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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
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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, :
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