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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1944)
PACE TWO HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON NOAUTHQH Tt SAYS SENATE SBCoiin (Continued from Pago One) upon the conclusions of the inves tigators whose testimony ts nec essarily. Hearsay ana secona-or-third-hand. . . "I am not satisfied, moreover, that the 'subcommittee has had an opportunity to Rive the im portant questions of law the careful consideration that they deserve." IMcFarland added "that In fair ness" Biddle and Jones should have been allowed to explain House Grouo Recesses sA special house committee which undertook a separate in- vestigation of the Ward seizure recessed yesterday until June o after hearing Biddle and Wayne Chatfield Taylor, undersecretary of commerce. Avery is scneo uled as the next witness. Chairman Ramspeck (D-Ga.) of the house crouD told a report- ervthe first week of the hearing had left his position unchanged. "Ii don't approve of their (Mont gomery Ward and company sj conduct in defying the govern ment in time of war," he assert ed; ' , Investigator The senate subcommittee did not hold public hearings. It sent an investigator to Chicago short ly-after the seizure. Montgomery Ward had de clined to abide by a WLB order to keep a CIO union contract in force until an election could be held to determine the union's status. The union subsequently proved in an election that it rep resented the majority of em ployes. Stricter Indian Wed Law Asked WASHINGTON, May 26 VP) Stricter marriage and divorce regulations will govern Klam ath reservation Indians under a bill passed by the senate yester The' measure, introduced by the late Charles L. McNary, would, require Klamath, Modoc, Snake and Yahooskin Indians to abide by state laws in obtaining marriages and divorces. Tribal weddings already performed would be considered valid if re corded with the superintendent of the Klamath Agency. The new rule would go into ef fect six months after the bill's enactment. .1 0 meet the threat of allied moss uuiuuiiii, imus, me vjer- mans have developed a force es timated at 500 operational night iigmer planes. German Sentry Scans French Invasion Coast ! .1 ; : (NBA TtUphato) A German sentry In French fishing village looks search ingly across the sm for any sign of Allied Invasion forces. Stretching along coast are concrete gun emplacements like one In foreground and barbed wire en tanglements. Neutral sources report Germans In midst of large-scale troop movements In France. T L JAP AS IT!' JURT DEGURES tune im Tonight at 7:15 LOWELL THOMAS (Continued from Page One) ing to run, but was confronting the sentry. Okomoto was shot through the ribs. Members of the coroner's jury were w. Loudon. Charles Cale- dine, Phil J. Fish, John O'Shay, Mrs. E. C. Cox, Mrs. Ann Jame son, R. R. Baker and D. M. Craw ford. Lederer said the army would not permit questioning of the military policeman involved, but that the coroner's jury verdict was reached after 17 internees and a foreman of the war reloca tion authority had testified. Different Stories He said there were "18 dif ferent stories" of the eDisode. but that the facts appeared to De mat UKomoto, wno was truck ing in lumber, refused to show proper passes and was shot "af ter he suddenly made a move as if to grab the soldier's rifle." It was reported from Tule lake today that WRA Japanese employes were generally work ing today, and that a partial work stoppage which occurred yesterday bad come to an end. Tension in the colony was re ported easing. -. LONDON, May 26 VP) The German radio today quoted Tokyo as declaring that Shiochi James Okomoto, 30-year-old Japanese-American internee who died yesterday after being wounded by a guard at the Tulelake, Calif., segregation center, had been shot without provocation. The Japanese government considered the incident "ex tremely serious" and was con ducting further investigations, Berlin said. The U. S. war relocation au thority announced yesterday that the internee was fired on by the guard after an argument on a truck, according to an eye witness account by an uniden tified Caucasian employe. During World War I more American warplanes were brought down through faulty spark plugs than by enemy action: Missing m Mm 2nd. Lt. Ralph H. Bockmlw Jr.. 23. husband of the former Dawn Everitt of this cUy, Is missing in action over Romania, according to word received by Mrs. Bockmier't parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Whlilock. SPEAKS AT ROTABY , Use Lindbaek, Norwegian war correspondent and free lance writer, who is in Klamath Falls this week, was guest speaker at the Friday noon luncheon of the Rotary club. She was introduced by Paul Landry, chairman of the day. The guest speaker told of the fall of Norway and of the pas sive resistance to the Germans now going on in that country. She related some of the life of Quisling explaining that at first he was a communist. Not get ting very far with that organi zation, he switched to the nazl pary, which before Norway was invaded, however, influenced only about one per cent of the Norwegian population. Mrs. Lindbaek said that the Norwegian government-in - exile is able to maintain its functions and armed services without aid from its allies through income from the Norwegian merchant marine. According to the sneak er, about 1000 merchant marine ships escaped the invasion of Norway, and though about half of those ships have since been lost, there are still about 550 re maining, which are playing an important part in allied opera tions. STOCKHOLM, May 26 VP) uopennagen advices said today the Germans had arrested the chief of the entire Danish secur ity police force in Jutland and police heads of Aarhus and Ton- aer Folinie. E Ward's 'Carry-Out' Reversed with his early evening NEWS! CCFJ DON LEE-MUTUAL KALE Portland KAST Astoria KBND Bend . KFJI Klamath Falls K00S Marshficld KSLM Saltm , . KRNR Ronburg KWIL Albany KOBE Eugne . KUIN Grants Past KWLK Longview, Washington Incident at Chicago's Montgomery Ward plant, when they returned to work at Government-held Hummer plant at Springfield, .ft, A subaW lary of Montgomery Ward, Government seized plant when they refused compliance with WLB order. (Continued From Page One) man declared a previous claim that the Chinese had cut the Burma road southwest of Lung ling was in error. A mistake in transmission gave a villago retaken as Chefang, when Chi fang was meant. Chlfang is northeast of Tengchung, the main Japanese base in Yunnan. Japanese troops who escaped as the Chinese attacked and captured the Yunnan strong hold of Tatangtzu are being pursued westward toward the Burma border, a Chinese com munique announced today, 1000 Japt Killed Previous reports from the front had said more than 1000 of the enemy were wiped out as the town fell to Chinese forces pressing forward on the northern arm of the Salween front drive. The communique gave no indication of how many had escaped. Other Chinese forces were said to be mopping up in the vicinity of an unidentified vil lage they occupied west of Ta tangtzu, while to the south in the Mamien pass area "local successes were scored on sur rounded enemy garrisons." Airmen Active Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chen nault's airmen made further widespread attacks, ranging from Hainan island, Thailand and Indo-China to the Yangtze and Yellow rivers areas in China, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stil well's headquarters announced. The missions, accomplished with the loss of two planes, re sulted in the sinking of two cargo vessels on the southern tip of Hainan, the dropping of medical supplies May 23 to the besieged defenders of Layang, an attack on Yuncheng. the im portant Japanese base in Shansi province. Lumber "Vacation" Heads Nation's Strike List (Continued from Page One) ed to obey WLB back-to-work order. Steel Strike About 1800 returned to work at the Granite City, 111., Steel company. A Union Electric company power walkout, involving at least 100 workers and affecting war plants around St. Louis, ended last night. A strike of 300 CIO welders. iiuers ana tacKers at tne Amer ican Bridge company shipyard at Cambridge, Pa., ended with the workers' agreement to sub mit wage demands to arbitra te n. DETROIT, May 26 UP) A picket line of 220 unionists turned back the afternoon shift of 1500 at Chrysler corpora tion's Highland Park plant to day, in an apparent renewal of disputes that recently affected 11,700 employes in seven Chrys ler plants. A company spokesman said that 600 employes had walked out of the plant a short time before the day shift ended at 3 p. m. The helicopter blade will show the effects of ice about 12 times faster than vill the conventional airplane wing. Hans Norland Fire Insurance. FIFTH GRABS COM: EIGHTH TAKES HEIGHT (Continued from Page One) said German Flold Marshal Al bert Kcsselrlng had ordered his troops to give way at the main points of allied pressure in the face of the "sweeping might of massed enemy tanks" and that the front now runs through Vol lotrl, 18 miles south of Rome). Strong Point Taken The capture of San Giovanni, 31 miles north of Pico, took from enemy hands a point where the Germans had been expected to fight a delaying action on the Via Casllina. The area has been the scene of extremely bitter fighting, with the nnzi 26th arm ored division throwing in tanks to protect flank forces who were confronting a Canadian frontal assault. In routing the Germans from Monte Cairo, tho eighth army gained dominating mountains north of Cassino. Chaotic Conditions An air force spokesman de clared "conditions wero chaotic so far as control of motor traf fic is concerned" behind tho Gorman lines, with the Germans trying to move long lines of re inforcements southward to bol ster the Valmontone line, Tho chaos was produced by allied strafing and bombing, ho said. Allied troops sweeping around the northern edges of the Pontine marshes also discov ered the Germans were endeav oring to form a new lino run ning southeast from Corl toward Pico to protect their long flank extending into the Llrl valley ClsUrna Falls Earlier today, allied headquar ters announced mat allied forces, fanning out swiftly from tho for mcr beachhead, now linked with the main front, had captured Cistema and plungod forward more than three miles, cutting important roaos leading north ward and northeastward. On the south, the eighth army captured Aaulno and Piedmonts. the last remaining stroniDolnts of the enemy's once-vaunted Hit ler line, and Canadian troops won a bridgehead across tho Mens river, in the Llrl vallev 13 miies west 01 (Jasslno. . Cisterna. which had constl. tuted one of the kingpins of the enemy's line around th Anzln beachhead, fell yesterday after a savage four-hour battle in which heavy casualties wem in. flicted on the defenders. Amer ican infantry and armor hurt Deen Daitering the town for three aays. E HARTFORD AeMal and ladamilr Conpaay INSURANCE dM T. 0. WAITERS General Insurance Agener riRE . . . AUTOMOBILE IS Main St. Phone 4193 (Continued from Pago One) of their fight yesterday when nicy sousnt 10 invoke nar n. mentary procedure by which the FEPC fund could be strick en on a point of order from the cover-all measure nnnrnnri. sung ior 10 nome iront agencies. Their remaining chance tn strike the fund bv from the floor; southern lead ers admitted privately they lack tne votes to do that. Discrimination Charatii Representative Colmcr (D-Miss.) contended the effect or t'EPC's activities was to "discriminate against the wmtes. Rep. Rankin (D-Mlss.) called the FEPC "a monstrosity," while a northern republican, Taber of New York, asserted the agency had sought to com pel war manufacturers to em ploy alien Germans. CIO In Fight The CIO entered tho fight by importuning members of the ap propriations committee to in sist on restoration of an $85,- uuu cut applied to epc by the committee yesterday morn ing. Few of the other items in the bill are expected to be subject ed to much criticism before house passage, tentatively scheduled for tomorrow. All the gold that has been mined in the world since Colum bus discovered America could be put into a 40-foot cube. MEXSANA Allen Adding Machines - Friden Calculators Desks - Chairs Filet PIONEER PRINTING AND STATIONERY CO. 124 80. 9th Klamath Falls DANCE Sot. K. C. Hall Modtrn Old Time Dances Public Invited No Townsend Meeting ill! IfPSJ flEHUi Continuous Show Dally Box Oillcs Opens 12i30 2 Bio Hits OT-JLC JMIRTH1 ' ARTHUR LAKE HIT NO. 2 "Return Of The Rangers' DAVE O'BRIEN Box Ofllc. 0p,n, ,,4( Alway. 2 Big Hit, NOW PLAYING . 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