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Newspaper Page TextiniMc? ixnnnMfo) ilMfiJiwp ixn la Wslei 416 L PBANJC JENKINS fen tlio rich diet on which Ll.nnncr roudors nnd radio C, wcro fod In the weeks Hutciy irnicvu i. ... r . -...rmnnv. the war news I prCHCm lliuiiiuiiv nuviun if we ore to understand must remember thut we i. in a new period 01 Li Inn. somewhat similar II In which wo wcto unth' land training our forces In td for wo una oinunii m-many. r - . , arc now ongagca in me L of putting In plcklo for inch 08 never ha been iifforo. There will be nf shooting news from keltic sooner or inter. m the weekend, our B-20i ncked lour smniior Jan -Hnmnmatsu nnd Yokknl- ihn Ninioyn oxen of Hon- os n ma nnci umuia under 200,000 Tn four contain mau nut knnt war factories ana IJSANDS of little backyard of uic iyn; oi.i.... . h heavily for war produc- 'Sulcldo pianos, ir uxuui' whlrh nro lust about any- i iimt will fly are made Mirniv In these lime shops. fa type of rnklliiK. Gcnnrnl U told us the other dnv. lo on until Japanese ahll- produce iut wui is uu- Id. : . Lrlhcrn Luzon, tho Japs U icn driven out of the Iri mountains Into tho wide fcompariitlvely open caga Snllcy. They aren't doing ill under these conditions. WRECKINli TH1S1H ISPOHT from tho air. The floor is so id to be strewn hundreds of their burned- !jcks nnd tanks, wis LACK OP TRANS , rnthcr than lack of men atcrinls, that rendered the in army helpless in the jjays beforo Berlin. The Must couldn't get the stuff swhero it wus to where it ietded. Japs appear to bo setting lot of store by Manchurlu. lurlu is- relatively open. Is hupponing to their aeel- forces in tlio Ctigayan can happen on a bigger to their better forces in (urla's opener country. . . . roops in the Cagayen val- are accomDonled by a lo of camp followers. wcro 3900 Jodoiicso busl- pen in ore-Invasion Man- these wirt tolncd bv tTLESS carpetbaggers, and hole kit and boodle of pre retiring northward be- fur avenging divisions. una it impossible to be ry for these hangers-on as prouubiy are lor tnem- BE aro two interesting jews in the Pacific news today. Ihe PhillDDincs during the eek, 1037 Japs have SUR ERED. That is a new rcc r Jap captives. Guam there is an even ilgniflcant development. A dicer and 33 of his men wd hid out in tho jungles onths coma In and give lives up. It wasn't hunger orccd them In, for they (lump and well nourished, leem to have come to the sion that dying in a lost ps just plain foolish. way, after considerable pting, thev camo in and to n dcrcd unconditionally, idmiltcd that Japan can't ic war, asked first of all icnance to learn English, fid they ere looking for- o a japan in which Busnt- pe suicide code) doesn't swallow doesn't make pimcr, and surrender of a ps cioesn t mean that the Jap suicide code is ng in the face of failure. Is a CHINK In thn armor. pitinucd on Page Four) PRICE FIVE CENTS Telephone 81 Ml iiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniffiiiiiiiii inn i mi June IB. 1945 Max. (June 17) ...87 Min. ..........50 Precipitation last 24 hours 00 Stream year to data '. 13.0S Normal .......11.53 Last year 9.19 Forecast! Little chang in tamparatura. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1945 Number 10494 Back To Pacific ', ' Ti 4, , r f Poles Confess To Red Charges Of Conspiracy By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, June 13 ) The secretary of tha military col legium of the supreme court told the Judges today that Maj. Gen. Bronlslaw Okulicki and others of the 16 Polish leaders had con fessed to a long list of charges Including killing 594 Russian officers, anti-soviet espionage, and conferring with the Germans. (London Poles said their information was that 15 had confessed to charges). The graying Okulicki, who headed the Polish home army of the London Polish government after the surrender of Gen. Tadeuss (Bor) Komorowski, and his fellow defendants heard the charges without emotion. One of the 16 accused Poles was ill and did not attond. Tha trials were held in the same blue-walled hall of tha Labor building where the Trostkyist purge trials were held in 1937. The same judge. Vasilv V. Ulrlch, presided. I Okulicki was accused of possessing at the time of his arrest by the red army a document in which he declared that in the event of a soviet victory over Germany, England would have to form a western. European dioc to combat the Russians. The Col. George Van Orden of the Marine Barracks will be here for another month and then will return to the Pacific combat area. COL. VI ORDEN Col. George O. Van Orden, commanding officer at the Ma rine Barrncks since last Novem ber, will be detnehed July 20 to return to tho Pacific combat theater. His successor will be Col. Merlin F. Snyder, who has arrived In the United States from Okinawa. Col.1 Van Orden has partici pated actively In community as well as military affairs in Klam ath Falls and the surrounding area, and ' has become widely known )n Oregon in his tour as Mnrinc Barracks head. "It has been a pleasure being a citizen of Klamath Falls," he said today, commenting on his prospective move. Youthful Colonel Tho youngest line colonel in the marine corps, Col. Van Or den was born at tho Marine Barracks, Pensucoln, Fin., 38 years ago. His fnther is Col, G. Van Orden, USMC retired, and his mother died of malaria in Haiti in 1022. Long in the marine corps, Col. Von Orden saw service in Haiti, (Continued on Page Three) School District Elections Today This is election day in the city elementary school dis trict at the Klamath county school district. Polls at Fremont school will be open until 7 p. m, for city school voters. Two school board vacancies are to be filled, a vote taken on a $26, 000 item to extend Fremont school building, and a vote taken on exceeding the 6 per cent budgetary limitation. E. S. Robinson and Jack Schulse are unopposed for the board vacancies. County district elections are being held today in all elementary school buildings. Voters will fill one board vacancy and decide whether the budget may exceed the 6 ner cent limitation. Louis Botens, incumbent, is unop posed on the ballot for the board post. MOVE N DEBATE ISSUE By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 (IP) Australia made a new proposition today for settling the single issue now blocking a successful windup of the United Nations' conference. But appar ently It failed to satisfy Rus sian demands. ABnin it was up to Moscow to. make a declslori(-as it-has been so frequently on Key con ference Droblems. Involved was the question of how broad an authority to ae- bate international questions should be given a world assenv hlv nn which every country from the largest to the smallest, would have a voice. The Australian plan was of fnrrvl bv Foreign Minister Her bert V. Evatt in the nature of a comDromise. It would let the assembly "discuss any matters covered by the purposes ana principles of the (world) charter (Continued on rage mree 10 DEATH IN FIRE After , six attempts to locate him hnri nroven futile. 21-year- old Jerry Craddock was burned to death wnen i're aesuuyeu the homo of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Craddock of Dorris, early Sunday morning. When fire broke out at 12:15 a. m., the four Craddock chil dren and a neighbor's child were alone in the house. Three of the children managed to get out and were outside crying when Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Collins, Dorris, discovered the fire. Collins rescued the one-year-old baby but Shirley Craddock kept crying "Jerry." Collins made six trips into the flaming house but was unable to find Jerry, who had fallen behind the bed. Tho fire department was not called until the fire was well underway, according to re ports. The house was burned to the ground, but it was covered by insurance. Cause of the fire is not known. b Field Officer, 33 Followers Give Up After 10 Months of Hiding on Guam RICHARD O'MALLEY M, June 18 (P) A Japa eld officer who held rem- f?i nis command together "lunuis until ne nad De- symbol of reslstonce to Ns surrendered with 33 of si. Officer made a formal sur (On a ereen hillslrin . of pnd as elements of a ma- uanon watched, slack- lys between tho officer inne col. Howard N. Warner Springs, Calif., Id the surrender, which urted today as a fine ex- i nmcrican psychological against holdout Japa Date of the surrender given, but it nresumablv WO tlmn thl month. kas "secured" August S, Ptarines on Guard inpanose officer attended leys in nn nncn area Ns surrounded carefully brought down his own well-fed appearing troops with him. As ho talked, a subaltern wiped perspiration from his face and another fanned off the flics. Tho Japanese said they had had plenty of food and water. They appeared fit despite their months in the Jungle. Tho first concern of the sur rendering officer was his voiced qU"What is. the future of Japan after victory?" "That will depend a whole lot on the type of leadership that men of your intelligence give it," replied Stent. ' Stolen Clothes Clad in makeshift American service uniforms, including dun garees and jackets on which were stenciled the names of ma rlnes from whom they had been stolen, the surrendering troops counted off briskly. Then their commander, who was described by American officers as alert and Intelligent, said: , "I am turning you over to Col. Stent. You will be treated well, You are now prisoners of war. It Is not a disgraceful state and you are not to regard it as such. First reports of the officer-led Japanese group were heard last September. Numerous efforts had been made to reach him through a truck-mounted loud speaker system and leaflets dropped from an airplane. One day a prisoner reported he had sought the Japanese of ficer's permission to surrender and had been told: "I am thinking of doing the same thing myself." "Sit Out War" Stent followed up a hunch and rigged up a sound truck in the area. Just as the Japanese were believed about to give up, a young medium-sized man, looking a bit heavy for his height and blinking in the bright sun, came from the jungle. In the ensuing talk, the Japa (Continued on ,PR3e Three) document was said to assert that Germany and. Poland should be in the bloc. Indications were that the red army prosecutor would ask the death penalty at least in some cases. The secretary of the court said Okulicki had confessed to sending the message about the European bloc over one of the many radio stations which the red army took from the 16 Pol i on trial. He quoted the message as saying: "In case of victory of the USSR over Germany, not only England's interests but all of Europe's will be threatened." Witnesses Requested The court took under advise ment a request from the gen- (Continued on Page Three) . El P A movement is on foot to abolish liquor prohibition as it is now applied to Klamath In dians. Enactment of such a measure in congress was approved . last weekend by the general coun cil of the Klamath reservation meeting at the agency. The matter has been placed before the Klamath chamber of com merce, and the Indian affairs committee will report to cham ber directors on it Wednesday. Prnnnnents of abolishing In dian prohibition claim that it does not prohibit, but rather leads to racketeering by rene gade whites. They assert that rohlbition is racial discrimina tion, and that prohibition has not solved the Indian - liquor problem. At last week's general coun cil meeting. Mrs. June W. Pol- tras was reelected a member of the loan board, The group elected Dibbon Cook, Wade Crawford and James Johnson as new members of the enrollment committee, succeeding Boyd- Jackson, Jesse Lee Kirk and Tom Lang, who recalled on recommendation of the business committee. The council voted in opposition of the proposed "emancipation bill" which would permit Indians to withdraw from the tribe, and favored the welfare bill, which provides $1000 to each tribe member out of tribal funds. . Wesley Kangas Reported Dead 1A. Wesley E. Kangas, 23-year-old fighter plane pilot of the fourth airborne division was killed In action in northern Italy April 22, according to word re ceived here Monday. He had previously been reported missing in action. Lt. Kangas' wife and daughter, Sandra, reside at 318 North Central, Medford. -. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. kangas, Zlnia, Calif., formerly lived' in Klamath Falls. His grandmother, Mrs. Nora Long, lives at 5460 Independence, Klamath Falls. Lt. Kangas lived in Klamath Falls many years. He attended school at Altamont, and gradu ated from Keno high school in 1B38. At the -time of his en listment, he was working at the Boeing aircraft plant at Seattle. He has two brothers in the navy.. His twin brother, Syd, is serving in the South Pacific, and Bob is ' going to ' aviation machinists' school In Alameda, Calif. RECORD TEMPERATURE Hottest day of the year was reported today when the mercury rose to BU.o in rviamam jeans. Temperature for the second time this year rose to 87 de grees Sunday, equalling a May 2 record. Genera Eisenhower Returns From Wars To Receive Welcome From Grateful U. S. WASHINGTON, June 18 (IP) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, returning triumphantly to his homeland from victory in Eu rope, declared today his soldiers "passionately" believed "the problems of peace can and must be met." . Climaxing a spectacular home coming that saw him ride over the capital's historic . triumphal parade route Pennsylvania avenue past wildly cheering men and women, General Eisen hower told a Joint session of congress and the supreme court: "The . genius and Dower of America have, with her allies, eliminated one menace to. our country's freedom even her very existence. Still another re mains to be crushed in the Pa cific before peace will be re stored." Saying he spoke for the American men and women he commanded, the allied supreme commander declared: . . "Though we dream of return to our loved ones, we- are ready, as we always -have been, to do our duty , to our . country, no matter what It may- be." Earlier in his prepared speech, the general asserted the "prob lems of peace can be no more difficult than the one you had to solve more than three years ago , . , With the same deter mination, the - same optimistic resolution and the same mutual consideration among allies, ... the problems of peace can . and must be met.". . . Hundreds of .' thousands of wildly shouting men,, women and children, veterans of this war and the last, wounded, vet erans, the old and the young, raised their voices in a mighty tumult as the general of the army rode through their midst. It was- - one of the greatest ovations the nation's capital ever rendered. . It started when the: European commander left his giant plane at the national airport and con tinued through lines often 10 deep to the Pentagon building, into the city past the Lincoln memorial, down broad Consti tution avenue to historic Penn sylvania and thence to the seat of -the lawmakers on' Capitol hill. . : Referring to the Pacific war, General Eisenhower said: ; "Speaking for the American men and women I have been so honored to command ... In pur minds and hearts there is ho slightest , doubt that our peo ple's spirit of determination, which has buoyed us up and driven ' us forward in Europe, will continue to fire this nation through, the. ordeals of battle yet to come. Though we dream of return to our loved ones, we are ready, as- we have always been, to do our duty to our country, no matter what it may be." -'.- . -:. . . By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING, June 19 (Tues day) (JFh-The Chinese high command announced that Chi nese forces recaptured Wen- chow, Chekiang province sea port, 220 miles south of Shang hai, at 6 a. m. Monday. Wenchow is the second im portant Chinese coastal city re taken by the Chinese in less than a month. Foochow. 159 miles south, was recaptured on May in. - Wenchow; some- 450; miles west of- Oklnawa-on which American forces are now fight ing,- and Foochow are possible landing points in case American forces should be sent asnore in China. . The high command said the Japanese at Wenchow fled from the southern : bank of the Wu river on which Wenchow stands to the northern bank "with .our troops in hot pursuit." . Other Chinese successes were announced, meantime, in the south. -.' (:;: .. . Polls To Open At 8 Friday Polls will open for the special city and state election at 8 a. m. jfiidav. June 22, and will close at 8 p. m., according to word re ceived from the county clerk's office. Three city measures! will be up for vote and two state mea sures will be voted upon Friday. The three city measures are: (1) A proposed 11 mill levy for three years to raise, $36,000 for. the city-county jail. (2) A-charter amendment to make possible ap pointments to fill vacancies in elective offices, until the next city election. - (3) A proposed one-mill levy for two years to raise $19,000 for city sewer purposes. The two state measures to be voted upon would enact a cigar ette tax to raise $z,uuu,uuu a year for schools, and levy a five mill, two-year property tax to raise $6,000,000 for new state institution buildings and $4,000 000 for higher education build ings. The property tax, . how ever, would not ' be assessed, since it would be cancelled by surplus income tax revenues. Electors of Klamath Falls will vote on the three city and two state measures and county resi dents will vote on the two state measures at the special election. Voting places have been set up as usual in the 76 county pre cincts, including 32 in Klamath Falls, according to Charles F. DeLap, county clerk. List of polls is given on p'age four. Casualty Lt, Wesley Kangas Deportation Order inst Bridges eciarea mva Aga lid WASHINGTON, June 18 (JP) The supreme court today ruled invalid a deportation order against Harry Bridges, west coast CIO leader. ' . Justice Douglas delivered '. the court's ' 5-3 opinion. Justice Jackson took no part in the case. .Chief Justice Stpne wrote a dissent in which Justice Frankfurter and Roberts concurred. The court's decision -climaxed a seven-year fight over govern ment efforts to send the .alien Bridges back to Australia whence he came a quarterentury ago. . - ' ' Attorney General Biddle ordered Bridges deported- on: the ground mat 'the-tongshoremen's union executive had been a mem ber of the communist party. Biddle. at that time said the party advocated violent overthrow of the United States government, v. Denied Affiliation -Bridges contended Biddle'a order violated rights guaranteed to an alien by the constitution. He denied that he ever had been a member' of the communist party or. was 'affiliated with -it. .- The justice department replied that the federal government had sovereign power through its legislative and executive arms "to rid itself of those deemed inimical to -the national welfare." Biddle said his. order was based on an act of congress which stipulated that the attorney general's findings in such cases are final.- : ;'. , ...... .. - The first attempt to oust Bridges was begun by the govern ment in 1938, but it failed when the supreme, court ruled that past membership in the communist party was not a ground for deporting an-alien. . . Then congress, amended the law to make past membership in organizations advocating violent overthrow of the government a cause for deportation. Lower Courts Concur Biddle began, the present proceedings in May, 1942, after adoption, of the amendment. Bridges attacked the deportation order in habeas corpus proceedings, but Biddle was upheld by the lower federal courts. - . 1 . - -- Justice Douglas said for the majority that Bridges had been ordered deported "on a misconstruction of the term 'affiliation' as used in the statute and by reason of an unfair hearing on the question of his-membership in the communist party, his detention under the warrant is -unlawful." . ' "Accordingly," Douglas said,' "it is necessary for us to con sider the larger constitutional questions which have been ad vanced in- the challenge to the legality of petitioner's (Bridges') detention under the deportation order." . j - Douglas- said . the. legislative history of the deportation statute throws little light on the meaning of "affiliation." . .o - (This reference ws to Bridges.' alleged "affiliation" with the communist party). ' - ' : ; - . Queen Contestants Try Out For Bucfcaroo Days Crown By JOY BIGGS - ' : The preview of the July 1 to 4 Klamath Buckaroo Days rodeo, held at the fairgrounds Sunday was a lively sample, of the big four-day celebration. - ... Buckaroos hung : on corral fences, contestants waved their hats "' toward crowded grand stands, horses tossed then manes and pranced on exhibi tion. . The show featured the tryout ride for candidate to tire queen's crown. ' . Arrangements for the day were handled .... by William Hooper and E. P. Ivory. , Mrs. Claire Smith, 1941 Man zanita, introduced the queen candidates, and each spoke a few words of greeting to the spectators, inviting them to at tend the July 1 to 4 events. Can didates are Lora Cross, Dorris, Calif.; Beverly Wampler, Rocky Point; Gloria Jean Saunders, Klamath Falls; Jeanette Prots-. man, Bly; Ginger A. . Thomas, Fort Klamath; Blanche. Schon- chin,' Sprague River. ; l ' Judge Contest '. The tryout ride showed each girl a skilled horsewoman, mak ing the choice for queen just a little harder. Judging the con test were Lt. Col. Hansen,- Capt. B. Koster, and Wave Elinor Fltz Simmons of the naval air base station. They, will announce their decision at the queen's ball to be held Saturday night, June 23, at the Klamath armory. Three and five gaited horses were exhibited, with 11 riders entering this event, of which Louis Serruvs on Maior won first place. Another of Serruys horses, ridden by Sheriff Lloyd Low won second place. Third place was taken by Carmen Jones riding E. P, Ivory's Magic Wand. -v Gale Wins -4 Dr. Wheeler's stock was used in the calf roping contest which was won by Pete Gale with time 24, seconds. Second place went to Basil Brown; and third to Stanley Johnson. - , Twelve palominos, five from (Continued on Page Three) RECORD HAULS DFPR SONERS IDEflSLES 10,000 Held In Trap By Americans On Okinawa By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press Wu Editor ; The surrender of amazingly -large numbers of Japanse fight ing men on Okinawa island and ' in the northeast Philinnine highlighted developments m western Pacific battle area to day. But while hundreds of Nip ponese lost the will to fight and quit cold, some 10,000 others were fiehtine to the death in a hopeless trap on southern Okinawa. . The surrenders in the Cagay-: an valley of the Philippines were termed by one American commander "the greatest haul", taken in the entire southwest Pacific. The prisoners there in cluded many Formosan soldiers, impressed by the Japanese early in the war. . . Four Cities Hit On the Japanese home front four of Nippon's secondary in dustrial cities smouldered under the impact of an estimated 3000 tons of fire bombs spilled by about 450 night flying Super-, fortresses. One B-29 was lost in the four-way blow against vital war industries. The Japanese on Okinawa and in the Philippines began to quit in droves as the total of Nippon dead in the two sectors mount ed to close to 3000 a day. On southern Okinawa where doughboys and marines have split Japanese remnants into two segments with their backs to the sea, the Nipponese have been" dying at a rate of 1600 daily, . - ' Ignore Jap Talk - " Allied commands ignored Ja panese reports of a pre-invasion naval bombardment of the Balikpapan. oil - refinery - area ot Borneo... ' " - .,i Substantial gains were report ed on northwest Borneo and southeast China, parallelling a rapid advance of U. S. 37th di vision infantryment on the Cag ayan valley plains ot the north ern Philippines.. Whitlock Takes , Over Grants Pass C Of C Duties Big, good-natured Warren Whitlock of Klamath Falls took over the job of manager of the Grants Pass and Josephine coun ty chamber of commerce this morning. Whitlock had been contem plating this move for some time. He took an active part in the Klamath county junior chamber of commerce and served as a director of the organization dur ing the past year. - Standing six feet, one inch and weighing an admitted 200 pounds, "Tiny" Whitlock said today that the Grants Pass cham ber of commerce chose him be cause he is "almost two men for the price of one." ' Whitlock became known in Grants Pass through his work as state vice president of the junior chamber of commerce and was a member of the Klam. ath Falls delegation when the Grants Pass chapter was inaugu. rated in September, 1944. He attended the New Mcico Military institute and the San Diego Army and Navy academy, For the past several years ha has been associated with his father, Earl Whitlock, in tha Whitlock Funeral home here. Mrs. Whitlock and their three, year-old daughter, Joyce Lee, will join him in Grants Pass to make their home as soon as liv ing accommodation can - be found, Whitlock said. Enter Queen Contest (a te? (p o II 1 Ginger A. Thomas Gloria Jean Blunder "fine guard but no ' 1.-::: :.--v;