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In The- Day's lews mm Br FRANK JENKINS President Peron o Argentina (he pronounces his name Pay ROAN, il that lnteiests you) must be in bad trouble. Ha called his henchmen around him In Buenos Aires this morning and OFFERED TO RESIGN I When a demagogue politician of fers to resign, you can bet your bottom dollar the situation doesn't look too eood. ! He made quite a show of It. When his gang had rallied around, he struck an attitude and aid: "I offer my resignation to in sure pacification. The time for fighting has passed. The time has come to work and consolidate our revolutionary gains. I do not want to be an obstacle." His crew came through nobly. They chanted In substance, If not in actual words: "NO! NO! NOI Boss! That you MUST NOT DO!" They might have added: Tf you quit YOUR Job, we'll lose OUR Jobs." They didn't, of course, utter this thought that was uppermost in their minds. It wouldn't have sounded good and In affairs of this sort everything must be made to sound good. At any rate. Peron didn't re sign. Instead Offices, stores and factories quickly closed. The ministry of war building, across from the government headquarters (where Peron put on his show) WAS PROMPTLY SURROUNDED BY FIELD GUNS AND COMP ANTES OF" TROOPS. There the situation rests as this is written. . Let's get back to the U.S.A. Wholesale food prices as meas ured by the Dun & Bradstreet index declined this week to the lowest level In more- than two and r half years. The Index stood to day at 16.15. down from S6.21 a week ago and 56.65 a year ago. The department of agriculture announces today that lower prices for livestock and grains were leading factors in a relatively big drop in the farm price index be tween mid-July and mid-August. The chart lost two per cent in the 31-day period. Lower prices for hogs, beef cattle, corn, wheat, neaches and tomatoes were chief ly responsible for the drop. So much for basic economics. Let's turn now to politics. A Washington dispatch this morning says: "A new two per cent drop In farm prices has spurred Demo cratic preparations for an all-out attack on Republican agricultural policies. "Announcing formation of a na tlonwide agricultural advisory com. mlttee, Deputy Democratic Na tional Chairman Clayton Prltchey said his party . expects to start - going to town' or, nt-lvm. Issue this fall. He added: " 'We regard the farm price situation as one of the most im portant issues that will come up in the Presidential campaign. We are getting ready to hit It hard.' So much for the political end of farming. Along that line, It is just as well to remember that the agricultural price slump started under Democratic farm policies. Il has continued under Republican farm policies. It Is BAD. But I doubt If POLITICAL FARMING (which means farming the farmers for votes instead of (.rmlng the land for crops that can be sold at a profit) will prove to be the solution. Ministers Plan Meeting WASHINGTON in Secretary of State Dulles and the British and French foreign ministers will meet in New York Sept. 27 to coordinate Western views In ad vance of their meeting with Rus sia's V. M. Molotov in October. The' State Department, In an nouncing the New York meeting, said Wednesay It will last two days and will deal with "matters of common interest." Henrlch von Brentano, West German foreign minister, will Join the Big Three foreign policy chiefs on Sept. 28. This phase of the talks presumably will deal with Western plans to press for German unity at the meeting with the So viets which Is set for Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct. 27. British Foreign Secretary Mac Millan and French Foreign Min ister Pinay are coming to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting which opens Sept. 20. Their sessions with Dulles will mark the final steps bv the three allies to coordinate their views prior to the meeting with Molotov. US Homebuilders Invite Russians WASHINGTON m U. S. home builders have Invited Russia to send a half dozen construction ex perts to this country to see how Americans put up their homes. Earl W. Smith of El Cerrito. Calif., president of the National Asn. of Home Builders, Issued the invitation Monday through Soviet Ambassador Zarubin. The Russians haven't said yet whether they'll accept. If they do. the association plans to treat the visitors to a tour rivaling that of ihe Russian farm delegation this summer. An association spokesman, dis posing the State Department-approved Invitation Tuesday night, ald it was suggested that Russia send six housing officials of its Ministry of Construction for i three lo four weeks visit. ) Eye-Burning Smog Covers Los Angeles LOS ANGELES tfl Los An geles' amog siege, worst of the season, was listed by the county air pollution control director Wednesday as a crisis. Gov. Good win J, Knight said he is prepared to declare a state of disaster If necessary. Director Smith Grlswold said the smelly clouds of eye-burning smog would continue for "at least m? next few days" and he called on industry to institute voluntary smog control measures. Grlswold said industry had failed to cooperate and had contributed heavily to the series of emergen cies. FIRST ALERTS Under "first alerts" called daily for the past five days, a ban on open and incinerator burning goes into effect. Grlswold claimed en forcement of the prior alerts has been poor. First alerts are manda tory when the concentration ot ozone, the most Irritating sub' stance In smog, reaches .50 parts In a million parts of air. If the ozone content reaches 1.00, I "second alert" is called, all but essential vehicular traffic is halted and all but essential Industry Is asked to shut down. A "third alert' would be called tf the concentra- lion reached 1.50 and all Industry could be ordered shut down. There have been no second or third alerts in Los Angeles. CITIZENS GROUP The Citizens Anti-Smog Com mlttee of Pasadena asked Gov. Knight to hold a hearing. He re plied that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has an emer gency program to protect citizens. "In the event of a far more critical smog condition than now exists." the governor said, "under the emergency action program up on request of the Board of Super visors I have the power to de clare a state of disaster. . . and I would do so." Grlswold said federal and state health officers will launch an in tensive investigation starting Thursday into the nature and ex tent of pollutants from oil refineries and power plants. He was critical of the County Board of Supervisors for allowing a two-year delay of a ban on back yard incinerators. The supervisors voted . yesterday to postpone the effective date, which had been set for Oct. 1. Winchell Files Damage Suit NEW YORK m Walter Winchell is suing the American Broadcast ing Co.. for seven million dollars, the network said Wednesday. The damage suit, involving one of the largest sums ever speciiled in broadcasting litigation, is the tipphot of termination of Wincliell's contract with the network June 26. "Our lifetime contract with Win chell was terminated by mutual agreement as of June 26," an ABC spokesman said. "There was no single underlying reason. He wanted out and we were willing to let him go." Neither ABC nor Wlnchell's at torney, Sol A. Rosenblatt, would give details of the suit immed iately. However, it reportedly ac cused ABC oiflcials of a "viola tion of their duty" toward Winchell. The New York Journal-American said the suit alleges that Winchell always had "understood and believed" that he was protect ed against all financial liabilities such as libel or slander dam ages by the network, but the net work told him he was not. On Feb. 10 Winchell wrote a let ter demanding protection or re lease from his contract, which guaranteed him a minimum ol sl.Oon a week even when not broadcasting. On March 10. the ABC board ol directors iniormed Winchell he was being released from his con- tract. Feudist Slain Bn Chiloquin By LVLE DOWNING A long-standing feud reached a lethal climax In the streets of Chiloquin early Wednesday morn ing leaving one man dead and another held as a suspected mur derer. Dead Is Jackie Jones, 25. former divinity student. Police say he re cently served 18 months for auto theft In Missouri State Prison. His alleged slayer is Marcelus Korwest. 26. who gave himself up to Chiloquin Police Chief Lewis Jones. He claimed a 30-30 rifle accidentally discharged. However, police are holding as a material witness Leroy (Buzzi Warley. Springfield, Oregon, log ger, who claims he saw Nor west shoot Jones In cold blood. The killing happened on a road adjacent to the Standard Oil Com- pany plant at Chiloquin. An soon as Morwest gave him aelf up ai Police Chief JoneV resi dence shortly after 3:30 a.m.. Div trict Attorney Richard Beesley and Sheriff Murray Brltton were called to the scene. Deputy Coroner Bill Mills removed the body to Ward's Funeral Home in Klamath Falls. Price Five Cents 18 Pages ....... ... ....1T,r l1t1l-riir iT-n-n-i-iTriirn'friiri iim '-""irfn-t ftem-i Wffii wmimtPi'rrm,i MOUNTED AND READY for their annua! trail ride to the Lakeview Roundup over' the Labor Day weekend are these members of the Klamath County Sheriff's Posse. They left today from the Charles Read ranch near Henlev and will use the backroads and trails for the long journey. The group will School Dope Ring Smashed OAKLAND (UP) A high school narcotics ring was smashed here last night wnen state agents una Oakland police arrested six youths ranging in age from 17 to 23. The arrests were made on In formation furnished by a teen aged undercover agent. Inspector Fred Braumoeller, who led the raid, said the boys had been peddling maiijunua and her oin to students at McXinley Con tinuation Hifjh School in Berkeley. Several weeks ago, stale agents, with permission of Juvenile Court, assigned a teen-ager a. an under cover agent to contact the gang that operated around the Berkeley school. Braumoeller said the youth made several purchases of narcotics from the group and introduced regular agents to the gang and arranged for them to obtain the drugs. The inspectors said the group I drove regularly to Los Angeles,! bought drugs lrom sources there: and resold it around the high school. I The leader of the group wan; identified as 17-year-old William De Moray of Oakland. Others ar rested vfere Roger Mcintosh, 21, San Francisco; Alan Hoeschcn. 20, Robert Martinez, 23. and James Shaw, 18, all of Oakland. March Air Wing Wins Competition MARCH AFB UP The 320th Bomb Wing from this base today received the Fairchild trophy for winning overall competition in the Strategic Air Command's bombing and navigation meet. . Gen. Curtis Lemay presented the, engraved silver punchbowl to the 320th, a B47 jet bomber outfit.1 which emerged with a total of 1630 points following yesterday's final round of competition. Each competing Air Force out fit flew three 3000-mile strike mis sions in mock hydrogen bomb attacks. The cities attacked in the Fix-day event were SpJkane, Sac ramento and Los Anaeles. The top crew of the meet was crrw No. 35 from the 03rd Bomb i Wing of Castle Air Force Base at Merced, which also fle-v B47s. The 'crew scored S53 points. Dr. George H. Adler, Klamath County coroner, said he would perform an autopsy on the body later in the day. Sheriff Brftton faid the bullet from the 30-30 rifle hit Jones on the left side of the chest and emerged from the back of his right shoulder. Bntton said Jones was probably killed instantly. District Attorney Beesley and I Deputy District Attorney P. K. I Puckett and deputy sheriffs Dale I Mattoon and Alvie Youncblood took a tape recorded statement from Norwest. Beesley declined to make the statement public. Other officers said that the gun victim had been riding around Chiloquin in an automobile with Norwcst and Warley. All of the men were reported to have been drinking and a full ca.se of beer was found at the scene n& ell as an empty vodka bottle. After the shooting, Waijey was reported to have chased Norwe.tt around the Standard Oil plant twice. Tne alleaed killer eluded Warley and went to Police Cmei Jones' home. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, Peron Offers To 'Resign'; Party Insists He Remain BUENOS AIRES, Argentina l.fi had been primed lo receive and President Juan D. Peron offered reject It. to resign Wednesday. The response I The long message said: ' was mass demonstrations of -The time for f I g h t I nvg has strength by his followers who in- passed. The time has come to work sisted that he continue in office. al)a consolidate our revolutionary Alberto Tessaire, vice president , gains. I otter my retirement to of the republic, announced mat he. too. would resign If Peron steps out. Provincial governors ai - so announced they would resign il the president does. The Argentine House of Depulies had to cancel Its session Wedncs- nay auernoon Because uir iu Peron majority announced refusal to attend until Peron withdraws his resignation offer. The president addressed his of fer tq the Central Confederation of Labor and the leadership of his own Peronista Party. Both clearly Abbott Lawyer Denies Charge OAKLAND (UP Burton W. Abbott's attorney today "unequivo-1 cally and positively denied a i charge that the accused murderer was seen in Berkeley April 28. the day 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan disappeared. Stanley D. Whitney, chief coun sel for Abbott, Issued a statement countering reports that a ,ncw witness had said he saw Abbott in Berkeley at about 3:30 p.m. April 28. The new, mystery witness, whose story Is under investigation, was reported to have told authorities hfs car almost collided with Ab bott's auto that afternoon. Whitney repeated Abbott's con tention that he was enroute. alone, to his Trinity County cabin on April 28 and by midafternoon was lar into me mountains. The Bryan girl vanished about 4 p.m. April 28th while walking to her Berkeley home from school. Her bludgeoned body was found July 20 In a shallow grave near the Abbolt family cabin at Wild wood. Trinity County. Abbott faces arraignment Sept. 8 on charges he kidnaped and murdered her. Police refused to disclose the Identity of the mystery witness except lo say he was "an Oakland businessman." It was reported that while Kor west was standing In front of the chief's house waiting for the of ficer to come out. Warley arrived and the two men engaged In a fist ficht. Chief Jones took Norwest and Warley into custody and held them at the Chiloquin police station un til Sheriff Bntton and District At torney Beesley arrived. Beesley said he as informed that there was bad blood between Jones and Norwest. According to Chief Jones, .the dead man and Warley were clo e friends. Warley went to Chiloquin from Springfield to visit Jones. Beesley said Norwest and War lev would be transferred to Klam ath coumy Jan. ihe district at torney sddrd he would probably file a formal chaise against the allrRfd gunman later In the dy. Jones was a well-known and popular resident of Chiloquin. Dur ing IMS and 1047. he was presi dent of the student body at Chilo quin High School. Later he attended Bible Standard Institute at Eugene He also was a student for a short time at Oregon Stale College. WEDNESDAY, ALGl ST 31, 1955 Mm lay over at Dog Lake before continuing on to Lakeview. From left are N. B. Drew, Dr. J. M. Hilton, Keith Rice, Charles Reed, Beverly Thomas, Fred Beymer Sr., Fred Beymer Jr. and Bob Colwell. They will be guests of the roundup association in Lakeview. insure pacification. I do not want to be an obstocle. . . 11 Is nol , possible to destroy what we have built. '.'They speak ol Vi-ivll war." It continued. "I do not believe It will happen here. There v.' ill be peace dictatorship. I have no taste for dictatorship. If tint is the so lution, someone else will have to do it." First word of the message came in a broadcast by Hiiro Di Pietro. CGT secretary, who summoned workers to the Plaza de Mayo in the heart of the capital and to plazas in other cities and towns and instructed them to remain there until the president withdraws his resignation offer. Dl Pietro also called a general "stoppage of activities" immed iately throughout the country. He CHlled on essentlnl public services to close down for 15 minutes be ginning at 5 p.m., as a gesture of support. Ofiices, stores and factor ies began closing down soon alter he spoke. Pigeons, Dove Season To Open PORTLAND W Tile bird. hunting season will open m Oregon Thursday. Band-tailed piueons anil mourning doves will lie the target The iiiaeon season will lut through September wilh a daily bae limit of six a day but noi more than 24 for the season. The dove season will las; Ihrouuh ident. 23 uiih a llu-il ol 10 a day . or 10 in poviession. The scions lor upland game birds and walcrlowls will opcnl later. I BLOOD MARKS THE SPOT where Jackie Jonet, formar divinity jtudan, mat death from 30-30 rifle bullet early Wednetday morning in Chiloquin. Shown impeding the tcene ol the homicide are (left to right ) Chiloquin Police Chief Lewii Jonei, hit auittant, Carl Douglai, Sheriff Murray Britton erj Deputy Sheriff Del Summert. Two men ere held in connection with the cate. ' ' Telephone gill m Oregon Air Veteran Dies ENTERPRISE. Ore. IPI Col. Graham W. West, one of Oregon's most decorated heroes of World War II. died unexpectedly at a hospital here Tuesday after a brief Illness. He was 43. West attracted world wide atten tion when he flew an airplane in the D-Day Normandy invasion, despite the fact that he earlier had lost both legs as a filer in the North Atrica campaign of the war. He had been equipped wllh arti ficial -legs. ' He had flown 87 combat missions belnre the ground accident In Tunisia in 1943 In which he lost his legs. In 1915. while still in the Army, he married Phyllis June Holley of Beverly Hills, Calif., in a cere mony at Denver. His wife was visiting her purents in Los Angeles at the time West was stricken. He recently had purchased a llcht plane and ac quired a pilot's license. He planned to fly to Los Angeles over the Labor Day holiday to bring his wife back lo this Eastern Oregon community where he operated an insurance agency. West, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl West of Portland, was born Nov. 8. 1911. He was graduated from Grant High School and at tended the University of Oregon at Eugene before .tolning the Army Air Corps in 1938. His medals included the dis tinguished flying cross, silver star purple heart and air medal with 11 oak leaf clusters. NATIONAL I.KAf.I'E Cincinnati 000 000 000 0 New York 300 000 02x 6 Fowler, Black 1. Freeman 7 and Burgess: Gomez and Katt. A.VM:itlt'AN l.KAWK Baltimore 000 000 0011 3 0 i Cleveland 500 000 OOx 5 5 0 Wight. Brown ' 1 and II. Smith; Score and Began." ft Weather I OKIXAST Klamath Kalli and vicinity: fair through Thursday. Hlch Thursday 88; low Wednesday nicht 4i. Hi?h yesterday Low last night Hw Trerip. Ubt 24 hours . tince Oct. 1 Same peiiod last year Normal tw period : 43 ...1.00 ...15.87 ..13.60 Soviet Air Power Said Increasing BOSTON 1.(1 Gen. Nalhan F Twining warned Wednesday that 8 "Hood of aircraft streaming from the aviation arsenals ol the So viet Union holds far more potential danger than the migtuiisl hum tanp." The Air Force chlcl ot stall said; Ihe United Stntes Is "well ahead in the kind of air power the So viets respect." But he cautioned that Russian aircraft production is catching up fast, not only in quantity but in quality. "If we do let the Reds catch up In air power." Twining declared, "you niRy be certain thtt a Soviet nttnek would be more likely than II Is now." fiPKAKS TO VETS Tile air general, In a speech 10 the 5fith niuionnl encampment of thp Veterans of Foreign Wars, re ported on progress by the U. S. Air Force. He said the nation is still almost two years away from ihe 137-wlng goal set for the Air Force in 1953. Twining stud the radar warning line along Ihe U.S. -Canadian boun dary is now complete and that work is well under way on a mid- Canada line. But he said the,rrom th Israeli side was the an. 'DEW or Distant Early Warning iiue, in me aiuui. la juov gct-iuiu started. The general said It will be anoth er year bciore the Air Defense Command gets supersonlo Inter ceptors capable of destroying en emy aircraft with guided missiles. US DEFENSE However, he said U. 8. air de-, restore peace to the troubled bor fense Is strong enough so "we con0er arca .nere at least 21 Israe- now promise lo aestruy so many ot them (enemy bombers) that an aggressor would have to gamble on losing a high proportion of his at tacking force. ! As lor ofietislve power, Twmlng said both Strategic and Tactical Air Commands, now poised on bases that almost circle the world; "could strike an agjrressor from almost any direction" with elthar atomic or conventional weapons. He described the B.iJ as "the best Jet bomber In the world to day," adding that as a result of ecently-ordercd speedup In pro duction, the Strategic Air Com mand will be equipped with these heavy bombers one full year ahead of previously planned schedules. Twining said combat wings of the Tactical Air Command are now completely Jet equipped and that Ihe first of the supersonic fighters, the F100 Super-Saber, is now go ing In tactical units "in effective numbers." Grand Marshal For Rodeo Named PENDLETON Ml Dennis Day will be grand marshal of the Pen dleton Round-Up "Westward HOI" parade, Sept. 10. It will be the second appearance In Oregon this yeor for the radio and television entertainer. He per formed In this year's Portland Rose Festival. 0 I OKLAHOMA CITY, 11 Officer A. F. Blackshore limped into Mercy Hospital's emergency room. "I kicked my motorcycle," the officer told attendants. "It kicked back." he explained before submitting to treatment for cuts and bruises on his leg. Weft Gaza Front -Disturbance Still Rages JERUSALEM W Israel bridled Wednesday at Joining Egypt in a c-ease-flre on the strife-torn Qaza front, demanding that Egypt first take the blame for starting bor der violence that continued into the seventh straight day, . Israel's resentment was almrd in part at the phrasing of the U.N. proposed cease-fire order. -An Is raeli government spokesman here said it put "Israel, which was be ing attacked and Invaded by ter rorist bands, on the same level at Egypt, which la the attacker." It was regarded highly unlikely that Egypt would acknowledge it self the aggressor. i " PROPOSAL ypt agreed Tuesday to cease-lire beginning at 6, c.m, , Wednesday. The proposal was. designed lo halt the weeklaiig oi. break of pitcned battles, tlons, and ambushes that has lell more than a score of Israelis and Egyptians dead and many otherj wounded. In Cairo, an Egyptian communi que said Egyptian commandos had entered Israeli territory and blown up a broadcasting station only six miles from Tel Aviv. It said the commandos also had blasted two Israeli armored cai'3 near Madgnl. These commandos were believed to be Irregulars operating across the frontier in retaliation for con tinuing I-sr.telt attacks, according to Egyptian observers. Before the Cairo communique wus issued. Egyptian newspapers said com mandos had penetrated Israel for about 25 miles Tuesday to carry out "punitive action" against the population, killing 15 to 30 Israelis. INFILTRATORS The only reference lo such raids nouncenient by a military spokes- ; mftn nere Ulal inuuraiors urea 'alter midnight on a niilitarv cat- near Falujah In soul hem Israel, wounding one ot tne occupants. Canadian Mnl. Gen. E. L. M, Burns, chief of staff to the U. N. Palestine Truce Observers Com mission. Is Irvine stremintislv in Us and Egyptians have been killed since last Thursday. . A U. N. spokesman said the situ ation In the area is "very serious" ana tnai Burns "is m constant touch with U. N. Secretary General Dag Harnmarskjold, Informing him of developments." , . , '1. .- Timber Tracf Purchase Told The Lorens Timber Company ot Klamath Falls has purchased a large tract or timber from the Watt-Lamm Interests in north Shasta County, it was revealed to day, i Glenn J. Lorem, vice president of the Lorens Lumber Company. announced. In conjunction with the purchase, that three possible locations for a complete lumber manufacturing plant are under, consideration. Burney Is one of these locations, he said. Lorens stated that over 15o men will be employed when the com plete manufacturing facilities aie finished. Engineers are working on plans and it Is hoped that con struction will begin In the near fu ture, he said. The plant Is expect ed to be In operation by next year. The company Is not hiring any operating personnel at pres ent. The Lorens Company Is present ly operating at Lewlston, Idaho, but has opened a temporary office In Burney. Thp post office address Is Box 638. The phone Is Burney 150. President of the lumber com pany Is G. C. Lorcnr, of Klamath Falls. He has been connected with lumber and logging operations for over 30 years, and formerly operated near Klamath Falls. French Africa Leader Quits PARIS 1 France Wednesday announced he resignation of Gil bert Orandval, her top adminis trative olllcer In her troubled Mor. ocean protectorate. As expected, den. Pierre Boyer de Latour W'as named to succeed Orandval as resident general. The general, who has been resident general In Tunisia, left Tunis for Rnbflt. the Moroccan capital. "Wllh all my heart I will try to find a reasonable and peaceful solution for the situation in Mor occo," Boyer de Latour told news men. Orandval. who went to Rabat July 7 w-ith orders to relax French rule, built up popularity with many Moroccan nationalists but drew the ire of European residents of the protectorate who opoo.se giving the natives a stronger hand. The colonists blamed his "weak" policy for the native uprisings Aug. 20 in which more than 1.000 Moroc cans and French were killed. Neu tral observers considered the up risings were due to the French government's delay in granting some measure of self-rule to the Ihe French hope that Boyer de Latour. who for many years held military commands In Morocco, will satlxfy both nationalist- and French colonials. During his tenure in Tunisia, the French granted the protectorate a large measure of home rule. While he was In Moroc co. Boyer de Latour used ft firm hand against unruly Moroccans,
