Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, June 15, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI , - . I )nnnTl?3Fril73rrr,T? r? a nrn rpniTrp rn rzrz n nn n : : liiBiSliiiBliMii' J:: ARNOLD SAYS ' WW rnM''1 ' FRANK JENKINS ARNOLD tells us v nbout plans to fight the : OUH WAY. ,g to the correspondent BCSS COI1H.TCIH.U jii juuiii, C 'Jiipnn will be COM t,y AND UTTERLY DE- ELJ In Oir uuui'nn umi, uy (iwo wcckh muiii nuw; ,cli tho rnto of two mil . of bombs a year." Ids grimly: lint's what Japan wants, Llint she's going to get. Is going o oo u icrriuie llveln.; , million tons of bombs a Is an average or B4UU fcr DAY. Our biggest Jap Inr was 1111 ivnyu un when 530 B-29s dropped r S be necossary, General Id continued, lo destroy iv cltlea Tokyo, Nagoya, inn. Kobe and Osuka. As c 520 B-20s were shower f 0 tons of incendiaries on f Is point, General Lcmay, if ur 21st bomber com ihlmed in. "Kobe, Yoko jnd Kawasnkl," ho said, (ONE ALREADY, and to- Urine miiv iuiimi wiiku. ! i.n left only. TEN IF. MILES that wo'ro In- in. It s just a matter or till we get everything of In Japan." is big talk. But it is jked by BIG RESOURCES, to nuzl Germany crum- tc and the British had an cc whose size and cf- staggcrcd the Imaglna- friuit mighty air weapon h moved to the Pacific to Eicnl the B-20S which U Arnold terms today "the iiilstitndlng piano In the Idds: "You can say that Doolittle Is going to our Eighth alrforco out lid wo will usu it against The British have stated Ibvcr and over that they MB to bring tnclr buro- lAF to tho Pacific. Id concludes: "We will OF JAPAN," ukl thinks wo'ro going to mmodiatoly on tho Jap- bcnclies and start now the task or digging every of every hole and cave in he's crazier than even a any business to bo. doubtless land there f.'ly, but we'll do a lot of t and starving out first. fclNG our vast air weapon full action against Janan t s problems. General hints at them when he Wo are wondering how going to out 12.000 nl lines Bic European theater over d get the maximum strlk ewer against Japan, but 811 use EVERY LAND we can GET OUR HANDS lis connection, don't en- overlook tho Foochow the China coast, where Incso havo been driving Ips out. It is reasonably (l could provide a lot of or air bases. It is sup- o do protected by tor- put with very littlo navy too much air force left Is arc In no position to use cueclivcly. We might it. lustralians are completing ir conquest of tho Brunei la in Borneo. Today's dls- roport significantly: engineers nro RUSH- fc building of tho 4500-foot I air field Intn n hnmhnr BNLY 800 MILES from Ire." British must havo bases (vast air fleet when It is from Europe. The ans are beginning to pro- fm. ' flnnwa, we take the "Big lo" a high point domi- me positions on the Plateau whom tho .Tnns piued on Pago Six) PRICE FIVE CENTS Telephone Sill June 15. 1945 Max. (June 14) 81 Mln.' ............43 Precipitation last 24 hours. ...00 Stream year lo date .... 13.06 Normal ....11.45 Last year .8.87 Forecast: Clear Saturday, rising temps. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 15. 1945 Number 10492 Fires THE BLAZES STSRT; TFACKS F Set m mil i am Jieserval ian HEN i Hikers Keep Out Of Sight, Avoid Roads Three Incendiary fires have been set on the Klamath Indian reservation by two men whose tracks were found for a dis lunco of several miles, Indian Agent John Arkell reported to day. Arkell said the tracks showed where the men had hiked south ward along the main telephone line through the reservation, keeping out of sight in the brush us much as possible und avoid ing roads. Tl he tracks wore lost at the Williamson river bridge, about 25 miles north of Klamath Falls. The fires were set in brush near the telephone line. Due to condition of the brush at this time they failed to make head woj and wcra controlled with out damage. Two of tho fires were set within a distance of half a mile, and tho other was 41 miles north. The blazes were generally in tho area- v between Chlloquln and Klamath Agency. One Tall Man The tracks indicated one of the men was much taller than the other, taking much longer strides. One wore a shoe of about Hi size and the other a Bi size. Fact that the tracks showed (Continued on Pago Two) Venus, Not Jap Balloon, Appears The planet Venus, hanging in the bright mid-day sky, had hundreds of Klamathitcs out gawking today, and there was widespread belief that the white object in the sky must be some kind oi balloon. According to A. B. Epperson amateur astronomer, Venus hangs due south at 10 a. m. The reason it is so visible at this time, it is at Its brightest point because it is at its greatest angular dis tance from the sun. It is 45 de grees west of the sun this time of year, but not quite as high in tho heavens as the sun. It Is approximately 60 degrees above the horizon. Many observers said they saw it moving rapidly and some said they saw something hanging from It. Movement of the earth makes II nnnonr that Venus Is moving, and this may account for the nhsorvntlons of local people, The same while speck in the sky was seen in approximately the sumo place yesterday. Early risers will see Venus 10 degrees north of tho eost now as the morning star. Ennorson will bring astron omical Instruments to The Her ald and News office Saturday be tween 11 a. m. and 1 p. m. for tho benefit of those who wish to view the planet. ' Record Crowd At Flag Day Ceremonies . The crowd to Nearly 2000 attended annual Elks Flag Day exercises here Thursday nlqht watched marine marching units parade and heard Col. George Van Orden, commanding officer of the Marine Barracks, tell the story of the flag on display. USMC photo. Big Three Conference Scheduled To Be Held In Berlin; Date Not Disclosed atoga Battles Again espite Terrific Damages Py POPE HALEY . (HINGTON, June 15 OF) ivy disclosed today that puis old aircraft carrier P had sustained tremcn imngo In the early stages f attic of Iwo Jima. f was stated triumphant " now been fully re ""d is back In there, "Kin. 1 direct bomb hits, in some by suicide-planes, to carrier, causing 315 "he casualties In-. 43 killed, mtsjtlnff or wounds, and 192 wound. Twi n. j Plot's oldest surviving MWectlonately known to Fs as tho ':... had twloo FttnRo from torpedo at t the Iwo Jima action win ftfof 4MA U L," , " HIUO OllD CVC1 air crlpplin8 damage 'n.ck came oh lrohriiBrv "ays after Iwo Jima D-Day, as she was cruising with a fast carrier task group north west of the island. Four days earlier her planes had joined in plastering Tokyo in the biggest carrier task force attack up to that time. , .. The navy described the action against "Sara" as "one of the most concentrated attacks in which a carrier has survived, which might have sunk any other ship." A record-brcpklng repair job at the Puget Sound navy yard, however, has already returned the huge flattop to the fighting line. Worst Hit "The Saratoga," said the yard's hull superintendent, was the most extensively damaged vessel the Puget Sound navy; yard had received. She received moro varied tvoes of damage all at once than any ship we ve seen since Pearl Hnrbor. The carrier was launching her planes in the Iwo Jima action when an estimated nine or 10 (Continued on Page Six) By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor SAN FRANCISCO, ' June 15 (P) Several small nations re sentful of big power leadership may rally enough United Na tions conference votes today to force revision of the projected world security charter in 5 to 10 years. A late afternoon showdown on this issue, which stems from the now-ended fight over the veto, appears certain, with pre liminary signs indicating a close battle. Not Sure Behind the scenes the small nations are saying they are not sure the veto voting formula will work. It would give the Big Five full control of security council action, and any ono of them could block an action it did not like. If five years or more of ex perience show it unworkable, they contend they want to change it. If they can possibly arrange it they do not want any (Continued on Page Two) LONDON, June 15 (P) Maj, Clement R. Attlee disclosed to day that the Big Three meeting win take place In Berlin. - Attlee, former deputy prime minister and present leader or the labor opposition, ' made the disclosure in a letter to Church ill accepting the prime minis. ter's invitation to attend the "prospective conference in Ber lin." WASHINGTON, June 15 (ff) The wnue House confirmed to day that the forthcoming "Big Three" meeting will take place in tne vicinity of Benin. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross made the an nouncement following a dis closure by Maj. Clement At tlee. British labor party leader. in London, that Prime Minister unurcmil, Marshal Stalin and President' Truman planned to get together in the heart of con quered Germany. "In view of the British an nouncement," Ross told a spe daily called news conference, "I will say that the meeting of the Big Three will take place in the vicinity of Berlin." Ross was asked, in view of the British disclosure of the site, whether he would give the date of the meeting. "I can't give you anything on that," he replied. Queen's Riding Try outs Slated Here On Sunday Grand premier of Klamath Buckaroo Days four-day rodeo celebration will be . held at the fairgrounds this Sunday after noon, June 17, free to tne pub lic. The show will commence at 2 p. m. The queen's riding tryout will be the main event ot the preview show, when candidates .for the hnnnr of reieninc over tne ro deo, conducted under he spon sorship of the American Legion, will qualify for the title of queen. utner venis In addition to the tryout ride for. the rodeo, set for July 1 to 4 inclusive, there win be a num ber of other horse events, pre senting an exciting ' sample of the real celebration. The Sher iff's Posse will give a short ex hibition ride, and conduct cow horse races, a best-trained cow horse contest, and an exhibit of calf roping. All calf ropers are nekpH tn nnrticlbate. - The Klamath Falls Saddle club, of which Blanche Harmon is president, will conduct sev eral events, Including an exhibit ride, showing gaited horses, pal ominos, and pleasure mounts. First, second and third prizes will be awarded in each class. This rodeo preview is pre sented by sponsors of the Klam ath Buckaroo Days rodeo cele bration, including O. D. Mat thews, J. E. Hosking, H. E. Getz, R. D. McGhehey, William Hooper, M. E. Cornett and E. P. Ivory. Lynn Roycroft will announce the preview as well as the four day celebration in July. , Entrants Five Klamath basin girls have already entered (he contest. Of ) '.V those entered, , Lora Cross, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cross, and 1944 high school graduate, is spon sored by Dorris community. Beverly Wampler, 16, second candidate to sign up for the contest, has lived all her life on a stock ranch in Klamath coun ty. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wampler, who live on the west side of the lake near Rocky Point. She is blonde, and five feet three in height, and is a student of KUHS. , Henley Contestant PEACETIME DRAFT WASHINGTON, June 15 (yP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower ad vised a house, committee today mat "fairness to tne country and to the individual's chances of survival in war demand uni versal military training - in peacetime., The views of the supreme allied commander i n Europe were set forth in. a. letter to Chairman Woodrum (D-Va.), of vlic postwar military committee. The letter was made public as Secretary of War Stimson testified in support of peacetime aralt prooosals. ; "In spite of all technological (Continued on Page Two) TO STEP ASIDE AS LEADER BOMBAY, June 15 0P) Mo handas K. Gandhi said today the freeing of eight imcrisoned members of the. congress work ing committee was the occasion for him to step aside as-leader and let them "take up the thread" of independence plans. Field Marshal Lord Wavell. the viceroy, announced the lib erations last night. An Indian British conference is to be held June 25 at Simla over Britain's new offer of two additional ex ecutive council posts to Indians as a step "towards Indian self-government." Gandhi said he telegraphed Wavell to tell the viceroy that he was only an advisor and had no standing as a recognized -representative of the congress party. . The aging leader said the name of Abdul Kalam Azad, congress president, had been omitted from the list of those An entry from Henley is Glor-1 to be Invited to Simla, and that fflnntinno1 on Pntfo Tuinl ' fr!ontiniioH nn Pncro Tumi Von Ribbentrop Captured; Sdys Fuehrer Is Dead By DANIEL DE LUCE - " FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY'S HEADQUARTERS. Germany, June 15 (IP) Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Rib bentrop was captured yesterday as he slept nude in a Hamburg boarding house, bringing to a close the most intensive manhunt in Europe since V-E Day. Von Ribbentrop, understood to be wanted by the governments of at least 10. nations to stand trial for war crimes,1 was' the last top-ranking nati known to be alive who had eluded capture. A metal can of poison was found strapped to his body, but he surrendered this voluntarily." The dandified former -champagne salesman who became the engineer of Hitler's arrogant foreign policy,' had been hiding in Hamburg since April 30. The man who had imposed his diplo matic will on Europe had not a friend in all of Germany's second largest cuy wno would assist t him actively in obtaining al . . . rvu n j una woacn place of refuge. Von Ribbentrop volunteered the information that he had in tended to hide until British feel ing about him died down, and then attempt to save his life in a trial. He went to a wine mer chant friend, he said a man who had known him 25 years. The merchant shunned him. Von Ribbentrop, using the name of "Riese," got lodging with an unsuspecting ' landlady. FUEHRER "DEAD" MONTGOMERY'S HEAD QUARTERS, Germany, June 15 () Joachim von Ribben trop shared a Hamburg apart-: ment with a pretty . 35-year-old brunette divorcee and ' claimed to his captors he' was ' on a "mission from tne dead fuehrer" when captured, it was disclosed ' officially to night after- the former . Ger man foreign minister was captured. The same wine merchant was brought to British intelligence headquarters late yesterday and there pointed out his erstwhile friend. But : identification was made even more: certain. ; By' keeping the arrest secret over'night,' British sleuths who had tailed Von Ribbentrop across much of western Ger many -managed to arrest his sis ter. Today in a tearful and hys terical scene she identified the foreign minister. Ribbentrop first had been traced to an area of northern Germany near, the Danish fron tier, where he was known to have passed in disguise. The story, as released today, did not bare what had happened to him between the time he left Berlin and the time he arrived in Ham burg. Ribbentrop was taken under guard in an RAF transport plane from the Lueneberg air field at 12:30 p. m. to be inter rogated by supreme headquar ters authorities. Correspondents will not be allowed to inter view him. t ' Chinese Chase Japs Along Coast CHUNGKING. June 15 (IP) The Chinese high command an nounced today that Chinese forces which have pursued the Japanese 175 miles from Foo chow along the East China coast had attacked the Chekiang pro vince port of Wenchow. . : The Chinese said tne enemy garrison at Wenchow, 220 miles south of Shanghai on the Wu river, already was beginning to retreat. - Observers here had expected the Japanese to evacuate Wen chow, a potential aeatn trap, once the forces which had aban doned Foochow reached there. Contestants In Queen Contest ... i; .Hr:v kill lVrffer i Beverly Wampler Lora Cross Jeannette Protsman V V f I I I I I - Paul. Angstead, above,.- ac cepted the post of head football coach at Klamath- Union high school yesterday. . Angstead has an impressive record here. He coached : the Wildcats last year to six- victories and one defeat in football and to 16 triumphs and one loss in basketball. He succeeds Marble Cook- who , re signed this spring. ANGSTEAD ACCEPTS Paul Angstead. assistant prin cipal at Klamath - Union high school, yesterday accepted the post of head football coach of the - Pelicans, Superintendent Arnold L. Gralapp said . this morning.. Angstead was chosen for the job of head football coach for a number of reasons, Gralapp said. He is familiar with the duties of coaching here and possesses a fine record as junior high coach and mentor of the Wildcats. In football1 last year, his Wildcats won six and lost one and in basketball the 'Cats rang up the enviable record of IB victories against one aeteat. ne came-nere m .xvai- ana. was supervisor of elementary physical education in Klamath Falls grade schools for five years,-He was associated with junior high for two years and has held. the. position of assist ant principal of KUHS for one year. Prior to his work here he was- connected with physical education work in the CCC pro gram. - ; Angstead will succeed Marble Cook, who resigned this soring as coach. Ten applications were received for the post now held by Angstead, Gralapp. said, wiUt most of them coming from out of state. Assignment of assist ants will be made soon by Prin cipal Stanley Woodruff and Ath letic. Director Joe Peak. - . Angstead said today that the Pelicans "would be in there pitching" during the 1945 grid season and that football prac tice would -start early in Sep tember or "as soon as possible. B-28S TO STEP UP AIR RAIDS War Industries Burn v After Attack From Air By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor - Superforts set fire to Osaka in a 3000-ton incendiary raid today as Gen. H. Arnold prom ised bombing attacks would be stepped up to a rate of 2,000, 000 tons a year, making Japan "a terrible place to live in." Japanese ground forces began to- crack up on Okinawa, fled on Borneo, and withdrew on two vital China fronts, but still fought stubborn delaying ac- ' tions in the Philippines. - . ' American military leaders were quoted in Washington as expecting that "either Japan will surrender within the next 90 days or -the war will be of long duration a matter v of ' attri tion." The, words are those of Rep. Cannon (D-Mo.), chairman of the house appropriations com mittee. B-29s Just Starting ' General Arnold, chief of army forces on- a tour of Superfort bases in the Marianas, said "We are just starting with the B-29s" ' which will wreak "utter de struction" on Japan. . In about two weeks, he prom ised, power of their attacks will be stepped up to 2,000,000 tons a year. . This means -that every two weeks the Superforts will let loose a bomb tonnage equal ling ithe entire weight of ex plosives they have thus far rain ed on Japan. - Already, said B-29 Command er Maj. Gen. Curtis Le May, Superforts ' have heavily dam aged the five cities that Arnold said must be destroyed Touyu, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka. "It is just a matter of time," -Le May said, "until we get. everything, of value in-Ja-pan." - h'.i, , .. U . Hit War Industrie. Today they got machine tool, chemical,' propeller plants, and : , (Continued on Page Two) EARL HEEL TO BE RETURNED TO STATE District Attorney Clarence .A. Humble said this mornine that federal authorities would bring r,an iieuvei, tormer ruamath Falls police chief, to Portland from Little Bock, Ark., as soon, as necessary transfer formalities are completed. Heuvel was ar rested June 7 in Kensett, Ark., on a fugitive warrant by the FBI charging unlawful flight to avoid prosecution here. He is now held in the Little Rock jail. . . .-; Alter Heuvel is returned to Portland, the federal district at torney s omce - win .' decide whether he will be prosecuted on the federal charge of fugi tive from justice or whether he will be turned over to Klamath county authorities for prosecu tion under tne indictments re turned by the Klamath county grand jury. Humble -said. Heuvel is - under indictment here on four charges, namely, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, two charges of sodomy, and one charge ot rape. He was under $1000 bond when he fled the county, to avoid prosecution, Humble stated. He is under bonds set by the circuit court on the. four indict ments to the sum of $21,000. E Bond Sales Behind Schedule WASHINGTON, June 15 (JF) Ted R. Gamble, director of the treasury's war finance division, reported today that E-bond sales in the 7tn war ioan are aooui 10 per cent behind schedule. ' Gamble- appealed to all war finance committees to step up E bond sales activity, and to re port the prospect of wiping out what he described as the "small deficit." Sales -to Individuals now total $5,510,000,000, or 78.7 per cent of the quota; E-bond sales, however, are lagging with 62.4 per cent of the $4,000,000 quota reached, mo E-bond sales total $2,496,000,000. Thrift Carried Too Far Every other-kid in" the neighborhood had a 15-cent sailor hat and a 68-cent pistol except one.freckle-faced. 9-year-old boy. His allowance is 25 cents week and he had saved up over a dollar. - He asked his parents if he could have enough of his sav ings to purchase the direly needed articles, but the verdict was no, that he should save his money. ' . : . , The youngster, finally, decided to take matters Into his own hands. After attending summer' Bible school on Wednes day he stole the hat and pistol and was apprehended. - . With tears streaming down his face he told Juvenile au thorities here that he knew he had done wrong, but that he just had to have a hat and pistol like the other kids. He still .wants them. ' :