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Newspaper Page TextM n a V in m raw I I I I I V X JV PniCE rive CENTS In The By FRANK JENKINS PARIS: Ono of your slip r pent Joltii upon urrlvul in 1'arls will bo your stark, sudden rcnll- znllon Hint tlio French people Sl'KAK HU'.NCM. Almost unnn Imously. Nut only Unit but the French they speak attain to you to bp utterly unreliitect to the HOOK French you vo been reuu Inn friiiilleiilly for u day or so In nu effort to reeiipturo something yo i itiuy hiivo known In n viikuu nnd frngmontnry wuy a lung tlmo HgO, They're so offhand nnd cure lesn about II. They spew It out llko bullets from it machine gun. You think prayerfully that If they'd only put on the brakes ami dole it out n word nt a time you mlitht bo nolo to get out of the fo Hint surrounds you nnd get somewhere. But the don't. They mem congcnllnlly unnbla to tnlk nt n speed of less man juu mpn. A DAY or so Inter this writer nppronches tlio Informa (Inn desk nt a building occupied by one of the American services. The French iflrl who presides thereut every possible effort Is nmde to recruit nil civilian em ployees from amonit the French doesn't qulto net the first ques tion nnd nnswers, speaking very slowly herself: "If you will say It attain, monsieur, nnd suy It slowly. 1 think I will be able to follow you." You enn't Imnitlno bow consoling it was. The knowledge that It works both wny somehow helps to bnnlsh the Inferiority complex that be gin to creep up on you after re peated failures to mako yourself understood.; WHEN you como In nt the army airport, which is staffed by American and English-speaking French; tt'r duck soup. - -Incidentally, you have no troulilo Willi customs. They don't even look at your baggage or bother to ask if you're bring ing In any gifts to anyone or In quire as to whether the cigarettes you have are too numerous for your reasonable personal con sumption. with the shortage of goods what It is nt the moment in Pnrls, they Just go on the as sumption that anybody who brings nny In from somewhere else is friend rnthcr than an enemy of the stale. . A BUS delivers you from the airport to your destlnatlon---whlch in theso days of practically 100 per cont official or semi official travel In Europe will be tho plnco whero you're to find out where you're to be billeted nnd messed. In this writer' enso, it turns out to be a back ittrcct building whoso elevator is In a state of temporary comn and with no English-speaking French on the ground floor. So the battle begins. A crowd gathers, with no lin guists Included. At such mo ments book French is about as much use to you as a refrlgcrntor (Continued on Pago Two) I Marine Ace Alive After 20-Month Jap Blackout ABOARD USS ANCON, TOKYO BAY, Aug. 20 () Mill, uregory uuyington, 32 year-old Irrepressible marine aco of the South Pacific who wns convinced no Japanese nlrman could kill him, was reported nlivo today nearly 20 months nftcr ho vanished in a cloud (luring an nirbnttlc over still uiv conquered linbnul. i , The report wns tenuous. It was flashed to this communica tions ship from tho American cruiser San Juan. Details were lacking. Tho re f o it was believed to have como rom nlrmon on Atsugl nlrdromo nenr Tokyo. Air Exploits Buvlnutnn won tho Conores. slonal Medal of Honor for his air exploits which begnn with tho Flying Tigers In Chlnn and, so far as official records of this war go, over tho enemy's mighty bns Hon on New Britain island. ' Typical of Boylngton's con. fidenco In his nullity to come through was ms promise to mem bers of his "Blnck Sheen" squadron in tho South Pnclflo that ho would see. thorn In n San Diego bar aftor tho war was over. Officially credited with send ing 20 enemy planes to their destruction in Pacific actions, Boylngton nevertheless is be lieved by his Blnck Sheep scnincl rnn of Corsair pilots to novo shot down nt least 40. Ho wns Jnst seen ilnnunry 3, 1044, tnlling n Jnpnnoso plane into'B cloud nenr Hnbnu), Former Champ Tlio formor University of Washington wrestling cham pion, fondly nicknamed "Pappy," KLAMATH POST TO BE CENTER El Barracks To Function For Northwest, Nor thern California Tlio Klamath Marine Barracks I to function as the marine corps separation center for the northwest nnd northern Cali fornia, Col. Charles Brooks, the commanding officer, disclosed today. Marines living in tho north west or northern California, who are going out on the point sys tem or because they are over 38 years of age, will come here for separation procedure. It is un derstood this will not nffect the other mission of the Klnmath DOst. Col. Brooks said there will be about five separation centers for the corps in the u. s and mat tho two on the Pacific coast will be Cunin Pendleton, nenr San Diego, and tho Klainnth Fulls Marine Bnrrncks. He said that the whole nro gram has not yet been worked out nnd he cannot estimate how Ion it will take marines com Ing here to complete separation procedure. Much will depend upon the number (hat will be orocesaed. The colonel added that thero will probably be considerable transient personnel at the bnr rncks during the separation pro gram. 1008QYS BREAK ELDORA, la., Aug. 20 (VP) One hundred boys escaped to day from the Eldora stato train ing school for boys after a riot in tho dining room of the main building at noon. The highway patrol nnd all law enforcement officers of surrounding counties were notified, but none of the escapees wns apprehended Im mediately. O. S. Von Krog, superintend dent of the Institution, could not bo reached for a statement on what prompted the riot, but Darren t. Drown, asslstunt su perintendent, said "I cannot give any specific reasons but there has been a spirit cf general un rest apparent for some time." r. t. Hopkins and uavid K. McCrccry, members of the state board of control, which has jur isdiction over tho institution, visited tho school this morning and were conducting an investi gation of the disturbance. The latest tabulation showed there wcro 538 bovs In the in stitution Inst month. by his friends, first got his ace's rating in downing fivo Zeros in a single engagement over Bnllalo nlrdromo in tlio Solomons on September 18, 1942. Ho de stroyed four more over Rnbaul December 23, 1843 and tied the record of 28 cstnbllshcd by Ma rino Mnl. Joe Foss and Army Cnpt. Eddie JRIckonbncker. , His comrades remembering his promise to "stny alive" if ever downed and captured, had never relinquished hope ho (Continued on Pago Two) INS PARAT ON Japs Were Licked Before Atom Bomb, Byrnes Says WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (P) Sccrotary of Stale Byrnes today challenged Japan's argument that tho atomic bomb knocked her out of tho war. Ho cited what ho colled Rus sian proof that the Japoncse knew they wcro beaten before tho firat A-bomb was rirnnneri on Hiroshima. Hutilan Proof Foreign Commi mtnv ' Mnlnlnv Informed tho Americans and British nt tho Potsdnm Big Throe meeting. Byrnes mild, tlinl the Jnpnnoso hnd naked to send a delegation to Moscow to seek Russlnn mediation for the end of tho wnr nn act which Byrnes interpreted as proof of enemy recognition of defent. , raoler Rejected ThO Secretary rilnelnsnrl Hint Generalissimo Stalin himself had rejected this Japancso effort to r f Ar Telephone Mil KLAMATH FALLS, OREu I' h tit "H 'X .... ' Sailors manning raar gun on tha transport Braxton watch planes from General Mac Arthur's command wing their way toward Japan oyer ships of the third fleet at anchor at Sagaml bay. (AP wlrephoto from navy radioed from th USS Iowa in Sagami bay). Japs Quit As They Attacked ABOARD USS SOUTH DA- KOTA, Tokyo Bay, Aug. ZD (ft-) Admiral Nlmitz declared today that . the ' Japanese surrender enme earlier than exoected and CdUiTui' the"; allies- - before" they. were iuii? prcparea. ' The surrender tnus had some thing of. tho same unexpected clement as the Pearl Harbor at tack, correspondents noted as they talked to the bronzed, white- haired licet admiral in tnc Dig cabin of his flagship. Credits Sea Power .Klmllr who had rnme aboard shortly after arriving from his r.iinm hndnimrtern credited sea power with paving the way for i work of the highest order" be Vti .. -..,t.,.. jnAPinn tn ,it 1 twpon all iho Kprvicra and hp One thing, ne saia, tnai Plumbing Shops Remain Closed Work stonoagc continued to- A .. I- a...- L. ;nU Polio nlitml, in? shopV 8 tho ri of a do- mand by -tho Plumbers and Stcamflttcrs union, AFL, for a 15 per cent Increase in pay for juuiuiviiw l Tnc uavis JMumoing company and the G. C. Motley Plumbing j "u'c,,an" w e,h onmnnnv urn the two shons thatr?cmber 31, next, as the urn Hnwn with three nlumbers idle because of tho union de mand. . . Negotiations are being tem porarily held up, according to H. W. Waits, representative of tlio Plumbers and Stcamflttcrs local, pending the return of Seth Waters, owner of tho Waters Plumbing company. Owlnff to the fact that Waters ' Is away, tho two hold-out shops ' arc awaiting his return to dis- cuss tho pay increase from $13 a day to $10 per day, waits de clared. Four plumbing concerns in this area which have agreed to tho wage raise arc the Starr Plumbing company, Llbb Plumb ing company, and Patton Plumb' ing company, and the Means Plumbing company In Tulclokc. No meetings are Dlanncd until tho return of Waters, which is expected today or tomorrow, Walts stated. ncgotlntc a peace by declaring that it was too gcnoral fob him to act upon. Then aboul',,the time of tlio Potsdam confo- Vce tho Japanese proposcdfMht Prince Konoyo head a id lega tion to sock Russia's me, Jiltion, but tlio Potsdam dcclarain for unconditional surrender, ut an end to that enemy movl , Byrnes said that he'youldn't say what motivated the (Japanese surrender but that history would record tho Information imparted by tho Russians to Potsdam, Ho made It clear he believed that tho men who hnd fought tho wnr up to that point In the Pnclfic and Asia deserved full credit for victory. Bomb Saved Lives Byrnes expressed his views nt a news conference mention of the atomic bomb. To the extent (Continued on Page Two) PNEBDAV, AUGUST, 29, 1945 Mac Arthur's Planes Fly Into Suddenly As Pearl Harbor should impress every thinking person is that an island empire with an army intact a well equipped army with a very hire, air forco but m-acticallv ho navy'wnd"broughl "to"a-" render before any land assaults nad taken place. "That was brought about by sea power sea power spear headed by our carrier-borne air craft, aided bv the very excel lent and efficient work of our submarine force, the first United States force to be in these waters in " earlv Prt ' the war. Nimitz said what, was accom pushed was the result of "team. uum wui 10 utun uuui me uinur orHncnes. Use of the atomic bomb, he added, would not have been pos sible If amphibious forces had not seized bases from which to spring such a weapon Asked if atomic bombs would i? ? 1". ",e J,Viu" "V-lCl Ul llttll, iinill ''was top early to teU One type of vessel such missiles can not reach, he added, is the sub marine. Nimitz disclosed that two 'vears auo he nrpnarod n wnr -.-",.--- r ---r r " down De- date for Japan s defeat. ClO-lWA Chiefs Visit Klamath Claude Ballard, president of the IWA-CIO union from Port- land, and Virgil Burtz. vice president of tho union and also from Portland, met today with local union officials to discuss the present strike situation here. Tho mnjor part of tho lumber Industry in this . area has been halted by the work stoppage in which 2250 men are now idle. The strike is aimed mainly at a union shop and the union again indicated today that workers would remain out until the de mand Is granted. Circuit Court To Convene Here Circuit court of Klamath county will conveno Tuesday, September 4, at 10 a. m. with Judge David R. Vandcnberg pre siding. Docket call will be held and dates will be set for trials and for hearing motions. All attor neys with pending cases are ex pected to bo present. No regular court term was held In August as Judge Van donberg was on vacation. EAST COAST ARRIVALS By Tha Associated Press Stanford Revenue, Cpl., Klamath Falls. Arrives on SS John Dickinson duo In New York August 20. John,, J. O'Connell, TS, Tulelake. Arrives on Cody Victory due at. Newport News August 31, ll'inmi'l'lWJIilllWIIH'lll'!!! August 29. 1945 Max. (Aug. 28) 84 Mln 58 Precipitation lait 24 hour ,00 Stream yaar to data 13.28 Normal , 12.39 Last year 10.82 Forecast: Partly cloudy. Japan JOBLESS PAY BILL WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 m Senator Kilgore (D-W.Va.) urged the ienati finance 'committee to day to cushion the transition to peace by liberalizing the unem ployment compensation system. Declaring the "general safety and stability of the nation might be endangered if business should fall to 1939 levels, Kil gore asked the committee to ap prove the bill, under which the federal government would de fray the expense of raising the present widely varying jobless payments made by the 48 states to a maximum of $25 a week for 26 weeks and would extend un employment protection to fed eral employees, maritime work- - (Continued on Page Two) Attlee Urges European Ideals LONDON, Aug. 29 (JP) Prime Minister Attlee said to day that "while the nightmare of totalitarianism" had been lift ed from Europe, unless some thing was put In its place "we may get seven other devils worse than the one before." - Speaking at a luncheon of the Anglo-American society, Attlee said: "In my view; political and so. cial freedom for which Britain and Denmark stand are ideals we must set before the people of Europe." Woinwright Safe : It :j m pi f;;! r h Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Walnwrlqht (center) and Brig.' Gen. Lewis C, Beebe (extreme left) Chungking after their liberation They were captured in the fall Lt. Gen, Albert C. Wedemeyer, (AP wlrephoto from signal corps III Number 10805 COURT MIL Gen. Marshall Seen As Partly To Blame For Blow WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 VP) High officials in Washington were criticized along with the Pearl Harbor commanders in re ports made public by President Truman today of army and navy investigations of the disaster that plunged the United States Into World War II. The president reserved deci sion on whether court martials will be asked. He said in releas ing the reports that if the con- WASH1NGTON, Aug. 29 (P) A "war warning mes sage" went out from Washing ton to Pearl Harbor on No vember 27, 1941, it was dis closed today, but it specified western Pacific . areas as Ja pan's probable opening tar gets. The warning that Japan was about to strike and plunge the United States into World War II was quoted in hitherto ".top secret" reports on the army and nary investigations of the Pearl Harbor disaster, released today by President Truman. vening of courts martial Is In dicated, prompt and lair trials will be held. Military Report But the army and navy re ports, clearly- indicated that the service investigators do not feel that any court, martial proceed ings are warranted. Secretary of War Stimson re affirmed a statement made last year that the evidence "does not warrant the institution of any (Continued on Page Two) Yrekan Leases Dorris Paper Robert Gross of Yreka, Calif., has taken a one-year lease, effec tive September 1, on the Butte Valley Star, weekly newspaper located at Dorris, Calif. Gross leased the paper from James Morrison, who has Deen puousn ing the paper since December 5, 1941. Gross was head of the print- ine department of the Siskiyou Publishing company at Yreka during the past four months and was in the printing business at Pittsburgh, Calif., prior to his moving to Yreka. He has been engaged in newspaper work for the past ZD years. His wife and 15-year-old son will reside with him at Dorris and will arrive this weekend. Morrison will loin the adver tising staff of The Herald and News on October 1. He was lor- merly night editor of the Klam ath News. In Chungking are pictured on their arrival In from Japanese prison camps. of Corregidor. On the right is U. S. army commander in China, via OW1 radio). TRUMAN HOLDS JUDGMENT ON 18,1 5 0 Troops : To Alove In On Nip Homeland OKINAWA, Aug. 29 VP)' Fleet Admiral Nlmiti reached Tokyo bay by seaplane this afternoon as General MacArthur waited at Okinawa for Thursday's mass occupation of vanquished) Japan-by 18,150 allied troops from air and sea. Naval officials already have inspected the Yokosuka naval base at close range and Tokyo radio said the Yokohama Marin Transport Board building has been chosen as general head quarters for the occupation forces. SAN DIEGO FIRST First American ship to dock at Yokosuka, Task Force Com mander Rear Adm. Oscar C. Badger said, will be the cruise San Diego. He gave this tentative schedule of events: British troops (250 royal marines, 200 royal navy person' net) go ashore on two Tokyo bay islands guarding Yokosuka at 6:15 a. m. Jaoan time (2:15 n. m. - ' 1 Wednesday, PWT) and Ameri cans occupy a third islet. Americans (9000 marines and 1200 sailors) land at and near IN THE AIH ABOVE AT SUGI. JAPAN, Thursday, Aug. 30 (B -The first troops of the-11th airborne division began landing at Atsugi air field at about 6 a. m., today (2 p. m Wednesday, PWT). Yokosuka naval base about 10 a. m. Japan time (6 p. m. Wed nesday, PWT.) Airborne Troops ' General MacArthur. and his 7500 airborne troops are expect ed at Atsugi airfield 20 miles southwest of Tokyo almost si multaneously. . . American marine or bluejack et units may also board the wrecked Japanese battleship Na gato, at Yokosuka, Admiral Bad ger said to make sure her guns won't fire. - - Weather permitting, the cruiser San Diego will dock "at Yokosuka about -10:30 a. m. (6:30 p. m. Wednesday, PWT). Rear-Adm. Robert B. Carney. Admiral Halsey's chief of staff. will accent occupation papers at Yokosuka on behalf of his com mander; and Admiral Badger will supervise administration of the new American base. To Chang Ship Admiral Nimitz will shift his five-starred flag from the bat tleship South Dakota to the new USS Missouri early Sunday morning. Allied dignitaries will witness Japan s formal surren der there later Sunday. - Admiral ; Halsey,' Whose 16 inch battleship gurw will--cover. ine simultaneous seaDome . land ing ' at ' Yokosuka naval base, steamed into Tokyo bay aboard the proud battleship Missouri on which the surrender will be signed Sunday ' with ' Lt." Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, hero of Corregidor, among the. wit nesses. The Missouri was followed by a line of other warships IncludV (Continued on Page Two),. Merrill Spud Festival Set For Oct 12-13 MERRILL " The Klamath basin's ninth annual potato fes tival will be held here October. 12 and 13. and all the trimmings except the parade will be in cluded. Meeting last night, the Merrill Service club, which . for eight years prior to 1942 sponsored the festival, and members of the fire department, made plans for election - of a queen, three dances, potato exhibits, banquet and barbecue. Carnival attractions and con cessions are also on the pro gram, and one or two football games will De iinea up. joe Bally is general chairman. Chairmen of the various com mittees will be appointed . next Tuesday night. Part of the proceeds, 11 any. will be used by the fire depart ment for a swimming pool, a community betterment- project that has been under considera tion since before the war. Wainwright Receives DSC; ; Will Attend CHUNGKING, Aug. 29 (IP) Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain wright, who will leave timing king for Manila tomorrow on the way to witness Japan's for mal surrender, was awarded tha Distinguished Service Cross to day lor extraordinary neroism in action in the rnuippines in 1942. 3 Years and 3 Months Wainwright. who led the American and Filipino stand on Corregidor, arrived here yester day from Manchuria where he had been released irom a Japa nese prisoner of war camp after three year and three months In ternment. Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wede- mever. U. S. commander In the China theater, pinned the medal on Wainwright. The citation said that Wainwright, by "dis playing outstanding courage and Indifference to danger" and by his soldierly bearing during severe enemy attacks, "stimulat ed and inspired the troops of this command." Chiang Entertained Generalissimo. Chiang Kai- shek entertained Wainwright at a banquet tonight. . He said that the general' name would shine ALLIES LIST z4 GERMANS AS I Ull LONDON. Aug. 29 W") Tho four major western allies today. named 24 nazi leaders and Prusi sian military chiefs among them Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess. Wilhelm Keitel and Karl Doenltz as defendants in the first mass trial of Germany's -arch criminals early in October. rne 11st lurnisnea the first evidence that Hess, deputy fuehrer for all nazl party affair until 1941, when he made his sensational flight to England, was considered mentally able to stand trial with his -one-time associates. Hess once was sue-" cessor-designate to Hitler. The list also included the name. of Martin Bormann, Hitler's sect retary. There had been no evidence previously " of Bor mann's whereabouts despite un confirmed reports that he and Hitler had perished together. Bormann was Hess' successor a deputy party leader. The list also Includes: Hermann. Wilhelm Goering, , (Continued on Page Two) 1' Evacuation Of PWs From Jap Camps Begun KANDY, Ceylon, Aug. 29 (P The evacuation of 300 prisoners of war from Japanese war camps in Thailand, some of them sur vivors of the U. S. cruiser Hous ton, began today by plane from Bangkok. The cruiser Houston had not been heard from since the battle of the Java sea in 1942 until the) prisoners were found in Thail and. . -i. . -,. The first group was composed of approximately 122 former prisoners. starting tomorrow, men , re leased from Petburi camp near Bangkok will be flown out. - - The released prisoners were described as "generally In pret ty good condition." Evacuation planes will fly the men to Calcutta. Treasury Must ; Withhold Report WASHINGTON. Aug. 29 VP) The house ways and means com mittee informed Brig; Gen.' El liott Roosevelt today it is pro hibited at this time by law front making public the treasury study of his financial affairs. . The committee said it will de cide when the record is complete whether to publish the whole record in a formal report to the house. Jap Surrender upon the pages of Chinese as well as American history. . Gen, Wainwright, In excellent spirits after- his plane trip here from Manchuria, looked forward eagerly to seeing the final Japa nese surrender ceremonies in Tokyo and especially the enemy commanders who accepted with, pompous arrogance the capitula tion of the heroic Americans at Corregidor. In particular he hoped to sea at the scene of Japan's complete humiliation the one-time com-, mander-in - chief of Japanese forces in the Philippines Gen. Masaharu Homma. Homma wai a ruthless victor and an arrogant one. "Gen. . Wainwright told m that he hoped that Japanesi Gen. Homma, to whom he sur rendered at Corregidor, I pres ent when the Japanese sign tin surrender," said Col. James H S. Hasmussen of Phoebus, Va, pilot of the plane which brought Wainwright to Chungking from Mukden. i : Will Oo to Tokyo (Tho 62-year-old hero of thl American stand on Batann ant Corregidor has accepted Gen (Continued on Page Seven) .