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I f OUR HERALD AND NEWS fRANK JENKINS MALCOLM IPLEY 1 Iditor Manaclng Kditor A temporary combination of tha Evening Htrald and tha ; Klamath Nawf Published a very afternoon except Sunday lai Einlanadc and Pine atreeU, Klamath Talli, Oregon, by the Herald PublUhing Co, and the Newa Publishing Company. , 'Kntered at aecond clan matter at the poi toff Ice or Klamath ' Falls, Ore., on August 30, 1B06. under act oi confre, f March 8, 1870 t SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By carrier mnnth T5c By mat! ...6 month M.M , By carrier .year 7.50 By mall .year 6.00 ' OuUIde Klamath. Lake, Modoc, Siaklyou countlei -..year $7-00 Member. Associated Preii Today's Roundup By MALCOLM EPLEY I By MALCOLM EPLEY ! fMOKE drifts over the mountains from the f O great Wilson river fire, which has covered ) an area about as large as the Klamath irrigation ! district. ,' We hear of the terrible de- vastation of vegetation, which j can best be realized by persons j who travelled through the Til- lamook burn in the same j northwestern Oregon area in ! the early 'thirties. With it all comes a definite ; sense of loss to those who love j the woods and the open coun I try of Oregon. ! The Wilson river fire is a i long way from Klamath Falls. EPLEY I We do not get any logs from there. Few if j any local people seek recreation in that area. : But that is part of our Oregon country. It is I an area that has contributed to the happiness ! and prosperity of many Oregon people. Its j blackened acres will be a blow to the prestige ! of Oregon as a green country with great i recreational opportunities. i A great fire In Oregon timber damages all i Oregon, and from this conflagration must be 5 salvaged a determination to prevent such de : vastation elsewhere in our region. It drama tizes the lesson of fire prevention in a way that can't be done in editorials or by word of : mouth. I Hazards A' ' HAZARDOUS condition exists on the Klam ath naval air station access road at its intersection with the Great Northern tracks. ' One sailor has been killed there, and there I have been a number of accidents, chiefly at j night, ' We are told that a sign on the highway, I warning of an approach to a railroad grade crossing, was knocked down In one accident l and never has been replaced. A man stationed at the air station reports this sign is lying in i the ditch. ' Replacement of the sign would seem to be a i limple precaution that should be taken im- mediately by the proper authorities. But it 1 seems to us that a wig-wag or other light ! signal should be established at this crossing to i make it still safer. Another crossing that has long needed such ' safety device is that at Hager where the Merrill highway crosses the O. C. and E. This is an extremely dangerous crossing at night, and only by a lighted signal can the danger be appreciably reduced. These needs have been mentioned before. We think the railroads should do something about ! them. ..... griefs From The Pocket File 1 IN the mail is a letter from Frankie Calise, j former Merrill boy now In the army in the ' Philippines, telling us about the terrible wreck- ' age at Manila ... "If the American people could see it they .would know what sacrifice really means," he says ... Gib Fleet's fine picture on our Page One the other day, showing a branding scene on the Obenchain ranch near : Bly, has attracted outside attention . . . An out ; door magazine writes us it would like to use it . . . Some one has been poisoning dogs in ; the vicinity of California and Conger avenues ; ... A heavy penalty awaits the guilty if caught, ; we are sure . . . Our paper yestexday'said that Truman Raises ; Historic Flag; j Symbolic Rite (Continued From Page One) erans administrator who also had ! been summoned here for a con J ference, accompanied him to the site from the "little White I House" in Potsdam. Stlmson, I Eisenhower, Fatton and Maj. i Gen. Floyd L. Parks. American i member of the Berlin kom- s mandatur, were in the presi j dent's party. Lt. Gen. Lucius D. j Clay, head of the U. S. group j council, received Mr. Truman, j The president's brief message j was Interpreted by some of his 1 States insisted that the peace and welfare of the average man j were more Important than ter- ' rltorlal disputes and boundar- ( ies. ' German Sit j The ceremony took place in the cobblestoned central court of what had been the German ! aircraft command for middle : Germany. All Germans had been cleared from the area be fore the president arrived. He , drove up in his open car, ac- i f ompanied by military and naval ! aides and a small secret service j detail. ! Immediately after the flag- ! raising the president sped back ; Into Potsdam to resume his de- : liberations with Generalissimo r Stalin and Prime Minister ; Churchill discussions in which ; possible Russian aid in the war A GEM of THOUGHT An overseas Soldier named Britt Was writing his Wife a bit. Said he If you ever hear that Cracki The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back HONEY, tonight I'll be sleeping on it. Linomenr, 25c to $2.50 From Doc and Idella's Drug Store Phone S466 Member Audit Bureau Circulation throne to a more suitable incumbent. " . Japan Question A ORD from against Japan, caught mikado. ,... Russia Could Help of Japan's war and if these her big be in a bad November. against Japan Is believed to be Dlavina an important part. The president was described as eager to return to Washing ton as soon as possible after the conference here closes. He has all but abandoned plans for even a brief visit to London. He is keeping in close touch witn congressional consider ations of the United Nations charter and Bretton Woods pro- posals, and the "little White House" map room is receiving hourly reports on the Pacific war. Experts Arrive The shipping experts arrived late yesterday amid indications that post-war world shipping and the role of the United btates greatest merchant fleet in his tory would play a large part in the discussions of the president, Stalin and Churchill. Land attended the Roosevelt- Churchill Quebec discussions and furnished advice at later Big Three meetings. Before leav ing Washington the president had directed the top shipping official to stand by, ready to join this conference. It was disclosed also that Prime Minister Churchill dined alone Wednesday night with Premier Stalin at the little Kremlin. The conference lasted several hours. Only Stalin's and t-nurcnui 8 interpreters were present at the dinner table dur ing the private meeting, where obviously much of world im portance was discussed. Eden Back British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden returned to work to- Friday. July 20. 1945 an accident knocked down a tree In the yard of Mrs. P. G. Smith at California and Conger , . , That's right, there's also a Mr. P. G. Smith, who happens to be a sergeant In the marine corps, a member of a family prominent in radio and movio circles, and a nice guy , He lives there, too. The War Today By DeWITT MacKENZIE Associated Preit Foreign Affairs Analyit THE Chungking National Herald, which speaks for the Chinese foreign office, , has come out in support ofthe proposal by the people's political council that the allies hang Emperor Hirohito of Japan as a war criminal. "Let him be hanged with the rest of the gang," exclaims the newspaper. Well, it's easy to understand this feeling, after all that China has suffered at the hands of her barbaric neighbors. And the Chinese aren't the only people who have a long account to settle with the Japs. However, one questions whether we should be wise to hang the mikado and, that being so, whether it is discreet to advocate it in advance of an allied decision. Such a proposal, coming from .Chungking, can only have the effect of making the Nipponese fight harder and longer at this critical juncture. The argument for executing the mikado is that Japanese militarism is built about him as God-emperor. It's said, and rightly, that it is because his subjects regard him as divine that they fight so fanatically for him. . Mikado Is Tool HOWEVER, it's one thing to say Hirohito is the symbol about which the people rally, and quite another to credit him with being the real head of the government or of the militaristic machine. There's some doubt whether he knows exactly what it's all about. In any event, he is being used as a too! by the militarists. It can be argued, of course, that a religion like Shinto (the way of the gods), which lends itself to the machinations of the war-lords, is better smashed. Still, it is fairly obvious that if we did hang the emperor and did try to destroy, the . religion, we should be creating chaos in Japan, and therefore should be under taking a dangerous experiment. For this reason and not because of any regard for Hirohito or his religion many ob servers feel that the allies should proceed cir cumspectly. At any rate, before advertising the hanging they should have made up their minds definitely that they are going to carry it out, and risk prolonging the war. Here it should be added and this is important, I be lieve that decision not to hang the emperor wouldn t preclude forcing him to give up his Potsdam is that President Tru- YY man reportedly is trying to clear the way for concentration of the Big Three on the war and observers are watching in. tently to see what steps the trio may take to expedite unconditional surrender. Mr. Truman is said to maintain that the saving of Ameri can lives is of paramount importance to the American government. So one would think that the question of unconditional surrender would take precedence over the hanging of the un- PURELY as a matter of speculation, it seems clear that should Russia come into the war, it would greatly shorten the conflict. One of the prime reasons, as I see it, is that the allies could render Manchuria impotent rather quickly by striking from soviet soil. Many industries are in Manchuria; were destroyed both Nippon and war-machine on the continent would way. If the Russians do enter the war, they may in due course invade Manchuria with their armies, unless Japan surrenders. However, un less the Muscovites struck quickly they might have to postpone the operation, since there are only about six weeks before bad weather blankets Manchuria and turns the terrain into a mud field which renders movement difficult, Then the ground won't tighten up until about day and fulfilled all his regular appointments wun aoviei ror eien Commissar Vyacheslav M. Molotov and U. S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. Eden had been too ill last night to attend a state dinner tendered in a cordial atmosphere by Pres ident Truman at the garden- bowered little White House. The absence of the foreign secretary had caused some con. cern here in soviet and Amer ican compounds. Apparently, however. Eden was ready to plunge back into the task cut out for tne toreign secretaries, who under conference procedure reach generalized agreement on problems and pass them on to tne Big three lor final decisions. U. S. To Send Six Million Tons Of Coal To Europe (Continued From Page One) to the army to release "suffi cient" miners at least 30,000. He said he understood that the plan is now under consideration and declared he was confident that the army, which well knows the serious situation in .Europe and the disaster that im pends, win accede to this re- ciuest." As solid fuels administrator, Ickes asked the fuel conservation directors of 25 states to launch local drives immediately to place homes and other buildings In condition to keep people warm on short fuel quotas next win ter. The program is designed to make every home, shop and building "heat-tight" by insula tion, storm doors and windows, weather-stripping, caulking cracks and by other means, Ickes said. He added in a state ment that furnaces and other heating equipment should be put SWIM TRUNKS $2.25 up OREGON WOOLEN 800 Main SIDE GLANCES oowt im tr wia tffrwff. wc T. m. ata u. . fat, err. 7-70 "I wish he'd write more clenrly 1 cnn'l mnke out whether it snys 'heartache or 'heartburn' I" EVAGUATED M TOWN FLAME'S PATH (Continued from Page One) mild southwest wind continued to drive the flames, which al ready have blackened 55 square miles, toward the northeast. The limber company mill partly lighted by fire outlining the hills less than naif a nine away, operated at full blast throughout the night to send as much lumber as possible tnrougn the Dlaner. Mill hands kept fire hoses playing over lumber stack ed on the loading docks await ing shipment. Soldiers Join Fight Three hundred more soldiers 100 each from Fort Lewis and Vancouver Barracks, Wash., and Fort Stevens. Ore. joined the nearly 2000 civilian and service men fire fighters, trucks cram med with G. I.'s. red-eyed from lack of sleep, continued to roll toward the fire. line. A refugee camp was set up at Balm urove, south of uales creek. Farmers further down the valley from Glenwood gazed apprehensively at the sky and some loaded belongings into trucks, ready for evacuation. The humidity reading at Glen wood was 40-45 yesterday a slight improvement. Forestry of ficials sun could not explain the origin of the disastrous fire Willamette Valley Lumber company officials here said the burned camp was one no longer in use. The present Black Rock camp was evacuated during the night as flames approached; but trenches bulldozed around the camp held the fire away. Residents of the rural pioneer district in Polk county prepared for possible evacuation tnis after noon as the blaze began gain ing headway. A group of the 300 fire fight ers, forced to flee from their lines, called for reinforcements. The blaze, partly on cutover land and partly on green timoer, was about 12 miles from the city of Dallas. Smoke 20.000 Feet High The state forestry department reported that smoke from the vast blaze was billowing 20,000 feet in the air, and said it had no hope of controlling it unless the weather changed. The Salmonberry creek fire, a few miles to the north, took a sudden leap to the west, cov ering an additional 3UUU acres. The fire, which already had spread over 3000 acres, was be lieved under control early this week. It was burning mostly through logged-off land, al though 1000 acres of green tim ber had been killed. The 8000-acre Polk countv blaze, so far confined to logged- off land but threatening a vast stand of green timber, destroyed the WlllameMo Valley Lumber company camn at l a. m. today. About 3,000,000 feet of logs at the camp were destroyed, the logs valued at $30,000. ABERDEEN, Wash. July 20 (IP) Fire in the North river country which raged through more than 2000 acres of slash, burning log ging equipment and some green timber was still out of control this morning, though it had calmed down to some extent due to a high humidity, state fire officials said. in efficient condition to save fuel. 'Millions of Americans in the eastern half of the nation will have to keep warm on 80 per cent of the cool or coke' normal ly burned while fuel oil users cannot expect more than three Kallons for every four normally consumed," Ickes said. When In Medford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Joe and Anne Earley Proprietors Oregon Senators Vote For Charter PORTLAND, July 20 (IP) Oregon's senators. Wayne Morse and Guy Cordon, have sent word they will vote for ratification of the world security charter with no reservations. Morse said the charter was "deserving of the unanimous vote of the senate." Although Cordon said there is room for improvement in the document, he is prepared to vote tor H as is. AUSlSW JAP OIL FIELDS (Continued From Page One) back into production. They drilled new wells and boosted out nut of crude which is so pure that ships can use it with out refining to beyond pre-war levels in air effort to build up a stockpile of fuel oil. Sambodja is the third oil field recaptured from the Japanese, the other two being the. Miri and Ceria centers in western Borneo. It is expected that the allies will follow the Japanese pattern and quickly bring the fields and refineries back into production, thus easing oil and transportation demands on other allied sources. U. S. ASKS BRITAIN 10 LIFT SUEZ TOLL (Continued From Page One) the fall of 1942. After formal talks in London and Washing ton, however, Britain refused. The matter was brought up several times since then. The latest request was made last May 22 and new discussions now are underway in London. The letters showed that the United States paid out about $9.- 000,000 in tolls on British war and merchant ships going through the Panama canal from the start of lend-lease to Janu ary 1. 1945. Therefore, Washington Is ar guing again with London, Brit ain should pay the fauez costs. The Suez canal is owned by a corporation organized under French law. The. British gov ernment, as the major share holder, holds 44 per cent of the stock. This was cited as a rea son why Britain should bear the burden of getting American ship ping tnrougn. Tne British, however, replied that the toils have to be naid in Egyptian pounds, recalling that lend-lease arrangements require that countries lend-lease only goods made from their own re sources or services which mean spending their own currency. Miners To Get More Red Points WASHINGTON, July 20 (IP) Coal and ore miners throughout the country will become eligible early next month for extra ration points for meat, dairy products and sugar. The UFA announced today that an experimental program now in effect for San Fran cisco and Denver area miners only would be expanded dur ing the first week in August to apply everywhere, As in the two western reg ions, conl and ore miners who do not have access to in-plant feeding establishments will be able to obtain a monthly maxi mum of 50 extra red points for meals and fats, and a supple mentary stamp for ono pound of sugar a month. DEVELOPING ENLARGING . PRINTING PHOTO SERVICE 211 Underwood Bldgj PLANESTHRDW If TOWNS (Contlmtod From Page Ono) hoshl nrens and nuulo pusses Hi Nugoya.) Meanwhile Gen. Douglas Mae Arthur announced from Manila that moro than 300 tactical me dium, heavy and attack bombers with fighter escort, all from Okinawa, crossed the East China sen and hurled moro than 2110 tons of bombs on KluiiKwan air drome, just north of Shanghai. Kalngwan, the Rrcntnst enemy air base In China, had four paved runways tor uomuers, two tight er strips and numerous build ings. Heavy cloud cover pre vented accurate observation of results. Thunderbolts which es corted the bombers found and hit tho Tlnghal airdrome In Chu Shan island opposlto Shang hai In low-level attacks. Coincident with these Tues day raids, others of MacArthur's Okinawa-bused Fur Eost air forces heavily hit Kngoshlmu on the main Japanese southern is land of Kyushu, blocking Ihroe important railway tunnel and damaging a third. KiiKoshlma, a city of 180.000, slto of n mu nitions works and a submarine shipyard, was thus cut off from rail communications with rest of Japan. Kagoshima's coasts also were hit along with oil storage fa cilities. Another forco of MacArthur's tactical Thunderbolts put twelve 500-pound bombs into a 10,000 ton Japanese freighter and left lt sinking halfway between Oki nawa and Kyushu. Meanwhile, navy search Privateers and Liberators had their best single day against Jap anese shipping between the Asiatic mainland and tho Jap anese islands on Wednesday, sinking 11 and damaging five small coastal cargo ships. Fleet air wings one and 18 mndo the strikes, off the Korean cast coast and opposite Honshu. Tho second marine aircraft wing, by shooting down three enemy planes, ran its bag to 500 since it entered the Okinawa campaign April 7. The Superfortresses, In the heaviest strategic raid of the war, hit five centers on Honshu from 60 to 200 miles from Tokyo in their campaign against Jap anese "shadow" (small home) industries. Crewmen reported smoke ris ing 17,000 feet high over Kukul and said "it looked like the tar get was destroyed completely." There was almost no flak or fighter opposition over any tar get, but searchlights were so numerous that one filer said 11 reminded him of the New York World's fair. At tho Amagosnkl oil refinery, fires were set so great that one airman said ho saw them more than 100 miles away. The Superfortress "Coin' Jessie," which dropped the army air force's 2,000,000lh ton of bombs on tho enemy last week, made her 45th successful mis sion, over Chosi, where her crew reported the target was a mass of flames. This one plane now has dropped more than 60,000 pounds of bombs on Japan. The Tokyo radio reported that American Liberators scouted the Chosi area in the wake of tho B-29s and that a lone B-20 re connaissance plane was over Hitachi today. HELLCATS BLAST KAMIKAZE STRIKE WASHINGTON, July 20 (IP) Fourteen Hellcat pilots of air group 30 scored a 47 to 0 vic tory over Japanese kamikaze planes seeking to attack task force 58 off Okinawa April 6. Led by Lt. Roy F. Gillespie, 100 Girard street, Bclllngham, Wash., tho American carrier pi lots knocked down the Japanese suicide fighters and bombers in a spectacular 30 minute engage ment. Not a Yank was lost or injured, the navy reported to day. Air group 30 now is homo for rest and reassignment. In its entire tour, Fighting 30 knocked down 110 enemy planes without losing a pilot in aerial combat, Lt, Johnnie G. Millar, Okar chie, Okla., was credited with five. Operating from an Independ ence class carrier, air group 30 served with Vice Admiral Mlts cher's famed task force 58 dur ing the period when .it support ed two maior Invasions, de stroyed or disabled remnants of the Japanese fleet and shot down thousands of planes. Boot Breeches Sweat Shirts Tin Pants & Coats Ladies' Slacks Oregon Woolen STORE 800 Main WMlm From the Klamnth Republican July 20, 1005 Trout fishing will Do a new attraction at Crater lake this year. A number of years ago, trout were put Into I lie hike to see if they would live. Kaeli year they havo been Increasing, until now they uru quite plena fill. The Elks lodgo of Ashland, No. IH1, has just received II charter. A number of Klamath Kails men belong to tho Ashland lodge. From the Evening Herald July 20, 1835 Charles P. Pray litis been re appointed head of tho state po lice. Open house will bo held Sun day by the Kennies Gulf ami Country club, LD SOUTH GDAST FORJPON (Continued From Page One) China and Manchuria plus an equal number of auxiliaries. He sulci Jupnne.se seo truffle be tween the Islands and China had been interrupted and that no troops had been moved recently in cither direction. Yeungkong is a little more than 000 miles northwest of Lu zon. Beach Clear This elenred a stretch, former ly held firmly by the enemy, where tho Japanese announced they feared an American inva sion. Generalissimo Chiang Kill Shek was quoted in a Yank magazine dispatch miida public yesterday, however, as miylng in effect that an Invasion of the continent would be unnecessary, that the enemy could lie sub dued by Chlneso gruund forces aided by American air power. in riwangsi province (..hlne.se forces which swunu out in n wide arc eastward from recently captured Lluchow havo captured the Important highway Junction of Lalpo and havo turned north toward Kwellln, adding to the number of Chinese Iroops clos ing In on that largest of, former U. S. 14th air forco buses. The cigarette that is 100 per cent less irritating Is tho one that is dead out. Bosldes the economic loss by reduction ot raw material, many man days of vitally needed labor are ex pended fighting forest fires. Do your port. Let's Keep Oregon Green. ... 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Kudln Tokyo Indicated clear ly this "aclvantaKcnuK tliuu" would not coinu until American Invasion forces begin storming Japan's shores. Nlpi "Explain" A typical Nipponese commen tary came from a military cor respondent of the Tokyo news paper Yoinlui'l llochl, who sug gested tho Japanese tactic "com pletely frustrated" llalsey'.i "main mission to size up our striking powor to bo deployed In the event of mi Invasion." A broadens! of his eoinmunlury said "temporary suspension" of allied carrier raids may menu the allied naval force Is with, diuwlng. Thero may not he a cough In n carload hut tho spark from it carelessly thrown cigarette enn be plenty Irritating. When In your cur, use tho ashtray; when walking, grind out tho butt In mineral earth or rocks. Keep Oregon Green. HARTFORD Accident and Inilc-Halty Lemfuf INSURANCE T. B. MATTERS General Insurance Agency FIRE . . . 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