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By FRANK JENKINS
TTllIS vivid paragraph In the
1 cllipnlchcs todny bring to an
end (he ilury of tlio conquest of
Okinawa tho bloodiest chuptcr
o( tho history o( tho Pacific war
to date:
"Clean-up squads of marine
and Infantrymen hunted over
the charred 111 1 In with flame
thrower, rifle and demolition
charge to add to tho 80,401
counted enemy dead. Japanese
. helped by mou suicide In their
caves or drowning In tho mrf,
The air wai permeated with the
itench of denth."
Y71TH Okinawa' conquest com
" nleled. tho story of lt USK-
FULNESS In tho war from here
on out bruin. Nlmtti point
out that lighter and bomber
from II airfield can cover tho
Invasion of cither Japan or
China,
Try to Imagine what our land
Ing on tho Normandy benches
would havo boon without our
COVERING PLANES FROM
KNGLAND.
That will make It clear to you
why we HAD to hnvo Okinawa.
OKINAWA waa a bloody fight.
Hut, wllli our men ON THE
OFFENSIVE (according to the
accepted rules more costly than
defenao), 13 Jnpa wero killed for
every ground forco American
killed or minting. .
THE faint crack In the armor
of Buthldo widened a little
In the cloning day.
In the final orgy of enemy
dim suicide, our men plouded
through tank-borno loiid-pcnk-era
for tho Japs' to crawl out of
their holes and surrender. In
one day (day before yesterday)
1700 of them RESPONDED a
new high for tho Pacific war.
Admiral Nlmitz announces today
that at tho end Jap soldiers sur
rendered IN GROUPS, In soma
caaea led by their officers.
Altogether, some 4000 of them
gavo themselves up.
) . . .
THAT la only about our per
cent of the nearly 100,000
Japs who must have been on the
Island when tho invasion started,
Not vory many. Still! It la a bo
ginning. , This faintly perceptible crack
' In Bushldo might become lg
r nliicant.. ,..vv".'
' 'ANOTHER mas "slaughler'of
, Jap loom Impending In
Luton .Cagayan valley, where
, Filipino guerrillas, led by an
American colonel, block the road
AHEAD of the enemy body of
some 30,000 - retreating troops.
Our. 37th 'division is crowding
them from BEHIND, forcing a
battle on them.
That story will be told In the
dispatches of coming days. .
TN Borneo, the Australians make
another watcrborno frog hop,
landing at Lutong, just south , of
the big Serin oil fields. The
dispatches rclato thnt rough seas
wero the worst obstaclo they had
to overcome. Tho Jap garrison
fled from Lutong so hastily that
hot food was abandoned.
DV this time, tho Japs have
u probably done their worst to
the oil field south of Brunei,
They can hove no use for the oil
themselves, as all their routes
back to the homeland wore cut
long since. Their only remain
ing objective is to keep us from
- using It.
(You may be qulto sure that
our oil experts are poised and
ready to wade into the job of
restoring production In tho flolds
at tho earliest posslblo moment.)
CHINESE dispatches report the
Vj Japs still in retreat north of
Wenchow (about 200 airline
miles south of Shanghai). The
Chinese claim to havo the ISO
odd mllos of coastline from Foo
chow to Wenchow cleared of
Jans.
They' claim today that 4hey
aro nacKing down me jap gar
risons In Amoy and Swatow,
another lsu-odd miles SOUTH'
WARD from Foochow. They
havo reduced these garrisons
they1 say, from around 10,000
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Bids Opened For
Barracks Work
Scaled bids for tho construe
tlon of new buildings and build-
Ing addition at tho Marine Bar
racks were opened yesterday af
. tcrnoon with M. O. Bessonetto
of Medford low bidder at $442,
634.20, according to Lt. Cmdr.
John M, Babcock, officer in
charge of navy construction
here. t
Tho Hslvorson Construction
company of, Salem-was second
at $500,782'' and Brcnnan and
Cahoon of Klamath Falls was
third at a flguro of $541,073,
Babcock stated.
The work will Includo con
struction of a two-story ware
house, two-story ward building,
second floor addition to tho ad
ministration building, an addi
tion to tho central heating plant
including one boiler, 80-man
brig, post-exchange restaurant,
barracks storehouso, and exten
sions to electrical system And
water;, sewer, and steam facili
ties. 'Necessary roads and park
ing areas will also be laid, Bab
cock declared.
ThS low bid will now be for
warded to Washington, D, C,
for approval, ha atated.
PHICE FIVE CENTS
Collective Trial
For War Criminals
Proposed By Yanks
By ALEX H. SINGLETON
LONDON, Juno 22 (P) Justice Robert H. Jackson announced
today a United States plan to prosecute Germany' arch war
criminals in one collective trial and expressed hope that it might
start "before the end of tho summer."
Justice Jackson, the chief united States prosecutor, empha
sized at a press conference that ho could not speak for the three
other major western powers, but said no objection to the pro
posal had yot been lodged by Britain, Russia or France.
List Of Criminals To Be Made -
The British foreign office announced that representatives of
tho United States, Britain, Franco and Russia would open dis
cussions In London early next week to draw up a list of the
major criminals and settle plan lor their trial.
Jackson elaborated upon Information of the collective trial
plan obtained curlier In tho day from a responsible American
The United States plan envisions trial by a military tribunal.
with each of the four major powers representee oy -one or iwo
Judges," Jackson said. As now drafted it carries no provision
for representation by tho smaller powers.-
No Leadership Immunity
At the outset of the press conference, he emphasized that "no
man will be given Immunity because ho has held a high military
position if there Is evidence to prove that he Is war criminal."
In tho first exposition of plans for tho trial of war criminals
given to nowspopor men here, tho supremo court Justice said
that the trials would atari "at the earliest possible moment
just aa soon as wo havo a reasonably complete case."
No 'Food Czar' Scheduled
In Improving Distribution
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
OL
YMP1A. Juno 22 W)
President Truman doesn t con
template tho appointment of a
"food czar" In a program look
ing to the early straightening
out of meat and other food dis
tribution, White ,Houe sources
aid today, ;v -
What ho baa ln mind," these
source said, Is a oloser- working
relationship botweon agendo
supervising the production, dis
tribution and pricing of food.
The program, to be put into
effect when Clinton P. Ander
son becomes agriculture secre
tary and war food administra
tor, will, tho president told his
pre conference yesterday,
HE!
POLES TO BE ASKED
LONDON. Juno 22 (IP) Tho
Polish govcrnmcnt-ln-cxlle an
nounced . today It would ask
President Truman and Prime
Minister Churchill to intervene
in behalf of tho 12 Polish un
derground leaders convicted In
Moscow and request Russia to
withdraw her forces from Po
land. The Poles were convicted this
week of diversionary activities
behind red army lines and sen
tenced to terms ranging from
four months to 10 years,'
Not Completed ' .
Premier Tomasz Arclszowskl
of the exile regime said tho
direct appeal had not yet boen
formally drafted.
He called the Moscow trials
"political" attempts to "be
smirch" tho London regime and
pave the way for establishment
of an authority that would havo
"little In common with the gov
ernment visualized at tho Cri
mea conference."
Arclszcwskl asserted that tho
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Pretty Queen
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Pretty Gloria Glorals reigned aa queen of the Tulelake WRA
end in which $31,000 In war bend , were purchased. Miss Giorgl
bring about an improvement
automatically.
He said there would be a
unity of control over prices and
food but did not go Into details.
That doe not mean, his staff
said, that food control and pric
ing will bo under one head, but
that they will ,bp brought into
balance).!' i. .' -- '
" Thl clarification of the pres
ident' attitude was given short
ly before Mr. Truman's depart
ure . on an automobile trip to
Mt. Rainier. . ... , ."
Schedule Work
Press Secretary Charles O.
Ross said the president plans to
work here Saturday on state
papors which have accumulated
111 the tlmo he has spent at
play.
Ho said .Governor Wallgren
would bo absent from the man
sion tomorrow afternoon, at
tending the funeral of his
brother-in-law, State Highway
Director Clarence Hickey, whp
died Wednesday. Ross said that
he did not know of any plan
for Mr. Truman to accompany
the governor.
Nothing definite has been
planned for Sunday, the final
day of the president's vacation,
Ross said.
Klamath In 4th
Place In Contest
No noteworthy changes in the
standing of tho "big ten" coun
ties was reported today by bond
headquarters. Klamath county
still retains Its place as fourth
on the list, and it was announc
ed that a total of $1,011,759 in
"E" bonds had been sold up to
and including June 20, as
against the $1,538,000 quota.
This gives Klamath county 34.3
per cent of tho entire quota to
be filled.
Everyone Is reminded that
the. Mighty 7th War Loan drive
ends June 30, and there is a big
stretch ahead before we go over
the top.
At Tule WRA Center
Telephone BUM
KLAMATH FALLS. OHEGON,
Commands FMF
Lt. Gen. Roy S. Geiger was
named commanding genarel of
the Pacific fleet marine force,
succeeding Lt. Gen. Holland M.
Smith.
PACIFIC MARINES
WASHINGTON, June 22 (IF)
Appointment of Lt. Gen. Roy
S. Geiger as commanding gen
eral of the Pacific fleet marine
force was announced today.
Geiger, a veteran leader of
Pacific amphibious campaigns,
took over command of Ameri
can forces on Okinawa this
week after Lt. Gen. Simon Boli
var Buckncr Jr. was killed by
an enemv shell.
r Announcement of -his -new
command, - succeeding Lt, "6en;
Holland M. Smith, Was made
by Gen. A. A. Vandcgrm, com
mandant of the marine corps.
' San Diego Commander
General Smith will Ijead the
marine training and replace
ment command in !an JJiego,
Calif.,- replacing MaJ. Gen.
Charles F. B. Price, who will
go on the retired list,
j The 60-year-old Geiger, for
merly commander of the 3rd
amphlDlous corps, takes over
tho major fighting forces of the
marine corps in the Pacific
from one of the most colorful
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Lumbermen Face
New Charges
SEATTLE, June 22 (P) Os
car J. Olscn and H. R. Main,
Bellingham lumbermen free on
5750U ball oacn alter ineir ar
rest Wednesday night on fugi
tive warrants from San Antonio,
Tex., .have been ordered re-arrested
on similar warrants from
Oklahoma City, Okla.,-the of
fice of price administration re
vealed today. .
In the Oklahoma Indictment
28 defendants were named in
cluding Olsen and Main and the
Northwest Lumber and Shingle
company, the company they
operate. Willis Holmes, the com
pany's principal Oklahoma
agent, and other individuals, cor
porations and partnerships in
Oklahoma also were accused of
participating what the OPA
termed as black market oper
ations allegedly headed by Ol
sen, Main and their company..
Bond Rally
center bond Jubilee last week
waa elected by bond purchasers. I
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FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1845
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Delegates Confident
Of Ratification Of
Charter
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Diplomatic
News Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, June 22
IP) The United States senate,
with power enough to promote
or kill a United Nations peace
organization, will get a full re
port on the San Francisco con
ference next week from two of
ita members.
American delegates express
confidence that the senate will
ratify' the charter of the organ
ization which they and repre
sentatives of 49 other nations
have produced here in nine
weeks of work.
But ndhc would predict today
that lt would be done immedi
ately, in time for President Tru
man to report it . at the July
Big Three meeting at Berlin.
Delay Certain
In fact, it appeared certain
the senate committee hearings,
a preliminary to debate on rati
fication, could not begin until
the second week in July when
detained reports of conference
debates will have become avail
able. Thelse and interpretive
statements on various points of
the charter are considered es
sential to senate discussion.
Meantime, Lord Halifax, chief
British; delegate, told a news
conference that his government
may be expected to ratify the
charter regardless ol the com
ing British elections. He. said
there . would be no change in
"the main line of British policy
both in respect to the conduct
of the Pacific war and to the
work which we have . done
here."
Schedule Departure
Chairman Connally (D-Tex.)
of the senate foreign relations
committee and Senator Vanden
berg (R-Mich.), both ' members
of tho . American delegation,
have arranged to leave here
two hours after President Tru
man addresses the closing ses
sion next Tuesday night.
f lying to Washington with
the charter unless Mr. Truman
himself takes it back directly
Connally will make a report to
the senate on Thursday. Van-
denberg, who will travel with
him, will then make a further
report and state his own posi
tion as chairman of the repub
lican senatorial conference., on
Friday.
In San Francisco. Vandenberg
has taken care, even as an
American delegate, to keep his
position fluid so that if he did
not approve the charter in its
final form he would be at lib
erty to say so. However, now
that it is finished, it is report
ed that he will become one of
its most outspoken supporters.
New Strikes Add
To Idle Numbers
By The Associated Press
New strikes in vital war in
dustries today pushed the total
of workers idle in labor troubles
beyond the 70,000 mark.
In Detroit, already plagued
by a variety of work stoppages.
3500 ' workers left their Jobs
in a Briggs Manufacturing com
Danv aircraft nlant in srotest
against lack of meat in their
sandwiches supplied by a cater
ing firm.
The CIO union local presi
dent asserted the stoppage was
undertaken against the advice
of union officials.
Reds To Consider
Army Discharges
LONDON, June 22 (IP) A
law providing for the demobil
ization of the older age classes
of the red army in the fieli was
placed on the agenda of the su
preme soviet of the U. S. S. R.
when it convened for ita twelfth
session tonight, Tass news agen
cy reported in a Moscow broad
cast. . .
j Election Service
' The Herald and News will
compile returns from the spe
cial 'election tonight. First re
turns will be in about 8:30
p. m., and will continue until
the votes are in. Citizens are
welcome to visit the office or
to telephone 8-111 for returns.
SENATORS
REPORT
ON CHARTER
Juna 22. 1945
Max. (Juna 21) 84 Min. ,.. 53
Praclpitation last 24 hours 00
Stream year to data ......13.06
Normal 11.64 Last yaar 9.89
Forecast Cooler with strong winds.
'Time On
Local election beard lent out
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ing- and settled down .lor a quiet day. witn only an uurequent
voter arriving, to break the monotony. Typical of "time on my
hands" is Evelyn Hudson. Altamont high school teacher, working
on board No. 11 at the Lake hotel. At the Lake hotel, there were
only five votes at 1 p. m. In precinct 8 there were six votes at
11 a. m. In precinct 10 there were four votes at 11 a. m. In
North Altamont there were five votes at 1:30 p. m. Polls will
not close until Bp. m. - . i
Secret Airline Service
v Operated Out Of Sweden
By HENRY B. JAMESON !
LONDON, June 22 (IP) More
than 3000 imnortant nassehgers
were flown out of neutral Swe
den during the last year of the
European war by-' the U. S.
army's "secret airline" which
operated under the noses of the
Germans.
It was one of the strangest
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By STERLING F. GREEN
WASHINGTON. June 22 (IP)
A lumber shortage, more severe
than in any previous wartime
year threatens to .retard recon
version and recovery of the con
struction industry. . . -.
Lumber needs, estimated by
the war production board at 40
billion board feet for 194S, arc
8 billion feet above foreseen
supplies an unbalance that has
aroused official fears of a lum
ber black market.
Allotments Up
Civilian lumber allotments
have been increased 19 percent'
for the July-September -quarter.
This will give "a little more el
bow room," a WPB spokesman
said, but it appears inadequate
to support the five-fold increase
in home, farm and commercial
construction work recently per
mitted by relaxation of WPB's
construction order. t
. Direct military demand is ex
pected to taper but slightly
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850-Acre Fire
Fought In Forest
BEND. Ore..- June 22 (IP)
The worst Oregon forest fire of
this season was brought under
control today after blackening
830 acres of heavy growth vir
gin timber in the Deschutes na
tional forest. : - ' ;
The blaze, which broke out
Wednesday in the Metolius river
area, was checked by 280 forest
service workers, loggers, para
troopers from - Pendleton, Ore.,
and conscientious objectors..
A hundred flrc-fightcrs were
released today," and 80 more will
leave - the woods tomorrow.
About a hundred men will re
main for mop-up operations.
Number 10498
My Hands'
2 S teiel"
for reading material this morn
military operations of - the " war
and the Hermans employed
every trick they knew to stop it,
but without avail. . . ..
' Some secrets of this mysteri
ous pseudo-civil airline, which
now nas mossomea into a tuii
fledged military .line between
Scotland and Sweden, were re
vealed today- by Brig. Gen. Earl
S. Hoag, commander pf the Eu
ropean division of the air trans
port command, the agency desig
nated to handle the- job; - Most
of the flying had been scheduled
purposely in bad weather.
Constantly Followed
The airmen, disguised as civ
ilians, had become so accus
tomed to being shadowed by ges
tapo agents in Stockholm that
they didn't even bother locking
their hotel, rooms at night. They
were followed everywhere, and
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Committee Okays
War Supply Bill
WASHINGTON. June 22 (IP)
A S38.500.285.951 war depart
ment supply bill went to the
house floor today with an army
promise to speed victory over
Japan by "an overwhelming ap
plication of force."
Its approval by the appropri
ations committee accompanied
publication of three weeks of
testimony by nigh army oiti
cials who foresaw devastation
for Japan more awful than that
which battered the nazis to their
knees.
Lose Any Red
Library books encounter strange experiences while they
are out, Enola Hawkins, city librarian, observes, and are re
turned enclosing unusual mementos.
Among odd markers found in returned books, Miss Hawk
ins lists toothpicks, matches, letters sometimes to be mailed,
lacking stamps greeting cards, identification and social se
curity cards, hairpins, paper clips, flowers, snapshots without
names. And once, in pre-rationing days, a strip of bacon.
Books come back spotted with grease, packed with crumbs,
and speckled with cigarette ash,- the librarian stated, silent
clues to their borrowers' habits. Melted candy and crushed in-
furta also rlpcnrate naffes. - . - -
Books indicate pets in the
show where they nave been used tor not cooKing poi sumua
by tell-tale greasy circular burns, and edges kicked in show
where they have been carried around on the floor of a car.
The strange angle in the mistreatment of library books,
Miss Hawkins nolntx out. is that the neoDle who. misuse them
don't seem to realize they are
age. Taxes maintain tpe. library and tne more tax money ji
takes to clean and rebind books, the less money there is for
keeping up to date on new books and improving the library
in general.
LANDING ID
6990 Troops Killed
To Gain Control
" 'Of Island :
By LEONARD MILLIMAN '
Ansociated Press War Editor .
Superforts making their third
450 plane attack on Japan with
in five days spearheaded today's
bad news for Tokyo. All of it
ixuui uuuja surrenaers on iaiien
Okinawa to fresh invasions of
Borneo's - oil fields was dis
heartening to Emperor Hiro
hito. The mikado may find some
consolation in knowing that 90,
401 of his subjects, now dead,
extracted a hicher nrici in
American lives for Okinawa
than any other Pacific island.
U. S. ground forces lost 6990
killed and 29,598 wounded ex.
ceeding Nipponese losses on any
American-captured island out
side the southwest Pacific.
In the Southwest Pacific Aus
tralians leapfrogged - 50 miles
down the west Borneo coast in
an unopposed landing between
the rich but flaming Sena and
Mlri oil fields.
Enemy Split
A brilliant coud hv Amprfran-
led Filipino guerrillas split 30.
000 Nipponese in the northerm
Philippine Cagayan valley, and
the harried enemy hurled two
tank-led counterassaults against
u. o. iruups in an attempt to es-
cape from the trap. : i
Japanese forces in Asia snf-prt.
ed their withdrawals from east
China port citics a potential
American invasion area. Chinese'
began attacking the former U. S.r
air base at Liuchow in southeast-
viniia, and American observer
continued on Page Seven) .
Eisenhower Gets '
Hometown
Welcome 3
rABILENEr Kas.'june 22 (IP)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
back home at last among tho
people he grew up with, today,
expressed great emotion as he
accepted their acclaim, .then
very seriously called for solid ,
support by the American peo
ple of President Truman in his
efforts' to solve the war' prob
lems and unite the nation."
"President Truman's hsfnd
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Eisenhower park stadium, "by
the knowledge that back nf him
are a united people ready to do
his bidding." .
House Adopts
Hoover Clause .. .
WASHINGTON. June 22 lip
The house today adopted the
so-called "Hoover amendment"
which would striD the office
of price administration of most
of its food controls. -
The vote,, taken while the
house considered a one-year ex
tension of OPA, was 145 to 142
in favor of an amendment SDOn-
sored by Rep, Jenkins (R-Ohio)
providing that control over
food production, " distribution
and pricing be transferred to
the department of agriculture.
Three Forest
Fires Reported
" Three forest fires were start
ed on the west side of Klamath
lake as a result of the lightning
storm on Wednesday night, it
was reported by the Klamath
Forest Protective association.
Two of the fires resulted in no
damage, but 15 acres of timber
were burned in the blaze at
Squaw point. A crew of marines
were called to the scene of the
fire Thursday evening, and an
other crew relieved them this
morning.
The fire was reported as com
pletely under control today, al
though crews are still on hand
to stand guard until all danger
has passed. ----- -
Points Lately?
home of chewed corners. 'They
the ones who pay for the dam-