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.
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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.
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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."