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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1945)
'EfnPW fo)f(ilMo) fo)(lflfo)N fn)AP7A ilriyJin) U o)ilUHo)n mlAim , . y f flBM ii ' B FRANK JENKINS nf the Okinawa cam- t will como In a week or The 18,000-odd -Japs left Im ore nlO lu uu lll-uvnjr I'" ...111. ..nc-nf Ipk In rnlHn $ to tho final Pitch of tlaha'n lutrbor and alrflold ore ... MMicmlon. and wo'ro put- t thorn In hupo for use. SAKA'S wnr Industrie! are hit by another fleet of 480 g. We svem to hnvo tried wrinkle on the Japs, pplnil high cxploslvo bombs in nrivu vnvn.j b ....- ,cr Into their dugout and In showering tnu ciiy mm m .n'lien llko that In worth a P n. n-.irL .nlinmila IrlDENTALLY, tho Japs ad hit wdly ihat wo seem to be iiing tho range on their imltao" suicide planes, Chmr iivcdiui to amuck tho air. from which they como, . . , i... I. n.A.in n. -1.I... llBir IHIUUIB Uiuuiiu wu. n.t.i.r !j -...t,. I whin hiirrnues nnnplir be turning tno men. (HERE Is a hint of big news to snmn In the dispatches today ml sti wen. commanaer 01 j S. army ground lorccs, our ncr commnncicr in Lmna ana no. 1 VIIIIIUIIU vnj'ui i. nun Sn CONFERRING WITH nr. AKTHUR at Manila. yacArlhur has tho Phlllp- t BOUUb (.'ll'IIIIUll UJ IIU IU nearly ready for something t. Truman told us tho other r that ho will have more than million American troops to rk with In the Pacific, in a casual sort of way, the llnoso announco that uicy now jve 100 miles of the China it near Foochow CLEARED JAPS. 1 . BE'RE of course not telling the 1 Jans what we ro going t We're letting them worry ut It as wo let the Germans fry about whero we d land the coast of western Europe. yo radio leaves llttlo doubt I tney are worrying. . PINION Is rather general that Okinawa. will end our Island ibblng on a big scale. ' With In our possession, we n nave kj enough 10 ao tno jop S a fair guess that wc 11 ash Janan's biff cities first t program In coming along moro raniuiy man expect- Our 21st bomber command our B-20s havo "erased ALL targets In Tokyo they set out erase and adds that tne inclpal portion of Yokohama Dccn ncsiroyoa. we re ently going after Osaka to ih It off. 'okyo radio admits toetay that imu "more Japs have occn en from their homes In the is and arc being sent out to (arms to try to boost the food supply. BLACK cloud of suspicion till hangs over Europe and ipers mo work of reconstruct there. Hints si Id through censorship of a ciuarrcl be jel) us and tho British on one and the Russians on the r over demarkation of he fi of German occupation re are muttcrings from our mat the Russians haven t the boundaries yet and the Russians that thev can't (the boundaries until British American troops GET OUT. E trouble Is that Russia Is po new nnri nn nnwprful and 1 story tells us that new and pun nnd unknown elements m the nations always arouse felon. It was so in tho case pance after the Revolution, FY established nation In 'PC was susnlclous of rovolu. fry rranco. iwas moro or less true In the oi our young and revolU' vy American republic, i i. 10 loom as a pos- I mroat to the established ras or. the older world. is true NOW of Russia amonD ihn tnnat llhornl. l Americans, who have ""pes or tno future ol tne an people, there are secret ui wnat Russia may do ""inuca on Pago Two) PHICE FIVE CENTS 3tW ' I BHBBSaMBBBBBM -1 OIUNAWAWAR aiW er gsSg L END FORESEEN Fnr Wirmi tnnUk mA VU THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 1945 Number 10485 y fj : Telephone OI11 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, JACKSON ASKS QUICK ACTION ON WAR GUILTY pert Walton p In Action letter ritrnliArl Mnnr?nv Nn, Mrs. Edwin E. Snider tii. ashlngton street in r" raus was informed pier Knn ripn n.i . iiri fn'tca States marine corps, Fn wounded In action on Wa, The leltnr ivrlttnn m idyi 8tatcd 'hat a mor ti !ntl "c"ght him In his :'nsferrcd to a base hos- expected to bo moved l'n has h s n I. V,A norps for two years, and Li?r, 18 months, He has i '"throe major bat. ' the Km, II, TI..II. In. P.the Philippines, Guam nwa, whero he landed " day of April. th pm?klnK his homo In tVt"8' , Walton was a 11 t South T)nl,n. . Sure Punishment For Criminals Urged By Prosecutor WASHINGTON, June 7 WO The chief American prosecutor of axis war criminals today urged sure punishment for tho guilty, and declared against any dilatory tactics in trial pro cedure. Tho trials, said Supreme Court Justico Robert H. Jackson, must not be regarded in the same light as trials under the Amer ican system, where defense is a matter oi constitutional rigm "Fair hearings for the accused arc, of course, required to make sure we punish only the right men and for the right reasons,' he said. But tho procedure theso hearings may properly bar obstructive and dilatory tactics resorted to by defendants in our ordinary criminal trials. ''Mock th Dead" Failure to try those accused he stated, "would mock the dead and make cynics of the living, Justico Jackson told President Truman in a 5000-word report that he had assurances from the war department that those like ly to be accused as war crlm (Contlnucd on Pago Two) The potato crop picture Is slightly dimmed as growers are beginning to estimate damage by May rains, ana reports arc coming In to the county agent's office. Tho past four weeks of wet weather at first seriously inter fered with potato seed planting, and there is still considerable acreage- in the district implant ed, County Agent C. A. Hender son stated. Cut Seen According to many estimates that have been maac, mis year s potato crop may not exceed 75 or 80 per cent of that expected 30 days ago. In a few cases growers have heen forced to rcnlont on ac count of loss of first plantings caused by rain. Some fields are showing considerable per centage of rotten seed pieces, In some instances as high as 20 in M ncr cent of the seed. This percentage however is ex ceptional, and average fields show only occasional rot. Rhizoctonia flourishes In damp, cold weather, and recent conditions have been favorable for It. A considerable number of fields show damage o n sorouta of seed potatoes. In some fields a high percentage (Continued on Page Two) These Are Friendly Balloons ' r z ere are a coupln ol the aerology department's weather balloons at the Klamath naval air. station. They are released to fly into the heavens to disclose direction and velocity of the upper air. Weather balloons such as these, and larger, more intricate ones, have been mistaken for the still bigger bomb-carrying balloons which the Japs are trying to send over the west coast. (USN photo). " . Balloons, But Not Of Jap Variety , Give Rise To Widely-Circulated Stories Here Many of the widely circulated balloon stories heard here re cently were really started by balloons but not the Jap vari ety. Weather balloons, released by official aerology stations, have given rise to several scares since the Jap balloon campaign be came known to the public and the Bly incident dramatized the danger in this area. " " Two balloon reports from the area last weekend turned out to be the result of weather balloon landings. One balloon c am c down in the southend district northeast of Merrill, and another near Dorris. Both were picked up by army men from Tulclake, but enough people saw or heard about the landings to start wide spread reports of Jap balloon finds. Klamath naval air station has received several balloon reports recently which, upon investiga- (Inn iiiava fnnnr) tr hana noon started by weather balloons. A Sprogue River report to the sheriff's office likewise originat ed from a weather balloon. Jap Balloons Larger Jap balloons as described of ficially recently are much larger than weather balloons, being something like 30 feet in dia meter and made of paper. There are four different sizes of weather balloons, according to the aerology office. at the jmxaLaix.stnUQii..T)iese gadgets. are designed to show direction and velocity 6f the upper air. 1 The smallest one is 24 inches in diameter and is a simple rub ber sphere. A larger balloon, about 30 inches in diameter, is generally in use in this immedi ate vicinity, and a couple arc released daily from the Klamath station. ' Another, still larger balloon (about 31 to 4 feet in diameter) carries a target to show wind direction. But the balloon that is most likely to be mistaken for a Jap balloon is a rubber ball from 6 to 8 feet in diameter, equipped with a radio transmitter which is in a box. about a foot long and' which, when the balloon bursts, drops to earth in a para chute. Not Released Hero . The latter balloons are not re leased from the Klamath station, but may float into this area from distant stations. Many of the radio transmitter boxes have been piek-ed upby-peopla in this area and returned to weather stations. . The public has been warned' ' to refrain from touching any strange object found in the woods, and it it best to call the sheriff's office or a military installation, even if the object is believed to be a weather bal loon radio box. - . Cloth ' airplane markers de signed to guide photographers over the Marine Barracks area have also given rise to; balloon reports. Several local boys climbed to the top of Sauaw's butte, in that district, to look at (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON, Juno 7 (P) The Bretton Woods . world monetary agreements were ap proved overwhelmingly, py tne house today. Tho final roll call showed 345 for ratification and 18 against, All the opposition votes were cast by republicans. The ratification legislation now goes to the senate, where the op position predicted a vigorous battle. Two presidents have described (Continued on rage too) American Held 30 Days As Wounded German Prisoner FRAMINGHAM. Mass.. June 7 (I0 A 27-yoar-old American snldier hosDitallzcd here told a storv of spending the "30 most harrowing days oi nis mo waen ho was captured by his own troops and held as a ' wounded ucrman prisoner ui wm . Col. Gilbert J. Beamesderfor of Ephrata, Pa., a Cushing Gen eral hospital patient recently nrnntcri n Ull.flaV lUriOUKn. WHS tt squad leader in the 35th division of the third army before events becama too contusea ior cum fort. ... Bit in Arm iTa rnmemhered leading his men against a German machine gun nest in France and being hit in the left arm. nonmnarWfor's storv was offi cially recorded by a public rela tions officer here. The soldier said he was treated at a first aid station as an American but that loin i,n fnnnri himself placed with some Gorman wounded In the evacuation hospital after ho talked German with a German medical corpsman who cleansed his wound. He received an ink ling of his plight that night when he asked a nurse, in English when ho was to be operated on and she gasped, "Wherever did you learn to speak such good English?" . . , iot uatr.ro fhev save him nther. n surgeon spoke to him reassuringly in German. Bea mesderfer, who speaks Gorman, grinned and answered in the en emy language. Hours later an American lieu tenant passed by, and Beames derfer asked: "What happened? Havo we been captured?" "With Buddies" "Be quiet," the lieutenant said. "Tioure all right. You're with your buddies." "Buddies, hell!" Bcamesderfer screamed. "Get me out of here. I'm an American. 1 The officer smiled and left. Germans posing as Americans were nothing new. After 10 days in France, the prisoners, in cluding Beamesderfer, were transferred to a POW camp in England. Finally he managed to nab an Interrogator. "I'll tell you tntngs aoout Pennsylvania that no one could tell vou unless he's actually been there," Bcamesderfer said desperately.' unptawa nurie They called in a Philadelphia nurse. - He told ner aDout tne unique customs of the Amlsh, descendants of German settlers nf eastern Pennsylvania.- The nurse was impressed. Camp officials cabled wasn Inaton for his fingerprints. They established Beamesderfer as Beamesderfer. On the 30th day of his imprisonment, an officer burst into his ; tent and an nounced: "I am happy to inform you that you're an American at lastl" Lack Of Agreement Holds Up Control Council Meets .LONDON, June 7 (ff) Fur ther meetings of the allied con trol council for Germany were being held up today by a lack of agreement . on the French zone of occupation and a Mos cow commentator blamed the western allies for the "muddle" in getting the administrative machinery , in operation. A responsible informant close to the British foreign office said there had been no defini tion as yet of the zone which will be under French control and that failure to reach such an agreement was the reason why the British and United States zones of occupation had not been defined. The French zone will have to be subtracted from their territory. Ask Withdrawal CorresDondents reDresent- ing the combined press who cov ered the meeting of the control council Tuesday said the Rus sians were unwilling to hold further meetings, which are necessary before the council Killed (01 o 4 Pvt. Joseph H. Myers can begin operating, until the Americans and British ; have withdrawn from the Russian zone. . . The Americans and British, on the other hand, wished to know their exact zones before beginning troop movements. Comment Declined ' A foreign office spokesman declined to comment on the ac curacy of a map published in Moscow yesterday purporting to outline the Russian zone, on the grounds that no copy, of the map had been received by the government here. ... : The London Times said the Moscow announcement had been received "with some surprise." - "Though it is not questioned that the Russian zone is sub stantially as shown, it is felt that the statement should have been a joint one and that It would have come more fitting ly from the control council in Berlin." j Joseph Myers Killed In Reich MALIN In a telegram from the war department received Wednesday, Mrs. Aletha Myers learned that her husband. Pvt. Joseph Harlan Myers, 26, serv ing witn the u. S. infantry had been killed in Germanv on April 8. A previous telegram re ceived April 25, stated he was missing in action. Prior to induction Myers was a farm laborer, coming to the Malin community from South Dakota four years ago. He visit ed his family here last July and was sent overseas early in September. He had been in the service 16 months. The family lives in the Kallna court. " Surviving besides his wife. are a son and daughter, Leslie, 6 and Dolores 7. his mother. Mrs. Angeline Myers, Lebanon ana six orotners, uennls and Wryne, Lebanon, Lyle and Vir gil Myers, both of Malin, Priv ate Hugh Myers. U. S. army serving in Germany and Private Leslie Myers training in Missis- S'Pf' Six Charged With Prying Into War Data Br J. FRANK TRAGLE WASHINGTON, June 7 (0 The government today accused navy omcer, two state aepartmem omciais ana tnree Mew Yorkers of prying into wartime secrets. Taken into custody bv FBI aaenti in New Yarlr ind Wth. ington late yesterday, the six were charged with conspiracy to Tioiai section 01 in espionage statute covering unauthorized possession or transmittal of national defense data. The FBI said documents, ranging from "restricted" to "top secret" were stolen from the state, war and navv deoartmenti. the highly secret office of strategic services, the office of war information and the federal communications commission. Part ot feci wartime work has been recording enemy broadcasts. Under arrest here are: Lt. Andrew Roth, 26, of Arlington, Va..-former Columbia university honor student, who served for a time in the office of naval intelligence. A reserve of- iicer, he is not presently on ac tive duty, Emmanuel Sigurd Larsen, 47, of Washington, specialist in the China division of the state de partment's office of Far Eastern affairs. John Stewart Service, 35, of "Washington, a foreign service officer, of the state department who until recently had an as signment with American mili tary forces in China. Held Held in New York are: Philip Jacobs Jaffe, 48, Russian-born editor of the magazine "Amerasia," president of. a printing firm and active in or ganizations interested in Far Eastern affairs. The magazine is a fortnightly review of Amer ica and Asiatic affairs. -. Jaffe was naturalized in 1923. Kate Louise Mitchell,' 36, a graduate of Bryn Mawr college, a co-editor of "Amerasia" and the author of a, number of Books, including . industrlauza Continued on Page Two) SOVIETS ASK OF Br WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON,- June 7 () Ren Thomas (R-N.J.) today called for a congressional investigation of UNRRA. He termed the United Nations relief and re habilitation administration "the focal point ior the communist party In the United States." v Thomas said in. an interview he would ask the house com mittee on un-American activities, of which he is ranking minority member,- to. make the investiga tion. ' The law-maker disclosed at the same time that the committee, set up as the permanent suc cessor to the old Dies committee, will begin hearings June 20 to investigate what he termed "the dissemenination of communistic propaganda" by an employe of the New York OPA office. Other committee members re vealed that investigators have been checking on the price ad-, ministration's New York office since last month ' and said Chester Bowles, OPA head, would be the first witness when the hearings start. - Thomas said a transcript of radio broadcasts made by one New York OPA employe indicat ed that he "has been smearing business, trying to bring about racial and class hatred, and fol lowing the communist line." $227,750 Sofd In Bonds At Show Lloyd Lamb, manager of the Northwestern Theatres company, has announced that the total amount of bonds purchased by those attending the all-star ma rine war bond show at the Peli can theatre on May 30, totalled $287,750. The show, featuring talent from the Marine Barracks and Mrs. Esther Sevcik, liberated pt-isoner at Santo Tomas, was presented in connection with the 7th War Loan, drive, and has been- reported to be the most successful of its type to be seen in Klamath Falls. 20,000 Voters Registered Here A total of 20.837 eligible vot ers are , registered in Klamath county for the forthcoming spec ial election on June 22, accord ing to figures released from the' county clerk's office, today. f igures reveal there are 0422 republicans; 11,690 democrats; 53 independents: 10 socialists: 4 prohobitlonists; and 658 mis cellaneous voters registered. This is the final list of regis tered voters of Klamath county who will be able to vote in the special election DeLap said. BIG 5 MEET By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER SAN FRANCISCO. June ? (If) Russia called today for the second big five huddle in as many days. But there was no official intimation of any soviet- sponsored break in tne dead locked veto issue. . Soviet forces have said flatly they expect . no - further .word from Moscow on: the dispute be tween Russia arid the other Big Four on interpretation . of the Yalta, votlngiagreementf. The Russians, insist the Yalta formu la gives each of the Big Five powers the right to veto dis cussions of an international dis pute in. a world security coun- - May Broach' Issue' But there was some inclina tion among American delegates to the United Nations confer ence to-bring the controversial question before the Big Five even if the-; Russians : do "not broach it.- ; In view, of the fact the. all important veto questioa.-was not mentioned .at ' yesterday's Big; Five meeting, the Russian request for another conference today came as a surprise to the other delegations! United States delegates said there is nothing of importance left for the Big Five to discuss unless it is the Yalta voting procedure or some other ques tion which has not yet assumed major proportions. Red Defeat Looms' If Moscow continues silent on the veto controversy, the whole disagreement may turn toward an open fight in the United Na-- Hons conference, with the pros-, pect Russia would be defeated. Also, formal? statements - outlin ing the situation may be is sued. That -would have the effect of speeding up -conference work. The veto issue has jammed im portant progress for almost two (Continued on Page Two) . Gordon Morisset Dies At Sea Mrs. Gordon D. Morisset left Klamath Falls Thursday for Lew- iston, Idaho, where funeral serv ices are to be conducted for her husband, the late Lt. Col Gor don D. Morisset of the finance division of the United States army. Col. Morisset died at sea while being brought to this coun try from the Philippines after an extended illness. He - had been overseas for over three years. In addition to his wife, Mor isset is survived by his five-year-old son, Mason, who resides with his mother at 1101 Mitchell in Klamath Falls. Naha Harbor, Airbase Shaped Up For New Attack By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor End of the Okinawa campaign against 15,000 narcotics-stimulated Japanese in less than a week was foreseen today by one American - commander as 450 Superforts bombed and burned Osaka, Japan's greatest military production center.' Newly-seized Naha harbor and airfield, the finest on the south ern approaches to Japan, ' were being rushed into shape for tho next major American invasion possibly the enemy's ho ma islands or the China coast even as details of this move were be ing plotted by ranking generals in Manila. ' , Clear Coast Area Chinese forces- cleared a grow ing stretch of the China coast 450. miles, west of Okinawa by chasing retreating Japanese in to Futing, 105 -mill north ot the Chinese-held pi rt -of Foo chow. Other Chinese , columns) in a 60-mile sweep through the Indo-China : corridor seized ' a road junction 200 miles north west of the Canton-Hong Kong naroor area, wnere jittery Japa nese were preparing for any contingency. - . . , -. The prediction that the major part of the Okinawa campaign may -be -ended within, a week came from Maj.. Gen. Roy Gel ger, commander of the third ma rine amphibious corps, as rem nants 01 tne once powerful gar rison of .85,000 were squeezed into about 25 square miles at the southern tip of the island. Simultaneously -American doc tors disclosed that spirits of the sodden, battle-fatigued Japanese, were raised to a pitch of fanati cism by liberal use of drugs. Batter Resistance -"British and Indian troops bat tered down increasing Japanese resistance'; in - their mop-up of Burma, while Yanks made two new amphibious landings in the soutnern Philippines to speed the end of the Mindanao island cam paign.'- . ' ' : i ilipino -willingness to support permanent J' American armed strength in the Pacific' was in dicated in a bill placing Philip pines manpower and military bases at U. S. disposal which was prepared for the first war- ume session.- or tne. insular leg islature opening Saturday. - .todays three-hour raid oa Osaka was the tenth such pow erful strike at major Japanese industrial cities within a month and the second on Osaka, the nation's most important - industrial- producer, within a month. IN EUROPE EYED ; By TOM OCHILTREE Associated Press Staff Writer British officials are expected to urge at a London conference next week that France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and .Norway attempt to produce at least 70 per cent of their own food. Invitations have been sent to representatives of the-five coun tries; to which Britain has shipped food since their libera tion. It is expected they will be advised that Britain has tight ened her belt to the limit and cannot cut her rations any fur ther to aid them. - No Agreement Seen There were still no indications that a formula had been agreed upon for an international discus sion of the French dispute with Syria and Lebanon. The British foreign office has received a note from the French government giving the , French position on the next step to be taken. It was understood in un official quarters that the note in cluded a reiteration of the French stand , that the matter should be dealt with in a Big Five conference. The British (Continued on Page Two) Situation Well In Hand Devildogs of the United States marine corps led the parade to secure marriage licenses in the county clerk's office for the month of May. Dan Cupid pierced the hearts of 33 marines, swell over half the total number of 56 persons who applied for 11 t censes. . , - Bluejackets ,; of Uncle Sam's s navy were next with iu sauors preparing to take marital vows while four soldiers succumbed to "feminine pulchritude and wiles - One coast guardsman decided to say "I do" while' eight civilians ' , applied for licenses to Wed. ; " ' ,! It would appear that the Leathernecks very definitely have V l"the situation well in hand," both battle "scarred isles of the South Pacific! VCPaf at home and on the
