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A MI f 0 mm In The' Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS How's this for one for the book? A U.8. helicopter pilot has been risking his life and Uncle Sam's property to rescue victims from the aU time record floods in the valley of the Danube in central Europe. One guy he took off a roof up above Vienna this morn ing looked a bit familar. "Didn't I brine you out of here Just yesterday afternoon?" he queried. "Oh, sure," the flood victim an swered. "I just love to ride ic helicopters, so I came back in a rowboat to get another ride." ' Incidentally, the beautiful blue Danube isn't any bluer, flood time or no flood time, than the Missouri, which Is known as the Big Muddy and looks the part, and oftener than not its color is about that of our own Southern Oregon Rogue liver after the hydraulic miners have been doing their stuff up stream. Austrian composer Johann Strauss started something when he wrote his great waltz, The Blue Danube, and the name has stuck regardless of the facts in the case. Adlai Stevenson, in Seattle to address another tlO-per-plate fund raising Democratic dinner, tells lus hearers: "Democratic candidates in Ore gon and Washington have an ex ceptionally good chance this year especially in Oregon, which has long been a GOP stronghold. Is he whistling in the dark to keep his courage up, or does he believe it? Or is he just giving the $10-per-plate customers their money s worth? Anyway, the dickens of it is that he might be right. Quite a lot of people are looking wishluily back down the trail to the glamorous days of the wild war booms when money flowed like water and the nation's debt was zooming upward like the red line on the thermome ter at the beginning of a hot spell People in that nostalgic mood often try to vote . themselves rich again. Adlai adds at Seattle: "It's been 40 years since Oregon sent a Democrat to the U.S. senate, but I think Portland Democrat Richard Neuberger has a fair chance to make the grade this tall." I hope not. ONE Morse from Oregon is enough., .. ... . i That, I'd say, is enough politics for one day. Let s turn to Guate mala, whose new ANTI-COMMU NIST military government an nounces today that it will continue the land reform law under which the ousted PRO-COMMUNIST re gime of President Arbenz split up many large estates among ine peasant farmers. The anti-communist leader of the new Guatemalan government. Colonel Castillo Armas, says those who have settled on the land will now be made outright owners. He adds that they will not be mere TENANTS on the government owned soil, as would have been the case under the communist regime, but will be given fee simple pos session of it. Where did the land thus freely given away come from? The communists, it appears, simply took It away from those who had it and turned it over (on lease; under communism the gov ernment OWNS EVERYTHING) to the have-nots, and told the owners to whistle for their money. United Fruit Company, among others, says the Guatemalan com mies confiscated some 234,000 acres of its land. Down in that country, of course, a big American corporation gets no sympathy from anybody. But I can't help thinking that if Colonel Armas wants to do something really beneficial for his people he will buy up the United Fruit Com pany's lands, paying for them at a reasonable rate, and will then SELL the land to the Guatemalan peasants at prices and on terms they can meet. That would be wonderful. It could mean the beginning of a real free enterprise system in Guate mala to take the place of the pres ent system under which about 95 per cent of all the land and other property is owned by some five per cent of the population while the other 95 per cent of the people have nothing much more- to their names than a cotton shirt and a ragged pair of cotton pants. GIVING things to people for free never seems to bring anything much but trouble. Witness the 60 billion dollars we have given away all over the world, for which we have received little in return save insults and suspicion. Missing Plane Wreckage Found TOLEDO. Ore. Wl The body of a pilot missing since April 12 and wreckage of his plane were found Mcnday about seven miles northeast of this coastal area town. Dead was R. W. Hall, 54. Bakers field, Calif., who crashed on a flight from Moscow, Idaho, to New port, near here, where be had in tended to visit his daughter. He was last heard from over Eugene. Vemon Castle and Milton Daven port, loggers, discovered the wreckage in dene timber. Governors Ask Meeting With ike BOLTON LANDING. N.V. Ifl Gov, John S. Fine ot Pennsylvania proposed and Gov, Goodwin J. Knight of California endorsed Tues day a plan for a showdown con ference of governors with Presi dent Eisenhower on a projected 50-billion-dollar highway program. In a point-by-point criticism of an Eisenhower proposal laid be fore the 46 annual governors con ference here by Vice President Nixon, Fine told his colleagues. "We want the federal govern ment to get out of the gasoline and fuel oil tax field once and for all and now is the time to do it before we embark on any large scale highway program such as the President has suggested." E isenhower proposed that the federal government and states co operate to build a system of roads aimed at- providing transportation for an expected 200 million popu lation by 1970. The President's proposal was in terpreted by Fine, a Republican supporter of the administration, as placing a "cloud" on the states' control of road building activities and as involving continued federal aid which a majority of the gov ernors have opposed. Fine said he thinks the states should "take advantage of the President's offer" only after a conference of the governors in Washington this fall - where "we can determine once and for all what is meant by it." Gov. Dan Thornton, Colorado Republican who is chairman of the conference, told a panel meeting Sherman Adams, chief of the White House staff, had authorized him to say that Eisenhower is ask ing the governors to come up with suggestions as to how to build the proposed system of highways. Thornton said the President agrees the "primary responsibil ity" rests with the states. Gov. Paul . Patterson, Oregon Republican, told Fine he differs with him to this extent: "I don't think we can solve the problem simply by Tepeallng the gasoline tax. There are many things the federal government still would have to do. National de fense use of the highways, for trucks, guns and so on, are a proper federal expense." Heat Blasts Midwest Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The biggest heat wave so far this summer baked central sec tions of the nation today with little real relief in sight. At least eight deaths were at tributed to the heat. The mercury zoomed to an unof ficial 121 degrees in Pittsburg, Kans., yesterday and plus-100-de-gree readings were common from the Rockies eastward to the Great Lakes. Local water shortages developed in some communities from the heat and lack of Tainfall, but no widespread crop damage has de veloped yet. In Kansas City, whre the tem perature reached 109, so many people turned on their air condi tioners that power lines became overloaded. The Kansas City Pow er and Light Co. said power use hit an all-time high last night. Midwest City, an Oklahoma City suburb of 20,000, ran out of water as 107-degree heat led to record consumption. Officials said short ages will occur daily as long as the heat continues. These all-time high heat records were set yesterday: Columbia, Mo., 113; Springfield. Mo.. 108; Rapid City, S.D., 109: Dallas, Tex. 110.3; Oklahoma City, 10?: and Casper, Wyo., 104. I . .A J" kx. ' V I mm- ir. . EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY and every cat, too. This was Boot's day for undivided attention from his three owners, (from left), Sara Jan, James and Laurie Hardenbroolc, chil dren of Mr. and Mrs, E. N, Hafdeitbrook, 420 North Third St. auu mum im i mui mi m m amjj -i Price Five Cents 14 Pages Reds Shell French Army Near Hanoi HANOI, Indochina Wl Vietminh mortars shelled French army head quarters at Son Tay, 25 miles northwest of Hanoi, last night and sniper warfare rang through the streets of the defense outpost town of 6,000. A French army spokesman said civilians were moving out of Son Tay as rebel pressure built up in that sector and across the northern Kcd River delta defense area. -Forty-one rebels were reported killed and 17 captured in various actions durmg the night. There was no announcement of French losses. Between Son Tay and Hanoi Viet minh guerrillas attacked a French highway guard patrol but were driven off by a tank squadron that rumbled out of Son Tay to the rescue. Twenty Vietminh were killed and seven captured in the roadside fight. One rebel sniper was killed on a Son Tay street corner but others apparently escaped. Other fights were reported just north of Hung Yen, 25 miles south east of Hanoi, and through the Sept Pagodes-Luc Nam-Puh Lang Thuong triangle, 35 miles northeast of Hanoi. North of Hung Yen, rebel guer rilla and French-Vietnamese pa trols clashed in smnll night battles for possession of, the supply roaa from Hanoi. In each fight, the French spokes man said, the . Vietminh wore driven off before their demolition units could cut the road. Twenty rebels were killed and 10 cap- tmed-ln the area. ' '-, ' : In the air yesterday, French fighters and bombers plastered Vietminh bases north or Hung Yen with more thnn 120 tons of high explosives. Other planes bombed a string of rebel bases north of the Hnnoi-Halpnong supply iiienne. Workers Cross Picket Lines OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Wl Bow ing to requests of their union lead ers, approximately 1.S00 AFL con struction workess crossed wildcat picket lines Tuesday and reported for work on two atomic plant building jobs. The protects were snut aown Monday when more than 8,000 AFL craftsmen refused to go through the picket lines. But a slow back-to-work move ment was begun in the late after noon as 350 of a night shift work force of 1,450 returned to their jobs. The day force totals about 6,700. Members of AFL Laborers Lo cal 818 posted the picket lines. But officials of the local and its Trades Council (AFL), urged all AFL workmen to return to work. They branded the pickets as "illegal." Lrko KLAMATH 'I Kv- IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE declared against residonh of Klamath Basin Monday by the weather man youngsters and oldsters hit the trail for ye ol' swimmin' hole this one located on Front Street adjacent to the Yacht Club. Lumber Mill Pay Increase; By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hope for an early end of the 23-day-old Pacific Northwest lum. bqr strike was dim Tuesday after operators broke off the first major negotiations since the start of the walkout. Two major employer groups the Lumbermen's Industrial Rela tions Committee and the Columbia Basin Sawmills opened talks Mon day with representatives of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union's Coast - Columbia district. But they promptly told tile union and a federal mediator "we are un willing to meet further until the union commitlee" agrees to accept their original offer to renew con tracts without change. The employers, standing firm on their refusal to consider pay In creases, said the contract renewal proposal is their "final offer." Tne AFL union and CIO Wood workers went on strike June 21 for a 12 -cent hourly increase. The employer committees said individual operators are "always willing" to meet with their crews to negotiate settlement with do wage increases. In a public statement the em ployer groups charged the union with "bad faith bargaining." They said their offer to renew contracts never had been submit ted to union locals and that union officials had ordered out workers who voted against striking. Kenneth Davis, secretary of the AFL union's northwestern council, replied that some employers are trying to "break the union." If such activities become serious, he warned, the union will extend the walkout into pine belt areas where a strike has been authorized. Davis also charged that the em ployer committees have lntimi- Chinese May Stop Red Ship TAIPEH, Formosa Iff) Chinese Nationalist warships may attempt to Intercept the 15,000-ton Soviet tanker Leningrad, which has cleared Singapore for Shanghai In Red China, a high Nationalist of ficial Indicated today. There was no comment concern ing three other Soviet ships re ported heading northward two toward the Siberian port of Vladi vostok, and one for Red China. But there was widespread specu lation here that the Soviet mer chant ships might rpndeavous with a submarine escort for the danger ous voyage through waters patrol led by Nationalist naval vessels. The Nationalists seized the 8.840 ton Soviet tanker Tuapse June 23. An official with top-level con tracts, whn asked today if the same fate faces the Leningard, re plied: "We have not received any offi cial information on the movements of the Leningrad, but perhaps we will take the same action as we did In the case of the Tuapse." The Leningrad reportedly carries a car?o of kerosene and dlesel oil for Communist China, The Tuapse's petroleum cargo, also destined for Shanghai, has been unloaded by the Nationalists, FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY m Operators Refuse To Grant Negotiations rintprt Rrtmft nnprntnr!- rovinl.lnir them from signing wage Increase agreements,' -..BniDlovbrs h.-iva .oantfindecf nrm dltions In thd lumber Industry do not lustily any boost In production costs. The Lumbermen's Industrial Rp. latlons Committee was expected to reiterate its stand to the AFL union's Puget Sound district coun Charge Filed By Bend Mill Unfair labor practice charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board at Portland Mon day by Oregon Trail Box Company of Bend acainst IWA-CIO local 6-7, according to Pine Industrial Relations Committee. The box company alleges: "Lo cal 6-7, International Woodworkers Association, CIO, is the designated collective bargaining representa tive of the employes of Oregon Trail Box Company. It committed an unfair labor practice by refusing to bargain collectively with the employer in that it called a strike of said em ployes without submitting specific demands to the employer and without any negotiations upon de mands and refused to meet with the employer in its local area in accordance with the employer's re quest and long-established cus tom." The plant was struck more than three weeks ago, but the first time that a wage increase demand was made specific at 12'2 cents per hour was at a meeting Monday in Bend, according to PIRC. Attending the meeting Monday was a sub-committee of the North west Regional negotiating commit tee, composed of J. E. Dickey of Portland, vice president of IWA: Tim Sullivan of Klamath Falls, president of IWA District No. 6; Jack Sherman, business agent of local 6-7, and two employes of Ore gon Trail Box Company, meeting with William Niskanen, manage ment representative. One of the demands served upon the employer was for Job analysis and evaluation. PIRC spokesman recalls that Oregon Trail Box Company and local 8-7 already en gaged In such a project about three years ago In cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At Monday's meeting the first between the parties the box company rejected the union's pro posals. Vietminh Confer With French TOKYO tfl French and VIcU mlnh officers discussed an Indo china cease fire "ir. a favorable atmosphere" Monday, the Pelplng radio said Tuesday night. A broadcast monitored here said a subcommisslon of the negotiat ors meeting at Trung Gia the Panmunjom of Indochina "stud led the carrying out of a cease fire." Another subcommittee meeting waa scheduled tor Tuesday. ' 13, 1954 .2 Broken Off ell at a meeting scheduled for Se, attle Tuesday and to CIO Wood' workers at a session set for Port land Wednesday. - Meanwhile new contracts were signed Monday for two plants in ine .Kurexa area or Northern Cali fornia. That left only three-plants closed In the Humboldt Bay area uut oi a struck June 16, The new settlements involve about 235 workers. They are be tween the Humboldt Lumber Co., Areata, and an AFL local and be tween the Mcintosh Lumber Co, and the CIO Woodworkers. The Humboldt settlement pro vided a 6-cent hourly Increase above the old 1.87 14 minimum. The Mcintosh terms were not an nounced. The Northern California agree ments are among a number of small local settlements that have been made. The settlements have not affected the major portion of the strikebound industry. At Hoquiam. Wash., a tempor ary injunction was granted in county superior court Monday against a Puyallup, Wash., local of the AFL box shook union to restrain picketing of the Grays Harbor Veneer Corp. plant. When three pickets from Puyal lup showed up Monday morning: 330 employes refused to go to work ana tne plant had to close. The company went to court. Judge warner roynonen set Friday for a hearing on whether to make the In Junction permanent. The company's workers are un der Jurisdiction of a CIO Wood workers plywood local. The firm has been carrying on separate ne gotiations with the local and has not been Involved In the strike. Knowiand Asks French Action WASHINGTON (IP, -Senate Re puhllcan Leader Knowiand of Cal ifornia said 'Tuesday he still be lieves the United States must get a definite anwer soon from France regarding German partici pation In tho antl-Communlst Eur opean Defense Community. The Senate Foelgn Relations Committee by an 8-5 vote Mon day soltened a Knowland-backed proposal to cut off military aid to France and Italy on Dec. 31 un less they ratify EDO by the end of this year, but Knowiand told reporters he believes "some ac ceptable formula may be worked out" to get a tougher form of that provision. Knowiand indicated that he and other Senate Republican leaders will continue their fight on the Senate floor. The Foreign Relations Commit tee, yielding to state Department appeals, reversed itself on the cut off provision and accepted a less stringent plan adopted earlier by the House. Knowiand said the Foreign Re lations Committee should complete action during the day on the new 13,100,000.000 foreign aid authori zation and pass the measure along to the Renate ArmpH Hprvlrpc Oim. mtttee for action. The provision on am to Franc ant Italy la in that measiia. Telephone 8111 No. 2891 mm Ail-Star Tilt Won By Late Safety An eighth Inning single by Nellie Fox of the Chicago White Sox gave the American League All-Stars an 11-9 win over the powerful Nation al League stars in the annual ma jor league all-star game at Cleve land this afternoon. Fox came to bat with the bases loaded and singled home Mickey Mantle from third and Yogi Berra from second to break a 9-9 tie in the late innings of a free hitting and free scoring battle between the major leagues best ball players. Six home runs, four by the Americans and two for the Nation al stars, provided the large crowd at Municipal Stadium with plenty of scoring. Al Rosen of Cleveland connected for two of the American League circuits, while Larry Doby and Ray Boone collected the other pair. Two Cincinnati R e d 1 e g s stars banged out the two national league round trippers as Ted Kluszewskl and Ous Bell each homered. ALL STAR PLAY .BY-PS. Y By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS First inning Nationals (0) Qran Hamner (Phlla) filed to Hank Bauer (NY). Al Dark UY) popped to Ohlca Carrasauel (Chi). Duke Snider (Bkyn) filed to Mill- NELLIE FOX nle Minoso (Chi). No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. First innlnr American Minoso filed to Snider. Bobby A..li r-.ilnHi idmrlnH MlrlrAV Monti. I MVi fliAri tn RniHpr Vnol Berra (NY) walked. Al Rosen (Cvlnd) struck out. No runs, one nit, no errors, two left. Second inning Nationals (0) Stan Musial (St, L) singled. Ted Kluszewskl (Cin) rapped into a double play, Avlla to Carresquel to Rosen. Carrasquel threw out Ray Jablonskl (St. L). No runs, one hit, no errors, none left. Second Innlnr American (0) Kluszewskl . hauled In Rav Boone's (Det) high foul, Bauer singled.- Carrasquel struck out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. Third inning Nationals (0) . Jackie Robinson (Bkln) bounced out. Campanella walked. Robin Roberts (Phlla) bunted, forcing Campenalla, Boone to Carrasquel, liamner popped to Carrasquel, No hits, no runs, no errors, one left. Third inning American (4) Minoso walked. Avlla singled. Mantle struck out. Berra lined out to Kluszewskl as both runners ad vanced. Rosen walloped a home run over the left center fence, scor ing Minoso and Avila ahead of him Boone hit another home run to practically the same spot to put the Americans head 4-0, Bauer struck out. Four runs, three hits, no errors, none left. Fourth Inning Nationals (5) Sandy Consuegra (Chi) now pitching for Americans. Dark filed to Mantle. Snider singled, Musial singled, sending Snider to third. Kluszewskl singled, scoring Snid er and sending Musial to third, Jablonskl singled scoring Musial, Robinson doubled, scoring Klu grewskl and Jablonskl, tying the score 4-4. The filth straight hit finished Consuegra and brought in Cleveland righthander Bob Lemon. Campanella popped to Boone. Don Mueller (NY), batting for Roberts, doubled, scoring Robinson and making score 6-4 for Nationals. Hamner bounced out. Five runs, six hits, no errors, one left. Fourth Inning- American (1) Johnny Antonelll (NY) pitching .Continue ea Bag 4$ il J Dulles Asks Collective In'do Action PARIS IB Secretary of Stats Dulles arrived here Tuesday and said he considers that a collective defense organization for Southeast Asia could help France get "Just and honorable peace terms" in Indochina. Dulles flew Into Paris aboard U.S. military air transport Con. stellatlou for a top-level British. French attempt to convince him an "honorable" peace can still be won In Indochina and that his presence In Geneva would help win it. He waa scheduled to open talks with French Premier Plerre-Men- des-France and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden during the day. Eden and Mendes-France left Geneva earlier Tuesday to be on hand for the conference. In a statement, Dulles recalled he had come to-Paris last April 13, before the Geneva conference started, to talk about forming a Southeast Asian defense pact. At that time, he said, he felt such an organisation would help France. "I still feel the same way," ae aaaea. He went on to explain: "The United States is not Itself a belligerent and therefore not a proper party to many aspects of the problem which are the princi pal concern of the Geneva con. ference. However, we do have a great and continuing Interest In collective action by France, Great Britain, united States and other free countries to promote the peace and freedom of the area. "This, as well as pressing Euro pean problems, will, I hope, be among the subjects of our conver sations here, which are bound to re-emphaslze to the Communists the futility of their efforts to di vide us." The reference to European prob lems indicated Dulles expects to discuss plans for the six-nation European army which France has delayed placing before its parlia ment for ratuicauon. Dulles' flight here waa in answer to an urgent appeal from Mendes France. On leaving Washington Monday night, the American sec retary emphasized that Paris waa hla present destination. ... Soldiers Fight VIENNA, Austria Wl Ameri can and Russian troops worked within a few hundred yards of each other outside Vienna Tuesday in an effort to save a U.S. airfield and two Austrian villages from floods. . The waters of the swollen Dan ube River raging downstream after leaving 70,000 homeless in Germany and Western Austria threatened the U.S. Air Fores base at Tullin. Isolated in the Rus sian occupation zone of Austria, It is 22 miles northwest of Vienna's American sector. German officials said the air field was "pretty much out of danger" unless ths waters took a big rise. Floods from the Danube ap proached within 200 yards of the field. Inundating the communities of Tulllh and Langenlebarn and ' flooding a road connecting them with the airfield. The Russians sent troops and trucks to one stretch of the road. While the Americans sent trucks and scores of airmen to another stretch. The police said there was no ac tual cooperation between the Cold War opponents. "They pass by each other on the highway, but they ignore each other," one official said. The flood, the worst in centur ies in central Europe, took another victim Monday night. A 3-year-old child fell Into the swirling Dan ube near Vienna, bringing the to tal dead reported in Austria and East and West Germany to 28. Conservative estimates placed property damage at hundreds of millions of dollars. Taft Memorial Founded WASHINGTON M A non profit organization to "perpetuate the ideals" of the late Sen. Taft R-Ohio) was founded Tuesday, with former President Herbert Hoover as chairman. The organization, described as non-polltlcal, will use its funds for religious, charitable, scientific, lit erary or educational purposes. It is called the Robert A. Taft Me morial Foundation, Inc. A statement announcing that articles of Incorporation were filed In Baltimore, said President Elsen hower has agreed to serve as honorary chairman for the first term. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday. High Wednesday 93; low Tuesday nlrht 51. Hlrh yesterday . , M Low last night , 61 Predp. last 24 hears . Since Oct. 1 14.45 Sam period hut year . 14.87 MotmM for petto .-jaUJi
