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TIBS IB l&IT In The ' Dart Sews Br FRANK JENKINS Secretary Dulles returned by plane this morning from Paris to Washington. At the Washington air port he told reporters that the West has found a formula (a formula Is a recipe) for constructive allied unity in dealings with the com mies. I know a guy who has three good recipes but can't make camp bis cuits that are fit to eat. Secretary of Defense Wilson says today that the Pentagon in the last four months has tightened up on security all along the line, but without Infringing on the rights of individuals. He recalled that last April the . Pentagon Issued new regulations designed not only to rid the serv ices of undesirable security risks who might be In the armed forces A but also to block off at all points the entry of such persons Into the military services. He added that there has been a revitalization of the entire depart ment from the top echelons down. Good work I The best recipe for handling communists ingovernmentis DON'T HIRE 'EM IN THE FIRST PLACE. If your foot slips and you hire one by mistake, FIRE HIM I Quick! And without politics. Speaking of the armed services: The Coast Guard has decided to go after the five men who started out last week to DRIFT ON A RAFT from California to Hawaii. The drifting didn't go so good and at last accounts they were barely out of sight of the California coast and were In bad trouble, with the raft said to be breaking up. I'm afraid that use of the Coast Guard in this instance isn't accord ing to protocol. Don't the men that are sent out to round up loose-nut screwballs usually wear white jackets Casual note, via the teletype, from Alabama: The attorney general of Ala bama, Si Garrett, suffered a brok en neck and other injuries in a hit and-run collision last night. His car apparently was knocked off the road by a truck, which didn't stop after the accident. Garrett is at present under in. dictment on vote fraud charges. Last month a man nominated to succeed him as attorney general was slain. ' - Don't they have ANY honest people down tber Overheard in our coffee shop this morning: The cook: "The eggs I've been getting in the past week are all sizes and some of them are all out of shape. " A teletype operator: "Maybe the hens are all worn out with the heat and don't pay much attention to their work. It's pretty warm this morning. If this column isn't up to snuff, maybe that's the reason. Dentist, Plans Testimony ALLEGAN, Mich, W Detroit dentist Kenneth B.' Small was ready to take the witness stand to day m nis own aeiense nguiuai, a charge of first-degree murder. Small was expected to tell the predominantly male jury that the sudden loss of his chic wife's af fection snapped his reasoning pow er and led him to shoot and kill New Yorker Jules Lack. Dr. Small, 31, facing life impris onment If convicted, contends he was temporarily insane when Lack was slam May 29 at a house party. He has admitted tracing his wife end Lack to a swank Lake Mich t igan summer home at nearby ' Douglas and killing Lack with two pistol bullets. Lack, 45, playboy head of a New York air-conditioning firm, met Dr. Small's wife Edith, 30, while she and her three children vaca tioned in Florida last winter. Her husband had remained in Detroit. Mrs. Small testified Tuesday that she fell in love with Lack and asked her husband for a separation and divorce. Defense Atty. Leo Hoffman said Dr. Small was blinded by anger because he felt Lack was "Just making a toy" of Mrs. Small. - Dr. Small, held at the Allegan County Jail pending trial, told re porters ne once warned Lack by telephone to stay away from Mrs. Small but Lack just laughed at him. ur. small s lamer Jacob, a re tired bricklayer, collapsed with a heart attack while waiting to take tne stand yesterday. Taken to a hospital, his condition improved He begged to testify but doctors advised against it. Hoffman, opening the defense yesterday, pictured Dr. Small as a "desperate man, unable to con Uol himself." ''Because of an Irresistible im pulse from which he couldn't re strain himself, he shot Jules Lack," Hoffman asserted. "We will prove that at the time he was insane. He was desperate." POSTPONED BELGRADE. Yugoslavia &) Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey have postponed indefinitely the signing of their Balkan military al liance, originally scheduled for a meeting of their foreign ministers beginning July 17. Allies Said Agreed On Asian Policy WASHINGTON Wl secretary of State Dulles returned from three power talks at Paris Thursday saying "we have found a formula for constructive Allied unity" which will strengthen the anti Communist position at negotiations on Indochina peace. Dulles flew to Paris Monday night and held emergency con sultations with British Foreign Secretary Eden and French Pre mier Mendes-France. One of his decisions was that Undersecretary of State W. B. Smith should go 'to the Geneva conference to partici pate in the final round of talks with the Reds on Indochina. Smith will leave late Friday. U.S. PARTICIPATION Diplomats here believe that Dulles would not have agreed to send Smith to Geneva to provide high level U.S. participation in the conference unless he had assur ance from Mendes-France ruling out a peace at any price settle ment. In a statement upon his arriv al here at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Dulles said the Paris talks "have brought about an understanding concern ing Indochina much more com plete than has heretofore existed." This, he added, enabled the Western ministers "to demonstrate anew the solidarity of the West ern powers in the face of Com munist hostility and intrigue." Dulles went immediately from the airport to the White House to report to President Eisenhower. IKE CONFERENCE At the White House Dulles con ferred with the President private ly for 20 minutes. Then both went into the meeting of the National Security Council, which was hold ing its regular weekly session. Dulles said the formula for Al lied unity was achieved without any abandonment by the United States of its principles. Elsenhower and Dulles have repeatedly stated that the United States would not sanction Red conquest of any area. "The United States has been concerned," Dulles said, "to find a way whereby it could help France, Viet Nam, Laos and Cam bodia find acceptable settlements without in any way prejudicing basic principles to which the Unit ed States must adhere if it is to be true to itself and h the captive and endangered peoples of the world are to feel that the United States really believes in liberty, French Posts Fall To Reds HANOI, Indochina Wl Two French defense outposts fell be fore Vietminh attackers as mon soon rains came to the Red River delta Wednesday night. Vietnamese defenders aband oned the post of Chlquan, 25 miles west of Hanoi, after a brief fight against 400 to 600 Vietminh at tackers, a French briefing offic er reported. Thirty-live miles northwest of Hanoi, a second small post on the edge of delta de fenses crumpled under another Vietminh attack. The briefing officer said Viet namese defenders of both posts were beating their way back to Son Tay through guerrilla infest ed territory inside the French de fense line, northwest of Hanoi. Thirty miles northeast of Hanoi the less than 100 man garrison at Camp Hulan stood off 500 Vietminh with the aid of low-flying planes that strafed, bombed and na palmed the attackers. A half doz en other small posts beat back Vietminh attackers Wednesday and Wednesday night, the brief ing officer added. rf ... I fa ''ratfij.7 t f j. NEW RESIDENTS in Klamath Falls, the E. J. Dowry family, checked The Herald and Newt thil morning for home. With Dowty art hit daughter, Patty, aged 7, and hit wife. Ha it laltiman at the Buiclc garage. Former kern was Newport. rs vs. x n Price Fin Cer.te 24 Faces Union Wage Conferences Collapse By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS No further peace meetings were on schedule in the Pacific North west lumber strike Thursday, fol lowing collapse of the latest in the latest negotiations. The last session in this week's round of negotiations, arranged by the Federal Mediation Service, broke up Wednesday in acrimony. Hope, born in a union request to continue talks past the noon re cess, was soon dashed. A. F. Hartung, president of the CIO Woodworkers, accused em ployers of bang "greedy and ir responsible," and Issued a long statement attacking the employers' position in the dispute over the 12 Vi-cent hourly pay raise sought by the CIO union and the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers.. OLD CONTRACT Employers reiterated that their final offer was to renew the old contract without a pay boost, and indicated the next peace step would come with individual mill owners trying to negotiate with local unions. They had told the AFL union the same thing in three meetings ear lier in the week. Both unions have said they are willing to negotiate locally, but Hartung expressed some skepti cism over what results could be expected from that. He said the big employer asso ciations would not allow individual member operators to "bargain honestly." The meeting between eleht em ployer groups and the CIO union broke up Wednesday after the sides had exchanged statements in which chairman H. F. Greeley said for the employers, "We are un willing to meet further until the union committee is ready to Join hi acceptance- ot a -contract re newal without pay increase, PAY BOOST The employers contend the in dustry cannot stand a pay boost, and that employes already are among the nation's highest paid industrial workers. Hartung challenged that and went on to say- of employers: "They have taken advantage of the strike to boost lumber prices to outrageous levels. Prices have gone up in some instances enough to pay three or four times what the union is asking. The operators are gouging the public at the ex pense of the workers. . . " Hartung insisted the industry was in excellent condition and could afford to pay the increase. Meanwhile the West Coast Lum bermen's Assn. reported that for the first six months of the year orders were up by about half of one per cent above the same per iod last year. Production was down 6.8 per cent, mostly because of the strike that began June 21. Baseball Scores AMERICAN Detroit Boston 000 000 010-1 6 0 201 000 00X-3 10 0 Gromek, Miller 8, Herbert 8 and House: Nixon, Kinder 8 and White. Jill ' . - Ta v 7 7- .,? b N -I mm W 'mm i ALAMATH YOU CAN ROLL A SILVER DOLLAR on a sidewalk in front of fha First National Bahk. In fact, today, lots of men can roll lots of dollars, since Dugan and Mast, "the world's newest Chevrolet dealers," picked Thursday, July 15, to pay off employes with silver dollars. Guard-, ing the shipment is Sgt. Odell Olson (left) while Georga Dugan (center) and Bob Mest handle the loot. TL To Vote On Sewer Bonds TULELAKE Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, July 20, to bal lot on the proposal to bond the city for $35,000 for extension of the city's sewer lines to the Second Addition south of the original city limits. The general obligation bonds, to be retired In 20 years will be paid for by property tax payers in the addition to De served. Estimated cost per lot is from $275 to $300 per unit. A favorable vote will be a vote of confidence In city expansion, according to city fathers. Some 20 new homes will be served by the extension, which will also be a connecting link for the sewage disposal facilities to be installed this year at the Tulelake Butte Valley fairgrounds. The polls will be open from 7. a.m.-to 7 p.m., California time at the city hall. All city precincts will be consolidated for the election. Only one proposition will be on the ballot. Basin Police Seek Kidnaper State nolice are looking for Lu cille Wade following a report this morning from Robert Mathlas, Greer Apartments, that she was abducted about 3 a.m. today. According to Mathias' story to the police, he and the woman were sitting In her car In the alley be hind her home, 1221 East Main, when a car drove up behind them, bumped the Wade vehicle hard enough to push it through a fence. The drlvaT Jumped out, according to Mathlal, Jerked the woman from her car at which point she broke loose and ran Into her house. Mathlas said he saw the man go through the back door and drag the woman out to his car and drive away with her. The car, said to be a 1954 Plymouth, took off down Martin street. About 9:45 a.m. today, Mathias told police the woman phoned him from Fort Klamath, stating she was unharmed. Officers checking cars on the highway had not lo cated the woman by noon today. St. Helena Needs Customers MONTREAL Wl The 3.000 in habitans of St. Helena, the Island famed as Napoleon's death place, are having a tough time econom ically. R. A. Thorpe, the island's only industrialist, came here to attend a Chamber of Commerce confer ence and to seek business for St. Helena's only export, handmade lace. "The island's population is hav ing a hard time." he said. "There is practically no prospect for the future except the one possibility I came to explore here and that Is a market for the lace our women folk make." Thorpe owns eight flax mills on St. Helena, but six are closed down and the others are threatened due to unprofitable production. St. Helena is a British colony In the South Atlantic about 1,500 miles northwest of Cape Town. Na poleon spent a six-year exile there after his armies war crushed at Waterloo. FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY a2. - tun 11 11 ivi iir n , Si r irnrmaiY t. h 1 ' iiilffl-ln-VTririfiii-MiiamMii7,3i Weather FORECAST Klamath Fall! and vicinity: .Fair through Friday. High Friday 88; low Thursday night 50. High yesterday - 94 Low last night . &5 I'rectp. last 24 hours . 0 Since Oct. 1 IMS Same ncriod last year 14.87 Normal for period .12.28 Senate Passes Airport Bill WASHINGTON W The Senate Wednesday passed and sent to the House a compromise bill to author ize $837,369,600 of military con struction projects in all parts of the nation and overseas. included are two Oregon proj ects: $4,133,000 for the Klamath Falls airport, and $1,722,000 of new authorization for the Fortlsnd In ternational airport added to $500, 000 already listed. Both are in the Air Force section of the bill. The final total was slightly more than the $837,165,600 originally vot ed by the Senate but well under the $877,090,000 approved by the House and the $896,976,600 request ed by the administration. The House is expected to vote on the bill Thursday. The total in the compromise ver sion is broken down this way: Army $236,060,000; Navy $201,893, 000; Air Force $398,954,000 and Alaska Communications System $462,000. The bill would only authorize the spending. It will have to be fol lowed by an appropriations meas ure actually putting up the money for the various projects. WASHINGTON Iff) The House bv voice vote sent to President Elsenhower Thursday a bill auth orizing $837,369,600 of military construction projects in the United States and overseas. The bill was a compromise of measures passed previously by the House and the Senate. An actual appropriation to pay for the work is subject to later action by Con gress. Union Charged With Boycott SEATTLE lfl Charges of "secondary boycott were filed against the International Wood workers of America by ship oper ators' representatives Wednesday as the Pacific Northwest lumber Industry strike tied up a second ship here. Attorneys for the Pacific Mari time Assn. filed the charges against the CIO Woodworkers and four locals with the National La bor Relations Board. The action followed the appear ance of pickets at Pier 28 Tues day where the Kazukawa Maru, a Japanese ship, was loading pulp for Central and South America. Earlier in the day, pickets halted loading of pulp aboard the Amer ican freighter Mormacray. NLRB officials said an Immedi ate investigation of the ship tie up would be made. A spokesman said that if ship operators' charges are substantiated, the NLRB will seek an injunction against the picketing. . There was no official explanation bv the Woodworkers for the pick eting, but it was reported they held the Duio loadlne to ba J atria violation, 15, 1954 Gl's Released By Red Czechs WAIDHAUS. Germany Ml. Seven American soldiers, held in Communist Czechoslovakia: since American Independence Day, crossed the border to freedom Thursday at 12:08 p.m. (3:08 PST) after 13 daya In captivity. The seven, six enlisted men and a captain were turned over at this West German-Czech border point whera Associated Press corres pondent William Oatls was freed mora than a year ago. They were met by a detachment from the U.S. 2nd Armored Cav alry, which Is stationed along the East-West frontier. An Army spokesman said ear Her that "after a routine interr gatlon.a news conference will be held," probably Saturday. U.S. Army authorities said the men appeared to be in "good con dition" and that they reported "the food waa good.". The seven were taken while on a holiday inspection, of Europe's grim frontier with communism. They were brought to the bord er In a dusty Czech bus. As they climbed out, some of them ap peared red-eyed and nervous but In good health. Capt. Jack Davis of Raytown, Mo., spoke briefly for the group. "My men are very tired and very nervous," he said. "The treat ment was satisfactory. The food was sufficient and the billets were adequate." Davis himself appeared nervous. His hands trembled as ho spoke. Two of the men were carrying the cameras they apparently had taken with them on their July 4 sight-seeing trip to the border. New Lava Beds Chief Named TULELAKE -The appointment of Robert R. Budlong, superintendent of Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska, to fill the superlnten dency of the Lava Beds National Monument was made known today by Kay Knox, acting superinten dent since the death of Don Fisher last February. The traasfer of Budlong was authorized by Secre tary of the Interior Douglas Mc Kay. Budlong, a native of Washington D.C., Joined the National Park Service in 1933. He has been su perintendent of Scotts Bluff, fa mous historic and geologic land mark on the route of the Old Ore gon Trail, since 1946, and for about a year and half prior to that was In charge at Appomattox Court House National Historical park. He has also had tours of duty at Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida; Casa Grande and Canyon de Chelly National Monuments, Arizona and El Morro National Monument, New Mexico. There are only 17S national park superintendents in the United Stales. Budlong Is expected the last week in July or the first week in August. A second appointment, that of a historian for the monument was also announced by Knox. Thomas Murpby graduate of a Washington college arrived Wed nesday aa an addition to the staff. His appointment followed an ap propriation authorized last year by Congress tor an Increase in park psraotmal to meet jmbile need Telephone 8111 No. 2893 Prisoners Of Vietminh Mistreated HANOI, Indochina tfl French Legionnaires captured at Dien Blcn Phu Thursday told of an ex hausting march that lasted 41 days and covered 500 miles, "Those too sick to continue were left to die," one legionnaire said. Those behind us are -In much worse shape than we." (Hie first two paragraphs of this dispatch were heavily censored.) Legionnaires made Up the bulk of 100 prisoners of war released by the Communist-led Vietminh Wednesday In an exchange at Sam Son, on the Indochina coast, 75 miles south of Haiphong seaport. A similar exchange of 100 French and 100 Vietminh held POWs was under way Thursday at Vletrl, 40 miles northwest of Hanoi. The first eight to reach Hanoi by helicopter from Vletrt also were captured at Dlen Bien Phu May 1 and told stmuar stories of long forced marches, and starvation diet. "Sometimes there was enly a handful of rice to eat," said one. Most of the Sam Son ex changees, who were brought -by French ship to Haiphong Thurs day morning, are suffering from severe dysentery and intestinal dis turbances. Their ribs are ridges under drawn yellowish skin. A French medical officer said sev eral are not expected to live. One said the daily food allow ance for the death march was 400 (14 ounces) grams of rice a day "and nothing else except 10 pea nuts every loth oay." . "God. they look awful!" a shocked French army official said. "II these ore the best con ditioned ones, the others must be in terrible condition." 3fr.?.'- Ship Picks Up Raft Sailors SAN FRANCISCO Wl Five wet and weary amateur sailors who had hoped to drift .to Hawaii were plucked from their foundering. powerless raft 60 miles off cen tral California early Thursday. The freighter SS Metapan ra dioed at 4:25 a.m. that all of the men had been rescued despite high seas and strong winds. Presumably all were In good condition. Details of the rescue were not available. The MetaDan. which located the tiny yellow raft Lehl 62 miles due west of Point sal, said it was heading for San Francisco, about 175 miles away. It was expected to dock at pier 60 between 3 and 4 p.m. PDT Thursday. The 32-foot six-sided raft was cast adrift by the Metapan, but the Coast Guard said tne cutter Alert would find It and destroy it as a menace to navigation. Search tor the fragile raft which put out from San Francisco last Friday ended oil Morro Bay a hours and 25 minutes after the Coast Guard answered an urgent SOS that the craft was sinking. The 7,067 ton Metapan, which sailed from Golflto, Costa Rica July 9 with a cargo ot bananas. was in the general area when It picked up the SOS. It was bound for San Francisco and Puget Sound. The United Fruit Co. freighter picked up a radio filRnal from the Lehl at 12:25 a.m. PDT and took the raft alongside less than three hours later In what the Coast Guard praised as a marvel of seamanship. GOP Hopes For Adjournment WASHINGTON 11 Republican leaders refused Thursday to give up their plans to adjourn this elec tion year Congress on July 31, de spite Democratic contention that It is an impossibly early goal. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic leader, said Wed nesday "we will be lucky if we get out early in August, I suspect It will be nearer Aug. 15." Contending that the Democrats are only "being realistic," Johnson said their policy committee had appraised the situation at a lunch eon meeting. He said the Demo crats are willing to cooperate but believe "full and complete debate" must be had on a number of pend ing controversial measures. Sen. Knowland of California, the Republican floor leader, told news men he believes Johnson "is un duly pessimistic." The date of ad journment hinges largely on Sen ate progress, since the House is further along with Ms work. Lightning; High Winds Cause Havoc By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Deaths attributable to weather reached at least ill Thursday in the wake ot the season's hottest wave and a series of violent storms which helped to break up the wave. Included In the toll were vie tlms of heat prostration, of drown ings among the many who sought relief from the high temperatures, and of storms which swept in be hind the boiling surge ot air as it moved through eastern states. Cooling air, frequently dropping temperatures into the 50s last night where only the day before they were above 95, blanketed the north central states. This air was tailing the thunderstorm violence into r the eastern region. The heat-rallevlng storms left a multimillion-dollar trail of wind and lightning damage across New England, eastern New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania Ohio and southern Michigan. Winds of near-hurricane strength Uprooted trees peeled off roofs, snapped power and telephone Uses and blocked highways. The mercury hit a sizzling 110 degrees at Fort Scott, Kan., before the cooler air began moving into that state. Temperatures of 100 degrees or higher were common from Kansas, Oklahoma and north ern Texas eastward to the Atlan. tic. POULTRY DIES Thousands of baby chicks died from the heat in Arkansas. The Arkansas Poultry Federation- said the state's poultry industry may suffer its worst baby-chick short age in history. -Volunteers responded to an so- peal to help save the lives of fee ble-minded patients at the stats training school in Wintleld. Kan- Some Mongolian-type patients are supersensitive to the heat because ot deficiency in a gland that acts as a sort of thermostat In the body. They had to be packed in ice or otherwise externally cooled. Eleven patients have died in Kansas mental institutions this week. Even tropical plants at the Mis souri Botanical Garden in St, Lou is withered. An automatlb sprinkler system went into action in a suburban SU Louis can factory when the Urn- preature reached 166 degrees in the firm's attte. . Workers' were drenched . and the. office was flood FATALITIES :' Missouri had 38 fatalities; Okla homa, 18; Kansas, 18; Illinois, 8; Kentucky, 6; Colorado 4; and Io wa Louisiana Nebraska Pennsyl van Tennessee, Connecticut, Vir ginia, west Virginia and Maryland, 1 each. These all-time high temperatures were recorded: St, Louis 112; Springfield. III., 114: Columbia, Mo., 113; Springfield Mo. 113; and Tulsa Okla. 112. Other high readings Included Philadelphia 101; Washington, D.C., 100; Huntington, W.Va., 105; Richmond Va, 103; Baltimore, 101 Newark N.J. 101: Terre Haute Ind., 107; Columbus, Ohio, 104; Arkansas City, Kan. 118; Mexico Mo. 116; and Kansas City 110. STORM DAMAGE Upstate areas of New York suf fered severe storm damage. At Pen Yan, In the Finger Lakes re gion, the mayor declared a state of emergency and estimated dam- . age at two million dollars. The heat also touched off severe storms in the South and West. A heavy rainstorm with winds up to 62 miles an hour hit Denver. One' of the worst electrical storms in years caused thousands of dollars of damage in Atlanta. Half the city was without power service at one time. Cool Canadian air spread across most of the Northern Plains and Midwest, ending the heat wave in those sections. Bees Escape In Downtown KF The bees have It. . . Maybe not the honey, but Fifth Street. Two sleepy Cottage Grove bee handlers, who failed to hit the Toad at dawn are still trying to round up the elusive pollen chasers who didn't over-sleep. The two men parked a truck and trailer loaded with bees on La Polntes parking lot In the rear of the Earley Hotel where they regis tered as over-night guests. When the handlers failed to arise as early as planned the bees be came inquisitive about city life and began swarming around the park ing lot, Fifth and Pine Streets, and some even braved the traffic haz ards of Main Street, Unable to corral the elusive stingers the men left one hive at the parking lot and took off with the remainder. However, the lot was closed for the day as the bees left behind continued to enjoy their freedom and would have no part of a hive. PRAISE VIENNA, Austria UP) Vienna newspapers Thursday praised an Associated Press photo showing Russian and American soldiers fighting shoulder - to shoulder against the Danube floods. Edi torials said this shot of the first real cooperation between the rival troops since 1945 would "go around me wona.-
