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6)M mm Ul Win Surrender e i 1 r ffl VI II I 1 I I I I 1 V : MP 7 W tmlu wsm 1 PIUCE riVE CENTS In The By FRANK JENKINS THIS in tho diary of a day of travel in ttic province, which Ik what in England they cull tho tipntuto, Thu millions of writers who hiivo termed It thu beautiful English counlrysldo huvo been well within tho facts. AIU SI! about 0:80 a,' m., for tho Iniln for tho" MicilniKlK leaves I'liddltiKton atiition Bluntly lifter 0 unci you don't Just whistle out of n London liotol In a mat ter of moments. Hotelwlse, things don't move at quite the Amerlcnn pace here. Nor do you Arrange tho nliihl before to bo culled In the morn lux by tho simple process of nicking up tho telephone and tolling tho Kill nt tho other end to k'vo you a ring please about 0. It's a little mora complicated thuit that. You iio downstairs to tho bureau, which is located kllty-cornorcd across the vesti bule from tho reception desk, and mnko a dicker with the bureau chief. Ho enters diplo matic notes of the conference In a log book, Including what you want for breakfast and other minor details, and at the appoint ed hour tho porter enters and notifies you that the lime Is here. After that, he goes ahead and gets the machinery of breakfast in motion. HAVING got snarled up In the red taps on a former oc casion, barely making a train oy leaning Into the last door, this writer Is cagey and cancels the breakfast. On theso matutinal occasions, things tend to get loused un. Just as you're crawling out of the bath, for example, the maid comes In to lay tnc mine. After vou've stalled around In Die bath room until tho coust la clear, Jeeves will be almost ccr? tain (o arrive with tho food just as you re getting Into your shirt. Now Jeeves at heart Is pure (old. His long morning coat and lis striped trousers and his high, stiff collar and his correct black tie are lust window dress ing. He's a little llko a crab thot la served uncracked. When you get through his hard outer shell there Is rich nourishment inside. Ho really loves the breejiy American nnnronch. and will thaw out and give you all the useful lowdown In the way of clos and dnn'ts thnt help so much . to smooth the way of a raw new comer from the States. . OUT just as you have your head u muffled in a shirt, trying to butt your way through the starchy silliness tnai even ine shortage of war haven't been ablo to 'ellmlnato Is no time to get chummy with Jeeves. He's proper sort of person, and the contortions Inherent In shirt donning, plus the language that so often bubbles to the surface of an Impulslvo American under such circumstances, throws mm off his stride, and he is not at his best. In all this hurly-burly and haste, with one eye on the c ock and the other on tho time- table, the serving of breakfast Is apt to be accomplished In an atmosphere of stiffness. So this writer, who hits been nosing around r "'ttlc, dashes out to a nlnce urr id tho corner, spears a pot of tea and a bit of tonst and jnm, and ultimately gets his baggage together, snares a cab and makes ll to tho station with tlmo to spare. e TN a previous article of this scries, the uncrowdedness, tho supcr-cleanllncss and the all around excellence of tho service on British trains was empha sized. It was all true enough, but tho example chosen was one of thoso exceptions that prove the rule.' The train described was tho special British Airways train from tho port where tho Clippers land up to London. Ono susnects that a cortaln amount of brass (Continued on Pago Four) Barclay Springs Brush Blaze Covers 50 Acres A fire near Barclay springs on tho Klamath Indian reser vation was blazing today In Krass rfnd brush ana had cover ed well over 50 acres by Satur day morning. Tho flro, which was believed to have started from a cigarette thrown from a car window Fri day afternoon, extends from the highway up tho hill to tho rim rock. : Crews from the Klamath In dian reservation, Klamath For est Protectlvo association, and 25 Mexican laborors from Scott Creek camp were, fighting tho blaza Saturday, Weyerhaeuser OKAYS GRANTED HN7 000 N BUIKHERE Automotive, Lumber Structures Will Rise Soon Immediate construction of lumber and automotive build ings to a value of at leust $107, 000 in tho Klamath area has been approved by tho war pro duction board In Portland. Biggest project Is a $40,000 priority granted to Dick B. Mil ler. Klamath - auto and truck dealer, for a huge truck shop to bo constructed at 11th and Klam ath on property owned by A. H. Bussman and Mrs. E. C. Grubb. Miller said that this will be tho only exclusive truck sales and service setup south of Port land. The concrete building will be 100x110 feet In dimensions, with showroom and service facilities. It will be built by a local contractor. The expansion will not affect Miller's present large auto operation at Seventh and Klamath. Swan Lake Moulding com pany has been granted priority for a $13,000 building to be con structed on Its property ot 2101 South 0th, for Leo's garage. Leo Friend and Porric Robitaille, owners of Leo's garage, said they believo the South 0th aroa will be a new automotive center for Klamath Falls. Construction will start within a week. New and used cars will be sold and a repair shop maintained. This firm has been in business (Continued on Page Three) Humaniiarian Team Led By Major Staiger Major Stanley A. Staiger, 1423 Pacific Terrace, was a team leader of one of the hu manitarian teams which first established contact with allied prisoners of war in Japanese camps from Mukden to Hanoi, according to an Associated Press report today from the Chung king headquarters of Gen. Al bert C. Wcdemcycr. Tho men parachuted into Japanese-occupied territory only a few days after Tokyo accepted tho Potsdam agreement. They will remain on the job In their respective districts for tho time being. MaJ. Staiger, who Is leader of the Weihslcn team, is the husband of the former Jolienc Woodruff of this city. He has n son, Stanley Jr., whom ho has never sc6n, Mrs. Staiger said today-that she had not heard from her husband since August 10 when he wrote that ho was ready to start on a mission; Ho has been stationed in Chinn for over a year as a parachutist attached to tho of fice of strategic service of the army. 'Full Employment1 Bill Needs Economy Stability WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (!) Reconversion Boss John W, Sny der said today tho nation needs a mechanism to maintain a stable economy just as It has subscribed to ono to keep tho peace. Endorsing tho "full employ ment" bill, Snyder told the sen ate banking committee that tho legislation won't "produce as much as a single job" In itself but docs provldo a method for mobilizing tho country's re sources so everyone can find work. "In tho past," ho said, "we havo had no machinery by which to organlzo In a systematic way for tho prevention of depressions or of wars. Wo need such mach inery. "It has taken two catastrophic World wars to bring us Into an International organization equip ped with effcctlvo means of In vestigating and solving problems which threaten peace. ' "I feel certain that It is not necessary to suffer another catastrophic depression to awakon us to the need of estab lishing a mechanism for a sys tematic attack on economic in stability, We must tako positive Telephone 111 It KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1945 AW Shown at its height, a raging blase rips through the outfitting docks of the Kaiser Oregon ship rards at Portland, burning six newly completed ships with damage estimated at 25 million dol are. (Telephoto). U. S, TO LEND-LEASE DEBTS WASHINGTON. Sept: J. (A') Nations which received lend lease aid had it straight from Secretary of State Byrnes to day that the United States has by no means torn up their lOU's. They will not be asked to pay in dollars because they do not have the dollar credits. But they aro on notice that they will be expected to make some kind of settlement. It seemed probable they would be requested to pay off in the form of lowered trade restrictions particularly the British, whose economic offic ials will arrive next week to discuss possible substitutes for lend-lease. Formal Statement Byrnes made it clear in a formal statement issued yester day that President Truman's re port to congress saying the $42, 000,000,000 of lend-lease might as well be written off did not mean there would be no settle ments of a kind not involv ing cash. Victory, reverse lend-lease and the prospect of free post war trade because of lend-lease operations already hod repaid this country, Mr. Truman said. Berlin Reports Bormann Arrest BERLIN, Sept. 1 (if) A dis- fmtch from the allied press scrv ce in London led the soviet-controlled Berlin radio to report last night the "arrest" of Martin Bormann, chief deputy of the nazl party, but 24 hours later there was no official informa tion available to prove that he was in custody anywhere. action to help us achieve full em ployment." Snyder, director of war mobil ization and reconversion, said the bill neither implies interfer ence with decisions of private enterprise nor puts the govern ment into business. It enables the government to act, he said, so as to "keep the free economic system running somewhere near full production." Full Employment Set Primarily the bill establishes full employment "the explicit policy of tho United States," with congress having tho final decision on programs recom mended by tho president, Sny der declared. Tho so-called "full employ ment" measure would require tho president to submit annual "job budgets" estimating the size of the labor force and how near ly prospective spending and in vestment would provide the jobs needed. If the jobs in sight were deemed insufficient, congress would take steps designed to pro mote private activity and, as a last resort, would embark on a public works program, Machinists To Work Fire In Portland Shipyard Exacts 769 Jap Attacks On U. S. Western Coast Revealed WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (if) Seventy-eight days after the Jap sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, a submorlne : surfaced off the const-of California' and -hurled a 5.3 shell into an oil field near Golcla. This was the first blow of the war against the U. S. mainland and one of a total of 160 con firmed attacks, including 166 by Japanese balloons, a survey to day of army militry intelli gence and operations records disclose. No Nasi Assault All were directed against the western part of the country and all presumably were launched WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (JP) Secretary of Labor Schwellen boch suggested today that any federal payments for unemploy ment compensation should be repaid, at least in port, from state funds. Ho told the senate finance committee it should consider that possibility in studying leg islation for a national maximum standard of at least $25 a week for 26 weeks in unemployment compensation. Federal Aid As the measure now stands, the federal government would supplement state unemployment payments to achieve the nation al standards. Schwellcnbach said state maximums now range from $15 to $25 a week. He did not go into the ques tion of how the federal treasury might secure repayments from the states. Amendment Asked Endorsing the general prin ciples of setting national stand ards for pay to the jobless, the labor secretary said the meas ure should be amended to pro vide uniform standards of eligi bility for benefits. "Many state laws," he com mented, "contain restrictive disqualification provisions tend ing to deprive those most in need of unemployment com pensation of benefits which they should receive." Carter Sells Local Market Roy Carter, owner of Carter's Fine Foods market on 7th and Pine for the past 13 years, sold tho store on Friday to Roy East burn of Klamath Falls and Dex ter Elliott of Newburg. The change In ownership was effective today, September 1. Eastburn has been wlih the market for the past seven years, according to Carter, and knows all the customers. There will be no change in the personnel or operation of the store. Carter said today that he tins no definite plans for the future but Intends to take It easy for several months. Sept. 1, 1945 Max. (Aug. 31) 87 Min 49 Precipitation last 24 houri 00 Straam yaar to data 13.28 Normal 12.44 Lait year 10.62 Forecast: Clear Sunday and Monday. Heavy Toll by the Japanese. While German submarines shelled Caribbean islands, torpedoed dozens of ves sels in coastal waters and land ed saboteurs In -tho U; S., the records show the nazis neve made a direct assault on the mainland. The submarine which fired on tho oil field near Goleta got away unscathed alter tossing 25 shells which damaged an oil well at the edge of the field. There were no casualties. Another submarine, also pre sumably Japanese, moved in close to the Oregon coast on June 21, 1942, and fired "six to nine" 5.5 shells at Fort Stev ens. All "fell harmlessly," army reports said. This attack came only 18 days after 15 light Japanese bombers attacked Fort Hears and Dut.cn Harbor. Alaska, for the first lime. They returned on June 5 to bomb Dutch Harbor and strafe Fort Glenn. . On September 9, 1942, a float plane apparently launched by a sub flew over Mt. Emily, near Brookings, Ore., and dropped an incendiary bomb. A fire started by the bomb was "quickly extinguished," the army said, by foresters from Mt. Emily lookout. The bomb-carrying Japanese ballons were a futile weapon, and caused only minor damage. Six persons were killed by one of the 33-pound fragmentation bombs which they had found near Lakeview, Ore. 'Pilotless' Plane Crashes, Burns Near Crewe CRESWELL, Sept. 1 OP) A "pilotless" army reconnaissance plane, apparently stolen from the old Eugene airport, crashed, exploded and burned at about 4 a. m. here Saturday morning in the farm yard of Clarence Gray, living about three miles from this Lane county community. Army, air corps officials and state police were on the scene early this afternoon, but there was still no identification of a pilot or passengers. However, under treatment for severe burns in a Eugene hospital was PFC. Lloyd Kenneth Ingram, 21-ycar-old marine from San Fran cisco. Japs Quit Six Years After Nazis Set War WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (if) Tho formal Japanese surrender falls In American time on the sixth anniversary of the start of hostilities in Europe. The first nazl troops moved Into Poland September 1, 1939. As a consequence England de clared war on Germany two days later, and World War II was on. Nippon's surrender actually will bo on September 2, Japa nese time. SUNSET For hunters who have been in quiring, sunset occurs at 7:49 to night, according to the naval air station aerology department. . , X MM 1 ,11 Number 10608 AFL UNIONISTS VOTE RETURN Strike Legality Ques tioned; CIO-IWA Stands Pat AFL machinists employed by the Weyerhaeuser Timber com pany will go back to work Wednesday, regardless of the CIO-IWA strike against the com pany, it was announced today by M. A. Lovay, international Contracts Cancelled Three lumber companies shut down by the CIO strike disclosed today they had noti fied the union that they are cancelling their contracts with the union immediately. They are the Weyerhaeuser Timber company. Ewauna Box company and Kesterson Lum ber corporation. They stated the cancellation was based on alleged breach of contract by CIO in causing a strike con trary to provisions in agree ments between the company and union. CIO is the established bar gaining agent for employes of the three firms under NLRB authority, and it is presumed . that - new contracts will be evjsntually negotiated.. A re turn to work probably will be Insisted upon by the companies before negotiation, it was stated by one company repre sentative. representative of the Interna tional Association of Machinists (AFL). Thirty-six machinists attend ed a meeting at the Labor Tem ple last night at which the vote to return to work was passed (Continued on Page Three) , Work stoppage in three Klam ath Falls plumbing shops ended today with maste rplumbers agreeing to a 15 per cent wage increase demand for journey man plumbers made by the Plumbers and Steamf itters, AFL, pending the approval of the war labor board. Six journeyman plumbers have been on strike causing three shops to shut down, which were the Waters Plumbing and Heating company, G. C. Motley Plumbing company and the Da vis Plumbing company. Negotiations were continued and an agreement was reached yesterday, according to H. W. Waits, representative of the Plumbers and Steamfitters local. The agreement granting the pay raise was signed by Seth Waters, G. C. Motley and Dean Davis, owners of the three shops affected. WEDNESDAY Jap Women Worst Civilian Offenders. Prisoners Tell By MORRIE LANDSBERG ABOARD HOSPITAL SHIP BENEVOLENCE, TOKYO BAY, Sept. 1 (if) War and all of its suffering are clear and plain in this white, air-cooled ward where men are free again. They are clear in the lined faces of the men, as well as in their stories. There's the story of army PFC Claude Likens, 26 Kasmosdalc, Ky., for instance. He was in com pany D, 192nd tank battalion, stationed at Fort Stotsenburg, Manila, when war came. That meant he fought' on Bataan, where he was wounded slightly. Ho missed the infamous death march from Bataan by swim ming across to Corrcgldor, fight ing on until the final American surrender there May 6, 1942. "Dropped Like Flies" "They treated us pretty rough pretty rough," the heavy-set private said of his captors. Driv en hard at harbor work, the pris oners were without food or wat er for four days. "They began dropping like flies." Likens said. After four months In the Phil ippines prison camps, Likens I was taken to Formosa, where he Ceremonies To Start At 5 PM YOKOHAMA, Sept. 1 (AP) The world's bloodiest war will come to an official end Japan step aboard the battleship Missouri for a surrender ceremony starting about 9 a. m. (5 p. m. Saturday, PWT). Cenerol MacArthur conferred with Admirals Nlmitz and Halsey and Air Cenerals Spaatz and Kenney on the mo mentous meeting which will be broadcast to a world which once trembled to the threats empire. Truman To Broadcast President Truman will broadcast from Washington during the height of the ceremony, which is expected here to con tinue for ot least two hours. Both MacArthur as supreme allied commander and Nimitz as me official signatory of the- surrenacr document for the United States will broadcast from aboard the Missouri. The men who will sign for Japan have not been announced, but it will have to be someone WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (P) The White House announced today that the Japanese sur render ceremonies on the bat tleship Missouri in Tokyo bay will go on the air at 6:30 PWT tonight. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme allied commander in Japan, notified the White House to this effect. high in the councils of the pres ent government, probably Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuna, the pre mier, and representatives of the imperial general staff. No Chances Taken Up to the last moment Mac Arthur was taking no chances that some fanatic, some die-hard militarist, some Kamikaze such as those known to have flown their own planes off into hiding, might start something. . Spaatz warned that any sign of trouble in this occupation his planes were ready to drop at least 8000 tons of bombs on Japan. Boats came and went in al most endless procession in Tokyo bay, scene of the sign ing, as final plans were made for the surrender. Grip Extended American t r o o o s extended their steel grip alone both sides of the bay and were, up to the southern, edge of Tokyo. ,:: . Tokyo was reported declared out of bounds to all Americans, including correspondents, be cause of an incident but the par ticulars were not known here nor could the order itself be confirmed. - (The White House announced it had been notified, by Mac Arthur that the surrender cere monies would go on the air at 6:30 p. m. Saturday, PWT. (The White House said Mr. Truman would broadcast a speech of about eight or nine minutes during the - ceremony after which I f broadcast would be switched jck to the Mis souri for brief addresses by Mac Arthur and Nimitz. (The president will be stand ing by in the broadcast room of the White House, listening in on the surrender-signing ceremony and waiting for the signal for him to speak). Last Actors Last of the actors to take their places were the eighth army men of Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, scheduled to be gin their mass landings in the bay sector by nightfall tonight. (A radio report said the land ings already had begun). As a backdrop there was the black horror endured by prison ers of war, who poured from their stockades of death and degradation with blood-freezing accounts of the wanton cruelties inflicted upon them in the years when Japan was riding the crest of conquest. Power Shifted Now, as the gaunt Lt. Gen. Johnathan Wainwright remark ed, "the shoe was on the other foot." He and his staff who sur : (Continued on Page Three) labored 47 days In a riverbed project. Prisoners there were tea nothina but rice and soup, three times daily. Likens' weight droDDed from 185 to 128 pounds. Food was a little better, he said, when he was taken to Yok ohama in November, 1942, to work under threat of death repairing Japanese aircraft car riers, destroyers and other war ships in the Mitsubishi dock yard. He was lioeratea irom Omorl camp. Worst Offender A B-29 gunner, Sgt. Donald Bloodgood, 23, of 545 Ultime Ave., Long Beach, Calif., said women were the worst offend ers when guards invited clvllions to "take a poke" at captured Americans. Bloodgood, who balled out of his damaged Supcrfort after the May 16, 1945, raid on TOKyo, said the guards stopped at every little town as they took him to prison camp In Tokyo. Prisoners were exhibited at each stop, he said, and their guards let people beat the captives viciously. "We were blindfolded, but (Continued on Page Three) tomorrow when emissaries of and acts of the pugnacious WASHINGTON. Sent. 1 lP) Hunters must wait until next year before doing as much shooting as they like. The ammunition ration for the forthcoming hunting season will be no larger than for the last. Here it is: Shotgun shells, 100: .22-caliber rim-fire cartridges, ISO rounds; center-fire rifle ammunition, 40 rounds, or au rounds if packaged five to the box. A hunter must sign a certificate to get his al lotment Ammunition Scarce Ammunition will continue scarce mainly because of . the shortage of lead. Most cart ridges used for warfare are too powerful and too large for civilian-type guns. The army may release about 20,000,000 rounds suitable for civilian hunting purposes, but uus amounts to only a little more than two per cent of the ammunition used Dy hunters In. a normal year. ..- -- Bat the o'utlook for' next year "' is excellent. The ammunition industry plans to steD ud Dro- duction late this year and con tinue at a high rate in 1946. By that time the lead situation is ex pected to improve. Farm Priority Farmers, ranchers, and Iran. . pel's, who need more ammuni tion to protect their livestock or to make a living, may obtain more than the hunters' ration by certifying they need it. ' All controls over production of shotguns and revolvers for ' civilian use have been removed. Pelican Butte Timber Sold To Finney Company PORTLAND. SeDt. 1 WM Sale of 21,000,000 board feet of timber on the Rogue River na tional forest to Finney logging company, Klamath Falls, was announced bv the U. S. forest service today. - me price on one 9,000,000 foot unit was $6 a thousand feet for ponderosa pine, $2.60 for white fir and other species. On me otner unit, including 12,000, 000 feet, the rate was S8 a thou-. sand for ponderosa pine, and ?2.75 for white fir and other species. The timber stands are along the slopes of Pelican Butte, the forest service said. The logs in this sale will ha milled in Klamath Falls, "prob ably at the Great Northern mill on Klamath river. -now operated by Kesterson's. Finney, who has organized a new firm here and nas just purchased the Shaw holdings In Modoc countv. is as. sociated with a group of men now operating the box factory at Kesterson's. . First Plane From Japan Arrives FAIRFIELD, Calif,, Sept. 1 (P) The first plane to fly di rect from Japan to tho United States reached the army air field here today on a flight that started Thursday afternoon at the Atsugl airdrome outside of Tokyo. Col. John H. Lackey Jr., of Norfolk, Va., pilot of the first C-54 to land at Atsugl, was aboard. The plane carried pho tographs showing the damage wrought on Japan by the air corps. The pictures are being taken to Washington, D. C. The B-32 made three stops en route from Japan at Okinawa, Kwajalcin and Honolulu, No Paper Monday The Herald and News will not publish an edition on Mon day. ' Labor Day. The next paper will appear Tuesday afternoon. '. AMMUNITION mtm: AS LAST YEAR
