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HERALD AN'D NEWS, KlamRlh Falls. Ore.
Thursday. August 13. 1959
Outcome Of
Hangs On Thin Balance
WASHINGTON AP - The out
Come of the bitter House battle
liver Ifbor racketeering controls
hung on a razor-thin balance to
day. The result could be determined
ih a quick windup belore night
fall or drag on indefinitely. A
Half dozen votes could decide the
issue.
' The issue rested between a bill
backed by Democratic leaders as
a middle ground approach, and a
more stringent measure personal
ly supported by President Kison
hower. As tempers flared, the House
Wednesday defeated by an over
whelming 245-132 vole a measure
carrying the official endorsement
of the AKL-CIO and most other or
ganized labor groups.
' Sponsored by Rep. John F. Shel
ley (D-Calif), the labor-supported
bill skirted the issues of bans on
secondary boycotts, "hot cargo"
agreements, and other points
stressed by the President as es
sential, to effective labor legisla
tion. Its defeat had been a foregone
conclusion. Both Democratic and
Republican leaders opposed it as
failing to meet the test of anti
racketeering curbs.
Tte House also killed, by a 215
lfiO vote, an amendment proposed
by Rep. Adam Caltyon Powell ID
NY) to prohibit segregation or de
nial of union rights on grounds of
race, creed, color or national ori
gin. Critics charged the Powell
amendment was designed to kill
effective labor legislation by in
jecting civil rights issues. After a
brief but ' sharp skirmish, the
House agreed. -
, As battle was joined today, lead
ers estimated 10 or 15 undecided
members held the balance of
power in the teetering struggle
ever passage of a "lough" or
moderate bill designed to in
sure the democratic righls of un-
iun memoers, require unions and
employers to report their finan
cial dealings, and cope with such
disputed mailers as boycotts,
"blackmail" picketing and the du
ties of the National Labor Rela
tions Board In minor side-line
disputes.
Senate Finance Committee
Slashes Yet Pension Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Senate Finance Committee has
slashed the 40-year estimated cost
of a House-passed veterans pen
sion bill by 21 billion dollars, it
was learned today.
The effect of the cuts, voted by
the committee in closed session
Monday, would be to make Ihe
bill save $10,974,000,000 of the 105
billion dollars which under pre
sent law will be paid in pensions
between now and the year 20110. As
11 passed the House, it would have
cost $10,128,000,000 more than the
law now provides.
The cut, estimated by the Vet
erans Administration and con
firmed by several senators, is far
deeper than newsmen were given
to understand Monday after the
committee voted.
Kills Pair
EL PASO, Tex. (AP) - Light
ning ripped through a field head
quarters In the desert north of
here Wednesday, killing two New
Mexico National Guardsmen.
Twelve others were injured.
Names of the men killed were
Withheld by the Guard pending
notification of next of kin.
Col. Glen Lovette, a New Mexi
co Guard spokesman, said the in
jured suffered principally from
shock. He said all of them. prob
ably will be released from Wil
liam Beaumont Army Hospital in
El Paso today.
Witnesses said the lightning 'bolt
struck - and killed one man who
was standing in a chow line, then
ricocheted 30 feet to a command
tent where tho second victim was
killed.
. Col. Lovette said a number of
men in the arce escaped injury.
The dead and injured were
among Guardsmen who arrived at
Ft. Bliss Monday for an annual
summer encampment. They were
In training 40 miles north of El
Paso.
Treason is the only crime punish
able by death in the state of Michi
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House Battle
Democratic slrategy aimed at
eventual passage of the "middle
road" bill dralted by the louse
Labor Committee was to give
preliminary approval to the
"tough" Eisenhower proposals and
I hen kill them linally on a show
down roll-call vote placing mem
bers on record.
By such strategy. Democratic
leaders hoped to create a parlia
mentary situation which would
leave the House with no choice
but to accept the committee bill
or go on record as refusing to ap
prove any curbs at all on labor
racketeering. Few members were
ready to take the latter alterna
tive. But Democrats were irankly
risking their chances on the pos.
sibility the House would reject the
Elsenhower-backed bill, just as it
crushed the labor-backed meas
ure.
In such an event, the House
would have an open field for
wholesale amendments to the
Democratic backed measure un
der prevailing parliamentary pro
cedure.
Wilh no bill left to consider but
the in-between committee com
promise, the House was faced with
the prospect of an almost endless
barrage of amendments that could
keep the Issue alive for an in
definite period. The result con
ceivably could be defeat of any
form of labor legislation.
Closing general debate before
Wednesday's voting started
Chairman Graham A. Barden ID
NO of the Labor Committee told
the House that Ihe "rights and
liberties of men" rested on the
outcome.
He appealed for passage of a
bill to cope with what he called
the "four lethal weapons of un
scrupulous labor leaders." He
listed them as "blackmail" picket
ing, hot cargo agreements, sec
ondary boycotts of all types, and
"no man's land" labor disputes
which neilher the federal nor
state governments now handle.
Barden asserted that the Labor
Committee bill "doesn't begin" to
stop ruthless labor union officials
from using these weapons, and
called on the House to take steps
to bring order out of chaos in
this field."
The bill Is to be called up on the
senate floor today.
Veterans organizations are urg
ins senators to reject the Finance
Committee amendments.
Senators Robert , S. Kerr (D
Okla), Albert Gore iD-Tenn) and
Eugene McCarthy ID-Minn) filed
minority views protesting the
committee's action. , Kerr prom
ised a floor fight.
The bill concerns pensions for
veterans with non - service - con
nected disabilities and their de
pendents.
The administration proposed
and the House accepted, a new
sliding scale for pensions based
on need, affording a 40-year sav
ing of 12 billion dollars.
Tho House, however, voted to
make widows of World War II and
Korean War veterans eligible, at
a cost of 22 billion. At present
only World War I widows enjoy
Uiis benefit.
Although accepting Ihe widows
equalization feature, the Senate
committee heavily trimmed pen
sion scales. This provided most of
the big cut.
Sen. Hurry F. Byrd (D-Va), Fin
ance Committee chairman, said
the 40 - year estimates would be
affected by future changes.
Charges Dropped
Against Girl, 15
ELMIRA. N.Y. IAPI-A murder
indictment asainst Jane Ann
kShusko. 1,1. has been, dropped and
she has been transferred to Chil
dren's Court.
Her brother and six of hor
sisters died July II in a tire thai
police said she admitted selling
in her house.
Justice Floyd E. Anderson dis
missed the seven-count Indictment
Wednesday. The Brand iurv re
commended this because of Jane
Ann's age and "circumstances
surrounding the case." The
jury did not elaborate on the
circumstances.
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Army Spec. 4 Wayne R. An
derson is participating in Opera
lion Lead Dog. an arctic expedi
tion being conducted by the Army
Environmental Group in Greenland.
During its 100-day trek over
Greenland's northwestern icecap.
ine group win conduct a series
of experiments in arctic survival,
make ice and snow studies and de
termine simified methods of
overland transportation in sub-zero
weather.
Specialist Anderson, a field-radio
repairman in Ihe group, entered
the Army in February, 1058, and
received basic training at Fort Ord.
He is scheduled to return to his
regular duties at Fort Eustis, Vir
ginia, in October.
The 23-year-old soldier, whose
wife, Yuvonda, lives at 5370 Harlan
Drive, attended Klamath Union
High School. His mother, Mrs.
Fiances Anderson, lives at 2033
Main Street.
Flyer Beats
Wagon Train
A Klamath Falls flyer, Don Der-
Mmer, on the board of the Klam
ath County Centennial Association,
and of the Klamath Chapter, Ore
gon Pilots, took to the air at In
dependence, Missouri, last Sunday
morning and flew above the Old
Oregon Trail to Independence, Ore
gon, to heat the low moving. wag
on train by several days as it
moved across Oregon on the same
foute.
DorMiner, who wanted to be in
Independence, Oregon, next Sat
urday when the wagon train
arrives at its dcstinalion, but is
unable to do so, decided to
coordinate purchase and delivery
of a new plane with the flight
over the old immigrant trail.
Flying time was X! hours, 25
minutes. The pilot grounded at
night and en route attended a Fly
ing Farmer convention in Fort Col
lins, Colorado,
He picked up the plane he flew,
a monocoupe Silvarie from St.
Louis, Missouri, which he had pur
chased at the factory as a present
for his wife Helen, first woman in
Klamath County to receive her fly
er's license. While in the Middle
West he toured the Silvarie and the
Forney aircraft factories.
At Independence, Oregon, he was
the first pilot to land on the new
Independence airstrip being read
ied for the big fly-in planned for
next Saturday, August 15, to honor
Ihe wagon train travelers. Some
400 planes are expected to con
verge on Independence for the
weekend festivities.
DcrMincr's flight put him in first
place to make the Oregon Trail
H ip by air.
State Paper
Vins Kudos
SEATTLE (AP)-The Roseburg
News-Review was cited Tuesday
for its coverage of last Friday's
blast of an explosives-laden truck
that killed at least 12 persons and
wrecked a substantial part of the
downtown area of Roseburg.
J. Richard Eimers, chief of the
Portland A. P. bureau, told the
annual meeting of the Washington
Oregon A. P. members that the
News-Review is "an excellent ex
ample of the cooperation that
mukes the A. P. what it is."
Frank J. Starzel, general man
ager of IHe A. P., said "this is
a concrete example of the A. P.
principles in action."
In spite of the fact that the
blast mode it impossible for the
newspaper to use its own plant,
Ihe News-Review made its staff
aailable to the A. P. The paper
published in Klamath Falls that
tlay.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Maj.
Gen. David Monroe Shoup, select
ed to be the new commandant of
Ihe U.S. Marine Corps, is a tough
Marine of few words. He didn't
talk his way to the top.
A quick look at the record tells
how he got there.
The citation which went with
the Medal of Honor he won in
World War II makes it clear he's
a Marine's Marin'c. It reads in
part: "He was shocked by an ex
ploding shell, suffered from a
painful leg wound and was ex
posed to terrific fire . . . but rallied
his hesitant troops and led them
across the reefs to reinforce hard-
pressed, thinly held U. S. lines
I "Once ashore . . . took command
of all troops, worked without rest
under fire for two days . . . con
ducted smashing successful at
tacks against strong and fanati
eally defended Japanese posi
tions.
Shoup, now 54, won the Medal
of Honor as a colonel while com
manding the 2nd Regiment of the
2nd Marine Division against the
Japanese at Betio Islid in 1943,
This was perhaps the most bitter
ly contested island at Tarawa
Atoll in, the Gilberts:
Shoup's reputation in the Corps
as a man of few words keyed his
fir(st meeting wilh reporters after
, RED WRITERS VISIT ' U.S.
NEW YORK (UPI) Eight So
viet writers and journalists toured
New York today on the first leg
of a two-week American visit-
strictly as tourists paying their
own way. "The writing profession
in the Soviet Union is a well paid
one," said Mrs. T. G. Mamcdow
cultural attache to the Soviet em
bassy in Washington, "so these
men can afford a visit such as
this."
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Of Honor
Wednesday's announcement that
on Jan. 1 he would succeed Gen.
Randolph McC. Pate, who is re
tiring at the end of this year.
Reporters, noting that he wears
glasses, asked whether he was
near or far sighted. He answered
"Both."
Asked about his favorite hobby,
he gave reporters another one
word reply: "Shooting."
Shooting at what? The general
didn't say.
But when pressed for more in
formation about this interest,
Shoup said that when he heard re
cently that a Marine markman
ship team had won a champion
ship, he felt so "exhilarated that
I went out and fired 30 rounds
in the air."
Beyond that, his recreational in
terests run to chess, checkers,
billiards, poker and golf. That's
Ihe order in which he named
Ihem.
He is known in the Corps as an
officer who can be lough on in
efficiency, and who doesn't waste
words any more than he would
permit the Marines to waste
money while he was fiscal
director and inspector general of
Ihe Corps.
The son of a farmer, Shoup was
born Dec. 30, 1904, in Indiana. His
home town is aptly named Battle
Ground. He entered military ser
vice in 1920 after graduation from
DePauw University in his home
state.
Shoup has served with the
Marines in many parts of the
world and was one of the first
Marines to go overseas in World
War If. He has. commanded the
1st and 3rd Marine divisions.
Three months ago he was named
commanding general of the re
cruit depot at Parris Island, S.C.
Detective Still Remembers Girl
Who Perished In Fire 15
HARTFORD. Conn (NFAIAft.
er 15 vears- whpn most nf tho
people who survived have moved
away or died or hidden the grisly
memory of the Hartfnrri firms
Fire in an anecdote detective Lt.
Thomas Barber still goes to the
cemetery to see a erave marked
only by a number.
"I didn't know her," he said.
"I hardly knew anv of Ihpm Rut
you'd think somebody would know
a -year-old kid and bury her with
a name instead of a slate police
morgue tag."
He savs it flatlv. farlnallv tho
way a veteran detective makes
a report, because that is the only
way it makes any sense.
"You walked into th arm nrv
that July and there were rows and
rows of the burned dpaH nn ontc
covered with blankets. Somebody
naa to identify a wrong body. And
so many of them were little kids."
Those dead have hppn HnaH o
long time. Two wars have ended
since then.
Even the charred earth whoro
the Ringling Brothers and Bar
num and Bailev circus stnnrl nn
jjuly 6, 1944. has been buried un-i
aer tne mammoth Hartford hous-
ing'project where people who can
barely remember the fire are
now raising children who will
never remember. "
There is still no authoritative
statement on how the fire started.
Official record hppin U'hpn thn
flames were six feet high. But de
tective Barber says:
"I was there. And the first I no
ticed was a little ball of fire about
the size of an orange burning
through the canvas. The animal
acts were just finishing. And there
was this little orange ball of fire.
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step-sister to death be
cause he couldn't stand her cry
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Russell Harris, 16, goes before
Juvenile Court today for a pre
liminary hearing on a murder
charge in the death of little Na
dine Leary.
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he beat Nadine when she cried
while he was baby-sitting with her
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"Six minutes later it was all
over."
For circuses are older than build
ing codes and fire prevention so
cieties. And until matinee time of
July 6, 1944, the traditional meth
od for water-proofing a big top,
according to the National Board
of Fire Underwriters, was with
paraffin dissolved in gasoline.
In a moment the fire had flashed
across the underside of the can
vas, burning through halyards and
pole ropes as it pursued the oily,
waxy cloth.
The flaming tent roared and
collapsed.
Spectators high in the bleach
ers could not find enough exits.
People at ringside were blocked
ahead by animal chutes and be
hind by folding chairs crashing
down at them like a prison wall.
It was almost over when the fire
engines arrived less than 10 min
utes after the alarm. Had they
been eight minutes earlier, fire
prevention experts say, they could
probably have done little.
Nothing could have stopped the
fire in the canvas. Summer cloth
ing burned easily. Little children
cannot move quickly. High heels
get caught easily.
The bodies were piled four deep.
"Just the heat was enough to
suffocate you," Barber said. "My
jacket turned to a cinder on my
back from the heat alone."
The casualty list, now yellowing
and brittle, can still rrtake a flat
voiced, factual observer of human
misery gasp; 250 injured; 168
dead; 63 of them- children under
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"I was going to lake my little
kid." Barber said. "He was seven.
Just the right age for circuses.
And then I found I was assigned
to work it. You know, pick
pockets and the other pests that
always get into big crowds.
Barber hardly saw his family for
a week. He was reassigned to the
morgue detail in the armory where
the quick came day after day to
claim their dead.
"Nobody ever did take this one
litlle girl," he said. "A pretty little
kid, light brown hair. About sev
en. Number 1565. And nowhere
near beyond recognition.-
"I don't know. I think about her
quite a lot. Go up to her grave at
Northwood a couple-three times a
year. You know: Decoration Days
Christmas; July 6."
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