Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, August 08, 1955, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY, AUGUST 8. 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON i-APB ELEVEN Eleven Airmen To Head to Homes In US Wednesday Br GENE KRAMER TOKYO in The Chinese Reds Inflicted months of excruciating physical and mental torture on 11 U.S. airmen to wring statements used to convict Ihem as spies. Col. John Knox Arnold Jr. told a press conference here yesterday. The 11 men, released last Thurs day at the Hong Kong border, are scheduled to leave Tokyo Wednes day morning for home in two U.S. Air Force transports. Air Force spokesmen said two routes were being considered for Una Fine Ponders On Mate Choice NEVADA CITY. Calif, m Una Schmidt-Fine took her little boy and moved off by herself today, trying to decide whether she wants to remain the wife of a returning prisoner of war or of a lodging tractor driver. Una, a slightlv built brown haiied woman of 20, says she mar ried loRger Alford B. Fine in the belief that A.2.C. Daniel C. Schmidt was dead. He and 10 others In a B29 were shot down Jan. 12, 1953, during the Korean War. Una talked by telephone yester day with Schmidt, who Is In Tokyo on his way back to America after 32 months In a Red Chinese prison. After the call, her attorney Harold Berliner said she had separated at least temporarily from the logger. Just what she and Schmidt talked about was not made public. Berliner did say: "Una and Al believe It Is best .(or all concerned that they live sepa rate and apart until such time as their problems are solved. In fair ness to Airman Schmidt, there will be no further announcement until he returns and has had an oppor tunity to discuss the entire mat ter." At Tokyo, a Red Cross official Raid Schmidt came out of the tele phone booth with his "morale Improved." The airman said he would not discuss his tangled marital affairs until he had a chance to talk with Una face to face "and work out this personal problem with those Intimately concerned." He has never seen his 2fb-year-old son Danny. The youngster was born after Schmidt went to the Orient. Fine said the child now calls him "Daddy." At Portland, Ore., Mrs. Nellie Peters, mother of the airman, talked to her son Saturday night and said he "sounded very hurt." But she said he indicated he would try to win back Una. Fine has said he hopes she will stay with him. Mrs. Peters quoted Schmidt as asking her, "Didn't she get my letters, Mom?" "I could only tell him I didn't know," the mother said. "I do know I sent several of them on to California there were even pic tures in some it said so on the outside." Una says she married Fine last September and heard the follow ing November that Schmidt was alivt in a Red China prison. She and Schmidt had lived together only a few weeks before he left for the Far East. State Police Have Quiet Weekend State police activities Sunday In cluded the following: Arrest of a 16-year-old youth of Medford who stole a car there and drove to Klamath County. Investigation of theft of a goat owned by Lydla Knotts, 4516 Alta mont Drive. Investigation of theft of clothes from the home of H. G. Haller, Bonanza. the homeward flight. One would take them to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., via Alaska and Mc Chord Air Force Base, Wash. The other would go via Honolulu, which would have better medical facili ties en route "although we don't expect to need them." From Travis the men will be flown to the bases nearest their homes for 30-day convalescent leaves. Arnold led the others yesterday in telling of their treatment dur ing 22 years In China. "They used 'persuasion' that civilized people simply do not know .about," he said. He told of being slugged in the face with his hands tied behind htm, of tournlquet-like manacles, of being "forced to stand until you started screaming." Then he broke down briefly. Arnold, of Silver Spring, Md., commanded a B29 shot down Jan. 12, 1953, while on a Korean' War leaflet-dropping mission over North Korea. Pelping's Communist propaganda radio announced last November that Arnold and his 10 crewmen had been convicted of intruding over Manchuria on a spying mission. Arnold was sentenced to 10 years. The others got from four to eight. ' "They told me sooner or later they would get from me what they wanted but they didn't get It," declared the thin, tired-looking colonel. He said he never had confessed to Intruding over China or to being on a spy mission. "But I told those people things that would have been better If they, did not know. I am very much ashamed ... I am not proud of it." he said. The only statement he signed, he said, was one that his air unit, the 581st Aerial Resupply Group, had come to the Pacific to aid countries In danger of being over run by nations opposed to democ racy. At the trial in Peiplng. later, other statements were added to this which made It sound as if he had confessed to a spying mission. "I repudiated that statement at the trial," he said. His navigator Capt. Elmer F. Llewellyn, Missoula, Mont., also denied the Red charges. "We were never in their god damned China," Llewellyn shout ed, his fists clenched, as he turned from a large map, of Korea. He had just pinpointed a spot on North Korea's west coast, 40 miles south of the Yalu River boundary, as the one where their B29 was downed In flames by combined M1G and antiaircraft fire. MORE Heiress Picked Up For Drunkenness LAS VEGAS, NEV. . Ml A 26-vear-old heiress, acquitted in 1947 of murder charges in the yacht explosion deaths of her parents m Newport Beach. Calif., has been arrested on a drunk driving charge. Sheriff's deputies said Mrs. Beulah Louise Overell Kooyman and her 4-year-old .son escaped injury when her car overturned Saturday. Her husband Joseph is a sewing machine representative here. Eight years ago she and a boy friend were accused of planting dynamite in the yacht of her parents. "'A-'JT ii in irniriii tiliiiii rtfttiTiianin'iiirir"-'"'' J -7 -. A -. 4 BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL SCOUTS assisted sportsmen cf the Weed area recently in gathering bitter brush seed for planting in burned over areas to produce browse for deer. The rock for mation in the foreground is a "guzzler," built to catch rainwater and melting snow to provide drinking water for deer and quail. The picture was taken by Dysart Scribner just off the Military Pass on Mount Shasta. Gathering the seed, from left, are Coylee Welborne, John Scribner, ' Dave Downey, Dick Millsap and Georganna Scribner. . - UF Officials Visit Camps Two Klamath County United Fund officials visited the Salvation Army and Camp Fire Girls camps Satur day on Lake of the Woods and found both groups busy with their outdoor activities. Mrs. Margaret Sheridan, presi dent of the fund, and Rex Dye, executive director, made the trip. They found 45 boys at the Salva tion Army Camp, conducted by Lt. and Mrs. Grable. It is their first experience in camping In this area. The daily agenda includes swim ming twice a day, Bible classes in the morning, handycraft work, and open-air chapel on Sunday morn ing. The group began their camp Au gust 1 and was due to return today. Mrs. Naomi French, Camp Fire Girls executive, is in charge of that group at Esther Applegate Camp. She showed the United Fund offi cials a new dock that was built by local volunteers and explained the girls' schedule. Orchid Plant Grown In Klamath A beautiful orchid plant with three creamy white blooms and vertical-striped lavendar centers has been grown by Mrs. Bennle Sammans, 1774 Derby Street. The blooms each have a white candle with yellow tips, and are one and a half to two inches In diam eter. The plant is an Epldendrum Fragrance. HAVING TV TROUBLES? Call 2-0242 STONER ELECTRONIC SERVICE DRIVE PHILADELPHIA, tfl City police have besun a drive to clear un desirables from l he newly opened Independence Mall, fronting on Independent) Hall. They said it had become a fathering and sleep ing place for vagrants and panhandlers. ft . 5 . VY 2. t. V sJ . DISCUSSING THE BACKGROUND for the forage trials with the participants in Hie Klamath Experimental Farm tour, was Dr. D, D, Hill, head of the farm crops department, Oregon State College. Happy Chandler In Lead For Kentucky Governor's Post; Combs Falling Back By MALCOLM PATTERSON numerous state and district candl- LOUISVILLE, Ky. () A. B. (Happy) Chandler, the former baseball commissioner, today ap peared the winner of his primary election test in ms nia 10 oe r.en- tucky's governor again. The 67-year-old Chandler built a 15.596 lead over Bert T. Combs. 43-year-old mountaineer judge, for the .Democratic gubernatorial nom ination. Their race was among the hottest In Kentucky political his tory. Chandler. 1935-38 governor and 1939-45 U.S. senator, came back home seeking the executive post after losing the baseball job in 1951. He Tan against powerful party forces: the regular state organiza tions, rounding out Its eighth year in office: b.S. Sen. Earle C. Cle ments, acting Senate majority leader; Gov, Lawrence Welherby: and Sen. Albeit W. Barklcy, former vice president. Returns from 1.955 of 4.014 pre cincts in Saturday's primary gave: Chandler, 146.961; Combs, 131,- 365; Jesse N. R. Cecil, 2.419. At this stage, Ihe Louisville Courier-Journal, which supported Combs, said flatly that Chandler and his running male for the lieutenant governor's nomination. Hary Lee Waterfleld, former Kentucky House speaker, had won. Combs commented, ' It s a horse race, but I feel wo still have a chance." Counting of long ballots, with 25 million dollars a year (or ex pansion purposes but took no specltlo stand on any tax proposal. Chandler, who repealed the state's sales tax when governor In 1936, said the opposition planned to re Impose this levy. dates, resumed today after being halted by state law Saturday mid night. This traditionally Demo cratic stale normally elects a Dem ocratic governor. An apparently -unbeatable lead was amassed by former U.8. Dlst. Atty. Edwin R. Denney for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.' Returns from 1,558 precincts gave: Denney, 29.492: James L. Clay, an attorney, 1,936. John Sherman Cooper, ambassa dor to India and former Republi can senator from Kentucky, en dorsed Denney. Republicans are hoping the bit ter Democratic primary will aid the GOP in winning this fall. One of the big issues oetween Combs and Chandler was finances. Chandler contended he could run the state government on its pres ent Income, also expanding the common school program. Combs said the state would need an extra Coming to Klamath Falls Dollar Days THURS. - FRI. - SAT. For Dependable EXCAVATING ... VVa'va got the bulldoiers, cranes, trucks, shovels and trained man power to talc any job of earth, moving In our stride. GET OUR PRICES ON YOUR NEXT JOB. GRAHAM BROS. Herbert C. Graham Phone 5541 . Lakeport Blvd. SAVED MONTREAL, HV-Weekend rains may have saved Quebec province's multimillion-dollar apple crop. Farmers reported up to two Inches of rain In some areas. Prof. L. C. 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