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8) 7b M UVL mm mm PRICE FIVE CENTS In .The By FRANK JENKINS plEURE LAVAL li finally con- dumnccl, shot and burled In nn unmarked univo, Ho trlud to cheat tho firing squud by taking polMon, but thn doctors succeeded m slopping tho olivet or tlio fecret cupsulu ho swallowed lung enough to gut lilm boforo tho wall. Tho riflemen's, volley fulled to kill lilm, mid lie wiik f Inlsliud off by an officer with a pistol,. TT icomii a trlflo foolish at first thought to save a man from Eolson o thut ha mny dlo by u ullut, but wo must remember Unit tho social purpose back of execution after conviction by trial Un't merely getting rid of tho criminal. If wo are to accomplish our whole purpose, wo must so con duct tho infliction of (ho death penalty an to DE'I'KIt OTHERS from committing major crime. If tho condemned criminal In to bo permitted to outwit tha law, tho nodal Impact of his execution will bo lessened. That l tha theory back of tho effort of organized society to see to It that the penalty I inflicted In the manner prescribed by LAW. VOU will nolo, If you will re- call tho circumstances, that both Pctnln and Laval wcro more or )ei turned loose by tho noils so that they could easily be laid hinds on by tho French. It Is probablo that the purpose was to FURTHER DISORGANIZE France by the resulting trials for treason, with the accompanying moke screens that are always put up by the defense In such cases. : ', At any rate, the French had " the stamina to go through with It, convicting Potnln and then Imprisonment! and shooting La val. ' In a wny (although It sounds bloody) that Is oncouroglng. for what the French need now above , everything else is stamina. ." MOT only the stamina to pun ' Ish convicted traitors, but the stamina to work their way out of their present economic troubles, 'which track back to LESSENED PRODUCTION.) (Xtl the other side of the world, wo are witnessing perhaps the most significant soclnl ex periment since tho world began. We whipped the Japs com pletely. Wo are now approach ing the Immense and hitherto un charted task of MAKING THEM OVER morally, socially and pos sibly even spiritually. As a part of that lob, we must find, con vict and punish the INDIVID UAL Jap war criminals. There after wo must teach the Japs a better way of life. . Only Americans have tlio cour age and tho Idealism to tacklo such a job. It wc succeed, we shall have accomplished some thing new and highly Important In the world. TF we fall well, we can only A hope and perhaps pray a little that wo DON'T fall. If we do succeed In making tho Japs over Into something better, It will be a beginning (Continued on Pago Two) I Gunmen Try To Bump Off Multnomah County DA PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 15 (P) A detective was slightly wound ed early yesterday In a gun fight with two armed gunmen be lieved attempting to "bump off" Multnomah County District At torney Thomas H. Handlcy. ' The 1 shooting occurred tha morniitg after the district attor ney received a telcphono call threatening to take his Ufa bo foro tho "first of November." Detcctlvo William Taylor suf fered a slight flesh wound as a bullet pierced his hut brim In an exchange of shots with one of two men who walked out of tho fog toward tho Hundley resi dence about 4 a. m. Sunday. Whllo Hundley slept soundly, tho wholo neighborhood wus aroused by tho gunfire, whieh Taylor reported started after ho and Detective Collie Stoops challenged tho two gunmen, Asked what they wanted, tho two men turned and flod toward tho entrance to tha doad-ond street on which tha district at torney resides. Taylor fired thrao times and ono of tho gun mon, twice, before they disap peared in a largo black sedan parked around n corner. Tho district attorney said the detectives were posted at his home Saturday night after a phone call threatened his life. Lava cxeci Traitor To France After Suicide Fails By MEL MOST PARIS, Oct. IS (I1) Pierre Luvut wus executed as a trultor to Frunco toduy after fulling to cheat tho firing squad by swallow ing poison. ' The man who collaborated with the Germans as chief of gov ernment In old Morshul I'ctuin's Vichy regime died from a coup do gruce, fired through his cur, when a volley from the firing squud did not kill him. Doctors restored the swarthy traitor from effects of poison taken four hours earlier. Ho was led to the courtyard of the bleak old Krcsnes prison ond died with a cry of "Vive La France ' on his lips. Ho was refused a final request to give the order for his own death to the execution squad. TYPHOON KILLS 28 NAVY By The Associated Press Tho death toll from tho typhoon which whipped across the West Pacific last week stood at 28 U, S. navy personnel and seven Japanese prisoners of war on Okinawa, and 184 per sons In western Japan. Meanwhile, fleet headquar ters at Pearl Harbor said six enlisted men were killed and 23 Injured In an unexplained explosion at a navy receiving station on Okinawa Friday. A court of Inquiry bogan an in vestigatlon. ; 70 Mlsslna The navy also reported 70 missing and 423 injured during the storm.. Tho U. S. army list ed no deaths but a. "consider able number 6f minor Injuries." The army previously announced mat luu soldiers were injured. Navy authorities In Washing ton said the typhoon sank three naval vessels the yacht Southern Seas, LsM (landing shin medium) 15 and YMS (motor minesweeper) 383 beached 30 and damaged three. The total of Japanese dead was reported by tho Japanese , (Continued on Pago Two) Game Warden Shot In Back L. R. Metzgcr, stato federal Xame werdon who lives at Los .ngcles, was painfully wounded in thciback by discharge of a shotgun in tho hands of a hunter at Tuieiuke yesterday. Motzgcr was standing up In a boat across a clump of titles from Homer Maxwell, San Francisco. Maxwell shot at a crippled duck In the water, and 38 pellets en tered Motzgcr's back, who was about lo yards away. Maxwell told officers that he did not seo tho warden. Ho had seen a boot leave the same area a few moments before, and did not know another boat was still behind the tulcs. He was not held. MctzHcr received medical as sistance at Merrill, and was to be taken to L.os Angcics today by airplane. Hundley said the caller warned, "Wo'ro going tq bump you off before the first of the month." Whon Hundley retorted, "Why wait until then?" the man an swered, "I'll knock , you off be fore tho first of November." "This Is a challenge by gang dom to law enforcement,, the district attorney declared later. "Tho challenge Is accepted. I'm not going to bo intimidated." Hundley had just ordered n ?:rand jury investigation of tho utal shooting of Ervln Jones, negro, by a detective. . Ho do clinod to say whether tho threat was related to tho case, which has stirred up much controversy. OKINAWA LAVAL WRITES LAST NOTE PARIS, Oct. 15 (IP) Shortly before his nbortivo suicide at tempt and his execution, Pierre Laval wroto a note, his attorneys said, In which he declared: "To save French soldiers from the dishonor of carrying this (tho execution) out, I prefer to dlo as a Roman by taking poi son," i Laval wroto that ho was tho victim of "a veritable murder" and said that ho had kept tho poison for "n very long time." The massage was addressed "to my counsel to inform them, and to my executlonors to answer them," Laval's first words when doctors revived him from the poison ing were: "I didn't want to dlo under French bullets." To one of his lawyors, Jacques Buraduo who accompanied him to tho execution slako, Laval whispered: "Toll my wife and daughter my last thoughts were of them." Telephone 'f . KLWTH5,ff itEGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1945 Laval reamed a prolcrrod blindfold and faced his execu tioners. These were his last words: "It la not the soldiers' fault. They know not whut they do. Vivu La Franco!" The twelve riflemen fired. Laval fell only to his knees. Coup Da Grace An officer rushed up Imme diately, aimed his revolver Into Laval's car and fired, The coup do grace dispatched Laval ut 12:32 p. m, and he fell dead into tho dirt of the courtyard. The man who before the war had thrice been Prsmier of France and a dozen times a member of her cabinets was con demned by the High Court of Justice lust week tho same court which condemned former Marshal Pctnln and Joseph Dar nand, the head of the Vichy militia. Petaln's sentence was com muted to life imprisonment end disgrace; Darnand stood before a firing squad only a few days before Laval, It was not the first time I vnl had felt tho steel of a bullet. Whllo leading the Vichy govern ment, he was wounded and al most killed by a youthful asaas- a.... uuv.it iv.uu itu uuiiiik II" il trial of Marshal-Petain thot'thrfl wounds from that attempt still Doincrca mm, "Judicial Crime" The trial of Laval was cut short by Laval's own sitdown strike against the proceedings, continued on page Two) E FOR ATOMI MS WASHINGTON. Oct. 15 WTO. Dr. Vannevur Bush testified to day "I see no defense to the atomic bomb in sight." The director of tho office of scientific reseorch and develop ment mus diuered in testimony beforo a senate committee from a report by tho house naval com mittee of "indications thut an ef fective counter measure to atom ic bombs has been developed to such an extent that they can be exploded far short of their objec tives." On this point, tho top scientist of the group which developed America's war inventions de clared: No Trick Wav "There Is in my opinion no trick way to getting rid of the atomic bomb because it is an atomic bomb." In a statement. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) said there "is nothing now" in- tho house navnl committee's rcoort and added: Tho reference in the report of (uominucd on Pago two) What Wiff They Think Of Next? Would you like a little pigeon on your roof? The office of surplus property. department of commerce, is of fering a nice collection of our feathered friends, to be sold in groups of five pairs. The price. Just $25. The birds, complete with cer tificates of service, are veterans of World War 2 and were trained as message carriers. It's just an idea, in case your telephone floei on the blink. Anyone Interested may obtain further Information from the chamber of commerce.- Maybe I , - : I ! Myl .'-.-.! i i iTrmmWi'M r"r 1 Isiiu in" i r ! i , " 1 n n niw r-fif' I I ' It's buck, not a duck, but duckhunters shot this big deer Sunday. It has 13 points on one side and 12 on the other. By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO, Oct. 15 m Japan slipped quietly and with min gled feelings Into military ob livion today as its demobiliza tion was completed on schedule, and for the first time in history these islands held no combat military (orce, either in fact or in name. As the- fighting force of ; 7, 009,000 soldiers and, sailors at iiuiiiu Huu uuruau wutt a-uunu to nothing, the translation and interrogation section of allied headquarters produced evidence that Japanese troops had used live allied prisoners in bayonet practice on Guadalcanal and in China. With the exit of the defeated, discredited warlords, Japanese political leaders stepped onto the notional stage to put into effect a list of democratic prin ciples prescribed by allied head quarters. Prince Fumimaro Konoye, one of Emperor Hirohito's close advisors, said in an interview that "his majesty is anxious that revisions bo made'' In the con stitution to bring about the re forms decreed by headquarters. Konoye, who was boomed as the head of a new political party, added that constitutional revisions under considerataion would curb Hirohito's almost un limited power over his 77,000, 000 subjects and give the diet some supervision over expendi tures of the imperial household. Another being mentioned promi nently as a prospective party head was Gen. Kuzushigc Ugakl, 77-year-old militarist po litician; Search Launched For Missing Jap LA GRANDE. Ore.. Oct. 15 (IP) Union County Sheriff , Jesse Brcshcars said today a search was being made In the desert country of eastern Oregon for evidence of possible murder of a 61-year-old Japanese - American who has two sons In the army. Bresnours reported personal effects of N, Kurisu, missing since October 5, have been found with Floyd Pousson, nrrested nt Dalhurt, Tex., on a car theft charge. The officer said Pousson. 18. admitted leaving La Grande Oc tober 8 with the elderly Nisei. but claimed the war bonds, wal let and watcn were given mm by A sailor at Salt Lake City. A .32 caliber revolver was found on the youth, but relatives of the Nisei report tho natural ized Japanese hud turned in his firearms to the government at the beginning of the war. Pous son said he left Kurisu at Ontar io, Ore. ( War Labor Board To Close Doors WASHINGTON. Oct. 15 A) Tho war labor board will con tinue its plans to go out of busi ness by January 1, Acting Chair man Lloyd K. Garrison said to day. Whllo its preparing to close up shop, he added, it will study ways of handling reconversion disputes and a method of estab lishing a peacetime wage policy. Gnrrlson and . Sccretarv of Labor Schwellcnbach talked with the president today, . i,-i-i-,-irn-r - - - - - - - - - - - - WEATHER NEWS (October 15) Precipitation last 24 hours ..00 Stream year to date 04 Normal 45 Last Year 22 Forecast) Cooler with clouds Tuesday Shooting hours Klamath-Tulelake Open 5:43 a. m. Close 5:53 p. m. It Was Mistaken For ... , : "Hot" Buck Shot By Duck Huniers A big deer ran into a crossfire of shotgun blasts on the Tule lake refuge Sunday and took the count. Fish and wildlife officials. In vestigating the illegal shooting, said today that at least 15 bird hunters fired at the buck, which ran out into a stubblefield in the southwest corner of the refuge. Several hunters at first argued over the ownership of the fallen buck, but- quickly disclaimed any interest when they realized that it was "hot." Hugh Wor cester, fish and wildlife agent. cnieated tiifc ' deer.V-tand the carcass Is in cold storage at Tule- jaKe. The deer had 13 points on one side and 12 points on the other, and tipped the scales over 200 pounds dressed. It was killed in protected area, and with shotguns that are not legal weapons against deer. TO BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 15 (P) Civilian General Prosecutor Juan Alvarez, was entrusted by President Farrell today with the task of organizing a "cabinet of notables" to lead Argentina through a governmental crisis climaxed by the recent resigna tion of Vice President Juan Peron. . The 67-year-old prosecutor moved into a key position after his appointment bv the president as minister of the interior. Alvarez is reported to have (Continued on Page Two) Arriving In United States By The Associated Press Arthur, E. Wilson, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on the Exchange, due in New York, October 14. Robert L. Erlandson, Cpl., Klamath Falls, .arrived on Frederick Lykes, due in New York, October 14. Wilbur C. Courtney, Cpl., 536 Pine, Klamath Falls, ar rived on Frederick Lykes, due In New York October 14. Fred H. Bishop, PFC, Klamath Falls, arrived on Twos Victory, due in sNew York October 15. Thomas V. La Moureaux, PFC, 721 Mt. Whitney, Klam ath Falls, arrived on Torrens, due in Newport News Octo ber 12. Bradford L. Friiell, PFC, Dunsmuir, arrived on Tor rens, due in Newport News October 12. Guido A. Zannl, Tec. 5, 28 Railroad ave McCloud, arrived on General M. L. Hershey, due in San Fran cisco from Japan, October 9. Fred W. Goette, PFC, Dunsmuir, arrived on SS Marine Angel, due in New York October 12. Rex W. Carson. WOJG., 1316 Lookout, Klamath Falls, arrived on M.I.T. Victory, due In Boston October 12. Manley S. Hanan, 1st Lt., Paisley, arrived on General M. -L. Hershey, due in San Francisco from Japan Octo ber 9. Charles E. Smith, Capt., 804 Lane street, Yrcka,. ar rived on Rushville Victory, due at New York October 11.' - - - - - - - - -i -i - -.-innnnrLanj' Number 10644 A Duck on the Tulelake wild life refuge PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 15 (IP) A crack in the northwest lumber strike picture widened today with announcement that one Montana and three Washington operators have agreed to meet the AFL's demand for a $(.10 hourly minimum wage. This brings the total of em ployers granting the increase to seven. Two other '-Montana plants and a Seattle Box com pany earlier met the demand. The plants will resume opera tions tomorrow, ; after agreeing to tne fi.iu scale. PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 15 W) AFL Lumber and Sawmill Work ers started checking delivery of all lumber from "unfair" mills today even that shipped east and announced projects using such lumber would be baited by pickets. John Christenson, president of the workers' northwestern coun cil, declared "other allies in the AFL" carpenters, building trades workers, and Sailors un ion of the Pacific would refuse to work on "hot" lumber. , Con struction projects in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana will be . checked, he said, and picketed if produced behind the AFL's imaginary picket line. (This "imaginary line" exists around CIO operations from which AFL pickets were banned by temporary injunctions). Picket Building Jobs AFL officials said local allied unions back east would be noti fied if "hot" lumber was en route and would not handle such lumber. Backing up today's order, pickets appeared this morning at several Portland construction jobs. It was a new AFL move in the strike, aimed at an industry-wide $1.10 hourly min imum, which went into its fourth week today. - The CIO International ."Wood workers of America also will meet tomorrow with lumber operators and U. S. Conciliator George Brewer, resuming ne gotiations to settle a demand for a flat 25-cent hourly wage boost. A strike authorized by nearly 40,000 CIO workers awaits the outcome. i STRIKES AT A GLANCE By The Associated Press Total strike Idle slightly be low 400.000. Coal and Steel Some 200,000 miners out in dispute over rec ognition of a foremen's union; settlement conferences continue at steel plants, hampered by lack of fuel, lay oft employes. Transportation Common wealth of Massachusetts seizes Massachusetts Eastern Street Railways where strike of 1800 tied up transportation for 1,000,- ouo; 71 isew England communi ties without service. Shipping Cargoes begin mov (Continued on Page Two) MALIN BOY HIT BY GUNFIRE MALIN James Herron, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Herron, suffered critical injuries at 8 o'clock Friday night when a gun accidentally discharged wounding the child in the right shoulder. . , James was riding in the cab of a pickup with his father, em ployed as ditchrlder for the U. S. bureau of reclamation. The gun had been used by Herron to shoot coyotes and was by the child's side in the cab. ' . - When Herron stopped the vibration of the car apparently caused the gun to discharge. The bullet penetrated the shoulder and emerged through the top of the cab. James was rushed to Hillside hospital In Klamath Falls. The child's condition was reported improved today. The Hcrrons have a younger child. Gordon, age 2. - They are in Klam ath Falls. AA'Arthur Asks Unified U.S. Military Rule By MURLIN SPENCER TOKYO, Monday, Oct. 15 (AP) General MacArthur triumphantly announced today the demobilization of JaDan'i once great army ond navy had :: t. I. t A : inui n, n-ci 11 wvmuuii vi -much nun iruujj& unci spuKe strongly for a unified American military command. The supreme allied commander, in a speech prepared for worldwide broadcast, added that defeated ana devastated Japan Would need much time entire world to restore the dignity and freedom of the, com mon man" in the Island empire. , v MacArthur said that for the first time American soldieri of the occupation forces had1! given the Japanese people an insight into "a free man's way of life in actual action and- it stunned them into new thoughts ano new ideas "Revolution, or more properly speaking the evolution, which will restore the dignity and freedom of the common man has begun," he said. "It will take much time and require great patience, but if world pub lic opinion will permit of these two essential factors, mankind will be repaid. ".Herein lies the way to true and final peace." Answer To Critics MacArthur's broadcast was described at headquarters as a discussion of the military phases of the occupation. It also was interpreted here as an answer to critics who have charged the supreme commander has been too soft in handling the Japan ese. "Today. Japanese armed forces throughout Japan com pleted their demobilization and ceased to exist as such," Mac Arthur said. 'These forces now are completely abolished. . "l Know of no demobilization in history, . either in war or peace, by our own or by any other country, that has been accomplished so rapidly or so frictionlessly." More than 7,000,000 Japanese in the home islands and mitlv- ing areas have laid down their arms, MacArthur said. "Nothine could exceed the nh- jectness, humiliation and final ity of this surrender, he added. It is not only Dhvsicallv thorough but it has been ecual- ly destructive of Japanese spirit. From .- swagger - and arrogance the former -Japanese "military nave passed 10 servility , and fear. They are thoroughly beat en and cowed; and tremble be fore the terrible retribution of (Continued on Page Two) PRIORITIES LIFTED ON PU1NE TRAVEL By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (S) -All controls came off construc tion and airplane travel today as the nation entered its third month of peace. - - Lifting of WPB's ban on ci vilian construction was expected to stimulate business expansion and provide a new source of jobs for the country's rising total of unemployed. - It came as reconversion of ficials voiced general satisfac tion with the progress thus far made while cautioning at the same time that the upsurge of laoor -sirue would delay tne back-to-normal process. ' . Forecasts From official and unofficial quarters came these forecasts of future trends and actions: . Wages Labor wants a 30 per cent increase to offset loss ot overtime. Official sentiment, is growing for federal approval of a rise of perhaps lis per cent, (Continued on Page Two) Live Allied PW's Used For Bayonet Practice By Japs By DUANNE HENNESY TOKYO, Oct. 15 (JP) The use of live allied prisoners of war as bayonet practice targets, while allied officers were forced to look on, has been fully estab lished, General MacArthur's headquarters announced today. The new record of atrocity was developed by the secret al lied translation and interroga tion section of the allied head quarters which worked through the war interviewing Japanese prisoners and sorting documents seized in battle zones. The secret unit, the existence of which was undisclosed until Inst week, in- been completed, praised "th j '.r.t . , and great patience from th REVOLT FLARES E BATAVIA. Java. Oct. 15 (IP) Dr. Hubertus Van Mook, lieuten ant governor of the Dutch East Indies, acted today to quell up risings which imperilled one of the richest colonial empires in the world and offered to negoti ate a truce with Indonesian rebel leaders. ' Aneta, official Dutch news agency, quoted Dr. Van Mook as stating that he was willing to meet with leaders of all groups in Indonesia, including Soekar no, self-styled president of the "Indonesian republic." Resigns (In a dispatch from The Hague, Aneta said that A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stac houwer had resigned as governor general because he was "unable to1 be the bearer of the govern ment policy" in the Indies. He ar rived in The Hague early last month, after being liberated from a Japanese prison camp. (Previously, the government has refused to negotiate with Soekarno who was accused ot being an "opportunistic Japanese puppet," (It was not clear Immediately whether Van Starkenborgh Stac houwer. was. in disagreement with the old government policy or a new government policy of negotiation with the . insurrec rectionists. - (Premier Schermerhorn was expected to make a statement to morrow. : " Inspired By Japs 1 (A Reuters dispatch quotln g Batavia reports said 50,000 Dutch women and children had been "surrounded by wildly ex cited Indonesians in the area of uatavia and were completely cut off from allied forces." The dis patch added that the women and children' "are being held virtual ly as hostages" and that the na tives "are said to be inspired by the Japanese." (An authoritative source In London said the British govern ment had agreed to "make ships ' available" to rush Dutch troops from Europe to Java.) New outbreaks were reported from the interior of Java, as .armed rebel bands closed upon this city. Acting to maintain or der, British Ma j. Gen. D. C. Hawthorn, allied commander. invoked death .penalties in Ba tavia for looting, sabotage, tne bearing of arms, or refusal to surrender arms. ERECT FIRE STATION SPRINGFIELD. Oct. 15 (JP) The Eastern Lane Fire Patrol as sociation will erect a $30,000 fire station and dormitory build ing east of here; warden James Walker said today. eluded many Japanese-Americans and worked often while shells were still blasting across contested positions. One of the worst of the bayo net practice atrocities occurred on Guadalcanal where two Euro peans and one Euraslon were used as practice targets while al lied officers were forced to stand in line and watch, for six and a half hours while the three were horribly mutilated and tor tured by the stabbing, jabbing Nipponese, the announcement said. . Enlisted prisoners period!, cally were paraded past the scene so they could see the death agonies of the three. Records of the ATIS disclose that one of the bayoneted prison ers had been recently married, another left a wife and two chil dren while the third had a wife and one child. -The translated diary of a Jap anese officer gave full details of the horrible scene. Similar Instances, In which Chinese prisoners were used as. targets, were disclosed Dy in questioning of Superior Privo Tokuhasm waKino, wno t atis agents after nis capt that during basic trainm China his company was pro with llvn Chines, nrisonei which to practice. S INDONESIA TRUC OFFERED
