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Newspaper Page TextI GflTl n nirv n WW - w In The' Day's lews Rv FRA.VK Icv'ITiVC P r a v d a. Russia's communist party newspaper, calls in a iront- page editorial tor "an insistent . NEVER - YIELDING" campaign against religion. It describes religion as a "cling lng, harmful remnant of capital Jsm." Religion leads people to THINK, and If the poor devils behind the Iron Curtain ever really get start ed to thinking It will be bad med- jcine ior communism. Genevieve de Galard Terraube. the French nurse who stayed to the last grim hour in Dien Bien Fhu, binding up the wounds of the poor unfortunates who had been left there to TAKE IT, is invited by our congress to visit the U.S. End arrives In New York this morning, where she gets a tradi tional ticker tape welcome. ' I hope it doesn't turn her head. : ITd like to go on BELIEVING in ner as representative of the REAL French as distinguished from .the I renes politicians. She will spend three weeks In America touring New York, Wash ington, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco. At the end of her three weeks, she won't have seen AMERICA. But who are we to make cracks like that? When WE go to HER country we see Paris and think we have seen France. The REAL France is as different from Paris as the REAL America is different from New York, Washington, Cleveland, Chicago and San Fran Cisco. I suppose you've paid at least come sxetcny attention to the fili buster the senate Democrats and their camp-followers, the Morse type mavericks, 'are waging against Ike's a torn 10 energy bill , I Teckon you've at least won dered vaguely what it's all about. 1 This is the answer: , IT'S PURE POLITICS. The bill proposes to take some cautious preliminary steps toward removing atomic energy from COMPLETE control by the govern ment. Atomic energy, you know, will SOMEDAY ("someday" may be quite a while off) run all our machinery. If, when that time comes, the government controls atomic energy as completely as it does now, THE GOVERNMENT WILL ABSOLUTELY CONTROL . INDUSTRY , AND -BUSINESS IN AMERICA,' ) , This filibuster is a big campaign preview. In the campaign that is getting under way, the Democrats are go ing all out lor big government run everything. You must have noticed that here in Oregon the office-seeking Democrats are practically without exception beating the drum for big government own -everything - and - run - everything in Hell's Canyon. In our country which, more than any other country, depends upon machines that are RUN BY POWER complete political con trol of power insures complete po litical control of Industry and busi ness. , In this atomic energy bill, the GOPs are standing reasonably pat for giving free enterprise a chance in tne future. At least that gives us a fairly sharp and clear-cut political issue. If you're for big government run everything and everybody, you're for the Democrats automatical ly and naturally. If you believe in giving free en terprise a chance, you side logical ly with tne Republicans. But, shucks! Politics or no pol- itics, we have to eat and on the eating side here s an interesting little item: - "The first Willamette valley corn (on-the-cob) of the season showed up on the produce market at Port land this morning. It was brought in by Sauvies Island farmer John Gre and sold at from $3 to $3.25 for five dozen ears." Why Is that interesting ? - Well, for years Charlie Hender son has been demonstrating in his back yard up on Earl street that the Klamath country can grow as fine corn on the cob as can be grown anywhere. And the soil up on Earl street Isn't too much to brag about. In the right kind of soil WONDERFUL sweet corn can be grown here. Incidentally, sales of fruit and vegetables in Klamath Falls mark ets run into BIG figures. Practical ly ALL of It is shipped In from elsewhere. It Isn't that fruits and vegetables won't grow here. This is and always has been a bonanza farm country and nobody wants to monkey with garden truck. I think the time is here when somebody might find It PROFIT ABLE to monkey with some gar den truck. Father Meagher Death Reported Word has been Tecelved here of the death of the Rev. Father Dan iel P. Meagher in Hermosillo, So noma, Mexico. From June, 1953. to June of this year Father Meagher had been sta tioned at Sacred Heart Catholic Church here. He had retired to the Mexican city of his death to write. Formerly he had been on, the faculty of Gonzaga University. A Requiem Mass will be offered for him in Sacred Heart Church, Thursday, July 29, at 8 a.m. Two Injured In Bly Gun Battle By LYLE DOWNING , - A pistol-packing Mexican ranch worker had his throat cut and a truck driver was shot in the chest during a rip roaring gun-knife bat tle Sunday in the Halfway House at Bly. The knife victim, Alfonso Torres, 33, Is said to have fired five shots into the Halfway House barroom. One of the bullets hit Leon E Jenkins, 32, who drives a truck for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Com pany. . . According to Sheriff Murray Brltton and District Attorney Frank Alderson who went to the scene with Deputy Sheriffs Dal Reed and Delbert Summers, Jenk ins was an innocent bystander. . The investigators said the troub le started after Torres entered the barroom with an unidentified com panion, dropped a handful of coins in the-Juke box and ordered a drink for the house. He then began conversing in Spanish with a wom an at the bar. SPEAK ENGLISH Jimmy Anderson, 31, who Sher iff Britton said was Just 11 days qut of the state prison at Salem where he served 13 years for man slaughter, is reported to have told Torres to "speak English or shut up." "SI, senor," the Mexican replied as he started backing toward the iront door. Then, according to R. F. (Pop) England, one of the owners, things happened fast. "After -the Mexican got to the door," England said, "he drew a gun in less than a split second. I ducked under the bar." Torres fired five shots and then the gun jammed. Anderson then entered the fray with a knife, ac cording to 'his story to Sheriff Britton and District Attorney Al derson. THROAT SLASHED Anderson grappled with Torres. The Mexican's throat was slashed. He then dropped a .22-caliber au tomatic pistol and staggered across the street. He went behind Jack's place, climbed over a pick et fence and collapsed. At this Juncture Deputy Sheriff jjaie smith reached the Halfway nouse. He iouowed a trail of blood to where Torres was- lying uncon scious in an alley. : Jenkins and Torres were brought to Klamath Valley Hospital in a Kaier- ambulance. Attending sur geons said Monday that both men are in critical condition, Anderson also was treated at the hospital for knife cuts on his hands. The gun and knife battle is re- ported to have caused a near panic in the restaurant of the Halfway House. Archie Davig. co-owner of the establishment, said a m-oun- of tourists were eating lunch in the restaurant when the shootina- start ed. Two minutes later he said the restaurant was empty. District Attorney Alderson sain he was continuing his Investigation of the case. He said no charee have been filed against any of the participants. Ike Asks Tanker Appropriations WASHINGTON HI President Elsenhower Monday asked Con gress for supplemental appropria tions totaling $38,476,000, most of it for the construction of five tank er vessels. The request to meet the cost of the tankers was for 37 'i mil lion dollars. Legislation to author ize such construction out of gov ernment funds now is pending in Congress. The plan is for. 15 more to be built with private money. SURVEYING AT NINTH AND MAIN this morning w.r. Nick Birk Heft) and Rots Arent, foremen of the construction iob which will be the future location of Jen-Ed's restaurant. Prop arty is owned by Mrs. Angelo Dovtri. rrice Five Cents 16 Page KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1954 Telephone 8111 No. 2903 GOP Move To Limit AEC Talk Halted WASHINGTON WI The Senate balked Monday at an attempt by the Senate GOP leadership to put a blanket limit on debate on the atomic energy bill, but showed b willingness to limit talk on individ ual amendments. A motion to impose cloture, and thereby limit all future debate to one hour for each senator was whipped by a 44 to 42 roll call vote. Adoption would have re quired 64 affirmative votes. Then on the first amendment to come up, the Senate agreed unanimously to halt debate after two hours discussion an hour for each side. The amendment by Sen. Leh man (D-Lib-NY) related to the international cooperation p r o v 1- sions or tne bill. Lehman proposed to delete a provision he says ties president Eisenhowers hands. Meanwhile the - House pushed on to passage of its own version of the atomic energy law revision, much in line with administration proposals. The roll call vote for final passage was 230-154. A mo tion to send the bill back to House committee was turned down 222 165 Voting for the bill were 195 Re publicans and 35 Democrats Against it were 7 Republicans, 146 Democrats and 1 independent. Sen. Knowland (R-Calif), the GOP leader, tried at first to get a debate limit of 30 minutes, but finally proposed the two hour lim it. That was after Sen. Morse (Ind. Ore), a red rose in his lapel, agreed to go along. Morse said, though, with reference to an an nouncement by Knowland on the Senate floor that U.S. planes had shot down two Communist aircraft in the Pacific, that: "I am not greatly- motivated to enter into any blanket agreement by any argument that we ought to proceed with great haste to consider this bill because the inter national situation has worsened." Rather, he said, the sublect mat ter of the bill, which contemplates some sharing of secrets of use of atomic weapons, "should cause us to go slower than before." I think,'' the Oregon senator said, "we ought to take a long look at this bill before considering any let down of our security in the atomic energy field." The cloture motion by Knowland appeared likely to be only the first of a series of moves to cut short the talk. In advance of the vote. Know- land told the Senate he had "no Illusions" about a chance to win, ana warned of "even more drastic" steps possible if he poesn't. "If there was ever a time when cloture was in order," he said, "in my Judgment this is the time." He gave no hint as to what these "drastic" steps might be. Before the Senate met, Know- land had conferred at the White House with President Elsenhower and told reporters afterward that "there will be no surrender" in the efforts to pass the administra tion bill. fee? $i.?4;..- THE DEATH CAR which claimed the life of Roger McFarland, 18-year-old employe of Metier Brothers Mill about midnight Saturday it shown in this photograph taken by a Herald and News staff photographer. Solon Urges Public Probe WASHINGTON Rep. Jablts (R-NY) has broadened his demand that the House Investigate one of Its own committees which took testimony labeled by the Ford Foundation as "the sheerest nonsense." .. . , - Javlts last night urged a public hearing by the House Rules Com mittee on his proposal for a probe of the special committee which investigated tax exempt foun dations. The rules group, Javits contends, should police all House investiga tions "and see that they are not discredited." Public hearings by the special committee headed by Rep. Reece (K-xenn) were cancelled earlv this month after It heard 11 critics of philanthropic organizations and took testimony from only one foundation spokesman. The special committee Invited the foundations to file written briefs. Reece said public hearings were halted because of "obstruc tive" tactics by Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio), a member. Hays objected to the inquiry from the start. A brief filed Saturday by the Ford Foundation termed the shut down a "puzzling and unexpected act of Injustice." It said it had been "maligned in public" without having a chance to reply in the same forum. Several other foun dations have filed similar briefs. Judge Orders Picket Halt PORTLAND W) The Pacific Northwest lumber strike went Into its sixth week Monday, but a Judge ordered picketing halted at four big plywood plants. Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford issued an injunction against picketing at the M & M Wood Working Co. plants at Portland, Albany and Lyons, Ore., and Eureka, Calif. The Injunction was against the AFL Millmen's local 1746, who struck at the company's two door plants in Portland, and then posted pickets at the plywood mills also. Plywood workers refused to go through their lines. The judge held the picketing was unlawful, since the plywood workers bad a no-strike contract In effect. There were no other signs of a break in the strike of AFL and CIO lumber unions in demand for a 12 i j-cent hourly wage increase. McKay Amused By Alaskan Sign JUNEAU, Alaska Wl Secre tary of the Interior McKay grinned when he saw a sign on bis re turn here Saturday which read: "We ain't mad at nobody." The sign apparently was posted In reference to recent differences expressed by Alaskans and the secretary over the statehood ques tion. So when McKay a p o k e . to a Chamber of Commerce gathering that evening, he referred oblique ly to the sign. He said: ' T ain't mad at nobody, too." Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity; Fair through Tuesday possible thunderstorms in moun tains. High Tuesday 85; low Mon day night 50. High yesterday .,........ 8! Low last night 40 Preclp. last 24 hours - 0 Since Oct. 1 14.45 Same period last year . -.14.87 Normal for period ..12.38 Shivers: Leads In Primary DALLAS. Tex. !W Gov. Allan Shivers stretched his small lead over Ralph Yarborough Monday, but it appeared more and more certain a runoff election will be needed to settle their race for the governor's office. Shivers, who led Texas Demo crats' bolt to Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1962 presi dential election, is seeking an un precedented third term. His op ponent is Haipn Yarborouzh. champion of the "Loyalists" who stuck with Democrat Adalai Stev enson In 1952. Unofficial, nearly complete re turns from Saturday's first Demo cratic primary gave Shivers a lead of 18.464 votes over Yarbor ough, an increase of more than 1,000 since the last report Sunday night. This still fell far short of enough for Shivers to win re-election without a runoff primary Aug. 28. By the unofficial count. Shivers still would need to increase his lead by some 16,000 to 17,000 to win a majority. But no one considered that at all likely. The Texas election bureau estimated less than 45,000 votes still were out. They were in counties where neither candidate showed tremendous strength. Shivers had 49.3 per cent of the total so far and Yarborough 47.9 per cent about the same as Sunday night. Union Calls Pine Strike SPOKANE 13 The six-week- old Northwest lumber strike spread to three eastern Washington pine operations Monday. The AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union pulled 106 men off the job at the Lincoln Lumber Co. mill in Lincoln County, and work ers walked out at the Western Pine Manufacturing Co. and the White Pine Sa.sh Co: in Spokane. The union has asked lor a 12 '4 cent hourly wage increase. Most employers have contended that economic conditions in the industry don't warrant any Increases at all. A union spokesman said last week that as many as 15 more eastern Washington and northern Idaho plants might be struck this week. The Timber Products Manufac turers' Assn., which represents In land Empire operators, said only the three plants were struck Mon day but "there may be more be fore the day Is out." The association said "things are quiet In Idaho, central Washington and western Montana." The Lincoln mill annually pro duces about 50 million board feet of lumber. The strike left 17 super visors and office workers on the job. Nine Spokane bhops were struck last month. ' 1 , . An, Man Placed On Probation A 21-year-old garage woTker, charged with issuing a forged check was placed on five years probation Monday after he plead ed guilty to the charge Deiore cir cuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. Defense Attorney U. S. Balen- tlne told the court that Ferguson had lust been paroled from the Washington S.tate Reformatory aft er serving 18 months on a similar charge. Balentine pointed out that the defendant was only 19 years old when he was sentenced in Wash ington and the Klamath Falls ol fense occurred before that time. "This young man Is now on pa role from the state of Washington, your honor," Balentine said. "He has served 18 months In prison. I do not believe Jt would be right to send him back to prison now before he has had a chance ifi show wheth er he has learned his lesson. He was brought here directly from the Washington institution." Ferguson was indicted by the Klamath County Grand Jury In 1952 after he cashed a forged check at Don's Shell Service Sta tion. District Attorney Frank Alderson recommended the court grant pro bation in the case. Two Unhurt In Plane Crash ASTORIA Wl Two persons, escaped with only slight Injuries Sunday when their light plane crashed Into the Columbia River. Babe Nothwang, 35. owner of the plane, and William Everhart, a passenger, both of Astoria, said they were en route from here to Eugene when the engine failed. Everhart swam to shore, pulling along Miss Nothwang, who is unable to swim. kmi. iJ k' - aX. . - . t..,. .. . . -.:Nj OREGON GASOLINE DEALERS ASSOCIATION, INC., delegates fo the state board meeting held hers last weekend wars quests of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. at luncheon at the Wi nems Hotel Saturday. Principals included (seated, from left) Ernie Bajter, State OGDA presi dent; H. E. Townssn, Firestone representative; Paul Coleman, local OGDA secretary-treasurer and second vice president of the state group; (standing, same order) H, C, McCurdy, Salem) Fay Reeves, local chapter president; Arnold Jarvii, local Firestone manager. Two Killed In Weekend Accidents By OTTO ELLIS Death claimed the lives of two young Klamath residents and three others were hospitalized as the re sult of three automobile accidents over tile weekend. Mary Mildred Fitzgerald, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Fitzgerald, Rt. 3, Box 296, Keno Road, was killed Instantly about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when she stepped onto the highwpy directly in the path of a car operated by 15-year-old Richard Sanders, Keno. The boys parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Sanders and Mrs. R. C. Whitlock were passengers in the car. According to the story told state police by an eye witness the little girl had started across the high way to got tlie evening paper. She reportedly walked to the edge of the pavement, stop ped momentarily and looked to her left, then stepped directly In front of the Sanders' car approaching on her right. The eye witness said the driver of the car waa unable to Klamath County 10 11 Traffic -Fatalities For 1954 avoid striking the girl, Younir San der's was operating the vehicle with a learners permit, officers statea. Excessive speed was believed responsible for the death of Roger Lee McFarland, 18, son of Mr, and Mrs. Lloyd E. McFarland. 4906 Avalon Street, when his car went out of control shortly after midnight Saturday, while he was attempting to pass another car on Washburn Way near Laverne Street. The other vehicle was driven by Lynn Edward Shaffer, 1932 Manzanlta. , r Skid marks indicated, tlia car traveled a distance of 574 feet, after leaving the pavement and riding along the left shoulder of the road, until It finally rolled to stop in the ditch on the right side of the highway. According to Investigating offl- (Continued on page 4) British Move , To Prevent Red Attacks LONDON m Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden said Monday Britain wants Immediate meas ures to prevent a recurrence of Red China's attack on an unarmed Britslh passenger plane over the China Sea. Eden spoke In the House of Commons almost simultaneously with a U. S. State Department announcement that U. S. carrier planes had shot down two Chinese Communist fighters which at tacked them while they were searching for survivors of the British airliner. Tile foreign secretary gave no Immediate indication whether he knew beforehand of the Commun ist planes being shot down. He said Britain was gratified at the cooperation and assistance in rescue and search operations given by aircraft of the United i States services. Communists Hit By Navy Aircraft WASHINGTON BP) American planes searching for survivors of a Communist-downed British air liner came under the ftre from Red Chinese planes and a Com munist gunboat Sunday sight and shot down two of the attacking ; planes. There were no American casualties. The State' department an nounced the Incident Monday and denounced "Chinese Communist brutality" in attempting to inter, fere with the rescue efforts. The Pentagon then gave some details of the affair and disclosed, in the words of Atlm. Felix Stump, that U.S. fliers are under Instruc tions to be "quick on the trigger" if a hostile pass Is made at them. Secretary of Defense Wilson said in a statement that the clash in volved propellor-drlven planes on both sides and took place more than 12 miles from the coast of Red-held Hainan Island at 7:05 p.m. (PST) Sunday. That would be Monday morning, and daylight hours, off Hainan. U. S. AIRCRAFT Wilson's statement identified American aircraft as Douglas "Sky Raiders" which were corw . tlnuing the search for survivors from the British airliner shot down by Red fighters Friday, The Communist planes which Jumped them were said to have been LA7 aircraft, the fastest propellor-drlven fighters known to be in the Chinese Red air force. Neither the available Navy reports nor the Defense Department state ment mentioned any Communist Jet aircraft in the area. The statement said a Commit nist gunboat opened fire on tha American planes but the pilots did not fire on it, SPOKESMAN A Navy spokesman said thai tha Sky Raiders, which are multi purpose aircraft, bagged their Communist assailants before Jet fighters from i the carriers could get into the action. Jet planes were flying protective) cover for the search aircraft, act ing upon instructions given Satur day by Secretary Wilson when he ordered the Navy to undertake the search and rescue operations. A dm. Stump, commander-in-chief of the Paclflo fleet, discussed the Incident at a news conference and told of the orders for Amer ican pilots to be quick to shoot back if attacked, - Stump said the policy Is this: "If any U.S. plane Is attacked or approached with obvious hostile intent, it will fire back. In other words, you don't have to wait and get your head blown oft to shoot back." In Congress, there were prompt expression of support for the so tlon of the U.S. airmen. - House Speaker Martin (R-Mass) said: "If the Chinese Reds attack rescue ships on the high seas. there was no other alternative for the U.S. planes but to shoot back. We must let them know that we are ready to protect all of our rights." INCIDENT The Incident was announced to the Senate by Sen, Knowland of California, the Republican floor leader, and Sen, H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ), a Foreign Rela tions Committee member. It brought swift expressions of anger against the Reds and bi partisan appeals for unity. ' Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Tex as, the senate Democratlo leader, said: "Regardless of the details, the fact still remains that the Chi nese Communists are shooting at our men. There can be no partisan ship or divided loyalties on such an Issue." CARRIERS Adm. Stump Identified the car rlers which were sent to the res (Continued en page 4)