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In The- Day's lews 1 w B I HANK JENKINS V-eather news bad, as usual: Furious iloods ripped a,- Uie Northeastern states lor tlie second day in a row. with 141 known dead and property damage esti mated in the billions. Rivers bloated with record- breaking rains (as much as 12 inches in one day. in places rolled out of their banks across seven states, leaving inousands homeless, roads in shambles and whole communities in tiebris-cov ered rum. I wouldn't think of criticising Mother Nature who, when the magnitude of her operations is considered, does an amazing Job but if she d Just SCATTER H" AROUND a little more 11 would be appreciated. The rate of increase of our stored-up wheat surplus is be lieved to be slowing up a Utile. It is still crowing, but not so last- Come next July 1, the wheal "reserves" are expected to total about one billion, 56 million bush els or only 35 million bushels more than on July 1 of this year. That would be the smallest carry over increase since July 1, 1953. But Current wheat-stocks are now about FOUR TIMES the 256-mil-Jion bushel carryover on July 1, 1952. Iff a bis. problem," as everyone knows, with many angles in cluding the political ones. But I still think It would be bet ter to feed the surplus wheat to livestock at prices competitive with other feed grains instead of stashing it away In ever-increasing quantities to hang like a men acing thundercloud over the mar kets. But let's get away from the crops and the weather and talk for a moment about MODERN high ways. We're planning some inter esting developments along that line in Oregon. The Banfield Expressway, lead ing out of Portlasd to the east, is a divided highway. In the center atrip, it is planned to plant a screen of ornamental shrubs to shield night drivers from the headlights of cars approaching from the other direction. I think everyone will agree thai it is a splendid 1 idea. Blinding headlights are the chief menace of night driving. On two-lane high ways, there is no satisfactory so lution ol the problem. But on mod ern divided highways a screen of shrubs in the center will provide an astonishing amount of relief. It might as well be added that the time is coming when all of our main highways must have four or more lanes. These multi-lane highways cost a lot of money, but they handle a lot ol traffic. There is a lot of traffic already, and it will increase steadily In the fu ture as our country grows. On the new multi-lane highway from Portland to Salem that is inearing completion, another inter estmz experiment is under consid eration. It, too, has to do with planting. The idea is to plant the sides of the road, beginning at the right-of-way fence, witn a heavy screen of wild rose bushes. As everyone knows, wild roses pro duce a tangle of vines. The think ing is that a car going off the pavement out of control would be caught in this tough network of vines much as a trapeze perform er who misses his hold is caught in the protective net beneath and saved from serious injury. At any rate, it is an interesting prooosal, and I hope it Is given a trial. Formosa Army Chief Resigns TAIPEI, Formosa (ft U. S. trained Gen. Sun Li-Jen, once commander in chief of the Nation alist army, was disclosed Saturday to have quit as Chianp Kai-shek's personal chief of staff after ex posure of a subordinate as head of a suspected Red China spy ring, The disclosure ended rumors which have been staling for weeks m Tairi ahnul th fmir.star rron. in Taipei about the four-star gen eral, a hero of World War II in Burma. Gen, Sun, who got his training at Virginia Military Institute and is highly rated by American offi cers, is not under arrest but Ir.ccs ;he possibility of a court martial. Even if a commission of inquiry confirms his assertion he had "no tdca" his long-time subordinate was tiding the connection tor spy purpoes. there is no doubt thai Sun's military career has ended. The government announcement said he resigned Auk. 3 as "an admission oi negligence.'' Wu Nan Ju. head of the Nation alist Information Bureau, Mud iha: Sun's subordinate. Kuo-Ting-liang has confessed using his Jong con nection with the general lor spying pctivities dating back to 1948. Gen. Sun. in an interview Satur day with The Associated Press at his home, said he and Kuo "fought in Burma and Manchuria,' that Kuo became a major under him. Aoked if iie ever suspected Kuo was a Communist a gem. Gen. Sun ha it!: "t had no iaea. Ii came as a suiprip to me and I wia very disturbed about it." Kuo and others are tinder ar rest. Hundred Battle Humboldt Fire OR1CK. dill. HP' Some 100, Urefi?htrrs ioday bsttd a lorest I're lj miles est of the northern Humboldt County community. Tne blaie broke out late Fri day and hy mid-mornirg today had burned oxer about 40 acres. However, forestry service crews were hopeful of controlling the fire by this afternoon It no ad verse winds develop. Riots Blaze In French North Africa PARIS W Nationalist rioting blazed across North Africa Satur day and resulted in the killing of more than 430 Arabs and Euro peans The violent deaths were in battles, . bombings and various armed encounters in Algeria and Morocco. Iailamed Arabs demanding an end to French rule took the second anniversary of the exile of Moroc co's deposed Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef to set off the worst wave of disorders since independ ence became an issue in North Africa. White-cloaked Berber tribesmen fought a bitter engagement with parachute troops in Morocco's At las Mountains, and other national ists clashed with troops and tanks in the shanty towns surrounding Casablanca. SYMPATHY Later iu the day, apparently in sympathy with the Moroccans, Al gerian rebels went into action some 800 miles away in Constan tine province of Eastern Algeria. Large groups of nationalists at tacked police stations and bar racks at Fhilippeville, and set off a series of bombs in Conatantine, a city of 119, 000. In quick succes-. sion reports came of attacks against police stations, postoftice and railroad depots in towns all over the area. The French news agency de scribed the Algerian outbreak as "an attempted insurrection" but said the situation was in hand as the result 0f quick action by police and security forces. FIGHTING REPORTED A report from the fighting in the Atlas Mountains of' Morocco de scribed it as "more like a civil war than a police operation." With reports of new clashes flooding into Paris almost hourly, a precise accounting was impos sible. But French sources, which often are inclined to underestimate cas ualties in nationalist disturbances, gave this general breakdown of the dead in the major clashes: Aleeria 200 nationalists and ?1 French military personnel and civilians in the Constantme region. Morocco 200 nationalists and Europeans, about 90 of them at Oued Zem and an equal number at Kenlfra, and about a score in the outskirts of Casablanca. Princess Hurt At Gay Outing B ALL ATE R, Scotland (1V- Prin cess Margaret fell headlong before a gasping crowd of thousands at a church bazaar Saturday night. 'T think I have sprained my ankle, ' she said. But she got up, limped to her station wagon, and drove off to Balmoral Castle nearby. The incident climaxed a gay. carefree day during which the princess and her family joked and chatted gaily with crowds but kept ihe closely guarded secret of Mar garet's romantic intentions. Tne gay princess will be 25 Sun day, so aiter midnight Saturday night she can wed without the offi cial consent of her sister, Queen Elizabeth. Reports ran rife that her heart was set on 40-year-old Group Capt. Peter Townsend, a divorced man and father of two children. Townsend spent the day at the gentlemen's races at Ostend. Bel gium, winning the Cyrano Grand Prix in -photo iinish aboard Cwenda. I "It is all very dimcult for me," 1 nsena saia wnen a reporter laskcd nJm about "s Plans l?r future. "I .iITt telling yOU all that can. But 1 cannot make definite plans." er,- aim Mm '...T?r ' ?--h- hi' i .. 1 . - At " r, , A TWO-HOUR BATTLE amid scorching heaf end heavy moke wti waged by the Dorrii Fire Department in valiant etttmpt to save the Dreder Rexall Drug Store which was destroyed early Saturday morning. The fire tighten were eble to keep the flames from spreading to the .adjacent Dyiert Garage end the Baldwin Tavern. Oemege to those establishments was evert ed by keeping the buildings drenched with weter. WiM1).MIWMWWItfTI 'lattWfcrnh flTi.ji TUUaflll Mil ittitiMiaaAMwwwrfwfcM Price Tea Cents 32 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1955 Telephone 8111 No. 3165 Russians To Free Three U.S. Citizens WASHINGTON Soviet Rus sia notified the United States Sat urday she is releasing three more Americans. wo on demand and it third voluntarily. Tne two being freed by request of he State Department are Army privates who have been missing for more than seven years. They were listed as Wilfred C. Cumish of Amesbury. Mass., and Murray Fields, of Bayside, N. Y. The Army said Cumish and Fields, the latter also known as Murray Feingersch, are classed on its records as deserters and they will be subject to arrest and trial upon their return (o American custody. THIRD MAN The third man being released, identified by the Soviet Foreign Office as Frederick Charles Hop kins, was not known by the State Department from available rec ord? . The Soviets simply said a man by this name will be freed along with the two soldiers whose return had been requested by this coun try in a note July 16. In the past several years the Soviets have released five Ameri cans on specific demand. The Army said Cumish and Fields were absent without lcae nhen they disappeared behind the Iron Curtain in 1948. ARMY OFFICIALS Aniiv officials said in the cases of some other men who have been j listed as absent without leave Mong the Iron Curtain, the Army has merely dropped them from the rolls of active duty after they have been mifsing for 30 da vs. In the case of Cumish and Fields, however, they said, infor mation received from American military authorities in Europe in dicated both men left their units deliberately and their local com manders had classified them as deserters. The Army aaid when, the- two are turned over to American au thorities thev will be subject to he customary investigation that will determine whether their al leged offenses are serious enough to warrant courts martial. Berkeley Man Named Governor FRASER, Colo.. (UP) Walter A. Gordon of Berkeley. Cain., a former assistant football coach at the University of California, will succeed Archie A. Alexander as governor of the Virgin Islands. Both Gordon and Alexander are Negroes and both are Republicans. President Elsenhower appointed Gordon, a lawyer, yesterday at his Rocky Mountain resort near Pra- ser just two days alter accepting Alexander's resignation in the wake of demonstrations against his rffimp The new appointee Is chairman mediate lo-cuu-per-nour wage m of the Adult Authority of Call- crease effective Sept. 1 and a fornia and formerly served as a further 10 cent-pcr-hour wage in Pardon Board adviser to the Call-1 crease elfective April 1. The pres fornia governor. He served for is 'enl daily wage is $18.25 and the years as president of the Alameda County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A 1318 graduate of the Universi ty of Calilorma, he received his law degree there in 19J2 and served for 25 years as an assistant football coach at his alma mater. V;, p J . i X 7,1S I h i t:? H iWW-T-5' THE NINE O'CLOCK photographer "killed two birds with one 'camera' " Saturday morning at Dorris, California, Dispatched -there to cover a drug store fire early in the morning, he not only got the tire pictures, but also at 9 o'clock snapped these two little girls as they watched the firemen in action. They are Sharon (left) and Caroline Templeton, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Templeton, of Dorris. Weather ' FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity. Fair through Sunday and Monday.' High both days 85; low Sunday night 55. , High .Saturday . . Low at midnight Saturday .... .52 Mine Workers Win Boost WASHINGTON W A new coal contract calling for a $2-per-day wage Increase was announced Sat urday night by the United Mine Workers tUMW) Union and North ern and steel-industry-owned coal mine operators. The UMW said it was the largest wage contract incrca.se negotiated in the union's history. John L. Lewis, UMW president, said that he expected other seg ments of the coal industry to agree to the settlement terms. The agreement calls for an im increase would bring this figure to $20.25. The agreement was reached Fecrelly between the lb year old Lewis and Harry M. Moses, presi dent of the Bituminous Coal Op erators Assn. Moses represents j urday niaht in an effort to keep Northern commercial and "cup- the tire from "blowing up." Ful tive'' mines owned by steel mills. wider snid. i K 3 - , i. Oregon Fires Under Control i " VALE, Ore. W Eastern Ore- ; iron s two bi forest and range fires were reported under control late Saturday. The largest, which had covered an estimated 8.000 acres of federal and private rangeland. near Burn.i, was to be mopped up Sunday, fire fighters said. The other, near the to of Iron side on (he Vale-John jay High way, was reported unacr control most of Saturday. Ed Porten, Forest Service dis patcher, mud Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management crews will begin the mopup of the Burns fire Sunday. He said the fire had burned! mostly grass and sagebrush and only a small amount of timber. There were still some pockets in side the burns which had been by passed by the fire, he said. Derreil Fulwider. BLM's district range manager, said that 150 men were on the line around the Iron side fire. Aiding them were eight bulldozers and three pumpers. Three crews with power saws were felling snags around the fire lines. Fulwider said no exact esti-. maie of the size of the burn was nviiilable. but it was more than 1.00(t acres. Fire fighters were hampered by considerable slash from timber cutting operation. Crews were setting backfires Sat if liL : DENSE CLOUDS OF SMOKE pouring out of the Drader Drug Store at Dorris early Saturday morning hampered firemen who fought two hours to quell the flames. The building end con tents, owned by Dr, C. R. Drader, Dorris physician, were destroyed. Dr. Drader said he suf fered 100 per cent loss. He added he could not estimate the financial loss. The fire was dis covered shortly before 8 a.m. by Dorrii Fire Chief Bruitt Smith. At he was passing the pharmacy an eiplesion shattered plate glest windew. . Soviet Chief Backs Peace Atomic Uses GENEVA l.ti The first world wide conference on the peacetul uses of atomic energy ended Sat urday with a prediction bv Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulgamn that its work will lead to a "luriher re taxation of. international tension.' in a message io coniercnce rres-j .dent Homl J. Bhabha of India, the Soviet leader agreed Hh ! earlier expression from President Elsenhower tnat the exchange o! information should be continued In future meetings. UNANIMOUS -it is tne unanimous view ol all, uniiciucu, o ii u ,. un.n.cu. "that this conlerence has succceo-i ed beyond all hones and expccla-1 lions.' Lewis L. Strauss, chairman ol the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis sion, called it "one of the most successful projects in international cooperation ever undertaken." The conference. he said, had exceeded all expectations of the American delegation. The Russians Injected the only sour note when Prof. Dmitri V. Skobcll&yn, head of the Soviet dele gation, told a news conference he wished to expie.ss regret over the fact that Red China and Commu nist East Gcimany were not in vited. DISCRIMINATION ' "This discrimination is iu no way justified," he said, "and does not contribute to the understanding which developed during ihe meet ing of the four heads of govern ments in Geneva.'-' Skobcltsyn also declared: 1. Russia, has been working for some time on methods oi hurnes- sing the energy of the H-bomb but there still is not enough data to Justify predictions as to when the problem might be solved. The United States and Britain previously had made similar atale meiy. . a. Rtissia expects to have atomic power plants capable of producing 'several- hundreds of thousand kilowatts" of electric power by 1960. Prof Willard P. Libby, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Com mission, declared the United Stales Is ready to help other coun tries "proceed as rapidly as possi ble toward economic production of power from the atom. Base Commander Killed In Crash WENDOVER AIR FORCE BASE Utah iPI An F88H jet lighter crashed in the barren Western UtHh desert near here early SaU iirdnv scattering wreckage 5U0 yards and killing the commander ol Clovls, N.M. Air rorce Base. He was Col. H.H. (Hank) Nor man, 38, ol Hardy, Ark. He was leading a team of four Jets from Ihe 31Sth Fighter-Bomber group in Tactical Air Command s annual gunnery meet here. The let flamed out and smacked into the desert about 1.000 yards hort of a runway, as the colonel approached for a landing. He was graduated from West Point In 1940. He was a veteran nf ihe African campaign in World War II and was a prisoner of war. He had been at Clovls since last October. Region Ravaged; At Least 141 Die By THK ASSOCIATED I'BESS The Northeast, staggered by the most savage floods In the history of the region, counted the cost in billions Saturday and at least Ml persons were killed by the roaring fury that swirled across eight stales. ' Scores of communities still were In turmoil, their communications virtually cut off, utility services dead, roads destroyed and uiidi.r mined, drinking water polluted. President Elsenhower Saturday designated six states Massachu seiU, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. New Jersey. Rhode Island and South Carolina - as major dis aster areis. North Carolina was designated as such earlier in the week because of hurricane Diane's damage. IIIOII WATF.RS High waters still threatened in ,,,,, ni,"" .mp,.iallv rinum. ,.eam ,reas along mtljot rlvers. oraenlly, Ihough. the swollen ,tlMms bei;m m r.cedc Saturday. Il0nlcallVi not AURUSt alm made tne glKttIulc ciean-up task even more arduous.. The wasteland leit behind bv the aWjnailns waters was "as devas- ,alln( , human mind can Ira,, aclnp . sam a Woons0ckct, R. I oiliolnl The Red Cross set aside two million dollars for preliminary flood relief in the area. Pennsylvania had the most dead at least 74 and many more nilss inp. One summer camp near Strouds burg was literally swept off the face of the earth, taking 37 women snd children to presumed death in the raging waters of a normally placid creek. PERSONAL TOUR Gov. Abraham iHibicoff of Con necticut, after a personal tour of he worst-hit areas, said, "It will take a superhuman effort to re store this state to the condition It was in before the torrential rains struck. "It has been absolutely heart breaking to see the devastation." Evans Clinchy of The Hartford Times, the first newsman to reach tiny Wlnsted. Conn.t said people were "wandering the t streets, dazed." F.vcvy store front along the main street was smashed in and the street itself, normally a hard, blacktop road, la now nothing but a mass of twisted asphalt, concrete and broken pipe from the clty"s waier system." The flood cut off the mnniifactur. In oily of Waterbury, Conn.; and Kiuen 13 pprsnns. PLANT BURNS At Putnam, in Northern Con necticut, a burning magnesium plant added new fear to the horror of Uie raging Quineabaug and French rivers. All night the plant burned fierce ly and blazing barrels of magne sium were awept through the flood ed si reels, exploding continually like bombs. New York, Massachusetts, and KF Housing Shortage Told PORTLAND Two representa tives of the Klamath County Cham ber of Commerce say this city will face a serious housing short age when airmen begin arriving late this year. About 1,000 military men and 130 civilian workers are expected to seek housing in the Klamath falls area when the new fighter-tnler- cepior Dnse opens nere. The two chamber of commerce members. Frank Tucker and Rob ert E. Veatch, were In Portland Friday to talk to Portland real estate men about housing in the Klamath Falls area. Some 300 rentnl units will prob ably be needed to house the U. 8. Air Force personnel, they said. parts of Maryland and Virginia -uli'ered terrible damage from the unprecedented deluge. Rural Xarm land and populous Eastern cities allie felt the crushing iorce of the swilt waters.. Some municipalities were under civil defense or military jurisdic tion. . The problem of getting1 clean water, food and necessities Into many stricken areas assumed ma jor proportions. The 1st Army sent a fleet of nino big 14 - passenger helicopters to comb ihe submerged areas, pick ing up families still marooned. RESCUED Hundreds had been rescued by rowboat. Army amphibians and helicopters from deluged summer camps, villages and farms. For each known victim of the flood, there were more missing and unaccounted for. Most of the deaths were from drownings. A few were from storm-caused traf fic accidents or electrocutions from fdowned power lines. The known death toll by states was: Pennsylvania. 74; Connecticut, 41: Massachusetts,' 13; New Jer sey, 5; New York, 4; Virginia, 3; Rhode Island. 1., East Hunt Camp Hit By Flood Water BTROUDSBURO, Pa. W State Police rcportea Friday that appar ently only three persons survived when flood waters rose to the attio floor of a 'J 2 story home before the building collapsed, tumbling 40 terriiied women and children Into churning, debris laden Brodliead Creek. The bodies of 11 have been re covered, while 26 persons are atlll missing. The worst single tragedy In EasU em Pennsylvania's worst floods In history wiped out the 14 -cabin Pocono Mountatn vacation spot known as "Davis Camp." The three who escaped were Mrs, Jennie Johnson oi - Jersey City, N.J., bxr 18-year-old dugn ter, Nancy, an4 ,lJ-yoar-old.VBeth-Liddle. present address not learned. TURBULENT TIDES They were swept withlhe others Into the turbulent lides In the blackness of Tflursday night's tor rential rains. The downpour sent the creek, which feed into the Delaware River, over Us banks. Six young girls, residents of Davis Camp, also were found safe. But they were not at the site when the flood waters came, They left a short time earlier to Visit friends at neamy Pine Brook, Thej-e they stayed when Uie storm broke with all Its fury. Mrs. Johnson, fighting back tears as she teld of her shocking ex perience, said she feared her two sons Roy, 14, and David, 10 were lost in the water. They are among llio missing. WALL OF WATER She reported she was sitting with her three children hi their cabin when a "wall of water hit the bungalow and started to rip It to pieces." The children and I rushed up to the winter house (the home of camp owner, the Rev, Leon Davis, a retired Baptist minister ot Nan uet, N.Y.) and with the 37 other people at the camp we made our way first to the first floor, then to the second and finally to the attic. "We were terrified, but we could n't do anything but watch the water come up toward us. It kept getting higher and higher. "When it reached the attic floor we felt the house give a shudder and the whole house collapsed. It Just fell np.iri, and the 40 of us went tumbling into a Jumble of water, boards and screnms." HUSHING W .VI KltS She was able eventually to clitnt to an Island ol debris piifd up by rushing watcra. Little Both alMt was thrown SKiiinst this lieup and the two clung to it until rescued the next morniiiir- A: the flood waters backed down, 13 Navy helicopters were pn-ssed into service around Stromhbuig, a Pocono Mnuntaii, vacation report whrrp at lrast 56 lost their lives. About 50 others are missing. The helicopters nhiitted more than '250 persons, including an ex pectant mother. Six Killed In State Crashes B) Till; ASSOC.. I I I) I'ltLSS Six persons died in accidents re ported in Orcein Saturday. One wa killed in an airplane rra.-h, onp drowned, a losper died in a spectacular sin.T-hvip in Ore (ton Cuy and traffic mishaps clfuiii"d three other. Kohrt J. Short. '2b. of Yamhill wj killtd Saturday when his run away lo truck smashed into the retaining wall ol the new munici pal elevator at Ormion City. The brakes of hi.i truck appar rntlv failed an he came down a grade leadtnfc to the bridge which connects Oregon City and West Linn, The truck raced out of con Irol arross the bridge toward Ore Son. City,
