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coup. KEiSPAPER SECflOrf GKN.REF.AUD COCUiSKTS DIV In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS There's news today. Just what it portends is hard to say. As this is written, this dis patch has just come over the wires from Moscow: Premier Khrushchev said to day that if the American army had tried to force its latest Ber lin convoy through a Soviet blockade it would have had to "ROLL OVER OUR DEAD BODIES, and possibly would have TRIGGERED WAR." He added: "The Russians agreed to lift a two-day-old blockade of 44 American soldiers on the Ger man autobahn ONLY AFTER THEY RD OBEYED SOVIET CONTROL PROCEDURES. "It is difficult to say what would have happened if they had not agreed to that proce dure. It is possible that you and I would not be h e r e today. We would NOT have yielded. "We didn't want friction of that sort. Our desire is to have good and friendly relations." Premier Khrushchev was ad dressing a visiting delegation of U.S. business executives, in Berlin on a tour sponsored by Time Magazine. Following his statement that if our convoy had not OBEYED Soviet con trol procedures there would have been shooting, he was asked by a member of the American delegation: "Are you saying that if we can't agree over the procedures on the autobahn you would give an order that would result in shooting and possible war?" Khrushchev replied: "No, we gave no such order, but there is an established pro cedure. If this procedure is not followed, then they are not al lowed to pass through. It is a matter of a soldier being a sol dier. He has operational instruc tions, and if someone wants to break through then it is time in the natural course of things that force will be met by force." He added that the Americans were held up "until they agreed to do what they had been doing for a great many years in the past." ..' ' " - The Moscow dispatch adds: Premier Khrushchev's version of Hie convoy's passage was at variance with that of the U.S. Army, which reported that its 12-truck convoy finally had been allowed by five Russian personnel carriers to go through WITHOUT OBEYING SOVIET INSTRUCTIONS to lower tail gates and have soldiers d i s mount from the trucks. ??????? There's a screw loose some where. As it stands now, it appears that SOMEBODY backed down. Mr. Kroosh says he didn't. We say we didn't. We'll have to wait and see what happens next. This fact stands out: The experiment in friendly co-operation between the Sovi et Union and the CJ.S.A, (as exemplified by the test ban treaty) doesn't seem to be work-, ing out as smoothly as o n e could hope. Question: What's this ruckus on the au tobahn all about? It looks like Mr. Kroosh is testing President Kennedy's nerve prodding to find out just how far he can be pushed. , i , . 7 , thtC ' Ti A 1 V t 5 ', .'. tit . .. L; . - - ni IHnm n 1 1 i ' ' mi r ROLLING AGAIN The first unit ef U.S. Army con voy that, hud been stalled 41 hours by Soviet blockade arrives at Checkpoint Bravo in West lerlin early hlt morning after (he blocked was lifted, Tho convoy con Iftmng Weather KtimiHt Fattt, TultUJtt and Lakt vitw Partly cieudy tomgiit aittf Thurs day with a t!n fif a ftw brief thaw art tonight, Cselar tonight, lew ti to 30. High Thursday 41 to SI, High yetttrtiay 3 Lew this morning High ytar ags St tew year ago 34 Prtcip. Hit 14 hour .01 Since Jm. t 1.1 Same period lt year M.M Russians Lift Blockade, Additional Convoys Roll BERLIN lUPD The Soviet Union lifted a 4i-hour blockade of a U.S. Army convoy today, ending the latest crisis over Western rights of access rights to Berlin that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said could have set off a war. The United States -promptly sent three new convoys rolling across the 110 miles of super highway that link Berlin with West Germany in a renewed demonstration of its war-won right to move in and out of the divided city on its own terms. As the new convoys moved unimpeded Khrushchev told a group of visiting American cor- Nikita Says American Use Of Force Would Be Over 'Our Dead Bodies' MOSCOW (UPI Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that if the American Army had tried to force its latest Berlin convoy through a Soviet block ade it would have bad to roll "over our dead bodies" and possibly have triggered war. The Soviet leader, in an in terview, said the Russians U.S. Sees Further Harassment WASHINGTON (LTD U.S. officials said today they expect ed further harassment on the Berlin highway despite Russia's backdown in the latest blockade of an American military con voy. There was general agreement here that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had embarked on a deliberate campaign to pin point the Berlin issue as the heart of the East-West dispute, unaffected by Hie so - called "thaw" in relations following the nuclear test ban treaty. American officials differed among themselves, however, as to Khrushchev's motive in push ing the situation to near-crisis proportions from time to time. Some felt he was attempting to force another round of nego tiations on his long-standing de mands that the Allied powers quit Communist-encircled Ber lin, hopeful that the United States would give ground to avoid inflaming the internation al situation. Other officials disputed this view, contending there was no real evidence the Kremlin was at all prepared for new sessions of hard-rock bargaining on the Berlin issue. v' St Ml Price Tea Cents 16 Pages poration heads in Moscow that if the United States had tried to force the convoy through the autobahn checkpoint the vehi cles would have had to roll "over our dead bodies" and might have started a war. Khrushchev said the Russians agreed to Bft the blockade this morning only after the Ameri cans had agreed to obey Soviet safety control procedures. The U.S. commandant in Berlin, who termed the Soviet action a deliberate move, said flatly that the Americans had not complied in, any way with So viet demands. As the three new convoys two moving westward out of agreed to lift a nearly two-day-old blockade of 44 American soldiers on the German auto bahn leading to Berlin only alter they obeyed Soviet control pro cedures. "It is difficult to say what would have happened if they had not agreed to that proce dure," he said. "It is possible that you and I would not be here today. We would not have yielded and they would have had to move over our dead bodies," But the premier? speaking to a group of 20 visiting American corporation leaders, quickly added a conciliatory note: "We didn't want friction of Pair Urges Of License SALEM (UP!) Two Demo cratic state senators proposed today that the Oregon constitu tion be amended to permit the use of auto license plate fees for general fund purposes such as education as well as for highways. Shooting Hours OREGON November 7 Open Close S:20 a.m. 4:55 p.m. CALIFORNIA November 7 Ones Close 6:14 a.m. 4:55 p.m. J sisted of 44 men in 12 vehicle!. The Soviets dropped their inspection demendt in what was considered back down in the fee of western determination to meintein th right of free access to West lerlin, UPI Tatoohoto KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER , 1963 Berlin and one moving east ward into Berlin rolled across the Soviet-controlled llO-mite-long autobahn to West Germany without , delay or harassment, the U.S. commandant in Berlin said the latest Russian block ade was "no misunderstand ing." Maj. Gen. James Polk told a news conference after the blockaded convoy reached the city in the early hours this morning that the Soviet "are trying to call the shots on the autobahn." Then he added in an icily an gry tone: "We are determined they will not." that sort- Our desire is to have good and friendly relations." "Are you saying," Khrush chev was asked, "if we can't agree over the procedure on the aulnbahn that you would give an order that would result in shoot ing and possible war?" Khrushchev replied: "No, we gave no such order but there is an established procedure. If this procedure is not followed then they are not allowed to pass through. It is a matter of a sol dier being a soldier. He has op. erationa! instructions and ' if someone wants to break through them it is in the nat ural course of things that force will be met by force." Wider Use Plafe Fees Sens. Ward Cook, Portland, and Glenn Stadler, Eugene, made the proposal. Cook is co chairman of the Joint Ways and means Committee, and Stadler Is a member of the Senate Tax Committee. The state constitution now re quires all license plate and gas oline tax fees to go to the High way Department. In 1957 Stadler submitted a proposal to permit general fund use of license plate fees, but it died in a House committee. He said the Highway Department receives millions of dollars a year from the annual $10 li cense fee. "It's time to slow down as the voters so well demonstrated last month on expenditures that are not critical for actual hu man needs," Cook and Stadler said. "The Highway Department, in effect a government unto it self, has a budget of about a quarter billion dollars a bienni um," they said. PICKETS CLOSE PLANT Weyerhaeuser operations her war shut down by a "one day" roving picket line composed of pickets from Local 3-26 1 t Coot Bey. The picket fine stemmed from e dispute with the Coos Bay operation on working orders. Shown here are several of the pickets who showed bp at the local plant about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. About 900 men are idled by the closure. Junta Promises Democracy, Marines Sent To Fight Reds SAIGON. South Viet Nam UP1 Junta Chairman Duong Van Minh today promised early formation of a democratic gov ernment in Viet Nam and said a civilian "council of sages" would be set up quickly to ad vise the ruling military govern ment. Minh, a lieutenant general, appeared with his junta and the provisional government's cabi net at a noisy, sweaty, disor organized taews conference in the main hall of 'general staff headquarters here. He read a statement, was followed to the rostrum by pro visional premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho for another statement, and then the floor was thrown open to questions. "At present our mission is to stabilize the situation and to normalize national life," Minh said. "In the very near future, when all democratic institutions have been set up, the military revolutionary council will trans. School Aid Bill Okayed WASHINGTON fttPD - The House today approved a com promise 512 billion school aid bill to help the nation's colleges meet a rising tide of new stu dents. The action left only one leg islative hurdle for the bill Senate approval of the compro mise reached by negotiators for the two chambers. The bill would authorize a three-year program of matching grants and low-interest loans to help colleges build classrooms, lab oratories and libraries. It con tains no assistance for students. Demos Win Big WASHINGTON (Uffi - Dem ocratic candidates won the three big prises in Tuesday's off-year elections, but Kepuhlican lead ers said results of the state and city balloting offered solid evi dence of COP resurgence. Party managers in both the Democratic and Republican camps know it is dangerous to project national trends from such elections, especially from the mixed bag produced Tues day. But the results could give only limited comfort to the Ken nedy administration. The Democrats elected a may or again in Philadelphia in the nation's biggest municipal con test, but by a much reduced ma jority. An anti-Kennedy Demo crat won the Mississippi gov ernorship in that slate's first real two-party contest since the Reconstruction years. Democrat Edward T. Breath itt apparently won the Kentucky governorship, but his shrinking marsm before the count stopped for the night In some counties left uncertainty about the out come. fallout from the civil rights Si Telepheas TU 4-HUl No. 7821 for all power back to our en- ! lire people." He was vague, however, about just when the country would be turned back to civili an rule, and both he and his new information minister. Gen. Tran Tit Oia, dodged questions on it. Gen, Oal told the news con ference that Diem and his brother, Mgo Dish Nhu, died s they struggled with their cap- tors for a pistol. Oai said they died shortly after they were captured and termed their deaths "accidental suicide," He did not elaborate. Earlier today, Vietnamese Marines who spearheaded the uprising that deposed President Ngo Dinh Diem began return ing to the battierronls of the war against the Communist guerrillas. With the capital and the na tion reluming to normal after 'Little Junior1 Leaves Home SCRANTON, N.C. (UPI A reporter for the Waynesvtlle Mountaineer weekly newspa per received a telephone call Tuesday from a man who re ported his son "ran away from home three months age and we haven't heard from him since." Reporter William Lowery asked the man why his son had run away and the man replied, "I don't know. Me and Emmy were so good to him." "How old i he?" Lowery ak?4 "He only 44," the father replied. ' issue and racial strife was a factor in all three of those elec tions. For Republicans, their bigsesl triumphs came in Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia. In Indiana, where the Repub licans controlled city halls in only two of the state's 25 larg est cities, the GOP elected 11 mayors Toessiay, Republicans took control of the New Jersey Assembly, bol stered their majority in the State Senate and dealt the Democratic administration o( Gov, Hit-hard S. Hughes a stun ning political setback. New Jersey voters also reject ed 1750 million bond issue, which Hughes said was the al ternative to a state sales or in come tg. Republicans made their most significant gains since flecon structtmi days in Virginia, al most eoublmg their represent (ion In the state's General As sembly, Though the increase was only from ? to 11 GOP seats In th MO-member assembly, the gains came in the face of determined opposition from the Weal her OUTLOOK S?srm yitm mevNr ittmi&i (t of flatr tar tit nest Ttmi&ttivm wH vary ani? UM imm fft prcsasi rtdng. the street fighting Friday and Saturday that ended with Diem's death, the ruling milt tary junta was assigning more Baits to their original duty sta tions in the Communist-infested Jingles and rice paddies, A curfew in force since the coup was reduced to three bows a day between 1 a.m. and J p.m. and the bright lights west on again in Saigon's srowtM caoarets. f , TwW and jaas music, tallied as "decadent" by Seutn et Nam's former first lady, Mnw. Ngo Dinh Nhu, blared forth from the dance halls and fare, and Western dancing, also tor bidden by Jtme, Nhu, resumed, American GI's were welcomed back by Saigon bar hostesses. Rescuers Fear Cave In As Miners Await Drill fBINE, Germany WI Eleven men trapped nearly J3 days to a flooded iron mine waited today for the compleUon of an escape shaft despite fears that it would cause Hie roof of their crumbling chamber to collapse and bury them. Rescue workers Inched a giant drill bit through the fM 52 feet of earth toward the men in a delicate operation ex ported to be completed some time Thursday. Present plans call for halting the drill three feet short of the IIT-foot-decp cavern, withdraw ing the huge bit and sending a man down the narrow hrfie to break through to the trapped miners with a hand drill, A steel escape capsule would then he lowered to bring them Prizes, GOP Claims entrenched political organiiation of Sen. Harry F. Byrd, U-Va. to Kentucky. Louie B, Sunn, (he Republican nominee for gov ernor, conceded Breathitt's eke lion M minutes after the nulls closed when Breathitt held a lead of more than 2i,tti0 votes. When the margin had shrank to about 11,000, Nttnn announced he had received reports of vot ing Irregularities and said Ute race still as unsettled. Sunn was the underdog to a slate cficd by retiring Gov, Rert mbs by 1W.W9 votes for years ago. His campaign featured a strong attack on Combs' executive order last June forbidding racial disertatl. nation in business firms licensed by the state. The race isue was a factor to Philadelphia because of evi donoe of white resentment gainst recent Negro demon strations. Mayor James H, J. Tate hung tm to his office by tMeaftng Republican James T, MeDemsott by margin of about 85,000 votes. President Kennedy visited wA In. Dispute At Affects I(F "Roving" pickets Art down . the Weyerhaeuser plant opera lions here, putting approximate ly 900 men out of work at a toss of an estimated f IS,W in wages daily. The pickets were front the Coos Bay Weyerhaeuser opera tions and their appearance here was to emphasise their dispute wtth the Cow Bay oper ation. Otto Hall, business agent far Local 3-12 of the IWA, said that the pickets arrived abort 10 p,m. Tuesday and began pick eting the plant here altaat W;5to, The picketing shut down the midnight to 8 a.m. shift in the hardboard plant and dosed the entire operation Wednesday with the exception ef the power house and the watchmen. The woods operation contin ued, however, with the excep tion of s small crew working on the west side of Aspen Lake. Hail also said he understood that "the pickets weald pull out tonight." Ted Dcrmcnt, Weyerhaeuser official, issued this statement, "It is unfortunate that our em ployes are subjected In lest time due to a local issue tavelv ing a few employes at Coos Bay. We are not involved in a dispute in Klamath Mis and work is available for those who want to work." He estimated that abooi 9W men were affected by the picket closure. Hall stated that the dispute In VFW Sets Memorial Veterans of Foreiist Wars Am ars A Shaft oo will hold brief memorta! serv- ices at the Memorial Shaft on the courthouse lawn il i.m. Veterans Day, Nov, It. All vet erans ergaobaUoBS wSB be wel come to participate, " District VFW Commander Fred 4tandeUa tsaB give the service, Walter Thompson will officiate as chaplain. A wreath will to placed m memory of departed comrades. out one at a time throng the two-fool shaft. Even ibe hand drill eoaM trigger a rockfaff and bory the men if H hit the center of the frhy-I2 foot alcove, mine offi cials said. Some of the men have already reported Injuries from falling stones and they were sharing the watery cham ber with the corpses of to ether workers apparently killed by rock slides, Nineteen other men are miss ing and presumed dead in the Mathikie mine, flooded! with 19 million gallons of sludge and water Oct. 24, when a sedimen tation basin at the surface col lapsed. Three miner were res cued from a high-oressore sir socket last Friday through an escape shaft drilled1 by the same rig. Philadelphia last week to help Tate. The Democratic victory mar gin compared with majorities ranging from 1K.0BB to Jtff.SW in the last three PMadelohi mayoralty elections. Sen, Hugh D, Scott, R-Pa, said the out come indicated "a sharp reac tion against Use Green ma chine" led by Hep, William J. Green Jr., B Pa, Mississippi elected U, Gov, Paul B. Johnson to the gover norship over Rufcel Phillips, a Goldwater Republican, Johnson was an easy winner in a con test between two segtegatienist foes of the Kennedy administra tion. Ohio voters approved Repub lican Gov. James A, Rhodes $250 million bond issue. Republican mayors is Ohio were unseated in Columbus and Youngstown, Th COP did not even field a candidate aspnst Democratic Mayor Ralph Loos er of Cleveland, The results of Use Connecticut town and city elections gave a bare edge to the Democrat, who retained Bridgeport, Wa Coos Bay Operation Coos Bay stemmed from a com- pany demand that men eo work that they had sever dose before in the fadystry. Among these, he listed sorting and grading of Jogs for export to Japan, making them use pow er saws to knot and re-buck logs en the water. He said. "They have demanded these extra duties Mmtt offering any wage dMerenUaf The roving jackets also ap peared today at tta Raymond, Wash., operaUsB of Weyer haeuser, resulting In a complete closure there, also. About KM mm were idled at the Washington operation. Earlier pickets appeared for a 24-hour period at Weyerhaeus er plants at Everett, Wash., and SpringfkM and Cottage Grove to Oregon. Foreign Aid Critics lye Bigger Cuts WASHINGTON IUP1 '-Critics of the Senate's 143 billion for eign aid bill, esscsMraged by their first breakthrough, re grouped today tor further at tempts to Increase a proposed $3 mtfUon eempronuse cut. The bill, approved by the Sen ate Foreign Selations Commit tee, would authorize another year of economic and military assistance abroad. The recom mended total shnost certain to be eat is J esiHisu more I Haass, voted but S3 1 mBlton Mow President Ken- Mdy s repert, ' The Senate, mnriag Into the etghttt day at debate an the to- i sue with no Itoal showdown in sight, faced its next vote ea a proposal by Sen, AUen 1. Ellen der, D-La to increase the $38S million slash proposed by lead ers of both partes is as effort to stave off more drastic reduc tions. The cui was tentatively deep ened to $IO milHoit Tuesday when the Senate approved, 42- 40, a proposal ey Sea, Wayne L. Morse, B-Ore,, to add as- other $25 miEEioo to the leader ship's recommended reduction in funds for the development loan tad. Eltender's amendment would cut from miUMt to liW millioB the amotmt recommend ed in the leadership proposal for the PresMent's contingency fund, a "kitty" available for emergency use at the Chief Ex ecutive's discretion. Hk foreign relates group approved only $175 million of the $300 million Kennedy asied. to putting together their cons- promise "package, the leaders recommended ess in ether cat egories but a $123 miliiOB in crease in the eantBigeaey fund. EUender ' proposal would boost me proposed! "package" cut to S'S milUsB by wiping oat the $125 miiikM tecommended hike fat contlngencf money and cut ting it m m0!oo below toe committee's tecommendaiion. Gains ter bur)', He Haven, West Haven and Hartford and stand upsets to MBford and Meridea. But CoBBertictrt RepuNicaas were heartened by GOP in roads in Hartford and by the biggest safprbe of the ballot ing their capture of Stamford's city hail, Stamford had been counted a Democratic strong. hold. In Penosylvwrfa'a normally Republican Ud CoagresJieaal District, RepaMfeaB Albert W. Johnson easily defeated Demo crat WUliant T. Ilagerty in a special election to fill the seat ef the late Rep, Leon R. Gavin, R-Pa. Case Upheld SALEM tOTtl The Oregon Supreme Court today upheld the second degree) murder convx Uos of Robert E, Herrera of Klamath FaU. Herrera as found guilty in Klamath Coiioty Circuit Court of kicking m JBwaotli eld boy to death. 1 r
