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PAGE 4 A HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Beck Berated By Judge; Then Fined, Sentenced TACOMA, Wash. (AP Former. address the court. But later he Teamster Union President Dave Beck received a five year sen tence and IfiO.noo tine Friday for income tax evasion, plus a double-barreled denunciation from the judse. The exposure of Mr. Beck s told reporters, "I am not the first innocent person to be sentenced nor will I be the last He said he had authorized his attorneys to push the appeal, filed last week. Boldt said Beck s rise from a Insatiable greed, resulting in his j laundry truck driver to milhnn fall from high place, is a sad and aire labor leader was a better hocking story." said U.S. Dis-lra2s-lo-rirhes story than any of trict Judge George Boldt, in a Moraiio Alger's plots. But he said scathing. 20-minute lecture before passing sentence. Beck quickly posted $70.9fil to cover the fine and court costs and was released. After his conviction Feb. 19, Beck spent a night behind bars for the first time in his life before appeal bond was set. A motion for a new trial was denied. The government could claim more than half a million dollars from Beck. He was charged with evading $240,607 for the years 1950-53. hut the government raised its esti mate of the amount actually owed to I258.63S. In addition to the fine nd court costs, a 50 per cent fraud penalty of 1129.318 and tM.9 in interest at 0 per cent brings the total to $55,911. Beck. 84. stood calm and quiet, one and clenched behind his back and the olher in a trouser pocket, as the judge began his denounce ment. "Beck must take first place among the more than 50 tax evad ers 1 have sentenced." "Mr. Beck plundered his union, his intimate associates and in some instances his personal friends, most of whom quite read ily would hav" given him any thing he asked, the judge said. Other excerpts from the judge's speech "Mr. Beck's willful evasion of taxes and his stealthy and circuit ous appropriation to his own use of funds were in large amounts and continued over a period of years. "Actually, the evidence of the incidents of fraud involving rela lively small amounts show the avarice and culpability of Mr Beck with striking emphasis. "Mr. Beck cheated every last humble American who pays come taxes by attempting to evade his personal taxes and thus least his share of the tax burden He refused two invitations to on his fellow citizens.' Lieutenant Has Hunch Russians Snapped Cables ARGF.NTIA. Nfld. (API The I cooperative spirit and that noth- O.S. naval lieutenant who ing was found to show any other searched the Novorossisk says theiohject than fishing Soviet trawler "probably quite likely had something to do with breaking transatlantic cables But, he emphasizes. "1 don't know whether accidentally or in tentionally." Lt Donald Sheely of Falls Church. Va.. told a news confer nce here Friday night that the Soviets offered no resistance to his boarding party on Thursday and sailed away on being told to leave the Grand Banks area where five cables were broken In Sydney. N.S., the Kastern Telegraph and Telephone Co. said a patrol plane had sighted about 10 trawlers 15 of them Soviet till operating In the area Friday The pilot said the ships "just ap Bear to be fishing." Rough seas and drifting ire held Up repairing of the cables. Two Western Union cahleships are Handing by hut the weather fore fast was gloomy for beginning work for some hours The Soviet Communist parry newspaper Pravda called the boarding illegal and the official Soviet news agency Tass de scribed It as the "unlawful action of the American naval fleet In the open sea." Neither gave any Immediate in dication whether the Soviets in tend to make a formal diplomatic protest. If they do. they face a rebuff. U.S. Slate Department press of ficer Lincoln While said in Wash ington "1 don't think any apology Is involved in any way. shape or form. This was not a hostile ac tion, hut an Investigation clearly provided for under terms of a treaty." The Soviet accounts of the hoarding in the Grand Ranks fish Ing grounds off Newfoundland made no mention of the 1RR4 trea ty which permits inspection of the documents of ships suspected of damaging oceanic cables, inten tinnally or accidentally. Moscow Radio, in a newscast to the Soviet people, tended to treat the hoarding as a routine story. It quoted Adm. Jerauld Wright, commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, as saying "The skipper of the Soviet trawler showed a friendly attitude and acted in Cmdr. F.rnest .1. Korle of U S Navy radar picket ship Roy 0 Hale, who sent the party aboard the Soviet trawler said the cable breaks occurred in about 175 fa thorns of water about 180 miles due east of Cape Ronavista. Nfld Radioman 3 C. Roland A. Pnulin of Chicopee. Mass.. who acted as interpreter for the five-man board ing party, said the trawler's jour nal "Indicated she had been op erating In the area where the ca ble was hroken. The U.S. Navy men led by Sheely Inspected fishing equip ment and anything aboard the Novorossisk which looked capable of cutting cable. "She had been fishing on the hnltom and there was a break in her trawling cable that could have been caused by snagging of the bottom." said Sheely. "The ship was about one-third full of fish. Sheely said "I believe It defi nitely possible and probahly nuite likely the trawler had somelhing to do with breaking the cables I don't know whether accidentally or intentionally. Sheely disclosed that the day before his men went aboard a plane was sent out by the cable ind telephone companies warning Ihe trawler away from the area. The plane s crew dropoed message written in Knglish and Russian which, he said, advised the Soviets in effett "Stop fishing here. You have cut the cable four times Stop fishing here and go south." The Soviets got the message. Sheelv said, and showed it to the hoarding party on request hut the trawler did not leave the area un til directed to by the U.S. Navy the next day. The Soviets, he said, showed no hostility but "thnv were not so cially inclined: they made us no offer of such things as cigarettes or coffee." Sheely said the trawler "car ried equipment yon would expect to find ahoard such a vessel." The only things that seemed un usual to him were a sounding ca ble 2..VM to 3.000 feet long and the nmount of radio equipment. Rut authorities later discounted any significance to the sounding cable. Full-Scale Taipei Shelling Would Not Be Surprising CITY BRIEFS Henley Bethel No. 51. Interna tional Order of Job's Daughters, will have a dinner for the bethel daughters and fathers at 6 p m. Monday, March 2, at the Henley Grange Hall. All daughters and fathers are urged to attend. Fol lowing the dinner, a stated meet ing will be held at 7:30 with Hon ored Queen Becky Short presiding DAR Kulalona Chapter, DAR. will meet at 8 p.m. Monday, March 2. at the home of Mrs. R. K. Wright, 635 Alameda. Mrs. Paul Deller will present the program. Midland Grange Home Ec Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Ralph Benoist Tuesday, March 3, at 1:30 p.m. All Grange ladies are invited. Licensed Practical Nurses will meet at the county library on Mon day. March 2. at 7:30 p.m. There will be a speaker and all members are urged to attend. Honor Roll Helen Henris. daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Pan-American Averts Strike NEW YORK (AP) A federal mediator announced Saturday that threatened strike Monday by 8.000 employes of Pan American World Airways has been averted. Agreement in principle was reached after an all-night nego tiating session, according to Fran cis A. O'Neill. Jr., a member of the National Mediation Board. He said Ihe Transport Workers Union negotiating committee will have to vote on the agreement, which will then go before the membership for ratification. No date was set for the ratification vote. O'Neill said the agreement con cerns "wages, rules and working conditions, but would not specify further. A shorter work week was a major object of the union hut there was no indication whether or not the agreement provided for a shorter work week. The union, which represents ground and air personnel such as stewards, stewardesses, mechan ics and pursers, had made plans to strike at midnight Monday. The union maintained a shorter work week was needed to offset what it predicts will he a de crease in employment because of Ihe replacement of conventional planes by jets. The workers in volved now work either a si't or a 40-hour week. The jets carry more people faster, requiring fewer aircraft, and smaller inspection and main tenance crews, the union held. Weber, 4740 Laverne Avenue, was on the first semester honor roll at Pacific University, Forest ijrove. miss Henris is a mathematics major. Correction Inadvertently names were reversed under two cuts in Thursday's Herald and News. Jim Mosley. who has relumed to Klam ath Falls to manage the Eighth Street Safeway Store, is at left and George Kirkpatnck. trans ferred from downtown to manager of the South Sixth Street store, is at right. Home Mrs. Mary Lewis. 5648 Denver Avenue, has returned from two weeks' vacation at San Fran cisco, Watsonville and Sacramento. Bandages There will be a can cer bandage rolling session at the Episcopal Church on Thursday. March 5. at 1:30 p.m. A film on the subject will be shown. All are welcome. Roosevelt PTA study grouo will meet Monday. March 2 at 1:45 in Room 118 of Klamath Union High School for a discussion on "Human Growth and Heredity." When Ultimatum Expires WW II! Could Commence PROMOTED Maj. William E. O'Brien, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, has been notified of his promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Colonel O'Brien teaches English in the junior high grades at BIv. He is the son of the late Thomas W. O'Brien and Mrs. O'Brien. BERLIN lUPlt-Wiu will hap pen on the lifelines to isolated' West Berlin May 27 when the Soviet six-month ultimatum ex- senior pires? No one knows for sure, but all responsible d i p I o mats believe something is going to happen. And that "something" could start World War III. Will East German Communists armed with new control powers reluse to pass Western allied mili tary traffic? Will they make de mands the Americans. British and French will not accept' Will they attempt to interfere with commer cial air traffic in the city? Diplomats here believe these questions have brought the world closer to war than it has been since the beginning of the 1948 Berlin blockade. In other recent East-West crises. the United States and the Soviet Union did not clash directly. True, the danger of war existed in the Quemoy and Lebanon crises. Rut there was one great differ ence between those trouble spots and Berlin. No Soviet troops were committed at Quemoy or Ibanon. In East Germany, 300.000 Soviet troops stand ready to go into ac tion if the Soviets consider East Germany's borders violated. The Soviets and East Germans have not spelled out in detail what they have in store for the West, ning at least the East Germans .that would be raised If only paper might merely insist on the right were snown. month'to check Western allied travel doc- Nevertheless, the whole Berlin uments as tne Soviets aireaay aa.iprbiem appears to revolve around on May 27. On that date, the six deadline set by the Soviets for conversion of West Berlin into what they call a free, demilitar ized city expires However, the Western allies do not recognize East Germany and they have said they will not allow border check- The Soviet plan calls for thelEas Germans at b ,i J .,i.r. 11,-1 points to control W withdrawal of Western allied P0'"1 troops from West Berlin and trans fer to East Germany of authority over Western allied military traf fic through the Soviet zone to West Berlin. Western diplomats have been able to piece together from East ern statements the plan's rough outline. They have reached these con clusions: The Soviets will not use force to attempt to get the U.S.. British and French garrisons put of West Berlin. There will be no immediate blockade of vital German supply traffic to the city. Any interference with traffic at the beginning will be confined to Western allied traffic. But as time goes by the Communists will institute blockade measures against the German civilian sup ply traffic that keeps West Berlin alive. It is thought that at the hegin- estern allied traffic in any way. Such a stand could put the West ern powers in a position where they might appear to be blockad ing themselves. "Show us your papers and you can go through." East German border guards might say on May 17. The Western, allies then could either show their papers, or refuse to go through on such a basis and push through East German bor der controls instead. Some diplomats think it will he difficult to explain to the world why it would be considered neces sary to break through barriers just this point. RED VISITS INDONESIA I JAKARTA. Indonesia UP) i President Ho Chi Minh of Com-1 munist North Vietnam arrived here Friday on a 10-day visit to Indonesia. FOR SALE 1 TD Ldte Mode! Droit Log Loader 1 1951 F8 Short Log Truck with dual drive. Equipped with self loader. Ph. TU 2-5961 offer 6 Breakfasts Aid Learning i PEARL RIVER, NY. (API -! Pupils at the Pearl River Junior Senior High School seem to agree that a hearty breakfast may aid learning. As the climax of a two-week nutrition drive, the school held a mass breakfast Friday. Of 64(1 students, about 400 showed up and consumed an "ideal" morning meal of juice, cereal, milk, toast. jelly, and an egg. Cost: 15 cents. Most of the food was contributed by local concerns. Principal Walter Reiner said teachers have complained that pupils showed restlessness and lack of attention during late morn ing class sessions. Reiner, hoping good breakfasts would eliminate that fidgety feel ing, said: "Now it is up to the i parents and students to carry the hall." Commented 7th grader Barbara Alper. 12 years old. "I sure ate more than I usually do and it. tasted good " ! It's a very good idea." de clared tumor Patricia Martin. 16. It made us all realize what we should do before we dash olf to school." .buildup, they declared. Deaf Mute Gets Divorce WASHINGTON (UPD - Amer ican officials said Saturday they wouldn't be surprised if the Chi rese Reds resume full scale bom bardment of the Nationalist-held offshore islands. These officials spoculalcd the Communists might consider this a food time to step up their agres sion In Ihe Far East. The Reds thus could take advantage of Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles' Illness. The Western Allies recently have been centering most of their attention on the tense Berlin situ ation. State Department officials said Ihe Chinese Reds have maintained at peak strength the massive as sault buildup of last summer on the mainland opposite Ihe Nation alist held Quemoy and Matsu is lands. Russian-built jet fighter and bomber planes have been kept on the coastal airstrips to support any renewed threat of In vasion of the islands. Th long range coastal artillery ha continued intermittent bom bardment of the islands on alter nate davs. except for a lull dur- ing in . v. . "" ton. her husband in Chinese oew lear earner mis month. On Jan. 7. about Mono shells were fired at the isUnds in four hours intense as any shell ing last summer before the Reds backed off their Invasion threats In face of the firm U S stnnd for mulated by Dulles Most of the everv-otherlav bombardments have w time lighter - from I rj. i n regular reconnaissance probes o( srwnCQ rQll frogmen and planes. n.-L A J V. S. officials here said they lewv.n MCCOrQ have received no Intelligence in dicating additional military build ups recently opposite Ihe offshore islands, the Red forces already are strong enough for crisis mili tary activity without further SANTA MONICA. Calif. lAPt Singer Sammv Davis Jr. and his estranged wile. Lor ay, have reached agreement on temporary alimony, reports Davis' attorney. The agreement was announced Friday when Mrs Davis' request for temporary alimony was to have been hoard in court. The court was informed that Davis would not contest the divorce suit in which he is charged with ex treme cruelty. Mrs. Davis is ask ing $2,000 a month alimony. The amount agreed upon temporarily was not disclosed. ALBANY, NY. I API-Beatrice Carpenter, a deaf-mute, used sign language to tell a judge her hus band was unfaithful. She won a OPPOSITION d,Vori- . . RAGl'IO. Philipmnes H'PH - Mrs. Carpenter accused her Opposition Sen. Rogelio De I.a husband Aloruo Sr.. also a eal-, Mvs Pr.drlll r,rWl p mu.e. oi aouuery. me oniy gro inn ; .dmintstntion has acted "like a spoiled brat" in its ef torts to obtain V. S loan "If. instead of acting like a spoiled brat. Ihe Garcia Admin istration had t.iken steps to detorm by throwing out all the gratters and influence peddlers and insti tuting sincerity and efficiency in the government. I 'm sure it ould have obtained loans from for divorce in New York. Her tale ol marital inlidelity was interpret ed by her son. Alonzo Jr. The couple was married in 1931. None of their three children are deaf mules. Mrs. Carpenter lives in Castle- Rensselaer Justice Herbert D. Ilamm of State Supreme Court granted the divorce. He called the sign-language trial unprecedented. , the I'. S government." La Rosa told a student group here Fndiy SPITMK STIII. SENDING MOSCOW i Pl Russia says WFSTFRN MI'SKl'M FLAWED ils Sputnik III. launched on May! FORT WORTH. Tex ilTI'-. l.V Ins, is still sending signals to. earth 1aTap Agent y said the ita me cnmpietrd its 4 00,h trip ihe sort worth Mar Telegram r mm) fjuund the earth fnday. the time of his death. million dollar museum of wester art wih be built here with mow left by Anion Carter, publisher The Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Door with Gifts & Greetings from Friendly Business, Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders On the occasion of: The Birth of a Baby Engagement Announcements Arrival of Newcomers to Klamath Falls No cost or obligation Phone TU f.Wl h's a FREE P0OTIAC SEDAN Awarded Absolutely Free April 23rd See This Beautiful 1959 Pontiac NOW ON DISPLAY AT EOTM Sedan Display Courtesy Of GET FREE A I rt . TICKETS PONTIAC Awarded April 23 , Fortune Stamps Given FREE March 23 No Need To Buy -- Jusf Drive In To STATION MARKET BASKET Where Food Prices Hit A New Low! Your Save $ Se rvice Station S. 6th & E. Main Check Tickets By 8:00 P.M. Thursday for FREE FORD SEDAN
