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mm Thr llayVfews liases ROK Units Win Race KLAMATH FALLS. OKFOON, WKUNKHDAY, TOBt Is. Itte Telephone 111! Fries Five Cents Page As Political Pot Sizzles ine BDeagl, BDamage make capital of tha letter which Ll. Oov. Joe K.

Hanlry of New Big Florida Mwrrimm -r- fifi i i -liu LL Bf FRANK JT.NIllrU put bluntly I President Truman, speaking In Ran Francisco last night on wortd-wld radio hoik.up. present-ed to the eonnnunlete Ui th Kremlin ollv branch on th point el a bayonet Olv us pear, Mid OUR kind of peace, baaed upon JUU- YICBV or far American armed ailfhl all over the world. I suppose ona of hlstia-ys clear est leuone la that If you ra going to hava peace you've got to be willing to fight for It. Why tha spectacular flight to Wake Island? Tlia President didn't enlighten ua mi' on tliat. but a dlaU'h from yesterday ibrfura tha Ban Francisco speech! la Intere-itlng.

to aay tha Irani. It quota our old friend "Informed sourcr-i" In Tokyo. Informed aourrea, tha Tokyo C.pauh says, report I. Tha nia)or cmphasla of tha Wake conference was on HUI1.1-INU UP AMr.ltlCAN B1UKNUTH IN AH1A. 1.

Thera was no dlscuaslnn at Wak of cutting down far Ksntern furcaa In order lo build up American strength In Europa. I. MacArthur told tha Pnrddrnl that, having won tha Kuraan battle. Uia United Btatea ran not afford to allow tha communists to conquer other and richer Asian areas, such as InrioChlna. Tha "sources' said Mr.

Truman agreed Who ara Uiasa 'eourcear" Wall, from tha Tokyo and. ON1.Y MACAKTHUR AND A TEW MKMUKKS Of HIH STAFF wera praam at Waka. Mo, I'd say, tha, Tokyo atory was given out by Mao-Arthur himself in AUVANCB of tha Presidents Ban Francisco speech. What does It mean? I dont know. I'm Just a 111 I la tuy out tha slicks.

But It certainly looks Ilka Truman and Mar-Arthur tot together for a showdown conference, AND MACAKTHUR a) OPINIONS PREVAIL! At any rata, alia President left no doubt In his Ban Francisco speech that we're IN ASIA, that we're there TO STAY and that If (fairs In Aula dont to to suit us WKHl niMiS TO F1QHT. Woman Eludes Doctor. Takes Death Plunge DETROIT. MV-A physician pur-tued woman patient around his office for 15 minutes in a futile effort yesterday to keep from plunging her death from a 13tn floor window. Mrs.

Jean Coeley, 41, eluded hi Srasp and landed on a fifth floor window ledge. She waa dead on admittance to a hospital. Dr. Harold Hay nor aald the houerwlfa feared she waa sniftering from an Incurable deneaee adn threatened suicide. He had been treating her for a aervou disorder for six month.

"I told her there was nothing wrong with her and that aha needed no further treatment," the phy-aiclan aald. "Bhe seemed to be omewhat calmer. Then ah ran toward the win-clow. I grabbed her by the aklrt nd one ankle and held on for hat aeemrd Ilka an hour. The aklrt ripped and I couldn't hold her." SHAH TAKES BRIDE In Teheran, the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, stands with his bride-to-be, Sor-aya Isfandiari ,19, after he placed engagement ring on her finger in a traditional persian betrothal ceremony.

NEA Telephoto By The Associated Press While chargra and countercharges over Uie Hartley letter episode filled the New York air. Ben. Taft 1H-Ohlo declared today be la the target of a move to Install In Washington "a labor-socialist government on the British principle." Taft aald that "the Democratic mrty la almost completely Inactive'' In Ohio, and that the campaign against hi reelection la being waged almost entirely by the CIO PutltlraU Aoui committee "Ohio la being flurried with literature and propaganda prepared monllie ahead In Washington, at tempting to persuade the people cf Ohio that they must eliminate errnio congressmen who have served their Interests for years and replace them with alougea who will Uke orders of Uw labor union busses," aald Tail. Letter Democrats, meanwhile, eought to Group Yill Fight For Watershed Articles to Incorporate a non-profit organization to plan for further use of reaourcea of the Klamath river watershed from the Klamath country to the Pacific ooran are being drawn up now by Attorney John Ebinger. A committee on permanent organisation held a three-hour mcet-Uig yesterday at the chamber of commrroe, decided the makeup of Uie reaourcea organisation and gave a go-ahead atgn to prepare for knrorporatlon.

Primary aim of trie organisation will be to plan for development of the Klamath river watershed so Its reaourcea will be used -tn this Southern Oregon and Nortuena California area. Wen-Advanced The bureau of reclamation already haa well-advanced plans to divert Klamath river water from below Keno deep Into California and also to divert water of the Trinity river from its natural course Into tha Klamath, putting It Into the Sacramento and eventually Into the reclamation bureau's Central valley (California) project. On Aug. representative of many Interest along the Klamath met hare, heard the bureau of reclamation plans for use of the waters oC this area and decided to set up an organisation to oppose the government agency's plana. E.

A. Oeary, state representative, was temporary chairman of the group, and he aivointed a committee on org an tuition to set up a permanent, non-profit, private agency to Interest Itself In the Klamath river watershed. Members Members of that committee meeting yesterday were Frank Jenkins, John Ebinger, Kenneth Mo-Leod. Jr, Charles R. Stark and Sam Rltchey, Klamath Falls; Francis Flowers.

Midland; Frank W. Parker. Chlloouln; F. W. Hyde.

BIy; W. P. Tormey. Yreka; Fred Rueck, Bonansa; William O. Hngel-steln.

Dorr is; and C. A. Phillips. Montague. To Capital TUKYO, wo South Kor.

eans said tonight their troops had fought into Pyonevanif. doomed and nearly deserted tiea capital, but there were Indications the report may premature. Two hours after the radio at Pusan said South Korean troops had entered, a field dispatch reported Marine pilots still wera attacking en emy targets in eloe support outside the city. The dispatch, filed by AP Correspondent 0. H.

P. Kln after a flight over the capital, made no mention of friendly forces Inside the city. Instead it said that North Korean rearguards were withdrawing into tha bomb blackened city before the United Nations advance. It still was believed possible that a small advance South Korean force had crossed the Taedong River into the Red capital, as the Pusan radio said. If so it climaxed a brilliant eight-day march of nearly 90 miles.

The Pusan radio said the South Koreans also captured Pyongyang's nearby air flesd. In any case, Pyongyang; wwa as lia last hours. Th ROK (Republic of Korea.) -troops were reported "aqilrnnf with impatience" to overthrow Jf of Red Premier Xr' Sung government whose, fJ in; had once swarmed, over South Korea, OQsk Pyongyang la th first a Boviet satellite to come direct attack and th Communis had been expected to thing Into their last nH Allied air reconnalsand. fixed installations had served. The Reds wer layuV.

heavy artillery fire from entxe positions. Ligbt Opposition T-V. ,11,, HM-J iu fxum.th Joiik parallel swiftly and easily against only light tppo- sition. Communists surrendered In great numbers. MacArthur bead- quarter said 5000 Red Korean were captured In th last 24 hours bringing Uie total bag to 70.000 prisoners.

On the west coast th p. B. 24th division, first in Korea, was slicing into Chinnampo, Port of Pyonyang. It had sped 78 miles in 24 hours and vied with the First Cavalry in the contest to get Into the Red capital first. On the east coast, ROK troops captured the Industrial cities of Hamhung and Hungnam, 110 mile south of the Adanchurian border.

Stalin Stamped Th South Koreans on th ap- proaches to Pyongyang, exultant a the turning tide of battle, tore down Red Korean flags and tramped on posters of Joseph Stalin. As the war in Korea appeared to be entering Its final stages, th French proclaimed a suite ot emer gency in North Indochina, border ing Communist China, and an nounced abandonment of another frontier post. A spokesman said the Dong Dang garrison withdrew yesterday, pre sumably IS miles southeast to th French frontier headquarters fortress of Langson. It was the fifth post the French have given up in a month under pressure from forces led by Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minn. The French claim these Communist-led rebel forces are being trained and equipped tn Red China.

In Washington, high U. officials said France I likely to get up to $6,000,000,000 in American military aid In the next three years. Although most of this money will be earmarked to build Western defenses against th threat of Coot-munlst aggression In Europa, th U. 8. also assured th French that their need of bolstering force la Indochina will merit "a particularly high priority.

An official estimated Indochina's share at about $500,000,000. Ne.I4S Many Homes Ripped By High Yinds MIAMI. Fla, UP) On person was known dead, hundreds wer homeless and national guardsmen were called out today to guard hard-hit areas in the South Florida hurricane area where damage was officially estimated at 15.000.000. The storm, losing- fore a traveled over land, moved on toward tha Central Florida citrus belt, leaving destruction In its wake from 125-mile wind. Hardest hit were the communi ties of Favie, West Hollywood and West Hallandale.

In those towns at least 40 hotues were destroyed. 78 trailers wrecked, many home damaged and an undetermined number of persons injured. Mrs. Owen Adams was killed at West Hollywood when the winds upset and smashed her trailer. Her husband, was critically hurt and their three children Injured.

Guard Called Sheriff Amos Han of Broward county made a tour of the three communities and called out the 40 men of Company C. Florida natlon- Davie, a town of about 2000, al guard. looks as though a tornado went through it" said Hill "Substantial hoses were destroyed, and there Isn't an undamaged house In the town." West Hollywood was hit vn harder. Twenty-five Injured were hospitalized, 500 were homeless, SO or 40 homes were demolished and 200 others partly or wholly unroofed. Dr.

Paul Hughes of the Broward county health department moved a water purifier Into the town of 2000. and asked all residents to report to an Improvised hospital In a dumbing shop for typhoid immunization shots. The tornedic nature of the storm was evidenced by lesser winds In Hollywood, and Fort Lauderfale. Hard Hit Miami itself was hard hit. en estimate of damage in the greater Miami area alone was as high as t8.000.000.

About 40 persons injured mere crowaea nospltal emergency rooms after the wind died down about Sam. Some houses were unroofed and about 2000 plat class windows were shattered in the Miami area, but no fatalities were reported there. Fallen tree blocked a number of streets. Man, Child Die In Accident EUGENE, A mnn and a child were fci'td and a woman critically InJureJ yesterday when a heavy truck crasned into four parked automobiles south of here. Ivan Rauh.

55 and Jlumy Callahan, 4. siti kiled and Fjilsh wife. Alma, ccp I'ized They were all hi on car parked near a narrow underpass or. the Pacillc highway. Deputy Dist.

Attv. Douglas Spencer reported the rcuvjd lrketi Thomas I. Embleton, 39, Oak Har bor, Wash, was charged withe neg ligent homicide by speeding. He was released and given 24 hours to raise 12600 bond Blockade Runs To China Ports Under Scrutiny York made public Monday. In it ha dleVlused he fj asaured he would be able to pay off hi "fi nancial obligations within days" if he consented to seek the Republics, senate nomination.

Hartley had previously been as-Illation. That was before Ouv. Tnumaa crasnged his mind snd decided to seek a third term. Hanlry aald last night charges be waa paid off to drop out of the race wera "a new low in political Amid demands for a grand Jury probe of ine whole epi sode. Dewey also denied there was anything Irregular, but Dewey's Democrstlr.

opponent for governor. Hep. Wslter A. Lynch, called on both Hunley and Dewey to withdraw. There la nothing eke for them In their guilt to do," Lynch said.

"If they don't act quickly Uie anger of th rlllirnry of Uie slat of New York will force Uiem out." Us Lvnch. In a brniuln-t rltert IhrM stale laws relating to politic 1 activities which he contended Dewey and Harney violated, ana he added: "TilS combined Densities fur tlima violations may well sea the perpe trators spend ins next four year in Danneinora prison) Instead of Albany." Hanlry aald there was no commitment of any kind made before his withdrawal from tha governor's race, and ha added rf i h-n. anything crooked about It. I would uare written uia seller. At a new conference, Dewey said he had never discussed Han-ley debts or private altuation with him.

He aald he did assure Hanoi an Jack Charlton ley he would hava a stats Job If he lost the senate race to Sen. Lehman D-Lib-NY. Ben. Anderson (NUl hstpmk At the Democratic aenatorlai cam paign committee, aald In Washington that "what Hanley aay of himself and his dealing should defeat him and certainly will defeat th man who engineered the deal." Ha also referred to Dewey' "sordid dealings for two high pubue offices." Chuckle In San Francisco, Pre. Truman press secretary, Charles Ross, told newsmen he had related the episode to Truman, and that he "got a chuckle out of 11 but made no While Truman was speaking at San Francisco, OOP National Com-tnittee Chairman Ouy Oabrielson aald In a statement ihat the presidents trip Into the Pacific to meet Oen.

MacArthur was nothing but politic. Casualty List Shows Three From Klamath Armed forces casualty list released Tuesday listed three men with Klamath Falls addresses. Named among the Army Injured was cpl. James Riy Vinson, brother of Mrs Brooknhler. 227 Williams.

Vinson, 20. enlisted here on Aug. 8. 1949, according to recruiting office records. A navv man.

Denrt-a niM Smith, was reported sa missing off a minesweeper in Korean water. Smith, according to recruiters, enlisted here In the Nary two years ago, but his residence and that of hta parent. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Raymond Smith, 1 at OreeiuvUie, Calif.

Pfc. Cheater Jaskcwlcs. Marine corps, waa also listed a wounded In Korean action Jaskcwlcs enlisted In the Marines on Jan. 20, 1060 and nis wife was listed as Mrs. Chester Stanley Jarke-wtcs, P.

O. box 803, Klamath Falls. Connie Mack Out, Dykes In PHILADELPHIA W) Connie Mack, popularized as "the grand old man of buciill" retired today a manager of the hiladclphla Athletic, a post he ha held lines 1901 when the American league was organized. Mack will be iiievcedrd field boo tf the si by Jimmy Sykes, colorful ex-thlrd baseman for the A'a and onetimi manager of the Chic go White, Sox. Mikk I Sf year old.

His Sth birthday anniversary will ba observed Dec. 23. He had been under fir for a number of year oy snorts fans In Philadelphia who argued that Mack had outlived his usefulness. The Athletic wound up last In the American lasuju In tlx sessou, U.S. Might Put Behind Peace Talk BAN FRANCISCO.

Of) Pre. Trumsn set the world stare -todsy for an unprecedented ecunier-offen slve lo Solet peace propaganda. pac" to all Asu. backed up by United States military mlgnt The stale driiartjtent'i Vole of America'' bombarded every rearn-able listener with a -onstsnt rep- peoples of the Far East that Rus sia I trying to turn them Into "colonial (laves of a new Imperialism." And the president left for the Russian polltburo a bold and blunt reminder that the United States will not stop short of war to resist aggression and preserve "our free way of life." UN Birthplace Truman flew back to Washington shortly after delivering bis major foreign policy last mgnt In the War Memorial opera house where the United Nations cnarter wa born five years ago. "What we want Is a partnership for peace with all th wor'd," Truman told a cheering audience.

He said "we want peace but it must be a peace founded upon lustice. That American policy at as old as tour republic and It 1 strong rods than ever before In our his tory. And with Ood'a help we In-tned to keep It that way." If the Soviet "really peace." Truman continued, rfcey can prove It "by living up to. the principles of United Nations charter;" and "by Joining the rest of the United Nation calling upon th North Korean to lay down their arm at once; and "by lifting the Iron Curtain and permitting the free exchani of in formation and Ideas," antl. finally by Joining with the UN to atabllsn a system of collective i security "which will permit the elimination of the atomic bomb and the drastic reduction and regulation of all other arms and armed forces." Build Strenght Truman declared that until th Soviet Union doe these thing "we are determined to buUd up common defensive strength of the free world." What the United State did for Korea, he said In effect, lnstasd ready to do.

In conjunction with the United Nations, for any peaceful country that finds Its border violated and Its freedom attacked. Alaska Crab Industry In Union Grief PETERSBURO. Alaska. (If) A crab and shrimp Industry was threatened today hy members of load 85. shell fish workers union, unless operators meet their demands for wages nearly double what they now receive.

The union, an affiliate of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union, went on strike early this week but called a temporary truce yesterday to process crab already on hand when the walkout started. Picketing Is scheduled to be renewed Monday. Petersburg packers, with a 12000-a-day payroll, said the added cost of the workers' demands would price th Alaska shellfish right out of the SeatUe market. Workers here already receive a higher pay seal than those In the Seattle area. Wage demands made by the union include an Increase for crab butcher from the present $1.45 an hour to MM an hour with time and a half between ft-10 p.

m. and double time from 10 p. m. to packers and general workers, from $1.40 to an hour. In addition to Its wage demands, the union submitted a list of Improved working conditions Including such thing a coffee time every two hour with the employer paying for coffee and pastry and reimbursing piece workers at the hourly rat during "coffee Bt'LLETIN NEW YORK.

Jim Norm, president of the International Boxing club, aald today he had algned Joe Louts to meet Argentine contender Cesar Brlon us a 10-round bout In th eChlrago stadium, Nov, ID. The fight ha been en th fir far several days. tarted out to Investigate a charge that the Flying Cloud, a ship of the kbrandtaen line, hai been running" to P.ed China from Japan, but O'Conor said its- inquiry will not be confined to that. It will be broadened, said, to cover all shipments ox strategic materials to Communist China with a view to finding out what the government has done to atop them and what loopholes need to be plugged. The charge that the Isbrandtsen line's Flying Cloud carried war potential goods to Red China a I made In a letter written last Aug ust by Calvin F.

Bonawita of Read ing, Pa, then the assistant electri cian on the ship. In testimony before the subcom mittee yesterday, Bonawita said radio tubes, steel plate steel wire and other equipment were unloaded from the Flying Cloud at Tsingtao and Talkyu Bar, Chinese Commu nist ports near North Korea. But Bona wits said he was mistaken when he wrote that gasoline and "armor" plate also were part of the ship's cargo. He also had written that thous-sands of drums of oil were loaded aboard the Flying Cloud at Kobe, Japan, for shipment Tsingtao and Taikyu Bar. but he told the senate group that the oil was taken off at Yokohama, Japan, after he had notified army Intelligence officers Capt.

F. H. the Flying Cloud's master, scoffed at Bona- wite' talk of "blockade running." although he agreed that the electri cian's description of the ship' car go as It left Kobe was correct ex cept for the gasoline and the "armor" plate. He all the ship cargo, loaded in the U. S.

or in Japan, had been cleared by cus toms officials and the army. I WASHINGTON. UP) A swift ra- cjulry was promised by a senate subcommittee today to find out wbal th government ha done since the Korean war to halt the flow of strategic materials to Communist China, Sen. O'Connor (D-Md), Chan man of the group, aald state and com mere department officials will be called lor questioning tomorrow In quicl lollow-up to testimony about livery of steel pistes and other i julpment to Red China port by an American ship. He aald he rcards as "repre hensible any shipment of strategic materials Communist China since the fighting in Korea started last June.

FBI Issues Subversives Bulletins WASHINGTON, WV-The FBI today Issued a new "wanted" notice for subversives. Arrestingly black bordered on white cardboard and imprinted with the penned signature of Director J. Edgar Hoover, the notice reads: "Protect your country. "The president of th United State on July 24. 1950.

requested all law-enforcement agencies, patriotic organizations, and YOU to report all information relating to espionage, sabotage and subversive activities to tha FBI. "1. Be alert. A watchful cltisen can save many American lives. "2.

Report only facts. Avoid reporting malicious gossip or Idle rumors." A footnote lays: "Th nearest FBI office Is listed on page one of your telephone The posters, about 10 by 8 Inches, will appear shortly In police station and defense plant area across the country. Seattle Crime Due For Probe CHICAGO, OH The chairman of trie eeiwue crime inveaugaung committee said he would leave today for Seattle, Wash, to look Into the "crime situation there. Sen. Kates Kefauver, committee chairman, told newsmen, however, that he haa "nothing definite" In mind about any Investigation of West Coast crime.

Kefauver said that during his West Coast visit he would attend a Jackson Day celebration at Everett, Wash. He said Henry Jackson. Democratic U. S. representative In the second Washington district and candidate for reelection In November, i a personal lriend.

At Vi VaSfxl 11 1 llll Ill's 1 Wamiw-ua if 't'ltwjtu 'V BRIDGE OPENING Visitors inspect tha newly constructed Tacoma Narrows bridge near Tacoma, Wash. The suspension bridge over the Narrows replaces the one that collapsed in a wind storm ten years ago. NEA Telephoto KNOW WHAT IT IS? according to Forester John Wallace of tho KFPA, is a Columbia ground squirrel. And whether the rest of us know it or not, it's a native of this region. This drawing was made by Gene Hayes, a KFPA lookout on Yanaix Butte, south of BIy during his stay up there this summer..

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