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Newspaper Page TextI mm i ID Telephone 8111 ; jgjrivg CEHTS ' fyhf ';' Vl"?-"1 Cabinet Nominees lUi I r, Mar 26. 194$ Mix. (May 25) 60 Mln. ..3 ; Precipitation lait 24 hours .21 ; Stream year to data 11.20 Normal 10.92 Lait year - . 7.70 Forecast: Cloudy, acattarad showers. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 26, Number 10476 pre si: fealacc fo rai Elbe ' I ( IaMW'"aMlAn1ir'''1 '! - a. FRANK JENKINS l-nnnlNG to tho Jap radio, two-. ., I .1 L woman Tokyo "liter,.! i lo tho around." The tc,t adds that what win E the worms muu has occn pmtiivMiv .m.u hinT at least of the Impcr- Ll palace establishment was htf inn III! lien nmnuu ui Cu bombers and fanned by (MILE GALE, nt part and how much arc pule among rTCmier our.nii nnmnl (Jno news agency, our AP, UP. etc.), reported t cabinet inai nc wmi-iicu re start and saw the Impcr- Uce men ocairoycu. i radio commcnuuor anon Imperial paiacc. iociii ihi JaDanese people's Iiojl affection and undyiiiK fly, was destroyed for the ipart." iolher commentator,' how- lays me impcrmi Niutui vmhnl of tho nation'! sa- iriirllunl traditions, escaped fcictlon." ' ' ke your choice. crewmen returning from If raid say the Jap army navy department and the Idtooge parliament) build as well as the palaces, were jbly damaged, although turn on and off, like a gas burner, a mighty confla- bn that is fanned by a 70- (wind). It returning pilot says he 11 frprised if tho flames started lo raid didn't "scorch the tor hair a little. em agreed, however,; ftha emneror... tho. empress , the empress dowager erf. uninjured.. . www . i OWING the wlerd Jap lual, Suzuki calls an emor- cablnct meeting and pre to apologize to the em- forwhat happened. YO radio la extremely huf- about it all- and let us In no uncertain terms that put our foot In It this It enemy's inhuman atroc- It decla ms. "have In- rl our neoole'a feeling of ly and they are (now) determined to fight to it Japanese." I IT WITH? Is apparently to our answer. rcsentatlve Bucll Snydor, away from a closcd-door of the house military af- gommltloe at which Gen- arshall was present, tells tortcrs: can say that In the corn- months more than two A HALF TIMES AS TONS OF BOMBS will Ippcd on Japan as the al- inunucd on Pago Two) i t v M 11 'mn iwiiimh im m i.i n. mil PLANE OUTPUT PUIGUT BY ARM Production Of 17,000 Aircraft. Ordered Stopped ed Funds For Road tor Guv PnrHnn wirid Irnld and Npurc InHav Hint llllonal $150,000 has been "i oy an Interior depart-sub-commlttce for the e River road, senator anneared before (Rresslonal appropriations iv.c io urge tnc appro- to this action, tho anv. it had set aside $150,000 S rOfld. Thn lntn ImH P that amount, Inludlng "uses in us part of the S nPW.t 'frnm WaeMnttf- pates the road now has or ?4S0,00O. This road from thn I.nknvlpw V near Beatty to. Chllo- Din intt hnth alAw;nt iUn Jion. It has been in poor ffor many years. Tom C. Clark (top). Rep. Clinton P. Anderson (center) and Federal Judge .Lewis B. Schwellenbach (bottom) were nominated by President Truman for cabinet potts. Clark, .now aisistant attorney general, will succeed Francis Blddle as attor ney general, Rep. Anderson will become secretary of agriculture succeeding Claude A, .Wickard and Judge Schwellenbach will be the new secretary of labor, replacing Madame Frances Per kins. The appointments are sub ject to senate confirmation., (AP wlrephoto). - J BLAST KILLS 12 on EDGEWOOD, Md., May 26 (IP) Twelve persons killed and 51 injured .four critically, was the toll today of an explosion and fire at historic Edgcwood arsenal, the .first major acci dent there since the start of the war. A special arniy board of in quiry IS inVCSUKHMIIK which rocked the station, head quarters of the army's chemical warfare service shortly after 3 p. m. yesterday. It occurred in a building filled with civilian workers assembling and loading two-pound igniter hand gren ades. Building This and an adjacent building were devastated by the explos ion and subsequent flames which burned for several hours before firemen and volunteers extinguished 11. Eight of the dead, badly burned by phosphorus, were Identified. Eighteen of the in- nrich Himmler's Body )ts Unceremonious Burial r?H? CHAMBERLAIN .t? ,U Gormnny, May .-B.uuuy ot Mcinricn wrapped In a gray "y blanket, wag carted "lo a woods noar Todv ped Into a grave spaded llrCe' British Tnmmln. : tf flays the body had P. on tl10 flor f fK villa where the ges- r iiuea ins life with Lft"?. .undergoing examl- nia arrest by British , intelligcnco officer ...h sccontf army said "on told, to dispose as ho saw fit of the body of the hazl gestnpo chi f, whose private currency hoard of approximate iy ,,1,000,000 was discovered yesterday hidden under a barn near Bcrchlesgadcn. A major and three sergeants carried out tho unceremonious burial. A soldier who witnessed the removal said the sergeanls took Himmler's body by head ...j i warrior) II liplilncl the house wlicro he died and dumped It into a one-ton u'uck hiuhisoiuc three spades.: , , ' . 1 The body had not been em balmed and was -clad only in a British army shirt and the army (Continued on Page Two) By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, May 26 () The army hewed off today a big chunk of its aircraft production progrum. It announced a cutback order which will stop production of about 17,000 planes scheduled for the next 18 months. Among other effects the retrenchment will: 1. Take perhaps 200,000 workers from aircraft plants in a dozen or so cities by the close of the year. Release Material 2. Release substantial quanti ties of steel and aluminum for civilian use. " 3. End production of the new B-32 bomber, not yet reported in combat, while heavy emphasis la placed for the next few months on increased output ot the B-20 (Superfortress). Reasons The army air forces last night said the reasons for the new cut back are these:' Curtailment of lend-lease operations under which thou-, sands of aircraft went to allies in the European war; .different tactical and strategic require ments for the one-front war against Japan; with Germany's LiUttwaiic , KpocKecl , out, me United States lost less olancs In the- dosing pha5cs"of the1 battle of Europe, planes wnicn now mav be used asainst Japan.? ; The AAF said production,. on! the basis of atrirame wcigni (which means the weight of the plane, without engines etc.,) dur ing the second halt of this year will be 70 per cent of the total produced In -the first half. -.In (Continued on Page Two) Nearly One-Third Quota Reached The "E" bond quota of the "Mighty 7th" was being reduced by almost one-third the amount set, $1,538,000, with the total number of bonds purchased up to noon today adding up to ap proximately $500,000. Other series purchased ran close to that figure and Rose Poole, chairman of the 7th War Loan, said that she hoped the over-all figure would pass the halfway mark by June 1, ..The campaign ends June 30. Morning purchases, chalked up Saturday, totaled $4550. This amount was expected to be doubled as afternoon shoppers crowded downtown streets; Dnfanfry Show Sef am a i. -.j I , . UCIIIMIIBU If null will. . uriHB IWU hours of modern warfare to Klamath's' Modoc field pn the evening of June 5. '' . That is the date set for the colorful, realistic "Here's Your Infantry" show staged by the army ground forces as a con tribution to the 7th War Loan. ' Close To War. , Four thousand Klamath basin people are expected to jam Mo doc field for the event. With the sounds of . battle in their cars, the picture . of attacking infantry in their eyes, and the smell of burnt powder in their nostrils, local civilians will , be brought closer to real war con ditions by : the 'demonstration than, they can get through any. motion picture or written story. A 39-man infantry team will attack a Jap pillbox with rifles, ; machine guns, mortars,' . ba-1 zookas and flamethrowers. The attack is the highlight of the thrilling program, which will include a display and. explana tion of infantry weapons and exhibition of equipment and ra tions. Bond Admission General admission price for this show will be one-$25 bond, and reserved seat admission will be a $100 bond. , Tickets are available at bond headquarters. Eighty men, 15 of them from Oregon, will be in the unit; It will include a ' 29-piece i band. The group will come here in an H-vehlcle convoy. A special display of, infantry, weapons, will be arranged on 4th street, - between Klamath and Main, from 11 to 4 o'clock on both Monday and Tuesday, June 4 and 5. w r- ; Hfe mw - fir; i. City Battles Fires Started in B-29 Raids .By LEONARD MILLIMAN Asiociated Ptcis War Editor " Tokyo has been almost burned off the face of the earth, Japa nese broadcaita reported today at the city fought gale-fanned flame started by a midnight incendiary raid of 500 Superforts. The 4000-ton raid centered on Tokyo's main business district the most "indestructible" part of the enemy capital but en : gulfed two of the city's numerous palaces. The imperial family I was reported unharmed, although fires cams so close returning I airman said they may have "scorched the emperor's hair. And this apparently is only the beginning. Revised American war production schedules called for more big bombs and big bombers to be turned against Japan. The climactic blow to Tokyo announced by Washington Yes terday, came on the heels of. a strong and bizarre 18-hour Japa nese air attack on U. b. forces around Okinawa wnicn damaged 11 U. S. fleet units. An earlier attack, the navy announced last night, sank five U.-S. vessels the destroyer Little, minesweeper swauow, lanqing snips medium 100 and 1B5, and the LST 447 SOP TARIFF William Haney Dies On Okinawa Mrs. Bessie Haney, 2958 Hope, received word from the war department Friday, inform ing her that her husband, Pvt. William Haney, USMC, lost his life in action on Okinawa Island, May 2. Haney worked for Ewauna Box company while here, enters Ing the service in May,. 1944. He was overseas for seven months. Pvt. Haney went to school in Malin, and was also employ ed by Stone and Alderman there. His wife, a three-year-old son, Robert Lee, and his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Haney of Gaston, survive. , WASHINGTON, "' May ' .iff '(P) Administration forces in-:, the house today turned- back .., re publican move to deny Presi dent Truman the tariff cutting power he has asked, for. ' . ' . By a vote of 197 to. 174-the democrats quashed a motion de signed to .thus modify legisla tion to extend reciprocal trade agreements with other nations. Roll Call Vote The action was made, subject to a roll call vote later' in the day. Speaker Rayburn (D-Tex.) read, a letter from Mr. Trumaiv dated yesterday, in which the president said: "I wish to repeat that . I re gard the pending measure for the renewal and strengthening of the trade agreements act as of the first order of importance for the success of my administration.".- v The vote, by-tellers; was al most solidly along party lines. ' Beat Amendment The democrats also boat back, 152 to 135, a republican amend ment that would have.proloriged the life of the reciprocal trade program for only two years in stead of three years beyond the June 12 expiration of the. pres ent law. .' So concerned were adminis tration leaders over the tariff battle, that they arranged for two democrats Reps. Sabath.of Illinois and Cochran of Mis souri to come from the navy hospital, where they have been 111, to Vote. . .' Dies On Okinawa Pvt. William Haney, UBMC. ? -y w- -v w 'A close-up view of close-up infantry fighting, as shown above, is typical of the action scenes that will thrill Klamath people at the big "Here's Your Infantry" show to appear on Modoc field the evening of June 5. There will be a two-hour demonstration by ground forces, climaxed with an action-filled attack on a pill box in which, all infantry - weapons are used. . Japan To Feel Twice As Many Bombs As Germany By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON. May 26 (P) Japan, in the next year will be the target of more than twice as many bomos as. icu on many during the, last 12 months; . ..House appropriations commit? tee 'members made " this "disclos ure today, after a closcd-door session . with .Gen.. George- C. Marshall. '; The 'chief . of staff met with the committee yesterday to lay the ; groundwork for the war department's appropriation bill for the .fiscal; year .starting July 1. .'- ;' '.; ; ' More Than Double "You ;c,an say - that in' the coming year, more than" r two ELECTION NOT TO By TOM OCHILTREE Associated ' Press Staff Writer , Prime j' Minister ' Churchill, opening his. personal campaign for ' Selection to ' parliament, said , today he had assured Pres ident Truman that Britain's coming . general . election must not blpck a new meeting of the Big! Three at the earliest pos sible moment'. -' ' Both .Churchill and Truman have . expressed, a desire to meet around a conference, table with Premier-Marshal . Stalin. . ' The Polish governmental dispute and F.uronean occuDation Ques tions are among the topics such a conference would be expected to discuss. Speaking to his own. constitu ency - in Woodford, Essex; and one-half times as many tons of bombs will be dropped on Japan as the allies dropped in Europe -this (fiscal) year," Rep... J. . Buell Snyder -(D.-Pa.)-told a "reporter after the meet ing. Snyder ij chairman of . the; sub-committee considering army finances;-- ; :.' ' ' . , - While'Snyder would . not dis cuss the' overall nature of Gen. Marshall's testimony, other com mittee members . said privately they left the session with these impressions: . . . ' : , Longer War The war against- Japan will be longer and tougher than is generally ' expected. ' There ;will be no big reduc? tion. in war- department expend itures next year. - i There soon may be another, sharp- reduction -in. the. size of the army. . Before listening to': Gen. Mar shall, many ,, members, believed the army's fiscal year . 1946 (Continued on Page Two) Klamath Tops ' In Safety Drive . . SALEM. May 26 (P) Klam ath . Falls, ' Grants Pass, Dallas. and Myrtle Point stood at the head of their respective divi sions -in the. 1945.0regon- cities traffic safety contest at the end of the first quarter of the year, Secretary of State Robert S; Farrell Jr., sponsor of the con test, said today. Medford was second to Klam ath Falls and Astoria, third, among cities of 10,000 and more population. Kirkpatrick Now Holds Ace Rank ..L, !J. ,.Tf T .!,. v.o ine nns u.otc n jnu uyo uurciuii sum. " Okinawa by Capt. Floyd t: Porter Cemen$ Reported Freed ; The gratifying news that theW son. SSgt. Porter D. Clemens, B-17 Flying Fortress gunner, has been liberated from a German nilnn eamn WM rprpived this week by the WJ'Lma called, away from , this country during the actual election I shall rely upon you to see that my fortunes do not suffer." Churchill has completed his' task of forming a "caretaker" British government; The new government con sisting mainly of conservatives to replace the labor and liberal ministers who withdrew with the breakup of the. previous coalition administration will serve until the results of the Mr: and Mrs. Wade H. Clem ens, 4622 Homedale. Young Clemens, first, report ed missing and then a prisoner of war, was shot down Decem ber 31, 1944, while participating in a raid over Germany with British based American planes. He was near ing the end of his required '. number, of missions and had written of his eager ness to return home when the war department advised his parents he was missing. Word that their son was safe, came from Clemens' girl : in London who cabled, . '.'Porter; is free and well and hopes to be home soon." . ' V Clemens was held prisoner, at Stalag 17-B, southern .Germany. He had written on January 25, 1944, that conditions in the camp were bad and ha was lucky: lo 'be able to -walk around. which party was secured a ma jority in the house of commons. Kirknatrick. nephew of. L. F. Kirkpatrick, 1900 Esplanade, when he recently shot down a Jap plane to bring his total to five. Kirkpatrick ' flies with tho United States 10th tactical air force in the South Pacific. In a delayed report by Vern Haug land of The Associated Press, folks back home learned -how army and marine fighters gar nered their ereatest toll of the Okinawa campaign in shooting down 75 Jap planes in the wake of "last night's-abortive attempt to land enemy troops In, force on Ionian airfield, Soldier Held For Punching Prisoners To Be Released . WASHINGTON, May 26 (fP) The war department today can celled out any further punish ment for Pvt. - Joseph McGec, who was sentenced to two years at hard labor for punching Ger man war prisoners in France. The 23-yoar-old Worcester, -Mass.. soldier, now confined .in disciplinary barracks at. Fort Beniamin Harrison. Ind was ordered restored to duty and his dishonorable discharge was re- yoked. ; . : Acting Secretary of War Pat terson -personally .reveiewed . th case at the request of House Democratic Leader McCormack of Massachusetts, who termed the court martial sentence- "rl diculous." :' McGee was court martialcd at Le Mans, France, on October 17. 1944. - . - . Hp was charged with as saults and batteries" on nine Gorman prisoners near a -stockade somewhere M. France. The prisoners testified that McGee struck them with his hands or kicked them and in one instance used his club. He pleaded Inno centi..,.. ., .. . , ... IS CONFAB MAYFOLLOW JAP DEFEAT By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER .. Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor ran FRANCISCO. May 26 (0) The probability of a bnited Nations arms conference -following close on the defeat of Japan emerged today from the' plans of future world security now being put into final shape here. These plans provided both for the maintenance of land, sea and air force large enough to safe B.iarrf neace and for the regulat ed reduction of armaments to re lieve the victorious nations ui this war of the heavy burden they have carried fpt- the past several years. ' : Agree on rommittee actions in the. Unit ed Nations conference to date in dicate , substantial . agreement among the 4a nations repnEscui. ed here on these, twin objectives. - In 'fact, about the ;bnlj con troversy " remaining in . the con- and great-nations, over tho.'auth-r,t-ifv . in hp- pxercied inf-thel-pro- jectecr wona secuiii. tuum." the big powers. : - . Tii Hie Four are due to reach final laWrpoment todav on a state ment upholding the veto-voting formula' worKea out eariy una year:.at - Yalta, but declaring at the--same -lime, mat u mmu kn .e..tn . nrpvnrit- anv nation from presenting to ' the council charges against any, other nation. ,The JUnitea oiaies aeieganuu u;ai! summoned-" to a pre-noon caucus on the statement with the (Continued on fage iwo-, Marines To Give Show n Medford TVTpmhers of - the Marine Bar racks All-Star Bond- group will leave for Medford Monday, may 28. to boost the 7th War Loan drive. in Jackson county, i The show, which features me Barracks orchestra and top notch entertainers, all -returned from combat duty in: the South Pacific, has played, ll engage ments thus, far in western Ore gon towns and is credited with selling a quarter of a million dollars worth of bonds. . On Wednesday, . May 30, the troiip will present a similar show at the Pelican theatre, featuring as the guest speaker, Mrs. .Esther Sevcik, who was interned by the Japanese at Santo Tomas prison in the Philippines for aimosi three years.. ...... bringing naval losses of all types since Pearl Harbor to 310. Japanese succeeded in land ing a handful of suicide troops j on a U. S. -Okinawa airfield. where they caused some dam age before they were eliminat ed, but the Nipponese lost 160 aircraft in this attack and American sweeps reaching down from Okinawa to Tokyo, bring ing losses to more than 4250 planes in a little more than two months. Ground Battle Stalled-- Ground fighting, shoved tem porarily into the background by the growing air war, was stalled by mud on Okinawa where the Yanks have suffered 35,116 casualties, including 9602 dead. These losses, ; including naval casualties, compared with around 50,000 Japanese ; killed. Two towns and an airfield fell in the Philippines Suicide Japanese forces fought desper ate actions in Burma. " -' 1 ; DeCoux Killed Unconfirmed French radio re ports said Japanese had killed Vice Adm. Jean Decoux, former governor general of Indo-China, and Gen. Georges Ayme, former commander-in-chief of French forces in the territory. Unprecedented Tokyo broad casts described the two and a half hour B-29 raid, ending early this iriorning, as the "big gest event of Japan proper," and said5 it- touched , off a "con flagration that practically , laid waste . what . was once: the world's, third largest metropolis.'-- '..''"- -1 - :. -: ;s '' Japanese broadcasts said- the flames, spread by a 70-mile-an-hour- gale, destroyed the Omiya detached palace, residence . ot the empress dowager, and the other palace in the imperial pal ace, compound. The ; imperial palace, residence of Emperor Hirohito in the inner compound, was not reported harmed. Pre mier Kantara Suzuki called an emergency cabinet . meeting preparatory to apologizing to the emperor.- Admiral Left . Up In Air PORTLAND, Ore., May 26 VP) Vice Admiral Howard L. Vickery's visit to Kaiser's Vancouver yard left officials still embarrassed today be cause Vickery's party was left suspended a half hour 30 feet above- the Columbia river, when power failed in a whir ley crane. The maritime commission vice chairman, who was view ing a C4 transport at the outfitting- dock, laughed when he .found the group suspend ed in the air. Yard .bigwigs and crane operators grinned weakly, if at all. Jap Balloon Attacks Revealed t NEA Tetephote, Announcement by U. S. war and navy departments that Japaj i k.. jiiw Harlrlnn ralmn United States with bomb-laden paper balloons lent fresh interest to this photo r leased some , months ago. It ehows pmeiaia examining o.iiooo bearing Japanese inscriptions which was found in western U. 3, Left to right: Maj. J. F. Bolgiano, army air corps balloon expert! Capf. W. S. Standard, army intelligence officer) Wi G. atanniater FBI agent, and Eni. P. M. Jackson, navy tottmBetu','-,;'i'u.;.''..u;;,;