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minutes, previously had stopped
at Petersburg, six miles east of
Michigan, because of a hotbox,
At Michigan, the railroad
spokesman said, the flagman had
time only to get six or eight car
lengths behind the train before
the second section bore down
on It.
The rear car of the standing
train, a combination sleeper and
observation car, was telescoped,
its furnishings and berths jam
med into a compact mass at its
f.ont while the car's steel shell
remained superimposed on the
locomotive of the following
train.
Train attendants estimated 27
persons occupied the car's two
portions.
Definite check of the number
of injured was difficult as they
were scattered among a naif
dozen neighboring communities
which have hospital facilities,
completely lacking nere. nucni
can has no doctor.
John Burnham, a staff corres
pondent for the targo, n. v..
Forum, who was at the scene,
said only two men among the
passengers on the ill-fated car
escaped. These were an uniden
tified sailor and soldier who saw
the second section bearing down
on them and jumped, the sol
dier suffering severe cuts in
going through a window.
H. E. Nelson, Grand Forks,
N. D.. the engineer, although suf
fering from shock, was pulled
otherwise unhurt from his cab
which was beneath the steel ob
servation car shell. The fireman,
George Harris, also from Grand
f orKs, saw trie crash coming and
leaped from the cab.
C. W. Moore, advertising man
ager for the Great Northern,
aid each train carried 11 steel
cars, and that all but four were
immediately moveable. These 18
cars, with the unhurt passengers
aboard, proceeded west in a sin
gle unit, pulled by the engine
of tha first train. Moore said.
The Empire Builder had left
Chicago Wednesday at 11:15 p.
m. and the twin cities at 9 a. m.
Thursday, bound for Seattle. The
accident was the first in which
a passenger had been killed on
the Great Northern since 1919,
Moore said.
The agricultural forecast from
the department at Washington
Indicated today that the national
potato crop will be 420,206,000
bushels as compared with the
408,034,000 estimated a month
ago.
Production last year reached
179,091,000 bushels. The ten
year average is 375,091,000.
Production of other crops In
dicated - from their condition
August 1, with comparative fig
ures for a month ago, and pro
duction last year follows:
Hay (all tame) 90,228 000 tons,
87,712,000 and 83,845,000. Hogs.
55,154,000 pounds, 54,756,000
and .47,695,000. The spring
wheat crop is estimated at 309,
314,000 bushels, compared with
294,501,000 a month ago, 314,
574,000. last year and 203,085
000 the ten-year average.
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Friday. Aug. 10, 1945
Police Court Hears
Traffic Violation
Clarence Best of Springfield
Ore., appeared in police court
Friday morning on a charge of
violating the basic rule at 9th
and High.
Other items on the police court
dockets were five drunks In
court, seven drunks bailed out,
two drunk and disorderly cases
bailed out, one person charged
with selling liquor to an Indian
and IS parking tickets were
paid.
RESTRICTIONS SET
A new system of competitive
entrance examinations has been
set ud for those young men eiv
listing in the U. S. merchant
marine cadet corps. Under this
new system every man between
the ace of 17 and 23 win now
be eligible to take a competitive
examination with enlistment re
stricted only to those who pass
all qualifications.
The next examination has
been set for September 29, and
all examinations win De con
ducted by the U. S. civil service
commission in conveniently lo
cated centers in principal cities.
Application forms and book
lets relative to admission to the
examinations may be obtained
by writing to tne supervisor,
U. S. merchant cadet corps, Na
tional Theatre building. Wash
ington, D. C. In order to be eli
gible for the September 29 ex
amination, inquiries must be ad
dressed to the supervisor before
August 31, 1945.
TRUMAN TELLS JAPS
TD FLEE CITIES
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no territory or selfish advantage
from the present conflict "we
are going to maintain the mili
tary bases necessary lor tne com
plete protection of our interests
and of world peace.'
"Bases wmca our military ex
perts deem to be essential tor
our protection, and which are
not now in our possession, we
will acquire. We will acquire
them by arrangements consis
tent with the United Nations
charter."
(Earlier there had been some
official misgivings here over Mr.
Truman's assertion . in Berlin
last month that there is not
one piece of territory or one
trung of a monetary value that
we want out of this war.")
Last night the chief executive
reiterated that there were no se
cret agreements or commitments
made at Berlin "apart from cur
rent military arrangements."
une oi tnose secret arrange
ments, ne added, was lor Rus
sia's war declaration on Japan.
It was made, Mr. Truman said,
before Stalin was told of the
atomic bomb. (Elsewhere it was
learned that Stalin had said the
declaration would be effective
August 15.- The assumption here
Is that the advent of the atomic
bomb prompted him to move it
up to August 9).
ine Japs will soon learn
some of the other military se
crets agreed upon at Berlin,"
Mr. Truman said. "They will
learn them firsthand and they
will not like them."
Mr. Truman said Hiroshima
was chosen as the initial target
for the atomic bomb because it
was a military base and "we
wished in this first attack to
avoid, insofar as possible, the
killing of civilians. '
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eminent selzura of the struck
plants to halt further spread of
the work stoppage was still uiv
answered Wis afternoon.
A Weyerhaeuser official stated
this morning that lumber com
panies tied up by strikes have
no authority to grant the wage
demands of the union as the
final decision lies with the war
labor board.
Rayisw Poulbla
He also declared that the two
commissioners of conciliation
from the U. S. department of
labor, who are here, can only
review the case and make a
factual report to the West Coast
number commission, a orancn
of the WLB.
"The request for a union shop
has been presented to the war
labor board and a union main
tenance was granted by the WLB
for the Weyerhaeuser company,
both in the production plant and
for woods crews." he concluded.
Workers in five lumber com
panies in this area are on strike
because the companies "have
not lived up to the terms of their
working agreements In good
faith," a CIO-IWA official de
clared. Vice President Virgil Bum.
in a prepared statement, asserted
the big Weyerhaeuser company
here refused to work with safety
committees to correct hazards.
He complained that one case af
fecting workers in this area has
been before the West Coast
Lumber commission a year with
out being settled.
Notices Posted
Burtz said the company posted
notices that new employes are
not required to join the union,
although the contract states.
I he company shall recommend
that all new employes join the
union."
'The company ' states it is
against its policies to sign a
union shop contract with any
labor organization, he said.
"Yet the AFL machinists have
a union shop contract for some
40 of their members in the
Weyerhaeuser mill."
Approximately 1337 men are
out.
Statement
Burtz' statement follows:
"The strike in the Klamath
Falls area which started with
Weyerhaeuser Camps 4 and 6
Monday, August 6, was followed
by strikes in the Chiloquin Lum
ber company and Bly Logging
company on Tuesday. Wednes
day evening the Weyerhaeuser
mill crew voted unanimously to
go on strike and the mill was
picketed Thursday morning. The
union wishes it to be known
that the Chiloquin Lumber com
pany, the Bly Logging company
and Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany mill are not sympathetic
strikes, but all are striking be
cause their respective companies
have not lived up to the terms
of their working agreements in
good faith. The Weyerhaeuser
Timber company has refused to
work with safety committees in
correcting hazards which were
brought - to their attention.
Grievances have not been settled
but have been referred to the
West Coast Lumber commission,
and one case has been before this
commission for a year now with
out any word of. settlement.
rrne reason tne union Is ask
ing for a union shop provision
is that although the working
agreement provides that the com
pany snan recommend mat an
new employes join the union,
the company has posted notices
that new employes are not re
quired to join the union. On the
one hand they sign an agreement
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to recommend that men join the
union, but at the same time make
it very plain to employes that
they do not have to Join, The
company states that it is against
its policies and principles to sign
a union shop contract with any
labor organization. Yet the AFl,
machinists havo a "union shop
contract for some 40 of their
members who work in the
Weyerhaeuser mill. This is one
thing that the members cannot
understand why the AFL union,
is given a union shop contract
and the C)0 union Is refused it.
On Non-Mmbtr
"We wish to point out also
that in Weyerhaeuser Camps 4
and 6 where the strike started
only one man in the cntlro two
crews docs not belong to the
union.
'The United States conciliation
service now has the dispute and
they were told by company of
ficials that they would not mec;
with the union to try to settle
the strike until all the men had
returned to work. The union
has assured the conciliation serv
ice its representatives are willing
to meet with tho company una
attempt to settle the issues in
volved.
Informed ' of the statement
made by Virgil Burtz, vice pres
ident of the international Wood
workers of America, that Weyer
haeuser machinists "AL union
is given a union shop contract
and the CIO union is refused
it," Emmett Baker, chairman of
the AFL machinists at Weyer
haeuser stated:
'Our union does not have a
union shop agreement with the
company out only a union main
tenance contract, lo my Knowl
edge there never has been any
other type of agreement and I
have been a member of the AFL
machinists union at Weyerhaeus
er since it was organized.
Burti Mistaken
"Mr. Burtz is entirely mis
taken in nls reference to our or
ganization, having a union shop
agreement with the Weyer
haeuser Timber company."
Baker also cited Burtz state
ment: "The company has posted
notices that new employes are
not required to join the union."
He called attention to the fact
that such notices also carried the
company's recommendation that
new employes Join the union and
are not separate notices as Burtz
statement might indicate.
R. R. Macartney, manager1 of
the local Weyerhaeuser oper
ations, said the grievances cited
by Burtz were new to him and
that there was as much basis of
fact on the rest, of the allega
tions as on the two answered by
Baker.
Local Woman's Song
Goes On Sale Here
The song, 'Crazy Lazy Lane,"
written by Mrs. Amy Stidham of
318 N. 9th. Klamath Falls, has
been placed on sale in Klamath
Falls music stores with five per
cent of the sales to go to the lo
cal USO, according to Mrs. Stid
ham. Words for the song were writ
ten by Mrs. Stidham and the
music by J. Charles McNeil of
Los Angeles. The song has been
published by' Nordyke Music
publications of .Hollywood.
Construction Told
For Cutoff Highway
The road from the Willamette
cutoff highway to Crescent lake
will be under construction about
the last of this month, accord
ing to county road officials.
Members of the county court,
the county engineer and the
county road superintendent went
to Crescent lake this week to
look over the gravel situation in
preparation to starting work.
Carelessness in handling live
stock causes approximately one-
fourth of all farm accidents.
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rovsk, and at Sulfcnho on tho
eastern frontier 90 miles north
west of Vladivostok.
The highly important Japa
nese strongpolnt of Hulln (Bul
la r) on tho Chinese eastern rail
way in northwestern Manchuria
was captured, it was announced,
and soviet troops crossed tho
border at new points at Ulugo
veshchencskaya, on the northern
frontier 375 miles west of
Khabarovsk, and at Sulfcnho,
on tire eastern frontier 90 miles
northwest of Vladivostok.
On the western frontier in the
area of Lake Bor the Russians
reached the foothills of the great
Kinghan range south of Huilar,
said the soviet communique re
corded by the soviet monitor in
London.
Numerous Gates
The red army's Stalin tanks,
infantry and massed cavalry
rolled through numerous gates
in Manchuria's defenses with
sensational advances today, Mos
cow dispatches reported, and
Tokyo announced the broaden
ing of the soviet attacks to
Korea and Sakhalin island.
Soviet correspondents said
units of the soviet Pacific fleet
had gone into action.
The Moscow radio announced
that outer Mongolia, a protecto
rate of Russia's adjoining Man
churia and inner Mongolia on
the west, had declared war on
Japan.
Time lost from farm accidents
last year equaled that required
to produce five bushels of wheat
for every person In the United
States.
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Chinese Assault
Port Of Wuchow
CHUNGKING, Aug. 10
W) Chinese troops havo laid
siege to the great Inland river
port of Tsangwu (Wuchow), 115
miles west of Canton, tho Chin
ese command said tonight amid
indications tho Japaneso were
rushing five divisions from
China to Manchuria,
Smashing along the SI (West)
river In Kwangsl province, Gon
crallsslmo Chiang Kai-Shek's
troops reached tho border city
of Tsangwu and hurled assault
columns against that former
treaty port, a communlquo said.
(Continued From Pago One)
One of the suicide pilots man
aged to crash into a light fleet
unit, possibly a light cruiser or
a destroyer, which Is retiring
under Its own power. Two ene
my aircraft were shot down In
tho vicinity of the fleet the pre
ceding day.
The American and British pi
lots swept from Mlsnwa airfield
on the northern tip of Honshu
to Matsushima airfield, 160
miles southward, in raids back
ing up Halscy's promise to sup
port tho Russian entry In the
war by pinning down Japanese
aircraft.
Gliders Mentioned
Japoncse gliders were men
tioned for the first time in the
announcement that British car
rier pilots destroyed 24 of the
troop carriers.
Both British and American
fliers sank "several" small Japa
nese ships and damaged others.
The communique covered oniy
the Initial action yesterday,
strikes Thursday afternoon.
and damage caused by the 1500
carrier planes which returned to
the attack today, were not in
cluded.
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o'clock, If announcement Is
mado bo f oio 12:00 mioii, and
open tho following duy;
(2) If announcement Is made
after 12:00 noon, food stores will
remain open for the rest of the
day and close tho following tiny;
(3) If tho news Is officially an
nounced any tlmo after midnight
on Saturday, Sunday, or on a
legal holiday, stores will remain
closed the following duy.
Official announcement of V-J
Duy is an announcement made
by tho president or authorized
While House spokesman for the
president, If tho president of
the United States by proclama
tion establishes a proscribed
period fur public celebration,
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during- the hours fixed for such
celebration, t
Squlrrtls Rid
Park Of Iniecri
rtegardlnK the butterflies or
moths seen In luriie quantities
in this area lately, Thomas C.
Parker, assistant superintendent
of Crater Lake Nullonul park,
said iiround squirrels are tak
inn care of a luro prrcontaue.
Viirkor suld ho observed squir
rels In the park snatching tha
browu-wlnicod Insects an they
polNo flutterliiK on the iirnuud,
and eatlnu them. The squirrels
hold the Inserts up In their front
paws, pull off anil discard the
wIiiks, and devour tha bodies,
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