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Newspaper Page Texty FHANK JENKINS r' ,.,lnu urn hnrnlnif -inrnun tanks In the bin junt south of Brunol boy rlh Beriioo. If tlicy havo "no so already, they w 11 mobly dynumlto tho wells. wIiimi tlicy left (north I) but the JP ot thcm m.nratinn rather aulck- !! muy bo tuken for grunted w0 iiiivo oil experts and in, equipment on rcaciy 10 L n, inh an noon an tho Japs riven out of tho fluids. . . . I Invudlng Australians arc Mjl ni'lKIIlK Kuwv VKivnn, MlIlK 1 uu rujjui 10. iicj clearing ' num ,i nninel buy. and are frog- fiiK southward along the of uto iniiu hiwmiu ill fields by means of am- Lx landings behind the lines. Ly arc still encountering I rn.uinnce. but are op- tllv under no duluslons as nt lies iineim u uivm. uu (Linmiinnit (Australian) says (chocs a tedious and arduous feign, ns nis iorccs mum cwi fot only with Japs but with Ips, jungles una irupiuui b. r . . b Jnps more Know tncy to of course, out u nicy iuii to form they'll keep us t tho Borneo oil as long as tile. urmn. Incidentally, we are ti seeing something new in Dnrlfle war Jans fighting IT OUT and FIGHT AGAIN Id of digging In and dying Mr holes. ih .Inns loft In Burma are kg eastward toward rnai- vnna mo uriusn. iikiuhik in teaching monsoon rains, are Eig to trap and exterminate finish fight In Okinawa Is hlnnriv nne. ir indomitable marines and fern nro scaling the cliff to the Japs are making their stand. They are proving kolvcj to bo TOUUMt.lt tnun tough Jnps, and at the same kultv. They're running E-throwlng tnnks up to the tot tho cmr ana wnenme k ntnll their ronEO is EX- BED by hundreds ol feet or i ie crew scaled a strategic i, carrying the nozzlo ol one Bcso llomo-tnrowing noses. cd tho point with name, ne out tho defending Japs, let down a rope mat was led hand over hand by comrades with machine snd ammunition strapped to backs. this, romcmbcr. under of Jap machine gun, rifle, ir and grenade lire. Jap radio is literally ualllns about- converting OF JAPAN Into anothor kwa, that we'll havo to take by hole and cave by cave guesses that even the Jap gandlsts know better. v mav be m-omotlng this f-evory-holc-ln-the-nomciana klgn In the hope that when MN'T tackle It that way utrangoly sappy peoplo will tncy navo us Diuuca ana II steamed ud again with and enthusiasm. t never can tell what a Jap Kntlnucd on Page Two) KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1345 Number 10490 TOP JAPANESE MAY RESIGN OKINAWAFA IF LLS Suzuki Grabs Record Amount Of Power In Nippon By JAMES D. WHITE WASHINGTON. June la lIA Tokyo's Suzuki government has grubbed more power than any other cabinet In Japanese his tory, but Washington observers would not be surprised to see it resign wncn uxinawa fnlls, That is the Japanese pattern. Tojo quit when Salpan fell, and Koiso stepped down after the loss of Iwo Jima. But officials here charged with watching Japanese devel opments cautioned today that rcgnrdlcss of whether the cab inet of Premier Admiral Suzuki resigns to satisfy Japanese cus tom or not, it now has unpre cedented power to rule by do creo. Must T.ll Dl.l This power has been voted by the Japanese parliament, or diet, and the only string attached is (continued on Page Two) t David Cox lously Hurt Nayoma Cox of Bonan- eclved word from the war fmcnt on Tuesday that her sld. PFC DnvIH H. Cox of Enltcd States army infan 'as seriously wounded on wa on May 14, This was pi major campaign over Roving arrived in ireoru' mis year. wns inducted into the forces in September of nnd took his training at Roberts In rnllfnrnln. He led both grade and high rin Bonanza, and prior Induction, was employed e Orogon-Nevada-Callfor- pst f reight. His mother, pladys Cox, resides at parent in Klamath t ans. liam Foss ?d In Action Id Was Fflnnlunt In TMnm. I lis that Capt. William C. E .I,, united States army Prtlllerv UIDi IrlllMl In nr. P Okinawa about the first l ie mp.qsniff umiq re. inrougn a letter written Mother, Frank Foss, who 111 thft DnnlfL IKnnlni. tin . . n i-i. i. iiicniv, Hh him. 's the husband of the """y. Calif. His two uaugnteri, Irene and "vo with their mother southern city, Ho is the in.",' mrl- uoidle K.es of this city. ir-! un UULV ill " arDOr Onrl tk T3Ul11n nd was with an advanced "ie invasion of Oki- WASHINGTON, June 13 ' OP) President Truman today repeat ed the hope that the house rules committee will give the house a chance to vote on legislation making permanent a federal fair employment practices commit tee. Ho expressed the hope to a news conference when asked to comment on rules committee ac tion of yesterday refusing by a 6-0 tie vote to give such legisla tion a place on the house cal endar. Mr. Truman last week wrote Chairman-Sabath (D-Ill.) of tho rules committee askinga vote (Continued on Pago Two) Harvey Baker Dies On Okinawa Word was received on Mon day by Mrs. Ted Knopp, 1402 Dayton, that her son, PFC Har vey E. Baker, 22, United States army, was killed in action May 2 on Okinawa, Baker enlisted in the army in June, 1943, and received his training at Camp Roberts, Cali fornia. Reporting for overseas duty in November of the same year, he participated in several major engagements in the Pa cific theater of war, Including Saipan. and Okinawa. He attended both grade and hlsh schools in Klamath Falls, and prior to his enlistment was employed at the Swan Island shipyards In Portland. He is the holder ot tne uomoai inuuiu-y man's badge for action on Sai-i pan. Big 3 Meeting Plans Slated, Says Truman WASHINGTON, Junt 13 (P) President Tiuman announced today that a Big Three mooting has boon set. but he said he could not announce the time or place until his arrival there, .i. Th,re,ldent also told a newt conftrtnet that he txpecttd tht meeting at Moscow this Friday to work out a unliitd Polish government on a broad bast to product rttultt. In oovioui good humor following an earlier conference with Harry Hopkins and Joseph E. Davits, hit representatives to Moscow and London, the president told the reporteri tht rt sults thty had obtainad hava.batn completely satisfactory and gratifying. He said ho would take Secrotary of State Edward R. Stetlin ius Jr., James F. Byrnes, former war mobilixer, Hopkins and Davies to the Big Three meeting with him, the latter two if their health permits. The president said the all Important thing was that London, Washington and Moscow continue the unity, confidence and re- Tspect which brought results in the military picture to make BIG 5 VOTED VETO GDNTRO L OVER LEAGUE Br DOUGLAS B. CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO, Junt 13 W) Tht longest and perhaps bitterest battle of the United Nations conference ended to day In defeat for small powers and the sealing of Big Five vtto control over peace enforcement mechanism of a new world laagut. Little countries, with Aus tralia in the van, fought hard to keep Britain. Russia, China, France and the United States from having a veto over peace ful stttlement of disputes. But they lost. Many conceded in advance they would. SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 (P) Defeat of an Australian amendment cleared the way to day for approval in a United Nations conference committee of the big-five demand for total (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON. June 13 () The American Federation of Labor today advocated "a com prehensive program ot improved education and health service" for the nation's youth as a sub stitute for peacetime draft leg islation. 1 The AFL views were present ed to the house postwar mili tary policy committee in a state ment prepared by Lewis G. Hines, national legislative rep resentative. Hines recalled that the federation's executive coun cil last February adopted a res olution opposing universal mili tary training. Noting that advocates of a postwar draft have emphasized the necessity for future pre paredness, the AFL statement asked: "Preparedness for what? If we are on the brink of another (Continued on Page Two) sure a lasting peace. He, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill, he said, must trust each other. Discussing last night's an nouncement regarding the forth coming meeting of American, Russian and British representa tives with three groups of Polish representatives, the pres ident said he thought we are oh the way to a settlement of that issue. He said that while no mem bers of the present Polish gov ernment in London were invit ed to the meeting, the United States still recognizes the London-Polish government. He expressed some concern when reporters sought to pin him down on detail as to the position-of the--London -government. The president reminded his questioners that Russia had done some very pleasant yield ing on this and some other questions and that all should keep their heads. . The. Russians, he said, are just as anxious to get along with us as we are with them. He would not give reporters any hint whatsoever on the lo cale or time of the Big Three meeting other than to say that it will be within the 40-day lim it he announced at a news con ference last Thursday. Asked what would happen to the Polish exiled government if a unified Polish government is set up as a result of the Mos cow conference, he said it would go. out of existence since the meeting is to set up a new gov ernment in which all could participate. Passes t ' , 7 n Clarence S. Robertson. 65, prominent Klamath Falls busi nessman, died Tuesday evening following a brief illness. US. TAKEN BY DEATH Death took ,a prominent Klamath Falls civic leader and business man at 5:45 p. m. Tues day at Hillside hospital with the passing of Clarence Shields Rob ertson, 65, president of the First Federal Savings and Loan asso ciation. Mr. Robertson suffered ; a heart attack 10 days ago and faileeVto reeoverv-He -had- been in good health up until that time. - Born May 25, 1880, In Brownstown, Indiana, Mr. Rob ertson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Robertson, Indiana pioneers. He attended school in that town and at the age of 18 years, settled in Seattle, Wash. Later he went to work for B. F. Harrison, hardware merchant at Bremerton, Wash., and with in five years Mr. Robertson be came manager of that firm. He later entered the hardware busi ness for himself. On October 21. 1905, Mr. Robertson and Inez Victoria Lambert were married in Bremerton which, was long their home. During his 18 years of residence in that city, Mr. Robertson served as presit"' of the Bremerton chamber of commerce and also president of the Olympic hospital. In 1922, Mr. Robertson moved his hardware business to Yak continued on Page Two) 3604 Yank Soldiers Died On Troopships During War WASHINGTON, June 13 MP) The army disclosed today that 3604 American soldiers died in the sinking or damage of troop ships in 41 months- of war against Germany and Jtaly. This was a loss of four men for every 10,000 embarked, which the army said was a record nearly twice as good as that for World War I when the rate was 7.2. ' There were 4,453,061 troops Spirit Of Nazism Lingers On In Berlin As Germans Open Propaganda Campaigns By EDDIE GILMORE nF.RI.IN. June 9 (Delayed) (P) The spirit of nazlsm still lives In Berlin, virulent and brazen 0n,i u,ith trmerltv enough to come out on the street and sprend propaganda aimed at playing one of the allies off against another, , Houses havo been and are .at oflrn hv Hitler youths and at least two Russian officers have been shot and killed by snipers. . . . Without question some fol lowers of Hitler are performing Just as the Russians predicted they would carrying on oper ations behind the backs of the .uu. un,) .onirlns to sDread tne seed of distrust and commit sabotage wherever they can. German Mathoa r uiniklnff alone near what Is now being used as the town hall wnen a young ;. man about 17 or 18 rodo up on a Sn.y.cJ ho snld in pass able English, "Are you British, or American?" "American,'' i toia n mir ... olnrf tn see you. he replied. "Do you know much about the Russians?" I I had just arrived ncm i"u i Moscow, but he apparently thought I had come from France or direct from the United States, so I did not enlighten him. Same Old Line He looked around him In a guarded way and then said: "We have Just finished a war with the Russians and you will have a war with them too." He talked on and on. It was the old nazi line the same as they had used during the war. A red army officer appeared down the street. "So long," said the young German hopping on his bicycle and peddling off. "See you next war." I have talked to about 50 Germans in Berlin and most of them are quick to argue that Germany was not to blame for the war. While condemning Hit ler publicly is very popular the childishness of this tactic ; is very apparent. The Germans mechanically ,wait for yourj ap plause for saying nasty things about their late fuehrer. In a bar on Kant street a young Grman in civilian clothes obviously fresh out ofj the wehrmacht or the SS held a lengthy discussion with mefafter offering me a non alcChollc cocktail. t "Germany Misunderstood" "Germany," he said, "has al ways been misunderstood. Look at all of this destruction. Why do this to one of the great centers of world culture? I hope you will pardon me, but your American aviators were slightly barbarous. I cannot see any other point in such wanton destruction. How would you like to look at your monuments of beauty and culture all ruined?" Being in Berlin with all this destruction around, one hardly expects -the populace to throw roses at anyone wearing an American, British or Russian uniform, but I was unprepared for the way most of the Ber liners have reacted to their de feat. The Germans I talked to on the street have heard very little of German atrocities. Even Burgomeister Arthur Werjier expressed considerable surprise when he was told of some of the atrocities uncovered in nazi prison camps. From the way the Germans seem to view the entire situa tion, one gains the impression that it will take a lot of edu cation to stamp out the efforts of nar.l tahin embarked from the United States, with 1094 lost on the outbound trips. However, almost every soldier made at least two trips to sea due to inter-theater and intra-theater moves. Navies Commended . Major General C. P. Gross, chief of transportation, -attributed the comparatively small loss of life to the "superlative work of the allied navies," the allied air forces, the constant vigil ance of convoy escorts and to gun crews aboard transports. , The greatest loss of American army personnel occurred when the British troopship Rohnawas attacked by air on November 26, 1943, off Djidjelli, Algeria, and went down within 30 min utes. Bomb damage, heavy seas and darkness hampered rescue work and 1015 men, more than half the 1981 Americans aboard died. The next greatest toll was in the sinking of the British-controlled Belgian troopship Leo poldville torpedoed off Cher bourg last December 24. Of 2237 American troops, 764 were lost. Liberty Ship Sunk The biggest loss of life on an American ship came on April 20, 1944, when the Liberty ship Paul Hamilton was hit by an aerial torpedo off Algiers, with 504 men and officers lost. The war department an nouncement showed that at least three American ships went down during the big nazi air attack on shipping in the Italian harbor of Barl on the evening of December 2, 1943, . A total of 25 Americans were killed in the sinking of the three ships, i All the Incidents did not in volve enemy attack or mines. In at least one case collision .was the cause. A total of 41 ships on which American lives were lost is ac counted for in the announce ment. All did not sink, some heina towed into nort. Poles, Big Three Agents to Discuss New Government By ALEX H. SINGLETON LONDON. June 13 (P) Poles and Big Three, representatives will discuss reorganization of the Polish provisional government in Moscow Friday, it was announced today. . . A British foreign office commentator said "a very serious deadlock hat been broken," but cautioned that "it it contrary to ell our txperience to say that it is going to be clear tailing from now on." A simultaneous announcement in London, Washington and Moscow said reorganization of tht Warsaw regima on a broad democratic basit at "providtd for in tht Crimea agreement on Poland" would be discussed in the soviet capital by representa tives of Britain, soviet Russia and the United States, spokesmen for the provisional government in. 'Warsaw and Polish democratic leaders. : Members of the Polish government in exile in London, still recognized by Britain and the United States, were conspicuously absent TRUMAN TERMS PRICING PLAN FARMS WASHINGTON, June 13 (P) The cost-plus system for farm production written into pending OPA extension legislation was termed bad today by President Truman. The chief executive expressed hope at a news conference that the amendment, by Senator Wherry (R-Neb.), will be thrown out by the house. Wherry declared he will "fight to the last ditch"-for his amend ment. . Termed "Fraud" lie challenged a farm official's declaration that the amendment, adopted Monday by the senate, was "a legislative fraud." That criticism was voiced before the house banking committee yester day by James G. Patton, presi (Continued on Page Two) First Flag On , Guam To Be Seen At Exercises The first American flag to make the beach in the recapture of Guam in early 1944 will be on display at the Elks Flag Day exercises to be held on Thurs day evening. The flag is the property of Col. George Van Orden, of the Marine Barracks, and was lent to the Elks for this occasion. It was carried ashore on Guam on June 21, 1944, in a tractor of Company A, 3rd am phibian tractor battalion, third marines. Maj. Henry A p p 1 1 n g t o n, USMC, Amherst, Mass., was in command. He presented the flag to Col. Van Orden, who participated in -the Guam inva sion. The Flag Day exercises will start- at 7 p. m., with special drills by the marine drum and bugle corps and marine drill team in front of the courthouse. Congress Asks, Query Into Debt ; WASHINGTON, June 13 W) Demands were voiced in con gress today for an investigation ot the settlement of a 200,000 private loan to Brig. Gen. El liott Roosevelt for $4000. Caruthers Ewing, general counsel for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea company, said tn 5 loan was made in 1939 by John llaitford, president of the A & P, settled three years latr, and written off as a bad debt in Hartford's 1942 income tax re port. While Rep. Knutson (R-Minn.) told reporters he believed the in ternal revenue bureau should in vestigate, Senator Bridges (R N.H.) declared in a senate speech that congress itself should makej till unjuu, from the lilt of Poles who will takt part in the dis cussion. Responsible quarters here said that Julian Zakowski, 48-year-old architect and one of three London Poles invited to the conference, had decided, to turn down the bid on the ground that ' he has. never been con nected with politics. ' Regarded as a liberal socialist who has no affiliation with the exiled administration, he ' was under stood to have been nominated by the Warsaw provisional gov ernment. . . A dispatch from Moscow by Associated Press Correspondent Eddy Gilmore said a reliable diplomatic authority stated the conference was to be held on the basis of reorganizing the government with the soviet sponsored provisional govern ment as a nucleus. Gilmore said diplomats in Moscow believed there were several good reasons to be -optimistic. ..i.iv-x.""r" '. Big Three representatives to the conference will be Russian Foreign Commissar ' Vyacheslaw Molotov, U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and . British Ambassador Sir John Archibald Clark-Kerr. Principal Polish leaders se lected to attend were Boleslaw Beirut, president of the Warsaw provisional government; Win centy' : Witos, former - premier and leader of -the democratic, group inside. Poland not affil iated with the Warsaw govern ment; and - Stanislaw Mikola jczyk, peasant party leader who resigned as premier and with drew from the exiled govern ment in London last year.. - Sheriff Makes Search For 'Japs' Sheriff Lloyd ' Low made an independent search yesterday of the Swan lake area, Antelope valley, and Applegate valley in an effort to find traces of two men, identified by a marine com bat veteran as Japanese who, were reported seen Sunday in an area near the Marine Bar racks. -. ;': Low . spent the ' afternoon searching for the fugitives but was unsuccessful in locating the men. He said today that farmers and ranchers had been warned to keep a check on foodstuffs as sooner or later the men would have to come out of hiding to obtain food. He also stated that he - had contacted a foreman for Liskey brothers ranch and that the foreman had told him that a cattle round-up would begin soon in the Meadow lake and Swan lake country and that a sharp lookout would be kept for the fugitives. Several rumors . have been forthcoming from various sources, but so far all have proved to be false. Low said. . NIPPONESE Yank' Ingenuity Aids In Battle On Island By LEONARD MILLIMAN k Associated Press War Editor Japan's last defense line on Okinawa began to crack today under pressure of American power applied in pre-dawn at tacks on both flanks which took the defenders by surprise. . Simultaneously Japanese adopted scorched earth tactics in one of the finest oil fields on newly-invaded Borneo. ' Nipponese set fire to tanks in Borneo's Seria oil fields, capable of producing 6000 barrels a year, when invading Australian forces were 80 miles away and cut off by thick jungles. Cut Into Hold Ingenious American tankmen packing 500 foot extension hoses up sheer cliffs helped infantry men cut deeply into the enemy's narrowing hold on southern Oki nawa. ' Japanese flamethrowing tanks failed to halt U. S. 37th division infantrymen pushing into Cagay an valley of northern Luzon island for the final battles of the Philippines. Seven were knock ed out. Enemy forces did succeed m temporarily halting Ausslcs cleaning out Bougainville island , (Continued on Page Two) CALIFHi KILLS ' By AL DOPKING ' OKINAWA, June 12 (Delayed) (JPh-PFC Clarence B. Craft, Santa Ana, Calif., in a one-man massacre, killed 30 Japanese and drove a wedge' that, ...tug regi mental' commander said. helDed snap the Japanese Shuri defense line. ' - , " ' - Fellow doughboys, ' who had a ringside seat to "a fighting, performance we hardly could believe," told today how Craft almost single-handed wiped out strong Japanese pocket in 1U to 15 minutes. .- .' Craft, married and the father of a' 4-year-old son, made his one-man assault on a 450-foot hill May 31 when elements of the 96th infantry- division were pin ned down by intense machine gun fire. - - .1 - rloidc up Battalions For 10 days, Japanese from this hill had held up two battalions. Two flanks of two divisions couldn't move until it was seized. On May 31. a company and two platoons assaulted the hill again. Then Craft went into action. When he reached the hilltop, he began tossing grenades into trenches ana loxnoies as men from his platoon passed them up to him. He straddled a trench, pouring fire from his Garand 'Continued on rage i wo; r 57 Per Cent Of Quota Reached Approximately 57 per cent of the 7th War Loan quota was reached here the war bond head quarters announced today. It was also stated that 1Z Hi by 108-inch Pequot sheets have arrived at bond headquarters, and the first 12 people to buy a $1000 bond will receive one of these sheets free with their bond purchase. , special prizes tor purcnasers of "E" bonds are being offered each day at headquarters at five o'clock every evening, it was an- nounced. Today's prize was a pair of shoes, and other prizes to be given will include ration ed commodities such as sugar. State Of Siege Seen In Bogota BOGOTA, June 13 . (P) A government decree yesterday declared a state of siege in Bo gota, Colombian capital, be cause the "public order has been disturbed." Other decrees banned meet ings and demonstrations until further orders, unless previous ly authorized by the governor of the department, and estab lished censorship by .national police. j Where Aussies Invade Borneo '? SAAWAKj BRUM! V'r ' "' m E Arrows show locations of the Australian drivlt on Borneo, where Japanese were today reported to bt burning oil litlds. 60 miitt away from Aussit lines. ' . . .' '"y 8- k ;