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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Mac Quashes
Jap Imperial
Headquarters
By Tha Aatoclated Praia i
Japan abolished her Impurlul headquarters, fountalnhcud of
her militarism, under General MucArthur'i orders today nnd be
gun lie Jul) o( rounding up hur own wur criminals on Gen, Hldekl
l'ojo: No. 1 on tho "wanted" lint, Hhowcd definite Improvement
(rum hlii suicide attempt two duya oko,
The elKlill) army grunted the Junanoso government request
tltut It bo permitted tu tuko into custody .the wur leaders listed
bv General MncArthur (or uosslblo war criminal trials, but lncll-
Ira The
v By FRANK JENKINS
GERMANY As to wlwit hop
pan to Cermmiy, practically
everybody agrees thut (his winter
will tell the tnle. Klther thcro
will bo food nnd fuel enough to
go around, If spread thin, in
which event It may be possible lo
atari building a NEW Cormany
next spring,
Or i there will bo cold and
hunger greater than people can
bear In which event ANY
THING can happen,
i
TN trying to arrive at en In-
telllgent opinion or your own,
you are mUled constantly by an
abysmal contrast tho contrast
between tho smaller towns and
the country and the big in
dustrial cities. In outward ap
pearance they era as far apart at
the Poles.
Tha small (owns and the farm
ing countryside are almost uiv
scarred. Except ot somo stra-
togle crossroad where tho Ger
mans maae a sianu, nirni wri
rn Germany looks like a land
unscathed bv war In a century.
Vou rldo through It and look at
It and try lo evaluate It and in
a little whito you find yourself
thinking that this country Is
bursting with food and thut fears
of hunger this winter are ground
less. THEN you enter big In
dustrial city. lis strategic
areas lis fnclorlcs, Its down
town business area. Its railroads
and Its BRIDGES will be
smashed and useless. ' '
Oddly enough, factory chim
neys escaped tho bombing amni;
Ingly. Few of them seem to
have been knocked down. They
stand out on the skyline like tent
poles after the canvas has come
down.
Practically NONE of them are
smoking. They aland thoro Idle
and dead, unmlstnkeablo sign
posts of an economy that Is ot
standstill.
THEY start you to thinking.
, Your thoughts run something
like this: Many, perhaps most,
IX these now-dead factories were
producing war goods, and so
their product will not be rn.ls.icd
In tho economy of today, for
pcoplo can't cat guns and tanks
and planes and ammunition.
BUT, you suddenly remember,
: (Continued on Pnge Two) :
Blaze Blackens
90 Acres Of Land
A 00-acro grass and brush
(Ire was brought under control
today near Barclay Springs on
tho Klamath Indian reservation
after It was believed to havo
been started Wednesday after
noon by a cureless smoker.
Tho blaze, which Is Just north
of the one which burned over a
large territory recently, was
being fought today by crows
from Klnmnth Agency and from
tho forest service at Scott creek.
It was started near the high
way and it was thought that a
clguretlo had been thrown from
a car to start tho tiro.
No Driving Experience.
Youth Steals, Wrecks Car
' A 16-ycar-old boy, who had
absolutely no driving : experi
ence, stulo and completely
wrecked a car belonging lo Ros
coo McDannald roulo 3, Kono,
Inst night about 10:45 o'clock.
The youth miraculously oscaped
vrith minor cuts and bruises
after crushing Into a tolcuhono
polo at tho Intersection of Wash-,
Durn wny ana tno Micnuna road.
, This boy and another youth
had uttondod a movlo at tho
Towor theatre nnd upon leaving
the theatre tho two boys separ
ated, tho ono boy going homo,
Tho other lnd apparently decid
ed to tnke a rldo. although he
hud novor operated a car by him
self before Ho got into the
nulnmobllc, which was parked
in front of the theatre on S. 0th,
coiea mere nun Doner oo acuon
within two days or tho Amcrl-
cans would step in agum,
Tojo's Condition
At an Amorlcun hospital, Tojo
was reported as in "quite satis
factory" condition and talked
with correspondents.
In an Interview, Prince Fuml-
maro Konoya, former premier
and now vice president under
i'rince mgashi-Kuni, cnurgcu
Japanese militarists with giving
tho government of Japan a rep
ututlon ai a Dor.
Nlmlti Advisaa
Without having heard Kon
eye's tale about Juputi's reputa
tion for lacking veracTly, Ad
miral Nimilz on Guam advised
Americans that the Japanese
wero telling them what America
wanted to hear and their stories
should be taken with "a grain
of salt,"
Referring particularly to Jap
anese talk about alrpowcr win
ning tho war, ho said: "I don't
think our own people should be
thrown off base by accepting
that. Alrpowcr was tha . spear
head and the sharp edge of the
cutting knife but tha rest of
the knife was there, too, and
scopower brought It there."
Industrialists Speak
In another interview in Tok
yo, a group of leading indus
trialists charged Japanese mili
tarists with refusing to end the
war even after the country
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LACK DF STOP Si!
MERRILL Malicious de
struction of a stop sign at the
Junction of the Lava Beds road
and highway 30 less than one
mile east of Merrill was blamed
by state police for a two-car
smushup at the intersection last
night at 0:30 o clock in which
two men were injured, one ser
iously. ,
Dr. C. Martin Carlson, 61, of
Ketchikan. Alaska, Is in Hillside
hospital with serious head injur
ies as mo result ot me collision.
A car driven by Maurice O'
Callaghan of Tulelake wns pro
cccdlng toward Klamath Falls
on highway 39 when the auto
mobile operated by Carlson
came from tho Lava Beds road
onto tho highway without stop
ping, rue two cars collided and
both were badly damaged, ac
cording to a report by state po
lice. Carlson was taken to the hos
(Continucd on Poge Two)
Football Ducats
On Sale Friday
Reserved' seat season
tickets for tho 1945 Pelican
grid season will go on sale
Friday, September 14, at 8:30
a, m, at" tho chamber of com
merce, 323 Main. Tho prlco
of a ticket is $5. ,
Sales will bo limited to
six ducats per person at tho
opening sale tomorrow morn
ing, There arc fivo games to
bo played on the homo slate
at Modoc field this season.
and drove to tho Lakcvlew Junc
tion. '.
Ho then turned around and
drove back' to tho Midland road
and turned left toward tho Great
Northern roundhouse where he
struck loose gravel, lost control
of tho automobile, and smashed
hend-on . Into a telephone polo,
totally demolishing the car,
Law enforcement officers and
a physician woro colled to tho
scene nnd tho boy , was given
first aid and turned over to Ju
venile authorities. Ho told of
ficers ho was on his wny to
Dunsmuir, Calif,, but could give
no reason (or going thoro.
The youth has no previous rec
ord, authorities said. A com
plaint was signed by McDannald
this morning,
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTElv.. i 13, 1945
f I '
Strtat and drlvas at tha Marina Barracks hara bean named for spots In the Pacific where lo
cal veteran! have made marine corps history and sign potts were completed latt week. Four ma
rines are shown erecting a aign in front of the PX at Iwo Jlme and Kwajalein. Moat marine bases
uae a similar system of street naming but the names usually commemorate earlier leatherneck ex
ploits. But since Klamath Falls Is strictly a World War II bate,, appropriate World War II names
were selected. . Official U, S. marine corps photo.
OCTOBER 1 MAY BE
ERATI
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (P)
Shoe rationing may end October
X- ; - '" :i .-;
It will If top officials,, of the
war ' production board follow
recommendations of the agency's
leather bureau. It's the Job of
thut bureau to know the shoo
situation thoroughly,
A decision will be made iri
the noxt week or so, after con
ference between , WTB Chair
man J. A. Krug and OPA Ad
ministrator Chester Bowles.
OPA shoe officials are not
oxpected to voice any strenuous
objections to the WPB proposal,
although October 15 and No
vember 1 have been mentioned
more frequently within OPA as
likely dates for ending the pro
gram. There Is not complete agree
ment in WPB on the October
1 date. The agency's office of
civilian requirements reported
ly wants to mnke sure before
committing Itself that stocks and
the production outlook are ade
quate to permit unrestricted
buying. i ;
Both OPA and WPB have In
dlcatcd that when shoe output
iionunuoq on rage Two)
See Atomic
Gen, Leslie R. Grovet (right)
University of California, who cooperated on atomic bomb develop
ment, get a first hand look at the
tho tott bomb waa exploded near Alamogordo, N. M, (AP wire
photo); ; "" '
Pacific Nostalgia
mv&Mi
BUI Dieter Blasted Steel
Mill In Famous Toky o Raid
TULELAKE. Calif., Sept,
13
Sgt. Bill Dieter of Tulelake drop
ped a bomb directly on a Tokyo
steel mill before he died on the
Doollttle raid on Japan early in
That -and othcr-def inite-irKt
formation about Sgt. Dieter's
death has been received by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Dieter
of Tulelake, from Bill's uncle,
Capt. Earl L. Dieter, U. S. army
air corps chaplain.
Capt. Dieter spent on hour at
waiter need nosniwi in Washing
ton, D. 'C. with Capt. Chase
Nielsen and Capt. Robert H. Hite,
Doollttle fliers, who gave him
the firsthand story of the crash
that killed the Tulelake hero
Direct Hit
The crew of Dieter's bomber
flew directly over Tokyo. Diet
er, a bombardier, dropped a
bomb squarely on the steel mill,
and the plane then flew on
toward China.
At 8:30 p. m. Lt. Dean E. Hall
mark, the pilot, noticed the gas
was dangerously low and gave
the crash order,
Bill was in the nose of the
plane, - Altitude was so low that
they crashed before any could
bail out. the nose of the plane
i was splintered , and Bill was
swept into the sea. He climbed
Bomb Results
and Dr. J. R, Oppenheimer of the
baae of the tower from which
? '
Septtmbtr 13, 1945
Max. (Sept, 12) S3 Min , 51
Precipitation lift 24 houri 00
Straam yaar to data 13.30
Normal 12.64 Lait yaar 10,62
Forecaiti Claar Friday.
1 oh toD 'of the plane and said
"I m hurt all over. The crew
adjusted life belts, and started
swimming. . Lieutenant Hall
mark was helping Corporal Don
old FUtmi.ir ice. of Lincoln,' Ne-
briifKe;' also injured-'and- some
other' member -at the crew was
helping Bill. ,
Nellsen swam 'to shore, col
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W. BROADCASTS
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 m
The strike of about 500 union
radio technicians in 350 stations
of the National and American
broadcasting companies contin
ued today witn Dotn neiworKS
on the air. their controls manned
by supervisory personnel not
connected with the union.
A. T.. Powley, president of the
Nittional Association of Broad
casting Engineers and Techni
cians, an independent union,
said the men would remain away
from their jobs until contract
negotiations were resumed.
NBC To Negotiate
The: National Broadcasting
company, in a statement, said it
was willing to resume negotia
tions "the minute the men re
turned to work, and -otherwise
are ready to submit to arbitra
tion" Negotiations for a contract to
replace one which expired June,
1944, collapsed' yesterday. At
5:30 D. m.. the union sent a 30-
minute strike notice to the com-
(Continued on Page Two)
PFC Miller
Freed From Japs
PFC Robert Miller, USMC,
has been liberated from a Japa
nese prison camp in Osaka,
Japan, according to a telegram
received Wednesday by Robert
L. Miller of this city.
The telegram came Just one
day after the boy's mother had
oeen Duricd. Mrs. Miner, in ill
health for some time, had held
out hope that she might live to
hear that her boy was safe, but
at the time of her death Monday,
she did not know that her son
had been liberated.
PFC Miller was taken or son-
or on Corregldor when it fell and
the last word that the family
had had was in June when It
was reported that he was heard
on a shortwave broadcast from
Japan, ,
EAST COAST
ARRIVALS
By The Aaaoclated Press
' Angelo L. Sottana, ' PFC,
Weed. Arrived on SS Argcn
tlna due in New York Sep
tember 10 .
Robert T. Dalilell, SSgt
Dunsmuir. Arrived on SS
Argentina due in New York
September 10. '
George R. Gassaway, TS,
Yreka, . Arrived on Kenmore
due at San Francisco Septem
ber IX., ....
Numbar 10617
ARMY RELEASES
BADLY
II
T
Navy Asks Secrecy On
Pearl Harbor
Code .
By MAX HALL
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13 Iff)
The army acknowledged today
that is backlog of men eligible
for release, but still in uniform,
was badly jammed up.
But Mat. Gen. S. G. Henry.
assistant chief of staff, told sen
ators tnis backlog , will be
cleaned up within 40 days.
ine general, testifying before
the senate military committee
which wants to know why men
are not being discharged faster.
saia:
The Jam-UD occurred in nart
because the air forces believ
ing full airoower was needed
against Japan released no men
Detween the day Germany quit
and the day Japan quit.
nenry relerred to the men In
the backlog as being in a "DiDe-
line." '"They are backed up in
it. It is bad. There is no aues-
tion about, it." , -.
.Separation Centers
New, separation centers being
put into operation Henry said,
will speed up the discharges.
He said they'll be.able to dis
charge 800,000 men "a month by
December 1. He didn't say that
many would be getting out of
service montniy by that date.
But previously the army was
understood to have said 800.000
would be getting out by Decem-
oer i. - v - J "
" The navy asked " congress
again- please n o t to ' reveal
part of the Pearl Harbor story,
the part about the Japanese
coae.
Mixed Feelings : -
Congress listened to the armv
and navy with mixed feelings.
That was the situation on Cap
itol Hill today, along with con
gressional news about surplus
property. . . standard time. . ,
government corporations. . . air
ports. . . . unemolovment Da v.
High army officers did some
more explaining before the sen
ate military committee on their
plans for faster discharges.
Before the hearing opened
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D
Colo.) said the army had given
him the 800,000-a-month fore
cast, and he said it sounded good
to him.
Johnson said he also was told
there will be 71 army separation
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N. Y. Welcomes
Corregidor Hero
NEW YORK, Sept.: 13 (IP)
Cheering millions gave . Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright today
one of the greatest welcomes in
New York City's history a
thunderbig ovation that over
whelmed him to the point of dis
belief. Police Inspector John J.
O'Connell estimated 6,000,000
persons acclaimed the 62-year-
old hero of Corregidor on a tri
umphal 32-mile motor trip
through flag bedecked streets
from La Guardia field, where he
was greeted witn a 17-gun salute.
The largest storm of paper the
famed financial district ever has
seen cascaded down upon- the
happy and smiling though
plainly surprised four star gen
eral as he rode up lower Broad
way to city hall to receive hon
orary citizenship of New York.
Famous "Send Us More Japs'
Speech Denied By Marine
TOKYO, Sept. 13 (ff) Lt. Col
James P. Devereux denies that
he ever sent the famous radio
message "Send us more Japs" as
his heroic little marine garrison
was being overwhelmed on
Wake island in December, 1941.
Devereux was quoted by
members of an air evacuation
group who visited his prison
camp in the mountains of north
ern Hokkaido island Tuesday,
Commands Camp
Now In command of the camp,
Devereux told them, "the first
thing I'd like to get on the rec
ord is that we did not send out
such a radio message.
"We had all and more Japs
than we could handle right then,
There were just too many ot
them for us to hold . off any
longer."
Sgt. Al Martin of Roanoke,
Va., and Topeka, Kans., who
was In the rescue party, said
Dovcreux did tell them he had to
glvo tho "cease fire'1 order three
times before his weary and out
CIO Agrees To
Return To Job
On WCLC Terms
The west coost lumber commission todoy wired the dis
putants in the local lumber strike requesting that unionist
ond companies resume work under same terms as existed be- '
fore the strike developed. CIO unionists, in meeting ot noon,
voted to adopt this program on their part and so notified the
componies by special mail delivery this afternoon.
This step indicated a move toward possible settlement of
a strike that has tied up four mills for five weeks,' ond fol
lowed an incident ot the Weyerhaeuser picket line this morn
ing in which violence threatened as AFL machinists went
through the CIO picket line.
I he lumber commission, which is a subsidiary of th
WLB, requested all parties to proceed by "negotiation, con
ciliation or other means exclusive of economic force to settle
their existing grievances and disputes between themselves,"
ond are willing to consign a
case. -
Here is the text of the tele
gram sent to companies and the
union: ,
"The west coatt lumber
commission in executive na
tion at Washington, D, C, has
directed me to tend the fol
lowing communication to you:
The wett coatt lumber com
mitsion is advised that since
early latt month the employee
of the Weyerhaeuser Timber
company. Ketterton Lumber
corporation, Ewauna Box
company. Big Laket Box com
pany, Bly Logging company
and Chiloquin Lumber com
pany, and Pelican Bay Lum
ber company, -said employes
being membert of the IWA
CIO, have been on ttrike over
an iatue involving the union
' tecurity claute of the col
lective bargaining contracts
of the partiet and that terse
of the companies involved
have given notice of termin
ation of their contract!. ThU
dispute hat not been certified ,
to the " national war labor '
board nor preferred -to - the
west coast lumber commis
sion.'. "However., the committion
directs the attention of all
partial to the following facts'
"1. The u n 1 o n .tecurity
claute of many or all of
, these- contracts are those
which were settled by action
of the wett coatt lumber com
mittion and the national war
'labor board and "were inclnd-:-
ed in ; the .contracts - of ' the
parties pursuant to a directive
order in a war labor board
dispute case.
' "2. These directive orders
have not been revoked nor
modified and are still in full
force and effect. '
"3 In his statement : of
August 16, 1945, the presi
dent of the United States re
ferring to the present interim
' period between the end of the
war and the forthcoming industry-labor
conference taid:
' 'I thall expect both industry
and labor in that period to
continue to comply voluntar
ily at they have in the past
with the directive orders of
the board."
4- The commission it fur
ther advised thai the partiet
have not fully utilized the ex-
' isting machinery provided by
their contracts for the settle
ment of grievance! and dis
putes. 5. The U. S. conciliation ser
. vice it prepared to attign to
the disputes existing between
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Yanks Bled Mercilessly
For Jap Transfusions
YOKOHAMA, Sept. 13 (A)
A navy physician, fighting to
save the lives of enfeebled form
er prisoners of war, said today
he had been told that Japanese
doctors deliberately bled Amer
ican prisoners to death to obtain
blood for transfusions for Jap
anese. "I was told this by one of my
patients, a medical corps cap
tain who was taken on Cor
regidor," said Capt. Stanton Al
lison, New York, medical di
rector aboard the hospital ship
Benevolence.
numbered marines would quit
the hopeless struggle.
DevereBx said he still regard
ed himself as a major, since he
had not been officially notified
of his promotion to lieutenant
colonel- He insisted on remain
ing in the camp until all the
prisoners could be removed, a
process expected to be complet
ed by tomorrow.
- Officers Wait
In turn, some of his staff offi
cers who havo been taken out
have refused to start for nome
until Devereux joins them.
Martin, who used to be city ed
itor of the Topeka Capital, said
the rescue team landed at an air
striD 60 miles from the Urashi-
nai camp and drove the remain
der of the distance, uney arrived
at 1 a. m., but the whole camp
was ud to meet them and the 50
weakest prisoners were taken
out immediately,
Devereux himself is thin and
gray but otherwise , appears
healthy, Martin said.
government conciliator to the
1
5
LONDON, Sept. 13 (ff) U. S.
representatives in eastern and ,
southeastern Europe were gath
ering in London today for urgent
consultations with Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes on num
erous touchy Balkan situations
now before the Big Five council
of foreign ministers.
" Byrnes ' saw King Peter of
Yugoslavia at Claridges hotel on
the 'express invitation of the
young exiled monarch. : Later
the secretary of state consulted
with the Greek regent, Arch
bishop Damaskinos, at the Amer
ican' embassy. Another Byrnes
conference was with Herbert
Evatt, Australian foreign minister..-
.
Diplomatic quarters consid--':
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COBGESHftLL ASKS
Ei
Captain Lowell T. CoggeshaU,,
ranking medical, officer of the
Marine Barracks since its incep
tion, today appealed to Klamath
people to help create a hand
some, landscaped boulevard be
tween the city and the big mlli-
tary installation in the north
east hills. The road is paved,
but there is need for much road
side improvement.
-Dr. CoggeshaU made his ap
peal, to the Kiwanis club in a
Thursday noon address, suggest
ing that service club take over
the project.- He emphasized that
an attractive access road to the
Marine Barracks might well
have a bearing on the future of
the installation and its value to
the community.
The speaker said that the Old
Fort road, the road to the Bar
racks, is "ramshackle" in some
of its portions, and creates an
unfavorable impression on all
(Continued on Page Two)
"The captain said that Jap
anese at Tokyo's Shinagawa hos
pital made a fairly common prac
tice of bleeding Americans
mercilessly for transfusions for
wounded Japanese. In some
cases they bled the men directly,
to death, and in others so weak
ened them that they died of
other causes.
"The captain said he would
personally like to shoot one par
ticularly brutal Japanese doctor.
The caDtain said he had treated
a B-29 flier for a simple leg frac
ture. Then the Japanese doctor
insisted in making a deep in
cision to wire the bone, although
that should be done only for a
compound fracture when the
flesh is mangled.. The boy died
of infection." ' i
The army captain accompan
ied Allison on a visit to Shin
agawa. They found the hospital
camp ringed with antiaircraft
guns in violation of the Geneva
convention. ,
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
It. H. E.
Boston 3 9 2
Pittsburgh 4 4 2
Singleton, Logan (8) and
Masi; Gerheauser and Salkcld.
AMERICAN
R H E
Detroit 2 9 1
Philadelphia 3 7 0
Tobin and Swift; Flores,
Knerr (9) and Rosar. :-.
' R H B
St. Louis 2 9 1
Boston 15 i 2
Potter and Mancuso; V. John
son and Pytlak,
, R H E
Chicago 7, 8 0
New York 0 7 0
i Dietrich, Johnson (10) and
Tresh; Zuber and Robinson,
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HI
BALKAN