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fo) r r n C3 l '0' 1 1 V- fo) Pf5(glT WW aw 4 Kerala anfr.li$to$ Telephone Hill j j :e five cents klamath falls, .o Saturday, October 13. ims PRICE FIVE CENTS Political Tension Rises In Argentina; I Dead; 35 Wounded By LAWRENCE F. 8TUNTZ 11UKNOS AIRES, Oct. 13 (!) Argontlnu will virtually with out ii uovornmeiit today In n nollticul crll which had exploded 'into ojcii civil itrlfo In downtown Uuonon Alrc.i lust night. Gun fighting Involving police, nationalists and International lulu, killed one mint and led 35 wounded, Including six police men. After the entire cabinet with the exception of the army and navy nilnllra resigned yesterday, the army announced It hod the resignation of President Edclmlro Furrell "for use at any moment." Today the only authority remaining win that of the army, JAP CABINET By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Oct. 13 !') Premier Shlduhuru'ii "crisis" cabinet took Its first step loduy toward moot ing Ccnorul MacArthur'i dlctnta Unit the Jupuneso government be made tlio servant rather than the master of the people In the fucu of rank sKcpllclim of Nipponese llberuls, the cab inet lit Its second extraordinary session in two days, approved for submission to tiio diet meas ures granting votes to women and loworlng tho voting age from 25 to 20 years. Abolish Law In a move to comply with the allied ,' communder's order for freedom of speech and thought, the cabinet dismissed 41100 poli tical (thought control) police and abolished, effective today, the 13-year-old law under which they had urrcstcd some 60,000 political offenders, mostly left wing liberals. Goneral MucArthur gave his directive for sweeping social and political reforms changes necessitating revision of Japan's constitution for tho first time in moro tliuii half a century to Shldchtira only yesterday, but already one draft of revisions was reported to have been fin ished. The newspuper Asahl said Prince Fumimuro Konoye, royal career statesman and a recent addition to Km per or Hlrohlto's innermost circles of advisers, had presented a draft of pro posed revisions to the emporor. Sources close to Konoyo sold his efforts would strengthen tho power of the diet without mark (Continued on Pago Two) 7 Dead, 5 Hurt In Auto Crash ALBANY. Oct. 13 Ml A head-on collision near Tangent last night killed a Portland man and sent fivo other persons to hospitals. 'I'hnmm P. F.iiuIIhIi. 23. wn killed almost Instantly, said Dop uty Coroner John Summers. Riding with him were an uniden tified sailor who wan taken to Camp Adair naval hospital and a man believed to bo from Port land, Identified as Cluronce Nlglwwongar. Three persons bolloved to be from Salem wore In tho second car, Including a Mr. and Mrs. Toylor, now in a Salem hospital. MOVES TO MEET ICS DICTATE Race Discrimination Row Puts BessTrumanOn Spot By EDITH K. CAYLORD WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (P) Mrs. Harry S. Truman found herself in tho mlcldlo of a hot controversy over racial discrimi nation today despite her wish, plain ever since her husband be came president, for a back ground role In public affairs. In tho caso of Nogro Pianist Hazel Scott, denied use of Con stitution Hall because of her color, Mrs. Truman took this stand: (1) "I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself bo causa of prejudice against race or origin." Sho said this in a telegram mado public by tho Whlto House, (2) But she noes no reason why sho should boycott tho Daugh ters of tho American Revolution, who own Constitution Hall, Sho was honor guest at a'. DAR tea yesterday, When a reporter iiskod whether sho will 'accept similar future Invitations she re plied "Why not?" Negro Bop, Ada.n C. . Powell navy and tno two noiaovers irom the fallen government, Minister of War Gen. F.duardo J. Avolos and Minister of the Marine Rear Admiral Hector Vcrnengo Lima Newspapers Restricted The police, apparently acting autonomously lor tne ume oe lug, fwbade newspapers to pub' lish news of the street fighting However, they were permitted to montlon the 12-hour wait of thousands of persons in front of the Army club yesterday while fioncrols, admirals and civic oadcrs inside debuted the future of tho country. It was after this debate broke up without results that the fir Imr bouan. Who bcitun it was nn certain but at Its height polico fired on the crowd, Individuals in the crowd returned their fire, and a group of unidentified civil Inns Dcrhuns nationalists aid ed police by shooting into tho massea tnousonus. Flohtina Spreads Tho fighting spread to other parts of tno city. Horses wun empty saddles galloped through Die streets and dead horses lay among the wounded on tho plaza before the Army club. In the city of Santa Fe there was an openly nationalist out break when nationalists and la bor ministry, employees sur rounded the newspaper editorial and snouted .viva poron." uoi. Juan Poron, vice president and strong man In tho Farrell gov ernment, was overthrown by tho military In an act whicn precipe iluted the Dresont crisis. ' Police finally dislodged the demonstrators and permitted dis trlbutton of the newspaper. Pcron himself was reliably re ported at midnight to be aboard a navy ship in the harbor. II ; 11? A CUfMf!TftM rn 11 .T This question confronted the na tion today: is congress going too slow or too fost on atomic en energy? President Truman has been re ported anxious over a delay in tho senate on a bill to create a nlno-man commission to boss atomic development. Others nro anxious because they think tho house is dealing too fast with the same bill. Atomic bomb scientists have asked to be heard. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas (LMJalli.) said in a statement tliat tho h o u s o military committee was "legislating in a spasm of nysteria ' because H lioia only one public hearing on the mea sure. The senate, after a slow start on tho atomic energy bill, may got going on that measure next week. Here's the situation: No senate committee has be (Contlnucd on Page Two) (D-N. Y.), Miss Scott's husband, promptly declared: "From now on 'Mrs. Truman Is tho first lady." Mrs. Truman is an honorary DAR member In her homo town, Independence, Mo, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of tho Into president, resigned from the DAR In 1030 to protest exclusion of Nogro Soprano Mar Ian Anderson from Constitution Hall. FATHER SLAYS LIVINGSTON, Mont, Oct, 13 (P) Coroner Robert Franzen planned to hold an inquest today Into tho tragedy which resulted in tho slaying of two Livingston youngsters and tho subsequent suicide of their father here yes terday. William R. Roes, 30-yoar-old war workor, who had returned homo only tho 'previous night irom Oakland, Calif,, shot his two children Johnny, eight, and Janle, who would havo been four Sunday while they were, play f W,M; I JKt L v . , rJ: - y rrf 'ii ,r' 3'.1 1 t -: . - : -: i . W W.ti.i-ifcawttfcii I in tin "nVf in a mtmm J The Merrill community was host-to hundreds at annual fes tivities today honoring the potato king king of crops in the fertile Klamath basin. A feature Saturday was a parade, in which many organisations participated,' including the Klamath high school band, seen coming up the street in the background of the large picture above. The picture shows the queen's float, with Queen JoAnne Kandra sitting high on her throne surrounded by members of her court. Below, a shot of a typical portion of the big crowd lining Merrill's main street ior the annual parade. Court Refuses Quisling Appeal LONDON, Oct. 13 (P The Norwegian supreme court .tpday refused Vldkun Quisling's ap pcol from the deoth sentence Im posed for treason, the Norwegian Information office announced here. "Quisling's appeal was unsuc cessful on all points," tho infor mation agency said. "Tho deci sion of the supreme court was unanimous." The former Norwegian puppet leader whose name became sy nonymous with "traitor," had been sentenced by tho lower court September 10, Under Nor wegian low, he was permitted to appeal only from the 'sentence, not from the court's verdict of guilty. . , Arriving In United States By The Associated Press Thomas V. LeMoureauoc. PFC, 721 Mt. Whitney, Klam ath Falls. Arrived on Torrcns duo at Newport News, Va., October 12. Minor I. Haggard, T3, Yroko, Calif, Arrived on E. B, Alexander due at New York October 10. Frederick A. Smith, PFC, 1112 Delta, Klamath Falls. Arrived on E. B. Alexander duo nt New York October 10. TWO CHILDREN ing in bed awaiting their grand mother's call to breakfast yes terday morning, tho coroner as serted. Recs then shot himself in the head, Franzen declared. Ho died two hours later, Notes, saying Roes grieved ovor being partial ly paralyzed in' ono log and "domestic difficulties," were found under tho children's pil lows, Coroner Franzen added. Tho children's mother, Mrs. Lucille Roes, had left for work shortly beforo the tragedy. Merrill Honors The Potato, FOOTBALL SCORES Army 28, Michigan 7. Ohio State 12, Wisconsin 0. Michigan State 12, Pitt 7. Notre Dame 34, Dartmouth 0. Colgate 47, Lafayette 0. Penn 49, North Carolina 0. Clemson 7. Pensacola 6. Columbia 27, Yale 13. Ford To Resume Full Production DETROIT, Oct. 13 (P) Full production at tne Ford Motor company was in prospect today, A total of 35,000 Detroit area Ford employes were told to re port back to work Monday. They Include 27,000 at tho Rouge plant and 8000 at other plants who were laid off a month ago when strikes among supplier plants forced shutdown of Ford's automobile and tractor assembly lines. Henry Ford II, president, said the company plans to produce 125,000 passenger cars v and trucks by Christmas. Nipponese Troops Feasted On Flesh Of Allied Dead By DUANE HENNESSY TOKYO, Oct. 13 (A1) Japa nese army orders approved can nibalism among Nipponese troops, if they ate the flesh ot allied dead but they were put to death if they feasted on their fallen comrades. This was announced, with doc umentary evidence, today by the same hitherto secret allied head quarters section which yester day disclosed the story of an American flier's beheading by a Japanese naval interpreter and announced the Identity of the Jnunne.se soldier who chopped off the head of a shackled Aus tralian aviator, . i i 1 Captured papers of the Japa WEATHER NEWS Octobtr 13. 194S Max. (Oct. 12) 74 Mln. 42 Precipitation last 24 hour 00 Stream year to date 04 Normal 35 Last year 13 Forecasts Sunday clear. Sunday Shooting Houri, Klamath-Tulelake, Open 5:41 a. m. Close 6:35 p. m. King Of Klamath Crops St ate 'Leg i on Head Urges Strong America In Speech At Merrill Spud Festival By RUTH KING f - Months' combat service ' In the Astoria, state commander of the American Legion, speaking at the 9th annual potato festival banquet Friday night, urged for the luture a strong military de fense of America, that the right ful heritage of all her people may be protected from future wars. t - . "We have the greatest power on earth collectively," he stated. He was introduced by David J. Ferguson, pastor of the Merrill Presbyterian church. : . Preceding his address1, - Com mander Morfitt crowned the queen, JoAnne Kandra, ruler of the two-day fete and introduced her court of princesses, who were Mary Jane Hornbeak, Ma lin; Jean George, Henley; Shir ley Main, Tulelake and Billie Harris, Bonanza. A Crown Relinquished Crown Bearer Bob Willis and two small train bearers, Sara West and Sally DeLap, all of Merrill,- were introduced. Geor gia Liskey, queen of the 8th an nual potato festival, relinquished the crown. Father James O'Connor of St. Augustine church, Merrill, gave the invocation. John Houston of Klamath Falls as toastmaster, introduced the Kiwanis club bar ber shop chorus, and Wlnnifred K. Gillen, accompanied by Mary O'Connor of Klamath Falls, San?. Dinner was served in the grade school gymnasium by women of the Morrill Presby terian church. Places were marked for 250 guests. - A cooked turkey was auc tion off by the guest speaker, and went to K. C. Burkes of Merrill for $50. Malln Wins Cup K. R. Jackman, division of plant industry, Oregon State col- nese army showed some of its troops were convicted of eating their own dead and were exe cuted. The papers called this "the worst possible crime against humanity." This was the first official con firmation of the general sanc tion of cannibalism among Japa nese troops, which had been re ported sketchtly from several, fronts during the war. The evidence was found among thousands of documents about Japanese military opera tions, personnel and atrocities, seized by a U, S, army unit whoso existence was undisclosed until yesterday, , Number 10643 lege, judged potato and : other agricultural exhibits.. Malin community took ' the cup presented by the Merrill service club, in the parade, Sat urday morning. This is the fourth consecutive year Malin has held the cup. First prize in the commercial section went to - Crater Lake dairy; second to Merrill Mills. First for the best float in the parade went to Merrill Rebekah lodge. First float prize to an organization went to Merrill Presbyterian church; second to Lost River Garden club of Mer rill. - Clifford Turner won first in the children's division, vehicle (Continued on Page Two) . Fate of Laval To Be Decided PARIS, Oct. 13 (P) A deci sion on whether the execution of Pierre Laval will be carried out without delay was believed pos sible today, amid unconfirmed reports that Minister of Justice Pierre Teitgen was called back by plane from an election cam paign trip in Brittany. The Paris newspaper Libera tion said it had learned the exe cution of the former Vichy chief of government was set for next Wednesday. The unconfirmed reports said Teitgen might confer with Gen. Charles de Gaulle concerning the fate of Laval, whose attor neys pleaded for a new trial last mgnt. The. lawyers said De Gaulle ' listened without com ment. . Comes In Handy I LAKEVIEW J. A. Bar ham, known to all as Juniper Jack, has found use for his long beard which grew while he was away herding sheep. He now has a job playing San ta Claus at Meier and Frank in Portland and will leave about November 1. EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO HIM! ATLANTA, Oct. 13 (P) E. W. Allen, 72-year-old businessman who went to jail for 14 months rather than pay alimony, has paid up Iri full some $50,000, and is a free man again. ' , But he : Is not happy. Re leased yesterday, he came back to jail to spend the night be cause he could not find a hotel room. In addition, the county wants him to dig down deeper and pay 14 Ship Yards Affected When 5000 Quit Job By The Associated Press Labor unrest spread in Pacific coast states during the last 24 hour period as 5000 repair workers in southern California were added to the number of idle. . , Here are the developments! Shipyards Fourteen yards In the Long Baaoh-San Pedro Wilmington area were affected when 5000 employes engaged In repair work struck yesterday in a protest authorised by the Los Angeles AFL Metal Trades Council. Objections to a war labor board pay differential decision granting an 11.8 per cent increase precipitated the walkout. The strikers claimed the boost wai given to only a few crafts and was difficult to administer be cause of "extreme vagueness." At San Diego officials of three major shipyards yesterday tele eraohed William Green, oresi- : dent of the American Federa tion of Labor, asking him to in tervene in a strike that has halted millions of dollars worth of work on tuna boats. The pro test to Green said that boat builders walked out without ap plying for or taking a strike vote. The AFL president was urged to order his men back to work if a contract with the AFL Metal Trades Council was found still in force. Negotiations Broken Transportation Negotiations between representatives of the Pacific Greyhound lines and the AFL Bus Drivers' and Station Employes' union were broken off late yesterday afternoon and no further meetings were sched uled. The strike, affecting 140, 000 passengers daily in seven western states, entered its ninth day today. Possibility was seen that the dispute might be re ferred to the secretary of labor if efforts ot the U. S. concilia tion service fail to bring a set tlement. 4 Motion picture Attempts to mediate the 30-week strike which has crippled production at two major studios were in tensified as federal conciliators were ordered into the AFL jur isdictional dispute. Results of an NLRB election failed to af fect the situation. The CIO Na tional Maritime union, through , (Continued on Page Two) WASHINGTON, Ocf. 13 fP) Despite reported administration opposition,! a strong recommen dation ' for price ceilings on houses is being prepared today by the chiefs of four government agencies. , Slated to reach Reconversion Director John W. Snyder early next week, the program calls lor: 1. Ceilings on all new houses. 2. Ceilings on old houses if they have changed hands since January 1, 1943. These recommendations were drawn up this week by John C. Collet, stabilization director; Chester Bowles, price adminis trator; John B. Bla'ndford Jr., national housing administrator, and Marriner S. Eccles, chair man of the federal . reserve board. . Truman Opposed Reports have circulated that Snyder and President Truman are opposed to ceilings on hous ing. But proponents of the plan say both are maintaining an open mind on the . subject and will decide only after all argu ments have been studied. Building industry representa tives already have registered vig orous protests against ceilings. They say price controls would stifle construction. The four agency chiefs plan to tell Snyder that without ceilings there will be grave danger of in flation during a building boom (Continued on Page Two) Veteran Shotgun Artists Bag Ducks On Opening Day Hundreds of novice hunters mixed with veteran shotgun ar tists today to cut down the aver age duck kill at the opening of the 1945 season, but good shots were reported getting their birds in the Tulelake and Lower Klamath areas. There were so many hunters that the kill of birds ran neces sarily into high volume, even with a low per hunter average. Many honker geese bit the dust In the Coppeck bay area off Tulelake, and there was a good duck shoot on the watered areas of Tule and Lower Klamath. Hugh Worcester, veteran game agent, said he checked 15 men on Tulelake this morning and they averaged 8 ducks each. Shores of the lakes in the 1 board for the time he spent In tail Alien, loan company and printing firm operator, produced S21.295 In cashiers' checks and money orders in superior court yesterday to complete the ali mony payments. The sum in cluded $4500 in fees for Mrs. Al len's attorneys. Sheriff A. B. (Bud) Foster said he let Allen return to his jail bed last night because "you can't put a man out on snort . nonce these days." AUTO AGG DENT PROVES FATAL TO PAT SMITH Donald Patrick "Pat" Smith; 20-year-old veteran of 14 months' combat service in the South Pacific, was killed in stantly at about 11 o'clock Fri .day night when - S a car in which he was a passen ger, failed to negotiate a curve at Johns avenue and Homedale road and overturned. Driver of th "Pat" Smith car, John Costi gan, 25, 1404 Klamath avenue, and recently discharged from . the marine corps, suffered head injuries but was dismissed from Hillside hospital following treatment. Young Smith was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto L. Smith, 331 Jefferson. He was discharged from the service August 6, 1945, after two years' duty in the army air corps and 14 months' combat as a bombar dier with the 431st bomb squad ron, 11th bombardier group, 7th air force. ' . - -- -:- Decorated" .' ;"'.'..' Prior to' his return to tht United States, in July, - Smith had been decorated with : the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with seven Oak. Leaf clusters. ' He was born March 17, 1925, at Oregon City, j (Continued on Page Two) . JAP SNEAK ATTAGK WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (fP) War, state and navy departments pledged a- senate-house commit tee today full access to all infor mation they have about the Jap anese attack on Pearl Harbor. Chairman - Barkley (D-Ky.) said the committee had received letters from the two service de partments . and oral assurance from Secretary of State Byrnes that no information will be with held from the inquiry group. Because of the mass of evi dence to be studied in previous army-navy investigations, , Bark ley said the committee decided it cannot begin public hearings until early in November. He added that the question of when the group will visit Pearl Harbor will be decided after counsel completes laying out the inquiry case. "hunting areas resembled a' tent city, with hunters coming irom all parts of tne coast tor tne ODenine. Many of them were inexperienced, and the shooting areas presented a picture ol con fusion among both birds and men. The earliest shots were heard on both Tule and Lower Klam ath lake at 5:35 a. m,, or just five minutes before official shooting time, a record gam wardens said was good. Princi pal offense discovered by the law was failure to sign duck stumps, and no arrests were re- ported by tisn ana wiiaiue oui cials at noon. ' They said there were plenty of ducks and geese, but it may take them a day or two to settle down after the terrific bombard ment and confusion of the first day. An automobile belonging to a Redding hunter burned up near the Tulelake peninsula, and set stubble on fire. Over some of the basin area there was a low morning fog and birds were going out oyer this, giving the hunters unccr neath a bad time. ; In general, weather conditions -were'; defi nitely "not good" for duck hunt ing. " ; A moderately heavy pheasant kill was reported, with the sea son on that upland bird also opening today, : LLJ
