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By DoWITT MacKENZIE
Associated Praia War Analyit
THE mystery of tlio momcn
whether Russia Is coining III'
to Ihu war against Japan has
brouuht niu tho Intriguing sug
Kvstlon Unit If Moscow should
iniiku this mow, or oven threaten
to do so, It' might Hive Nippon
exactly the excuse she needs (or
surrendering without too much
loss of IIICC.
This thought comes from my
colleague Victor Eubank, now un
Associated Press financial col
uinnlst but formerly AP chief
of bureau In Tokyo, unci In
clilentally also ono-tlinu chief of
bureau In Moscow. Ho points
out that with tho soviet union's
entrance Into the conflict thu
Japs could manufacture, the ex
cuse:
"Wo could have beaten Amcr-
lea and Britain all right. Uut no
nation In tho world could stand
up aiiulust tho Ainerlcan-Iirltish
Russian comblniitlon. So wo
are surrendering rather than
subject our country to this uf
fort."
CACE-SAVING Is an Item o
1 moment In tho ll'e not only
of Japan but of tho wholo uncut
It is an obsession of all milks
from tho coollo to the emperor
and to tho stato Itself. Loss of
fnco la ono of tho worst things
that can happen to tho Indlvlduu
or to tho country an a whole
Jannneso generals and nil
mlruls commit hara-kiri to "save
faco." after they have "dis-
honortd" their emperor by fail-
.Iiik to achieve tho task to which
they ore assigned. Guards are
maintained about the crater of
tho extinct volcano of Fujiyama
to prevent Jans from Jumping
into tho bowels of this sacred
1 mountain to save faco.
It all adds up to tho certainty
that the mikado's Kovernmcnt
and the military chiefs will strain
very nervo to find a face-saving
expedient before surrendering
On that basis It may bo that a
Kusslan thrent, or declaration of
war, would Indeed provldo the
necessary incident.
.WE ought to know soon what
" Marshal Slid n hus doclded
We vrn through on Associated
Press dispatch from Potsdam
that the belief prevails in sources
close to President Truman that
ho has achieved a substantial
accord with tho Russians on hn
pending developments In the
Japancsa war. What that accord
may be, Is left to the Imagination,
but tlio dispatcn ncicica:
"Among allied sources who
lm vo lung enjoyed cordial con
tacts with tho soviet government
It has not been doubled that the
Hussions, after their own fashion,
will pluy a rolo in defeating
Japan. Those sources have
sharply rejected tho possibility
of tho soviet union Indefinitely
sitting back whllo the United
States and Japan fought on.
A PROPOS of this, there's an-
other highly Interesting
event signaled from Moscow.
An AP dispatch reports an In
formed sourco as saying tho con.
fcrenco between Stnlin and Chi'
ncso Premier T. V. Soong In tho
Russian capital paved tho way
for an understanding novcr be-
foro achieved by tho two nations.
And Tokyo,, noting tho cordial
ntmosplioro surrounding the
Stnlln-Soong parley, has warned
tho Japunese public that this
oou ex Nippon no good.
Well, that's tho case for the
f nee-saving idea. It will be
recognized, 0f course, that It's
speculative- and shouldn't be
taken for itioro than It actually
Is a highly Untorcsting possibil
ity.
Elk Raid Yields
4 Slot Machines
Tho Elks club horn was rnld.
eel this morning by iblty and slato
pollco and four allot machines
wore seized, Coorgci W. Houston,
secretary ui ino ai,ns, was ar
rested for posscssioi'ii of a Bum
bling device mid dir ected to ap
pear in jusiico courts at p. m.,
Thursday for arralgiiLncnt on the
charge. .
Slato pollco said that thrco 2S
ccnt mnchincH and oKio 10-ccnt
nuiclilno woro confisctitod and
that all were In playing condi
tion, Tho machines wct.-o tested
by officers before bolnfc seized.
Tho possession of sVot ma
chines constitutes a cn-lino in
this stale, according to i recent
ruling by Attornoy-KJoncral
Goorgo Nouncr, and j private
clubs arn not in any 4vny ex
empted from arrest nndl prose
cution, . i l
This raid continues J a drlvo
against slot machines l,n Klam
alh county In which thoi Tlk-Tok
drive-In, Lucca cafo, and tho
Buffalo lunch were knoe ked ovor
by state police in reccnit raids. I
IN CHECKS
COAST FIRES
DURING NIGH
T
Blaze Now Held To
140 Square
Miles
PORTLAND, Ore., July 25 Ml
Showers ihkI rising humidity
helped to check a new outbreax
of Oregon's hugo Tillamook
forest lire during the night.
Elsewhere In the northwes
weary crews reported that major
blazes were being kept In Hand.
The Tillamook fire leaped
lines south of Glenwood during
thu night but hundreds of fight
ers deployed there curlier com
Dieted a trail around most of It.
The overall perimeter of the
fire was ueing neia 10 urounu
140 smuiro miles, the spread be
Inn from snot fires Inside it
Around 21)01) men were fighting
It. and forest officials were re
crultlnu every available man
with woods experience to fall
snails that could throw fire over
tho lines when humidity drops
uitaln.
Tho 12,000-ucro blozu to the
south In Polk county was report
ed under better control with
Rogers predicting it would be
pretty well trailed by night-
full. Ho warned, however, it
would remain a danger zone the
rest of the summer slnco new
blazes aro likely to shoot from
smouldering embers. About 600
men are fighting tins lire.
Two Fires Out
Two major fires In southeast
Washington woro virtually our
forestry officials said, but scv
crul new blazes sprang up in
the area today. An estimated
000 acres of grain and 6000 acres
or pasturclnnd were Diacxcnca
in three days by tho biggest
fires one near Pomeroy ond one
In tho Dciancy-bnuke river sec
tor.
A small fire on tho north fork
of tho Manatush, near bllcns
burg, was quickly controlled by
forest service crews. District
Fire Warden Bert Schaller ex
pressed likelihood the blaze was
started by someone who entered
the closed area Illegally,
New Fire
The state forestry department
reported a new fire broke out
yesterday south of the Rogue
river in jucksoii county, uurnmg
300 acres of second growth tim
ber. The blaze still was out of
control today, but It was hoped
It would bo controlled by to
night.
Grants Past Fira
GRANTS PASS. July 25 m
Flro which started In brush and
grass land just this side of the
Jnscphlnc-jacKson county line
on tho north bank of tho Rogue
(Continued on Pago Two)
Parade To
Feature Scrap
Collection
As a hluhllcht in the drive
this week Sar tho collection of
tin cans and waste paper by the
Klamath f alls Shrine club, a
parade will be featured on Main'
street at noon Friday, according
to Walt Wlesendangcr, chairman
of the drive.
Participating In the parade.
which will start at 2nd and
Main, will bo (ho marine band
and pickup trucks which will be
usca in t no salvage pickup sun-
day.
Residents are uricd to cot
their waste paper tied Into
bundles and tin cans washed,
flattened and placed In contain
ers this week and place them on
tho curbs In front of their homes
early Sunday morning for pick
up. wiescndnnger hns asked that
100 Shrine nobles anncnr at the
saivago depot promptly at 0
o'clock Sunday morning to as
sist with tho drive.
Magazine Reveals
Jap Peace Offer
NEW YORK. Julv 25 UP)
Newsweek magazine says Gener
alissimo Btolln took to the Big
Throe meeting a Japanese pence
offer 'with tho proviso that tho
Japanese homo islands remain
freo of American invasion and
occupation.
Tim mnnnvlrtn antra nl.n ...UK.
out giving tho sourco of tho In
formation, that tho retiring Swe
dish minister to Japan, trans
mitted to tho United States
early last May a "Japaneso re
quest for clarification of tho
American 'unconditional sur
render' formula."
Telephone Bill , vV?'
K LA MATH FALLS, J$ if , WEDNESDAY. JULY 25, 1945
Yar' js Hammer Jap Shipping in
it
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Jap shipping In harbor of Hachinohs, North Honshu, undtrgots attack fay earner-based
planat of Adm. Halsay'i Third Flaet, July 15. Ona ship is sinking from direct hit, another (left)
lurvives near miss during early stages of attack. (U. S. Navy Photo ria Radiophoto from Guam).
WASHINGTON, July 25 fP)
A three-point program to corry
out the United Nations charter
emerged today, from the smoke
of unexpected senate fireworks
that threatened brief delay in
ratification of tho document.
What tho administration wants,
as outlined by several senators,
is this:
1. Ratification of the charter
with the explicit understanding
that the United States thus is
committing itself to use its
troops to help police future
peace.
2. Enactment next fall of a
low giving this country's secur
ity council dclcgoto authority,
through the president, to vote
for the use of U. S. troops for
police work short of actual war.
3. Later approval by both
houses of congress of an agree
ment with tho security council
on furnishing American troops
and equipment.
A half dozen charter support
ers, headed by Senator Lucas
(D-Ill.), prepared today to drive
home tho contention that the
contemplated military ogrce
mcnt with the council should be
submitted to both houses for
simple majority agreement.
Senator Hatch (D-N.M.) plung
ed, tho senate into an uproar
yesterday when he challenged
an earlier assertion by John Fos
ter Dulles, chief advisor to the
American delegation In San
Francisco, that this agreement
would come back to the cham
ber for a two-thirds ratification
Vole.
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.)
droning through a 15,000-word
speech In which he said he
would vote for the charter large
ly because of Dulles' statement
on this point, read uulics tes
timony before the scnato for
clgn relations committee. He
added that the record also show
cd Chairman Connally (D-Tex.)
agreeing "thoroughly with
Dulles that a treaty was in. or
der. .
Previously the issue hod not
been raised. t was a loosely
guarded secret, however, that
several state department offi
cials were worried at the possi
bility of facing another treaty
debate on this score, Wheeler
(Continued on Pago Two)
Aussies Advance
On Borneo Coast
MANILA, July 25 (P) Push
ng a general Japanese wiMi
cliawnl in the Mt. Batochampai
area, Australian troops have
moved two miles down the cast
Borneo, coast, Gen. MncArthur
reported today,
This placed them within 50
miles of their big objective, the
oil field at Samarinda, Aussie
Spitfires supporting tho advance,
which was mado on Monday,
spotted a Japanese truck convoy
and probably got 18 trucks
loaded with enemy troops.
RAAF Liberators meanwhile
attacked Celebes islands to the
cast and Kittyhawks teamed up
with American P-T boats to
shoot up Japanese water craft
and buildings in Mamlnr gulf in
mo L-C1CDCS,
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Klamath Chamber To Ask
For Through Air Service
Klamath chamber of commerce directors today authorized
all necessary steps to present the case . of this community for
through airline service before tho civil aeronautics board.
The directors heard a report that the chamber aviation com
mittee and. the -city airport commission are .'cooperating in this
project, and that Senator Marshall Cornctt and' Phil Hitchcock,
chamber director in charge ot
sent the city personally before
the federal agency.
The matter came up as a result
of a recommendation of a CAB
examiner that Klamath be denied
through airline service. It has
been emphasized in the discus
sion that Klamath Is not compet
ing with any other community
but merely wants authorization
of service to this community
which through airlines have of
fered to give.
The chamber directors voted
to authorize the representatives
to support the application ot a
particular airline if necessary.
Both Western and United Air
lines have applied for permission
to give this city through service.
By a vote of 7 to 5, the cham
ber directors voted to urge con
tinuance and enforcement of the
city's Green River ordinance
governing peddling.
After some discussion, the di
rectors referred back-to the In
dian affairs committee, the con
sideration of various measures
affecting the Klamath Indian
reservation, particularly the
measure proposed by Wade
Crawford, prominent Indian.
Congressman Lowell Stock
man was a guest at the meeting
and spoke briefly. Bonneville
representatives presented a film
dealing with light metal work.
Friends Replace
Family's Losses
In Monday Fire
Friends chipped in today to
help Mrs. Evelyn Lundgren,
whose home and belongings
were completely destroyed by
fire Monday afternoon,
Articles which are unobtain
able in these times have been
given to her and her five chil
dren, ranging in age from 6 to
14, to tide them over. Neighbors
and other friends have respond
ed quickly and munificently to
their present urgent need.
An ironic twist to the calamity
was that two of the five Lund
gren children were In the kitch
en baking a cake for their moth
er's birthday when the fire was
discovered which utterly de
stroyed their home.
Oh Boy! Was His Face Red?
A past resident of Klamath Falls was treated to a sur
prise when ho returned hero recently to look after some
property that ho owned.
He has a home here and upon investigation he found
Windows broken, the sink gone, and the furniture wrecked.
He walked into the house with his wife and found a
man engaged in removing some of the bathroom facilities.'
He told his wlfo to summon the gendarmes and turning, asked
tho man who ho was. The man looked up and replied, "I'm
tho building inspector, who are you?"
Tho owner hastened to stop his wife from calling tho
minions of tho law and peace once again reigned.
Tho house is under condemnntlen proceedings and A. W,
Downs, tjio building inspector, was merely trying to protect
both tho city and tho owner by removing the facilities for stor
age purposes, it was explained.
(July 25)
Mix. (July 24) ...88 Min S3
Precipitation lait 24 hours 00
Strtam year to data 13.28
Normal 12.11 Lait yaar .!. 10.42
Foracaiti Claar Thursday.
Honshu Harbor
t iaiiallmaiiM i i i "
aviation, may be asked to repre
56,000 IDLE TOLL
By The Associated Press
More than 56,000 workers
were idle across the nation to
day as New York stoppages
added thousands to the list of
those already involved in labor
disputes.
New disputes affecting war
production dashed prospects of
24 hours ago that the country's
total off jobs through labor dis
sension would drop below 40,-
uuu.
Settlement of old disputes
ended work stoppages involving
more than 15,000 workers, but
new outbreaks more than offset
the number affected by agree
ments and sent the graph of idle
to the highest mark in more
than a week.
Larqest Factor
Largest single contributing
factor to the upward trend was
lapor dispute at tne wrignt
Aeronautical corporation plants
in New Jersey.
An estimated zo.uoo employes
were out in plants in wood-
Ridge, Paterson and East Pater
son. N. J., and production of B-
2 engines was reported virtu
ally at a standstill in five plants.
The strike which started in
the Wood-Ridge factory Friday
and spread to the other two
plants resulted, said a union
spokesman, over discharge of a
steward. John McUrail, presi
dent of UAW local 669, however.
termed the walkout unauthor
ized and said union members
were urged to return to work
Strikers claimed the stoppage
stemmed from the steward s dis
charge and delay in a war labor
board decision on a contract dis
pute. The company said the
WLB and the contract were not
involved and said it would give
immediate Hearing on the stew
ard's case after resumption of
production.
Two Other Walkouts
Two other large walkouts
were added to the list during
the last 24 hours. In Savannah,
Ga., a walkout of 400 machin
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Numbar 10575
LEBRUN TELLS
Marshal Refuses To
Answer Juror's
Questions
By LOUIS NEVIN
PARIS, July 25 (IP) Former
President Albert Iebrun testi
fied today that Marshal Petain
threatened to resign from the
Reynaud government unless it
asked an armistice from Ger
many and later the same day
took a complete cabinet list
from a pocket when asked to
form a new administration.
Before Lebrun told of the dra
matic cabinet sessions of June
16, 1940, the court had echoed
with mutterings and protests
from jurors and spectators when
Petain curtly refused to answer
questions about telegrams con
gratulating the Germans for re
pulsing the Canadians at Dieppe
and asking Hitler's permission
to allow Vichy troops to fight
alongside the Germans in de
fense of France.
The question of the telegrams
arose from a juror during the
cross examination of Edouard
Daladier, premier of France
when the Germans struck.
Lebrun told in a voice quiver
ing with emotion of news from
the front telling of the com
plete collapse of French armies.
Resignation Asked
Lebrun recounted how three
unnamed Vichy officials de
manded his resignation as presi
dent. He said he -refused and
'was ousted by the Vichy re
gimes action in suspending the
constitution and making Petain
a dictator.
Lebrun told the court trying
Petain for intelligence with the
enemy and plotting against the
security of France that President
Roosevelt, "with his clear sight,
never believed a Germany vic
tory even during the worst days.
"In my opinion, two great mis
takes were made by Petain or
perhaps I should say by the gov
ernment of Vichy," Lebrun said.
"The first was the belief that
Germany was going, to win the
war and the second was that Pe
tain's own prestige his seven
stars as a marshal could pro
tect the country."
He said that no one could be
lieve that the Germans and Rus
sians, who, he said, were to
gether "for a certain operation,"
would remain united.
Court Suspended
The uneventful cross exam
ination of Lebrun concluded at
5:30 p. m, and court was sus
pended for the day. Jules Jean
neney, former president of the
French senate, will open testi
mony tomorrow.
Refuses to Answer
Petain stolidly refused to an
swer questions, adhering to his
vow on the first day of the trial.
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IWA-CIO Elected
Bargaining Agent
At an NLRB election held at
the Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany here yesterday the IWA
CIO was elected as bargaining
agent for the production em
ployes in the plant which con
sists of all employes except main
tenance and repair men.
Out of 470 eligible voters, 187
voted IWA-CIO, 78 voted AFL,
and eight voted "no union." Em
ployes numbering 196 failed to
voto and one vote was chal
lenged. This election was petitioned
for by the AFL challenging the
IWA-CIO which has been the
bargaining agency up until this
time. Claud Calkins, NLRB
field examiner, conducted the
election.
Gen. Craig Dies
At Walter Reed
WASHINGTON, July 25 UP)
General Malin Craig, former
army chief of staff, died today
at 1:45 p. m., Eastern War Time,
at Walter Reed hospital. .
The announcement was made
by Acting Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson.
Craig served as army chief of
staff from October 3, 1935 to
August 31, 1939. He had been
ill for a year.
After Cra e ret red in 1939.
he returned to active duty just
before the outbreak of hostilities
in tho present war to become
president of the secretary of
war's personnel board, beginning
in September, 1941. In that
capacity he has passed on all
army -officer promotions.
FRENCH COURT
PETI'S PLANS
Supertforfs
Hurl Sfee!
n
By AL DOPKING
GUAM, Thursday, July 26 UP) American Suparforts struck
thraa Japanese oil refineries near Tokyo at midnight last night
within a faw hours after third lleet carrier planes and warshipa
pounded coastal dafenies on the enemy homeland.
Between 75 and 100 big B-29s hit tha Mitsubishi, Hayama'
and Asaishi refineries, all within a faw hundred yards of each,
other, at Kawasaki on Tokyo bay, about 10 miles from Tokyo
City. It was the second Superfortress raid oti Nippon in 38
hours.
Carrier planes smashed for tha second consecutive day at
smoking remnants of Japan's dazed navy in the huge Kura
nayal base after heavily damaging sever! warships yesterday. .
Adm. Nimitz did not reveal the strength of today's assault
but it was presumed equal to yesterday's 1200 plane strike. '
Airfields and other military installations on the main home
island of Honshu also were hit. Returning pilots reported '
destruction of Japanese planes on the ground. Associated Praia
Correspondent Richard O'Malley, aboard tha carrier flagship, ,
said a thick 'blanket oi fog-
closed in late in the day.
Fifteen cruisers and destroy
ers moved boldly inshore early
today and shelled another Jap
anese fighting lair the sea
plane base and airfield at Ku
shimoto on the southwestern
tip of Honshu.
(Tokyo radio heard in London
reported that still other war
ships bombarded Kanagawa pre
fecture on Honshu, just south of
Tokyo bay. Kanagawa is across
the mouth of the bay from Cape
Mojima, which was shelled by
warships July 18.
(A Tokyo report that 200
American carrier-borne planes
ranged north and were striking
airfield and transportation fa
cilities on Hokkaido island, north
of Honshu, was monitored by
the American Broadcasting com
pany). score Torn
Planes and warships went in
to action again as tabulation
showed this toll of Japanese
fighting ships collected yester
day:
Two battleships, two carriers
and three cruisers damaged.
(British carrier planes account
ed for one of the carriers at a
Shikoku Dort).
The incomplete, score also
showed .64 , enemy planei de
stroyed or damaged. These re
sults, plus other damage mulct
ed by British carrir planes and
land-based navy bombers, in
creased to 563 the number of
ships, and to 635 the number of
Dlanes. destroyed or heavily
damaged by forces under Ad
miral Nimitz command in the
15 days beginning July 10.
Between the hours of yester
day's carrier-plane attack and to
day's night fighters slashed at
the enemy to make tnis tne Jirsi
around-the-clock carrier strike
against Nippon. In a broadcast
from the scene, Admiral Halsey
termed it "a new phase of naval
warfare .... The final plunge
into the heart of Japan.
"If the Nips do not know
they're a doomed nation, they're
even stupider than I think," he
added. "My only regret is that
the ships do not have wheels
so we could chase them inland
after we drive them from the
coast."
Combined with a 625-plane
B-29 strike on Osaka and Na
goya heaviest of the war and
other army air raids, the blows
of the past two days were the
hardest ever struck against Ja
pan. Some 2000 planes, in all,
participated.
Nips Worried
. Tokyo's jitters were obvious
in its radio broadcasts.
The enemy radio made no ef
fort to minimize seriousness of
the threat as Halsey's ships
steamed defiantly near the coast
close enough for cruisers and
destroyers to shell Honshu's
southern shore this morning,
hammering at the Kushimoto
seaplane base, Shionomisaki air
field and other targets. Tokyo
radio acknowledged the shelling.
Japanese broadcasts reported
carrier aircraft attacking today
concentrated on air fields and
communications facilities on
south central Honshu, main is
land of Japan. They reported
attacks were broken off in mid
morning after 14 raiders were
shot down and 36 damaged in
two days. .
They returned again in the
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Navy Identifies
Clear Lake Body
The body washed up on the
shores of Clear lake in north
ern California Monday was iden
tified Tuesday by naval author
ities as that of David O. Herget,
AR 2c, USNR, who was killed
last December when a medium
bomber on a routine flight from
Klamath naval air station crash
ed Into the lake and submerged.
Identification was established
by means of dental work, cloth
ing, and a slip of paper bearing
hiu name in a Docket.
His father, Adam Herget, lives
at Tallsheek, La.
Two men were believed killed
last December In the crash but
diving operations at the lake for
the plane and bodies had to be
discontinued because of tho for
mation of heavy ice. The body
of the pilot, Lt. Robert Pinz, of
L.OS Angeles, has not been recovered.
Enemy
T
POTSDAM, July 25 OP) A
four-engined passenger plant,'
carrying Prime Minister Church
ill and his party took off for -England
from a strongly guard-"
ed airport here this afternoon
after another meeting of the
Big Three.
Churchill, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and Clement R.
Attlee, labor party leader at-,
tending the conference as an
observer, arranged a recess so
they could be in London when" -results
of the British election
July 5 are announced Thurs
day. , .
Four army sedans from the
British compound took the pas;, "
engers to the airport. There was ''
no formal farewell from Ameri-,.
can and soviet delegates.
Ninth Meeting .
The meeting of the' prime'
minister, President Truman and"
Premier Stalin today was the
ninth .of , the Potsdam series!" .
Foreign office representative '
will carry : on the conversa
tions tomorrow.
In the absence of Eden, Brit
ain will be represented by Under-Secretary
Sir Alexander Ca
dogan. He will meet with IT,
S. Secretary of State James F,
Byrnes and Soviet Foreign Com
missar Vyacheslav Molotov.
If the British election return
tomorrow show the conserva
tive party victorious, Churchill
and Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden who is accompanying
him to London may return,
to Potsdam Friday.
Attlee May Attend ,
In the event of a labor party
victory, however, the task df
continuing the Big Three talks
will devolve upon Clement Att
lee, who has been sitting in on
the conference at Churchill'
invitation. if
A change in British leaders
ship is not expected here to re
sult in any marked setback to
the Potsdam negotiations. No
sharp differences , on foreign
policy were raised between
Churchill and Attlee during the
election campaign.
(A Paris dispatch last night
said U.' S. Ambassador Jeffer
son Caffery and Soviet Am
bassador Alexander E. Bogo
molov had been summoned to
Potsdam, suggesting that the
conference had reached a point,
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NRLB To Hear 1
Libby Strike v
PORTLAND, Ore., July 25 IO
The national labor relations
board began a hearing today on
Ihn 1K.dav.n1d strike of AFL
workmen at the Libby McNeill
and Libby cannery here a - low
hours after the strikers refused
to return to work. t '
.Tnhn E. Hedrick. regional
NLRB examiner, was conduct
ing the hearing, iirst hours ot
which covered background of
the strike. The workers warned
out July 13 after dismissal of
Kenneth Smith, former presi.
dent of tho AFL Cannery Work
ers' local. , ....
At a mass meeting late last
night the workers are reported
to have turned down unanimoi s
ly a war labor board demand
that they return to their Jobs. -:
Yawkey Mill At
Prineville Burns ;'!
PRINEVILLE, July 25 W'il
Flro destroyed the Alexander
Yawkey sawmill Crook coun
ty's largest here last night.
Starting under the green
chain as shifts were changing,
the flames leveled the plant,
causing a loss estimated at $125
000 by J. F. Daggett, manager.
The mill cut about 8000 feet
an hour. It was built in 1043,
The Alcxander-Yawkcv mill
was managed by J. V. Daggett,
former Klamath lumberman,
and a number of former Klam
ath people have been connected
with the Prineville operation,.
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