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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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."
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