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fo) o) '0 In The- Dap lews By FRANK JENKINS Teletype chatter: Communist sources say two more delegations of British Labor party members will visit behind the iron curtain next month. The Polish embassy in London says a group of eight to ten Labor mem' bers of parliament will visit in Poland for two weeks. The London Daily Worker (com munist party newspaper) reports that a Laborite delegation wnicn will include two members of par liament will travel to East Ger many. . Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and seven other Labor party leaders are now touring red China. where they are being entertained lavishly. As the VIP's say when they are rnminff out nf an imrjortant con ference: "No comment." And be sides I wouldn't know. But nirrt nf a feather flock toseth er and the British Laborltes are socialists and the communists call themselves socialists. If the British Laborltes 'go 4hrnimh Urith Ulhlt RPPtTIS til be their present program and get back into power in Britain and make some kind 01 aeai wun me commies, they'll wind up wishing they hadn't. Big shot communists (of the kind that make the deals) aren't human. There's another oddly Interest ing tale on we wires, mam prime minister Nehru, whose pub lic utterances leave little doubt that as between America and communism he'll take a chance on communism, has Just come under sharp attack In his own country from the leader of the 60 million members of the "untoucnabie caste of Hindus. tTia untouchables' 1 e a d e charges In a foreign policy debate in the Indian parliament at New Delhi that Nehru's policy of peace ful coexistence with the comunists has been adopted without any seri ous consideration of the welfare of the masses of the people of India. -u aHH that. Khru'R nolicv seems to be one of HOSTILITY toward the United States ana tolerance to ward communism. For four thousand years India has had a rigid caste system. It started when the Invading Aryans conquered the native , Dravldians. The caste system was developed to separate the conquering race from the conquered. Four castes were formed priests ana scnoiars, rulers and warriors, merchants and artisans and unskilled work ers. All who didn't fall into these castes were pariahs, outcasts and untouchables. These castes be came rigid social divisions, with no one permitted to rise above tne caste Into which he was born. The system still prevails with few mod ificatlons. Nehru Is a Brahman, the highest of the castes. My impression of him is that he Is a silk - stocking do gooder who talks a good line in the rarified upper atmosphere in which he moves, but leaves the poor devils of untouchables down at the bottom right where they were 4,000 years ago when the caste system got started. He has mild fits at times over the Iniquity of the American system and its so called Tobacco Roaders, but he can't see India's untouchables with a spyglass. Anyway, the untouchables ap pear to be getting onto his curves. Their leader, as quoted in the dis patch above referred to, would quite apparently rather take a chance on the Americans, Tobacco Road and all, than on the commu nists that Nehru keeps honeying up to. If their leader is speaking ac curately for them, India's untouch. ables, after several years of Brah man Nehru, Rppear to be leaning toward this thought: "Locusts and grasshoppers, drouth and flood and famine we can take in stride if we must, but deliver us, O Lord and Master, from the do-gooders. Red Naval Strength Told WASHINGTON W Adm. Rob ert B. Carney, chief of naval op erations, said Saturday that So viet Russia's developing strength at sea is a challenge, and the United States must exert Itself to keep ahead. Carney, addressing the national security commission of the Ameri can Legion, said the emergence of Russia as "another power on the seas, and one unfriendly to us" is something about which we can not afford to be complacent. As he spoke, Legionnaires and their families were pouring Into the capital for their 36th annual convention opening Monday. The Navy leader said it is signi ficant to note that 15 Russian cruis ers and destroyers "a force not be be laughed off" have moved from the Bering Sea into the Bal tic. He said the Soviets have learned their lesson and realized that any preeminence they aspire to will have to be backed up at sea. The Russians have three quart ers of a million people in their navy establishment and have underway an effective building plan "greater than our own at the moment" he said. Weyerhaeuser, CIO Settle Springfield Mill Strike By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weyerhaeuser Timber Co and the CIO Woodworkers settled their strike Saturday at Springfield for a 2 li-cent hourly pay boost while an employer group was meeting at Portland to try to bring pine operations into the Oregon-Washington governors' peace plan. The Springfield settlement was the first of the CIO-IWA local agreements with Weyerhaeuser and it follows the pattern of earlier Two Die In Happy Camp Shooting A 32-year-old California highway patrolman, nephew of A Klamath Falls woman, was killed in a gun duel with a berserk and enraged husband who also critically wounded a waitress in a saloon at Happy Camp, 60 miles south of Yreka. Friday night. . The officer shot his assailant through the heart. The gun battle occurred shortly before S p.m. Friday in the Crab Shack at Happy Camp. Dead are Patrolman William Chansler, 32, and Ivan Wesley Lacey, 55. Chansler was the neph ew of Mrs. Mario Pastega, 1943 Logan Street, Klamath Falls. Edith Barney, waitress in the Happy Camp bar, is in a critical condition at Siskiyou General Hos pital at Yreka. A slug from a 30 30 rifle struck her in the pelvis. Highway patrolmen and sheriff's deputies who Investigated the bar room gun battle, reconstructed, the affray as follows: Lacey, armed with the 30-30 rifle followed his estranged wife Into the barroom. When efforts to persuade her to leave with him failed, Lacey lined up the em ployes and customers in the place and threatened their lives. Mrs. Lacey eluded her husband and fled the place. - Enraged over his wife's escape, Lacey denounced Miss Barney, the waitress, for "helping his wife get away." As he opened fire with the rifle hitting the waitress with his first shot, Patrolman Chansler en tered the barroom. - Lacey whirled and shot Chansler in the stomach as he entered the front door. The wounded officer pulled his revolver as he lay on the floor and shot Lacey through the heart killing him Instantly .The officer died on the way to the hos pital. One of the investigating officers, Deputy Sheriff E. M. Axtell, said Lacey arrived in Happy Camp about a month ago from Willam ette, Oregon. Patrolman Chansler is survived by his widow and two small children in Mt. Shasta, Calif., and mother, Mrs. Agnes Chansler of San Francisco. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II, AEC Contract Probe Delayed WASHINGTON 11 A congres sional airing of the controversial Dixon - Yates contract proposal under which a private utility firm would produce electricity for the Tennessee Valley area has been postponed indefinitely. Aides of the Senate-House Atom ic Energy committee said Satur day the hearings scheduled to be gin next Tuesday have been can celled at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission. Argument over the private pow er proposal for a region served widely by the government-operated Tennessee Valley Authority took another turn Friday night. Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) asked the "assis tance" of President Eisenhower In getting a copy of the contract draft. Gore, who doesn't like the Presi dent's plan for a 107-million-dollar private plant in the TVA area. said the AEC refused to give him a copy. Telling of the delay In opening hearings, committee aides said AEC advised Rep. W. Sterling Cole Us officials would not be prepared to discuss the contract in detail next week. Cole, committee chair man, approved the request for ad ditional time. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy with scat tered showers through Sunday, High Sunday 70; low Saturday ulght 45. - ' High yesterday -.. ...62 Low last night 46 Baseball Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 001 001 000-2 T 0 New York 000 021 lOx-4 7 2 Aber and House; Byrd, Reynolds (7) and Berra. AFL agreements with the firm. 7 It was a major strl move in the North? where settlement r neared a climax In 1 Only Friday the CIO W ers arranged for a Mondb. ing to explore further the t -er' nors' proposal. The Weyerhaeuser 6prlngfield settlement, reported in a joint statement of George Weyerhaeuser and local 5-246, provides for a two- year contract expiring April 1, 1956. The 2 cents puts Weyer haeuser pay 7 'i cents above the general Industry level 1200 EMPLOYED The Springfield plant employs 1,200 who have been on strike. All are to be back on the job Monday. The night shift plywood crew will report Sunday. The CIO-IWA on Friday, after a policy committee meeting,- asked Oregon's Gov. Paul Patterson to arrange the meeting at which it would study, along with employers, the precise meanings of the plan worked out at Olympla by Patter son, Washington's Gov. Arthur B Langlie, lir operators and the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union. Details of the proposal have not been made public but it calls for strikers to go back to work while a fact-finding panel of seven stud ies the long dispute. Although not in effect yet, it ap peared Saturday to hold the first important hope lor an end to tne strike. PROPOSAL ACCEPTED AFL officials accepted the pro posal subject to ratification by the union's membership and providing that pine operators also accept it. The CIO union on Thursday re jected the fact-finding proposal asking Instead that the dispute be referred to arbitration which would be binding on both sides A. F. Hartung, president of the CIO Woodworkers, said Friday though, his union would now re consider the proposal since he understood it "differed, in some sections, from the document we discussed Thursday at.Olympia, "A number of crucial questions remain unresolved. Many are matter . of interpretation. Others are of a more substantial nature. Therefore., we asked Gov. Patter son to "-. call '. this meeting (the Monday session) so that these ques tions could be fully discussed, ' he said. ' RETURN VOTE Meantime at Lebanon, Ore., AFL employes voted 463-71 to return to work at the Cascade Lumber Co under the fact-finding proposal. The plant, which employs 932, was to resume full operations be ginning Monday. Other - AFL locals also were scheduling a vote on the proposal The two unions went on strike June 21 to back u demands for a 12 Vi-cent increase to their hourly wage which has a minimum Base of around $1.82 to $1.87 i. There have been a number, of settlements since the strike began some by renewal of the old con tract and some by varying wage Increases. But no settlement pat tern has been established. LOU W. HALLOCK Chief Ranger Transfer Told The transfer of Lou W. Hallock, chief ranger at Crater Lake Na tional Park, to a new assignment at Death Valley National Monu ment in California, has been an nounced by the nark service. The change will become effective Sep tember 15. Hallock. who has been with the park service for 18 years, is a graduate of the University of Con necticut. He was with the forest service in- New England before becoming chief ranger at Carlsbad Caverns In New Mexico. He was later transferred to Lassen Na tional Park, then to Yosemlte and five years ago came to his post at Crater Lake. Hallock will replace Chief Rang er Red ocston at Death Valley, who is retiring. Hallock, a photographer of note, has accumulated some remarkable pictures of the Crater Lake area, many of them -getting into print in various publications. In remarking on his transfer, Hallock expressed regret at leav ing the Klamath country and Klamath Falls where he and Mrs. Hallock have made many friends. KLAMATH .lve Cents 18 Pages ; . I FEMININE GUESTS at the Friday luncheon meeting of the Oregon Association of Insurance Agents Convention will be presented lasting corsages by the Klamath Falls chapter, Insurance Wqmen's Association. Putting the finishing touches on the last few are, from left, Alice Hall, president of the. local women's insurance group; Mrs. Lawrence Slater, treasurer and Chris Tucker. Dena Backes is chairman of women's activities for the convention, which, will be held September 2,' 3 and 4 with headquarters at the Willard Hotel. Nationwide Meeting Of Potato Growers Planned September 14, 15 In Chicago A nationwide meeting of potato growers has been scheduled for September 14 and 15 in Chicago according to a news release re ceived from W. M. Case, execu tive director of the National Po tato Council, Washington D.C. The meeting will be held in the Mor rison Hotel. A special invitation has been ex tended to members of the control boards of all operating potato marketing agreements and grow ers, handlers, and any other in terested persons to aueuu. Purpose of the meeting, accor- lng to Case, is to bring potato men from all producing areas together to plan what should be done to improve the marketing of the 1954 crop and the planting of the early 1955 crop, "Potato growers are about the only specialized group of produc ers who have not yet set up an organized program of consumer education to promote their pro duct. The declining per capita con sumption of potatoes Is to no small extent due to the energetic com petition of other foods. The time has come for potato men to get together and work together for their own welfare. The meeting in imtcago is called to present an opportunity to build such a pro gram. Case stated. A meeting of the executive com mittee has been set for Septem ber 13 and registration will begin at 10 a.m. September 14. Reds Capture Spy Suspects BERLIN 11 The official East German news service, ADN, said Saturday several hundred spy sus pects have been arrested in a So viet zone roundup which followed the defection of -Dr. Otto John. West Germany's security chief. Ernst Wollweber, Communist head of East Germany's State Se curity Service, was quoted as tell ing a factory meeting the several hundred were arrested Aug. 2 and Aug. 3. ADN said the persons seized were "dangerous agents" of a West German espionage organiza tion financed by the United Stales and directed by Rcinhard Gehlen, wartime chief of Nazi military in telligence on the Russian front. Western informants say they be lieve John betrayed the Identity of many of Gehlen's agents to the Communists. GOP Picnic . The meeting and picnic for U.S. Congressional, state and county GOP candidates and party members will be held on schedule, Sunday, August 29 In Chlloquin instead of at Collier Park due to weather conditions. The picnic lunch and enter tainment for children under adult supervision will be in the grade school gymnasium. Those taking picnic luncheon should arrive early. Serving will start at 12 noon. Free coffee. Ice cream and melons. Take table service. Speeches will start at 1 p.m. in the new high school gymnasium. FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28. 1954 Telephone 8111 Vice President Richard Nixon, has been Invited to address the potato men at a luncheon on the 15th. He has been asked to ex plain the administration's farm program plans and policy. Should Nixon be unable to attend, some high ranking official from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be the principal speaker. Case serted. Other speakers slated to be heard are Larry Manwaring, dep uty administrator, production ad- Justment administration of the Pickets Leave Hanford Job RICHLAND, Wash. Ml Strik ing AFL Carpenters withdrew pickets Friday from a 40 million dollar' chemical plant project at the Hanford Atomic Works, end ing a brief but crippling shutdown. Picketing was halted suddenly Just before the scheduled after noon swing shift, but only a few of the 4,000 Idled workmen of other crafts showed up. Withdrawal of the pickets had not been antici pated. Other workmen on tne mum million dollar construction Job had respected carpenters' picket lines since they were formed Thursday in the latest development of a two week jurisdictional dispute over cutting holes in pipes and conduits. Saturday and Sunday arc not normal work days on the project, and whether full scale operations will be resumed Monday appeared to depend on progress of weekend negotiations. Representatives of the carpenters' union and the Blaw-Knox ' Co., builders of the plant, met briefly late Friday and continued their talks Saturday. No explanation has been given for withdrawing picket lines, which officials of the union's local 1849 had said were unsanctioned. The current labor trouble at the atomic plant broke out Aug. 13 when the 200 carpenters employed by Blaw-Kn6x left their jobs in a jurisdictional dispute which in volved the cutting of holes in pipes and conduits. The carpenters claimed they should do the work Instead of pipe fitters and electricians. Actual production of atomic ma terials was not alfected by the dispute. Typhoon Rakes Philippines MANILA W A howling Pa- cific typhoon raked the northern tip of the Philippines with winds up to 150 miles an hour Saturday, blacking out communications and i crippling at least one ship. I me center oi tne ureal siorm slammed Into the Batancs and Babyuan Islands off the north end of Luzon. Only small fishing vil lages bore the full brunt of the typhoon, but wide areas of the Philippines and southern Formosa were braced lor drenching rain and high winds. The storm was expected to churn Into the China Sea later Saturday, headed toward the Pratas Islands about 140 miles southeast of Hong Kong. The 4,593-ton Japanese tanker Ritsuel Maru radioed that it was unable to navigate because of the huge leas and high winds. No. 2931 USDA, who will discuss the pro gram for handling acreages di verted from basio crops, and Floyd F. Hedlund, deputy director oi me iruit ana vegetable divi sion, will talk on the possibilities oi marketing agreements. "Now that Maine has adopted a marxeung agreement we are as sured that the New England states--.agreement will be reacti vated. We would then have about two-thirds of the late crop areas operating under marketing agree ments. They can all work together. "States without marketing agree ments should be encouraged to adopt the same program restric- ing culls, increasing minimum sizes, etc. A special part of the program will be devoted to a pro motion program to Increase the consumption of potatoes. Experts .Torn the retail and wholesale fields will be present to help de velop plans. The council's own pro motion program will be submitted for consideration and approval. "Representatives of the National Meat Institute and. possibly, the American Dairy Association will be present to discuss cooperative programs Involving combination dishes of their products and po tatoes, it Is hoped that a really vorthwile Industrywide program can be developed," Case con cluded. A complete program for the meeting will be published later. Hurricane Warning Given MIAMI, ' Fla. Ifl The coasts of North and South Carolina were under a hurricane alert Saturday as a powerlul tropical storm spun like a whirling dervish about 300 miles east of Jacksonville, Fla. Its winds circled the calm cen tral eve at a velocity of about 115 miles an hour, but the storm It self stood nearly still. Cecil Gentry, storm forecaster in the Miami Weather Bureau, said the tropical disturbance "is wal lowing around, Its Internal forces causing It to Inch to the east, west, north and south. Its net movement Is toward the northwest, but so slowly that It canpot be counted as a moving storm." Because of the "net" northwest ward movement, and because the storm Is so close to land, the Weather Bureau decided to place the Carolina coasts under a pre cautionary alert, he added. "The hurricane, named Carol for the third letter of the alphabet is becalmed between two upper air high pressure systems," said Gentry. Hurricane winds extended out- ward 50 miles from the center and gaits extended 100 miles. ,, ,.-,v,. n,,,. ..iri the storm should intensify some and move slowly the next 12 hours, probably in a direction between northwest and north. The storm, named Carol to Iden tify It as the third of the season, intensified rapidly yesterday but waltzed around near latitude 30.3 north and longitude 76.7 west. Alice, first storm of the season, moved Into Mexico near the Texas border on June 25, causing floods in the area. Barbara, the second, blew up in the Gulf of Mexico and moved across the Louisiana coast July 28. Aircraft Disaster Occurs During Attempted Landing RAPID CITY, S.D. VP) A huge B-36 bomber carried at least 24 crewmen to death Friday night when it crashed and burned dur ing landing attempt at Ellsworth Air Force Base near here. The public information office said three other crewmen aboard the plane were In "very critical" condition at the base hospital. The bodies ol the dead were badly torn and burned. - The Air Force later Saturday released the list of casualties, which Included two Washington State men among the dead, They were M. Sgt. Dean B. Mc Kever, Camas. Wash., and Airman 2.C. Donald L. Wolf, Ardenvoir, Wash. These were the only Pacific Northwest men listed. Firemen reported the blazing ship set several brush and grass fires. These were brought under control, allaying danger of a prairie fire. The B-36 Is the nation's largest bomber with a wing span of 230 feet and a length of more than 162 feet. It took off from the base Friday and had been on a train ing flight at the time of the crash. The wreckage was scattered widely over a quarter mile area. one officer reported. He aescrraea the weather as "perfect" at the time U'.e ship wus to have landed. Olflcers said the plane appar ently struck a small hill as it ap proached the lengthy runway and was burst apart and tired within seconds. It came down about a mile and a half from the base on the ranch of Alfred Swallow located about 13 miles west of this south western South Dakota City of 29.000. Swallow and his son, Harold, said they were about to retire when they felt a "concussion which shook the ground." They saw flames light up the sky immediate ly and drove to the scene. Fierce flames were sweeping the wreckage by the time they reached It. They said pieces of the ship were scattered over a wide area. Swallow also said there were number of explosions, apparently of fuel tanks and ammunition. The plane had been on a routine train ing flight out of the Ellsworth Base, which is 13 miles west of Rapid City. The crash occurred about 11:15 o.m. est. Names of all victims were Being Ike Approves Debt Increase DENVER HI President Eisen hower Saturday signed legislation authorizing a temporary 6 billion dollar Increase in the present 275 billion dollar national debt ceiling, and declared the hike "may prove Inadequate." In approving the increase legis lation at the summer White House, the President noted In a state ment that It permits a temporary Increase of up to 6 billion dollars In the national debt outstanding be fore the close of the fiscal year which started July 1. The administration had asked congress for a 10 billion dollar In crease, Referring to the smaller hike authorized, Elsenhower said: "Although this provision may prove inadequate, It does allow some indispensable latitude In con ducting the operations of the fed eral government during the cur rent year and is an Improvement over the existing situation. "The administration will make every possible effort to carry on the activities of the government In accordance with this limit." The President said his admlnls lion's record "fully demon going economy and efficiency." 90'dod(Spmal d ' t ' y " i r?- , ? .7'-, J'- ' v i'Y) ''fr" r 'V' - ' If SALLY GEIST, 337 Haskins, was the subject for the special cameraman this morning. She is a bookkeeper at Medo-Land Creamery Co., I SOD Esplanade, withheld pending next of kin. notification ef NEW YORK Wl Friday night's B-36 crash, with at least 24 dead, is the worst in the big bomber's relatively short history. On two previous occasions the number of fatalities was 23. They occurred on May 6, 1951, at Al buquerque, N.M., and on March 18, 1953, in Newfoundland. Ike Signs Farm Bill At Denver DENVER W President Elsen. hower Saturday signed farm legis lation representing a major ad ministration victory and declared It will "bring substantial lasting benefits to our farmers, our con sumers and our entire economy." The President signed 'the farm measure in a small conference room at the Lowry Air Force Base admlnstration building, his vacation headquarters. . in a prepared statement the President declared: "I am very happy indeed to ap prove this bill which embodies my major recommendations to the Congress In January. This new law the central core of a vigor ous, progressive agricultural pro gramwill bring substantial, last- . Ing benefits to our farmers, our consumers and our entire eco nomy." FLEXIBLE PRICES The president noted that the "most publicized feature" of the new law Is "the flexible price sup port system which it places into effect" after this crop year, in place of the present rigid support program. When Elsenhower had put his signature to the measure, he turned to the newsreel and tele vision microphones and said in lormany: It Is a great satisfaction to me to sign this agricultural bill. It marks the culmination ot a year and a half ot solid work to de velop a system of governmental cooperation with the farmer of the United States so that the ag ricultural economy may be stab, illzed, may be kept healthy to the benefit of the farmer himself, eur entire economy Including the con sumers. "All of us 160 million people . can be thankful that this bill has been enacted into law." As the President signed the bill ink spurted from the pen, got all over Elsenhower's fingers, and splotched the bill Itself. CROP PRODUCTION ' The President hailed congres sional enactment of the measure as a move to assure provision of more food, make crop production more efficient and to stabilize farm income. Elsenhower said that under the new law "our farmers are as sured of greater freedom Instead of the rapidly Increasing regimen tation and federal domination they were sure to suffer under a con tinuation ot the present system of rigid price supports." , The President said it was his hope "that in time nearly all pro duction adjustments can be ac complished through flexible sup port instead of direct government controls." CONFIRMED RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Wl The fifth Western Hemisphere In surance Conference here reaf firmed Its stand that states should not compete with private com panies in the Insurance business. V;n7-! 7 1 11
