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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.
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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
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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,
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Lew this morning
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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