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V In. i If 11 m In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Early this morning, the senate of the United states faced three pieces of MUST legislation that is to say,- legislation that had to be got out of the way before the senate could adjourn and let its members go home: 1. What to do about making membership in the communist party a crime. 2. What to do about upping so cial security benefits. 3. How much money to provide for foreign aid. Of the ; three, the communist party membership bill is the most important in an election year, be cause its purpose is to make it clear to the voters that everybody running for reelection is against communism just as everybody is against sin. .As the august senators faced it in the gray dawn of this morn ing, the .ftill to put the kibosh on the communists contained a clause that would make member ship in the communist party pun ishable by fine add imprisonment. That sounds simple. It IS simple in theory. It isn't so simple in practice. It's somewhat like the ancient and honorable recipe for making rabbit soup. Before you can have your soup you must first catch your rabbit. Before fining and imprisoning somebody for being a member of the communist party you must first prove that he IS a member of the communist party. What with the fifth amendment and all, we've been having quite a lot of trouble in PROVING things of that sort. Besides, Ike doesn't think too much of the idea of making membership in the communist party a crime. He thinks that would tend to drive the communist membership under ground and make it harder than ever to bring the big shot com munists to book in the pinches. There has been talk that he might veto such a bill. Bo something had to be-done. Here is:, what was done: A clause was substituted pro viding that a person who is a member of a COMMUNIST AC TION GROUP is subject, to the penalties of the McCarren internal security act which is already on the books. In that case, of course, we'll still have to prove that he IS a mem ber of a communist action group, and that might be as difficulty considering the fifth amendment and all as proving that he is or has been a member of the communist party. But at least the substituted clause provided language that maybe everybody can get together on, thus making possible the pas sage of a bill to do away with communism by the simple and comparatively painless process of parsing a law. Elsction years ar,e great Insti tutions. Let's he serious for a moment. In the congress of the United States there are some screwballs. But they are greatly in the mi nority. Most of us have them spotted and know how to discount what they say and do. The great majority of the members of both houses are honest, sincere, hard working and quite able men. One of our difficulties lies in the fact that the government of the United States has become so VAST and so COMPLICATED that complete understanding of it and adequate and statesmanlike ad ministration of it in every detail have gone practically beyond the tapacitics of mere human beings. "III' If 4 r ' 3 j- v PARTICIPANTS in the American legion Drum end Bugle Corps scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights at the Mills School Jerry Wickersham, tap dancer; Jack Otterbein, playing the Sandra S'one, member, of the chorus, r Red Chinese Still Hold US Prisoners WASHINGTON Wl The United States Thursday formally charged the Chinese Communists are hold ing 15 American airmen as "polit ical prisoners." A Defense Department state ment said the Chinese Commun ists admitted at the recent con ference at Geneva that the IS are alive and that this has been veri fied by American, former prison-, ers of war, who have been ex changed since the armistice in Ko rea. , . The Pentagon announcement said also that the Communists have been asked to account for a total of 526 Americans "who are either In Communist hands or con cerning whose fate the Commun ists have knowledge" as indicated In an announcement by the Far East command In Korea on Tues day. The 15 airmen are alleged by the Communists to have flown over neutral territory during the Korean War. The Reds contend, they were shot down or forced to land in Manchuria on tne nortn side of the Yalu River. The names of the 15 have prev iously been released by the De fense Department. But until Thurs day's statement, the United States has qualified Its inquiries about the men by saying mat tne in formation about them had stemmed solely from unauthentlcated Com munist sources. The Defense- Department an nouncement charged the Commun ists with adopting the "subterfuge of classifying prisoners of war as political prisoners" to evade the armistice agreement. The agreement provided that all prisoners desiring repatriation would be returned to the side of their choice. The Pentagon state ment said the 15 airmen "were not given an opportunity to be re patriated." Lumber Wage Pact Voted SAN FRANCISCO Wl Dele gates of the striking AFL central California District Council of Lum ber and SawmiU Workers voted here Thursday on a tentative wage settlement. A Announcing. , Wednesday night that the proposal to end the strike had been signed by attorneys for the lumber operators. Federal Con ciliator Arthur Viat said, "I am optimistic that it will be ratified and that the strike will be ended thfs weekend." Viat said the terms of the settle ment would not be released until ratified by the district council of the striking voters. Two other strikes In the Calif ornia lumber industry ended Wed nesday with workers returning to their jobs at the Humboldt Ply wood Corp. at Areata and at the Shasta Box Co. in Redding. VtfcatllCr FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy with a few scattered, showers Friday. High 15 Friday; low 48 Thursday night. High yesterday 82 Low last night ,51 Precip. last 24 hours .... 0 Since Oct. 1 ; 14.66 Same period last year. 14.87 -Normal for period . 12.60 n ' n .. ...........ij : Price Five Cents 16 Pan KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1954 Telephone gilt No. 2923 ,. i - - Buildings For TL fair Completed TULELAKE Three new all- steel buildings that will house the livestock and agricultural exhibits for the fifth annual Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair and the Rotary-sponsored Junior Livestock Show on September (1-10, were . accepted last night by Orln Peterson, Sac ramento. Insucctor of lairs and ex positions from fair board officials. .Members of the board are Ches ter J. Main, Tulelake, president; W. G. Hagelstein, Dorris, vice president; P. C. Bergman, Floyd A. Boya, faui ja. unrisiy, vern Hemstreet, E. Webb Staunton, Tulelake, and Arnold Criss, Mac doel, directors. .William C. Whitaker, Tulelake, is secretary manager of the fair. Two double - tie cattle sheds, open at the sides and ends have been built to accommodate 100 head of livestock each. The auc tion sale will be held in one of these buildings. The enclosed building to be used later as a sales arena, will be used this year for (agricultural ex hibits. Included in the first group of completed structures is a modern redwood and concrete comfort sta tion with rest room equipped with chairs and lounges. This is the first year that open classes in agricultural exhibits have been included for adult en tries. In past years they have been limited to 4-H and FFA ex hibitors. The change is expected to appreciably increase the num ber of entries in this division of the fair, according to Whitaker. Grounds about-the buildings will have ft coat of cinders and top ping of oil laid before fair time. About 30 acres of lawn about the grounds was planted several weeks ago. , Cattle, sheep and hogs being groomed for entry are in show shape according to fair officials. While numbers may be lesa than last year, quality is believed to be better. Ray Phillips Is auction sales chairman. The sale will start at 7:30 p.m. Standard Time, Friday, September 10, last day of the fair. R. E. Rhodes, Klamath Falls auctioneer will cry the sale. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE First game Detroit 000 011 0103 8 1 Cleveland 021 001 OOx 4 8 1 Garver and House; Feller, Nar leskl (91 and Hegan. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 000 000 0000 7 2 New York 101 001 uax 6 11 1 Dickson, Miller (7) and Burgess; Gomez and Katt. Brooklyn 025 000 0007 11 0 Pittsburgh 000 001 3015 14 0 Newccmbe, Roe (7), Hughes (8) and Campanella: Law, Purkey (3), Pepper (5), Hetkl (8) and Atwen, comedy "Yaw Can't Beat. Fun" auditorium include from left, part'of Senator I Kissem, and t....l lW'1 rJ TULELAKE-BUTTE VALLEY FAIR OFFICIALS gathered yesterday to look over the new buildings at the fairgrounds before they were officially accepted last night by Orin Peterson, Sacra mento, inspector for fairs and expositions. Three all-metal buildings to house livestock and agriculture exhibits have been completed. Left to right are W. G. Hagelstein, Dorris, vice president; P. C. Bergman, Tulelake, director; Chester J. Main, Tulelake, president; Ray Phillips, auction sales chairman and William C. Whitaker, secretary-manager of the fair, to be held Friday and Saturday, September 9-10 at Tulelake. Pickets Arrested As Violence Flares In Washington By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mass picketing brought three ar rests and Increasing tension Thurs day in the Olympic Peninsula phase of the Pacific Northwest Lumber strike. ' A logging companv bus wind shield was broken by a rock as an estimated 100 CIO union pickets massed at a "Y" of the Allen logging road, about 40 miles west of Port Angeles. Three men were arrested at 7 a.m. and taken to the Forks jail. One was booked for malicious de struction of property in connec tion with the windshield incident. The other two were booked on a charge of obstructing traffic. One of the latter two was Fred Ga- boury, a well known Port Angeles leader of strike activities., Ttie arrests were made by mem bers of a Clallam County sheriff's force at the scene. It was tile second straight day that a glass-breaking incident had been reported at the Isolated scene. Sheriff James Morse re ported a truck window was broken by a rock Wednesday. Court actions against pickets de veloped in both Clallam and Wat com counties Wednesday the 59th day of the industry-wide strike. Road-blocking complaints were filed against four pickets in Clal lam County and a Whatcom County court order against mass picketing of a log-hauling operation in which there was a report, which the sher iff could not confirm, of spikes being tossed under a truck's tire. Sheriff Morse said early Thurs day, at the" Clallam County picket ing site, that he had asked Gov. Langlie to send state patrolmen Dulles Japan Meeting Eyed WASHINGTON Wl Secretary of State Dulles was reported Thurs day considering a brief stopover in Japan on his way back next month from a conference in the Philippines to weld an eight-nation Southeast Asia defense alliance. The purpose apparently would be to reassure Japanese leaders who have voiced qualms about their country's ability to get along without trading with the Commu nists. Dulles, who already has traveled more than 100,000 miles in less than two years, is scheduled to leave for the Philippines early in September. Before the Asia defense talks open, the secretary has an ap pointment Sept. 4 at Manila with Carlos Garcia, Philippines vice president and foreign minister. Their task is to organize the U. S. Phllipplnes defense council under the mutual defense pact recently negotiated between the two coun tries. At the conference two days later, Dulles will meet with foreign min isters or their representatives from Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand. Thailand, the Phil ippines and Pakistan. Working groups of all eight coun tries already have done much of the preliminary writing of the treaty, which is expected to re semble closely the u. s.-Phillp-pines arrangement and the Anzus pact among Australia, New Zea land and the United eta tea. Olympic Lumber Strike to the scene because of the poten-, tinlly explosive situation. He said tne governor naa reiusea xo sena the patrolmen on the basis of the existing situation, Sheriff Morse was at the scene, with several deputies and five members of the ney Olympic-Pe ninsula Independent Woodworkers 8 -n Ftf" NEW MANAGER of Grey hound Bus Lines in Klamath Falls, Allen J. Maderas, smiles for the 9 o'clock photog rapher. Maderas was trans ferred from Napa, California. Wildlife Funds Apportioned WASHINGTON (PI Undersec retary of the Interior Ralph A. Tu dor announced Thursday SB, 796. 800 has been 'apportioned among the 43 states to aid restoration and de velopment of their wildlife re sources. The money comes from an 11 per cent federal excise tux or sporting arms and ammunition, levied on manufacturers. It was al located for this fiscal year ending June 30. The total Is Sl.987.800 under last year's apportionment of (11,784, 000. In all, Tudor said. JIO.256,258 was earmarked for wildlife In the states, Alaska, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands and for administra tion of the Fittrian-Robertson act. Michigan and 'lVras each got the maximum of S489.840. Alaska got J75.000 and Hawaii $25,000, the most they can receive. Allotments to slates included: Oregon (239,373 and Washington (262,068. : Union, which was organized after the CIO and AFL unions Joined in ine lnausiry-wiae in Bupport ox ae- mands for a 12 Vi-cent hourly pay increase. ' A Port Angeles Evening News reporter at the scene satd the ar rests of the two for obstructing traffic followed their apparent at tempt to stop the first car mov ing through the picket line by grabbing at door handles. One picket fell or was knocked down in the Incident. The bus that got Its windsniem broken was two or three places farther back in line. It is owned by the Koldahl Logging Co. Logging Is continuing in the area for various mills that are operat ing despite the strike. A pickets' sign named 10 firms as "unfair." Three trucks turned back at the picket line. The sheriff's officers waited with sharp concern over possible de velopments when the loaded log trucks come out of the woods later In the day. Meanwhile, governors of Oregon and Washington were reported ex ploring possibilities for bringing the prolonged and costly strike to an end in the absence of any ne gotiations between the major prin cipals. Govs. Langlie of Washington and Patterson of Oregon said they were trying to arrange a meeting of employers and representatives of the two huge unions Involved in the strike; The International Woodworkers of America (CIO) and the Lumber and Sawmill Workers of America (AFL). However, a spokesman for the IWA, J. E. Fadling, president of the union's Western Washington District Council 23. said nothing had been heard from Langlie about a possible meeting. U.S. Coffee Price Drops NEW YORK im A 10-ccnt cut In the price of chain store brands of coffee swept the nation Thurs day. Safeway Stores Inc., operator of about 2.000 stores from coast to coast and the nation's second big g ft grocery chain, followed the lead of the Great Atlantic et Pa cific Tea Co. which operates 4, 000 A&P stores. . Grand Union Co., operating 330 stores on the eastern seaboard, strung along as did H. C. Bohack Co. which operates 185 stores in Brooklyn and Long Island. The reductions applied to bag packed coffee under brand names of the various chains. Meanwhile, the day's trading In coffee futures brought a further limit drop of 2 cents a pound, making the total decline 8 cents since Monday. The Safeway cut its Airway cof fee to $107 a pound and Nob Hill to $1.09. The Grand Union's brands are now priced: Early Morn $1.07, Freshpak $1.08 and "Grand Union." at $1.09. The AfcP's announcement Wednesday brought the first break 1c reftil coffee prices by a big nationwide distributor. Smaller firms began announcing price cuts Monday following a weekend eas ing of foreign exchange regula tion Of WHO. Compromise Anti-Red Bill Passed WASHINGTON Ifl A compro mise bill outlawing the Conunu nlst Party sailed through Congress Thursday and went to President Eisenhower for signature. The con troversial provision to make mem bership in the party illegal was knocked out of the bill. The Senate passed the compro mise measure by a roll call vote of 79-0. The House promptly ap proved Uie legislation, which had been the big stumbling block in congressional quitting plans. As It finally went to the White House, tile bill was closo to a version which Elsenhower earlier had called acceptable to him, al though he had not backed the measure. , Cut out, however, was the administration-opposed proposal of Sen. Humphrey (D-Mlnn) to .fix prison terms and heavy fines on all members of tile Communist party. The bill declares the Communist Party to be "an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the gov ernment of the United States" and provides It shall not be en titled to "any of the rights, priv ileges and Immunities attendant upon legal bodies." It also provides that any labor organizations found by the govern ment to be Comriunlst-lnfiltrated shall be stripped of any legal standing beforo the National La bor Relations Board. Further, it says that any person who Is a member ot a commun ist-action group shall be subject to the penalties provided in the 1950 internal security act. This last was the key to achlev- in a measure acceptable, on the one hand to the Elsenhower ad ministration, which was con cerned that the 1990 law might be nullified, and, on the other hand to Congress members intent on passing a law to "outlaw com munism," Alaska Polio Deaths Mount ANCHORAGE, Alaska Wl The Greater Anchorage Health Dis trict Wednesday reported the dis trict's ninth polio death of the cur rent outbreak and its 79th case. Demosey Diets, 23, who was flown here last week from Homer, died In a local hospital, The newest case was that of a 3-year-old. Medical authorities de scribed 11 as nonparalytic. Meanwhile, seven new cases were confirmed at Seward to bring the total under treatment In that seaport city to 47. Ten of the pa tients remain In a local hospital, four of them In iron lungs. funds needed.NUjnr for mtTirilTC P01I0 PREVENTION MONEY IS NEEDED for polio patients and for polio prevention. In order to meet the terrific demand for funds to pay for the car. of stricken patients, an emergency March of D'me opened throughout the nation Monday, August 16 and will continue until the end of August. There will be no drive in Klamath Falls but donations may be sent to Frank Michaelson, treasurer, Klamath County Chapter, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysil at th. First National Bank or to W. A. Huggins, chapter chairman at the U. S. National Banki President Lashes Out At Critics SPRINGFIELD, 111. Wl Fres- , ident Elsenhower declared Thurs- ; day "the country is getting pretty sick and tired of crooked fence politics." Eisenhower's remarks were in notes prepared for a speech at a Republican Dav celebration at the Illinois State Fair, t The President's address In an outright political atmosphere was the opening gun in an administra tion drive to maintain Republican control of Congress. ; With the fall congressional elec tions coming on, the President urged his audience to return Illi nois Republican members of the House to Congress and to increase the state's representation in the lawmaking body. HONORED GUEST ' Before his address, Eisenhower ' had lunch at the home of Gov. William O. Stratton with Joseph T. Meek, the Republican candidate for the Senate. Meek, bidding for' the seat now held by Democratio Sen. Paul Douglas, recently won Eisenhower's endorsement. Elsenhower flew here Thursday morning from Washington and was greeted at the airport by Strat ton, other Illinois Repr.iillr.an lead ers and Gov. George Craig of In diana, also a Republican. In his speech at the fair, the President declared he is "sick and tired ot listening to the clack-, clack of the prophets of doom." Then, by way of explanation, aa he put it, he told a story about Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party's first President, LINCOLN QUOTED Lincoln once related, Elsenhow er satd, that a man had built such a crooked fence that a hog trying to get through it became so con tused mat it concluded it was al ways coming out on the wrong side of the fence. That story, the President went 3, Is "applicable today because certain politicians, despite the facts, seem to be coming out on the wrong side of the economic lence." That was an obvious allusion to contentions by some Democrats that the administration was lead ing the nation into a depression.' Eisenhower then went on to say that it seems to him that "the country is getting pretty sick and tired of crooked fence politics." CONGKE88 RECORD - .. . Reviewing the record of Con gress and his administration, the President declared that on the credit side, in the field ot foreign affairs, the war in Korea has come to an end. He also said that the Indochina settlement "while not necessarily to our liking," has been accom plished and that "we are moving with our allies" toward the forma tion of a Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Elsenhower also mentioned the Suez area in Egypt. Iran and Guatemala as troubled places where the outlook is brighter to day. On the domestic front, the Pres ident pointed to congressional ap proval of his farm program pro viding for a shift from rigid price supports to flexible supports. He spoke too of the tax revision bill he signed into law last week and mentioned the reductions for which it provides. The President said the adminis. tration has cut federal spending by 10 billion dollars. . . UAIlf a
