exprctcd SO per cent from Inst year. This wss attributed to smaller mills unorganized or operating under settlements pushing production and having a strong porcentngo effect In a nor mnlly dull period. Clow's Lumber Digest, authori tative trnde Journal, reported at Portland Ihnl green dimension lumber had been climbing last in price. Orocn 3 mid belter 3x4 stud ding was selling at $73 to $75 a thousand, up $11 to $14 since the strike's start. Tlie Digest pointed out that vir tually no kiln dried fir lumber Is being produced lntho region now, so sales nre on' green stock, pro duced from Uie small, operating mills. The AFL and Uie CIO unions Joined In striking in an cflort to get a 13 li-cent hourly pay In crease. The base minimum psy has ranged nround $1.85. Operators, In united negotlnllons, held firm agnlnht nny pny Increases. Sines the strike started June 31 thero have been scattered settle ments, but none of Importance. Mennwhllo, the contract between tho AFL and MfcM Woodworking Co., covering 3,1100 plywood plant workers In Washington, Oregon and California, expires Wednesday night. There has been no hint of progress by negotiators, or wheth er these workers, will Join outers In the strlko, Vandenberg To Call Civil Cases Status of criminal prosecution in Circuit court was uncertain Tues day sfter Judge David R. Van denberg announced he will con centrate on civil actions as a re sult of District Attorney Frank Alderson's demsnd for an outside Judge to preside here. Last Saturday, Aldcrson filed two motions asking the supreme court to name another Judge to try two criminal cases. This was followed by a motion objecting to an out side Judge filed by Attorney V. 8. Balenllne, counsel for Tobe Carter, under Indictment on a morals charge. Balenllne claimed Alder son was attempting to deprive bis client of a speedy trial. Judge Vandenberg and Alderson have been at odds for months over methods used by the district at torney In handling criminal cases. Aldcrson lost a bitterly fought bogus check ca6e when a circuit court Jury late Monday returned a not guilty verdict after only eight minutes of deliberation. The defendant In this case was Robert R. Smith, 31-year-old con struction worker, who was charged with passing a $50 bogus check at Uie Crater Lake Cale It Tavern in Fort Klamath. Defense Attorney George Proc tor evidently convinced the Jury that Uie state failed to prove the material allegations In the Indict ment. In his plea for acquittal, Proctor said that the state failed to prove that Smith obtained mon ey under false pretenses or passed a bogus check. Proctor also pointed out that Uie complaining witness, Howsrd Ol son, did not endorse Uie check In volved, therefore It was not pro perly presented for payment at a Klamath Falls bank. It was also brought out during testimony that Olson sold Smith beer on credit which was a viola tion of 'state law. Olson also ad' mltted making out the check In quesUon and handing It to Smith to sign. Asked why he did this. Olson said the defendant wss "too nervous" to mske out the check himself. Judge Vandenberg was reluctant to discuss Alderson's attempt to have an outside Judge assigned to Klamath County. He said, however, that due to delays In prosecution of criminal cases, there has only been one civil docket call In Klam ath county in the past 14 months. "If prosecutions had been pro perly handled." the Judge added, "many of the civil matters pend ing could have been disposed of long ago. I am going to have a civil docket call In the next few daya. All during July I will be try ing civil cases." ' S''MtW.asiiBasaaaaaaaXrM EVERY CONTRAPTION thai boyi and glrlt could figure out to mar balloons ihowed up yet tarday on Main Street when 1000 helium tilled, brightly colored baublet floated out over the town from' the top of the Medical-Dental building. The youngtteri carried long polei with pint, butterfly nth, wirei and inakt jnaret. Doiertt of the balloons each carrying marchandist) certificate are already being redeemed In local storet. Many of the high flyers took off In a stiff breeza toward eaitern Oregon. Tha balloons war turnad loosa, promptly at I p.m. in thai . opening program of Merchant's Fun Week that will continue until Saturday. 28, IKS4 . Weather FORKCAHT Klamath Falls and vicinity. Fair through Wednesday with occaalonal high cloudiness. High Wednesday 14; lew Tuesday night 38. High yesterday ... ...'..la' Low last night .49 Precip, last Z4 hours 0 Blnre Oct. 1 14.19 Same period last year -I4.83 ...12.09 Normal lor period Rio Grande Flood Hits New High LAREDO, Tex. W Thousands fled to higher ground Tuesday ahead of Uie Rio Grande's greatest flood In history. Another cloudburst a bit mild er than Uie weekend ones that sent the Rio Grande on Its ram pagehit Lamesa, 300 miles north of the river. The state civil defense head quarters listed 13 known dead and five still missing In Monday's cloudburst at Ozona. 112 miles north of Uie river. Another body, removed to Ban Angelo, made a total of 13 dead. There was no reported loss of most to Uie rooftops in two resi dential sections. Water there would drain Into Uie Colorado River, not Uie Rio Grande. Along the Rio Grande Uie crest of Uie flood was reported past Del Rio and at Eagle Pass Tuesday. Laredo expected it Wednesday morning. The crest was expected to reach 55-60 feet here. Almost a thousand persons were evacuated in Laredo In prepara tion for Uie mighty flood. The Salvation Army reported 13.000 Mexicans had been driven from their homes at Ciudad Acuna, acioss the river from Del Rio, and were camped on the hills out from Itowiv . , Eagle Pass, 100 mues Up the river, stayed awake Monday night. All night long. Uie high-waisted trucks shuttled back- and forth evacuating those In trouble or Just scared, helping carry out mer chandise from the stores down by the river, where water csme to the top of the parking meters. Four houses and a big gasoline transport truck lrom nobody knew where were Jammed with the oth er debris against Die part of the International highway bridge still left at Eagle pass. Four patients at the Eagle Pass hospital. Including a young moth er who gave birth to a baby at midnight, were (ficuated after water rose to a depth of eight feet all around the hill on which the hospital stands. Telephone 8111 No. 3110 Guatemalan Cease-Fire Reported MEXICO CITY t&t A diplomatic source in Guatemala City report ed Tuesday that arrangements were being completed for a cease, lire in Guatemala, The cease-fire would provide an amnesty for political prisoners ex ceptlng known Communists. This report came a few hours sfter Guatemala got Its third gov ernment in three days. A new Junta headed by an anti-Communist dis placed Uie government formed by Col. Carlos Enrique Diss Sunday night, Diaz, in turn, had taken over from Uie pro-Communist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. The report about Uie cease-fire came from a Latin American diplo mat In Guatemala City who asked not to be Identified by name. It was received here by . Don Bolt, special correspondent of The Indianapolis Star, the Dayton (Ohio) Dally News and the Terre Haute (Ind.) Tribune. Bolt succeeded in placing a per sonal telephone call to a diplo mat friend In Guatemala City, one of the first such calls to be com pleted In the last several days. The Informant told Bolt at the time he - was speaking, citizens of Guatemala City were sitting by their radios awaiting Uie announce ment that a truce had been agreed upon. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador ( The Guatemalan government ra dio Tuesday reported Uie resigna tion oi tne regime headed by Col. Carlos Enriaue Diaz who had taken over from President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman 8unday night. The announcement came after Col. Castillo Armas, leader of the anti-Communist rebels In the ouatemaian war, demanded "un conditional surrender" of the Junta ncaaeo py. Enrjqqe .Diaz.. . , . .The Ouatemaian broadcast said Jose A. Sanchez, another member of the three-man junta which suc ceeded Arbenz, had also quit. It said Alfred H. Monzon, who was- the third member of Uie Junta nesded by Enrique Diaz, now heads the new ruling group. The other two were listed as Jose Luis Salazar and Maurice Dubois. The rebels under Castillo Armas had threatened to keep up their fight against Uie regime headed by Diaz. The Guatemalan radio ssid Monday afternoon rebel headquarters made no mention of the bombing. (Private advices reaching New Tork said Uie Diaz Junta was over thrown in a coup by Qel. Monzon. Re was described aa an anU-Co ra in un 1st. :;-nQ-V' jadeMb DESTINATION swimming pool, where Karen Grimes, Route 2, Box 7 1 7, is enrolled as a. student. Registrations ara being taken now at the pool for swimming sessions for tha two week period be ginning July 1 2. Annual Beatty Rodeo Planned The Beatty Roping Club will sponsor the second annual Fourth of July rodeo 8unday and Monday, July 4 and 6, at the Beatty rodeo grounds one half mile north of Beatty. Show will start at 1 p.m. each day, featuring only local talent. Purse money amounts to $750. m addition a saddle, donated by the club, and a silver buckle, donated by Charlie Read, will be awarded to' the all around cowboy of the two-day ahow. Silver buckles will be awarded the winners in all seven events, with a buckle for both the milker and the mugger in Uie wild cow milking contest. Events win include bareback and saddle bronc Tiding-, calf roping, team roping, steer stopping, cut ting horse contest and wild cow milking contest. The grandstand capacity Is 750 persons, with lots of room on the fences. Officers of the sponsoring club are Sandy Miller, president: Dale Walker, vice president; Tom La cey, secretary-treasurer; George Anderson and Don Shonchin, di rectors. Steel Wage Talks Held PITTSBURGH Wl Top policy makers of the CIO United Steel workers gathered for meetings to day amid reports a new contract agreement has been reached with U. 8. Steel Corp., which usually sets the bargaining pace for Uie entire basic steel Industry. While Uie negotiators didn't end a marathon negotiating session un til 3 a.m. (EDT) today, the union's Executive Board got ready to meet at 10 a.m. (EDT). At 3 p.m. (EDT) the TJSW's no-man Wage Policy Committee was scheduled to act on Uie board's recommendation. Although neither Big Steel nor the union would comment on re ports of a settlement, Uie Pitts burgh Post-Gazette said an agree ment had been reached. The news paper predicted quick ratilicaUon and said the other major steel companies, facing Uie same con tract expiration deadline of mid night tomorrow, will fall Into line. A source close to the union was quoted as saying the reported agreement provided a package In crease' totaling about 12 'j cents an hour. However, industry sources were reported to have set the lig ure at about ( cents an hour. French Pull Troops Back SAIGON, Indochina lfl The French today announced abandon ment of a strong point In central Viet Nam and admitted two days of Vietmlnh ambushes had mauled their withdrawing troops badly. The high command said French and Vietnamese forces pulled out last Friday from An Khe, 250 miles northeast of Saigon and 40 miles west of the China Sea coast. It had been In French hands since IMS. The French aald their forces suffered "serious losses" In an all- day fight with the Communist-led rebels last Friday and more dam age In acUona continuing into Bun day. But the high command said Vietmlnh claims of more than 1,000 casualties wero greatly exaggerated. Armaments Reduction Called For By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON HI President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill called Tuesday for "gen eral and drastlo reduction" of world armaments "under effective safeguards." In a six-point statement of prin ciples they also asserted their de termination to try to bring about conditlona In the world In which Uie "prodigious" forces of atomic energy "can be used to enrich and not to destroy mankind." At the same time they held out to all nations. Including Commun ist nations, "the hand of friend ship," on the condition that by "solemn pledge and confirming deeds (these nations) show them selves desirous of participating In a Just and fair peace." The statment waa released by the White House an hour after Elsenhower and Churchill conclud ed their last meeting In the Presi dent's office and said goodbye on the south lawn of Uie White House. The two men shook hands warm ly. . 'GOOD LUCK' "Goodbye and good luck," Chur chill said. . "The same to you," replied the President. And to Christopher Soames, son-in-law of Churchill, Eisenhower said: "Good luck Bring him back again, will you?" Churchill planned to leave by plane in the afternoon for Ottawa, Canada. . , In five days of talks here, tha Prime Minister and the President overcame some British-American differences but left many issue unsettled. Here are six points 61 the prin ciples set out In their statement: 1. The two men win continue "in intimate comradeship" their efforts "to secure world, peace based upon the principles of the Atlantic Charter, which we reaf firm." 3. They extend "the hand of friendship" to all nations which prove they want to participate tat a true peace. 3. They promise to use "every peaceful means to secure the In- , dependence of all countries" ' whose people want H and are "capable" of maintaining it. BED SATELLITES ' But, they said, "we will not be a party", ta any -deal confirming or extending the "unwilling sub ordination" of once Independent states "now in bondage" on ap parent reference to Communist satellites. In this same connection the two men promised to try to unify through free u.N.-supervlsed elections, those nations ' divided against their will evidently mean ing Korea, Germany and Austria. 4. They believe that "the causa of world peace would be advanced by general and drastle reductions under effective safeguards of world armaments of all Assses and kinds." They added: "It win bo our persevering resolve to pro mote conditions in which the pro diglous nuclear forces now In hu man hands can be used to en rich and not to destrov mankind." REGIONAL SECURITY 5. They called for Uie organiza tion of regional security systems under the United Nations charter and promised to support them with assistance" when desired by ths peoples of the affected countries." This was In line with Eisenhower's and Churchill's soeciftc declara tion Monday that they had agreed to "press forward" with plans for an alliance in Southeast Also. . They declared their Intention, Jointly and with other- Allied gov ernments, to build up and main tain "the spiritual, economic and pursue the purposes they set forth . and they said they would promote fuller and freer Interchange of goods and services which would benefit aU participants." ATLANTIC CHARTER .: The Atlantic Charter affirmed by Churchill and Elsenhower was drafted by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941 at a meet ing aboard warships anchored off Newfoundland. Its main principles: No terri torial aggrandizement; no terri torial changes opposed by peoples concerned; the right of all peoples to choose their own form of gov ernment; equal access by all states to world trade and raw materials; full international collaboration, economically and socially: a peace assuring all nations safety within their borders and freedom from want and fear; freedom of the seas; disarmament of aggressors and a permanent system of "gen eral security." The last of the five-day series of meetings between Uie President and Uie 70-year-old Prime Minist er lasted 45 minutes. Churchill will visit Ottawa, Canada, briefly and then head back to London. Pilot Killed In Air Crash Roy Stoddard, Boise, crashed to his death in his light plane 40 miles north of here Tuesday, Stoddard, who was employed to spread poison bait to kill grass hoppers, crashed Into a field near the Klamath Marsh about .7: JO a.m. He was killed Instantly. Albert Jones, another pilot from Halley, Idaho, reported Uie crash to police here. No other details were available immediately.