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17 Ml V In THIRD FLEET mm rr: prank jenkinb f. c orcnl events shape up in As..gr n....nir. tho battlo of IMIuhi grinds on. Jap resist ("tli"'uar,mort"d dlmlnVshlng- fe bo kilting It Vu clay. If thut eitC bi. turns out 1 be uccuratc, 'Stance will dotcrlor. "ACCELBIlATINa pace. rtiDAY'S dispatches suggest Hht t'"1 Uttlc yellow men J i dilemma. They must do !E whetho" to BUNCH UP and re To lhc hill" In the Uland', ' south, there to perish fc7v and hole., or to DfviDE IP ind tr" to defend both Na airf elds on the went aide " ?,'" ' '...in.nln thnt guards X.gusuku bay on the cast l4c. .... ,nnu a If Ihrv mnv H OOK ""'-". ' . plannlim 10 djvldc. WjKYO radio la going all out III TAbriJ u,iiw v ivlnnwa. II Claims mui I lu SUNK " .V" V. lpl. ,1. P? ii .ir,.mfl carriers, battle- IL and cruisers, and have fcmaiicil 75 more. ri, . ,n,i like w I slllnu cheery ! In a graveyard, and If so LOOKS as If the shock to the would be all the greater hen the truth finally comes " ...in. i (nil I folii i,n Jud mind If funny. Ii.ni.rr.ntlv If told the sun ouldn't shine tomorrow and It ID shine the docile llttlo men Sid to flatly sure It WASN'T What to do with that kind of fcoplC l ccruuniy a pruuium. HE Jap claim breaks loose from an unnamed navy ekejman In Washington the ilcmcnl (his morning thai nee April I 23 navy ships and ,0 merchant ammunition ships ive been sunk and 40 others Imaged in tnottyuityus, DMIRAL "BULL" Hi A Is back to tho western Pa- If c with his ard licet ana lanes t.r frnm Admiral Spruance hi his 5th fleet. Presumably It in a itcrnaung ronci arrange- ient. Spruance will go to uuam i make nlans and Halsey will Ike over the fighting end for a hue (one guesses PPARENTLY Iho heart of Osaka Is being burned out. Blot report thai Jap Intorcep- 1 ju., I Kilt Ull Uluu t autumn, iu " iik was Intense tho kind you n walk on. There Is a report that the Japs lied a new wrinkle dropping i irranscmcnt that looked like tuckets lied together with a Iain" presumably explosive arics connected in such a way I to (maybe)-drape over B-2Bs Id blow them up. fine gadgets thai were aroppeu torn to have missed by a wide prgin. HE Syrian affair Is still Inter Citing but obscure. . Do Gaulle todn Is muttering his beard. Ho says tho British fried it all that their agents Irrert tin the trouble and be lles the French kept only 4000 juuu troops In Syria wncreas ' British havo 600.000. He Its ho won't submit the ones. In to international arbitration id adds thnt anyhow the Jrnch should have military fees throughout tho world, tho fic as the British and the Incrlcans. !Bul at least the French are ing no more shooting at the fmcni. . . . HE Russians, as usual, are CflSl in Iho nwalnrv rolr. IMoscow. in A sprlps nf notes jtlrcssed to tho other members inc Big Five, says the "con I Ihnt hns nrlscn (In Svrla) M be settled in a PEACEFUL uner." That may be Intended soy to Do Gaulle, (who has ior some time to nose as tins hltrlrlvl thn hn'll hove l-onuncd on Page Five) Telephone 81 1 i June 2. 1S4S Max. (Jum 1) 70 Min. ....41 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to date 13.04 Normal 11.11 Last year 8.08 Forecast: Intermittent rain. PRICE FIVE CENTS ummer Camp Underway For Marines At Crescent J KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1845 Number 10481 De Gaulle Unwilling To Participate In Levantine Meeting By The Associated Press LONDON, June 2 There wcro indications today that Gen. Charles De Gaulle was un willing to take part at tho present time in an international conference to settle France's dis pute with Labanon and battlo-scarred Syria, as Moscow told other members of the Big Five the conflict which has arisen mutt be sottled in a peaceful manner. An Associated Press dispatch from Damascus reported French forces there retired to their barracks lato yestorday under the noses of British tanks. An official Paris statement had said merely that the troops had beon ordered to cease fire and hold their positions. The broodcatt soviet statement by the people's commissariat for foreign affairs, dis closing the Russian notes to Paris, Washington, London and Chungking, asked for "speedy measures to stop military operations in Syria." There was no indication whether the statement had been prepared or the notes trans mitted bofore Paris announced partial compliance yesterday with Prime Minister Church ill's request that the French cease fire and withdraw from combat posts in Syria. The state ment referred to "armed clashes" in progress in Syria. Moscow s statement on tne so viet notes did not spcclly wncm- Reds Toss Security Confab Into Tight Stalemate on Veto By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO. June 2 (P) Russia tossed the United Na tions conference Into Its tlohteit stalemate today with a demand (or rigid Interpretation of the Yalta formula giving the Big-Five powers veto rights In a world organisation. Overnight study of a Russian paper on the proposed security council voting procedure disclosed wide differences between the soviet on one side and the United States. Great Britain, China and France, on the other. These four powers were In practical agreement on what they considered a "liberal" Interpretation of the veto provision agreed upon by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Pre mier Stelln at Yalta. The Russians were represented,, however, as demanding tnat mi of tha Bin Five be oermitted to exercise a veto against even bringing any dispute before (he security council on which, they jrwouid IIHVC pel Hiuueiifc atxata. The olhcr four nations naa OF By RAMON JIMENEZ MONTEVIDEO, Juno 2 P) Even on the streets of free Mon tevideo most exiles from Argen tina arc wary of criticizing the Argentine government of Gen. Edclmiro Farrcll. However, many In this stream nf exiles nollllcul refugees and expelled persons are sources for much Information about Ar gentina, where a strict censor ship nns liccn rennuii"'"" Unhappy WASHINGTON, June 2 (IP) The White House affirmed to day that President Truman is "not happy" over he situation in Argentina. It also was announcod that the president told a group of visiting Latin American Jour nalisU yesterday that he was In "complete and unqualified accord with the good neighbor policy of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Informant reaching Montevi deo are skeptical rcgnrding the announced willingness the Farrcll regime to hold a general election, and say that oven If it was held it would be carefu ly engineered. They point out that since Argentina declared war on Germany and Japan the Argon i mi armed itself (Continued on Page Five) In the C?n:rnHo mnnn- Js nonr the shores of Cres- , " o, B0 men from the malh Falls Marine Barracks engaged in building a sum enmn in .1. t . I intiiM; iiie uubi. uou Fr9Bn's natural recreational fjjUes during warm weather Vii fully completed, the re- ""I noiisc around 200 men 4.1 Inn nnUI. 1 I j, , o nuina una iihvu Pral niCSS hnll nnsf AVKhangp recrontln,, u..ninM t ib j . "-M U1I1IU1IIB. ai. ,o ul'10a for nnrtlnl nnpiinnnrv t 'i however, capacity use " be expected for several , . Tent Living 1 'listen thn iicn nl ll, ra. PHmnrllv rtelnhlleUnri in f tho treatment of men t,ni 7. -SM OVIL'U U Ulilt.ni flts, he first contingent of arinhCcist0 q. UP from I. X'UIIR UMM 1-iKnKnh U ? lcnl? .nnd bo moved Into iney are finished, cabins . it .. i i rilnll " VHIUCMI 1UB on J0", Bnd accommodate each. , fiifl"0?. ncl outdoor actlv- rcsc.i . ?rclor 0,'th0 rcs"nt lake, with swim ming, sailing, canoeing, hunting nnH fishing lUSt 8 fcW of tllC sports planned. f.ilhnai On Order nv. lo.fnnl sailboats have been ordered as a part of the aquatic equipment in to a fleet of canoes and row boats already available. The ......n Honlf is located on Cowhorn creek and extends about 300 yards down to the IalFrom a therapeutic standpoint the camp offers tne veteran Intensive dose of mental and i....ii nni vltv under ideal conditions. The combination of high altitude and muscular en deavor produces red blood cells at such a rate that malarial or ,niciv, nro naturally rather than medically combated. Min. innffprs. carpenters. plumbers and electricians .have been worKing ,i lu (,n mnnths. With gOV' ernment permission, timber for the cabins was felled " ,'h? spot, When the work is finished, not only single men, but mar ried marines and their families can be accommoaaica iu. ". mcr vacation at Crescent lake Emperor's Palace Buildinqs Burned cr thev had called for a parley or proposed any machinery for resolving tne dispute, ine state, mcnt concluded: "The soviet government ha: addressed this suggestion to the French provisional government and also has addressed it to the governments of Great Britain, the United States of America and China to whom belongs the initiative in the creation of a postwar organization for peace and International security. "Proper" Move Moscow's announcement fol lowed an official French state ment yesterday that "it would have been proper that the soviet government was at least Inform ed" of proposed conferences among France, Britain and the United States. The French public statement was issued in the absence of a direct reply' to Churchill's note on the -ground .that the latter had been made public in Lon.-. . (Continued on : Page Five) ..... i$&t a ymm RETURNS TO PACIFIC AREA Fighter Planes Raid Southern Bases In Japan i Two massive fire raids by B-29s on Tokyo May 24 and 26 burned out 18 square miles of the Japanese capital and destroyed some buildings on emperor's palace grounds (arrow, left center). (AP wirephoto from 21st bomber command). . - - ' agreed to an interpretation per muting the council to aiscuss International disputes, but re quiring unanimity on any posi tive action. The Russians were reported to hold that the Yalta agree ment must be interpreted to give the Big Five a veto over any discussions even of peace ful settlements of international disputes. They also were said to have made It clear that in practical oneration of the Drooosed league they thought the veto would not often be exercised to pre vent the council from talking about disputes which had arisen. In Case But other Big Five delegates said the Soviets wanted to re tain the veto authority for use if they ever felt It was needed. It was agreed tentatively that the Big Five should meet at least once a day from now on until the log-jam of conference committee work which has been blocked principally by the veto issue is completely brok (Continucd on. Page Five) . . Ray Mofenaar Reported Hurt Mr. and Mrs. John Molenaar, 1400 California, received word from the war department that their son. SSgt. Ray L. Mole naar. United States army, was seriously wounded in action on Mindanao on May 9. The mes sage was received on Wednes day, Memorial Day. Molenaar has been overseas for 37 months in the South Pacific, and at present, is hospitalized in the Philippines. N He was sent to the Hawaiian Islands the first week after his Induction, and received several months of training there. He has been stationed in Australia and New Guinea, and landed in the Philippines with the first Invasion force. Molenaar Is the holder of the Purple Heart and the Asiatic Pacific campaign ribbon. A let ter from thn soldier preceded ' war department telegram. SEES USD CENTER A capacity crowd of approxi mately 12,000 people, Including civilian and military groups wit nessed the opening of the new USO building on 11th and Wal nut Friday night. Guests were conducted on a tour of inspec tion of the various rooms by members of the USO operating committee, including Mrs. Vera Chase. Mrs. Martha McCollum, Mrs. Esther Lawjcr, Chaplain Graham Gilmer, Chaplain Her bert Stroup, Lt. Al Humphries, Clarence Humble, Lynn Roy croft, Andrew Collier, Charles Stark. Arnold Gxalaoo and U. E. Reeder. Representatives of various service and fraternal organizations also acted as guides during the evening. - About tne rooms were now ers sent by the Leach Service company. Brennan and Cahoon, Rose Motor company. Moeller's Klamath Flower shop, uso Travelers Aid ' Service, Star Plumbing company, Shaw Sta tionery store and Chris Blanas Twenty-five baskets of flowers were donated by the Garden club, and arranged by Mrs. Will Woods and Mrs. Horace Getz. Cakes were donated by the Catholic Daughters of America The -Tulelake Guardsmen played from 7 until 8:30. after which the marine band played until midnight. Civilian enter tainment included several vocal numbers by Lloyd Rauw, duets by Bud Selby and Alyce Wells, accompanied by Maaeion Atuer, several selections by the Bar bershop quartet, and two mono logues by susan uans. Especially helpful were Mrs. O. R. Holloway and Mrs. Har. old Francv who staffed the in. (Continued on Page Five) 'Jap Balloon' Alarm False PORTLAND, June 2 W Mrs. Nellie N. Wallace looked out her window today, then called police to "Come quick! I think there's a Jap balloon in - my yard." Patrolmen roared out to find a half dozen terrified neighbors clustored a respect ful distance from a globular object in Mrs. Wallace's bird bath. The police approached gin gerly. The object was a frosted white globe, from a park lamp post. OP A Promises Fair Share Of Meat To All Sections By KARL R. BAUMAN 1 WASHINGTON. June 2 UP) The OPA today promised each county of the nation a fair s,hare of the short meat supply. Price Administrator tnesier Bowles announced a "fair distri bution plan".' directing all com mercial siaugnteners -to iwujiic. the pattern of distnoution tney followed in t h e first - three months o 1944. Bowles emphasized that tne plan will not give each area as much meat as last year, but he oallnH it "a lone way toward the goal of fair -end even distribu tion ot tne supply mov wc.uk have." - - , REPRISALS SET FOR LnvrinN. June 2 (iT) Indi cating the appearance of antt- Kussian activity in me v. the shuttered German capital, Arthur Werner, the soviet-appointed ' mayor of Berlin, has warned Germans that 50 former nazis would be snot ior every attempt on the life of a red army soldier or Russian offic ial. Meanwhile, a n Associated nn rilsnntch from Geneva quoted Emil E. Boesch, Inters national Kea uross repiiiciiio i;o lust rpturned from Berlin, as savine some 500,000 dis placed persons and 100,000 nllipd prisoners of war still mtuintf nhout in the gen- nf Berlin and needed prompt inter-allled aid to avoid starvation and epidemics. , Wpmer told Berliners last iht that rpnrlsals would be carried out for' each case of arson committed for political nurnnsps and added that the death nenalty would be im posed for any person failing to report loreKnowieage oi:uj in tention to kill or burn. -, (The FCC auoted Werner as saying an unspecified number of persons naa aiea in Dcnm as the result of violence direct' ed against occupying , soviet forces, but he did not specify that any red army men naa been killed.) Pope Expresses Hope For New German LifeDignity VATICAN CITY, Juiie 2 (P) Pope Pius XII expressed hope in a world biuadcast today that t... German nation "can rise to new dignity ana a new life oiko lt has laid the satanic spectre raised by national soc ialism and the guilty have ex piated the crimes they have committed." - The pontiff reviewed Vatican policy toward nazi Gi...iany through the years preceding the war. He addressed the Col lege of Cardinals paying their respects on St. Eugene's day, his name day. . Dealing briefly, with, the Eu ropean situation - immediately following the end of the war, the 69-year-old pontiff expressed concern for multitudes of "dis appointed, hopeless men" who, he said, "are going to swell the ranks of revolution and dis order in the pay of a tyranny no less despotic than those for whose overthrow men planned. DeDlores Murders "We have had to deplore, alas, . In more than one region the murder of priests, deporta tions of civilians and killings of citizens without trial or in personal vendetta," he said. "No less sad is the news that has reached us from Slovenia and Croatia (two provinces of Yugo slavia)." - Pope Pius said he personally had learned the "great qual ities" of the German people during his nunciature in Berlin when, "in an atmosphere of lib erty which political and social conditions at that time allowed, we worked for the consolidation (Continued on Page Five) The new action supplements an - earlier order limiting the amount of farm slaughter for sale- and slaughter by noh-feder-ally Inspected plants. - mterstata Meat Federally insDected meat, in adaition, to' supplying the armed lorces,. is tne oniy.,meat mat can be shipped across state lines. "Already animals going to fed erally inspected plants are on the Increase," Bowles said in a statement. Describing the "fair distribu tion plan" as a logical follow-up, Bowles said some slaughterers, "for a variety of reasons," have changed their normal pattern of geographical distribution, there by accounting in large measure for present faulty distribution. ease renoa . The first three months of last year were chosen as the base period, he saw, Decause it was the most recent complete quar ter of flush production in all parts of the country. The oraer win Decome enec tive June 17. . New Ruling During each reporting period any slaughterer must deliver into each county at least 80 per cent (by weight) of the propor- luonunuea. on rage rive 303 Tank Ships Sunk, Says Domei SAN . FRANCISCO, June 2 (fP) Japanese Domei news agency claimed today 303 Amer ican shms had ocen sunn ana 263 heavily damaged in Okina- wan waters since Marcn a eight days before the Invason of the island began. (A navv sDokesman said m Washington last night that ship losses in the Okinawa area since April , 1 have totaled 25, including two merchant ammu nition ships, t orty-iour otner American vessels have been re ported damaged. There was no comment today on the latest Japanese claims, which custo marily . are fantastic). Neil May field Said Liberated In a message from the war deoartment.' Mr. and Mrs. w. C. Mayfield of 2043 Hope, were informed that their son. PFC Neil W. Mayfield. has been lib erated from a uerman prison camp and returned to military control. The war department telegram was followed py cablegram and a letter from Mayfield. stating that he hoped to be in this country by the Fourth of July. Mayfield was reported miss ing in action in France on Jan uary 8, and was later listed as a prisoner ot tne uerman gov ernment, according to a letter written on January 1 1. He wrote that he had been slightly wounded, but was in a hospital and feeling all right. He was a graduate of Klam ath Union high school with the class of 1943, and ,was a foot ball all-star. He entered the service in June of 1943, later receiving his training at Camp Roberts in California, later transferring to Buckley Field' in Colorado, and Ellensburg, Wash. He received overseas or ders in' December of 1944, C OF G TQ ASK FOR NEW FACILITY HERE Klamath Falls will, ask . for consideration-as a possible site for the new veterans' facility planned for southern Oregon and northern California; it was indi cated today - by President L. Orth; "Sisemore "of '.the "chamber of commerce, -v---.-. ' Some information has already been supplied to the veterans administration, ;:and . Congress man Lowell Stockman and the senators will be told of Klam ath's interest in , the proposed facility, .... Klamath's central location with unequaled transportation facilities with -northern Cali fornia were mentioned by Sise more in discussing the matter. Eventual use of the Marine Bar racks as a permanent: facility nas oeen discussed. . An Associated Press dispatch from Washington, D. C.,. says that Medford is expected to bid for the veterans' 150-bed facility. which has been recommended to the federal hospital board. . It was pointed out in the story that Roseburg has a veterans' fa cility and Klamath -the Marine Barracks. Medford recently was successful in getting the navy to make use of the Camp - White Hospital. It appears now that efforts to get the navy to make use of Camp Abbot, near Bend,' for a center like the Marine Barracks, has proved unsuccessful. in Washington an aide to Senator Cordon said the navy had noti fied the senator it was not inter ested, and that Camp Abbot may De soon declared surplus. For some time, there were in dications that the navy might set up a tropical disease center at Klamath Falls in addition to the Marine Barracks, but this plan is evidently not now active. By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Some 200 carrier-based fighter planes raided southern Japan to day, Tokyo radio reported, in what may be the opening strike; of new seaborne power blows foreshadowed in the return to action of Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey and his third fleet. Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, fifth fleet commander yielding direction of the vast American armada to Halsey, disclosed that the "greatest naval casualties in any of our operations" have been suffered in the Okinawa cam paign, during which U. S. ships have been harried almost daily by suicide planes. . . - But. as a result of the fifth fleet's, work, Halsey confidently announced "We can go where we- want to from the. North Pole to the South Pole." Shocking Damage Today's reported carrier at tack supplemented recent Super fortress fire- raids wmcn Japa nese propagandists admitted have Inflicted such "shockingly great damage and left so many thousands homeless that martial law may be declared through out Japan. Tokyo said the seaborne light ers were joined by flying boats, based in the Ryukya islands near Okinawa and for two hours they bombed and strafed air bases and railways on, Kyushu island. The. change in fleets, alwayi a harbinger of daring blows against the Mikado's forces, was announced by Adm. Chester: W. Nimitz today as the UKinawa campaign on the southern door step to Japan entered its clos ing phase. . Mop up snuri Four Yank divisions made ad vances 'rahaiDg from 400 yards . up to a rhlle and a half yester day as the 24th infantry divi sion mopped up the stench-filled ruins of Shuri, shattered key. stone, of the enemy's broken de fense, line. - , Thrusts down the center and either flank threatened to iso late . a west coast peninsula "alive with Japanese troops" ap parently ready to make a death stand in defense of Naha air drome, and Chinen peninsula on the . east coast, where .thousands of civilians were aiding in caves. Okinawa-based planes patrol- ing Korean waters and subma rines in tne soutnwest racmo were finding increasingly poor hunting for Japanese ships. The reason was indicated in a re port of southwest Pacific war operations, which in . the first five months' of this year sank 2,117,482 tons of shipping, and added five more vessels yester day. Since January 1 they have . also' destroyed 1220 planes and dropped 70,000 tons of bombs in support of ground operations. Ten Bupenorts were lost out of the formations of 450 mak ing yesterday's fire raid on Osaka, second largest city of Japan, which returning air men said was unquestionably success ful. Veteran fire raiders report ed "the heart of Osaka seemed to be burning out." WLB Acts To End Labor Disputes CLEVELAND. June 2 (IP) An estimated 5000 workers were idle today in strikebound Ohio transit, steel, aircraft and radio broadcasting industries as the re gional war labor board acted to end five labor disputes. Thousands of war workers in the Cincinnati metropolitan area were without transportation for the sixth consecutive day as 350 employes of the Cincinnati, New port and Covington Railway Co. and' the Dixie Traction Co. re-, jected a WLB back-to-work or der.. - The AFL-Amalgamated As sociation of Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of Amer ica were told bv the regional WLB it would, ask the union to Canning Sugar Allotments Cut SAN FRANCISCO. June 2 (PP) An order reducing allot ments of home canning sugar from 15 pounds to 10 pounds per person was issued today by Charles R. Baird, OPA regional administrator. The order is effective imme diately and will continue in definitely during tne present emergency sugar supply situa tion. Baird said. It aDDlies to California. Ari zona, Nevada, Oregon, Wash- "show cause" for not returning ington and northern Idaho. 'to work. Ex-Mailman Closes Road County Judge U. E. Reeder. who carried the mail on that road in 1896, participated Friday in the final action closing the old state line road from Keno south. The road has been generally out of use for a number of years, being replaced by the modern Keno-Worden road and by highway No. 97 as a traffic carrier to the area it used to serve. , -, -'.'' ". . '" ' Judge Reeder, then a stripling kid, toted the mail and groceries from the old Keno store to settlers along the route from Keno to Picard, which is about four miles west-of the present site of Dorris. He had a horse and cart. -, The old road was established by Newton Pratt, a settler in the area back in Modoc war days of 1872-73. It ran gen erally a little west of the present Keno-Worden road,-keeping to the hills through the Henry Rlnge place to end up at Oliver Slv's state line ranch. Jack Cummings is the only resident served by the road at present, and Judge Reeder said tne roaa was ien uu as Cummings' place. .-. . -
