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mam im u h s inns iii "ill huh y n ,. n u r g ruM u u i u u r c i : . In The' Dav's lews By FRANK JENKINS The latest wishful thinking tale: Old Cliou En Lai, red China's premier, and his vice-premier, a gentleman named Liu Shao Chi, are headed or a ruckus. Chou, the story goes, realizes that red China Is weak internally and must strengthen herself before embark ing on any large scale program of expansion. , Liu, on the other hand, wants to CROWD the commuiflzatlon of Asia in every possible manner RIGHT NOW, even at the risk of another world war. The wishful thinking is that the red Chinks may wind up FIGHTING EACH OTHER. The tale Is brought out of red China by an Australian business man who has lived there for many years, but has Just been given the boot. He says that while he was living in Shanghai he heard the story repeatedly from "well-placed friends" who were in a position to know. Well If it should happen Which it probably won't Let's BE SENSIBLE for once. Let's stand off to one side and let the two factions kill each other off. Let's profit by hard past experl ' ence. If we had had the plain horse sense to stand to one side when Hitler invaded Russia during World War II and let him and Stalin bleed each other white, the world would now be far better off. There's another interesting and perhaps highly significant story on the wires today. U.S. Officials in Tokyo say that at the Japanese government's re quest we have eliminated Japan as a take-off point for planes built to carry atom or hydrogen bombs. The big bombers have been moved from Japan to bases on Okinawa end Guam. The move is described as a di rect result of pressure from the Japanese government WHICH FEARS RETALIATION FROM THE COMMUNISTS IF ATOM OR HYDROGEN BOMB ATTACKS SHOULD BE LAUNCHED ON THE REDS FROM JAPANESE SOIL. Why Is that significant? Well, that's the trouble in Bri tain, which fears the same thing. We've spent years and countless billions building up bases on the soil of our allies, from which we could launch prompt retaliatory at omio attacks on the communists If they start shooting. Now is it beginning to look like our allies . would.. rather Je taken ever bv the communists than to take a chance of being bombed by the Russians because we have bases on their soil. Let's cut it this way: It almost looks as it our allies are getting ready to team up with Russia rather than take a chance on what might happen to them as result of being teamed up with tis. Whether we like it or not, it Is beginning to appear that the "ag' onizlng reappraisal" of our foreign policy of which our state depart ment has spoken on several occa sions is about to be forced upon us. McKay Denies Candidacy SEATTLE Wl Secretary of the Interior McKay has announced he will not be a candidate for the Senate seat now held by Oregon's independent Sen. Wayne Morse. "I Just want to finish out my term in the Interior Department and go back home to Salem," McKay said in - an Interview Saturday. Asked what he would do if the White House would ask him to run against Morse. McKay said: "That's a question I won't attempt to answer until and II such a situation arises. Frankly, I doubt very much that such a request ever will be made." Morse bolted the Republican Party in the 1953 presidential campaign. His present term expires at the end of 1956. McKay passed through Seattle n route to Alaska, One Dead In Car Crackup ' HEPPNER W One occupant was killed and five others hospitalized Sunday night when the automobile in which they were riding struck a bridge abutment one half mile south of here, state police reported Monday. Dead was William Wlckland. a ranch hand from Arlington. Pqlice said they had no information on bis family. , , None of the five others injured was in serious condition, police said. They were Bill Jeliff, the driver; William Anderson, Lee Convoy, Melvtn Hayes and Pete Wheelhouse. Jeliff and Anderson are power line workers, and the other three are farm hands. Police said the car apparently swerved off the road on a slight curve and the driver smashed into the abutment in attempting to get back on the highway. The accident occurred on the Heppner-Condon highway at a place where two ethers persons have been killed since October, 1947, - McCarthy Clashes With Witness WASHINGTON Wl Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) began public hear ings Monday on his repeated charges of 130-odd subversives in defense plants and ran into a stormy clash with a man named as one of them. It wound up with McCarthy's having the man re moved from the hearings room. Yelling about- informers and stool pigeons, Charles Wojchowski was hauled out by a Capitol po liceman acting on McCarthy's or ders. Wojchowski had. been identified as a Red by James W. Glatis of Boston, who testified he himself had Joined the Communist Party as an FBI undercover man. . McCarthy Interrupted Glatis testimony to inquire If Wojchow ski were in the room. A . short, stocky young man in grey slacks and dark grey Jacket came for ward. The senator asked if he would like to be sworn in as a witness so he could affirm or deny whether he was a Red. Wojchowski shouted: "I'd like to know what the charges are, who the accusers are. I'd like to have time to prepare." LOSES JOB He said a telegram practically convicting him had been sent to his employer and had Just about cost him his Job. "I don't know who the stool pigeons and informers are," WoJ chowski said. McCarthy said, "You are not going to come here and call an FBI agent a stool pigeon." "Officer," the senator said, "re' move this man." He said Wojchowski would have a chance to come back later and testify. Glatis didn't go into details about Wojchowski except to say he is a Communist Party member . and works for Allis Chalmers in Bos ton. Glatis also said he knew Yates C. Holmes and Edwin Garfield and had attended party meetings with them. McCarthy said these two also work for Allis Chalmers in Boston and have sent word they will appear before his investiga ttons subcommittee Tueseay. 1 ' Francis P. Carr, chief of staff of the subcommittee, said the Al lis Chalmers plant has done secret defense work in the past, but he doesn't know whether it is. handling classified (secret) defense eon- tracts now. 1 ' RED MEMBERS Monday's hearing was the first directed at what McCarthy said are 130-odd individuals who ap parently are members of the Com munist Party and work in defense plants. He said he used the word "apparently" because "some may be FBI agents." McCarthy started the hearings off as a one-man quorum. Later Sen. Mundt (R-Sd) came in and took a spot by McCarthy's side. It was the first hearing at which McCarthy has presided since March 17 when his public pursuit of Communists was shoved aside for the McCarthy-Army hearings. McCarthy launched the hearings despite: 1. Opposition from a majority of his seven-member subcommit tee on grounds there should be a staff "house-cleaning" before any new official activity. ' 2. A pending move by Sen. Flanders (R-Vt) to censure him for the way he has conducted hearings in the past. This was due to come up on the Senate floor Tuesday, but Flanders announced he would defer the move until July 30. I " It Mr WHAT A WAY TO START A DAY! ...vi the sentiment of retidentt of the Tenth and High Street area Saturday morning when a volley of shots by police and Councilman land acting mayor) Don Kenyon called a rude halt to sleeping. Inspecting one of the several bullet holes in evidence after the alleged car prowler, Alvin Wharton, was apprehended, are Ronnie Mousseau (left) 227 North Ninth (the house in the picture), and Elmer (Buster). Bramlette, 231 North Ninth. Price Five Cents 14 Pages French Hit Vietminh Guerrillas HANOI, Indochina Wl Some 5,000 French Union troops, spear headed by tanks, pushed mop-up operations Monday against a viet minh guerrilla base only 18 miles northwest of Hanoi.' The French reported 28 rebels killed and 13 captured in the push, which met only slight opposition, A spokesman said 215 rebels were killed early Sunday when a rebel battalion charged into French tanks, machineguns and rifle fire north of Hung Yen. Sunday's action came when a rebel battalion operating inside the dwindling Red River delta de fenses around Hung Yen launched an attack on a small village. French gunners who had been expecting the attack opened fire when the rebels were less than 10 yards away forcing the enemy to flee. French losses at Hung Yen were described as "very light." Night flying B26 bombers ranged the northern and southwestern borders of the Red River delta Sunday night, pounding Vietminh bases and ammunition dumps. Here in Hanoi, between 2,000 and 3,000 Vietnamese gathered in front of the opera house Monday for a brief demonstration against any partition of their country by the Geneva conference. After cheering several short speeches, a delegation handed U.S. Consul Turner Cameron a petition addressed to , President Elsenhower, because "we just wanted the President and people of America to know our position." It was the mildest of several anti-partition rallies held in Hanoi and Saigon in recent weeks. Tactical Air Strength Told WASHINGTON W Gen. Otto P. Weyland said Monday the time is fast approaching when the Tactical Air Command which he heads can use atomic weapons "in large numbers" if their employment is authorized. "Every offensive type of aircraft that we have In the tactical air business is or will be equipped to deliver such weapons . . . every fighter-bomber and every light bomber," he said in a copyrighted interview with the magazine U. S. News and World Report. "We are fast approaching the time when atomic weapons, if called upon, can be used in large numbers. Weyland said the Air Force is supplementing its tactical strength with a FlOO Jet fighter, which he described as having "greater fire power, more range and vastly more speed than the F86 . . . which we used and did such a swell job in Korea." Asked whether the FlOO could carry the atomic bomb, Weyland replied: "We're going to use it predominantly for combat in the air, but It will also be a fighter, bomber capable of carrying any weapon. KLAMATH U'yhr VS if n ti ;:::;:t:::f hjw COMMANDER BRUCE HALL (center, front) was escorted out of town with duress this morn ing, headed for Coos Bay to protect the state championship title of the local American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps. Giving "assistance" ars gunmen Warner Fett I left, front); George Baumgardner. (right, front) and Jim Herbert (in rear). Competition will be Tuesday through Saturday; present state champs are scheduled for Thursday. Alaska Phone Cable Planned NEW YORK tm The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. an nounced Monday it planned to con struct an underwater telephone cable system linking all 48 states with Alaska. The proposed system will stretch 800 nautical miles between Port Angeles. Wash., and Ketchikan, Alaska. American. Telephone saidj the project should be completed by 1959. It will provide, for both pub lic and defense purposes, "a speed ier means of telephone communi cations between Alaska and the United States proper," the com pany's statement said. Telephone servlc between Alaska and the U.S. mainland is now provided over 13 radio and land line circuits which the com pany's said were inadequate to handle equipment and estimated future business. The company said it had filed an application with the federal communications commission in Washington covering the plans. The project will provide 36 cir cuits and will be constructed at an estimated cost of 14 million dollars, said AT&T'S long lines de partment. The new cable to Alaska will use underwater amplifiers or re peaters spaced about 40 miles apart. The new project also calls for a radio relay route to carry the circuits, from Port Angeles to Seattle, Wash., on microwave radio beams relayed between tow ers. At Seattle, the circuits will be connected with the regular United States network of long distance facilities. Anti-McCarthy Move Deferred WASHINGTON W-Sen. Flanders (R-Vt) announced Monday he will defer until July 30 the motion he had planned for Tuesday asking tne enaie to censure Sen. McCarthy (R-Wls). Flanders said he is holding up actual introduction of his resolution ot censure at the request of Sen. McClellan (D-Ark), senior Demo cratic member of McCarthy's Senate Investigations subcommit tee, and because he wants the vote on It to be "as massive and bipartisan as possible." Another reason, the Vermont senator said in a statement, Is concern expressed by "the Repub lican leadership" lest his resolution stir up a fight which might hurt action on the President's legislative program In these probable closing weeks of the Congress session. Flanders said he will proceed, however", to deliver In the Senate Tuesday a speech about his resolu tion. He had made public the text of the speech over the weekend. Before Flanders announcement, Sen. Knowland 'R-CalHI had expressed concern that President Eisenhower s legislative program might be completely blocked If the Senate got into extended debate on the proposal to censure McCarthy. AIR BASES MADRID, Spain iTV-Gen. Curtis E. Lemay said Monday lour air bases to be built in Spam shortly will be a welcome addition to the world-wide network of the U.S. stratetle air command be heads. FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY. JULY Weather PORECASTt Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Tuesday. High Tuesday 88; low Monday night 52. Iligh yesterday . 92 Low last nlxht . ... . -...55 Freclp. laat 24 hours 0 Since Oct. 1 - 14.45 Same period laat year 14.87 Normal for period - 12.31 Flood Smashes Eastern City RICHWOOD, W.Va. (A A flash flood smashed the central West Virginia town of Rlchwood Mon day taking at least one life and ruining perhaps one million dol lars worth of property. Torrents of water estimated at 10 and 12 feet in depth swept through the town of 6,300 popula tion. Calls went out to the Red Cross. National Guard and Air National Guard for emergency relief. A state police radio message was overheard in Charleston about 8 a.m. telling of the recovery of one body and adding others might be dead. James E. Reed of the National Guard at Rlchwood said the storm broke about midnight with torrents of rain gushing from thunderous, lightnlng-c r e a s e d skies . Reed said caskets could be seen flatlng incongruously down the streets of the town on the crest of the flood. They came from the funeral home across the street from the National Guard armory. Water at the armory was up to the doors of boxcars standing on a sidetrack near the building. Reed said many citizens of the town were marooned on rooitops. The flood waters were from the two branches of the Cherry River. Residents said the disaster was the worst the town has ever seen, Senate Debate AEC Proposal WASHINGTON UI Debating senators attacked and defended Monday a proposal that private firms be authorized W produce power from atomic energy. The proposal is Included in legis lation to revise the 1946 atomic energy act. The bill also would permit sharing some atomic sec rets with this country's allies ana make other changes in the law. Sen. Knowland (R-Callf) said after a meeting of OOP congres sional leaders at the White House he ' hoped voting on the measure could be started Monday, but no major vote was In sight as the Sen ate swung into Its fifth day ot de bate. CIO President Walter Reuther meantime urged the Senate to de feat the measure, saying in a statement that its passage could cause the U.S. public "an incal culable loss." He referred principally to the bill's provisions for licensing priv ate firms to develop atomic power plants, but he said the bill's pro visions would make the sharing of atomic information with allies "more difficult If not Impossible." He did not explain his reasoning. As the debate moved into its second week, Knowland predicted an administration victory, and said there would be no compromise. 19, 1954 Naval Units Leave Manila MANILA Wl Two U.S. air. craft carriers and four destroyeis are departing the Philippine train ing area "for an unknown destl' nation," a reliable source said Monday. The source declined to be identi fied. . . There was Immediate specula. Uon that -the ahlps miKht assist in an Indochina evacuation. Less than 4S hours remain for settlement of the remaining major points of disagreement by the July 20 deadline which France's Premier Pierre Mendes - France has set for himself to reach a satisfactory agreement or resign ing. The carriers Boxer and Hornet and tile destroyers Stembel, Han son, Lwas and Taussig are an chored in the Manila area. The carriers frequently have been in and out of this harbor in what the U.S. Navy officially calls "fair weather maneuvers." The United States has been ro tating several carriers in Philip pine waters since late last year. Their maneuvers have taken them frequently into the South China Sea. Manila is only about 1,000 air miles from Haiphong, port city of beleaguered Hanoi where Com munist Vietminh are closing In on me snrinxing French Red River delta defenses. Americans already have been a.erted for possible movement out of Hanoi. Rhee Plans U.S. Visit SEOUL 11 President Syni?man Rhee may leave ior the United States Saturday to press President Eisenhower for more military and economic aid and for new moves on unifying Korea. Reliable sources said Rhee will leave for Washington in an Ameri can military Constellation plane. Rhee Is taking along his Austrian vile, his defense minister, and military figures, the sources said. Rhee's acceptance now of a long-standing invitation to visit Washington comes at a time wiien the future of the Korean peace conference at Geneva appears clouded. Last summer, the United States and South Korea agreed to discuss further means of achieving Korean unification if the Korean peace conference failed. South Korea has toned down Us demand In recent months, for a drive north to unify the country by force. But unification still l.s Rhee's No. 1 goal, and he undoubt edly will again propose re-opening the shooting war. Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE First game Baltimore 040 010 1107 15 0 Boston 000 003 0099 8 1 Chakalees, Fox (6), Blyzka 0i and Courtney; Hudson, Brown (2, Parnell 7), Clevenger (E: and White, Owen 9i. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 000 000 0000 3 1 New York 101 004 20x 8 10 0 Gray, Miller it) and Wilson; Reynolds and Berra. No. 2896 Benson Predicts Wheat Price WASHINGTON Wi Secretary of Agriculture Benson indicated Monday that even under present law he does not expect price sup ports on the 1955 wheat crop to drop below 80 per cent. Benson told a news conference that he regards 80 per cent price supports for wheat "as a pretty good judgment:" That level would drop the support price from the present $2.24 to $1.99 a bushel. Wheat and other basic crops are now supported at 90 per cent of parity, but unless Congress changes the law as it is in the process of doing Benson could fix next year's level anywhere be tween 75 and 90 per cent of parity. Parity is a price determined by farm law to be fair to farmers in relation to the cost of things they must buy. Benson predicted that wheat growers in a referendum Friday will approve stringent marketing quotns for next year in order to qualify for price supports. They will not know, however, exactly what (lie supports will be because Congress still Is considering farm legislation. Tlie administration is asking for flexible price supports for basic crops ranging from 90 to 75 per cent of parity. The House has voted for supports between 82 ana 9b per cent of parity. The Tlie Senate Agriculture Committee favors a one year extension of per cent supports, hut the Senate still must act. Benson predicted that the Senate will not .'ote to increase the pres ent 75 per cent price supports for dairy products. IU agriculture committee has recommended boost to 85 per cent, and the House hos approved an 80 per cent support level. Benson said he felt an increase In dairy -supports mould be a seri ous mistake snd would result in the government having to buy much more butter. Benson said his department has not yet decided whether it will be necessary to start n new govern ment livestock purchase program as a result of widespread drought. He said a decision on this will be made soon. Red Chinese Blame U. S. TOKYO (.TV-Red China's Pctpinir radio s id today a "stone wall In the way of an agreement has arisen" at the Geneva conference on nn Tudochina cense-fire and blamed it on the United States. 'It is clear . . that the marking of time in the present decisive stage of the conference is due to American pressure for delaying an agreement," the Communist prop aganda radio said. Radio Peiping, which had been glowingly optimistic over chances for a c en Re-fire, hns been Increas ingly gloomy in the past 24 hours. v Telephone 8111 I 4 v -1 I'..'' 1.11 r V "WASH 'EM CLEAN!" may bs Chuck Mnn' (right) direction to Larry McDowell, the hois man at Juckeland Truck Salet and Service, Inc., Eleventh and Klamath. Mann il a talesman for the company. Tuesday Set As Deadline For Truce By EDDf GILMORE GENEVA Wl French Premier Pierre Mendes-France, with HU tie more than M hours to go be fore his "peace or resign" dead line, said Monday things were go. tng "all right" and he hoped peace was in sight. The French Premier, whs laid a month ago he would quit if he could not bring peace to Indochina by midnight July 20, spoke to re porters as he came out of a S hour and 17 minute meeting with U. 8. Undersecretary ot Stats Walter Bedell Smith. "How are things going?" he was asked. , "All right," the Premier re plied in English. "Is peace In sight?". "I hoDe so." Mendes-France looked tired as he came out of U.S. delegation headquarters. He would not discuss the subject of nis talks witn Smith, who was too 111 with lum bago to leave his room. American officials also declined comment. It was learned, however, that a call to Washington from delega tion headquarters was placed im mediately after the meeting, , STATEMENT . Earlier Monday a British spokes man said Mendes-Franqe had "a chance, that's all," to make his deadline. Another western official said he wouldn't even bet on the proposi tion. The top Communist delegates here kept to themselves. One high conference source earn Mendes-France had pushed away one obstacle to peace in a tenia, tive fashion the long debated question of the International com. mission to police tne armistice. This source said the French and the Communists seemes to have settled the composition of the com mission with Canada, India, and Poland as the members. There would be last minute changes, It was emphasized. The British, it was reported, will support Mendes-France on this composition. The position ot the United states has not been made known. In the past the United States has opposed the inclusion of any Communist states on the commission because of the un happy results in Korea, where Czechslovakla . and Poland ham pered operations ot the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission 'with their veto power, AGREEMENT - ...- under .the tentative agreement reached ; by Mendes-France and the Communists, decisions would have to be taken by unanimous vote on any Issues which might lead to the resumption ot hos Unties. Otherwise a simple major lty would decide. The conference source emphasized that the agree nient was not In its final form. Progress also was reported un officially on the question- ot elec tions in Viet Nam after the arml stlce. There were reports the Com munlsts wera ready to accept a delay of 18 months. Earlier they had asked for a vote on a new gov ernment within six months. The French originally asked for a two- year delay. There was little ooudi tnai viet Nam was going to be partitioned somewhere between the 14th and 18th parallels. A Viet Namese spokesman said sadly Monday "There will be a partition and we realize we can not avoid it." ATTACK GENEVA Wl Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. undersecretary of state, was confined to his room Monday with a painful attack ot lumbago, He continued work. however. VESQ i . 14 I ms v: , hi l it; s 1 4'
