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El am u la llfL In The- Var Specter Day's lews Said Less By FRANK JENKINS Up over the waters that narrow ly divide American - occupied Ja pan from the Russian occupied islands to the north of Japan, two Russian jet lighters shoot down an ARMED American photo-mapping plane. The Russian MICs were sighted before they opened lire. A mem ber of the crew informed the 36-year-old American air force cap tain commanding the American Superfort that the Russians were making a pass and that it was a FIRING pass. An instant later, the Russians' bullets tore into the Superfort's Number One outboard engine. At this point in" the story, let's quote from the dispatches: Captain Feith (the Superfort's commander) told newsmen that the air force has left it to "the aircraft commander's direction," as he put it, whether or not to open fire when attacked. He added: . 'T Hnfripri fnr the SBfetV of the screw we should leave. So they hit the air in their para chutes. Ten of the crew's eleven members were saved. The eleventh was drowned. So there It Is. Our plane was armed. It could have fired back. Under his orders, the decision was up 4o the 8uperfort's commander. In the split second that was his to make the decision, he decided not to shoot. Was he right? Or was he wrong? , Before answering those ques tions, let's consider a. copyrighted story printed today by the Wash ington Post and nmes-neram. ThB itnrv Rnvs that President Ei senhower overruled the joint chiefs of staff in September m a proposal for American air attacks on the Chinese communist mainland. The joint chiefs, the story says, had numwri nuthnrizinGr such attacks by a vote of three to one with Army Chief of Stall Ridgway casi Jng the lone NO vote. The purpose of the proposal was to prevent the reds from landing on the little Nationalist-held Island of Quemoy Just off the mainland rnnst which the reds had been shelling. President Eisenhower, the Wash I n tr t a n naiMr'K' storv 8a'S VETOED THE PROPOSAL at an extraordinary meeting 01 me .Na tional Security Council in Denver on September 12. That Is to say: In that split second that was his In which to make the decision to shoot or not to shoot, young Cap tain Feith made the same decision that was made bv his commander ln-chief, the President of the Uni ted states, back In September. His decision was NOT TO 6HOOT. So was Ike's. If the Washington paper's story Is correct. I think both decisions were wise There are grave reasons of mil- Itary strategy why we should lake offensive measures to prevent a communist attack on Formosa and Its surrounding islands. If Formosa IS ATTACKED, we'll have to go to war to FIGHT OFF the attack. I think every American is agreed as to that. There are grave reasons why our planes, if attacked, should fight back. If the Russians get the idea that under no circumstances will we fight, they'll go to war with us. I think no one doubts that. But There are even graver reasons why unless we are attacked in such force as to leave no doubt that WAR is intended we shouldn't take offensive steps that will in volve us in shooting war in Asia which would mean shooting war 1 all over the world. The reasons why we SHOULDN'T, it seems to me. clearly outweigh the reasons why we should. The years (perhaps the generations' to come will be tick lish years. We must be prepared to fight at the droo of a hat, but we MUSTN'T FIGHT unless the provocation 13 clear and unavoid able. In these years to come, we must speak softly but carry a big stick. It isn't going to be easy, but if we are to lead the world away from its own destruction in an atomic war that's what we must do. USBR To Study State Projects PORTLAND in Some kind of Investigation for possible Reclam ation Bureau projects Is under way for about half a million acres of land in Oregon. W. A. Dexheimcr. reclamation commis sioner, reported Saturday. Dexhelmer, here for the National Reclamation Assn. meeting, told a press conference that reports on reclamation possibilities for the Coburg, Chehalem, East Long Tom and Hopewell projects are being pushed. Also under consideration are the Tualatin and the Umpqua River Bosin projects. Dexhelmer said that Oregon was fretting the major share of money being spent by the Reclamation Bureau for Investigations. Price Five Cents 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAV .S" a, 1954 Telephone Sill No. S661 " A . , Special U.S. Senate Meet Convened By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON Wi The Senate convened In unprecedented ses sion Monday to consider censur ing Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis), and McCarthy came out fighting. The Senators-about two tniros of the 98 members were on hand had hardly warmed their chairs before McCarthy was on his feet denoucning as "imbecilic" and "ridiculous beyond words the recommendation of a special com mittee that he be censured for using "vulgar" language In refer ence to Sen. Hendrickson (R-NJ.l McCarthy popped up when Re publican Leader Knowland (Calif) told the Senate he had hoped the censure debate could begin Tues day but that it appeared it would have to go over until Wednesday. Knowland explained - that the special censure committee, head er" bv Sen. Watkins (R-Utah) had nof fullv cleared "chartes" In its oroposed resolution with all mem bers of the six-man irroitn. arH that the resolution probably would not be rendv until Wednesday. At that- McCarthy jumned to his feet and said he would nb.1et violently to anv changes in the Wtkins commHtee report. He told the Senate: "They've made tplr bed and row thev've got to lie in it." OBJECTION He said be would "strenuousl" obtect' to changing the reoort .at this late date. It was th W several weeks ago after the Wn kins committee completed its sturtv of the censure charges. It recom mended that McCarthy be ensured on two of five counts studied. Watkins finallv got the floor to say that changes in the report itself were minor. He said thev in cluded . correcting typographical errors. McCarthy said the report by the Watkins committee, -together with the resolution . of censure, whatever form that finally takes, is an "imoortant matter" not so far as McCarthy is personally con cerned but verv important from, the standpoint of precedents it may McCarthy said he has based his whole defense on the report as it now stands. He said he would not object to typographical chances but that any change beyond that would be grossly unfair. He said: "I don't think that at this late date they should throw a new re port at us." RECOMMENDATION Referring to the special com mittee's recommendation that he should be censured for using "vul gar" language about Sen. Hend rickson McCarthy called that "Im becilic" and "ridiculous beyond words." This matter goes back to earlv 19S3 when Hendrickscn signed a special elections subcommittee's report which raised questions abou'. McCarthy's financial transactions. At that time. McCarthy de scribed Hendrickson as a "human miracle. . . without brains and without guts." Watkins explained that the word ing of the resolution of censure, rather than changes in the report. Is the matter holding up his com mittee. He said the group had not acted on that Mondav because one mem-1 ill since he took office less than bcr. Sen. Ervin (D-NO, could notltwo years ago, died in Watts Hos get to Washington. Ervin remained pltal here yesterday. He suffered in North Carolina to attend the ; heart trouble and pneumonia, luneral of Gov. William B. Um- Umstead, a life-long Democrat, stead who died Sunday. Ihad served as U. S. representative CENSURE REPORT land senator and was elected gov- Eventually. Watkins filed with ernor in 1952. the Senate the corrected version He will be succeeded by Luther U the censure report, after assur- h. Hodges. 56. elected lieutenant Ing McCarthy he would show him .governor in 1952 in his first politi the alerations as soon as the Sen-Cal venture. ate quit. Hodges, a former vice president With that, the Senate recessed at 1:20 p.m. (EST) until noon Tuesday. It adjourned out of respect 10 two senators who died I during the!8 two d , h, , ; recess, Maybank (D-SC), and Mc- .,.,. vrnnr .... " Carran (D-Nev). Predictions as to wl;en the Sen ate may get around to voting or. the censure tsue ranged from two weeks upwaras. McCarthy himself, hitting at the whole procedure as a lynching bee." has predicted the vote will -.o against him, but h-i said Mon day that he nevertheless will con tinue his fight against communism. Teachers' Union N rim pc Pruclrlonf PORTLAND UP Cecils Oliv-r of Portland is the new president of the Oregon Federation of Teaco ers, generally known as the AFL tcachers' union. Serving with her, will be Carl Lindstrom, Salem, vice preMden; Beatrice Stevens, Portland, secre tary: and Ralph deMetz. Salem, treasurer. The federation, which closed Its annual convention here Sunday, n.uned J. A, Rademuker. Salem: Edgar Goodnough, Eucene; P. W. ; Buss, Ro.ieburg; ana Jack La-: Grand. Ore tech, to the executive committee. Klamath Gran v Probes Two Recent JV.der Cases By LVLE DOWNING Two sensational murder cases are slated for investigation by the Klamath County Grand Jury which opened a new session Monday. District Attorney Frank Aldersor said he will ask the jury to Indict James Qulnton Anderson. 32-year-old Beatty rancher, on charges of lirst degree murder and assault With Intent to kill. Anderson, who is held without ball in an Isolated cell in the coun ty jail, is charged with the slaying of Richard David Miller, 25-year-old scion of a wealthy former Tuscon, Arizona family. Miller was killed by a shotgun blast at Beany elther Friday night or early Sat urday morning. Anderson also Is accused of par Three Auto Accidents Mar Week Three car accidents, one blamed on excessive speed, one caused by cattle on the highway and another between a car and two pedcstl- ans were chalked up In the south end of Klamath County the past weekend. The first mishap reported about 3:30 p.m. Sunday when a pickup operated by Albert Hugh Walker, 6033 Shasta Way, traveling west nn Clintnn Avpntip ran intn t.un jpedestrians. William Fred Wendt, .r8, 4015 c,mton- and hls 5-year-old Igranason Aiicnaej luis Milieu. The injured pair was taken to the Klamath Valley Hospital where state police reported Wendt was treated for a broken leg and tne boy lor a broken foot. Shortly before 4 p.m. a one car accident on Highway 39, one half mile north of Mac's Store, sent Mis. Faye Wlggs, 1332 Division and Mrs. Raymond Ruger, 1035 Mitchell, to the hospital. Mrs. Ru ger is said to be seriously Injured. According to investigating otf i cers the vehicle operated by Er nest P. Wlggs, husband of one of the Injured women, was traveling north apparently at a high rate of speed, and in passing another northbound car Wlggs lost control and the vehicle rolled over several times. Another passenger in the car Clare Moseley, 2220 Radlciffe was not seriously injured. One cow was killed and four others injured when a car operated by J. R. Robinson, Box 173, Mer rill, crashed Into the bovines as they stood on the highway about four miles north of Merrill, about 9 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Robinson, riding with her husband was hospitalized with a broken collar bone while Robinson received minor cuts and bruises, state police reported. The car was badly damaged. N. Carolina Governor Dies DURHAM. N. C. 11 Gov. Wil liam B. Umstead. 59. who had been 10f Marshall Field Co.. will be iSWorn in tomorrow Umstead had been In poor health -i... .fri .., ,,t , ration os governor. He was read mitted to Watts Hospital Thursday with a severe cold. His wife and 12-year-old daughter Merle Bradley were at the bedside when death came at 0:10 a.m. Death was due to congestive heart failure and bronchial pneumonia. Funeral services will be held to morrow In Durham. Umstead was a U. S. represen tative from 1932-1938 when Con gress enacted much of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal into low. He retired In 1938 to iha-.n. In 1949. he was appointed by Gov. R. Greg Cherry to the U S ; Senate to succeed the late Josiah .W. Bailey. Two yeRrs later he suf Ifered the only defeat of his politi- cal career when the late J. Mel ville Brouchton won the senatorial nomination, United Fund-Red Cross Drive God To Dot Goal To Go ..... SI 17,132 S 49,921 S 47.211 tlcipating in a "night of terror" assault upon Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sidney Menasco Jr., of Grants Pass. They were waylaid last month on the Klamath Indian Res ervation by two men who kept them under almost constant gun fire during an entire night. The couple took refuge in a clump ol trees and hid behind fallen logs while their assailants fired scores of shots at them. Thty were not injured. ' Wayne Rodney Scott. 22, alleged accomplice of Anderson, pleaded guilty last week to assault with intent to kill. He wa. sentenced to a year in the county jail by Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Oregon City, who was presiding here. The other homicide case to be presented to the grand jury in volves Florin M. (Curley) Coon, 51-year-old barber, who Is alleged to have beaten his wife, Lily Coon, 51, to death October 1H in a down town hotel. Coon Is charged with second degree murder. Shortly after his arrest by Police Chief Orville Hamilton and Citv Detective R. N. A:'.kins, Coon made a statement in which he ad mitted striking his wife during an all-night sex and drinking party. ' According to Dr. George H. Ad lcr, county coroner, Mrs. Coon died of brain and abdominal injuries. apparently resulting from being kicked or struck with heavy blow.s Two men who participated In the drinking party which waR climaxed by the slaying of Mrs. Coon have been absolved by police of any connection with her death. The grand Jury also was slated to consider an assault with a dead' ly weapon charge against Earl Gruell, 41-year-old mil! worker. By stipulation of District Attorney Al- derson and Defense Attorney Be 1 Goddard, action on the case was deferred due to the physical con dition ot Littleton Wincll Byers, 43-year-old Dunsmuir, California rail road worker who was stabbed '.n the chest, Gruell admitted to Sheriff Mur ray Britton that he stabbed Byers with a pocket knife when he found him drinking with Mrs.- Gruell A doctor Who attended Bvers at Klamath. Valley Hospital said he would have to undergo lung sur gery. The knifing victim appeared al a preliminary hearing for Gruell Monday morning in District Judge D. E. Van Vactor's court. Judge Van Vactor holted the proceedings when it appeared that Byers was not in condition to submit to exam ination on the witness stand. Weaker FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partial cleariiijr Tues day. High Tuesday 52: low last night 40. High yesterday Low last night Precip. last 24 hours , Since Oct. 1 Same period last year Normal for period Livestock Men End Convention GOLD BEACH I The Western rVl-nrrnn I ii.nctrwlr lent M-n,i,.H tin Its 19th annual meeting here last weekend alter re-electing Lial Winney. Alsea cattleman president. Also re-elected were Vice Pres. Hubert Willoughby, Harrlsburg, and Sec.-Treas. Harry A. Lind- gren. Corvallls, recently retired Oregon State College livestock specialist. The cattlemen chose Gcarhart for their 1955 convention site. "I'y"1'"1 1 -n.,..in . um I ,i .n . n.ui ijqgf - ; , ; ; ; r IkySi? I- issdiJtu V -nrjTj niii-ii i'.T imw-n P,n.fc4r '""""fr"" ! matumttt mimma mm n,.,ti iMrk Syr-. THE GREAT WHITE WAY, Klamath Falls' version, taken at Seventh Street facing Sixth by Don Kettler, Herald end Newt staff photographer, using a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera set at en tenth second and f 4.7. Emergency US Command Posts Eyed WASHINGTON Ml The mili tary, with an eye on the hydrogen bomb, is taking another look at ! plans for alternate emergency com mand posts If the capital faces air attack. Questions have! been raised, 1. was learned today, over the wis dom of concentrating the military high command at a single location, such as the man-made cavern in western Maryland. While that underground Installa tion would be used for its original purpose of a central emergency communications center, it mlr.'it not become the temporary head quarters for the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff and military commands of the three major cervices an al ternate Pentagon. Instead, consideration has veered lately toward a dispersal of the headquarters of the several armed forces to separate points outside the capital area. Initial .thinking was toward use of established mi liary centers, such as Ft. Belvolr. Va., about 15 miles south of the District of Columbia; Ft. Mcadc, Md., about 20 miles east; and Nor folk, Va 150 air miles to the south. But a re-evaluatton of the poten tialities of the hydrogen bomb, made after the giant test explosion at the Marshall Islands proving ground last spring, apparently has brought new ideas about the blast destruction. Estimates of the zone of major damage from H-bomb blast effect alone run as much as 150 miles from the point of detona tion. While the underground installa tion at Ft. Ritchie, about 10 miles northwest of Washington in Freder ick County, Md., presumably would escape the blast of a bomb exploded over the capital. It could be vulnerable to one dropped with the purpose of "cratering out" the subterranean.' installation, ,. A civilian defense test madg Inst summer reportedly Indicated the need for greater dispersal than pr viously planned not only of mili tary command posts but of civilian government agencies. The Atomic Energy Commission began planning months- ago to move Its headquarters out of Wash ington. Officials say no definite site has been selected yet. The Fed eral Civil Defense Administration already Is moving far away from Washington to Battle Creek, Mich. Annual Grange Meeting Held SPOKANE (IP) The 88th annual convention of the Natlonul Grange opens here Tuesday with as many as 10,000 members of the larm organization expected to( register before the 10-doy meeting ends. Registration and preliminary events are on the Tuesday pro gram. Herschel D. Newsom of Columbus, Ind., the national Giange master, will give his report ' - o.i ..w.j- day. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay will address the conven tion Friday and Secretary of Ag riculture Ezra T. Benson will speak Nov. 18. Some of the sessions. Including ; Initiation of 3.500 candidates into the Orange's seventh degree, are scheduled for Spokane's new 2 million dollar Civic Coliseum. -f , t V I.. ' i i DICK GALLAGHER, left, manager of East Side Electric and Dink Long, electrician, were caught with that Monday Morn ing smile by the 9 o'clock photographer. SHOOTING HOURS Oregon November 9 OPEN CLOSE 6:19 4:38 California . November 9 OPEN CLOSE 6:15 , ,.. 4:54 Wot Weather Favors Nation Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Most of the nation basked in warming temperatures under fair to partly cloudy skies Monday. There were these exceptions. Unlit rains, ranging up to Fort Bragg, Calif's .25 of an inch and in the Pacilic Northwest: freezing weather under mostly cloudv skies over the Northern Plains, and similar freezing weather In the Northeast, including 23-d e g r e e readings at Rumiord, Maine, and Philllpsburg, Pa. Early morning weather reports Included: Chicago 42 clear; New York 41 clear; Atlanta 43 clear; Fort Worth 54 partly cloudy; Den ver 40 clear: Los Angeles 58 clear; San Francisco 59 cloudy; Seattle A partly cloudy; Salt Lake City 33 partly cloudy. Small Coy Shot By Brother WEST LINN ifl Robert Carter, 10, playing soldier with his father's deer rifle, shot and killed his nine-year-old brother, John, Coroner Leslie Peake reported Saturday. Peake said Robert told him that both boys had loaded and unloaded the gun several times while playing. Robert said he thought the gun was unloaded when he aimed It at his brother, and "it Just went off," Peake reported. Ten Die From Gas Fumes NEW YORK Wl Ten persons- Including six children were killed Sunday by fumes from a faulty gas water heater In a crowded tenement apartment. The tragedy brought city offi cials to the scene. They opened a thorough Investigation and the health commissioner advised city-wide drive to avoid similar deaths in the future. Pound dead early Sunday were family of eight and two guests who had come for a baptismal celebration the next day. The victims were Edubirges Gonzales. 33: his wife. Victoria. 28: their six children; Domingo Motos, 31, and his wife, 27. Two windows in the three-room apartment were open but there was not enough ventilation to re move Uie fatal gases. One city of ficial said enough carbon monox ide had been formed to "kill off an entire squadron of men in half an hour." Canadians May Block US Plan VANCOUVER, B. C. Wl Fish eries Minister James Sinclair pre dicted here Sunday the Canadian government will Introduce legisla tion in the next House of Commons session to block plans of the Kaiser Aluminum Co. to-bulld a low-level dam on the Columbia River In In terior British Coumbia. Sinclair told the Coast-Capllano Liberal Assn. an agreement which would allow the U.S. company to build a 25 million dollar storage dam near Castegar would amount to "sighing 60 per cent of the power output of the Canadian stretch of the Columbia River to American interests." He said he doubts the provincial government, which has made a preliminary agreement for the project, has the authority to under take it. Canada usually receives 50 per cent of the output of ex port projects, he declared. Last week British Columbia Lands Minister Robert 8ommers said the provincial government will go to the courts If the federil government takes any steps to Interfere with the KaUer company plans. He said the provincial gov ernment also might build the dum itself. Ike Overrules Joint Chiefs WASHINGTON Wl The Wash Ington Post and Times-Herald said Monday President Eisenhower overrode a 3-1 recommendation from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that would have authorized American air attack on the Chinese mainland to prevent a Communist landing on Nationalist Quemoy. The paper said the Joint chiefs' recommenda lion had the backing of Secretary of State Dulles. The copyrighted story by Chal mers M. Roberts said the President's veto was exercised at the extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council In Den ver Sept. 12. That was nine days alter Red artillery on the mainland opened up with a 8.000-shell barrage against Chiang Kai-Shek forces on the Island only seven miles away. The article says also that the Quemoy affair spurred the Presi dent to renewed efforts to find a way out of the Impasse of America policy In the Far East. It adds that the situation lies behind the strong accent on the search for peace which has appeared in recent Eisenhower statements on foreign policy. Threatening By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITB BOSTON tfl President Eisen hower declared Monday "the spec ter oi war looms less threaten lngly" than in a long time "de spite some instance of provoca tion ' such as the shooting down of an American plane by two Rus sian Jet fighters. A U. S. Air Force photo-mapping plane was downed by the Rus sian planes Sunday according to an Air Force announcement. Departing from his text In ad dressing tile 27th convention ot the National Council of Catholic Wom en, the President said after de claring the prospects for an en during and lasting peace are the brightest In years for American parents: "They are heartened, too, by the building of strength where there was weakness throughout the Pa cific, despite some Instances of provocation as that which occurred off tile coast of Japan Sunday. All of us are profoundly thankful that the terlble specter of war looms less threateningly over all man kind." FOREIGN POLICY The President said that the quest for an "enduring and lasting" peace "must be the overriding goal of our foreign policy." Addressing a capacity audience in the 3.000-seat Boston symphony hall, Uie President again voiced hope that his "atoms for peace" proposal will open a "new phase1' of United States relations with Rus sia. "To attain . . . endurlni Mam must ever be the goal of our for eign policy," the chief executive said. He received a rousing, standing ovation at the start of his address ' which was televised and broadcast locally; Departing from his text at one point, Eisenhower declared "with all the earnestness I can com mand" that If American mothers will teach their children there Is no real alternative to peace, "we snail have peace." "By broadening alliances, by strengthening our cultural ties with peoples of other lands, we build a firmer foundation for permanent peace throughout the world," he said. POWERFUL FORCES It is not paradoxical In our peaceful efforts-that we maintain" powerful military - forces," the President said. "For a world part ly dominated by men who respect only guns, planes and tanks, these weapons are essential to our sur vival." The President said the struggle for a lasting world peace must be waged through the United Nations and in every other possible way. Then he declared: "I know all Americans are hope ful that our proposal for an Inter national pool of atomic energy re sources will Inaugurate a new phase In negotiations between the United States and tne soviet un ion. I deeply believe that, regard less of Uie Soviet decision, the cause of pence will be further as we go ahead with friendly nations to turn this new science to the arts of peace." U.S. Protests MIG Incident WASHINGTON Ud The United States strongly protested to Russia Monday against the shooting down, by two Soviet MIG-tvpe fighters of an American RB29 "over Jap anese territory in the Hokkaido area." and called for reparations. A terse note delivered by Am bassador Charles Bonlen to the Soviet foreign ministry said: "The United States Government ' strongly protests this action. It will expect the Soviet government to make all such moral and ma terial reparations as lies witlitn It power." Ten of the 11 crewmen aboard the RB29 mapping plane parachut ed to safety alter the craft was shot down Sunday, but the 11th was drowned when he became en tangled In his parachute. A State Department spokesman said the United States would sub mit "a full and complete claim" to Russia later as compensation for Uie loss of life and the plane destroyed in the crash. The American plane, on a photo mapping mission, wan shot down In flames. Press Officer Henry Suydam ot the State Department, announcing the protest sent less than 24 hours after the incident, said that as "moral reparations" the United 8tates would demand an apology and appropriate action to "disci pline ollcndlng members of the So viet air force." POTATO SHIPMENTS BEASONS 53-54 54-55 Dally Truck Ore. 5 14 Dally Rail Ore. 5 12 Dally Truck Calif. 8 12 Dally Rail Calif. 17 5 Dally Tots I ORE. ft CALIF. 33 43 Monthly Total 135 187 Season's Total j73i W4 I i
