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la The- .; -v. ; ' k . ..S- J. Day's lews By FRANK JtNKINS Crime note in the news: The deputy chief of police in the capital city of the United States of America makes the minor head lines with a charge that the gam bling business in Washington has reached a volume of a million dol lars a day. He announces he is quitting his job because of the difficulty in volved in GETTING GAMBLERS CONVICTED after his men have arrested them. It's getting so bad. he intimates, that it isn't much use to go after the gamblers any more. Crime note No. 2: An inquiry has begun into an upstate New1 York GANGLAND CONVENTION. The investigation was ordered by New York's Governor Harri man. Its objective will be to look into the activities of the more than 60 TOP HOODLUMS who at tended the meeting. Hmmmmmm. So the gangster business has reached the point where it HOLDS CONVENTIONS. D'ya reckon' the attending dele gates WEAR BADGES? If so. it should be an easy job to round them up. t ' But - As the deputy chief of police of the nation's capital city says It's practically impossible to convict 'cm after arresting 'em. Remember this hoodlum Anasta sia who was shot to death by some other hoodlums in the bar ber shop of a big New York hotel a while back? It appears that he had been rat tling around New York City for years and years and years, killing people (or ordering 'em killed), whenever he felt like it. But no body ever seemed to be able, to get anything on him that would put him away for good in the Big Stone House that is supposed to be reserved for characters of that sort Then, years ago, there was a character named Capone. He too was addicted to the habit of killing people, or having them killed, whenever they got in his way. It wasn't until old Uncle Sam went after him for EVADING HIS INCOME TAXES that Capone got parked away behind the bars. The news is full of stories about government' investigations! More or less everybody is being accused of doing things they hadn't oughta do. The Democrats are going after the Republicans. The Republicans are going after the Democrats. Our scientists are being fried out in the pan for let ting the Russians get ahead of us With a Sputnik. I sometimes think it might be i good idea to INVESTIGATE GOVERNMENT.--' -' " . " Blast Sinks Italian Ship NAPLES, Italy Wl The 2.285 ton Italian freighter Anna Maria levoli sank alongside a Naples dock Thursday soon after a vio lent explosion ripped through her midsection. Two Italians were known dead and two. to five workers, believed trapped underwater aboard t h e wreck, were presumed dead. More than 35 persons were injured, six seriously. Many were passers by in the city's main square. A U.S. Navy spokesman said no American ships or Navy men were near the scene of the blast. He added that the Navy offered help but Italian officials said they had the situation under control. The ship went(down in 40 feet of water 1,000 feet from the main square. Only part of her bow pro jected above the surface. Divers from the Naples fire de partment were sent down to in vestigate. The cause of the ex plosion was not immediately de termined. Eighteen crewmen and 10 work ers, all Italians, were aboard the .sTiip completing a cleaning job at the time of the explosion. The ves sel was to have sailed later Thurs day for Catania, Sicily. The vessel was built in HI20 by the Detroit Shipbuilding Co. as the Montfaucon. Art Model Slows Project LUTON. England W! The Lu ton Art School hung a sheet across a studio window Thursday to hide its nude model from steelworkers erecting a building next door. "It wasn't so much that the model was embarrassed," said C L. Skinner, head of the school, "but we got so many complaints from the foreman of the build ing." The new building had risen steadily until it reached the level on which pretty Adclc Mavis was pesing in the raw. After that it rose no higher, and the workmen spent most of their time on the side next to the art school. The foreman investigated, saw Adele and appealed to Skinner. The new building will house the College of Further Education. PROTESTS EXPULSION COPENHAGEN. Denmark iUPi Denmark has officially protested j the Soviet expulsion of the Danish j agricultural attache from Moscow: as a Russian reprisal to Den-i mark's ouster of a Soviet diplo mat on spy charges, it was an-' Bounced today, I mm &M -Hv v k THE HUNTER responsible for this wasteful scene should be mighty proud of his "game conservation" efforts. These 14 snow geese and two specks were evidently shot some time Wednesday morning and then dumped in a heap along the north end of Eldorado Boulevard. Kettler Photo Spy Says Rosenberg Gave Saiete Secrets To Reds LEWISBURG, Pa. Wi Robert Morris, counsel for a Senate In ternal Security subcommittee, said Thursday convicted atomic spy David Greenglass told him that Julius Rosenberg carried earth satellite information to the Russians in the late 1040s. Greenglass. imprisoned in the federal penitentiary here, was a brother-in-law of Rosenberg, exe cuted in 1953 as- an atomic spy. "Greenglass told us that Rosen berg was stealing secrets about AF Reveals Space Ideas WASHINGTON WI Lt. Gen. C. S. Irvine said Thursday the Air Force has active research pro grams under way aimed toward both manned ballistic vehicles and space platforms. Irvine told the National Defense Transportation Assn. that these programs "will take their place in the logical progression of air space weapons systems." Irvine did not go into any ex planation of uses to be made of a manned rocket tut such a device would permit human observation of natural phenomena and per haps of an enemy or potential enemy from vast height. There has been speculation, too, on the possibility of crewmen helping di rect a rocket weapon toward a sure hit, then quitting it before impact. The launching of the Russian sputniks encouraged thinking about space platforms, relatively large devices orbiting around the earth and carrying equipment or men for comparable tasks that might even include guidance of weapons. Irvine made his disclosures as a House subcommittee carried on an investigation of the U. S. posi tion in the missiles-satellites race. Chairman Mahon (D-Tcxi of the appropriations subcommittee de scribed this country as "seriously behind" the Russians in long range weapons development, and said inter-service rivalry is partly re sponsible. Irvine, Air Force deputy chief of staff for materiel, said that without a doubt the Air Force or the Army or Navy could de velop and launch a space vehicle of considerable size. He said cer tain U. S. rockets and propulsion systems have the capability to place a satellite in orbit. He added that this has not yet been done because the primary tasks of the Air Force are de fense of the United States against air attack ana swift retaliation if the nation is forced into war. County Jaycees Veto Bid To Join In Heart Campaign Jerry Slusser. president of the Klamath County Junior Chamber of Commerce, said today his or ganization would not join with 77 other junior chambers in partici pating in an education program during National Heart Week, No vember 18 to 24. Slusser added that he believed this program to be a fund raising campaign and "Since ours was one of the organizations which helped organize the United Fund, and because the Heart Association has withdrawn from UF. wc feel that wc must refrain from par taking in this campaign. I also think that we should participate only in UF campaigns." "I have written a letter," Slus ser said, "explaining our position to L. W. Hoskins. president of The Dalles Jaycees and state chairman of the program. In it. I outlined our stand and said we wished to have nothing to do with the cam paign." Contacted for comment. A'. D. 'Dcbl Addison, United Fund presi dent, said. "I can appreciate the stand of our local Jaycees. I am sure that, like United Fund, they are keenly aware of the need for continued research and education on heart disease, but" disagree space platforms and atomic-powered airplanes," Morris said. Morris interviewed Greenglass and Harry Gold, also a convicted atomic spy, in the penitentiary here prior to a public hearing planned later in the day at Phila delphia. The hour and a half interview with Greenglass and Gold, .Morris said, also brought out that a So viet agent had provided anti-missile secrets to the Russians. Morris declined to identify the agent but said he would do so dur ing the hearing. Morris placed particular empha sis on what he said was a Russian demand on Gold that Gold's espionage efforts go into actual processes rather than theories. Gold told us that the Soviet kept hammering .at him to get scientific secrets trom us. the Senate subcommittee counsel said. He said Gold quoted his Soviet bosses as saying: "We (Russia' can do it ourselves but we haven't the time. You, by obtaining this information, save us time." Morris said both Greenglass and Gold cited specific instances in which information on U. S. projects was turned over to the Russians Neutrals Cool To Russ Stand UNITED NATIONS, "N.Y. WI Russia's brushoff of Western ef forts to break the disarmament deadlock may have demonstrated her new ICBM-Sputnik "position of strength." But it also put a severe strain on her friendship with many so-called neutral na tions. Delegates infer this from the lineup in the smashing 60-0 U.N. Assembly endorsement of the West's plan to increase the 12 natinn Disarmament Commission to 25 members. Only the Soviet bloc voted against the proposal despite Russia's warning she would boycott the talks unless half the nations at the conference table were Communist or neu tral. The West had been confident of victory on the vote. But few had expected Syria and Egypt, who receive economic and military aid from Moscow, to vote for the plan. Nor had they anticipated support from such Asian neutrals as Cey lon and Indonesia, who usually show a marked preference for So viet ideas. A number of usually pro-Soviet delegations were deeply disturbed by Russia's ever-increasing de mands during the East-West ne gotiations last week on enlarging the commission. with an organization which is dic tated from New York." "The Klamath County United Fund has made all possible effort to keep Oregon Heart in our one big fund raising program. How ever, last summer, we received the demand for a guarantee of S4.000 for 11)58 in order for them to remain with us. This was a 97 per cent increase over the amount Oregon Heart received for 1057. "Obviously, this was out of line with meeting of the needs of 27 other agencies. Our budget com mittee set a goal of $2,475 for Ore gon Heart, an increase in a year of 21.8 per cent. This was rejected and Oregon Heart withdrew. "American Heart, the parent or ganization, has forbidden Oregon Heart to enter any more United Funds and has directed withdraw al from all it presently is in as quickly as possible." Prime objective of the other Jaycee volunteers during the week will be the distribution of 50,000 Heart Association education pam phlcts entitled. "Five Facts You Should Know About Heart Dis ease." The pamphlets will be pocketed in specially designed dis play boxes which carry the theme. "Use Your Head To Help Your Heart." Price Five cents 28 Pages New FHA Plan Eyed By Leaders WASHINGTON Wl The Eisen howcer administration is weighing a new Federal Housing Adminis tration program under which mortgage lenders would set the interest rate and FHA would in sure only 20 per cent of the risk. Housing Administrator Albert M. Cole, announcing this Thurs day, told reporters that of. the ad ministration decides to recom mend the plan and Congress adopts it, FHA would not enforce the same structural standards which now protect home buyers. He said the plan would not change or displace the existing FHA insurance program under which the government insures 100 per cent of the lender's risk but imposes a ceiling of 5'i per cent on the interest rate he can charge. Cole unveiled the plan in i speech prepared for the conven tion of the New Jersey League ol Municipalities at Atlantic City, after explaining it to reporters here. "The program would permit low down payments and low monthly payments," he said in the speech. "One of the principal aims would be to avoid the prohibitive expenses of second-mortgage fi' nancing that is becoming increas ingly and dangerously p r e V a lent. "It would greatly reduce the chances of the home owner losing his home." Cole told newsmen that "no def inite decision has been made," but that the plan is under "concen trated dicussion" in the govern ment. The idea was expected to arouse quick opposition in Congress, where Democratic legislators have resisted lifting the interest ceil ing. Oregon Road Traffic Down SALEM Wl Highway traffic in Oregon during October was 2.3 per cent under that el OcU; 1056, the Oregon Highway Commission said Thursday. The following increases were noted: Baldock Freeway at Chemawa overcrossmg, 6.7 per cent: Coa,st Highway at Otter Rockt 9.1 per cent: Columbia River Highway at Rowena, 6.3 per cent; Pacific Highway west at Amity, 6.3 per cent. The commission reported these decreases: John Day Highway near Prine- ville. 13.1 per cent: Central Ore gon Highway at Pilot Butte, 11.3 per cent; Pacific Highway north of Grants Pass. 11.1 per cent. Traffic for the first 10 months of this year is virtually the same as in the similar period of last year. STALIN STATUE GONE MOSCOW (UP) A seven - foot bronze statue of Stalin has been removed from its prominent posi tion at the entrance to Moscow's main air terminal at Vnukovo Airport, it was disclosed today. The statue was one of the last of many which adorned the city, but which have gradually disappeared since the downgrading of the for mer Russian dictator. I WW It tqvl?' I i r til zs t-t 'Av' jr- OPERATION SANTA CLAUS, sponsored annually by members of the Klamath Falls Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose No. 1106, that promises Christmas cheer to hundreds of needy persons in Kris Kringleville, Ji K.F. I will get under way the day following Thanksgiving, November 29. Colorful barrels will be placed in stores throughout the city to receive new toys from the public. A greater need for help is anticipated this year, and the public is urged by the committee to be generous in giving. Toys will be distributed Christmas Eve. Members of the Tavern Owners Association will display jars for cash donations, to be used for candy, fruit and toys if extras are needed. The Bend-Portland Truck Company will furnish transportation. Helping ready the barrels are, left to rlqht rear, Janice Brit ton, Bert Reis, F. E. Mitchell, "spark plug" for the operation, Gary Carr, and Ervin Carr. Front it Johnny Britton. Photo by Britton Mil MEMBERS OF THE Klamath County Grand Jury arc pictured returning to their chambers Wednesday morning after visiting KFJI hill where they looked over the area where a Klam ath Falls man was allegedly taken and beaten by two Klamath Falls policemen on the night of November 3. The jurors have been studying the case for the past three days and have not indicated when their investigation of the issue will be concluded. Gein Enters Innocent Plea WAUTOMA. Wis. at Edward Gcin, admitted butcher-slayer of middle-aged business woman. pleaded innocent by reason of in sanity when arraigned Thursday on a charge of first degree mur der. He was ordered held without bond for trial in circuit court. mam, alter accepting me pica, found "probable cause" that the crime had been committed and that the 51-year old bachelor farmer should be held for trial. The farmer-handyman is ac cused of the premeditated killing of Mrs. Bernice Worden, whose mutilated body was found hang ing by the lieels from a rafter in Gein's farm home last Satur day night. Gcin also -is charged wn robbing iter hardware, store. Coin's attorney waived prelimi nary hearing. The case now goes before Cir cuit Judge Herbert A. Bunde who i will decide whether Gcin is sane and capable of standing trial or is insane and should be commit ted to the Central State Hospital at Waupun State Prison without standing trial for murder. Gcin also has admitted the fatal shooting of Mrs. Mary Hogan, 54, a tavern keeper in adjoining Port age County. The admission of the second slaying was the result of lie detector examination at Madi son Wednesday." Gein's arrest follows the discov ery of Mrs. Worden's mutilated corpse in the summer kitchen of his central Wisconsin farmhouse. Horrified officers also found 10 other skulls, skin masks, bones and scalps in the farm house. Thursday's court proceedings lasted only five minutes. The Chicago Tribune said in a copyrighted story that Gein had told authorities in the crime lab examination of "a strange sex complex that motivated his sadis tic rampage." The Tribune said that Gein also "divulged new and more horrifying details of his ghoulish activities." KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1937 'B.'aeassV SHOOTING HOURS OREGON November it OPEN CLOSE 6:3( 4:42 CALIFORNIA November 22 OPEN :32 CLOSE 4:41 Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity! Fair through Friday. Low Thursdoy night' JM4tv Mlkr- Fri day 35-42. High yesterdny .. 33 Low Inst, night ' 20 Prccip. last 24 houra 0.02 Since Oct. 1 4.52 Same period last year 3.76 Normal for period 2.24 CRATER LAKE High yesterday 37 Low last night 11 a.m. today a 13 No new snow ' Snow depth 31 Inches Crusty ski conditions; chains ad vised on lUgliwny 62 and to the rim; no wind, bright, clear day. Official Klamath Indian Roll Given WASHINGTON Wi The final, official roll of the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon is to be published Thursday in the Federal Register, Secretary of Interior Seaton said. He said the roll contains 2.133 names, compiled under the Klam ath Termination Act of 1954. It represents the final listing of tribal members after disposition of all appeals to the secretary. Under terms of the 1054 law only those on the rolls are entitled to share in benefits of tribal property. 9 ' .. .. - m Grand Jury Action Listed The Klamath County Grand Jury moved into its fourth day Thurs day when investigating charges that Clyde Cloud, a 52-year-old Klamath Falls man, was taken up on KFJI hill and roughed up by the officers in a city patrol car on the evening of November 3. The jury interrupted its proceed ings early Thursday morning ' to deliver decisions in three other ' matters which they had studied and then -returned to give further I rniwiriftrfltinn tn th nllp0fH nnlipp - n i beiiling issue. Scheduled to testify were more officers presently employed on the police force. Cloud, who is currently conval escing at the Klamath Valley Hos pital after suttering a compound tracture of the lower right leg, contends that he sustained the In juries when being roughed around by the police. The officers involved admit having taken Cloud up on the hill, but deny having roughed him up and maintain that he was taken there at his own request so he could leave town. The grand jury Investigation was requested by District Attorney Richard Bceslcy. Cool Weather Covers State Ry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fair, cold weather spread over most of Oregon overnight and the Weather Bureau reported freezing temperatures at nearly all sta tions except near the coast. Baker in Eastern Oregon, where ihe mercury has been freezing for several days, had a frigid 5 above zero Thursday morning. That was the lowest reading reported to the Weather Bureau. In Central Oregon Bend report ed a low of 17 and west of the Cascades Salem reported 27 de grees. Portland and ftoseburg each had 31. - A high pressure ridge along the coast continues to divert Pacific storms northward to Alaska. A strong easterly wind through the Columbia Gorge and mountain passes kept fog out of the Port land area and parts of the Wil lamette Valley Thursday. The Weather Bureau said little change in the weather was ex pected through Friday. Health Officials Discover KC Mice Carrying Disease By FLORENCE JENKINS Hunters got an additional warn ing to keep their dogs away from field mice in a statement released today by Dr. S. M. Kerron, Klam ath County health officer. Tularemia or rabbit (ever has been found in Klamath County mice, the health officer said. This infectious disease can be trans mitted to dogs and human beings. It is a sufficiently virulent organ ism that it can penetrate the un broken skin and. while it probably wouldn't be fatal, both man and dog could become mighty sick. He described the symptoms as some what similar to typhoid: undulate fever, nausea and a general ach ing condition. Dr. Kerron received a telephone call on Wednesday from Ihe Ore gon Slate Health Department re laving a message from Dr. Wit liam Jellison ol the U.S. Public Health Department's Rocky Mnun. tain Laboratory at Hamilton, Mon tana. Dr. Jellison and a staff doc tor of the state health department visited Klamath Falls to confer with Dr. Kerron and the county agent's office about a week ago. One of the mice taken back to the Telephone TU 4-8111 No. 3951) I Spud Crop Woes Cited By Benson WASHINGTON Wl' - Secretary Benson said Thursday the Agri culture Department rejects sug- ' gestions that the government use a "bounty" to help the potato in dustry. "We receive our fair share of suggestions lor improving pros perity in the potato industry," he said in a speech prepared for a luncheon meeting of the National Potato Council. "Too frequently these sugges tions simmer down to a bounty to be paid by the government to precipitate the industry into an unsound regimented position or to arrange an unsound condition al ready existing. "We reject suggestions of this kind." the secretary said, adding that programs of this nature for other crops had not brought about a true long-range solution of their problems. ' Like growers of some other crops, potato producers have beet! harassed by overproduction and low prices in recent years. Benson said it is the duty of the individual grower as well as of the industry itself to keep pro duction geared to market needs. lie pointed out that his depart ment advises growers, ahead of the planting season, of the acre age it believes they should plant. "Is it reasonable or right," he asked, "to use public money to bail an area out of surplus situa-; tion when that surplus was cre ated in the area with complete disregard of known marketing ca pabilities?" Trie secretary said that when surpluses do arrive,. the industry itself should assume its "full major responsibility" for divert ing excess supplies from the market. Government aid in a diversion program can be justified, he said. only when growers stay within ' recommended acreages and a Eiirplus arises from unexpectedly high acreage yields or from an overlap in maturity time among producing areas. U.S. Jo See Rocket, Moon CAMBRIDGE. 'Mass. W "The rocket that launched R u s s i a'i Sputnik I will be making its eve ning swan song over the United Stales next week, the Smithson ian Astrophysical Observatory said Thursday. - The rocket and possibly Sputnik' f should be visible over most of the country on successive passes in the evening twilight. - , The following week the rocket should be visible for a few days in the morning before sunrise. The Smithsonian predicts the rocket will make its flaming death plunge within three days, either way, of Dec. 11 so the predicted appear ances are expected to be the last in which the satellite will be vis- ible in the United States. Next Monday the rocket is due to make a first passage starting at approximately 3:40 p. m., (PST) in the Chicago area and passing out of the United States over Atlanta, Ga., four minutes later. On Tuesday the third passage that day will begin in the Portland, Ore., area at 5:30 p. m. PST, ending near Phoenix, Ariz.,, five minutes later. The third passage on Wednes day will begin at 5:55 p. m. PST about 200 miles off the West Coast and should be visible far in the western sky to West Coast resi dents. Dr. Charles Whitney, Smithson ian astrophysicist, said the rocket satellite would be about 250 miles high In its passages overhead. Hamilton laboratory died. If was found to have been infected with tularemia The U.S. Public Health Depart ment will send a, man here for a six-months study of the mouse problem, Dr. Kerron said. Because of the lateness of the season, the researcher will probably come here in the early months of the spring. Dr. M. C. McFadden, of the Blue Cross Veterinary Clinic, said they have treated no dogs suffering from tularemia but the disease is fairly prevalent in areas with large rabbit populations. Dogs show list lessness and loss of appetite. Treatment, he said, consists of an tibiotics aiid iheiiiolheratiy. Thousands of acres of farm land in Northern California, particular ly around Tulclakc, have been poisoned by plane with 10-80. Eat ing a single poisoned mouse will kill a dog, the wildlife department states. "It's tough on the hunters." Dr. Kerron commented. "Across the line they run the risk of having their dogs die of poison. In Klam ath County there is the danger of tularemia." f-a
