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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1954)
si f?inrp7 n mMA 1. 9 Mock Special C READY FOR WORK when the 9 o'clock cameraman happened by were Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Goff, 415 Walnut. Mrs. Goff clerks at Sears; Mr. Goff works for W. D. Miller. Heat Scores Central Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pleasant weather prevailed in the northeastern third of the na tion Saturday, but 100-degree plus heat returned to the central plain's. A band ot sweltering weather stretched from Central Texas northward to the Canadian border. The greatest warming occurred in Kansas, Eastern Colorado and Western Nebraska where tempera tures jumped 7 to 14 degrees over the preceding day. High readings Included Philips, S. D., 100; North Platte, Neb., 101; Qoodland, Kan., 101; Oklahoma City, 103; Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex., 106: Wichita, Kan., 107 and Fort Smith, Ark., 109. Two persons died from the heat in Texas bringing the total of deaths from the current heat wave to 224. Deaths in other states were Missouri 79; Oklahoma 54: Kansas 34, Illinois 14, Kentucky 8, Penn sylvania 5, Colorado and West Vir ginia 4 each, Ohio and Arkansas, 3 each; New Hampshire and Mas sachusetts, 2 each, and New York, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Connec ticut, Virginia, Tennessee and Maryland, 1 each. ,' 'Machine Gun' Kelly Dies Leavenworth; Kan. w George (Machine Gun) Kelly, 59, serving life sentence for the kid naping of Charles F. Urschel, wealthy Oklahoma City oil man, died in the federal prison hospital early Saturday after a heart at tack. This was Kelly's birthday. Kelly and an accomplice, Albert L. Bates, armed with a machine gun and a pistol kidnaped Urschel from his palatial Oklahoma City home -shoiTiy after midnight July 22, 1933. Urschel was released July 31, after payment of a $200, 000 ransom, Kelly, his wife Kathryn, Bates and Harvey Bailey were convicted, the first convictions under the Lindbergh law, and given life sen tences. The dapper Kelly won his nick name, "Machine Gun," the under world reported because he could write his name on a wall with bul lets from a machine-gun. FIREMEN FOUGHT FLAMES at 1831 Last, where an old woodshed burned to the ground Fri day afternoon. Cause of the fir was tentatively attributed to ashes in a garbage barrel near, by. The call came in at 3:42 p.m., following reports of three grass fires: at 10:19 a.m. to the end of Crescent Avenue: at 2:04 p.m. to the 1700 block of Mamanita and at 2:07 to the 1800 block of Crescent Avenue. . ' 7 fell Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through 8 o n d y High Sunday 90; Low Saturday night 52-57. High yesterday . 85 Low last nlrht 50 Reds Maintain Polar Stations MOSCOW lid The Russians disclosed today they are maintain ing "scientific stations" on two floating ice islands in the polar region north and northwest of Alaska. ' The Soviet News . Agency Tass said teams on the Icefloes are tak ing depth measurements of the Arctic Ocean, studying atmospher ic conditions and making geologi cal surveys of the seabed. The scientists were flown to their drift ing bases last spring and are being supplied by helicopters. Tass said' one of the stations Is north of --Alaska ' end within 100 miles of the North Pole. The other is above Siberia and about 500 miles northwest ot Point Barrow, Alaska. It . is 650 miles from the pole. The report said the Arctic teams are living in tents and prefabri cated houses heated with cool and gas. Fresh vegetables, letters, packages and newspapers are be ing flown to them regularly. The bases were said to be equipped with tractors, motor cars and windmills. Their radio stations are keeping regular contact with the Soviet mainland. The stations are under the com mand of two specialists in geo graphical science. So far extensive research has been carried on in the central Arctic near the North Pole, the submerged Lomonosov Mountains and the continental shelf of the Chukotsk Sea, it was said. Western observers looked on the establishment of the Icefloe bases as another move in the Soviet-U.S. contest for supremacy in the Arc tic the shortest air route be tween Russia and North America. . CHINESE FLOODS HONG KONG W This sum mer's Yangtze River floods are the worst in China's history, ac cording to Chinese Communist press and internal radio reports reaching Hong Kong. mm- tr 'wr ' . 1 ferald aili f 1 : . Price r utf J P KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1954 Telephone Bill No. 2895 LuntCer Strike Continues To By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The crippling Pacifio Northwest lumber strike- came to the end of its fourth week Saturday with little hope of an early settlement. Some negotiations are in the off ing but major employers gave no indication they were weakening on their stand that the industry can not afford wage increases asked by the two striking unions the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers and the CIO Woodworkers. Operators' committees served notice this week they are abandon ing area-wide negotiations in favor of bargaining between individual plants and their crews. They said individual employers are ready to negotiate renewal of contracts with no pay increases. The unions are seeking a 12 Vt cent hourly boost. There have been some settlements but none affect ing a major segment of the lumber industry, Ponderosa Lumber Sales and Tite Knot Pine mill, both of Red mond, Ore;, announced Friday they have withdrawn their bargain ing authority from the Pine Indus trial Relations Committee. That committee has been representing Oregon and Northern California pine operators in negotiations. , Marsden Elliott, president of Ponderosa Lumber Sales, gave no reason for the decision. He said the two companies are willing to renew contracts with their striking workers but will grant no wage increases. The companies have had to use supervisory employes to pile some 300,000 board feet of lumber left on the ground when the strike started, Elliott said. Tite Knot also Indian Bills Approved WASHINGTON Ml A House Interior Subcommittee Friday ap proved bills Drovidini for an end of direct federal supervision over personal property of more than 6,000 Indians in three states. The Senate has passed all of the measures. Among Indians they would affect are some 2.000 mem bers of the Klamath Tribe of Ore gon and 2,100 members of various groups in Western Oregon. The Klamath bill would enable individual Indians to decide wheth er they wanted tribal property managed by a corporation or a trustee and whether some of the property should be sold. .. Klamath Indians could withdraw from the tribe and receive their share. Payment of $250 to each member of the tribe from trust funds also is provided in the bill. Also approved by the subcom mittee was a bill authorizing $206, 880 for helping the Klamath County school district in building school facilities on the Klamath Reserva tion. Dollar-hide Wins At Salinas Show SALINAS. Calif. UP! Ross Dol- larhlde, last year's world cham pion steer wrestler from Lakeview, Ore., won his specialty today be fore a record crowd of 15,000 at the California Rodeo. Dollarhide downed his steer in 0.2 seconds. He also tied for third in the saddle bronc event. -i ... . i - ' y.- " ', 't '' -?'i'i'5 Deadlock Grip industry was refused union permission, he added, to repair a burner that will require fixing before the plant can resume operation after the strike ends. A. F. Hartimg, Woodworkers president, said some 100 employes of the Harvard Box and Lumber Co., Springvllle, Calif., joined the walkout Friday after negotiations failed. Friday's announcement that the IWA and Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. will meet at Longview Wednes day under mediation service aus pices was the first report of a major session since breakup of regional talks earlier in the week. French Push Vietminh Back HANOI, Indochina 1.11 French units Saturday reoccupied Camp Erulln, 35 miles northeast of Ha noi, after 5,000 to 6,000 French Vietnamese troops in two columns pushed Communist-led rebels north of the Luc Nam-Phu Lang Thu ong road on the northern edge of the Red River Delta. The two columns, both spear headed by tanks and supported by dive bombers and artillery, pushed east out of Phu Lang Thuong and west -out of Luc Nam and joined forces midway before swinging north, a French briefing officer reported. Northwest of Hanoi, Vietminh pressure continued to build up, with small, bitter fights flaring along roads. " , , At Hanoi, 600 women and youths were released, from French pris on camps. They had been arrest ed and held as suspected Viet minh sympathizers and suppliers. Another 400 are to be released daily until 1,850 are freed, French authorities said. Service Clubs Plan Tourney It's double trouble for double clubs Sunday at Reames Golf and Country Club. The "club" struggle between clubs, slated to start at 9 a.m.. pits top tee men in Klamath serv ice clubs against "pros" in "op posing" service organizations, and the only weapon In the com bat of clubs will be. clubs golf clubs. More trouble will come when scores are tallied. Losers will lose almost the shirts off their backs. At any rate, they will lose some golfing time, since the penalty for defeat is servile service to the "super" service club member. Example: AI House is matched with Loren Palmerton. If House loses, he will stack lumber for Palmerton; Palmerton's penalty, if he loses, will be to pump gas for House or mow his lawn. The fun won't end when the matches are over, but the public is Invited to attend the tournament. Proceeds will be used by the var ious, participating clubs to carry or. their charitable programs. Representing the various serv ice clubs in preliminary planning have been Moon Mullis, Lion; George Davis, Rotary; John West, Kiwanis; Fred Kllnk, Toketee LlonS' Reds Use Dope As Weapon NEW YORK OP The nation's chief narcotics fighter said Satur day that Communists are deliber ately exposing U.N. troops to dope in South Korea and Japan. As a result, U.S. Narcotics Com missioner Harry J. Anslinger said, a "substantial" number of Ameri can troops in those areas have become dope addicts. Anslinger called the Reds' ac tivity "a deliberate attempt to neutralize" U.N. forces. He testified before a Senate for eign relations subcommittee con sidering ratification of a protocol signed by 36 nations to curb world opium production and distribution. Anslinger also made these other points; The Italian government is con ducting "a very serious investiga tion" of reports that Charles (Lucky) Luciano, vice king who was deported from the United States is playing a major role in the illicit drug traffic. Most of the illegal heroin reach ing this country originate in Red China. Dope addiction among Ameri cans has risen sharply to more than 60,000 persons. The most effective way to fight addiction is for states to in crease penalties for peddling. Anslinger told newsmen after testifying that American soldiers who turned to dope in the Far East have been returned home and discharged. He said the situation "Is still current but the armed forces ere doing their best." Knowland Asks Action On Germany WASHINGTON m Senate Re publican Leader Knowland said to day congress might have to delay adjournment or come back in spe cial session if it becomes necessary to consider early sovereignty for West Germany. The Callfornian told newsmen the decision must await a recom mendation from the Elsenhower administration which has been stepping up German sovereignty talk In an effort to prod the French into ratifying the six-nation Euro pean Defense Community. Secretary of State Dulles has ar ranged a special meeting next week to "discuss procedures" with Senate and House Republican and Democratic leaders and with mem bers of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee. Congress is shooting for adjourn ment by July 31. The French As sembly Is due to quit work Aug. 15. The Eisenhower administration is anxious for French ratification of EDC before that date. The high-level strategy session was announced by Chairman Wiley (R-Wls) yesterday after Dulles spent about two hours reporting to the Foreign Relations Committee on his quick trip to Paris this week for urgent conferences with French Premier Pierre Mendes - France and British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden. In general Wiley said; i "I got the impression that the Paris conversations increased U.S British-French unity and improved the chances for a reasonable set tlement In Geneva." Wiley said Dulles reported he stressed at Paris the need to uni fy Europe through EDC as a means of easing the free world's problems elsewhere. France and Italy alone of the six EDO nations has yet to ratify the treaty. They have been drag ging their fe i for two years. This has held- up the Bonn peace con- tiact which would restore West German sovereignty. French reluctance to ratify EDC is grounded in fear of a rearmed Germany. Under EDC, West Ger man troops would be integrated in to a European Army, Gl's Recount Red Pressure FUERTH, Germany Wi Seven American soldiers held 12 days in Communist Czechotsovakla said to day their captors threatened them with imDrlsonment if they did not reveal U.S. military secrets. Capt. Jack Davis, 31, of Ray- town, Mo. one of the captives said Czech army officers told the men "after a year or so (In pris on) you will probably give better answers." Davis, spooking for the others at a news conference in an Army mil itary courtroom crowded with pho tographers and newsmen, said they were never bodily harmed or threatened with physical violence. The seven are: Davis, Pvt. Rich ard J. Jumper, 21, Bonneville, Miss., Pfc. Leonard D. Tennis 18 Alliance Ohio, Cpl. John F. Glas son 24, Oakdale, Calif., Pfc, Jerry W. Griffith, 22, Springfield, Ohio, Pfc. George Swltzer, 23, Mil- burn, Neb. and Pvt. Ross McGln nis, 21, Greensburg, Fa. Davis, chubby freckled medical officer said the men went to the border July 4 "to take a look," and that they were captured by a rov ing Czech border patrol of about 20 armed men. He said the Czechs fired several warning shots at the men "so they could capture us." After they were captured, Davis said he protested and explained they were only on a holiday. Reclaimed Land Ceded To School WASHINGTON I The Inter- lor Department would be author ized to deed 27 '4 acres of land to the Siskiyou Joint Union High School District, Siskiyou County, Calif., under a bill passed Satur day by the Senate and sent to President Elsenhower. The land Is part ol the area un covered by the lowering of Tule Lake In connection with a federal reclamation project. The 27 '--acre trace Is to be. used only for public school pur poses. The school district won't have to pay for It because Cali fornia received no money when it ceded the uncovered land to the United States. EXPLOSION 8E0UL W The South Korean defense ministry Friday announced that one ROK soldier was killed and five were Injured on the cen tral front Thursday when a pile of hand grenades exploded In a. train ing exercise. interior Department Plans Review Of Wildlife Policy WASHINGTON W! The Inter ior Department is looking Into the possibility of doing away with some federal wildlife refuges and opening the fringes of others to hunting. The department also is reviewing the size and operating eiiiciency of the fleet of seagoing vessels and airplanes assigned to the Fish and Wildlife Service, and is moving to correct other unsatisfactory condi tions within that agency. The steps are in line with recom mendations of a special five-man team, appointed by Secretary of the Interior McKay, which made six-week, 11,000-mlle survey ot Bevan Blasts DURHAM, England Wl Aneur- in Bevan called Prime Minister Churchill "stupid" Saturday and accused him and the United States of risking ,"a third and last war by keeping Red China out of the United Nations." The Welsh legislator, who com mands an Important leftist follow ing in the British Labor Party, was speaking at a rally of Durham mine workers. Recalling that Chur chill as war secretary tried to stop the Russian Communist revolution In 1919 both by armed interven- Hon and by "starving it out, Bev an declared: "The same thing is happening again. There has Just been a revo lution In China. But Churchill is there still and he Is as stupid in 1954 as he was in 1919. "He has Just been to the United States and there he has surrender ed again in deciding that the time is not appropriate for China to be brought into the United Nations. Chicago Beef Sales Soar CHICAGO Iff) Hog prices were marked down this week, large ly because of- a sharp break Thursday. Barrows and gilts wound up the period unevenly 25 to 75 cents lower while sows, which comprised 41 per cent of the re ceipts were steady to oo cents lower. - Top for the week was $25.00. At the close the best prices was $24.50. Hot weather in Chicago curtailed the demand for meats and this was mainly responsible for the slump in live hog quota tions. Shipping demand was broad with order buyers taking 30 per cent of receipts. Most sections of the cattle mark et had to contend with the larg est run on Monday for any July day 20 years. Later, producers cut shipments with the result that the week's receipts were down about 5 per cent from last week. Steers grading good and better lost 60 veins U $1.00. Top was $27.00 for a few loads of prime fed steers. Two loads of 860 pound yearlings were bought by Con- adian packers at $20.50, the first cattle shipped from Chicago to Canada since June, 1953. Spring lambs lost $1.00 while yearlings were weak to 50 cents down. Increased receipts at Chi cago and other terminals were the main bearish Influence. Prices on dressed lamb In the wholesale market were $1.00 to $4.00 higher for the week. MRS. FREDDIE LEE BAKER, BLY. is recovering from iniunes received when her ear was (truck by an S. P. freight train on the O. C. and E. RR at the Homedalt Road crossing shortly before 1 1 p.m. Friday. Byron Winningham, Oregon Stat Police, checks the demolished car which was carried over 462 feet by the impact. Fish and Wildlife Service Installations. The teom was composed of James R. Turnbull, Seattle, chair man; Ross L. Leffler, Pittsburgh, and John D. Pcnnekamp, Miami and two career employes of the department M. George Ooodrick and John B. Bennett. Tlie team recommended a con siderable internal reorganization of the agency, both within the head-l quarters here and in the regional offices, in order to Improve fish and wildlife management without adding personnel, Orme Lewis, 'assistant secretary, disclosed that he has ordered tlfe director of tho Fish and Wildlife Service to undertake the reorgan ization and to take steps necessary to put into enect tne otner recom mendations of the survey team. These include: 1. Reappraisals of 'VnntrnvAr. slal" wildlife refuges, esnpniallv those maintained for resident game species not in danger of extinc tion, and where the areas Involved are considerably greater than needed for adequate conservation. 2. Giving consideration to onen. ing suitable strips within certain refugo boundaries to controlled public shooting, "prbvlded that tms will not materially reduce the effectiveness as a waterfowl reiuge. ' 3. Assignment of responsibility to appropriate regional officers for scheduling and use of airplanes and seagoing vessels since these "may prove to be a most serious extravagance. ' 4. A "more aggressive and com- prenensive research program" to combat botulism, which has killed nunareas of thousands of ducks In uie past tew years. 5. Consolidation of market news service. The team said seven publications at Boston, New York, Hampton, Va., New Orleans, San Pedro Calif., Seattle and Chicago had a dally circulation of 7,281 and production cost this year of $279,008, averaging out to $38.3a a supsenber. , : "We seriously question that so expenditure of federal funds for so limited a purpose can be justified," the team said. It recommended Immediate consoli- aaiion into not more than four production and mailing centers Atlantic Const. Gulf Coast, Pacific uoasi ana ureat Lakes and said tho valuo of the latter was debatable In view of the decrease of Great Lakes fishery operations. Archbishop Sued Over Bingo Game CINCINNATI Ifl Archblshoo Karl J. Alter, as trustee of St. Joseph Church has been sued for $54,463.32 damages as the result of an accident at a bingo game. Elizabeth BlankenshlD brought the action yesterday, saying she was Injured when a chair collapsed while she was playing the gome in tne cnurch school yard Aug, 2, 1952. She said back inlurles ne cessitated two operations and she was In the hospital for 66 days. DESERTERS WASHINGTON (fl The U.S. In formation Agency says 10,000 members of East Germany's peo ple's police the equivalent of a complete motorized Infantry divi sionhave bolted to tho West since 1951. Russians Deadlock Peace Talks GENEVA W U.S. Undersecre tary of State Walter Bedell Smith arrived by plane today to strength en France's hand in the rough bargaining for peace In Indochina. ' The U.S. diplomat, returning to head the delegation he left four weeks ago, was greeted by mem bers of all the non-Communist dele gations. Significantly, the delegations of the three Associated States of Indo china, Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos, were represented at the alr port by the heads of their delega tions. The three states are count ing heavily on the Influence of the United States to save them from submission to excessive Commu nist demands in the impending armistice negotiations. French Premier Pierre Mendes- France and British Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden arranged to confer with Smith after his arrival. GLOOM SPREADS Gloom spread over the confer ence last night after Mendes France and Eden spent three ap parently fruitless hours wrangling with Russia's V. M. Molotov over differences blocking a truce agree ment. One authoritative source said there had been "no progress at all on any of the real Issues." It was Mendes-France's second abortive parley with Molotov in 24 hours. Earlier the Reds had boost ed Western hopes they were ready to compromise and allow the French premier to win his drama tic race to end the Indochina War. The French premier has promised to resign If he doesn't achieve a ceasefire agreement by July 20. Aitnougn western diplomats now are less optimistic about chances for a truce they think the Reds might still come around before the deadline date. Informants said Mendes-France last night handed Molotov the first detailed draft of Western propos als. . . The Communists and the West ern ministers have failed to agree on a partition line through the pivotal Indocbinese state ol Viet Nam. STATE DIVIDED Mendes-France reportedly wants the line cut at the 18th Parallel. The Communists want the state divided at the 14th latitude which, would give them most of Viet Nam Including the Important air and naval base of Tourane and the old Annamese capita ot Hue. Mendes-France has indicated lie Is ready to give up Hanoi, war capital of northern Viet Nam, but ho insists on at least temporary, control of the big northern port of Haiphong. Still to be settled are other key Issues, such as scheduling free elections for Viet Nam and setting terms for neutralizing Indochina's two other states Laos and Cam bodia. Secretary of State Dulles has told Mendes-France and Eden that the United States would not block their efforts to negotiate a peace based on partition of Viet Nam. But he made it clear tbe Elsen hower administration frowns on plan which would place new mil lions under Red rule. Smith must work out a formula which would allow the United States to stand clear of a partition arrangement, but at the same time permit Washington to extend aid to the south Vietnamese state, Laos and Cambodia, College To End Segregation ST. LOUIS Iff) The policy of racial segregation at the Universi ty of Missouri at Columbia has been abolished in line with the Su preme Court's recent decision out lawing segregation In publlo schools. ' Powell B. McHaney of St. Louis, president of the university's board of curators, disclosed the change in policy yesterday. f
