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I (J lb PRICE FIVE CENTS In The By FRANK JENKINS WHILE the wur was on, Ger " ninny experienced tlio nor nuil hallucinations of war pros perity. Everyone win employed ul IiIkIi wiiki'B. Everything wus snliililu. Every available com miKllly wiih in keen demand. The wheels of Industry wero turning at IiIrIi velocity.' There wero kIwi'Ihkoh, of course as everywhere, oven In America hut beeausa tho German in dustrial system waa efficient It win uhlo to producu onough eon- sinner goods to keep tho stand ii rd of IIvIhk fairly high while at Ihn mimo tlmo producInK the iiitcvniiiiry amount of war goods. Besides, n coniilant stream of consumer goods poured back In to Germuny from tho conquered countries Tluia tha mirage of miiterlal prosperity win bus tulncd. MOW tho situation la chunked 1 ' staggeringly chungud. There la utmost no employment, Prac tically no consumer goods are ucuiH produced. iransporlatlon la ulmo.it non-cxlntcnt. Food la acutely scurco, and getting scar ccr. Every German la hungry and is reaaonubly certain ho la going to bo hungrier still before Ions. Every tlmo it nil in (which la about ovcry other day) people are cold and dump, with no fuel to build flics to dry them selves out, and they are flatly certain they are going to be much colder still when winter closes down. Evcryono is acutely miserable 'T'HE result Is this perfectly natural pvycholoiftcnl re action: "While the nazls were in power, we were well fed, well clothed and well housed. There wus plenty for evcryono to do Now the nazls aro out, and the Americans are in, and WHAT have wo?" Maybe they don't put it into words. But they feel It. Thl leeiinif, which is universal, make our Job much more all' flcult. . ... ""THE same thinking Is loose In France. In tho years when tho Ger mans were there, liberty wag GONE and the Frenchman values his liberty, perhaps more than anyone elso In Europe. But still there is tho Indisput able fnct Hint the years of Ger man occupation were BUSY years In France. The factories wero all hummlnR. Everyone was employed. Prices were high. Business was activo. Tho Germans paid good prices In PHONY francs, of course and tho mlrnno of material prosper ity was evorywhero visible Now tho Germans aro gone and the Americans aro present and Franco la prostrate eco nomically. Tho French are Hind we came and they don't want the Germans back. But still thcro In tho CONTRAST. There was activity when tho Germans wero there, and there is none now. They feci It In their bones, even if they don't put it into words. ALL this bothers us. It bothers us In Gcrmnny, whero our job Is to create a new order that will appeal to Germans as BET TER than the old militaristic order. It bolhors us In France, where wo hope to keep the friendship of tho roncn people. OTHER thun industrial plants and machinery and processes with a WAR POTENTIAL, wo nro taking nothing out of Ger many, It scorns highly probablo that before wo take anything at nil OUT In tho way of renara Hons we shall have had to put qulto a lot IN. The water tnblo In Germany Is so low ut tho present moment that It looks very mucn as If we shall havo to prime tho pump if wo nro to get any water out oi the well. MEANWHILE tho Russians aro pursuing an opposlto course. They nro taking everything out of Gcrmnny they enn lny their hands on, and so far as may be seen now they hnvo no thought of over putting anything back. Their nnpnrcnt simple purpose Is to TAKE BACK from Get many what Germany took from them. ; , , IF Russln Is doing any worry ing, it doesn't nppenr on tho surfnee. Sho gives no evidence of It. From the beginning, she (Continued on Pago Two) Arriving In United States By The Associated Prasa Ralph Foster, Pvt., Bcatly, Arrived on Vulcanla due at Now York October 4. iili 2 Biq Lumber Companies At Portland Down PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 8 (II Portland's two biggest lumber companion, both ClO-orgnnizcd, wero shut down today by AFL pickets determined to throlllo tha entire northwest lumber industry. About 2S0 CIO workers at Inmun Poulscn Lumber company and 17ft ut Eastern-Western Lumber company turned back when confronted by pickets, Tho 100 men employed by Coust Basket and Veneer company, also CIO, followed suit. Plckot attempts fulled at Multnomah Box and Lumber com pany and West Oregon Lumber company, Portland urea plants. CIO employes crashed through tho AFL lino and tore the banner off a picket at tho box factory. Through Th Lin At tho West Oregon plant, CIO workers who outnumbered the f tickets Jilno to ono went to their jobs despite tho picket lino and utor called out threats. The AFL men promptly withdrew, stat ing they had not como to create violence. John Chrlstcnson, president of the AFL Northwest Council, PIERRELAVAL . By MEL MOST . PARIS, Oct. 8 (P) Pierre La val was reported by court at tendants to be locked In a dun geon beneath the Palais de Jus tice today as the fourth dny of his treason trial started late without tho swarthy defendant on hand. The former premier's lawyers consulted Judgo Paul Mongl beaux and told him Laval re fused to "assocluto myself with Judicial rime." Thus, the for mer Vichy chlof of government was . maintaining a decision he reached Saturday not to attend the trial for his life. Part of the hour and 33 min utes delay was caused by the ab senco of one of tho resistance Jurors, Jean Germinal. Ho was replaced by ono of tho two rc m a I n I n g substitute Jurors. (Continued on Pago Two) IIV FALL FROM BUS CANBY, Calif. Ernest Enst of Canby was killed almost in stantly when he fell from the back door of a bus bringing fire fighters home from the Timber mountain fire Tuesday night. As the bus ncarcd Canby, East, who was the only one get ting off at that stop, walked toward the back of the bus ready to stop off. As the vehicle went ovor the logging tracks the door was evidently Jarred open and Enst fell onto tho pavement, crushing his skull, Ho lived only about ton minutes. He leaves his wlfo, Molllc, and daughter Lillian, who was employed at Alturns. Mr. and Mrs. Enst lived In Canby, although they had come from Muse, Okla. The body will probably bo sent there for bur Frank Ramsey received pain ful burns about the fnco and head while fire-flghtlng this (Continued on Pago Two) REPORTED DEEP DUNGEON Strange Dust-Colored Cloud Observed Hovering Over Waters of Crater Lake By E. P. LEAVITT Supt, Crater Lake National Park CRATER LAKE, Ore., Oct, 8 Will volcanic activity again re turn to Crator lake, after an ab sence of 5000 yenrs? This is the question to which tho staff of the park lias been giving seri ous thought within tho Inst few weeks, bocnuso of a strange and unusual gns or smoko cloud which hns been seen hovering over tho calm blue waters of the lake on three different occasions recently by at lenst three roll ablo observers. This smoke or gns cloud npponrs to hnvo risen from tho waters of tho lako In tho middle s ectlon at a point where tho Geological Survey mnp shows tho depth to be 1050 feet. Dust Colored Cloud This strango and peculiar dust colored cloud was first observed by Lindn Nowhnll, tiro lookout on Tho Watchmun on tho west side of the lake, on September 15. who reported it as n dust colored fog or smoke cloud form ing on or arising from tho waters of tho lake. At the time, the lnko was calm, the wenther clear and ueamuui, ana there was no sign Telephone nr'$ KLAMATH FALLi.& JGON, MONDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1945 lumber and sawmill workers, declared, "we ore showing op- orators we weren't fooling when we sold we were going to close the Industry down so long as they refuse to negotiate with us for a wage increase. Our battle Is not with rank and fila CIO members, but every plunt has to go down to make our strike cf lecllvc." Tho AFL announced four Portland AFL plants employing a total of about 400 workers wero down today for the first time. They are the big M & M Plywood corporation, National Wood Pipe and Tank Co., Amer ican Wood Products Co., and Pcin Box Co. Injunctions Bought Meanwhile, In several Wash ington cities CIO attorneys went to court asking permanent in junctions against AFL picketing which temporarily disrupted work at CIO plants last week. The first hearing was held this morning at Kelso, Wash., and a second involving Grays Harbor operations in the Aber deen area was sot for tomorrow, Meanwhile negotiations by the CIO International Wood' workers of America for a 29 cent hourly wngo Increase con tinues Thursdny when meetings with operators and tho U. S. Conciliation Service reconvene. At Eugene, Ore.-, the CIO Oregon Stnte Industrial union council held its convention yes terday and approved a resolu tion condemning AFL picketing of CIO lumber mills. By Th Associated Praia The government today re newed efforts to end the soil coal strike, biggest trouble spot in the national labor situation which elsewhere was brighter thnn it was last week. Thore were indications that tha strike lines, which hit record high of soma 950,000 last week, would drop to around 350,000 if back-to-work orders this week were obeyed. But violence broke out again In tho elght-month-old Holly (Continued on Page Two) Hess Nomination Held Over Again WASHINGTON. Oct. 8 UP) Chairman McCarran (D-Ncv.) said today tho senate Judiciary committee ngnln hod held over the nomination of Henry L. Hess oi urcgon to succeed uori u. Donaugh as United States attor ney. Objections to confirmntlon of Hess hnvo been received from a group of Oregon citizens. McCnr- ran said, refusing to identify the opposition Doay nirtiier. of a storm or fog condition. Ap parently it was not a dust cloud caused by a slide of rock and pumlco from tho crater walls, lor tho cloud was formed near the center of the lake, far from tile walls of the crater, It rose sharply, then mushroomed out, and finally spread and drifted away with tho wind currents. Tho second smoko or gas -cloud wns seen on September 17, from the summit of Garfield Penk, by Dale Vincent, photographer, nat uralist and writer living along tho Roguo river near Gold Hill, Ore., who wns In the park to take photographs of tho lake. On this occasion, the same dust colored cloud arose from the waters of the lnko in long rib-bon-liko formations. It too, oc curred on a clenr, cloudless dny. Seen Third Tim Tho third person to observe this strango phenomena wns Pnrk Rnnger Kenneth A. Hul hurt on September 30. Ho first observed It about 11:15 a. m from a lookout point on tho west sldo of tho lake, between Hlll mnn Peak and Lino Rock. The cloud was about 300 to 400 feet wide and extended upward to a distance of 400 to BOO feet. It Loyclies r " t : ' I l i "war" , I tVtV. ' I'm iw i 3 JoAnne Kandra Is Queen Of 7945 Potato Festival MERRILL JoAnne Kandra, 10-ycar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kandra of Merrill, Wns chosen queen of the 1945 potnto fcstlvnl at the Queen's ball given Saturday night in the community hall. Queen JoAnne's attendants will be the Princesses Shirley Main of Tulelnke, Jenn George of Henley, Billie Harris of Bo- Bonanza Youth Charged With Statutory Rape Stanley Newman, 19, Bonanza, charged with statutory rape in volving a 12-year-old Klamath Falls girl, appeared before Justice of the Peace J. A. Ma honey Mondny morning, was granted time to enter a plea and returned to the county Jail in lieu of $5000 bail set by the court. Newman was arrested nt Bo nanza by Chief of Police Cox of that town at the request of the sheriff's office. He was lodged in Jnil Sunday. The complaint wns filed in the district at torney's office by the fathej of the girl who is now in custody of county Juvenile authorities. was diamond shaped, narrow at the top and bottom and wider in the middle of the formation. He observed it from all the various lookout points along the rim, as far south as the Crater Lake lodge, and It finally drifted away much as smoko docs from a for est fire. Not Caused by Slide Hulbcrt Is sure it was not caused by a slide and there wns no wind or storm conditions to cause it, as the dny was bright and warm, with the surfnee of tho lake perfectly cnlm, reflect ing magnificently the colorful crater walls and forests which surround the hike. No explanation for tho strange and unusual smoke or gas cloud seems plausible, except that a blurb of smoko or gas was re leased from some of tho vents which undoubtedly exist on the floor of this old extinct or dor mnnt crater, and pnsscd through tho wntcr to escnpo to tho nir above. Tho stoff has been di rected to watch for recurrences of the smoke or gas formation, and efforts will bo made to ob tain a picture of It should the phenomena occur again. Plil'iii'llllttlllllll'l'l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'!!!!1!'!!'!'!!! 1 (October 8, 1945) Mix. (Oct. 7) Missing Mln 52 Precipitation lait 24 houri 00 Stream yaar to data 0.0 Normal 0.22 Last yaar 0.0 f oracaiti Tnunaarinowari Tuesday To Reign Over Potato , :!i ' v.i rZA Mary Jan HornbCBk of Malin. Shirley Main Runner-up Choice of the queen to rule over this year's harvest festival was on a ticket selling basis for the ball, Shirley Main was runner-up. The queen will be crowned at the banquet to be given Friday night in the grade school gym nasium, with Neil Morfitt of As toria, state commander of the American Legion, placing the crown on the pretty brown eyed girl's curls. Born in Merrill JoAnne was born in Merrill and has consistently taken part in community affairs. She took the 4-H beef club grand chany pionship honors in 1943, and isision that The Associated .tress an accomplished horsewoman. A junior at Merrill high, JoAnne Is vice president of her class and secretary of the student Doay. Saturday night's dance was one of the largest and most' suc cessful affairs ever held in this community. Several Small Fires Reported Several more small fires, said to have been started by hunters in the woods, were reported to forest offices over the weekend. A blaze near Tobln's cabin north of Bear flat was reported by the Indian service to KFPA Sunday afternoon. At that time it was thought to be about four acres in area. Crews had it under .control Monday, ' A small fire on the north end of Bryant mountain Mondny morning was reported by look outs. KFPA sent a crew to fight tho blaze. ' Several small fires have also been reported on the California side of the stnte line near Mac docl, none of them serious so far. Truman Plans Two-Day Rest TIPTONVILLE, TENN., Oct. 8 W) President Truman ar rived at Marsh lodge on the edge of Reclfoot lake here at 11:38 a. m. (Central Standard time) today to spend two days resting and fishlno before proceeding to Gil- bertsvillc, Ky., to dedicate the Kentucky dam Wednesday. Tho Dresident drove here from Caruthersville, Mo., 25 miles across the Mississippi river low' lands. He crossed the river on an eight-car ferry at Caruther. ville and stopped at both Ridgcly and Wynnborg, Tenn., to greet school children who had assem bled on the road side to wave at him. Number 10838 Festival V hi at" i; JoAnne K a n d t a, Merrill. (center above), was named queen of tha 1945 Potato festival at the Quean's ball Saturday night at Merrill. Queen JoAnne will be attended by four princesses. Above, left to right, Shirley Main, runner-upi Miss Kandra, Billie Harris. Below, Mary Jan Hornbeak and Jean Georga. Kennell-EUis BAD TOELZ, Germany, Oct. 8 (P) Gen. George S .Patton, Jr., who led the third army spearhead of the allied drive across France and Germany, to day was in command of a few troops doing research work the 15th army. ' The 59-year-old general swal lowed hard when the band struck up "Auld Lang Syne" yes terday as be handed over the third army flag a big, white letter ' A circled in red ana blue to his successor, Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. "Good Things End" "All good things must come i -n,, . 1 J Ann troops stendingd-faced before him in a dramatic ceremony forced indoors because of rain. "The best thing that has ever come to me is the honor and privilege of having commanded the third army. Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on your valor and devotion to duty, (Uontinuea on Jt-age iwo; Supreme Court Rules Against AP WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (JP) The supreme court refused today to erant a rehearing on its deci- must amend its by-laws affecting admission of members The high tribunal in a 5 to 3 decision last June affirmed ' a lower court finding that the by laws restrain trade and thus vio late the Sherman anti-trust act. It directed amendment of the by laws so as to prevent AP mem bers from considering competi tive aspects of an application for membership. The AP, in asking a rehearing, contended among other things that to require opening of . its membership was not an approp riate way to achieve objectives of the Sherman act. if 1 , y: 1 A7, SK)BM m 1 mm "Beast of Belsen" Swears Innocence of War Crimes LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 8 (IP) Josef Kramer swore on the Bible today that he was in nocent of war crimes and that atrocities committed at the Os wiecim and Belsen concentra tion camps he commanded were on orders from higher placed nazls. Kramer, described as the "Beast of Belsen," leaped from the prisoners' cage like a foot ball player from a bench and trotted before the court. He said he was a loyal nazi and a member of the SS and as such only carried out obedi ently the orders of tho Hitler hierarchy . While tho other 44 SS guards and camp attendants Jointly on trial with Kramer before a mil itary court, listened intently, he told of a riot in a concen tration camp Just a year and a day ago: Escape Attempted "There was a revolt. Persons tried to escape and there was firing near crematoriums one and three. I was in the garden of my homo but four kilometers away. My driver . came and asked it I knew crematorium Hack Breaks Up Ball Game In 12th Heat WRIGLEY FIELD, CHICAGO, Oct. 9 (IV) Stanley Hack plattarad hit Into left with two out and a man on second In the 12th inning today to drlva in a run and give the Chicago Cubs an 8 to 7 ylctory oyer the Detroit Tigars in th sixth gam of th world riei, and knot th tat-up at 3 victories each. Diy Trout Victim In a wild, wooly and weird ball gam that shattered racords for numbar of players usd and th tim It took to play. Hack cam through with his fourth hit of th day to break it up at th xpnt of Diny Trout, the strong-armed Tiger right-hander who had beaten th Cuba , last Thursday. Frank Secory had pinch hit a tingl while batting for Short stop Len Merullo after Catcher Dewey Williams had gon out, Schuster, running for Secory, scored on Hack's double. . Hack's hit drilled through short and on ino left field. Hank Greenberg, who had tied th score with hia second homer of th scries during a four-run Tiger rally in the eighth, miiplayed th ball and it rolled through him for an error, enabling th sturdy Schuiter, who was running for Secory to com all th way around, as th ball bounded to th left field wall. Silly Exhibition That was the end of as silly a I world series exhibition as prob ably ever has been played, not the least peculiar feature of which is that the total of 37 play ers used by both clubs and the total of 19 used by the Tigers both broke previous records for a fall classic. What's more, the three hours and 28 minutes it took to complete the goings on was far more than the previous "slow" of two hours and 54 min utes the Yanks and Brooklyn Dodgers needed for one of their 1941 tussles. Hank Borowy, clubbed out of the box in yesterday's fifth game after winning the opener, was the Cubs winning pitcher, send ing the series into its full run with Wednesday's seventh game deciding it. Hank came on in the ninth and lasted, although touch ed for four hits. He was the fourth Cub twirler of the day. Trucks Clubbed Out ' Virgil (Fire) Trucks, winner of the second game, started for the Bengals, but was clubbed - out during a lour-mn suo oarrage in the fifth, which wiped out an early lead the Tigers took on a run in the second oh a bit and three walks. Hack was the hero of this rally, too, his single knocked in two of the markers. A hit by Phil Cavaretta brought the other two home. . The Cubs added another in the sixth on consecutive doubles by Mickey Livingston and Roy Hughes off Tommy Bridges. Two more National league markers trotted home la the -seventh when Bridges' lost 'bis control, walked one tally in and sent an other across on , a ' single by Hughes. . TRIAL IN GERMAIUY LONDON, Oct. 8 (P) The British air ministry announced today that Rudolf Hess had left England in an RAF plane this morning for Frankfurt on the first leg of a Journey to Nuern berg, where he will stand trial as a nazi war criminal. The erstwhile number two nazi, who parachuted down on the Scottish moors in May, 1941, was driven from his place of de tention to the airfield in a Brit ish army car , with the blinds drawn. Unshaven and Impassiv Unshaven and impassive, Hess appeared much thinner than his most recent photographs. He was wearing a gray civilian suit and gray slouch hat. . Hess was accompanied by one army guard, a medical officer and attendant, and an official of the allied war crimes commis sion. Formalities at the airfield were auickly completed and only a few RAF personnel saw the plane leave at 8:50 a. m. Hess' whereabouts had been a closely guarded secret through out the war. During the past six (Continued on Page Two) three was In flames.' When I arrived, it was burned out al ready. All the prisoners who took part in the mutiny were shot when I got there." Eyes to the floor, Kramer Insisted he did not know who ordered the prisoners shot. He described the Polish camp at Oswiecim as "a camp which I did not wish to enter." His defense attorney, Major Thomas C. Winwood, asked him to explain why in his first state ment he said he knew nothing of gas chambers and in a sec ond statement said he knew the mass execution facilities ex isted. ' Bound On Oath "In the first statement, I was bound on oath to my superiors not to reveal . facts about the gas chamber and not even to admit their existence," Kramer testified. "The first statement I made in Belgium at a time I did not know the true state of the war. The second statement was made at a time I was no lonner honor bound not to re veal about the gas chamber be cause Hitler and ilimmicr were not alive." JAP PBEMIER PLANS FIRST CABINET MEET TOKYO, Oct. 8 (IP) Aging, dapper Premier Kijuro Shide hara completed his "safe and sane" government for a hungry, restless Japan today, and plan ned the first meeting of his 15 man cabinet immediately, even before reporting its roster to the emperor an unprecedented pro cedure. Domel news agency said he . would outline bluntly the head aches ahead for the new govern- ment, which most observers say cannot survive more than a few months. ; Coal Miners Sirik A brand new domestic trouble was added to Shidehara's bur dens strikes. More than 6000 Korean coal miners in the Yu bari mine near Sapporo, Hok kaido, have struck, Dome! news agency said, and the "unrest seems to be spreading" to an ad Joining mine. Cause of the strike was not announced. Acceptance, by Adm. Soyemu Toyoda of the navy portfolio completed the new cabinet all, said Secretary Daisaburo Tsu eita. likelv to meet with Gen eral MacArthur's approval. Tsu gita also predicted that "another new cabinet will be formed by political party men when a ma jority party comes out of the general elections", next January. Baron Shidehara drew heavily upon parliamentarians and un tried liberals to maKe up nil new government. Average age of the new ministers is 61. The roster (including five holdovers from the previous cabinet): Cabinet Named Premier Shidehara. 73, career diplomat tackling his first big domestic job. Foreign Minister smgeru xa- shida, 67, a hold-over who, like Shidehara, had opposed Nippon's militarist clique. , Home Minister zenjiro Hon (Continued on Page Two) 2-ITear Discharge Plan Advocated WASHINGTON. Oct. 8 (Pi- Effective next March, all army enlisted men with two years service will be eligible for dis charge, the house military com mittee heard today. By that time. Brig. Gen. Rob ert W. Berry testified, enough high-point men will have been released to allow discharges on length of service alone. General George C. Marshall told congress recently the two year discharge plan was contem plated, but did not set a date. Between now and March, Berry said, critical point scores for . discharge will be reduced pngressively. At present the figure is 70 points. In Novem ber lt should drop to ou points. Navy Moves To Halt Oil Strike SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 8 (P) The navy moved today to restore production at Union Oil com pany s striKe-Douna rciinery at Wilmington, Calif., only navy seized refinery on the west coast in which work was still stauea. Lt. Comdr. William H. Wen dell, navy . supervisor of seized plants on the coast, left by plane for Wilmington today to confer with union and company of ficials, the navy announced. Ho was accompanied by a staff of legal and labor relations experts. Calling the Shot WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (IP, Louis Benton Houff, 60, wait 3d in the chilling air for a but .ate last night. , As he dropped a token lntc the box, he remarked to the Jrlver: If you'd come a minuU later, I would have died." Then he fell dead of a heart attack. '
