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mm m mm In The Dav's lews By FKANK JENKINS Five hot shot leaders ol the com munist party in the Western part of the United States have been ar rested by the FBI and charged with violation of the. Smith law which means that they are charged with conspiring to overthrow 5 our government by force. One of the amusing as well as reassuring angles of the incident is the fact that one of the hot shots (name of Arthur Bary) ,is one of the communist party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders. He had been assigned to find out how the FBI has been able to de tect and arrest underground lead , crs like himself. Well, he FOUND OUT! I can't help thinking that's the way to handle the communist men ace in our country. If we can keep an FBI that spots the big shot communists and arrests 'em when ever they step over the line and . an administration that gives the f boot to communist flunkies who manage to worm their way into our government we'll be able to take care of ourselves. , The agriculture committee of the house of representatives . turns in a formal report this morning to the effect that: f , "The buying public is not getting any benefit from the drop in farm prices . . . Farmers are getting less for their crops, but the house wife still pays record high prices . for groceries . . . Almost none" of . the lower prices received by the farmers since 1951 has been passed on to consumers in the form of lower retail food costs." t It adds: "Consumers can expect little - benefit unless tendencies to in crease marketing, and processing charges are curbed." It points out as an example that while the price of wheat, has been dropping 32 per cent the price 01 . bread has gone up 23 per cent. ' That, I'd say. Is hitting the nail on the head. The committee's, report might have gone ahead and added: If prices of what the farmer has to BUY will come down in propor tion to prices of what the farmer has to SELL there will be little if any complaint from farmers if all agricultural subsidies are with' drawn. As a matter of information, the house agriculture committee is ' composed of 17 Republicans and IB Democrats. Its chairman is Representative Clifford R. Hope, of Kansas. The only Far Westeme'- on the committee is Representative Er. nest K. Bramblett, of California's 13th congressional district, which includes Monterey, San Luis Obis po, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. Over the week-end there was rain in a widespread area of the nation, especially in the Middle Western area that we term the corn belt. Among other things, the rain knocked down the price of cash corn and soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade this morn ing.) In a number of Kansas counties. there was HAIL. News dispatches report that in these areas the hail smashed nearly all windows on the north side of houses and even i business buildings. , Hailstorms of that sort are not too unusual In that part of the Middle West. If you never saw a , corn belt country after such a ; storm, you are lucky. Devastation , ef the sort wreaked by these storms isn t pleasant to look upon. They usually hit at about the time the corn Is lush and green and head nigh to a man. The hail stones are apt to be "up to the size of turkey's eggs." or "as big as your doubled fist," to use ex pressions current back there. They pound the shingles off the roofs of houses and Darns and kill chick ens and pigs and even calves that are unlucky enough to get caught out without shelter. They're strictly bad business. I mention all this as a prelude to what I think is splendid advice here in our own great Klamath Basin. Sure, we get a frost now and then, but our average produ cing conditions based upon climat ic freaks are as good as those of the corn belt, which is generally considered to be the RICHEST AGRICULTURAL AREA IN THE ; WORLD. If we can be as good as the best, that s good enough. Rotary Plans Stock Tour The annual three day Rotary Club livestock tour of 4-H projects will be held August 3, 4 and 5. Tours will start from the Post ; Office building at 8:30 a.m., ac cording to Francis Skinner, 4-H Club agent. Two separate groups of Rotar ians will travel west, north and east on the first day. One tour will visit Keno Tuesday morning and in the afternoon will travel north looking over stock of 4-H Club members at Wocus, A 1 g o m a. Agency Lake and Fort Klamath. The other group will inspect the livestock members at Bonanza, Langell Valley, HUdebrand and Swan Lake. I A schedule of the Wednesday and Thursday tours will appear in Tuesdays Herald and News. Guatemala Quarrel Eruots Into Cadet, Army figl.; GUATEMALA I.B A quarrel between Guatemalan military ca dets and the "liberation forces" of Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, chief of the country's ruling junta, erupted into a battle Monday. Two persons were killed and several wounded. The fighting caused reports that the cadets and some others had revolted in sympathy with the de posed leftist government of Jacobo Arbenz. But later it appeared the fight was an intra-mural conflict be- Eisenhower Signs New Housing Bill WASHINGTON Ifl President Eisenhower signed the- compro mise housing bill Into law Mon day and praised it as "a major advance toward meeting Amer ica's housing needs." The President made no mention at the signing ceremony of Con gress1 sharp cut in the public housing provisions he had recom mended, but he did say in a -prepared stntement: "We shall need to continue our public housing program until the needs can De met by private in dustry. Also, the executive should have broader authority to adjust the terms on home loans to chang ing economic conditions." Immediately after the signing. Eisenhower stood beside Norman P. Mason as Mason was sworn in as commissioner of the Fed eral Housing Administration. Ma son has been acting commissioner. About a dozen members of Con gress and housing officials in cluding Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), sponsor of the housing bill, and House Speaker Martin (R-Mass) attended the signing and swear ing in ceremony in tne resident's office. The Senate completed congres sional action on the bill last Wednesday night with a 59-21 roll call vote. The House had passed it 358-30 July 20. The measure generally Is de signed to make it easier to buy homes and to modernize them. Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), Banking Com mittee chairman wno Handled tne legislation in the Senate, estimates it should boost home building- by 10 to 20 per cent. Rogue Forest Earnings Told Rogue River National Forest earnings for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1954, reached $1,436,995.27. Supervisor- J, H. Wood announced today. Of this amount $1,422,664.84 was derived from sale of national forest timber, $7,566.69 from graz ing fees and $6,773.74 from other land uses. , Twenty-five per cent of the earn ings will be distributed among Jackson, Klamath, Josephine, and Douglas counties in Oregon, and Siskiyou county in California. Sim ilar distribution is made each year by all national forests to the coun ties in which each forest lies. The amount to be distributed to the counties this year from Rogue Riv er forest receipts will approximate $359,000.00. Last year $365,000.00 was distributed to the counties, of which Jackson county received $168,000.00 and Klamath county $141,000.00. . The volume of timber cut from the Rogue River forest during the fiscal year, totaled 106 million board feet. Timber sold was ap proximately 151 million board feet with a value of $1,980,000.00. ' jm ' .'ill ' THREE AND THREE: Three brothers, David, Lee and Ned Oviatt, check a last minute packing list prior to leaving this morning for the second week of camp in the YMCA't third annuel camping program at Diamond Lake. The boys live at 535 Lincoln Street. tween the cadets and members of the Castillo Armas, army, victors in the June-July revolution. ' The tight started at 4 a. m. (2 a. m. PST) near Roosevelt hos pital where forces of the Castillo Armas army are encamped. A ca det was killed, and virtually the entire body of cadets then at tacked the encampment. Firing from rifles, machtneguns andmor tars was heard for about two hours. ATTACK Maj. Enrique Oliva, member of the Castillo Armas Junta, and Col. Jose Ortega, chief of staff, moved forces into position for an attack or. the military academy. Govern ment planes were given orders to attack the school. Sporadic fighting continued in the vicinity of Roosevelt (hospital, on the outskirts of the capital, un til s:40 a. m. Castillo Armas, who spent the night at Chimaltenango, rushed to Guatemala City by plane to paci fy the contending forces. Commanders at the capital's two principal regular army bases an nounced that these forces were loyal to the government, but were being held In quarters. The com manders asked that the liberating army suspend its action against the military school, and a cease fire order was given by Oliva and Ortega. RED UPRISING - (Private advices reaching New York said there had been a Communist-inspired uprising at El Progreso, 50 miles from Guate mala City. (But in Washington, State De partment Press Officer Lincoln White said the department had re ceived official Information that "military forces supporting the government (of Guatemala) are apparently firmly in control.") White said "the dispute in which the military cadets participated appears to be a local and internal affair between then and some members of the liberation army without backing from the armed forces." Thunderstorms Hit Midwest Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thundershowers rolled across the northern and central Midwest Mon day ahead of an easiwara mov ing mass of warm, air. To the north Oley were light .47 of an inch at Duluth, Minn., .31 at Alexander, Minn., and less at other stations but they were gusty and violent in Kansas. Mis souri, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. . Winds of 55 to 60 miles an hour accompanied such drenchings as 1.78 at Olathe. Kan.; 1.27 at Jop lin. Mo., and Just over an inch at Ponca City, Okla., early Monday. Hall smashed nearly all north windows in Clay Center, Kan. Sun day night as northeastern Kansas got up to 3.45 inches of rain. Sim ilar reports of window, crop and other damage were reported from Hays, LaCrosse, Timken, Rush Center and Lamed. S a b e t h a, Kan. got 3.45 inches of rain. Sunday rains in Nebraska ranged up to 4.95 Inches at Kram er and 414 inc ties at nearby Hal lah. Hall damage to crops was reported near Carlton and Brun ing. Temperatures generally were seasonable, except that cool air pushed southward into South Caro lina. DEPORTED MUNICH, Germany Wl Resl dents of four villages in eastern Czechoslovakia have been deport ed to provide a training area which may be used by a Czech atomic artillery regiment, Radio Free Europe said Monday. KLAMATH Price Fire Cents II Paies HUNDREDS OF HUNGRY ELKS and their families line up to be held Sunday at the Malin Park. Despite jhe hot day, a record park and cooled off in the swimming pool. Annual Elks Picnic Held The wading pool was one of the most popular spots Sunday when the .local Elks Club held their an nual picnic at the Malin Park. An estimated 2,500 to 3,000 persons at tended. 1 V Shade was at a premium as four lines of hungry picnickers formed to receive heaping plates of bar becued beef and beans at the serv ing tables. Seven halves of beef, an unde termined amount of beverages, and gallons upon 'gallons of ice .cream were consumed, A soft ball game for the adults and games and races for tne kin- dies followed the feed. The swim ming and wading pools were crowded as the young folks at- temped to keep cool in the 95 de gree heat. Spud Market Meet Planned TULELAKE Potato growers, handlers and buyers will meet Tuesday, August 3, to discuss the Northern California Potato Market ing Order Hearing. The Hearing is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. (DST) in the Marcha Theatre. W. J. Kuhrt, chief of the Bureau of Markets, will conduct the meet ing and will hear testimony for and against the proposed order. Should the sentiment at the hear ing be favorable towards the es tablishment of a Marketing Order, nominations will be placed for di rectors - and alternate directors. The order calls for five producer members on -the board from the Tulelake area and two producer members from the Macdoel area and one handler from each dis trict, making a total of nine mem bers on the board. Each of these board members will have an al ternate, therefore there will be 18 nominations to be made for direc tors and alternates. rra 1 1 1 1 u i it 1 1 i yi it 7i wjk it i FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1954 . Telephone Sill Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Tuesday. High Tuesday 88; low Monday nlrht 48. Low Last night .. .. High yesterday Preclp. last 24 hours Since Oot. 1 Same period last- year... Nonaal for period........ 53 95 0 .14.45 .14.87 ..12.44 Death Claims Mrs. Hamilton ' Mrs. Emma Frederick Hamilton beloved Klamath Falls matron and mother of Chief of Police Orville Hamilton, dtod at Hillside Hospital Saturday, July SI following an Ill ness of two weeks. Mrs. Hamilton suffered a stroke and did not re gain consciousness. She was 73 years old. She came to Klamath Falls in 1904 from Iron River, Michigan, and was married on October 2 of that year to the late John Herbert Hamilton. The couple had one son. Mr. Hamilton who died several years ago, was ldentltied wiui uie building contracting business ana built many of the homes in the North 9th Street area wnere me family home was located. Later he became interested in the oper ation of paasenger and mail boats on Upper Klamath Lake. Mrs. Hamilton was a member of the Klamath Lutheran Church. Surviving are her soh Orville, and one grandaughter, Joan Ham ilton, both of Klamath Falls. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home. Oregon Fair Tickets On Sale SALEM Of) The Oregon State Fair began selling mail order tickets Monday for the circus, stag revenue and horse racing. The fair will be held Sept. 4-11. Fair Manager Leo Spltzbart said he is trying to get more counties to have exhibits. Last year only 13 of the 36 counties were represented. Reclamation Bureau Seeks Klamath Basin Water Plan Views of interested agencies upon a comprehensive plan for de- velopmnnt of the Upper Klamath River Basin In Oregon and Cali fornia are being sought it was an nounced today by Regional Direc tor Clyde H. Spencer of the Bur eau of Reclamation. The report on the 9.500 square mile basin has been prepared by the Bureau of Reclamation in co operation with local and other Fed eral agencies before submittal to the Commissioner of Reclamation and the Secretary of the Interior. The report outlines possibilities for Increasing irrigated lands in the basin by two-thirds maintaining or Improving wildlife habitat and In creasing hydro-electric power gen eration. Cost of the more immed dlately desirable projects would amount to $60,000,000 to $100,000, 000 depending on the alternates selected. The report was prepared to present an appraisal of basin possibllties and outline a long range pattern of development. It does not make recommendations for specific contraction at this time. The report emphasizes the need to establish sound water and land policies to obtain the best use of limited land and water sup plies. The report points out that the basin dllfers from others In having most of the irrigable lands lie above the hydro-electrio power No. 2908 served at the annual Elks picnic crowd enjoyed the shade in the . Shooting Case Hearing Set Alfonso Torres, Texas-born Mex ican lumberjack, who is alleged to have precipitated a barroom bat tle in the Hallway House at iy July 25, during which his throat was cut and another man was shot in the chest, demanded a prelim inary hearing in district court Monday, Torres is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. According to .District Attorney Frank Alderson. Torres became enraged when he was told to "sneak English or shut tip" and fired five allots in the Halfway House barroom. Leon E. Jenkins, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. employe, who was standing at the bar talking to friend, was shot in the chest. He is still In a serious condition at Kiamatn vauey nospiuii. When Torres' gun was reported to have Jammed, Jimmy Anderson, a patron of the bar, witnesses say, attacked the Mexican with a knife in an attempt to disarm him. Torres' throat was cut and he also received knife wounds on the face and chest. Ho then staggered out of the barroom and collapsed a block away. - Alderson said witnesses told him the trouble started when Torres began conversing In Spanish with a woman at the bar. Anderson is reported to have told him to "speak English or shut up." Tor res, according to Alderson, then whipped out a ,22-callber automatic pistol and started to shoot. At his arraignment before Dis trict Judge D. E. Van Vactor, Tor res through an Interpreter de manded a preliminary hearing which was set for 10 a.m. Wednes day. The accused gun wlelder also denied previous reports that he was a Mexican wetback. He said he was bcrn In Texas, i ARRESTED BREMERHAVEN, dermany 11 Ursula Schmidt, 27-year-old Oermary women deported from Canada, was arrested by U. S counter intelligence agents upon her arrival here Sunday night aboard a Oreek liner. sites and in possessing great 1m portance as a feeding and resting area for migratory waterfowl us ing the Pacific Flyway. Two great problems confronting the basin are the priority of use between water for Irrigation and water for power production, and priority of land use between irrigation and water fowl. Competition between these uses has become more acute as basin development has proceeded, Plans for new major water re source developments will depend upon the priorities assigned to the various uses. The report concludes that sound basic policies should be established by local and state agen cies to guide development In the basin. Included in the long-range basin appraisal are projects in Oregon above Upper Klamath Lake, In cluding Sycan Marsh. Sprague Riv er Valley, Klamath Marsh and the Chlloquln area, Wood River area and areas serviceable from Upper Klamath Lake or Lost River In cluding the existing Klamath Pro ject with adjacent lands, and Swan Lake and Yonna Valleys. In Cali fornia the areas studied Include Butte Valley and the Oklahoma District, Red Rock Valley, Shasta Valley and Scott Valley. Hydro electrlo potentialities could be de veloped along the main stem of the Klamath River below Keno or combined with an irrigation pro ject in Butte Valley, FBI Arrests Communists In Colorado, California DENVER (PI U.S. Commissioner I Joseph D. Neff set bond at 8100,000 each early today for four top communists nabbed together only one block from the Colorado Cap itol Building by FBI agents. A filth was arrested in Los Angeles. Three men and a woman were taken by FBI agents to city Jail here for fingerprinting, then to the county Jail. Commissioner Neff said a preliminary hearing would be held Aug. 16. The arrest of the four, along with that of Mrs. Patricia Blau In Los Angeles, was announced in Wash ington by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, U. S. Atty. Donald E. Kelley said all were arrested on warrants issued here and charging them with violation of the Smith Act. TOTAL ARRESTED That law, under which a total of 115 Communist party functionaries have been arrested since 1949, makes it a crime to teach or ad vocate the forcible overthrow of the U.S. government. Those arrested here were Arthur Bary, 42, chairman of the Colorado Communist Party and regional or ganizer for Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and New Mexico; Anna Correa Bary. 29. his wife and former organizer of the Communist party In Denver; Harold Zepelin. 28, Communist party organizer for Colorado; and Lewis Martin Johiv son, 34, head of the Communist party in Utah. HANDCUFFED As they left the office of Com missioner Neff, all except Mrs uary, smartly dressed in a blue aress ana sporting a boyish Italian nairao, were handcuffed. Asked if he had any comment Bary, nattily dressed in- white straw hat, dark blue suit and white polo shirt, told The Asso ciated Press: "Yes, if it's permissible to make one." The FBI agents, one on either side of him, made no protest. "I think you should know that Commissioner Neff set bond at $100,000 each, which Is tantamount to no bond at all. It will be impos sible to meet it." Commissioner Neff said the four showed no emotion other than "amusement" at their arraign ment, "It was all a big- Joke," he said. NO DETAILS Charles Brown, agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, gave no details of the arrests other than to say that all were arrested while standing on the sidewalk near the capitoi. He said the arrests climaxed "a lengthy investigation." Kelley said ho was aware of the investigation -some lime ago." Ho said Mrs. Blau probably would be returned here for preliminary hearing on the same date as the other Jour, Mrs. Blau. who the frt ih has been associated with Commu nist party activities since 1943, was arrested at her Los Angeles home wnere sne lived with her husband. She had been working in a bakery lor several months without public altnntlnn tha TUT ..M T A native of Fort Smith, Canada, she was arrested Aug. 27, 1963, Ex-Marine Dies During Picnic OREGON CITY un A family plcnlo at a nearby park ended in tragedy Sunday night with the death by drowning of Edward Lester Bens, 22, who only a week ago was discharged from the Marine Corps. The Clackamas County sheriff's office said Benz plunged into the Molalla River, shouted for help, and sank. The body was recovered in 20 minutes. First-aid crews worked for two hours In unsuccessful attempt to revive Benz. .V::.Vi'tU.i'' STOCKING SHELVES for early morning customers is Madge Cahoon (right) owner and operator ef Third Street Grocery located at 331 North Third. With her is Emily Bellm, a friend who lives t 3806 CKnton, near Stockton, Calif., in connec tion with the arrests of Communist fugitives Robert Thompson and Sidney Steinberg on the same day in a cabin hideout near Twain Harte, Calif, She was later acquit ted on charges of harboring feder al fugitives. Bary. Colorado Communist party chairman and former party func tionary in Utica, N.Y., is regarded by the FBI as one of the party's outstanding West ' Coast under ground leaders. He had (1,873.67 in his possession when arrested. Committee To Censure Solon Urged WASHINGTON W Sen. Know- land (R-Callf Monday formally asked the Senate to send the res olution to censure Sen, McCarthy (R-Wts), and all amendments to the resolution, to a special com mittee of three Republicans ant) three Democrats. Knowland said Vice President Nixon should name the six mem- bers of the special committee and that It should report back to the Senate "as expeditiously as equl. ty and Justice will permit." Knowland made his motion 'in an hour and halt after the third day of - debate on the resolution by Sen. Flanders (R-Vt) to cen sure McCarthy for conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dis repute. - ") : The Republican' leader did not ask that Nixon sit as a member ot the special, or, as he called It, "select" committee, The pending amendments to the Flanders resolution include, the various specific charges which have been filed as bills of par- uouiars by sens, Fuibrignt u Ark) and Morse (Ind-Ore), Before Knowland's motion, the Republican leader had told the Senate that Morse, who criticizes McCarthy's attitude toward secret government information, had him self once revealed part ot a '"top secret" document In political speech." , i . ' Morse retorted that then Fresl dent Truman had declassified the document and authorized him to quote from Jt in a speech he made at Minneapolis, Morse used the document In 1952 in an effort to show that GOP presidential candidate Elsenhower was wrong in saying the State De partment was responsible- for the withdrawal of U, S. troops from Korea In 1947. The sense of the document was that it was a mili tary decision, In tomes of astonishment. Know- land said he was "deeply shocked by the revelation' of Truman's part in the incident. Knowland declared- the Presi dent Is subject to the statutes of the United States and "is not above the law." Morse agreed. But he said there Is no statute requiring the Presi dent to act as Knowland thought he should, snd commented that the chief executive has authority to act as he sees fit in declassify- ' ing information. I FLOOD , KARACHI. Pakistan U4 Fast rising flood waters in East Pakis tan Monday threatened cities, dis rupted communications and forced the evacuation ot women and chil dren from the hardest hit areas. There were no reports of any deaths. fit" ' X JL I "l -J I'm
