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Newspaper Page Text(mfm M1 Ul Herald mfa PHICE FIVE CENTS In The By FRANK JENKINS nACK homo oguln. IJ After seeing most of Europe at a fateful moment In history, ono ruttirns with eortuln conclu sion unci conviction Hero uro Homo of thorn: TN blood, sweat and leurj, we huvo learned tho lesson that whim wur for keeps breaks out unywhura In tho motlurn world wo will bo drawn Into it. Tho prlco of modern wur 1 no stag geringly awful that in tho future we must do our full part In muk K It flu Infrequent as possible even at the cost of becoming u world power und Hiking our share of tho load of runnlnu tho world. Our pay for accepting the re sponsibility of doing our part in runnliiK tho world must come out of whatever success wo may liave In making wurs less fre quent. THE choice as to whether we are to become a world power Iwii't one thut remains YET to bo made. Wo ARE a world row. er now. Wo'ro governing third of conquered Germany and all of conquered Japan. Tho only choice is whether we ahall go through with the job or turn tail and run, leaving our part of it an uncompleted mcM. A tho Job gels longer and harder, tho temptation to run out on it will be greater. This writer's conviction la that having started it wo must stick it out. The coat of running out on it will bo greater than our children can afford to pay. , . - TWE'LL be In Europe for a long time. We've got a bcor by the tail there. We've got to hang on. If we lot this boar get loosu again, It may destroy us the next time it goes on tho prowl. Somehow we've got to lame the German beast. Left un tamed, It will menace the peace of tho world for another thous and yours. If fully tamed, it MIGHT be made useful. Wo'vo tackled the taming Job. We must go through with our share of It THERE Is much loose talk In Washington and . elsewhere of loaning, granting, GIVING money to the rest of the world, This writer hasn't much use for loans, grants, gifts what ever nnmo wo may apply to them whoso effect will be to lend or grant or glvo to tho rest of tho world the money with which to BUY OUR PRODUCTS In order to maintain a morkot and keep our prosperity going full speed. , We tried that after tho last wur, and It didn't work. It won't work any bettor this time. You can't got anywhere by GIVING somebody tho money with which to buy whnt you havo to sell. Tho only hope In that di rection lies in building him up so thut ho enn PRODUCE some thing to TRADE to you for what you produce. WfE Americana have never un w dcrstood world commerce. Wc'vo always been taught by our politicians to think of it as a one-way road as a market in which we enn ALWAYS SELL and NEVER BUY. Thnt ISN'T true. Wo might bs well begin now to learn tho simple, fundamental lesson that world commerce is world TRADE and that In tho long run we can sell only as much as wo can buy. - . rUH gifts should bo limited to food and there wo should bo generous. Continental Europe this win ' tor will fnco starvation on a stnggorlng scale. If wo In Amer ica, with our RELATIVELY great stocks of food and our demonstrated capacity to pro duce moro food next year on a huge scale, permit hundreds of thousands to atarvc and freeze In Europe this winter, history will hold us responsible for It and tho hatreds that will bo gener ated will last a long time. Giving money to other peoples with which to buy our products in order to keep our markets booming and our prices high will lead only to disaster, but giving food to people who will other wise starve will pay big divl (Continued on Pago Two) Day's lews DUCKS NOT HERE FOR OPENING PORTLAND, Oct. 12 (VP) The annual cluck shooting sea son opens in Oregon tomorrow, but tho ducks haven't arrived yet. With sunny weather still prev ; nlent i In Canadian brooding areas, ducks and geese uro not ; expected to mlghtee to Oregon marshos for a fow woelts yot. Tho outlook for China pheas ants also legally shoolnble to morrow isn't- much hotter. Anti-Strike Favored By Leaders As Walkouts Spread By The Associated Press Tho deadlocked soft coal strike cut deeper into steel produc tion today us congressional leaders went on rocord favoring new anti-strike legislation. Over tho nation tho number of persons away from work in labor disputes roso above 400,000. The mlno strlko expanded to .mhriicn nenrlv 200.000 workers. Steel shutdowns and un AFL shlpvurd hands' strike in Los Angeles contributed to the Increase. announced thut by next week its wmilrl rise to 100.000 tons a week out. It suld thut by midnight Monduy the number of Its workers furloughcd In western Pennsylvania wouia oouuio to iu.uuu. In Clevelund, Republic Steel corporation announced all seven of its northern coal mines and HEREFORD SALE DRAWS ENTRIES FROM 3 STATES The , Caloregon Hereford as sociation show and sale, slated for October 28 and 2D in Klam ath Falls, Is expected to attract 500 cattlcmon from Oregon, California and Washington as some of the finest Hereford flesh In tho world will be on parade at tho two-day meet. Breeders of registered Here ford cnttlo from tho three states will show 105 bulls and 50 fe males. The 1045 sale Is smaller than In past years, but empha sis lias been placed on quality. All animals to bo shown hove been sifted by qualified Judges and experts in the breeding and fitting of cattle. The sifting was done. largely by Bob Teale of Lewlston, Ida., bcof cattlo rep resentative of the Western Live stock Journal; SI Williams, herdsman for Flounco Rock ranch at Prospect, Ore., and Dale Carrithcrs, California, who has (Continued on Page Two) L Hillside hosDltal officials Frl 'day announced that the plant faced a sorious situation and un less adequate help was found to stnff the Institution, the hospital would bo forced to close Its doors or to limit service to emergency cases only. This decision was reached late Thursday afternoon at a hospital committee meeting of Klamath Falls doctors who arc stockhold ers of the Klamath Medical Ser vice which is tho corporation namo of Hillside hospital, A full staff of registered nurs es. at Hillside is 17. On Thursday there wero three regis tcrcd nurses on general duty, and three special nurses who had their (Continued on Pago Two) German General Sentenced To Death As War Criminal By Tha Associated Praas Death sentences wore imposed today (Friday) on a top-level German general and tho nazl party itself, as allied retribution for war crimes moved forward in western Europe. Gen. Anton Dostlor, first Ger man general tried ns a war crim inal in tho Mediterranean, wos ordered executed by a firing squad for shooting 15 captured Amorlcun soldiers at La Spczla, March 20, 1044. An American military tribu nal returned tho death scntance after a trial in which Dostlcr, then commander of tho 75th Gor man army group, based his de fense on a contention ho was under orders to put all com mandos to death. Edict Issued Meeting In Berlin, tho four power allied control council Is sued an edict pronouncing the State gnmo commission biolo gists estlmato that wet wcathor during the nesting season has cut the total to half of last year. Tho same drawback applies to Hungarian partridges and quail, Despite bleak prospects, more than n hundred thousond Oregon nlmrods. equipped for tho first time in throe yars with plenty of gasoline, are expected to turn out for the migratory waterfowl and upland game bird season, Telephone 9111 KLAMATH FALLS, OF 'A' A " Pi Actk Pittsburgh district steel loss because of tho soft coal wolk- seven of its 22 blast furnaces wero shut down and pig iron production had been cut by 25 per cent. More than 5,000 AFL ship rc Dair workers in 14 Los Angeles area shipyards struck in de mand for an ll.o per cent pay differential over workers on now ship construction. This dif ferential Is paid in the San Francisco and Pugct sound areas. Demands Rajtctad ; The national labor relations board has rejected demands for an increase from $1.20 to $1.34 on hour in ship repair wages. The lower rate is paid In Los Angeles and San Dlcgo yards. New ship construction and re pair work in five CIO-manncd yards was not affected by the AFL walkout. As strikes and stoppages con tinued to plague industrial re conversion to peacetime opera tions, prominent legislators said they favored repeal of tho Smith-Connally war labor dis putes act which permits strikes if unions vote In favor of them. The legislators said they wanted new legislation which would make labor unions and employers "mutually -responsi ble for observance of contracts. Their expressions of sent! mcnt on the strike along the la' bor front were outlined to a re porter after Rep. Robertson (D-Va.) in a house speech yes terday asserted that "in the face of our desire to help labor, labor is going on strike." Ho declared that "If we are to avoid labor friction that may hinder and possibly defeat suc cessful reconversion, the Wag ner labor relations act should (Continued on Page Two) Negro Taken Out Of Jail And Shot MADISON. Fla.. Oct. 12 UP) A young negro under indictment for assault with intent to rape a five-year-old white eirl. was tak en from tho county Jail either lato Wednesday night or early Thursday morning and shot to death, Sheriff Lonnle Davis re norted. Sheriff Davis said yesterday that tho negro, Jesse James Payne, was returned to the Jail here from the state prison Tues day for arraignment. He had pleaded Innocent to the charges, His case hud been scheduled for trial Tuesday, death sentence on the nazl party, its Bureaus and us affiliated or ganlzatlons and making their re. vlval in any form a criminal of fense. Tho decree put into formal documents what already has been executed for the most part Dy tne occupying forces. . At Wiesbaden, where seven former attaches of the Hadamar insane asylum are on trial for siaymg somo 4U0 itusslnn and Polish workers in a nazl murder factory, Mortuary Custodian Plllllp Blum testified ho buried asVlanv as 30 bodies in a slncle gra9 when alien workers were executed by poisonous injection two hours after they arrived at tno asylum, ostensibly for treat ment. V Mais Murders . Defense counsel for the six men and a woman accused of the muss murders at Hadamar expected to complete its enso late todav or tomorrow. The trial at Lueneberg of 45 former ss guards at the oswlC' elm and Belsen concentration camps, was highlighted by testi mony of one of tho women de fendants that a dog she is ac cused of having trained to attack prisoners was, , in fact, only a piayiui nttio pot U)UI oiien amused the prisoners. Tho defendant was' Juana Bor man, 52-year-old former SS guard, who is being tried with "Beast of Belson" Josef Kramer and others for atrocities at tho two camps. flIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1945 Patton Leaves 3rd Army iWHf.Uil.W".i'rHl"l'H (WW 'i i i TiTf mm r-mm-VTrwmmwmmrm -.:lJI.L& l.sal Can. Gaorga S. Patton (laft) hands tha third army banner to Lt, Gan. Lucian Truicott as ha relinquishes command of tha army to Truicott. The ceremony was at Bad Toelz, Garmany. Photo by William C. Allan, Associated Press photographer. (AP wlrephoto via radio, Paris). Son-i n-Law Of Klamath MD Direcis Invention of Fuse With the cloak of secrecy lift ed on numerous war inventions, the war department has made known details of the army's new T shell fuse. This fuse was in vented at John Hopkins: univer sity, 'Washington,- Ds-U;;- nead- Quarters for war inventions, un or. the direction of Robert H. Thayer, chief engineer of JHU and son-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. George I. Wright of this city. Distinguishing feature of the TO FOLLOW ORDERS TOKYO, Oct. 12 (P) Japan today placed one of the lead ing authorities on her tyranni cal constitution within the em peror's circle of advisors as she took her first, faltering steps to carry out General MacArthur's orders to afford her people the full breath of freedom. The government also sought to import rice to alleviate a food crisis made even more critical by this week's .typhoon which swept over central , and southern Honshu. Simultaneously, fresh dis closures of American investiga tors made it clear that, how ever trying the situation under an occupation, it would have been worse had Japan continued the war. Fifth army air. force experts established another tragic fact kept from the'people that Japan's radar defense was so-ineffective it could not bo determined whether planes approaching the homeland were friend or foe, how many , there were or how high. Dr. Soichi Sasaki, honorary professor of Kyoto Imperial uni versity and leading authority on Japan's constitution, has been appointed advisor to Marquis (Continued on Pago Two) Arriving In United States By Tha Associated Press Thurman Clarlge. TS. Klamath Falls. Arrives on Marine Angel due at New York October 12. Alonso Palmer, SSgt., Klamath Falls. Arrived on Yarmouth due at San Francis co October 8. Donald N. Mesmer,' Cpl Ft. Jones, Calif. Arrived on Queen Elizabeth duo at New York October 9. Bert A, Selberg, Cpl., Mc Cloud, Calif. Arrived on Queen Elizabeth due at New York October 9. Axel O. Fiitrios, T4, Dunsmulr, Calif, Arrived on Queen Elizabeth due at New York October 9. Glenn H. ' Johnson, T4, Yreka, Calif.' Arrived on Queen Elizabeth duo at New York October 9. ' Harold C. Snapp, Sgt box 097, Morrill. Arrived on John Erickson duo at New York October 0. WEATHER NEWS Octobtr 12, 1945 Max. (Oct. 11) 64 Mln. 40 Precipitation last 24 hours... 00 Strtam to data 04 Normal 35 Last year 13 Forecasts Clear and warmer. Saturday shooting hours, Klamath-Tula-lakat Open 5i40 a. m. Closa 5:38 p. m. fuse is its small size, made possi ble because it carries its own wind-generating plant instead of a battery as ' previously , used. Wind is forced in a hole in front 'as the shell speeds through the air, driving a turbine -within the fuse. Exhaust comes out airports which are shown in a picture, which appeared in the Oregon Ian October 11 as small holes The handlelike ring on the fuse in front is antenna for the com plete radio sending and receiv ing set which explodes the shell at a given number of feet before reaching the target. The fuse can easily be held in the hand. Here 3 Years Ago Young Thayer, 34, is the hus band of the former Henrietta Wright of this city. Other of his inventions are now in use by the navy. Mr. and Mrs. Thayer were here three years ago, and two years ago Dr. and Mrs. Wright visited with them in Washington. During the war, Henrietta was chairman of the district for all volunteer war efforts in Wash ington, D. C, and one week was cited over the radio as the local heroine of the week and present ed with an orchid. She also was nurses' aide at Walter Reed hos pital and later became instruc tress for new Nurses' Aide classes. 338 Former Jap Prisoners Home SEATTLE, Oct. 12 (fP) Grin ning and cheering, 338 former prisoners of the Japanese, set foot on American soil for the first time in four years, when the transport Gosper berthed here today. Then 23 of them rubbed their eyes in disbelief as their mothers and sweethearts suddenly climbed out of an army bus and appeared on the pier, "I just couldn't believe it but there she was!" said Staff Sgt. Edward C. De Gottaide of Salinas, Calif., after he had greeted his mother. "It was a complete surprise. I was afraid I was dreaming. .. ." - ARGENTINE CABINET RESIGNS By LAURANCE F. STUNTZ BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 12 (ff) The cabinet of Argentine Presi dent Gen. Edelmiro Farrell re signed today, under pressure of both military and civilian groups. Official announcement of the mass resignation came as some 120 army and navy officers met in the Otf leers club, and a grow ing crowd gathered in the streets outside. Farengo Lima announced that former Vice President and War Minister Juan Peron had been arrested. A few minutes earlier, Peron's successor, Gen: Eduardo Avalos, had introduced Lima to newsmen as "the new navy minister." A member of his household earlier reported the former strong man of tho government had gone to the countryside "for a rest," but there was a Number 10642 GEORGE WANTS CHANGE IDE IN TAX BILL Senator Would Reduce Income Taxes For 12 Million By FRANCIS J. KELLY WASHINGTON. Oct. 12 UP Chairman George of the senate finance committee called today for reducing rather than wiping out income taxes for 12,000,000 low-income Americans. He thus wants a change made in th $5,350',000,000 tax cutting bill which rolled through the house yesterday bv a vote of 343 to 10. The Georgia democrat said his committee will ODen three davs of hearings Monday on the mea sure wnicn as it passed the house would: 1. Grant a reduction of 10 Der cent or better to every individ ual taxpayer next year, besides knocking 12,000,000 off the rolls entirely, for an aggregate cut of $2,527,000,000. 2. Cut 1948 comoration taxes $1,888,000,000 by lowering busi ness surtax rate and reducing though not eliminating until 1847 the excess profits tax. 3. Prune back next July 1 the excise levies on luxury and semi luxury items to pre-war levels for a savings to consumers of $535,000,000 in the last half of l4B. 4. Hepeal the $5 "windshield tax" on automobiles, and 5. Freeze the social security tax at its present one per cent rate each on employers and em ployes Otherwise the tax would have climbed to two and one-half per cent each January 1. Commenting on the house ac tion in forcing 12,000,000 indiv iduals from tax liability George told a reporter: Narrow Base "I think it very unwise to nar row the base, because we may face the necessity of meeting troublesome budgetary prob lems down the road. We might find it necessary to increase rev enues rapioiy, and once on tne roles, it would be hard to put the 12,000,000 on again. "I think the taxes in the low brackets ought to be reduced to the point where they would not be burdensome, but they should not be taken off entirely at this time. The slide rule experts who (Continued on Page Two) OPA CHIEF CLERK Fern Shoop, for the past one and one-half years chief clerk of the Klamath county rationing board, completed her services for that office JTriday afternoon. Mrs. Shoop's plans for the fu ture are indefinite. Mrs. Shoop said Friday that her office terminated with the reduction of the rationing pro gram and that various boards are dispensing with the office of chief clerk. The force has now been cut from 11 to five em ployes. Howard Strode, board super visor, will be in charge of the OPA office here with Mrs Shoop's departure, Capt. Ted Shoop, well known Klamath Falls business man, is stationed at Wilmington, Calif., port of embarkation and plans to resume his interests here when he re ceives his discharge from serv ice. f steady stream of official visitors at his residence during the morning. Flainclothesmen guard ed the home. Argentina's tumultuous politi cal events started rising to a climax late yesterday, when Farrell announced presidential elections would be held next April 7. " Leaders of various democratic organizations harangued the growing throng in the streets, repeating their three-point de mand that tho government be turned over to the supreme court, that elections be held without political party activity, and that a state of siege reim- Eosed a month ago by Farrell e lifted. Avalos called on Farrell this morning, along with Lima, The army and navy group went into session early today and it was reported that Its pur 100 Soldiers Hurt; 3 Navy Men Dead By The Aiioclatsd Press Okinawa today was a shambles reminiscent of its recent battle-ravaged litter reduced by a 132-mile typhoon that killed three American navy personnel, left 10 sailors missing and mora than 100 Yank soldiers injured, and sank, damaged or beached 127 naval vessels. Five big four-engine navy Skymaster transports from Guam slipped in and out during lulls and evacuated 157 wounded even before the storm had ceaied, naval air transport service head quarters at Oakland. Calif., reported today. The typhoon, which struck Okinawa Tuesday after having twisted 150 miles to ths southwest for 24 hours, swept northward to kill at least 89 Japanese, flood 8000 houses, wash away 81 bridges and leave many thousands homeless in central and southern Honshu. Fifty Superfortresses from the Marianas delivered 284 tons of food to tha 150.000 troops on Okinawa today. Approximately twice that amount will be transported to them during the next three days by bombers from Guam. Next week deliveries will be made from Saipan. In addition to food, the troops need shelter facilities to replace tents, quonsett huts and other A installations that were demol ished or heavily damaged. Parked airplanes were rolled about by the typhoon, the is land's food stocks were nearly all destroyed, and hospital pa tients had a nightmarish time throughout the hours of dark ness. ' ' ' Heavy Toll Official reports conceded to be fragmentary because of lim ited communications from army headquarters in Manila and fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor, listed these casualties and damage on Okina-sFa: : Three navy men killed and 10 missing. . One hundred soldiers injured. Four Japanese prisoners , of war killed. Five small naval vessels sunk. Fifty-two ships (presumably small) and 70 other naval auxil iaries of all types beached on Okinawa's reefs. Shore installations, including dock facilities, extensively dam aged. First incomplete reports from Tokyo listed this havoc on Hon shu: - Sixty-nine killed. Eight thousand homes flood ed, 81 bridges washed out, many thousands homeless. More than 1000 acres of land washed out and many thousands flooded by heavy rains which accompanied the typhoon, in creasing the nation's already critical food nroblem. - Damage- was estimated hp to" 20 per cent in the rice crop of one large Honshu island pre fecture. Rice paddies were dam aged on Hokkaido. The nation's rice harvest this year had been estimated before the storm at approximately 238,000,000 bush els, the lowest figure since early in the century. Communications Down Heavily damaged communica tions on both Okinawa and Hon shu hampered attempts to get complete reports on casualties and damage, un UKinawa. dam age was so great that the east coast was out of touch with the western side of the narrow, 10-mile-wide island. There were fears that the navy casualties on Okinawa might be increased by later re ports. In Washington yesterday, the navy reported that a far less severe typhoon on Septem ber 16-18 sank four motor mine sweepers with casualties of 89 officers and men dead or miss ing. A submarine chaser also (Continued on Page Two) The Real Thing! HAGERSTO WN, Md., Oct. 12 (P) A Bridgeport, O., girl wrote the editor of the Hagerstown Herald today ask ing him to help find the sailor who kissed her while riding on a bus. Apparently she wants to further the romance and not bawl him out, the editor ex plained. "I don't go around kissing people just for a habit," wrote the young woman, "but this looks like the real thing." She said the sailor kissed her and soon thereafter left tha bus at Hagerstown while she continued to Wheeling, W. Va., from Washington, D. C. "Please, Mr. Editor, won't you put something in the pa per that will help me find him?" she asked. pose was to debate whether Far rell's election decree was suffi cient to meet their demands. Representatives of the group appeared on a balcony at inter vals, urging the crowd to be pa tient, and promising "we're go ing to get this thing fixed up." Each appearance was greeted with wild ovations. A youth who bicycled past the crowd and shouted "Vive Peron!" was set upon and beat en severely. A group of women rescued him, treated his wounds and then turned him over to a group of mounted policemen. : Farrell remains in office as president, at least temporarily. Shortly after the resignations were announced by the war ministry, an army officer reap peared on the Officers' club balcony and told the crowd; "The Camp de Mayo garrison LAVA SECOND TRIAL BY DE GAULLE By ROBERT WILSON PARIS. Oct. 12 m Gen. De Gaulle today apparently ruled out a new trial for Pierre Laval, sentenced to death Tuesday for treason. , Asked at a news conference whether he would order a new trial for the former Vichy lead er, convicted at a stormy, much criticized trial, for wartime col laboration with the Germans, De Gaulle replied: "Certainly not." , The Paris newspaper Libera- : tion said it had information that present plans were to execute Laval Wednesday. - Earlier, Laval s attorneys said they had important new evi dence which would explode the case against him, and De Gaulle was asked if he would receive the attorneys to hear it. "You will learn that in the newspapers,", he replied. ,- ... new. evidence - v... The" defense counsellors said their new evidence would prove that Laval was arrested by the Germans while plotting to turn France over to De Gaulle. The attorneys said documents smuggled out of France and hid den in Switzerland had been found and returned today. These, they said, showed Laval came to Paris at the beginning of (Continued on Page Two) BOLSTER PICKET SEATTLE, Oct. 12 (Strik ing American Federation of La bor lumber and sawmill work ers today strengthened their picketline to approximately 200 and discouraged a few CIO -workers from entering the big U. S. Plywood Corp., Seattle plant, where the picketline was broken without violence yester day. The plant had been closed since October 8. The manage ment announced production was nearly normal today. ' -Seek Wage Boosts i Both unions are seeking wage boosts, but only the AFL work ers have struck in the Pacific northwest. AFL leaders . here said the action of two Montana mills yesterday in granting wage boosts, was the beginning of fur ther piecemeal settlements In the industry. John Christenson, chairman of the strike policy committee, pre dicted that other Montana plants . would soon grant increases sim ilar to those approved by the Western Tie and Lumber com pany at Hot Springs, Mont., and the Margart and Minnet Lumber Co., Kalispel, Mont. In the Pacific northwest strlk ing AFL lumber workers con (Continued on Page Two) does not want the government delivered to the supreme court. The navy wants lt so delivered and the people want it so deliv ered. In the face of the situa tion, it was proposed to appoint a cabinet of civilians, and con sultations were held here with some eminent men. . . "But none of them want to serve under Farrell. That is all for the moment. We will have a further announcement later." The deposed interior minis ter, Hortenslo Quijano, tried to broadcast a proclamation on a nationwide network; but army officers intervened to cut him off tho air except through the state-owned station "Del Esta do." His broadcast was a proc lamation urging citizens to ex ercise their franchise In the elections next April.