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Reds Want Split, US Aide Reports By JOHN M. HIGHTOtVER GENEVA on A U.S. spokesman charged Saturday that Premier Khrushchev's latest speeches show the Soviet Union wants to perpet uate the division o( Germany. Assistant Secretary o( Slate An drew H. Berding declared that in siatements made by the Soviet premier on his current visit to Po land "we lind a strange contradic tion to any idea of reunification of East and West Germany." "It looks like (he wants) the perpetuation of the present divi sion of Germany," Berding said. He spoke with newsmen soon after foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and West Germany met for 90 minutes on strategy in the Big Four con ference. ft Western informants said the four remained pessimistic about ciiances of workout on a stopgap Berlin settlement with Russia. . High Western leaders said So viet Foreign Minister Andrei lit The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Big question: What of Castro? What's he up to? Let's wait and see. He may be gunning or an overwhelming de mand from the Cuban people to COME BACK AND RULE US, Let's go back into history and take a look at Julius Caesar who, according to William Shakes peare, an abf historian as well as the world's foremost play wright, "did thrice upon the Lu percal refuse a kingly crown." Caesar refused the crown, but he went on RUNNING ROME on the whole, very wisely and very soundly. Dishonest practices in domestic and provincial gov ernment promptly CAME TO AN END under his rule. He used the power he had won to good advantage and made many un portant 'reforms. He appointed to public office the MOST CAPABLE of his opponenls. He replaced diS' honest ofticials with honest ones, He continued the distribution of free grain, but he gave it only to those who were IN NEED. But ' Caesar was murdered. He was stabbed to death by men who had accepted his favors and who, he had believed, were his friends. That could happen to Castro who, for belter or for worse, is playing a dangerous game. We'll see what we'll see. . ,i - ' ' Question No. 2: What of this man Bohlen ho Is under consideration for a place on the state department's policy planning staff, specializing in Rus sian affairs? ' ' He is said to be favored by President Eisenhower and Secre tary of State Herter. Some right wing Republican senators, includ ing Senator Bridges of New Hamp shire and Senator Dirksen of Illi nois, don't seem to think much of hiin. What's it all about? First, let's fake a look at Boh len's background. When, back in the Roosevelt ad t ministration, it became evident that he was likely to be sent to Moscow as our ambassador, he turned in and studied and MAS TERED the difficult Russian lan guage. He did it, incidentally, in an amazingly short time. That is certainly in his favor. If you are going to be an am bassador", you'd better learn the language of the country you are going to be sent to. If you can't talk to the people or read the local newspapers, you will be hor ribly handicapped. What is there against him? (Continued on Page 4A Ike Seeks To He's Cool To WASHINGTON (API - Presi dent Eisenhower has taken steps to correct the impression that he Is cool to the idea of bringing Ambassador Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen back to Washington as an expert on the Soviet Union. Eisenhower authorized his press secretary, James- C. Hagertjtr to announce Friday tnat noining could be farther from the truth than reports that the President lacks confidence in Bohlen. He said he has a great deal of conti dence in him. The President was reported dismayed that refer ences by him to Bohlen at the presidential news conference Wednesday had been misinter preted. Nothing more definite was said, but the President's effort to put the record straight appeared to make It pretty certain that Boh len'i deep knowledge of the Soviet Gromyko is trying to exploit West ern differences and that the need for unity is growing more urgent daily. Son experts believe that, until the West can present a united front in the Big Four foreign min isters' conference, it has little pro spect of achieving any of its ob jectives in the current phase of negotiations on Berlin. The issue dividing the United' States and Britain from France and West Germany is what kind of negotiations should be proposed to Gromyko on a German peace settlement during the period of a Berlin truce agreement. Western officials said it probab ly would be sometime next week before a decision could be reach ed among the Allies on this prob lem. But several informants pri vately conceded it was the crucial question before the Western for eign ministers in their discussions U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, Maurice Couve de Murville of France and West Germany's Hein- rich Von Brentano arranged to hold slralcgy talks during the weekend lull in their sessions with Gromyko. Belore them was the record of a secret three-hour luncheon talk they had wilh the Soviet foreign minister Friday a record that Herter reportedly found discourag ing because it produced no pro gress toward narrowing East -West differences. Herter, Lloyd and Couve de Mur ville made repeated efforts to find out from Gromyko what specific pledge the Soviet Union is willing to give to protect the Western position in West Berlin during and after the proposed 18-month truce period. Authoritative sources said he consistently refused to give direct replies. This led the Western ministers to conclude that Gromyko is more interested in winning East Ger man equality with West Germany, and in forcing a Western agree ment to hand over the unification problem to the Germans them selves, than he is in 'resolving the Berlin dispute. - - ' Gromyko already 'has been told that' his proposal for an all-Ger man committee to study a Ger man settlement was unacceptable lo the West,. Crews Repair GN Trestle Crews started work repairing the Great Northern Bridge across Lake Ewauna as soon as the fire was declared dead at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, according to D. E. Parks, trainmaster and acting su perintendent for the Great North ern here. The GN has some 40 bridge men on the job, working from both the drawbridge end and the Whiteline end with cranes and ma chinery. Crews are on a 24-hour basis in an effort to" get the track back into service by Tuesday aft ernoon, Parks said. The Southern Pacific Company is cooperating by furnishing two bridge crews and Morrison Knud- sen Construction Company is also furnishing some experienced bridge men. The Great Northern bridge engi neer, C. F. Intlekofer, is here to assist, also. . Special timbers are being made up by local mills because the en tire structure will be replaced. "We have not yet established the cause of the fire," Parks said on Saturday, "but we have eliminated the possibility of electrical defect." The lift machinery for the draw bridge had all been renewed about three years ago, he indicated. "As a matter of fact," he added, "the electrical equipment in the control house is still operable and would operate if power were fed in." The electrical units have all been thoroughly tested since the fire. - ' Correct Idea Bohlen Return Union would be put to use in an important policy making job in Washington. Bohlen, veteran career diplo mat, is ambassador to the Philip- pines. He had been the ambassa dor to Moscow. Bohlen has let it be known that he will retire after 35 years' service unless he is given a more important job in the State Depart ment. Secretary of State Christian A, Herter told a news conference July 9 that he had talked with Bohlen about a Washington post He wasn't specific. - A MEAN HOMBRE RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) - Humberto Meneses Cot rim was reported in good condition Saturday after biting a poisonous jaraca snake which also bit him. The snake died. Price Tea Cents 70 Pages urn s & rim i rt nn iti i t OPEN HOUSE FOR THE PUBLIC will be held all week by First Federal Savings and Loan Association, corner Sixth and Main streets, according to George W. Mclntyre, president. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday. This marks the completion of the extensive remodeling, modern izing and expansion of the association's quarters. On Mon day, Bob Hazen, of Ben Franklin Federal Savings and Loan Many Taxpayers To Hear By TOM STIMMEL The Klamath County Board of Equalization stuffed into the mail bag late Friday replies to about .1-1 5 taxpayers who had complaints about property tax assessments. . Most of the answers contained reasonably good news. Ray Brackman, chief deputy as sessor, said the board . made changes in about 226, or roughly two-thirds, of the protested cases it heard. In about 116 cases, oi ohe-third, no changes were made The figures, are. approximate be cause a1 detailed tabulation had not yet been made. Brackman said three or four property owners would find that the new valuations actually were higher than those originally pro tested. ' . . 'That,' he said, Is because the three-member board, with the help of Assessor Hap Caldwell and him self, reviewed each petition of pro test with scrupulous care. We even ran out of forms for a few hours," he said, "but the board reviewed every protest, even it it was on a scrap of paper." County , Judge Bob Walker, a member, of the board, said the board spent 33 man-days of study reviewing the protests and listen ing to those taxpayers who wished to appear in person. In two days, 43 taxpayers did appear. The oth ers sent protests by mail. . Some of the protests were more violent than reasonable, but the board studied eacn. One taxpayer, who said he lived near a school that sounds iiKe feeding time at the zoo . . when kids gather," said his prop erty "looked about like a barn . no foundations, leaky root and so forth." He asserted that houses 40 years old are not worth more now than then, and said he "might sell it Red Athletes Eat Hearty PHILADELPHIA AP - What do you usually have for breakfast? A couple of eggs, toast and cof fee? Just toast and coffee? May be just coffee if you get up a little latC The Soviet track stars here for the meet with the United Stales Saturday and Sunday relate that he Soviet Union breakfast usually consists of the following: Orange juice, a steak, three eggs, bread and chocolate-flavored butter, tea or coffee and three or lour pieces of fresh fruit. The Soviets Invented the choco late-flavored butter as a means of inducing little Ivan to eat Some of them don't relish the steak at all. They prefer meat balls stuffed with bread and served in a bowl of sour cream. Soviet lunches are comparable to those eaten here usually light such as randwiches, soups and salads. Their dinners are similar to our morning meals coffee or lea bread and toast, fresh fruit. Maybe the Soviet dinner does have an advantage. It's easy on the billfold (or the fellow who's taking the pretty miss out to din ner. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, mmu a fa iy mm l) lo someone for about 30 bucks down and the balance in 30 years (but) I won't be around then." Another taxpayer had a more charitable approach. Wrote she: "The cold air seems to come right through the walls; there is just one door inside that will close and latch. . . . The floors are in bad shape, but I cover them with rugs and cover the walls with pic tures. ... "Am comfortable in this little old house and wvuld like to re main here, but with' inflation . . and other ailments, living is some. Navy Reveals Radar 'Ghost' SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Vicc Adm. Ruthven E. Libby, Com mander of the First Fleet, dis closed Friday new techniques by which the Navy can create the illusion of "ghost fleets" on en emy radar screens. ,,. "We have the means to make a ship look big," Libby said. "Un fortunately, we do not have the facility to make a big ship look small. But we can create all sorts of effects to mislead him as to our true strength." He said the result was that a fleet could actually appear to be more powerful in numbers and ship size than it actually is. In theory, he said, actual ghost ships could be created by having real ships tow rafts with frames of foil or other material simulating the superstructure of a ship. . Libby revealed the new tactics as the First Fleet steamed into port for a three day visit. The string of 25 ships, carrying 15,000 men, was led by the 51,000-ton carrier Midway, the 33.000-ton carriers Kearsarge and Hancock and the heavy cruiser Bremerton. He said the fleet firacticed what he called the newest additions to "the dirty tricks department' during training exercise "Wing over, which started last Monday in San Diego. He said three small oilers became "carriers", on the screens of defending forces dur ing one phase of the maneuvers, and two of the fleet's small mine sweepers practiced making them selves appear on enemy radar as destroyers or light cruisers. Pair Injured In Air Crash BELLINGHAM. Wash. 'API A twin-engine plane crashed into woods at the edge of an island landing field Friday and bur.it into flames, critically hurtling a Port land couple. . I Warren K. Dallas, 53.' owner and pilot, and his wife. Hazel, 54, of Portland were flown here by heli copter from Blakely Island in the San Juans. The island is 20 miles southwest of here. , Four other persons were In jured but not hospitalized. They were James C. Dallas, a nephew of the couple; Tony C. Jensen, a Mis. McGreer and Peter J. Prin git. All art from Portland. SUNDAY. JULY IS, 1939 Association at Portland, and president of the Oregon Sav ings and Loan League, will arrive by plane for the open house. Other persons prominent in savings and loan business have indicated they will be here later in the week. Plans for the project were drawn by Morrison and Howard, Klamath Falls architects, and the work was done under contract by Brosterhous Construction Company, local general contractor. Good News thing of a problem, but I ain't dead yet. "However I can't help feeling this tax increase is a bit heavy under the circumstances, and if anything could be done to reduce It, it would be most gratefully ap preciated."1 , ' , Increased assessments, of course, are not a tax increase. That is a slate of mind the board has been faced with constantly, The trou ble arose when the assessor's of fice, following State Tax Commis- Ision recommendations, raised the appraised values of all property to equal true cash value or equal true cash value as nearly as pos sible. What the tax bite will be re mains to be seen this fall, but an encouraging fact is that the budg et itself is slighlly lower, not high er. Most of the "increased assess ments were blanket, so lax bills should be relatively equal. The board's answers go to ' all persons who filed protests of valu alien, whether on forms or on scraps of paper. But the board did not attempt to answer taxpayers who protested the equality of. ap praisals, not the values. Those taxpayers, principally In the Hot Springs section of the city, were largely represented by the Klamath Taxpayers League. Here is a letter the board received from Fred Hoagland, league chairman: In behalf of the property own ers of Klamath Falls, mainly Hot Springs. Hillside and Mountain View additions, we want to thank you for the sincere cooperation on your part in trying to make a more favorable and equitable adjustment lo the property tax structure." It's over for the county board, whose members are Walk er, Earl Hamaker and R. P. El lingson, chairman. Anything more goes lo the State Tax Commission for decision. BULLETIN A dry lightning storm that struck the Klamath Basin area early Sat urday evening was listed as re sponsible (or setting at least five fires by Klamath Forest Protec tive Association officials. Lightning strikes in tinder, dry grass and range lands complicated an already dangerous fire situa tion. ' , According to KFPA, the largest nf the five fires appeared to be In the Klamath River Canyon, north of Chase Mountain. By late Satur day night, KFPA was still uncer tain of the extent of this blaze. They had dispatched men and equipment lo the scene and were awaiting developmnts. Meantime, other crews have been pressed Into service te handle spot lightning fires. A close watch Is still being maintained on the big llildebrand fire area, the blaze that seared over I.tM acres before submitting to control. ALASKA HAS ONE RABBI ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AV-Alas- ka has only one rabbi. He Is Lt. Joshua Wachtfogel. 24. of Phila delphia, the Jewish chaplain at El mendorf Air Force Base in An chorage. He conducts services at the base for civilians as well as military personnel. Telephone TU 4-8111 No, 64M OREGON GREEN Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Sunny and hat Sunday. High 95-100. Lew tonight 58-63. High yesterday J. M Low last night ....:.. '.61 Northern California Fair Sun day but fog and low clouds on the coast. Probably a few scat tered afternoon thunderstorms over the Sierra Nevadas. Slightly cool er near the coast.' Coastal winds northwesterly 12-22 miles an hour. Has New Plan PORTLAND (AP) - Counties will be permittedlo fix the bene iits their general assistance cases will receive, in line wilh a policy approved by the state Welfare Commission Friday. The commission decided to set a general range for benefit pay ments to make it easier for coun ties to stay within their budgets. The commission granted tenta tive approval to tighter require ments for its general assistance and aid -to dependent children programs. ' It approved policies which would: Make childless couples and single women ineligible for gen eral assistance when work is available. ' Require interviews with fathers belore disbursement nf aid to de pendent children, and ask counties to force fathers to support their children. Encourage mothers of school aged children to go to work. FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY I KEEP ' i ? ': - ,. , .... - ' - ' . ,i t lamotli Countij s ' I rttnn'a' Information Center) WATCKFOR ME ! Hm,i i ,., mrm i , , mi,,, ' , , mJj THIS LITTLE HAN is about to enter a contest. He's the fellow who urges tourists to step at the chamber of commerce stateline booth. Fred Griffith of Mtdford, Foster and Klaiser representative, says the sign will be entered in a regional contest among billboard erectors. This fellow is near Weed, and another sign stands south of Mount Shasta. A high way banner south of Dorris alio directs travelers te the booth- President Of Cuba Forced To Resign By ROBERT BERRELLEZ i he left the TV studio, he said ho HAVANA i Fidel Castro Sat-1 urday forced out President Manuel Urrutia and touched off a mount ing clamor lo withdraw his own resignation as prime minister. The 32-year-old Castro began his campaign In get rid of the man he personally chose as chief of state Friday by announcing his own resignation. Osvaldo Dorticos. who was elect ed Cuba's new President, made a public appeal to Castro to stay in the government. The cabinet pledged support to him and relused to accept his re signation. Castro emerged triumphant in a dramatic show of strength that proved him Cuba's undisputed strongman and whether he re mains as prime minister was clearly his own choice. After a four-hour television speech accusing Urrutia of under mining the revolutionary regime, Castro was asked by American correspondents whether he would withdraw his resignation. "I have not given that a thought at this moment," he replied. The newspaper said that public pressure for Castro to stay as prime minister was so heavy that it is certain the President will make a new appeal for him to remain in the government. The undercover feud between the prime minister and Urrutia, Castro's hand-picked President, came to a head in a fight over communism. Feeling ran high against the de posed president and he appealed to Raul Castro, commander in chief of the armed forces, for pro tection. Urrutia remained in the presi dential palace for more than three hours alter resigning and then slipped nut by using a ruse to throw off the angry crowd wait ing outside. While two cars sped out of op posite palace gates to draw away the crowd Urrutia and his family slipped into a limousine and raced through the main entrance. With him were his wife and three chil dren, including 1-year-old Liber- lad (Liberty) who is Castro's god daughter. Shouting that he is nn Commu nist, Castro told a TV audience lliat Urrutia tried to betray the revolutionary regime by posing as "the champion of anti-communism." '''' His voice quivering, Castro said: "I have often said l am not a communist and neither is the re volutionary movement Communist, but we do not have to say we are anti-Communisls just to fawn on foreign powers." Urrutia quit while watching Cas tro denounce him before a na tionwide (TV) audience after dra-l matically announcing his own re signation as prime minister to force a showdown.1 Whether Castro would stick by his decision to give , up the pre miership wasn't clear.- Weeping as Burns Fatal To Tule Man Fuller Brasher, 48, watermaster at Pumping Plant D of, the Tule- lake Irrigation District, died about 11:30 p.m. Friday from burns re ceived about 10 a.m. on Friday. Cause of the firs' which broke out in the electrical control panel with explosive force was not imme diately determined. Brasher's cloth ing was set ablaze and he ran for the nearby irrigation canal and dived in. He was brought to Klam ath Valley Hospital by ambulance where it was determined he was sullcring from third degree burns The electrical panel controls five 750-horscpower pumps from lower Klamath Lake into a diversion sys tem. It is expected to be back in operation this week. hadn t made up his mind. The cabinet immediately elected Osvaldo Dorticos. a bookish-looking lawyer in his early 40's, and as,ked Castro to withdraw his re signation as premier. Dorticos in a short acceptance speech appeal ed to the Cuban people to con tinue their "clamor for the return of Castro." Dorticos is a political unknown in Cuba. He was brought into the government as minister of revolu tionary laws in a cabinet shake up last month. In a speech last February he came out against legalizing the Communist party. Castro made plain he intends lo guide the revolution whether as prime minister or outside the government. In announcing his resignation as premier, he emphasized: "Now understand me. I am not resigning the fight, I am resign ing the job, but I am not resign ing the struggle (or the revolu tion." Ex-Dictator Seeks Refuge In America WASHINGTON (AP) - Ousted Cuban President Fulgencio Batis ta is seeking political refuge in the United States partly because he believes his life is In "very great danger" in the Dominican Republic where he is now an exile, Batista's Washington attor ney said today. The lawyer, William A. Rob erts, said Batista and 16 aides, have been seeking permission to go to Batista's home in Daytona Beach, Fla., for more than two months. The State Department disclosed only Friday that Batista was seeking a visa. A department spokesman had denied repeatedly that Batista was seeking haven in this country. ..,",',' Roberts said Batista has prom ised to avoid all political acitivily if he is allowed to enter the Unit ed States on a visitors permit.. Roberts said ' Joseph Farland, U.S, ambassador lo 'the Domini can Republic has endorsed Batista's plea for admission to the United States. Roberts told a reporter he had decided to discuss the Batista request because of the "extreme gravity of the situation." He said Batista's life is in danger "not necessarily from the Dominican government but from paid assas sins and other elements In tha expeditionary forces being organ ized in the Dominican Republic." Roberts said Batista has refused to endorse or support these forcei reported being gathered to movi against Cuba, and as a result has incurred violent enmity of many persons in the movement. . "' Roberts said some 4,000 persons are now being trained in th Dominican Republic and many of them are Cubans who fled their homeland. - . ' . . i "I was called at 3:00 o'clock this morning, Roberts said, "by someone close to Batista. This person told me Batista is in tha greatest danger and that it la necessary that something be done in 72 hours." ' Roberts said that Batista told him "a man cannot live in fear of death all day, every day." Ha added that the ousted president wants to live out the rest of his life without controversy. ELDERLY CITIZENS-TO-BE HILO. Hawaii ( It was a ma ture group of "students" in a citi zenship class here. . Average age of 170 Japanese men ana women studying for U.S. citizenship was 73 years. The two oldest are 89. Three are nearly blind and two others are partly paralyzed. ';
