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illiLlMii Tafi in VV V rJL . .. -l- Hi PRICE FIVE CENTS By FRANK JENKINS rV for tho uliport. Finn! weather report permitting, the British Clipper la liuo to Iciivu around midnight. Thi! iilrpcirt ciir In filled wltli hmiilnu British. So fur UK cull lii deduced from till) evidence of accent, Hi Ik writer in llio only Aiiii-i-lriin ill tho outfit. Till! tia lie in of I lit in 1 1(( n i 1 1 ii . and of Trlnliliiil, unit of the oil thai rises llicro from the bottom of the urn, mill of tho Islands of tho Uer mucins mid of South Africa. AT the nlrport tlierc In deluy. Passports lire examined, itiuiuiiuii Ih clii'ckcd over with special reference In tho question ing to cnmerim. in mm win world, camera nro dynnmlte. AmoiiK other things, their film mlelit catch flro. In the wnltluK iwrlnil. sandwiches iiml fruit juices nrc act out. Stiddnitlv the loud speaker comes to life. Klmil weather cleiiriincc has been received. Wc troop down the pier and jmtcr Iho hie flying bont that floats at Us end. With everybody In. the doors are battened shut, tho starters limnt and struin and tho engines ni,-h w inxl down the buy, wnrmltia tho motors. Water alnps at the sides and the bot tom. Safety belts arc buckled. The sputtering rumblo of the eniilne.1 Hues to a high, steady ronr, n few final waves smack tho hu'.l and we're airborne. The city's llghut vanish In tho fog and the niiht below. .F TTlIESE Clippers aro the last word at tho moment in long' ranga air travel. They havo berths, like a Pull man ear minora and lowers. They have rending Hunts In tho berths, and becauso there is no roll and sway, as In a riiii-oornc vehicle, rending Is as easy and comforiablo as at homo In bod. Tho bods a to soft. Thero is a combination lounge and smoking room that pinch hits at mcnltimo as a dining salon, tables being set up be tween the seats. Thero is an other lounge that at night makes up Into berths. Thero is a sc'p nrnto lounge for the women, but those aboard prefer for tho most piirt to lounge nnd smoko with the men. Qunrtera for tho of ficers nnd crew nro up front and on nil upper deck. Dressing rooms arc only slightly less commodious thnn In a Pullmnn, with toilet fucllities, wash bowls with hot and cold water, mirrors nnd even HO volt current for electric razors. There l.i n gnllcy (ship terms . are used throughout) from which excellent mcnls nrc served by a steward. As on shipboard, cof feo and sandwiches aro provided at mid-morning and ten and cakes at mid-afternoon. fH this ship, thero aro accom " niodnllons (or 30-odd pas sengers, plus tho crew. It seems huge, but already 200-pnssenger ships nro on the drawing bonrds, and Howard Hughes Is reported to be designing a 500-passcnger plane. ' AS on sailing night on a ship, no one seems to wnnt to go to bed. There isn't much bright nnd sparkling conversation, for In addition to everyone being strnngers tho ronr of the engines means Unit you have to snout in to somebody's car to bo heard (the designers will probably In sulate post-war ships against no sc.) People sit around and rend, nnd eventually tho stew ards hnvo to come around and (Continued on Pugo Two) Arraignment For Heuvel July 30 Clnrenco A, Humble, district attorney here, sulci this morning that tho district attorney's office has been In contact with most of tho witnesses in tho pending cases of the Statu of Oregon vs. Karl Heuvel, former Klamath Fulls police chief. Arrangements arc being made to have tho witnesses available lo testify when trial dates are sol by Circuit Court JudRo Charles Combs of Lake county, who has been assigned to hear tho cases. Time of Arraignment has bcon set (or Monday, July 30, at 2 p, in., in circuit court here, llcuvcl is held on morals chnrRcs which includo one caso of contributing to the delinquen cy of a minor In which Willie Mao Collins is involved, ono chargo of rape nnd one of sod omy against Virginia Rosa Gib son, and ono chargo of sodomy against Bornlco Evelyn Huff, Tho lullor two girls nro from Tho Dalles, Humblo snld, Two of tho complaining wit nesses liavo boon married slnco Iho Indictments were returned, Hunibla slated. B-29s Loose Fire Bombs On Nip Cities By The Associated Press American Superforta blasted Japan today for the third time this week with a 2200-ton fire bomb raid. More than 350 B-29t hit three cities In the early morning Friday, Tokyo time (about noon, U. 8. eastern war time). Cities attacked were Omuta, chemical production center on Kyushu island; Matsuyama, port on the west coast of Shikoku island, and Tokyuama. chemical and oil refining city in south western Honshu island. All had been hit before, but it was the first attack on urban areas of Matsuyama and Tokuyama. Tokyo pleaded for leniency OPA ANNOUNCES RED POINT GUTS FOR. BEEF, ULi WASHINGTON, July 20 (Pi Ui'A, reporting "dcllnllo Im provement" In incut supply and distribution, today announced re ductions In red point values for almost all cuts of beef, lamb and venl beginning Sunday. The ngency estimated that for tho August rationing period about 0.5 per cent more meat will bo availablo for snlo over retail counters than in July Compared with June, when ci vllian supplies were at their lowest level, the Increase will be about 11 per cent. With ono exception, tho re ductions amount to ono to two points a pound. The reduction for boneless rump roasts is three points,, ;, Most steaks nro .cut two points. Present point values of all cuts of pork, canned fish, fats ana oils, una dairy products win romaln unchanged, creamery butter continues at 16 points, the lower value was unsigned July 15. Total meat supplies for the August rationing period were estimated at 221.110.000 pounds, compared with 212,100,000 pounds for the present period. The cslimalo for beef is up 8,000,000 pounds, veal 2,280,000 pounds, lamb and mutton about 1,700,000. Tho pork supply, however, will bo down about 3,279,000 pounds. Prico Administrator Chester Bowles said the Improvement In civilian supplies was due largely to lower military purchases. Calling tho reductions In point values "good news," Bowles said he was awuro of the difficulty housewives have had in budget ing red points. "In August," he commented, "the lower point values for beef, lamb and venl. together with the recent reduction of creamery but ter to 10 points a pouna, win case the strain on red point bud gets." Army Used Rubber, When Supply Short WASHINGTON, July 26 m Senators heard today that the army allocated 48(1,000 gallons of gnsollne nnd 75 tons of rub ber to the Pnn-Amerlcan high way project In 1943 when both commodities were in extremely short supply. Senator Robertson (R-Wyo.) read tho figures from data sub mitted to tho war investigating commlttoo by army engineers. Ho commented that the highway Srojcct was approved originally y tho army general staff on condition that no. critical mate rials be used, The project. Involving con struction of 003 miles of road between ' the Mexican-Guatemalan border and tl'.e Panama canal, was begun in-duly, 1042, and dropped October 31, 1D43, incomplete. Chinese Troops Take Namyung CHUNGKING. Julv 20 Wl Tho Chinese high- command an nounced today that Chinese troops had captured tho city of Namyung, 155 miles northeast of Canton and site of tho sev enth former American air base to bo regained from the .Innn. neso In recent months, The announcement said tho Japanese garrison wns retreat ing westward toward Kukong, on tho Cnnton-Hankow railway 12B miles north of Canton. Nainvunff wns the nnlnt fi-nin which wolfram, 'mined tin the surrounding district, started on tho first leg of Its air journey to the United States. Telephone HI 1 1 .y ' KLAMATH FALLS. OREOO . .? today under t h o merciless poundings of allied naval guns and planes which arc rapidly knocking out Japan's air, sea and coastul defenses. Twenty Jnpuncsc warships and 82 other surface craft were knocked out in a single day's air raids by combined U. S. British carrier forces, presum ably still roaming Japanese waters. On distant fronts strong Brit ish scouting parties were report ed feeling their way toward Singapore in an amphibious op eration while Chinese troops overrun the seventh former U. S. air base in China to be re taken In recent months. .Aerial Pounding Incessant aerial pounding will reduce Japan to "a nation with out cities a nomadic people," Lt. Gen. Doolittlc promised from his new Supcrfort head quarters on Okinawa. His con fidence, echoing comments of other ranking American air sea and army commanders in the Pacific, was expressed short ly after B-28 headquarters on Guam announced 143 square miles of 30 japancsa industrial cities have been reduced to -rubj- .Die or asncs.- A Tokyo seemed tfllSbo of the same opinion. In one' of -Its most amazing - broadcasts the government controlled radio said the emperor's military leaders would gladly stop the war right now if the United States cased up on its demands for unconditional surrender, S i m u 1 1 a n cously, Russia's Stalin was reported to have car ried a Jnpancsc peocc offer to President Truman at the Pots dam conference. This report, published by Newsweek maga zine, said Japan offered Man churia to the Soviet Union for non intervention, agreed to withdrawal from Asia, and American occupation of Korea and Formosa, but no occupa tion of the sacred islands them selves. Japan's desire to quit is re ceiving a provocative boost from Admiral Halscy's allied fleet. On Tuesday alone, some 1200 planes from tho fleet's carriers damaged the greater part of the bedraggled Imperial fleet and knocked out 150 planes. Warships Hit Twenty warships were bombed or torpedoed, including three battleships, six aircraft turners and five cruisers, Twenty merchant ships were sunk. Sixty-two other cargo vessels and smaller craft rang ing down to barges were dam aged. This toll was taken aiong tho Inland sea, most of it at the once great Kure naval base. Rolling bunks of log inter rinited continued carrier at tacks yesterday. But a partial return of the day s work show- (Continucd on Page two) Marines To Play For Scrap Parade The bund from the Marino Burrocks will be featured In n parade to be held Friday noon on Main street to publicizo the Shrine salvage drive on Sunday, Pickup trucKs which will be used to collect tho salvage will also be used in tho parade. Starting tonight, Thursday, (here will be five-minute talks over radio station KFJI. Thurs day night at 7 o'clock John Houston will speak; on Friday at 0:20, Mayor Kd Oslcndorf will be on tho air for five minutes, and on Saturday evening at 6:55 Walt- Wlcscndnngcr, chairman of tho local drive, will bo heard. Ono hundred Shrlno nobles arc asked to be at the salvage depot nt 9 o'clock Sunday morn ing to assist with tho pnper and tin can pickups.. Residents arc asked to tic their wnste paper in bundles and wash nnd flatten their tin cans-and put them In a container. 1 ; Tho trucks will start circulat ing early Sunday morning.. Two railroad freight cars have been allotted nnd William Kunz, who is taking care of that angle, says that thc.v aro cxncctcd to he filled. . Proceeds from tho drive will go to the Shrine Crippled Chil dren's hospital in . Portland. RSDAY, JULY 26, 194$ Fleet Guns Hit f .w. v,"i': U, ' . .''-y- , -w-lrr- . k ... , v uai., 1 . v y,i ..... lHZ ' The battleship Massachusetts, one of the U. S. navy's newest, leaves fire and destruction in its wake as it withdraws from Kamalshl on the northeast coast of Honshu, July 14, after first bombardments of the main Japanese home islands. W) Wirophoto via Navy Radio from Guam). Nov, Marines Fight Local Gtass Fires '.' v r Navy, marine; and' county fire equipment were kept busy .Wed nesday afternoon when several grass and brush fires threatened to cause serious property dam age. . A blaze' which destroyed a small shed containing valuable electrical equipment belonging to W. R; Cleve was started in tho Llndlcy Heights area Wed nesday afternoon when a resi dent was burning off dry grass on a vacant lot and a, sudden gust of wind whipped the blaze out of control. County trucks were out at the time on another fire so . navy equipment was sent, and their high pressure noses were creau- EX-SENATE MEMBER TESTIFIES AT TRIAL PARIS. July 26 W') Jules Jcanncney, former president. of tho French senate, told a high court of justice today that .the machinations of Pierre Laval made Marshal Petain dictator when France collapsed in 1940, and that the two men ' "made common cause together.!. The white-haired witness ap peared at this fourth day of Pe tnin's trial on charges of be traying France.- , Jeunneney. president of tne senate in 1940. described an ex traordinary session 01 parlia ment m which- Laval, Vichy chief of government, suppressed debate and rammed ' through three' "constitutional acts" abro gating the constitution and giv ing the marshal virtually unlim itcd powers. He said petain snowed de plorable weakness" when ho suc ceeded Paul Reynaud as ' pre mier at Bordeaux in June, 1940. 'Let us admit that wc had no other choice," Jcanneney said. . As the witness left the court (Continued on Pago Two) Logger Killed In Wilson River Fire SALEM. July 27 (P) The Wilson river forest fire, which hud ' been burning - for three weeks with hardly a man be ing injured, took its first life last night when Joe Dilllsh. a young logger employed by the Consolidated Timber Co., was killed while on- night flro pa' trol. State Forester N. S.-Rogers said that Dilllsh was cutting a snag in a burning area when the stump 01 tne snag strucK him, killing him almost instant ly. - " '.- The timber company,- which has been salvaging timber from tho 1933 Tillamook burn, said it believed Dilllsh has no close relatives. , Rogers said the 90,000-ocre flro is "relatively in pretty good shape, although an east wind would glva us lots of trouble." mnii-tni'tii! .!illt'l1ii"!Hti,i:it"!'r!!il',ll,fitin!r' (July 26) Max. (July 25) ... 87 Min. .. 57 Precipitation last 24 houri 00 Stream year to data 13.28 Normal 12.12 Lest yaar 10.42 Forecast! Claar, little change In temp. Honshu Targets And County ed -with Stopping the fire before it reached a. group of houses. A group of marines was also sent to combat the blaze and county fire trucks also arrived in time to finish putting out the fire, ' -Local residents as Well as an employee- of the telephone com pany, who happened to be in stalling a telephone in lhe neigh borhood at the time, were mobilized to combat the lire. . A '.fire" which covered almost 30 acres of grass and brush near the Great Northern roundhouse was extinguished by county fire crews and equipment before it did any property damage, Wed nesday afternoon. A fire on Bryant mountain near Malin was being fought by a contingent of marines and fire fighting crews. Thursday morn ing and was under control ot noon after covering five or six acres of brush and grass land. -A small grass fire near Chilo quin was put out Wednesday night before it could gain head way, but forest officials are showing worry over tho extreme ly" dry conditions in the forest areas. Charles Thomas Killed In Action PFC Charles R. Thomas, son of Mrs. George Bell of 69 Pine, died on July 8 as a result of wounds received. jn action, ac cording to word received from the war department. PFC Thomas was wounded on Okinawa on May 17 after seeing action on Guam, Leyte, Ie Shima and later Okinawa. He was serving with the 77th infan try division. He had received a combat badge, the Purple Heart, and al so the Good Conduct medal. ; Thomas was born and re ceived his education in Klamath Falls and Is well-known here. He- has one brother, Lindy Thomas, and one sister, Grace Bell.; Klamath Brothers John L, (Jack) Collins, S 1c, Collins, right, sons of Mrs, Mattle in three yean on a but bound for : wuip! mmm unmanning iimnawma . .Of -v 1 Number 10576 LEADERS GALL T WR DIE Truman, Chiang and Churchill Unite POTSDAM, July 26 tfP) President Truman- President Chiang Kai-shek and retiring Prime Minister Churchill to- night called upon Japan to sur render unconditionally, declar ing: "The alternative Is prompt and utter destruction. The joint proclamation! de clared there would De no devi ation from the demand from un conditional surrender and we shall not accept delay." Terms Listed Japan will be divested of the leaders who misled that people and will be stripped down to her four main islands and sucn minor island as we determine," it said. Japan, the leaders announced, must remove all obstacles to the revival of democratic tendencies in the country, but will be per mitted to retain non-armament industries. 'We do not intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race or destroyed as a nation," the proclamation said, but stern justice shal be meted out to war criminals." Potsdam dispatches said the proclamation was drawn up by Truman and Churchill, who sub mitted it ..to Chiang." China's leader-promptly -concurred in the statement. iTruman's secretary, Charles Ross, said the warning would be broadcast to the Japanese people in every way possible. Speaking on a roadside near Weinheim, Truman said he was "glad to get the chance to look at good American soldiers." One of his regrets, he added, was that in this war he was not allowed to wear a uniform, "although 1 tried hard enough." Instead, he said, he found himself responsible for the wel fare of all American soldiers "and I hope I can fulfill that responsibility." President Trumaa arrived here today to inspect American troops and have lunch with Gen. Eisenhower, after a 268-mile, 90 minute flight from Potsdam. The president took off from the Gatow airport, and flew at 6000 feet all the way. Mr. Truman arrived at the Eschborne army airport shortly after 9:30 a. m., a few minutes behind Secretary Byrnes, who came on another plane. Begins Inspection The president began a round of inspections with a review of an honor guard made up from the 50olh paracnute troop regi ment of the 82nd airborne divi sion. The president's trip, coming during a lull in the internation al Darlcy. coincided with the dis closure that he planned to make a nationwide radio report to the American people when he re turns to Washington at tne end of the conference. He planned to return to Potsdam this after noon. Ninth Day The Big Three met yesterdav for the ninth successive day and it was presumed that the war (Continued on Page Two) BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Cincinnati 1 , 8.0 Chicago 2 10 0 Heusser and Unser: Wyse and Gillespie, Williams (9). Are Home Again left, and PFC Forrest (Dean) Collins, met for the first time Klamath Fall.. .fP.M Labor Party Landslides British Vote 1 By The Associated Press ; LONDON, July 26 Winston Churchill resigned tonight as prime minister in the wake of a voting tabulation which showed the strongly socialistic labor party had won 2 to 1 landslide over Churchill's conservatives in the July 5 election. , Clement R, Attlee, who spearheaded the labor party triumph In the first general election Britain had had in 10 years, was due to succeed Churchill. The count showed the laborites had won 381 seata in the 640-seat house of commons, to the conservatives' 193, as the war time leader presented his resignation at Buckingham palace. King George VI immediately accepted the resignation of the 70-year-old statesman. Churchill went to Buckingham palace at 7 p. m. " Churchill gave hia last V-sign as premier when he drove through the palace gate, sitting alone in the back seat of his automobile. Hia grave face was broken by a brief smile for a little crowd which grea-ted him aa the sentries saluted. Churchill had been prime min ister since May 10, 1940. Returns available at 6:30 p. m. (10:30 a. m. Pacific war time) gave 208 house of common seats for parties supporting Churchill and 408 seats for the opposition. . Attlee faces twin tasks of lead ing Britain's part of the war on Japan and reconstructing this wartorn nation under a program that calls for nationalization of much of its industry. ' Britons had the first chance in 10 years to vote in a general election July 5 and they veered strongly to the left, defeating 27 members of Churchill's "care taker" government but re-electing Churchill himself and For eign Secretary Anthony Eden to their own constituencies. While w .UI lr h fnrpmn' minister, few changes in BnW' Bin's foreign policy are expeci - ed. Attlee has been attending the Potsdam conference and probably will return there to morrow. . Significant Victory . The British Press association called labor's victory "the most astonishing and significant of the century." There were many efforts to explain the upset, one of the most prominent being that Britons were tired of war time restrictions and eager for a change. Attlee served until June 15 as deputy prune - minister in Chutchil's ; -wartime - roalitlon government He said the victory "will enable us to implement the policy of the socialist party.' The labor party last formed the government in 1929 under the late Ramsay MacDonald, and held power until 1931 when it was forced to go to the people on the gold standard issue; Following that election it was forced to lean heavily on the liberal party section of the gov ernment coalition and in 1935, Britain's last general election un til July 5, Stanley Baldwin led the conservatives into power. Labor Pledges In one of the most acrimon ious campaigns in Britain's his tory, the labor party pledged it self in this election to support a program 0 national social ization of heavy industry, trans portation, mines and the Bank of England. The first thing Attlee and his party probably will attempt to do when they take over the gov ernment will be nationalization of these enterprises, including the iron and steel industry and all forms of inland transport. "When monopoly gets into the hands of a few men, then the only safe monopoly is a monopoly of the community," Attlee has declared. India Pledge He has promised political lib erty for India "if they can achieve it for themselves" and ho has declared for the closest possible relations with the Uni ted States and Russia. There has been little outward difference of opinion between the labor and conservative par ties on foreign policy, as shown by Attlee's willingness to ac company Churchill to Potsdam. The laborites did challenge Brit ain's position in Greece. Eden's Successor The question of. who will be chosen Eden's successor as for eign secretary remained unde termined, but speculation has centered around three names in (Continued on Page Two) Collins Brothers Meet For j First Time In Three Years) PFC Forrest E. Collins, a re turned veteran from the Euro pean theater, found himself be side a talkative sailor on tho bus heading south from Port land. When the soldier admitted Klamath Falls as his destination, the sailor peered at him eager ly. Collins had an uneasy feeling that he was going to be asked if he knew some friend of the sailor living here, but John Col lins, S 1c-, heading home to Klamath Falls from the South Pacific, only exclaimed: 1 "You're my brothcrl" 1 ' When Forrest enlisted in the army In October, 1941, John was only 16. Forrest trained at Camps White and Adair and was sent to Italy. John Joined tho navy as soon as he was 17, and was sent to the Pacific war zone. - RUSSIA'S BID FOR UNRRA AID STARTS DEBATE WASHINGTON, July 26 W) Russia's request for $70,000,000 worth of UNRRA aid met f mixed reception in congress to day. simultaneously, oui wiinuui "S,rSi 'iff'TSS i -ar, - and that nations participating in its relief and rehabilitation operations might be asked to in crease their contributions. These now are fixed at one per cent of their national income for one year. The soviet government's In itial application for help was dis closed by Roy F. Hendrickson, UNRRA deputy director, in re sponse to a news conference question yesterday. He said the request would be screened, as are those from other nations, to determine Russia s ability to inv - t - pdrt" goods and" pay for them, Decline Comment Members of the senate foreign relations committee available to reporters declined comment, but Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said: "I am very much afraid they won't get that much. 1 don't think UNRRA is going to operate on such a large scale. We (the United States) are down for only 51,350,000,000 and I don t think we ve put m more than 75 per cent so tar (UNRRA said $800,000). I don't think anybody else has put in any thing very much." (Hendrickson dis puted this, saying nine nations have authorized their full one per cent.) Senator Tunnel! (D-Del.) com mented: . "Of course, UNRRA is an in ternational organization and knows the situation better than ...a An Tho nucciane upl-f n terrific help in the war and I hope they get their proportion from this fund." , - Strikes Halt WW Ul I I WMHVIIVII By The Associated Press' Production of engines for tha army's B-29 Superfortresses was reduced to a mere trickle today by nearly 48,000 striking work ers at plants in Illinois and Nev Jersey. More than 18,000 were out in Chicago at the Chrysler corpor ation's Dodge - Chicago plant, world's largest airplane engine factory, in a strike that began yesterday, and nearly 30,000 Wright Aeronautical corporation workers continued a strike at five plants at Woodridge, Pater son and East Paterson, N. J. Officials of both companies said production of B-29 engines; had been halted by the walk outs. Manufacture of the Super fortress engines continued, how ever, at a smaller Wright plant at Lockland, O., employing 4500 workers. The brothers hadn't seen each other for three years. Dean, another brother, has; been discharged from the army on the point system. He lives in Merrill with his wife and two children. PFC Roy E. Collins, still an other brother, Is stationed with the army of occupation in Ger many, and PFC Robert Collins is on his way home from Europo . to Join his brothers in Klamath Falls. The five Collins boys are sons of Mrs. Mattle Collins, 901 Do lores. They have three sisters; here, Mrs. Frank Lowell, Mrs, Harold A. Sturgeon and Mrs. Dclbert Cummings. Another sis ter, Mrs, Frank Record, has come home from San Francisco to see her brothers. Forrest' wife, Frances, and bfcby dough' tor live in Tulelakc, where ho has gone after a brief stopover I in Klamath Falls. t
