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Newspaper Page TextIn Tke- Day's Jews Br FRANK JENKINS Dictator trouble note: Argentina is in the throe today ct its FIFTH military revoll of the year the iourlh since the big June 16 uprising. . Sources in close touch with the army say unnamed army oiticials have called on President Peron to resign. There is no ofiicial con tinuation. However. Peron is re ported to have gone to the army ministry. ; Tight censorship prevails. I hope Peron is in bad trouble. We want none of his kind ot ttuif in the Western Hemisphere. What IS his kind of stuff? Basically, it is government by ONE CLASS which hogs all the privileges. . It is the exact opposite of what our greatest Americans (including Abraham Lincoln) have described as government of (all) the people, hy (all) the people and for (all) the peoDle. That is the fundamental idea oi the American way of lite. Getting back to the U.S.A.: Senator John Williams of Dela ware (a member of the senate finance committee) says this morn ing that there is an incrcasinp threat of inilation which may reach dangerous proportions soon unless it is checked. He adds: "Because of this threat. I will oppose tax reductions In the next session of congress unless pro jected revenues indicate that there will be BUDGET SURPLUS." (An unbalanced federal budge; is a prime promoter of inflation.) I think perhaps you'll remember Senator Williams. He is the hay and feed store proprietor who got into the senate from Delaware a while back and has been using hay and feed store horse sense consistently m his approach to governmental problems. We need more senators like that. I'd like ' to add that in the particular situation thai is faced by our country at this moment In history an ounce of common, everyday horse sense is worth a TON of the kind of tommyrot the professional get-electe'd-at-any-cost politicians are talking. Soviets Meet Grotewohl MOSCOW Wl Premier Otto Grotewohl of East Germany ar rived in Moscow with a govern ment delegation Friday to start negotiations with the Kremlin. Only three days ago. West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Adenauer finished similar negotiations. The Soviet government' paved he way for the East Germans' arrival -by- -hailing East Germany Thursday night as a sovereign slate and by brushing aside Ade nauer's claim that his government speaks for all Germans. Grotewohl was first off the plane from Berlin, followed by Walter rihrtrht. ripDUtv nremier and Com munist Parlv boss, by Otto Nuschke, another party premier, and by Foreign Minister Lothar Boll. On hand to greet them were Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, party boss Niklta Khrushchev, Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervuk hin. Lazar Kaganovlch and Georgi Malenkov. Premier Nikolai Bul ganin, who is ill, was not present. There has been no hint so far as to what ails the 60-year-old pre mier. The Big Three Western ambas sadors did not show up for the airport reception because their countries do not recognize the East German government. CIA Silent On Spy Story FRANKFURT, Germany .fv- Of ficials ol the U. S. Central Intelli gence Agency had no comment to day on two young American vet eran' story of spying for the Rus sians In order to spy for the West. The pair, Oregory J. Lima, 30, New York City, and Theo K. Hoi lie, 28. of Los Angeles, said they gave Information to the Soviets "to serve our country by infil trating Russian intelligence." They charged the CIA strung them alone for three months aft er they offered to work as double agents then turned them down. They accused the CIA of "gross malfeasance1' because it did not hire them and said they have aked to testify against the intel ligence organization at a congres sional hearing. The pair told newsmen they got S6.000 from the Russians for their espionage activities. Hollie, a Navy veteran, said they got the idea of becoming double agents last year fter Luna was "fired from a civilian Job with the Army department in West Ger many In 1953 as 'security rWc.' "Some of the charges against 1 him were that he had tried to get an acquaintance to Join the Amer ican Labor party and that a 'Dear Comrade' letter had once come to his address from the New York Daily Worker,' Ho'.lie said. "We decided that if we could do something positive and dramat ic against communism, it would make Greg a first -class citizen acp.in and remov 'security risk' from his record. It would, of course, serve our country. "So we schemed to hoodwink the Soviets into hiring us as pie. then have .he CIA Use us there after." The two said their missions for Soviets ranged from a report on ft U. 8. military intelligence rehool at Ooerammergau. Ger many, to a visit to Belgium's largest irms factory. C hi )il:sV rV i AIR. FORCE OFFICIALS visited Klamath Falls Thursday to inspect construction progress at the air base and to confer with civic leaders. Front row, left to right, are Mayor Paul Landry, Brigadier General Monro MacCloskey, commander, 28th Air Division, and Deb Addison, presi dent of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Back row are Gen. MacCloslcey's staff members, left to right, Captain K. L. Lawrence, radar observer training officer; Captain R. E. Schricker, flying safety officer; Major W. J. Walsh, director plans, organiiations and require ments and Captain R. S. Dinger, public information officer. Gen. MacCloskey Mission Of KF Jet By MAX HAUCHOPE The role of the new , Klamath Falls Jet air base in the opera tions of the Western Air Defense Force was explained yesterday by Brigadier General Monro MacClos key, . Commander, 28th Air Divi sion, Hamilton Air Force Base. Gen. MacCloskey met with cham ber of commerce directors, city of ficials and civic leaders in closed meeting at noon in the Winema Ho tel. - . The 28th Air Division comman der, whose organization is the par ent, unit of the Klamath Falls jet base, revealed that the U.S. Air Force considers the new base as a very important part of the West ern Air Defense structure. This new base will fill a strategic void which has existed in the air de fenses of the West Coast, thus strengthening our existing defenses aeainst enemy attack. NETWORK Explaining the network of the air defenses of the U.S. Gen. Mac Closkey outlined the structure of these commands and forces. The overall command of the U.S. air defenses Is invested in the Headquarters, Continental Air De fense Command located at Colo rado Springs. Colorado. This main command is broken up into three air defense forces Eastern ADF, Central ADF and Western ADF, which headquarters also is locat ed at Colorado Springs. The Western ADF is in turn di vided into areas with each spe cific area assigned to a separate air division. There are four air di visions in the WADF-28th, 27th, 25th and 9th. MISSION The 28th Air Division's mission was explained by the air general as made up of primarily: 1, The air defense of the area and coopera tion lyith the other air divisions and other parts of the Armed Serv ices. 2. Support of tne Strategic Air Command and th-2Military Air Transport Service by defending the bases of these two verv important parts of the USAF. 3. Participation in anti-submarine warfare by pro viding ar surveillance until arriv al of U.S. Navy forces on the scene. 4. Training and equipping of personnel and units. In reviewing the 2Hh Air Divi sion's role Gen. MacCloskey said that the 28th is responsible for 'the aii defenses of Northern Califor nia. Southern Oregon and parts of Utah and Nevada. To perform this function a network of radar B JSuVaS 5?e ?sfa fjs f" if m FAfRVIEW SCHOOL STUDENTS, Jackie Thurman, left, 1209 Pin Street and Ronald Mousieau, 227 North Ninth Street pauied lor th early morning photographer, Jackie it in th sixth grade end Ronald it seventh grader. si'-.- "'" - ' (installations and jet fighter inter ceptor oases is posuioiica in stra tegic locations throughout the area. GOC POSTS Ground Observer Corps posts, such as the one at Klamath Falls, are a very important adjunct to the radar stations in detecting enemy aircraft, the general said. The information picked up by these radar stations and GOC posts Is transmitted over a highly com plicated communications network to a control center where it is displayed visually on a large map to assist the commander in exer cising his command responsibilities. Fighter-interceptor aircraft of the F-86d type will be stationed at the air base. This is a single jet all weather adaptation of the famed Sabre jet used so successfully in the Korea War. It is fiown and operated by a pilot only and car ries 24 "Mighty Mouse" 2.15 inch rockets. The operation of the air base will be on a seven-day-round-the- clock schedule. Fighter scrambles may be called at any time the con. trol center has unidentified air- Divers Seek Plane Bodies FRESNO (UP The sheriffs ofilce reported expert Army divers were expected to begin-the search today for the bodies of six airmen who crashed in a B24 bomber in Huntingion Lt-ke 12 years ago. The wreckage of the tour-en xined plane was discovered Tuesday by a lisherman. The tail section and pirts cf the part of one of the plane's engine were found sticking out of the take, which is being drained to permit repair of the dams. Sheriff Melvin VHlmtr.h said the divers are coming irom the Sixth Army Headquartei'3 at ihe Presidio in San Francisco. ' The search for the cra.sh was -tarted again last month when bits of equipment from ihe plane was found on tne nearby drained lake. Military authorities abandoned the search a short time after the Diane disappeared in 1043. belicing it had crashed elsewhere. The plane was on a flight from Hammer Field near Fresno. EST t t; 1 Outlines Air Base emit 'in its area. - The general sheared the fact that anyone ot I these aircraft could be an enemy carrying a nuclear weapon capable of djiiioying one of our large cities. IMPACT ON KF In discussing the impact that the operation of the base will have on the city oi Klamath Falls, the gen eral pointed out that although scientists are searching for ways to reduce the disturbances of Jet aircrait, residents or this area must face the fact that jets are noisy. We can only ask. he said, that the people of Klamath Falls realize that this is one of the minor, but troublesome prices of security. Flight patterns and approach altitudes will be so arranged to minimize the number of flights over the populated areas. An air defense fighter group will provide logistic support for the fighter-interceptor squadron to be stationed here. A radar warning station in the area will provide air surveillance of the immediate area. OCCUPANCY .. , Tentative plans to begin occu pancy ot the aiv base this fall were reaffirmed by Gen. MacClos key. Final plans are dependent upon completion o. 'tie construc tion now undorwa., . The general said he was hopeful that existing schedules would be mpt. Personnel will be assigned In in crements with a total of 104 of- , fleers. 90S airmen (enlisted men) and 160 civilian workers by De cember 1956. The annual payroll will be about $3,500,000. In answering queries about Ihe number of children to be expected the general .said that from existing statistics gathered by the USAF from similar sized bases the fol lowing figures could be predicted: approximately 374 of the person nel will be married: there will be about 515 children, of whom 421 will be tinder age six. This leaves approximately 94 children of school age to be absorbed by the Klamath school systems. The great majority o'f these will be of elementarv school age. HOUSING TROBLEM Another serious problem Gen MacCloskey reviewed was that of the shortage 'it rental housing in the vicinity of Klamath Falls. He urged builders and owners in this area to build or remodel homc3 " (Continued on page 4) Crews Control Sierra Fire FRESNO 'UP' The Msh Sicr- ra fire, which has seared some 18,000 HCi'C-i ot brush ana timber! land, wns cot. trolled early today, ;nop noruiwesterly course alter two -Aeeki alter it started In the that. Dunlttp Hiea ep.iit of here. j Small emit were advhed not' lo Two crack crew? of Hop! Indian .take extended nips out into the firefighters hacked om the la: , Atlantic. firebreak around the bla,e In! lone at in id-day Friday, wan ringed Converse Basin near the 430 tuilcK east ol Na.ssui and tt5U Kings Kiver. i miles cnst-Mmihca-sl ol Mnmt. Sequoia Nation?.! Forest Super-1 Her 90-mile winds wcj wrapped visor Eldon Br 11 said the linat , over a MnaJl are.i near the con safely line was a hand operation j tor, while gales e'rnd?d 200 miler, to bring in heavy equipment. The to the norih .nd 90 miles to the trews were flown to the area bx south oi tl.e rye. helicopters and supplied by air-1 While lone vhrlcd in'o a 'hreat drop. ! ening po.ruoi in relation to th Ball reported, ''We've ijot ooul!u.S. coast, a J-ccond nurficane. a month of work ahead oi us inop-i Hilda, lashed the ancient ruins of ping un and ptttrolUnt? the lire the Mayans on the Yucatun Pe scene. There's till a lot ot burn-1 nmul?. witn thunder in 3 winds and ing area uiside the fire line)." heavy rain. SANTA BARBARA. Crllf. if The wcr.d lorei lire In this area's historv va unoer con rol Friday1 but firelighters ccntinued to patrol, Us 107-milc perimeter In the event lhai tricky winds cause another up' ! Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile will visit Klamath Falls Tuesday and Wednesday under the sponsor ship of the Masonic orders. It will be at the Masonic Lodge, 419 Klamath Avenue, on Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p m. The Bloodmobile will be In Chlloquln at the high school gym on Thurs day from 4 to 6 p m. .rv' TSaportw! KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, rrkw Fire Cents 18 Paces StassenSays Soviets May Accept Plan DENVER t.tt Harold E. Stas-I sen told President Eisenhower I Friday he believes "the odds are" I that Russia will accept the Pies-! Idem's- plan for the U.S. and the Soviet Union to exchange military j blueprints and agree to mutual in spection. ' Stassen, the President's special assistant on disarmament prob- - lems, conferred with Eisenhower for a half hour after flying from New York to report on the United Nations disarmament talks, FLAN OUTLINED Stassen Is U.S. deputy repre-, (tentative on a U.N. disarmament subcommittee studying, among ether tilings, the proposal Eisen hower outlined at Ihe Geneva Big Four conference. That plan calls for this country, and the Soviet Un ion to exchange blueprints on mil itary establishments, and to agree to mutual aerial Inspection of such establishments. The U.N, subcom mittee has expanded its talks to include ground inspection. At a news conterence alter m& meeting with Elsenhower. Stas sen was asked whether he was optimistic that Russia eventually will accept "some form", ot tne President's plan. Stassen replied. "The odds are that thrv ithe Russians) will." I-LAN. BACKED A bit later, stassen empnasttea that he was talking about accept ance of the plan as outlined by the President at Geneva and not "some form" of it. Stassen Is returning to the U.N. talks in New York Monday, after a weekend visit in his home state of Minnesota and a conference with Slate Department officials in Washington early Monday, In, response to questions, 81 as sea said that while Russia has not committed., itself regarding Eisen hower's Geneva proposal, "there is every indication they are giving it very intensive and thorough study." N.Y. TALKS Asked why he feels that Is so, Stassen replied, "it is Indicated by comments which have been made by Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulgan in, Communist Party boss Nlkita Khrushchev, and the Soviet rep resentatives at the New York talks." At Ihe U.N. sessions In New York, Stassen said, the Russians have been asking Intelligent ques tions' about the Elsenhower plan questions, Stassen added, "such as wc would ask" In their position. Asked whether this country would be readv with an alternative plan If the Soviets should reject Eisenhower's Geneva proposal, Stassen replied: "I would pielcr not In hypothe cate on that at the present time. I would rather anticipate that they would accept." lone Causes Coast Alert MIAMI. Fla. i.r A weekend hurricane alert was 'houndca by the Weatlier Bureau Aridity loi ihe Atht.itic Cousi between Norlii OnroUnh and Florid a i Hurricane lone, her winds buJU up to fn 'jiiljs an hour. pi'Mied wcsl-mi'th west at about 12 miles an hour. Trc AllvntK- storm whs 'peel ed 'o move in that direction at I about the sdinr -peed tor another 2 bourn and twuvi mound to a Thornton Rules a Jt VOX LlCCnSeS gALEM I.P - A mow vehicle driver whoso hce.i r expires dur- I ing the period for which It In suspended mu.t be chrrgea with driving without t license If he drives his cai. Any (J-n. Robert ; Y. Thornton nikd rrlly. The driver can't be charged j with driving while the ilccn.se Is I appended. ! The uwieury of state can sua j oend a driver s licrmc tor one I year for certain tialiic violations. such as reckless driving The cplnlon was ofkrd by flist. Atly. Oeorg- Rakeitraw of Deschutes- County. m SEPTEMBER 16. 1955 , Telephone Kill Weather FORECAST Klamath FalU and vicinity: den ring Friday niplit; jen erally fair Saturday except early morninr fog. Low Friday night 3i hlrh Saturday 66. ) High yesterday Loir last night ... Preclp. last 24 hours .... Prevlp, since Oct. 1 .-. Same period last year .... Normal for period 43 .OX 7. S3 U.Vt 11.89 IUE Salary Talks Begin PITTSBURGH l.f Wcstlnghouse Electric Corp. today began study ing wage demand, ol the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers In the WBke nf a three day strike which idled 43,000 mem bers of the union at 37 plants in nine'statcs. The union asked for a substan tia) but unspecified wage Increase. It said Its members now average M.10 an hour. The talks were re cessed to give the company time to draft a reply.' The union is free to strike Oct. 15 If no: agreement is reached. . - '; The wage talks opened a few hours before a holdout local which triggered ' the nationwide strike reversed Itself byvotlng to return to- work immediately. That was Local '101, representing some 10,000 workers at the East Pittsburgh plant, , Last Aug. about 2.200 day Workers employes such as crane ooerators and helpers walked off the Job at East Pittsburgh to pro test a time study of their jobs instituted by the company. CIO- IUE locals In the other Westing- house plants . called a sympathy strike wnlch began last Sunday. The nationwide strike was called off when IUE President James B. Carey- announced the union a con ference boaru-rcomprtsoa ox rep resentatives of local unions at Westtnghouse plants approve, a Wastlnahouse nropoaal. That' pro posal' provided that the subject of ffm studies would be made part of the wage talks. Under a two year contract the union originally was comuieu to wage uotusiiii. Local 601 refused to go along with the Carey settlement, But yes terday a mass membership meet ing of the local voted overwhelm ingly to end the strike. Overwork Forces Bulganin To Bed MOSCOW LP Premier Nikolai Bulganin is buffering from over work, a Soviet foreign official told an American representative Fri day night at a reception celebrat ing Mexico's National Day. Bulganin's Indisposition was first announced Thursday soon after conclusion of Rtrenuous five-day negotiations wlh West Germany's 79-year-old Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer, und Just before Bulganin wis to have met Adenauer's rival EpsI Germany's' Communist Pre mier Otto Grotewohl. For the fourth time In two days the 60year-old Bulganin did not show lip for a major iunction at which he would have been expect ed. Some gtfurces claimed the white haired: goateed premier has a touch of influenza Wfaa-aMMMMMMM iiiii in iiiijimiii l ll l 'i"im ii j il i inmawaaiiw I ( r i -ji -J -.-- MERRILL'S CHOICE for queen of (he I95S Klamath Basin Potato Festival will be announced during an elimination danca in the Merrill Community Hall, Saturday night, September 17, Tht winner will compel with contestants from other Klamath Basin iownt (or this year's crown of tht two-day fete, October 21-22 in Merrill, Tickets sold for tht danca will determine the win ning mist who will bt prtsenttd by Alonio Hodges, danct chairman. All this year's contestants art from wtll known Merrill families. They are, left to right, Yvonnt Watson, Margret Harding and Oarlttn Danitl, til students of tht Merrill High School. mm n. ED No. 111 Two Former Captives liberated HONG KONG I.rv-Rcd China to day released two American civil iansthe first of 22 the Commu nists have promised to free. One of the two asserted he was guilty of spying for the United States. Released were Walter A. Rickctt of Seattle, a Fulbrlght scholar im prisoned July 26. 1951,. on espion age charges, and the Rev. Harold w. Rigney. 54, Chicago, dean of the Roman Catholic Fu Jen Uni versity in Pelplmr. He was arrested on spying and sabotage charges in July 1951. , RicketPsald. after crossing the border Into this British crown colony: "I was engaged In espion age work and there was a ( Korean I war. I was an agent for the U.S. government. I collected military information." ... SPYING GUILT ' .' Rickett's wife Adele, when re leased by the Reds last February, said she was guilty of spying. She praised 'the Communists highly. She reiterated that today after her husband was freed. American officials said last spring Mrs. Rickett appeared to have been thoroughly "brain washed." Rickett Is a former U.S. Marine Corps language officer who speaks Chinese and Japanese. "We have waited four years and three months for this day," aaid Father Rigney.- He wore an open nightshirt and a crew cut. He was in good health. - Both talked briefly at the border with Richard Tomlln, American Red Cross representative, and a reporter permitted Into the area as a representative lor all news agen cies. Rickett praised both the Chi nese and Amerioan Red Cross. - 'I haven't been speaking English for a long time," he said. j CONFESSION . ' ui niH h nnfnuri in vni,n. - ; BBe IS davs aflor he was arrested jujy 25. 165113 mouths after the start of tne Korean War. . 11 .... ... ....... . "I collected the Information and I was guilty," he said in a low, etcady voice, Rickett wore gmy slucks and it gray-brown shirt, his hair was un tidy .-but he was clean shaven.- He carried a small shaving kit. 'The ChlnrKP oovnrnmpnt w,ih lenient with me. They could 'havel which Is the backbone of the Peron sentenced me lo 10 years but gave U'ffRlnie. , . -me only six and reloaded me after' A" "h of quiet tension, prevailed lour," he said. ln ,,ie cPttl where antiaircraft . ' , , . ! 311ns were mounted at strategic Mm afraid 10 years Is a long polntf including Casa Rosada. the time ln anybody s life. Considering J pink.colored builrilns where Peron the situation, I was treated ex-jnas ms presidential headquarters. ueuriiuy, m itii luiicn illy mruf nient was the same as the other Chinese prisoners, but ... as a forelitner I was given more food." Qt'KSTIONEI) Asked whelher he feels hp hns been Indoctrinated by the Reds, Rickctt replied. "I have read the Chinese papers and progressive arllcles." He said he passed military In fonnntlnn to unnamed U.S. consu lar officials and to a British Em bassy second secretary whom he Identified as Ted Youde and to a Dutch legation employe he named as Miss Helen Van der Holm. Presumably Ihe latter two were in Peiplns at the time. (M0jl Peron Said Asked To Resign Post B V I L K T I N BUENOS AIRES i.fi Rebel forces Friday captured control of Bahia Blanca. Argentina's big wheat port In Buenos Aires Prov ince. This adjoins the Puerto Bel- rrflnn nnvul hnu u'hirh rvrtitit Friday moining. , , . i BUENOS AIRES Circles in close contact with the army sale Friday unnamed officials lit the army had called upon Pres ident Peron' to .resign. There was no official confirma tion. , , Federal police headquarters near Ihe Congress Building were evacuated, possibly indicating fear of an attack. Peron was reported to have' gone to the Army Ministry about i, a.m. This report came on the heels of government announcements tha- armed rebellion had tlared at three i rey centers in the interior and had been "rapidly" crushed. ' te government also declared terrorist plot had been smashed Buenos Aires with the arrest of 100 civilians. This was the fourth reported plot aimed at up setting Peron since the major re volt of June 10 just three months ago. , . RADIO REPORT The stale radio said "It la under stood" the chief of the rebel forces is former Gen. Dalmlro Felix VI dela Balagucr. who was accused Sept. 8 of leading the Rio Cuarto garrison in a conspiracy which was crushed. Four days later. Gen. Balaguer was reported under ar rest, but this - never was con itrmed officially. Despite government announce ments that the situation had been "fully dominated," there still ap peared to be rebel activity In some' areas Friday afternoon. But the state radio broadcast eald the rebels were being "suffo cated" and -repeated that the gov ernment "fully dominates" the sit uation. "All other commanders have af firmed their loyalty to the govern ment," it salti. STATE OF SE1GE .' . ; A state of siege vtrtual martial law was extended to the entire, rountry. Previously this applied only to Buenos Aires. Peron proclaimed the stale or 1 ll,e Hose of Deputies, ; t-omplately dominated by pro-Pe- ron denuties. d Droved It in fust . j five minutes. There whho official account of casualties from the revolt but It appeared that- some ' bloodshed must have resulted. Peron had beeu scheduled to (-peak at 10 a.m. to leaders nf the General Confederation of- Labor - COT, the workers' organisation - . BROADCAST A government broudcast assured '.he -liitl.ai Mitel .ill was calm and "Ihe situation hns been totally dominated." In Entre Rlos Province, north r Buenos Aires, elements of tne 3rd Cavalry Regiment rebelled. The ttovernment said this revolt was crushed by loyal troops and 300 of the rebels surrendered. On the outskirts of Cordoba, the big provincial capital in central Argentina,-elements ln an air force technical school tried to seise con trol. Fighting rated there, with loyal troops of the 3rd Infantry Rccimcut Uiur.chinR a dawn attack against the entrenched rebels.