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It adds nervously to- ftliot tills ,;leci IS iieniniim report thnt lllrohito has illjcd 20 million Japanese knts to participate ai-iivei? if dCIcn.'C Ol llirir nuun' nmhnh v mi cnuu kic throwers It was talking the other day). ' ,, r. frodlnii the little yellow umii senre stuff today for fcver effect it may nave on nerves. President Truman, Hlng congressional medal mor, snys: ' vvc arc prcpur- tr ko Iho Japs wnn over hlng force." The navy h 12 more aircrnu cnrnot BEST (as the cable edjtors md urges a speed-up in me hrds to complete mem. calls for lBUU-more war before August for use kt the Jnps. r . . EN and how It will come (known only-to our-high nO, DUt Willi U1C nnw.mil Eurone over the Jans are lily duo to loam something the facts ot ma in a worm thev are the LUNt IJ In cu on ineir icci. Chinese claim- to - be beading out from Too- tflklnc sevcra towns. ncrslst thnt the Jans lie evacuating tho China from Shanghai clear south hit Kong. loesn t sound , reasonable, fou never can tell. 'ATCHES from Europ kgest that the British and ly we Americana are try- jet up a decentralized government ana are tor "worthy German heistcrs" (mayors). The may even bring In aome tn refugees from London can't find any home-town lis willing to tackle the iusly If we have to out n men In aa local official German city, town and we'll have a lob on our We're naturally trying to Pic sntl-nazl Germans le willing to tackle the rcDiuming Germany from wna up. ry teaches us that COM lorelgn occupation, from Jayors, chiefs of police, i up, duiicis outer natreris pd to GROW rather than we re apparently trying mat mistake if we can Russians continue to pot- us aoout dickering with Who s n o m tn hnvf. fiia of German govern- nensourg, on the uan- er, and who appears not "icii nrrcsTca as yct.u in me iod we navi US, it will he F.AK1F.R vc some kind of Ger. fornmcnt to deal with, Wim HU m 11 nn IWni. S Is an almost hopeless lusslnns go on prodding I1 why we don't start fie war criminals, e have to CATCH a lot irst. Adm tled v. t ;ear tic air If we'd get ui nnu niB'uA paariu Her way, but we and iiueq on Paao Three) Hurt In of War ,rs,n. 10-year-old son "a Mrs r-oi i - Fmnn, suffered severe KL aunday night F. ovep 8 broken rwnue engaged in a M, nlavina ...111, youngstera, was in an W mme,.4510 Peck. tekn bottle""." Hi. "Vn. " the abdo- ililu """-e oervice i lL'ro'n Bellant ""ip nospital where Wlcd. resting easily In The Shasia' Cascade Wonderland PRICE FIVE CENT8 May 21, 1945 Max. (May 20) .. . ... 37 Mln. 37 Precipitation last 24 hours .00 Stream yaar to data ...;.10.31 Kormal 10.77 Last yaar 7.70 Forecast: Sprinkles tonight and Tuaidav. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 21, I84S Number 10471 FROG T RATE QUA LIZATION FIXED BY ICG South, West Affected By Surprise Ruling By J. FRANK TRAGLE WASHINGTON, May 21 (P) The nation's railroad freight bill Is being rcfigurud. . In a move widely gig..ificunt to the south and west, the inter state commerce commission: Ordars Equalisation 1. Ordered basic freight rates of those sections except for the far west equalized with eastern rail charges, 2. Directed that the nation's carriers simplify rate-making by setting up a uniform system of freight classification for the en tire nation. - Caught by Surprlsa The loiig-awnitod order, uni versally conceded to be the most important In the commission's 58-year history, was released late Saturday without an ad vance hint. As a result its 204 pages caught railroad represen tatives completely by surprise. They withheld comment pending a thorough study. The decision, however, was quickly acclaimed, by southern leaders. "South on Its Way" Gov. Ellis Arnall of Georgia declared: "America may well take notice the south is on its wav." Arnall added' that the ICC ruling will not deter Georgia from pressing its supreme court suit against a numocr . ot rail roads -on charges of conspiring against the south- In establishing railroad freight rates. , "Now that me luu has savca its face," he commented, : "the U. S. supreme court will, In my judgment, complete the Job of freeing tne transportation sys tem of America." , , Half A Million In Bonds Sold By Marine Show Approximately 25 marines were back at the Barracks her today, after selling nearly half a million dollars worth of bonds in a tour of five western Oregon towns. A show similar to the ones presented In these towns will be given here May 30- In connection with the 7th War Loan drive. Featured in the show, written and directed by Richard Nason, were Lt. Ott Schulte, winner of the Navy Cross: Sgt. William B. Fields, Silver Star holder, and Sgt. Tallbot Voglcr, who wears the Bronze Star. The famed mar no orchestra. with Singers PFC Carl Hagcl and SSgt. Bill Schlonker, en tertained residents of Grants Pass. Roscburg, Rccdsport, Coos Bay and Coqulllc on the tour. On Thursday, May !7, the show was broadcast over the Mu tual network from San Francisco to Seattle, originating from sta- tlon KOOS In Coos Bay , between 2:15. and 2:45 p. m. Men Of The Franklin Talk It Over rU tow rw lfMM' , lZ . Four man. who servtd on tha aircraft carrier Franklin. criDDled bv a lona Jaoanesa nlana last March 19, told their story just two months to tha day later at the. Klamath naval air station. saattd. Lt.-Comdr. s. n. Sherman, flight surgeon on tha Franklin, and left to right. Pilots Lt. Theodore Egar. Palmyra, Mo., Lt. DaWayna H. Sttgner, Downey, Calif., - and Lt. (jg) Harry Klncald, Oak Hill. W. Va. D. S. navy photo. By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK 1 WASHINGTON. May 21 (P) A bitter congressional struggle is shaping up over the future of price control. For the past three months OPA has been a storm center of controversy over meat prices ana distribution. Bui while this held public attention, a deeper, more, fundamental issue has been developing. - Soon to reach the senate floor, this, in essence, is the question of when and how price controls, are to be relaxed. The end of the European war has pushed it to the forefront. Taft Belief On one hand is a school of thought, led by Senator Taft (R.-Ohlo . which holds that start must be made soon on cnslng price restrictions, else the nation's economy will be strangled. Taft contends that the groundwork for a major depres sion win be tarn it price mar gins are held narrow and regu lations kept tight In the recon version period. He says it will (Continued on fage rnrecj Hungary State Treasure Found PARIS, May 21 OF) The state treasury of Hungary, including the total gold reserve behind all Hungarian currency in clrcula tlon, was uncovered recently by the U. S. Both infantry division on a rocky, pine-covered crag high in the Austrian Alps. The treasure trove, hidden at the ancient mountain village of Pital Am Pyhrn, was unearthed bv Hungarian-born MSgt. Wll liam J..DcHuszar of (jnicago, in. Marines Strike Nearer Shuri r-Av jcjsjih.do jr "''"mk f' PW&o'"r OKINAWA ri.. ji.i.lnn mnrin adaed clour to Shuri, heavily-defended. fortress elty of Okinawa, driving through 800 yards of ravines nd draws. Frontier, Crime Problems Spur Demand For Meeting .. By ED L. CAMPBELL : Associated Press Staff Writer Europe's vexing problems of frontiers and war criminals spurred new demands today for an. early - meeting of the Big Three. -: The British press warned that some of the issues alreadvwere bcginnlngto,.assume proportions Ol international, crises ' as ten sion heightened 'in the dispute over the Adriatic port of Trieste. Moscow . commentators in L DF By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON. Mav 21 (B A ramrod-stiff G. I. sergeant t r o m tne shrapnel - splattered battlefields of Europe stood be fore his president and the con gress today to receive the Con gressional Medal of Honor. The sergeant, slender black- haired Jake W. Lindscy of Lucednlc, Miss., was the 100th Infantryman, to receive the cov eted award, highest in his coun try's gift. - Applaud Award Senators and representatives cheered and applauded a few with excited yens as tne tech nical sergeant bowed his head to . receive the blue-ribboned war trophy from President Tru man. ' "This is a proud and moving occasion for every American," the president said in remarks broadcast over . all major net works. " - "It follows the complete vic tory of the allied forces over a (Continued Irom Page One) Copt. Lynn Moore Freed From Camp Capt.' Lynn L. Moore, Klam ath Falls attorney serving In the infantry, nas been released from a German prison of war camp in Poland. Word to. that, effect was re ceived here through Mrs. Doro- tny Moore, -wno is at Toledo. Ore., during Captain Moore's absence.- The Klamath lav"yer was wounded first by a German bayonet, recovered, was wound ed again and taken prisoner on the western front. He is expected to return here to practice law when discharged. Bill Introduced For Court Term A bill was introduced In con gress today to provide for a term of federal court to be held in Klamath Falls beginning the first Tuesday of each June. Senator Guy Cordon wired the chamber of commerce that he was introducing the bill - on behalf of. Senator Morse and himself. Recently, a proposed draft of bill was sent to the Oregon congressional delegation by .the Klamath County Bar association. backed' by the chamber of com merce and a number nf other organizations. creased their demands for swift trial of captured nazi big shots held by the Americans and Brit ish and asked why other Hitler ite leaders had not been cap tured. Pole Issue Unsettled - : Apparently no nearer settle ment was the Polish goverh ment.question:andthere.were signs of Russian disagreement .vith Anglo-American -methods of treating the Doenitz adminis tration. Hunger began to make itself felt in Trieste. Associated Press Corresoondent Lvnn :. Heinzer- ling said Yugoslav military authorities were reported to have made overtures to allied authorities for shipment of food from Italy but the Italians were confronted with the problem of feeding thousands of displaced persons of their own. . r Withhold Supplies. The allied military govern ment, which apparently would be in position to alleviate the food shortages, remained out side Trieste and there was little nrosnect it would act as long as Marshal Tito's troops continued to control the port. The Yugo slavs gave no sign of evacuat ine the citv. Publishing the text of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander's warning to his allied Mediter ranean command about the gravity of the Trieste situation, the Yugoslav-controlled Trieste newspaper. II Nostro Avvenlre, adODted a conciliatory tone. It asserted Yugoslavia was willing to - leave ultimate disposition pt the port and surrounding terri tory to a peace conference. No Comment The Russian press carried full accounts of the Adriatic situa tion but refrained from editorial comment. ... Tito s troops which also had moved into the Austrian prov inces of Carinthia and Styria began withdrawing in force to day In trucks provided . ny tne British eighth army and were expected to be back inside Yugoslavia by nightfall. , - . Mary Chin Dies Of Injuries Mary Chin,' 20-year-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wong of the Merrill district, died at 10:30 p. m. Friday in a Stockton, Calif., hospital of injuries re ceived in an automobile accident earlier In the day. , . Miss Chin, graduate of Mer rill high school with the class of 1942. was active in' 4-H club work and well-known in the val ley where her parents operate a ranch five miles west of Merrill. Miss Chin later attended Arm strong college in Berkeley and at the time of her death was em ployed in the bay area. Details of the accident were not learned here. , . . , Joe Chin left ' Saturday for Stockton to make final arrange ments and returned here today. His sister's remains will arrive Monday night and tentative ar rangements call for services to be held Wednesday from the Merrill church with Whitlock's in charge. Definite plans will be announced Tuesday. In addition to her parents. Miss Chin leaves five brothers, George. Joe. Jack. Tommle and Ming Chin, and tvo sisters, Betty ana iicne, an oi merrm Chinese Take Hochih; Japs Evacuate Post By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, May 21 (P) Chinese troops In a sudden offen sive in Kwangsi province hare recaptured Hochih. important Japanese bastion on the Kwangsi-Kweichow railroad, 95 miles west of the rail junction city of Liuchow, the Chinese high com mand announced today. , On the east China coait. Chinas troons hammvtnn iniwHrf irom the captured city of "Foochow possible American invasion port have occupied Mamoi, eight miles distant, and other oninese reached the vicinity of Lienkong. 20 miles northeast of Foochow, the high command said. The coastal successes .were scored in yesterday's fighting. Hochih was one of the Japanese strong points screening the enemy corridor to Indo-Chlna. Repeated Chinese attacks had failed to dislodge the strongly emrencned Japanese there dur- 5 ONE By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic - News Editor -SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (IP) Agreement among the Big Five and -Latin American na tions on plans for regional self defense systems within a world organization today put. the Unit ed Nations conference past its biggest, stumbling block. ' Russian acceptance of the re gional plan with only minor changes in. wording . was fol lowed by signs that a smooth and early solution of soviet American differences over a sys tem of international trusteeships is close at hand. ' Melts Opposition Furthermore, satisfaction of the ' Latin - American reDublics that:-the regional--defense sys tem in this hemisphere will be. preserved ymeited their, opposi tion to decisive. action on .other major conference issues, mainly a veto-voting system for the big powers in' the proposed-world security council. . As the fourth full week of the conference opened, many Unit ed Nations leaders were .hope ful that the job of charting the new international league could be finished June 2. Proposals for speeding up the' work to meet that deadline were ready for a steering committee session today. Offer Protection .. American military authorities were understood to feel that the security arrangements already on or in the making offer full protection to the United States regardless of how the projected league works out. . Much of the maneuvering to date has been due to the efforts of all the nations, but particu larly the big powers, to set up as many safeguards as they can for their own future protection. Thus Russia - early obtained agreement of the Big Five to allow defense treaties against future axis aggression to re main unchanged - under the world organization system.- . ' . i. -' Army To Release 40-Y ear-Olds ; '. : WASHINGTON, May 21 (A) The army today fixed at 40 years the age at which enlisted men may apply for discharge. The army only last month had lowered the discharge age to 42 years. An estimated 30,000 en listed men are in the army in the 40 and 41-year age groups. : At the same time, the war department announced that Wacs 40 years of age or over who have served the required period on active duty will be eligible for discharge. It esti mated that 8000 enlisted Wacs will be eligible under this provision. ing the winter campaign Chinese forces on the east coast also seized another port in the Foochow area, and ru mors persisted that enemy troops were evacuating numer ous China coast positions which they feared would be turned in to death traps in the event of an American invasion. Dionloh, a small port on the Min river is miles southeast of Foochow, fell to Chinese troops on Saturday. Approximately 200 Japanese who tried to make a stand at Diongloh were . wiped out, the Chinese said. - These new successes seemed to bolster the rumors that the Japanese were 'clearing out of coastal positions all the way from Hangchow bay 650 miles southwestward to Hongkong. The reports followed a Chinese announcement that . approxi mately 1500 Japanese had been killed in a four-day battle some 400 miles : northeast of Chung king which turned back the ene my's second offensive within: a month in inner China. - Headquarters of Lti Gen.. Al bert c. wedemyer. . u. s. com mander; in- the China.;;thejitcr; disclosed "that" an American air base . had' been established at Kweiyang, capital of Kweichow province and situated 200 miles south of cnungKing on- tne Chungking - Kunming : military highway. - : Task Force On Prowl, Say Japs ' SAN FRANCISCO, May. 21 (P) An allied task force "again is on the prowl and appears to be - attempting to approach Kyushu," the Japanese uomei agency said in a broadcast inter cepted by the federal commun ications commission yesterday. The dispatch noted that since last Thursday allied carrier air craft raids against Kyushu and the Anami archipelago, south of Kyushu;- had been increasing, and since dawn Saturday the "enemy" has been active over that area. Marines' Bodies Not Recovered The" bodies of two marines, missing in a canoe accident on Creicent lake, have not been re covered, according to word from the Marine Barracks - search party today. ' '' The missing men are Assistant Cook David Van Deest, Des Moines, la., and Corporal Neal Burris, Independence, Kas. ' Labor Rejects Churchill Plan BLACKPOOL, ' Eng., May 21 OP) Labor party members of the cabinet rejected tonight Prime Minister Churchill's sug gestion that they stay , in the coalition government until the end of the war with Japan. Their .action put up to Church-. ill the next move whether to call for a summer general elec tion. A breakup of the coalition government is probable. Fortress Pounded ; By Bombing Into ; '. Rubble ' GUAM. May 21 m First marine division trooDS have driven to the crest of the last ridge before the Okinawa fort ress city of Shuri in a tank-led drive through 800 yards of, fe rociously defended- ravines arid draws. Elaborate Japanese . hillside defenses were cleared by flame throwing tanks and weary rifle men as they climbed the steep inclines until the tanks could go no farther and the battle turned into a hand to hand, cave-by-cave struggle. Shuri, lying below the hilltop position of the marines, was a pile of rubble from the inces sant bombardment arid bombing to which it has been subjected.. . Heavy Fire Lt. James Paulos, commander of a company which seized. one ridge overlooking ' the ancient capital of Ryukyuan .monarchs, told Associated Press1 Correspon dent Vern Haugland his men had been subjected to he a v y mortar fire all the way tip the ridge. ' ... '-. . Meantime, the 77th infantry division advanced doggedly to within 900 yards of Shuri on the northeast, throwing back three counterattacks, and' elements of the 96th infantry division moved within 1600 yards of 'the walled, moated city of the east. ' ' : - . .Send Aid. -: The sixth marine division sent elements eMtward toward Shuri from its positions in suburbs of Nana, - present capital of Oki nawa. .-'! .. Despite continued fierce Japa nese resistance, Maj.: Gen. John R. Hodges said there "was some indication that the Japanese are disintegrating as an - overall fighting unit." -. ' Hodge told .newsmen the en (Continued -on -Page Three) Lone Navy Patrol Plane Sinks Entire Nip Convoy - By FRED HAMPSON MANILA. May 21 (IP) In one of the war's outstanding aerial feats, a single Philippines-based navy patrol plane destroyed an entire Japanese convoy of five ships, -totaling 17,000 tons off rormosa Saturday, uen. Douglas MacArthur reported today. The largest ship, more than 5500 tons, was a troop carrier. judging from its numerous life rafts. -- A total of 369.818 Japanese have been killed and captured Jn tne seven months Philippine campaign, 14,408 of them in the last fortnight, MacArthur an nounced... . , i Japanese forces driven north of Davao into a succession of defense lines on Mindanao island appeared to be weakening. A U, S. 24th division column which speared up - the coast, throwing a flank threat at stout ly defended Sasa airfield, did not meet resistance until the end of a full day's advance. - At nightfall,-, it overcame strong Nip ponese positions '3000 yards northwest of Ipil village. Other elements of the 24th knocked out strong Japanese' re sistance around Tugbok on the main Japanese escape route into the mountains, - . , ,- v One company beat off J four counterattacks by a single Japa nese platoon one night. Baccalaureate services at -the auditorium last night marked the beginning of commencement ac tivities attending the erariuatinn t nnnMvlmnfJt inn 1 from Klamath Union - hi g a school. The final graduation i exercises will be held at Pelican ' court at 8 p. m. Wednesday,-: . Lt. Comdr. Graham- Gilmer Jr., USNR, chaplain at the Ma rine Barracks, delivered the bac calaureate sermon Sunday eve-! ning before an auditorium filled with the capped . and gowned seniors and their families and friends. .. . .. .. Chaplain Gilmer . described a happy ship" in which navv morale- is high, and emphasized the value of spiritual equipment in meeting -life's . problems and adventures. Rev. S M. Tornies nre.iided: Scriptures were read by Alfred L. Dwight, the invocation by Rev. F. C. Wissenbach and the -benediction by Rev. David Bar- nett. - There Will be no guest speak er, at the commencement exer cises Wednesday " evening. . A , few remarks will be made by Superintendent Arnold Gralapp, Principal Stanley Woodruff and , Board Chairman Nelson Reed. Jimmie Case will present the valedictory - speech, and Marjor ie Huskinson will be salutator ian. ... Sgt. Don Zumwalt Freed From Camp ' SSgt. Don Zumwalt,. 25, of the United States army air corps has' been liberated from a Ger man camp for prisoners of war, according to - word received by his. parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. " ZUmwalt of 2225 Biehn- in Klamath Falls. The news was hroiiffht tn the. Zumwaltn bv the American Red Cross, although no further details were known. It is believed that he is now in , England. . . ' . : Zumwalt left in September of ; 1940 with ' the national - guard, first reporting for duty at Fort Stevens with the 249th coast ar tillery: He later transferred to the air corps, and -received his orders for overseas servioo aa a tail gunner on a B-24. "His plane was shot down on August. 29, . 1944 after completing 32 mis sions over Romania- and the Ploesti oil fields. v The young gunner was report ed missing in a message received here on September 9, and wag then listed as a prisoner of the German government in October of the same year. Zumwalt was last heard from in December, but prior - to that time his parents and several friends were the re cipients of numerous letters and cards, . as Well as a telegram re peating a message which he had sent short wave from Germany. - i
