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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1955)
In The- Day's lens Br FRANK JENKINS Out of a week of hearings con-' ducted In Southern Oregon aiid Northern California by a congres- . slonal investigating 'committee this interesting, if not too palatable, fact has been developed: The ca- , pacity of our existing sawmills exceeds the supply of mature saw timber that is readily available. We were dimly aware, of course, of this situation, but' the past week of public hearings has brought it more forcibly to our attention. It is quite apparent that from here on out there will be active compe tition for the remaining supply of virgin trees. What should be done about it? That is a most important ques tion, and no pat answer is at hand. But it does seem clear thai the federal government,--' which owns a large share of the remain ing supply of virgin timber, should proceed without delay to get a more up-to-date inventory of the merchantable timber it has on hand and should then take stops to make Its timber that is ready for market more accessible. Otherwise, a lot of mills now . operating and providing payrolls in the communities in which they are located are going to have to close down. That won't be relished by any of us. :, How can the supply of market able timber in the possession of various government agencies be made more readily available to me mills that need it? The answer to that question seems 1 to be MORE ACCESS ROADS. The government owns the timber. Before the timber in the more Inaccessible areas can' be brought out. roads must be built, There are two ways to get them built. - One way is for the government itself, which owns the timber, to build the roads. That, of course. will require money, and the money will have to be appropriated by the congress. The bulk of this gov ernment-owned timber is located in the West, and it hasn't been too easy to convince members of congress from the Eastern states that the government should put up the money to make the timber accessible to market. The other way to get access roads built Is to sell government stumpage cheap enough to make it profitable for potential purchas- ers to build the roads to get at ine umoer. That method, in general, has been favored by Eastern members of congress. From the standpoint of the West ern communities in which the mills that need the timber are lo cated, selling government limber cheap enough to make it profit able for operators to build their own access roads has a serious drawback. The drawback Is this: Such a policy would tend too much -to limit the- sale of govern ment timber to largejooncerns that can command the capital neces sary to build the access roads. The mills that will be forced out first by scarcity of available saw timber will be the small mills. These small mills are scattered all through Southern Oregon and Northern California. They provide the payroll backbone of the com munities in which they are locat ed. Generally speaking, they are apt to be unable to finance the build ing of their own roads to get at the timber they need. If they are forced to close down,' through inability to get timber enough, the result will be calamitous to the communities in which they are presently operating. It seems to me that the situa tion, from the government's stand point, is as broad as it is long. If the federal government builds the roads to make its ripe timber more accessible, it can get a high er price for Its stumpage. If it doesn't build the roads, it will have to sell the timber cheaper. If the Joint committee that has been Investigating the timber sit uation In this area has been able through the testimony it has brought out at Its various hear ings to get a better understand ing of this access problem, it may be possible to get needed money for access roads. - - Sprague Raps Timber Rules PORTLAND I Timber mar keting area restrictions interfere with the flow of timber to Its best uses, Charles A. Sprague. chair man of the advisory board on Ore pon and California Revested Lands timber, told a congressional hear ing Monday. Sprague. former Oregon gover nor, said rules restricting market ing of OfcC timber to specified hrcis should be acotished. - He spoke at a hearing of a Joint Senate - House committee invest! eating federal timber policies. ' The root of the trouble out here." said Sprague. "Is chiefly the existence of excess cutting ca pacity. ... "Neither the Bureau ol ,Laml Management," he continued, nor Congress can Increase the stands of trees ripe for cutting. No amount of inventory stretchout T. ill keep all the existing mills op erating on a permanent basis. "Under the pressure of local cistress we should not be stam peded into speeding up the cut of tederal timber, in tact, the iack of recess roads now may prove our salvation a decade or two hence." Sprague also commended the Bu reau of Land Management for do ing what he said vti a difficult job In a conscicn'tU-us manner. Others who appeared before the committee included: Elmer P. Metzger. Douglas County commissioner, who urged lifting the marketing area restric tions on salvage timber in the (Smith River region. is REGIONAL RED CROSS OFFICIALS visited the board of directors of fhe Klamath County Chapter at their meeting in the Winema Hotel Monday noon. Robert Hager, field representa tive, left, Cyril Hannason, Red Cross director for Hamilton Air Force Base, California, John Heyden, president of the local board, and Major Thomas Gerbing, Klamath jet interceptor base executive officer, were in attendance at the meeting. Hager. outlined the problems fac ing the local chapter with -the Influx of U.S. Air Force personnel to man the Klamath air base. Worker Given , Prison Term Ulysses Ford, 28-year-old garage worker, convicted last week of for gery by a circuit court Jury, was sentenced .to 20 years in Oregon State Prison Tuesday by. Circuit Judge David K. Vandenberg. A plea for clemency by Defense Attorney Donald A. W. Piper, ap parently failed to sway Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg who imposed the sentence. . . Pper told the ccutt that Ford became an oiphan when he was 13 years old and dr - d into a lite of crime. He said the defendant has been in considerable trouble for which lack of parental guid ance was probably responsible. A year ago. Ford was acquitted on another forgery charge hei3. In the present case, he wt.s ar rested after he forged the name of Leo Huls, Klain'-th Falls con tractor, to a $47 check and passed it at Dick Reeder's Store for Men. An FBI report, presented to the court by District Attorney Richara Beesley, showed that at the time of his ariest here five months ago. Ford was on parole from a federal prison. . ? -v- ",- . - ; t " " - Freak Accident Injures Girl A Klamath Falls, teen-ager was injured in a freak accident -Monday afternoon, but the extent of her injuries are unknown, Klam ath Falls police reported today. Carol Tresner, 16, the daughter of Mrs. Maxine M. Tresner. 4678 Peck Drive, was struck by an un identified auto at the intersection of Seventh and Main streets an.d carried for more than half a block before falling from the auto, Mrs. Tresner told police. Mrs. Tresner said that the auto which struck her daughter had run red traffic light. Witness de scribed the driver as an elderly woman, she said. She said the auto was a two-toned 1952 Chevro let, police reported. Police had no record of the na ture of the girl's Injuries, or wheth er or not she was hospitalized. In another accident reported to day by police,' an auto driven by R. W. Hubbell, 623 High Street, was badly damaged this morning when it and a two-tone flatbed truck driven by Mrs. Lcla Mae Hill. 406 Roosevelt, collided. The truck was undamaged. There were no injuries. The incident occurred at about 9 a.m. at the intersection of Klam ath Avenue and Ninth Street. Mrs. Hill was cited for failure to yield right of way. and is to appear Wednesday afternooif in Munici pal Court. Berserk Boy Stewardess In Seattle SEATTLE. Wi An airline' slew-1 briefcase, he rushed dcwji the aisle nrdess was shot to tlLalh by her and confronted Miss Shedd. He lormer boy friend last nlfcM as she : pushed her Into a seat on top of was greeting passengers filing 'Air Force Lt. Noiman Stout of aboard a Los Anueles-bound plane. ; Portland. Ore., and rued four Then the love-crazed young man, j thois. breaking away from an Air Force ; Two of the sho:.s struck Miss lieutenant who attempted to sub-'Shedd. due him. ran Irom the plane ana Stout said: shot hiinfeli. He died three hours "She was lying almost across later In a hospital. - ; me. Then he rhot her point blank The United Air Lines stewardess, j Ihiee or four times. 1 couldn't tell Sally Shedd. 3h. was struck in the j which. Sne lit on me. uttered a chest by two bullets. j gasp and llipn he shot her. Mrs. Herman Loesch of Fortlpnd. ' I couldn't get lno;e Irom my Ore.. :ier voice quavering, told now i safely belt umil he had shot her." Robert Clendeniii. .'6. a trainee When he did Ire? himself, tjlou'. with the New York brokeiage firm j lppped from his spi t and grabbed of J. A. Hoglc and Co., sat down ! Clendenln. A Lflh shot, which beside her and drew a pistol from j plunged harmlessly Into the plane's his briefcase. . tide, was fired as they giapiled. I thoucht it w-.i a cap pistol," Stout finally tumbled Clendenln the said. "Even aiier It weiu o!f 1: through the door of the plane and '.houghi r. was a cup pistol. It Just kept on going off. Bang. Bung. Bang." Clendenln was one cl the last ol some 40 passengers to board the DC8B - He nodded and sroke to his Joi nter gill friend before taking his teat next to Mrs. Locscb at the Iront of ;he plane. ' VWthdrawir.g the putol from his I (fV KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, "1955 1 J I I Price Five Cents 14 Pages : , - Telephone 8111 No. 3333 iti 11 SHOOTING HOURS '. OREGON . November 23 OPEN CLOSE 6:36 ... 4:40 CALIFORNIA California Season Closed Until Dec. 10th Bandit Shot In Holdup RICKREALL. Ore. (UP) One Portland bandit was dead, another was in jail and a young service atntlnn attendant wan a hern n 1 -c... tu t- . . hAM bu miciiiiaui iu nu nttuiiiitcu titttt - up here' Sunday night. ' Credited ' with killing gunman Wallace C. Cunningham, 35. Port land, was Herschel Greenwade, 23, who was deputized by a state pa trolman as the officer rushed to bi-eak up an armed robbery at the Rlckreall Barbecue. . Cunningham's alleged compan ion. Robert Scott Keruion. 31. also of Portland, was being held at the Polk County Jail at Dallas. Ore. Kennon surrendered his weapon as Officer John Mekkers and Green wade entered the tavern. But Cunningham, who had not been seen by the officer, statted shooting, wounding Mekkers twice in the left arm. Greenwade re turned the fire with Mekkers' rifle, but missed. He ran outside the tavern to reload and. aiming through a window, shot and killed Cunningham. Mekkers took Kennon into cus tnday before fellow officers could arrive to assist hinl. Slate Police were Informed of the robbery as It was taking place i by patrons who had been herded Into a back room. They had boosted one of their members over a partition Into an adjoining apart ment containing a telephone. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Mostly cloudy with oc casional snow flurries late Tues day night and Wednesday. High 31!. I,o v Tuesday night 20. High yualerday 32 Low last night 10 Frcclp last 24 hours 2li Preclp iim-c Oct. 1 4."!4 Same period last year . 1.34 Normal for period 2.24 Friend Kills 'down the ramp to tnp concrete ilelti. Clendenln. '.he frn of Beverly Clendenln of Salt Leke City, ran about 25 yards and fired the one remaining buiiet in the gun into his nerk. Blood streamed from the wound but he remained standing. He re- loadrd, in another 25 yards and nred a bullet Into his head. If I I Open Hearing Ruling Given SALEM I Atty. Gen. Robert. Y. Thornton ruled Tuesday that ; State Unemployment Compensation i Commission hearings are general- ly open to Ule public, with a few i exceptions. I The opinion is the result of a hearing In Roseburg at which a I reporter for the Roseburg News- Review was not allowed to be pres ent. The Unemployment Compensa tion Commission asked Thornton if It has the right to exclude a member of the public from Its hearings. Which usually deal with claims filed by jobless workers and with taxes upon employers. Thornton replied that the public has a right to attend a hearing, but: "This Is not to say, however, that the commission has no dis cretion to exclude a member of the, public In those rare cases where such exclusion is necessary to se cure a proper and orderly conduct of the hearing; to obtain all of the facts; to prevent the disclosure of trade secrets or matters destruc tive of the trade or business of the Parties in interest." Thornton cited . a 193T United StHl03 SUmeine !-0"Urt f Opinion hnliino- thai ' hnrltw!t mUst.be 1 o .... r j, Harriman Raps Foreign Policy SEATTLE ( Gov. Avcrell Har riman of New Yolk said last night "our alliances are creaking" be cause ol what he called Republican "Incompetence and shortsighted ness" in the field of foreign rela tions. Speaking at a 57.50 a-plale Dem ocratic lund-raisiug dinner, the New York governor described Uie summit conference at Geneva last July as a "great Communist vic tory." He said the' victory re- tilted from "confusion and contra diction in Washington." . He .iaid while he favored hold ing the conference, he later found it "inexcusable . . for the Presl- cen- and his advisers to give the impression that llu-v believed in the sincerity of .the Kremlin words in advance of deeds. World tensions relaxed, he said, when the President, upon leturn Ing from GenevB, "spoke though wit.-i some reservations, of 'the most ..shining opportunity' and the 'spark ignited at Geneva' . . . "But unfortunately so did our de fense effort. Secretaries Humphrey and Wilson began to talk about cutting our defenses still more. Free peonies were thrown oft bal ance. They were psychologically disarmed. Neutralists and pro Communist elements in Euiopc were strengihencd." Harriman is in the Pacific North west to urge reelection of Sena- tors Wanen G. Magnuson of Wash-! Peninsular. iiwton and Wayne Morse of Ore- The chartie: are b(i:ig heard by eon. Joseph Caldwell, Civil Aeronautics White ne has been mentioned as! Board examiner. Tl.ey included al p. possible Democratic candidate legations . that Peninsular- .broks lor president, he declined to dls- regulation.-, against overloading, cuss his own political plans other I excessive flying tune loi the pilot? -,han to toll reporter at a news land improper niecltanical main conference. "I am not a formal lenance. candidate for president at this A Peninsular spokesman saio time." Missing Girl Reward Set Two friends of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Friend, whose 16-year-old daughter, Sharon. i.-- one of two Klamath Union High School stu dents missing sir.ee last Wedncf, day, have olfeied a 550 reward lor lmoitnatinn leading to discov ery of the -fin's whereabout. Ihc rewaid will be paid by Mrs. Connie Taylor. 3704 f rneiald Street. :.nd Mrs. Alva Edwjrds. Rt. 3. Box 219. Klamath Falls. Thev told the Hernld and News that the mo'-hev of Hie Friend girl In dan-' PASADENA. Calif. UPi Sels gerously "trlrken as a result ofLmographs at the California Insti her daushtn s. di i-pnearance. 4"se of Technology today placed a Anyone who may hve Informs - tior. about Sharon Fiiend and her companion, Caioljn Young, 14, are asked to contact County Juvenile Oflicer Francis Mathews or the state or city police. All informa tion will be held confidential. The Young gill Is the daughter of Mr. and Mis. LeonarJ Young 1707 I Oak Street. Red Cross Outlines Base Policy The Increased responsibilities to be faced by the Klamath Falls Red Cross chapter with the in! lux of U.S. Air Force persoauol was discussed at the regular meeting of the board of directors MoL-day noon in the Winema Hotel. Robert Hager, field director for Central Oregon and South Acstarn Washington, outlined the two ina:n problems which the local chap'er will face: the starting of a - Red Cross office on the base and the financing of requests for aid from Air Force families. The financing of aid to the air men will be reimbursed by the Hamilton Air Force Base office of the Red Cross, Hager said. How ever, aid to the families of all men needing help will be done on the local level. Hager stressed that certain aids to military personnel are manda tory for the Red Cross. He said the national organization will as sist the local chapter financially because the influx of a large num ber of service people into the com munity will put a strain on the finances of the -local chapter. The Red Cross official said the local chapter should expect to man an office at the air base with volunteers lor at least part of each working day. He said he didn't think the national organiza tion would station a paid worker at tl)c installation, f . The home service committee of the Klamath Chapter will review the' problems of service families and adjust its work to fit the new requirements, they said. Cyril Hannason. Hamilton AFB Red Cross director, explained the workUigs of his office and related his experiences , In Korea and dur ing World War II with the Red Cross. ' . The work of the unpaid Red Cross volunteers was lauded by Hannason. He said the non-profes-slonal .workers in the small chap ter, are .the. backbone of the or ganization.' 7 . In other business Mrs. Virginia Dixon, executive secretary, said the .bloodmoblle- will visit Klam ath County on December 6 and 7. She said the need' for blood are increasing ,and Klamath Coun ty should endeavor to keep up Its fine record.- John Heydcii. president of the board of directors, presided at the meeting. Major Thomas Oerbing. base executive officer at the Klam ath Jet base, represented the Air Force. CAA Awaits Crash Report MIAMI BEACH, Fla. The Civil Aeronautics Administration is awaiting a report on a plane crash investigation under way at Seattle I to determine if new charges will be filed against the Peninsular Air Transport Co., a CAA attorney said Monday. The company operated a DC4 which crashed in a Seattle resi dential district last Friday killing 7 ol IU. 74 occupant. Attorney S. J. Schneider said the CAA .thou Id know "in a day or two" whether any regulations were violated on the littul lllght and if any are found complaints beuig heard against tne company will be amended to include new charges. Mm-:; than SO charges of rule vloUllons allegedly occurring be tween January and July ol 1955 have been filed bv tt CAA against the DC4 v.as given a "complete majoi checkup" in Miami a lew davj belorc the bcaitlc crah. Most of the charges of safety i-pgulavion violations were brought by the Air Carrier Pilots' Assn., r.n organization of pilots ol non scheduled airline.,. Roy Robinson, a co-owner of Ihc airline, has charged tne oianlza lion "hiiR ihrcatriiPd me and tried to blackmail mi- will: the Civil Aeronautics Adminl.-.ltolion. 'I hat's where all these petty violations come from." Quake Recorded I In. Easter Isles ! stro.il. earthquake 4200 miles south of here or probably west of Easter Island In a submarine mountain range. .Dr. Charles Rlchter said the quJIie was about 6.8 magnitude and timed at 7:34.03 p m. PST last night. Dr. Rlchter said It probably followed submarine mountain ridge of which trie Island Is a part. aJ . MRS. VICTOR O'NEILL U.S. Education Session Slated Mrs.-Victor E. (Lucille) O'Neill, member of the Oregon State Board of Education left today for Port land and Washington.- D C. where she will attend the White House Conference on Education called by President Dwlght 'D. Elsenhower. Mrs. O'Neill Is one of 13 Ore gon delegates appointed by Gov ernor Paul Patterson to be pres ent for the four-day workshop ses sions which will be devoted to aix vital questions in. -education: (1) What Should Our Schools Accom plish? 2 1 How Can We Organ ize Our School System More Ef ficiently, 131 What Are Our School Building Needs? 4 How Can We Get Enough Good Teachers and Keep Them? 151 How Can We Finance Our School Buildings and Operate. Them? (6 How Can We Obtain a Con tinuing Public Interest In Educa tion? ( : . :. Approximately 2.000 - delegates from the 48 slates will be present for the conference which will be chairmanned by Vice President Richard Nixon.; The conference at the national level, follows similar conferences held -earlier this year at county and ,stale 'levels. , S.. E Brogoittl. Umatilla-Coun ty, also a member of the state board of education, will attend. Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill will visit Mrs. O'Neill's brother, novelist Edison Marshall, at Augusta, Geor gia. They will make the trip both ways by air. Crater Lake Gets Snow Three Inches of new rmow fell at Crater. Lake National Park In the 24-hour period that ended at 8 a.m. today. The total ground snow still measures 3d Inches, the same depth reported Monday. , Minimum temperature last night was 14 degrees; maximum on Monday, 25 and at 8 a.m. today, 15 degrees. The road from Annie Springs to the rim Is open today with chains or abrasive snow Head tires re quired. Traffic was going over Hlghwav 82 through the park with out difficulty. Tile skies were partly cloudy tills morning, but the snow storm had stopped - temporarily. ROBERT AND JANICE SHAW, 623 North Eighth Street, were picking their way over icy tidewalki (hit morning when the 9 o'clock photographer loomed into view, Robert it in the lixth grade at Fsirview School and Janice ii junior at Klamath Union High School, ' ) Slain Girl's Parents Hay Face Abbott OAKLAND, Calif., (UP! The man who Is accused of luring Stephanie Bryan to her death may confront the mother of the teen-age ueriteio' scnoolgtii for the first time today. Mrs. Mary Bryan was expected to take the stand as a prosecution witness in the ktdnap-murder trial of Burton W. Abbott. 27-venr-old accounting student accused of slay ing the girl. ... Mrs. Bryan was on hand yester day, but was not called to testify. It was presumed District Attor ney J. Fi-ank Coakley will ask her to tell how her 14-year-old daugh ter did not return home from school on the afternoon of April 28, and to Identify Stephanie's purse. . The purse, along with other pos sessions of Stephanie's, was found III the basement of Abbott's Ala meda home last July. A week later, the girl's body was found near Abbott's mountain cabin. Another prosecution witness was expected to be Abbott's brother, Mark. , MAJOR HLOW The prosecution dealt what ap peared lo be another major blow yesterday at Abbott's alibi time table. The slender defendant has Insisted he was driving to the mountain cabin at the time Stepha nie vanished. In fact, he has said he left his home five hours before. But Mrs. Rcva Leldccker, an Oakland housewife, dramatically pointed to Abbott as the man she saw beating a girl in an auto on a county road on the same day that Stephanie disappeared. Her testi mony caught Uie defense by sur prise. Mrs. Leidecker was the first of five persons who have testified about the beating to identify Ab bott as the man who did it. no ... , m.m Sbe said that, she, her husband! S'h'6." JZB irtlSLJVJ?; nel Road east of Serkeley-on the alternoon 01 April 28 when a car ahead suddenly pulled off the road "There was a little girl In the back scat," Mrs. Leidecker said "A man was In the front. The girl was sitting on the edge of the seat, way forward, with her head down. OPEN-MOUTHKD "As we .' came alongside, she turned her face toward inc. open mouthed, perhaps to draw a breath, perhaps to scream. The man had his right hand raised." "Do you see the man that you saw that afternoon In the court room?" asked. District Attorney Coakley. "Yes, I do." she said, pointing lo Abbott. "That man over there in the blue suit," "Mr. Abbott," Coaklpy barked, "please stand up so there can't be any question about this." "Yes, sir,'.' Mrs. Leidecker said, "that la the man." OUTPOSTS OPEN FIRE JERUSALEM. I.M-ael Sector t. Two Egyptian outposts In the Gaza strip opened lire Tuesday at an Israeli patrol in the Kisuuflm arou and another Israeli patrol along the Jordan line was shot ut near the village ol Yeardcna.i an Israeli spokesman declared. 1 He said there were no casual ! lies. Reds Shoot Followers i OfBeria LONDON (UP) Soviet Russia disclosed today that six followers of the late Lavrenti P. Berla have been shot In the biggest known blood purge of the supposedly tranquil Bulganln Khrushchev re gime. Tiflls Radio announced that six former police officials in Beria's home state of Georgia were exe cu ed (or carrying out plots by the executed secret police head, cover ing up bis misdeeds and framing his enemies. In addition two others were sen tenced to 'prison terms, a broad cast from Tiflls, capital of the Georgia republic, reported. It was the biggest purge since ' Berla himself was fired as Soviet secret police chief early in the reign ol Georgl Malenkov and shot in December of 1953 for allegedly plotting against Malenkov's gov ernment and the Soviet Communist system. ' Last . December four Berla ac complices were shot in a follow-up purge sweeping Georgia hotbed of Berla men and home of Botli Beria and the late Josef Stalin. But after Malenkov resigned In February, a new era of bloodless tranquility seemed to dawn in Rus sia under-Premier Nikolai Bulgan ln and Communist Party Chief Niklta Khrushchev. Today's Tiflls Radio broadcast abruptly squashed ' any theories that blood purges : went out with Malenkov, CLEAR NOTICE . Rather the new Georgia trials served clear notice that Bulganln , and Khrushchev Join Malenkov in considering conspiracy with Beria to be a shooting offense. - The broadcast did not make clear whether the eight newly purged Berla men were convicted for- old activities or whether they may have been carrying on the strong man's activities after bis death. "The military board found that Berla entrusted the accused with the execution of such criminal acts which were most Important to him," the broadcast said crypti cally. t Among the executed men were the top secret police officials of Georgia during or Immediately after the Stalin dynasty. Radio Till In, giving only the last . lhAc nlv mn mH . ,,, ... j . t RD' formerly Georgian cor, T . -,lh ' ,, Mmmi. . ,,.., .,. Rtilrnrtvft ' mrmrlv Mall nr th Interrogation department of the MHVD (secret police) of the Geor gian Soviet- Socialist Repub lic and subsequently Georgian minister of security. Tsereteli, formerly Georgian deputy commissar of internal af fairs and subsequently Georgian deputy minister of Internal affairs. StaviLskiy, Krlnan and Knazani. Interrogators of the Georgian com missariat of internal affairs. ' Paromanov. also an, Interrogator was sentenced to 25 years Im prisonment. A man named Nadarala, and not identified further, was sentenced to 10 years. CARRIED OUT The broadcast said the Presidi um of the USSR Supreme Soviet dismissed their appeals and "the sentence was carried out." " Berla's purge came after the death of Stalin when he appeared to be assuming Joint leadership of Russia with Malenkov. He was re moved from office In July and charged with being an enemy of the people. Execution followed an 11-day trial In December. Of the five Soviet secret polls chiefs since the 1917 revolution only one. Dzerzhinsky, died a nat ural death, one was assassinatea and three were executed. Ike Conducts Cabinet Meet: GETTYSBURG, Pa. Iffl Presi dent Eisenhower met with his Cab inet In a mountain hideaway Tues day and voiced thanks for the members' "perfection of coordina tion and cooperation" during his Illness. The two-hour meeting took place at Camp David, in the heart of the Catoctln Mountains, with most Cabinet members flying In by hell copter from Washington. Later, after the President's re turn to his Gettysburg country home. James C. Hagerty. White House press secretary, told news men of the Chief Executive's ex pression of gratitude to the Cabi net members. Hagerty said Secretary of State Dulles gave the cabinet and other officials at the meeting a report on developments stemming from the Geneva conference of foreign min isters and his visits to Rome and to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. In addition. Hagerty said, "do mestic matters" were discussed. This undoubtedly Included a block ing out of the President's next Stale of the Union message, due in January, since the White House's top speechwrlters were present. . One of the parly arrivals by air at Camp David Tuesday was Sec retary of Agriculture Benson. Both he and James C. Hagerly. presi dential press secretary, said they knew nothing about a report pub lished in The New York Herald Tribune that demands tor Benson's resignation have been blocked by the President's brother, Dr, Milton 8. Elsenhower. Besides Benson, Postmaster Gen eral Summerfleld. Secretary of the Interior McKay and Welfare Sec retary Folsom were the Cabinet members helicoptering In.
