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m TTlfTn 0) ? o)fnl o)iyj M 1 1)13 By FRANK JENKINS fU the l'ullmiin rMln urant cur mentioned In thoMo chroii' Ic'li'H vvnli-i'cliiv. this writer's op posllo iiumbi'i' ill lliu table In u young uriusn nu vni uir on him , Hi. In frlenrilv. but not very liilkullvo. llo spends must of lilt! Uiiio gazing runny out oi mo window. He finally murmur: "It Just clucinVt mom pnmilbln Hint there finikl be no much greenery go ing to waste." It develop on Iiiiiulrv Hint ho U getting lliu first look lit Kiiuliiml In four unci n Inilf yeiu, during most of which ho hn been stationed In tho Near uiul Mlddlo Eimt. It In obvious Hint to him Eng land In tlui most bvnutlfii! sight in tho world. HI gnzn literally turewcs the countryside beyond the window. TT In bountiful enough, even to ii ntriinunr. Thlii country bore Is gently rnlllnu. mid In iito July In riotously green. No, tho word "rlotoun" III noorly chosen; It convey ml Impression of un niUncm, of dlshevelmeilt, The benulv of this rolon Is n ORDERLY beiuity. Wluil your eve sees, with keen delight didn't Just happen. It hns been MADE TO LOOK tbiit way. It occurs to you suddenly Hint for nearly 20 centuries people hiivc been worklnu lit thu Job or tailor ing It to It present perfection. You can't bliimc un English- man, especially one who bus Just returned from the deserts of tho Middle Knst, for being lost in worship of this country that Is bis. You begin to understand dimly that Churchill wasn't Just maklnit a speech when he sulci defiantly to Hitler after Dunkor- que that "we'll fight from the hedges and In tho roads and on lbs hills." He was merely an Kniillshman speaking English thoughts. RESIDE tho railroad, mile on m lie. runs row of solid con crete posts, somo three feet tuuare. about four feet high and act deeply in tho soil. They are tank traps, and remind you of the tword of Invasion that hung suspended by hair over this land but for some still unknown reason never fell. With true British foresight and shrewdness, they don't run hap hazard through the fields, clut tering good land, nut are placed long tho railroad whero they maJco an admirable right oi way fence. AND so on to London, and Into tho teeth of tho question Unit stares every traveler in tho luce in every waking moment in these upset Joys: "How about a place to sleep?" This writer Is supposed to have a hotel reservation, and its whereabouts lire to be disclosed by a messenger who is to be waiting at thu Victoria station. Coming across. Unit seemed reasonable enough, and besides it was then a FUTURE worry. This is TONIGHT. Onu's peace of mind isn't helped any by a fellow passenger on tho plane who Calls ahead from Poolo und (Continued on Pago Three) Police Find Loot In Payroll Take BURBANK, Calif., July 31 P) Pollen today recovered $2200 of tho $111,300 cash stolen yester day from two Hollywood bank messengers by two gunmen in one of southern California's larg est payroll robberies In recent years. Detective Frank Kcohanc re ported Hint the $2200 in pennies nnd nickels, was found in a West Los Angeles garage. Two guns and clothing which may have been worn by tho bandits also wero found, ho snld. Tho messengers, Victor Lohn, 20, and Thurston Patterson, 45, told detectives their car wns halted yesterday by two men, one in army uniform and wenr Ing a military police arinhnnd, and the other In civilian clothes. Lohn and Patterson snld tho men forced them, at gunpoint, to gel In tho back of their own car and then drove lo somo near by hills. Tho messengers snld tho gun men bound nnd gngged them nnd then drove off wllh their car ond the bngs of money. Skyscraper Elevator Girl Plunges 1000 Feet In Crash NEW YORK, July 31 (VP) The elevator girl who fell near ly 80 floors about 1000 foot v. hen tho cables of her car In tho Emolro Stato building wero annppocl by an army bomber crush Saturday wns nllvo and smiling today nt Bcllovtio hos pital. Sho Is 20-ycnr-old Betty Lot! Olivor of Fort Smith, Ark., who took o job ns elevator girl 1q the world's largest building while she waited in New York for her snilor husbnnd to return from overseas. Sho was to linve quit this week. Botty Lou wns nlono In tho enr when tho fog-blinded B-2B crushed Into tho building Satur day, mid hiio remained fully con scious during tho elevator s ter rifying descent. She Is suffering Herald rft3($ttr& PRICE FIVE CENTS PETAIN MOVED TO IALLIES Marshal Ordered End To Africa Resist ance, Claim PARIS. July 31 (VP) Gen. Maxlne Weygnnd declared today that Marshal I'etuln sent a sec ret telegram to Adm. Jeun Dur lnn "ordering tho admiral to eeuso oncrutlon uUlilllst United Slates und British forces nt the lime of tho landing In North Africa." Tho general who was com mander In chief of French arm ies when Germany crushed the republic was brought to the high court of Justice under guard and In civilian dress to testify as the first defense wit ness in Pctuln's trial on charges of Intelligence with tho enemy und plotting against the security of France. Wcygand assumed full respon sibility for the armistice, mc gave one of the first detailed accounts of events leading to, and after the surrender of France. He su Id Darlan was "com (Contlnucd on Pago Three) FIRE RAZES LUMBER CAMP COOK HOUSE fire destroyed the cook house and ona small cabin Monday aft ernoon in a blaze at tho Pelican Bay logging camp in tho Sycan country about IS miles north of Bcntty, Pelican Bay officials hero gave no estlmato of the loss, but snld that cooking equip ment and all cook house supplies wero lost In the fire. Crews arc still logging at the camp and arrangements have been made with Weyerhaeuser Camp Six to feed the men until new cooking facilities arc set up, probably by tho end of this week. An empty building from an other camp nearby is being moved this week and equipment nnd supplies were on the way from Portland Tuesday so that tho new cook house Is expected to bo .ready by Saturday or Sun day. A stove Is being moved from Klamath Falls for the new building. According to officials from the lumber compnny, the fire started about 3 o'clock Monday afternoon when lumps were be ing filled In the cook house. Men from the ciunp and crews from the woods put out tho blnzc aft er it had spread to another smnll building nenrby. Yankees Nudge Red Sox4-2 BOSTON. Julv 31 (PI The New York 'Yankees thwnrted Rookie Dnvo Ferris' bid for his 18th victory of tho season today. scoring two runs In the tenth in ning to bent the Red Sox, 4 to 2. The two runs came over on Tuck Stiiinbnck's single and Frnnkio Cro.tctti's squeeze bunt. It. II. E. New York 4 10 Boston 2 B Dublel and Robinson; Fcrrlss and R. Gnrbnrk. St. Louis 4 9 0 Detroit 5 11 3 Jnkuckl and Mancuso: Ncw- houscr and Swift, Richards (8). from burns, bruises and a pos sible back fracture. "Tho elevator seemed to stop and shudder for a moment," she told her sister, Mrs, James Boaude, of-Chicago, at tho hos pital, "Then It began plummet ing downward, I tried desper ately to Btop It," Relatives quoted the girl as saying she "felt as though tho car wero leaving mc I wns go ing down so fast that I just had to hang onto tho sides of the clovntor to keep from floating." "Sho wns saved by a miracle," unlet Gcorgo A. Mount, district ninnngcr of tho Otis Elevator compnny, who Investigated tho building's olovntors yesterday. "The concrete floor in tho bot tom of tho shaft was crushed like an egg shell," IibANQ YS $ .O Surrender-? Pierre Laval, above, who flew to Austria lo give himself up to United States troops. EX-VIGHY CHIEF TAKEN IN CUSTODY FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN, July 31 (I') Pierre La val, expelled from Spain, flew to Austria und surrendered today to U. S. occupation authorities who arranged to hand him over to Franco at once. The swarthy former chief of tho Vichj' government, who is charged with collaboration with the Germans, arrived with his wife in a Junkers 188 manned by two German pilots. The piano landed at Horschlng airport, Llnz, Austria, where United States troops immediate ly took Laval into protective custody. French army headquar ters were notified, and Laval and his party left later in cus tody of 0. S. Brig. Gen. John E. Copelnnd for tho French occupa tion zone. - His plane landed before noon, after a flight from Barcelona. A spokesman for United Slates forces said, In making tho announcement, that no addition al details were available. The former chief of the Vichy gov ernment had left Barcelona in a German-manned Junkers 188. It was believed his presence in the American zone would offer a tough problem in French American relations which could be solved quickly by prompt de livery of Laval to French au thorities. Condemned France already has con demned Laval to death in his absence. Madrid dispatches said Laval wns nccompnnled by ins wife and two German nir force offi cers In full. Luftwaffe uniform, in the twin-engined Junkers divebomber in which they land ed at Barcelona 90 dnys ago. The Spanish government, in a com munique, snid Laval had been held in the country as a result of his request to be allowed to surrender to the United Nations, instead of to Franco alone. Asked To Leave Afler tho United Nations failed to accept Laval's offer, the (Continued on Page Three) Coal Shortage To Limit Industries WASHINGTON, July 31 W) A government fuel expert testi fied today "I expect all industry, including steel mills, to be on a four-day week this winter" due to a prospective 37,000,000 ton cool deficit. Only two tilings could pre vent snob n rievelonment. Dr. C. pi, "-s'-? I J. J. Potter, deputy solid fuels ad 1 i ministrutor. told the senate war investigating comm 1 1 1 e o. The army could agree to furlough conl miners to go to work by Oc tober 1 or the war with Japan could come to a sudden end, Secretary of the Interior Ickes first testified that next winter will be the coldest of the war for Americans unless enough miners are released to make up the prospective deficit. Butter Spoilage Probed By Senate WASHINGTON, July 31 (VP) Senator investigating how ser vice personnel moving across the continent are to be fed veered off todny of an Inquiry Into but ter spollngo nnd learned: 1, Of 3,000,000 pounds of but ter stored In Illinois by the war food administration for military use, 3000 pounds has become rancid and would be sold. 2. The navy hns hnd "very lit tlo trouble" with spoilage and no butter has been lost. : 3. The army's loss by spoilage has been "very small." Acting Chairman Wherry (R Neb.) raised tho butlor Issue by asking Dr, D. A. Fitzgerald of tho WFA If it wero true that large quantities of stored butter had been sold to soap factories. ' 7 thone Bill X KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, , ' S OF JUGATE Congress Definition Of Authdrity For Ster tinius Demanded WASHINGTON, July 31 VP) Senutorial unity on the United Nations charter broke wide open today over a proposal that President Truman appoint a security council delegate with out letting congress define his authority. Chairman Connolly (D-Tex.) of the foreign relations com mittee stirred the storm with an announcement that he had asked the state department to de termine if any legislation is needed to cover tne appoint ment of Edward R. Stcttinius Jr., to the post. The reaction to Connally's personal view that there is no need for a bill to which might be attached a limitation on au thority to vote for the use of American troops was vigorous and prompt. Senator Vandcnberg (R-Mich.) who served with Connally as a delegate to tho San Francisco conference, made it plain he (Continued on Page Three) Troopship Docks At Camp Shdnks NEW YORK, July 31 (P) The Exchange, first of 5 troop ships duo hero today from Eu rope, arrived , at the'Omp snanKs. N. r.. Huason river 'dock with 2184 GI's, including 23 officers and 1635 enlisted men of the 5th armored division. This division, under the com mand of Maj. Gen. Lunsford E. Oliver of Nemeha, Nebr., fought in Europe with the 15th corps of the third army and on V-E Day was the American unit nearest Berlin. , , Among other units returning on the Exchange were the 6181 quartermaster drivers detach ment, the 167th and 72nd liaison squadrons, and 86th transport squadron cargo mail. Five other vessels arriving to day at New York City were the Lou Gehrig, with 25 liberated prisoners and other troops; the Great Republic, with 14; the Richard Bush with 738, the HMS Reaper, a British aircraft carrier, with 19, and the Steph en E. Austin, 100 men aboard. Tillamook Blaze On Rampage PORTLAND, July 31 (VP) The huge northwest Oregon for est fire leaped out of a week-end calm, destroyed a vital bridge and was roaring into green tim ber on the Forest Grove water shed today. Lulled by hl.h humidity, fog and lack of wind, the 200,000 acre fire which now burns in three counties revived on the southeast corner of the original Wilson river blaze. It burned a 600-foot trestle across deep Devil's fork of Wilson river. Assistant State Forester Ted Rainwater said all other edges of the zone had been trailed again and there was little dan ger of it spreading until calmed winds changed. He said soldiers on the 11,000 acre Polk county fire would be shifted to the bigger fire by to morrow. Elsewhere in the northwest crews fought to hem in smaller fires. Paratroop smoke-jumpers from Pendleton, Ore., were flown Into the Inaccessible re gion of the Chelan national for est near the Washington-Canadian border late yesterday whero a 300-acre blaze was reported. SENATE I 1 POWERS High School Attracts 400 Barefoot Okinawa Children , By RICHARD CUSHING. OKINAWA, July 31 (VP) High school education camo to Okinawa for the first time to day and 400 barefooted young sters, washed and combed for tho event, showed up to take ad vantage of the opportunity the Americans had brought them. The Japanese had discouraged anything higher than element ary education. Tho new high school classes aro under tho jurisdiction of tho military government, but with. : TUESDAY, JULY 31. 1945 Pamphlet i4 " i ' ' Its' ' " - - - , Twentieth air fore planes dropped pamphlets, like the one shown here, on 11 Japenes cities warning residents to evacuate as these places are marked for destruction next. The circled Japa nese letterings are the names of the cities: Ichinomiya. Tsu, Ujiyamada, Nagaoka. Nishinomiya. Aomori, Ogaki, Korlyams. Uwaiima, Kurume, Hakodate. (AP wire photo from 20th air force i Ti navy radio from Guam). IF E PORTLAND. Ore.. July 31 (VP) The Northwest council of-AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers has asked the national labor re lations board to hold a strike- vote among members of 430 un ion locals. . , . , . , Kenneth Davis, council' secre tary, said today the ballot' under NLRB procedure must come within 30 days of petitions be ing filed by locals, if approvea the strike ballot must again be passed on by the council. He said the loggers and saw mill workers have asked an industry-wide minimum wage of $1.10 per- hour compared wiw existing 75 to u cents, opera tors denied the request. About 60,000 Northwest lum ber workers are involved.- The Klamath Basin District council has filed petitions for the strike vote independent of, but in cooperation with, the Northwest District councils a representative of the AFL lum ber and sawmill workers here said this afternoon. This includes an area as far north as Chiloquin, as far cast as Lakeview. as far south as Al turas and Weed, Calif., and as far west as Grants Pass, as well as the Klamath basin itself.- Ap Droximately. 37 operations at mills or camps, combined or separate, in the Klamath basin area will be affected . by this vote, a spokesman said. Herron Arraigned On Assault Count Ed Herron, 45, was arraigned in justice court yesterday charged with assault while armed with a dangerous weapon. He took time to plead and bail was set at $1000 cash. He was committed to the county jail in lieu of ball. Herron was arresiea oaiuraay night by state police on a war rant after he allegedly slugged Edgar L. Butler of Dorris, Calif., over the head with a four foot pieco of iron pipe. autier is in me luamatn val ley hospital with a skull frac ture and severe head bruises. His condition was said to be im proved this morning. The two men were arguing about a pump located on US 97 near Worden where Dotn men were working for. the Tru-Mix Concrete company. Butler turned away from Her ron whereupon Herron slugged Butler, according to the arrest report. native teachers. They are con ducted in the Ishikawa civilian area. Most of the students are 13 or 14 years of age. There are 15 teachers. Grade school classes with more than 2500 in attendance are conducted in the morning, seven days a week, with the high school lnthe afternoon, High school subjects Include Japanese and English history, geography, arithmetic and exer cise. Art is planned for tho time when materials are available. Max. (July 30) 80 Mln 55 J Precipitation last 24 hours .00 Stream year to data 13.28 ; Normal 12.18 Last year 10.59 i Forecast! Clear Wednesday. Warns Japs Of Future iffi'i ' K - Treatment For Emperor Of Japan Divides Allies By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON", July 31 (VP) Allied councils are divided sharply over the treatment to be accorded Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The difference of views, which, spreads among groups within the United States govern ment as well as among other governments, is understood here to have been the basic reason why the Potsdam ultimatum to Japan omitted all reference to Hirohito or to the monarchy as an institution. As a result, the way still is open for the Japanese to try to save their emperor as the pin nacle of their government. How ever, American officials say they are hurting their chances by de laying inevitable capitulation. Althoueh Premier Suzuki's re jection of the Potsdam demand is described here as something of a poker move in the hope of winning higher stakes, there is at the moment a lessening hope of any immediate surrender on the part oi ioKyo. There are those, however, who take a brighter view. They Dairy Man Hurt In Motorcycle Crash A speeding motorcycle crashed into a stone retaining wall one-half mile east of uiene on the Klamath Falls- Lakeview highway Sunday about 7 P. m. and the driver suffered painful injuries. Theodore Roy Kaake, 19, of Dairy, Ore., was driving the mo torcycle, at a fast rate of speed when he was unable to negotiate a curve and smashed into the wall, according to an eyewitness report. The motorcycle was thrown high into the air and Kaake re ceived a severely lacerated chin, a broken collarbone, head injur ies and body, bruises. Passing motorists, called the Klamath merchants' police am bulance which rushed to the scene - and took Kaake to the Klamath Valley hospital where he is reportedly resting com fortably today. Kaake was lying in the ditch when the ambulance arrived at the scene of the accident and was unable to tell ambulance of ficials what happened or how the accident occurred. KF Safety Record Cited As Perfect CHICAGO. July 31 (VP) The nation's traffic death toll for the first six months of 1945 was 11,- 160. one per cent below the same period last year, but 10 per cent greater tnan in mti. The national safety council, which announced tho figures, said traffic deaths for June alone were 1920, 11 per cent more than in the same month last year and 14 per cent above June, 1943. 1 Despite the national increase in June traffic deaths. 243 cities reported perfect records for the month. The largest was Rich mond, Va., with a population of 240,000. For the six-month period, 4 cities reported perfect records. Largest was Schnectady, N. Y., with a i population of 87.500. Others Included Klamath Falls, Ore. July 31. 194S Numbn 10580 Raids cite first, the terrific beating the Japanese are taking and sec ond, the fact that there are pre sumed to be within Japan po tential leaders who really would like to end the war. It is around the ideas of these people toward the emperor that much of the controversy over Japan's su preme, ruler has revolved. A- check, of officials here shows the situation at "the mo ment to be this: 1. The British are reported following the line that the Japa- n e s e emperor should be pre servedcertainly the institution of monarchy in Japan primari ly as a means of preventing chaos and possibly eventual dic tatorship in the war -wrecked country. 2. At the other extreme, the peoples' political council of China has recommended to the Chinese government that Hiro hito be branded as a war crim inal. Diplomatic officials here say that recommendation will have enormous weight in Chungking. 3. The United States is fol lowing a middle of the road, "wait and see" policy. The the ory is that if the Japanese peo ple really want Hirohito they probably should have a chance to demonstrate the fact. 4. The situation has been fur ther complicated by Australian rejection of the entire Potsdam ultimatum as being too lenient toward the Japanese. The offi cial view here is that while it did promise them freedom of government, religion and so on, it actually laid down the frame work of a "hard" peace. Conned Chicken Freeze Lifted .. WASHINGTON. July 31. (VP) Secretary of Agriculture Ander son today announced temporary suspension, effective at midnight tonight, of an order setting asiae all canned chicken and chicken products for the armed forces. The suspension will remain ef fective until October 1, Ander son said, and will make canned chicken and chicken products from the nations canneries available to civilians until that time. Wherry Sees Less Meat In '46 Due To Short Corn Crop WASHINGTON, July 31 (VP) Senator Wherry (R.-Neb.) pre dicted today , that there will be less meat at this season next year than there is now. "It doesn't look good to me," he told reporters. "We've got a short corn crop and feed will be scarce." , " ' The Nebraskan said OPA was able to reduce points on some meats, effective this week, be cause the army had cut down on the amount of meat it has set aside for it. "But," Wherry added, "the army may come back any time nnd snv. 'Here, we have got to have more meat.' We have got the biggest army now we have ever had and there is no reason to think it win not neca much meat." . . Wherry expressed doubt there will bo as much pen-feeding in FLEET BLASTS JAPAN'S GREAT ALUMINUM CITY Sofrening-Up Process On Nip Coast Continues By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor American warships bombarded Japan for the seventh time today as allied planes were credited with taking a three-dav toll of 267 Nipponese ships and 430 aircraft. The great allied fleet which has been preparing Japan for invasion for three weeks was ap parently moving back into waters near Tokyo, lending weight to enemy reports of in tensified preparations to meet assault waves on the shores of the homeland or China. Latest bombardment the sec ond in 24 hours was carried out this morning by destroyers orier- ating boldly in Suruga gulf 80 miles southwest of Tokyo. They shelled Shimuzu, Nippon's great est aluminum producing city, only 45 miles northeast of Ha- mamatsu, target of 16-inch bat tleship guns 24 hours earlier. Admits Hits Tokyo admitted one Shimuzu industrial plant was sauarely hit. The enemy radio said the bombardment lasted only five minutes, during which 90 sheila were poured into the city. The shelling came on the heels f a 13-hour carrier plane raid over a 400 mile arc of Japan' main island, reaching from Tokyo bay to the Maizurl naval base on the west coast of the island. Sixty vessels' and 138 aircraft were destroyed or dam- (Continued on Page Three) PILOT SPOTS PLANE MEDFORD, Ore:, July 31 (VP) The plane in which three miss ing Portlanders were flying when they disappeared Sunday in northern California has been spotted "standing on its nose" in rough country 40 miles south of here, Rogue River national forest officials said today. A forest service pilot who lo cated the -craft while on patrol flight over the Siskiyou nation al forest, said there was no sign of life, although he flew as close as 200 feet. Near Border He described the spot as north of Butte fork, three or four miles south of the California Oregon border. A lookout has been dispatched to the area. Aboard the plane when it took off from Red Bluff, Calif. Sunday afternoon were Sylvan L. Gosliner, his wife Ruby, and Mrs. Gosliner's sister, Mrs. Al ma V. Pratt, and a man identi fied only as Mr. Armstrong wai piloting the craft. R. F. Hollister, Portland lawyer, said Gosliner had ex perienced engine trouble on an earlier flight. Tigit Censorship For Potsdam End NEW YORK, July 31 (VP) Armed officers have taken up a guard over the broadcasting studio at Potsdam to prevent premature disclosure of the end of the Big Three conference, the American broadcasting company - reported today. Its correspondent,. Don aid Coc, said: 'Indicative of tne tigntenea censorship operations was the presence in the attic studio, used by all British and American broadcasters, of an armed army officer directed to assure that broadcasters adhere to previous ly censored scripts." the coming fall and winter at there was last season, partlett lorly with a short corn crop. "That is, unless there Is mora Incentive offered," he added. "The 50 - cents (a hundred pounds) subsidy is not enough. It only comes to $5 on a 1000 pound steer and if things don t go right a feeder can easily lose $35 to $40 a head." ',,:', Wherry expressed his views as the labor department report ed that a mid-July survey of in dependent retail stores In 50 large cities showed supplies of fresh and prepared meats were In better supply than at any time since April. Butter, margarine and lard were also available in more stores: than In mid-June, but cooking and salad oils and some canned f rulU and vegetable wero harder to find," . the de partment said., 1
