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In The- Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The White House-Kremlin ' hot line" intended to provide instant emergency communication be tween the chiefs of state, is ready for use, the Pentagon announced last night. A terse one-sentence announce ment said only that the "direct communication link between Washington and Moscow is ready for operation." In reply to a ques tion, a spokesman said this meant that both the land wire and radio circuits between the capitals now are ready. The theory is that the "hot line" will be used only by President Kennedy and Premier Khrush chev. That prompts an interesting question: What will the Premier of the Soviet Union and the President of the United States say to each oth er or. the momentous occasion when they first try out this rather fantastic (not to mention expen sive I piece of equipment that has been provided for their use; A frivolous suggestion: How about what the governor of North Carolina is reported to have said to the governor of South Carolina when they greeted each other on a similarly momentous occasion quite some time ago? That seems to be about as appro priate as anything else they might say to each other. . But let's be serious. You may ask: How will this "hot line" work? Well, one end of it will be in the Kremlin. The other end will be in the Pentagon. Krom the Pentagon, connections relay the circuits directly through to the White House. The preamble to the U.S.-Soviet agreement to install the line specifies that it is "for use in time of emergency." The discus sions which led to the unprece dented agreement between the two nations which have been en gaged in a cold war for a decade and a half made plain the pri mary purpose of the setup. The hot line will be used in the hope of heading off through direct and quick communications between the chiels nt govern mcnt incidents which could "escalate" in a matter of min utes or hours into MASSIVE WAR. That is to say: If there should be a series of events that began (o look criti cally dangerous, the President of the United States at this mo ment in history. President Ken nedy would call the Premier of the Soviet Union on the hot line and say to him in effect: "WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT?" Whereupon In theory The Premier of the Soviet (in ion would say WHAT DO YOU MEAN? Thereupon In theory The two heads of state would iron it all out between them and instead of war there would be peace. It sounds wonderful. Hut there's a catch lo it. The Premier of the Soviet Un ion is a communist. The ninth of Lenin's Ten Commandments reads: "Promises are like pie crusts: made to be broken." So the Premier of the Soviet Union might sav to the President of the United States over the hot line: "There's nothing to it. Go to bed and forget about it." Whereupon he might TURN THE MISSILES LOOSE. Criminals In Control Areas, Hoover Claims WASHINGTON 'UPI' - FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Friday blamed organised crime for sub verting business, unions, courts. city halls, legislative chambers and law enforcement agencies. Hoover discussed the impact of recent disclosures about the crime syndicate, 'Cosa Nostra. in his monthly "message lo all law- cnlorcement officials" in the September i.-sue of the FBI Bul letin. He said Cosa Nostra is strong arm of organized crime in America." He implied, however, that no one should lose sight of the fact that there is other or ganized crime in the nation too. Information about Cosa Nostra provided by inlormer Joseph Va lathi "has corroborated and em bellished the laus developed by the FBI as early as 1961." Hoover said. e said the "make up o( this gang land horde" was first disclosed by the FBI information. "Most have amassed great wealth and have accumulated businc.-s interests." he said "Some unions are controlled and exploited hy hoodlums. Weal her Klamath Palls. Tutcltkt and laksvitw Mostly lair May, IN119M and Monday. Hialts both days 7t-n. Lews tonight ss-M, Jicipt 31 lower Klamath lain. Voriablo winds S-ll m.p.h. High yosltrday 70 Low this morninfl M High ytar ago II Lew year ago 4) Prtcip. last u hours .31 Since Jen. I a. is Same period last year l.3f Two CCilled Dei Area Mishap Two Malin men were killed in a two-car collision at the intersection of Morelock Road and Ramus Road, about 2'a miles east of Ma lin, Friday night. The accident Holiday Mishaps Increase By United Press International Much of the nation's population was away Horn home today, headed or a final fling of sum mer holiday unmaking, sobered only by the highway traffic peril. The National Safety Council es timated that from 430 to 520 per sons would die in traltic acci dents during the holiday period. which began at 6 p.m. Friday and will end at midnight Mon day. Scores more will lose their lives in miscellaneous accidents during the 78-hour period. The record traffic toll for a Labor Day holiday was marked up last year when 501 persons died. The Safety Council feared that mark might be exceeded this year because new records were set during this year's Memorial and Independence holidays. Last year 177 persons were killed in other types of accidents over La bor Day. The Safety Council said 360 per sons would die during a compara ble rion - holiday period in late summer. A United Press International count at 8:30 p.m. PDT showed 115 persons killed in traffic since the start of the holiday at 6 p.m. Friday. The breakdown: Traffic HI Drownings S Miscellaneous 6 Total 153 California, with 23 deaths, was far ahead of the other states. There were seven tralfic deaths each in Illinois, Texas and New York state and six each in Penn sylvania and Georgia. To keep the tralfic toll at a minimum, the nation's law en forcement agencies mobilized vir tually every available officer and supplemented them with auxil iary police, national guardsmen and driver's license examiners in many areas. Indiana State Police patrolled with headlights burning around the clock and Nebraska asked all motorists to do likewise. Florida's Duval County tried a similar safe ty reminder. Reds Discover Venus Oxygen MOSCOW iUPH Soviet scien tists have detected oxygen in the atmosphere of Venus. Moscow Radio reported Friday night. But the broadcast gave no in dication o life existing on that planet. The presence of oxygen was de duced from a spectrum ana,y?i? of Venus performed at the Cri mean Astronomical Observatory, Moscow Radio said. Holiday Set On Monday The Herald and News will not publish on Monday, Labor Day. Government office and most downtown stores will also ob serve the holiday by closing. Thrre will he no postal deliv eries or window service. Special delivery mail will be drliv-erod promptly, and holiday schedules for receipt and dispatch of other mail will be observed. All other federal, state, coun ty and city agencies, with the exception of police and fire de partments, will be closed Mon day. Downtown stores except some food and drug outlet will be closed. The Klamath Falls City ( oun cll's regular Hireling, schedulrd for Monday night, will be hrld Tuesday night. Price Fifteen Cents 44 occurred about 7:30 p.m., accord ing to state police. Victims of the mishap were James E. Rogers, 50, owner of one of the cars, and Harvey Ea gleton, 27, who was driving the Rogers car. Two other passengers in the Rogers car were injured. They are James W. Rogers. 27, and Terry Corrine Rogers. 3. Both were taken to the Klamath Valley Hos pital for treatment and released Saturday morning. Another pas senger, George V, Rogers, 21, w as not injured. Driver of the second car was Mrs. Ecco McDonald, also of Ma lin. She was injured and was tak en to Klamath Valley Hospital, where her condition is listed as satisfactory. Both victims were killed out right as Eagleton was thrown through the windshield and Rog ers, who was in the back scat, was thrown from the automobile. Eagleton was northbound and Mrs. McDonald was eastbound as they collided nearly in the cen ter of the intersection of the two roads. Officers said that the inter section is "blind" because of high weeds that obscure vision. The injured were taken to the hospital by Tulelake Ambulance. FBI Seeks Identity To Mine Dead MOAB, Utah (UPH The Fed eral Bureau of Investigation Satur day hoped to link the names of the 18 victims of Tuesday's pot ash mine explosion with the row of charred bodies lying stretchers in a truck repair shop just outside of town. Sheriff John Stocks, who knew most of the victims .personally, said that visual identification was impossioie. Each corpse was wrapped in a green, plastic can vas and the stretchers were placed in a row on the cement lloor of the shop, which was con verted into a temporary morgue. Leonard Blaylock, special agenl of the FBI's Salt Lake branch of fice, said that when the bodies are identified, they will be turned over to their families. Separate arrangements will be made for each. Father John Rasbach, a Roman Catholic priest, said a joint Re quiem Mass for the Catholics in volved will be held in Moab if the families wish it. Meanwhile, the Junior Cham ber of Commerce of this eastern Utah city of 6.000 Friday night launched a fund drive lor the vic tims' widows and children. The Texas Gulf Sulphur Com pany s mine here was closed pending a federal-state investiga tion into the cause of the blast. which trapped 25 men more than a half-mile below the surface. Seven survived the disaster. iwo were nrougiu mil Wednesday and live more Ihursday night alter oxygen had been numned into the mine lo clear out the accumulated carbon monoxide. 1 I GET HOME SAFELY Pages FAIR BOOSTERS A delegation of Tule'ake-Butte Valley Fair boosters promoted the annual event at the regular meeting of Klamath Falls Rotary Club Friday noon, and "captured" Rotary president Glen Bowen I left, front row I lonq enough to pose with the delegation and their "props." Shown here are Bowen, Cliff Smelcer, fair livestock chairman; Don Boyd, co-chairm-in, front row; Don Potter ( partially hid den I, Jack Clough, Carl Gentry, Bill Bradley, Fred Grant, Dan Crawfcd Sr., and Sam Wynn, back row. Also present, but not pictured, were Bill Whitaker, fair man ager, Gary Strauss and Bonnie Stephens. The fair is scheduled for Sept. 7-8-9. Viet Mam Demonstrators Seeking SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPH - Vietnamese gathered in downtown Saigon Saturday at a government rally called in support of the crackdown on Buddhists and im position of martial law. The government-controlled Viet Nam press agency said 200,000 persons jammed city hall square in front of the U. S. Information Office. Unofficial sources put the crowd at about 30,000. Reliable sources said the rally was organized on orders of Ngo Dinh Nhu, the powerful brother of Klamath Man In Accident KELSO, Wash. (UPH A car- pickup truck rear - end collision south of Castle Hock claimed the life of Paul A. Pass, 33, Wash ougal. early Saturday, the Wash ington Slate Patrol said. Pass was Washington Stale s first Labor Day weekend traffic latality. Officers said Pass was out of his car when hit by a pickup truck driven by Robert E. Faus, Klamath Falls, Ore. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON'. Popular President Ngo Dinh Diem, to dem-. onstrate support (or the govern- ment's policies in a time of crisis, A U.S. general who asked not lo be identified said the United Slates stands by its position that South Vietnamese military lead ers were not responsible for the crackdow n. He said personal con tacts with Vietnamese officers convinced U.S. officers here that the government moved against the (pagodas without telling army leaders. The government contends the crackdown was made at the re quest of the Vietnamese generals. The government s piay lor popu lar backing came as diplomatic sources said U. S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge probably will meet with Diem within the next few days lor a showjown on the Buddhist crisis. The sources said Lodge is ex pected to demand tl,e lemoval of Nhu as the only way to end the crisis and press ahead with the government's drive to wipe out the Communist Vic. Cong guen il las. Nhu, w no hci is South Vic Nam's secret poli.-e. is though! to hold most of the ic.il power SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1963 Support lowing the governr,-, 'i.t's raids on Buddhist pagodas ana mass a;'- rests of opposition elements last Keek. About 10 govc ':irr,-;r,i-contro!l5d organizaibns participated in t'.c rally. Mos,. of the crowd appeared to be civil servants or soldiers in civilian clothes They showed little emotion. Speakeu of the fJiious organi zations praised the government's decision to impose niailial law 11 days ago and denounced Buddhist leaders as "political speculators. They urged all Vietnamese to "give all-oul support to President Ngo Dinh Diem, the people's only leader. About 10,000 of those attending were blue-uniformed members ol the Republican Youth Organiza lion headed by Mm, or members of the women's solidarity move- monl, headed by Madame Nhu, the politically influential sisler-in law of the president. One of the girls at the rally was Madame Nhu's daughter, Ngo Dinh Lc Thuy. It had been expected that Nhu himself or Mme. Nhu, would at tend, but neither put in an appearance. Telephone President Sets Oregon Visit Dei f in-State Totit HYANNIS PORT, Mass. VPV President Kennedy will visit Oregon as pari of a 10-siato tour of conservation and na'ura! re source areas late in Scjtcmlier, the White House announced Satur day. The White House said no de tails of times or places w ere available, but Rep. Edith Green. Railroad Arbiters WASHINGTON (UPH - Presi dent Kennedy Friday took on the unwanted job of naming three neutral "middlemen" to an arbi tration board that will decide the key issues in the four-year-old railroad work rule dispute. The problem was tossed back Air Force Seeks Crew Of Tankers MIAMI (UPH The search fra il crewmen of two missing tank er jets concentrated Saturday in Iwo areas where air rescue service planes reported sighting debris from the KCI35's. The Air Force said about 20 planes and eight ships would scour the Iwo areas, about 160 miles apart, where fliers' hoi mets, survival suits, empty me preservers and plane panels were found Friday. We have not and will not give up hope until there is absolutely no possibility of any survivors, an air rescue service swkcsman said. The spokesman said the num ber of planes and ships had been reduced because the search would lie more concentrated. Tile massive air-sea search for the two KC135's, missing since noon Wednesday on the return leg of a refueling mission, turned up a "floating junkyard" of debris about 200 miles southwest of Ber muda Friday. Later Friday, search planes spotted a second though smaller concentration of wreckage about 160 miles from the lirst area. The Coast Guard has been pick ing up the debris and taking il to Bermuda for identilication. Among the debris that has been identified is a helmet belonging lo missing crewman Capt. Gerald Gardner. 28, of Lincoln, Neb., and plane paneling marked "KCI35." TU 4-H No. "565 D-Ore., said in Washington, D.C., that Kennedy planned to speak in Portland Saturday, Sept. 28, at a dedication of the city's new high rise public housing project for the aged. It also was expected Kennedy would visit the Oregon Dunes seashore area. The White House said Kennedy's Dispute Studied to the White House Friday when rail union and management failed to agree on selection of the neu tral members for the board. Under the terms of the rail leg islation -passed by Congress last Wednesday, the President was to pick the three members if the unions and management dead locked over the issue. One of the middlemen chosen by the Presi dent will act as chairman of the cv-.,,cu, The uiuon-management .mpasse came as no surprise. Government officials already ... ... . . were considering possible appoint- e whpn union nd manaoement officials announced Friday they could not reach agreement. Among those mentioned as pos sible chairman were Milton S, Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, brother of the former president. Others reported under considera tion were Harvard President Nathan S. Puscy, retired federal judges E. Barrett Prcllyman and Harold Medina, and former Su preme Court Justice Harold Bur ton. Also mentioned or possible ap pointment to the board were James Healy, Harvard business school professor, and James J. Reynolds, assistant labor secre tary. The railroads have chosen J. E. Wolfe, who headed their negotia tion team In the stalemated talks, and Guy W. Knight, a vice presi dent of the Pennsylvania Rail road, as their board members. The representatives of the five rail unions involved were expect ed to be 11. E. Gilbert, president of the Firemen s Union, and Ray McDonald, vice president of the Trainmen's Brotherhood. 'Hot Line' Installation Made Ready WASHINGTON (UPH - The Washington-to-Moscow hot line has gone into operation as a sale guard against nuclear war by ac cident, the Defense Department said Friday. The hook-up of the long pro jected project came in an 11- word announcement from the Do fensp Department. "The direct communications link between Washington and Moscow is now operational" it said. The new ticlinc between the two nations will allow President Kennedy and Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev to oxchtngc mes sages in a matter of minutes. The Cuban crisis dramatically pointed up the need for the hot line. At the height of the crisis. Kennedy and Khrushchev were forced at tunes to resort to open broadcasts to avoid delay. The hot line consists of a wire and cable hook up running through London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Moscow, In operation 24 hours a day, the cost to the United States is expected to be $10,000 monthly for leased circuits and about $15,000 (or four sending and receiving machines. Russia will pay about the samo. Weather AOK (CULTURAL FOR BC AST " Ntir 1M ptr ctnt wnihint today tnd MontjajY. Wrmr ttmptfturt and low ir humidtty will providt good dry, 119 ma dition for hy. Outlook for wtek Mr t toot. No gintral ram or cold wtthr pcltd. trip would take him to Pennsyl vania. Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Wash, ington, Oregon, California and Ner vada. The President said he honed tha journey would "focus attention on the vital part of American life and stimulate further efforts in the field of national conserva tion. The While House said Kennedy's trip would take him to national parks, national seashores, wilder ness areas, dams and power and redevelopment projects. There has been talk of the President possibly visiting t h e Hantord atomic works and Grand Coulee Dam in the state of Wash ington. The projected visit to Portland Sept. 28 would bring Kennedy into Oregon just two weeks be fore Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York and Sen. Barry Gold water of Arizona, two Republican presidential nomination possibili ties, attend a Western GOP meet ing in Eugene Oct. 12. Sen. Maurine Neuberger, D-Ore. said in Portland, "The President's announcement to visit Oregon bears out the plan that I knew he had to visit the site of the Oregon Dunes National Seashore. h L, . , , ,. 1 V ,, . -,. firsthand Inn fn-pcnn rll nps with ' j u u i u ,u8 " "ds long taken an interest in." The White House announcement said .in advance team of White House aides would embark this week on a planning expedition. It said Kennedy would visit projects "devoted to the develop ment of resources and energy, to the protection of wilderness and wildlife, to the preservation of the natural beauty of stream, forest, desert and shoreline, and to the enlarged public opportunities for touring and recreation. Clay Fights Slashes In Foreign Aid HYANNIS PORT. Mass. (UPI) President Kennedy's advisory committee on foreign aid, headed by Gen. Lucius D. Clay, will undertake soon to follow through on the chief executive's appeal for public support of his fight to reinstate House slashes in funds. Clay told United Press Inter national he would be talking with several other committee members in New York this week to "see what help and support we can contribute." He 6aid it was too early to know how the committee would go about the task of stimulating "public understanding lo assist Kennedy's fight to have the Sen ate put back most of the $1 bil lion knocked out ot his iorcign aid program by the House. But, interviewed at nis vaca tion home at Chatham, about 22 miles from here on Cape Cod, Clay told UPI: "The main principle is to try to make the American people un derstand that while cuts are de sirable, what the House did was to cut too last and too far.' Kennedy met Friday at the summer White House on Squaw Island with Clay and Foreign Aid Director David Bell. The Presi dent, with Clay standing beside him, then held an outdoor news conference calling on Americans to back him on the issue. Kennedy had asked the House for a new aid authorization of $4.5 billion, after voluntarily trim ming the total from $4.9 billion as a result of the Clay commit tee's report. The House Foreign Affairs Committco reduced the sum to $4.1 billion and Clay said this measure met the standards of his group. But tlien it was chopped by an additional $383 million on the House floor, to a final total o! $3.5 billion. Clay said this went "to a point that I think is dangerous."