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Newspaper Page TextN A I ,x I UJ m A MICE FIVE CENTS The War Today By DaWITT MaTKENziE" Anoclalad Pran War Analyit TNTKHNAT10NAL pence Isn't a eoitiiniidlty which ciui ho mniuifiielurod llko pop-bottles, mid It Isn't n condition Unit can bo secured by tho simple ox pedlont of policing with nrmod forces. Tlic foundations of nonce must ho lnlcl in tho minds ii ml licuits of moil, mid thin ciin bo oehlovod only through ronl iiciiiiiiintiincc innonii tho world's people. Thill acquaintance ciin lio Potior una rniiro quickly nttiilnod by n free rxcliniiKo ot now thiin In any other way. Travel In foreign laiulit l, of course, a grail fdn cator but It would take a life tlnio and n fortune to study the Klobe Unit way. whoronii you can encompass It dully through the ncwa while sitting in tliu com fort of your own home. TT therrforo In of vast Impor- lance that President Truman reportedly Is trying to secure an agreement with Generalissimo Stalin and Prime Minister Chur chill that will permit American correspondents to work freely In Kurope. Facilities accorded American newsmen obviously would apply equally to the cor- resKn(lcni o( oilier nation in good standing. It's high time tho outside world knows what Is going on In sldo Europe. Dy the same token, tho war-tnrn continent should be given Uib news of the rest of the world Just as soon as feasible t "T'HE corollary to tho above remarks Is that unnecessary censorship of news Is ono of the prime causes or misuncirrsiano ln ainonii nations. Unfortu natoly most of the globe now Is under a blanket, due in part to war conditions. Restrictions naturally must be maintained in matters relating to the war of the I'scfc. Il's of special Importance that there be a free exchange of news as nulckly as possible be tween Europe and tho rest of tho world. In the matter of Germany, President Truman recognized this principle as far bark as May 13 when he de clared thot ho favored a free flow of Information in the relch, consilient with military security. This reversed an an nouncement bv OWI Director Elmer Davis who lind slated thBt Information reaching the Ger man nubile would be strictly controlled. EWS Is moving out of and ' Into western Europe freely again, on tho whole. However, central and southeastern Europe remain under wraps for the most part. That section of tho con tinent Is largely under Russian control, mid It will bo by agree ment with Moscow that the censorships will bo relaxed. This presumably Is under dis cussion nt the Potsdam confer ence. Wo can't plnco all tho blame for censorship on the war. There always wero many countries which maintained stiff censor ships. Thai sort of thing imperils world peace. Now Is a good time to start taking tho lid off tlio news. Tlic parliaments of ninny countries today arc being asked to deal with international problems. How can they act intelligently if they aro deprived of Information about what is go ing on? Tho easiest way to get nn understanding of Europo's grievous politico-economic prob lems is to publish all tho news nbout them. Police Find $136.15 As Money Burns Boy's Pocket By PAUL HAINES Money burning his pockets cnused n il-yenr-old boy to bo questioned Inst night by Juvenile nriiccrs alter no naci uecn picKca up by city police, at 1 a. m., wan dering the streets barefooted. His desiro for n bicycle wns tho cause for tho youngster to Inks $130.13 from his mint's homo noro where he wns stay ing. When lio was picked up tho boy nsked tho pollco officer where ho could buy n bicycle. Tho officer nsked him if ha had enough money to buy a bike, whereupon Iho boy pulled out $15 from his pocket, Tho officer boenmo suspicious nnd took the boy to tho police stntlon. Officers there Jokingly told him Hint $15 wasn't enough money for n bicycle nnd the youth replied, "I hnvo plenty more," and enmo up with an ad (llllonnl $121.10 lor a total of $lM(l.l,r). Juvenile officers were called REYNAUD OR INCH ON WITH BRITISH Ex - Premier Accuses Petain, Leopold Of Treachery PARIS, July 24 (l') Former Premier Paul Rcynaud accused both Marshal Petnln mid King Leopold of Belgium of treach ery today In surrendering to Germany and told the court try ing Hie old soldier for his life that a Frencli-lirltlsh union is "an Ideal which some day must be rcnlizcu. The first witness In the trinl of the chief of state of tho Vichy regime said that the rea son tho Urltish attacked the French fleet In North Africa in 1040 was that Prime Minister Churchill did not trust the word of Adm. Jean Darlnn, Pctain's right hand man. Rcynnud said that when France was collapsing. President Roosevelt sent retain an ex tremely strong" mesago saying acceptance of German armistice terms would Import: mo triciKi ship of France with the United States government mid its peo ple. Reynaud said that shortly be fore Italy entered tlic war, he had proposed concessions lo Mussolini In an effort to pre vent Italian intervention, but Hint Prima Minister Churchill opposed the plan, Deledl.r Testifies Edouard Dulndicr. who was forced from office as premier Just beforo Germany Invaded Norway and wos succeeded by Reynaud, was the next witness. Ho said he was testifying "sor rowfully, but without resent ment." He said he had no criticism of Pctnin between 1034 and 1030 becauso . "Pctnin during that period was held in the highest respect by both the army and nation." Daladlcr, however, declared Petaln lowered the army's fund for manufacturing war mater ials by 20 per cent while Petaln was a minister In 1034 "Just when we should have been arming." He said he had no idea whether Petaln was in contact with the Cagoulards. a hooded organization of subversive right wing elements. His testimony followed almost exactly the line of his statement during the nbortivc Worn trials of 1042 when the Vichy regime suspended its trial of him. Hey- (Continued on Page Five) Citizens Toss As Navy Starts Night Flights Officials nt the navy air sta tion said today they hnd "cor rected" night-flying tnctlcs which brought complaints. from towns people Hint lliclr sleep had been disturbed. The navy officers said that tlic nlitht-flylntf training is cs scntial, nnd will continue, but t int filers will bo asked to re frnln from flying directly over tho residential districts nnd "buzzing tho town. Many complnlnts . were re- eclved nt tho nlr station nnd the police station, it wns lenrned nnd questioned the boy who snld that no had worked sweeping out downtown stores for the money. Upon further interroga tion, ho said Hint lie stole the money from n store. He finnlly admitted that ho hnd been visit ing his aunt hero and that after Iho household hnd retired for tho night ho had taken a pur.se from a member of tho house hold. Ho look tho purso to the base ment whero ho removed the money nnd hid tho purse, Ho then enmo downtown to buy a bicycle, unnblo to wnlt until day light. Tho boy was taken to his own homo and when Juvcnllo officers started to explain the circum stances to Ills mother, tho boy fled from tho house. His mother found him Inter hiding In tho woodshed. Ho s to renort w Ih h s nnr- ents to thn juvenile office todny. The money was recovered' nnd will bo relumed n tho r c htful owner, Juvenile officers sald.j Telephone Bill KLAMATH FALLS. C O' ,'7 A' TRUCKS. SHOVELS Literally picking up a fire and moving il was accomplished by dayllgnl Tuesday morning when a fleet of IrucKs and two big shovels were put to work Mon day afternoon and on through the night nt the Peyton and com pany yards on Market street to extinguish the fire smoldering in their coal stockpile. The fire started Monday morn ing and smoked during the day while fire trucks and equipment vainly tried to put it out. Late in the afternoon six trucks and the shovels were mo bilized and as each shovelful of coal was removed from the pile, it was drenched with water. The coal was then piled in small piles in vacant lots. By daylight Tuesday, 500 tons of the solid fuel had been moved and the fire is thought to have been stopped. The stockpile contained sever al thousand tons of coal to be used in February, according to Peyton officials. Since this fuel is now scatter ed in vacant lots, it will have to bo sold before wet weather comes when the lots will be Im possible to reach. The pile rep resented 10 per cent of the nor mal annual requirements of the town nnd was on hand to offset the wood shortage. Anderson Tells "No Soap Ration' WASHINGTON. July 24 UP)- Sccretnry of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said today ho had no plan to order rationing of soap, In n statement, he appealed to housewives to discontinue the "practice of raiding" store shelves ns soon ns new sonp ship ments nre received, At tho snmo time he an nounced Hint manufacturers will be permitted to make a 10 per cent increase in the output of nouscnoid noavy duly" laundry typo soap chips, flakes, powders, granulated nnd other similar types. Navy Takes Over Jailed Sailors Six sailors,'1' who hnve been held in the county Jail here on n grand larceny charge, have been turned over to nnvy au thorltlcs from tho Pugct Sound nnvy yard. Four guards arrived hero this morning to take the men to Bremerton, Wnsh. The six snil ors allegedly jumped a north bound train near Dorrls, Calif., while they were en route to Bremerton ns drnftces for the USS Bunker Hill. They later re portedly stole a car here belong ing to James Gucrln, It Is probnble Hint tho grand larceny chnrgo will be dropped, according lo J, H, Nnplcr, dep uty district attorney. V o ''an (JEBDAY, JULY 24. 1945 Here's Burned Area Translated Into Terms of Klamath Geography Hal Ogle, manager of the Klamath Forest Protective asso ciation, prepared this map to show. In local geographical terms, the siie of the burned area in the huge Wilson river fire in northern Oregon. The area with the shaded borders. Ogle told, is (uit about the site of the Wilson fire area on the basis of Monday reports, "It may lust give people a slant on the extent of this devastating blase and cause them to help us keep fire out of our district." said Ogle. Swan Lak Volley -1 Fire Quiet But Hazards Rise Again PORTLAND, Ore., July 24 P) Falling humidity and a brisk northwest wind that momentar ily aided , fighters boded ill on the great Tillamook forest fire front today. Temporarily quiet on most sectors of the 00,000-odd-acre area, the fire could go on a ram page into new territory with continuation of Hie wind and the lower humidity. Today, how ever, the wind was pushing spot fires set on the north side Sunday night into the main burn area and toward country already blackened. The southern flank of the blaze dozed during the night. More than 2800 fighters, in cluding soldiers and sailors, were fighting the Tillamook fire. Meanwhile in Lane county. Ore., south of Tillamook, radio reports told of a new outbreak that had covered 80 acres and had destroyed a sawmill. The reports said a suppression crew had it nearly under control. Nip Ambassador Urges Surrender SALZBURG. Austria, July 24 M'l U. S. infantrymen guarding 100 Japanese diplomatic person nel today quoted their prisoners as saying that they understood Lt, Gen. Hiroshl Oshima, Japa nese ambassador to Berlin, would urge his government to comply Immediately with the al lied domnnd for unconditional surrender. The Americnn soldiers were nble to hnvo frequent talks with the Japanese, who were taken into custody early in May by the U. S. third Infantry division. Tho Japanese were scheduled to lenve Austria by plnne today for Lo Hnvre, where they will board a vessel for the United States Thursday, An advance contingent of 33 top-rnnking members of the Jnpancse diplo matic staff in Berlin sailed earlier this month and now is in the United States. rate Property Hold Baseballs "Put n hood of some kind over the batter, so all fouls will fall back on himself," was one suggestion made by irate prop erty owners, whose homes, ad jacent to the ball park, arc be ing invaded by wayward balls. Windows hnvo been broken, glass sprinkled nil ovor, the pence nnd quiet and the very se curity of their homes shattered by bnll plnycrs, two women com plnincd to city councllmcn. Tho visitors nt tlic council meeting not only aired their hon "PWj. KlomofhFoll Dolr (July 24) Mix. (July 23) .. 83 Min 54 Precipitation last 24 hour 00 Stream year to data 13.28 Normal 12.10 Lait yaar 10.42 Forecasti Claar and warmar. Bonanza Mali" Jneg0 BULLET EXPLODES AS E Explosion of a 50-caliber ma chine gun bullet added to the confusion as fire fighters fought a blaze of undetermined origin which totally destroyed the home of Mrs. Evelyn Lundgren at 615 North Third Monday after noon. The bullet, said to be a souvenir of overseas fighting, went off as flames consumed the house, and lodged in the front of the house across the street oc cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hardcnbrook and family. No one was injured, although the Hardcnbrook baby was on the front porch at the time. According to neighbors, two of the five Lundgren children were in the kitchen baking a cake for their mother's birthday when one of them smelled smoke. Running to the bed room to investigate, the child saw the ceiling and the bed in flames. None of the children, Roy, Anna, Katy, Erik, or Teddy, was injured although they were in the house when the blaze started. BASEBALL American League St. Louis 0 4 1 Boston 6 8 0 Jackucki, West (1) Appleton (4) Zoldak (5) and Mancuso; O'Neill and Holm. National League Philadelphia 3 6 1 Chicago 8 7 0 Barrett, Sproull (7) Chapman (81 and Spindcl; Chipman and Gillespie. BULLETIN NEW YORK, July 24 (IP) Former Secretary oi the Treas ury Henry Morgenthau Jr., said today President Truman had re quested his resignation as secre tary and that "this departure from the treasury was not one of my own choosing. He made the statement at an interview after attending a luncheon of the New York state war finance committee. Morgenthau told the luncheon: "My 12 years under President Roosevelt's magnificent leader ship I felt ended when he died." Owners For Ransom est grievance, but offered solutions-to the problem. Besides the "hood" idea, they suggested that if the baseball diamond were moved to the cen ter of the park, the hazard might be divided evenly among surrounding residents, instead of concentrating upon ono or two families. The women admitted ' they were holding 28 balls found on their premises, for ransom to be returned when the menace is removed. mai& Number 10574 OLE WORKERS BACK TO JOBS AT IB PUNTS Nation's Strikers Drop To 40,000 Today By The Associated Press The nation's strike thermome ter cooled off today, the number of workers idled by labor dis putes dropping to approximately 40,000, the lowest total in almost a week. There also was a forecast of furtner reduction in the total as steps were taken to end a work stoppage of 11,000 employes in 200 lumber yards in the Detroit area, and 4000 distillery work ers in 10 plants. Although a half dozen walk outs ended during the past 24 hours, controversies in more than a score of cities continued, affecting a variety of industries. Many of the stoppages affected only small groups of workers, with the largest single group be ing the lumber yard employes in the Detroit area. A break appeared possible in the dispute between operators of the lumber yards and AFL-Car-penters union members. The operators advised the regional war labor board they planned to meet within 24 hours and that a settlement proposal was likely. The yards closed last week after a strike at 12 yards over de mands for a closed shop, unioni zation ot foremen and waee in- creases.. The stoppage idled 1000 yard employes- and an addition al 10,000 outside workers. .Bright Spot Also on the bright side was the possibility of the end of a four day strike involvine between 4000 and 5000 workers in 10 plants of JoseDh E. Seaeram and Sons, Distillers. Officials at Bal timore said an agreement had been reached on a master plan for a contract governing work ers in all plants and they expect ed final details to be completed today, enabling workers to eo back to their jobs. Anotner major strike contin ued in Detroit, with 5000 of the 6000 workers at the United States Rubber company plant re maining off the job despite urg- mgs Dy uiu united rlubber workers officers for them to eo back to work. Detroit's third (Continued on Page Three) Gordon Benson Reported Killed Last December Mr. and Mrs. Steve Benson late yesterday received a tele gram from the war department informing them that their son, Lt. Gordon Benson, had been killed last December while boarding a boat for Japan from the Philippines, where he was a prisoner of the Japanese. The . Bensons have received numerous messages concerning their son from individuals who said they were sure the Japa nese had removed him from the islands to Japan. The war de partment message was the first official communication concern ing his fate. One army officer wrote the Bensons that Gordon was moved to Japan in October, ante-dating the date given by the war de partment for his death while en route to Japan. This left one ray of hope for the bereaved parents, who are awaiting a let ter from the war department with further details. Lt. Benson graduated from Medford high school and the University of Oregon. He was captured on Corregidor early in the war. His brother, Lt. Col. Noel Benson, is on his way here from Portland. Big 3 Schedules Thursday Recess POTSDAM, July 24 IP) The Big Three met this afternoon for the eighth successive day. The length of the session and the topics discussed were not an nounced. . . The Big Three has scheduled a recess of one day Thursday so that Prime Minister Churchill may be in London when the re sults of the British election are announced, and tho leaders of the new British government arc expected here Friday, it was learned authoritatively. The British delegation em phasized earlier that Churchill's trip to London did not mean tho end of the Potsdam conference. Nip Navy Hit In Daylight ! Blast On (Cure By The Associated Press American carrier planes swarmed down In force on Jnpaneja warships caught at anchor at the great Kure naval base today, highlighting a day-long attack by more than 2000 land and sea based aircraft over 300 miles of Japan's main Island. A thousand or more naval planes struck again from the flat top decks of Adm. William F. Halscy's third fleet, In coordination with more than 600 Superfortresses making their greatest raid and uncounted numbers of smaller bombers and fighters from : Okinawa and Iwo Jima. It was perhaps the largest air force ever to hit Japan. . Radio Tokyo, always conservative In estimating the size of attacking air armadas, placed their number at "some 2000 " This figure could easily have been exceeded by aircraft from carriers capable of sending up 1500 planes and the record formation of B-29s, not counting hundreds of other land-based planes that daily strike Nippon. Tokyo admitted another rem-1 nant of the imperial fleet was caught at anchor at Kures har bor. An eye-witness dispatch from Associated Press War Cor respondent James Lindsley with the raiding carriers told of at least one 1000-pound bomb scor ing a direct hit on one of the mikado's few remaining war ships. Japanese broadcasts said 350 seaborne fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes, striking in iwo waves, were joined by 30 giant Sunerforts and 30 little Mustang fighters. Strike Back Japanese fighters struck back aggressively for the. first time in the two weeks that Halsey's great armada has been boldly raiding the 1000 mile stretch of the Nipponese coast. They swept down out of the skies over Kure, engaging the raiders in sharp dogfights. Ships and shore anti aircraft batteries threw un a spectacular, vari-colored screen ot acK-acK. It was the second naval base attacked by the carriers in a week and came on the heels of widely separated strikes bv fast destroyer units of the third fleet The battleships Nagato and other warcratt were damaged at Yoko suka naval base in Tokyo bay in last week's raid. Heaviest Blow For sheer power, today's heav iest blow was truck by more than 600 Superforts at Nagoya and Osaka, two of Japan's four great est industrial cities. . B-29 head quarters said it was the greatest force ever to take off from their Marianas bases. -Tokyo-, said there were more than 700. . -They loosed 4000 tons of high explosive bombs on the already ravaged cities and neighboring industrial areas in their first daylight strike in more than a month. They used two-ton bombs in blasting five vital war plants in the air which escaped previou? demolition and fire raids. B-29 headquarters, announced that the Kure naval arsenal, in today's carrier target area, was 56 per cent knocked out by Superforts in a demolition raid a month ago. Radio Tokyo told of other sweeps over industrial areas and airdromes of southern Honshu island by Liberator bombers and fighter planes from Okinawa and Mustangs from Iwo. These at tacks are usually confirmed a day after Tokyo announces them. Other allied warplanes sweep ing down the coast of Asia and (Continued on Page Three) NLRB Elects At Timber Company An NLRB election is under way today at the Weyerhaeuser Timber company here to deter mine a bargaining agent between the CIO-IWA and the AFL.- The election was petitioned for bv the AFL challenging the CIO-IWA which had the bar gaining agency up until this time. Polling is from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 3:30 to 7:30 p. m. On the ballot will be the IWA, AFL, and "no union." Claude Calkins, NLRB field examiner, is conducting the election. OP A Prepares Ration Book 5 For December Distribution WASHINGTON, July 24 (IP) New food and gasoline rationing books will be distributed in De cember. Price Administrator Chester Bowles said today war ration book five will be issued at schools and other public build ings throughout the country from December 3 through 15. lt will contain stamps for meats and fats, processed foods, sugar and shoes. At the same time and through the same channels, new gasoline books will be distributed. They will go into use December 22. Ration book five, smaller than a dollar bill and containing only half as many stamps as hook four, will be used soon after the first of next year. "The supply agencies the de partment of agriculture and the war production board have told us that meats and fats, canned goods, sugar and shoes all will be in tight supply for some months to come, so it looks as if a ration book will be need ed throughout most of next year, Bowles said. ' saying it has been set up to last from 10 to 15 months if nec essary, ho added: - "We hope that book five will OVER SALARY RAISE M ' A heated argument roused members of the Klamath Falls city council at the meeting Mon day, following a motion by Councilman Angus Newton, to raise the salary of Acting Chief of Police Orville Hamilton. v The controversy centered about the fact that salaries in the fire department have been, raised, including a $25-a-month raise for the fire chief, bringing his salary to $3300 per year.- It was contended that the chief of police and the fire chief have always received the same sal ary, and when city budgets werev made up, it was voted to put the extra money aside for the po lice chief, leaving it up to the council to decide when and if it was to be used. Hamilton was appointed act ing chief of police by Mayor Ed OsteVidorf, as of January 1, and-. took office February 2, 1945, at a salary of $3000 per year. Acting Chief The fact that Hamilton ha been acting as chief for that length of time without a regular appointment as chief, was evi dently a bone of contention among councilmen. i Rollin Cantrall spoke ve-'.. . hemently regarding Keeping a man "hanging in the balance",, so long, and Newton expressed" emphatic opinion of withhold ing the additional ' salary from the man serving as chief, even -without the title of police chief. The motion died for lack of a second. Mayor Ostendorf presided over the meeting again after an , illness, and John J. Keller, who (Continued on Page Three) . Pilot's Body Believed Found A body which may be that of . one of the navy men killed when a medium bomber crashed into Clear lake in northern Califor nia last December, was found Monday at the lake. Mrs. W. C. Dalton of Malin telephoned the information to the authorities Monday after noon and the body was brought to Klamath Fal'.s Tuesday for identification at the naval air station. The bomber which crashed last winter was on a routine flight from Klamath naval air station on December 4 and was thought to have dived and sub merged in 30 feet of water. Div ing operations and dragging were carried on by navy crews and equipment from Seattle and Klamath Falls. However, the search had to be abandoned when ice conditions on the lake : halted operations. , .?: Those in the plane which crashed were Lt. Robert J. Pini of Los Angeles and AR 2c Da vid Otto Hcrget of Talishccft, La. Attempts are being made by navy authorities today to deter mine if the body is one of these men. be the last in the series of war time ration books, and that there will be plenty of stamps we won't have to use." The new A gasoline book, th,a third since the start of rationing, will differ from the current book only in color. It also is pre pared for uso for about 15 months in the hope it will bo the last needed. The book for food and shoes will have only numbered stamps of different colors and design. The combination of letters and stamps now used on food cou pons is being discontinued, nr Distribution through schools and other public buildings will follow the same pattern as previ ously, with OPA district office fixing the exact time of issuance for each local area. OPA is printing about 130 000. 000 copies of book five at' n cost of approximately $750,000, Book four cost a little moro than twice that amount. Since the last scries of blue processed food stampw In book four will go into use September 1, and the last red stamps Octo ber 1, other stamps In that book will bo used for tho period be fore book five becomes valid, OPA said.