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Newspaper Page Text1m - lis In .The- Kay's lews , By FRANK; JENKINS The Kremlin mystery deepens, Yesterday Russian premier Bui ganin said in Moscow that the aerial Inspection phase of President Eisenhower's peaceful coexistence and armament reduction plan was unworkable because of the vast size pf Russia and the United States, i Today, in a surprise reappear- janoe before the Soviet parliament. 'he said his yesterday's statement . had been misunderstood and then added: "Everything will TURN OUT Whereupon, the dispatches tell us, the members of the Soviet parliament cheered enthusiastical ly. What are we to think of it all? Let's put It this way: Before we can have a peace plan (including armament reduction) . 'that will work there will have to be mutual confidence. As of now, because of what has happened in the past, we have no confidence in communist Russia's peaceful intentions. ' But ' .. IF the Russians will in the fu ture, over a sufficient period of time, do the things that will cause us to have confidence in them, we CAN get together on a. plan for peace and armament reduction, , That's about the size of it, But let's get closer home: The Portland city council has passed by a four tone vote a sweeping ordinance to ban ALL mechanical amusement ' devices that have an element of GAMB LING. ,. Portland's ccuncilmen must have been reading the constitution of Oregon t- which declares (Article XV; Sec. 4): ' "LOTTERIES, and the sale of lottery tickets, FOR ANY PUR POSE WHATEVER, are PROHIB f ITED. and the legislative assembly shall PREVENT the same by penal laws." Members of Oregon city coun cils (along with a wide range ol other public officials) must take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Oregon. It is a solemn oath, ending with the pledge: "So help me God." One can imagine that a member of an Oregon city council, reading ine constitution of our state and recalling the oath Vie took when, he assumed his office, would ' be con siderably disturbed in his con science every time he looks a money-paying (or merchandise- paying) slot machine of any de scription In the eye,. , What is a lottery?'" I Webster defines it as 'a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot; especially such a scheme in which lots, or chances, are sold." Put it to yourself tils way: When you put a coin in the slot of a machine that offers a prize (money or merchandise) you BUY A CHANCE. I suppose that when the founding fathers of our state adopted our constitution they thought of a "lottery" as putting numbers in a hat. But that was be fore the machine age. Logical reasoning must lead to the conclusion that when' you put a coin in the slot of a machine that offers a prize you are BUYING A CHANCE. That the constitution of Oregon forbids. The constitution is tile SU PREME law of our stale. Public officials in Oregon (in cluding city councilmen) take a solemn oath to support Oregon's constitution. EMIGRANTS KOBE, Japan Wl A group of 344 Japanese emigrants sailed from Kobe Thursday to take up farming in Brazil. Most of the emi grants 209 farmers in 31 family groups are experts in the produc tion of raw silk by raising silk worms. Tlfey were invited to the Latin American country by the Sericulture Assn., of Sao Paulo. Jury Decides For Railroad In Federal Circuit Court By LYLE DOWNING A $150,000 damage suit against the Southern Pacific Company was decided in favor of the railroad by United States District Court Jury here late Thursday. The action was brought by Mrs. Edith Daulton, administratrix of the estate of Brakeman Donald L. Daulton who was killed near Wo cus on October 6. 1952. Daulton fell from the footboard on a loco motive which was pulling a work train. The plaintiff claimed negligence on the part of the railroad was re sponsible for Daulton's death. The Jury decided that the railroad was not responsible for the accident. Federal Judge James Alger Fee. who Is presiding here, announced that the case of the Interstate Com merce Commission against a group of truckers, will go to trial Monday. In the meantime, a' Jury was hearing testimony Saturday In a double-barreled damage action In volving Consolidated Freightways ar.d Converse Trucking Company. Trucks operated by the two firms were involved in a spectacular crash on the Southern Pacific ov erpass five miles soulh of Klamath Falls on April 4. 1954. Two trans port trucks owned by the litigants crashed into each other in a dense foe. Both litigants charge negligence and are seeking 110,000 damages each. Attorney Richard Maxwell of l I i: i II u i i i i ii ( sli i I ii ii i r i mjt n n n -m tr v v Pries Five Cents If rues Fliers Land At Tokyo On Home Flight TOXYO lV Eleven freedom relishing U. S. airmen, who de nounced Red Chinese charges of "spying," landed here Friday night on their way home after 30 months in Communist prisons. The fliers landed at nearby Tachikawa Air Base after flying from Manila where they happily satisfied - prison-denied appetites for steaks. They were -whisked immediately to the base hospital. The II were freed Thursday at Honit Kong in a surprise Commu nist action of which they first learned in their Peiping cells Sun day. PLUSH AIRCRAFT The fliers were brought here in two plush C54 transports. One was Gen. Douglas MacArthur's former personal plane,' the Bataan. The other was tne personally assigned plane of Gen. Lawrence S. Kuter. Far East Air Forces commander. An FEAF spokesman said the men probably would remain in Japan several days for thorough medical checkup. . Air Force headquarters In Wash ington said the airmen are sched uled to leave Tokyo by plane some time on Wednesday, Japan time, arriving at Travis Air Force Base in California about 30 hours later. They will have a thorough medi cal checkup In Japan. ALASKA ROUTE A spokesman for the FEAF In Tokyo said the fliers would return to the United States by the Alaska route, arriving at McChord Air Force Base. Wash: The Air Force in Washington said the McChord stop would be for refueling. It also said the FEAF would decide whether a fueling stop would be made at Anchorage, Alaska. The Air Force said that plans still call for the families to be reunited with their lpng missing men at Travis AFB. Two military trans ports will be used to gather the relatives. ) Two of 13 Red Cross packages ordered by relatives of nine of the men were aenverea to Airman a. C. Daniel C. Schmidt of Couer d' Alene, Idaho. DISCLOSURE , Later, an official source dis closed that Schmidt heard on a news broadcast in Manila Friday morning that his wife had remar ried in the belief he was dead. "He is taking it quietly," the source said.. "'He wants to telephone her as soon as possible." (The latest word from Mrs. Una Schmidt Fine, 20, at Cisco Grove, Calif., as relayed by a neighbor, was that she might leave both Schmidt and her second husband. Alford Fine. 21. a logger, "and let both of them court me and make up my mind.") WIFE-REWED Schmidt's wife, mother of his IVi year old son whom he has never seen, wed a tractor driver for a logging company last Sep tember two months ocfore she learned Schmidt still was alive. The Air Force, apprehensive over the possible effect of shock, had withheld the new from the 22-year-old. flier. A - news conference with the 11 fliers is scheduled here at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon (10 p.m. Satur day PST). Col. John Knox Arnold Jr., Sil ver Spring, Md., and his 10 B29 crew members are expected then to give a fuller account of their ordeal of months of grim question ing In Red Chinese prisons. Klamath Falls Is representing Con solidated snri Aftnrnpv .inhn rinr. don Gearin nf Portlnnri ic pmm..i for Converse. It was expected the case would go to the Jury Friday afternoon; At the conrliisinn nf ihnt trial Judge Fee was prepared to hear a aamage action brought by Wil lard J. Williams of Lakeview against the American Forest Pro ducts, Inc. The plaintiff was in jured In a woods accident in Lake County a year ago. He claims the mishap resulted from negligence on the part of the timber firm. In the action brought by the In terstate Commerce Commision, a group of truckers are accused by the government of attempting by subterfuge to evade ICC regula tions. Named in t.h O.K. Transfer Company, Pioneer Rentals Company. Drivers Service, Inc. and Alexander L. Vlncze. The ICC is seeking to enjoin the defendants from operating as com mon earners wimoui authority from the commission. The ICC is represented in the action by As sistant U.S Attnrnev Bhrt r... ney of Portland and Assistant U.S. Attorney wiuiam Harrison of San Francisco. The defendants are rep resented by Attorneys Dick Max sell of Klamath Falls and J. M. Hickson of Portland, At. ihm f?nru-hitmn nf tht trial Judge Fee will go to Medford to Qi.puse oi s ueivy court aocxei. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. Democratic Senaiors Assail FPC's Hells Canyon Ruling WASHINGTON tfl Democratic senators assailed bitterly today the Federal Power Commission's action in approving' a privately fi nanced hydroelectric project in the Hell's Canyon area. The Democrats indicated they in tend to make a national issue, if possible, of the commission's giant to the Idaho Power Co. of author ity to build three power dams. These would flood the site of a proposed federal Hell's Canyon dam on the Snake River border between Idaho and Oregon. Public power advocates have been trying unsuccessfully for years to have Congress authorize a single, high-level dam in the canyon as a federal project. They have contended the private devel opment would not make full use of the potential. Sen. . Kerr (D-Okla) . predicted U.S. Farmers Tour Russia ROSTOV ON THE DON. USSR (UP) A delegation of American farmers visiting Soviet collective and state farms in the Kuban area of the North Caucasus is scheduled to leave today for Stalingrad on its tour of the Soviet Union. The Americans are making the Journey via the Don Canal. i Yesterday they wound up their inspection tour of the Kuban area, which included visits to six collec tive and three state farms. During the tour, the Americans got a good look at Soviet livestock and ex changed practical farm ideas with Russian dirt farmers. The Americans were impressed by the high quality of small grains and said they saw corn that looked as though it would yield 60 bushels an acre. "We saw the best and it was good," one . delegation member said. . . j The delegation inspected agricul tural machinery at a machine sta tion, a cheese plant and large state grain elevator. They also visited the huge Vezi Zarya hoe farm iwhere they -asked many questions aoout soviet hog raising methods, feed 'rations, marketing programs and Utter testiiiK. , The Russian farmers wuiiled to itnow bdoui u. a. nog weights, feed methods, labor saving devices and workers wages. They were parti cularly interested in self-feeders, impressed by the fact that. John Steddon of Iowa raised 1000 hogs annually with the help of only two men. Here each swineherd takes care of from 10 to 20 sows and their piglets. ' " . '.gfi , '" 1 l : W H I" k ; ' V, :-: '! WINEMA ELEVATORS, INC., is building eight new steal tank-type grain elevator units at Hen ley beside the Great Northern railroad. The huge cylinders are built on a concrete bast. A crane lifts sections of the structure info place to be riveted together by workmen. ' The elevators will be equipped with up-to-date cleaning facilities with equipment for unloading a truckload of grain in three minutes. The units will have a capacity of 90,000 buihels, which gives the Wi nema Elevators, Inc. an over-all capacity of 1,200,000 bushelt of storage in the Klamath Basin. Other elevators are located at Malone siding near Merrill, TuleUke, Stronghold, and West Sid. Headquarters are at Tuleleke. Tha elevators are locally owned. Winema Farms, forerun ner of Winema Elevators, Inc., built the first bulk grain storage in this area. Grain was sacked from the combines in the early days of grain farming. Grain will be received at Henley by Au gust 15. The Joost Construction Company, Woodland, California, is the building contractor. FRIDAY, AUGUST J, 19SS that by the time the Democratic controlled Congress gets through with it the commission's order "will be corroding in the same graveyard where the Dixon-Yates contract reposes." Sen. Magnusen (D-Wash) called it "a complete sell-out of God given resources to the private pow, er lobby." Sen. Humphrey (D-MInn) said in a separate interview the FPC action . announced yesterday "is just another example of the fact that this administration waits un til Congress is away to uncork its special interests packages." "I am sure that a great many senators will - be raising 'Hell's Canyon' about this decision," he said. ,. FPC Chairman Jerome K. Kuy kendall denied that the announce ment was purposely withheld until Congress adjourned. He said it was processed "in regular shape." In its unanimous decision to give Idaho Power a 50-year license to build the Brownlee, Oxbow and Low Hell's Canyon dams, the com mission said its order "will pre clude a federally constructed sin gle high dam" at the site. The commission said it had con cluded that if financing, construc tion and operation of the differing proposals were carried on by the same entity "the ratio of power benefits to power costs of the three dam plan is greater than that for the one-dam plan . ." Officials of the National Hell's Canyon Assn., which opposed the company applications before the FPC. have indicated they will take the decision to the courts. A.foiv ma I decision will be made at a board meeting in Portland, Ore.'. Aug. 15. Hurricane Raqes Over Carribean MIAMI.. Fla. Ift u Connie, now a dangerous hurricane with Winds of 125 miles an hour whirling mound its center, moved toward the Leeward Islands Friday and Diougnt ncn and populous Puerto Rico under a hurricane, alert, ,i The Weather Bureau's storm warning service ordered hurricane warnings, hoisted -in tbe group of islands at the nortri end oI thej Leeward chain. Including Barbuda, Saba, and Antigua. All interests were advised to make immediate preparations for dangerous winds and tides. . . . . ,-. .... ; The Virgin Islands to the east of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico itself were told to stand by on the alert for possible hurricane warn ings later. . , No. 315 Police Fear Kansas Wife May Be Dead KANSAS CITY UP A blood stained automobile containing the ripped and bloody clothing of a wealthy young housewife was found abandoned on a busy thoroughfare early Friday. Police immediately theorized she had been kidnaped and slain. Mrs. Wilma Allen, 34. wife of William Allen Jr., North Kansas City Chevrolet dealer, and mother of two small boys, has been miss ing since she leit a beauty parlor Thursday noon. Her 1555 convertible was found parked under a viaduct at 2:10 a.m. i BLOOD FOUND Mai. Eugene Pond, chief of de tectives, said the rear seat and floor of the car were saturated with blood and Mrs. Allen's lin gerie, skirt, blouse and shoes were in the trunk compartment. Blood was streaked along the - chrome trim on one side of ..the car' and on the rear bumper. Police were proceeding on tne heory that Mrs. Allen had been kidnaped Thursday , atternoon, driven to some isolated spot, slain and her body disposed of, either at the scene of the killing or else where. The car then presumably was driven tu the spot where it was abandoned. Mrs. Allen Is the mother of two sons. Billy. 11, and Bobby, 8. MODEL COUPLE , Police said friends described the Aliens as a model couple. Her hus band operates one of the city's largest Chevrolet agencies. Allen said he and his wile had planned to dine out Thursday night and had employed a babysitter for their children. He said Mrs. Allen normally kept in contact with him uy telephone when sue was away lrom home , and lie became alarmed when ho i did not hear from her throughout the afternoon. Aoout 7 p.m., Allen said, he sent out a number ol his salesmen to cruise the city, seeking Mrs. Al len's vehicle. When they reported no trace of her, he called in police and the state , Highway Patrol about 10 p.m. CAR ABANDONED Mrs. Allen's abandoned car was, lockea wnen louna, aunougn tne ignition switch was In the "on" position. Police cut open the rear plastic window of the convertible to gain entrance, tnen forced open the trunk. Found in the compartment were a while blouse, ripped at the shoulders and drenched with blood, leading police to theorize Mrs. Al ien had suflered a head wound. Telephone gill ':(- "A IOY, freeklei, curly hair, and an ideal picture today for the early morning photographer, .This ii Phillip Hardman, ion of Mr. and Mrs. Marrald Hard man, of 1402 Pleasant Avenue. He was on his paper, route this morning. He'll be interviewed tonight at 10:15 o'clock on radio station KFLVV. ; , ,, Church Directory - The church directory page which - usually ii found in Friday'! Herald and Newt each week will be run in the Sunday morn ing edition this week. 1 NP Freight Rams Train CENTRALIA. Wash. Itf) A Portland-bound Northern Pacific freight train rammed the rear of a Union Pacific freight stopped-on tracks near here early Friuay, de railing 16 cars and injuring one trainman. , r Rov E. Johnaon, Tacomai Wash, brakeman of, the Northern Faoiiic freight, was taken to a hospital here with , undetermined injuries. 'Four 'tether' trainmen including two who had left the caboose ol the Union Pacific freight only mo ments before the crash escaped unhurt. W. E. Thompson. N.p. train master here, said an investigation was started immediately to deter mine cause of the accident. Railroadmen said it occurred about 1 a.m.. shortly after the Un ion Pacific locomotive had discon nected from the -train here and entered the Centraha railroad yards for additional cars. The Union pacuic conauctor anu flaoman left the cabooso as the (rain stopped and entered the yard on foot to pick up waybills and other papers. Trainmen said the mrce-unn aic- sel locomotive of the southbound Northern Pacific freight plowed Into the caboose minutes later, and rolled some 160 feet, scattering cars like tenpins, before It came to a halt. The crash ripped out about 100 feet of mainline track, forcing temporary re-routing of other Portland-Seattle traffic. Thompson said the railroads expected to clear the debris and resume normal service "within 24 hours." French Plan Soviet Visit PARIS 11 Premier Faure told the National Assembly Friday he Ir going to Moscow early in Oc tober with Foreign Minister Plnay. He called the visit a way of pro longing the Geneva Big Four con ference. Progress has been mad? since the conference, he said, on four points: 1. The need for a security system In Europe and an undertaking not to use force. 2. The linking of the problems of security and of German unity, the need for German unlly and the re sponsibility of the United States. Soviet Russia. Britain and France to bring it about. 3. The will to set up a disarma ment nroxram that will free re sources to develop backward re gions. 4. Tne possiDiiuy oi aeveiopiuK East-West relations by making It easier for people, goods and Ideas to move back and forth. Faure was summing up for the National Assembly his Si', month" In office. Parliament expected to adiourn Friday night until early October. Weather FORECAST Rla main Falls and vicinity; Fair through Ratiirrtiv. ! Kith Haturday low Friday nlrht 51. High yeaterdar .- S , Im last night .- .S7 Precip. last 24 hears . 0 Rlnce Oct. 1 , M8 ftame period last year ..,. 14. M Normal for period 12.S ". Ail t 1 !k. a imile--theyf! added up to Shrine Circus Ducats Offered Next Friday will be a great day for some 5,000 Klamath Falls boys and girls. . Business and professional men of tills city have purchased 5.000 tickets to Polack Brothers Shrine Circus for distribution free to boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 12. The tickets will be good lor next Friday' circus matinee at the fairgrounds. Keith O Hair, general chairman of the Shrine Circus Committee, said the tickets are no available at the circus office in the Willard Hotel. They will be distributed on a first come, first served basis, i "We want 5,000 boys and girls to attend the circus as the- guests of the business and professional men of Klamath Falls," O'Halr declared. "A ci.'cus is a major event in every child s life and we cton l want a mngie noy or gur 10 miss this year s bitr show." : Arrangements -for the matinee wore made by Charles (Cookie) Carlson, chairman of tho special matinee committee,, , USBR Offers land For Sale The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has announced that it Is offering for sale to the highest bidder two small parcels of land near Klam ath Falls. One Is a two-acre, unimproved tract seven miles east of ,the city adjacent to Lost River In Klam ath County. The other parcel Is about one acre and is one mile north of Merrill. Tills tract in cludes a four-room frame house, garage and storage shed, wash room and pump house. Anyone interested in bidding on the real estate may obtain condt-' tlons of sale and bid forms, and arrange for Inspection of the prop erty, by contacting J. J. Thomas at the bureau office In Klamath Falls, or the regional procurement officer, USBR, P.O. Box1 2511, Sac ramento. Bids will be opened at the re gional office at 2 p.m. on Auirust It. They will be received until that time, A bid deposit of 25 per cent of the amount bid, in a money order or cashier's or certified check, made payable to the USBR, is re quired with each bid. Farm Products Sale Studied WASHINGTON tft Government fnrm officials nald Friday recent developments rnlse the prospect of r "new exploration" of the possi bility of selllnK surplus American farm products to Soviet Russia and other Iron Curtain countries. . Russia In a potential market for considerable quanlltle.-f of grain, butter, lard and otlicr food faLs commodities which this country holds In excessive supplies. Among the developments which these officials who a.sked that they not1 be quoted directly said undoubtedly will lead to reconsid eration of the present nonlradlng policy In food are these; 1. Advocacy by Charles u nian, president of the ul American Farm Bureau -ration, of reopening trade i la tlons with Russia. - 2. Essiiir of tensions biwccn the East and West as a result of the recent Geneva conference and the visit' by Russian farmers to this country and by American farmers to Russia, 3. Recent action of Canada in nei'fnsr surplus butter and wheat to Iron Curtain countries. News Helps Chances For MAfintiatinn WASHINGTON tf) Administra tion hopes for successful disarma ment negotiations with Ruasla got a new boost Friday from Premier Bulganin's dramatic reversal of his own dismissal of ao Eisenhow er plsn for trading- U.S.-Coviet military information. , President Eisenhower ttld news conference Thursday that the United States will present new pro posals for arms inspection and con trol when a United Nations dis armament subcommittee meets at Mew York later this month. Jt said he did not consider that Bul ganin's dismissal of his plan as unrealistic had "closed th door" to negotiation. .;.-. OPTIMISTIC TONE V ' : t , Elsenhower's ; whole tone was friendly and optimistic in the same vein in which he and Bul ganln dealt with each other at Geneva. Elsenhower's refusal to admit publio discouragement may be one of the reasons why Bul ganln, within the short space of 34 ' hours, reversed hia stand, Friday the Soviet Premier contended the world press had misunderstood his Thursday's statement and aaid the Elsenhower proposal la still under consideration. ' Another factor in the turnabout may well have been a delayed re alization on Bulganin'a part that tic vuuiu nut aiiuro 10 we in a neg ative position on this Issue because of the damage that would do to Russia's new tactio of friendship and peaceful coexistence. Elsenhower took the stand that an agreement to end the arms race Is still inside the realm of possibility. (Earlier story on page M) MOSCOW wn Premier Bulganin said Friday his government will continue to study President Eisen hower's proposal for an exchange of military information and mutual aerial inspection. Bulganin tcld the Supreme Soviet that Soviet Russia naturally pre fers its own disarmament propos al, but nevertheless will not refuse to consider other sincere plans. IKE'S PROPOSAL In this connection he said Eisen hower's proposal still Is under con sideration. The Soviet Union is try ing to find ways to get the post tlons of the two sides close; to gether and find agreement, the premier asserted. ' Thursday Bulganin told the u preme Soviet President Eisenhow er's plan would be ineffective "b oause our two countries comprise vast areas on which, if . it. were desired, one could hide anything one wanted to." Tha 1,500 deputies burst into laughter at this, The statement Thursday Was taken as a rejection of the plan. SVMPATHV i But President Elsenhower said later he did not feel Bulganin had closed the door to agreement on disarmament, Eisenhower aaid tha United States will consider sympa thetically Russian proposals along the same line with a determina tion to find a solution fair to both sides. , Bulganin'a remarks came in dis cussion of his report on the Geneva summit conference. "Everything will turn out well," Bulganin told the deputies Friday, and they broke into cheers. SUKI'ltlNE RETURN The prime minister made a sur-i prise return to the podium in the air-conditioned Parliament cham ber. He said bis statement Thurs day about tha impractablllty of the Elsenhower proposal had been "misunderstood" by the foreign press. Bulganin's speech wound tip a two-day session of the Supreme Soviet which was called in to hear him report on the Geneva confer ence. ': The deputies.' all outstanding figures in their home communities, will now spread the official gov ernment line on international af fairs. This is for coexistence and a spirit of friendliness for foreign nations. Union Agent Stages Riot , OAN J'RANCISCO l A. dis gruntled business agent for the Marine Firemen's Union shot and wounded three other business agents in the union headquarters Friday, tried to kill Vincent Ma lone. head of the union, then ended his own life with a bullet through his temple. Captain of Police Inspectors James English identified the gun man as Charles F. Bcrglund, 45, known to all his associates, as "Swede.'' Henry C. Walker, 46, was shot In the chest. His condition was de scribed as "very good." , ' Stuart Hunt, 38, had his back grazed by a bullet. At a union meeting Thursday Bcrglund was defeated 123 to t in a bid tor election as recording sec retary oi the union, Also, by unani mous vote, he was removed from the union's negotiations committee "as a hindrance and a nuisance." Malone aaid he heard shooting in the union hall Friday morning, ran out of his office and met Berglund lace to face. Berglund pointed the revolver at Malone'a head, the union chief declared. "I heard a click. But all the shot had been fired." ' Malone ran downstairs, reloading his revolver as he ran, then fired a bullet into his right tempi. .