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Newspaper Page TextIn The Dav s lews By FRANK JENKINS,. Alter meeting lasting an hour and a quarter, the governor of Ore gon, the chief justice of the Ore gon supreme court, the attorney general of Oregon and the presi dent of the Oregon state bar asso ciation come to the conclusion that under the law they can do noth ing to solve the problem created by the dispute that ha? tied up circuit court trials in Klamath county. At the conclusion of their meet ing they issue a statement the general gist of which is that as of now there is no legal remedy lor the situation that has arisen here. I think everyone in Klamath county will be a little disappointed that something constructive could not have come out of this confer ence. We had hoped that these top most legal authorities of our state might go beyond the powers of their offices and give us helpful ad vice as to what we might do to resolve a situation that to say the least has been perplexing These are the questions t b a, have been bothering us: Is District Attorney Alderson in competent to perform- efficiently the duties of his office? Are the legal papers he prepares so faulty that they will not stand up in court? Or is the whole business just a feud between two officials who are chiefly responsible for law en forcement In Klamath county? If so, who is in the right? Who is in the wrong? We had hoped, I presume, for advice that might guide us in ar riving at accurate and Impartial answers to these questions. No layman, I think. Is compe tent to judge as to the technical excellence of legal proceedings any more than a mere layman is competent to pass upon the treat ment prescribed by a physician for a patient. I can understand why our gov ernor, the chief justice of our su preme court, the attorney general of our state and the president of our state bar association might not care to go so far beyond the limits of their duties in a i involving officials whom we our selves have elected, but you can t blame us for hoping. Sinca we must go ahead on our own, this newspaper would like to appeal to Judge Vandenberg to indulge as much as possible with in the limits of the duties of his office the apparent youthful inept ness on the part of the district attorney. It appeals with equal urgency to District Attorney Alderson to carry out the duties of his office with all the ability and all the sincerity he is capable of. I'd like to suggest personally that in cases where he feels in need of assis tance-he calls upon the Klamath county bar association. 2 m sure Its members all of whom have been young and inexperienced in their profession when they started in will be glad to give him all ; tne Help they can. i appeals to the people of Klamath county w oe as pauent ana as tolerant as they can be In these rather peculiar circumstances. After all, you know, this is OUR , community. We are all interested .: in maintaining its good name. And : apparently there is no reasonable ' recourse save to wait until an- : other election Tolls around. : If we will all be patient and tol- ; erant and if everyone will do his ', part to the best of his ability, we . should be able to prevent any f weakening of law enforcement in ' Klamath county in spite of the ; unfortunate situation, that has : arisen among us. French Vote Backs Truce PARIS W The French National Assembly approved the Indochina cease-fire last night by a sweeping 9u-is voie. An Assembly resolution! exoress. ing satisfaction at the outcome of the Geneva conference, said the cessation of hostilities was "due. , in a large measure, to the decis ive action" of Premier Pierre Men-des-France. i During debate the Premier clashed with ex-Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who attacked the Indochina settlement as another Munich the 1938 agreement which split Czechoslovakia and paved the way for Nazi aggres sion. - Bidault had headed the French delegation at the three-month Ge neva conference during the' early unsuccessful stages of tne negotia. tions. Mendes-France took over the premiership from Joseph Lan- icl with the pledge he would bring the Indochina war to an end by July 20 or resign. Heat Swelters Southern Plains By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pleasant summer weather pre vailed over the northern two-thirds of the nation Saturday, but the far Southern plains still sweltered In plus 100-degree heat. Most sections had high tempera tures in the 10s and 80s Friday, although maximum readings were only in the 60s and 60s along the Pacific Coast from Central Cali fornia to Canada. The cooler air pressed south ward into southern Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. The mercury topped the loo-degree mark in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Northern Louisiana. Temperatures In the 90s prevailed in others sections of the south. mm Dulles Warns To Continue By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON Wl The Elsen hower administration has now reached two basic conclusions about the Indochina peace settle ment at Geneva: . . 1. If the United States and Its Allies act quickly and decisively they can take military, political and economic measures which should save the rest of Indochina from Communist conquest either by a new open aggression or by subversion. 2. Just because Russia and Red China agreed to an Indochina set tlement, this does not provide any basis for believing the Communists will now agree to desirable Ko rean, German and Austrian settle ments or to disarmament and atomic bomb control systems. These points stood out in a news conference held by Secretary of State Dulles late yesterday near the end of a hectic week in inter national affairs. They demon strated that the American govern ment assumes the cold war is still a very active combat and tnat Rus sian talk of sweeping world settle ments is simply propaganda de signed to muddle the Western Allies. Dulles said again that the Indo china settlement was one which the United States did not like, but that in effect it simply reflected the military reality of a situation in which French-led forces were losing and Communist troops were winning the Indocnina war. "The important thing from now on." he said, "is not to mourn the past but to seize the future opportunity to prevent the loss in Northern Viet Nam from leading to the extension of communism throughout southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. ... "if iii. free nations which have a stake in this area will now work together to avail our present op portunities in the light of past ex perience, men me iobs oi wib ent may lead to a gain for the future." In the wake of this opening state- Oregon Game Rules Told PORTLAND W The Oregon name Commission Saturday an nounced final hunting , regulations lor 1954. There were few changes from tj.ntjLt.ivA regulations set July 10. One Was lengthening or the buck deer season from Oct. 2 through Oct. 18. That Involved shifting of the three-dav elther-sex deer sea son to Oct. 19-20-21. Boundaries for this hunter's choice season were unchanged. Other changes modified the Clat sop County elk area and elimina ted the requirement that hunters carry out elk heads and antlers There were slight modifications in pheasant seasons and a lew boundary changes. Regulations concerning conduct of hunters on state-owned shooting grounds were adopted.- The commission said it will make available complete synopsis of the regulations about Sept; 1. Nafi Guard' Jet Race Held ONTARIO. Calif. B Fourteen jet pilots took off Saturday morn ing for Detroit in the air national guard's first annual Earl T. Ricks memorial trophy race. The. .speedy jets were starting the 1,960-mile cross-country dash from Ontario International Airport and were scheduled to arrive at Wayne Major Airport, Detroit, Sat urday afternoon. Entrants included Capt. Dallas P. Sartz, Pullman, Wash., 116th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. The wmner will be determined on the basis of total elapsed time, including refueling stops. It is ex pected that most of the pilots will make one refueling stop at Garden City, Kan., the halfway point. The pilots were chosen from Air National Guard squadrons throughout the nation for this first running of a contest to be known as the Earl T. Ricks Memorial Trophy Race. Firemen Fight Grass Fires The city fire laddies were called out four times Friday to ex tinguish grass fires. At 11:06 a.m. a fire was reported in the 2300 block of California Ave nue. While firemen were mopping uo a blaze reported at 3:41 p.m. at 21 West Oregon Avenue, another call advised the station a fire had broken out at 2425 Oregon Avenue. radio call to the truck on the West Oregon blaze sent the fire men to Oregon Avenue before the fire made much headway. Another fire reported at 8:09 p.m. was put out without anv damage being done. Fire Chief Roy Rowe issued a warning to parents not to let their children play with matches in the yard. It is believed one or more cf the free Friday was set by youngsters. rti Red Cold War Despite Traced ment, Dulles was asked wv V thought about a Russian -r tion of Thursday that -r national conference0 a. be held to settle issues as the f'j , Korea and A' T ..la ment and J Dulles f jnerlcan governme, nopeful of Soviet cool. Jut, he de clared, this .y has gone a long way in rec .d meetings to test out the good faith of the Soviet Union and so far the results have been entirely negative. By way of example he cited the East-West talks under U. N. spon sorship that had Just broken down at London on the question of dis armament and atomic control. He said the talks failed because the Soviet attitude had not changed. Skin Diver Stays Down For 24 Hours MIAMI, Fla. I Skin diver Ed Fisher holds the world endurance record for camping on the ocean floor 34 hours 2 minutes. He was still a bit tired today from the unusual underwater ex perience, but apparently suffered no lasting ill effects. The lanky 26-year-old, a native of New York, said he did not intend to repeat the experiment in the near future. But he and his surface associates were jubilant over the outcome. Fisher popped to the surface at 3:10 p.m. EST yesterday after spending a trifle more than 24 hours on the floor of a coral reel canyon 30 feet below the sea ofl Key Largo. WRINKLED SKIN His skin was blue and wrinkled like a prune. His head and stomach ached and he dranic lots oi water. There was a time earlier in the day when he thought he wouldn't make it. During the night hours the water sapped his body warmth and he felt cold and sick. "Don't think I can stay down more than another hour," he told companions in boats above him in a message written with a grease liencll on slate But the sun soon warmed him up and he stuck it out. ' . . . .-; Fisher began Ills free dlvd St 3:08 p.m. Thursday and had no direct connection with the airy world above him. He hung his camping equipment on coral pin nacles and pushed friendly fisli aside. Once a shark, described by Fish- er's companions as "half as big as a submarine," swam slowly overhead, eyed the strange goings on in his domain curiously, tnen went his way. BREAKFAST Fisher drank soup, ate candy, and for breakfast shot a fish with his water spear gun, sliced it and chewed it raw. The endurance dive was to test a "Div-AIr," a newly designed un derwater breathing apparatus sim ilar to the French aqualung. A lace mask covered Fisher's eyes and nose but left his mouth free. Fisher breathed air from a tank on his back through a tube in his mouth. He removed the mouth piece long enough to swallow a morsel of food or sip water or soup from a bottle. The food and fresh tanks of air were brought down to him by associates. Red Pilots' Pay Compared WASHINGTON Ul Air Force Magazine said Saturday Russian pilots are far ahead of U. S. Air Force fliers in pay, benefits, privil eges and comparative prestige. John F. Loosbrock, managing editor of the official publication of the Air Force Assn., said the Soviet pilot's typical monthly pay is $765, compared with $655.80 for an American Air Force pilot. - Both figures, he said, are based on the pay and allowances -of a married captain ' a jet pilot and flight leader with 10 years of service. In addition, the magazine said, the Russian flier enjoys a standard of living vastly higher than that of the mass of the Russian people. He gets free food, cigarettes and 50 per cent discounts at civilian stores and lestaurants. And he pays no Income tax. The article added: "In contrast, the average USAF pilot is a second class- citizen in our economy. He has lost most of his fringe benefits. He must buy his food from a usually inadequate subsistence allowance and Is taxed to 'help foot the bill for his own services. Many USAF pilots are discovering they can earn more money 'outside.' "The American pilot has a great many reasons for wanting to leave the service, while the Red pilot has even more reasons for wanting to stay in. BOMB VERONA. Italy un A live 250-pound World War n bomb was found Saturday under the tracks at the railroad station here. The station manager said thous ands' of trains bad passed over it. 1 1 KLAMATH Yve Cents 18 Pates r4 , , I S d' t1 f V' - ! Lf-t l e . A-s Saii - a f l nil mi in i kJ'.'-w DUTY BOUND AT 9 A.M. were Mr. and Mn. Macon S. Jack, 2228 Lindley Way. Mrs. Jack works at Anita Shops; her hut band is employed with Montgomery Ward Co. s r ' JOSEPH K. CARSON J. K. Carson To Visit KF Joseph K. Carson, Democratic nominee for governor of Oregon, will visit Klamath county early next week. Local Democrats have planned a meeting to be held at 8 p.m. Mon day, July 26, in the circuit court room of the courthouse.- An invi tation is extended to all persons interested in hearing Carson speak on the subject "Restore Oregon's Government to the People." Doughnuts and coffee will be served after the meeting. Carson is a former Mayor of Portland, holding the position from 1933 to 1941. He is an overseas war veteran and held the position of Inspector of general civil defense during the last war. He has been department commander of the American Legion and during the past lew years nas served as a member of the important U.S. Maritime Commission. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Sunday. HI eh Sunday 88; low Saturday niffht 43-48. Low last night 52 Hich yesterday 85 tf - CHAMPIONS STILL the Klamath Falls American Legion Drum and Bugls Corps who suc cessfully defended lis 1953 sfafa championship title in competition during the Oregon State American Legion and Auxiliary convention which ended Friday at Coos Bay are shown at the Klamath Fairgrounds. Individual first place titles wen!' to Bob Fredriclcson, ( director )i bugle Jerry Withers, snare drum'; Sharon Schwanmiller, drum majorette. FALLS, -OREGON, SATURDAY, r - ft Work Return Move Defeated By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work era voted 164 to 151 against return ing to wprk at the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. at Toledo, Ore., Fri day night. . The company had offered to grant any wage increase won re gionally, in future negotiations in the strike which has tied up most of the Faciflo Northwest's lumber industry the past five weeks. The increase was. to have been based on the hourly -Tate of the 10 biggest Oregon mills. The union, which is Asking a 12 cent hourly increase, approved a resolution proposing inviting the public to attend a negotiation ses sion between the union and man agement representatives. Management officials could not be reached for comment on the public negotiation proposal. Crash Kills Hitchhiker A hitchhiker was killed instantly late Friday night when an automo bile in which he was riding went out of control and plunged over an embankment on highway 97 near Diamond Lake Junction. Dead is Ray Hoffstatler, address unknown. Injured in the crash were Alfred weatner ton, Alameda, California, the driver, and Mar garet Orover, 22, another hitchhik er from Seattle. Weatherton told state police his automobile went out of control af ter it' was hit Klamath County 9H Traffic Fatality for 1954 from the rear by another car. The driver of the second car has not been Identified. Weatherton and - Miss . Orover were treated at Klamath Valley Hospital for minor cuts and bruises and released. Hoffstatler's body was taken to Ward's Funeral Home. Dr. George H. Adler, county coroner, Is in vestigating the accident. 3' IvJtl&S'.' N JULY 24, 1954 Telephone 8111 No. 1901 Texas Man Confesses Killing Girl ST. LOUIS Victor Lively, 32- year-old Texan who admitted the dresser-drawer" slaying of a teen-age girl In an Indianapolis ho tel, will be returned to the scene of the crime today. Lively, in a signed statement yesterday, admitted killing 18-year-old Dorothy Poore three hours after he was seized by two St. Louis County deputy sheriffs while walkuig on a highway. i Deputies said Lively told them he became enraged when the girl protested about his drinking and that he choked her "three or four minutes until she was dead." The body of the Clinton. Ind.. high school graduate was discov ered in a dresser drawer at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis last Sunday, three days after she was slain. It was clad in bra, panties and slip. Indianapolis Detective Sgt. Har old Goodman and Randolph Schu bert arrived here late last night to return Lively there. He has waived extradition. The two detectives brought Bruno Widman, 30-year-old Clay pool Hotel bellhop with them and said he identified Lively as the man who registered at the hotel under the name of "Jack O'Shea." Lively, they said, also said he recognized Widman as a bellboy wuo was on uuiy at ine note! when he registered there. Lively, who has unusually mus cular arms and Is i foot 8 Inches tall, said he picked up the Poore girl earlier on the day of her death, in a hamburger stand in downtown Indianapolis. Lively sald he had been drink ing and continued to drink in the hotel room. While he and Miss Poore were in the room. Lively told officers, two maids came in to clean it up. He said another girl whom he knew only as "Ruth" was with him and Miss Poore for a time before the slaying. Lively, who said he had been married six times and had one child, was carrying a, loaded .32 caliber automatic when arrested. After tlie slaying. Lively told of- ucers ne sat in a chair and drank gin more than five hours before stuffing the body 4nto the drawer. He left Indianapolis immediately auer ine siaymg lor East St. Louis 111., where he worked several days as a solicitor for a home improve ment firm. His employer said Lively became excited after read ing an Indianapolis newspaper and left hurriedly after collecting his pay. He came to St. Louis Thursday and slept In the open near the place where he was captured. Live ly told officers he was hitch-hiking to Beaumont, Tex., where he was born, to visit his foster mother. New Homes For TL Planned TULELAKE Work Is expected to start in the immediate future on construction of 20 new homes in the Second Addition to the townsite where voters this week approved extension of the city's sewer sys tem. Contractors will be the Judy Investment Company, A 1 1 u T a s. James Kennedy, Alturas is vice president of the company. Completion of the home-building project is anticipated at about the same time the sewer connections to the city mains already estab lished are completed. Bids on the sewer lines will be called for next week and the con tract for the work will be let on August 16. Tlio work Is cxpecled to be completed In time for the Tule- lake-Butte Valley fair. 1 i w . a - w m u i m r - jm-a xa flfo)fi m? UuiWuK British Plane China Sea After Attack HONO KONG W Two fight er planes "with red circle mark ings" shot down a British airliner with 18 persons aboard Friday, sending it on a 9,000-foot flam ing plunge into the sea near the Red Chinese island of Hainan, Oreat Britain ordered a pro test to Peiplng over the attack A London spokesman said the attackers must have come from Hainan. Only eight persons wera res cuedby a U.S. Air Force plane which moved within 100 yards of the Communist island while Navy fighter planes, presumably from carriers, flew protective cover. The airliner's pilot, iu a state ment released by the U.S. Air Force in Tokyo, said the two fight ers with tne red circle markings "Urea at will with what seemed to be incendiaries and conventional bullets, killing several passengers, U.S. SURVIVOR An American survivor told of the fighter planes following the crippled plane down, firing as it fell. The two aircraft which attacked the plane could not have come from anywhere else than from Hainan: according to our infor mation from Hong Kong," a Lon don Foreign Office spokesman said. The Hong Kong government an nounced earlier that there was "substantial evidence" that two un identified fighters shot down the airliner. In London, the foreign office spokesman said the British gov ernment acted on the basis of statements from the pilot and co pilot of the Skymaster, He said Charge d'affaires Humphrey Trevelyan has been in structed to draft a formal protest and it presumably would be de livered to Red China later Satur day. RED FIGHTERS 1 One of the American survivors, Peter Shaw Thatcher, 27, of Ston- ington, conn., said from his Hong Kong hospital bed that the attack ing fighters were propeller-driven and made "half a dozen strafing runs, passengers were struck by bullets and he thought "many were aeao neiore we hit Ule water." Thatcher said he saw one fight er himself and the co-pilot told mm ne saw two. The port engine caught fire after tne first or second strafing run, Thatcher aald in an interview. After that, the big airliner lost altitude rapidly. Thatcher aald one of the fighters kept on strafing as it went down, He believed the plane was Veil outside communist waters at the outset but that It hit the water near Hainan Island, Thatcher believed some of the shells were incendiaries because he got a "good smell" of cordite. Hainan, which lies about 200 miles southwest of here, is the site of several large Communist mili tary air bases. High government officials met today amid reports that airliners leaving this British colony would be given fighter escort. The report drew an oinciai "no comment' and planes left at Intervals with no fighters in evidence. The pilot of the airliner reported ly said in a formal statement that he was attacked by two fighter planes whose markings he could not distinguish and whose pilots he could not see to ascertain national ity. There was no immediate expla nation as to why .he failed to men tion an attack in his distress signal yesterday. BULLETS Chief stewardess Iris E. Stobart, one of eight survivors picked up by a U. S Air Force Albatross rescue plane, said bullets were re moved from two of the survivors at Kowloon hospital today. Two doctors said one man suffered what might have been a bullet wound, but that no bullets were recovered. J. Thorburn, Hong Kong Bank official whose wife was rescued, said a bullet struck her a glancing blow above the ear. He quoted her as saying bullets spattered among the passengers and unquestionably a number were Gas Dealers Meet Starts The state board meeting of the Oregon Gasoline Dealers Associa tion, Inc. began Its two-day session this morning. Following registration at the Em pire Room, Wlnema Hotel, tho meeting got underway with intro ductions, a welcome by Ray Reeves, president of the host chap ter, who later turned over the meeting to Slate President Ernie Barker of Roseburg. At noon today delegates were guests of Firestone Tire and Rub ber Company at a luncheon at the Wlnema. Wives lunched at the Yacht Club. the business session was called. ( order' at 2 p.m. Rep. Ed Geary was scheduled to conduct a round table discussion later this after noon on legislative matters of par ticular Interest to gasoline dealers. Dinner at the Wlnema this eve ning will be for delegates and their wives. The meeting will resume at 8:30 Sunday; business is expected to be completed for adjournment at noon Sunday. Officers of the local chapter are: Ray Reeves, president; F, O, (Red) Reynolds, vice president; P, J, Coleman, secretary-treasurer, Coleman is also second vice president of the state group. ' 0)' Crashes In hit. He said his wife doubted (tie others were able to escape before the four-engine alrluier went to the bottom of the South China Sea, . EVIDENCE An official Hons Kong govern ment announcement said "there la now substantial evidence that the Cathay Pacllto Airways plane which ditched in the sea, off Hainan Islands yesterday morning waa shot down by two unidentified fighter planes while on its normal route from Singapore to Hon Kong, Enquiries are continuing." The announcement was broad cast by Hong Kong Radio. It gave no source for the report, but pre sumably the information was sup plied by three members of the crew who survived. Newsmen were barred from talk. Ing with survivors, but an official at Kaltak Airport quoted Pilot Philip Blown of Hong Kong as say ing the airliner was shot down by lighter planes. A report that Blown had IH.x. titled the fighters as deadly swept, wing Mia jets could not be con firmed. US Carrier Sent To Aid Crash Search WASHINGTON UB The SUt Department said Saturday "two Chinese Communist-based fighter aircraft" deliberately shot down a British airliner near Hainan, and two V. B. aircraft carriers have been dispatched to protect rescue and search operations. A statement declared th Unit States takes "the gravest view ef this act of further barbarity lor which the Chinese Communist re gime must be held responsible." Three American citizens lost their lives in the crash of the sir- ' liner at sea south of Hainan Island and three Americans were amoog eight survivors,. The State Depart- uiciib Ham uiai uiere naa been 17 passengers and four crew mem bers, a total of 31 aboard the bia 0-54 Skymaster operated by Cath ay Paclflo Airline, v That figure, from consul general Julian F. Harrington at Hong Kong, differed from earlier, re ports. The airline had said 1 were aboard. The Air Force at Tokyo said Ule plant tarried Jo persons. . .. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson, the statement disclosed, "has Issued orders directing two United States aircraft earners to proceed to the scene and to cover and protect further rescue and search operations by united States ships and aircraft in the vicinity of the spot." , .- . In Tokyo, the Air Force dis closed that American fighters, ore- sumably from aircraft carriers, had flown protective cover while a U. S. Alrforce Amphibian Plana rescued eight survivors. The statement was issued hv Secretary of State Dulles. He said that "the action to be taken by the United States" in connection with what he called this "wanton attack on a civilian aircraft" will be announced later. Lake Trail Opening Set The Lake Trail at Crater Lake National Park will be opened to the public Tuesday. July 27. ac cording to word from Fred T. John ston, park superintendent. At that time the launches and tow boats will be in operation for lake trips, He indicated that the park man agement was very pleased at being able to open these facilities a week earlier than had been antici pated. A naturalist goes along on the trips to explain Uie various geo logical features of interest to vis itors. Regular boat trips are ap proximately 12 miles in length. There has been onlv one cloudy day so far in July, according to the rangers. Daytime temDera- lures are usually In the high 70's with what they term "perfect" weather. Travel figures for July will not be computed until after the end of the month, but basing estimates on the unusually heavy travel over the Fourth of July weekend, this year's visitors to the park will p.reatly out-number last year's. Nearly all of the accommodations at the lodge are assigned by mid afternoon, which Is another indica tion of Increased travel. McKay Approves Soil Aid Funds WASHINGTON U) Secretary the Interior McKay Friday an nounced approval of a 20-year pro. gram calling for expenditure of 250 million dollars for soli conserva tion work on 273 million acres of public and Indian lands. The new program, subject to pro vision of funds In future years by Congress, has been placed under direct supervision of Orme Lewis, assistant secretary for public lands. Ho details of the program were announced. It would begin in 1866-56.