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In The Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS The news today is more or less uuimumea oy president Elsenhow er. He folri Iho roru..!... -. vi hHis hi, Ills UCW5 conference this morning that he "neves me growing strength of the Iree world is "impervious" to any communist attack. He added that, In general, many International tensions have eased in the last couple of years and he thinks the free world now has a Better chance than before to ob tain a solid peace. At the same time, he took a crack at General Mark Clark (re tired) who told a senate sub-committee yesterday he favors break ing relations' with Russia and re vamping United Nations to get the Soviets out. i - Ike said breaking off diplomatic fAlntlnn,. wHtl. TOnocHa nrAiilH TU Bw.uv.wt.a T" .... JVIWOIB T. UU1U NO WAY serve the interests of the united mates. That makes sense. As one of the world's ablest gen erals, Ike knows that keeping an outpost in enemy territory as long as possible is always a useful de vice. ' ,,lt we break relations with Rus Sij, we'll have to move our diplo mats out of Moscow. It is true that in the event of a break Russia would have to move her diplomats out of Wasnington, but Russia has thousands of dedicated commu nists in this country to depend on tor information. We have no sim ilar fifth cafcimn in Soviet terri tory. 1 I'll confess I don't have much faith in United Nations, but the same rule holds good there. In stead of picking up our toys like a spoiled child and going home, we'd better maintain an outpost in U.N. to keep us informed as to what is going on. If we STAY STRONG, mind our own business, quit trying to play Lady Bountiful to the rest of the world but give help to those who want it, need it and are 'willing to work for their own salvation we stand a good chance to come out all right in the end. Teddy Roosevelt's rule is still a good one: "Speak softly and car ry a big stick." Let's not fly off the handle. - ' Personally, I have a strong con viction that if we can manage to live in tne same worm witn com- nmnlirn uHthnllt lettinff a. war of extermination get started com munism will PALL EVENTUAL LY OP ITS OWN FOULNES8. If That Is We stay strong enough to pro tect what Is ours. One more word on Ike: He wins his farm bill battle de- . cisively in the senate, where the final vote was 62 for it -and only 28 against It (for one reason or annfhpr siv senators didn't vote.) Of this result, he said at1 his news conference this morning: "It should be viewed AS A STEP TOWARD A STABLE ECONOMY AND NOT AS A PO LITICAL VICTORY." That's the right spirit. n thf rhir.atrn Board o Trade this morning grain prices SPURTED hlLilUiK in early wan ing. Hog prices were higher, cat tle and slaughter lambs steady to higher and New York wholesale meats steady to higher, i How come?,. The teletype offers a word of explanation: "A drouth-reduced corn crop estimate by the department of agriculture was largely responsi ble for soaring prices on all ma jor commodities May corn opened eight cents higher than the previous close, the limit per mitted in any one day Soybean contracts jumped ten cents, the permissable limit." Here's a disturbing thought: ' SEVERAL YEARS OF DROUTH COULD CURE THE FARM SURPLUS SICKNESS. But it would be a rugged rem edy. Fortunately, the choice Isn't ours to make. If it were, some sap would say ,ETS PASS A LAW AND HAVE .'it DROUTH. That would lead to more trouble. Expert Lauds New Jetliner SEATTLE HI A designer of the Boeing 707 Jet transport said Wednesday the Jet airliner will be more economical and safer than the piston-engine airplane. M. L. Pennell. chief project en gineer for the Boeing Airplane Co.. told the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in a prepared address that everyone who worked on the 707 is convinced that it "will prove to be outstanding In performance, economy and safety, and will usher in a new era in air transportation, military and commercial, in the United States." At the same time Frederick B. Lee. Administrator of Civil Aero nautics, informed 500 engineers at tending an IAS jet-engine confer ence that the federal government is preparing to take over complete control of sky traffic at the alti tudes where civil jet transports will cruise. Subscriptions Lakeview residents: io order the Herald and News delivered to your door the tame evening of publication call: Martha Brooki, Bus Depot, phone 3121. home phone 212, 3. s li--Mff. 4 til NOT A BIRD in a gilded cage exactly but still something to laugh at is displayed by Lou Jacobs, famous Shrine Circus clown.-The funnyman is shown with Dennis Soran (left) and Mike Stone, Klamath Falls fans. The bj9 show ends its engagement at the fairgrounds .Wed nesday night. A capacity audience attended the Tuesday night performance. f - J m -ma 1 n DARING AERIAL STUNTS thrilled thousands who attended performance of Polack Brothers Shrine Circus at Klamath County Fairgrounds. The Five Haslevs, trampoline .itars, -are pie lured in action. A HAIR-RAISING teeter-board takeoff which ended with a double somersault into a chair is one of the many stunts of the Five Haslevs, stellar attraction with the Shrine Circus. Don Kettler, Herald and News photographer, mapped this thrilling action shot just as one of the troupe was making a final loop before hitting the chair. FBI Arrests Young Robber Afier Try As Auto Agent JACKSONVILLE, Fla. I Natti ly dressed Georsl Patrick McKin- ney, 27, who went broke operating a premium car agency here un der another name, is under arrest for single-handedly robbing a Flor al Park, N.Y. hank of more than $190,000 a year ago. The haul was "one of the larg est amounts ever obtained by a lone bandit tn a bank robbery," aid Edward J. Powers,- special agent in charge of the FBI in Florida. The FBI arrested McKlnney yes terday a few minutes alter he re ported for duty on a new job. as medical extern at tne Duval Med ical Center. He had lived here over 10 months as Wade Patrick Johnson. businessman until bis car busi ness folded. A rogue's gallery picture that had been posted only 24 hours in connection with a burglary in Cal ifornia led to bis capture. A woman noticed the picture in the post office at nearby Arlington, Fla.. and called the FBI which linked him with the bank eobberyi through fingerprints. The FBI de clined to identify the woman. McKinney, a mild-mannered, tall brunet type with closely cropped wavy hair, at first Insisted his real name was Johnson but later ad mitted nis identity. He denied both tne bank robbery and the burg lary. No money was found on him and he claimed he had none, an agent said. Powers said an investigation is underway to determine what happened to the fortune seized tn the robbery of the Floral Park of fice of the Franklin National Bank on Aug. 18. 1953, and McKinney s activities since. U.S. Commissioner T. V. Casehn set a temporary bond of 1200.000 A hearing will be held when wit nesses are brought here from New York. Powers said victims of the bank robbery examined McKin ney's photograph and positively identified him as the bandit. McKlnney disappeared without a trace after the robbery but agents said be left good fingerprints in a f wed to tbe job. Atomic Bill Vote Planned WASHINGTON Wl Senate Re publican leader Knowland of Cali fornia said Wednesday he will bring up, probably Thursday or Friday, a disputed atomic energy bill. Early adjournment of Congress hinges on whether opponents of the measure are prepared to launch a back-to-the-wall talkfest in an ef fort to kill it. The House-passed . compromise bill would open atomic power to private industry and would make several other fundamental changes in the nation's basic atomic law, including provision for sharing atomic information and materials with friendly nations. Knowland told a newsman he believes foes of the administration backed bill have no chance of getting the Senate to reject the compromise. But Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) and others fighting provisions providing for exclusive patents on civilian atomic developments impressed what Gore said would be at least growing confidence they would get a "close vote." The Senate passed the bill, 57-28, on July 27 alter 13 days of marathon debate. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) said that If support grows for an attempt to reject the compromise version, discussion might be brief. Otherwise, he told newsmen, "it would be a very long debBte." The Senate deliberated for 169 hours, Including four all-night ses sions, before passing the original bill. It now has to act on a re- uicpri measure, resulting from ad justments of differing Senate and Hcuse versions. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair through Thursday; low Wednesday night 48; nigh Thursday 87. Low last nlKht - '... 85 High yesterday - -...-.-48 Preclo. last 24 hours - 0 Since Oct. 1 14.56 Same period last year 14.87 Normal for period 12.52 Canada Plywood Purchase Told NEW YORK lfl United States Plywood Corp. Wednesday an nounced acquisition of Canadian Plywoods, Ltd. largest independent wholesale plywood distributor in Canada. The newly acquired company, to gether with U. S. Plywood s unit at Toronto, will be operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of U. S. Plywood under the name of Weld- wood Plywood, Lid. KLAMATH Price 5 cents 30 Pages Ike Sees Aid To Economy In Farm Bill WASHINGTON m President Eisenhower voiced great satisfac tion with Senate passage of his farm program Wednesday but de clared emphatically he does not regard It as a political victory. He said Tuesday's vote, giving him the flexible price support sys tem he has fought for, should be regarded as just another step in a program designed for the wel fare of the American farmer and for a healthy, stable economy ben efiting all Americans. The President said there are several discrepancies between Sen ate and House versions of the leg islation he would like to see ironed out hi conference. These include, he said, a dual price plan for wheat, and a wool program with no time limit. And he said he'd like to see the final version leave the dairy price sup port program as it is that Is with the 75 per cent of parity figure recently established ' by Secretary of Agriculture Benson. The Senate vote assured the' ad ministration . of enactment of a plan which would permit farm price support to be moved tip or down as stocks vary. Both houses adopted a variable range of supports between 82 '4 and 90 per cent of parityt so that question will not be at issue in the conferences to iron out differences between House and Senate bills. The senate voted 62-28 for final passage of the measure once given no better than .50-50 cnance, ; Union Urges Arbitration "This Is a release, the first of a series, from the negotiating committee of Lumber and Saw mill Workers local 2922 AFL.' stated a man who did not identi fy himself by name, in a tele phone call Tuesday afternoon to the Herald and News office. - The statement as dictated over the telephone follows: "The only thing that Is keeping Kalpine from working is that the company will not arbitrate. We feel that arbitration will be a fair means of settlement as it will disclose the actual facts of both sides. ' "Arbitration means that the facts will be put on the table from both sides to be considered and a fair decision reached by an Impartial panel. "If the company will agree to arbitration the men will immedi ately return to work. "What has the company to hide by refusing to arbitrate?" The caller asked that the state ment appear over the signature of the negotiating committee. Lumber and Sawmill Workers lo cal 2922 AFL. Senate Passes Witness Bill WASHINOTOM 11 The Rrnatn Wednesday passed and senl to the White House a bill to allow the granting of immunity from federal prosecution to witnesses whose testimony Is desired in investiga tions 'of subversive activity. By voice vote, after a three min ute explanation of its terms by Sen. McCarran (D-Nev), the Sen ate accepted a House-passed ver sion of the measure. Only Sen. Lehman (D-Llb-NY) voiced objections. He said he wanted the record to show that he was voting "no" on the bill "not because I necessarily object to the bill but because of the way in -which it was handled." He said it should have had more consideration before the vote. The measure is a new version of one which the Senate had passed last year over objections of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohiol, the then Republican floor leader, that it would permit "immunity baths" for favored witnesses. The Tevlsed version would give the federal courts the power to grant the immunity, on request of a congressional investigating com mittee and with the concurrence of the attorney general. It also would allow federal courts and federal grand juries to offer immunity for desired testimony from a witness invoking the pro tection of the fifth amendment against compulsory self-incrimination. Under terms of the bill, a wit ness still Tefuslng to testify after the immunity grant would be sub ject to contempt of court penal- ,i FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1954 Telephone 8111 -BULLETIN- The bill authorizing federal par ticipation in the cost of construc tion of the proposed Chiloquln school was passed by the Senate today, according to a wire received this morning from U. S. Senator Guy Cordon, by Carrol Howe, Klamath County school superintendent. It will be returned to the House for concurrence In minor adjust ments before being placed before President Eisenhower for his signature. OTI Foreman Dies In Slide A. V. Melton, 49. plumber fore man at Oregon Technical Insti tute for the past seven and one half years lost his life about mid afternoon Tuesday when the bank of a trench in which he was working caved in and buried him alive. Bill Turner, power shovel oper ator, who was In the trench with Melton scrambled to safety as the north bank of the 15-foot trench caved in. The trench had been dug at the side of the boiler room at the central heating plant in an effort to unplug drains under tbe building. The deep trench had been opened as far as possible with the power shovel and the two men were finishing the work with picks and shovels. Melton s body was burled in about three feet of rock and dirt in the bottom of the narrow ditch. He apparently died of suf focation. - Rescuers worked frantically to extricate the burled man, but physician declared him dead when he was uncovered about 2Q min utes- after the slide. Melton's daughter, Mary Louise Allgaler, lived with her father on the campus. His wife died last fall of a heart attack. A son William arrived from Medford shortly af ter the mishap, he Is a member of the Oregon State Police. John Mitchell, also a plumber and one of the rescue crew who extricated Melton's body appar ently suffered a heart attack dur ing the rescue operation. He was taken to the Klamath Valley Hos pital by Kaler's ambulance where his condition is reported as favor able, C. A. Thomas, another member of the rescuers was also sent to the hospital where he was treated for shock and released. Chinese Fight Yangtze Flood TOKYO m The 100,000 Chinese working on the Yangtze dikes in Central China redoubled their ef forts Wednesday as the river's flood hit a new high crest of 8.76 feet, Peiping Radio said Thursday. The broadcast said the "river fighters have started an emulation drive" to raise the dikes the Communist way of saying the work on the levees was being stepped up. The dikes guard the 1,500,000 residents in the trl-clty area of Hankow, Hanyang and Wuchang. Reports reaching Hong Kong said despite the work on the levees, two feet or water siooa in the streets of Hankow and the food situation was serious. Long-Bell Strike Ended The following announcement was made today by the Weed division of Long-Bell Lumber Company: "The Long-Bell Lumber Com pany. Weed division, and AFL local 2907 have announced an agree ment has been reached that ends.! the strike that commenced July 13. Contract was extended without wKe change to the 1855 anniversary date. "Strike-settling agreement pro vides for further consideration and discussion on seniority application, call-out time. Job posting and split shifts. A union shop clause and voluntary check-off was agreed to by the company. Employes are to report to work Thursday, August 12, with a re porting deadline of August 23 for employes who are away on vaca tion. "The Weed division employs an average of 1300 people." The settlement today follows a negotiating session lasting through Monday and Tuesday and partici pated in by representatives, of the Weed division of the Long-Bell com pany and the local AFL union. It Is reported In Weed but not as yet confirmed that the Etna plant, which is under the Weed di vision, neumed work Uui morning. mamas IS - No. 291S Thornton Announces Labor Rule By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton ruled at Salem Wednesday that Oregon's Board of Conciliation has authority to try to settle the lum ber strike. The opinion was for Gov. Paul L. Patterson, who asked whether the board could investigate a strike where more than one employer Is involved. Thornton said It can. The governor, expected to ar rive home from Washington, D, C, some time Wednesday, said he would ask the board to try to settle the strike if Thornton ruled the board has jurisdiction. Wednesday's. opinion appears to pave the way for the board to step into the dispute. . But first, the governor would have to complete the three-man board, which now has only one member. He is H. H. Harrison of Portland, The governor would ap point a second member, and the two members then would name the third man. 'It is my opinion." Thornton wrote, "that as soon as vacancies this board are filled by the governor, the board would be re quired immediately to go about the business of contacting the respec tive parties, "If initial efforts fall on order of the governor, the board must proceed wltli the investigation and conciliation of the strike." Thornton held that the board could consolidate hearings Involv ing several employers. The opinion highlighted develop ments in the crippling strike o! Northwest CIO Woodworkers and AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work ers, now in Its 52nd day. TWO UNIONS The two unions struck for 12 V? cents hourly pay increases. Major employers have refused to consider granting any raises. Other developments Wednesday Included: 1. At Roseburg some 150 CIO Woodworkers voted Tuesday night to accept a 5-cent hourly wage in crease offer and return to work Wednesday at the Douglas County Lumber Co. 7'he agreement Is sub ject to adjustment to any industry wide settlement scale, The action leaves only about 755 lumber work ers on strike in Douglas County. They are employed at four Rose burg plants, one plant at Riddle and in Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. woods operations near Sutherlin. 2. The executive board of the Bend Woodworkers' local refused Tuesday night to approve a no wage increase agreement reached by its Redmond, Ore., . unit with two Redmond firms to end the strike there. The local continued to picket the Ponderosa Lumber Sales Co. but Marsden Elliott, com pany president, said more than 100 workers Crossed the line. Tlte Knot Pine Mills, the other firm with which the agreement was made, had no logs and did not try to re sume operations. COOS BAY 3. At Coos Bay some 600 AFL workers prepared to vote on an offer by the Evans Products Co. to extend the present contract two yeirs without a pay Increase. 4. At Olympia a superior court Judge ordered the Shelton local of the CIO Woodworkers to halt pick eting of Port of Olympia ware houses which contain materials of the struck Simpson Logging Co. The order was Issued pending a court henrlng Aug. 16. 5. Al Hartung, international pres ident of the CIO union, again urged arbitration of the strike, saying, "Public leaders of the states of Oregon and Washington should demand that the lumber op erators allow this dispute to go be fore an impartial arbitrator. , . ." At the same time he announced that the union has cancelled Its 1954 convention, scheduled for Mil waukee Aug. 23-27, "to place the full resources of the international union solidly behind the striking members." KF Democrats Plan Campaign Plans for opening campaign headquarters In Klamath Falls in the near future were discussed Tuesday night at a meeting of the Klamath County Democratic Club. The mpetlng was held at the home of Paul Buck. Henry Hansen, president of the club, said a rally will be held In the Klamath County Court house on August 23, for Al Ulman of Baker, candidate for Congress. The club members heard a brief talk by Dorothy Lowell can didate for state representative from tbis district, ,. x World Press Meet Used By Otto John BERLIN (A Dr. Otto John declared- Wednesday he went over voluntarily to the Communists in order to warn the world against what he called U. S, plans for a new war which would destroy Ger many, jie saia ae is now going to work for peace. John told a news conference In the Soviet sector of Berlin he de serted as West Germany's security chief on July 29 to expose what be termed revival of nazism In West Germany and to tell the "real truth' about the European Defense Community treaty, Appearing before more than 400 correspondents of the world press, John declared he went over to the Reds to join what he described as the only forum he could find to warn the world the United States is using Britain, France and the Bonn regime as "tools" for an. other war which would destroy Germany. CONFERENCE : , In Bonn, Allied and West Ger man officials plunged Into special conferences to consider the impact of John's own statement he had voluntarily deserted to the East. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government and the TJ. S. High Commission had contended John Has lured or tricked into East Ger many by the Communists. Nattily dressed, nervous for a while but finally at ease, John read a long, prepared statement and then jousted with correspondents In a rapid fire question and an swer period. s He answered them all. In his way, quietly end firmly, with one exception. .. Asked about the wife he abruptly left behind when he crossed into the Soviet sector the night of July 20, John said he would not dis cuss private matters. RECENT TRIP - John declared that during his recent trip to the United States, where he conferred with Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intel ligence Agency, "I gathered that out ot the hysterical fear in the United States another war is being prepared and that the German people would suffer most from this In Washington, CIA Chief Alien Dulles' only comment was: "It's the straight Communist Party line. It's sheer propaganda." He charged there are secret codicils in the EDO treaties that deal with war, ostensibly against the East. He declined to elaborate, saying it was up to Chancellor Adenauer to disclose the codicils rather than to deny their existence. John said he was not a Commu nist but politically independent. He said he ha discarded all "secret Intelligence'1 work and will not en gage In it In the East. uniy lasb weeK uie west uermin government offered a reward of 500.000 marks $119,000 for lnfor matlon that would clear up John's sensational disappearance. Assert ing that he was being held In the East against his will, the Bonn government also asked the three Western Allies to appeal to the Russians for his release. Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE' First game " ' Washington 100 000 000- 1 4 7 Boston 202 814 Olx-10 13 0 Marrero, Stewart (5) and Oldls; Brewer and Wilber. r - v .-a VISITORS FROM NUBIEBER, Mrs. Ronald S. Miller end Kathy, imile (or the 9 o'clock photographer this morning near the home of Mrs. Glen Miller, 626 McKinley, where) ihef. k yisiting, 7 4
