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fo) nn Jl M B 1 J V rn A 1 0) ffim PRICE FIVE CENTS In The By FRANK JENKINS IN London (where these word are written) the overriding In. turest for the Aiiu.'rlciiii new comer Ik the bomb diiniiiKit. That's whnt we'vo rend iibout, Thill's whitl wo winit to nee, If you huvo tho proper cre dentials, tho ministry of informii tlon will arruiigo n tour or yau, but tho only iidvimtiiKo of such mi arrangement Ik the back ground liiforntntlon tho official guide will nlvo you. Vou don't need n "tour" to i tho bomb damage. It Ik ALL OVKH. , All you need, no mutter whero you nru staying, Ik to walk n fw blocks from your own front door, i You will nru plenty. nrllE startling thing tibout the -1 dumiiKt! wrought by the bombH. both blltx tuul buzz, Ik tho cusutiliicss of It. Outside tho dock tireiiK, etc., where Gocrlng'w bombers In 1040 hnd at IohkI tho excuse of military objectives. It l.i everywhere. Them Ik hardly a block that is free from It. There tiro difference, of course. In the havoc thiit wo crentod. In Ihe old, solidly built (how solidly nn American can't renllr.e until he sees It) parts of tho city, the area mashed by each bomb will be small maybe only one house, maybe two or three. In tho poor er, flimsier district, the area will be larger, MUCH larger, per haps as much as a whole block, possibly evert more. Tho point Is that (excepting always the clocks, etc. at the be ginning of tho 1040 blitz.) there was NO concentration. That means that NOBODY was EVER free from fear. NO ONE In this great city ever knew whnt mo mnnt might be his last. You havn to take that fact ,, Into consideration l( you are to appreciate miiy inn arnn. uuu dog FORTITUDE of thic uuuplc It takes guts to stand Tip to that knowledge day In and day out In every waking moment, for five long years and .still carry on and do your joo. TT Isn't ' "Just the death that hovers always In the air. The men at the lighting fronts lace that contlnulngly. There Is something DIFFERENT about this warfare against civilians, The returning veterans comment on It constantly. On the bombed home front, It Isn't Just your LIFE that is In danger. Tiiero oro tne women and tho children and the old mid the helpless to think of. There Is tho constant pressure on your brain or the knowledge that at any moment you may bo stripped of your every possession, you and your family lcrt nome less waifs even If God has been so good as to leave you all alive and whole. Somehow you must get food, and shelter from the elements and somehow you must null yourself together and got BACK ON THE JOB, for you still liavo n living to cam and the economy of tho nation must bo kent colnir. Otherwise the ENEMY WILL WIN, and that will bo tho end of ovorythlnj. A MIDDLE-AGED worker In ono of tho ministries said to this wrllkr: "We wore bombed sut three tlmos, fortunately ca (Continued on Pago Two) Service Station Site Purchased Throe lots on 11th, extending from Main to Pine, have been purchased recently by A. M. Col lier from H. S. Wakefield for a consideration of approximately $40,000, according to a deed filed in tho county clerk s office, Tho property possesses front age of 132 foot on Pino und a frontage of (1(14 feet on Main, The land has been occupied by Leo's garago up until this time. A 10-year lease has been tak en with Collier on tho property by three Klamath Falls business men and it is their intention to Install a complete sorvlco station and garage on the property. Automobiles will bo serviced there and a storage garage will also bo constructed. Tho new business will handle electrical equipment, batteries, tires and all other automobile equipment. Lutheran Synod Counsels Germans BERLIN, Aug. 3 (A1) In an effort to reduce the number' of suicides in tho Berlin area, the Lutheran Synod admonished the church's followers today not to "fleo from suffering and hun ger into death," Mooting In complete freedom for the first lime in years, tho synod .declared that Germany's colliipsa was "God's , visitation upon us" and staled that, "who ever has faith does not flee." Bay's Sews Takes New Post1 1 ,,,.v I V'' --HIS Maiine Colonel Charles T, Brooks, of San Francisco, will assume command of the Marine Barracks here. Colonel Brooks recently served on the stall of Admiral Halsey. COL, Col. Charles T. Brooks will arrive Saturday to tako over command of the Marine Bar racks from Col. Merlin Schncld' er, according to word from tho barracks Friday. Col. Schneider has been transferred to Camp Pendleton,, Oceanslde, Calif, Col. Brooks served for many months on the stair or Acini William F. Halsey, commander of-tho, third . fleet, and holds tho Bronze Star modal for his work with the planning division of the third fleet. Graduated from the Univer sity of California in 1017, Col, Brooks was commissioned as second lieutenant in the marine corps at that lime. In addi tion to service in China and other shore stations. Col, Brooks has had threo tours of sea duty. Shortly after tho bombing of Pearl Harbor, the colonel was named commanding officer of the Marino Barracks there. He held that post for 10 months and then went to sea as a mem ber of Admiral Halsoy's per sonal staff in operations of the fleet In tho South Pacific. Col. Brooks participated in the operations of the fleet at Palau Islands, In its support of the landings in the Philippines by General MacArthur and his men off the Japanese coast, and in the campaign for Okinawa. His wife Is making her home In San Francisco for the pres ent. Efforts Made To Raise Bail In Herron Case Efforts' were being modo this morning to raiso $1000 cash bail for Ed Herron, who Is be ing held In the Klamath county jail charged with assault while armed with a dangerous wea pon. J. C. O'Neill, prominent local attorney, is representing Herron. Herron allegedly slugged Edgar L. Butler of Dorris. Calif., over the head with a four-foot piece of iron pipe dur ing an altercation between the two men near Worden where they were working oil a Job for tho Tru-MIx Concrete company. Butler was released Wednes day, from tho Klamath Valley hospital, whero ho hnd been treated for a fractured skull. Herron took tlmo to plead when arraigned before Justlco J. A. Mahoney. Plans For Early Trial Of War Criminals Predicted LONDON. Aug. 3 (TP) An agreement by tho first of next week on final plans for early trial of major war criminals was predicted today by an American closely connected with tho allied war crimes com mission. Tho Potsdam commimlcmo re leased last night, by reasserting tho doslro of tho Big Threo for trials to begin at tho earnest possible date, gave wolght to the stand taken by Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U. S. prosecu tor, 'that tho United States was prepared to proceed alono with tho trials it noccssary, Tho com muniquo promised publication Telephone 0111 KLAMATH FALLS, O R E G OTj Russia Still Silent On Policy In Jap War By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 l')- A muster plan for reconstructing a peaceful Europe out of the ruins of war emerged today from the decisions of the Big Threo conference at Potsdam. But Russia's role in the conflict with Japan remains cloaked in the same secrecy as ever. Tho plan provides for a stripped-down Germany, shorn of territories, wettlth and power. The nation that once aspired the world dominion Is to be limited to farming and "peaceful, do mestic industries." And it Is to be subjected to years of allied control until it earns its way slowly buck Into the family of sovereign nations. Poland's Part The plan provides also for reshaped Poland, augmented by huge slices of Germany and stretching westward to within 50 miles of Berlin, and for the act dltion to Russia of one-third of tho territory of German East Prussia. It leaves most other decisions, however, to future' peace settle ments. And for these tho Big Three agreed on a flvc-powcr council, Including China and Franco in addition to the United States. Britain and Russia, - As suming China und France agree 10 1110 plan, me live iurcinn ministers will hold their first meeting in London by Scptcnv ber 1. '. This evidently means another trip abroad this month lor sec retary of State Byrnes, now on his way home from Potsdam with President Truman aboard the cruiser Augusta. 6000 Words Tho big-power pattern of peace for Europe was disclosed in a 6000-word report on the Potsdam mealing or Mr. Truman, Generalissimo Stalin and Prime Minister Attleo released simul taneously yesterday in Washing ton, London and Moscow. The t (Continued on Page Two) 8600 Japs Killed In Burma Battles CALCUTTA. Aug. 3 (VP) More than 8000 Japanese have been killed between the Ran- goon-Mandalay road and the Sittflng river in Burma in less than two weeks, Southeast Asia command headquarters an nounced today. Six hundred and fifty enemy troops have been captured in bitter fighting as the Japanese attempted to break mt of the Pegu Yomas in apparent at tempts to escape eastward to ward Thailand. Crash Victims Said Recovering The condition of Mr. and Mrs, Elliott Trees, who' were badly Injured in an automobile accident with the county fire truck Sunday afternoon, was said to bo satisfactory today by tne attending pnysician, Mrs. Trees' left leg wos found to bo broken upon -examination and H was sot today, lie said, It was necessary to put a different typo of cast on Trees' right leg, which was badly broken, and the leg may re quire surgery, he declared. Botn are in tho Hillside- Hos pital. of the war criminals list before September 1. So far tho namo of Hermann Goerlng is tho only ono that has been announced as on tho list. . Representatives of the United States, Britain, Russia and Franco who have been seeking to chart tho procedure for a pos sible mass trial of 300 of the chief war criminals at Nuftrn bcrg suspended talks for the wookond after all-day sessions yesterday, ' "There are a couple of points yet to bo ironed out," tho Amerl can source said, "but an agree ment corly next week appears almost certain." MASTER PI EMERGES MM POTSDAM' MEET ..vr i'v .Y, AUGUST 3, 1945 Navy 1 ' VW,lJ'ii?, Chest X-rays at the rate of ISO per minute are capable of being taken by the navy mobile X-ray unit, shown above as it was parked in front of the dispensary at the Marine Barracks Thursday afternoon. The unit is being made available to navy and marine personnel in this area this week. Story on page 2. - Official Marine Corps photo. Jesse Owens, World's Fastest Human, Made Laughingstock Of Nazi 'Supermen1 Br PAUL HAINES Jesse Owens, Olympic track champion and tno world's fastest human.-will bo here Wednesday at 8:30 p. 4ii. al Rrtreation .parte to stage Ills sireamiuiea iracK exhibition in addition to the spectacular ball game between the couullv famous Harlem Globetrotters and Bearded Da- vidites. Thirty-five per cent of the proceeds of this "sports jam boree" will go toward American Lee on Junior baseball in Klam ath Falls. This program has, been progressing well and ground work has been laid for next year when Klamath Falls will send a representative club to the dis trict tournament. Owens has been shattering at tendance records all over the na tion like he shattered all exist ing track records in the Olympic games at Berlin in 1936, where he won four first-place medals and broke four records, the first time any athlete ever achieved. this feat. Never in tho history of Navy Tells Names Of Crash Victims The navy revealed today that Ens. A. W. Ainsworth, 22, Vicks- burg, Miss., and ARM Jc Don ald Allen, 20, Spokane, Wash., wore the two men who were killed in tho plane crash Thurs day about 0:30 a. m., one mile east of Dorris. Calif. Ainsworth was the pilot of the plane which was on a train ing run when it crashed on a bombing range between Dorris and Macdocl about 25 miles south of here. The plone burst into flames when it struck tho ground, scattering flaming ma terial over a 'wide urea. The cause of the accident was not disclosed by the navy. Next of kin have been notified. EAST COAST ARRIVALS By The Associated Press Harold R. Crane Jr., Cpl. 521 Alameda, Klamath Falls, arrived on SS Hermitage, due August 2 at Now York, Wayne I. Smith, T5, 2321 Wantland, Klamath Falls, ar rived on SS Hermitage, due August 2 at New York, Jackio W. Nutter, TS, 706 Uerllngs, Klamath Falls, ar rived tin SS Hermitage, due August 2 at New York. Albln T. Nelson, T5, 58 Main, Klamath Falls, arrived on SS Hermitage, duo August 2 at New York. Fay Morris, PFC, 1814 Johnson, ' Klamath Falls, ar rived on SS Hermitage, due August 2 at Now York, William F. Atkinson, PFC, 2226 Wantland, Klamath Falls, arrived on SS Hermi tage, due August 2 at .Now York. Louis Dalla Costa, Sgt 2044 White, Klamath Falls, arrived on SS Hermitage, duo August 2 at Now York. Alfred P. Donaca, T4, 1789 Summers Lane, Klam ath Falls, arrived on SS Her mitage, duo August 2 at Now York. August 3, 1945 Max. (Aug. 2) 87 Mln. 51 Precipitation last 24 houn 00 Stream year to data 13.28 Normal 12.18 Lat yaar 10.82 Forecast) Fair Sunday. Mobile X-Ray Unit Here any sport has a champion ap proached Owens' superlative record. , He has equalled or shattered world s marks ui - eleven- recog nized track and field events, es pecially the sprints, hurdles, and running broad jump. He broke three world s records and tied another within a period of two hours in a Big Ten track meet at Ann Arbor, Mich., when, as a member of the Ohio State track team, he gave one of the FOR COAST BUZE PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 3 fP) Fire fighters, spurred on by cooler weather, rushed addition al oauiDment to the most stub born sectors of the Tillamook blaze today to restore lost trails. Nearly all the fire line along Hembre ridge at tne soutnern tip of the blaze had been lost despite a hard-won battle earlier in the week. Forestry officials appealed desperately for still more i crews to check savage fires on the northern front at tacking Clatsop county. Tired crews in western Wash ington county striving to protect the Forest Grove watershed re ported proudly today no trails (Continued on Page Two) Anglo-American Program Told WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN ABOARD USS AUGUSTA. Aug. 3 (P) President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee were dis closed today to have agreed at Berlin upon a coordinated pro gram for tho total defeat of Japan which may involve major shifts in the Pacific command. An Anglo-American statement said the American and British chiefs of staff perfected details at daily meetings in Potsdam for coordinating their forces to force Japan's unconditional sur render and the liberation of Japanese-occupied territory "at the earliest possible date." Canada's Idle Return To Jobs TORONTO, Aug. 3 WP) Can- ada's meat-packing strike sim mered out today as virtually all the 9000 striking workers re turned to their jobs in 10 cities. Toronto, local 114 ot tno uiu United Packinghouse Workers of America the local which started tho strike July 24 ap proved an agreement by which their dispute with Canada Pack ers, Ltd., will be submitted to a board of arbitration tor settle ment. ; BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. K. Brooklyn 5 8 1 Boston ...i.. 1 1 1 Gregg and Dantonio: Tobin and Masi, Number 10S83 greatest exhibitions of speed and endurance ever witnessed. rom tnere he went on to more and greater acmevements, climaxed' oy Ills': leading the united btates to victory in the lajb Olympics belore the an guished eyes of Adolf Hitler and me "master race." . Owens recently stated that the positive limit of speed for a man on foot in our time is 9 and 3-10 seconds for 100 yards.-Owens should know as he is a 9.4 man himself, and is one of the few characters in history to be in a position to speak from experi ence of one-tenth of a second as an important subdivision of eternity. He concedes that 9.3 is possi ble today, with improved meth ods of coaching and technique. But he will not stick his neck out as far as conceding 9.2 Though he never dawdled at the 100-yard route at better than 9.4, Owens is without a doubt the fastest human of all time. He traveled far from home to prove it, and the result was almost as distasteful to "Der Fuehrer" in 1936 as was the approach of the allied armies in 1945. Non-supermen from other countries won everything but Hitler's mustache in the 1936 Olympics paced by Owens and, although the Germans proved in 1945 that they were able to run much faster than they could in ijo, it sun wasn t fast enough. Klamath Falls snorts enthusi asts will have the opportunity to watch the great' negro runner in action Wednesday and it be hooves those who would be sure of a seat to purchase their du cats for the 'sports jamboree" soon at Dick Boeder's, Klamath Billiards, Matt Finnigan's or The Herald and News. . WPB May Scrap Clothing Plan WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 (fP)- The government's ambitious pro gram for boosting production of inexpensive clothing - may be scrapped soon to make way for another plan to achieve the same end. The war production boord. it was learned today, is consider ing abolition of its far-reaching order which currently earmarks about 75 per cent of the civilian fabric supply for low and mod erately priced garments. Yank Soldier-Prisoner Mistreatments Revealed WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 VP) In a report on "brutal treatment of soldiers," Chairman May (D-Ky.) of the house military committee said today "promo tion seems to be a customary re ward for brutality." May's formal statement was based on a subcommittee investi gation into reports of mistreat m e n t of American soldier prisoners at the Lincoln, Neb. army air field. ' It dealt with the case of Pvt. Warren C. Miller of Warren, Pa., who was court-martialed in January, 1944, for failure to re move his hands from his pockets while on formation. Miller was Superforts Mine Harbors, ; Hit Shipping GUAM, Aug. 3 (A) Tho 20th air force announced today thai Superforts have established a complete shipping blockade on Japanese home islands. Reporting on huge mining operations carried out by the 20th, a spokesman estimated that Japan's teeming millions are receiv ing less than half of the food and raw materials needed to carry on the war and feed its troops and civilians. As a result they are now dipping heavily into stores, the spokesman said. Every harbor of any importance through out the home Islands and Korea from Fusan to Rashin, in northern Korea near Siberia, has been and it being mined by Superforts. Summing up Japan's desperate situation, headquarters an nounced that enemy shipping had been reduced to "a shadow." , Hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping have been destroyed by mines or naval vessels and planes. Home islands' ports have been virtually closed by the aerial borne mines, headquarters added. Shipping in Japan's Inland LAVAL VOCES LOVE OF FRANCE 0 E T By RELMAN MORIN PARIS, Aug. 3 JP) Pierre Laval ruefully admitted at the treason trial of Marshal Petain today that he had said "Here is where we overthrow the French republic" when be was pushing through acts which made the old soldier a virtual dictator. He contended his remark was a jest. "I am not a fascist! I am not a nazi! I love the republic," shouted the haggard, white-tied former chief of government of Petain's Vichy regime. After recounting numerous secrets of France in the days before and after the armistice, including a military . alliance with Mussolini -after -1936 "against German aggression," Laval was confronted by M. Pomaret, former secretary gen eral of the senate. Fateful Meeting Pomaret recalled the fateful July -10, J940. meeting at which three constitutional acts ' " were passed giving the marshal full powers. He said Laval asked him to get the signature of Jules Jeanneney, senate president, commenting: "This is where we overthrow the republic." Judge Paul Mongjbeaux, who had propelled numerous hostile questions at the former premier, brought under heavy guard from Fresnes prison, asked if he used those words. "I cannot deny it," Laval said. "I may have pronounced those words, but only as a joke." An angry murmur arose in the sultry courtroom, delaying the trial. Answering a question by Mongibeaux, Laval admitted he had said "I desire a German victory." He testified that he made the statement to make the Germans believe he was on their side. . Laval will continue his tes timony tomorrow. Guards es corted him back to his cell when court recessed at 5:35 p. m. Denials He denied, too, that he "hated England." He asserted that in the turbulent '30s, while war was being spawned, King George V sent Sir Samuel (Continued on Page Two) : Half-Brother Of Hitler Released TWENTY- FIRST ARMY GROUP HEADQUARTERS, Germany, Aug. 3 OP) Alois Hitler, Adolf's half-brother, has been released by British authori ties after having been detained for about six weeks for ques tioning, it was announced to day. He had been captured in the Hamburg area. "It is clear to us," a British military government statement said, "that he has led a perfect ly blameless existence, being ab solutely scared stiff of being as sociated in any way with the fuehrer's activities. He was re leased yesterday." Alois was said to have been the proprietor of a beer tavern in Berlin during most of the war. - . . sentenced to threo months at hard labor. May's statement then gave this account based on testimony ho said was given the committee: Pvt. Alfred L. Winkle of Min neapolis, who was guarding Miller, was "dissatisfied with the speed" with which the pri soner was breaking rocks. In the presence of Capt. Leon ard K. Dunn, the provost mar shal, and Lt, Stanley T. Jones, the prison officer, Winkle "struck Miller across tho lef jaw with his night stick, knock Ing him to his hands and knoes (Continued on Pagt Two) EO sea has been almost completely neutralized. "This is the first time that air power has carried the brunt of a strategic blockade against any maritime nation." said an air- force spokesman. ; "There are now no major shipping lanes, ports or harbors remaining that offer safety , to Japanese shipping. it is estimated that many hun dreds of thousands of , tons of wnitcu uapuiiesu snipping nave been sunk or damaged by mines since the inception of this pro gram four months ago. Factory Strikes r ' Other oiliciai reoorts told of fiery desolation of tne big snip- uuuaing center oi XNagasaKi, un challenged strikes around Na goya ana Kobe at factories and airfields, and the air blows that hit 91 enemy vessels, including.. at loat film n,.miiinD (Tokyo radio said American planes were back over Japan again today, with 100 Mustangs and "a small number" of super fortresses attacking in the Tokyo area for an hour and a half this morning and in nine prefectures surrounding the caoitnl arpn. The broadcast said they attacked in two wavpq. in minnios anat i . From an American carrier, an Associated Press dispatch told ': of marine fliers in training "for caaigueu mission 5Ky Sup port for troops landing on Japan itself.": . ; - . Beachbustert In a censor-delayed account, the dispatch from an American escort flattop -disclosed7 that a r , giwufj, nits beachbusters," already had used Japanese-held ' Pagan in the northern Marianas, boring rea listically through anti-aircraft fire, to Draetipe fnr h ftitiii-n invasion of Nippon. This was thp Intpef nintui-p nt (Continued on Page Two) B7 GET CHEST X-RAY iT In the first hour of ODeratioif in Klamath Falls Thursday, 61 persons were given- free chest X-rays in the mobile chest X-ra unit, according to the Klamath County Public Health associa tion. ' The unit, which is stationed behind the court house, pulled into Klamath Falls yesterday and will be in town until Tues day, August 7. ' . The first person to take ad' vantage of the X-ray service yes terday was Mrs. R. P. Ellingson, president of the Public Health association, and the first man to have the X-ray taken was County Judge U. E. Reeder. Assistants m Assisting at the unit Thurs day were Mrs. Arnold Gralappr Mrs. Ann Robin, Pauline An derson, Helen Williams, Donna Morehouse, Jean Ostendorf, Marlys Steinscifer and Lillian Redkey. Technicians from Portland who are in charge with the op eration of the unit are C. R. Bradford, Keith Grossenbacher and Robert Martin. There will be no X-rays taken, on Saturday or Sunday but the unit will be open on Monday with hours from 10 until 12 and from 2 until 5, - There are still a few openings for appointments and anyone in terested may call 6259. , Chnese Troops To Attack Nips CHUNGKING, Aug. 3 WI LL Gen. Albert C. Wedeiaeyer, U. S, commander in China, in dicated today that American trained Chinese forces, including paratroopers, would soon launch "large-scale" attacks against the Japanese.' ,. '.v. He also declared tnat supply shipments over the hump wore increasing but that "our goal 1 sea communications." Wedemeyer said employment of American-trained and equip ped Chinese troops transferred from Burma "can be expected soc;" in the China theater, 'u hope that in the not too distant .future we'll have soma largc-scalo fighting," he said. Ho added that he was "very optt mlstlc about the future." Ho disclosed that Chinese para troopers who have been train ing at Kummlng for the past six month were shaping up well.
