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Newspaper Page Texti rniNK JENKINS L ' - a I "V t. V I 9t,..m ...r ri.i. lane! I 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 I . -w . - Normal ...11.58 Last year 9.22 I . . Telephone BUI - L ,r c ;,Jl Jl D fl 1 1 M R IAPAM PHICE FIVE CENTS KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY. JUNE 19. IMS Number 10495 nllljUlllJ Ufll fill Jr.! uirtorv 111 sight. General smon Bolivar Butler, ,,nd tomninntler on Okinawa, " ...i wnlc n lliu an nnimuu oy rTj enmbnt team. Jan L crymcn Kt tlio range and Ed hnlf a dnr.cn uliolla in a Knltcr... Splinter from them killed uuuer in r .r A l..tu tlnvH curlier, thn P1':. ..nmniiiiiilnr In tho ID I""". r , " . . bW." "W..l." I 1,1, H e' . . . ifflNAWA is all but over as a k.nin There remains only Lrueomo lk of killliiK the lorfuniM'u body unci rootlim ....ninrinlned number out of ""-:-... .. i llcrcd ciivus ,,uw iiw'v-n. ih. Caiiayan valley of north ..n i.UZUII. IVH --uiih hiu n OX CUTIS urawil uy wiiil-i iiiIom for transport, tneir ..i. hnvlnil boon badly uhtd up by our planes. When ft.ii M WIll'IU UIVJ- UlU HVlllu Irtimmbly tbo benches at the tndi norinern emu iiieiu win nowhero elo to go for there be no Jap ships to rescue m. . . . . . rhtlr weird BuKhldo code Lvcs them nothing to do, any , but to die. r" LTIIOUGH savage and brutal, Buihldo lin t quite as aosura II jouncls. Thcso and other usands of Japs scattered bough southeast Asia, the tdiEo't iiuiics ana ma isianns ih. Pacific are expected to lie their lives lor umo. mme in wnicn gomcining kvrHING. mlKhl happen ijbt qunrrcl between us and . Rusilnns. maybo a ruckus ln us and tho British, may' lnucnmlsh unwillingness on r part to face and KO through 14 the sickening tasx ox Killing ilioni of Jons. Alter all, In the thinking of enemy high command, it tins only the death of more fc) and thore are plenty of fei wncro incso camo irom kj more being corn every any. Borneo tho Australians are hilling southward from Bru lownrd the oil -fields, now lie 29 miles distant. Tho Japs deilroylnii tho fields as fast V ii thoroughly as they can it domes from tho fires they ft let arc visible 60 miles ir, ind PT boats half a mile tore can reel tho blistering I. Tokyo radio says today that mips and planes have been ping and sneiung BaiiK lun, another big Borneo oil i. tor days but mere is no mile indication as yet we arc ui to land southern Gormany American poops who have been prodding t lenrchlng for weeks, tin- tr mother five billion' dollar run gold hoard. feire now permitted to know ivhen Britain faced Invasion k In the dark days of 1940 Mattered her sold hoard kufhout the world, sending It on snips that took long Intes, sometimes unescorted. whole enterprise, we arc Involved only the "trifling of some 20 million dollars." frilling," although It Jars on inn or us little peoplo when M lo describe 20 million dol- 1 ii the right word, what is WO.OOO In a world war7 IE British sent' their gold 'Crsens. to nlacn whern thev hi recover ft and use It. The FMns. having no rjlaco over- go and no snips to get ' with, burled theirs where might be able to dig It up line II !e fact that they seem to ' burled the bulk of It In rn Germany indicates that f did HOPE to hang out in "wen touted but in tne cna ! Bnvnrinn "redoubt." nc nnzls dreamed of using It 1 treasury with which to v un tne nazi cause into tne ! years of tho future. 1 did they? Maybo Hitler, Goorlng, 'Her, Rlbbentrop St Co. lontinucd on Page Three) Work Rushed On New Tank REDS PL AMD OF POLAND CHARGE Leader Testifies Opening Trial On Charges Wattr shortag In the eastern part of the city will b ralleved whtn work is finished on the new Melros tank. Copeo officials said today. Th picture shows welders at work on the tank, which will have a capacity of 800.000 gallons. While tha tank Is under construction, the Copco system lacks the use of the old Melrosa tank, of 3S0.000 gallon capacity, causing a shortage. The new resorvoir will be in use about mid-July. By EDDY CILMORE MOSCOW, June 10 (JP) Ma J. Gen. I. Bronislaw Okulicki testified today before the soviet court trying him and 15 other Poles- for subversive activities behind red army lines that Gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski of the su preme Polish command told him the red army intended to make Poland the 17th republic of the soviet union. Okulicki. commander of the Polish home army and the lead ing defendant, said the conver sation took place in London last March. Okulicki said he was appointed home commander after the conversation and other arrangements, reaching the nomeiand by way oi Italy in a Liberator-type plane flown by a Polish crew. Poles Witness . Before the general took the stand, a long line of Polish wit nesses told of wrecking trains,, blowing bridges and killing Rus sian soldiers. A Polish jour nalist testified that the under ground army's propaganda min ister directed that the Russian army be considered an "enemy" and an "aggressor." Okulicki testified: "I arrived in Warsaw on June 2, 1044. In the first days I was assistant : commander, of the home army and then became commander, my appointment coming irom London.' . .- "Independence Threatened Okulicki testified that he sought to carry on the fight against the uermans to the end. (Continued on Page .Three) mums approve Treasure Valued At Five ! Billion Dollars Discovered By AUSTIN BEALMEAR . PARIS, June 19 (fl') -American troops of the 12th corps have found securities, gold and jewel ry valued nt more than $5,000, 000,000 hidden by the Germans at Rcgensburg, communications IP'S HE HE INVALIDATED n.. rnw&nn H. HIGGS WASHINGTON, June 19 (IP) A federal district court order ..I-!.,,, dm Associated Press to relax its by-lnws on admis sion of members boro supreme court approval today. Over a minority protest that the news gathering cooperative is being treated os a public utll iiv onri hulnn nut under court tutelage," the high tribunal Into vo.trrinv ruled. 8 to 3, Hint the (Continued on Page Three) en. Eisenhower Welcomed y Record Crowds in N. Y. Bv ED CRE1RH F YORK, June 19 (IP) "i mo Army uwignt u. "lower flushed and breath- "om the greatest wclcomo ork ever had accorded a nine h.m i.u ,.ot d that ovcrilowed City Hall w? are going to live the Of noo'A urn miml ha PI ! and wo must be ready to In tho spirit of true - ana forbearance." TWO MMlln. MiUm P1,ce Ostlmntnrl that 9.000.- Persons were Jammed into "nilng streets. our mil- m i- .?' by tar the largest nfV? he c'ty'8 history, were w e n t, u -i.nn.n 1, -"-.j iu nave vn.-" metal earlier on his tour ini.".'? a special city medal --wiing honorary citizen ship In New York City, the tanned, balding supreme allied commander told the throng be fore city hall: "Must be Strong "It Isn't enough that wo de vise every kind of International machinery to keep the peace. Wo must also be strong ourselves. Weakness cannot cooperate with anything Only strength can co- OPTlfet0mllllons that greeted El senhower lined curbs, leaned from windows and hung from fences to catch a glimpse of him. It was "the experience of a lifetime," ho declared in accept ing the hand-carved gold medal, and he said - humorously to Mayor P. H. La Guardla. who conferred the honorary eitizen- S1''ncw York simply cannot do tills to a Kansas farmer boy and keep its reputation lor sopnisu- cnlion. zone headquarters announced today. Included in the capture in hid' den vaults of the Rcgensburg Reichsbank was the national Ih nf Bavaria and Austria The cache was more valuable than that found April 7 in the Merken salt mine, which includ ed 200 tons of gold. The treasure was in gold bul lion, stolen iewelry and securt tics. Some was known to have bee taken from victims of nazi death camps. Lt. John J. Stack Jr., of San Francisco, fiscal officer of the 12th corps, led the party which seized the treasure. The same corps made the orl- glnnl discovery in the same oonornl nrea of central Germany in the last days before the un conditional surrender ot tne enemy. Klamath Man Drowned Monday Thrnn nersons who were at tending a family reunion and clamming party at Oretown, near Tillamook, Ore., were drowned late Monday in the small Nestucca river when their boat capsized. Lost were fcis wnrih .T. Wonser. 80. of Wash burn way in Klamath Falls, and hi two nenhews. Merle Porter, 23, and Lloyd Porter, 18, of Oretown. Four other occupants of tho boat swam safely to shore, Wonsor left hero Saturday to at tend tho reunion. Ho is survived by his wife, Armprin three sons. Ray and Jesse Wonser of Klamath Falls and Wesley Wonser of Long- view, Wash., four daughters, Mrs. R. A. Nelson and Mrs. C. R. McCool of Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Carl Ropes of Fairfield, Wash., and Mrs. Chester Tuttle of Kelso, Wash. Also surviving him is one sister, Mrs. Alta Thomas of Walla Walla, Wash., and two brothers. Harley Won ser of Kolso and falter Wonser of California. Wonser has Z7 grandchildren, two of whom are in Germany, and one great grandchild. President Truman Proposes Changes In Succession Line WASHINGTON. June 19 (IP) President Trumani' embarking qn th first of a long series of plane flights, today asked congress to make the speaker oi the house his successor ii anything un toward should happen to him. As the house is now organised, this would throw the suc cestion to 63-year-old Sam Rayburn of Texas. Under present procedures, Mr. Truman would be replaced in the White House by the secretary of state, the post now held by Edward R. Stettinius Jr., should he be unable to complete his. term. The speaker of the house of xepresentatlTes. Mr. Truman told congress, is more truly rep resentative ot ail tne people. MEXICANS ASK In an approving mood, a hand ful of Klamath t ails elementary school district voters went to the noils yesterday to put their okay on next year's budget plans, a special levy, and two Incumbent school board mem bers. A S26.000 item' for Improve ments at the Fremont school, including additional classrooms and shower rooms, was adopted, 70 Yes and 15 No. The voters adopted next year's budget, 74 to 9, and voted 70 to 15 in favor of an increase above the 6 per cent statutory limitation. E. S. Robinson, incumbent, was elected to one school board nost. with 87 votes, and J. H Schulze received 88 for another post. . Both are incumbents, and both were without opposition. An election was also held In the county school district, with a few scattering returns only available today. These indicated that the district budget, which is over the 8 per cent limit, was approved, and that L. Botens had been re-elected to the- school board. Local school committeemen were named in the various sub districts. These will be listed and announced as soon as the county school office can com Dile them. The vote In both districts was extremely light. Donald Kafton Killed In Action PFC Donald R. Kafton. 19. was killed in action on Oki nawa, May 14, the war depart ment has advised nis mother, Mrs. Sarah Elona Kafton, 1821 Etna. , PFC Kafton had been, report ed missing in action three days previous to the final notifica tion. - He was serving with the 96th infantry division. - - The young soldier graduated from Klamath Union high school in 1944 and was inducted in Aneiist of the same year. He was a member of the First Christian church and was active in church work. S 1c, is stationed at New York harbor. Three other brothers, Sgt. Hugh, in England: William, an aircraft worker in California; and Wesley, of Salem, survive him.' He also leaves, besides his mother, a sister, Mrs. Ethel Mar. tin, 1841 Summers , lane, Klam ath rails. AH RUL E By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Diplomatic - News Editor SAN FRANCISCO. June 19 (IP) Mexico came forward to day with a proposal that the United Nations permanently bar the Franco government of Spain from membership in their world league. Luis Ouintanllla. former Mex- ican ambassador to Moscow, planned to put tne proposition formally before a public session of one of the United Nations conference commissions, which are driving toward completion of a world charter this week. - Invites Argument : His proposal invited argument as ,to .whether . .theconf exence should, attempt to write 'any specific membership limitations wnen n is assigning to a world assembly. the task of . admitting outside nations. - Quintanilla said he would ask the commission (meets: at 3:30 and 8:30 p. m. PWT) to adopt a declaration stating that no gov ernment should be admitted which came to rjower with the aid. of military forces or coun trl '. which have fought against the United Nations. The final session of the con ference, with President Truman making the-closing address, still is scheduled for next Saturday. But it also is ' still uncertain whether that date can be kept, even with every effort of confer ence leaders. ' Denends on Redi Much depends ' on possible Russian acceptance of a com promise for limiting the field of subjects which the assembly may debate and on which it may make recommendations to mem ber nations and the - security council which would be the peace-enforcing agency. unginany a conference com mittee approved the right of the assembly to discuss any subject bearing on international rela tions. Russia objected that this was too broad a grant. ' Last week Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko insisted that the field must be ' limited to matters af fecting the maintenance.' of peace and security.. . Business Houses Forcibly Entered Three' Klamath Falls business concerns were forcibly entered sometime last night, according to city police reports. Buildings entered included the Klamath Shopping Guide, 1205 Klamath, the Klamath. Val ley Lumber company, , 1940 S. 6th. and the Klamath Refriger ation company, 2000 S. 8th. En try was gained by either break-1 ing or forcing a window, re ports stated. A total of $75 was missing from the offices of the , Shop ping Guide this morning with $5 in currency and the remain der in silver. Six 6-foot ateel tapes and a check protector were taken from the lumber company, but the protector was found by city police near the Southern Facmc rauroaa iracKs, The extent of loss to the re frigeratlon company was not known this morning. '' A chock- un is being made by company officials. City police and juve nile authorities are investigat ing the case. Portland Temperature May Fall, Prediction PORTLAND. June 19 (JP) The sun came out again strongly here' this morning. but the weather bureau forecast' a de cline from-the hot spell of the last two davs. The mercury reached 90 here vesterdav one . degree cooler than Sunday's all-year record of 91. Killed . In a special message to both houses -of congress sent shortly after he took off on a non-stop flight to Olympia,. Wash., the president said tne question of succession "is of great impor tance now because there win be no elected vice president for almost four years." , . . - Recalls' Law'. Mr. Truman, who .entered the White House from the vice pres idency on the death of President Roosevelt April 12, said the ex isting - succession law, enacted in 1886, provides for members of the cabinet .to take over the presidency in the event that neither ' the elected president nor vice president .can serve. me order, of succession Is: the secretaries of state, treasury and war; attorney general, post master general, and . secretaries of navy and interior. . Can-Name Successor ,-. Pointing out- that- each -of these cabinet members Is ap pointed by the president,' - Mr. Truman- said it now lies within his power to nominate his ' im mediate successor "in the event of my- own :death or . inability to -act.'Vf'.s. i, , " ,vv. i -.' "1 do' not belfeVe that-in -a democracy this! nower should rest with .the chief executive. Insofar as possible; the -office of the president should be filled by an elective officer." ' ' 1 He recommended that- the speaker be next in line of suc cession and that he should serve riot -longer than until the next congressional election or until special election - call for the purpose of electing a new. presi dent and vice president. ,. .; ' Fix Period ';. ' ' This - neriod ' the '' congress should fix, he asserted.. The 'hv dividuals elected at such gen eral' or special election should then serve only to fill the un expired term oi the former president and vice president. "In this- way," Mr. Truman said "there would be no inter ference with' the normal four year interval of general nation til election's." . He said .the speaker should resign as- a representative in congress as well as-speaker of the house1 before he assumes the presidency; next in Lint He- recommended further that the succession pass to the presi dent pro tempore of the' senate if there is no qualified speaker or if the speaker fans to quali fy. The president pro tempore would hold the office only until a d u l y qualified speaker -is elected. . . If there be neither speaker nor Dresident pro tempore quali fied to .succeed on the creation of the vacancy, then the succes sion might pass to the members of the cabinet as now provided, until a duly qualified speaker is elected." i Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck ner Jr., leader of the 10th army on Okinawa, was killed in. ac tion by Japanese artillery shell 'yesterday. . Gen. Buckner was at a forward observation cost of the 3rd battalion oi the 8th marine- regiment' .when he was killed. Funeral . services were conducted on -the island' today.' v. V ; -' Some Discharges To Be Delayed ' WASHINGTON, June 19 (IP) The . war deDartment told con gress today that many, service men who rate discharge under the point system cannot be re leased before next June., . . And, it advised the house military committee, it has no in tention of lowering the age for automatic discharges, now 4U. The information was furnish ed the committee bv Mai. Gen. Stephen G. Henry, - assistant chief of staff, who: was asked for a detailed . explanation of operation of the point system, Gen. Buckner Killed In Okinawa ' ' Battle S AFTER JAP BLOWS WASHINGTON.' June'-lS ' W) The USS Emmons, which help ed escort President. Rooseyelt ;n route to the Tehran-' Big Three conference, has' been lost -off Okinawa yictorp. of -Japanese suicide planes. ' ' ' .;, ;' . -. Htt'.bv five kamlkazesiwUhin a few minutes, the Emmons was so' badly damaged she; had-toi be, sunki by sister ships, ,1'hoiirs after the . attack last .- April' 6. She suffered 139;: casualties, in cluding: 39 killed, 78 wounaea and two missing. : , Formerly - a destroyer,-,.,, the Emmons was conyerted jto,- aide stroyer ' minesweeper before- she joined the Pacific .fleet last-January. In , Novemlber...l943.f the Emmons was one of a'- number of escorts for tne. . Datuesmp Iowa which'carried Mr.? Roosevelt- across " the -Atlantic: to i bis first- meeting -with: ;Marshal Stalin.;- ...!..::;-v ';2i. ' Her fatal engagement 'was her first in Pacific waters. Attack ed by 1 2 enemy planes, ;she shot down six, but five Dorea inrougii the wall of AA fire and crash ed the ship. '.":( V--.-; ; : The. attack occurred' 'as; the Emmons and - another:- mine sweeper were operating in, -the northern Okinawa' area' east of Ie-Shima, ' ': ' ' By LEIF ERICKSON ' 21ST BOMBER COMMAND. GUAM, Wednesday. June 20 (IP) Flying their second fire raid mission against secondary Japanese industrial cities,., about 450 Superiorts struck Shisuoka and Toyohashi on Honshu island and Fukuoka on Kyushu today. ' -The B-29s dropped their in cendiary loads from low alti tude in atlackingi starting bout 3 a. m. It was the first fire attack for each oi the three cities. Fukuoka, with a population of 323,000, has become increasingly- important indus trially, with its concentration oi ordnance and aircraft fac tories. It is the capital of northwestern Kyushu's Indus trial and mine prefecture. . Toyohashi is. situated 189 miles southwest oi Tokyo and has major armament and ex plosives iactories as well as several military schools. It hat a population' of about .242,000. : Shisuoka. about 85 miles southwest oi Tokyo, was the site of an important aircraft engine plant which was SB per cent destroyed in a pre cision demolition attack by 11 Superforts April 12. COHVALLIS. " Ore!:." Jtirie .19 (AV-Tbe bodies - of -an-- entire family a woods'" worker,. vhls wife and their -two small sons, dead about a week, havef been found in their home at Summit, in thehills of western..!Berit.on nmiiifv ; - . -Ii. Sheriff W. -JM. Harper said it appeared that the man,. Clifford J; Allen, 34, apparently shot ;his wife, Lanetta Crystal,1 29; their two sons, Larry G., 5 and Dickie Leroy,: 6 months, them-himself, with.' a rifle. Members, of the family were last -seen on-June 12.--' :"'" Relatives said Allen, whb was injured on a logging accident -a (Continued on Page . Three) Bulleiin " TWO DIE IN CRASH . LAKEVIEW, June 19 A dive bomber from the; Klam ath naval air station .crashed ( today into , Goose lake, near Willow Ranch, today. - It was reported that the. pi ' lot and radio man in the craw were killed. Names will' not be revealed until the next of kin are notified. '; Ceremony Ends Long Search . : Two men stood at attention at the high school staflium-;in Lakeview. A marine major, John M.- Robb, of the. Klamath Falls Marine Barracks,. stepped smartly, forward and presented them with Purple Hearts,- saluted and stepped back. This simple ceremony brought to an end 27 years of tracing by the army service forces records branch, which finally .located the two men. who had been wounded in World War I.;. ,' i . Both of them, Robert M. Pardue and Martin Anderson, now of Lake county, had previously lived in Portland,-but because , of incorrect addresses and frequent ,moving,vhad; not left sufficient clues for army sleuths to follow untilv 27 years had passed. Then marines of the. all-marine bond troupe hon ored the men at a show Saturday night,, climaxing their regu lar show with the award of tho medals. ,v v American - submarines which Tokyo' . acknowledged were prowling - waters all around Japan have sunk 11 more Nip ponese ships bringing their war time total, to , 1153, the navy an nounced today as U. S. ground forces smashed into, the closing . phases' of the Okinawa cam paign - on . Nippon's, southern doorstep, : ': Latest' submarine catch in far eastern waters included two tankers and nine; freighters,, one of them large. ' - V -, - ' . '. . Buckner KiUed :l ' ! Veterans "of Tarawa,-brought-ln "for .the. kill; on .Okinawa, spearheaded U. S. tenth army , forces today in driving demoralized-Japanese toward' suicide cliffs at the climax of the cam- . paign: that cost the life of the -American commander, Lt. Gen. -Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr;-. -; i The -58-year-old general was , killed yesterday.. He diedwith a. smile on his face,- knowing conquest-of Okinawai- was vir- . tually completed and his men were- killing the enemy- at a , ration of more: than 32 to 1. Sunday's toll was 1549 Japanese killed and 47 Americans.: : The Okinawa ground cam paign gained sudden momentum yesterday.-Yanks, reinforced by fresh .'marines who conquered Tarawa and . fought on Saipan and Tinian, broke through : crumbling Japanese defenses in all sectors. "". -. ' Like- gains were scored- in every other battle area.: Chinese reoccupied . the port : of Wen chow,. 220 miles south of Shang hai, and-drove to within - 21 miles of 'Liuchow, key south- east China ' transportation cen ter. - ..;-: Enter Oil Area ' Australians broke into Tou ton oil ; refinery area in Sara wak, west Borneo territory ruled : by the white-Rajar, in a 25-mile advance since: their June 10 in-, vasion of 'Brunei bay. , '" Three U. S. divisions push ed: toward the northern tip of Luzon V island in ma jor Philip pines action. I ; Gen. Douglas MacArthur ere- ated a-new supply command to: day for . army, ground forces which will invade Japan. Tokyo predicted - Japan wouldn't be invaded until after "a long period of preliminary bombing," and . reported there was still no sign; of a third in vasion Of Borneo although allied warships were continuing a bom bardment of Balikpapan. , i .. Mac Hoke Dies In Portland PORTLAND, Ore., June 19 (IP) Mac Hoke, Pendleton grain and sheep rancher who became one of : the best known names in America's wool industry, died here this morning in Emanuel hospital,. !' i, Hoke, 54, had been in the hnenlinl QVimit a month. i A member of the state board of higher education since 1940 and a former member of the state board of agriculture, Hoke was one of the state's leading citizens.- He was vice president of. the National Wool Growers association. " : - ? At the time of his death, he Was president of the Oregon Farm Bureau arid of the North west Livestock Production Cred it - association, . which he headed since its inception. , Until last January, when- he refused to Stand again-for reelection, he was ' president of the - Oregon Wool-Growers association; - , to '.v f : 1 liil-..