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V NZJf cc:,'?. 5!f'A; C0CJBE.VT3 la The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush cnev today aorupuy cancels a scheduled tour of four Scandina vian nations. A formal Soviet note said the surprise decision was due to a bit ter Scandinavian press campaign against the visit and threats of anti-Soviet demonstrations if it is made. The proposed visit was less than three weeks away from the date when Mr. K was to have begun a grand swing through Denmark. Sweden, Norway and Finland. The trip hadtjeen planned down to the final details. Top-level Soviet offi cials, including chiefs of security and protocol, had gone over the ground, and presumably the final OK had been stamped on it. The move is described in this iorning's dispatches as "diplo matic shocker." It threw the Big Four talks at Geneva into tur moil. Western diplomats had no means of knowing whether it indi- cated the Soviet chief might be ill which, of course, would be star tling newsl or whether some im ' portant new cold war move might be in the making. : Whal does it mean? Nobody .'knows. Mr. K is an un predictable character. But '. Anti-Soviet feeling has been (trowing In Scandinavia. Anti Russian groups have been forming in Sweden. Included in these groups are refugees from the Bal tic countries that were forcibly taken into, the Soviet structure. The four Scandinavian countries have been leaning much farther of late toward the West. They have Reached virtual agreement on join ing with Britain and other Western nations in a trade alliance. - All this is significant. It is par ticularly significant because of the long-established neutralist policies of these countries especially Sweden. 20. Ike Raps Federal Spending Price Five Cent 12 Pages KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, MONDAY, JL'LV 1939 Telephone TU 4-8111 Cuba Begins Celebration Of Revolution A natural guess is that the foul ness of the communist system has been coming home so forcibly to the freedom-loving people of Scan dinavia that , they find it impos sible to be wholly neutral toward flussia that their horror of com munism and its-practices is over coming their desire to play it safe. That may be wishful thinking But at least the change, in Sweden's attitude is .sjjjrytant.; June Income Hits Record WASHINGTON (API -..Personal income o( Americans climbed in June to a record rale of $382,- 9tiO.000.noo a year. This is more than l'l billion dollars higher than the May rate. Announcing the figure . today, the Commerce Department said the rise was due to increased hir ing by industry and longer work ing hours in factories. This report followed a weekend ' report from the department that national output in the first quarter of 19.7.-) reached a rate exceeding 47fl billion dollars a year. ' The term personal income in cludes, all payments to individuals wages, salaries, rents, divi dends, etc. ' Wage and salary payments in June were reported at $261,100,- 000.000. an increase of $1,300,000, 00 from a month earlier and a ilin of nearly 12"j billion annual rate from the January figure. ' On the. other hand, government "transfer payments" unemploy ment epmpensation and other fed eral payments which surged up ward in the business recession- dropped somewhat from the May figure. - HAVANA (UPI - Thousands of peasants carrying machetes poured into Havana today for the. start of a week-long celebration of the Cuban revolution and s new pledge of allegiance to its hero, Fidel 'Castro. The Cuban government, purged of a president Castro charged had blocked the forward march of the revolution, was expected to start working with new speed to carve up large farms tor the peasants and prosecute objectors. The new president, Dr. Osvaldo Dorticos Torrada, drafted the texts of many revolutionary laws and decrees and he was expect ed to sign any that had been left by ousted President Manuel Urrutia Lleo. urruua ana castro Both were out of town Sunday. After Cas tro forced Urrutia s resignation in a four-hour telecast by charg ing him with near treason, Urru tia rushed to his brother-in-law's house at Bauta, 20 miles east of Havana. The army put an armed guard about the house. Castro himself went into seclu sion and could not be located. Earlier this month, when po litical tension began to develop in Cuba, Castro called for a dem onstration of 500.000 peasants. with their razor-sharp machetes in Havana next Sundav. That will be the sixth anniver sary'of his abortive attack on the Moncada army barracks in San tiago. It took him five and a half years alter that defeat to oust Dictator Fulgencio Batista. About 7.000 peasants from Ori ente Province, Castro's old cam paign headquarters, set up tents at Camp Liberty Sunday. They were the vanguard of lens of thousands of peasants who will be pouring into the cap ital all this week in cars, buses, trucks and trains. -i-asffCTsS.;;. " 'in. t WORHATIOHb. c, ,t- rvw :''i lit AI I a .5 s t-,M - , ., tejr ' i TO BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST EIDDCR not later than September I it this log constructed cabin. Currently serving as a tourist information booth on the state line,, the cabin will be' sold" the moment the tourist season ends. It is 12 feat by 24 feet, log construction, with mopped-on roof, three windows and door, but no floor. Anyone interested can con tact the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Continuing Ministers Meet Proposed By Wes To Rass GENEVA (APt - In an effort to find a way to end the Berlin crisis, the West proposed to Russia today the creation of a continuing conference of foreign ministers. with East and West German ad visers, to negotiate a German peace settlement. U.S. Secretary of Stale Chris tian A. Herter presented the West ern compromise otfer, after re- Local Angler Dies In Lake Police Seek : f hriil Vandals COLUMBUS. Ga. t UPD Police today sought "thrill-seeking" van dais who painted crude Nazi swas Ukas on the walls ot an art mil seum here and burned 16,5 valu able paintings, exhibits and art objects. The vandals stripped the paint ings from the walls of three second-floor exhibit rooms of the Co lumbus Museum of Arts and Crafts late Saturday night, piled them in the middle of the floor and set tbem ablaze. The fire was fed with articles from a collection of antique cloth ing, dresses and suits from the ltr.-10's. Then, the unknown intruders scratched six or seven .swastikas on the cloth-covered walls of the gallery with ink or charcoal Tolice said they believed the vandals were the same ones who painted Nazi swastikas at me rear entrances of two Jewish houses of worship last Wednesday and Fri day. . , Despite the use or the swastikas as their trademark, police Capt. J.T. Spence said he, did not think the destruction was the work of an organized gang. "It looks just like plain vandal ism," he said. "The clues are few, but there is no evidence of any organized Rang." A Klamath Falls man who couldn't swim slipped from a boat on Hyatt Lake and drowned while his two young sons watched help lessly Saturday evening, . slate po lice said. . v ; : -, ..: ... ( U)e;.victim Waller . Harvey Khapp, '33;' had' been a mechanic at Juckc'land ' Motors' tor' llie- past lour years. He and his family fre quently spent weekends on the lake near the- summit of Green Springs Mountain, about 25 miles south east of Ashland..'' " According to reports from police and witnesses, Knapp and his sons, Walter Jr., 11, and Dale, 8, were fishing from a small boat moored to a snag. Knapp's wife, Florence waited in camp. Knapp's line fouled. He leaned over to grasp the snag and pull the boat' closer to his line. He lost his balance and the boat sailed from beneath him. Knapp rose to the surface once then disappeared in about 20 feet of water the reservoir's deepest portion. His sons shouted to a nearby boater for help. The boater, a Mr. Smith, attempted rescue but could find no trace of Knapp's body in the murky, algae-riddled water. His body was found at midnight and recovered at 2:30 a.m. Sun day. In addition to the widow and two sons, survivors incfude his mother Mrs. Mary Knapp; a brother, Ed win, and a sister, Mary Etta, all of this city: a brother, James. Flu gene; sisters, Ruth Sarver, Duns muir; Elizabeth Smith, Brooking and Mildred Anderson, Devils Tow er, Wyoming. Funeral. arrangements will be an nounced by Ward's Klamath Funer al Home. jecting a proposal by Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Gromyko or formation of an all-Gi:rman com mittee to negotiate unification and a peace treaty during an IB-month Berlin truce. "The purpose of the Soviets in putting forward the proposal is all too clearly to perpetuate the par tition of Germany ."Heller said in a speech to the Big Four in a for mal session at the Palace of Na tions. He then made the Western coun terproposal, which would retain di rect big power responsibility for German unification and a peace treaty but would spccilicalfy pro vide for increasing contacts be tween West Germany and Commu nist East Germany. Here is the text of Die proposi tion which has West German approval and was reluctantly agreed lo by France Saturday aft'l cf. a-week of Western diaagree- menl: ' - ' i "The Geneva 'Conference of For eign Ministers, as at present con stituled, shall continue in being for the purpose of considering the German problem as a whole. Federal Mediation Chief Attempts To End Deadlock PITTSBURGH (UPII Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finne gan tried, again today to end the deadlocked five-day steel walkout in separate meetings with the United Steelwnrkers and repre sentatives of the 12 major steel companies. The head of the Federal Medi ation and Conciliation Service rr.nducted fruitless talks with the two groups last Thursday, the day after 500,1100 steel workers walked off the job. While Finnegan meets in the conference room with the two nides. the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. will go into two Western Pennsylvania courtrooms to seek an injunction against what it terms "illegal picketing" by steel workers at three of Us plants JiL seeks to restrain pickets al two plants in Pittsburgh and one a! Aliquippa. Pa., from denying fiee passage to some 1.000 super visory personnel engaged in main tenance work at the three plants The union locals have adopted "one vou so out. you stay nt" oollcv. keeping the super- ificnra virtual orisoneri in the plant since the beginning of the itrike last Wednesday. A political note has also crept into the strike news. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) said in, a tele vision interview Sunday in the na tion's capital that a continuing strike would hurt GOP chances In the 1WK) election. Javils and Rep. Chester Bowles iD-Connl, appearing on another TV program, called on the Presi dent to take a more active part M, trying to terminate the walk out. Javits said "the sooner the President appoints a (act-finding board" in the strike "the sooner we will get some conclusion.' Bowles,' asserting that the indus try should hike wages and cut prices, said that steel prices had risen faster than wages and that labor costs - had actually de creased, due to increased per-man OUtpUt.' ' ' Sen. Esles Kcfativer ID-Tenn also said Sunday that his Sen ate anti - monopoly subcommittee would reopen hearings soon on al leged price-fixing by the iteei industry. Red Revolt Sn Lebanon Said Smashed BEIRUT, Lebanon (API Pre micr ADdcl Karim Kassem s re gime claims it has smashed a pro- ilea revolt ana army mutiny in Iraq's northern oil fields, but press reports to Cairo and Damas cus say clashes are continuing. Arab dispatches said hundreds of casualties had resulted from the fighting which broke out Wednesday, while Iraq was cole brating the anniversary of Kas sem's 1958 overthrow of the Iraq! monarchy. The entire norlhcas area was reported to have beer in a slate of near civil war. Iraq's military governor, ' Ah- Fire Held; Danger Area Said Gaining Fire fighting agencies around the county rounded up a fat clutch of smokes resulting lniin a brisk lightning storm Saturday evening, and they are girding for further action in deference to weather re ports that wain of dry-lightning storm probabilities Monday, Tues day and Wednesday. The largest and hottest of the fires broke out in the rugged Klam ath River Canyon about four or five miles below Keno. George Wardell, Klamath Forest Protec tive Association district warden, said the fire stabbed with incred ible speed about a half mile up the canyon wall, charring a strip 800 feet wide before men and bull dozers got a line around it. Three bulldozers, 25 men and two pumper trucks were brought to bear on the blaze. A standby crew was patrolling the area Monday morning. Another troublesome "sleeper" burst out Sunday afternoon on the Northwest shore of Meadow Lake. Five men and a large bulldozer, had difficulty containing the ilames lo two acres, although they ar rived within a half hour after the lirst report. Twenty Air Force men patrolled the lire Sunday evening A cedar snag in the middle of a rugged rock pile on Hamaker Mountain near the Keno radar site gave KFPA firemen a great deal of trouble Saturday evening. They managed, finally, to get a pumper within 500 feet of the lightning strike. A hose-lay got water to the spot and the fire was snuffed. KFPA personnel also said they received a report of a fire burning on the "skillet handle" portion of the Geary Brothers Ranch, 10 miles west of Klamath Falls. Fire men were unable to find the fire. Lookouts reported that a boat was potted mooring in the area. Fire- ncn supposed that the boater put he fire out. . Monday morning, about 25 men of the KFPA were still patrolling BASIN PARCHED This morning there was Just about enough city water for drinking purposes and no other use, Oregon Water Corporation oflicials slated. Water users are being urged to cut water con sumption to bare necessities. - "We were Just barely keep ing up by pumping nearly 12 million gallons a day," the spokesman said. "Trouble in the electrical equipment this morning caused a curtailing in pumping capacity and we're gelling only about 3,000 gallons a minute." At this morning's rate, the 24 hour pumping capacity of the plant is only 4.320,000 gallons. There Is ample power avail able from California Oregon Power Company for the regular pumping system and the new pump which has been put in. The trouble was with Oregon Water Corporation equipment, not the power company, it was pointed out. Water company men are working around the clock in order lo reestablish adequate water service lo its customers. med Saleh Abdi. declared in a the big burn at HUdebrand, 30 Fund Inclusion In Works Bill Draws Blast WASHINGTON (UPI - Pres ident Eisenhower, asserting that "skyrocketing of federal spend ing" must be stopped, criticized the Senate and House today for including funds to start new proj ects in a pending public works appropriations bill. The President's sharp statement was interpreted as a warning that he might veto the bill, unless Congress before final passage knocks out funds for many of the new projccls. The chief executive's views were set forth in an exchange of cor respondence with Rep. John Taber 'R-N.Y., senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. Taber will serve on the Senate House conference committee as signed to draft the final compro mise bill. As it stands now, the bill is a direct challenge to the Presi dent s recommendation against starting any new public works projects for development of the nation's water resources. The President noted that he re quested $1,185,406,259 for work on 296 projects in the current fiscal year. He said the House, although increasing the total for the cur rent fiscal year only by $500,000, included funds for 44 new projects which eventually would cost al most 500 million dollars. He said the Senate added 38 new projects, which ultimately would I cost more than 700 million dollars. Together, he said House and Sen ate action would boost "aggregate cost to the United States in the water resources field by about $1,-200,000,000." As the bill passed the Senate, it carried only $81,159,300 more in di rect appropriations than the Pros- ident requested for the current fis cal year. ' "The fact thai such commit-' Oflicials of the Bureau of Land ments result in only relatively Management -reported that thelsmall increases in expenditures in blaze was controlled about mid-l(fiscal) I960 se?ms to me imma- morning Monday, after a crew ot terial," the President said. 20009 Acres Of Ranaeland Fire Victim LAKEVIEW More than 20,000 acres of valuable rangeland was consumed by a fire that struck late Saturday in the Alkali Lake area north of here. The fire was reported by a tour-. ist at Burns about 5 p.m. Satur day, and apparently was set by a lightning storm which hit the area about that lime Exact area of the start of the fire was listed as about one and one-half miles north of the point where Hogback Road joins High way 395. laer FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity: Fair 1 through Tuesday with Isolated afternoon and eve ning thunderstorms in mountains Tuesday. High Tuesday 90-93. Low both nights 55-60. . High yesterday 96 Low last night . 68 Prccip. last 24 hours trace Since Oct. 1 . 5.82 Same period last year 19.41 Northern California Fa-ir through Tuesday cxccnl coastal fog and a few scattered thunder storms in high mountain areas aft ernoon and evening. Little change temperature. Northwesterly couslal winds 10-20 miles an hour. Baghdad broadcast that there had only been scattered clashes . and, that order- had been restored.' -. From Baghdad also came an appeal by Kassem to "those vyho HaVe strayed to go bock to the right' road." In the toughest tone he has yet used, Kassem de clared: "We will settle accounts with any and all who attack the liberty of the people." Reports from Cairo and Damas cus, capitals ot President Nas ser's United Arab Republic, gave this ,account of. the trouble. Local army and police units in Kirkuk. a city of about 70.000 ly ing 150 'miles north of Baghdad, clashed with Communist demon strators' last - Wednesday and 27 persons were killed and 150 in jured. Incidents occurred elsewhere in Iraq, including a fatal attack on one of Kassem s top aides in Baghdad. CHASE FISH FRY MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPII Fire men chased a column of black smoke to the top of a nine-story apartment building Saturda; light expecting to lind a major ilcze. Instead, they found i amily firing up a portable bar wcue grill for a fish fry. Thi irelightcrs strongly urged them ,.) cook elsewhere. miles east of Klamath Falls thai decimated about 3,200 acres . of brush and timber loot week. War dell expressed gratitude to Sheriff Murray Bntton who sent 34 pris oners to- help -during the .height of the fire and to other agencies that poured men and equipment into the area. He believes the fire is safely controlled. Other agencies were kept hop ping diring and after the lightning storm. The county and Oregon Technical Institute fire depart ments corralled a five-acre brush and grass lightning-caused fire on Hogback Mountain between Klam ath Falls and the OTI campus Sat urday evening. No damage result ed. .; ; ; While county crews were return ing from (hat fire another broke out on the Marshall Ranch' at Swan Lake. The rran caught it. En route to the station, they spot ted a small fire in pine . needles on land belonging to Maude E National Output Exceeds Guess WASHINGTON (API - Bounc ing three billion dollars a Dove earlier estimates, the national out put in the lirst quarter of 195:i cached a rate exceeding 470 bil lion a year. New figures released Sunday by the Commerce Department sug jested second-quarter output may have reached an annual rate n m billion dollars. The first olfl cial estimate on the second quar ;er will be released next week about 50 , men had battled - the flames through the hot dry week end, More than 15,000 gallons of bur ate was poured on the flames by lour planes brought In by the for est service. Two of these were from John Day and one each from Salem and Baker. The fire burned both sides of Highway 395 and was finally cor ralled in the vicinity of the upper end of Abert Lake. Other fires reported in the area Monday included one in the vicin ity of Fort Rock, but no additional details were yet available on this blaze. ' ' . In all, eight fires were reported over the weekend by forestry ofli cials. All were held to small areas mainly through the use Of aerial bombardment with borate. Five of the fires were In the Paisley area, two in Warner and one in the Bly district. Another fire was reported early THE UNINVITED WINONA, Miss. (UPD - Little Mary Bryan 'had one too many guests at her third birthday par ty during the weekend. A 10-foot king snake joined the festivities in the living room. A neighbor clobbered the uninvited guest with a baseball bat. . , . t iol,n.. a.M 1 nlrn Pnart Rnth were "small and caused no' dam'"di? ? Mountain and age f' . crews had been dispatched to this The county department also bat- f " repons were-avai- lion. tied a small grass and brush fire of unknown cause at Worden be tween Highway 97 South and the Southern Pacilic right-of-way sun day afternoon. . County firemen were assisted by an SP crew. No damage resulted. The Klamath Falls department -nulfed the burning back scat of a ir belonging to James Harmaning ol Klamath Falls where he was driving at Seventh Street and Klamath Avenue Sunday afternoon. Little damage was caused. FOREST FIRE DANGER TODAY KEEP OREGON GREEN Thus, he . mad t it clear that he would not be satisfied if Senate- House conferees "wafted a com promise bill which retained many of the new projects, but held down the dollar total by cutting funds on projects already underway.- Roundup Tickets Ticket aalet office far' the 231k aanaat - Klamath Batin Roundup Auoclatioa rode ka been opened ia the lbby of the Willard Hotel today, according lo Darlene Blackman, secre tary, and advance sales on re served seats are now underway. The big show will feature brone riding, bareback riding, bulldogglng, bull riding and both team and calf roping by the country's lop professional cowboys. A purse of $3200 Is at slake tor this leg of the Dia mond Triangle show. Friday and Saturday shows at the fairgrounds will be night performances with a day show slated on Sunday if the weather cools enough. Those wishing ticket Informa tion may call the office by dial ing TUxedo 2-5767. , 7.00,000 New Jobs Pledged By Aide A PROGRAM TO DEVELOP 200,000 NEW JOBS was outlined before Weed gathering lait week by Lt. Gov. Glenn Anderson of California. Shown here, left to right, .are State Senator Randolph Collier, Mrs. Anderson, Lt. Gov. Anderson, and Harold Campbell, vie president of the Weed Chamber of Commree, host for the meeting. Anderson ex plained the purpose of the new Etonomic Development Agency of California. Pjioto by WaWh WEED Lt. Gov. Glenn Ander son pledged the present California administration, and the newly leg islated Economic Development Agency of California to a continued effort to develop 200.000 new jobs each year in the state of California when he spoke here Thursday be fore about 35 Siskiyou County offi cials and citizens. Anderson spoke at the Genova Hotel at a non-partisan luncheon meeting during a good-will tour through Northern California. His wife and executive assistant Carl Deisenroth accompanied him on the ' tour that has taken them through three senatorial districts. Harold Campbell, vice president of the Weed Chamber of Commerce Introduced the lieutenant governor Anderson said, "For the first time a California state adminislra tion Is making a general practice to deal with today's problems In the light of what lies down the years ahead. I have seen on liov- ernor Brown's desk projections of some California problems and changes for as far ahead as the year 2009. This Is what I call tne 'long look. The migration to California and the normal expansion, he said, call for development of 200,000 new jobs each year and that may in 10 years call for as many as 30(1,000 new jobs. "This administration believes that first priority must be given to the development of jobs for our expanding population. If we don't succeed In doing that we aren't going to be able to do anything else." He related the outline for an agency to help do the job was detailed in Senate Bill 43, in troduced by Jim Cobcy of Ma dera and Merced counties. "An other factor we can't evaluate yet is the coming of automation, which will mean more men looking for new jobs." He cited heavy layoffs in certain plants throughout the siate attributed to automation. He said the new agency will gather and correlate pertinent in formation, sponsor studies of bust ness activity, promote new bust ness, and supplement local efforts in development. Ho cited the decline of logging in the north as one industry need ing the state agency to help. "The very life of the industry might seem to be threatened. However it is now estimated that the ctfl- J cient utilization of forest wastes could support the operation of 11 pulp mills in California s timber areas. And other by-products would be available." Pointing out that water pollution has always stopped the pulp mill venture in the valley areas he mentioned that the suggestion has come that the water, that has been used In the mills, the effluent, might in some areas perhaps be diverted out Into the great lava beds. There, nature might perform the filtering job for us. He said to do this would be quite a proj ect, but it has possibilities. He pointed out that this was an idea and that presently It was being explored by the Stanford Research Institute. . GIRL DROWNS , SAN JOSE UP1 - Sabine Kroemer, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kroemer, San Jose, drowned Sunday in a private swimming pool near the family home. , . Police said the tot apparently fell into the pool while her par ents were changing inta their swimming suit.
