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In congratulatory C to tho hard-flghtlng " 5 niva- "Tlin hut- tof Okinawa will end In the .. r..tit Hiivm If up can Jntnln our present high speed l,.nnAr MITSHHER. back ' t , (fin Washington, says today I Jap suicide piano iiienutu as bad ns It sounds. - .n tt.n limn I'vn been i Pacific." ho adds, "only 10 'Uhcm get through our i down. Only one per cent In for the kill and even lean be practically eliminated i redesigning of equipment kri our ships. c says It Is actually just dive blng except inni nicy tu a man with cacn pianc. :edcs, nowever, u, jj. ti.hnlNim I mnrn 1UU n;ntinM. . -- il than ordinary dlvo bomb- in dc are IE Chinese say today (per laps slRiimcanuy) inni uic i have been falling back on ftnn for several weeks. Yos- iv's reoorts asserted tnai arc tearing up mcir i, mnlrntloni north of Canton. umnblv they plan a typlcnl no nana mere. London today Churchill, itlv contradicting De Gaullo, the British DIDN'T stir up le In Syria. i asserts: "Wo have ab- itcly NO ambitions of ANY I In the Levant states. We (ready to withdraw ALL our K)s more mo moment a iremy Sleeted between the French I the Levant countries nbon and Syria.) ' Ihen Churchill speaks square- id without any quaimcauon swords, we have the feeling wo can believe him. 'M the meeting of the allied Hilary commanders (Kus British, U. S. and French) rlln. we net some carefully rd hints today as to what hnnncii to Germany. icrc will be four occunation f an "eastern" held by the rltlsh. a "southwestern" by ontinucd on Page Two) hell Promises e Elect ions PNOS AIRES, June 8 ffl toeimtro Farrell declared nation-wlrin rnrlln nHdress night that the Arsentine iwnenis International com' lents "will hn fnlflllxH In v. (since this is the desire of ropic." kins thn S01 tho revolution, Farrell 90 WQR rtnlnrmlnj, in DDrrv fro military government's resioro constitutional PJiont through free olec- am not say. however, tie WOlllrl cton nut P a report from Buenos in saying the government foscd tho pro-nlllod Junta 1;ioria which has been ing money, clothing and aid wnp.ii.inna 1 'he United Nations). Louis Poofe From Camp Louis Poolo, 20, ,;"" vnuoquin, was a Herman prison l2i8!""! tot va ' " parents f war department; I ibI!" '"ken prisoner in L, when a B-17 in Pe waa radioman was shot . V1' lerrltory. He hUPSod two missions vane was brought K wrps in February of jf 19448 nt ovorseas ln PRICE riVE CENTS Telephone 8111 Jun 5, 1945 Max. (Juna 4) 59 MIn 44 Precipitation last 24 hours .01 Stream year to data 13.04 j Normal 11.19 Last year 8.45 j roracast: scattered showers. . KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 5. 194S Number 10483 Reich Cut To Pre-War Size ZQNESMARKED OFF FDR FOUR POWER RULING Greater Berlin Area To Be Governed Jointly WASHINGTON, Juno 5 W) Germany was stripped down to prc-anschluas size today for the purposes of on indefinite allied occupation. Zones of supreme authority were allotted to Russia, Great Britain, France and the United States, and a "greater Berlin" area was set asldo for occupa tion by forces of each of the lour powers. Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower, U. S. representative on the al lied control commission, flew to the bomb-shnttcrcd rclch capital to sign tho Joint declaration. Great Britain was represented by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Lm. Montgomery, Russia by Mar shal Gregory Zhukov, and Franco by Gen. Jean de Lattrc do iasslgny. Duration Specified Duration of tho occupation ar rangements was specified in a Joint allied statement as being for "the period which Germany is carrying out tne basic re quirements, of unconditional surrender." "Arrangements for the subse quent period will be tho sub ject of a separate agreement," the statement said without fur ther elaboration, The statement, setting up oc cupation zones for the United 'Continued on Pago Two) Questioned In Baby's Death tzk fr.v.'cd WASHINGTON, June 5 P) President Truman called today for enactment of the Bretton Woods monetary agreements as a paramount item "In establish ment of a sound economic foun dation for lasting peace." Chairman Spcnce (D-Ky.) of the house banking committee read a letter from the president to tho house after Rep. Wol cott (R-Mlch.), senior republi can on the banking committee, Joined him In pressing for rati fication of the agreements. Opinions Vary As tho house debate opened, tho ogroements were described alternately as a plan to secure peace and as "an international swindle." Rep. Sumner (R), blond con gresswoman from Illinois, shouted to the house that "It's the worst swindle in American history" and "Iit's war-breeding legislation." She said: "It's a scheme to eot American money under false pretenses to exchange American dollars for depreciat ed currencies." Bon. Pnlmnn (D-Tcx.) told the house the proposed legislation (Continued on rageiww Irene Jones (left), 15, and her sister, Janet, 11, surrendered to Philadelphia police and admitted they took 3-month-old Thomas V. Ripley Jr., whose body was found partially hidden in bushes on a vacant lot six blocks from his home. Detective Lt. Erwin Mock said (AP wirephoto). Churchill Disputes Charge Of Interference In Syria LONDON, June 5 (P) Prime Minister Churchill today disput . nnn Tn nnnlln'e phnrffn th&t the British had stirred up trouble in Syria and dcciarea mai Brit ain was ready to withdraw all her troops the moment a treaty was effected between France and the levant states... .. ... Churchill declared Britain hod "absolutely no ambitions of any kind in the levant states." Camp Adair Set As Replacement Depot For 4rmy WASHINGTON, June 5 () Dnnni. ihnf r.nmn Adair. Ore- ...- f eon, will become an army re placement depot were connrm cd today by the war department. Rep. James W. Mott (R-Ore.) said the war aepartment Humm ed him that the former train- iirlll rnrplvfi from 12.- 000 to 16,000, men for ovcrseos training, rne soiaiers wm u sent as individual replacements, not as a unit. The camp will be reactivated as soon as repair work now underway is completed. Confab Called By President w A CHINrvrflN June 5 (IP) TTnlnfcnnrMnrV nf Stata GreW and Admiral William D. Leahy, the president's chief of staff, to Antt iAr onllnH into conference with President Truman and Jo seph E. Davies, who returned re cently from a special mission to London, White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said Davies talked for an hour with the presi dent last night as the chief execu tive's dinner guest. There will be no report on thnl prnivorcntinns. Ross said. at least until after the return of Harry Hopkins, who is in Moscow on another presidential mission. "We sought no territory there and no kind of advantage that was not given to any of the other nations of the world." he said. Tri-power Plan Thf nrimA mtnl.tAH J l j be favored only Britain, the uiuicu ouues ano 1 ranee nego tiating the French-levant dispute. ...... aU "ve-power parley with Russia niim anting in, dui unurch ill declared "this would certain ly cause a great deal of delay and would require very careful consideration on many grounds." Churchill made his statement to commons after explaining tnnr "enmn harm" u j .- - "' nwiu uc uuue by leaving unanswered some- of DimeiueuLs maae Dy ue Gaulle in a Paris press confer ence Saturday. Calming Attempts "Far from stirring up agita tion in the levant states, our whole influence has been used in precisely the other direction," he declared. "The most strenu ous and successful efforts had been made by the British minis ter at Beyrouth to produc ea calmer atmosphere in which ne gotiations could be conducted for questions betwen France and the The prime minister said that Whllf. Rrllnln l.l.r.1... " - -r - - ...... .bkvgiiiiAu France's "special position" in Ihnca . cfofn. 41.nt .4. J . "we have undertaken to enforce that special position." "We shall put no obstacle to it, either at the council table or in any other way, but our com mitments and duties also extend throughout the miHHlp pact " ha said. . . . County Passes Halfway Mark Klamath county has passed the 50 per cent mark in the 7th War Loan sale of E bonds. Bond headquarters today re ported E bond sales totalling $774,921.75. The quota is $1,-538,000. Children Played With Balloon-Dropped Bomb, Escape Death; Incidents Related C. .AMIR -Tuno K tPl TWO J ' v- '.- t I J.nnnal tfnm ftnn nf t nf Japanese balloons which have made weira auncKs -" ern United States were play tUl.fl f nlWIrlrnn tnP SPVfirfll AaifB a fnur months a CO. the Chronicle said today. Recounting a senra ui "in dents dealing with the balloons, u no ift thn hnmlis were found in a timbered area by woodsmen, one was an uiueu Hinrv. Thn other a small frag mentation bomb. ... The find was not reported to authorities for 10 days, the ac count said. Meanwhile the woodsmen "fooled" with the bombs and later, officials report ed, children even removed the arming ucvito " i n from the fragmentation missile. .icap wwmi Luckily, neither bomb explod ed and the children escaped ine flViiMran nnrl n wn- man who were killed near Lake view, Ore., May 8 when they found one of the balloons and accidentally detonated an explo sive. . The article said airplane in terception was used in some in stances and some of the balloons were shot down. One one oc casion a plane was on "standby" when a balloon was spotted, but the big bag was up too high 40,000 feet and the plane wasn't sent up. The Chronicle's account of bal loon activity was reviewed by tho office of censorship which "raised no objection to its pub lication." Other Incidents The newspaper listed these other ' Incidents in western United States in connection with the balloons. A sheriff disposed of one with a tracer bullet from a rifle but it was a "hair-raising experi ence." When the tracer hit, the hydrogen-filled bag exploded, sending a flame high into the air. An alert farmer 'captured' one of the balloons for examina tion by FBI and military author ities. The farmer spotted it float ing over his property. When it lodged against a barbed wire fence, partially puncturing it, he ran to the spot and tied it securely to tho fence. Falls on Lin One balloon fell on a power line, temporarily disrupting pow er service. Watchers saw a balloon de scend into a river but it sank before they could reach it. Officials told of one humorous Incident. A farmer, anxious to begin his spring plowing, was cursing the snow which refused to melt in one field. Finally he made a close Inspection. The "snow" was one of the balloons. The newspaper account said some of the bombs were found near populated areas. Two bombs were reported to have ex ploded near one city, but officials never could find a trace of bomb fragments or of a balloon from which they were reported to have dropped WAR SLATED TO COWIETO MODOC HELD Infantry Troupe Sets Exhibit Of Combat Conditions War comes to Modoc field at 8:45 o'clock tonight. That's when the army infan try starts its Here s Your In fantry" show which brings ac tual combat conditions to Amer ican audiences. Tonight's show will feature a group which has played before big crowds up and down the COME EARLY General admission ticket holders for tonight's "Here's Your Infantry" show were warned today to ba at Modoc field early tonight to be sura of good seats. Reserved seats only will be held until tha show starts at 8:45 p. m. A band concert will start at 8:15 p. m. coast, the largest being 12,000 people who bought $800,000 in bonds . at the show in Fresno, Calif. From Georgia . These infantrymen came out from Fort Bennlne. -Ga. -They started their tour at Alameda, and have shown at Alameda, Vallejo, San Jose, Fresno, Reno, Marysville, Lodi, Chico and Red ding. Another big showing was at (Continued on Page Two) GIVEN TO SOVIET LONDON, June 5 UP) Prime Minister Churchill disclosed to day that Britain met Russian demands for part of the Italian fleet by turning over eight former American destroyers among other ships. The United States also turned over some shios. - mostly merch antmen, but also including the U. ' s. cruiser Milwaukee, Churchill told commons. The Russians, he said, raised the Question of the disposition of the Italian navy immediately after Italy's surrender. They asked for one battleship, one cruiser, eight destroyers, four submarines, and 40,000 tons of merchant shipping. Tehran Plan The agreement to turn ships over to Russia was reached at Tehran, he said. Since Italian ships were built mostly for temperate waters of the Mediterranean, Churchill continued, it was decided that they would continue in service in the allied cause, and an equivalent number of' British warships and merchantman would be delivered to the red navy on temporary loan. Chur chill said this was the action taken: 'Half of the merchant ships and all the warships with the exception of the United States Cruiser Milwaukee were pro vided by the British government. - Eight Yank Ships The British warshiDS handed over were the Battleship Royal Sovereign, eight former Amer ican destroyers, and four modern submarines. "Further, a destroyer was made available to provide spare parts." Veterans Arrive From Pacific SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (F) More than a thousand bronzed soldiers, the first veterans of the Pacific theater to arrive in the United States for discharge under the point system, sailed cheering through Golden Gate today. Tooting harbor whistles greet ed the men as they crowded to the railings of the USS Bergen, their homebound navy transport. Bands played, Red Cross can teen workers passed out the milk and doughnuts, and a Wac detachment distributed tele graph forms for the men to ad vise their families that they were back In the U. S. A. France Pledges Aid to U.S.IfSh owdown Looms on Veto Plan SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (IP) Franca would go along with the United States in event of a .showdown between this country and Russia on tha veto issue at th United Nations conference. Chairman Joseph Paul-Boncour of tha French delegation said today. Any break between the United States and Russia would be agonizing to the French delegations, Paul-Boncour said in an interview, but-Franca would vote with America, however re luctantly. Another French delegate, commenting on this possibility, said "It would be very annoying but we would support the Americans . . . We have been with the Americans all along on this point." France and Russia have a 20-year alliance. Paul-Boncour declared that should the soviet and the United Spates run counter in tha veto question voting, the American position would be upheld 45 to 5, with Russia, the Ukraine, White Russia, Yugoslavia and Ciecho- slavakia in tha minority. I HALF OF NAHA imnn n liinm nillllLLU IIUII nil nriii, ill UtUbu- I E MILITARY PLAFJ BACKED BY VFW By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON, June 5 iff) A peacetime draft plan which would provide military training without requiring youths to leave home environment for long periods was proposed to congress today by the Veterans of For eign Wars. A substitute for the American Legion-backed proposal for one year ot continuous training at the age of 18, the VFW program calls for training in the national guard or naval and. marine , re serve units for a three-year per iod, No "Disturbance" Under the VFW proposal, as explained to the house postwar military policy committee of umar k. Ketcnum, national legislative representative, com pulsory military training would be given in a boy's own commun ity without disturbing bis home me or his education. The trainee automatically would become a member of the national guard or a naval or mar ine reserve unit at a predeter mined age, would participate in weekly drills and training per iods at his local armory, and take two weeks of training every summer at a reserve camp. Ban Proposed Ketchumh said the VFW would insist on a specific ban against the use of trainees in civil emergencies, such as strikes. He made it plain, too. that his organization would not oppose a straightaway one-year training program lt the vi w plan is not accepted, adding that the alter nate proposal was advanced to "quiet the fears of those oppon ents of any type of compulsory military training" by minimizing the dislocation of a youth s home life. - Ketchum testified after John Thomas . Taylor, head of the American Legion legislative com mittee, had endorsed a full year of continuous training. Truman Flays Fcjid Deletion WASHINGTON. June 5 UP) In a vigorous letter to congress, President Truman today termed "unthinkable" the action of the house appropriations committee in deleting funds for the fair employment practice committee from the war agencies bill. The Dresident wrote Chairman Sabath (D-Ill.) urging the house rules committee to permit leg islation setting up a permanent FEPC "to be voted upon by the members of the house as quickly as possible." Mr. Truman said tne ap propriations committee action in denying the FEPC funds for the fiscal year beginning July 1 will have the effect of abolish ing the committee and terminat ing its work without giving the members of the house of repre sentatives an oportunity to vote on the question." Mitscher Says Menace Reduced WASHINGTON, June 5 vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscner, commander of the fast carrier task force in the Okinawa oper ations, said today the Japanese suicide plane menace was "dally being reduced. And. he told a news confer ence "the Indications are it will be further reduced." U. S. Secretary of State Stjt- tinius was looking today to the White House for a decision on whether a showdown with Rus sia should be forced on the right of free discussion in a world se curity council. Stettinius is caught in a sharp difference of American opinion here. . The outcome depends on what happens overnight in Moscow. Premier Stalin has been asked to reconsider his government's recent statement to the Big Five at the United Nations confer ence that any big power in the council should be able to veto discussion of any problem. -Deadlock Issue It is the conflict between this, and an - American-sponsored statement accepted by Britain, France, and China, which has deadlocked the con ference on the whole -veto is sue, despite raDid croeress on other questions ihcluding.. ajJ ment machinery. American officials hope that a Moscow decision will be forth coming promptly. It could speed the work of the conf er (Continued on Page Two) A directed verdict , of acquit tal today ended the trial of Merl M. Crawford, Klamath In dian, charged with sodomy. Circuit Judge David R. Van denberg granted a. defense mo tion for the verdict on the grounds that evidence submit ted by the state did not show fulfillment of the act with which Crawford was charged. The judge said that the state case had proved assault but failed to produce evidence to support the full charge. Defense Attorney George Roberts of Medford had asked for the ver dict on that ground. District Attorney Clarence Humble argued that circumstantial evi dence presented by the state justified holding the case for jury decision. Faces Rasa Charge Crawford still faces a charge of rape in connection with the circumstances that led to his In dictment on sodomy charges. He was arrested at a Mills ad dition house February 20 after an alleged attack on a 60-year- oid woman. The raDe trial is slated June 18. The sodomy case went to trial yesterday morning. ; f irst witness for tne state yes terday afternoon was Louis B. Reed, 20281 Wantland, whose back yard abuts that of the com plaining witness, Mrs. Elizabeth Petersen. Reed testified that Crawford came to his house about 5 p. m. on February 20, stating his wife was in the hospital and he want ed company. He had a bottle with him and they had a couple of drinks. Reed said. At 6:55 p. m., he testified, Mrs. Petersen (Continued on Page Two) Superforts PouP 3000 Tons Of Fire Bombs On Jap City By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor Great fires set by Superforts, which Tokyo admitted have sharply cut japan's war produc tion, raged through Kobe today, while sweeping American ad vances on Okinawa and gains on three China fronts led Jap anese to see "unmistakable signs" that allies plan "to invade the Japanese mainland." About 450 unescorted B-29s flying through some of the worst weather they have ever encoun tered, including snow and thun derheads, rained 3000 tons of fire bombs on Kobe in an hour-long daylight raid. The successful at tack on Japan's greatest port celebrated the beginning of a second year of Superfort raids. Marines Land An amphibious landing by sixth division marines "at the end of the rainbow" on Okinawa island's Oroku peninsula carried them halfway acros Naha air field. The operation topped .all fighting on this potential inva sion island, which included ex tensive gains by thre other divi sions. - A hitherto unreported Chinese offensive has enveloped four towns on the south China coast, Chungking announced. Press dis patches told of gains in the Foo chow area of the east China coast, and American observers reported allied forces were with in 21 miles of Liuchow on the south China front. Trap Troops Swiftly converging 24th and 31st division columns - in . the southern Philippines trapped a substantial number of Japanese on Mindanao island. Tanks led British through minefields in the Burma - cleanup. American marines were -surprised at the , ease with- which they seized a 1200 yard beach head south of Naha in a surprise lanauig on western UKinawa yes terday morning. During the day they captured an island in Naha harbor, built bridges to the cap tured capital city, and drove southward over the best airfield the enemy had built on the is land. They were slowed only bv minefields and mortar and ma- chinegun fire on the left flank. Push Near Coast In the island's center, the first division marines and 96th army division pushed 400 to 1200 yards down muddy roads and over hills as they reached to ward the southern coast and a junction with the seventh in fantry division. The seventh hit the southeast coast for a second time in a 5000 yard advance which trapped en emy elements. Utner forces ot the seventh established virtual ly complete control over Chinen peninsula, southern arm of the island's extensive naval anchor age. Six thousand civilians were rounded up on the peninsula. Bradley Asks 'Citizen' Army WEST POINT, Ni Y., June 5 (JP) - Gen. Omar N. Bradley urged today that the United States retain a core of profes sional soldiers "about which we can mobilize a great citizen army" as a contribution toward enforcing world peace. Addressing 853 graduates of the- United States military academy the largest class of any at West. Point's 146 com mencements Bradley said a reserve force perhaps could be trained "through some form of military service." Morrison, Luce Lost Off Isle WASHINGTON, June 5 (IP). Loss of the destroyers Morrison and Luce off Okinawa with heavy casualties has raised the toll of American naval vessels lost during the war to 313. The navy announcing the sinking of the two craft yester day, said each carried a crew of more than zuu. City Given Boost In South J. J. Steiger, spending two winters in Los Angeles, appar ently didn't give the chamber of commerce of the southern city much time for bragging, with his one-man advertising campaign for Klamath Falls. - - A letter was received from Carl Machold, Los Angeles, requesting the Klamath chamber to send literature on Klam ath, Crater lake and the Marine Barracks to himself and . two other friends, one of whom is on the composing staff of the Fresno Bee. , ,, . ... . "The many stories of success of your city and Its beautiful surroundings, have endeared one of your esteemed and most successful citizens (J. J. Steiger) to his friends here," Machold wrote. "You certainly must have many places of interest in Klamath Falls, to have such a conservative citizen shout to the world what a wonderful section of the country you have. . "We had the pleasure of hearing a radio talk about Klam ath Falls recently. The speaker was most en thusiastio about; your city, .: .. . , , "Steiger's many friends never knew what a wonderful country you are in until he advertised It. here. Many persons are interested." ' nnnannnnnnnnfinnnnnnnnAnnnnfuyiViVi'C ......