im m m msm ran ma
i
... rnANK JENKINS
he Pacific wr, Including
" u!.tiontowhinui.
tr Isa lot suramin. u .
"fcuot that only Russia know
1UL 7 ....!.,. In In find wllL'11
e la going to do It. ,
.
UZUKI. th ever-lnformallve
jao m(iio ten. ui "
krk premier, but In
til any io 7 " ,7
li "equal io mo
hiitlon." The Tokyo radio miy
in policy I"r 1" --"
r,'. r.niuhi nnc banned.
L) Mints out hopefully thnl the
I ' r 1 I p.H I li III It I, IJllii.
n.aiIKTriii"ii .... .....
. .....ih.f vi-iir lo run.
t J!" .... I,..,, know llipv'd
Irak It t ny moment 11 cied
their interest io an u, mcj ,
obably under no delusion
what (he Russian will do If
Icy choose.)
,0N'T discount entirely the
' n.mi Hint Ihn Jnn.
I r'..,; m and AT.
KCK THE RUSSIANS.; They
fr queer lot of little savages,
iri vnu never can ten wiim mi
ao- ...
rW6 l still most Interesting
question:
WHAT 13 SUZUKI'S JOB?
i ft tm
im Th Shnmla-CtiMcadc Wonderland
April , 1948
Mx. (April S) .. 34 Mln. 95
Pr.clpititlon last 24 hour 00
Stream year to date . j 7.91
Normal 9.41 . Lt year S.03
Forecast: Clear tonight and Saturday..-
PRICE riVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1945
Number 10433
MacArthur, Nimitz
To Command Final
Phase of Jap War
Patron's Forces, Soviet Troops Near Juncture . v
Itiq p.nrH ISN'T thnl of
t . .: . .
flllhter ann it nanny wvin.
IK, . im in nicK n mm-
hie" to carry on a TOUGHER
Don't bo surprised if you hen
IDon't even be surprised If you
.Bi ihnt turn icc-icrs novo
rIADY been put out.
n..i Hnn'l h AO naive na to ex
Li ii. in .cri-nt anvlhinil 111!
i.. hivn nrrnrM Yti. i d
Li. null. ... mnn irflit'l npnr
loufn HCKen to oner to bivo
i everything out ineir nome
nd. which , If about the
IN1MUM that we could con-
fir we don't lick the Jops COM
lr children and our grand
lildren.
Hg flshl on Okinawa I almp
ln up In the' Idnnd' south
n end. The Jap hnvc o line
v,ii . nnnti nil. in eavoa
llli.a anH . rlrlffcwp nhntlt foul
les north of Nana,. and we're
fcilnnlnB to run Into oine
Ltiv iiirf ftiinAKltlnn lhore
frhcro I pnculatlon toduy to
ciieei in.li inrir lorrnn niny
A, be In the outh. Our mn
i DinhlnK north haven't run
Io much yet.
IE'RG bombing by-paaned
I Joloi in the Stilus. ' Alao the
Taraknn oil field on Borneo,
fclore .important, our honvy
mtxsra baurd on L.uznn navr
liibtd the llonB Kong area two
tit In aucceanlon. 1 ho hour
lii-Cnlon area Is a natural
Ice to expect u to land whtin-
rr Formosa l put out oi oua-
!.'- '
DIE Jap are hlttlns harder In
central Clilna. lnchullnil a
m push Into Shcnsl province
till of ChunKklna. The tni
k claim to have stopped
tm.
iiere'i hoping.
.
fHE Okinawa flaht, while
r ,ealcr - than expected.
nam t been a Sunday acnnoi
nlc. So fnr our - caaunmea
rt ' are 175 dead and "08
und,ed.)
AC ARTHUR and Nlmltr. are
tonflrmcd as commnndor In
Pacific: MncArtluir . army,
mlti navy. In the south Pa
le,, MacArthur commanded
yy M well as army forces.
Pur high command (In Wash-
hon) apeak today of "larae
icn io be rcdcDlovcd irom
.,
pipe.' ,
li '
IS a rather Interestlna sIdR'
I light. General Marshall, '
plosed today to have told the
ie military commllteo tnai
1ATH OR CAPTURE of Hlt-
W0U d oon r mi n TrF.MEND-
SLY to the collapse of Ger
He Is quoted as having said
ii nnier, as a SYMBOLi ir noi
Mmselt as a mnn nnri leader.
Ihe chief inspiration for the
picai rcsisuinco or wnicn
fBnnowcr .nnkA vp.lnrrifiv In
FiS that a formal German
render I improbable.
(Minn, we must remember,
mixture of good old "ring"
it CS nnri lnrlAAlln,lnJ fan.
IHUUbMlliniCU I
"m, Hitler l hnth thn hie
Heal hn.. nj .u "
far as a .1111 iinkt
Ki? P",";"1"" u to know, the
Fl sltunllnn In nrmo,
Lv!t(!.r, Rl,y changed today.
hllm kll,lnB " ePt"r-
ftk ... closer io me
h M. mrt Baltlc Porta. We're
r, .n" "e'er. Bn8 the Gcr
r(hfrS.IePori In full fllKht
whli. u ' st,on ' slowed
and ?.r8"ni!!e his posl-
Ing an "l?d0 an -airborne
' .. "0 miles frnm .Uarlln
lea thnf iuBoin..r." S
V a wo; i
JAPTRIES TO
FORM CABINET;
Y
I DICE
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Aiwocieted Preis War bdilor
tlcli-rly Adm. Huron Kuuluro
Suzuki airuuglcd todny to lonn a
"alrunu war cuolnct" for Japan
lo meet the Uircal of Russiun
entraiico into the Pacific war
and the appointment of Gun.
Uuunlna tone-Arthur and Adm.
Chester W. Nlmllr as command
er of the flnul American asauult
iiKiilnst Jiiiun.
Radio Tokyo Insisted Nippon's
"policy for the prosecution of the
war remains unchanged'' under
l'rcmier Designate S u I u k 1.
American observer predicted
peace feeler might be put out
by thc third Japanese war cabi
net under the 77-year-old morirr.
ate. Thc baron failed In his first
day' efforts to form a new gov
ernment "equal to the fierce war
situation.
Stilt Eff.ctlT.
Tokyo acknowledged that
Moscow had denounced the Rn.
stan-Japan non-aggression treaty
but pointed out that the treaty
would still be In effect for an
other year.
Japanese spokesman su rf the
action was not unexpected and
nlllcd coinmantntora remarked
that fear of oviet Russia may
have beon nnrtlv rcsDansibln fnr
the extraordinary nliiinrn '
Japanese opposition to the Amer
ican invasion oi ihe Ryukyu Is
lands 325 miles south of-Jnnnn.
Both Adm. Nlmltr. .ml nn
i uicArinur reported new gains,
Including the Invasion of an Islet
on uKinawa in the h v u lr v
wrecking of .14 Jnpancse vessel,
mi urii itciiuii oi as aircrait.
Ainnnes on Uklnawa advanced
(Continued on Pogo Two)
Mrs. McAdoo to
Arrive in City
Mrs. Eleanor Wllmn MnJtA
daughter .of the late President
Woodrow Wilson and widow of
William Glbbs McAdoo, former
secretary of the treasury during
World War I, will be In Klam
ath Fnlls April 12 In connection
with the 7th War Loan.
Mrs. McAdoo. Who pnmn
hero from Washington, D. C,
will be accompanied by Mabellc
B. Blake of Washington, and
Mrs. Ellen. MacV?ogh of Port
land. Mrs. McAdoo serves as
regional director of women's
activities for tho drive, Miss
Bli.ko as director of tho wom
en's section of tho war finance
committee, and Mrs. MacVcneh
as assistant director of women's
activities, war finance committee.
The 7th War Loan is bclmr
handled in Klamath county by
the Soroptimist club and the
Business and Professional Wom
en's club, with Mrs. Rose Poole
as chairman. Mrs. Poole will
preside at an invitational 9
o'clock breakfast at the Pelican
honoring tho visitors.
Mrs. Poolo announced today
that the visitors arc coming
hero for tho purpose of meet
ing with heads of the women's
organizations which have un
dertaken to put over the next
loan.
Mrs. McAdoo. Mrs. MacVcash
and Miss Blako will leave at
12 o'clock tho day of their ar
rival for a meeting In Eugene,
going from there to Portland.
Klamath Falls, Eugeno and
Portland are the only Oregon
cities where tho women will
stop for group meetings.
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, April B General Douglas MacArthur had
his "on to Tokyo" marching order today, hard on the heel of
nussia s denunciation oi her neutrality treaty with Japan.
With the Pacific war thus norl.ndina possible new and start
ling developments, allied military leaders were In agreement on
ine quicK.it way to end tne iignttng in Europe:
Kill or capture Hitler.
Capitol hill, quick to speculate that the Moscow decision Is a
forerunner to soviet participation in the Pacific conflict once
formal nasi resistance ends, at the same time read diplomatic
Implications into the Russian ectlon.
FAST DEVELOPING NEWS
In brief, this was the picture in this war capital today as de
velopments tumbled one upon anotheri
1. The Joint chiefs of staff assigned MacArthur. together with
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, to command the final massive of-
lensivcs against japan.
2. Disclosure that General George C. Marshall, army chief of
staff, told thc senate military committee that death or capture
of Hitler would contribute tremendously to a collapse of the al
ready faltering nazl military machine. '
3. General belief among law-makers that President Roosevelt
had extracted from Premier Stalin at thc Yalta meeting a promise
that the neutrality treaty would bo denounced and that Russia
would enter the war against Japan.
4. Belief, too, that Russia's action may smooth some of thc
rough spots out of thc path to thc United Nations' conference at
San Francisco April 25. ,'
Japan Two-Man Job
The joint stuff, composed of the top uniformed men of the
war and navy departments, decided that turning thc full offen
sive power of thc United States on Japan was a job to be directed
by two men, Accordingly they announced last night that:
1 MacArthur will command all army- forces in the Pacific
theater. -
2 Nimitz will command all naval force.
3 Strategic direction (the broad plans for the wart will be
retained by the joint chiefs of staff. The nature of a specific
operation (whether essentially sea or land) will determine which
man directs It.
Tho command assignments came in an announcement that
spoke of "the large forces to be redeployed from Europe", and the
"rapid 'advances" up through the southwest and central Pacific
"which have brought us Into close proximity with the Japanese
homeland and the China coast.'
' MacArthur's Command Cut ...
One effect of the dlrcctivo appnrently was to remove the naVy
from MBcA.rlhur'a. sphere jujujajni
wncro maenrmur nao. oecn supreme aiuca conimanaer. navai
forces were under his jurisdiction. Nimitz now appear to have
direct command of all that is afloat, including such allied sea
(orccs as British naval units now in the Pacific
General H. H. Arnold retains exclusive control of his '20th
air force, operating agency of the growing B-29 fleets. The other
units of- Arnold's air forces, however, are left .under the field
command of MacArthur.
While the- Washington announcement, with Its references to
thc Japanese homeland and the' China coast, suggested present
strategy was being patterned with those areas, in. mind,, the Rus
sian action raised now and interesting strategic possibilities.
The Moscow announcement did not make clear immediately
whether the USSR considers its treaty with Japan ended now or
whether tho non-aggression pact runs for another full year to its
original maturity date. In any event, many in official circles be
lieved the Russians would strike when they felt tne situation
most mllltnrlly propitious.
That time, these circles suggested, undoubtedly would await
end of serious resistance in Germany.
Disclosure of Marshall s views on the latter subject came from
two senators who declined to be quoted by name. They said the
general contended that Hitler, as a symbol if not the man, is the
chief inspiration for thc fanatical resistance, about which Gen.
Dwight Elsenhower spoke in a letter to President Roosevelt.
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POSITIONS
NEAR
HANNOVER
DNB Says Americans
. Only 90 Miles
; ; From Berlin
Third army troops, closest American forces to Berlin, advanced to 23 mile southeast of Goth..
as 9th army men fought Into Ham.lin, three miles past the Water river. Britons were within 35
miles of Bremen and Russian troop-carried, their battle into-Vienna, advancing to 4H miles of
the heart of the. city.
Cut on Modoc Forest Land
To Exceed 50 Million Feei
' The cut of government timber
on the -Modoc national forest
Will be in excess of 50.000,000
feeVthls year, according to word
received by The Herald and
News from Supervisor Mel Bar
ron at Alturas,
Logs from the Modoc will go
to Alturas, Adin, Canby, Weed
and Klamath Falls for manu
facture.
Shaw Lumber company will
$58,000 Mark Hit
In Fund Drive
The : Klamath county Red
Cross war fund drive which was
extended into April to reach the
goal set Tor $64,000. will reach a
successful conclusion Saturday,
April 14, John Asmcy predicts.
To date contributions to the
fund have reached $58,000: Thou
sands more have been pledged,
Ashley stated, and all money
should be in and the books bal
anced by the end of next week.
Drive official and solicitors
wish to thank residents of thc
county for their co-operation.
Motor Generates Trouble
ti,o ifv nf Dorrla Is scratching lis head over a problem
literally dumped In its lap this morning. ,;' . .. ,
i -A northbound truck laden with a 31,000-pound , diesel
electric ship's generator whisked around the north Main street
corner In the little California town, and the huge motor slid
from its moorings and kor-plunkcd itself on the shoulder of
the pavement. The motor was badly damaged. : . . .
Chief of Police R. L. Smith was called to investigate the
windfall which the city of Dorrls can't use, anyway. It was
the chief's opinion that the driver took the corner a bit too
fast. Tho truck is owned by Mitchell Brother Trucking com
pany, Portland, and was en route from the bay , area to the
facomn shipyards. ' ' ; . ' .
Services of the OK Transfer company here were-sought
this afternoon and officials said they would take two trucks to
iwi-1. unit with the nlri of- winches haul, the generator on. to
the low bed of one of their. trucks .and. then back on to thc
original trailer.- 1 , ;
complete its cut of government
timber on the west side of the
forest' by September 1, the cut
amounting to 8,OUO,000 feet
This timber will come to Klanv
ath Falls.
Edgerton brothers -at Adin
will cut between' 10,000,000 and
11,000,000 feet this year.
The Edgerton operation is now
on a, substantial yield Dasis.
Sam Jackslck. who has taken
over the Shaw contract in the
Badfler unit, will cut 7.000,000
feet this season and after this
year, his cut on government
timber will be 15,000,000 feet
annually. JacksicK Is building
a mill in Alturas. which he ex
pects to have in operation by
trie latter part. oi juiy.
On West Side
i Long-Bell Lumber company
is operating on the west side of
the forest, taking logs to Weed
for manufacture. The Long-Bell
cut will exceed 25.000.000 feet,
coming mostly from the Round
mountain and Lava fleas units.
The. Long-Bell cut on private
lands will exceed that from the
national forest.
The Ralph L. Smith Lumber
company cut will come mainly
from ' the Walker-Hovey lands
south of Canby, but during the
season, this firm will cut about
6,000,000 fee t of government
timber. . . -
Soldiers Electrocuted v
In Crane Accident
CAMP RUFUS! Ore., April 6
(p) a crane struck, a high ten
sion wire here last night, electro
cuting two-soldiers and knock
ing the crane operator to the
ground. . ...
Kescuers worKea untu -early
morning in a vain attempt to re
suscitate the two soldiers, Pvt.
Roy Bent, and Sgt. -Ralph
Chance, . Their addresses were
withheld. The crane, operator
was not. seriously Injured.
A city-county jail, long under
consideration- as, a much needed
1U1Y..1 orbpth JirajKhss. of Jaw
enforcement .here,- advanced
other -step this week with the
naming of a city-county jail com'
mission. . '. '' '. . ' . . '
At a meeting held Wednesday
afternoon -in thc county court
rooms, CountyJudge U. E. Reed'
er named Dick Henzel as his ap
nointee. Mayor .Ed Ostendorf an'
pointed Vernon Moore; Together
with Sheriff Lloyd L. Low and
Acting Chief of Police OrviUe
Hamilton, . Nelson . ' Reed was
named to the commission.
Official Appointees t
' This five-man commission was
then officially appointed by the
court-and will serve until suc
cessors: are elected or on further
order of the court.
There is now S20.000 in a spe.
cial jail fund as budgeted by the
county in ihe 1944-45 budget.
Present plans by the county call
for an additional $40,000 to be
budgeted this -year and a second
$40,000 the following year,
bringing the total fund up to
$100,000. '
No Bond Issues
The city, in turn, will be asked
to provide $50,000 toward the
fund and officials said that there
will be no bond issues for the
; .(Continued on Page Three)
Newton Mundlin
Wounded on wo
Mr!, and Mrsl R. TV. -Mundlin,
3125 i Boardman, ' parents . of
Marine. SSgt Newton J. Mund'
lin of this city, have been ad'
vised that 'their son suffered in
juries on' Iwo Jima and has been
flown from the island to a base
hospital.:
Information sent the family
advised that a machine gun blew
up and metal penetrated the
young marine's face. He suf
fered severe injury to his eyes
but Mr. and Mrs. Mundlin were
told that doctors felt they could
save the vision.
Sgt. Mundlin .was mentioned
recently in a dispatch from Iwo
Jlma crediting him 'with a "one
map drive on this bloody little
island." Thc marine celebrated
his 22nd birthday on the beach
head on Iwo Jlma.
LONDON, April 6 CSV-Two
Russian armies sought to close
a giant . pincers, around Vienna
today as tank-led soviet storm
'units;, knifing through a nazi
fdefense belt - at---the - southern
city limits, drove within four
and one-half miles of the center
of the Austrian, capital.
uepioyea aiong . an na-miie
siege ' arc, the Russians were
'Wounded
SSgt.. Newton . Mundlin
Russian Armies Seek to
Close Pincers on Vienna
IN WAKE OF FLOOD
NEW ORLEANS, April 6 UP)
The Red Cross estimated today
that 25,000 families were affect
ed by the record flood in the ited
river valley through central Lou
isiana and that a half million
acres, many of them fertile farm
lands, had been inundated by
back-waters and levee breaks.
J. Fritz Thompson. Red Cross
relief director at headquarters in
Alexandria, said more than 5000
families had been evacuated
from a large block of central
Louisiana parishes arid that no
improvement- in the situation
was in sight. The homeless were
housed ' in tented camps and
other refugee . quarters dotting
the flooded area.
Floods Developing
Similar figures were' an
nounced by Brigadier ' General
Raymond H. Fleming, head of
me Louisiana -state guard, who
estimated that the developing
floods in Louisiana would leave
25,000 to 50,000 refugees.
water was spreading in all di
rections 'down- vhe Red - river
basin from the Shrcveport area
in northwest Louisiana to its
junction with, the Mississippi in
eastern Louisiana, .where the Red
had begun increasing the burden
of the badly-swollen Mississippi.
Meanwhile, from Cairo, 111., to
New Orleans engineers kept a
24-hour vigil in the flooded Mis
sissippi. Crews worked all night
sandbagging levees and. building
new embankments.-
A sandboil develoDed sudden
ly at Lake Providence on the
Mississippi . and engineers
promptly sandbagged . it. Minor
sandboils and seepages have also
developed on the Yazoo, Red and
Ouachita rivers. , .
Twenty miles west of Natchi
toches the levee at Armlstead
broke and marooned 300 fami
lies. A Texas and Pacific train
rescued them and they were
sheltered in the Northwestern
State college stadium.
27 Nazi Ships
Sunk in Ports
LONDON. Anril 6 (A ' At
least 21 German naval vessels
and merchant sWds were sunk
and rpany, others were damaged
in recent eighth air force attacks
on naval bases at Bremen, Wil
helmshaven and Hamburg, an an
nouncement said today.
Ships sunk included the light
cruiser- Koeln . at Wllhulm.
shaven, and seven submarines in-
c i u d i n e one of 1200 tons, .at
Bremen. One 740-ton U-boat was
sunk in the raids nn Hnmhurir.
U. S.j strategic- air- force head.
quarters said.
within 48 miles-of completely
encircling Vienna. One Russian
wing seized positions 13 miles
south of the Danube river town
of Tulln, 10 miles northwest of
Vienna-.- --The capture -rbfTullttl
would sever an Vienna s west
ward communications along the
south bank of the Danube and
also the main Vienna-Prague
railroad.
Breaking . across the . Sch
wechat and Liesing rivers, -a
canal and a' network of subur
ban railroads and highways con
stituting a highly-fortified de
fense belt, units of Marshal
Feodor I.. Tolbukhin's third
Ukrainian army battled to Vien
na's southern city limits.
Suburb Captured
' The suburbs of Ober-Laa and
Unter-Laa, adjacent to the
boundary and four and a half
miles southeast of famed St.
Stephana church in the center
of the city, were captured - in
the face of violent German
artillery fire from the capital's
parks. Two of Vienna's vital
supply links with the war
arsenals of .Germany and Czech
oslovakia were -cut.-
The Russians also battled into
the outskirts of the' industrial
suburb of Schwechat, site of
a big aircraft plant, captured
Lexenburg and thrust a two ' to
inree-mue wtae wrage uirougu
the famed Vienna Woods. The
old imperial Austrian castle is
located in Laxenburg, six miles
south of Vienna.
Malinovsky - Gains
Southeast. - east and northeast
of Vienna, Marshal Rodion Y.
Malinovsky's second -Ukrainian
army surged forward in gains
of seven miles along bom banks
of the Danube. -
While Tolbukhin's forces cut
the high-speed highway linking
Vienna 'with . Linz and Munich, -Malinovsky's
troops severad a
nir.e-mlle stretch of the rail
road along the Morava river's
east bank linking the Austrian
capital with Moravska-Ostrava,
Czechoslovakia s third city, and
Bruenn (Brno). 50 miles north
west of soviet spearheads. The
railroad was severed at Malacky
and zonor, and . n miles
northeast of Vienna.
By JAMES M. LONG
PARIS, April 6 CP) The
famous Hell on Wheels (second)
armored division fought fiva
miles past the Weser river tn.
day possibly to within 18 miles
of -Hannover while the British
desert--rats of the seventh tank
division closed to within 25
miles of that Prussian metrnnn.
lis. ' .
A wholly unconfirmed broad.
cast by the official German
news agencv DNB said nthcr .
American troops had been rein
forced in "the area of Eisle
ben," 90 miles from Berlin, -,
40-MU Gain?
This was 40 miles hevnnl
last reported positions of tho
third army at Schlotheim, 130
miles from the capital. There
was no confirmation at supreme
headquarters of the operation,
which the Germans suggested
was by airborne forces.
"Light tanks have been land
ed from the air," the enemy
agency said.
The tanks were said to be
fanning out toward Arnstadt,
Hamelin and Muehlhausen, 55
to 100 miles behind Eislcben.
; Fight In Hamelin
' The U. S. ninth army fought
through the streets of storied
Hamelin on the Weser and
walked at leisure through the
vast railyards of the Ruhr term
inal city of Hamm, where resist
ance collapsed suddenly.
: The American first armv
launched a powerful new drive
which carried a total distance
of 32 . miles eastward beyond
the Ruhr -pocket and smashed
through the Hessian gap his
toric military gateway to the
east which Napoleon once trod
to the upper reaches of tha
Weser. river 10 miles northeast
of Kassel. . . .
.; .-. . Menace -Bremen -' '
The British oh the north' Ger
man plains posed an increasing
threat to the great naval base
and shipbuilding center of Bre- -men,
less than .35 miles away.
The desert rats menacing both .
Bremen and Hannover raced 54
miles in 24 . hours past the
Duemmer lake to within nine
miles of the Weser in the gen
eral area between the .cities.
Nations Abie to
Amend Oaks Plan
WASHINGTON, April 6 (Pj '
Each of the' Big Four nations -that
joined in creating the Dum
barton Oaks world security plan
will be able to submit amend
ments to the plan at the San
Francisco conference. :
That .was made plain today '
by Secretary of State Stettin lus.
His statement differed sharply
with a view recently expressed ;
by- the Russian - magazine war
and the- Working Classes In art
article reprinted by the soviet -
embassy here. This article sug
gested the Big Four would press
for - the Dumbarton Oaks plan
in its present form. -
Yanks Gain in
New Attack
ROME. April 18 TAP) American
army troops, attacking through
the mountains near the Italian
west coast, have gained almost
two miles in a swift advance
north of Azzana, allied head
quarters announced today.
The announcement said the
drive began yesterday and heavy
fighting was continuing as the
Germans met the onslaught with
strong mortar fire. - ,
" Near Porta American elements
which thrust forward from Stret-
toia were driven back by a nazi
counterattack.
Coal Wage Negotiations
Collapse, Stalemate Seen
WASHINGTON, April 6 (F
Wage negotiations between soft
coal operators and John L. Lewis
collapsed today with the produc
ers announcing they will report
a stalemate, to the: war labor
board. - ,. .
In an attempt to block a com
plete break-off of the , contract
bargaining, Lewis, 'president of
tho United Mine Workers, defeat
ed a motion of the, operators to
recess indefinitely, so the nego
tiations -were -scheduled to re
sume Saturday morning. . ' -
Operator Not to Attend
Conference Chairman Ezra
Van Horn said, however, the op
erators would not be present at
tomorrow's session because-thev
would be at the war labor board
reporting that the negotiations,
after five weeks, were at a stale
mate. - :
By clinging to the formality
of the negotiations,, even in the
absence of the operators, Lewis
places himself in the position of
continuing the talks.
The war labor board, after Its
hearing last Saturday which
brought about . an extension of
the contract through the month
of April, asked for a report by
tomorrow on the status of the
negotiations. This is thc report
which the operators will make
tomorrow, although Lewis is not
joining in. -
A spokesman for Lewis assert
ed that the miners' union had not
inspired a single work stoppage
in soft coal mines. He predicted
full production by Monday.
' K. C. Adams, editor of the
United Mine Workers Journal,
said "no work stoppage in any
mine has been inspired by the
UMW wherever the operators
and management has agreed to
meet the terms and conditions of
the extended agreement," -t
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