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Newspaper Page TextU 0? LIBRARY EU3SNS, ORE. CC2P Leave Foreign Polity Out Of Politics, Dulles Asks Parties WASHINGTON (UP) Secretory of State John Foster Dulles mado an . urgent new appeal to both parties today not to play politics with the nation's foreign policy. Dulles told his weekly news con . ference that political wrangling over foreign policy will increase the risk of war If it raises doubts abroad about America's intentions to liva up to its International com mitments. Dulles warned there is a danger point which all patriotic citizens should recognize in an election year. This, he said, is to make sure that other nations do not lose their confidence in the solid, basic foreign policies of this country. PRESTIGE Dulles said basic bipartisan po . rations on foreign policy developed during the last 10 years Involve U.S. prestige and honor in other countries.- He said it would be a very sad day and increase the risk of war if there should be doubt about U.S. determination to stand by Its com mitments. On the current Republican Democratic squabble over foreign aid, Dulles said be believes the administration will get necessary authority from Congress to under take some long term projects. Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga), Abbott Jurors To Try Again OAKLAND, Calif., (UP) -r A Jury of seven men and five women made another try today to deter mine the guilt or innocence of Burton W. Abbottt, accused of kid naping and murdering a teen-age schoolgirl. There was absolutely 'no hint from the weary Jurors as to how their deliberations were progress ing. Observers speculated they had either reached a deadlock or were engaged in a massive review of the case. '' Abbott, 27, an acoountlng stu dent, was tried for the kldnap murder of - 14-year-old Stephanie Bryan of Berkeley last April 28. Her body was found July 20 near his mountain cabin, Superior Judge Charles Wade Snook hinted yesterday he might let the Jury deliberate for several more days. The Jury got the oase last Thuisday."TJp c I8t night, they had spent about 38 hours In their deliberations. "This length of time has not been too long," Snook sam. "one California Jury once took 101 hours of actual deliberation to reach a verdict. 'SThey've given signs that they have gone over the case very care fully. The bailiff said there were no signs of dissension when he took them to their hotel." Snook gave no clue whether he would call the Jury and ask it for an accounting. Generally, judges do not make such queries unless the jury indicates a deadlock. - If there is a deadlock, the judge said that the court "has the right to point out that this has been an expensive trial and that they should try to agree." Abbott appeared to be in fairly good spirits yesterday. His Jailors said he had a good night's sleep. Wool Demand Increase Seen FORT WORTH, Tex. I Indi cations call for a sharp increase In wool demand in 1956. Max F. Schmitt of New York City, presi dent of the Wool Bureau, told di rectors of the American Wool Council here Monday. Schmitt said consumption for the first 10 months of 1955 was up 8 per cent over the 1954 level and .. Viat prospects look good lor a prosperous 1936. A continued high level of purch asing power and a steady Increase in population of the United States are contributing factors, he said. The first general session of the 91st annual convention of the Na tional Wool Growers Assn. got un. der way here Tuesday morning with more than 400 Western state sheep and wool men present. J. H. Breckenridge of Twin Falls. Idaho, association president, was. slated to address the group. ONPA Finds No Suppression EUOENE 1 The Freedom of Information Committee of the Ore gon Newspaper Publishers Assn. said In a report made public Tues day that it found no evidence of news suppression at North Bend and Coos Bay. The report was limited to points raised by the Coos Bay Times in a complaint sent Dec. 17 to the association which has Its bead quarters here. The association's committee re port said its investigation was started after Stan Martindale of the Times protested "suppression of public records by officials of North Bend and Coos Bay." The Times had asked officials of both cities for the number of arrests made, and the location. In the past six months; the num ber of calls made by police, and the location, in the six months; and the number of times police went to a location at the request of the owner. Influential chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has voiced his strong opposition to any long term aid commitments. He continued to hold tills view despite a personal conference with Presi dent Eisenhower yesterday. PROBLEM Dulles also touched on these other international Issues: - - Middle East: The United States still opposes an uncontrolled arms race in the Middle East. In event of open conflict in the area the United Slates will seek to act Senate Raps Government Grain Policy WASHINGTON W The Senate Investigations subcommittee said Tuesday "confusion, gross care lessness and lack of coordination" marked the government's big 1954 program of buying grain storage bins. The subcommittee said such derelectlon cost the taxpayers a "considerable" amount but it gave no dollar estimate. . "The Department of Agriculture is severely criticized for its negli gence and inefficiency In failing to act, ana process claims. when defective wooden bins were re ported," a subcommittee report said. "The Navy Department (which provided inspection service) like wise is severely criticized for Its negligence and Inefficiency in wrongfully certifying that defec tive lumber met government speci fications." There was no immediate com ment from either the Agriculture or Navy Departments. The report, filed with the Senate by Chairman McClellan (D-Ark.), said both agencies were "guilty of gross inefficiency and demon strated poor business management and lack of Initiative and Judg ment" in handling the purchase of thousands of metal storage bins. The bins are used to store orraln held under government price sup port Joans. . - The report 4ccused the Agricul ture Department of "failure to profit by errors" it said were made in a similar 1949-50 bin purchase program on which, the subcom mittee said, the government has recovered only $31,000 out of $893, 864 of claims for allegedly defec tive bins., The report said the Agriculture Department and' its Commodity Credit Corporation in 1954 bought 54.338 prefabricated steel bins, 8,980 of them at a cost of $4,887,020 from the firm of Black, Slvalls & Bryson of Kansas City, Mo. Many of this firm's bins were defective, it said, with parts fit ting so badly that moisture and vermin easily could enter through cracks and Jagged bolt holes. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Partly cloudy with few light snow flurries through Wednesday. Hlirh 33-38. Lows Tues day night 18-28. High yesterday 32 Low last night ..... ... 17 Preclp. last 24 hours 0.12 Preclp. since Oct. 1 14.91 Same period last year 3.57 Normal for period 8.29 19 ial -l .1 f - 1 - '--i i i ft r , d La I RONALD FRIEND, 1614 Halsay Street, canter, and Doran Otterbein, foreground, 1611 Nimiti Street, were being tent off to school thit morning by Doran's younger sister, Dyann, left, whan the 9 o'clock photographer cam by. through . the United Nations, al though It is questionable whether Russia would permit action since It has the veto power. The whole Middle East question will come up during talks between Mr. Elsen hower and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden next week. .Hydrogen bomb tests: The ad ministration sees no possibility of an East-West agreement to control nuclear testing. This has been under discussion with ' Eden for two. years and -undoubtedly will come up again. The big trouble Is how to define a permissable or a non-permissable nuclear test. PEACE . Red China: The United States believes some progress has been mr.de at the Geneva talks toward getting Red China to renounce the use of force In the Formosa area. The United States will continue to be patient and persistent until it gets peace and security in that area. Dulles rejected Red China's latest charge that the United States during the Geneva talks was following a policy of "deliberate procrastination and obstruction." Democrats and Republicans re mained split over some foreign policy issues despite the Prest dent's effort to heal the breach in his meeting with George yesterday. Marjorie Smith Wins Custody SAN JOSE (UP) Mrs. Mar jorie Smith of Portland, Ore., who was acquitted last April of the car bombing murder of her lawyer husband, has won at least a tem porary victory In her fight to regain the custody of her 3-year-old daughter. The 34-year-old mother was granted temporary custody of the little girl yesterday- by Superior Court Judge J. G. Del Matola. The hild, Susan, has been living at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Ellen High tower, of Los Gatos, Calif. Mrs. Hlghtower took Susan from the Smith home at Portland last April 25 after Mrs. Smith was ar rested for complicity In the mur der of her husband. Mrs.- Smith was subsequently tried and ac quitted of conspiring with Victor Laurence Wolfe, 45, to commit the murder. Wolfe was convicted of murder in the second decree. Mrs. Smith -'testified" yesterday that she saw her daughter Sunday night for the first time since last April, but the little girl did not recognize her. However, Judge Del Matola or dered Mrs. Hightower to turn the child over to her mother "as soon as it is practical" because there -ts "no provision in California law" for the present arrangement. The judge ordered Mrs. Smith to keep Susan in Santa Clara County until It is determined whether she or Mrs. Hlghtower has the legal right to take oare of the child. Mrs. Hightower's attorneys said in court yesterday they would prove that Mrs. Smith was "disso lute and promiscuous" and there fore an unfit guardian for her daughter. Western Air Lines Strike Talks Stop LOS ANGELES (UP) Attempts to settle a 15-day strike against Western Air Lines by members of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks received another setback today. Federal Mediator Leverett Ed wards announced that separate talks to find a basis for further negotiations had failed. . , KLAMATH Price Five Cents 14 Paget - v. tg , THE Hl-Y, TRI-HI-Y Council is made up of representatives end presidents of all the nine chapters of the two organizations in Klamath Union High School. The Hi-Y is made up of boys of high school age while the Tri-Hi-Y is for girls in the same age bracket. Joe Unman, standing, is pre siding at this meeting of the council in the YMCA building, 722 Pins Street. Bill Cornell, Y pro gram secretary, is seated at Linman's left. The Klamath Falls YMCA it observing National YMCA Week this week. ' , Forshaw Gets Six Months YREKA (UP) Superior Judge James M. Allen, overruling a fa vorable probation report, yester day sentenced Alfred E. Forshaw, a Vancouver, B.C., horsebreeder, to six months In. Jail, for man slaughter. T" " 1 A Siskiyou County Jury convicted Forshaw of manslaughter without gross negligence on Dec. 30 for the death of William G. Green, 29, in a fatal highway accident north qf here in Septem ber. Green was a passenger in For shaw's car when it collided head on with an automobile driven by Richard Savage, 45, Montague. Forshaw and Savage were serious ly injured. Probation Officer Lester Newton said Forshaw had a good record, and recommended probation. But Judge Allen ruled that some pun ishment was required because For shaw had been guilty of negli gence. USAF Housing Plan Approved The Department of Defense has authorized the construction of 220 family housing units at the Klam ath Falls Air Base, the Associated Press bureau in Washington, D.C. announced today. The official release said the units will be built under Title VIII of the Federal Housing Administration. The project will be repaid from the housing allowances of the mili tary personnel occupying the units. When the FHA is repaid the project will be the property of the Air Force. Under Title Vni the military service building the units is al lowed a maximum of $13,500 per unit for construction costs by the FHA. No time for bidding or con struction was announced. GRANDFATHER BONN. Germany iin Chancel lor Adenauer became a grandiath er Tuesday for the 16ih time. The wife of his son, Dr. Max Ade nauer, gave birth to a daughter. Adenauer has seven children. Five of them are married. March Of Dimes Chapier Announces Coming Events As the Klamath County March of Dimes enters Its final phase, the drive leaders have planned several big events this week, an nounced Jay Kroksh, drive chair man, today. Wednesday the Klamath Falls Lions Club will begin the Radio Auction over KFLW from t to 10 p.m. This is an annual event staged by the civic club. Items contributed by local 'merchants and individuals are auctioned off with all the proceeds going to the March of Dimes anti-polio fund. The event also will be held Thursday from 9 to 10 p.m. and Friday from 9 to 10 p.m. and from 10:15 p.m. until all the items are auctioned. Anyone wishing to con tribute items to be sold ran tele phone 4127 or call the Klamath Falls Fire Department, 5425, for pick up of the items. The Venture Club Is aiding the Lions in this auction sale. Joe "Colonel" Meador will be the auc tioneer. The Teens Against Polio of Klamath Union High School is planning two big events this week. On Thursday at 8 p.m. they will bold a talent show In Mills School FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 195 Telephone till . .7 I Nine YMCA Groups Develop Christian Leadership In KF r Editor's Note: The -week of Jan uary 23 to 28 is National YMCA Week. .This Is the third in a series of articles describing the various phases of YMCA activities.) Klamath County Hlgh-Y and Trl-Y . clubs are helping Borne 300 high school students to develop a purposeful me. , i- Mine different groupings of boys and girls work toward the high purpose of auampuni ui create, maintain and extend throughout the home, school and community high standards of Christian char acter. ' ' In addition to mere numbers (the Phone Calls Threaten Juror OAKLAND (UP) Mrs. Leona Dezman, a major prosecution wit ness in the .Burton W. Abbott murder trial, has asked the Ala meda County district attorney's office for protection as the result of continued threatening phone calls. Mrs. Dezman complained that for the past few weeks she has received two or three daily calls from an anonymous woman. The woman told her yesterday, "Y011 should have your eyes gouged out for what you have done." Furthermore, she said, several customers at the beauty shop she operates have also received calls from 1 the same woman, asking them to boycott the shoe. Mrs. Dezman and her husband, Otto, conferred with Dlst. Atty. J. Frank Coakley for three quarters of an hour yesterday. Dezman sald he has given permission for police to tap their telephone line in order to trace the calls. The calls began two weeks ago after Mrs. Dezman testified that he saw Abbott in her beauty parlor in Alameda at 2:15 p.m. on the afternoon of April 28. the day Stephanie Bryan disappeared. Abbott, on trial for the crime, nau testified he was out of town at the time. auditorium and a Peanut Sale Day Saturday. The Peanut Day will be put on by tiie KUHS Girl's League. The girl students will sell bags of peanuts on the streets of Klamath Falls with all the pro ceeds going to the March of Dimes. The 20-30 Club will stage Coffee Day on Friday. The restaurants of Klamath Falls will donate their coffee money to the polio drive on that day. Walt Bingham of the 20-30 Is chairman of this day. The 20-30 will also hold Shoe-Shine Day on the streets of downtown Klamath Falls on Saturday with Claude Rodgers chairman of this fund-drive fete. The Klamath County Junior Chamber of Commerce will at tempt to beat the Block of Dimes record of the Exchange Club this Saturday. The Exchange Club staged Its Block of Dimes last Saturday. The Jaycces will hold their Block of Dimes on the same block the ,Exchange Club used, between Eighth and Ninth on Main 8treet. The Exchange Club collected $285 last Saturday. Chuck Boleyn is chairman of the Jaycees block with Don Christy co-chairman. No. 3382 groups gained 114 new members this year), the groups measure their growth by increasing the standards of personal conduct of their members. ' Among the ways this objective Is accomplished are training and orientation programs for new mem bers; the development , of "open membership" regardless- of wheth er members are affiliated With the YMCA. 'and ..the examination of notlvltlen ui tn- llft- of pleasure derived from service to others. , Good times are held In high re gard by club directors and ol fl eers. -Fotlitcks, dances, a 0 0 I a 1 events and other recreation fre quently appear on club programs. Also emphasized is leadership. YMCA officials say that there Is an ever increasing need for men and women, -regardless of age, with Christian motivation and a desire to contribute as well as learn. Monthly adviser meetings are held in an efiort to aid in building a challenging program. In line with leadership activities, the High-Y and Trl-Y council Is being strengthened In an effort to coordinate the strength and activi ties of the nine chapters Into a single working unit. Approximately 90 per cent of the chapters' budgets are for educa tional or service causes. Program material is primarily based on the needs and interests of the members. However, certain state and national Hlgh-Y and Trl-Y activities such an encamp ments, training conferences for of ficers, world service programs and YMCA Youth in Government pro grams at Salem. few v kr. AN ELECTRIC TOASTER for the Polio Radio Auction, to be staged by the Klamath Fa lit Lions Club Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday ovar KFLW, was given by S. B. "Brick" Leach, right, of the Leach Service Co. The toaster, with other items contributed by Klamath merchants and individuals,, will be auctiontd off by the Lions on the three nights between 9 to 10 p.m. The last night, Friday, the auction will be resumed at 10:15 and will run until all the items are soldi All tha proceeds of ths auction will go to tha March of Dimes anti-polio fund. Pictured with Leach it Forrttt Kelly, member of tha civic club. Deans Sachar it tha chairman of tha event. Nation On Threshold Of Largest Economy WASHINGTON W President El senhower today proposed a restora tion of standby controls over con sumer credit, although he told Con gress the country's booming econ omy now is advancing at a tamer" gait. Mechanical Failure Said Wreck Cause LOS ANGELES (UP) The dis trict attorney investigating the deadly Santa Fe train wreck here said today he had found no evi dence of criminal negligence In the smashup which killed 29 persons. S. Ernest Roll, the district at torney, said he planned no crim inal action of any kind at the pres ent time and Indicated a mechan ical failure was responsible for the wreck. A thorough investigation was planned before Feb. 3 when an In quest will be held and all evidence presented to a grand Jury. Tenta tive plans were made for at least three other omciai investigations. There was some evidence a "dead man's control" emergency device failed to function when the train left the track as It hurtled around a dangerous curve at 71 miles an hour. FIREMAN TESTIFIES Fireman Homer Smith told Chief Deputy District Attorney Adolph Alexander that the engineer, Frank Parrish, threw the train into emer gency "and nothing happened." Smith, under treatment for back Injuries, saldhe called out as the train passed the 15 miles per hour warning sign and received a waved acknowledgment from Par rish. However, the train continued to pick up speed, Smith said. He shouted at Parrish to throw the brake into emergency, and the en. gineer did so but It failed to operate. The emergency device would theoretically slop the train auto matically, lb in vuuvruucu uy a pedal- which the engineer must keep depressed with his foot at all times while, the train is 111 oncra- tlon; Should an engineer collapse he would fall away from the pedal and release the stopping mecha nism. Parrish, 01, said he blacked out before he came to the dangerous curve. He told Investigators he had no recollection of releasing the dead man's control pedal, But he said he was aware of something before the smashup. "I'm solely responsible," Parrish sobbed from his bed at the Santa Fe hospital where he Is being treated for shock. VERY DANGEROUS He told Investigators it would be very dangerous to take the curve where the wreck occurred at a speed of more than 35 to 40 miles an hour. The curve has a posted limit of 15 miles an hour. But an automatic tape recording device in the dlesel showed the train was speeding at 71 miles an hour Just before the smashup. The official death toll In the crash wa$ set at 29 today with 142 listed as Injured, only one 01 the dead remained to be ldcntllled. The body, listed as f'Jane Doe," had nine $100 bills pinned to the under clothing. It remained unclaimed In the county morgue. The President's annual econom ic report said the United States stands "at the threshold of a 400-billion-dollar economy" after a year of spectacular growth. "The underlying trend still ap pears to be upward," he reported. The message asserted anew, in stronger terms than previously, Eisenhower's contention that "an early reduction of taxes cannot be justified." Economic self-dlsclp-llno, tie said, requires national debt reduction first. The debt now stands at nearly 280 billion dol lars. The message also contained a long list of recommended legisla tion, starting with what Elsenhow er called the "first and most press ing" Job enactment of a farm re lief bill along lines of his soil bank proposal. The President also called lor; 1. More liberal home repair and Improvement loans. Five-year re- . pair loans could be federally in sured, at the discretion of housing authorities. The limit is now three years. INDUSTRY 2. Loans, grants and technical help to bring industry into chron ically depressed areas. The loans would be made on a partnership basis with state and local govern ments. They would come out of I 50-milllon-dollar revolving fund to be operated by a new "Area Assistance Administration" In the Commerce Department. 3. A six-point antitrust program to give new teeth to laws curbing corporation and bank mergers con sidered likely to stifle competition. 4.. Fresh appeals for quick pas sage of such proposals as the 10 year highway Improvement pro gram; the five-year school Indem nities for flood victims; and U.S. adherence to the multlnatlon Or ganization for Trade Cooperation. But the big surprise In a 238- paRe printed message -was Elsen bower's suggestion that Congress, consider re-enacting the Federal Reserve Board's authority to regu late - down payments and repay ment terms on purchases 01 autos, appliances and other consumer Items. ' Elsenhower said "experience of the recent past" Indicates that au thority "would be a useful ad junct" to other anti-lnflatlonary weapons. By recent experience. El- sennower . presumably meant tns Hlx-bllllon-do)lar Increase in-consumer .debt last, year a 10-fold .rl"3va MM '' ' ' 'Although present conditions do not call for the use of such au thority . . he said. "This is a good time for the Congress and the executive ranch to study the problem." SUGGESTIONS The reserve board often has sug gested restoration of the consumer credit-curbing power which was used in World War n and the Korean War. It expired In 1952. Up to now the administration has not supported the request. In changing his position today, Elsenhower emphasized that the authority would be used "only when the economic situation de mands it and under proper admin istrative safeguards." The report, third and last of the major annual presidential mes sages, hammered home Elsenhow er's belief that reduction of the federal debt should precede tax relief in utilizing budget surpluses he has told Congress he anticipates this bookkeeping year and the next, which begins July li He said much the same thing, although with less emphasis In his budget and State of the Union messages. Probe Slated In California SACRAMENTO, Calif. 11 Man ufacturers' offers to sell automo biles to the state of California at "bargain basement prices" will be investigated by a State Senate committee. Sen. George Miller Jr. (D-Mar-tlnez) said Tuesday his Committee on Government Administration will hold hearings In San Francisco Feb. 20-21 Into whether the offers violate federal unfair competition t laws. In bids opened last week. Miller said. General Motors and Ford offers to sell new cars for approxi- 1 mately $1,000 each. "These same cars reportedly cost the dealers at least $500 more nd the motoring public is required to pay several hundred dollars above that." Miller said. The senator added that although "bargain basement prices" seemed to be a good deal for the state, he did not favor the state partic ipating In any deal where unfair competition is practiced or the gen eral public is made to pay higher prices. Similar offers were made to the city of Los Angeles and the Uni versity of California. Miller said. In addition to representatives of General Motors and Ford, he said, spokesmen for three other automo bile manufacturing concerns will be among the principal witnesses at the hearings. MEETING ASKED TOKYO Wl Japan's Socialist Parly Tuesday formally requested the American Embassy to arrange a meeting between their leaders and U.S. Secretary of State Dulles when Dulles visits Japan In March. Spokesmen earlier said the party leader want to "personally urge" Dulles that the United States can cel this year's hydrogen bomb test at Knlwetok, and relax restrictions on exports to Red China.