MONDAY, 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.
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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.
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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.
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. 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
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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. Raymond of Macdonald Col
lege's department of agronomy
said the rain came too late for
most grain crops but provided suf
ficient moisture to allow apple
crops to develop properly.
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