m
0
rail
(frank j
JENKINS
fVER tho Japs look to
vlsions of allied fleets
lioro their eyes.
E seeing "i" (accord
r,i,ihlu Tokyo radio) at
7.... r..,fnum thn Hnrnvn
fni Turakun In the Strult
They re seeing mem
They're seeing aud-
Krrcascd activity In tho
round Okinawa lots of
hips In parucuiar.
lbe.
knnin. ror example
MncArthur' admits was
I yesterday), 'meres an-
U Oil Ilt'lll uicii; unu
cutely inieremuu m tin
THOUSANDS of ships,
icnllon eventuni gasoline
. hnva lind tlmu to set
is going In tho captured
tmrrol of oil obtained
Lr, (nnd other Dutch East
Elnnds) Is a barrel of oil
f'T have to nam cicar
o Pnclflc.
.
Id be strange If our cargo
fcrcn t numerous around
, which we'ro building
rnntlnuo to build Into
Bint will bo more or less
llund o( tho leucine war.
f
fruk?
B. Truk has been the par-
titillating mystery of the
Pacific. It was irom iruK
leclcd tho Japs to sally
hd do unpleasant things
They didn't. Wo never
w exactly why except
t vaguely mat ror some
Tnik didn't function as
lie yellow men hoped It
kht be that for some high
Ed reason we want Truk.
iv we could take it u we
It badly enough
wo mustn't forget (the
aren't going to) that In
Ific there Is the mightiest
fc world has ever known.
ill ALLIED. Our fleet
I fantastic in us size ana
being added a largo part
British fleet.
(could send task forces
around all over the vast
Fond hardly miss thorn.
kbed up In the Kurllcs the
By and started snciung
r -
Blsoatchos say today:
meet this threat (or snips
Ips and SHIPS wherever
iok) the Japanese are re-
(convening their soumcrn
Uand (Kyushu) Into ONE
FORTRESS at amazing
the FORTRESS thinking
history tells us is
admission of defeat,
i
K getting a tight hold on
Inei Bay (ono of the
great anchorages, 800
pom Singapore) the Aus-
aro pushing southward
oil fields and rubber
ons of Sarawak.
f-nk (Independent, under
protection, ucioro inc
tne) Is ono of the strangest
any strange states In that
the world. A century
h Englishman, James
dropped into norinwcsi
on a mission from the
r of Singapore. The
of Brunol was having
in Sarawak, and Brooke
led him as a competent
So he made him Rajah
iawak and turned him
Bte eot results, and
(D RAJAH. A quarter of
try later he retired to Eng-
(rt a nephew named John
pk the name of Brooke
wcccedcd him. Brookes
Keen running Sarawak
Inrp .Hnlnir annh a nnnrl
ft when the Japs jumped
Blnucd on Pago Three)
Telephone Sill
WIMIHilll
Juns IS, 1945
Max. (June 15) 73 Mln
Precipitation last 24 hours
Stream year to date
Normal 11.48 Last year
v Forecast: Warmer Sunday.
.....48
00
13.06
..8.87
PRICE FIVE CENTS
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE II. IMS
Number 10483
German Ondustfry Poses
Problem For Peacetime
By AUSTIN BEALMEAR
PARIS. June 18 (!) German Industry, twice the arsenal of
aggression, is almost non-existent today as the allies await de
termination of how it can come to life safely without again en
dangering world peace.
Some German plants several hundred in number, have been
permitted to reopen for production which the military govern
ment considers essential, but present allied regulations permit
German plants to reopen only if their products are wanted by
the allied armies or if production is essential to maintain a mini
mum standard of life for tho German civilian population.
The management of the Krupp works, steel and munitions
manufacturing organisation, has submitted a request to resume
production, without stating what it wanted to produce. The re
quest said production was necessary for the reconstruction of
Germany. The application was returned for more details.
Potontlally Dangerous Industries
Officers of Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow's U. S. 15th army
tho unit which by virtue of its occupation of the Saar and Rhine
valleys and part of the Ruhr has been guarding the center of
Germany's productive might have recommended that both
Krupp and I. G. Fcrbcn-lndustrie be operated by special com
missions, on tho grounds that the organizations ore too big and
otcntia lv too dangerous to he lumped witn ordinary inunuiut-
turcrs in the control problem.
This summary of the present status of industrial control in
Germany is based on reports to 15th army headquarters.
The present enforced shutdown of German production, is In
an interim stage in the complete transformation of the nation,
Gerow's headquarters said. Presumably Germany, will produce
again under controls designed to eliminate any war potential
but pending allied control council determination of how this can
be done, Germany's economic activity will be kept tightly re
stricted. During this transitory stage, control of German production
is exercised essentially at the level of Several headquarters con
trolling the allied occupational armies.1 :
G-4 Supervises Problem
Overall supervision is In the hands of army G-4, expediters
of all matters of supply. Problems are parcelled out by indus
tries to special staff sections whose military assignments were
such as to make them most familiar with the problems peculiar
to individual businesses. Every manufacturer in Germany today
must be licensed under this control machinery before he can
open his plant.
In the Rhine province military district 108 permits to open
food processing plants have been granted to date. Sixty of these
are flour and grain mills.
The Ford Motor plant at Cologne, relatively undamaged by
the war, had material on hand for making about 500 trucks. It
was ordered to reopen and produce the vehicles.
DPPOSTION
T
0 BIG I
VETO CRACKS
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Diplomatic
News Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18
(P) Small nation opposition to
a Big Five veto over future
changes in a world security
charter Is cracking up, and
leaders of the big power bloc
hope to win out on this issue
tonight.
It Is one of three which con
ference committees are strug
gling to wipe out this weekend
in line with a high-speed sched
ule which calls for President
Truman to address a final ses
sion of the United Nations con
ference next Saturday.
Two Issues
The other two controversies
are:
1. Whether colonial powers,
such as Britain and France,
should be directed to make re
ports on their colonics to the
proposed new leagues. Australia
proposes that they" should. The
two big powers object.
2. Whether the projected gen
eral assembly of United Nations
should be empowered to debate
any aspect of international re
lations or only matters con
cerned with peace and security.
This is an old Issue, previously
settled over Russian objection
In favor of the right to debate
any International affair. But
Russia has Insisted that it be
re-opened, demanding the peace-and-sccurlty
restriction.
Supports Veto
Discussion of a Big Five veto
over future amendments pro
duced a long and sometimes
sharp session of a conference
committee last night. In its
course, Senator Henri Rolln of
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man To Travel Nearly
76.500 Miles In 40 Days
IHINGTON. Juno 16 (P)
Int Truman plans to
nnnroxlmatnlv 18.500
Within tho next 30 to 40
rs how he will build up
uiengc:
Washington to Olym-
eli t v. i r c.nn.
mull lu OMII ffiair
nd back to Washington;
l Kansas Cltv and Inde-
Fc, Mo., and back to
Iston: then across the At-
to meet Premlor Stalin
F'mo Minister Churchill
vicinity of Berlin.
WM(n Tj jl 1 A
py that Mr. Truman plans
p me closintr session
United Nations confer-
San Vrnnn am. Caf.i.il.ii
J. Earlier, Presidential
lecrctary Charles G. Ross
ccd the Big Three meet-
" ue neid near the ucr-
'Pltal at n rlntn vat in hp
flying Trlpi
sn in th - i j . ...in
Plympla Tuesday or Wed-
probably Tuesday, to
guest of Gov. Mon C.
n. who was In tho senate
r. Truman. From Olym
irtimnn will flu in Snn
f o the day before his ad-
returning TirRUlMrf.
ally June 24, the pres
make another flying
trip to Kansas City June 28 to
attend homecoming celebrations
at nearby Independence that af
ternoon and at Kansas City the
next day.
To Meet Dewey
Before leaving for the middle
west Mr. Truman will confer
with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of
New York at the White House
on June 25. Several weeks ago
he Invited tho 1944 republican
presidential nominee to drop in
and discuss any matter the New
Yorker may have on ms mum.
Tho Whltn House announce'
mnnt said the San Francisco
"is making a real ef
fort to wind up its business by
the end of next week and it is
hnnnri hat President Truman
will be able to address the con
ference on Saturday, ounc o
Examiners Question
Von Ribbentrop At
'Ike's' Headquarters
By DANIEL DE LUCE
MONTGOMERY'S HEADQUARTERS, Germany, Juna II OP),
Captured Nasi Foreign Minister Joachim Ton Ribbentrop was
reported to be under questioning today at Gen. Elsenhower's
headquarters at Frankfurt-on-the-Maln. . .
The supreme command's most skilled examiners war aald
to have been assigned to try -to pry loos some of the stt
secrets known to the 52-year-old former reich ambassador to
London who was reputed to hay convinced Hitler on hU return
in 1938 Britain would not intervene when Poland was invaded.
Officially, Ribbentrop left Lueneberg airfield ; here lor an
unidentified destination "somewhere in Europe" yesterday, after
being arrested in Hamburg Thursday along with an. attractive
brunette divorcee - in whose
aoartment he- boarded under
POLE PREMIER
TO CONFER
GOVERNMENT
TOP MILITARISTS
BACK DRAFT
By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST
WASF""OTON, June 18 (P)
General of the Army George C.
Marshall, Fleet Admiral Ernest
J. King and General A. A. Van
degrlft, marine corns command
ant, told congress today uni
versal military training was the
foundation of the. nation's fu
ture security.
The starred and braided mili
tary leaders were the final wit
nesses before the house postwar
military committee as it con
cluded, except for congressional
witnesses next week, two weeks
of hearings on the controversial
peacetime draft proposal.
They followed Navy Secre
tary James V. Forrestal, two
admirals and a general, all of
whom backed the proposal.
"To support our determina
tion to maintain the peace,"
General "arshall told the com
mittee, "the world must recog
nize our military power as real
istic and not as a remote po
tential." The answer to preparedness,
he asserted, lies not in a large
standing army, which he said
would be "remignai.t to the
American people," but In a sys
tem of universal training "to
gether with an effective pro
gram for Industrial mobilization
and continuous scientific research."
Venus Visible;
Klamath Finds
Hundreds of Klamath Falls
people, who never knew it be
fore, discovered today that the
planet Venus could be seen in
the daytime at this time of year.
Someone discovered the star
hanging in the heavens yester
day noon, and soon word spread
that there was something up
thorn that micht be a balloon.
All over town people were out
gazing at the heavens.
Thn star was visible again to
day and an "astronomy clinic"
was conducted outside the news
paper office by A. B. Epperson,
local amateur asuuuuiuci.
'Meanest Man In World1
"meanest man in the
from Klamath Falls to
Here's another nomination for the
LakeWew to Pick up some of their belongings there. A. trailer
L.!r!!fhPn thBlr car. En route to Lakeview. one of the
wheels came off the trailer, leaving them stranded.
A pasng motorist noticed their predicament and also
hPJ f the loose wheel and tire. Instead of stopping to assist
fh trlnrtnHnair he stopped his car, leaped out and picked up
tWuiSpJl&S into his automobile and drove
tne lire, uicii J" , j i,inisa on the road.
away, leaving mem rv"
the name of VHerr Riese.'.'
By telephone from .Hamburg,'
Lt. Ji B. Adam of Paisley, Scot
land, told how ' his detail of a
Belgian and two British ser
geants arrested Ribbentrop. He
said:.
i Woman Answers
"We called at a very unpre
tentious block of flats about 9
a. m., and knocked on the door
of the top floor, but getting no
answer we nearly had decided
to break it down when a lady
in a dressing gown appeared.
She was dark-haired and very
attractive, and we learned later
she was 35 and divorced. We
brushed her aside, saying we'd
come in and search."
The Belgian discovered Rib
bentrop, shook him and woke
him. Ltl .Adams said "We
searched him from top to bot
tom," but they did not discover
the taped on poison phial which
a medical examination- at head
quarters later found hidden be
tween his legs.
Sleepily Ribbentrop dressed,
muttering to himself. He then
i (Continued on Page Three)
ISH SIDE
in
An
By The Associated Press
Snow has ceased falling
the Rockv -mountains .... .
egg won't fry on a Texas side
walk . . . Sections of the least
and west coasts continue to
steam today (Saturday) in their
first swelter spells of the year.
It seems the nation's weather
is recovering from . touch of
spring whimsy.
Warming Up
,The Rocky mountains warmed
up slightly after yesterday's
eight inches of snow at Red
Feather lakes in northern Col
orado and lighter amounts in
Wvomlne and Montana, with
minimum temperatures of 21 at
Big Piney, Wyo., 22 at Eureka,
Utah, and 25 at West Yellow
stone, Mont.
Texas temperatures today
were cooler than yesterday's 106
at Wink and 103 at Big Spring
and Lubbock. ...
Fog On Schedule '
California could see no relief
until tomorrow, when a fog is
expected to put the skids under
readings that got as high as
105 in the Imperial valley yes
terday. The humid east coast was be
set by wind, thunderstorms and
hail. . -
A wind at Belmont In west
ern New York ; uprooted 200
trees, disrupted electric and
telephone service and caused in
jury to one woman. New York
City's 92 yesterday was its high
est reading of the year, and the
heat ' wave is expected to - con
tinue, .
By ALEX H. SINGLETON
LONDON, June 16 W) Stan
islaw Mikolajczyk, former Pol
ish premier, flew to Moscow1 to
day to confer on reorganizing
the Warsaw eovernment while
in second postWBFdispute-Brit-,
ain was reported authoritative;
ly to have rejected France's pro
posal . lor a live-power- discus
sion of middle east problems. ;
Both.-develooments were pre
liminaries to the next Big Three
conference, scheduled in Berlin
somtime before July 26.
Accompany Leader
Accompanying - Mikolajczyk
the peasant party leader, were
Jan Stariczyk, : who-'was labor
minister in -his London Polish
government, and Jan Drokohow
ski, a foreign, affairs expert in
Mikolajczyk s group.
A Moscow dispatch said pre
liminary ' disctissions were un
derway among Poles already on
the scene. The Big Three com
mission on Polish reorganiza
tion Foreign Commissar Molo-
.tovand the U. S. and British
ambassadors to Russia - was
said to have asked ailing Win
centy Witos, 72-year-old former
Polish premier, to attend the
meeting.
"Reign of Terror"
The- Polish eovernment in
London charged last night that
a "reign of terrorism" existed
throughout Poland, and demand
ed immediate withdrawal of
Russian troops and political po
lice from Polish soil. . -
As for the middle east, au
thoritative Paris quarters said
-Britain turned down the French
request for a five-power confer
ence. The Britlsn government
previously ad expressed pref
erence for a discussion, only by
France,. Britain and the United
(Continued on "age xnreej
Civilian Housing
Project Okayed
- Approval of another 50-unit
civilian housing project, for
Klamath Falls was given today
bv the national housing agency.
The project will cost $155,
000. . Construction will begin
soon, and it is expected the
units will be located near the
Main, street bridge, where an
other project is now underway,
. The new units will be design
ed oarticularly for civilian em-
doves of the naval air station.
Marine Barracks and the rail-
oads, according to Congress
man Lowell stockman, wno
wired the chamber of commerce
about it.
From Business To Pleasure
1 JksW
- I
'' jet t&J
An ald.tvns landincr boat, which,, in the early days of the
Pacific war was used to move men from" off-shore' transports 'to
Jap-held beaches, now serves as a pleasure boat at the marine
summer camp at Crescent lake, where leathernecks are carving
a pleasure resort out ol tne wuaerness. lymcm um pn
ODT Takes Over Trucking
Industry In Chicago Area
By The Associated Press
As the result of presidential
seizure orders, the office of de
fense transportation took con
trol of Chicago's trucking . in
dustry today while employes of
the Stanton Transit company
ended a 27-day strike.
The ODT's Chicago move in
seizing 1700 lines was an ap
parent effort to avert a second
BORNEO, TRUK,
OKINAWA SITES
OF MOVEMENTS
By-Passed Truk Said
Bombarded By
Navy
TAX REVISION PLAN
SET FOR CONGRESS
By FRANCIS M. LEMAY
WASHINGTON. June 16 (ff)
Plans were laid today to speed
through congress a tax revision
program designed to improve the
cash position of business and in
dustry by $5,000,000,000 during
reconversion.
Chairman Doughton (D-N.C.)
of the house ways and means
committee announced he will in
troduce the business-aid tax dm
Monday.
Rep Knutson (R-Minn.), repub
lican leader of the tax-framing
committee, predicted hearings
can be completed and the bill
passed by the house within a
week or 10 days.
The committee expects to open
public hearings Tuesday.
The -measure Dronoses no ma
terial reduction in ultimate tax
burdens, but is intended to speed
nnstwar navments on rebates and
credits due industry. This
would make billions of dollars
available for reconversion.
No chanee in either the in
dividual or corporation income
tax rate is contemplated at this
time.
strike by the. city's union truck
drivers and 'came amidst uncon
firmed reports, that troops were
moving into the' city. lor any
emergency.. .. ..: , -
The seizure order, issued in
Washington yesterday, stemmed
from a long-standing contro
versy over wages and hours.
- Return Ordered
Meanwhile, striking bus driv
ers and mecnamcs in eigm
southern states were ordered by
the war labor board yesterday
to return to their jobs by Mon
dav. In teleerams to Tri-State
company officials and union of
ficials, the eighth regional WLB
at Dallas, Tex., said unless full
operations were resumed by
Monday, the case would be cer
tified to tne national wlb ror
action:
In New .York, most city buses
continued to run at A "slow
down" pace in what officials of
loca.1 100, Transport Workers
union said was a protest against
overwork and what the New
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Blanche Sehonchin
Enters Contest
The last, aspirant for the title
of rodeo queen for Klamath
Buckaroo Days entered the con
test today. .
She vis Blanche Sehonchin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Barney. Blanche is 18 years old
and is 5 feet 6 inches in height.
Shi is the great grand-daughter
of Modoc Indian unlet scnon-chin.
She was born in Klamath
county and was raised on the
Klamath Indian reservation. She
will represent Sprague River
in the "contest with queen's rid
ing tryouts slated for Sunday
at the fairgrounds.
By LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated Press War Editor
Three widely separated allied
fleet movements were reported
by Tokyo radio today, involving
a threatened-third invasion of
Borneo, the first naval bom
bardment of the by-passed Truk:
island fotress, and "suddenly in.
creased" activity in Okinawa
waters.
The three unconfirmed ac
tions were about 2500 miles
apart at the points of a triangle
reaching up to Japan's home
waters, deep into the Dutch In
dies and well out into the Pa
cific. -,
More than 20 warships, in
cluding a carrier and three bat
tleships; were said to be Hear
ing Balikpapan, Borneo's major
oil refinery center. The report
coincided with an allied an
nouncement that Australian
troops had seized all initial ob
jectives of their second Borneo
invasion, begun only last Sun
day, with the - capture of their
third airfield on Brunei bay.
New Blow Hinted
A great increase in American
naval forces around Okinawa,
Tokyo said,, "may point to an
enemy scheme to launch fresh,
operations against the Japanese
homeland." ..
With less than 10,000 mostly
second rate Japanese troops left
on Okinawa, the "final phase"
of the ground campaign on this
naval and air base island will
be over in less than a week,
said Lt. Gen." Simon Bolivar
Buckner Jr., whose' tenth army
troops narrowed the Nipponese
hold to eight square miles.
' ' Bombard Truk
Naval bombardment of Truk,
Tokyo said, was carried out yes
terday by two: cruisers and four
destroyers" fn: conjunction with
a carrier attack which reached
its third successive day today.
The Japanese offered no explan
ation for this attack, presum
ably .by British forces, .on -the
once mighty Nipponese base in
the Caroline islands.
Tokyo also reported more
than 25 Superforts made four
mine-laying expeditions into
Japanese waters during the
early morning hours. These
mines are taking an unknown
toll of the mikado's shipping in
addition to the daily announced
bags of air raiders. Today's re
ports listed 14 coastal vessela
and scnooners suns ana six
wrecked on the ways mostly
in Shanghai' waters. .
While hundreds of American
warships, loaded cargo vessels
and landing craft are pouring
into Okinawa waters, Tokyo
said, U. S. naval patrols have
been extended to within 200
miles of Japan.
And These Are The Things That Didn't
Happen Here, All Rumors To Contrary
This is a story about several
things that didn't happen here
in the last few days, rumor and
gossip to the contrary.
. , It is not true that any Japa
nese were captured here, al
though a marine saw two men
whom he believed to be Japa
nese and who ran into the brush.
It is not true that Japanese
were found pouring poison into
the water supply of the Marine
Barracks.
- It is not true that Japanese
were shot or captured in the vi- either landed in, or was: re-
cinity of the barracks water
supply facilities.
It is not true that marines
shot one Japanese, two Japa
nese, or three Japanese or any
Japanese at Klamath Falls. Ma
rines shot a lot of Japanese on
Okinawa, all right, but "that's
some distance away from here.
It is not true that marines
rounded up 50 Japanese or so
In the Merrill district.
It is not true that a balloon
leased from, the Tulelake WRA
center. .
It is not' true that Sheriff
Lloyd Low found Japanese in a
cabin in the Swan lake district.
It is not true that a, balloon
landed on too of a building west
of Klamath river. It was a copy
of The Herald and News, either
blown into the sky or dropped
from a plane.
It is not true that the bright
(Continued on Page Three)
L
War bond sales totaling $335,-
618 have been made in the rural
areas of Klamath county, with a
total of $110,132 left to raise in "
the final push of the 7th War
Loan drive, according to figures
released this morning by Mrs.
Rose M. Poole; county war bond
chairman and Mrs. Winnifred K.
Gillen, county agricultural chair
man for the drive. -
Mrs. Poole and Mrs. Gillen,
conferring with members of the
agricultural division of the coun
ty war finance committee, point
ed out that a grand total of $445,- 1
750 is the quota set for rural
Klamath county, to be reached
by the end of the drive June 30.
About $571,563 in bonds is
still needed to put the entire
county over the top of her quota.
"Over tne top were live com
munities, the first in the county
to leach the "E" bond goal set
bv the war finance committee:
Dairy, Malin, Chiloquin, Sprague
River, and tjhemuit.
Plugging the & Dond saics.
and expected to reach their
auotas were the communities of
Poe Valley, Langell Valley, Ivory
Pine, Bonanza, illy, uncnrisi,
Henley, Merrill and Algoma.
Merrill canvassers are counting
on a bond party on June 23 to
round out tne quota ior mai
area, pelican nay camp una
Crescent Lake have not reported.
j Cellar-dwellers in the cam
paign for war funds are these
communities, who have reported
a temporary stand-still in bond
sales while still short of quotas;
Modoc Point, Hildebrand, Klam.
ath Agency, Fort Klamath, Cres
cent,. Beatty, Midland and Keno,
Bulletin
- POLYNESIAN WINNEh
BALTIMORE, June. 16 (P)
Polynesian today won the 55th
Preakness with Hoop Jr. second
and Darby Dieppe third. ,
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