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Newspaper Page Text8. OF ORE.LI3RAHT N2SPAPER SECTION GEK.REF.AIO DOCUMENTS SIT Insurgent Chief Refuses Ultimatum mmm niiimiiiiiK mmum minimum KLAMATH Price Ten Ceni 62 Paget Moratorium WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Atomic Energy Commission Satur day virtually ruled out for more than a year any U.S. nuclear explo sions (or peaceful purposes. It also indicated this country will stage no new H-bomb tests at its Pacific proving ground during the remainder of President Eisenhow er's term. The commission left open, how ever, the ' possibility of under ground weapons tests in Nevada this year and of missile warhead tests on the fringes of space. In a 628-page annual report to Congress, the AEC said that in 1059 it continued "Program Plow share" studies on peaceful uses of nuclear explosives. This program, like weapons testing, had been held up during the East-West talks in Geneva on a permanent test ban. Farthest along of all Plowshare proposals apparently is Project Gnome. This is a plan to explode a nuclear device deep in a New Mexican salt bed to determine whether atomic heat can be stored underground for generation of power. The site has been picked, about 25 miles southeast of Carlsbad, and preliminary surveys have been completed. But, the commis sion said, "it is estimated that about one year would be required to prepare the site and execute the experiment if a decision were made to proceed." That decision has not been made, an AEC official told United Press International. There has been no public indication that it is imminent. , Under "military application" the commission reported there have been continued "research and de velopment activities . . . with spe cial emphasis on smaller, immediately-ready, and more rugged weapons for use in advanced weapons systems." Since Nov. 1, 1958, it has kept the Pacific proving ground, where big bombs are tested, "on a mini mum maintenance basis." Experts say it would take a year to pre pare new tests there. 4th Graders Mull Notes WASHINGTON (API - Rep. Charles 0. Porter (D-Ore) has asked the fourth grade class at Riverside ; School in Roseburg if members still want to correspond with Russian children after a Slate Department rebuff. Janis Boyle, one of the fourth graders, had written Porter re questing his help in obtaining the names of Russian children in a town about Roseburg's size, Janis wrote, "You see we want to learn their way of life. Maybe they would like to learn our way of life." Porter sent the letter to the State Department. Back came a note from William B. Macomber Jr.. saying the .department frowns on correspon dence between U. S. and Soviet citizens because of Russian cen sorship. Macomber said. "Our experi ence also shows that such corres pondence is frequently used as a vehicle for the dissemination of Communist propaganda." Porter assured the Roseburg girl he would be glad to forward letters to the Russian ambassador in Washington asking him to make suitable arrangements. "So now," ' said Porter, "I'm waiting to see what the fourth crade class at Riverside wants me to do. It's up to them." Medical Check Set For Senator PORTLAND (AP) Sen. Richard t, Neuberger and his wife were back in Oregon where the senator will undergo a medical check up. Mrs. Neuberger said the senator should have remained longer in Oregon after his cancer attack She said he has been plagued by a severe case of shingles and will not return to Washington until he feels better. Neuberger, who arrived by jet Thursday night, said the check up will help him decide finally whe ther he will seek reelection. The flight was Neuberger's first air travel. Mrs. Neuberger said V. S. Supreme Court Justice Wil liam 0. Douglas also was aboard the plane en route to San Fran cisco. Douglas is from Oregon. RECORD BUDGET ROME (AP) Premier Antonio Segni's government Friday night drafted a record budget of $6,282,- (80.000 for the 1960-61 fiscal year (hat would leave a deficit of near ly a half-billion dollars. IIIIIIIIHWWWIIIlll MMIWimiHIIHIIM FALLS, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31. IM Telephone TU 4-8111 Placed On Ihe Nevada proving ground, on the other hand, "has been kept in standby readiness by maintain ing the buildings and equipment ana repairing, or preparing, cer tain tunnels" used in weapons tests. Atomic arms experts have said Charge Names Police Chiefs CHICAGO (AP) Was there a working agreement between cer tain influential Chicago police and a crime syndicate? And were police "bag men" graft collectors sent to honky- tonks and other illicit enterprises to bring back protection money? These questions were raised Friday by a self-described police pensioner who sent anonymous letters to the newspapers and lo various officials, including Mayor Richard Daley. ine letter purports to name names and detail charges. It sketches a sordid picture of or ganized crime within the depart ment, now reeling under the big gest scandal in its history. The charges, Daley noted, are unverified. He said he turned the letter over to an agency "outside the police department" for investi gation. The Federal Bureau of In vestigation and the Internal Rev enue Service said the mayor had not approached them. State's Atty. Benjamin Adamow- ski said the Cook County grand jury also would investigate the charges. Acting Police Commissioner Kyran Phelan branded the accu sations untrue and suggested the writer repeat them during a lie detector test. The letter purports to identify alleged graft collectors for police captains and an alderman; ac cuses a police official of collecting gang payoffs for notifying syndi cate lawyers promptly when hood lums were arrested; and charges another police official with dab bling In prostitution rackets. An admitted burglar, Richard Morrison, 23, has said eight po licemen in the Summerdaie Dis trict helped him commit burgla ries and five others demanded bribes so he would not be prose cuted. More than 70 policemen have been given lie tests and 17 have been suspended. Meanwhile, George L. Ramsey, city building commissioner, an nounced he is investigating charg es that city plumbing inspectors extracted bribes from contractors. Wage Talks At Impasse CHICAGO (UPI) - The nation's first major railroad strike in decade loomed Saturday with a third rail union threatening to join two others in breaking off contract talks. A strike could affect 711,000 rail road workers represented by 21 op erating and non-operating unions. Theodore Short, the railroads' chief negotiator, admitted an im passe has been reached after wage negotiations stalemated be tween the roads and the powerful 37,000-member Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers (BLE). Only 12 hours earlier, the 60,- 000-member Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemen (BLFE) ended its talks with the three regional conference carrier committees representing the na tion's railroads and requested ar bitration. Talks were still in progress with unions representing switchmen and conductors but a switchmen's spokesman said it was "only a matter of time before we break off, too, unless something comes up that we can send to our member ship for ratification. "So far, there's nothing," he said. But L. J. Wagner, vice president of the Order of Railway Conduc tors and Brakemen, predicted "we could reach agreement" if the railroads "would loosen up a lit tle." Woatlier Klamath Falls and vicinity Cloudy with occasional rain or snow today. Low tonight 25-30; high today 42-47. High yesterday . 38 Low last night ...... 28 Northern California Partly cloudy today. A few rain showers. Snow flurries in the high moun tains. Little change In tempera tures. Coastal winds 8-16 miles an hour. itflMmiiimiywB No. 6617 Atom Tests privately that additional tests are needed to prove out at least two "advanced weapons systems" prominently mentioned in Presi dent Eisenhower's budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. These are the Davy Crockett, an "individual man-carried" nu clear rocket for close support of troops, and the Nike-Zeus, an anti missile rocket with an atomic war head. The President said the A r m y ana Marine corps win stock up on Davy Crocketts in fiscal 11)61 ana mat me new budget carries funds (or "full-scale testing" of the Nike-Zeus "under realistic (ieid conditions." That, according to military ob servers, means high altitude fir ings of the rocket, presumably over the test range running from Johns ton Island to Kwajalein in the Pa cific. Other highlights of the AEC re port: Testing is expected this year in Nevada of an experimental re actor in the Pluto program to de velop a nuclear ramjet engine for missiles. New reactors are being designed for additional tests in the Rover project lo perfect a nu clear-powered space vehicle. The Navy now has 37 nuclear submarines and three atomic sur face ships "operating under con struction, or authorized." -Nuclear reactors of all kinds under construction of development as of Sept. 30 will cost about $1,700,000,000 when completed. Ci vilian power projects account for about $717,200,000 of this. U.S. production of uranium, the raw material of atomic ener gy, rose 30 per cent in 1959 over 1958. This country -continued to be the largest uranium producer in the free .world. The model C' stellarator, this country's biggest and most power ful device for research in taming the H-bomb's reactions for power, will start operating next fall. -. Piece Added To Air Puzzle PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) A new piece has been added to the con siderable puzzle surrounding heav ily insured ex-convict Robert Ver non Spears. And the FBI is as close-mouthed about this one as it has been about the entire investigation of the 65- year-old Dallas naturopath, who once was listed as missing in the crash of a commercial airliner. The latest activity came Friday when FBI agents picked up a my sterious package from Dallas at the Phoenix Airport. Authoritative sources said the package was personally handed to two agents by the captain of a commercial airliner minutes after the plane landed. But the FBI de clined to say whether it was con nected with the investigation of Spears and the Nov. 16 crash of an airliner into the Gulf of Mex ico. The crash killed 42 persons, Lipstick Hearing Set February 17 WASHINGTON (AP) The gov ernment Saturday ordered a public hearing Feb. 17 to determine whether 14 coloring materials used principally in lipstick should be declared unsafe and barred from use. Three other coloring materials which had been on the suspected list were declared safe by the Food and Drug Administration. These are "D and C red Nos. 11, 12, 13." SPORTS ITS FLOODLIGHTS i , - '", 4 ;.$ "s.V ; - ' , ' : l r 4,-. ... '. park, sports its floodlights for th first time. Bathed in light for a display before the San Francisco press and public, the park awaits Its inaugural opaning which will take place be fora baseball's opaning day on April 12. NEA Radio-Telephot J) LUM CI Do GAULLE . . . shots heard 'round the world Reich Flier Found Guilty KARLSRUHE, Germany (AP)- The West German Supreme Court Saturday convicted navy flier Horst Ludwig of spying for the Soviet Union and sentenced him to five years in prison. The 34-year-old senior lieuten ant, was accused of supplying So viet intelligence with West Ger man, British and U.S. military secrets. He was the first officer of the new West German armed forces to be tried for espionage. Convicted with him were: Boatswain's mate Fritz Briese- meister, 33, a former Ludwig sub ordinate, sentenced to four years; Ltidwig's brother-in-law, Werner Jaeger, given three years; and Jaeger's wife, Hanna, sentenced to l'A years. t Prosecutor Erwin Fischer said money was the motive behind the espionage ring. - He said Ludwig, who trained in Britain and the United States, re ceived at least $1,000 from Soviet agents for information since 1954. The prosecutor said Ludwig re cruited Briesemeister, who began to spy in, March 1955, ' supplying reports on West German navy strength (or at least $1,856. : The Jaegers were - accused of acting as go-betweens for the two navy men and Soviet agents. Pitter-Patter Of Little Feet Causes Problem1 HOUSTON, Tex. ' (AP) - Billie Vickery wishes the patter of little feet in her attic would go away. The feet, she believes, belong to a skunk. ' ' Last Tuesday she noticed an unusual odor. "I found the odor was coming from the attic fan vent, and' I could hear an animal prowling around up there," she told newsmen Friday. ' . . A city humane officer proposed they fire tear gas into the attic, shoot the skunk, or wait for the animal to leave "I don't want to fill the house with tear gas because, we don't have any other place to go," she said. She has three small children "If we shoot him, he's liable to let go." The - intruder, she said, appar ently climbed up a ladder propped against the entrance to the attic. A man at the zoo told her skunks could climb. Mrs. Vicker left the ladder in tact in hopes the animal would take the same way out. Candlestick Park., the new Discovery BERKELEY (UPI) A recent study of a meteorite which (ell 41 years ago has revealed that the elements making up (he solar system finished evolving 4,950 million years ago. Announcement was made Sat urday by Dr. John Reynolds, associate professor of physics at the University of California, after lengthy study of xenon gas dissolved in (he meteorite. Reynolds said the xenon front the meteorite was found to con tain many more atoms of atomic weight 129 than any sample of xenon previously studied. The meteorite was found In Richardson, N.D., In 1919. According to Dr. Reynolds, the experiment gained success through use of the mass spectro meter, a highly sensitive instru ment capable of making de tailed studies of the xenon iso topes. Professor Reynolds, who built the instrument, hag been work ing under grants from the U.S. Atomic Energy.. Commission and the University of Califor nia's Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science. Castro Raps Indolence HAVANA (AP)-Prime Minister Fidel Castro has asked Cubans to denounce those who refuse to work, the semi-official newspaper Revolucion said Saturday. "There are many people who have never sweated out their shirts," Castro declared Friday in a speech at Baracoa in northeast Cuba. "When you see someone who doesn't work, denounce him. By doing so, you show a revolu tionary conscience." Castro spoke to a meeting of peasants on his swing through eastern Cuba. He lamented a shortage of technicians for his programs of agricultural and in dustrial expansion. He criticized Cubans "who have these skills and who refuse to use them to help the revolution." In Havana, the leftist President of Cuba's national bank insisted the sweeping reforms planned by the government do not include na tionalization of Cuban industry. Maj. Ernesto (Che) .Guevara adds, however, that the govern ment reserves the right "to con trol investments and to intervene in an industry in the measure it considers proper from 51 to 100 per cent.'.' Francisco Giants ball- Territorial Troops Stand ALGIERS (AP) Fiery insur gent leader Pierre Lagaillarde Friday night rejected as an insult an army ultimatum that he sur render his barricaded stronghold in Algiers. Lagaillarde's defiant speech was blared out to massed crowds surging in front of the barricad The crowds had broken through lines of paratroopers who tried to seal off the area earlier. About 3,000 territorial troops- defying a government order to submit themselves lo army dis cipline stood with Lagaillarde. Lagaillarde said the army de livered him an unconditional ul timatum lo surrender his strong hold. Lagaillarde delivered his speech from the command post balcony of his fellow insurgent leader, Joseph Ortiz, who fol lowed Willi an appeal for an out pouring of civilians in support of the insurgents. Army helicopters swirled over head as Lagaillarde spoke. "Conscious of my responsibili ties," he said, "I have rejected this ultimatum, which was an in sult to our dead and asainst all those who for the past five years have been fighting so Algeria can remain a French land." In the din, many of the crowd heard Lagaillarde faintly. Some applauded. Some looked stunned. The Lagaillarde pronouncement came shortly after a screaming mob of anli-Gaullist citizenry crashed the paratroop cordon to demonstrate support for the in surgents. "Algeria is French," the crowd shouted. "Down with De Gaulle." The breakthrough came after the paratroopers, ordered to seal off the barricaded areas, broke ranks to let through a few women who were being crushed in the crowd. The mass of demonstrators burst through behind them. The demonstrators overran the steps of the central post office. Others ran across the square lo the bar Reds Chat With Pupils NEW YORK (AP)-"Let m see some live students, shouted jovial, handsome man touring New York University Saturday. But students live or otherwise were nearly as hard lo. find as a Fifth Avenue bus in Moscow. After a fruitless search of the student center, the visitor finally corralled three youths who hadn't left for the weekend. Do you know anything about education in the U.S.S.R.?" asked the man, who turned out lo be Dmitry SV Polyansky, head of a 12-man Soviet delegation touring this country. The students seemed surprised by the sidewalk interview, but one John Raper Jr., of Fayetteville, N.C., said he had heard there are as'many students of law and med icine in the United States as in the Soviet Union. 'We have more students than you do," Polyansky said in Rus sian. Robert Bloom, a student from Forest Hills, Queens, told the So viets he attended the school on a scholarship. , If you have to live on grants. it is better not to go on like this," said Polyansky, who is a mem ber of the Soviet Presidium. He continued: "The best building in Moscow belongs to Moscow Uni versity." Jet Jockey Said lucky' PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) "He was a fantastically lucky man, a physician said of Air Force Capt. Adam E. Tyra who emerged alive from the crash of a super sonic jet. The pilot Saturday was in the Portland Air Force Base hospital to undergo x-rays and further exam ination. Surgeon Ronald Rohlfing said Tyra suffered burns on his face and arm, possible internal injuries and possible fractures of the spine and knee. Tyra's F102A Delta Dagger went down Thursday. Tyra was knocked unconscious when the jet crashed on Davis Peak, 42 miles north of Portland. When he came to, he found the wreckage in flames. Tyra beat out the flames then crawled away from the jet. He spent Thursday night in i lean-to fashioned from a para chute. Friday he set out limping 1c find help. After two miles, he came upon an abandoned cabin A logger who lives In the area found him there. ricades, where the Insurgents cheered their arrival. Sealing off of the barricaded area had been the army s first move to break the week-old up rising of French settlers against President Charles de Gaulle's Al gerian policy. The troopers, commanded by Brig. Gen. Jean Gracieux, cut off almost all contact between the in surgents and the volatile civil population. Death Claims Rocky Aide NEW YORK (AP-Frantis A. Jamieson, 55, one of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's key advisers and a former Associated Press report er who woiv a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Lindbergh kidnaping case, died in New York Hospital Saturday alter a long ill ness. ' The cause of death was not dis closed. Jamieson began his newspaper career in 1922 in Trenton, N. J., as legislative correspondent for the Standard News Assn. and the Jersey Observer. He was Associated Press corre spondent at Trenlon when he scored one of the great news breaks on the finding of the body of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.. son of the flier, who had been kid naped from his Hopewell, N. J., home. Solon Kayos 3 Opponents CONCORD, N. II. (AP) With more than a month left before New Hampshire's first-in-the-na-tion . presidential primary. Sen. John F. Kennedy Saturday knocked out two of his three Dem ocratic opponents. But he failed to stem a growing feud among his own supporters. Kicked off the ballot after the Massachusetts senator's cam paign aides said faked signatures were used; were TV - cowboy singer Elton Britt of Damascus Md., and Lar (America First) Daly, a perennially unsuccessful candidate from Chicago. Secretary of Slate Harry E, Jackson announced the decision to newsmen at his Manchester home seconds after Kennedy backers presented him with sworn affi davits documenting their charges that nominating petitions filed for Britt and Daly bore signatures of dead men and nonexistent voters. The unprecedented action left Kennedy with Chicago pen manu facturer Paul C. Fisher as his only rival in the Democratic pref erence poll section of the March 8 primary. Rescue Crew Progress Told COALBROOK, Soulh Africa (AP) Rescue workers have pierced the hard rock formation that has blocked efforts to reach 435 miners trapped underground since Jan. 21. The fate of the men 429 Afri cans and six whites should be known within 30 hours, officials said. A three-inch diamond drill pen etrated the hard layer of doioritc Saturday afternoon and continued to a depth of more than 200 feet. It is expected lo go through the remaining 300 feet of shale and coal layers at the rate of about 10 feet an hour. Meanwhile, a high-speed tung sten drill is still fighting through the dolorite. A third drill is mak ing fast progress through the rock. After the holes are completed, food, water and medical supplies will be lowered to any survivors of the 10-day ordeal. A team of experts is sinking a shaft 12 feet across as an escape route. Capitol Mall Plagued By HZO SALEM (AP) Water cascaded down four floors of Ihe Slate highway building in the Capitol Mall this morning when a fire main broke, first estimates mm catcd damage may run into thou sands of dollars. Fire department Battalion Chief Percy Clark said the line broki on the fourth floor of the building. Cause of the break was not deter mined. The water flooded all four floors, including offices In the south end of the building, Clark said. Some water soaked into walls. More water poured into electrical con duits and put elevators and other electrical equipment out of oper ation. Ceilings also wera damaged. With Boss Gracieux called all Algiers ter ritorials (national guardsmen) into his command in an effort to oil territorials from the manpow er behind the barricades. He or dered them to report to their headquarters in uniform by 4 p.m. Hundreds stayed put, however. Only a few trickled out in re- ponse to Hie order. The scaling off process began the test of strength between the nsurgents and French troons di- ected hy President Charles de Gaulle to restore order. The troops left one small side of the barricades free, apparent ly so insurgent territorials could et out lo the muster commanded by Gracieux. Crowds were barred from the big square in front of the barri cades which has been the scene of insurgent harangues for the past eck. The paratroops were re ported massed shoulder to shoul der around an area they had been keeping under free and easy guard. Simultaneously, the commander of the army corps v in Algiers, Gen. Jean Crepin, broadcast an appeal for the population to, re turn to work. The insurgents themselves had called off a gen eral strike and told the people to return lo work Monday. Insurgent leader Joseph Ortiz and Jules Sapin-Ligniers, the commander of all territorial forc- in Algiers, con (erred for 45 minutes with Gracieux before the paratroops began to seal off the arricades. What went on in that conference was not revealed. At the central command post of Ihe territorial troops there was shouting, confusion and indeci sion. Near the deadline, a handful of officers sped off in a com mand car to the headquarters of Gracieux. Around the insurgent barricades it was reported that both the ter ritorials and paratroops were act ing with caution, to avoid any incident. Businessmen Rap Duplicity WASHINGTON (AP) Busl- ness and industry spokesmen tes tified Saturday that billions of dollars are being wasted in the ueiense Department by duplica- lion and rivalry among the sep arate armed services. Perry M. Shoemaker, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, urged estab lishment of a separate civilian managed agency directly under the Secretary of Defense to con trol the spending of about 24 bil lion dollars annually on military supplies. Shoemaker said his proposals had the support of ex-President Herbert Hoover; Charles R. Hook, chairman of Armco Steel Corp., and other members of the former government reorganization task force known as the Hoover Com mission.' President Erwin D. Canham of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce urged Congress to appropriate most of the 40 billion dollar an nual defense budget to the Secre tary of Defense, rather than split ling it among Air Force, Army and Navy, as now is done. Canham, in a statement, said the present defense procurement system for billions of dollars "has been woefully inadequate." . . The testimony was before the Senate-House Economic Commit tee headed by Sen. Paul H. Doug las (D-IU), which also has been critical of defense procurement systems and policies. Army General Steps Down HUNTSV1LLE. Ala. (AP)-MaJ. Gen. John B. Medaris, the Army s champion of a bigger program for ballistic missiles and outer space exploration, stepped down Satur day. . Retiring after 38 years in Ihe rmy, Medaris left behind a rec ord o( persistent urgings (or more money and fewer restrictions in the nation's space race with the Soviet Union. During formal retirement cere monies, Medaris received two medals. Secretary ot the Army Wilber Brucker presented him the oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished . Service Medal. The Legion of Merit was pre sented by Maj. Gen. Samuel Calla han of Ihe Air Materiel Command at Mobile, Ala. Medaris' successor as head of the Army Ordnance Missile Com mand will be Maj. Gen. August Schomburg. He was deputy chief of ordnance of the Army.