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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1954)
TUESDAY. AUGUST 17 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE FIVE Dr. Otto John Identified Top Communist Agent BERLIN (Dr. Otto John is Identified now by rueful Allied powers as Russia's master Ger man spy. The man who dined cozlly In Washington two months ago with Allen Dulles, Central Intelligence Agency director, and curried fa vor with the British Secret Service for 10 years sits openly in the Communist camp today. Until he motored into Berlin's Soviet sector the night of July 20 as casually as driving around the block Dr. John was security chief of the West German government. His Office for Protection of the Constitution received two mil lion dollars a year from the feder-1 al treasury on espionage. His mis sion: to ferret out and expose Communist and Nazi plotters In side the Bonn republic. This work was directly connected not only with the security of the West German state but of 400.000 allied troops. KKD CONTACT From his intelligence headquar ters in Cologne, Dr. John main tained continual contact with rep resentatives Inside Germany for Britain's M15 intelligence network, the French Deuxleme Bureau and America's CIA. Inevitably, he learned a great deal about what the Allies did on their own to fight Communist es pionage, which is periodically re inforced wilh new agents and additional money from the Soviet stronghold of East Germany. He cut quite a figure, this blue eyed, blond. Moot lawyer, with a cloak-and-dagger bent. With the benefit of hindsight, Allied intelli gence now assumes that he must have been a double agent In Soviet service for many years. Fear of eventual exposure is Annual Dog Show Planned The Fifth Annual All Breed Dog Show of the Klamath Dog Fanciers, Inc., will be held at the exhibit building, Klamath County Fair grounds Saturday, September 4. This will be an unbenched show and entries close Monday Noon, August 23. Entry blant can be ob tained by calling Mrs. Betty Allen, 2-1456. Entry Fee for first class In which a dog is entered is S4.50. Each additional class for same dog Is $1.00. Entry fee for Local Class is $1.00 but entries In this class must be first entered in one of the regular classes of the show. This class shall be open for dogs and bitches whose owners reside in Klamath County. No puppy born alter March 4. 1954 will be eli gible for entrance in this show, This Dog Show is one of four shows in four days in the Cal- Ore Circuit: September 3, Shasta County Kennel Club, Redding: Sep tember 4, Klamath Dog Fanciers Inc. Klamath Falls: September 5, Southern Oregon Kennel Club. Med- ford: September 6, Eugene Kennel Club. Eugene. Mrs. Helen D. Marlng of Port land will be show superintendant and the Local Bench Show Com mlttee Is Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mc- Donald, chairman, Mrs. Patsy Beck. Mrs. Jean Ravizza, Mrs. Edna Pentecost and Juanita Ledes- ma. The proceeds from the Klam ath Dog Show will be for the bene fit of the Guide Dogs lor the Blind Inc. IT considered the primary motive for his switch. The British say now that they became uncertain about John about 10 months before his overt defection. They never told the Americans, French and West Germans of such doubts, however. MIXED LIFE This personable, talented de serter, born 45 years ago in the historic university town of Mar burg, has mixed with princes and revolutionaries. Gestapo brutes and Red stool pigeons, austere idealists and sex-mad libertines. A . boy wonder with a legal de gree, he was appointed business trustee of Lufthansa, the Nazi government's international airline, in 1936, when he was barely 27. It is known that he established contact with a German baron who deserted the Nazi diplomatic serv ice for British asylum in 1939, then deserted the British for Commu nist East Germany after the war. Allied Intelligence can only spec ulate now on the possible links that . Jomi forged with the Red Chapel (Rotekapelle) and Red Three, the Soviet spy rings that snrung up within Hitler's occupied Europe after 1941. BOMB PLOT When the bomb plot against the Fuehrer was hatched in 1944, John was in on it along with hundreds of other officials. When the assassina tion failed, John escaped on a Lufthansa plane to Madrid, .and the story is that he turned over top secrets of the V-weapon rocket base at Peenemuende to British agents who spirited him on to Lon don. He was soon welcomed into British counterintelligence. At last, resettling in the Bonn republic, John was the British-fa vored choice in 1950 to bead the new federal security office. Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer did not care for him, but John got the job. often received mysterious Soviet zone visitors. He also cultivated two old friends: Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, much-married West Berlin playboy and parlor pink, and U.S Counterintelligence Capt. Wolfgang Hoefer, a German who had emigrated in 1938 and ac quired American citizenship. U.S. TOUR Promoting for himself a coast-to-coast tour of the United States, John returned from it in mid-June after being cordially welcomed to the CIA headquarters and Penta gon in Washington and to U.S., de fense plants. At 9 p.m. on July 20 the 10th anniversary of the bomb plot John was driving Wohlgemuth and himself in the latter's sedan v.'btn a West Berlin .customs officer halted them at . the Sahdkrug bridge over the Spree Canal. ' Behind, in a British sector hotel. Mrs. John, a woman seven years older than her husband, and Prince Louis Ferdinand were waiting ior John to come back from an unex- plained errand and join them at dinner. They had all attended unnerving memorial services that day for anti-Nazis slaughtered by the Gestapo. "I must warn you that you are entering the Soviet sector," the customs 'officer told John. ' . "That's where we want to go," he answered lightly, and drove on. It was three days later, on July 23, that Capt. Hoefer, while being questioned on the John case by two higher counterintelligence officers, went distraught into the next room of his Berlin apartment, took out his service pistol and killed him self with a bullet through the head. ' IMPRESARIO BALDY EVANS has booked another stellar at traction for Klamath Falls. This time it is Russ Morgan and his Orchestra. The Morgan aggregation will be at the Armory on Wednesday, September 15, fresh from triumphs on radio, television and in the movies. DAR Requests Oregon Books The librarian general of the Na tional Society, Daughters of tile American Revolution, In Washing ton, D.C., has asked all DAR chap ter librarians to try to locate a number of books which may be placed in the genealogical library in Washington D.C. These books are all of Oregon history or Ore gon families. The DAR genealogical library In Washington D.C. is ne of the larg est in the world. It Is used by lawyers in tracing families in or der to settle estates and is open to use by non-members of DAR upon payment of a small fee of 25c per day. Anyone who has any of the books listed or who knows where such books are, is asked to call the li brarian of Eulalona Chapter, DAR, Klamath Falls, Mrs. Irene Fos ter, phone 3879. Eulalona Chapter is also Interest ed' In unpublished family histories and anyone having such histories is asked to call Mrs. Foster. Any woman who is eligible to join DAR and would like to find out about the local chapter may call Mrs. Foster or Mrs. Guy Bar ton, Chapter Regent at phone 6582 ., The list of books. wanted follows: Portrait and biographical record of Western Oregon, Chapman Pub lishing Company, 1902. The Trail Blazers, historical and genealogical record of early pio neer families of Oregon, Missouri and the South. Thirty-one years In Baker Coun ty. A history of the county from 1861 to '1803. Isaac Hiaat, 208 pp. (sketches historical and biograph ical pp. 92-104) Baker City. 1893. History of Benton County, inci dents of pioneer life and biograph ical sketches of early and promi nent citizens. David D. Fagan. 532 pp. Portland, 1885. SP Officials Stop In KF, Announce Improvement Plan Ewell Genealogy of John, 1734- 1878. E. H. Ewell. 78 pp. (Good- speed's - $12.50) Peters. Richard Peters, his aiv cestors and descendants, 1810-1889. Nellie Peters Black. 145 pp. Atlan ta, 1904. Stephens (geanloglcal tree). Mrs. Horace Morre Holden. Chart. (Crawford, Ga.) History and genealogy of the Stewart. Elliott and Dunwody fam ilies. Joseph Gaston Bulloch. 23 pp. Savannah, Ga. 1895. Wilson. A tribute to our ances tors. Family History. Hattie W. Shlnn. 108 pp. Unbound. 1898. (Goodspeed's $5.00.) Wood, Descendants of brothers Jermiah and John. W. S. Wood. 2929 pp. 1885 (Goodspeed's $10.00) History of Baker County 1861 1893. I. Hiatt. Baker City. 1893. History of Klamath County. L. Slsemore. Rachel A. Good, ed. Price Embree Family. Ell K. Price. 67 pp. Philadelphia, Pa. 1881 (Goodspeed's $3.50) Pendleton Holds Oregon Ram Sale PENDLETON 11 A pen of three Suffolks brought the top price of $275 a head at the Oregon Ram Sale, sponsored here Monday by the Oregon Wool Growers Assn. The average price for the 258 rams sold was $124.48 compared with $152 at the 1953 sale. Number of rams sold and the average price by breed: 136 Suf folks. $78.07: 89 Rambouillets. $69.92; 10 Lincolns, $40.00: 7 Hampshires. $96.43; 4 Columblas, $40.00; 5 Lincoln. Rambouillets $50; 8 Corriedales, $50.94. President D. J, Russell and other directors of Southern Pacific Com pany were In Klamath Falls last night, en route to" Portland for a quarterly meeting of the board, Wednesday and Thursday. The group spent the night here so that the journey by train on .to Portland might be made In day light hours, for an inspection of the. company's properties. They depart" ed this morning. Henry L. Corbett of Portland will be host to his fellow Southern Pacific directors while they are in that city. t Keeping pace with Oregon's growth. Southern Pacific Is making heavy Investments In this state. President Russell pointed out. The largest outlay, approximately $8.- 250,000 is for the installation of Centralized Traffic Control between Klamath Falls and Eugene, he said. This improved form of train dis patching increases the capacity of single track by 50 per cent or more. The part between Klamath Falls and Crescent Lake was placed In operation last year. The portion between Eugene and Cres cent Lake is about 50 per cent completed and should all be in service by winter, it was stated. The Crescent Lake-Eugene in stallation began at Eugene and has progressed up the Willamette Riv er to near Oakridge, which Is ex pected to be reached this month. Sidings are being lengthened so that each, with two exceptions, will be able to hold a train of 100 freight cars, or more. Train radio Installations have been completed between Klamath Falls and Eugene, it was report ed, so that head and rear ends of freight trains can be in com munication for more efficient oper ation. In addition, wayside radio stations are In service between Eu gene and Crescent Lake. Southern Pacific has spent more than $512,000,000 for new dlesel locomotives and modern freight and passenger cars since the end of World War II, Russell said. many of which are now operating in Oregon. He described the dlesel locomotives as especially helpful in speeding schedules so that freight irom southern and central Califor- nia is now delivered at Pacific Northwest points a day earlier than year ago. Movement of south bound traffic has been Improved to provide for earlier deliveries at California destinations. Commenting on the economic scene, the rail president said that optimism over the future of Ore gon is based on continued popula tion growth; on the fact that this state contains large stands of virgin timber, and on the prospect that ample power, fuel and water will remain available for all needs. - He said Southern Paclflo Is de scribing the attractions of Oregon' in its national advertising program and declared that the railroad's streamlined trains particularly the Shasta Daylight are Important factors in lostenng Oregon s tour ist industry. He reported that the Shasta DRVllght has carried a total of 1.450,000 passengers since It's Inauguration in 1949, an average of about 388 a day. It is the means of showing many persons the beau ties of Oregon. Recent adoption of 'family fares' on transcontinental trains has en couraged more people of the mid die west: and east to visit Ore-! gon a'nd other parts of the Pacific ; Cqast, .,i ; I One of the -newest Improvements lh passenger service was seen in ; the train which brought the rail-1 road's directors north for their! meeting In Portland. It Is South-i ern Pacifies new glass dome lounge car, currently being oper ated in various trains on the rail road's system to ascertain public reaction to tins new' type of equip ment. In addition to President Russell, the members of Southern' Pacific's board of directors are: S. D. Bech tel, James B. Black. George L. Bulnnd, Allen L. Checkering and w. w. Crocker, or San Francisco; Henry L. Corbett of Portland; Ev erett L. DeOolyer, of Dallas, Texas Cleveland E. Dodge, William De- Forest Manlce and Landon K. Thome, of New York; Kenneth L. Isaacs, or Boston; A. T. Mercler, of Palo Alto. California; and Har vey S. Mudd and V. H. Rossetti, of Los .Angeles. . Southern Pacific officials with the group arer J. W. Corbett. vice president In charge of operations, W. a. Peoples, vice president, sys tem freight traffic; Claude E. Pe terson, vice president, system pas senger traffic: John B. Reld. vice president. New York; L. B. Young, assistant to president: E. E. Mayo, chief engineer: and H. J. Carroll, secretary' of the company. Cordon Issues VFW Statement U. S. Senator Guy Gordon of Roseburg, Oregon has Issued the following statement to the 33rd na tional convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Miami Beach. Florida, August 15-21, in response to the query, ''What in your opinion does the disabled vet eran need most?" "The American who has sacri ficed a measure of his productive capacity In the defense of his coun try needs above all else the peace of mind that can come only with the secure knowledge that his sacrifice was not a futile one. That his act of self-immola tion is never forgotten by his people. 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