Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, June 30, 1945, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI an J lJ xD Lfu Wj . ' mmm ' FORMER YANK - I B FHANX JENKINS IN tha PacMiu war thoso day, wo'ro doing two JubM Rotting; at (or tha 1110 PUSH that will cook Jupun's goose, us Ger iiiany'n hu bmtii ulreudy cooked, and mcunwhllo ainuslilug liar In dustries, destroying her shipping and starving liar down by blockade (UR natural Inclination ! to lump too quickly to con clusions. Wo'ro ant to think of tho bin push, (or exumplo, a sonioiliing nun mignt suiri any day now, It Isn't likely to. If you raad tha news cnrolillly and discriminatingly, you must havo nolnd that mil truniiport In contlnenlal United Stairs Is ex pected to bo ubnorniully con nested (or neurlv tan month! i, while wo ore redeploying our (orcai from the European theater 7 to the Pacific. It took in u long time to get reudy In Englund for D-day In Normandy. Our urnwlng Pa cific buses are MUCH (urther away. ' . WHAT In happening in Borneo I both preparation and re continent. Wo'ro taking tho bill Inland back from tho Jap, and at the snnm tlmo we're jlaltlnil oil CLOSER TO TUB Jfium- INC.. U- 1..fn li,tr,t l,-l,lAritnll V. that oil from tho Tarnkan wells in already being pumped Into lank, from which It will 80 Into the bunkers of our hip. The Australians havo the large C.L -.J MM tl-lAm hi 111- west coast of tha Island. In their DoncMlon. and It may be taken for granted that our experts are busy iilvuglng those welli, as they uilvaued those of Torakon ' It teem obvloni that an fault on Balikpapan, on the cant coast, center of another big oil area, is about ready to be prung. MEANWHILE, the British aro working eastward from the Indian ocean, They've had two naval flghlii with the Japs re cently In the Singapore strait (Strait of Malacca). The first wai a rather sharp naval brush in which tho Jans lost a cruiser. In the second, tho British sent in an aircraft car rier screened by a cruiser and destroyers, and attacked airfields ..and rolling stock on Sumatra and Jap shipping In tho strait. This time the .. wero UN CHALLENGED. British sources lay this amounts to practical sur render by tho Japs Of tho west ern sea approaches io Singapore. IT should be kept in mind that Borneo is an Australian opera- lion, under MacArthurs com' maml. Tho Burnin-Stimatra fighting, leading up to Singapore, is an all-British affair, under Mounluatlcn s command. XT'E'RE concentrating recently " on Jap oil installations of all sorts storage depots, refineries, etc. Since May 10, we'vo smacked eight big ones. As a part of the blockudo of tho Jap homeland, our naval search planes havo destroyed 200,000 tons of enemy shipping in Jap homo waters alono. At tho same tlmo wo to going after Jap ship ping all along the China coast. ALMOST any tlmo, wo might make a landing on tho China const. Tills wouldn't necessarily bo tho bill nush Itself. Wo need airfiolds and still moro airfields to accommadnto tho vast num bers of planes wo'ro concentrat ing against tno japs, rnero is room for a lot of them In etistern China. Tho mop suggests that it will bo necessary to tako For mosa first. We're bombing For mosa steadily. IN Washington, where ratifica tion of tho San Francisco charter la the big Job of tho . moment, Sonator Taft is talking ' of defining and maybe LIMIT ING tho powers of the U. S. dclcgato (who is to be Stcttlnlus.) Senator George says (and it i sounds reasonable) that ANY condition written - into ratifica tion, such ns saying how our representative shall vote, would almost certainly be regarded by other nations as INDIRECT (Continued on Pago Two) 'Get A Horse1 Motto Doesn't Apply To Ancient Cadillac , A 1011 Cadillac touring car, resplendent with shiny paint and gleaming brass, attracted a group of boys and men when It parked at an oil station on Main street yesterday for an engine checking. Ted Bowers, 10, discharged navy man, owner of the ancient vehicle, whose hobby is collect ing antlquo automobiles, said this is his newest model. Ho also has a 1003 Holsman, and a 1007 Maxwell. " 'You'll jilwnys get back, In a Cadillac,' is tho old Cadillac slogan," Bowers Informed the , group of interested onlookers, "tills car camo from San Fran cisco 30 years ago, and now it's going back." Parents Back Out The stop in Klamath Falls, for n routine checkup, was tho first lap of the Journey from Seattle, Bowers' former home, to his now homo In San Jose. Bowers' par ents refused his invitation to ac company him In the high-built "touring car, prcforing to travel 1 31 ttut -0 mm Ifete; PRICE riVE CENTS . A Japanese suicide plane attempting to hit an American carrier off Kyushu March 20, crashes through the deck of the destroyer Halsey Powell which was fueling at the time of the attack. Nine crew members were killed, three are missing and 29 were injured. Although nearly sunk, the destroyer was saved. Navy caption did not Identify carrier. (AP wlrephoto from nary). Kume Island Taken By Yanks As Nips Report Landing Moves By LEONARD MILLiMAN Assoc la ted Press War Editor Kume Island, on the invasion seaway to Japan, was added to allied conquests today of Tokyo reported American naval forces were preparing for two moro possible landings. A growing allied task force, Tokyo told, engaged in a day-long artillery duel yesterday with Japanese shora batteries guarding Balikpapan, prised oil refining center on southeast Borneo. A force of 50 warships and transports was reported operating off Balikpapan. Tok yo said the much tolked-obout invasion was "imminent." Nipponese broadcasters suggested scouting U. S. naval craft were preparing for another amphibious assault in the Okinawa area where Yank landing troops added Kume to their potential invasion bases. Tokyo reported U. S. minesweepers and destroyers prowled waters around Okinoerabu island, 40 miles closes to Japan than Okinawa. Enemy broadcasters obviously anticipated another invasion. Occupation of Kume Island,: which was taken without a fight, represented a 50-mile advance from Okinawa toward the Chinese coast. It Is 390 miles southwest of Japan and the tame distance southeast of Llnhai, newest city on the China coast to fall to General iailnut Chlana Kai-Shek' troatn. J';i .X , ' ! ' t , ? ". J -'-'s-A iorney-General's Office May Prosecute Heuvel Case Clarence A. Humble, district attorney of Klamath county, has requested Governor Earl Snell to direct tho attorney-general's office to handle Uio prosecution LITTLE HOPE FOR E ly WASHINGTON. June 30 P The agriculture department to- aay neid out little nope lor early improvement in the gcn cral food situation. Civilian supplies of meats, food fats and oils, rice, sugar and sweat bakery products will bo much shorter this summer than last, tha report said. Fresh vegetables and fruits. most cereal products, fluid milk and skim milk products prob ably will bo sufficient to meet civilian demands, it added, Ego Demand Up Egg supplies will be about as largo as last summer, but. short oi a demand augmented by the severe meat ana poultry short ago. , Tho report was the final food summary issued under direction of Secretary 'of Agriculture Claude R. ; Wlckard and War Food Administrator Marvin Jones. Both will be succeeded lato today by Rop. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) Tha department said total (Continued on Page Two) In a model of moro recent vint age and less fame. Tho car was built In the period before windshields, and Bowers has loft It as far as possible with tho original equipment. It has a -wina-screcn , a curtain oi heavy material with two large Ising-glass windows. Tho steering gear, emergency brakos and wheel are on the "wrong," or right side of the car. Bowers soys it isn't too awkward driving or making ap propriate signals from this posi tion, as ho is so high above other traffic he has the long view of any situation. "Police only stop me to ask questions about my car," Bowers said, "I had a police escort out of Portland they said I was blocking traffic." . .. - Engine Purrs Tho car will make 13 miles to tho gallon, the engine starts with a soft, refined purr, and it can go as fast as 60 miles per hour, luonunuca on r-ago two) J? Destroyer Hit By p Suicide in the cases of the state of Ore gon vs. Earl Heuvel, former Klamath police chief who is now held In the sounty jail on morals charges. Humble said that he had talked tho situation over with Gcorgo Neuner, attorney-general, and was advised by Neuner to make the request. Humble said this morning that ho thought tho request ex pedient in view of the fact that no was necessarily associated with Heuvel while he (Heuvel) was police chief of Klamath Falls and Humble acted In the capacity of deputy district attor ney. In a letter to the Kovernor, Humble said: "My continuing In this matter,' because of the fact this defendant was a former city official, could be the basis for considerable criticism which might affect the future useful ness of this office." "It would seem better for the protection of the citizens of the state of Oregon that the attor ney-general, who has had no connection with this defendant, should handle these cases, and ho has advised mo to request you io direct me attorney-general's' office to assumo the respon sibility of these proceedings." , House Prolongs Life Of OPA WASHINGTON, June 30 W) Racing against tlmo to prevent wartime prlco controls from ex piring at midnight, the house today finally approved a com promise bill - prolonging OPA's life for ono year. A plane. stood ready to fly the legislation to President Tru man at Kansas City, so that he may, affix his signature before the midnight deadlln6. Approval of the compromise 255 to 04, culminated a month long clamor against food short ages, In which house members during debate chanted "we want meat." : - - : Final Agreement , Reached On Zone .' 1ATTC Tiimji on . ttyi .. uunu (ju fr; oil r- -isiv. iitouuuni rem aiiiiuuiiveu oday that final agreement had "ecu svaviicu uii vruiiiiHU hwcu- puwon zones, nnnrlliialninni wff UM tween the Russian army and tho allied expeditionary forces w4U begin tomorrow tho announce nun oaiu, x ii v -eaujuaHiicjib is uxpeciCQ to be completed by Wednesday, so that .Russian troops by then -till k.IA U 1 XI from which British and Amerl cwu ior.es wunaraw. Telephone Mil KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON. SATURDAY. JUNE 30. IMS Plane sprang new leaks m the mi kado's dwindling oil supply, necessary for meeting invasion forces and transferring war in dustries . from Japan to Man churia. Fourth' Hold Fifty Superforts, making their fourth raid of the week, blasted the Kudumatsu oil refinery with high explosives in a mid night raid. It was the fourth largest refinery on Japan. Prev ious B-29 blows have knocked out from 32 to 100 per cent of eight other homeland oil fa cilities. - B-29's have flown about 1100 sorties over Japan this week, not counting nightly mine-laying expeditions reported by Tokyo. Hit Shanghai Bombers ranging out of the Philippines hit oil storage tanks at Shanghai and dropped 281 tons of explosives on blazing Balikpapan, southeast Borneo oil center where Tokyo has been reporting an imminent in vasion for two weeks. Japanese broadcasters said 41 allied warships and several transports are operating off Borneo now nearly double the force previously reported. Cruisers and destroyers were said to be laying down a "fur- , (Continued on Page Two) Devers Named To Succeed St we WASHINGTON, June 30 () Gen. Jacob L. Devers will suc ceed Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell as commander of the army ground forces. . Stilwell recently replaced U. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, who was killed In action, as .commander of the 10th army on Okinawa. -- Devers commanded the sixth army group in the European theater of operations during the war against Germany. Albert E. Smith. Dies At Sea Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome E. Smith, formerly of Klamath Falls, of the death of their son, Pvt. Al bert E. Smith. 24. Smith was taken prisoner on Corregidor and was held at the military prison camp No. 1, on Caban atuan until October 11, 1044, when he,, along with 1775 other prisoners, was placed on a ship bound for Japan. Two hundred miles off the coast of China the boat was sunk by a torpedo. . Only five of the prisoners escaped.! : Smith had lived in Klamath Falls and Bonanza since he was seven years old. He attended tho grade and high school at Bonanza and enlisted in the army air corps in July, 1040. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are mak ing their home in Crescent City at tho present time..- - OPENS E Buckaroo Days Show Set To Begin Sunday By JOY BIGGS Plans were being completed today to make Klamath Buck aroo Days 10th annual rodeo the greatest wild west show ever witnessed in the basin area. Under the direction of the Buckaroo Days committee, in cluding O. D. Matthews, J. E. Hosklng, H. E. Getz. R. D. Mc Ghchcy, William Hooper, M. E. Cornett, and E. P. Ivory, spon sored by the American Legion, and with the , cooperation of military and naval installations, the best rodeo performances is being offered in the four-day show, commencing July 1 and lasting through July 4. Run in connection with the rodeo is the West Coast -Amusement company's "Fun Trail Carnival" at the circus grounds on South Sixth. Opens Sunday The four-day rodeo celebra tion will start Sunday at the fairgrounds at 1:30 p. m. open ing with the grand entry, which includes Rodeo Queen Blanche Schonchin and her royal court, the Buckaroo committee, Mac Barbour and bronc judges, sad dle clubs, the marine mounted patrol, and other mounted par ticipants. . - . - Bronc - riding, calf roping, steer team roping, bull dogging, Brahma '.bulp riding," bareback riding. Quarter mile cow bourse race, relay race, five-eighths mile free-for-all. best reined cow- horse contest and musical chair events will be featured each day of the show, with some extra attraction every day from July l to 4. Tho big Fourth of, July par ade Wednesday . morning - will precede the grand wind-up pcr- lormance. , Emergency Calls . The Red Cross will take care of any accidents occurring at the fairgrounds, with the aid of the Oregon Women s Ambul ance, corps, with Otto Smith, Red Cross, first aid and dis aster chairman, In cnaree. The show will close Wednes day evening with a ball at the KJamath Armory. IAN FOREST Movement of large numbers oi people to recreation spots this weekend brought warnings against lire and announcement that the Klamath Indian reserva tion forest lands will be closed to the public starting tomorrow. Lakes and fishing streams are expected to attract large num bers of Klamath people. Many will go to Crater lake for the first time this year, the snow having been plowed out of the south entrance road in the past week. Cars going in by the cast entrance can reach Kerr notch, but will not be able to go around to the lodge area, which can be reached by the south (Fort Klamath) . entrance only. " All major roads through the (Continued on Page Two) Pvt. Albert E. Smith 1 CELEBRATION Casualty a , c o June 30, 1 849 Max. (June 29) 73 Min. ... Precipitation lost 24 hours Stream year to date 13.29 Normal 11.89 Lost year .. 9.89 ForecasU Warmer Sunday. Boy On Hunger Strike Grief stricken Johnny Pol more. 3. of Portland. Ore., hasn't eaten since his pet collie disappeared recently. Weak and exhausted, the boy and the dog's feline playmate. Blackie. were forced from a vigil at the fami ly home front door into bed. (AP wirophoto). - I By D. HAROLD OLIVER . WASHINGTON, June 30 (P) Soon -to be joined by a fifth, four new cabinet officers named by President Truman arranged today to take their oaths of of fice. , -."V- -, TJj-n. Olnton P.-Anderson (D- N. M.) becomes-secretary of agri culture. Assistant Attorney uen cral Tom C. Clark of Texas at torney general. Federal Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington state secretary of la bor, and Robert E. Hannegan of Missouri, postmaster general. Byrnes Likely A new-secretary of state to succeed Edward R. ' Stettinius Jr., will be nominated by Presi dent Truman Monday or Tues day. - James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, former war mobiliza tinn director. suDreme court jus tice and senator, is in the fore front of speculation for this port folio. Anderson was to be sworn in at 1 p. m. (PWT) by Associate Justice Wiley Rutledge of the supreme court. Rutledge once taught school In Anderson's home town of Albuquerque, N. M. Rutledge . administered the oath to Hannegan in the post (Continued on Page Two) i Willits Building ! Sofa For $25,000 The Willits building, located at 430 Main street, today was sold by Laura A. Willits to Claude and Ethel Davis - of Klamath Falls. The price was $25,000. . This structure was erected in 1009 by W. D. and Fred Cofer. The Willits family purchased the lot in 1900. .--v. Mr. and Mrs. Davis, who are in the floor covering and window shade business, said they plan to move their business to the Willits building when their son, Rex, returns from the service. , At present, the OPA occupies the lower floor of the Willits building.- ' - The deal was handled by- A. B. Epperson, realtor. Jap Defenses Shift To Norih SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 .(P) Japan's army defense reor ganization shifted today to northern Japan, newest direc tion from which Tokyo has been anticipating an invasion. Gen. Keisuke Fujie was named commander of the Toho ku army district of northern Hanshu Island, Tokyo radio an nounced shortly after reporting 10 Superforts mined waters bor dering the district. Three new army districts have been created this ' week on Honshu, Japan's "mainland." Another Tokyo broadcast re corded by the federal communi cations commission reported the cabinet had ordered "top priori ties" for factories connected with the explosives industry in an effort to increase production. Bulletin KANSAS CITY, June 30 W) Appointment ' of James F. B y r n t as secretary of state was announced here to- . day. ; . .- - - ; Number 10908 I JULY 9 ON Stettinius Probable First Witness Of Session By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, June 30 (fP The senate foreign relations committee decided today to open hearings on the United Na tion charter July 9. . The first witness probaly will be. Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., President Truman's choice for United States representative on the security council. . .Chairman Connally (D-Tex) said the committee was unani mously agreed on the desirabil ity of proceeding with all pos sible speed, but decided that next week could be profitably employed in permitting the state department to. assemble the main documents which will be needed in the hearing. Open Sessions The sessions will be open ta the public, and will be held in the big, marble-walled majority caucus room in the seriate office: building adjacent to the capitol. Senator Taft (R-Ohio) is in sisting that the power of the American delegate on the se curity council should be defined .in the ratification resolution. Senator George (D-Ga.) proposes (Continued on Page Two) STRIKERS FEE By The Associated Press StriKing workers . in five plants of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company, Akron, Ohio, were faced today .with immedi ate induction into the armed services, and possible loss of contract privileges. In government efforts' to end a walKout of 16,700 workers, the largest remaining strike in the nation. Chairman George W. Taylor of the war labor board said the board would consider modification of its orders - re garding maintenance of mem bership and check-off, shift pre miums, and vacations unless work , were resumed promptly. Gov. Frank L. Lausche of Ohio directed the Ohio selective service to proceed immediately with induction of striking Good year workers into the armed forces. Army Pleads ' As the government made known its intention to invoke "work or fight" action against the strikers, military depart . (Continued on Page Two) . . Worker Killed In Explosion l BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 30 UP) An explosion which rocked the four-story Aluminum Company of America's south end plant and centered in the magnesium room today killed one war worker and injured at least eight others, four critical ly. ... The dead man was unidenti fied. ; - ' ' The blast occurred at 1:20 p. m. (EWT) - and brought out most of Bridgeport's police, fire and hospital emergency crews. An hour later, all were standing by, but the worst was reported over. Seven persons were taken to Bridgeport hospital, where four of them were placed on the danger list. Sam Markowitz, only one to be identified, was brought to St. Vincent hospital where attaches said he was suf fering from serious burns. uuxfu-u-iri.'uu'-rLni-iririr.-.-.-, HEARINGS SE PEACE CHARTER When Bull Meets Bulls A Jersey bull kept residents of the Riverside Auto camp ; In something of a dither Thursday night and Friday morning when he escaped from the corral and- kept the fearful folk: holed up in their homes. . " ' . ,. ' - If anyone dared to stick his head out of the door, the bull Immediately charged and a hasty retreat was beaten. The people notified state police and an officer, was sent to the: scene, but he, too, met with little success. :' When he alighted from his car to intimidate the bull, the enraged animal turned the tables and sent him scrambling back to safety. The situation developed into something of a poser, what with people afraid to venture out and. even state police-, men quickly seeking safety. -.;' Finally the owner of the bull appeared' and with two state policemen firing rounds of ammunition into the air from the vantage point of their automobiles, along with a little accurate rock-throwing, the nemesis of the prairie was at last herded back to captivity. . --. . ., unuL iiuii in ; PTirr niTTi r. Center Of City Razed In Week-Long Fires ' . By SPENCER MOOSA CHUNGKING. June 30 & The Chinese high command an nounced today - that Chinese Uoods recaotured Lluchow. for mer IT. S. 14th air force base, at midnight last - night. y The recapture of the strategic Kwangsi province junction city came after bitter fighting through its suburbs. . The center of the city, in flames for a week or more, was destroyed, the Chi nese said. The Japanese had been in con trol of vital Liuchow since last November when the U. S. 14th' air force abandoned the bos. Kweilin Menaced Kweilin, more than 100 miles) to the northeast- of : Lluchow; . which also was among the base abandoned by the 14th air force; at that time, now is directly threatened by other . Chinese -forces, who last were reported, within 10 miles of the city. - A Chinese army spokesman' said a Chinese arc was being pushed down, from the north , and northwest within. 10 to 18 miles of the city. - xne uucnow aimeia in tn southern suburbs was-retaken-by the Chinese on Wednesday in heavy fighting, while the cen ter of the city itself was inv flames. J Japs Redeploy Troop Recapture of Liuchow, where the Japanese fought a rearguard action with only a handful of troops while their main forces moved toward -Kweilin, ended the first phase of Japan's rede ployment strategy in ' China, which began with the abandon ment of Yungning (Nanning), re linquishment of their trans-con-' tinental connection and isolation; of an estimated 200,000 -troop in southeast Asia. - - The gap in the ruptured corri dor extended from Liuchow to the suburbs of --Japanese-held Pingsiang,' It : miles from thte Indo-China frontier a total air line distance of 225 miles. With the reoccupation of Liu chow, delayed by rearguard re sistance by about 1000 enemy, troops, the . Kweichow-Kwangst railroad became the" first rail line In China partly or totally' held by the enemy -to revert en tirely to Chinese control. ' Re pairs, of course, will . be -necessary. Crawford Given 20-Year Sentence' Merl M. Crawford, 3l, Klam ath Indian - convicted of the charge of rape on June 27 in circuit court, was sentenced this morning by Judge David R Van denberg to serve a term in the Oregon state penitentiary not to exceed 20 years. Crawford showed no visible emotion when- sentence . was . passed and was remanded to the sheriff by Judge Vandenberg. Crawford has been held in the county jail pending the outcome of two trials in which be plead ed not guilty to a charge of sod- -Omy and innocent, to the rape, charge of which he was found guilty by an all-male jury. . He was found not ouilty of the sod omy charge through a directed verdict by Judge vandenberg. Crawford will be taken to the state penitentiary some time next week by the sheriff's office here.- .-. " .- . . British Seize Armed Germans WITH. THE 21ST ARMY GROUP IN GERMANY,: June. 30 (fP) British occupation authorities in the Schleswig Hok stein area have seized 30 Ger mans for possession of arm They face death for breaking the military government lawi and the terms of surrenders At least a dozen other Ger mans have been decapitated by the .guillotine - for - concealing arms, but the number of cases has continued to' gain. Reports of secret nazl meet ings have become more fre quent. -----w-w.