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mtn n n n r n u i n In The Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS Chou En Lai, red China's pre mier, arrives In Geneva this morn ing for the Indochina cease-fire talks, which are due to get under way again very shortly and Which, Incidentally, are expected to result in complete victory in Asia for the communists. Of Chou, the teletype says: "He was ALL SMILES. Observ ers called his smiling appearance a startling change from the cold and reserved manner he displayed on the occasion of his first arrival at this Far East peace conference site last April." Why the startling change? To make the situation clear, I'm afraid I'll have to go back to the limerick about the tiger 'and the smiling young lady of Niger. You'll . remember that the tiger wasn't t smiling when he started for the ride with the lady. Chou wasn't smiling when he first arrived at Geneva! last April. But both were smiling when they came back. , In the case of the tiger and the lady, there was a fundamental shift in circumstances during the Tide they took. When they came back, the lady was INSIDE the tiger and the smile was on the tiger's face. There has been a similar change In circumstances since old Chou's arrival in Geneva last spring and NOW. The lady (meaning in this case Southeast Asia) is now inside the tiger, and the smile is on the tiger's face. The tiger is old Chou. No wonder he's smiling. Speaking of Chou, I suppose that like all the rest of us you've been pronouncing his name SHOE un less, that is, you've been listening to the radio announcers. When it comes to names, the radio people and the newspaper people, who are brothers under the skin, operate with different tech niques. When a jaw-breaker name comes along, we newspaper peo ple have only to PRINT it. I sup pose you aren't old enough to re call the old crack about difficult names in the news: "If you can't pronounce it, just call it WAGON and go on reading." We newspaper folk can do that. But the radio folk can't. They have to go out on the limb and PRONOUNCE it. As a useful serv e to them, their teletypes carry advice on pronunciation. In the case of Chou En Lai, the radio teletypes, advise that it Js pro nounced: joe un mji. - That brings up another situation. Personally, I'm getting squeam ish about people named JOE. There was JOE STALIN, for ex ample. In spite of HSTs crack some years ago to the effect that after all Old Joe isn't a bad guy at heart, he was bad medicine for us. At the beginning he was such a plausible liar that every time he came out with a nicey nicey line of talk about Russia and Amer ica being pals and that nothing could ever come between them we BELIEVED him. And every time we let ourselves believe him we got deeper into the mire of trouble. I don't want to go too deeply this morning into this business of ceor-le named Joe. for one uung, I've been talking to so many people (politicians included) that at this moment in history I'm already a quarter of an hour behind my deadline, and if I get any farther behind the lecture I'm going to get from Snuffy Smith, our composing room foreman, is going to be ruesed. But there is JOE McCarthy. He hasn't been too good for us. I find I'm beginning to feel about people named JOE much as Caesar felt about skinny men. You 11 remem ber (I hope) his crack about Cas sius: "I like not yon Casslus. He hath a lean and hungry look. Let me have men about me who are fat." . Whatever may be the case as to others, I'm beginning to fear that Joes are poison for us. Atom Workers End Strike LONDON Itt American and British diplomats have worked out a short, four-power treaty that would give West Germany near independence this year, official sources said Monday. , The pact has been drafted as a way of giving the Federal Republic powers to control most of Its own affairs in case France fails to ratify the oroject for the European Defense Community. Under present treaties the United States. Britain and France would end their occupation of West Germany only when EDC comes into force. The latest British-American plan reportedly would grant sovereignty to West Germany in all but military matters in a treaty signed by the United States, Britain, France and the Federal Republic. Informants stressed the plan in Bo way provides for German rearmament outside EDC. although London and Washington reportedly have one or two favored alter natives up their sleeves in case EDC as it stands now is rejected. American and British officials drew up the plan in the course of a week of discussions at the Foreign Office that ended Sunday. They had beea ordered to do so k DMrUuit riunnmvr and Prime Minister Churchill titer ' Waabing'ton eowerenco. Price Five Cents 14 Pages Relief Supplies Sent To Aid Europe Flood Victims By RICHARD O'REGAN VIENNA, Austria Ufh-Relief sup plies for thousands of homeless vic tims of central Europe's worst flood in centuries poured into stricken Austria and Germany to day. Holland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Saar were the first to offer bedding, food and clothes to thou sands, of families made homeless by the raging Danube and a dozen tributaries. Their five-day ram page has claimed at least 24 lives on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The aid began to arrive as rescue workers struggled to reach sub merged Austan and German towns where inhabitants were still stranded on Tooftops and upper floors. More than 3,000 American soldiers have been taking part in the rescue work. Sketchy reports from Czechoslo vakia and Hungary indicated those two Danube Valley countries have been hard hit by the floods. Prague and Budapest radios said Commu nist authorities had ordered entire farm communities evacuated and that many hamlets were under wa ter and crops destroyed. It was not known what the death toll was in the two Iron Curtain lands. Nine deaths were reported last night in Communist East Ger many. In West Germany, skies cleared and flood waters began to subside, but thousands of acres of rich farmland were still under water. Countless houses, bridges and in dustrial plants were damaged some beyond repair. In the venerable town of Passau, surrounded by the Danube, Inn and Hz rivers, waters inundated at least a third of the community. An estimated 1,000 were homeless there. While the worst seemed over in Germany, the churning Danube forced thousands more victims' from farms and villages along its banks in Austria, The steel city of Linz, where 24,000 persons have been evacuat ed, desperately attempted to stem the tide of destruction. Police and firemen were still, rescuing hun dreds from rooftops and upper floors. Nearly 40 water-soaked houses sank beneath the flood crest at Linz. Municipal authorities warned police to shoot all looters. The Danube spilled over Vienna's Ike Approves Medical Bill WASHINGTON Ml President Elsenhower signed into law Mon day a bill providing a three-year 180 million dollar federal-state program of specialized medical fa ciltles. The bill is an extension of the Hill-Burton act and will provide for care of the chronically 111, the aged, the physically disabled and persons requiring medical atten tion but not hospitalization. It authorizes appropriation of 60 million dollars- in federal funds annually for .three years to be matched by state and local com munities, for the construction of chronic disease hospitals, nursing homes, comprehensive rehabilita tion facilities and diagnostic and treatment centers. 9. 0'cbdi Spatial LOADING LUMBER on a Lily and Vallentin. truck it the activ ity shot this morning by tha early morning cameraman at Modoc Lumber Co. mill, Third and Klamath. Superviiinq "op eration lift" it Roscoe Lily (left). Route 2, Box 590. Driving tha loader it Holley Wardla (eanterl, with truck driver Ralph Griffith at right-. KLAMATH commercial docks last night, flood ing cellars and halting rail traffic. The main railroad linking Vienna to the west also was Inundated and travelers were forced to detour. Two U.S. C119 Flying Boxcars dropped 25,000 empty sandbag cov ers at Straubing. Hundreds of vol unteers, U.S. soldiers and German border police worked feverishly to close gaps appearing at Deggen dorf. U.S. helicopters stood by to fly more sandbags to the critical areas. The 'copters and Army boats have rescued more than 600 persons since the floods began. Hunting Rules Suggested PORTLAND im Tentative 1954 hunting regulations, about the same as those for 1953, were set here Saturday by the Oregon Game Commission. They are subject to revision after another public hearing July 23. The tentative rules were adopted after a public hearing at which sportsmen and commission staff members outlined their views. The buck deer season would be Oct. 2-15 with the limit one deer having not less than a forked antler. Hunter's choice season for those with unused deer tags would run Oct, 16-18. There would be an extra elk season Nov. 6-14 in Clatsop County for one bull elk with three points or better on one antler. Eastern Oregon elk regulations would remain unchanged. At the request of Malheur County farmers a special Malheur phea sant season Nov. 15-21 was added with a four-bird daily limit, includ ing one hen. The special season would follow the regulation one Oct. 23 through Nov. 14. Three Killed On Maneuvers COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Wl Three airmen were killed and two injured in four plane crashes during "Exercise Check Point," air defense command headquarters here disclosed late Sunday nignt. The exercise, probably the larg est air defense maneuver ever staged, started Friday morning and concluded at noon Sunday. All the accidents occurred Saturday night. The Air Defense Command pub lic information office here said an F940 Jet fighter crashed into trees at takeoff at Oxnard Air Force Base, near Ventura, Calif. Occu pants of the plane, Capt. Richard T. Carvolth III. the pilot of Ox nard, and 2nd Lt. Jerald L. She! ton, Oak Town, Ind., a radar ob server were killed. An F84 jet crashed at Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid city, .u. the pilot Was killed. His identity is unknown here. An F89 Jet crashed during take off at Kinross Air Force Base, Mich. The pilot and radar observ er suffered minor injuries. Exercise Check Point involved about 3,600 planes and hundreds of thousands of Canadian and Ameri can serticemen and civilians. ft. FALLS, D - A FRENCH TANK maket Hi way down a muddy road in the Red River Delta area setting up roadblocks in its wake, during the general withdrawal to the Hanoi area. Though pledged to defend Hanoi "savagely," the French have begun to evacuate some 6000 families from tha city. Loyal troops are already battling infiltration Viet Minh Reds only six miles southwest of the endangered war capital. Washington Governor Asks New Federal By. JACJK BELL. wliuw iJtinuLrtu si. wj ""Ihower rv Arthur- R T.antrlio nf IXa-rul ' Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Wash ington proposed to other state gov ernors Monday an "action pro gram" calling for the federal gov ernment to give up various taxes in return for less federal aid to states. That was part of a six-point plan Langlie offered at the first busi ness session of the 46th annual Governors" Conference. While he outlined it. Vice Presi dent Nixon arrived at the Glens Falls airport from Washington and headed by motor for the con ference, where he will speak Mon day night in President Elsenhow er's place. Elsenhower cancelled his own plans to address the state execu- Israel, Egypt Incident Told JERUSALEM Wt Another flare- up on the tense Israel-Egypt border costing the lives of six Egyptian soldiers and one Israeli posed a new problem today for the U.N. Palestine armistice commission. Reports of the latest incident came yesterday as the commission Issued a statement blaming both Arabs and Jews for the June 30 July 2 shooting across the no-man's land dividing Jerusalem. The commission is scheduled to continue its discussion on that fray today. Both Egyptian and Israeli sources accused each other of set ting off the new skirmish which broke out Saturday night near Gaza. Egypt accused Israel of armed aggression at the frontier post of Deir Elbalah and demanded an emergency meeting of the armis tice group. A detailed charge made in Cairo said besides the six Egyp tians killed, four were missing and two wounded. An Israeli spokesman said one Israeli soldier was killed and two wounded in an Egyptian attack on an Israeli patrol near the Gaza strip. Commenting on the earlier shoot ing In Jerusalem in which . nine persons were killed and 52 wound ed, MaJ. Gen. Vagn Bennlke, Dan ish chief of the armistice commis sion, said both Israel and Jordan had violated their cease-fir But he added lt was Impossible to tell who fired the first shot Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Tues day except afternoon and evening thunderstorms over nearby moun tain!. Low Monday night M; high Tuesday 93. High yesterday M. ... 52 0 14.45 14.M tS.24 Low last night Prep, last 24 hours Since Oct. 1 Sum period last rear MONDAY, JULY 12, 195 Telephone Sill No. 2890 ; . - Aid Policies I lives because of the death of his I efktnr. n.lnur Mrs U linn lrion. un ine sidelines, gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina recom mended that American representa tives go back to the Geneva con ference to bring on an Allied show down on the Indochina crisis. Langlie presided at a round table discussion on Intergovernmental relations. The program he suggested, he said, was designed to keep gov ernment as close to the people as possible while recognizing the need for assuring their basic well being. His six points: 1. No additional federal grants- in-aid to the states or expansion of existing ones. 2. Strengthening the financial power of the states by reducing or ending sucn lederal taxes as those gasoline, payrolls, telephone and telegraph messages, retail sales, electricity, admissions transportation, liquor, tobacco es tate and gifts. In exchnnge, re duced federal grants for highways unemployment relief, education, school lunches. 3. The states to be left to de termine their own programs in such fields, perhaps with some as sistance from the federal govern ment with money collected from income taxes. 4. Adequate payments, In place of taxes, for federal property In the states. S. Realignment of federal-state powers. A declaration by the govern ors that they intend to maintain essential services to the people. Byrnes, former secretary of state, who is here attending the 46th annual Governors Conference said In an interview he does not believe the United States can af ford to stand aloof and thus risk being blamed before the world for failure to reach a settlement with the Communists. 'We could refuse to -participate in any surrender agreement." he said. "But I think our representa tives ought to be there to make our viewpoint known. If there is a final breakdown In efforts to get an acceptable agreement, 1 ' don't think the British and French should be able to charge it to our absence." Dulles has hesitated about go ing back to the conference table because of possible domestic criti cism of the results, and the fear of American involvement in en forcing some settlement which would be regarded in this country rrencn suurencier to me Communists. There was a possibility that Vice President Nixon, substituting here for President Elsenhower, might give the governors In a closed sev slon later In the day the admin istration's latest views on the In dochina situation. The President canceled an ap pearance because of the death of a slster-ln-law, Mrs. Milton 8. El senhower. Nixon is scheduled to speak at the annual state dinner tonight. The speech will be broadcast by radio at 8 p.m., EST. ABC sched uled a "lie" broadcast, and NBC and CBS scheduled recordings at 30 to 10 p.m., EST. Northwest Defended In Air Games MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE. Wash. Ufi Key Pacific North west targets, including the Han. iora Atomic works, lay unscathed Monday' after 'enemy" bombers failed repeatedly to penetrate the region's aerial defenses over the weekend. ; The simulated attacks were part of "Operation Check Point," the continent's biggest aerial war games in which air and ground observer forces of the United States and Canada both partici pated. Security prevented Blrg. Gen. T. Alan Bennett, commander of the 25th Air Division, from mak ing a detailed report Mondty on the Northwest phase of the exer cise, but this one fact overshad- dowed all others: Not a single so-called eriemv bomber got through to a major target. Oen. Bennett said this was all the more gratifying because weath- conditions favored a sneak enemy attack all through the 72- nour maneuver, from mid-day Fri day to 9 a.m. Sunday. The aggressor bombing -punch was not thrown at the Northwest until 3:30 a.m. Saturday. Boring through thick clouds that hid them completely, B38s, B47s, BSOs and B29s taking the part of enemy DomDers pointed toward the the northwest from all directions and at varying altitudes. The region's land radar screen, a picket radar planet ranglmr far at sea, radar on antiaircraft guns and members of the civilian ground observer corps combined to give advance warning of the impending attack. Jet Interceptors from McChord, Portland, Everett, Spokane and Moses Lake bases roared into the air -an equipped with -radar to sees out the foe. Russia Effort In U.N. Fails UNITED NATIONS. New York Un Russia failed Monday in an effort to have the United Nations call a halt to future U.S. atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. The Issue came to a vnta in th six-nauon petitions committee of uie u.n. Trusteeship Council. A Soviet proposal calling on the Unit ed States to desist from such tests received no suonort exeunt that nr the Russian representative. Britain, France and Belgium vol ed against it and the two nthor members India and Svria ab stained. , The committee also failed to an- prove either of the other two proposals before it dealing with the bomb test. This means the question will now go before the 12-member trustee- snip council without any recom mended action. The other propos als were: An Indian resolution calling for an advisory opinion of the Inter national Court of Justice as to the legality of the bomb tests. India and Syria voted in favor; Britain, France and Belgium against; and Russia abstained. A British French . B'i7inn resolution urging the United States. In the event of future experiments to take precautions against Injury of the inhabitants. This failed by a ne voie, wun me three spon sors voung jor it and Russia, In dal, and Syria against. The question was broueht be- fore the U.N. by a group of Mar shall Island residents who sent a petition complaining of the damage done by the recent H-bomb test and asking for greater care in the event of future blasts. Senator Backs British Stand WASHINGTON Wl Sen. Wiley fR-Wlsi. Senate Foreign Relations committee chairman, hailed "good news" Monday Sir Winston Churchill's declaration that Bri tain believes "this Is not the moment" to admit Red China to the United Nations. Wiley said "I Just can't foresee the moment" when lt ever would be proper to seat the Reds. Sen. Ferguson iMlch), chairman of the senate Republican Policy Committee and a foreign rela tions committee member said tart ly in a separate interview: "Small favors are acceptable." gen. Knowland of California, the Senate Republican leader, re ceived word of Churchill's declara tion with a pleased grin but re served comment until he has read a full account of the British Prima Minister' a speech. Desperate French Beat Rack Attach By FORREST EDWARDS HANOI, Indochina Ufi Viet mlnh legions tightened their pinc ers on Hanoi Monday but the war capital's French defenders claimed they had beat back an at tack by 3,000 rebels only 20 miles from the city and killed at least 300 of the Communist-led force. The French said they repulsed the attack on three French Union posts south of Hanoi after five hours ofj bitter fighting Sunday. The high command In Saigon an nounced French Union losses to. taled 90 killed and wounded. Other rebel units surged in from the northeast and northwest to strike at French outposts 25 miles above the imperiled city. Clashes were reported Sunday at scores of points as the Vietmlnh kent UP their pressure. Four Vietmlnh battalions slammed Monday against Lekhu, three miles north of the key post of Hung Yen, In an apparent at tempt to cut the Hung Yen-Hanoi suddIv line. They were nit Dy a fierce counterattack, spearheaded bv tanks. French forces had ex pected such an attack and were lying In wait, the Drieiing oiucer said. French artillery and planes mounded the rebel forces for three hours, Wltn ine vieimum ureunuis and withdrawing five nours laver, nKLTA REFUSES so busv were the French trying to hold their shrunken Red River delta defenses that they were un able to spare planes for more than token harassment of tne long iruca convoys rumbling south, from the Red China frontier. French reconnaissance puots re port that Red China is tunneling more supplies into normern inao chlna than she did In the days be fore the fall of the French bastion of Dlen Blen Fhu. But a French briefing officer de clared, "We do not have the planes to spare for more than harassment attacks against the Red supply convoys." It is more important now," ne said, "that we bomb Vietmlnh guerrilla bases inside the delta." Yesterday French warpianea rained nearly 150 tons of bombs on rebel bases inside the delta de fenses, some of them less than 20 miles from Hanoi, More than 100 bombers pounded a string ot Vietmlnh bases which threatened to cut off Hung Yen, cornerstone of the delta defenses 25 miles southeast of Hanoi, Sev eral rebel-held villages were set afire. ROADS REOPENED North of Hanoi the French were more successful. They man aged to reopen roads between Sept Pagodes, Fhu Lang Thuong and Bac Nlnh, 30 miles from the city. This restored communications be tween the three towns, which form a protective triangle against Viet mlnh regulars massing to the north. French officials, meanwhile s o u g h t to allay fears voiced by U.S. congressmen tnat American supplied arms might fall into Com munist, hands should there be a New German Pact Planned PADUCAH, Ky. un Operations have returned to normal at the atomic energy plant near here to day with striking workers back on the job. A strike threatening production of atomic and hydrogen bombs was called off Saturday when members of Local S50, CIO Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers, voted to return to work immediately, reversing a previous decision to continue the walkout. The Paducah employes followed the example of strikers at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., plant who voted Fri day night to end their walkout. One thousand workers at Padu cah and 3,500 at Oak Ridge were Involved in the strike. A plan for settling the walkout was worked out in Washington by Secretary of Labor Mitchell and CIO President Walter Reuther. It calls for a government review of health, housing and community problems of all the nation's atomic workers and a study to strengthen labor-management relations in the atomic field. The peace plan did not mention the wage Issue, over which the strike was called. Truck Wrecked Hear Midland A Consolidated Frelghtways truck and seml-tralter was overturned about four miles'south of Midland shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday when a passing car cut In too quickly and forced the big transport off the road, according to Oregon State Police. Ray James Kuhn. 3228 NE 54th, Portland, driver, and Glen Steele, relief drlvc-i who was In the sleep er at the time of the accident were taken to the Klamath Valley Hos pital where they were treated for minor injuries and released. Operator of the car was Louisa Edith Sudbury, 732 North 10th, Klamath Falls, and a passenger Ruth Halite Haynes. 6003 South 8ixth. The Sudbury vehicle was not damaged but the big transport in badly wrecked stata poHe stated. last-minute pullback from Hanoi. A spokesman for the French Un ion . commander. Gen. Paul Ely. said only 10 per cent of the guns, tanks and planes still being poured into this war-torn lard are being stored in nortnern Indochina, And those depots are located in the port ot Haiphong on the China sea so their removal by snip should be comparatively easy. It was also pointed out that new ly arriving American supply ships are being diverted from Haiphong more than ioo miles south to Saigon. ... , Churchill Tells Red ; China Stand Bp TOM OCHILTREE LONDON Wl Prime Minister Churchill promised Monday that Britain would refrain from press, ing now for the seating ot Com munist China in tha United Na tions. Speaking before a Jammed House of Commons, Churchill de clared: "Although the British govern ment should represent China in the United Nations, they do not consid er that, this is the moment for the matter to be reconsidered." t Churchill also disclosed that at the recent Washington talks he and President Elsenhower "discussed in general terms" the possibility of their meeting with Soviet Pre mier Georgl Malenkov, and sur veyed "difficulties" involved. He did not elaborate on the "difficul ties." APPRAISAL In a generalized appraisal of tha Washington talks, the 70-year-old Prime Minister said agreement was reached for wider British American cooperation on atomic matters. He said he went to Wash ington because of his deep concern "at the lack ot information ' Bri tain possessed about the hydrogen bomb. As far as Communist China is concerned, the Prime Minister said British policy remains unchanged from the days of the eold Labor government: Britain still believes the Chinese Communists should be seated in the U.N. if they give up aggression and show a willingness to abide by international agree ments, v REJECTS CRITICISM He vigorously rejected a La borite's implied criticism of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dul les' decision not to return now to the Geneva conference on Indo china. The United States, the Prime Minister said. Is "sufficient ly represented" at Geneva, Churchill also said his Washing, ton conference with President Els. enhower was the most agreeable and fruitful in his experience. Churchill opened bv savintr that he went to Washington because he was "deeply concerned at the lack of information" Britain possessed about the hydrogen bomb. He con cluded by saying that wide-spread acceptance of the idea of peace ful coexistence of Communist and non-Communist worlds might with the passage of years solve prob lems and "avert the mass de struction of the human race.' ; Geneva Peace Talks Resume GENEVA Un Chou En-Lal re turned to Geneva Monday for a fresh round of bargaining on In dochina. He flew in a few hours after British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Joined French Pre mier Pierre Mendes-France In a last effort to make peace with the Communists over the revolt-torn Southeast Asian land. The Red Chinese Premier was greeted by Soviet Foreign Minist er V.M. Molotov as he stepped from the Russian air force plane that brought him here from Mos cow. Chou was all s m 1 1 e s, 1 a startling change lrom the cold and reserved manner he displayed on his first arrival here last April. In a statement, he said peace could be achieved "with a con ciliatory spirit for seeking peace on the part of all sides con cerned." Eden also arrived by plane Monday for the crucial Indochina meetings coming up. The conference first will discuss the reports of the military com missions. These groups wers ordered three weeks ago to sub mit by July 10 recommendations on .nllltary aspects of an armis tice. It appeared there was no clear agreement on these questions, however. Neither the Cambodians or the Laotians reportedly have been able to agree with the Communist-led Vietmlnh representa tives on a single report. In each case, separate reports probably will be Issued by the two sides. EARNINGS NEW YORK l Crown Zeller bach Corp., Monday reported net income for 12 months ended April 30 climbed to $28,027,846, equal to 13.65 a cdmmon share, compared with U1.889705 or K&2 a, ahara In rha prevlorja year.
