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U Or OREGON LIBRARY EUGENE, ORE. COJ? Im The- Day's km By FRANK JENKINS There is BIG NEWS as this Is written big news, that is, if you are interested in the long, long story of history. This is the news: AFTER ALL THESE CENTU RIES. THE FABLED NORTH WEST PASSAGE TO ASIA HAS BEEN DISCOVERED. It was discovered by the American-built atomic - powered submarine Nautilus, which has just tailed under the polar ice from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic ocean. It's a strange story. It began with the Voyage pf Co lumbus in 1492. On that historic voyage. Columbus discovered America. He didn't know he had discovered a new continent. He thought,-when he made a landfall on the island that he named San Salvador, that he had landed on an island of the Indies, near Japan or China. Hence the name INDIANS. He thought the gentle natives of the Caribbean islet were residents of the rich INDIES. He thought he had found a new, quick, cheap sea route to these fabulous lands which Europe long had traded by costly and dangerous land routes. He thought he had it made. So did everybody else. When, after a couple of decades. It developed that all he had found was a NEW WORLD it was a ter rible disappointment. He died in disgrace. The new world he had discovered wasn't even named Columbia. They dug up another alleged discoverer, Amerigo Vespuci, and named it America. With acceptance of the bitter fact that a .new continent lay be tween the shores of Europe and the shores of the Indies, there began a search that was to last for more than three centuries j the search for the Northwest Pas sage. In 1497, only five years aft er Columbus' first voyage, John and Sebastian Cabot set out from England to find it. They sailed Blong the west coast of Green land as far as Baffin Land (see your map) and then gave up. Jacques Cartier sailed from France in 1534 and thought he had it when he sailed up the Saint Lawrence river. In 1609, Henry Hudson thought be had found it when he sailed into what is now New York harbor and on up the Hudson river. When Sir Francis Drake came up our Pacific Coast in the mid dle 1500's, he cherished hopes that he might stumble onto it. In the fabled tales of the River of the West that preceded Us actual dis covery, the Columbia river was regarded as maybe the entrance to the Northwest Passage. So were the Strait of San Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound. The Northwest Passage was dream that men just couldn't seem to give up. Well IT HAS BEEN FOUND. It has been found by means of a contraption known as a sub marine which was envisioned by Jules Verne, tinkered with experi mentally by the Confederate navy during the War between the states and finally brought to a reason able state of perfection by a naval designer named John P. Holland, whose first sub was launched in 1900. The under-the-ice trip of the submarine Nautilus through the Northwest Passage was made pos sible by an even more fabulous development-ATO.MIC POWER. And- Now that the fabled Northwest Passage has finally been navigat-edit is OUT OF DATE commercial ly. Its only value is as a means of transferring military submarine fleets from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and vice versa. The tale that history has to tell us is a strange one, isn't it? Price Ten Cents 88 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10. 1958 Telephone TU 4-8111 Sub - Summit' Confab Foreseen By Diplomats Friend Of Victim Held In Torch Investigation FLINT, Mich. (AP) - Jack Thompson, a Teamsters Union business agent, was ordered held Saturday for investigation of arson in a dry cleaning shop blaze which the state contends backfired and made a human torch of fellow un ionist Frank Kierdorf. Michigan Atty. Gen. Paul L. Adams, who ordered Thompson held, described him as the closest friend of Kierdorf and also a busi ness agent of the same Flint Teamsters Local 332. Adams said Thompson's finger prints had been found on the sta tion wagon the state contends Senator Calls For New Union To Rival Hoffa WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-NC) urged the AFL-CIO Saturday to consider set ting up a rival to the giant Team sters Union, which he said is run by criminals . and gangster associates. Ervin is a member ot the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee which last week heard Teamster President James R. Hoffa testify he has had more important things to do than take action against un ion officials with criminal records. Members of the committee voiced astonishment at this atti tude. Chairman John L. McClellan iu-ArK) tola Holla: "You sur round yourself with criminals, and you keep them there and in tend to keep them there if you can have your way." There will be action taken in due time," Hoffa replied. "It's not right or fair for you to say there is something wrong with my lead ership because I don't deprive peo ple of a right to a living. Ervin told a reporter Saturday he believes "the AFL-CIO now must give serious thought to set ting up a new transportation union to provide a place for hone s't Teamsters members to go those thousands and thousands who won't want a union led by crimi nals, associates of gangsters and Fifth Amendment pleaders in whom they can repose no trust." The AFL-CIO, while leaving the way open to take some such step in the future, has put primary em phasis on appeals to the .Team sters' rank-and-file to vote out of office any corrupt officials. AFL - CIO President George Meany said 10 days ago he looks forward to the day "when mem bers of the Teamsters Union who have been victims of shameless exploitation by some of their lead ers will take the necessary steps within this union so that it can take its proper place in the AFL- CIO." The AFL-CIO last year expelled the l'-i-million-member union as corruptly led. Kierdorf used in the suspected torching of the cleaning shop. it ne ftad any other information in ordering Thompson booked without charge, Adams wouldn't say. But he did tell newsmen he was running down "a number of tips of interest which have come forth in the last 12 hours. . Kierdorf, 56. died Thursday in a Pontiac hospital of burns which had seared 8a per cent of his body Sunday night. He first told author ities he was set ablaze by two gun men who had lured him from his Flint home on the pretext of tend ing to union business and then dumped him on the Pontiac hospi tal grounds. Police shot that story full ot holes, and Adams said Saturday these questions were being checked out: 1. Was Kierdorf getting money from Flint cleaners who wanted their employers to remain unor ganized? 2. Was Kierdorf operating a pro tection service, being paid by one cleaner to drive rivals out of bus iness? Adams said evidence indicated Kierdorf had been burned in set ting the Flint dry cleaning shop on fire and was caught in an ex plosion as he groped in the dark for a dropped flashlight. A flashlight was found in the burned shop. So was a pair of charred glasses. Kierdorf wore glasses. Adams revealed Friday that Kierdorf had admitted on his deathbed he had set the shop fire and named some accomplices But the attorney general said he was skeptical of this, since every thing else he told us was a tissue of lies" and since physicians said the man might have been unable to comprehend only two hours be fore he died. - -(For earlier story, see page 7-A) UT H g I Wimii.jj. Tf-wvwwiMWMiTOiiii mi. iiiiii ' ' UNITED NATIONS, N Y. (AP) A sub-summit conference of for eign ministers with U.N. Secre tary General Dag Hammarskjold is expected at the General Assem bly's emergency session on the Middle Last, a reliable source said Saturday. the informant said Hammar skjold wants to bring together Sec retary of State Dulles, British For eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, So viet Foreign Ministers Andrei Gromyko, Mahmound Fawzi of the United Arab Republic, and others concerned with the private talks. Any such meeting would be a lower scale substitute for the THE FLYING PALACIOS, Raul and Maria, seem to have a cheerful daughter in little Maria, 3, one of a number of youngsters who will be behind the scenes when the I Oth annual Shrine Circus plays here Tuesday and Wednesday. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair Sunday except for variable cloudiness in afternoon and risk of evening thunderstorms In mountains. High 87-92. High yesterday 88 Low Inst night 62 No Date Set For Building Talks Geophysical Group Would Extend 'Year' WED BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -Idaho's national Republican com mittee-woman, Mrs. Phyllis Loehr, 48. has marued James W. Kline, 28. who was her neigh bor while he was attending the University of Idaho. Mrs. Loehr was divorced from Dr. Doyle M. Loehr. prominent physician at Moscow, Idaho, on grounds of cruelty and separation after 20 years of marriage. Portland-Bound AF Jet Crashes DENVER (AP) A spectacular jet plane crash killed two Air Force officers Saturday. A third died of a heart attack when he saw the burning wreckage. The crash victims were identi fied as Lt. Col. G. C. Farr and Capt. John E. Jones, both as signed to ihe Consolidated Air craft Maintenance Squadron, 337th Fighter Group at Portland, Ore. Capt. Robert L. Ruth, 40. in formation services officer at Low- ry Air Force Base here, was the heart attack victim. His home was in Howe. Neb. The T33 jet trainer plane clipped a fence south of the Low ry AFB runway on takeoff and crashed in a field near a ceme tery. The plane burst into flames. PORTLAND (AP)-Both sides Saturday refused to set a date for new negotiations in Oregon's multi-million dollar construction tie- up. Federal mediator LeRny Smith said neither the Operating Engi neers Union nor the Associated General Contractors had agreed o a resumption of negotiations. The dispute began July 11 and has idled construction work in Oregon and Southwest Washing ton valued at 400 million dollars About 28,000 men have been idled. The AGC, an employer group. said its Portland members had voted 101-0 in favor ot the organ ization s last offer to the union Portland members represent about 91 per cent of the dollar value of the projects idled. the Abu said it offered an im mediate 25-cent an hour boost, 15 cents more Jan. 1 and a 5 per cent increase in January of 1960. The last session was held Fri day, when the union turned down the proposal. Boulder Kills Two Construction Men TILLAMOOK, Ore. (AP) Two men were killed outright Friday when a 35-ton boulder crashed down on them as they worked on a road construction project 16 miles southeast of this coastal town. The victims were Howard L. Steam, about 30. of McMinnvillc and Chester Nelson Walton, 53. of Beaver, a little town near Tilla mook. Coroner Alan Lundberg said the men were employed by Murray Bros. Construction Co. of Bend, which is building a timber access road for the U.S. Forest Service. World Applauds As Sub Continues Trip To England WASHINGTON (API The U.S.I The skipper, Cmdr. William R Atomic Submarine Nautilus was on I Anderson, arrived in Washington course oaiuruay lor r-ngiauu, where new acclaim awaited its crew for charting a "northwest passage beneath the polar ice. The history-making vessel was due at Portland, England, on Tues day 21 days and 9,000 miles out of Hawaii on the other side ot the world. Except for her skipper, this will be the first time the 116-man crew of the boat has set foot on land since leaving Hawaii on July 23. MOSCOW (AP) The committee of the International Geophysical Year Saturday formally approved a Soviptf plan to extend the great scientific research program for another yeav, through 1959. The committee s closing session also heard U. S. scientists voice regret that the Russians have not agreed to a full and automatic sharing of knowledge from their rocket and earth satellite experi ments. The decision for an extension of IGY must be ratified by the Inter national Council of Scientific Un ions, the parent body of IGY, but this is expected to be a formality. Then it will be necessary to get the participating governments to agree to foot the bill. More than, 60 governments are participating in the 18-month program which will end in December. The extended program would be known as International Geophys ical Cooperation 1959. The decision was accompanied by recommend ations for many of the IGY studies of the earth, sun, and oceans to be put on a permanent or at least a long-term basis. Resolutions called for a study of the possibility of permanent or long-term agencies to conduct re search in the fields of space sat ellites, sun, and ionosphere. Also approved was the starting of a world magnetic study in a few years to chart the earth's magnetic changes. The International Council al ready has established special com mittees to put research in the Ant arctic and oceanography on a long-term basis. These decisions were the big gest accomplishment of the gath ering of about 400 world scientists who have been meeting here for 10 days to discuss the results of IGY. 35 Die In Air Crash In Libya LONDON (AP) A four-engine Central African Airways Viscount crashed in moonlit hills near Ben ghazi in Libya Early Saturday. Thirty-five of 54 persons aboard died. An official casualty list re leased in London fixed the death toll. It showed all the dead were British or lived in British Com monwealth countries. Four of eight children among the passengers were reported killed. The plane, bound for- London from Salisbury in Southern Rhod esia, crashed at 2:15 a. m. while coming in for a landing at Benghazi. Friday morning, flown here from a point off Iceland. From President Eisenhower he received thanks, a decoration for himself and a cita lion for his crew. He will fly to England to board his submarine before it reaches Portland, 100 miles southwest of London. The White House announcing the Nautilus destination, said the ves sel will visit in England from Aug. 12-17. Ike May Favor UN As Levant Peacemaker WASHINGTON (AP)- The El senhower administration is shap ing a new policy aimed at having the United Nations take over from individual great powers the job of making peace and keeping order in the Middle East. The White House said Saturdav that President Eisenhower at Gettysburg and Secretary of State Dulles here are working to com plete their program for this week's emergency session of the U.N General Assembly. rrom other sources it was learned that the program under consideration is to ask the U.N. lo take over in the Middle East with full assurance of U.S. sup port. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, said Dulles will head the regular U.S. delegation. He said Eisenhower might go to mew York but if he did so it would be for only a brief time. Actually, the present planning is lo divide up the assignment. Offi cials said any speech bv Eisen hower would deal in general terms with the Mid East problem and probably contain some big sur prise plan perhaps in the field of economic development.. Dulles is certain to demand that the So viet Union and the United Arab Republic of President Gamal Experts Predict No War In Asia HONG KONG (AP) Tensioni rises over Formosa Strait, but U. S. and British sources said Saturday they see little danger of a shooting war between Red and Nationalist China. Most U. S, and British quarters privately assess the claims and counterclaims that each side is preparing for an invasion as only talk but talk with a purpose. The Nationalists claim the Reds are threatening an invasion of the offshore islands and moving in MIG jets to bases opposite For mosa. Increased tension might mean new jets and other increased mil itary aid from the United States for the Nationalist stronghold of Formosa. The Communists are believed to be operating on the principle that increased tension would aid the Soviet propaganda cause at the U.N. General Assembly meeting on the Middle Last. Nationalist China would be pic tured as planning an invasion backed by the United States, a theme already introduced by Com munist propaganda. Moscow has been saying the purpose of an attack on the Red mainland would be to divert at tention from what the Communists call U. S. and British aggression in the Middle East. The Chinese Communists also may be trying to get the United States to indicate whether it will defend the offshore islands. LONDON (AP) The London Sunday Times reported in a dis patch from Tokyo that Russia has supplied Communist China with a stockpile of atomic bombs. The newspaper said Its Infor mation came from Japanese and American Intelligence authorities. The-bomhs, along with prom ises to cooperate In moderniz ing Red China's army, were of fered in an agreement reached at a recent defense conference in Pelplng, the Sunday Times reported. The dispatch added -that So viet Premier Khrushchev, In his recent meeting with Mao T re tting, China's Red boss, promised to press vigorously for inclusion and recognition of Red China ia top international talks. f The U. S. 7th Fleet guards For mosa from Iitd invasion. But the United States has agreed to inter vene in any Red invasion of the onshore islands only if President Eisenhower considers this a pre lude to an assault on Formosa it self. The main offshore islands are big Quemoy, across the strait, and the Matsu group 150 miles north west of Formosa. Quemoy and satellite islands blockade the nnrt of Amny. The Matsus hinder the How of seaborne traffic into the Communists' river port of Foo- chow. Peiping may be hoping that ten sion in the strait will prompt the united states to get President Chiang Kai-shek to abandon the off shore islands. That tactic worked for the Reds when the National ists abandoned the Tachen Islands north of Formosa under U. S. prodding in 1955. Tension and talk of tension prob ably will increase before and dur ing the General Assembly session West Coast Sets New Schedules Bob Moore. Klamath Falls man ager of West Coast Airlines, re- nortcd that a new departure and arrival schedule goes into 'effect today. Moore says the early morning and late evening flights to and from Portland have been eliminated. Current schedules call for two departures Irom Klamath Falls lor Portland, at 12:30 p.m. to arrive Portland at 3:50 p.m. and Seattle at 5:34 p.m.; and a second flight leaving nere at 6 p.m. and arriving Portland at 9:20 p.m. The Portland to Klamalh ' Falls times, Moore said, are departing Portland at 8 a.m. and arriving here at 11:30 a.m.; leaving Port land at 1:25 p.m. and arrival Klam ath Falls at 4:55 p.m. FESTIVAL ON TOUR SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-A Pa cific festival to honor countries of the Pacific area will be held in San Francisco Sept. 12 to 19. Am bassadors of Pacific countries will be invited. Mayor George Chris topher announced the event, point ing out San Francisco's historic role as gateway to the Pacilic. government heads conference on which the big powers recently failed to agree. Gromyko is due In New York by plane Sunday. Lloyd and Fawzi are coming later. Abdul Mawgoud Hassan, spokes man for the U.A.R. delegation, told a reporter Fawzi would be here "to lend himself to meetings" with as many other ministers as possible. He said whether Fawzi enters into any conference would depend on what was to be dis cussed and how. Hassan said Hammarskjold gave a good report of great import ance when he addressed the op ening of the emergenoy session late rriday. It has touched on basic prob lems in the area," he said. "It requires serious study." Hassan was the first Arab rep resentative to speak approvingly of Hammarskjold's statement. Hammarskjold proposed that Mid dle Eastern countries pledge non interference in one another's af fairs and that the world commu nitymeaning the big powers assure those countries they can shape their own destinies. He also proposed Middle East ern economic cooperation and con tinued or strengthened U.N. safe guards for Lebanon, Jordan, and the U.A.R.-Israeli frontier. After hearing the plan, the 81 nation Assembly agreed to begin debate Wednesday morning and adjourned until then. Hassan asserted that American information media, "aided and supported by Zionist propaganda," had interpreted Hammarskjold's speech as a warning to the U.A.R. and President Nasser. He said this got the session off to a bad start, turned it into a propaganda campaign, and minimized the ser iousness of the proceedings. US May Train Lebanon Army BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The U. S. military command and Leb anese authorities are discussing the inauguration of Americas training for Lebanese troops. llU. . !J av,i v.... .i ...... i .u ftmerican sources saia aaiuraay. explosive area what Dulles calls . Training in such things as mili- indircct aggression. MOSCOW, (AP)i-' The Soviet news agency Tasa Saturday night linked U. S. acclaim for the sub marine Nautilus' North Pole feat with congressional action on the U. S. military budget. But Soviet scientists hailed the submarine's voyage as an Ameri can first, lauded it as a feat of navigation, and said they knew of no hoviet plan to match it. The Tass dispatch from New York reported the American press was raising a hullaballoo over the exploit which it said was timed with the final stages of congres sional approval of the U. S. budget. The dispatch said the stories about the Nautilus feat in the United States "is the nature of publicity campaign in favor of yet greater appropriations for the U. 5. Navy." It was the first notice of the feat in official quarters. Papers carried not a line about the sub s unprece dented trip. It was believed the dispatch may be a prelude to a campaign of denunciation from the Kremlin. Three Hurt In Wreck FURNITURE FOUND LOS ANGELES (AP) - Forty- eight hours alter they entered Los Angeles traffic bumper-to-bumpcr. the Roy Wheelers and their friend. William Flowers, got back togeth er. Their reunion was especially gratifying to the Wheelers, be cause Flowers was driving alruck holding all their worldly goods when they became separated on their arrival here from St. Louis. Three persons were admitted to Klamalh Valley Hospital Saturday evening following an accident which occurred one mile east of Beatty on Highway 66. Most seriously injured was hranklin Long Jr., 21, of Route 2, Box 562E, Klamath Falls. He was a passenger in a pickup driven by Walter M. Thorne Jr.. 19. 1770 Sis kiyou street, which collided with a flatbed truck operated by Melvln Dean Hunt, 28, of Merrill. The pickup went out of control as it was traveling east, state po nce report, it lett the highway and then came back up the shoul der and onto the road, smashing against Ihe front left side of the flatbed. Police say that Long was thrown through the windshield and onto the pavement by the impact. He was taken by Peace Ambu lance to the hospital, where he was reported last night to be suffering from multiple lacerations, and pos sible fractures and head injuries. He was not believed to be critical ly injured, but was reportedly do ing fairly well. Thome accompanied Long on the trip to the hospital. He was ad mitted with possible chest injuries. Hunt, who was at first believed to be uninjured, was admitted to the hospital late last night with a possible back injury. His son, Mcl vin Jr., 10, who was in the truck with him at the time of thd acci dent, was uninjured. Hunt was pull ing a hayloader when the wreck occurred. tary procedures and small arms handling has assumed consider able importance now that Ameri can and Lebanese units are work ing closely together in such duty as reconnaissance. menl 'ho, hnan ranfhaH flflai cnmA five days of discussions. The pro gram contemplated would not be a full-scale military advisory plan such as the United States now has with certain countries being pro vided with a flow of American arms. But observers say the train ing obviously would have some connection with the time when the 14.000 American servicemen leave this Middle East country. No Auto Strike Yet, U AW Says DETROIT (AP) The United Auto Workers Executive Board withheld Saturday immediate authorization for strike action at the Big Three auto makers' plants. The board voted to defer action several hours after the union's General Motors, Ford and Chrys ler Councils submitted their re quests for formal authorization of a strike, if necessary, to back up bargaining demands. UAW President Walter P. Rcuther told a news conference, "We decided to defer granting of strike authorization, hoping that further efforts at the bargaining table will bring a settlement." At the same time, Rcuther said the decks have been cleared for strike action later this summer. He said, "We are now in a posi tion to call a strike quickly if it is necessary." VIGILANCE ASKED MOSCOW (API Mikhail Su slon chief Communist Party theo retician, called upon the gradu ating class of political officers of the Soviet armed forces Friday to maintain a high state of vigi lance in view of the "armed ag gression" of Britain and the Uni ted States in the Middle East. Couple Held After Trading Infant Son For New Truck TULSA, Okla. (AP) A young Pennsylvania couple.' hitchhiking with only $2 to California, admit ted Saturday they swapped their 20-week old son for a 1957 pickup truck. Jailed in Tulsa in "protective custody" were Richard Readdy, 26, and his wife, llelenc Margaret, 20, of Shamokin, Pa. Policewoman Margaret Ethridgc said the truck owner, Jesse Lester Burger. 42, of El Dorado Springs. Mo., also admitted the swap and said that a bill of sale had been exchanged to make the trade legal. Burger also was held in protec tive custody. The policewoman and Detective But there is virtually no belief W. J. Cotton said child abandon here that any major militaryimcnt charges may be filed against moves will be made by either the Pennsylvania couple, side. Officers said Burger, his wife, i Barbara Jean, and the couple's 7-year-old daughter were driving through Joplin, Mo., to Tulsa to visit his sister when they picked i.p the Readdys in Burger's truck rriday night. En route, the Readdys offered to trade their son, Paul Andrew, for the vehicle. Miss Ethridgc said that at Read- dy's insistence, the two men scrib bled a bill of sale on a note pad stating that Iteaddy hod paid $22.50 to Burger for the truck. However, the policewoman said no money was actually exchanged She said officers learned of the swap in an early morning tele phone call from Burger s sister, Gladys Prathcr, of Tulsa. Mrs. Burger told officers she could have no other children. The infant was taken to the Tul sa juvenile shelter. if'...'"-'. owi ma.mjt siwr . .-fV'" - . , ,. I ..,. - .ii iu ' Mm i1WrMi t. y,ill i.wlftiM-ft.wn,i- wwf www J 7 5 v, r VJ 23 YOUNG PEOPLE and their adult leaders from Stockton, California, arrived in Klam ath Falls this week to begin work on the Migrant Christian Center at the Migrant Camp at Malin. The young people were entertained at Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church Tuesday evening with a potluck supper which more than 100 adults and young people attended. Pictured upon their arrival from Stockton, are the Caravan Work Camp mem bers and their leaders who are, back row, left to right, Rev. Elmer Frimoth, minister of Christian Education, First Presbyterian Church, Stockton, California, Mrs. Vincent Werle, Mrs, Kenneth Herman, Kenneth Herman, and Clark Fisher, Members of the youth group were not identified. The group proceeded to Malin to set up their camp for the month and prepare to begin work on the Christian Center at the Migrant Camp near Malin, ' S " ' ( -
