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mm c m vm an ,,?s"' . -s : : 1 - ;. ,: 'ii"?T1 HL-K-iM .vM'ik IJwiW. I mtammm . GOVERNOR KEPT Wm . WtXfy'J. mu Mtm QUIET to save By FIIANK JENKINB r uxisMiiouiia (D o i u y o d) Ji'i'iiliiK from Purls lo tho Gorman bordur oust of Luxem bourg win) duck soup, Tho roads ii ro jammed with American truoi) convoys, speeding luippy Gin toward tho Atlantic ports and homo. Thuro In mi Amur lean MP nl .every Imporlunl crniiKlni. Tim Jeep was skippered by two Red dims girls (one of them thin writer's diiiiKMler) hihi n is inv mmllnli-lv uimarent thlit what' ever ii Hod Crow girl need iihe enn nut by tho simple process of asking n Gl. When there win liny doubt a.i to whnt turn to tnko the girls pulled up to tho firrtl MP mid Kot explicit anu accurate direction. BUT the Hlilncliind Is In tho new French occupation zone nnd the French liro timing over They huven'l been there lonn, unci are fur.v ubnut directions There are no troop truckii, for our convoys ure moving out fnrtliir In tho south. So. Incvlt. ably. ooner or Inter n French MP gave ii.i a left hunt) turn when wo should hiivo taken a rluht. That tilwiiyn meimii trouble. Thin tlmo was no exception. rNE can't help pausing here for a word about these French occuniitlnn troops. Hack In France, notably In Pnrls, the French uro somber and quid. Tbev seldom smile. You not tho feeling that they arc a beaten people, ridden By an inienorny f-nmnlnx. Hut NOT these boys of the French army or occupation i'ii.v'rn Inn does uualn. and you can hear them laugh a block awoy. They bubblo over when you stop to talk to them. Their occupation Job, with the Germans bavins to take orders from them now, has restored their self respect. lUT all that doesn't lake the - (Minn off wrona direction. Tho map wo are using hasn't II thn rnnds on. Tho number of tho road wo nro traveling doesn't correspond to anything on the map. It Is one of these now, wh o. ru er-strulght autobahns. and all along It is written on Interestlnff storv of war. You read tho story almost as plainly aa If It 'wore unfolding before your eyes. It la obvious that maimd Germans were retreating along it and that our avenging nlanes wero strewing death amnntr them. Tho wide road, cutting through a thick fir forest. Is literally lined with knocked-out, burned out German trucks, troop cor rli.ru. hnlf.tracks. tanks and anti' tank guns. It would certainly bo a Junk man's paradise now, BUT, whllo Interesting, It Ii al most certainly heading nortlv ward. Whereas wo need to get to tho south to link up with the Americans again. Eventually a conference with German residents no French around to ask establishes the fact that we're some 00 kllO' meters from Coblenz. And Co, blcnz Is British zone. And It's getting late. And tho jeep Is about out of nasi Tho burning question Is If wc get into Coblenz lato at night can wo talk our British cousins (Continued on Pago Two) Light Showers Slow Calif. Fires SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 21 (P) A forecast of showers, coastal fogs and high humidity today brougyt hopo of relief to inousnnas oi weary soldiers ana civilians battling forest fires in Mendocino, Humboldt, Nnpo, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado anct nevada counties. Light showers and a south wind last night slowed tho pro- Bll-nn Ul llllllll-B III HUIIIU ttll'UB. Twenty-flvo major fires con tinned to burn, Some wero un checked although hundreds of negro paratroopers of tho 655th parachute Infantry battalion wero thrown into the battle. Danger of tholr spread forced tho complete shutdown In north, crn California of all logging operations. Military Committee Kills Propo! sal To WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (IP) A sonalo proposal to revlso tho draft law was killed off today by tho sonata military commit tee. Tho committee acted In ap proving legislation,' already Arriving In United States By The Associated Praii QUn W. Stouph, PFC, 2219 Etna, Klamath Falls. Arrived on Queen Elizabeth duo in Now York September 19. Lloyd C. Thomas, TS, Mor rill, Arrived on Monterey duo In San Francisco on Sop tcmbor 20, PRICE riVE CENTS Woman STRIKE THREAT FACESLUMBER CIO, AFL Votes Point Tie-Up Danger; Lo cal Scene Quiet While three Klumath lumber firms murin plans for work re sumption after a long stoppugc, Industry-wide strike rumblings becume louder today in the great northwest timber indus try. There was no basic chango in tho situation here, with Pell can Bay, Big Lakes and Chllo quln operations set for activity next week. No meetings wero set In the Weyerhaeuser, Ko (ergon and Ewauna strikes. Only two CIO picket wero on the line when 34 AFL machinists went Into tho Weyerhaeuser plant this morning;. Pelican Bay officials prepared a statement clurfying their work resumption plans, which appear elsewhere.' In today's paper. This Is tho first struck Klamath mill to go back to work. But there existed tho possi bility that Klamath operations, where thoro aro certified union bargaining agonts, may be af fected by Industry-wide 1 1 o p pages. Whether this happona dc (Continued on Pago Two) i I 3 GRADES OF BEEF WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 P) The thrca lowest grades of beef will bo sold without ration points on October 1, food offi cials said today. These grades, known as din ner, cutter ond utility, arc used principally in canned und processed meats, hamburger, sausago and boiling meat. They make up about 20 per cent of tho beel supply. Pork, lamb and three top grades of beef commercial, good and choice will continue to require ration points. The three top grades of beef arc the source of most steaks, roasts and other popular table cuts. The low grades of beef will remain technically on the ration ing list, although their ration values will bo reduced to zero. Tills makes it much simpler from an administrative stand point, officials explained, to re (Contlnued on Pago Two) Guarantee Saves WLB Collapse WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (P) A swift guarantee of Independ ence saved tho war labor board from possible collapse today. The pledge came from Secre tary of Labor Schwcllcnbach who thereby materially streng thened the government's hand in reconversion labor troubles. Reason: his own job of keep ing industrial pcaco was made casior by the assurance that WLB will contlnuo to function at least during the critical weeks immediately ahead. Revise Draft passed by the house, to encour ogo voluntary enlistments in tho armed forces through various In ducements. Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) prior to tho session had planned to ask that the present selective service be limited to men 21 to 20 years. "I gave up because I do not want to bo In a position of de laying tho army and navy plan to obtoln men by enlistment," the chairman said. Thomas explained that the re crultmont measure before the committee did not raise tho draft rovlsion issue. He said that H this now was attacked by tho sennte, dispute, debate and delay would result. Ho said ho would delay any attempt to revise existing draft laws. INDUSTRY-WIDE Hikes For Help Named To High Court 4 Senator Harold H. Burton (above), Ohio republican, was nominated to the supreme court by President Truman. This pic ture was made In Washington last June 22 as Sen. Burton ob served his 57th birthday anni versary. He is a reiident of Cleveland. (AP wlrephoto). GETS SENATE SLAP WASHINGTON. Sept. 21 (Pi Given the severest senate rebuff since he,, took-office,. President Truman may be In for even rougher treatment in the house on tho Issue of aid to the Jobless. Mr. Truman's proposal for broad expansion of unemploy ment compensation was tossed over to the house after the sen a to turned thumbs down on a largo part of the administration firogram. The chamber did, lowover, aRrcc lo extend unem ployment benefits to a maximum of 26 weeks at federal expense and to pay travel expenses for displaced war workers. The bill as passed by the sen ate provides for: 1. Payments to the jobless for 28 weeks, with the federal gov ernment taking over after the stato's duration of payments has expired. For instance, ii a state provided $20 d week for 20 weeks, tho federal government would pay $20 for six weeks more. Present state programs range from 14 to 26 weeks. 2. Unemployment compensa tion protection for. some 2.900, 000 federal civilian workers and 400,000 maritime workers. Pay ments lo these persons who lose their Jobs would be at levels of tho slate where tho employes worked. 3. Travel allowances to per mit former war workers to go (Continued on Page Two) Await End WMf i 1 "hi ii i i - The Rev. Charles Q. Long (right), retired missionary, and his son, Richard C. Long (left), are waiting for the world to come to en end "in a manner similar to the explosion of an atomic bomb," according to Long. He bases his prophecy on a vision teven years ago, and, admitting some possibility of error In his calculations, ays "the end could be any day from the 21st through the 30th of Soptembor," This picture was made In Pasadena, Calif, (AP wlrephoto). KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, 8EPTEMBER 21, 1945 PARTY TRAPPED N CRATER PARK Bf EARLY I Two Children And Auto Rescued By Rangers Winter's premature invasion of the mountains of Southern Oregon last night trapped a California car, occupied by a woman and her three children, on the north entrance road in Crater Lake national park. The woman, Mrs. Frances A. Hale of Alhambra, hiked with her 13-ycur-old son for 12 miles through the night to park head quarters for help. Rangers this morning rescued the car ond two daughters, 17 and 11, who had remained with the car. Mem- bers of tho party were cold and tired, but otherwise all right, rangers said. Caught By Snow The porty had driven into the pork In tho night from Eugene. Sudden snow and fog caught them, and the car became stalled in a snow drift. Mrs. Hale ex hausted the gas supply trying to get it out before undertaking the long walk for assistance. The snowstorm, coinciding with the autumnal equinox, by morning had closed both the cost and north entrance to the park, at loast temporarily, and had deposited a light blanket on the Klamath Falls Marine Bar racks, 800 feet abovo the ctty in nearby; mountains. The south and west entrances to Crater lake are open, as is the road to the rim. From four to six inches of snow fell at the rim. Travelers wore reminded they (Continued on Page Two) Quarterback Club Member si Let's Be There Monday No matter If the Pelicans win, lose, or draw against the Grant Generals tonight on Modoc field, tho Quarterback club of Klam ath Falls is behind them to a man and will demonstrate it's support at a meeting at the Willard hotel Monday at 12 noon. K. A. Moore, president of the organization, today strongly urged all members and pros pective members to be on hand for the get-together Monday. "Wc should let the boys know we are for them all the way." he said. "One fine way of doing this is to be at the meeting Mon day without fail." Of World Crippled by muscular dystrophy, the same disease which affects Utile Jerry Wrinn of Miami Beach. Fla., the three Pinion brothers mv for death in the small home of their widowed mother, Mrs. D. E. Pinion in Salisbury, N. C. All badly c ippled by the disease, the brothers have been ex amined by Duke university hospital doctors .jo said tbey could do nothing to save their lives. Left to right: Billy, 15; David, 19. on bed reading comic book, and Lloyd. 12. playing with hit cat, "Smoky." (AP wlrephoto). . . T LUCK OF 'REEFERS' TULELAKE Protests were filed today with the office of de fense . transportation as lack of refrigerator cars in this area threatened harvest-time ship ment of uotatoes and onions. Chester Main, president of the Tulelake. Growers association, said Friday that protests were on their way to ODT with no signs of relief in sight as "not one re frigerator car" was available on the Southern Pacific line. At Standstill Movement of potatoes and onions out of this area was brought to a standstill this week end and the same situation ex ists in the Merrill and Malin areas where the harvest is un derway. - Digging was held up in Tule lake fields and no onions were being pulled, pending orders re leasing cars. Main said today that he had been informed embargoes had been placed on other areas and a report from Gilroy, near Sa linas, Calif., advised that embar goes would be lifted next Tues day. It is understood that cars are being held in that section to move out the grape crop. . Need Reported Growers observed they could use 20 cars daily to handle the movement of the grain crop, 10 daily for onions, and 25 for po tatoes. . ; By the first of next week the (Continued on Page Two) No Time Limit Set For Closing Tulelake Center LOS. ANGELES, Sept. 21 (P) More than 28,000 Japanese American evacuees still re mained in the eight relocation centers September 8, Paul Rob ertson, war relocation authority area supervisor, said today, al though all the camps must close by December 15. Tho ; segregation center at Tulelake, Calif., still housed 17, 169 on that date, Robertson said, adding that no time limit on the operation of the Tulelake has been established. The population of the eight relocation centers has decreased 52.7 per cent since the first of the year, but only 7352 hod re turned to. California by the first of September, he said. Yankees Wreck Senators, 5-3 NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (&) The Washington Senators drop ped a gamo and a half behind tho Detroit Tigers in the Amer ican league pennant race today by losing a 5 to 3 decision to the Yankees. Tho Nats outhit the Yankees but Nick Etten knocked In four runs with a homer and a single and Stlrn wciss added another four-bagger. , - R, H. E. Washington 4 3 12 2 New York 5 8 0 Niggeling, Mastcrson (2), Ple rcttl (8) and Fcrrcll; Subar and Dreichor. They're Dying -And Know It Senator Tydings Flays CIO; Refuses To Be Intimidated WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (fP) Senator Tydings (D-Md.) walked out of a Maryland congressional delegation's conference with a CIO group today, angrily declar ing that he refused to be threat ened. - ' -" '-- . ". - - - Boos and hisses came from the group of approximately 300 Maryland CIO members who came to Washington to urge en- TOKYO, Sept. 21 (yP) Gener al MacArthur today ordered the "immediate arrest" of Lt. Gen. Kenji Doihara whose recent ap pointment to command Japan's first general army was given al lied acceptance and issued a 10-point code to guide operations of the censored Japanese press and radio. . Japan's cabinet met mean while for three hours to discuss problems which well-informed sources said included mounting food shortages and repatriation of Japanese civilians from Man churia and Korea. . , . , The newspaper- Asahi today added another dime-novel thrill er' to the tales of Japanese, surrender-crisis intrigue, reporting that former Premier Kantaro Suzuki barely escaped with his life from a band of armed Japa nese soldiers August 15. The band, evidently angered by sur render plans, machine-gunned in quick . succession two houses from which. Suzuki had Just de parted. , Advance Agent Doihara, once called Japan's "Lawrence of Manchuria," was his country's advance agent in its Asiatic conquest. . His appointment as command er of the first general army, suc ceeding Field Marshal Gen Sugi yama who committed suicide, was a surprise to many Japa nese, who said his past record (Continued on Page Two) KLAMATH Modoc Field, Friday. ting Lineup Grant Starting Lineup No. Wt. . Pos. Name No. Wts. ..28 161 LE Curtis 58 185 .12 170 LT Black .. 47 190 ..38 175 LG Ernstrom 42 160 ..37 170 C Sprinkling ....33 173 ..39 160 RG Withers .....44 180 ..42 . 172 RT Hickman 45 185 ..11 173 RE Stamm 52 .170 ..15 135 Q Shaw 41 ' 160 ..13 145 LH Wasch ..48 172 ..40 158 RH Smith, G 38 160 35 150 FB Gabriel 50 185 Name Vanderhoff Thompson Pelican substitutes with numbers: Weinberg 16, Foster 23, Reed 21, Van Meter 17, Hicks 27, Sari 41, Pone 36, Mocabeo 43, Craig 29, Rose 44, Eck 34, Gourley 3, Shirley 25, Glidden 26, Selby. 4, Holloway 24, DeVore 33, Molgard 8, Yarnell, 2, Gcrbino 22, Cessnun 10, Hanncn 20, Dodson 5. Grant substitutes with numbers: Smith, C, 46, Holcomb 49, Trombly 31, Couch 51, Erickson 43, Armstrong 29, Rintoul 30, Packard 17, Smith, M., 18, Walton, 32, Duff 37, Plerano 48, Laughton 36, Farella 40, Davis, D., 25, Leonard 35, Woolley 20, Smith, J., 28, Murphy, Davis E., Eaves, Hall. . .Officials: Hunt Clark,' Salem, referee; Harold Shldler, Klamath Falls, umpire; Jerry VanBusklrk, Tulelake, head linesman; Dr. George I. Wright, Klamath Falls, timekeeper. Coaches: KUHS Paul Angstead and Ed Ryan. Grant Jlrn "Mush" Torson. i : Average weight of line: Grant. 177; KUHS, 168. Average weight of backfleld; Grant, 100; KUHS, 147. Numbez 10624 actmcnt of President Truman's legislative program. Tydings, who was acting as conference chairman, stalked from the room after Robert Lamb, CIO national legislative representative, said - that any members of congress whsidon't get on the Bandwagon and vote for a 65-cent minimum wage are going to be sorry in 1946. Tydings broke in to say that he would not stay in the room "unless your implied threats are discarded. "I will be glad to listen. to arguments in favor of the legis lation you want, he said, "but I don't intend to sit here and be threatened by any damn person." Lamb protested that he had not threatened anyone. Tydings, however, asked Senator Rad cliffe (D-Md.) to assume chair manship of the meeting and start ed out. Blasts CIO Group "Your boos don't worry me a bit," he remarked to CIO group as he neared the door. Lamb repeated that he had made no threats, to which. Rep. Roe (D-Md.) replied: "You said what was going to happen to us in 1946 if we don't vote the way you want us to, and if that isn't a threat, I don't know what the hell is." Federal Government Steps In To Halt CIO Oil Strike . By The Associated Press Gasoline was back on. the scarcity list in some sections of the country today as a strike of CIO .oil workers, gained head way.' ' ' More than a dozen refineries and plants were closed, and oth ers were ready to shut down as workers took strike votes. Emer gency rationing of gasoline was ordered in Toledo, O. As the federal government stepped in to attempt to effect a settlement of the strike- started last Monday by the oil workers, the stoppages curtailed gasoline supplies in scores of cities and VS. GRANT September 21. 8 P. M. nmuiiuni uuiu Kept Information Out Of Presidential Campaign NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (P) Herbert Brownell, Jr., repub lican national chairman, and an other top advisor to Gov. Thoman E. Dewey in the 1944 presidential campaign said today the gover nor knew during the campaign that the United States had cracked Japan secret code, but that Dewey declined for patriotic reasons to use the information. Brownell and Elliot V. Bell, state banking commissioner. made the statement in comment ing on an article in the current issue of Life magazine which says that Gov. Dewey possessed knowledge, during the campaign, mat tne late president Koose velt had been forewarned of a Japanese attack. "Shocking Lack" "Our. information indicated. among other things," Brownell said in a statement, "shocking lack of coordination between the president, the state department and the armed forces leading up Dewey made his decision not to use the information, the na tional chairman said, after Gen. George - C. Marshall, chief of staff, had advised him to do so would tip off the Japs that their code had been broken, and might impede the war effort and imperil "untold American lives." "In the face of this," Brown ell continued, "Gov. Dewey de cided, and told me, that ha would not use the Pearl Harbor data because he believed in Gen. Marshall's integrity and (Continued on Page Two) SLATED FOR CARETAKER STATUS The Klamath naval air sta tion, commissioned February 12, 1944, at a cost of several million, dollars, will - go on caretaker status the latter part of October; it was learned .today from a re liable source. . Although assistant secretary of the navy for air, John L. Sul livan, announced Thursday the local station would be declared surplus, latest information here was that tne station would do carried on a caretaker basis for some time. under the caretaker set-up. approximately 100 civilians will be retained, along witn six en listed, men and probably three officers. The air station, when t . : 1 t 1 .1 ill iuu upeiauuii JU1VC, 1UU1UUCU. some 530 enlisted men for sta tion operation, 875 membe-s of CASU, 50 enlisted men for fleet operations, 300 officers and 84 Waves. Civilian personnel, no longer needed in maintenance of the station, will be given 30 days notice, efiective JNovemrjer 3. idled more than 20,000 work ers. Elsewhere across the na tion, labor disputes kept an ad ditional 200,000 men and wom en away from their jobs. Gulf Coast Hit The oil strike hit hardest In the Texas gulf coast region where 14,000 were idle in re fineries and affiliated industries. Another 5300 were ready to leave their jobs and thousands more were taking strike votes. The closing of the only re maining refinery in the Toledo area last night resulted In emer gency rationing of gasoline for the Ohio city. The Sun Oil com pany said it closed Its refinery after its workers, although inde pendent, refused to pass picket lines set up by the CIO oil workers. Refineries of the Stan dard Oil company, the Gulf Re fining company, ond Pure Oil company, earlier had shut down because of the strike, Toledo councilmen and oil company officials planned to keep open stations In various sections of the city to supply vital city and delivery services. Cities Feel Pinch Large cities feeling the pinch of gas and fuel shortages Includ ed Chicago, Detroit and Cleve land. Some 5000 oil workers in the Chicago-Indiana area were idle by the closing of four refineries and one terminal which resulted in the shutdown of several gas stations. CIO union leaders map ped final plans for the closing of the huge Standard Oil plant at Whiting, Ind., the only large refinery . in northern Indiana continuing in operation. Tho Whiting refinery produces half of the gas manufactured in the Chicago area and workers are affiliated with an Independent union, , 1 , ,
