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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1943)
1 PAGE SIX HERALD .AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON May 20. 1941 .Gag on Free Press Big Question at Food Meet; mies Small Nations Styi Bf JAMES HARLOW and GEORGE ZUXKE HOT SPRINGS, V May 20 (P) Some of the newspaper men here to write about the International food conference say there'! another angle to the argument over what many ot them contend U a United States government restriction on freedom of the press in limiting their activities. They rain the question whether freedom of speech by the delegates themselves might not be hampered to some degree, t Gig Rule N For Instance: Suppose a delegate of, say, a small country represented at the conference fought unsuccessfully against a decision reached by the larger countries in a committee meeting. How would he make public the position of his nation or what it thought of the decision? Would the delegate, even if he knew how to approach the newsmen, wish to be in the po sition of complaining at this conference which is supposed to be friendly and cooperative? Or would he, if approached di rectly by a newsman asking for his opinion, feel more free to state his case since he was be ing asked bis views and not vol unteering them? The main thing back of the press struggle against restric tions Imposed here is the thought that these limitations might be used as a precedent for even stronger or complete restrictions at future confer ences among the nations par ticularly peace conferences. Her are the restrictions: : Newsmen cant go into the hotel where the conference is being held armed soldiers are under orders to keep them out to talk wltk Individual dele gates staying there. And all are staying there. ' Newsmen can call any dele gate by telephone and ask him to step down to the press room, on the rim of the hotel grounds, for an interview. A delegate can, if be has time or desire, comply. - - - - Where's the Press Room? But newsmen argue that this arrangement has strong disad-. vantages and that it prevents spontaneous conversation "with delegates and makes less likely any chance of questioning them; if stopped in the lobby or visit ed in their rooms, delegates might feel readier to talk. ;So far as is known, none of the delegates has been informed, where the press room is.. Judge Marvin Jones, chair man of the United States dele gation and chairman of the con- Tl MOSCOW, May 20 V Joseph E. Davies, locking tit and fresh, arose early today in pre paration for a busy day which includes a late afternoon visit to ference, has told newsmen he ! ",'?"m'tn- J?! h 1" them abreast of action and prog ress by the conference" in this way: At stated times he would. and chairmen of the various committees could, too, if they wished hold press conferences. But newsmen argue that this means they would receive only such information or interpreta tion as the chairmen wished to give.- What about the other side of the argument? A member of an important foreign delegation here told newspapermen: "I like the informality of the conference so far. I hope it will remain informal so that all dele gates will feel free, without fear that it may be used against them later, to say what they wish." "Gone With Wind" Movie Set Damaged CULVER CITY, May 20 (J") Sets used in filming "Gone With the Wind" were damaged to the ; extent of $3000 or $4000 during a fire yesterday on the RKO- i Pathe lot. Four fire companies, J one fromrios Angeles, controlled ; the blaze, of undetermined or-1 igin. Molotov and personally hand overthe letter from President Roosevelt to Premier Stalin. Before going to the Kremlin Davies went on a sight-seeing tour of the soviet capital, which he has not seen since he left his post as ambassador to Moscow five years ago. . .v His arrival in Moscow was noted prominently in the "Rus sian press this morning, , but there was no speculation about his mission. , MANPOWER SHORTAGE ATLANTA, (.3 Lieutenant Charlotte Tonis expected to take a soldier's job when she joined the WAACs but, says she, "1 never expected to substitute for a bride's daddy." - A WAAC sergeant in Lieut. Tonis' company at Fort Ogle thorpe, Ga., married a corporal in the army and the lady-who-took-a-man's-job gave the bride away. Best Woman rZ: t (A -It a woman can be a soldier, she can be a best man too. That ! how Lieut. Bailev M. Barrett ot Cincinnati felt when he asked nlj sister Shirley, right, lieutenant in tl WAAC, to be "best roan at his New York wedding. The bride, left, is the former Lois Moore. Farmers Help Army Train by Allowing Use of Terrain CAMP WHITE. Ore, May 20 'In the training of tough fight ing men our Job at. Camp Whiter too much credit cannot be given to the farmers and ranchers of the Rogue River val ley," Brigadier General Amos said today. Before a man is ready for bat tle he roust be skilled in action over every kind of terrain, the commanding general explained. Within a short distance of this camp can be found almost every kind of topography, and the pa- TJNDIGNIFTED, TOOI I DOWNEY, Calif., (JV-Forty j cars of a freight train passed over him. . ; Then Glen Robertson, 19, got j up and shook his fist at the re-1 "ceding caboose. Robertson said a companion' pushed him and he fell from the depot platform in the path of the j .train. He" flattened himself be-j tween the rails, and suffered , -only a scratched leg. I AUTO DRIVERS' Have you complied with the "new financial re sponsibility law? Is your driver's license pro tected? Our Public Liability and Property Dam. age Policies meet the requirements of Jhe new law. effective June 9. Redman Insurance Agency 111 So. 8th St. Telephone 5481 triotlc cooperation of the prop erty owners of this area has made this land available for the training of our soldiers. E FOR OFFICER GALL Major S. Dorman of the Offi cer Procurement Service" from Portland, who was in Klamath Falls Wednesday moming to ac cept applications from men quail tied in particular vocations for commission in the army, said that ha received a splendid re sponse. "Several high grado men ap plied for the jobs," Dorman said, "and it was apparent that they genuinely wanted to be ot ser vice." In this as In previous exper iences with this city, we have found Klamath Falls to be above average in its patriotic attitude," Dorman added. With the major was Lieutenant Johanna Vreeland of the army nurse recruiting service. Mickey Rooney's Wife Gets Divorce LOS ANGELES, May 20 Wl Attractive Ava Gardner Rooney obtained an interlocutory di vorce decree today from Mickey Rooney, the young film star whose box office magnitude be lles his small stature. Mickey, 22, wasn't In court when Miss Gardner, formerly ot Wilson, N. C. appeared In Su perior Judge Thurmond Clarke's court and asserted the actor Just wouldn't stay nome nigma, nl. that ho had told her repeatedly W that he considered their marriage. a mistake, She charged hint with mental cruelty. From where I sit... yJoc Marsh Pete Swanson fancies himself as an armchair strategist. Some times he gets so tangled up, I Just can't resist tryln' to slratghton him out, For Instance, the other day he was waxing indignant about our soldiers being allowed to buy beer right In camp. Bald that was Just coddling the troops and would ruin discipline. I told him the actual fact had already been established by a study the Gorernuient made. 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