'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)
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7. 1945 Number 10485 y fj
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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