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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1955)
Mir A Ml A JflE In The- Day's jews By FRANK JENKINS Ou Thursday night, directors of the Klamath county United Fund and the Klamath county Red Cross met in emergency session and voted unanimously to borrow J 1800 at the banks and rush the money 1o the national Red Cross to be used in the alleviation of human distress in the flood-stricken areas of the Northeast. The money will be added to the total of the annual United Fund Red Cross campaign that will get underway shortly, and the loan will be repaid out of the first monies coming in when the campaign starts. , How was the $1800 amount de termined? That is an interesting story. No quota for Klamath county had as yet been fixed. But back in the disastrous Middle West floods of 1951 our county was asked by the national Red Cross to contri bute $1500. WE RAISED $1800. So it was decided that we should give at least that much lor the greater disaster of 1955. And Since the distress is great It was decided to rush the money in without delay. I think everybody In Klamath; county will be proud 01 tne action that was taken. Let's take a look at the distress back there where it falls hard est and how It will be alleviated. The chairman of the New Eng land Council's manufacturing com mittee says this morning that Con necticut officials have reported 163 plants damaged in that state. Of these, 108 have either begun opera tions or will be in production with. In two weeks. But Fifty-five plants located most lv in Connecticut's Naugatuck val ley will require from two weeks to THREE MONTHS to get.back into production. During this period, their em ployees will go witnouc wages. In Woonsocket Rhode Island about 31 plants were reported dis abled 15 of them completely. That is in ONE TOWN. It isn't hard to imagine the in dividual distress that will ensue there. Massachusetts officials report that in 36 cities and towns ar- . fccted 135 establishments have suf fered heavy flood damage. These are samples of a condi tion 'that is general in the flood area. The federal government is giv ing quick and large aid both in loans and in service by the corps of engineers of the army. But this aid will go largely into repair of CAPITAL damage such as reconstruction of damaged or ruined municipal sewer systems, water systems, etc., along with the repair of damage to the industrial establishments that provide em ployment for the people. There will be insurance to help out in the case of these damaged establishments. In this age when TAXES enter into every conceiv able situation, there will be tax deductions to be carried forward into the future. And so on. But these items will go chiefly toward restoration of capital facil ities, so that employment may be provided again as quickly as pos sible for the people whose liveli hood depends upon their wages and their salaries. But In the meantime These bereft people themselves many of whom have lost all their physical possessions, along with their Jobs must be cared for. They must be clothed, if they have lost all their clothing. They must be fed during the period when they will have neither money nor credit t buy food for themselves. They must be housed somehow during the period when they will have no money with which to pay rent. It is Uie Red Cross that provides this vital service to the disaster stricken PEOPLE. The Red Cross gets its money from those who GIVE. The more promptly gener ous people give, the more promptly needed aid can be given. These floods, following two hur ricanes, are a REAL disaster. They call for generous giving on the part of those of us who escaped them. Homesite Sale Stall Asked GEARHART '.fi Sen. Neu berger said Saturday he is taking steps to forestall sale of the Lillie Moore homesite in Koseourg oy the government. The Democratic senator said sale of the property scheduled Oct. 4 micht open it up to commercial or industrial developincnl. He said he has advised the General Serv ices Administration that the "high rt use" of the homesite would be disposal to the city oi Roseburg a a center for historical relics. The Moore home w-as a center of early-day social life in Rose burg. A frequent visitor was Ter ritorial Gov. Joseph Lane. It was bequeathed to the government In 1M0. Neubergcr recalled that two yers ago a similar planned sale was -postponed indefinitely." Then the Douglas County Historical So ciety was formed to Uy to acquire lh property. Price 10 cents St Pages Israel, Arab Peace Plan Endangered WASHINGTON W - The Eisen hower administration's . plan to bring peace to Israelis and Arabs appeared in danger of quick death Saturday. Great Britain Joined the United States in offering to guarantee the permanent frontiers of Israeli and Arab states, but some Arab lead ers talked of rejecting the plan outright, and a Democratic lead er in the U. S. Congress expressed doubt the plan would ever suc ceed. PROPOSAL Sen. George of Georgia, chair man of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee and chief Demo cratic spokesman in Congress on international affairs, said of the administration proposal: "I am considering it but I have not committed myself. I am in sympathy with the objectives but I doubt very much that this pro posal can ever be worked out." George, in a telephone interview from his Vienna, Ga., home, said he feels that other nations might give only token aid in backing up the peace plan "and the whole bur den would fall on us." ARABS ANGRY One Arab leader said angrily that Secretary of State Dulles was offering Arabs "30 pieces of silver to sell Palestine to the Jews" as a vote-catcher in the 1956 Presi dential election. Dulles said in a New York speech Friday the United States would join in international action to establish and guarantee new Israeli-Arab borders, would sub scribe to' an international loan to compensate 900,000 Arabs dis placed in the Mid-East strife and would aid in water development projects in the area. Riot Leaders Face Charges WALLA WALLA, Wash. Ifl Kidnaping, conspiracy to kidnap and prison riot charges, carrying possible penalties of death for some of those involved, were filed Saturday against the leaders of the July 5-6 riots at the Washing ton Stale Penitentiary. The most serious charges of first degree kidnaping were filed by Walla Walla County Prosecutor Arthur Hawman against 11 of the men. He also charged them with the conspiracy and riot counts, Named in this charge were Em ory Cobb, Harry Beino, Rody Erh, Charles Lambert, James Single tary, Edward Geer, Neal Fisk, David Hinkle, James Frazier, Charles McCabe and Herman Salt er, Seven other inmates were charged with conspiracy to kidnap and two with counts of prison riot. The prison riot charge Is a new one based on a law passed by the 1955 Legislature. The papers were filed with the county clerk Satur day afternoon by Deputy Prosecu tor Aurel M. Kelly. Radar Warning Hole Reported LAKE STEVENS: Wash. W) A critical hole has been found in the nation's outer radar warning line between Greenland and Alaska and the Defense Department is taking rapid steps to plug it, Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) said Saturday. Jackson, speaking at a big rally of Western Washington Democrats, said the gap in the distant early warning (DEWi line is serious enough to place mid-continental United States in jeopardy should an enemy attack us. The senator, memoer of a three man Senate committee which au thorizes military construction, has Just returned from a flight over the warning network m the Far North. He reported that the warning system is being expanded on a speeded up basis, with new instal lations in operation by 1957. He did not specify where the gap had been found or how soon it would be closed. A crowd estimated at more than 6 000 persons attended the big salmon bake and speech fe.t, with much spadeworic done oy support ers of Sec. of State Earl Coe and State Sen. Albert D Roiellini. both of whom are seeking the Demo cratic nomination for governor next year. State Chairman Henry C&t'sten sen said party officials are not concerned at this time with which man wins Uie nomination but said he hoped they "conduct clean campaigns." Spokesmen for Coe and Rosellinl pledged that they would and reported clubs are being formed In every county of the stats to woric for them. The speecnes followed the customary tenor of political gath erings, voicinc cottmism and urg ing mud bard ork to make it pay at. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2i, 1955 French, Moroccan Leaders Hopeful For Peace Moves ADC LES BAINS, Fraifce Ml France and Moroccan nationalists apparently narrowed their differ ences Saturday to a timetable for removing Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa and ending ex-Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef's ex ile. ' Ben Youssef is the pro-nationalist ruler whom the French ousted in 1953, precipitating a wave of na tionalism that culminated in vio lent rioting last week. He is now living in exile on the Island of Madagascar. Market Area Rule Opposed MILWAUKEE Wl A resolution opposing- a government program requiring the processing and man ufacturing .of lumber products within an established marketing area was approved Friday by the CIO International Woodworkers of America. Union delegates at their final convention session voted unani mously against the plan which is called the marketing area sus tained unit program. The resolution was introduced jointly by Harvey R. Nelson, pies ident of Columbia River Council No. 5, Portland, Ore.; Bulk Chris tie, president of Plywood District Council No. 9. Olympia, Wash.; and Tim Sullivan, president of Klamath Basin District Council No. li, Klamath Falls, Ore. A. F. Hartung, of Portland, was nominated for second term as in ternational president. He will be opposed by James Fad'.ing, Olym pia. Also renominated were James Dicey, Portland, first vice presi dent; and Claude R. Ballard, Port' land, second vice president. Walter Allen, Port Atbernt, B.C.. will op pose Ballard. Christie will run against Dicey. Nominated without opposition were William Botkin. Portland. secretary treasurer, and Herbert Irving, Hoquiam, Wasn., interna tional trustee. Mail elections will be conducted within 60 days by local IWA units. The union claims 140,000 members. Smog Warning Raised In L.A. LOS ANGELES lP Stinking smog brought the Los Angeles area to the stage of alert Saturday for the second straight day. The warning to cease all outdoor burning was issued at 12:19 p. ni. when tho ozone concentration in nearby Pasadena reached .51 parts per million in the air. The alert call Is mandatory when the ozone reaches .50 parts per million. The alert lasted 1 hour and 42 minutes and was called oft at 2:01 p. m. when the ozone count in Pasadena had dropped to .36. Friday the alert remained in ef fect 2 hours 17 minutes when the thickest smog of the year concen trated in the Vernon industrial area and measured .64. These alarms have been "first alerts." If the concentration reaches 1.00, a "second alert" would bring a halt to all but essen tial traffic. The "third alert" Is the danger alert and could include shutting down industrial plants. Scientists report that ozone, the most Irritating ingredient of Los Angeles smog, is caused primarily by the action of sun on nitrogen dioxide particles. Fire Damages Blimp Hangar TILLAMOOK IT. A roofing fire at a blimp hangar at the Naval Air Station here Saturday : caused damage estimated at $50,- 000 before It was brought under control by fire equipment from six localities. Estimate of the loss was made by State Sen. Warren E. McMlni mee. Naval Air Station board chairman. Tillamook County leases the property from the federal gov ernment. Fire equipment responded from Tillamook. Netsrts, Garibaldi. Clo verdale. Bay City. Tongue Point, the Crown Zcllerbach logging op eration near here, and, the U.S. Forest Service. The fire, which apparently started from flames leaping from the dryer exhaust pipe of a plant owned by the Diamond Plywood and Diamond Lumber companies, burned numerous holes in the roof 01 the hangar. Most of the damage was con fined to roof sheeting and roofing paper. Because of a stiff wind, firemen had to move inside the hangar to battle the blaze, which was brought under control in ail hour and 15 minutes. The nationalist Istiqlal (inde pendence) and the Democratic In dependence (PDI) parties contend that the French ouster was illegal and that Ben Youssef is still the legitimate sovereign. As the week-long conference aimed at achieving peace in the troubled North African protector ate continued, French Premier Edgar Faure predicted that he will be able 'to present a settlement 10 his full Cabinet by Sunday. Istiqlal leaders conferred for al most three hours Saturday after noon with Pierre July, minister ior Tunisian and Moroccan affairs, on the question of how and when Ben Youssef is to be allowed to come to France. The Istiqlal delegation spokes man, Abderrahim Bouhabib, ex pressed optimism as he leit the conference suite in the Splendide Royal Hotel. "I have the feeling that we can make progress," he said. A delegation from the PDI en tered July's suite as the Istiqlal left and it was apparent the French are seeking full support from both parlies for a Moroccan settlement. ,PDI spokesman said his party agreed with the Istiqlal on Ben Youssef's return. Neither party is demanding his immediate restora tion to the throne in Morocco. Airman Denies Red Statement TOKYO i.n The pilot of the unarmed U.S. plane shot down Aug. 17 in Korea by the Reds denied Saturday he ever told his captors that their treatment con vinced him "U.S. propaganda was deceitful. . ." The statement of Lt. Guy H. Bumpass Jr.. of Jackson, Miss., was released by the U.S. Air Force alter he was brought here for treatment of. a sewre .-compound skull fracture. The radio at Pyongyang, capital of Communist North Korea, has been broadcasting an alleged state ment, attributed to Bumpass dur ing the week he was in Red hands. He was quoted as saying: "I have been filled up until my ears almost ached about Commu nist atrocities and by the American propaganda and bourgeoise publi cations and believed in them." 'Therefore I was quite scared when Korean doctors treated me. I was scared when surgeons gave me a shot. When orderlies tried to cut my nails, I shuddered hi terror, fearing they were trying to pull off my nails as the U.S. propaganda has told me. "I came to acknowledge after a day or two how the U.S. propa ganda was deceitful and how I was foolish." Saturday's Air Force release of a statement from Bumpass said: ". . . The whole statement. . .is a complete untruth. Sure, 1 was scared but I didn't feel my life was in danger. They didn't offer to cut my nails or to pull them off. . . I deny the entire statement as being words of mine." The Air Force, which had main tained a tight news blackout since Bumpass' release Tuesday, said he would speak for himself at a news conference, probably next Tuesday. lit'---'-' ?JM y.ti SATURDAY MORNING'S 9 o'clock "ipeclellth" were two Klemeth FelU leaderj in the construction builnett. The Hereld end Newt o'clock photographer, Don Kettler, snapped Con tractor Albert Walker, left,, and Aniitant Manager Tommy Themei of the Long Eall Lumber Co. at they plnl 'or building homa. Telephone (lit Expert Says 'Edith' May Miss Coast MIAMI. Fla. t.fl Hurricane Edith whirled 100 mile an hour winds around her center Saturday and was growing in intensity, but a top storm warning authority voiced cautious optimism for the entire Atlantic Coast. Cordon Dunn, chief forecaster in the Weather Bureau's Storm Warning Service here, said the Southeast Coast from Cape Hal teras, N. C, southward, could con sider Itself in the clear. Baring some unexpected de velopment, the Middle Atlantic Coast from New York to Cape Hal teras also will be in the clear, said Dunn. CAUTIOUS He was a little more cautious about the New England states, say ing: "If the present trend of the storm continues, there is very lit tle chance that it will affect the North Atlantic Coast. The people there can be optimistic about uie situation." I Dunn said the hurricane is mov- j ing very slowly toward the north-1 northwest. When it gains a few j more degrees of latitude, it should come under the influence of a ; trough of low barometric pressure which will turn it more to Uie northeast. STORMS TRICKY That would swing the storm clear of the coast. But Dunn point ed out that hurricanes are tricky, and since lt is now in a critical area a 24-hour watch is being kept over it by Air Force and Navy Aircraft. Edith was centered near latitude 27.5 north, longitude 64.1 west, a location that would place the eye 330 miles south of Bermuda, 840 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras and 1.000 northeast of Miami. It Is expected to turn to a more norths-northeasterly course some time Sunday and then pick up lor ward speed. Truman Blasts Ike's Policies FRENCH LICK. Ind. w Harry S. Truman opened his give-'em-hell speech-making Saturday night oy charging President Eisenhower with "misrepresentation and dem- agoguery. The former President started his drive lo help return Democrats to the White House with a speech prepared for delivery at the dia mond jubilee meeting oi the Indi ana Democratic Editorial Assn. Truman did not mention Eisen hower by name, but said the Re publicans '-began tcumg down tne .New Deal and the Fair Deal wherever they dared and as fast as they dared" when they took over in 1953. "They obtained control ot tne national government by misrepre sentation and demagoguery," Tru man declared, adding: "And right after the election, the President-elect went so iar as to use misrepresentation and dema eosuery in his message on the State of the Union in January. 1953, and he lias never missed a chance lo bciuddlc the real, issues in, every speech he reads." 9 O'cbck Spmal "Vtjj 1 er r W V la I ! j . j . .. pr WAVING FAREWELL to Main Street is Guj lampropuloi after 28 years as proprietor of the Olympia Grocery on Main near Twelfth. Gus is moving his building to Martin and Holly streets to make room for a super service station on his old location. He first started in the grocery business in 1927 to culminate boyhood goal in far-off Olympia, Greece, where he was born. (See Story on Page I2) Stassen Meets Red Delegate UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. Wl Harold E. Stassen, President Els enhower's disarmament adviser, held an unprecedented meeting I Saturday with Russia's Arkady Sobolev in his consultations pre liminary, tot the disaii ffint con ference opening 'here 'Monday. ; -Stassen conferred during the morning with all the Western rep resentatives to the disarmament subcommittee and then arranged lo see Sobolev at the Russian's suggestion in Stassen's hotel suite. Anthony Nutting, British minis ter of 3tate; Jules Moch, French representative; and Paul Martin, Canadian health minister, dis cussed strategy with Stassen at their morning meeting. Stassen talked with each separately Fri day. The U. S. representative had al ready Invited Sobolev lo luncheon in his holel suite Monday, bclorc the .subcommittee begins dis cussing the Eisenhower aerial In spection plan to control Disarma ment and British Prime Minister Eden's proposals for guaranteeing zones ol neutrality In Germany. Sobolev had accepted. In the history of disarmament talks, the U. S. representative nas never, bcloro sat down for prelim inary private talks with the Soviet representative. A U. S. source said the develop ment mirrored the Elsenhower Bulganln moves at the Geneva summit parley to relax tensions. Slashings Fire Under Control GRANTS PASS W A fire in 100 acres of slashing and second Biowtl: timber of Ihe House McDonald Logging Co. about l!0 miles northwest of here was be lieved under control Saturday. A crew of 85 men and six pump ers worked to quell the blaze, the ?tat.e forestry office reported. Tne ! fire stnrtcd Friday afternoon, ap- j parently irom the backfire of a tractor. I Basin Housewives Planning Flood Relief Food Sales Hou.vwlves of the Klamath Ba sin will be cooking lor disaster victims this week! Following Ihe decision of the United Fund and Red Cross Loards August 25 that 11800 should be lorwarded immediately as Klam alh County's contribution to meet the special appeal for aid Ui Hood sulfcrei-o, communities throughout Ihe Ba m arc organizing cooked lood sales to be held simultaneous ly on Thurvduy, September 1 with all proceeds to be applied agalnsv :he U300 loan secured from local banks bv Red Crois disa.ttcr chair man. Otto L. Smith. Firt of the communitifs to re sKind to the appeal (or county wide hcip incluar Blv, Boi.anzu, Chlloquin. Fort Klamath, Mnlin and Merrill. Mrs. Frank Obeuchalii, chair man for the Bly District, announ ces their baked food sale will be held at the Sycan Store from 11 to 3 p m. Malln's sale will be held at Ka llua's tore from lo o 3 v, uli a committee manned by Louis Ka lina, Mrs. Gerald Qulnn and Mrs. T. A. DcMerrill in charge. Merrill women will bring their kitchen product to the Merrill Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair with aome high cloudiness throufc h Sunday and Monday. I Ugh both days 80. ow Sunday night 43, Hlfh Saturday ...;. Hi Low at midnight Saturday 54 Salem Pilot Dies In Crash SALEM til Two private planes collided and crashed just north of the Salem airport Saturday, and one pilot perished in the flaming wreckage of his craft. The two occupants of the second plane were taken to a Salem hos pital. Neither was in serious con dition. The dead pilot Is Gordon King. 35, Salem. His body was burned almost beyond recognition. Identi fication was made from a billfold. He Is survived by Ihe widow and three children. The Injured were Nancy M. Nord strom, 21, a University of Wash ington student from Seattle, and Ihe second pilot. Shelby S. Sulli van, Bellevuc, Wash. Miss Nord strom suifered a sc?lp laceration. Sullivan suffered bruises. Oeorge Douglas, stale board of aeronautics member, was investi gating tho tragedy. The board's headquarters aro at the airport. Bob Feller, a farmer residing near the airport, said he heard a loud noise" and looked up to see "parts of a plane" flying through the air. Feller said the King plane hit Hie ground first and broke lnlo flames Immediately. Sullivan's plane made a belly-landing aoout 300 feet away. Quake Reported Near Eureka TiF.IlKELEY IUPi A "mncler atclv strong" parlhn'iake hrlleved to be In (he direction of Eureka, was recorded today by W. C. Mar ion. University of California seis mologist. Marlon recorded ihe temblor at 12:01 a.m. and said It had a Rich trr rating of 4 5 and lasted 10 minutes. Pharmacy with sule hours begin- nlir at 10 a.m. Mrs. Paul Lewis lb heading the Merrill response. Chlloquin will hold Us sale at Ihe Indian education office and Mrs. Walter Zimmerman and John HeilbroniKT, co-chairmen, will an nounce sale hours later. Mrs. Lloyd L. llankim heads the Bonanza saie; lime and place will be announced early this week. Fort Kin math residents may make voluntary contributions ol money with Mrs. Elizabeth Loose ly at Looscly's store or leave them with Mrs. Myrtet Wlmer of the Fort Kb math garage. The Klamath FjIIs sales will b held at two location, one in Ihe Pelican Theater building. Kighth and Klamath and the second on South thxih Street at the Hig V Market. In every community par ticipating in the food sale, women meinbeis of all organizations are being contacted by their president to ask for their kitchen products. No special Red Cro personal nlleltatuin Is planned lor this ap peal, but workers of the United Fund-Red Cross Advance Oitts section aie starling early and will ask for inrreajed m!t to cover the additional need. Spectacular Blaze Levels Huge Plant WHITING. -Ind. Ml A ragins; fire, touched off by explosion of a 2rf-story gasoline cracking tower, took two lives injured 44, and made a shambles of sections of the Standard Oil Co. (Ind) refinery Saturday. About 950 families were evacuat ed from their homes. Gasolinn -raced down the streets of this Northern Indiana city of about 10. 000 population. The gasoline ran into saivers and police Issued a , "No smoking" order. Damage was estimated all the way from 10 million to 100 million dollars. INITIAL BLAST The Initial blast wrecked- the world s largest liquid hydroformer a high-octane gasoline still hurling great slabs of its steel piate sides into a residential area across U. S. highways 13 and 20 which form the plant's west bound- -ary. A hurtling piece of the huge tow er smashed through the frame house of Frank Plewniak, killing his 3-year-old son, Richard, in his bed. Another son, Ronald, suffered loss of his left leg, and the father was cut by hurtling plaster. The other death was that of Wal ter Rhea, 63, a foreman at the refinery, who collapsed of a heart attack after he was summoned to emergency duty. HOUSE SMASHED The smashing force of the explo sion demolished two houses, did major damage to 80, and bashed up another 100. One automobilo was squashed to less than one foot of , thickness by a 10-ton slab of 2 inch steel. Another was tossed up side down atop a shattered house. After the Initial thunderclap of force, flames spread among oil storage tanks of the big refinery. They roared through some 30 tanks- and twisted two other gasoline cracking units. The American Red Cross, on the basis of reports from Whiting, an nounced a damage estimate of 100 million dollars, However, Dr. Rob ert E. Wilson, chairman of Stand ard, said in a statement "It is too early to estimate the amount of the damage, but lt probably will exoeed 10 million dollars." FIREFIGHTERS ' ' . 'Firemen from "Whltlngy Hast ; Chicago, phioago and Uie com pany's own department, aided by some 6.500 volunteer workers hundreds of whom drove dump trucks at breakneck speed between the fire and nearby sand Pits nad tne names in check by 4 p. m. The sand was used for dikes to contain flaming fuel. But a few minutes later, a tank containing 3,200,000 gallons of nap-tlia-propane exploded with a blind ing whoosh, sending flames one thousund fect into the air. The new blast, which singed the ' hair of workers a quarter of a mile away, forced a heartbreaking re treat for preciGtis hours while a pool of flames spread over a 500 yard diameter. Fifteen firefighters were burned, apparently not se verely. Somo lire equipment was destroyed. GAMOLINK FLOWS Oil and partly refined gasoline flowed into tho sewer mains of Whiting, and some was sluiced in to the Calumet Sag Ship Channel to disperse and divert it. At one tune, burning oil surged across the highway toward the blast-shaken residential area from which nearly 1.000 families had been evacuated by Red Cross workers. National Guardsmen and police. These naming sallies were checked with sand dikes, and final ly were extinguished. Some 15 hours after the first blast, Fire Chief George Macko finally told reporters "It looks wonderful. We have It contained. We ll he okay unless the wind comes up or shifts." - Comp-iny officials said lt may be days before the fire actually Is extinguished. The big Standard refinery, cov ering 730 acres situated IP, miles southwest of Chicago's loop, Is rated by company officials the largest In the Midwest and the fourth largest in the United States. Sudan Rebels To Surrender KHARTOUM, Sudan i.fl In the face of government forces advanc ing lo wipe them out, army mutin eers In Ihe Far Upper Nile Milage of Torlt agreed late Saturday to surrender. The South Sudan soldiers had been In rebellion for more than a week against being placed under command of ofticcrs from the North Sudan. The rebels let a r.oon-tlme ul timatum deadline pass but seven hours later, when Hie government lorccs were on the move, they an nounced readiness to give up. The rebels in Ton', radioed their decision In re ,ponse to an ultima tum r riday nirht from Gov. -Gen. gir Aiexand.-r Knox Helm Helm notllied the London and Cairo governments of Ihe surren der. He reported the Torlt rebels, in giving .up. asked for 24 hours more to enable them to gather up other mutineers irom outlying posts. Their message said naditional lime would "avoid further blood shed" since scattered outposts in the area cf '.he Nile headwaters wera unaware ol Helm's Friday night ultimatum.
